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Skip to comments.Do you think we won the debt battle?
Posted on 08/02/2011 4:10:15 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
Did the conservatives come out on top on the debt issue?
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert. But I think the conservatives in the House of Representatives did a hell of a job. Considering the hand they were dealt.
The liberals control the Senate & Monkey ears Huessin. So we're down 2 - 0.
If we had control of the Senate and/or the presidency, I would had loved to see more.
But, with the current situation, I think we won. And I'm surprised there's not more celebration on Free Republic.
Have we been beaten down so much that we can't be excited about our accomplishments?
What do you think?
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So the role of the GOP is to abide by what the white house dictates? I thought their role was to do the will of the people that elected them. Silly me.
The folks at PowerLine had a great quote from Churchill in an article recently saying:
When Lord Halifax and a handful of other influential members of the war cabinet were building support to seek peace terms with Hitler through the Italians, Churchill reminded them that nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which surrendered tamely were finished. The same may be said for the Republican Party today; if it surrenders to Obama, it may as well pack it in for good.
We got hosed.
We also got hosed back when "We" had the presidency and both houses, so nothing has really changed.
At this point I expect "We the people" will continue to be hosed even if "Republicans/Conservatives" again retake the presidency and both houses.
There were no actual cuts in this deal!
Real cuts need to be made as quickly as the last ten years spending increases in order to amount to anything of substance.
I don't see that happening without a dramatic and cataclysmic event, such as an open rebellion similar to the "Arab Spring".
So BOHICA, and learn to enjoy our new status as a third world socialist kleptocracy.
Not that I am bitter or anything. ;-)
My three year old son and unborn daughter really lost this battle. I pray it is my blood that will be shed for their freedom and not their own.
"But I think the conservatives in the House of Representatives did a hell of a job."
I would LOVE to believe this, really I would. If you mean the Tea Party conservatives that stood up against this deal and ultimately voted against it, I agree. If you mean leadership, they have proven that they are gutless and unwilling to fight for conservative principles.
We sent them there last November primarily to do 2 things:
1. Stop the out of control spending.
2. Repeal Obamacare-and short of a repeal at the very least de-fund it.
They fought for neither in this deal. They paid lip service to the "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan that was supported by almost the entire House GOP caucus and 66% of the American people, then they didn't even force the Senate to VOTE on it. They allowed them to table it and quickly came up with a "compromise."
"Cut, Cap & Balance" doesn't really go far enough, but it would have been a good step in the right direction. But Boehner and the leadership showed that they weren't really interested in fighting for REAL change. They were more afraid of being blamed if the govn't "defaulted", which was a lie from the beginning that no one in leadership ever challenged.
The right play would have been to hold the line on "Cut, Cap & Balance" and force them to either take it or not raise the debt ceiling. I know the media would have been all over them for that, but aren't they already being accused of being "hostage takers?" The media will go after us no matter what, so why not get something substantive out of it?
No, this is not a win at all. This does nothing to curve spending. Boehner and Co. promised in the campaign to roll back spending to 2008 levels "for starters." Now, they're not even talking about doing that. They are allowing the $800 billion "1 time" stimulus of 2009 to be added permanently to the baseline. The so called cuts spoken of in this deal (if they ever materialize) are simply small reductions in the projected rate of growth in spending. They should be fighting to do away with the whole "base line budgeting" system that causes these people to lie to us by calling smaller spending increases cuts, but I saw none of that in this debate either.
As for Obamacare, there seems to be no concern whatsoever about de-funding it or fighting for its repeal. The American people still overwhelmingly support its repeal, but NOT ONE WORD was spoken about it by leadership. That tells me that they are just fine with Obamacare becoming the law of the land and making us into more of a socialist nation.
No, this is not a victory. In fact, I am more disheartened than I've been since the 2008 elections. These GOP leaders need to be replaced. That's the only solution to this problem. We need to primary as many of them as possible and get new blood in there. Boehner needs to go and we need someone to replace him that actually GETS the fact that our republic is hanging by a thread.
Sadly, I don't detect the outrage that is deserved at what just happened. Too many on our side are willing to go along with this media-driven narrative that it's a "victory for the Tea Party" simply because we are now "talking" about cutting spending. I'll grant that it's a good thing that we have shifted the debate, but it doesn't mean jack if it's not followed up by REAL, SUBSTANTIVE spending cuts.
The only hope we have now is a presidential candidate that truly gets the need to cut spending and balance our budget and is willing to fight even his/her own party in congress to do it. Bush did the opposite. I think most of our candidates are 'ruling class' types just like Bush, so I doubt they will do anything different. So where does that leave us?
He got what he wanted.
The Republicans claimed they wanted less spending, smaller government and reduced taxes. They got increased spending, bigger government and higher taxes.
Who do you think "won"?
Nope. The can got kicked down the road- maybe less than usual, but my opinion is that business as usual still reigns in DC. The deal, such as it is, doesn't address the true problem- the government spends more than it takes in, and it will be doing so as long as it is able to do so.
Compromise is for losers.
My children and grandchildren have been robbed of their inheritance. We lost, big time.
The debt deal "does not put the U.S. on a sustainable fiscal path," economists at Barclays Capital wrote in a note to clients, adding "weakness in U.S. growth has the potential to offset most of the savings claimed by the debt reduction package."
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/08/02/futures-fall-amid-economic-lingering-debt-concerns/#ixzz1TuxqKqaO
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A YES VOTE. The sound you hear is the can being kicked down the road about 16 months when they (the D's and the R's) spend that 2 trillion bucks and have to fight this war again. I guess Ron Paul is still a moron huh?
The debt deal "does not put the U.S. on a sustainable fiscal path," economists at Barclays Capital wrote in a note to clients, adding "weakness in U.S. growth has the potential to offset most of the savings claimed by the debt reduction package."
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/08/02/futures-fall-amid-economic-lingering-debt-concerns/#ixzz1TuxqKqaO
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A YES VOTE. The sound you hear is the can being kicked down the road about 16 months when they (the D's and the R's) spend that 2 trillion bucks and have to fight this war again. I guess Ron Paul is still a moron huh?
Definitely no. A fox news poll shows a majority of respondents want a Constitutional Ammendment for a balanced budget. We have lost for sure because states that have this simply increase taxes along with spending to "balance" budgets. They argue increases are a must. Americans have stopped thinking again. This is very worrisome.
Had the Rinos not committed hari kari and joined the communists in attacking the only other side in the effort, I would feel somewhat less resentful about the pitiful outcome. But never will I celebrate a "super congress" made up of these Democrats in the GOP and the communists in the DNC. That is a one party system.
You watch. The trolls who pretend to be Repulicans are going to keep business as usual with a one party system of their international Marxist ideal and they will continue to thumb their snotty noses at the American people who they openly and proudly deem are sub-human.
Funny, the Rinos fancy themselves royality being challenged by a bunch of lowly commoners tossing tea in the ocean. We know how that story ended for the royality.
Not yet.
Henceforth only 12 APPOINTED Congressmen will have any say on budget matters. 523 will not. 38 States will have only ornamental drones instead of representatives. The Democrat and Republican parties will have cemented their monopoly on power, as NO independent or third party Congressman will EVER be appointed.
Representative government on fiscal matters has just been abolished.
And you ask if this is a win?
You can call a shit sandwich a reuben, but it's still a shit sandwich.
They don't call the GOP "the stupid party" for nothing, and you are it's mascot.
The Super Congress as you put it has no authority to do anything other than make recommendations. Anything they recommend has to be passed by a majority of the house and the senate.
The Royal Congress thus limits the choices to those which they have approved. Like Soviet elections, you can choose between the their choices. This is an insiders' coup d'etat.
38 States will be denied representation. 523 out of 535 Congressmen will be mere ornaments. There was never more clear and justified cause for nullification or secession.
There were some short-term political wins, and Obama comes out with a seriously damaged image. The deal will not be able to be evaluated until we hear who is on this super committee and what the results are. It is more than likely going to be bad for our side.
Additionally, this deal pretty much did nothing to address the debt or deficit problems. We basically removed a tablespoon of water out of an overflowing Olympic size pool.
Our side could have played a much stronger hand in this game, but instead both the gang of six and McConnell undercut the whole thing with their plans, and Boehner fell into the trap of being stuck in endless White House meeting and negotiating with himself. Whether it was intentional or not is the question.
The Republican delude themselves.
They could have forced a major reduction in spending and they got very little cuts in spending in the current year. More smoke and mirrors.
The federal goverment owes itself (Federal Reserve) more than $1 trillion. This for printing all that money and watch them continue.
But I don't trust Obama and he would have created more problems in the world economy by choosing who is paid.
We need a conservative Congress and President that will actually change things soon! Tea Party get busy!
My three year old son and unborn daughter really lost this battle. I pray it is my blood that will be shed for their freedom and not their own.
