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The off-white custom 737 idles a hundred yards from the auxiliary terminal at Denver International Airport. One by one, the Nuggets drip out of the building. Dressed in a gray team sweat suit, stoic head coach Jeff Bzdelik is first to board. Clutching a cup of hot chocolate in his right hand, he appears relaxed as he walks to the rear of the plane and back again before taking an aisle seat in the first row. On this Thursday in February, Bzdelik's team is the surprise of the Western Conference, owner of the sixth spot in the West playoff standings. He has every right to feel good.
As Marcus Camby comes across the tarmac, he yawns the yawn of the been-there. He's halfway to the jet when backup point guard Earl Boykins emerges through the terminal's sliding metal doors, pulling a designer suitcase just about his size. Packing for a three-game, five-day road trip is second nature for the six-year vet. An assortment of sweat suits, one pair of jeans, some button-down shirts. Laptop, CDs, a DVD player, a deck of playing cards. Like the rest of his teammates, he clutches a manila envelope that contains $545 in cash, per diem money. Good for a meal, and a shopping spree or two.
The plane is split into three groups, each its own first-class cabin. The coaches sit in the front. Team employees and radio staff claim the middle space. The players occupy the largest area, in the rear. The decor is generic, not a Nuggets logo anywhere, none embedded in the dark-brown carpet nor stitched onto the brown leather bucket seats. Platters of Buffalo wings, fruit and fajitas, on the other hand, are everywhere.
The plane rocks to life once Steve Hess, the strength and conditioning coach, enters. The Australian-born amateur bodybuilder is in his seventh year with the franchise. He is a stocky whirlwind, part Russell Crowe, part Tasmanian Devil. He greets each person who boards with a hug and a resounding "Whaddup?" Fine-tuning the players' bodies is his job, but keeping them loose in their high-stakes work environment is a natural sideline, given his demeanor. "Having someone with a different personality than the coaching staff really helps us," says Boykins.
This is the first time the team is hitting the road since the All-Star break. Officially, it's Road Trip No. 17, and it will take the Nuggets to Orlando, Miami and Memphis. A glance at the schedule clarifies its importance. When the Nuggets return to Denver, they face a grueling home stretch against the Lakers, Knicks, Nets, Pistons and Pacers wrapped around a game at San Antonio. Bzdelik knows the trip can make or break the season. The least it will do is show him what kind of team he really has.
Nikoloz Tskitishvili, the talented if seldom-used seven-footer from the Republic of Georgia, captures every moment with his mini-DVD recorder. Even after a year in the league, he still gets excited about traveling. While this is a business trip, most of the players are in vacation mode. Spirits are high. The laughter is easy, the banter rapid-fire. After takeoff, flight attendants offer cheesesteaks, chicken teriyaki, ice cream sandwiches and three-inch-high slices of chocolate cake. The players settle into their seats. Boykins pulls out a deck of cards and starts dealing to Andre Miller, Rodney White and Carmelo Anthony. Chris Andersen jumps on his laptop. At 10,000 feet, Voshon Lenard is already asleep.
In the forward cabin, Bzdelik dissects the team's last effort against the Magic on a 21-inch, wall-mounted flat-screen. The sight of Tracy McGrady jacking 51 remains ugly three months later. Laughter erupts in the rear of the plane when one of the players refers to starting center Nene as SheNene.
Led by Anthony, the dynamic 19-year-old rookie, Denver has jelled quickly, considering there are six new faces on the roster and three more on the coaching staff. These Nuggets have forged a rep as an up-tempo, scrappy bunch with just the right mix of youthful bravado and veteran smoothness. Whoever they draw in the first round had better be ready. But first they've got to get to the first round. The road trip looms in their path. "We'd like to go 30," says Boykins, thinking only about the present. "But we'll settle for 2-1."
Every NBA team flies into auxiliary locations that cater to private jets. It is a world away from the hassle of everyday travel. Upon touchdown in Orlando, just before 7 p.m., two buses are already waiting on the tarmac. The players and coaches head to one. The radio crew, the public relations staff and the rest of the support personnel fill the other. A U-Haul carrying the team's luggage completes the caravan to the hotel. At the Westin Grand Bohemian, five minutes from the TD Waterhouse Centre in downtown Orlando, Hess convenes a bucket brigade of team trainers and hotel staffers to unload the luggage. "Let's go, boys," he encourages. "Keep it straight tonight."
Inside, the players gather around an oak table manned by a too-polite concierge. They pick up envelopes that hold room keys and a list of each player's extension. Lenard checks in under the name Kurtis Blow. He's the only player who deems it necessary to go incognito.
Then the players scatter. Some won't see each other again until practice. "When we come to a city, most of us have friends we get to see only once a year," says Miller. But before going their separate ways, they trade CDs, confirm dinner plans and examine tomorrow's itinerary. The players take comfort in knowing the coaches are bunking three floors away. White pops over to Anthony's room, and they head out to dinner. Nene and Francisco Elson, who is from the Netherlands, also set out in search of food. Boykins turns in early to watch the Kings and Timberwolves on TV.
Bzdelik goes back to work, popping in more video of the Magic. The coach shares a suite with his 15-year-old son, Brett, an occasional weekend road-tripper. A perceptive high school freshman who's way more into golf than basketball, Brett looks like he'd be right at home behind the counter at McDonald's. "You can't believe how intense my dad is about basketball," he says, shaking his head with a hint of exasperation. "I mean, he's like that all the time."
Just until 2 a.m., when he turns out the lights.
Minutes before tip-off, in the tunnel of the TD Waterhouse Centre, the players huddle loosely. Anthony bobs his head, all nervous energy, as Nene engulfs the group in his enormous wingspan. "Ride or die! We either ride or we die," someone chants DMX style from within the pack.
On the strength of Anthony's hot hand and Camby's command of the glass, Denver races out to a 32-22 first-quarter lead. Just before the halftime buzzer, T-Mac swoops in for a dunk. Andersen, a gangly leaper, closes in from behind to swat the shot away. When there is no call, McGrady twice boots the ball into the stands and is ejected. It's the same ball he used to score his 10,000th career point minutes earlier.
