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Stretching from the majestic icebound peaks and bleak high-altitude deserts of the Andes to the exuberant rainforests and vast savannahs of the Amazon basin, Bolivia embraces an astonishing range of landscapes and climates. This mystical terrain boasts scores of breathtaking attractions including stark otherworldly salt pans, ancient Inca trails and towering volcanic peaks. Landlocked at the remote heart of South America, Bolivia rewards the adventurous travellers and encompasses everything that outsiders find most exotic and mysterious about the continent.
The country's cultural diversity and ethnic make-up are equally fascinating. Three centuries of colonial rule have left their mark on the nation's language, religion and architecture, but this is essentially little more than a veneer overlying indigenous cultural traditions that stretch back long before the arrival of the Spanish. Though superficially embracing the Catholic religion, many Bolivians are equally at home making offerings to the mountain gods or performing other strange rites, such as blessing vehicles with libations of alcohol. And although Spanish is the language of government and business, the streets buzz with the cadences of Aymara, Quechua and more than thirty other indigenous languages.
Geographically, Bolivia is dominated by the Andes, which march through the west in two parallel chains, each studded with snowcapped peaks; between them stretch the barren, windswept expanses of the Altiplano. Reached via a series of lush valleys, the country's lowlands range from dense Amazonian rainforest to vast plains of dry thornbrush and scrub. The geographical extremes are fascinating to explore, but can take their toll on travellers. This varied topography supports an extraordinary diversity of flora and fauna from condors to pink freshwater dolphins– Parque Nacional Amboró, for example, has over 830 species of bird, more than the US and Canada combined. The country's underdevelopment has in some ways been a blessing for the environment, allowing vast wilderness areas to survive in a near-pristine condition.
Though it covers an area the size of France and Spain combined, Bolivia is home to just under ten million people, who are concentrated in a handful of cities founded by the Spanish. Some of these, such as Potosí and Sucre, were once amongst the most important settlements in the Americas, but are now half-forgotten backwaters, basking in the memory of past glories and graced by some of the continent's finest colonial architecture. Others, like La Paz and Santa Cruz, have grown enormously, and are now bustling commercial centres.
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Dr. Brezinski helping a patient with his medical skill and his Catholic faith.
On April 10th to the 20th there was a Helping
Hands Medical Mission in Guatemala. RegnumChristi.org spoke
with Marichu Mercado, Development Director for Helping Hands, on this
truly inspiring event. What is Helping Hands Medical Missions (HHMM)?Helping
Hands Medical Missions is a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid
in rural areas of developing countries. It offers its volunteers
a transforming experience and the opportunity to share their faith
while selflessly serving others. Who participated in the mission?HHMM brought
together twenty-three people for the mission, including Father Fergus OCarroll,
LC, Brother Mathew Green, LC, and Lupita Assad, HHMM International
Director. There were also four doctors from the US, three
from El Salvador, one physical therapist from El Salvador, three
volunteers from the US, two volunteers from Mexico, one surgery
technician, four nurses, one nursing student, one medical student
from the US, another from Canada, two from Mexico and
four from El Salvador.The local Regnum Christi
team provided two doctors from Guatemala City, fifty-four missionaries and
numerous translators. Carlos Pinto
Father Fergus OCarroll, LC, celebrating Palm Sunday Mass. Christ was definitely the center of this mission.
served as the General Coordinator
of the Mission and Luis Pedro Unda as the Hospital
Coordinator. Pedro Molina, the assistant Director of the Guatemalan
Regnum Christi Section, and his family were
present helping at all times, with much humility and self-giving.
Where did the missionaries stay?The missionaries stayed at
first in host houses in Guatemala City, later at la
Hacienda La Concepcion located by a sugar cane refinery near
Escuintla 40 kms south of Guatemala City, and the last
night at host houses.Is another HHMM planned for Guatemala or
any other country for the near future?We would love to
return to Guatemala next year. So far this was the
best organized mission yet and the good we were able
to accomplish in a such a short period of time
was inspiring, especially when we consider that the whole mission
was organized in less than two months. Our next mission
will be in the Amazon of Brazil in July. The
Melanie teaching the children how to pray.
calendar for the missions is listed on our website, www.hhmm.org.How many HHMM missions have there been in
its history?HHMM has organized a total of twenty-nine medical missions:
sixteen in Mexico, six in El Salvador, three in Venezuela,
two in Brazil, one in the Dominican Republic and one
in Guatemala.What were some of the results of this latest
mission in Guatemala?There were 2000 patients seen and twenty-four operated
on. The mission got newspaper coverage three days in
a row on the front page. Carlos Pinto, the
mission coordinator for Guatemala, has mentioned that people have
become interested just by reading the newspaper. He also
said that the missions helped to make everyone feel part
of a large family, that they served to unite his
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THE annual arts extravaganza for the Dales is set on expanding its horizons this month.
For while Grassington Festival will still bring top-class music and comedy acts and inspiring speakers to its Upper Wharfedale spiritual home when it kicks off on Friday, June 13, the entertainment is spilling over to appeal to other senses - and other parts of Craven.
Having food at the festival is not entirely new, but organisers are hoping to stimulate the tastebuds afresh with this year's offering.
On Sunday, June 15, the farmers' market with a festival twist will run from 9.30am to 3.30pm in Grassington village square. Expect demonstrations, discussions and celebrations of the depth and wealth of Yorkshire produce.
As well as the stalls of the regular Northern Dales Farmers' Market there will be offerings from Relish, Kilnsey Park Estate, Andy Swinscoe of the Courtyard Dairy, Town End Farm Shop - home of Yorkshire Chorizo - and Amaali Kashmiri food in Skipton.
Demonstrations will be staged by chefs and culinary experts, including John Rudden of Grassington House; Matthew Wilkinson of Rudding Park; Stephanie Moon, who trained at Craven College, is a former Rudding Park chef and has appeared in TV shows Great British Menu and All Things Food; Steve and Wes Bond of Bean Loved, Skipton's first independent speciality coffee bar; and Yesmien from Amaali, who will be doing a demo for adults and then chapatti making with children.
The marquee is also returning for a second year, transforming the square into an all-weather haven for the festival fortnight, supported by Cottages4You.
There are two further events for festival-going foodies: A 'Summer Catch & Cook' masterclass at Kilnsey Park Estate and 'Wild Food Foraging' at Grassington House.
On the same day as the market in the square the festival will be blazing a trail across the moors to Settle, where actress Helen Fraser will be tracing her 55-year-long career at the Victoria Hall at 7.30pm.
Favourite roles include Barbara in the film of Billy Liar shot in Bradford; Sylvia Hollamby, the prison officer from hell in eight series of Bad Girls; two different appearances in Coronation Street and a wonderful Christmas special of the Royle Family.
Helen has twice appeared in productions at the Royal National Theatre with Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Delighted to be back in the north of England, she was born in Oldham and many of her family live in the Settle area. The show will be a special celebration as her birthday falls on Sunday, June 15.
Amid the musical highlights is former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and his big band, The Rhythm Kings, who play the festival marquee on Wednesday, June 25.