I understand what you mean, but I respectfully offer a small course correction:
If we won the "budget battle", the Axis forces won World War II.
The same may be said for the Republican Party today; if it surrenders to Obama, it may as well pack it in for good.
There was no surrender. They are accomplices.
The whole question is whether WE will surrender.
"Sadly, I dont detect the outrage that is deserved at what just happened."
Most people don't really get it yet. Of those who do understand, most are smirking at the successful sabotage.
Very few presently recognize that this was not so much about money, but was principally a sly eradication of representative government in favor of a very few selected appointees, and the exclusion of any challengers to the two government parties.
I'm thinking of changing from indy to republican so I can have a voice in the republican primaries, and vote for real, tea party style, conservatives who will then go on to the general election. Our voices/votes carry more weight in the early battles, I am thinking.
Very interesting (and sadly accurate) observation.
No. We are still spending huge amounts more than our revenues - which means we are borrowing to pay the rest - which means the debt is increasing. As we print money in order to borrow, we are undermining the value of the dollar and inflating costs of essential goods and services.
The only way out of this mess is to treat the debt like a mortgage. Take our revenues and subtract the interest and scheduled payments on the debt principal. Then devise a budget to perform Constitutional functions that lives within our means. Yes, good programs that are needed by individuals will have to be cut, but we simply can't afford them through government. They will have to come through the charitable sector.
Next, remove about 3.4 of the regulations that are choking business and setting a huge amount of natural resources aside and watch the U.S. blossom in global competition. A great many of these regulations are specifically designed on the International level to redistribute wealth to third world countries by severely handicapping US business.
Congress needs to put its big boy pants on, grow a pair and take our sovereignty back.
Hell no!
Congressman Tom McClintock represents the CA Congressional district adjacent to the one I am in. He once ran opposite Schwarzenegger for Governor in the primary. I have been so impressed with his intelligence, candor and integrity in the several meetings I have attended with him. He is a true Conservative and my pick as a candidate for President:
Dear Friend:
This evening, the House voted on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which, pending Senate action, will increase the statutory debt limit. Please find a short note explaining my vote below.
S. 365 "Budget Control Act of 2011:" NO. This act increases the debt limit by between $2.1 and $2.4 trillion, the biggest explosion of debt in American history. It allows the government to avoid spending reductions for the next two years while squandering our last best hope of averting a sovereign debt crisis.
I am opposed to this measure for the following reasons:
1.The purported cuts, even if realized, are far below the $4 trillion deficit reduction that credit rating agencies have warned is necessary to preserve the Triple-A credit rating of the United States Government.
2.It blows the lid off the House budget passed in April by more than a half-trillion dollars over ten years.
3.It makes no significant spending reductions for at least the next two years, essentially freezing spending at an unsustainable level. While the debt increase occurs this year, deficit reductions are to be spread over many years and could be reversed by future acts of Congress.
4.The spending caps are easily circumvented by declaring appropriations to be an emergency, a response to a "major disaster," or necessary for the "Global War on Terror."
5.The balanced budget amendment provisions are illusory because the amendment is completely undefined.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any thoughts or concerns through http://www.mcclintock.house.gov/contact.
Hmm, sadly, I do ;(
It was a mild win. Our share of the divided government allows no more then that.
It sets the stage for much better legislation after the 2012 election if the bratty foot-stomping of the absolutists don't mess it all up. I don't think they will. The numbers aren't there for them.
I hear you. But, I have to believe that if we make our presence felt it will have an impact. How can they continue to read the polls and not realize that they are working AGAINST the will of the majority of the nation?
You are talking about lobbying for conservatives on this Committee. Less representation—instead of the entire House and Senate, we have 12 members in total control???? I admit I don't know all the facts about this Super Congress...but the more I hear, the more concerned I am.
Think for a minute about this new form of Super Congress Committee...What is this about? Since when do we start appointing committees that have such authority? Never had anything like this before outside of reconcillation conference...They are just making recommendations, but they seem to be making policies...edicts...This committee was proposed by GOP Boehner and is a political solution—he gets cover as do all the others. Is this Committee even Constitutional?! House is supposed to have power of purse...This Committee is taking authority away from congress. 12 Members? President will have input at least on dem side.
As I understand it, their recommendations will be binding up or down yes or no vote...no amendments....So they get to declare what cuts occur or what can be administered. I heard that to override their will require a 2/3 majority to overrule and no filibusters? Hard to change...
I am not sure about all of their authority—just what I have heard a a little about what i have read, but I am concerned—seems the deck will be stacked, and typically, the more power we give any group in Washington the worse things go.
I will call Boehner, but I think this is a flawed process and plan, so outcome will be flawed.
You are kidding, right? Obama got his wish to raise the debt limit for the remainder of his tenure. He is the one celebrating, and off to his birthday bash.
This "new committee" they are talking about now will increase taxes. Again Obama gets what he wanted.
No, we fiscal conservatives have nothing to celebrate. We are in mourning for our country, at this juncture.
Agree with you.
Too many FReepers are blasting the vote because they have apparently forgotten that the House is only 1/2 of the Legislature and the other half and the Executive is ruled by the Dems.
What good would it have done to pass an excessivly conservative bill from the House only to see it squashed in the Senate?
At least this bill didn't contain any overt tax increases, which Obama was insisting on, and it has automatic triggers of spending cuts if the bi-partisan House-Senate committee doesn't provide recommendations in November; recommendations that have to be put to the vote in both the House and Senate.
Conservatives complain that there were not enough spending cuts (and I agree with that), while the Liberals complain that there weren't income tax increases to permit more spending.
The gnashing of teeth and vitriol I've seen on FR the past couple of days about this subject is irrational, IMO.
Raising the debt ceiling only allows the US to borrow more money. It does not give Obama another $2 trillion to "spend as he wishes", as so many posters on FR have said. Spending authorizations have to be approved by the House and then the Senate, so the debt ceiling increase is not a slush fund for Obama and his Communist handlers.
Thanks my friend, you win.
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amooola,The pizza looks quite good for an emergency pizza. Can you tell us which dough recipe you used?Peter
I use all trumps flour, 59-60% hydration, 1.2% salt, 1% sugar, .2% IDY. I drizzle a quick squeeze of canola oil after the dough has just combined in my mixer ( appx 1% or less). I did 58% hydration instead, and closer to 1.5% salt. Baked at 600, which is higher than my usual baking temp.
Double the sugar and that pie would look stellar. 600 was a good temp for that amoney.

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I am still editing video of different Nebraska running plays and it is taking a lot longer than I had hoped it would. Instead of waiting for all the video to get done I'll list some initial comments by former offensive line coach Milt Tenopir about the Nebraska running game as well as cover the basics of the inside zone scheme and associated run plays. Please note that the basis for the following discussion is from Coach Tenopir's comments on video and in his excellent book, "The Assembly Line".
In review please recall that Nebraska used a variety of different running plays but tried to keep the blocking schemes to a relative minimum for the offensive line. The inside zone blocking scheme covered four basic run plays that I'll outline below. In addition there were five run plays (including options) off the outside zone blocking scheme. Several more run plays came off the trap game, the counter game, and the isolation lead draw game. In addition there were several more run plays such as reverses and shovel passes.
In "The Assembly Line" Milt Tenopir starts his review of the Nebraska running game by covering the blocking schemes associated with the inside zone game. Here are some selected comments from retired Coach Tenopir from around 1996 that I thought were worth noting.
The inside zone game is a vital part of our offense. We have gone to a lot of inside zone blocking which has simplified our offense a great deal. We actually run four inside plays that are blocked with the inside zone scheme. The inside zone scheme is a borrowed scheme but we have modified a few things that have benefited us. The overall concept however operates on the principle of our linemen being covered or uncovered.
We are primarily concerned with getting either horizontal or vertical movement on the defensive down lineman. If our linemen have a defensive linemen on them we execute what we refer to as a stretch-base block. The first two steps by our linemen are critical.
If the defender is head up or on the play side shoulder, the first step is a lateral step to the call side. We are trying to invite movement with the first step. Some coaches refer to this as a "bucket step". We don't want to lose ground on it so we merely refer to it as a stretch step.
The second step is directed toward the middle of the defender's body cylinder. Caution must be taken so this step does not cross over the first step. If you cross over you lose all of your driving power. Once the first two steps are taken, you are ready to strike with the fists and drive the defender in the direction of his movement. Take him where he wants to go.
The uncovered linemen will also execute a stretch step, however, rather than going laterally, we step at the defender that is covering our play side teammate. By stepping at the defender, we can stop a slant by the defender, enabling our covered teammate to re-direct and help get push on the defender.
The second step by the uncovered lineman is directed at an imaginary point that is directly behind the near foot of the defensive lineman prior to the snap. If the uncovered lineman executes the first two steps properly, his head should be on the up-field side of the defender. If the defender plays straight ahead, a double team should occur between the two offensive linemen.