No McGrady? This one's a done deal. The Nuggets begin the third quarter up by three and riding a swell of confidence. But McGrady's ejection has energized his teammates. The Magic are quicker to every loose ball. In the second half, they pound Denver 35-21 on the boards. Despite scoring 35 points, Anthony fails to bail out his team when Drew Gooden blocks his jumper with 35 seconds to go. Orlando wins, 102-98.
"I can't tell you how disappointing this is," says a glossy-eyed Bzdelik, just above a whisper. He doesn't have to. His face gives it away.
Thirty minutes later, the bus to the airport is a morgue. Players cocoon themselves in quiet cell phone conversations. The darkness in the back of the bus is broken only by the intermittent blue-greens, fuchsias and ambers of their phones. Camby calls his mom. "Nope, we lost," he says. Then a long silence. Little-used forward Mark Pope verbally tucks in his 4-year-old daughter, Ella, back home in Broomfield, Colo. She asks if T-Mac is crazy. "Maybe he is," he replies. "Maybe he is." On the 15-minute ride, no teammates actually speak to one another.
Shortly after arriving at the plane, the bus is empty except for Bzdelik. He sits motionless in the far right seat of the first row, staring at an already tattered box score. On the bottom of the page, he's scrawled and underlined the words, We should have won this game.
The short flight to Miami touches down after midnight. At just before 1 a.m., the buses pull up at the Four Seasons Hotel. A mob of about 50 fans runs alongside, clutching jerseys, hats, anything that can be signed. Thirtysomething men with pot bellies barely concealed by No.15 Syracuse jerseys trot among the teenagers. Everyone yells the same plea, "Melo! Melo!" Members of hotel security inform the fans that the players will be available to sign autographs on the other side of the building after they've picked up their luggage. It's a ruse that allows the players to make it to their rooms without having to face a single Sharpie.
It's not unusual for an entire crowd of autograph seekers to want only Anthony. Fans bottleneck courtside during pregame shootarounds clamoring for his attention and begging for his headbands. He gets more interview requests than the rest of the team combined. "All that stuff is great," Anthony says. "But to me, this is a job, and the attention is not something to get caught up in." His reluctance to hoard the limelight goes a long way toward diffusing potential jealousies. He has no posse. He doesn't even have a bodyguard. "Carmelo doesn't act like a star," Boykins says. "He'd rather just fit in."
While Boykins and Anthony wait patiently in the lobby, Hess and several hotel staffers fall into line to unload the bags, while the rest of the players disappear onto the elevators. After a few minutes, Camby returns to the lobby to fish out an enormous black suitcase. Rolling it toward the elevator, he pops on his headphones, turns up the Jay-Z tune on his iPod and lets out another slow yawn. "No South Beach tonight," he says. "We need a win tomorrow."
Players and coaches assemble in the cavernous Miami Ballroom for what will be the only team breakfast of the trip. It's a buffet: waffles, scrambled eggs, hash browns, toast. The assistant coaches and trainers are the first in. As the players arrive, Hess greets each as if he hasn't seen them in months, "What's up, brother?" he exclaims. "You ready to work?"
At one table, Pope reads the national section of The Miami Herald. "I'm a Bush fan, but I'm a little concerned with his policy on the environment," he says to his new teammate, Michael Doleac, who was scooped off waivers just 18 hours earlier. Doleac, an aspiring orthopedic surgeon, just nods. He loves politics and a good debate, but he's not yet ensconced enough to engage. Sitting in the next chair, Lenard quizzes Miller about his whereabouts over the previous eight hours. The defendant isn't talking. Conversation quickly turns to which Nugget looks the most rested after partying all night.
Everyone agrees Andersen usually looks like he was dragged under a bus. "Coaches can tell," says Miller. "They don't say anything, but they know." Miller, meanwhile, looks like he just stepped out of makeup. Before the focus can shift back to Miller, the crack of assistant John MacLeod's voice snaps everyone to attention. He tells the players to organize their chairs in two rows on the empty side of the ballroom. Bzdelik begins a lecture on the importance of winning the battle on the boards.
When the lesson is over, Camby and Hess stroll to the pool on the second floor. Hess puts the eight-year vet through a series of underwater stretching exercises to loosen his sore hamstrings. As Camby wades back and forth in four feet of water, children gawk and scramble to find something signable. At the opposite end of the pool, Nuggets GM Kiki Vandeweghe goes unnoticed until Hess calls him out. "Nice shorts," he says, of the boss' way-too-small trunks.
A few hours later, players begin to file through the lobby and onto the early bus to the arena. Each player holds a single white sheet of paper, the play sheet for tonight's game. Andersen is the only one who studies it. The back of the sheet has the five words of the Bzdelik gospel: Run, Share, Defend, Team, Win.
On this night, the Nuggets do none of those things. Drained from the previous game, they lack focus and fail to execute. They get an all-time franchise-low seven assists and lose badly, 97-81. "We didn't play together," says Bzdelik. "It's that simple."
In the locker room, Camby, whose hamstrings slowed him more than he thought they would, sits in a metal folding chair, picking at some Buffalo wings in a styrofoam container. He says what everyone is thinking: "We gotta take care of this situation now."
The team's only day off on the trip is spoiled by a cold Memphis rain. Beale Street, the city's downtown hot spot, is deserted. Most players stay in their rooms. Doleac practices chords on his guitar. He's been taking lessons for a year. "I haven't learned to play without a pick yet," he says. On his nightstand is a copy of In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by former defense secretary Robert McNamara. His session is interrupted by Miller, calling to make dinner plans. They have been good friends since they were college roommates at Utah. "When I first met Mike, I couldn't believe how ugly his feet were," Miller jokes. "I was like, what's wrong with this guy?" The two still work out together in the summer. Doleac says their friendship will make his transition to the Nuggets easy. "There are so many things to get acclimated to when you go to a new team," he says. "But knowing Andre, I'm not really concerned about fitting in."