And Heather Small, of M People fame,
Swapping comedy for music is Adrian Edmondson, who will appear with his group The Bad Shepherds at the town hall on Saturday, June 14.
One act expected to stick to the comedy is Omid Djalili, who is back on tour following a sell-out four-week West-End residency, and a sold-out season at the Edinburgh Festival.
Known for successfully pushing a few boundaries with his humour, he will play on Monday, June 23, in the marquee.
One of the most unusual speakers at the festival is Sean Conway, an "endurance adventurer" who takes pleasure in mentally and physically pushing himself way beyond what was thought possible. He recently became the first person in history to swim the length of Britain despite being told he'd die trying. He will share his gripping stories at the festival, where he will also talk about setting your goals high, challenging yourself and overcoming tough times.
He says: "I'm currently training to run the length of Britain. I have previously cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats in 2007 and with the swim last year and the run this year I will complete the world's first ever length of Britain triathlon I'm doing it self-supported which should be fun too, it should take me around 40 days running 35 miles per day and I can't wait to get back out there."
Sean Conway is at the town hall on Monday, June 23.
Also sure to be an inspirational speaker is Kate Adie, the former BBC journalist who is known for her role on BBC News, during which she reported from crisis zones all over the world, including the Gulf War, the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.
She was even shot on one of her first assignments, reporting from the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
Now retired from the news, Kate has been focusing on her career as an author and comes to Grassington Festival this year following the release of her latest book, Fighting on the Home Front, to talk about the behind-the-scenes heroines of the First World War.
Meanwhile, a printing party is coming to Grassington in the shape of an artist-led print workshop space, and everyday the public are invited to "think while you ink". They can drop in and explore the hands-on print process, ink up plates, and use early Victorian presses, set type, cut lino, collagraph amongst much more.
Daily themes will help inspire new words and stories such as local dialect, rhyming slang, fathers' day and superheroes.
The print space, located inside the town hall is open weekdays from 11am to 5pm and weekends noon to 4pm for everybody, with a designated weekday time 3.30pm to 5pm for younger people wanting to come after school.
Other workshops include adult day workshops on June 17 and 19t and on Saturday, June 21, there will be a free family drop-in workshop attempting to create the longest line of printed alphabet letters ever made from noon to 4pm.
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WHILE Burnley had a comfortable outing on Tuesday against Doncaster, today's opponents Leicester endured a frustrating evening trying to break down Yeovil, which they eventually did to earn a draw.
It may have taken quite a bit out of them physically ahead of this huge game, but at the same time they finished the game on a high and it could prove to be a big point for them.
Maximum points from last week's games have put us in a strong position to get promoted, but with Leicester's slip-up we now have the chance to go top with a win.
I think most people would still make Leicester favourites for the title and a win for them would go a long way towards them doing that.
It will be a tall order to beat them as they have a squad full of quality, but a win would be a big step towards achieving our own goals.
It's certainly a scenario most of us would have taken in August: a game against Leicester this late in the season for the right to be top of the league!
Given that we are so close now, I think the experience of people like Michael Kightly, who has won this division before with Wolves, will be more crucial than ever.
As a player, one winner's medal is never enough and I'm sure he will be striving to get his hands on another while passing on his experience to the rest of the squad.
I think the game itself will be quite open, especially given the distance between ourselves and the teams below us in the table which allows us to go for the win rather than worrying about what other teams may be doing.
Leicester may be more focused on not losing so they can stay top and the first goal will be crucial. If we get it, I can see us coming out on top.
Leicester arrive at Turf Moor with their strike partnership of Jamie Vardy and ex-Burnley forward David Nugent in top form while Danny Ings remains sidelined for the Clarets.
Despite this, I believe Ashley Barnes has shown himself to be an excellent replacement.
He's got his opportunity through Danny's injury and he's taken it by grabbing a goal at Charlton and performing well against Doncaster. Of course, we'd all love Danny to be back for the game but Ashley will be full of confidence and will be looking to continue his promising partnership with Sam Vokes.
Whatever happens today, I am really looking forward to it!
People up and down the country will be keeping an eye on it and it should be a cracker.


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I have two questions:
1.) Is a pagoda the same thing as a stupa, only it's Chinese?
2.) Where can I get an affordable replica, model, etc. of a stupa from a Theravadin country? I know there are lots of famous stupas, but I don't know any of them. But, I would still like to try and find a replica or something. I have found a Chinese pagoda (hence why I'm asking if it's the same thing), but I'd rather have one that's from Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, etc.
Edit: Something more traditional is what I'm looking for, rather than Tibetan and Chinese stupas.


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Ages 7-13
Location: Reckling Park- Rice University Campus
Monday, June 17, 2013 to Thursday, June 20, 2013
Starts: 9:00am / Ends: 1:00pm
Camp Cost: $250.00
The focus of this camp is to provide instruction in an
organized and enjoyable atmosphere through two periods.
Following an evaluation of skills, campers will
concentrate on the techniques of hitting, throwing,
fielding, running, etc., through organized drills while the
team concept period will feature actual games and
Awards and evaluation forms will be presented to campers in all camps except showcase 1 and showcase 2.
Camp Philosophy: The continued success of the Rice Baseball Camps may
be largely attributed to the staff's commitment to the
individual player. Through limited enrollment, low
player/teacher ratios are maintained ensuring each
camper the quality instruction to maximize development.
Every effort will be made to instill in each participant the
muscle memory necessary to habituate correct form with
drill work and close supervision. The camps are under
the direction of Wayne Graham and the Rice baseball
staff. Instructors may include current and former Owl
players and area high school coaches.
Reckling Park:
The Rice Owls Baseball Camps will be conducted at
Reckling Park, home of the 2003 NCAA World Series
Champions. Since opening day in February of 2000, this
state of the art facility has ranked as one of the top
venues in college baseball. Amenities include spacious
chairback seating with cupholders, locker rooms for
umpires, home and visiting clubs, private luxury suites, a
fully equipped weight room and indoor and outdoor
batting cages.
Reckling Park located on the Rice University
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University Boulevard or #18 off Rice Boulevard. The easiest entry to Reckling Park is located at University and Stockton. We are in the first parking lot on your right.
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Parents/guardians are welcome to stay and watch.
Cost: $250.00 per camper per session - includes camp admission and a camp t-shirt. Awards and evaluation forms will be presented to campers in all camps except showcase 1 and showcase 2.
What to Bring: baseball cap, glove, bat, cleats, helmet and tennis shoes for possible indoor work. If you are a catcher, please bring your catching gear. Metal cleats permitted in
the Elite Showcase camps only.
What to Wear: baseball pants, t-shirt, cleats and tennis shoes for indoor work. Shorts are okay as well, but please be advised they do scrimmage the last 3 days of camp and some of them like to slide. It is not mandatory, but just precautionary in case they scrape up their legs. Pants and shorts are both okay.
InsuranceIf you need to purchase supplementary insurance through Rice it is $20. Please contact Daniel Watson at 713-816-3558 for further information before registering.
