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SAN JOSE – A memorial service and funeral for 14-year-old Danika Garcia on Sunday and Monday will celebrate the life of the teen fatally struck by a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light-rail train last week.
Danika, a freshman at Del Mar High School in San Jose, was hit while bicycling Friday around 7:35 a.m. near Stokes Street and Southwest Expressway on her way to a singing performance at her school, according to her cousin Jessica Williams.
According to Williams, Danika was rushing to get to the performance on time when she was struck.
Her family waited at a hospital for several hours before they were told Danika had suffered fatal injuries and lost too much blood in the accident, according to Williams.
An online fundraising website has been set up at http://www.donationto.com/DanikaGarcia. The site states its goal of reaching $10,000 to go toward funeral and memorial services.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Willow Glen Funeral Home at 1039 Lincoln Ave. in San Jose.
A reception will follow the service at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall across the street.
On Monday, a burial procession will begin at 10 a.m. at the Willow Glen Funeral Home and arrive around 11 a.m. at the Oak Hill Cemetery at 300 Curtner Ave. in San Jose.
On the website, Williams wrote, "The entire family is deeply saddened by the loss of our sweet dear Danika."
Danika leaves behind her parents and a brother who is in fifth grade.
As of this morning nearly $7,300 had been raised on the site.
After the high school learned about the incident, additional grief counselors were made available to students and staff, Campbell Union High School District spokesman Michael Posey said.
Support staff continues to be available for students and staff this week, he said.
An informal vigil took place at the site of the crash Saturday night, which is near the school.
A growing memorial with candles, teddy bears, and signs has gone on the side of the school near the train tracks in honor of Danika, Posey said.
Danika was hit by a northbound train on the Mountain View-Winchester line. There were 40 passengers on the train at the time of the accident, according to VTA officials.
The crossing arms were down, warning lights were on and there were bells ringing at the time of the accident, transit officials said.
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A SUPPORT worker from Darwen is heading out to the Gambia later this month on a two-week study tour.
Janette Smith, 49, from charity Alternative Futures Group (AFG), is travelling to Africa with four colleagues as ambassadors for the organisation which provides support to adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs.
It is the third tour and is part of a two-year partnership programme with Gambian charity Mobee, which sees the AFG ambassadors share their experiences and help with health and wellbeing matters.
Janette, a support worker who lives in Blackburn Road, said: "I am really excited about the study trip and looking forward to learning about mental health issues in Gambia and experiencing the culture.
"It is also an opportunity to share some of my experiences from working as a support worker in the UK.
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New London-based advocacy organization is getting a warm welcome from British politicians and the international media
As Pride celebrations continue around North Texas, a new London-based LGBT organization is getting off to a sensational start.
Kaleidoscope International Diversity Trust has clearly been in the works for some time; it already has an attractive website, KaleidoscopeTrust.com, with a mission statement, backgrounders, personal stories, donation options and a newsletter free for the asking.
Kaleidoscope — the instrument, not the organization — was named by its 19th century Scottish inventor, Sir David Brewster, who combined three Greek words: kalos = beautiful, eides = form and scopos = watcher.
It seems a fine choice of organizational name, for LGBTs are beautiful in our variety, formed by countless influences, and ever so watchful.
Kaleidoscope — the organization, not the instrument — made BBC World News and thus, the local NPR station very early the next day, when two of its founders were interviewed.
One was an American who works in the United Kingdom, the other a Nigerian who has asylum in the U.K. The interview was brief and quite straightforward, ending with both men acknowledging how far their adopted country has come in terms of LGBT rights and recognitions, but asserting it still has far to go. For while the U.K. recognizes domestic partnerships, the American must fly home to New York to marry his guy, and the Nigerian must fight prejudice against his color and his sexuality.
Yet Kaleidoscope's welcome by official Britain could scarcely have been warmer.
On Monday, Member of Parliament and Minister for International Development Alan Duncan issued a statement welcoming the Kaleidoscope Trust, labeling it "outrageous that people across the world are still subject to arrest, detention or even death" because they are LGBT, and reminding the world that the U.K. had in March 2011 "published an action plan" aimed at fighting discrimination worldwide.
(Not incidentally, MP Duncan is gay and a Conservative and lists his partner in official biographies.)
That's not all. Kaleidoscope's launch merited a House of Commons reception "hosted by Speaker John Bercow MP," the organization's honorary president. Plus its director is Lance Price, a prominent journalist who worked both for the BBC and for the Labour government of Tony Blair.
Joining them in praising Kaleidoscope were Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour Party leader Ed Milliband and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.
Amazing to hear competitive politicians speaking with one voice. But then Bercow, Cameron, Milliband and many of their colleagues are Oxford "old boys."
The outlier, Clegg, graduated from Cambridge; perhaps he is allowed into the club because he speaks four languages.
On its website, Kaleidoscope uses a quote from Chinese philosopher Confucius and another from United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, plus a speech Archbishop Desmond Tutu gave to a U.N. panel on decriminalizing homosexuality.
Its theme: "This wave of hate must stop." And in Britain, MPs, straight media stars and gay rights activists are lining up to support the group.
Far and away the cutest and — if his BBC comments were an indication — the most charming is Bisi Alimi. He studied theater at the University of Lagos until he was expelled for being gay and was the first Nigerian to announce his sexuality on TV, after which his family threw him out, his bosses fired him and many strange people threatened to murder him outright. Now he is studying at an English university and works with a number of human rights/gay rights groups.
By contrast, the most appalling of gay rights activists is London-based "pastor" Rowland Jide Macaulay. For some reason, Kaleidoscope chose to include Macaulay's essay, "Leave My Father Alone," on its website.
His main points were that Nigerians should not criticize his father's love of him, the gay son, and that his father still disapproved of him. Then Macaulay wrote this: "At least we agreed that homosexuals cannot be compared to thieves, prostitutes, drunkards and robbers, but to dwarfs and people with physically (sic) disability." (Feel free to object online; I did.)