Two floors below, Camby orders room service for the second time today. He has yet to step outside his room. The 26-year-old woman who delivers his food doesn't mind that Camby answers the door with no shirt on. "He's in really good shape," she purrs. A little after 9, Andersen bounces out of an elevator in the lobby and hangs a hard left into the hotel bar. Before he even sets down his size 15 Air Force Ones, he sees Bzdelik, alone, nursing a half-empty glass of white wine at the bar. Andersen does an immediate about-face and slinks out the front door. He'll wait for his buddy, Tskitishvili, in the lobby. Unlike coaches, players try not to think much about basketball in their free time. And a conversation with Bzdelik would surely be a conversation about basketball.
Eventually, Vandeweghe joins Bzdelik. The two mull the upcoming draft and talk about motivating players. After about an hour, Vandeweghe heads off to meet a friend for dinner. A worn-out Bzdelik heads up to his room.
When the team returns from its early-afternoon shootaround, most of the players quickly retreat again to their rooms. They have five hours of downtime. The inseparable Andersen and Tskitishvili head out to grab some lunch at Texas de Brazil. It's the kind of all-you-can-eat place where they grill the meat in front of you. On the table are red and green cards. Holding up the red one signals the staff to stop the onslaught. They flash the green card for over an hour. After lunch, they browse the hip-hop section at a local record store, then make a quick stop at a novelty shop where Skeets (no one can pronounce Tskitishvili) finds a T-shirt for Andersen. Below the picture of a tractor are the words "Hi-Tech Redneck." Instead, Andersen opts for a blue-and-white trucker hat that says "Hazzard County Towing."
Like the bus ride to the arena, the pregame locker room is dead quiet, in desperate need of a tension-breaker. A flower delivery comes for Miller with a note that reads, "Thanks for what you did for me in New York." That does the job quite nicely.
The game against the Grizzlies is physical, fast-paced, well played. Memphis takes a 57-49 halftime lead. But the Nuggets respond, pulling within one as they head into the fourth. Denver shows the purpose you'd expect from a team trying to fend off something much more dire than its second three-game losing streak of the season. Late in the final quarter, the Nuggets play without fear. Four guys crash the boards on every shot, like waves breaking on rocks. With the Nuggets down 107-106 with six seconds to go, Shane Battier blocks an offensive putback by Anthony, ending a frantic final sequence. The Grizzlies win.
"That was a playoff game, that's what that was," says Anthony, who grabbed 11 offensive boards. "But we're 0-3, and I'm ready to go home." But going home doesn't change a thing. The Nuggets drop five of their next six games, losing their grip on their sixth-place playoff spot and opening the door for Utah and Portland.
In the locker room, Brett Bzdelik scurries about with his head down, helping the trainer prep the bags before they're loaded onto the U-Haul. "How will your dad be tonight?" he's asked. "Terrible," he says, without looking up.
Hess' voice can be heard in the hallway, pumping life back into his deflated basketball team. "All right, all right, next one's ours," he says to no one and to everyone. "This is what happens when you're fighting for the playoffs."
Jeff Bzdelik sits in a lifeless, barren coach's cubicle, a metal filing cabinet his only company. He props one leg on a desk smothered with circular mug stains and stares with a look equal parts frustration and exhaustion.
"I'm very proud of my guys; they didn't let me down for a minute," he says, forcing out the words. "This is one hell of a basketball team."


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I already have some knowledge of programming but I'm encountering a problem here, in the first exercise book in which the author teaches you program a basic "port scanner". I installed Filezilla to see if it worked and works perfect without functions, but when I start to create functions, such as the low it just runs without error but does not give me the welcome banner server mensage. Basically runs but does not show anything on the console. (By now I'm using Eclipse as IDE)
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- The Master's College women's volleyball program has seen a drastic turnaround in their 2012 campaign under the leadership of third-year coach Bobby Blanken. Coach Blanken has guided the Lady Mustangs to their finest season in program history, and has most recently been named the Golden State Athletic Conference's "Volleyball Coach of the Year" by the conference coaches.
The Mustangs currently boast a 26-5 regular-season record, have earned a No. 6 spot in the NAIA's final regular-season Top 25 Poll, and have qualified for their first-ever appearance at the upcoming NAIA Volleyball National Championship later this month in Sioux City, Iowa. Blanken's overall record at The Master's College is 53-42.
The Master's College Sports Information department recently interviewed the third year coach with hopes of better acquainting the TMC community to the man behind the surging Lady Mustangs.
TMC: How did you become a coach at The Master's College?
BB: I was at Village Christian High School coaching for the women's and men's volleyball programs while teaching PE, earth science, and health. There was an opening for the volleyball head coach position here at TMC, so I applied, got an interview, and the rest is history. It's always been a dream of mine to coach on the collegiate level, and be involved here in the highest level of academia as possible.
TMC: Your 2012 campaign has produced the best season in program history. What's been the difference this year from the two previous seasons? What's been the driving force behind the success?
BB: My coaching philosophy hasn't changed at all. The biggest change has been the commitment to who we are as a team. A coach will always have a philosophy, but it doesn't necessarily work with the people that are a part of the organization. It may sound cliché, but you're not a leader if no one is following you. We now have people pushing and following in the same direction. Our first year there was new leadership and not an awful lot of trust. My second year here we saw a gradual change and shift with more buy-in to the program. And this year we've seen whole-hearted commitment which has produced great results.
TMC: What was your first exposure to volleyball?
BB: I was a fifth grader in Mr. Allison's PE Volleyball class. We played a game called "Jailbreak," where a ball is thrown over the net and you have to catch it. If you don't, then you're out. I'm not exactly sure if you can call it volleyball, but I really enjoyed it.
Later, in my freshmen year of high school, I actually tried out for the baseball team and did not make it. The coach told us that we needed to wear cleats during try-outs, but I didn't want to go buy new cleats with my hard-earned money. He told me directly to buy new cleats, and I said in my head "I'm not going to buy new cleats for a team I don't know for sure I was going to be on," so I didn't, and during try outs I was sliding all over the place because I didn't have cleats on. I didn't make the team, and when I was walking away on the last day the coach told me I would have made it if I would have bought a simple pair of shoes.