Snacks/Lunch: Packing a lunch is optional. The campers will have time for lunch/snack during their group's break. The concession stand does not have lunch items, only snacks and drinks. Please pack them a lunch if you would like them to have one during their break.
Water: we have coolers of water set up all over camp, but please bring a full water bottle/jug and they can use the water coolers to re-fill their bottles as needed.
Optional: Spending money for concessions and/or Rice
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Weather: In case of inclement weather, all camp
activities will remain at Reckling Park in the indoor
pitching and hitting facilities.
Please note: Your registration fee does include a $25 non-refundable service charge.
No refunds after June 1.
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On the first day of camp please check in 30 mins prior to the start time at Reckling Park. After that you can drop off and pick up your kids in a carpool line in Hess Parking Lot.
Parents/Guardians may drop off campers at the gated lot
immediately adjacent to Reckling Park called Hess Faculty Lot. This lot will be open 30
minutes prior to camp and will close 15 minutes after the start.
The lot will re-open for pick-up 30 minutes prior to the end of
camp until 15 minutes after. No parking allowed in this lot. Cars
parked and left unattended will be ticketed and subject to towing.
Those arriving outside the designated time periods or wishing to stay during the camp may park in West Lot 1 ( also known as Alice Pratt Brown), right next to the Rice Police Station for $1 per 20 minutes or a maximum of $11 daily or West Lot 5 for the same price. Once you leave the lot there is a re-entry fee. There is also parking for a flat rate of $1.00 farther away in The Greenbriar Lot, which is west of the football stadium. Please see click on the Rice University Map link if you would like further information on your parking options: http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html
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The Dutiful Son
After school, 14-year-old Ted Stubbs rode his bike a mile down Galveston's oyster-shell roads to visit his Catholic-school classmate David Hisey. They both lived in Fish Village, a cluster of streets a few blocks up from the seawall, all named after tuna and trout. David had a record player, and Ted didn't. They rode the go-cart David had rigged with a lawn-mower engine, slicked back their hair with Vitalis, listened to music and talked about girls. It was the 1960s, and they discussed emergency escape plans in case of fire, hurricane or nuclear war.
Ted's dad had had a heart attack and was hospitalized. Worried about his father, Ted asked David what he would do if his parents got sick and died.
David said when his parents died, he was going to put them in the back bedroom, close the door and leave them there.
Ted told David he couldn't keep his parents' dead bodies in the house forever. Eventually someone would find them.
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That's what this is for, David said. Reaching beneath the brown leather couch, he pulled out a double-barreled shotgun and pointed it at Ted. He showed Ted that it was loaded: One shell was for the police officer, and the other shell was for himself.
David's mother had been lying down with a headache. She walked into the living room and asked David what was going on.
I'm just telling Ted about the plan, Ted remembers David saying. You aren't supposed to tell anybody about the plan, Sunnye Hisey yelled at her son.
Ted walked out the screen door of the squat white bungalow and into the middle of Marlin Road. As he passed the camphor tree, Ted heard David's mother screaming that David was going to be grounded for a long, long time.
Ted never went back to David's house. He soon transferred out of their all-boys private school to Ball High School, graduated from the University of Texas and went to medical school. Almost 40 years later, Ted heard that David was in jail. "That didn't seem like a place David should be," Ted says.
On the morning of April 1, 2002, Ted, now a 53-year-old retired cardiologist, says he was having a cup of coffee and reading The Galveston Daily News online when he discovered that David's capital murder trial was scheduled to commence that day.
David had executed the plan.
Is David a devoted son who carried out his parents' last wishes? Or did he coldly kill his elderly parents, murdering them for their money?
Neighbors say David was so dedicated to his parents' welfare, he sometimes slept in a chair outside their bedroom so he could be nearby if they needed him.
His cousin Dusti Blalock says David was a charming liar, bouncing from job to job, always hitting her up for money, but always making her laugh. She says he loved and respected Sunnye and Hollis too much to murder them. She says they were old and unhealthy and died of natural causes. Sunnye was 85 and had Alzheimer's and severe heart disease. Hollis was 91 and had heart, lung and kidney disease. If David did kill them, Dusti says, it was an act of kindness.
"If I get in that bad a shape, I want my kids to do me in," Dusti says. "I don't feel like David killed them, and if he did, it was out of compassion."
David's ex-wife, Patsy Meier, however, described him darkly to detectives as an emotionally and verbally abusive man. She testified that when he got drunk, he made her sit completely still in a chair; she said she didn't move because she was afraid of him.
The prosecutor, Galveston County Assistant District Attorney Mo Ibrahim, says David squandered his parents' life savings, then strangled them.
David's defense attorney, Tucker Graves, says that after Sunnye died in her sleep, Hollis refused to be separated from her. When Hollis died, nearly a year later, Graves says, David didn't call the authorities because he couldn't explain Sunnye's mummified corpse.
Graves says money was not a motivation for murder, because most of the money was spent before David's parents died. Besides, David had power of attorney, was the sole heir and would have received it all.
As for David, well, some of it is hard to tell. Wearing an enigmatic half-smile, he sits in the county jail and says his parents both died in their sleep. He insists that he carried out their last wishes.
"I told them I'd keep them together, and I kept them together," David says. "They never wanted to be separated."
What the prosecution and defense agree on is that David spent at least $500,000 of his parents' money and lived with their corpses until they were discovered Labor Day weekend two years ago. After they died, David continued cashing and spending their social security and retirement checks.
And although a jury has already found him guilty and sentenced him to 43 years in prison, for many people that verdict didn't settle anything.
Did he murder them? Or did he just do the wrong thing after they died?
Sunnye Hisey was known as a warm, loving person, so forcibly affectionate that when David's cousin Dusti pulled away from a hug or a kiss, her aunt Sunnye smacked her. A secretary for an architecture firm, Sunnye baked lemon meringue pies for new neighbors, and if she saw someone mowing his lawn, she brought him a cool glass of juice. "When they named her Sunnye, they named her right," says her sister-in-law Clara Hisey. "That's the way she always came to be, just sweet and smiling."
Dusti says her aunt served spaghetti covered in a milk-and-butter sauce and put ice cream on everything from cantaloupe to cereal. She says Sunnye wore strappy rainbow-colored sandals and shorts to show off her shapely legs. On the weekends she hosted shrimp boils. "Heads and all," Dusti says. "That's where I learned to shuck shrimp." Sunnye always brought sugar cookies with square holes in the center when she took the kids to the beach, Dusti says, and spent Sunday afternoons smoking Salem cigarettes and drinking Korbel champagne.
Her second husband, Hollis Hisey, was a quiet man who rarely laughed or talked much, says Clara. If people asked him how he was doing, Hollis said fine, without elaborating. "He was a closed man," says his longtime friend Frank Williamson. "There's not a lot of people know a lot of things about Hollis other than he worked, he worked, he worked, he worked and he worked."
Hollis spent seven days a week at the office. A maintenance engineer, he served as the superintendent for the ten-story professional building owned by the Sealy Smith Foundation. "If you called him, you could reach him," says Frank, who was a pharmacist in the building. "He was always in his office." Even after he retired, Hollis continued going to work.