The linebacker is technically the responsibility of the uncovered lineman, but he must stay with the double team as long as possible until he has to get off on the linebacker. This means until you get to the linebacker or the linebacker comes to you. This inside-out double team will create creases for the back to run through.
It is important to stress that both linemen stay on the down defender as long as possible. Because of the rolling action of the running back, the linebackers normally flow to the call, then the uncovered lineman can bounce off late and get the linebacker on the rebound, allowing a cutback by the ball carrier.
-Former Nebraska Offensive Line Coach Milt Tenopir
Here is an example of the blocking scheme with regards to the covered / uncovered principle mentioned by Coach Tenopir (diagram 1)
The backside tackle will execute a stretch double with the backside guard if the guard is covered (diagram 2)
If the side by side linemen on the playside are both covered, then the one to the play side is on his own, executing a stretch-base block (diagram 3).
In total Nebraska ran four main plays off the above described inside zone blocking scheme. The first play is a fullback play coming off the dive option action. The fullback takes a one-step roll and aims at the butt of the playside guard. Coach Tenopir notes that the play has stayed onside some, but can also develop into a cut back (diagram 5). This play has similar motion to an option play that will be looked at later.
Coach Tenopir notes that Nebraska preferred to call this play rather than to have the QB read the give to the fullback on the dive option.
Another fullback play that was used over the years was the curl play coming off of pitch sweep action. The pitch play involved outside zone blocking and will be covered later as well. On this play Nebraska curled the fullback to the outside leg of the playside guard giving him the option of staying onside or possibly getting the cutback. The blocking for the interior lineman is the same as the dive option (diagram 6).
The third play off the inside zone blocking scheme for Nebraska was the popular one back inside zone run. Coach Tenopir notes that Nebraska was a strong believer in the I Formation. However they also used one back sets 30% of the time. Here is one example they ran the one back inside zone from (diagram 8c).
Nebraska would run this play often out of 2TE sets and 12 personnel or 11 personnel with 2 WR's split to one side and a TE plus WR to the other side. In both cases the QB had the option of checking the call either way. If a team reduced the front Nebraska would go away from the reduction.
Nebraska had several effective ways to run and block this inside zone play to the tailback when there was a concern of having problems on the cutback because of the unblocked backside rush defender. Here are the most common examples Coach Tenopir mentioned.
The first example used a fold block by the left tackle and tight end when using a 2 TE formation. The tackle makes the decision to fold on the play at the line of scrimmage (diagram 11).
The second example (diagram 12) utilized the motion of a flanker coming across the formation. This play was run with great effect by RB Jacquizz Rogers and Oregon State this past season in the Beavers upset 27-21 win over USC in Corvalis, Oregon.
In order to break tendencies Nebraska also ran the inside zone play out of the I Formation at times. In this instance the fullback would block and neutralize the backside defender (diagram 13).
The final twist on the play involves the QB booting away on this play to influence the backside defensive end. The bootleg action of course ties into the passing game as well for Nebraska (diagram 14)
The fourth and final type of run play off of the inside zone scheme for Nebraska was the sprint draw play. Nebraska would run this play to the tight end side or split end side. Sometimes when run out of a 2 back set the fullback would become an extra blocker (diagram 16).
When the front side guard is uncovered to a split end side the fullback would be responsible for someone showing outside the tackle area (diagram 17).
I had a hard time finding all the types of inside zone runs in the Nebraska running game. I did find cut ups for the FB dive plays and some of the one back inside zone runs, etc. described above. I will include those down below.
In the Nebraska play book the one back zone runs were plays number 43 and 47 and were blocked as shown (Click here for 43 Dive example) and (Click here for more 43 Dive blocking assignments) versus different fronts. The FB Dive plays were plays numbered 11 and 19 and were blocked as shown (Click here for 11 Dive example) and (Click here for more blocking assignments). Please note that for simplicity I only copied the plays to the right (i.e. numbers 11 and 43). The same is true in reverse to the left for run plays 19 and 47. For each play the offensive line apparently had to learn blocking assignments for 16 common defensive fronts. No wonder the was an emphasis by the staff to simplify blocking assignments as much as possible!
Here are about 10-15 minutes of the two plays from some 1996 season era cut ups of Nebraska. There are a mix of formations and defensive fronts faced. The plays should utilize the covered and uncovered principles described above. Some run plays were successful other were stopped. There is a mix of everything.
Nebraska Run Plays 43-47
Nebraska Run Plays 11-19


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He implements the 1-3-1 zone when necessary and scoffs at the five-position model of basketball. He plays to win, however that looks in his mind.
For example: after choosing to replace the injured Drew Crawford with Kale Abrahamson, he quickly reversed course. Tre Demps, who found success as an offensive spark, joined the starting lineup. Abrahamson now finds himself searching for minutes outside of garbage time.
It's not a punishment or even an insult. As a freshman, Abrahamson needs to focus on improvement. Inconsistency happens. When the production decreased and Abrahamson failed to create shots, he was sent to the bench.
But Northwestern saw its major problem exposed on Saturday, and that has yet to be addressed.
Carmody sends out Alex Olah to start games at center, and Mike Turner enters soon after to play significant minutes. Almost always, one or the other is on the floor. Right now, the center position brings very little production to the team. It's time for Carmody to mix it up.
Neither center is ready for this sort of responsibility. I mean no disrespect. Olah arrived at Northwestern full of potential, but was not shy about explaining his unpolished game. He has made strides, and has endeared himself to a large portion of the fan base. On Saturday, Turner exemplified the "aggressive and intense" play Carmody asked for. A hard-working player, Turner gives the team positive minutes.
In the past three games, though, the two centers have combined for six total rebounds. To break it down, the center position averages two rebounds per game during that span. Olah and Turner are both struggling on offense as well. It's only natural.
I'm tired of the Mirkovic-Curletti model, of letting a spot on the floor underperform to the point at which fans despair.
Considering the center position a sacred mainstay seems futile. Their shots aren't falling. The defense is hit or miss. The rebounding is largely nonexistent.
Carmody, it seems, has little reason to play either Olah or Turner for every single minute. That was evidenced this afternoon, when rebounding came from an unlikely source.
Jared Swopshire went from passive to aggressive in the span of 20 minutes. It was oddly timed. With Indiana in town last Sunday, and the Cats hoping to pull off the shocker, Swopshire tried to take control. He scored 10 of his 13 points in the second half. That intensity carried over to Minnesota, when he utilized his inside-out game and skill set to near perfection.
Then he pulled down 16 (sixteen!) rebounds in the Nebraska loss, a Carmody era record. He played more like a center than anyone on the floor. Every time a shot went up, he bullied the Nebraska frontcourt, and usually pulled the ball down. It was one game, yes. But he could easily be the team's best rebounder.
From every account I hear, the young centers are doing an excellent job of development. Turner continues to hone his post skills. Olah works on his defense and conditioning. They compete with intensity against each other in practice, and they have made progress. But the Big Ten is tough, and their lack of production – it needs no advanced analysis – is a red flag. I'm not suggesting that Olah and Turner should be relegated to the bench for the rest of the season. They can fill roles. Just not enough to fill an entire position.
Northwestern gets killed on the boards. That will be the case for the rest of this season and the next. Unless something in the program fundamentally changes or Chier Ajou evolves into a superstar, fans can expect the same rebounding horrors.
Because, really, they can win big games in spite of poor rebounding. Against No. 12 Minnesota, NU gave up 15 offensive rebounds in the first half. Last season, in the heartbreaking loss to Ohio State, they were outrebounded 42-16. Somehow, that one went down to the wire.
This team's best chance of winning key games late in the season does not include continued high doses of Olah and Turner. The team lacks depth, which forces this sort of situation, but there's no time for copouts.
In a year that may bring back the word "rebuilding" before long, some of those 40 minutes occupied by Olah and Turner could be thrown elsewhere. Abrahamson can look to regain his rhythm. Despite nagging back injuries, Alex Marcotullio has persevered to be a solid contributor, especially as an asset in the 1-3-1. Nikola Cerina is healthy – any "oh, he's just settling back in" concerns are exaggerated – and should be playing at least a handful of minutes. There aren't many alternatives, but there are some.
Swopshire at center in a four-guard rotation? In a strange season, why not?
Olah and Turner have bright futures with this team. I even think that Olah could be a future all-Big Ten talent. But their development has reached an impasse.
Shuffle that lineup one more time. We're allowed to expect more.
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U.S. Disabled Championship
Clearwater Community Sailing Center
Clearwater, FL
November 17 - 20, 2016
for the Goldman, Hinkel, and Hovey Trophies
Regatta Documents
- Notice of Race
- Registration
- Request for Charters
- Discounted Hotel Rooms
- Competitors
- Sailing Instructions
- Information for Competitors
- Conditions for the Championship
2015 Results & Coverage
Classification is recommended but not required for sailors competing in the U.S. Disabled Championship. It is not required in the Development fleet if sailed.