Further, as coverage of the Kaleidoscope kickoff pointed out, "At present, homosexuality is illegal in 76 countries [and] at least five countries — Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania and Sudan — have used the death penalty against gay people." (I'd say more; think of the treatment of LGBTs on much of Asia's mainland and on nearby islands.)
In any case, Kaleidoscope has work to do at home and abroad. But the Guardian of London reported that it "intends to leave U.K. gay rights campaigning to the long-established advocacy group Stonewall."
Stonewallers and other progressives, are we up for the fight? What can we do here in Dallas? Remember: On Jan. 27, 2011, mere hours after his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed, "LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights."
Yes. Sure. But the fight for human rights is ongoing because, as George Orwell knew, some of our fellow humans will always believe that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
We're among the others.
Phyllis Guest is a longtime activist on political and LGBT issues and a member of Stonewall Democrats of Dallas.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 30, 2011.


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HOUSTON -- Rehabbing Angels reliever Ryan Madson spent a few years in Philadelphia with J.A. Happ. And like everyone else, he was concerned about what took place on Tuesday night, when a line drive from the Rays' Desmond Jennings hit the Blue Jays left-hander on the side of the head, drawing blood and forcing him to exit on a stretcher.
"He's a good guy, good teammate, real easygoing guy," said Madson, who played a full season with Happ in 2009. "I bet all of his teammates are upset about it. Hopefully he gets better soon."
Happ was released from Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., early Wednesday afternoon, was diagnosed with a minor fracture, somehow avoided a concussion and said from Tropicana Field a few hours later that he feels "very fortunate."
But the incident re-introduced the topic of incorporating padding to pitchers' baseball caps. Some padded cap lining has been experimented with, but none of the prototypes have yet to be approved by Major League Baseball.
If approved, Madson believes it wouldn't hurt to give players the option of wearing it. But he -- like the vast majority of Major League pitchers -- doesn't believe comebackers to the head happen often enough to make wearing protective headgear mandatory.
"You take a risk any time you step on a sports field, whether it's a race car or hockey," Angels starter C.J. Wilson added. "You know what the risks are when you're out there. Guys get hurt when they crash into fences, guys trip on the first baseman and blow their knee out. It's professional sports. People are paid well to take those risks."
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Back on Feb. 6 both Bill Bedenbaugh, Oklahoma's new offensive line coach and Jerry Montgomery, Sooners new defensive line coach were both finalizing their recruiting classes at West Virginia and Michigan. Fast forward a month later and now the two are working with each other on the Sooners staff and handing out one offer after another.
While each had been offering players that they had familiarity with from their previous posts the two came together to combine for their most recent offer.
That offer is massive 6-foot-9 and 285-pound offensive tackle, Denzel Ward out of Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy, who hadn't been receiving interest from Bedenbaugh while he was at West Virginia but had from Montgomery and was actually committed to Michigan at one point.
It was that connection with the former Wolverine coach that led to Ward receiving his offer from Oklahoma on Wednesday night.
"Kind of just in the last week actually, it's kind of weird how that happened. Coach Jerry Montgomery, the new (defensive line) coach, he knew me from Michigan because I used to be a former Michigan commit," Ward started to explain. "We kind of knew each other from then. I just gave him a ring to check up on him and he said he was at Oklahoma now, he had just gotten there. I just asked him could he give my film to the offensive line coach, the new offensive line coach that just got there.
"The o-line coach we have been talking the last couple of days. He showed my film to coach (Bob) Stoops and he said they really liked what they saw and they offered me. I set up my official to go there next year as well."
That visit is set for Oct. 5 when the Sooners will host the TCU Horned Frogs. The offer was extended from Bedenbaugh over the phone and was excited to hear Ward would be officially visiting.
"Was just excited about it," he said about receiving an Oklahoma offer. "I had a feeling in the last day or two that they were going to offer soon. So, I kind of was prepared for it and I was just ready to let them know I was going to take one of my five official visits there. I already had that kind of laid out on what dates I wanted to go and I talked to my parents about. I just let them know that's what I was locked in for and they were excited about it. I'm just glad that over the next two years they will be losing nine offensive linemen so it's a lot of opportunity for me."
At this point Ward also holds offers from Arizona State, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, Purdue and Texas Tech. Texas A&M and UCLA are two programs that could offer soon as well.
Ward is from Chicago, Ill. and recently moved to Florida back in January because he felt it would give him more exposure being in the Sunshine State. He was receiving interest from top-notch programs while in Chicago but feels like the competition he will face next season in Florida will help prepare him for the next level.
"I just felt that it makes my chances better of playing early, especially playing in Florida, you are going to play against great competition every game. If I do well down here my senior season I'm sure I can go to college and ball out early," he stated.
After just a few months in the weight room at his new school at IMG, Wards says he is now up to 306-pounds and feels he is already improving as a prospect. Added size mixed with the fact that he is an early graduate is a few other things that can help Ward see the field earlier in college.
Later on this season when Ward steps foot in Norman for his official visit, what is it he will be looking for out of the Sooner program?
"One thing I am looking for will be the setup they show me academically," Ward said. "Then kind of just being in the action because I know that will be a great game with it being TCU. Meeting some of the players on the team and just seeing the city of Norman in itself."


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Yesterday GamaSutra posted a story (originally from Game Developer magazine) entitled Game Developer's Top Deck 2008. This "deck" highlights members of the game development community for their work in 2008. Making the list as the 10 of Diamonds is none other than Fallout 3 Lead Designer Emil Pagliarulo.
So what makes Emil a diamond? According the feature, diamonds are reserved for Progressives that "implement brand new ideas in game development, perhaps branching in unexpected yet compelling directions. Alternatively, you can simply make what already works, work a whole lot better."
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New York -- Best Buy Co. Inc. and Target Corp. ended a partnership that positioned Geek Squad agents in Target stores in Denver and Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The six-month pilot allowed Geek Squad personnel to offer services such as installation and repair to electronics customers at 29 Target stores. The program covered a wide range of consumer electronics products, according to the report.