Hollis wore dress pants every day and on the rare weekends that he didn't work, David says, the two of them went goose and duck hunting with their mutt, Sparky. Other days they fished for trout and redfish in the bay or from a friend's boat.
The Hiseys rarely traveled or went on vacations. They bought two cars in the last 50 years, and neither was driven more than 50,000 miles. "We'd beg them to come and see us, or beg them to come on a trip with us, and they never would," Clara says.
About ten years ago, Sunnye stopped recognizing people and remembering things. At her sister Helen's funeral in 1991, she kept asking where Helen was. Dusti told her several times that Helen was dead, but Sunnye didn't seem to understand. "It just never really dawned on her," Dusti says. Sunnye was soon diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Hollis's brothers told him to put Sunnye in a nursing home. But he didn't want to leave her. They told him to move back home to Haskill, a small town near Abilene, so his family could help care for Sunnye. But Hollis said no.
"He seemed to think he could take care of her himself, and we all knew he couldn't," Clara says. "The only one he wanted around him was David."
Hollis was the oldest of five children; he told his younger brothers and sisters to leave him alone. So they did.
David looks like a thinner version of his father. But he inherited his mother's smile and charm. He graduated from Kerwin High School, then a private, all-boys Catholic school (now the coed O'Connell High School). Then he studied two semesters at Lamar Tech (now Lamar University) in Beaumont before dropping out and joining the navy. Stationed in San Francisco, David was a second-class private when he was discharged four years later. He moved back to Galveston and worked as a deckhand on a private boat. When his daughter was born, he started working for his dad. He did maintenance repairs for a few years in the building his father worked in, before becoming a deckhand on a charter boat in Freeport. He fished in the summer, and in the winter he hunted with his black Labs, Lucky, Dan and Harley.
About 20 years ago, David moved to Destin, Florida, where tourists fish year-round and the fish are closer to shore. He spent his days scrubbing decks and helping tourists bait hooks and clean fish.
Dusti says David is her favorite cousin -- he's her son's godfather. She says David would call her drunk in the middle of the night, telling her stories, making her laugh and asking how his ex-wife and daughter were. He told her about his new business ventures and get-rich-quick schemes and often hit her up for money.
His stories were usually lies, she says, but she loves him anyway. His lies, she says, were never hurtful. They were just exaggerations to make himself look more prosperous and important than he really was.
"You'd love him to death, you just couldn't believe him," Dusti says. "It's not a bad thing."
She says David always loved and respected his parents. "If Hollis would yell at him, he wouldn't yell back," Dusti says. "You know kids sometimes set fire to cats -- he never did that kinda stuff."
Hollis and Sunnye doted on and adored David. "Hollis worshiped David," Clara says. "He and Sunnye both." They lent David money when he wanted to buy a boat or was broke, she says. David was all they ever talked about, Clara says.
David visited his parents in Galveston for Christmas in 1994. His mother had a home health-care worker to cook, bathe and care for her during the week, but on Saturday and Sunday, Hollis was alone with Sunnye. "They weren't eating on the weekends," David says.
David's half-sister, Cherrye Broussard, Sunnye's daughter from her previous marriage, hadn't visited Sunnye since she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Her husband later told detectives that Cherrye was battling breast cancer and it was too difficult for her to see her mother's mind crack.
"Cherrye called me and said, 'I'm not gonna take care of them. I'm not gonna let them drain my money,' " Dusti says. "She didn't have anything to do with them. Pop told me one time, 'I'm not leaving Cherrye anything. She won't come see her mother; she won't take care of us.' "
Since there was no one else to care for his parents, David says, he moved in. "I felt like he owed them that," Dusti says. When the home health-care worker retired, David took over full time. He changed his parents' diapers, bathed them, fed them, did laundry and kept the house clean.
The last time Dusti visited, in March three years ago, she says, the house was as spotless as Sunnye had always kept it. "Sunnye was still a vegetable, but she was a happy one," Dusti says. "She was smiling."
David says he had to grind his mother's food in a blender because she would forget to swallow and would choke. "If I put something in her mouth, she'd forget to chew the rest of it," David says. Sunnye spent her days in front of the television set. It didn't matter what channel it was on, David says, she just needed to hear a voice in the room. Otherwise she got scared.
Some days she didn't recognize David or his father. "She woke up in a strange place every day," David says. Eventually she stopped recognizing anyone, and people stopped visiting. "That hurt my dad," David says. "He couldn't figure out why her friends didn't come see her. He would ask me at night before bed, 'Why doesn't anyone come to see her? She had so many friends.' "
David says he looked into retirement homes, or Alzheimer's units, but he couldn't find a place on the island that would take both Sunnye, who was sick, and Hollis, who wasn't. Since his parents didn't want to be separated, he kept them at home. "They didn't want to be apart," David says. "Ever."
Neighbors say David was a devoted son and a helpful guy. Teri Kingsley, who lives directly across the street, says when a branch fell off her pine tree, David was the first to volunteer to help. Her rottweiler-Labrador, Bo, cried while Teri was at work, so David stood by the window and talked to him. David helped her carry groceries, and when she had car trouble, David fixed it.
He repaired many neighbors' cars, always working in his driveway so he could hear his parents if they needed him. "He was the nicest guy in the world," Teri says.
The night before David's daughter's wedding, July 17, 1999, David says he put his mother to bed as usual. In the morning, she was dead. David had promised to give his daughter away, but he didn't show up for the ceremony.
Hollis kept trying to wake Sunnye. He talked to her, read the newspaper to her, and for three nights slept in bed beside her. "He wouldn't recognize the fact that she was dead," David says. On the third day, David says, he closed the bedroom door and locked it. He says he wanted to call the authorities and have a funeral, but his father adamantly refused. Hollis insisted that he didn't want to be separated from Sunnye. "He wanted to stay with her," David says. "Keep her. I respected what he wanted to do."
David says Hollis stood by her door and spoke to her several times a day. As long as she was in the house, he was happy.
David relinquished his bedroom to his father and started sleeping on the couch. "There wasn't any other beds," he says. His mother's social security check was being directly deposited in the bank, and he spent it. At night, he handed strippers $100 bills. When a dancer tried to hit him up for money to buy a motorcycle, he paid $15,000 cash to buy her a car.
David regularly called friends and relatives, asking to borrow money. This was nothing new. But then he started having Hollis make requests. Hollis phoned his brother Doyle Hisey in Oklahoma and said he needed $1,000 because his money had been lost when a bank account closed. A couple of months later Hollis called asking for another grand. Then he called again asking for more.
Doyle Hisey knew his brother had worked into his eighties and had always saved, not spent, his money. He didn't understand why he needed money now. Doyle asked Hollis what was the matter. Why did he need more money when he had already sent some? Hollis said he didn't remember receiving any money.
The last time Hollis's old friend Frank visited the Hiseys, Hollis couldn't complete sentences or carry on a conversation. "When she died, he died too, really," David says. "He didn't have a reason to be around -- didn't want to be." Hollis didn't want to eat, get dressed or leave the house, David says. "It kept getting harder and harder," David says. "He kept getting worse and worse."