Schedule Classification
Classification appointments must be set up in advance. For more information go to http://www.ussailing.org/race-officials/classifiers/
- 2.4mR, Sonars, doublehanded boat pending
- Standard entry process
- Competitors in these classes must supply their own boat, or make arrangements for charter
- All competitors must be members of US Sailing or, if not U.S. residents, the national sailing authority of their home countries
- Sailors should be classified by the time of racing
First established in 1986, what was then called the U.S. Independence Cup became US Sailing's national championship for disabled sailors in 1989. For many years it was organized by the Disabled Sailing Committee and was run in conjunction with the North American Challenge Cup, which is hosted by Chicago Yacht Club.
In 2007, the regatta moved under the Championships division of US Sailing and was renamed the U.S. Disabled Sailing Championship. The following year, the championship moved from Chicago Yacht Club to begin to travel around the country. Many competitors at the U.S. Disabled Sailing Championships have gone on to represent the United States at the Paralympics Games including Nick Scandone, gold medalist at the 2008 Paralympics The Chandler Hovey, Jr. Trophy was donated at the 1994 Independence Cup by A.G.A. Correa and Co. to US Sailing. "Buzz" Hovey, for whom it is named, was active in 12 Metre racing in the '50's and '60's with the family owned Twelve, Easterner. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1947, he continued, nonetheless, to sail and race actively, especially in his Shields Class boat, until 1981 when he retired from the racing circuit.
Peter Goldman donated the Judd Goldman Trophy in honor of Justin "Judd" Goldman (1914-1989) who, despite his own physical disability, was an accomplished sailor and inspired the creation of the Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program, Chicago, Illinois. In 2009, a third trophy in honor of Gene Hinkle was donated in honor of Gene's many contributions to disabled sailing and the US Paralympic team.
Committee Chair
Kevin Wixom | email@example.com
Event Chair
Rick White
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What are you most proud of? Like most crafters,just getting the project completed and ready to wear is pretty exciting. The goal was to have it finished for a September wedding and I did it with time to spare.
What advice would you give someone starting this project? This was my first attempt at knitting with laceweight yarn. The shawl is done with short rows using a wrap and turn method. The pattern calls for size 6 single pointed needles which makes the yarn feel VERY thin. I think my best advice would be to give the feel of the pattern a chance. The stitches are easy the weight of the yarn takes some getting use to.
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OLD BRIDGE — Steven Contreras may not do any jail time for his involvement in Divyendu Sinha's death.
Contreras, the first of five teenagers tried in the fatal beating of the Old Bridge computer scientist nearly two years ago, was found not guilty Monday of murder and aggravated manslaughter. However, a jury in New Brunswick convicted the 19-year-old of eight lesser, third-degree charges, including aggravated assault, conspiracy and hindering apprehension.
After deliberating for four days, the jury was unable to reach a verdict on a reckless manslaughter charge, for which Contreras could be retried.
Superior Court Judge Bradley Frencz said he would allow Contreras to remain free on bail because "at this time, he is facing third-degree offenses that carry presumptions of non-incarceration," Rather than jail time, Contreras would face probation. No sentencing date has been set.
Contreras was the driver of the car that carried four others who have also been charged but claimed he never participated in the beating.
After the verdict was returned yesterday and the jury had left the coutroom, the victim's widow, Alka Sinha, lowered her head and began to sob. Friends and family gathered around and tried to comfort her and her sons, Aashish, 18, and Ravi, 14.
The three were "devastated," by the verdict, according to a family spokesman.
"She is distraught. We cannot see how this came about," Guarang Vaishnav said. "We are disappointed Mr. Contreras was not convicted of murder. He drove around the culprits. However, the jury has spoken."
Contreras' attorney, Hassen Abdellah, said his client's family was "glad" for the results but "not gloating."
"They grieve for the Sinha family," Abdellah said. "Mrs. Contreras feels Mrs. Sinha's pain."
The attorney said Contreras "is more mature (now) and realizes he should have refused to drive them around that night."
Sinha was attacked June 25, 2010, as he was out for a evening walk with his wife and sons. Four teenagers surrounded the family near their home on Fela Drive and began punching and kicking Divyendu Sinha and his sons.
"My husband asked them, 'Why are you hitting me?' but they didn't answer," Alka Sinha, 47, testified during the trial. "I was screaming for help, but no one answered."
The attackers "ran fast with excitement" afterward, she said.
Divyendu Sinha died three days later of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
The five teens were identified almost immediately because one of Sinha's sons recognized one of the attackers from school.
Contreras drove the car that carried the group, but told police he remained inside the vehicle during the attack. He said he drove the others because they were looking to "f--- somebody up."
The state said Contreras was as guilty as four who actually landed the blows because without him, they would not have been at the scene.
Contreras was tried separately because he implicated the others in his statement to authorities.
The other four — Julian Daley, Christopher Conway, Cash Johnson and Christian Tinli — are scheduled to go on trial in July.
Though all five were juveniles when the attack occurred, a judge ruled that they could be tried as adults.
During closing arguments, Abdellah told jurors his client exercised "bad judgment" when he agreed to drive the teens around to find people to fight, but he did not share their "state of mind."
Abdellah argued his client told his friends several times that he wanted to go home or go to another friend's house as a way to calm them down and defuse their desire to fight, but he couldn't convince them to stop.
But Kuberiet portrayed Contreras as the "master of ceremonies" who could have prevented the attack on Sinha and on a motorist in another assault about 10 minutes before the attack on Sinha and his sons.
"It (the assault and Sinha's death) does not occur if the defendant does not drive," Kuberiet said.
Vaishnav, the Sinha spokesman, said he and the family believed one of the convictions carried prison time, but Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Kuberiet explained that was not the case.
"No matter what we do, it will not bring Divyendu back," he said.
Vaishnav said the Sinhas are now awaiting the trial for the four other co-defendants,
Kuberiet said he will confer with Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan and the Sinhas about whether to retry Contreras for reckless manslaughter.
Star-Ledger staff writer Jeanette Rundquist contributed to this report.
Related coverage:
• Teen cleared of murder, convicted of conspiracy and assault in fatal beating of Old Bridge man
• In closing arguments, attorneys debate teen's role in fatal beating of Old Bridge man
• Son of Old Bridge man beaten to death recalls attack, says he recognized one assailant
• Four co-defendants accused in fatal beating of Old Bridge man revealed to jurors
• Defendant in Old Bridge beating death says suspects were 'buzzed' and 'looking for a fight'
• 14-year-old son of Old Bridge man beaten to death recalls 'the worst day of my life'


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I love that story. 🙂
Pantheism works much better than atheism. Next time you're confronting an evangelical Christian, tell him that the entire Universe is alive. Create a mythos that is larger than his, not one in opposition. His head will explode. Plus it's way, way more fun.
I think…wait, where did those coattails go again?


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The 9th US/ICOMOS International Symposium
Newport, Rhode Island, April 19-22, 2006
US/ICOMOS - the United States Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites
The 9th Sympsoium is co-sponsored and hosted by the Newport World Heritage Committee.
The long conversation between the American preservation experience and international programs has had a huge influence on the protective and management standards established in the World Heritage Operational Guidelines, something that continues to this day. In the international back-and-forth exchange of ideas contributions are adapted and transformed in ways that often improve them beyond recognition. When these return to our shores, along with fresh innovations from abroad, they find new applications as entirely new solutions to our own domestic challenges.
It is in this spirit of learning from each other that the 9th US/ICOMOS International Symposium will convene on 20 to 22 April, 2006, in historic Newport, Rhode Island, to look once again at the World Heritage Convention and its List as a rich source of models to improve the protection and management of the vast heritage of the United States, as well as to share with others some of our more recent national, state and local initiatives and approaches that may be applicable to World Heritage sites, with a particular focus on World Heritage cities, but not to the exclusion of other categories of sites.
As in years before, US/ICOMOS is issuing this universal call for abstracts that relate innovative experiences, preferably related to World Heritage sites, that deal with the full range of challenges associated with historic urban centers and towns, in accordance with the following sub-themes:
1. Different perceptions of historic cities and sites and consequences on their protection and management.
2. Lesson from World Heritage cities or sites in creating broader sustainable protection strategies.
3. Examples of World Heritage sites in building public awareness and support.
US/ICOMOS will accept electronic (Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf. files only), or hard copy abstracts with a maximum text of 250 words, in English. Abstracts must be received in US/ICOMOS by 31 October 2005. The page with the abstracts must contain the title of the propose paper, the name of the author(s) and the contact information. Abstracts may be accompanied by one (1) illustration only.
A committee of distinguished preservationists will evaluate all abstracts. Authors selected for presentation will be notified by 1 January 2006 at the latest.