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Ironic that this morning my power was out so I watched "WINNING TIME" on my laptop till it came on.
LOL. This dude needs to quit crying. But I guess when you lose, you need to find a villain, and Danny seems to be who the Knicks want to hate, warranted or not.
It seems they do have El Pussero and he wrote this article.
[QUOTE/] If you read the Knicks fans posts they seriously all blamed the loss on Joey Crawford. "oh this is the worst officiating I have ever seen" or "The fix is on"[/QUOTE]
Did they really say the refs/league was fixing the game in OUR favor? That is the craziest thing out of all of this! Lol!
Did they really say the refs/league was fixing the game in OUR favor? That is the craziest thing out of all of this! Lol![/QUOTE]
Not to insult anyone but can anyone truly look at bleacherreport and say "what a valuable journalist."
A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. Unlike hallucinations, delusions are always pathological (the result of an illness or illness process).
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My favorite part is that he says Danny has been classy up til now, some how suppressing all this d-baggery, and now all of a sudden is a terrible guy. You admit he's been a class act all his career, but now he's a villain because of this.
What an idiot.
so it was okay when shumpert almost erased months of rehab on west's knee?
and it was okay for j.r. smith to throw barbosa to the ground?
the knicks and their fans are a bunch of thugs
dude chandler novak and melo were celebrating like crazy in the 3rd.... Danny i am proud of u! shove it up their a$$ they deserved it
The way he crumpled and held it, I really thought his season was over. My heart sunk at that moment. I couldn't believe the whole season was going to be put in jeopardy on a dirty foul.
So glad that wasn't the case.
"I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to cause then theres more room for me on the low road."
Ya, the biggest d-bag move was Schumpert on West. No offense, but screw the stupid discount double check mock.... he seriously could've ended West's season/career.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
After looking at the video...could he have been pointing at El Pacero and the belt motion was a challenge for his belt????
I really don't know how this guy can call himself a journalist. Real journalists aren't calling this a story and real journalists are unbiased...not some fan boy.
The Unjustified Whining of Knicks Fans
As much as Knick fans and their players were not pleased by the officiating, I think that they should consider that it was the Knicks who executed a few cheap shots during the game that were rewarded with flagrant fouls.
Emotional? You betcha. Every Pacers player had a chip on his shoulder last night due to the physical aspects of the game itself, let alone the fact that we had lost the 2 previous games to the Knicks.
After also taking a lot of smack from the Knicks players during the 3rd quarter and the flagrants that occurred during the 4th quarter, as far as I'm concerned it was totally excusable that Danny took the opportunity to taunt the Knicks a bit. And what better way is there to taunt a team than to throw one of their own actions back into their faces.
As far as I'm concerned, well done Danny.
Go Pacers.
Oh yeah....almost forgot. And *!(^ the Pr(Kn)icks.
Wow.....Knicks fan complains about everything under the sun....yet they focus on this
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has done terrible things to headline writing.
- Mike Woodson makes NO adjustments, plays the wrong guys, hates successful white players, and deserves to be fired. (The guy is 9-3 now)
- The offense was awful in the last quarter...when they did the exact same thing they did the first 3.
- Mike Bibby(5 and 6 mins his last 2 games) needs to quit being given significant minutes.
- Why they hell haven't they signed the savior and fifth PG to their roster, Mike James. I mean, the guy's basically Kobe Bryant willing to sign for the vet's min.
- Toney Douglas is terrible.
- Why didn't they react to our small lineup and go small themselves or go big? Novak is smart and quick enough to box out Amundson. (And them going big....Carmelo was literally their 2nd "biggest" player lol)
- Woodson needs to get Novak at least 25 shots per game.
- The officiating was terrible and cost us the game.
- Shumpert did nothing to deserve a flagrant foul, the refs just hate the Knicks.
- If anything, it should have been a double foul on Smith and Barbosa. (Which is great considering Smith grabbed him with 2 arms and slammed him to the ground.)
Knicks fans are funny.
Maybe Novak should, I don't know, save the belt move for actual CLUTCH threes?
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Yeah, this is ********. It's really unbelievable how harsh people are on Danny Granger from the outside. I don't understand what he did to deserve such scrutiny. So many guys in this league seem to get a pass across the nation, yet Danny doesn't stay in his place or whatever and suddenly he's a jackass? I don't get it.
If this is how several people feel about him or this team, then screw them all.
I won't be holding my breath for the same author to write an article about Shumpert taking out David West's legs in midair by the way. What a tool.
I liked the guy on their forum who said they are the most talented team in the league.
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Croce's restaurant, which ventured into the Gaslamp Quarter nearly 30 years ago, will be gone by the end of the year because of a lease dispute.
Despite negotiations that have gone on for more than two years, the restaurant and its landlord were unable to settle their differences over noise concerns stemming from a downstairs nightclub.
Ingrid Croce, whose restaurant and jazz bar have been an homage to her late singer-songwriter husband, Jim Croce, from the day it opened in 1985, says the closure is not just a personal loss. Also absent will be the sense of community the restaurant brought to the now thriving district and its loyal patrons.
"I hate to think of all the people who will come back every year to celebrate their anniversaries, birthdays and special memories, only to find that Croce's is gone," she said, her voice cracking as she struggled to remain composed during an interview at her Bankers Hill home. "It breaks our hearts, because that is what is being lost. ... It can never be recreated again."
The building's owner insists he has no desire to see the landmark restaurant move out of the Keating Building on 5th Avenue. He worked hard, he said, to craft a lease he thought best addressed noise-related issues in a building where multiple commercial uses need to coexist.
"I gave her a lease. If she wants to stay, she could — and still can — sign it," said Edward Kaen, a co-owner of the property that he purchased in 2001. "I'm not the one telling her whether to stay or not. We don't want her to leave. But it's been 2 ½ years of negotiating with her. You're spending so much money on legal fees you have to decide at some point what you're going to do next."