Around April, David says, Hollis died in his sleep. David wrapped him in plastic and laid him in bed beside Sunnye. He closed the curtains and locked the door.
David kept cashing his parents' social security and retirement income checks, totaling $8,000 a month. He forged his father's signature and drained their bank accounts, often writing himself checks for $9,500. One month he withdrew $45,000. Still, he continued to call friends and family, asking for cash. He said he needed to borrow money to pay the electric bill, fix the air conditioner and fund his father's eye surgery.
Whenever Clara or her husband, Doyle, called, David said his parents were asleep, or were out of town and couldn't come to the phone. After about four months had gone by and they still hadn't been able to talk to Hollis, Clara got suspicious. She didn't believe David's various stories.
Since she lives in Oklahoma, Clara called David's brother-in-law, O.J. Broussard, and asked him to go by the house and check on Hollis and Sunnye. On several occasions, O.J. tried to see Sunnye and Hollis, but David wouldn't let O.J. come inside. Each time O.J. visited, David made up a new story to explain his parents' whereabouts. Once, he said he had put them in a nursing home, but he didn't want O.J. to visit because it was in a bad part of town.
"He just couldn't find them," Clara says. She called the lady who delivered Meals on Wheels, who reported that David never let her come inside the house either. Clara phoned the police, Galveston County Guardians and Adult Protective Services.
"We called everybody, trying to find out if anyone knew where they were," Clara says. "No one seemed to know. No one seemed to care."
The Galveston County sheriff's office dispatched two officers to the house on Marlin in late August 2000.
David didn't answer the door. He wasn't home the next day, either. The officers' third attempt was Friday, September 1, at around 5:40 p.m. Again, David wasn't home.
Officers were about to leave when David turned down Ferry Road, returning from the bank. He pulled his battered blue Buick into the driveway behind Sergeant Bruce Balchunas's unmarked Ford F-150. "Another minute and we would've missed him," Balchunas says.
Balchunas introduced himself to David and told him that some family members and neighbors were concerned about his parents.
David told the officers that his parents were visiting his aunt in East Texas. He said he had talked to his father on the phone a couple of days before, and they were heading to another relative's house in Belton.
"That's fine," Balchunas said. He asked David if they could check inside the house while they were there.
"Sure," David said and signed a consent waiver for the officers to search the house. Inside, there was standing water in the kitchen sink, and the countertop was covered in dishes of moldy food. The dining room table's fruit tablecloth was nearly obscured by piles of papers, bills and boxes. Books and pictures were knocked over on the shelves, and clothes were scattered everywhere. "A typical bachelor place," Balchunas says.
The back bedroom had masking tape sealing the door frame, a towel stuffed under the crack, and Carpet Fresh sprinkled on the floor. There was a sign saying, "Stop! No Entry." David told officers that he had just set off a bug bomb to kill some flies. He asked if they could come back the next day and search the room.
Since it was Labor Day weekend, the deputies asked if they could just take a quick look. David asked them to come back in four hours.
If they closed the other doors in the hallway, they could isolate the fumes and search the bedroom, Balchunas said. David would have to leave the house for only an hour before the fumes dissipated. Balchunas said if they opened the door and everything was fine, they would leave immediately.
Okay, David said. He pulled the tape off the door and unlocked it. Balchunas and David walked into the living room, where David sat on the brown leather couch. Silently, David stared at the walnut floor.
Balchunas's partner, Sergeant Perry Larvin, walked into the bedroom. The windows were taped shut, the blinds and the curtains were closed. He saw a tuft of white hair sticking out from under the covers. Larvin pulled back the blanket and saw Sunnye; her skin was a dark, dried brown. She wore a sleeveless flannel gown covered in blue flowers and white socks; an adult-diaper strap was wrapped around her head to keep her mouth shut. Black mold was growing on her legs, her stomach was sunken, and her face had turned a greenish-black.
In the living room, Larvin ordered David to put his hands behind his back. He patted David down, told him to sit on the couch, and then went to the truck to call for backup.
David reached beneath the sofa and pulled out a .22-caliber rifle and pressed it to his chin. Before he could pull the trigger, Balchunas lunged at him and pinned him against the couch; with one hand Balchunas grabbed the barrel, and with the other, he clenched David's right hand so he couldn't fire. When Larvin returned, the two officers wrestled the weapon away from David. "It was a silent struggle," Balchunas says.
When Galveston police officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Hollis's corpse wrapped in yellow plastic trash bags. A band of silver duct tape was wrapped around his head, and two strips of white adhesive tape bound his ankles. White maggots crawled on the sheets wrapped around his body. The smell was so foul officers had to quit working every few minutes to go outside and get some fresh air, says Ibrahim, the district attorney who was called to the scene. "It smelled like death," he says. "That's the only way to describe it." Ibrahim says he had to throw away the shirt he was wearing because he couldn't get the odor out.
David was arrested and charged with two counts of abuse of a corpse, and held on a $10,000 bond.
"I didn't kill anyone," he told officers. "They died in their sleep."
Sunnye's eyelids were closed so tightly the coroner couldn't open them. She was five foot three, and her decaying body weighed 70 pounds. Her brain had totally degenerated, and insects crawled inside her skull. Her lungs had collapsed and were plastered in a sheet across her chest wall, says Charles Harvey, Galveston County chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy.
Sunnye had severe cardiovascular disease, clinical hypertension and Alzheimer's.
Her husband had severe heart, lung and kidney problems. Harvey says that in addition to bad hearts and hardened, clogged arteries, the couple had matching fractures in their necks. The fragile hyoid bones that support the voice box were broken. And Harvey says he saw hemorrhages in their neck tissue that appeared to have been made while their hearts were still beating.
He declared their deaths a textbook case of strangulation.
"I am absolutely convinced that these folks did not die of natural causes," Harvey says. "I can almost assure you that if I were to show these cases and these findings to 100 trained forensic pathologists around the country, I would get back 100 opinions that would say this is a strangulation."
David was charged with capital murder, theft and two counts of abuse of a corpse. Ibrahim, felony chief for the 405th District Court, decided not to seek the death penalty. Other than driving with a suspended license, David had no prior convictions; Ibrahim says he couldn't prove that David would be a future danger to society.
Plus, David's family didn't want him to die; they just wanted him to spend the rest of his life in prison. "When I first went to the courthouse, I had David hung," Dusti says. "I was just wanting him to rot in hell forever."
But now she wonders if he killed them out of compassion, and didn't bury them because he loved them too much to let them go. David's aunt, Clara, says Sunnye and Hollis would not have wanted to live without their minds. "My God," she says, "he did them a favor. I think they'd be better off in heaven than wandering around here being mistreated by people."
Ibrahim told the jury that David returned from Florida not to care for his elderly parents but rather to rob and murder them. "He came here with the intent to leech off of his parents," Ibrahim says. "Then he realized that he could go further than that -- not only could he leech off of them, but he could take it all. They were of no consequence to him anymore."