At that point I realized that I needed to do something with my time…so I tried out for volleyball! I was arguably the worst player on the team and was so for three years. By my senior year I started growing into my body, and became a contributor rather than a dead weight.
In short- you can thank a simple pair of baseball cleats (or lack thereof) for my volleyball career.
TMC: How long have you been coaching at TMC? Where and how long did you coach prior to your time at The Master's College?
BB: I coached Canyon High School's JV team from 1999 to 2002 while simultaneously coaching a club volleyball team called Synergy. After that I moved from Santa Clarita to San Luis Obispo and served as a volunteer assistant for the women's volleyball team at Cuesta College. I learned a ton up there, and then moved to the Midwest where I finished up school and worked as a varsity assistant and JV coach at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas. I did that for a few years and eventually got into management for Starbucks out there and stopped coaching. After that I came back to California and coached at Village Christian High School.
TMC: What was your most memorable experience at The Master's College?
BB: Personally, I've always enjoyed the pre-season team retreats. More specifically, at our most recent one at Bass Lake I felt as if the Lord laid some solid foundations for what was about to happen this season. We sat under the falls at Yosemite and talked together as a team on what we wanted to accomplish. Being able to see the trust in each other's eyes and set our focus on the year really helped us. We were able to be very honest with each other and talk about what we valued. We all share a common bond in our faith, and being able to express and share that was very special.
TMC: What has been the biggest challenge you've experienced coaching while at TMC?
BB: Changing the culture of a program – hands down. Having a "championship mentality" while making sure you're treating your teammates with the respect and love they deserve as Christians didn't exist when before I got here. Having to develop that has been a struggle, but also a joy all along the way.
TMC: What do you love the most about The Master's College?
BB: I love the commitment to God-honoring education, and that the entirety of the staff and administration has the same mindset. We're all on the same page and are moving in the same direction. We see a lot of great results because of that. I believe the mission of the school is accomplished because we're all like-minded.
TMC: What character qualities do you look for in an ideal athlete?
BB: I look for charitability, work ethic, and enthusiasm. Those three qualities lay as the fundamentals of our team mission. Above all, our mission is to honor the Lord through our pursuit of excellence, which is defined by us by obtaining a National Championship. How we go about achieving that mission is seen through our fundamentals – charitability, work ethic in both body and mind, and finally with enthusiasm in all we do.
TMC: In what ways do you view coaching as a ministry?
BB: Life is missional, so in our vocations we should be doing ministry on a daily basis. I'm a husband and father also, and that is a ministry to me. I see each of the girls I coach as human beings that the Lord has created and designed uniquely, and I know that the Lord has placed me in their lives to help them along in the process of becoming women of character and to better love the Lord.
TMC: How would you describe a perfect season?
BB: That's a fairytale, and it doesn't exist. What is perfection? There's no such thing. You can't go through an entire season and make zero errors. Even if we made it to the championship game and won it all, we could still look back on that game and the entire season and realize that we could have done somethings better. Would we be perfect in a human stance? Sure. But we're constantly striving for excellence because we know in that pursuit we're honoring the Lord.
TMC: What cultivated your passion for coaching volleyball?
BB: The Lord put great leaders in my life that planted my passion for coaching volleyball. One of the most notable ones was Spencer MacCuish. He genuinely loved and cared for me, and was a graduate of The Master's College. I met him when I played volleyball for Canyon High School. During my senior year I was dealing with a lot of circumstances. My mom had a form of cancer called Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which she eventually passed away from. It was all pretty dramatic and heavy on me. At the same time, my faith wasn't real and I wasn't living a life for the Lord. One practice, Spencer stopped everything and pulled me aside asked me "What's going on in your life?" He knew my life wasn't honoring the Lord and called me out on it. He asked difficult questions which came from a heart of love. At the time I felt we were butting heads, but now that I look back on it, I see that he really cared for my heart and where I stood with the Lord. At that point I realized it was more than just the game of volleyball. When it comes to coaching, the things you teach goes beyond the court and bleeds into all aspects of life. That cultivated my desire to coach and do the same for others.
Bobby and his wife Sara have a son and two daughters, Isabelle (6), Thomas (4), and Elise (2 months), and currently reside in Canyon Country, CA.
Blanken and the Mustangs will continue their season by opening up pool play for the 2012 NAIA National Championships, held in Sioux City, Iowa, on November 27th in a 5:45 PM (CST) match against CSU San Marcos. To review the Mustangs' full 2012 schedule, please click here.


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A few days back I took part in a BBCT Volunteer Training Day.
This one was on July 21st at the RSPB HQ at Sandy in Bedfordshire and had been organised by BBCT's Dawn Ewing and Anthony McCluskey.
There was a large turnout. We all enjoyed ourselves immensely. It was well organised and very friendly. Somehow Anthony even found us lots of bees to see !
.... and there was a lovely lunch too.
From my perspective it was very stimulating to be part of something where we all had a common interest in bumblebees.
I'm hoping to use the volunteering ideas ,and BBCT backup we were offered, over the coming months: and feel pretty sure that others from my group will be doing the same.
Thank you to Dawn and Anthony for all their hard work at this session and those following.
It was really good to meet them and to "knock Bumblebee sparks off" both them; and the other group members.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 17-year-old girl died early Tuesday morning after a minivan left a Southside road and crashed into the bedroom of a home where she was sleeping.
Police identified the girl as JaNay Jackson (pictured below).
The driver of the van, an adult man, was injured and hospitalized at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center. Channel 4 was told the man, whose name has not been released, was treated and released and that charges are pending.
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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said the van was going north on Barnes Road about 2:40 a.m. when it left the road and slammed into the home in the 5500 block of Kennerly Road.
Detectives said it doesn't appear the driver attempted to stop at the stop sign and failed to turn. Police are investigating to see if speed or alcohol played a factor in the crash.