Non-complying abstracts will not be considered.
Please, send your abstracts by e-mail to:
or by fax to: 1-202-842-1861
or by courier / regular air mail (please, no return mail signature requests nor registered mail):
Attn: 9th Symposium Abstracts
401 F Street NW, Room 331
Washington DC 20001-2728


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A-listers attend as auds award foreign films
The 20th edition of the Palm Springs Film Festival came to a close Monday on a high note, as surprisingly robust attendance betrayed few signs of a sagging economy.
Topics like the global recession and the imperiled indie film biz seemed far away, as more than 125,000 attendees flocked to the two-week event to see more than 208 films from 73 countries, including 14 world premieres.
"Audience balloting has been almost universally positive," remarked fest director Darryl Macdonald, "which is all the more remarkable because there's never been a more difficult environment facing foreign and independent films."
Macdonald attributes much of the fest's success to the over-40 audience sector, currently the fastest-growing movie aud.
Whereas Palm Springs has sometimes found its availability of grade-A pics curtailed by the simultaneous Sundance fest, this year there was no sense that the lineup consisted of second-tier films. What's more, the pics' market potential was palpable.
Macdonald noted that buyers, sales agents and filmmakers have reported positive meetings. "It's finally starting to gel," he said of the sales activity. "I know of at least one distributor that's circling three different films."
As the first major fest of the new year, Palm Springs has come to be regarded as much for its unparalleled wealth of foreign films as for the glittering star turnout of its annual opening gala.
This year was no exception: Fifty of the 67 Oscar foreign-language applicants unspooled during the festival fortnight. A Fipresci critics jury named the heist drama "Revanche," from Austria's Gotz Spielmann, as best foreign film and presented acting kudos to Natar Ungalaaq for "The Necessities of Life" (Canada) and Martina Gusman for "Lion's Den," from Argentina. The aud nod for feature went to "Departures," a comedic rumination on morticians from Japan's Yojiro Takita. Doc favorite was American Eric Bricker's "Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman," about the preeminent architecture photog.
A separate jury, comprising acquisitions executives, presided over sidebar New Visions/New Films. That section, devoted to the task of spotlighting up-and-coming talent, featured 12 works from rising international helmers. Its jury named Adrian Sitaru's "Hooked" (Romania/France) as its top pick, citing its "superb writing, acting and direction, all achieved on a Dogma budget, " and added a special mention for Bahamian Maria Govan's "Rain."
Meanwhile, Jordan's Amin Matalqa picked up the fest's John Schlesinger Award for first feature for "Captain Abu Raed," and Israel's Ari Folman won the Bridging the Borders prize for "Waltz With Bashir."
If the caliber of films was even better than usual this year, its opening gala yielded a reliable roster of star power. An essential stop on the Academy's balloting circuit, the gala offered headliners including Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams and Freida Pinto.


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Bosnia is a war without mercy. When old hatreds tore through the fragile fabric of what used to be Yugoslavia, neighbors became enemies in a conflict of appalling savagery. Serbs, Croats, Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics, they all are caught up in a collective tragedy. Despite halfhearted efforts by Europe and the United States to rein in the ethnic hatred, the warring factions—Serbs, Croats and Muslims—have become only more bloodthirsty as they carve up the central republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Two weeks ago, George Kenney, the State Department's officer in charge of Yugoslavia, resigned in disgust over the United States' reluctance to find a way to halt the killing of innocents. As diplomats dawdle, husbands, fathers and brothers are dead, missing or inextricably engaged in the fighting. The women and children are alone, afraid, hungry and in constant fear for their lives. Even when families remain intact, they are never out of danger. Traveling to the Balkans with AmeriCares, a Connecticut-based relief agency, staff writer J.D. Podolsky and photographer Taro Yamasaki recorded tales from a land of mourning.
FOUR-YEAR-OLD OLYA RADULOVIC WOKE UP on the morning of July 11 yearning for the warmth and comfort of sunshine. For the previous 72 days she and her family had lived cramped in an underground shelter while their city, Mostar, 50 miles southwest of Sarajevo in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina, had been shelled nonstop. But today the warning sirens were silent, and the sounds of war had ceased. The Serbian Army seemed to have stopped bombarding the city from its hilltop outposts. Olya and her sister Sanya, 2, sat down to breakfast in their first-floor apartment; their mother, Gordana, 37, had just finished ironing the cheery, flower-patterned cotton dresses they hadn't been able to wear in the dank shelter that lay under their modern stucco apartment building on the outskirts of the city. Olya, with Sanya tagging along, left her breakfast on the table and darted out to the front yard, now wildly overgrown with marigolds.
"They went off, yelling, 'Mommy, we're going to pick some flowers,' " says Gordana, reliving the moment in painful detail. "It was a very sunny, beautiful morning, and we were so happy to be out of the cellar. I went out after them to take down some wash I had just hung up on the terrace, and as I was collecting it, I called Olya over to help me. They were coming to me with flowers in their hands. That's when I heard a big explosion. The sound was so immense, all I could do was let out a scream. And then I saw both my daughters lying on the ground, side by side, covered in blood."
Smoke was everywhere. Gordana, wounded by shrapnel in her left arm, fell to the ground, dazed. As shells tore the earth all around, a neighbor rushed over to help. He saw Olya still breathing, scooped her up and rushed her to a hospital just a few miles away. She had suffered shrapnel wounds to the back and legs, perilously close to her spine and a major artery. If she had been rescued a moment or two later, doctors said, Olya would have died from loss of blood.
There was nothing anyone could do for her sister Sanya. A piece of shrapnel had sliced through her neck, killing her instantly. The shells fell for the next two hours, while her mutilated corpse lay in a pool of blood in the garden. Helpless neighbors, held back by the artillery fire, watched the little girl's blood curdle in the heal. Finally, someone dashed out and covered her with a sheet.
"All I felt was the pain in my heart. They were lying in front of me, and I couldn't do anything to help them," Gordana says, a month after the incident: "I can't forget that look in Sanya's eyes as she came to give me the flowers. I buried my child on my birthday. I know now whenever I remember my birthday, I'll ask, 'Oh, Lord, why do I have to live? Why didn't You take me?' "
Gordana and her family have forsaken their apartment. It is too heavily laden with painful and all-too-visible memories. A seven-foot-wide crater gapes where the fatal shell landed. Gordana, a Croat, her husband, Obrad, 40, a Serb lawyer, Olya, son Deya, 11, and daughter Maya, 10, have since lived with Gordana's parents in a two-bedroom apartment, modest but comfortable, in the relative safety of a six-story building in another neighborhood.
Yet even here the walls and stove are pockmarked by shrapnel from shells lobbed repeatedly into the city from the Serbian guerrillas' sanctuary on Mount Velez, a hill directly overlooking Mostar. Outside the building are the burned-out newsstands and kiosks of what was once one of the city's busiest avenues. From the distance comes the muffled sound of shelling.
Obrad, a powerful-looking man with a Cossack-like mustache, last saw Sanya that morning when he looked in on her in bed and rearranged the covers. "I am ashamed to be Serbian," he says as he rolls a cigarette. "These are cowards, not men, who did this."
"I can remember," says Gordana, "that right after the blast, Olya sat up for a moment and later she told me, 'Mommy, I saw Sanya close her eyes and lie still. I thought she was playing dead. So I closed my eyes and played too because I didn't want to die.' "
Olya does not know that her sister is dead. When she asks for her Sanya, Gordana and Obrad explain that the little one is away, visiting an aunt.
The children of Mostar still fish off rocks on the Neretva River. The 500-year-old city, however, is in ruins, 70 percent destroyed by massive shelling in an unsuccessful Serbian attempt to capture the strategic town. Half of Mostar's 120,000 inhabitants—a mix of Serbs, Muslims and Croats—have fled. Narrow cobblestone streets are now littered with debris and Kalashnikov rifle shells. At the city's battered 15th-century mosque, the minaret once used by muezzins to summon fellow Muslims to prayer has been toppled. From the branch of an ancient oak tree dangles a wire noose, a macabre reminder of a summary execution and divided loyalties. A Serbian coppersmith was hanged here by Serbian guerrillas—a lesson to other ethnic Serbs who remained loyal to Mostar, refusing to join the Serbian forces.
The local hospital has not been spared. An entire wall of the second-floor operating room was blown away by a recent explosion. In the wards white curtains separate the beds of Muslim and Serbian victims; for some, wounds may heal, but the hatred lingers. All over the hospital, children with deep scars engraved across their heads lie with blank stares and empty faces. Craniotomies, in which the skull is sliced open to relieve the pressure of massive head trauma, are common. In the airless basement lies Sanin, a 10-month-old Muslim child, both legs in casts, lacerated by shrapnel. Throughout there is a pungent odor, the ominous smell of many festering wounds. Children also undergo amputations, and a disproportionate number suffer from bullet wounds to the lower abdomen. According to doctors, free-lance snipers—both Serb and Croat—aim there deliberately in order to maim by disemboweling. "These are innocent children," says an AmeriCares pediatrician, Dr. Henry Harris. "I am seeing genocide."