David rapidly spent their money, squandering more than $700,000, Ibrahim says. Then David realized that caring for his mother was too much work, so he strangled her.
David kept his father alive, Ibrahim says, because when relatives called, they always asked to talk to Hollis (since for years Sunnye had been unable to speak coherently). As Hollis became more demented and difficult to care for, he was less valuable to David, Ibrahim says. So David strangled him, too.
Graves, David's court-appointed attorney, insists that David was simply carrying out his parents' wishes. Yes, David spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (although he says it's closer to $500,000 than $700,000). And yes, he did live with their dead bodies. But most of the money had been spent before they died. Besides, David was the sole heir in the will, had power of attorney, and he would have received the money eventually.
"It just doesn't make sense," Graves says. "He didn't need to kill them for the money. He already had the money."
Graves argues that David would have benefited more if his parents had remained alive -- because he would have continued to receive their social security, pension and retirement income. Graves asked the jury to sentence David to a few years of probation.
Graves says the three versions of the autopsies are suspect. When Harvey originally examined the bodies, he didn't find any fractures. A few days later, Graves says, fractures were found when other pathologists working in Harvey's office examined the bodies. Then, a few weeks before the trial, the autopsy was amended.
"Fractures appeared and disappeared and changed from left and right, and hemorrhages as well appeared and disappeared in ways that are not scientifically plausible in any shape or form," says Lloyd White, a Nueces County medical examiner who testified for the defense. "It's like saying somebody was killed by a gunshot wound, then you come back and say, 'Well, no, maybe they were stabbed. No, maybe could be they were strangled.' There's just too many different versions here."
White testified that it is possible that when the bodies were autopsied, hemorrhages could have been created by the doctors. "It's easy to create artifact," he says. He also said that since the forensic pathologist wasn't working with a fresh corpse, what appeared to be hemorrhages could have been discoloration due to decomposition.
Since the Hiseys were both elderly smokers with a variety of heart and lung diseases, White testified that he believes they died of natural causes.
"If you hear hoofbeats in the corral, you don't go looking for zebras," White says. "They had plenty of natural diseases that people a lot younger than they are die from every day."
The prosecution agrees that the Hiseys were not an especially healthy couple, but Harvey says deaths caused by heart attacks or lung disease don't show signs of strangulation. Their necks would not have been broken, and the hemorrhages, if caused by natural decomposition, would not have been in matching patterns.
"You have glaring evidence of a strangulation. So what if they had all the rest of these other diseases? Strangulation is what killed them," Harvey says. "They weren't strangled, and then lingered for six months, and then died of a heart attack. That's totally, completely unreasonable."
Graves argued that since David moved his father's body after he died, it's possible that the neck snapped when he moved him. But Harvey says neck muscles get very stiff, and it's difficult to break these bones after death. Graves also pointed out that the adult diaper Sunnye was wearing was clean, and usually when people are strangled they lose control of their bowels.
The district attorney says there was only one autopsy, not three. When Harvey originally examined Sunnye, she was so mummified with dry, leathery skin, he had to soak her neck tissues overnight to rehydrate her body. Then, Harvey saw the hemorrhages. Both Ibrahim and Harvey say that the autopsy was amended a few weeks before the trial merely to correct a clerical error.
When showing the jury a book of David's financial records, Ibrahim noted that David wrote most of the checks to himself. A few checks were written to pay the cable and phone bills, but Ibrahim points out that there is no record of doctor bills, prescriptions filled or any evidence that David was caring for elderly individuals.
"He's despicable," Ibrahim says. "David Hisey is less than human. There is nothing about David Hisey or anything associated with David Hisey that didn't disgust me. How can you not be disgusted?"
David didn't testify. "We thought we had raised enough reasonable doubt," Graves says. "He figured, 'Why get in there and muck things up?' "
Ibrahim says he wants to ask David what he did with the money. He wants to know what David was thinking when he put his hands around his mother's neck and strangled her. He wants to know how it felt to eat dinners from Meals on Wheels that were meant for his parents, who lay dead in the next room. "I would've kept him on the stand for two days," Ibrahim says. "He's a lying son of a bitch. He would have been exposed as a lying son of a bitch."
After two weeks of testimony, the jury declared David guilty of the lesser, included charge of murder. "We had to fight for that," Graves says. "That's what made it less of a hollow victory." The jury sentenced him to 43 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
"Justice has been served," says David's half-sister, Cherrye.
The trial ended Friday afternoon. That weekend, one of the jurors visited David in the Galveston County Jail. He says she told him that she didn't believe he had killed his parents, but she had been pressured into voting guilty anyway. David says she told him that there had been a debate among the jurors about whether the doubt they had in their minds qualified as reasonable doubt. "They weren't all real sure," David says.
His lawyer has interviewed her and plans to file a motion for new trial based on possible jury misconduct. The grounds for a new trial aren't solid, Graves told David during a visit two weeks after the trial. "It's a little shaky at best," Graves told him.
If the motion is denied, Graves plans to appeal the case. He argues that the judge should have granted his motion for a change of venue; he says David didn't get a fair trial in Galveston because the case had received so much publicity. The Galveston Daily News reported that when the jury members were being selected, one man stood up and said that anyone who claimed not to have heard about David's case was lying. He wasn't selected.
Today David spends his days in jail playing pinochle and talking to his parents. He says it was his choice to carry out his parents' wishes -- he didn't have to. But he wanted to keep his word.
"I told them I wouldn't separate them. I didn't," he says. "I made a commitment to them."
He sometimes speaks about his parents in the present tense. He scrunches up his forehead, smiles and answers many questions with "I don't know" in a way that makes the response seem inappropriate or inaccurate. When asked about his parents, he often responds, "Well, you'll have to ask them."
He says he spent Sunnye and Hollis's money because it was his. "They gave it to me," he says. Years before Sunnye was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he says, his parents changed their wills, making him the sole beneficiary. He says his parents told him to go ahead and spend the money however he pleased. When asked what he spent it on, he says he doesn't know.
He says he doesn't agree with the prosecution's accounting -- he thinks there was only about $340,000. But he can account for spending only about $100,000.
He believes the autopsy results are erroneous. He says he knows the bones in his parents' necks were not broken when the police officers arrived at his house. David says after Sunnye died, he didn't move her at all, other than to straighten her head.
He says he unlocked his parents' bedroom door for the cops because he was tired of hiding and playing games. He claims the gun was old and he doesn't even know if it would have fired -- or if his arms are long enough to reach the trigger.
The house on Marlin has been sold, and the place is empty. The white oleander David planted thrives in the backyard by the garage. Beside the front door, the roses and ginger are tangled together. The walls have recently been repainted and the floors polished. David says he just wants to get out of jail and get on a boat again. Maybe he'll move back to Florida, but he says he'd be happy staying in Galveston.
None of his family has visited him in jail. "I'm used to it," he says. "They didn't come see us when they were sick. Why would they come now?" His ex-wife is the only one who writes him, he says.
His parents' bodies have been in the morgue for two years now. There hasn't been a funeral or even a memorial service. On a Wednesday afternoon in early May, Graves asks David what he wants to do with Sunnye and Hollis. Does he want them cremated?