Jackson's father she had just started her senior year at Wolfson High School.
He said their family has lived in the house for 26 years and even put in barricade walls with reinforcing bar and cinder blocks to prevent this kind of crash from happening. Jackson's father said that many times through the years, cars have run that stop sign and ended up in their yard.
Jackson's family said the driver of the van said nothing to them after the crash and just seemed to be "out of it."
Neighbors said there has been a problem with cars speeding in the neighborhood.
"Very, very fast for everybody," neighbor Edward Fregat said. "I need to call before the police put some bumps, because teenagers, too many teenagers coming in school and coming fast. Every day, every day they're coming fast in the morning."
Meanwhile, the marquee at Wolfson on Tuesday read, "JaNay Jackson you will live on in our hearts."
It was clear from those at the school that Jackson made her mark there in many ways.
"I was like, 'Wow, I just saw her. I was sitting next to her yesterday,'" said Tyrah Walker, senior class president and a friend of Jackson's, of her death. "I used to come there all the time for tutoring, like, 'JaNay, help me out with this problem,' but she was always there. She'd give you the coat off her back."
Walker said not only was Jackson kind and helpful, she was also smart. As a senior at Wolfson, she'd only gotten two Bs in her entire high school career. She had a 4.4 weighted GPA and was ranked third in her class.
"She was the dream student, but she was modest and sincere, and she was a real person," said Sheri Porubski, coordinator of Wolfson's college prep program. "She wasn't someone who was conceited about being so gifted."
Teachers said there was more to Jackson than books. She played the saxophone and was drum major in the band.
When she graduated, she wanted to go to the University of North Florida and study nursing, and her teachers said she was determined to get there.
"She was a very good student," teacher Elizabeth Sundstrom said. "She followed the rules, she did her work, she was very concentrated on her work and very focused on what she wanted to do."
Even though she's gone, Jackson's passion for life and determination to achieve her goals is something that will always stay with her classmates and teachers.
"I know she -- her legacy continues," Walker said. "She will want us to continue on with our education and just be positive and think of the bright side rather than the sad moment."
The school is planning a memorial or a vigil to honor Jackson.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter Tuesday launched a new salvo in his four-year campaign to upgrade Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta's posthumous award to the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest for valor in combat. On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the congressman introduced a bipartisan, joint House-Senate resolution recommending the honor for the San Diegan killed in Fallujah in 2004.
Hunter and the entire San Diego congressional delegation pushing the Peralta resolution seek to demonstrate to new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel widespread support for a Medal of Honor. They hope Hagel, who was wounded as an enlisted infantryman during the Vietnam War, will give more credence to eyewitness accounts from fellow Marines who said Peralta pulled a grenade to his body to save their lives.
Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman, declined to comment Tuesday, saying it was a matter of policy not to weigh in on pending legislation.
Hunter, R-Alpine, and Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles, introduced the House version of the resolution with 27 original cosponsors. Later Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced an identical version in the Senate.
"Peralta is a hero, not just to the men who witnessed him do the unthinkable, but also to the Marine Corps and all others who value the courage and sacrifice of America's military," Hunter, a Marine veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said in a statement.
"We trusted our Marines to reclaim the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and fight through Iraq and Afghanistan, and we should trust our Marines when they say that Sgt. Peralta pulled the grenade into his body," Hunter said.
Peralta, 25, was serving with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment when he was mortally wounded Nov. 15, 2004, in the head by a ricocheting bullet during house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Insurgents fleeing the firefight tossed a fragmentation grenade into a window of the room crowded with Marines.
According to the Marine Corps and Navy Department, which both recommended him for the Medal of Honor, Peralta scooped the grenade toward him to absorb the blast.
Seven Marines who were there agreed Peralta acted consciously to pull the grenade to his body, but they differed in some peripheral details. For example, several said Peralta grabbed the grenade with his right hand; some said it was his left.
The standard for awarding the Medal of Honor has been two eyewitnesses. The Pentagon downgraded the award one level to a Navy Cross under then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who convened a panel to review the accounts. It included two forensic pathologists, a neurosurgeon, a Medal of Honor recipient and a retired Army general.
They concluded the bullet probably killed Peralta instantly and made it unlikely he consciously smothered the grenade. They also said the grenade detonated near his left knee, not under his torso, and that he would have survived the blast if he had not already been shot.
All five panel members said they were "convinced that the evidence does not support the Medal of Honor."
The Navy Cross citation issued for Peralta in 2008 says that "without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, Sgt. Peralta reached out and pulled the grenade to his body." Peralta's family has refused to accept the Navy Cross medal.
Minor discrepancies in eyewitness war zone accounts are to be expected, said retired Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski. He led the assault into Fallujah as commanding general of 1st Marine Division and was among those who approved the Medal of Honor for Peralta.
"This was combat. You can ask three people who witness a car accident about it, and you get three different answers. OK, (Peralta's eyewitnesses) they varied a little bit. With people shooting at you, it's pretty hard to remember something like that. The fact is they were in that room and if that grenade had gone off in some location other than beneath him, they all would have been wounded or killed," Natonski said.
Three neurosurgeons from Naval Medical Center San Diego buttressed the eyewitness statements, concluding that it was possible for Peralta to have acted consciously despite his head wound, Natonski said.
"Who is some guy on the secretary of defense's staff to question it?" Natonski asked. "Regardless of what someone who looked at an X-ray or an autopsy report says, there are people alive today, people who have children and family today, because of what Sgt. Peralta did."
In December, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reaffirmed the previous decision, declining to approve a Medal of Honor. The Defense Department had reconsidered the case after Hunter submitted combat video and a new independent pathology report that concluded Peralta could have acted consciously despite the head wound.
Christensen, the Pentagon spokesman, said at the time that no precedent had been set that would give greater weight to forensic evidence over eyewitness accounts.
"Each case must be evaluated on its own merit," he said. "The fact that this case included an independent review infers no change in the way Medal of Honor packages will be reviewed in the future."