Zehida Galashich, 33, sits with her 9-year-old son, Selvir, leaning against her chest as she tries to comprehend the death of her husband, Seid, 33, a Muslim field-worker. "He was beaten to death in his own house and for no other reason than his religion," she says, weeping, as flies swirl around her head. "They beat his head with a metal pipe...and then stuffed him into the cellar. I don't understand why it all happened. We always had good relations with the Serbs in our town."
Galashich and Selvir are luckier than most. They have reached the safety—and relative comfort—of a refugee camp in neighboring Croatia. Thousands of others who have fled their villages, however, remain trapped in Bosnia. In Posusje, a dusty town of 16,000 people two miles northwest of Mostar, a group of women and children huddle on pieces of cardboard under shady sycamore trees, trying to fend off the 106°F heat. They choose to live in the school yard because the air in the school itself is too oppressive. The musty stench—the accumulation of body odor from three months wear of the same clothing—is so pervasive a visitor's clothing quickly takes it on. Five hundred women and children have fled here, all refugees from villages in northern Bosnia, which are reportedly undergoing "ethnic cleansing"—the Serbian euphemism for ridding vast areas of non-Serbian peoples. They cluster around, buckets in hand, as what looks like a former gasoline truck hauls in brackish water. In no time, they gobble down Spam and bread, their only food.
Images of the Holocaust flash when Alema Karabasic, 47, recounts how she was separated from her husband, Salko, 46, and son, Sedo, 24. After the Serbs invaded her village of Kozarac, the family escaped to the woods and lived there for three months until they were rounded up by the enemy. "We were put together in a line of people," says Alema. "They took us to the city square and divided the women from the men. Then a soldier came and pointed his finger and took away my only son. There were no goodbyes. Then they took us, more than 100 people in each cargo wagon, on a train. It was hot, there was no food, no air, we were all pressed together. We were treated like cattle. Afterward, there was an old lady with a cane who couldn't walk anymore. They shot her right there."
Alema and her three daughters were eventually released and brought to Posusje. "At least here we have food," she says. But if doesn't make up for losing their homes. "We had everything," says her daughter Seydo, 28. "We had our own house. My father, my grandfather and those before him lived in that house. My Serb neighbors chose which houses to burn down, and I saw ours in ruins." Alema's husband and son-in-law are in different concentration camps. No one knows where her only son is.
Ismeta Hamilic, 37, cannot bear to think of the death of her husband. The Serbian Army entered her small village of Biscana and began routinely rounding up groups of 10 men and killing them with a machine gun. She and Seyfo, 40, took refuge in their cellar with their five children, but before long the soldiers kicked the door in and Seyfo was dragged out. While she stayed in the cellar, sheltering her children with her body, she heard shots. Hours later, her 7-year-old son, Asmir, came running up, yelling that he had found his father lying in a heap with his grandfather and uncle in the backyard. They were all dead.
"The Serbs said to us, 'Go away and don't let our eyes see you again,' " says Ismeta. "I made a while flag from a sheet, and I walked with my children through the streets, with nothing. We had to look straight ahead because there were dead babies lying on both sides of the street."
They walked more than 15 miles to the Croatian-controlled town of Travnik. "He was a simple worker," she says of her husband. "He didn't do anything. He didn't even have enough money to feed our five children. What could he have ever done to them? Now we have to endure." She says bitterly, "Sometimes I think it's easier for the dead because they don't have to go from camp to camp. They are lying dead in holes in the fields, and at least they don't know what's going on anymore.... I only had time to throw some sand on [Seyfo]. I can't think about him anymore."
High above the pristine waters of the Neretva River along a tree-shaded avenue lined with Mostar's wealthiest homes sits the Liska Park. Its winding gravel paths were once lovers' lanes for Mostar's youth, but today they have become makeshift graveyards. Mounds of fresh soil lie side by side. In close-packed rows are Muslim graves, accented by green teardrop tombstones with a red crescent: Serbian graves, with three-foot-high while crosses; and Croatian graves, with plain wooden crosses.
Close by, near a park bench, are three large rectangular holes waiting to be filled. The fighting goes on, in spite of a so-called peace agreement reached in London two weeks ago. Serb artillery still rains down on Mostar nightly in what may be a new attempt to take the city. Clad in black, Mate Prcic, a widow at 28, makes her way to the grave where candles are burning for her husband, Podvel, 26. They last saw each other May 18. He died two months later at the front, at that time the Neretva River in the center of Mostar. "I'm leaving town," says Prcic, trembling while she looks toward her 2-year-old daughter, Matea, waiting in a car. "It is not safe here. This is the last time I'll see his grave."
In This same cemetery lies Sanya, Olya's sister, Gordana and Obrad's lost 2-year-old. Her grave, beneath a white cross, is kept up by strangers who periodically come by to remove dead flowers and straighten the crosses.
Sanya was buried the day after she died. She received no formal funeral. With the city's electricity shut off, her body could not be refrigerated long enough for her parents to find an Eastern Orthodox priest to recite the liturgy. Shells were falling that afternoon, so the 15-minute "service" ' extemporized by her family was rushed. But her father will never forget it. Obrad recalls how, while standing over the grave, he asked, "Daughter, please forgive me for not buying you that red stuffed rabbit that you wanted. I meant to, but I couldn't get around to it." Then as they lowered her into the ground, he looked toward the distant mountains and shouted, "Why don't you animals come down here? Why did you have to kill my daughter?"
Before leaving, he placed on Sanya's grave the same marigolds that had lured her to her death. Raised a Communist, he had to ask his wife to say the prayers for him. "I hadn't learned how to pray," he says, sobbing. "My parents never taught me. But I ask for you, my daughter, that the earth is soft for you."
'What Will Comes of Us?'
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Student Rewards Contines For Basketball Seasons
- The program is FREE for all Ball State Students who are registered for the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 Semesters.
- Students will receive five points for attending men's basketball home games and 10 points for attending women's basketball home games.
-Students must swipe in at Gate 4 (right outside of "The Nest") in Worthen Arena before halftime to receive their points.
-Students who attend the first four men's home basketball games will receive a FREE ticket and FREE bus ride (Sponsored by Ball State SGA) to the Ball State vs. Butler game at Butler on December 1st. The first four games for the men are:
-Nov. 11 vs. Grambling at 2pm
-Nov. 16 vs. Wofford at 7pm
-Nov. 20 vs. Indiana State at 7pm
-Nov. 28 vs. Cleveland State at 7pm
-Students who attend Basketball Fan Jam on Nov. 1st from 6:30pm-8pm in Worthen Arena will receive 5 bonus points!
-For more information and a schedule of all events, log on to www.ballstatesports.com/studentrewards Students can also check their point status at www.rtattendance.com/charliescrewrewards
-Be sure to follow us on Twitter @BSUAthletics and Facebook "Ball State Sports" for up to date program information and bonus point opportunities!
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|Prize for attending first four Men's Basketball home games
|FREE ticket and FREE bus ride to the Ball State vs. Butler game at Butler on Dec. 1. The first four games are on: Nov. 11, Nov. 16, Nov. 20, and Nov. 28! Must swipe in at each game BEFORE halftime to be eligible!
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- April 23, 2001
- Vol. 55
- No. 16
Late Bloomer
Michael Gray, Billy Batson on Shazam! Has Transformed Himself from the Kid with Powers to a Man with Flowers
No, Gray wasn't a Monkee or a Jackson or an Osmond, but the mop of hair and the pouty lips that were his trademarks on CBS's mid-'70s Shazam! series had him vying with those bubblegum icons for the covers of fan magazines like Tiger Beat and Teen. These days the hair and the lips are a bit thinner, but Gray, 53, still draws glances at Casabella, the Beverly Hills flower shop he owns with wife Stacy. "A lot of people will come in and say [to him], 'Don't I know you from somewhere?' " says Stacy, 39. "Personally, I don't think he's changed all that much—just no teen-idol shag."
And no illusions now that he's on the other side of celebrity, catering to the likes of grunge queen Courtney Love, producer Garry Marshall and rocker Ozzy Osbourne. ("I would never think of throwing a party without having his imaginative arrangements around the house," says Osbourne's wife, Sharon.) Twenty-seven years ago, Gray reveled in his own star power as Billy Batson, the teen righter of wrongs who morphed into Captain Marvel with a cry of "Shazam!" But when the show ended in 1977, so did his career. "I don't feel bitter," says Gray, "but I was typecast. Period. Not an easy thing in Hollywood."