"Yeah, I think that would be the best thing to do," David says. "Keep them together."
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Jazz, Nuggets get an "A" for summer work
By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider
The player movement in the NBA over the past eight weeks has been unprecedented. Ninety players have changed teams. Two of the top-five players in the league -- Shaquille O'Neal and Tracy McGrady -- have been traded. Almost all the top free agents have agreed to lucrative deals. Many of the top ones, including Kenyon Martin and Steve Nash, bolted their home teams for greener grass elsewhere.
For the most part, the smoke has cleared on this NBA offseason. Several teams are still talking trades. Before the summer's over, Ray Allen, Vince Carter and Shawn Marion could be traded, though the chances of it dwindle by the day.
A couple of top free agents are still looking for homes. Erick Dampier is struggling to get the Warriors to OK a sign-and-trade. Numerous teams have made offers, but the Warriors are reluctant to help Damp out unless they get a great offer in return. Darius Miles and Stromile Swift are struggling through the doldrums of restricted free agency. After that group, the pickings are pretty slim. Jon Barry, Toni Kukoc, Rodney White and Keon Clark are the top free agents
Here is Insider's team-by-team take on who has done what, and who has money left to spend.
Atlanta Hawks
Cash remaining: $9.4 million
Players added: Josh Childress, Tony Delk, Al Harrington, Donta Smith, Josh Smith, Antoine Walker
Players lost: Michael Bradley, Travis Hansen, Steven Jackson, Wesley Person, Zeljko Rebraca, Bob Sura, Jason Terry, Jacque Vaughn
Skinny: The Hawks came into the summer with two first-round draft picks and nearly $20 million in cap room. What do they have to show for it? Childress was a solid pick at No. 6, though Andre Iguodala might have been a better fit. However, it was prep phenom Josh Smith who wowed everyone in the summer league. Harrington was the best addition of the summer. He's been ready to break out for two seasons and will finally have the chance in Atlanta. Swapping Terry for Walker makes sense from a cap perspective (the Hawks will have $14 million in cap room next summer). Walker is in a contract year, which means he'll put up big numbers But will that translate into wins? The team still doesn't have a true point guard or center. They've wooed free-agent center Erick Dampier heavily and could end up using the rest of their money to sign him. If they sign Damp, the Hawks' front line will actually be one of the stronger ones in the East. However, that young, inexperienced, shallow backcourt will struggle.
Grade: C
Boston Celtics
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Tony Allen, Rick Fox, Al Jefferson, Gary Payton, Delonte West
Players lost: Chucky Atkins, Jumaine Jones, Chris Mihm
Skinny: Re-signing free agent Mark Blount was the team's top priority. The rest of the Celtics' summer was so-so. All three rookies had strong summer league performances. Jefferson, in particular, looks like he could end up being a dominant low-post scorer in a few years -- something the Celtics desperately need. After Blount and Jefferson, however, the front line is pretty thin. Raef LaFrentz would give them a big boost up front if he can stay healthy, but that's always a question mark with him. The backcourt looks better, but the trade with the Lakers could end up back firing. With Payton threatening to retire before reporting to the C's and Marcus Banks fuming about being demoted from point guard of the future to trade fodder in just one year, the Celtics may be forced to go with a rookie, West, who didn't really play point guard in college. The team still has its mid-level and $1.6 million exception, but there are few players left on the market worth either. Look for the Celtics to focus on a younger forward like Marcus Fizer with some of that money.
Grade: C+
Charlotte Bobcats
Cash remaining: $5.2 million
Players added: Corey Benjamin, Omar Cook, Melvin Ely, Jason Hart, Eddie House, Emeka Okafor, Bernard Robinson
Players lost: Richie Frahm, Aleksandar Pavlovic
Skinny: The Bobcats have been unusually quiet. It's becoming very clear the team plans to save as much money as possible this season. The Bobcats know they have a two-year honeymoon period in Charlotte and appear ready to take full advantage of it. While their frontcourt, anchored by Okafor, will be pretty strong, their backcourt is very, very thin. Right now Hart and Gerald Wallace are their projected starters. That doesn't strike fear in the hearts of anyone.
Grade: C-
Chicago Bulls
Cash remaining: Partial mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Luol Deng, Chris Duhon, Ben Gordon, Othella Harrington, Dikembe Mutombo, Andres Nocioni, Cezary Trybanski, Frank Williams
Players lost: Jamal Crawford, Marcus Fizer, Jerome Williams
Skinny: GM John Paxson has worked hard this summer to transform this team into something closer to his own image. Deng, Gordon and Nocioni all epitomize the work ethic and winning attitude Paxson wants to infuse the club with. Crawford and Williams didn't, and Paxson didn't hesitate to trade them for a collection of players who will provide him with significant cap relief next season. Harrington, Mutombo, Trybanski and Williams are all in the last year of their contracts, meaning Paxson will have near max cap room to make a run at top free agent next summer or to re-sign Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler. Paxson probably isn't done. He's been unhappy with Curry's work ethic this summer and has talked to handful of teams, most notably the Grizzlies, about a swap. Paxson won't give Curry away, but if a team comes up with an impressive offer (and is willing to take Eddie Robinson off his hands) he won't hesitate to pull the trigger.
Grade: A-
Cleveland Cavaliers
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception, $1.6 million exception
Players added: Drew Gooden, Luke Jackson, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Eric Snow, Robert Traylor, Anderson Varejao
Players lost: Tony Battie, Carlos Boozer, Kedrick Brown, Jason Kapono, Kevin Ollie, Eric Williams
Skinny: The inexplicable loss of Boozer was a devastating blow to a franchise that seemed poised to turn the corner. In the Cavs' darkest hour, however, GM Jim Paxson responded with a series of moves that actually made the Cavs stronger. The addition of Snow, Pavlovic, Gooden, Varejao, Traylor and Jackson are all very solid moves. Snow gives them a patient, veteran point guard who's been tested in the Finals (although his contract is outrageous). Gooden isn't as physical as Boozer was in the post, but he's more athletic and physically gifted. Pavlovic and Jackson give the Cavs some much-needed sharp shooting at the two and the three, and Varejao, a hustler from Brazil, has the potential to be the second-round steal of the draft. The Cavs will miss Boozer, Battie and Williams, but this team is much stronger than the one the Cavs fielded last year. Paxson didn't panic when the sky was falling in Cleveland and irate Cavs fans can finally breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Grade: B
Dallas Mavericks
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Calvin Booth, Devin Harris, Alan Henderson, Didier Ilunga-Mbenga, Christian Laettner, Pavel Podkolzine, Jerry Stackhouse, Jason Terry
Players lost: Tony Delk, Danny Fortson, Antawn Jamison, Steve Nash, Antoine Walker
Skinny: Does anyone know for sure exactly what Dallas is up to? The loss of Nash was devestating. While you can sympathize with owner Mark Cuban not wanting to overpay for Nash, the truth was that the Suns caught Cuban off guard with their offer. Cuban misjudged the market this year. While he was selling assets, the rest of the NBA was buying, leaving the Mavs weaker than they've been in the past few seasons. Terry is a decent replacement for Nash, though he's much more of a scorer than a floor leader. The team's lottery pick, Harris, whom they traded Jamison for, has the potential to be a star in two or three years. The rest of the group? Ugh. Laettner and Henderson will provide some luxury-tax relief next season, but that doesn't win you ball games. Stackhouse will be a distraction. Booth is just plain goofy. Mbenga and Podkolzine are a few years away. Meanwhile, the Mavs did little to address their short-term needs for a few blue collar rebounders and shot blockers who can score with their back to the basket.