Located in the same building as the historic Keating Hotel, Croce's Restaurant and Jazz Bar has become a popular destination for conventioneers, as well as downtown tourists. It is probably best known for the top local jazz, blues and rock artists it has hosted over the years, including the late jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, Helen Reddy and Arlo Guthrie, as well as Croce's son, A.J.
Croce herself has long been regarded as an urban pioneer for opening a major restaurant at a time when the Gaslamp Quarter of today, packed on weekends with diners and late-night revelers, seemed unimaginable. Over the years the adult bookstores, seedy bars and residential hotels that once populated the district gave way to hip clubs, trendy eateries and stylish boutiques.
While Croce and her husband, Jimmy Rock, are in the process of developing a new restaurant in the Bankers Hill area, she said it was never intended to be a substitute for the downtown venue first conceived by Ingrid and Jim Croce during a dinner date in 1973. A week later, Jim Croce died in a plane crash.
The final four-year option to renew the restaurant's lease expires Dec. 31, and for the last several years, Croce said she had been pressing Kaen to negotiate a new lease. As recently as February, she believed that they were close to a deal. Most of the issues had been dealt with, and the rent rate — currently $17,900 a month — was not one of those, agree Croce and Kaen.
Then she returned from a 10-day vacation in Tahiti early last week to learn that her attorney had received an email from Kaen's lawyer saying that all further lease negotiations were being terminated.
Kaen said he hadn't known that Croce had decided to leave until he received a call from a U-T reporter on Friday. He has not sought any new tenants but expects he will fill the 3,300-square-foot space with another restaurant, possibly one with entertaintment.
The key sticking point in negotiations grew out of concerns raised by Croce and her husband about the sometimes loud music and vibrations emanating from the Pussycat Dolls Dollhouse, a burlesque-style nightclub operating below the Keating Hotel. They said they lost business when diners and bar patrons would walk out, sometimes in the middle of their meals.
Kaen said language was inserted into the lease that required the restaurant to "co-exist with other uses in the building, plain and simple," typical of what is expected in a commercial lease.
Croce called it a "suicide clause," and she and her husband had instead sought language that entitled the restaurant to financial remedies on those occasions when the music was so loud it interfered with business and a compromise could not be reached. She said she was awaiting a formal response to her proposal when she got word that lease talks were over.
"No business person would sign a lease like this, you can do whatever you want and we'd have no business recourse," said Croce, who informed her employees Saturday afternoon about the closure. She has 71 full- and part-time workers.
It wasn't just the noise, though, that the couple found bothersome. Jimmy Rock said he had also complained about the young women clad in lingerie-style clothing standing in front of the restaurant soliciting customers for the nightclub while families were dining there. Kaen points out that it is not unusual for Gaslamp clubs to use women dressed in skimpy clothing to drum up business.
While the Gaslamp Quarter and its patrons have changed considerably over the years as the district evolved into a major night-life destination, Croce's continued to be a top draw for visitors, said Tourism Authority CEO Joe Terzi. Its absence from the overall downtown milieu will be a big loss for the area, he said.
"Croce's is one of the icons in the Gaslamp, and we use it a lot when we bring people in, like tour operators, to introduce people to the district," he said. "Will the Gaslamp survive without Croce's? Yes. Will it be better off? Absolutely not. Whatever you put there I don't think it will have more impact than what exists."
Croce, who acknowledges there have been lean years when revenues from the restaurant and bar did not cover expenses, says she was willing to subsidize the operation because of its role as a music venue for both local and nationally acclaimed artists.
"It's become a real mecca for fans all over the world," she said. "We went to meet Bob Dylan backstage, and the first thing Bob said was, "Ingrid, how's the restaurant?"
Longtime restaurateur David Cohn, who has operated a number of dining spots in the Gaslamp, believes that Croce's, while a pioneering restaurant in the '80s, remains a relevant mainstay of the historic district.
"I think Croce's put Gaslamp on the map, and the entertainment part is critical, the fact that it offers something that isn't like the current nightclub scene," he said. "And you'll always see Ingrid at the door on a Saturday night. That's pretty important that she's still very involved."


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According to the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, the death toll on Wednesday rose to 30 people. This toll includes two people killed when the regime's security force stormed into the University of Aleppo. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian regime's forces of committing war crimes in the province of Idlib.
The security forces fired tear gas to disperse a demonstration started at the University of Aleppo, to demand the departure of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. A women's demonstration was also held in Homs to demand the removal of the regime, as well as in the Maydan neighborhood of Damascus, in a show of solidarity with cities that are under attacks by the government forces.
Several areas in Syria on Wednesday saw an escalation of military operations and clashes between the army and Syrian dissidents. The regime forces suffered the largest losses since the ceasefire came into effect before three weeks.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, clashes and military operations killed 22 soldiers, three dissidents and three civilians in various parts of the country. In the Aleppo countryside 15 members of the Syrian security forces, including two senior colonels, were killed following an ambush on their convoy. In the Damascus suburb of Harasta, clashes between the regime forces and defectors resulted in the death of six soldiers.
Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian regime's forces of committing war crimes in the province of Idleb. HRW said that the troops executed at least 95 civilians and demolished hundreds of homes during the first half of April. HRW said in a report based on field investigations that the regime forces executed 35 civilians who were detained, and that most of the executions took place during the attack on the town Fnaz. Government forces did not distinguish between civilians and combatants, and did not take the necessary precautions to protect civilians, the report said, adding the army provided no warning to residents about the attacks.
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Seven Ways to Get Your Off-Season Baseball Fix
1. Shopping for My Daughter's First Baseball Glove
2. Winter Baseball
The 2013 Caribbean Series will be played in Hermosillo, Mexico, and the plan is to play at a new facility named Sonara Estadio, which is scheduled for completion in time for the event. Famed Hector Espino Stadium would be the fallback option. Venezuela's Margarita Island will host the event in 2014, which is already on my calendar.