He'd set his sights on Hollywood as a teenager in Miami Beach, where he lived with his parents—Eunice, now 74, a romance novelist, and Philip, an artificial-flower manufacturer who died in 1990 at 77—and his older sister Nancy, who died of cancer in 1978 at 38. After graduating from high school in 1965, he went to Los Angeles to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, and in 1968 was cast in the pilot for Room 222. ABC replaced him when it picked up the series, but small parts in shows including The Flying Nun and The Brady Bunch led to a role on NBC's The Little People in 1972. Though Gray was let go after one season, when the show was revamped his photos started popping up in the teen mags. "Mind you, at first they were literally the size of postage stamps," he says. "But the kids started writing in, 'Who is this Michael Gray?' "
Shazam! producers knew, and cast him in 1974. "The show had a moral to it," Gray says. "It amazes me how much kids were affected by it, and it still touches my heart." When the series was canceled, he was devastated. The years that followed were "bleak and black," he says. Amid rumors that he had a drinking problem, work dried up. But what looked like drunken staggering and shaking were actually caused by a prescription-drug reaction. To help him cope with Shazaml's schedule, Gray's doctors had prescribed Dexamyl, which contains a stimulant, to boost energy, as well as Placidyl, a sleep aid. When the show finished, Gray quit Placidyl cold turkey, and that's when the erratic behavior set in. In 1983 he moved in with his parents in Carmel, Calif, (where they had relocated in 1972), undergoing detox at an area hospital. He also worked with a local musical theater group for several years—until, he says, he "felt ready for another invasion" of showbiz.
Back in L.A. in 1987, he auditioned while working odd jobs, but with no luck. Then he went on a blind date with Stacy Benon. They married in 1994, and he bought her parents' West Hollywood flower shop to support his new family, including Stacy's two children from her first marriage. Business boomed, and in 1999 they moved the shop to Beverly Hills, where Gray shares a three-bedroom home with Stacy, stepchildren Ryan, 16, and Laurel, 13, and Beau and Tai, the family's two Pomeranians. He enjoys his new role as florist to the stars—"Putting your artistic feelings into flowers is just a different kind of gig," he explains—but yes, acting is still his first love. "If I could say 'Shazam!' and make it happen," he says, "I'd do it in a minute."
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- March 13, 2006
- Vol. 65
- No. 10
Don Knotts
Long after they teamed up on The Andy Griffith Show, the classic '60s sitcom in which Griffith starred as Andy Taylor, the laid-back sheriff of fictional Mayberry, N.C., and Don Knotts played his jittery, high-maintenance deputy, Barney Fife, the two men remained close friends. "They would talk on the phone for hours and share the deepest confidences," says Knotts's third wife, Francey Yarborough.
So it was only fitting that Griffith, 79, was at his old pal's bedside on Feb. 24, just a few hours before Knotts succumbed at 81 to complications from lung cancer in an L.A. hospital. "I told him I loved him and I held his hand," says Griffith. "I said, 'You gotta breathe, Jess!' Jesse was his [real] first name. 'You gotta whip this thing.'" Though Knotts was unconscious, "his chest heaved several times, and I believe he heard my voice."
The real Don Knotts was nothing like blustery Barney, says Griffith, who first met the onetime ventriloquist from Morgantown, W.Va., when they were castmates on Broadway (and later onscreen) in the comedy No Time for Sergeants. "He was modest, he was humble and he was very bright," says Griffith. Adds director Ron Howard, who played Andy's son Opie: "He was just one of those truly kind people, very unassuming and very respectful."
"The reason I'm in the business is because of Don," says another pal, Tim Conway, The Carol Burnett Show veteran who performed with him on The Steve Allen Show and teamed with him in five movies from 1975 to 1980. "He was the Charlie Chaplin of our era. He left us with a wonderful, gentle character who can never be duplicated."
But there was another side to Knotts. "Dad was kind of wild," says Karen Knotts, his actress daughter by first wife Kathryn Metz, with whom he also had a son, Thomas, now an electrical engineer. "He was really quite a ladies' man, especially between marriages."
In that respect, he was not unlike landlord Ralph Furley, the leisure-suited wannabe swinger he would go on to play on Three's Company. On the set, "he'd put down the script and just become this physical force you couldn't help but laugh at," says costar Joyce DeWitt, who remembers Knotts and the late John Ritter doing dueling Jack Benny impressions off-camera.
Late in his career, Knotts would tour in Harvey and other stage revivals, joined by Yarborough, 43, who fell in love with him 20 years ago and married him in 2002. Diagnosed with lung cancer last November, Knotts, who'd quit smoking decades ago, "was upbeat and getting chemo," she says. "But he didn't even tell his own children. He figured he'd beat it and go on with his life." At his deathbed, says Karen, "I found myself telling him everything I wanted to say before he left. He was listening. I know it. I could feel it."
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'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' hauls in $60.6M for the biggest Wednesday box office opening ever, Ryan Reynolds gets 'Buried' in Iraq, 'The Runaways' finds its Lita Ford, and more of today's top movie headlines. img hspace="8" border="0" align="left" vspace="8" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2009/06/transformers-2-megan-fox-186c.jpg" alt="" />On the strength of some hardcore Autobot-vs.-Decepticon action -- and a stellar supporting performance from Megan Fox's decolletage -- 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' hauled in a whopping $60.6 million yesterday to break the box-office record for the biggest Wednesday opening of all time. The film earned $16M from midnight showings alone, and is predicted to gross $150M to $170M by Sunday. [Variety]
Ryan Reynolds will star in the indie thriller 'Buried,' playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens to find that he's buried in a coffin in the desert with nothing but a cell phone, a candle and a knife with which to save himself. Child's play. [Variety]
Scout Taylor-Compton is a little 'Runaway.' The 'Halloween' star will play Lita Ford to Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning's Cherie Currie in 'The Runaways,' a biopic about the legendary '70s all-girl punk band. [Variety]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced that beginning with the 2010 Academy Awards, the list of Best Picture candidates will expand to include 10 nominees. That means fan faves like 'The Dark Knight' will be in the mix (and that people may actually care about the Oscars for a change). [Moviefone]
Is Tom Welling set to play Superman on the big screen? With the ninth season of the CW's 'Smallville' rumored to be the last, Warner Bros. may be prepping a movie entitled 'Metropolis' for a Christmas 2010 bow. Whether it's a TV pic, a feature film or a bunch of rubbish should be cleared up at Comic-Con in July. [Ain't It Cool News]
Warner Bros. is giving Zack Snyder's director's cut of 'Watchmen' a one-week theatrical run in four major cities before the movie hits DVD on July 21. Included in the 25 minutes of new footage will be the death of a supporting character and, likely, plenty more of Dr. Manhattan's big blue wiener. [The Hollywood Reporter]
The buzzed about indie '(500) Days of Summer,' starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, continues to shine in advance of its July 17 release: It just scored the audience award for favorite dramatic feature at the 2009 Maui Film Festival. [The Hollywood Reporter]
A year after its release, 'The Dark Knight' is still racking up accolades. It took home five trophies to lead the pack at this year's Saturn Awards, which recognize the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror films. 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Iron Man' snagged three awards each. [The Hollywood Reporter]
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Assuming the mantle previously worn by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck becomes CIA agent Jack Ryan in this riveting spine-tingler based on one of Tom Clancy's early novels. Sadly, The Sum of All Fears -- which depicts a terrorist's nuclear attack upon an American city -- acquired unexpected relevance following the events of September 11, 2001. Ignoring the continuity established in the earlier Clancy adaptations The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger, Sum introduces Ryan as a callow intelligence analyst taken under the wing of a veteran agent (Morgan Freeman) when relations with Russia become strained to the breaking point. Unbeknownst to them, a nihilistic neo-fascist (Alan Bates) hopes to precipitate nuclear war by exploding a small atom bomb in a Baltimore football stadium -- and making sure that the Russians are blamed. The horrific consequences of this act are depicted realistically and in chilling detail, and Ryan races against time to prove that terrorists are behind the bombing. Sum's script has some incongruities and relies on improbable coincidences, but director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) maintains such a brisk pace that you won't be aware of them until the film is over. Affleck may strike some Clancy fans as being too boyish to play Ryan, but he's believable in the role and additionally enjoys the backing of a terrific supporting cast that includes James Cromwell as the beleaguered President, Liev Schreiber as a cold-blooded CIA "spook," and Colm Feore as one of Bates's associates. At times a grim and even frightening film, The Sum of All Fears is also a compulsively watchable thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat -- literally. Robinson supplies two full-length commentaries for the film on DVD, one with cinematographer John Lindley and another with author Tom Clancy. There are also two featurettes covering various aspects of the film's production. Ed Hulse
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- December 07, 1981
- Vol. 16
- No. 23
Why Are Raquel Welch and Other Hollywood Stars Going to Broadway? The Subject Is Grosses
CUT TO...Broadway! Pianos are tinkling. Rehearsal halls are clattering with dancing feet. Rumors are flying. Raquel Welch, whose last previous stage experience was in high school, has just completed a month of frantic preparations. This week, in perhaps the diciest move of her career, Raquel and her ever magnificent proscenium are filling the arch at the Palace Theatre, where she is subbing for the vacationing Lauren Bacall in the hit musical Woman of the Year.