"Two separate secretaries of defense have now personally reviewed the case, clearly showing that the decision process is not taken lightly," Christensen added.
Feinstein, in a statement Tuesday introducing the resolution in the Senate, said: "I do not take the awarding of the Medal of Honor lightly. Indeed, the Medal of Honor is our country's highest and most prestigious military award."
She added, however: "It says something to me that seven eyewitnesses verified that Sgt. Peralta absorbed the blast of the grenade and saved the lives of his fellow Marines," and that the Navy Cross citation backed up their accounts and the recommendation for Medal of Honor, as did his local commanders, the commandant of the Marine Corps, the secretary of the Navy, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Peralta gave his life for our country and his fellow Marines. His actions in combat and the evidence make it clear to me that he has gone above and beyond the call of duty and is deserving of the Medal of Honor," Feinstein said.
After Peralta moved to San Diego with his family, the Mexican-American immigrant enlisted in the Marine Corps the first day he could, when he received his "green card" or proof of permanent residency.
Becerra, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, described Peralta as a patriot who "exemplified and lived the values Americans hold dear: honor, duty, and dedication to his country. … It was Sgt. Peralta's final actions that saved the lives of six fellow Marines. His service, his selflessness and heroism should have earned him the highest honor that our nation can bestow on the fallen."
Hunter has vowed previously to appeal to President Barack Obama to overrule the Defense Department on Peralta's behalf. When Jimmy Carter was president, he overruled the Pentagon and awarded the Medal of Honor to Anthony Casamento for actions 38 years earlier on Guadalcanal during World War II. All eyewitnesses to Casamento's actions had died in combat.
Joe Kasper, a spokesman for Hunter, said Tuesday that the next step after demonstrating support on the Hill will be to resubmit the package of new evidence to Hagel. "There is persistent interest on the part of the congressman to see this through," Kasper said.
Defense Department officials have stressed the importance of preserving the independence of the Medal of Honor review process and maintaining standards for the award, so as to not diminish the distinction for past or future recipients.
Douglas Sterner, now the curator of the Military Times Hall of Valor, began compiling a database of combat awards more than a decade ago as a private labor of love. Sterner said he salutes Hunter for his doggedness rallying Congress on behalf of Peralta. "Most would by this point say 'I did my best' and give up. But like a true Marine, congressmen Hunter will not let that happen."
Sterner, like many Peralta supporters, said the idea that Congress is stepping out of bounds is unwarranted. The deep disparity in Medal of Honor recipients from recent wars compared to the much larger number from earlier generations needs to be addressed, Sterner said, and Congress historically has been deeply involved in the combat awards process.
"There have been more Medals of Honor presented in the last 10 years to heroes of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, three times as many, than to heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan, and virtually every one of those awards required congressional action," Sterner said.
In addition to being the genesis of the Medal of Honor and many top combat awards, which are issued "in the name of Congress" and the president, lawmakers also routinely waive time limits to honor veterans of earlier wars, Sterner said. One recent example – in 2001, former president Teddy Roosevelt was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in 1898.
"Congress meddling? I just don't buy it. Congress is doing its job," Sterner said.
Natonski agreed that the U.S. has been too stingy with the medal in the modern era. "We are making it too hard to recognize individuals. These wars have been going on for 10 years. Fallujah was not a counterinsurgency (campaign), it was a knocking-heads, full-on fight.
"A kid who sacrificed his life in the way Sgt. Peralta did needs to be recognized" with what he deserves, the Medal of Honor, Natonski said.


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Winnipeg's housing market hit a rough patch in February, with double-digit declines in both sales of existing homes and in single-family housing starts, according to two reports released today.
In its monthly report, the Winnipeg Realtors Association said there was an 11 per cent drop in the number of properties sold through the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) — 698 versus 781 for the same month in 2012.
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Jon Niese had a quality start, but the Mets couldn't muster much offense against Bronson Arroyo, who has pitched well against the Mets his entire career. Niese went 7 2/3 innings and struck out eight, tied for his season high. He allowed three runs on two solo home runs by… Read More →


text: AlexandrBaklanov 146 Report post Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Hello! Our independent GD team called White Zebra is about to release a new game. =) Please help with name of the game! We decided to name it "Little Flock". Here's test version for Windows. (not final)https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71223199/Birds_PC2.zip Some screenshots: Also, can someone please help us with some spellchecking for release? If you'll see a weird phrase please write here about it!Servant of the Lord helped with main texts, thanks to him! ) The description is left: LITTLE FLOCK. In this captivating and challenging game you fly with a little flock through the jungle island. As you go, you meet a lot of friends making your flock bigger and bigger. The island is full of surprises that will help you to fly all the way through to the main aim. LITTLE STORY. Three tiny birds once found a giant worm. It turned out, however, that the worm was not so easy to catch; the dodger escaped quickly. "It must have gone to his friends", one of the birds said. So, it was decided to follow the fugitive. BIG FUN: - Lots of upgrades in the Store. - 5 Birds-Heroes with exciting power ups. - Long way through the island with wonderful locations. - Colorful graphics and cute characters. - Breathtaking music and sound effects. Help the birds to find more food! Any advise would help! I can make a 100% discount for iPhone/iPad owners if the game won't be free =) UPD: video!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyNCKY0Qj14 We'd appreciate your help! Best Regards, Alex Edited February 3, 2013 by Unite! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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My father was dignosed with cholangiocarcinoma or pacreatic cancer.....they don't know which one as they say they can't see the pancreas that well on the images but they do know there is a tumor in the bile duct. He was jaundiced and had an ERCP with stent placement. The jaundice and itching went away but a week later he had a blockage in the intestine. He has recovered from that and they let him out of the hospital but less than a week later he has congestive heart failure and they say that the EKG shows a little heart damage since the last one. He is a type 2 diabetic, had heart valve replacement in 2002 with double bypass, has very weak kidneys and other little things that go on with him. He is 77 years old and active until a few weeks ago when they told him about cancer. They say his kidneys cannot tolerate chemo as it would take more than two weeks to expel it and it would cause more damage than it would help. No surgery because it has spread to the bone already. No biopsy can be done either so we don't know what kind or anything they just did the CA19-9 blood test and it was 590,000. I don't know what to do. Do we get a second opinion or is his health just too bad for any treatment. I haven't read on here yet of anyone that could not at least have chemo.......They have given him 6 months or less but he would rather them do SOMETHING rather than just let him lay there and die. Anyone have anyone else that has been told the same thing??? I am trying to hang on but feel helpless.....Thanks, Rita


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SOUTH Wilts II made an inauspicious start to their Southern Electric Premier League Division 3 campaign, crashing to an eight-wicket defeat by last season's relegated outfit Tichborne Park.