I strongly suggest that you follow winter baseball for the next couple months, as box scores are easily acquired, while games are available on the Internet and ESPN. Then you should seriously consider attending the Caribbean Series, an event that I have attended many times. It is a unique, must-see celebration of baseball that you will never forget.—Dan Evans
3. Catching Up on Prospects
Also, I keep tabs on the performance of those playing in fall and winter leagues. The Arizona Fall League understandably gets most of the attention amongst these leagues, but a number of potential future big-leaguers are playing in the Caribbean Winter Leagues as well. Finally, I enjoy reading about trade rumors involving prospects and trying to make sense of blockbuster deals (such as Tuesday's mega-deal) that ultimately come to fruition. —Josh Shepardson
4. Doing Historical Research
When I was writing books about the Padres, I always made a point of including chapters on the club's history. Sometimes they would be more recent, such as a recollection of the 1998 season or Tony Gwynn's 3000th hit. Other times they would go back further and examine, say, the best players by position in team history or the franchise's inaugural 1969 campaign.
As with any other research, I typically start with a question: What if the Rangers had taken Eddie Murray, Robin Yount, or Dave Winfield with the first pick in 1973 instead of David Clyde? Or if the Pirates had taken Mike Mussina in 1987 instead of Mark Merchant? What were some of the worst pitching seasons ever? (Matt Keough's 1982 says hello.) Was Cameron Drew seriously considered a better prospect than Craig Biggio? How might the Padres have fared had they signed Tim Raines as a free agent during the collusion era, or signed Todd Helton out of high school when they drafted him?
And sometimes it's just as simple as wanting to know more about the men that have played the game over the years. A voice that nags at me: People should know about Heinie Zimmerman, Spud Davis, or one of my all-time favorites, Max Bishop. Studying these people and their accomplishments keeps me connected to baseball while I wait for games to return. It is no substitute for fresh air and the crack of a wooden bat, but it beats the available alternatives. —Geoff Young
5. Catching Up on Baseball Books
6. There's Only One Cure for Off-Season Blues
7. R&R&R: Read, Research, and Recharge
The winter we're just starting to slog through is the refractory period that follows the climactic end of the season. Since this is a family site, I won't take that metaphor much further, but the point is that the time we take now to recharge and reflect makes the next seven-month marathon possible. It's no substitute for new games, but it brings its own sense of satisfaction. It's when we discover things we don't know about the season we just saw, since there are never enough hours to see everything. It's when we focus on metafandom, catch up (or keep up) with the year's most brilliant baseball writing, and assess the implications of each move teams make. It's when we hear about Boras booklets and sources with knowledge of the negotiations and players' quests to be in the best shape of their lives. Immerse yourself in enough of the stuff surrounding the season, and you might find that by the time withdrawal really starts to set in, real baseball will be just about back again. —Ben Lindbergh
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I'll throw in another, play some MLB The Show '12 for the PS3. Fans have not only made outstanding real life rosters, but also a fascinating fictional roster, and recreations of historical seasons (including the strike-shortened 1994 season). The game is incredibly well-done and recreates baseball better than any other game recreates their respective sport. It has a level of complexity that can allow you to bring out your inner-GM or manager. It can even be fun just to sit back and watch two computer controlled teams duke it out.
Nov 14, 2012 04:39 AM
Any of the following sims comes highly recommended: Strat-o-Matic, APBA, Dynasty League, or Diamond Mind.
Nov 14, 2012 09:41 AM
Recently ran across Baseball State by State by Chris Jensen. It'll keep me warm all winter long. Each night before bed, I read another state. Within each state, the author forms the all-state team and compiles information about interesting sites and other state-related baseball trivia. Fun stuff.
Nov 14, 2012 13:09 PM
No, not the ballplayer Chris Jensen, btw. BP automatically added that link.
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Colorado Springs Utilities: getting it done
We've hammered utilities upon occasion in this space, lately turning to regulators and wayward ratepayers. So it's only fair to turn today to under-appreciated successes. Plenty of folks are getting grid modernization right. Or, more intriguingly, using a combination of technology and customer participation to solve difficult, real-world challenges under trying economic circumstances.
In that vein, let's look at one example, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU). It's a municipally owned utility at the foot of soaring Pikes Peak with markedly lower rates than nearby investor-owned utilities. Yet CSU, upon occasion, faces a hue and cry from ideologues calling for privatization. History? CSU is a municipal utility because price gouging by private interests early in the 20th century led to municipalization. Level-headed individuals, in the majority, recognize that if "government" can do the job better than private industry, stay out of the way. CSU is a model of efficiency and dedicated employees.
In the spirit of full disclosure, this column is being written off the top of my head, as an overnight snowstorm on the high plains today (Friday, Feb. 3) separates me from my notes. But I'd be surprised if I don't have the story correct. Let me also thank individuals from CSU who've given me their time to understand what they do, including Dawn Roth, general manager, ITS, Monica Whiting, general manager, customer revenue and services, and Angie Thoma, smart grid program manager.
CSU delivers electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services to a small- to mid-sized city. The utility serves about 210,000 electric meters, about 190,000 gas meters and something like 135,000 water meters. It has installed automated meter reading and it has had direct load control programs with some customers for decades. It operates its own power plants, both coal and natural gas, and in the relatively recent past has upgraded those plants to cut emissions, a major expense that it undertook by community consensus.
CSU historically has earned some of the very highest customer satisfaction ratings among its peers. I spent the better part of a decade as a local citizen and customer (in the 1990s) and once interviewed CSU's top executive during one of those periodic spasms of ideology that called for divestiture, which was swiftly batted down by a sober populace.
Enter the recession. Due to population growth and the need to modernize, CSU faced rate increases, politically unpopular with an elected city council that serves as the utility's board. And difficult, to be sure, for the working people of the city and the major military bases there. CSU decided on a program to meet this challenge. It would cut 10 percent of its workforce by attrition over a number of years (memory fails me on the span of years here), and it would freeze salaries. It would explore every avenue for deferring capital investment on constrained circuits, though overall it has sufficient supply to meet load for the foreseeable future (10 to 15 years).
Something had to give. To the employees' chagrin, but with their support, CSU's outstanding service levels were also deemed to be erodible to save money and prevent a rate increase. Automation could only do so much. Attention to every single customer's concerns, however, would be delayed somewhat, based on available staff and the severity of the problem.