Skeptics notwithstanding, Raquel asserts that she's "not scared" of stepping in for two weeks for Bacall, who won this year's Tony Award in the role. "Everyone said, 'Great idea. Do it,' " Raquel reports. "So I thought, 'Why not?' " Besides, she explains, "I wouldn't copy Betty Bacall. I'll do the show with my own level of energy and movement." That also means flashier costumes and more dancing.
Raquel got the job at Bacall's cut of 10 percent of the gross (or about $30,000 a week) only after Debbie Reynolds, Angela Lansbury, Alexis Smith, Dinah Shore and Mary Tyler Moore all turned it down, mostly because they didn't want to follow Bacall. Lauren, 57, lobbied for pal Dina Merrill and reportedly objected to having a much younger and more exotic replacement. Insiders say she asked her producers not to invite critics to Raquel's performances and also refused joint publicity photos before Welch's opening. Yet Raquel reports that Bacall was "warm and generous" in their single dressing room encounter.
Welch is only the latest in a progression of often unlikely Hollywood types shuttling in and out of Broadway productions (see box). The point, of course, is that the TV and movie stars can lengthen the box office life of a show—and, conversely, Broadway exposure can help burnish a fledgling or fading star's career. While Raquel's ABC special, From Raquel With Love, got decent ratings last fall, this year she was eased out of an upcoming film, MGM's Cannery Row, and her list of coming attractions is short: Stunt Woman, a film she made in France (under the title L' Animal) with Jean Paul Belmondo; a January NBC movie called The Legend of Walks Far Woman; and her first record—a pop single to be released in Europe. But one place an over-40 actress can find good roles is on Broadway. "A lot of people will come to see what she looks like these days," says co-producer David Landay. "And to see whether she can do it."
Afterward Raquel plans to flee to Brazil with André "to soak in the sun so we can stop looking like endives. I love to be really brown." She and André met in Paris in 1977, when she was filming with Belmondo. Weinfeld, then writing scripts for French TV, first saw Welch at a dinner with a mutual friend. "I was so awed, I got giddy and silly," he recalls. "She had a back problem and started to stretch and arch her back sexily. I joked, 'No, don't do that to me!' " A few days later Weinfeld summoned the courage to call her. "Do you have 20 dates for tonight?" he asked. "Cancel them all. I'm taking you to dinner." At the end of the evening André gallantly gave Raquel a kiss at the door and left. "When you know it's going to be important," he explains, "you wait."
Raquel in turn was charmed by his "funny, generous, sensual spirit." By 1978 they were living together at her Beverly Hills home. For Welch that was a big step. Her previous marriages—to childhood sweetheart James Welch and producer Patrick Curtis—were "not blissful," she says. After her second divorce, in 1972, "I had always said to myself, 'Oh, you can have your romances, but don't let them in the house, whatever you do. You have to go home alone at night.' " Sixteen months ago she and André wed.
Now Raquel is serenely domesticated. She and André are hunting for a new place in New York, where her son, Damon Welch, 21, is a college student. (Her 19-year-old daughter by Welch, named Tahnee, is an aspiring photographer and actress in L.A.) Raquel says that turning 40 was not traumatic; she keeps in shape with daily yoga sessions and a diet of mostly fish, chicken and vegetables. The woman TIME called "The Nation's Number One Sex Symbol" in 1969 is also learning not to worry about her image. "Why hate it?" she shrugs. "It doesn't do me any good. The sex symbol image is there. I don't dislike it. I don't love it. It's like Mount Rushmore. It's not going to go away."
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Good morning ladies! New month, new cycles and new chances!
This month is all about giving thanks so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to every one of you for being supportive to each other. This is the only board I have been on that does not have bickering or anything else like that. Everyone is truely excited for the BFP and IUP of others. This truely is a support board.
I hate that we all have this common bond, but am so thankful for each of you. Y'all have been there to listen to my unsual story and have yet to judge me. Thank you!
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This past summer, Sanders-Clyde Middle School seventh-grader Javier Gathers boarded an airplane and traveled to Princeton University, where he stayed, without family, for a weeklong squash tournament.
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He came back a more confident young man with higher aspirations.
"I want to go to college, and I'm thinking about going to Prince- ton," Gathers says.
That hope is among the early fruits of Chucktown Squash, a private, nonprofit urban squash program started two years ago.
At the time, it was the nation's 10th such program but the first of its kind in the Southeast. Other cities that have used squash (a high-speed sport on an indoor court with four walls, a racket and a small rubber ball) as a catalyst for higher education and better opportunities include New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Growing, flowering
In its third season in Charleston, the program has grown from 16 to 28 students from Sanders-Clyde, who live on the East Side of downtown Charleston.
"We're excited about the traction from the Sanders-Clyde community," says Chucktown's new executive director, Sam Candler. "Ideally, as the program grows, and we get support and more people know about it, and we have the resources, we'll be able to recruit from other schools."
"Our goal is to take those guys from fifth grade all the way through high school, and ideally we get the same results as National Urban Squash and Education Association, which is 100 percent high school graduation and 93 percent college enrollment."
But Candler is pointing to signs of the programs, such as an improvement in the first quarter English language arts average grade of Chucktown participants from 79 in 2011 to 92 this year.
He also noted that Chucktown, which requires participants to have an academic average of 80, had a 94 percent retention rate this year from last.
"It's incredible," says Candler, who quit his job as an aircraft salesman to become executive director.
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He is joined in the effort by his wife, Carolyn "Lynnie" Minkowski Candler, the program director.
The former squash professional coaches the kids but coordinates tutors, leads enrichment programs and even provides healthy snacks.
Lynnie is the sister of Anna Minkowski, who was the first paid staffer for Chucktown Squash.The sisters, who have made a name for themselves in the mid-Atlantic squash world, worked on the program together last year before Anna moved to get married.
One major boost for Chucktown Squash since its formation has been a partnership with the College of Charleston and visiting health professor Michael Hemphill. Students in Hemphill's classes "volunteer" as tutors and get college credits, along with others, including some Porter-Gaud high school students.
Squash as catalyst
So from Monday to Thursday every week, the kids in Chucktown get at least an hour of exercise, some combination of playing squash, running or doing calisthenics in "boot camps" at the Johnson Center and then head into a classroom to do homework and study one-on-one with a college student.
"Our students are basically in a college immersion atmosphere here," Sam says. "College wasn't on the radar for most of these kids, and now they are mixing with college students almost every day."
And that's not all. The mind-body enrichment goes into nutrition instruction. Sam says Lynnie not only provides healthy snacks but gives short talks on health, from what "super foods" are to the importance of heart health.
Chucktown also participates in community activities. Most recently, several ran in the Medical University of South Carolina's Health Charleston Challenge 2-Mile run.
And then there's the squash. Participants, who also play Saturdays at MUSC, not only develop a healthy love of competition in a highly strategic game but get to travel to tournaments in Atlanta and Baltimore, where they are exposed to new worlds and people. Opening up their eyes is one of our main goals," Candler says.
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A woman and her two daughters were in the residence at the time, but were able to escape with their pets without any injuries, DeRosa said.
The fire, which was reported around 4:38 p.m., had six- to seven-foot flames leaping off the roof but was under control by 6:30 p.m., DeRosa said.
While the fireplace was being used at the time of the incident, DeRosa said the fire originated near a metal flue pipe in the attic. The flue pipe, which led away from the fireplace, appeared to have inadequate clearance from the structure of the house, he said.
It is unknown whether the pipe was obstructed or if other factors may have contributed to the blaze, DeRosa said.
The home, which sustained fire, smoke and water damage, is uninhabitable because fire consumed sections of the attic while firefighters had to remove sections of the second floor ceiling to access the fire, DeRosa said. The attic was small and did not provide firefighters with enough room to maneuver, he said.
The family is currently staying with friends and family in Madison, he said.
Fire departments from Chatham, Cedar Knolls, Florham Park and Morris Township responded to the scene to assist, while units New Vernon and Green Village were on standby at the Madison firehouse, DeRosa said. Madison police and volunteer ambulance also responded to the scene, he said.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are beginning to get an idea for which players will fill out the roster as we creep closer and closer to the teams' first preseason game versus the New York Giants.
Thankfully, the Steelers haven't been hit with any major injuries at this point, though there have been many minor ones.
Here are eight players whose stock has either risen or fallen through the first two weeks of training camp. This list mainly consists of players who are fighting for a spot on the roster—not just players who are performing well in camp.