The game was effectively settled in the opening hour when South Wilts, put into bat in damp conditions, crashed to 26-6 against Tom Allam, who returned 5-14.
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Cricket Canada is pleased to announce the inaugural National Cricket League (NCL) to take place at Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, ON from August 2-11th, 2012. The five team, ten day event will consist of a multi-format 50 over and T20 competition featuring Canada's top 65 High Performance & Elite cricketers.
Squads contain a balance of the top 21 HP cricketers and 44 Elite cricketers from across the country to ensure both regional representation and multiple national team members in each representative team to form Cricket Canada's top tier domestic competition.
Amit Joshi, Tournament Director and Cricket Canada 3rd Vice President offered the following statement in support of the NCL:
"Cricket Canada is excited to launch this unique format where our top high performance cricketers mix up with other elite cricketers in the country to play in what will be a highly competitive tournament. We have worked in conjunction with the ICC to ensure appropriated funding for this and future events and it's compliance to an ICC High Performance Program mandate of supporting a sustainable domestic structure in Associate countries such as Canada. The National Cricket League (NCL) will continue to develop and implement a national HP cricket culture into every region of the country and become an integral pathway to our national teams"
ICC High Performance Manager, Richard Done, who oversees the global ICC High Performance Program aimed at improving the competitiveness of the best Associate and Affiliate Members, including Canada, added:
"Implementing a sustainable regional competition that provides a clear pathway towards National selection can only be good for Canadian cricket. In a country the size of Canada it means that the best provincial players from east to west will, for the first time in a consistent National competition, be able to prove themselves against their peers and challenge equally for National Team places. Youngsters with ambition will know that, if they are good enough and perform, they can now move from League to Province to NCL Team and then represent their country at the highest level. I look forward to Cricket Canada's NCL and the Canadian team going from strength to strength in years to come."
Matches will be played on turf with live ball-by-ball updates on gocricketgocanada.com courtesy CricHQ.
Cricket Canada would like to extend a warm invitation to all cricket fans in the region to "Join the Movement" and attend the daily action at King City with friends and family to support their favourite team and athlete.
Amarbir (Jimmy) Hansra – Captain – Abbotsford, BC, Sunny Gainder – Abbotsford, BC, Varinder Grewal – Abbotsford, BC, Gurpreet Grewal – Abbotsford, BC, Rashid Masood – Surrey, BC, Umer Nawaz – Vancouver, BC, Dilpreet Dhillon – Abbotsford, BC, Mandeep Rehan – Surrey, BC, Gaurav Singh – Burnaby, BC, Gurkaran Dhillon – Surrey, BC, Amanpal Gillar – Richmond, BC, Satsmiranjit S Dhindsa – Toronto – ON, Harmanjit Sangha – Surrey, BC, Manjit Singh Sidhu – Surrey, BC
Coach: Thanethiran Kurooparan – Vancouver – BC, Manager: Anil Khanna – Vancouver - BC
Hamza Tariq – Captain – Toronto, ON, Sudeepta Aurka– Calgary, AB, Shehzad Bashir – Edmonton, AB, Grant Broadhurst– Calgary, AB, Zahid Chaudhary – Calgary, AB, Khurram Chohan– Calgary, AB, Parth Desai– Scarborough, ON, Jeremy Gordon– Toronto, ON, Usman Limbada – Scarborough, ON, Farooq Quereshi – Calgary, AB, Parveen Saroye– Calgary, AB, Khurram Tahir – Calgary, AB, Yasoob Ul Haq – Edmonton, AB
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After more than 20 years at the Magnolia Community Center, Micheline Huber is leaving for other things.
Huber has been teaching aerobics and been director of the Tun O Fun children's day-care program at the community center (2550 34th Ave. W.) for two decades. In the coming weeks, she'll leave to fulfill a promise she made years ago: to take care of her daughter's new baby — her first grandchild.
"We're very excited," she said. "My leaving had nothing to do with the fact that I wanted to retire. That's something I said I was going to do and I want to do. It will be fun to see one more child grow up."
'The School of Life'
Huber grew up speaking French in Quebec. She first came to Seattle in the '70s and opened her own day care shortly after she arrived. During that time, she also taught aerobics. Huber and her family moved quite a bit, following her husband as he traveled for work. They spent time in Ottawa, Los Angeles and Hawaii before returning to Seattle in the '80s. Huber took the job as the director for the Tun O Fun program in 1993. In 2008, the program split between preschool and after-school care, and she's been the after-school director since then. Huber estimates she's worked with more than 500 kids over the years.
Huber's goal is to do things with the children that their parents would do if they were not working. So they do a lot of arts and crafts, games, sports, cooking, knitting and dance.
Children are children, and they always want to play games or play in the center's gym. But they've also changed since she first started the program. One of the biggest changes has come with technology. The program used to have computers for the children to use, but they took those away because the children have enough of that at home, Huber said. Instead, they focus on interactivity and social skills.
"I call ourselves 'the School of Life,'" Huber said. "[The children] are going to be in life, so we try to teach them these skills to be successful later on, to give them self-esteem and give them the tools."
Huber recognizes that she's been a big part of these children's lives over the years. Sometimes, she spends five or six hours a day with them. "We're really surrogate parents," she said.
Her favorite part of the job has been getting to know all of the children and be a part of the community. She loves Magnolia because it's a community where everyone knows each other.