The capital deferment program initially has focused, in part, on the city's so-called Appaloosa circuit, where load growth is "vertical" not "horizontal." That is, this circuit serves an older part of town that isn't expanding geographically due to new development, but in a familiar pattern to utilities is adding load as air conditioners and all manner of consumer electronics are added in each home. (Electric vehicles do not yet impact the system, but CSU is proactively addressing those potential impacts, too.)
The challenge is to reduce peak load on the Appaloosa circuit to maintain adequate service in a cost-effective manner until 2014, when CSU will move ahead with capital improvements. Again, according to my memory, CSU's budget calculus allows it to spend about $105,000 annually in each of 2011, 2012 and 2013 to postpone about $2.4 million in upgrades, much of it in transformer costs.
How to do it? Engage your customers. CSU has offered some residents on the Appaloosa circuit who've expressed interest in a voluntary program a two-way smart meter and dynamic rates. Others have been offered incentives ($25 up front and $25 a month for June-August) to join a direct load control program with no override capability. Recruitment initially was slow, so CSU has added an outside marketing team to do outreach, but the preliminary results were something like double the drop in peak use by participants over the industry average. Further, participants in traditional direct load control programs in CSU's territory have exhibited a measly 5 percent override rate, enabling CSU to consider offering its program with no incentives.
The utility found that its first vendor for wireless data backhaul from the load cycling network wasn't up to the job and replaced it. Going forward, the early data from the Appaloosa experiment will provide the means to determine whether a similar program can be tailored to each of eight other priority circuits where deferring capital investment for, say, three years would further delay a rate increase.
In short, CSU is using every trick in the book to do more with less, including customer outreach, a frugal budget approach, a technology piece and a little elbow grease and grit. Its customers "get it." They are hardly starry-eyed environmentalists, but they understand it's their utility, their dollars, their environment. This is a community with stunning natural endowments at the foot of one of this country's most iconic mountains, a major military presence (Army and Air Force bases), an Olympic training community, and a record of voting Republican despite a substantial swath of moderate and liberal voters. In short, conservative-leaning Colorado Springs is a slice of America.
Make that a slice that still gets the job done, despite the difficulties. I think it's a pretty good story and one that deserves attention.
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A few seconds is all it takes to change the future for women in sports. On the track and on the football field, young women are changing the way the game is played.
"I like running the 100 and 200," said Lauren Williams.
Williams is the 13 year old who is called "the fastest girl ever." ESPN says she's an athlete to watch -- one who could change the sport. She's been nominated as Sports Illustrated "Sports Kid of the Year," dubbed "The Blur" and has clocked the fastest 100 meters ever by a pre-teen.
"I started running when I was 7 years old," Williams explained. "I ran my first meet when I was 5. I won my first meet. I like running because I like surrounding myself with my friends, and I just love the feeling track gives me."
If she continues to pick up speed, pros believe she will set new standards for track and field. Her speed secret?
"I was taught at a young age how to focus and get things done," Williams said.
"This, in part, for her life, is what she's been called to do, so we are just going to nurture that," said Lauren's mom, Lorraine.
To avoid burnout, this straight A student practices just three days a week for 90 minutes but that will pick up as she inches closer to the 2016 Olympics. To reach her dreams, it all comes down to time.
"In the 100, I have to decrease it by a second. In the 200, two seconds," Williams said.
For Erin Dimeglio, it took just seconds to get in the history books. Erin became the first high school female quarterback to take a snap in the history of Florida varsity football.
"I'm a girl, stuff like that, but I don't see it as that," Dimeglio told Ivanhoe. "I see it as someone just playing the game of football."
Varsity Coach Doug Gatewood saw her skills while coaching her flag football team. He invited her to throw with boys but never intended for her to play.
"I said, 'Understand, it's a completely different game once you put helmets and shoulder pads on,' and she goes, 'Well OK, give me a helmet and shoulder pads,'" said Gatewood.
Erin had already suffered a broken nose, concussion, and dislocated fingers playing basketball. On this field, she fit right in.
"They say, 'Well, when she gets hit by a 300 lb. defensive lineman, you'll see,' but my Running Back weighs less than her," Gatewood said.
"I actually want to get hit in the game," Dimeglio said. "It looks pretty fun."
The hits came but not from the field. Bloggers questioned her ability -- saying girls had no place on the field. Her teammates were quick to defend.
"To me, I think they were kind of jealous because she can actually play," said John Franklin III, Starting Quarterback.
"I see her as part of the family, and I don't like it when you talk about the family," said Alex Collins, Starting Running Back.
Erin is one of a growing number of girls to play high school football. More than 700 are playing in the U.S. While 500 girls have played for Florida teams, none have entered the game as quarterbacks -- until Erin.
"I've coached 21 years, and I've seen a lot of kids. She could've started in a lot of scenarios," Gatewood said.
Erin's mom, Kathleen, hopes what her daughter is doing will change the playing field. "It makes me feel good because it makes me feel good for girls and the future," said Kathleen.
But for Erin, the media hype is much ado about nothing. The senior has a 4.2 GPA and is enrolled in three college courses, basketball, football, and plans to play lacrosse. She still feels she has a lot to prove. Those few minutes were not enough.
"I want to show everybody that I can do more than that. Throw a touchdown pass. I can do this. I can do this. Read defenses. I can be as good as the boys can," Dimeglio said.
In the most detailed study of its kind, researchers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania found that Title 9, which was put into effect 40 years ago, explained a 20-percent increase in a woman's education and a 40-percent increase in the rise of employment for 25- to 34-year-old women. It also found that girls who play sports had a 7-percent lower risk of obesity later in life.
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GHAT has been involved in arts projects across NHS Grampian for the last 30 years, from our collection of original artwork on the walls you can see as you walk through your hospital to specially commissioned work for places such as the Royal Aberdeen Childrens' Hospital, Royal Cornhill Hospital and Aberdeen Dental School.
In recent years GHAT has set up Artroom projects in Woodend Hospital and Roxburghe House and has built The Suttie Arts Space at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, which will be opened later this year.
GHAT's work is recognised by NHS Grampian as an important element of our high-quality healthcare environment. Feedback from staff, visitors and patients reflect the positive outcomes we seek, with many commenting on how our work creates a distinctive tone to our local hospitals and clinics. It is our dream to help create a welcoming healing environment for all who come to NHS Grampian hospitals regardless of age or medical condition.
Please join us to assure the success of all our projects
For information on our new Suttie Arts Space built at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: http://www.ghat-art.org.uk/the-suttie-space-for-arts-2/
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The newest addition to the Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen is the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre. Known as Maggie's Aberdeen, the centre offers a warm welcome and a relaxing, homely environment for anyone affected by cancer. Maggie's works to enable people to manage the impact of cancer and to help them live with hope and determination.
For further information, please go to the Maggie's Aberdeen website.
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You may wonder why we fiddle with a fruit that is hard to get at, but the pomegranate has much to recommend it.
It's one of the first cultivated fruits in the Iran region, recorded as far back as the Bronze Age. Pomegranates are the fascinating subject of ancient as well as modern art.
It makes a beautiful, well-behaved landscape tree, glowing yellow in the fall, even in warm winter regions, and sports bright orange blossoms in the spring.
And when you figure out how to extract the juicy arils from the pithy parts, it makes a delicious addition to salads and a perfectly tart jam or jelly.
The pomegranate – Punica granatum – has no relatives to speak of, just one little-known cousin on the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. For the sake of simplicity, all of us around the world, including China, India, Europe, Brazil and even Samoa, grow virtually the same plant with a few cultivated differences.
The tree came to California in the 1700s with Spanish settlers. You may have deduced by now that the pomegranate is a heat-seeking plant and extremely drought tolerant. I'm pretty sure I haven't watered my tree since I bought my house 11 years ago.
Even though most of us have probably inherited our trees with our houses, starting fresh may give you the best fruit.
Gary Matsuoka of Laguna Hills Nursery recommends 10 delicious cultivars to try at lagunahillsnursery.com under the deciduous fruit tree category button.
Plant these trees where you can enjoy their orange blossoms in the spring and their large red fruit set against yellow leaves in the fall. Pomegranates are picturesque for sure.
Growing to 15 feet at maturity, pomegranate trees are not heavily dependent on water, but you'll want to offer regular water for the first year or so to help the tree get established.
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Pay attention to watering while the fruit is developing. Infrequent watering can cause the fruit to split. Whether you water a lot or a little, aim for consistency.
Pomegranates are ready to pick around now – somewhere between October and November. It takes a solid seven months for most fruit to reach its peak, but rest assured it continues to ripen even after it's picked.
My neighbor, Margaret Gant, has the best tree on the block, easily 50 years old and loaded with large fruit in the fall. Her friend Kyoko Nakawaki does the harvesting and jam making.
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Speaking of lazy, Christian Watford is infuriating.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
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Watford plays to the number in front of the team's name, always has. He'll probably put like 40 on Michigan February 2, le sigh.
Didn't we do a personal coaching ranking of B1G coaches about two years ago? It would be interesting to see the changes.
So after beating us, Wisconsin loses at Iowa. Figures.
Northwestern has outplayed IU in the second half. This is a disturbing trend.
Also, Jordan Hulls has lost his touch at the free throw line. He's shooting just around 70% for the season now.
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
i wish i could argue- but i can't. hulls% has been dropping and it isn't acceptable.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about this team.
Shade, can we ban OlBlu from this thread? Look at all his posts in here and find me one where he gives legitimate discussion. All he's doing is trying to rile us up. Serious question.
Cuz you are a troll. All you care about is pissing people off. Be gone troll.
You should change your name to "Wendy Whiner".......
I don't care about people at all. I do hate IU though.......
You are right and I will wait until they get blown out of the tournament to celebrate the "Curse of the General" and enjoy some bubbly at their expense....
Didn't see the game, judging by the score I wouldn't have been happy. This team needs to get their act together.
Noah Vonleh on ESPN today. He got into some foul trouble and I only watched a little bit of the game, but man that guy is long and has a very diverse skill set. He will step in just fine next year.
I wonder with Jordy if part of this is whatever is going on with his Dad's illness. I have not heard in a while how he is doing, but I am sure that he has his good days and his bad days and I could see where that would weigh heavily on Jordy's mind and could impact his stroke.
Louisville loses again. I dunno guys whenever I look around and watch teams from outside the B1G I just am not that impressed.
Louisville did the same thing last year. Started out just 2-4 in the Big East and finished with a 10-8 Big East record, which wasn't really anything to write home about. But Slick Rick got them peaking at the right time and they went on a tear all the way to the Final Four, bulldozing Michigan State in the process. They will be a super tough out in the tournament.
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Hello! I`m 27 and a couple of months ago I noticed a painless, hard lump next to and a little under my nipple in my left breast. The skin covering the lump protrudes slightly and I have noticed in the last week or so, a couple of veins protruding around the area as well. I have an appointment at a walk-in clinic today because I don`t have a primary care physcian and everyone I called said that I needed to have a referal before an ultrasound or mamogram could be scheduled. What struck me as odd was that of all the hospitals and clinics I called, every person told me that it was probally nothing to worry about, that anything that should raise concern would be extremly rare. Then I decided to do some research, thinking that maybe I was overreacting. I read a ton of stories of young women that were diagnosed with advanced stages of breast cancer because their doctors, knowing how very seldom it affects young women, failed to give them a mamogram or ultrasound. My question is, if my doctor today says this does not warrant further testing, how can I be sure? Can I demand to have furthur testing? I know my body and I know that something is wrong. I`m 98% sure, after reading up on breast cancer, that it is probably harmless and is nothing to worry about. But, it is my body and I dont want "you`re too young to have breast cancer" to be my diagnosis. I want to know exactly what the cause of this lump is. Can I demand a referral or am I just out of luck?