One of the biggest challenges of working in child care has been staff turnover, Huber said. The school often has great staff, but they leave fairly quickly for higher-paying jobs.
"My biggest wish would be that this profession would be considered more part of the education system and then be maybe paid better," she said.
'Carry On'
Huber has always lived an active lifestyle, from dancing with a school dance troupe that performed at the 1967 Olympics opening ceremonies in Montreal and skiing competitively in college for Montreal University, to teaching skiing at Our Lady of Fatima (3301 W. Dravus St.) from 1989 to 2003.
And she's been teaching aerobics twice a week since 1989 at the community center. She also teaches twice a week at the Queen Anne Community Center (1901 First Ave. W.). Huber calls the seniors in her aerobics class "my other kids." She will continue to teach these classes.
The group loves to dance. They do weights and floor stretches because they're important, but their favorite part is good music and dancing. Huber also incorporates dance into the kids' program, from Irish dancing to Gangnam Style.
The seniors inspire Huber to keep moving. Some seniors have come and gone, but others have been there since the beginning. They all have their aches and pains and hardships; some are cancer survivors.
"I always say, 'Carry On,'" she said. "That's our favorite song because that's what we do: make the best of things."
Bert Hanou, 91, has been taking Huber's class for more than a year now. He does it to stay healthy, and he likes the way that Huber explains things when she introduces something new to the class. He's barely missed a class since he's started.
"I'm sure she's going to be missed...by the people she works with," he said.
What the future holds
Huber doesn't want to call her departure a retirement. And she's certainly not slowing down. Among her many plans, she wants to: teach French again, take a road trip to the Grand Canyon, follow the Tour De France on her bicycle like she's done before and teach skiing and snowboarding again. She also wants to start volunteering.
And child care won't be out of the question. In a couple years, she may consider opening another day care or returning to the Tun O Fun program. This year, though, she's dedicating to her new grandchild.
People have been sad about her leaving, she said, but they're happy for her. The community center is throwing a celebration in her honor to mark her departure. Huber likes to think of the event as "au revoir for now." She hopes all of the children and families who have touched her life will attend the event.
"I really feel like this is my home," she said, with tears in her eyes. "I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to have this job."
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ROMA – For the final time from Italy, ciao!
Since today was a free day for everyone, there was very little crossing of paths among the travel party. Personally, I joined my roommate on this trip, athletic trainer Phil Samko, as we checked out some of the many impressive historical structures around the city. We also enjoyed a nice lunch and later a nice dinner near Piazza Navona.
With that in mind, I thought I'd take this opportunity to share some of the impressions that we were left with -- the talking points of a group that featured many first-time overseas travelers (including yours truly, believe it or not)…
*Water was inexpensive and plentiful, soda was expensive (3 euros for a 20-liter bottle; that would be more than $4 American). Could that help explain why obesity doesn't seem to be nearly as big an issue here as it is in America?
*Speaking of soda, refrigeration does not seem like a big thing to Italians. All three cities we were in, the refrigeration of drinks was minimal, and ice was never included. A lot of our guys cannot wait to get home and get their drinks cold again! As Samko said tonight at dinner, "when we arrive at the Philly airport, I'm buying milk."
*Air conditioning was also kind of a rumor. Are Italians just trying to save money? Each of our hotels had it and I could hear it, but I don't think I slept under my covers for any of the eight nights. That seemed to be a prevailing theme with our group.
*Whenever restaurants served us bread, they did not include butter. They would then seem amused whenever Samko would ask for butter. It made me wonder: as much as our groups sat around and discussed the lack of cold beverages and other things, do they converse the opposite about us when they visit America? ("The soda here is so cold! The AC is too high! They serve butter with their bread!")
*Cars are small, but so are lanes and highways. What was really interesting was noting that, on the Autostrade, different LANES had different speed limites sometimes. Also, trucks were basically kept to the right lane, except to pass. I wonder if we could solve some of our traffic issues if we followed those same rules?
*We had some seriously angry bus drivers here. They seemed annoyed whenever we asked them to do something. (Watching Coach Allen negotiate with them was always entertaining!) In addition, they drove with reckless abandon, I think even more so than you see in Philadelphia. On the highways, they had NO problem riding right up on people, flashing the lights and honking the horn to get them to move over for passing. That was disconcerting, especially for the people at the front of the bus.
*Judging from the number of antennae on rooftops (and the occasional satellite dish), it appears cable television is only a rumor here. If the TVs in our four-star hotels are any indication, HD TV's might be as well, but I'd like to believe otherwise.
*Anyone who knows me knows that I'm basically addicted to Doritos, for better or for worse. They were nowhere to be found over here. However, Pringles are HUGE. Just throwing that out there.
*Anyone who knows Phil Samko will love to hear that he was annoyed that every restaurant was, you guessed it, essentially a pasta-and-pizza joint. They also featured meats and salads, but from top to bottom the menus were basically the same everywhere. The variety of restaurants and food we can get in America was nowhere to be found in the areas where we stayed.
*It is August, and things are "slow" right now in Italy. That said, it was always interesting to see a place with a sign out front saying that they were closed for a three-week holiday. They were more common than you might expect, in all three cities!
*About a month ago I read Dan Brown's new book, "Inferno," and the entire story took place in Florence and Venice. Having now been to both of those cities, I'm going to have to re-read it. Having walked as much of Rome as I did, looks like a re-reading of "Angels and Demons" is in store, too.
*You know how you have certain TV ads that you see so much they just start to annoy you? I have one here. Pretty much every time CNN International went to break, they busted out a Czech Tourism ad about "The Land of Stories." It got old quick.
*The beer here is way stronger than in America. Found that out the hard way one night (and the next morning).
*I know I touched on it during previous blog entries, but the art here is stunning. Especially in Rome, you could not turn a corner without seeing something that was visually spectacular. Eight days was not nearly enough time to cover it. Looks like I'll have to come back!
The travel party will head straight to the airport in Rome first thing this morning, and landing back in Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.
Ciao Ciao, Italy! Arrivederci!