Yes, you definitely need breast imaing and unless this is a simple cyst, a biopsy or needle aspiration also. It is uncommon for very young women to develop breast cancer, so you should not be too worried but this does need follow through until you are sure what this lump represents.
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Ray McCallum is now the backup in Sacramento Jimmer still on the pine according to coach Malone.
also Thomas Robinson is throwing a block party tonight all of the Jazz are invited.
So does Jimmer have a place in the league at this point, or is he just not good enough?
It will be really interesting to see what the Lakers do next season. They will have 4 Players on the roster with roughly $36 mil on the Books. That should leave them about $26 mil UNDER the Salary Cap. I can see D'Antoni being fired and the Team rebuilt completely from the ground up that fits whatever new Coach they hire.
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Is he serving chips and dip as well?
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They are about the only franchise in professional sports that has never had a true downswing. Even my Yankees had a 12 season period from 1982-1993 in which they didn't make the postseason. The Celtics were obviously in rough shape for most of the years from 1992-2007. But the longest that the Lakers have ever gone in between NBA Finals appearances is 9 years. The roughest years for the Lakers were the 5 years in between Earv and Diesel. They are an unbelievably fortunate franchise.
They might suffer a couple of rough years without Kobe, but they will eventually figure out a way to clear cap space and lure another big name star there. It's inevitable. The Lakers will never stay irrelevant for too long. It's just way too appealing of a place to play.
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Maybe he should go play for D'Antoni.
I was thinking the place was appealing, but I would guess New York wouldn't struggle either, and look at them.
Granted, the LFO isn't that bad..but they haven't been good.
Pizza Guy!!
Jose Calderon and Monta Ellis has Pizza Guy salivating.
Pizza Guy might be my favorite player in the league.
I won't. I hate that he broke our hearts in 2000, but I've been a fan of Kobe ever since he was throwing down the nasty in 8 with the fro. A true unique NBA legend. The cat has gone full speed for 17 years and counting.
Cousins and Vince Carter just threw the 2 worst back to back passes of the season. That was
Pizza Guy is putting on a clinic
Could he ever be kind of what Barbosa was for Indiana in 2012, or is that too unrealistic?
That's certainly a huge question. It reminds me a lot of the Yankees in that the nitwit inheritors will never be able to live up to the grandiose standards of the old man.
Wasn't Bird in love with that guy coming out of college? I remember many posts in that year's draft where many of us wanted Jimmer.
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EDIT: Jimmer is in right now. I just heard there announcer interview the GM and he stated that McCallum would get burn at pg. It must be an open competition where both will play.
EDIT Monta scored on him 1st time down lol. 2nd time Jimmer forced Monta to take a bad shot. They are just ISOs Monta every time down on Jimmer. That is how he will get treated by every team just to poor IMO.
EDIT: Cable he is nothing like Redick IMO he doesn't move without the ball at all. He needs the ball to be effective.
Jimmer and the 2nd unit let the Mavs back in the game. Marcus Thortan and Jimmer in the back court makes for some ugly basketball. Everyone just stands around.
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shocked me during a Bird and Simmons documentary... Simmons asked Bird who he would want to play w the most.
he said Kobe hands down. Simmons obviously hated the answer as well. Bird said Lebron would have been fun or something like that ... but he stated Kobe was just a cold blooded assassian who will do anything to win.
Kobe killed us game 4 in OT. why the hell did Reggie wanna guard him... REG you cant play defense,,, Bird fkd that up.
I hated Jordan for years but in the end you had to respect the Jordan the player. not sure I can say the same about kobe yet ... he had Shaq for several of his rings and does he tend to cry but the dude is tough as nails and wants to win. other than he plays for the lakers you gotta give him props.
doesn't seem like the best teammate but then again many said same of MJ. Birds answer was a bit of surprise.
Kobe has really grown on me over the years. He used to come off as such an arrogant a-hole, but now he's kind of like that weird uncle that blurts **** out and generally just doesn't give a ****. He works his *** off, he's competitive as hell, and plays through pain. If nothing else, I have a lot of respect for his game.
Yeah, but he's won 2 without Diesel. And he was a super important piece on the 3 that they did win together. Diesel won the one championship on the backs of D Wade, but let's not forget that Shaq burned bridges with about 12 NBA franchises in his career. Regardless, Kobe 5 - Shaq 4.
Kobe and 45 are cut from the same cloth. They might be a-holes to play with, but they demand perfection because they want to win. And let's not forget the fact that Gasol has played with Kobe for 5 years and seems to love the guy. He understands that Kobe made him far more relevant than he ever was before.
If they can land a next-in-line franchise guy ala Shaq the transition will be much smoother. The problem with the Celtics before was they just had bad luck landing franchise-type guys after the Bird years. If they had landed a Tim Duncan they would have been much more relevant in the early 2000s.
Cousins just Posterized Dirk damn. Dirk was bailed out by a bad call IMO that was just filthy.
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"I've actually been at this house for three days, off and on," said Concordia sophmore Jackie Olson. "But today Concordia actually cancelled classes which is unheard of. So here I am again."
Minnesota State University and North Dakota State also cancelled classes.
Just across the River in Fargo, more than 300 high school students were sandbagging in a neighborhood considering critical to protecting the city water treatment plant.
"It's a lot harder than I expected," said Jordan Knapkewicz a sophmore at Fargo South High School. "But it's a good cause. And then I was filling bags all weekend."
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"I've got a heart condition, I had a stent put in. My wife is in the house worried sick about me," he said. "But, you know."
Papachek has lived in this house for 38 years. He says in 1997, students saved his house by building the sandbag dike.
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"You have turkeys in the yard and deer, and there was a coyote down here this spring. There was a bald eagle here just the other day," he explains. "Those little interludes make it worthwhile to live here."
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"It's awfully hard to put together a process where you instill fear but with confidence," said Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker. "But that's where we want to be. We want people to be concerned about what's happening in our city. I mean this forecast is as bad as I've ever seen."
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