Grade: C+
Denver Nuggets
Cash remaining: $2.4 million
Players added: Kenyon Martin
Players lost: Michael Doleac
Skinny: The Nuggets created one of the best front lines in the NBA when they added Martin to the team this summer. Martin is a perfect fit in Denver's up-and-down offense. He also provides some much-needed toughness and playoff experience to a young, inexperienced team. The team still needs to find some more depth at the two and three, but given the cap space the Nuggets have left and several first-round picks they can use as assets, they should be able to land the rest of the players they need to make a run at top-four seed in the West this year.
Grade: A-
Detroit Pistons
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Derrick Coleman, Carlos Delfino, Ronald Dupree, Horace Jenkins, Amal McCaskill, Antonio McDyess
Players lost: Mike James, Mehmet Okur, Corliss Williamson
Skinny: The world champs accomplished the most important mission of the offseason when they re-signed forward Rasheed Wallace to a very reasonable five-year, $55 million contract. Doing so cost them Okur, but it was becoming clear that Larry Brown didn't want him around, and given the Jazz's huge offer (6 years, $50 million) it made sense for the Pistons to cut ties. They'll replace him with McDyess, who, if healthy, is an upgrade at the position. They'll also add some much-needed help in the backcourt with Delfino, who's been a star in Europe the last few years and shouldn't suffer through the same growing pains that Darko Milicic went through his rookie season. The Pistons' most significant loss this summer was Williamson. The Pistons swapped him for Coleman in an effort to clear some more cap space next year, but he'll be missed. He was, at times, their most consistent low-post scorer last year. If McDyess is healthy and scoring again and Milicic makes some strides, Williamson won't be missed..
Grade: B
Golden State Warriors
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Andris Biedrins, Dale Davis, Dan Dickau, Derek Fisher
Players lost: Brian Cardinal, Nick Van Exel
Skinny: Old GM Garry St. Jean is out and new GM Chris Mullin is in. So far, it looks like the same old Warriors. The Warriors may have made the most controversial deal of the summer when they offered five years and $42 million to their own free agent, Adonal Foyle. The team knew it was losing both Foyle and Erick Dampier and needed someone to play center. Foyle has been great in the locker room over the years but hasn't been so hot on the court lately. The team's six-year, $38 million contract to Fisher also is a head scratcher. It's clear that Mullin is trying to fill the locker room with solid role players who hustle and work hard. But where's the talent? The team lost Cardinal to the Grizzlies and likely will lose Dampier as well. For the same money they spent on Foyle and Fisher, the Warriors could've re-signed Damp and Cardinal and had better players. The bottom line? New head coach Mike Montgomery may have a team that's easier to coach, but expect it to be one of two or three bottom feeders in the West again next year.
Grade: C-
Houston Rockets
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Reece Gaines, Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue, Tracy McGrady, Bob Sura, Charlie Ward
Players lost: Kelvin Cato, Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley
Skinny: The Rockets made the second-biggest trade of the summer when they swapped Francis, Mobley and Cato for McGrady, Howard, Lue and Gaines. Francis couldn't see eye-to-eye with coach Jeff Van Gundy and the team saw a once-and-a-lifetime opportunity to add a superstar like McGrady while giving up very little in return. McGrady paired with Yao Ming should be dominant next season. Howard is always good when he's the third option on a team. The team filled its point guard hole by signing Sura and Ward. Sura, if he can stay healthy, might be a great fit in Houston. He averaged 14.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists over his last 27 games for the Hawks. Ward spent a number of years with Van Gundy in New York. The Rockets still need depth at center. Right now they have no one to back up Yao. Considering that Van Gundy doesn't really like to play him more than 35 minutes a game, that could be a problem.
Grade: B+
Indiana Pacers
Cash remaining: Partial mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: David Harrison, Stephen Jackson, Eddie Gill
Players lost: Al Harrington
Skinny: The Pacers have been working hard all summer to upgrade their backcourt and to add a more dominant presence in the middle. There's no pressure to change the team that won an NBA-high 61 games last year, but Larry Bird and company know that the team has holes to fill. Harrison was a great addition with the last pick in the first round, but he'll need a year or two before he's a regular contributor at the five. The addition of Jackson addresses a need in the backcourt, though they paid an awfully high price by sending Harrington to Atlanta for him in a sign-and-trade. Harrington is on the verge of a breakout season and could make the Pacers regret moving him if he puts up big numbers this season. Jackson put up good numbers in Atlanta last season, but he was playing on a very bad team. The team has flirted with free agent Erick Dampier and has talked with the Kings about a Ron Artest-for-Peja Stojakovic swap, but so far they haven't gotten anywhere.
Grade: B-
Los Angeles Clippers
Cash remaining: $2.9 million
Players added: Kerry Kittles, Shaun Livingston, Zeljko Rebraca
Players lost: Keyon Dooling, Melvin Ely, Eddie House, Quentin Richardson
Skinny: The Clippers focused entirely on landing Kobe Bryant this summer, but the whole endeavor was a lost cause. The team traded away two assets -- Ely and House -- to clear cap room it didn't need. The Clippers' contingency move, a trade for Kittles, was a stunner. The move prohibited the Clips from being able to match the Suns' offer for Richardson. While Kittles makes more financial sense in the long run, Richardson signed one of the most reasonable offer sheets of the summer. Will the Clippers really be able to lure a better player via free agency next summer with the money they saved from the Kittles deal? The Clippers did have a great draft, however. Livingston has the potential to be the best player in the draft class. Still, he's a year or two away, meaning that Clippers fans are looking at yet another year of lottery purgatory this season.
Grade: C+
Los Angeles Lakers
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Chucky Atkins, Tony Bobbitt, Caron Butler, Vlade Divac, Brian Grant, Jumaine Jones, Chris Mihm, Lamar Odom, Sasha Vujacic
Players lost: Derek Fisher, Rick Fox, Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton
Skinny: The Lakers accomplished their most important mission this summer by re-signing Kobe Bryant. Everything they've done after that, from dumping Phil Jackson to trading Shaq and Payton, has been stunning to say the least. The Lakers will have nine new players on their roster next season. None of them has ever won a championship. Losing Shaq hurts the most. While they salvaged some decent players in return, Odom, Butler and Grant will never quite add up to what Shaq gave them every night. The trade with the Celtics was flat out weird. The Lakers traded away two solid veterans for a journeyman point guard and two role players who didn't do much for an inferior Celtics team last season. That's not the weird part. The shocking thing about the Payton trade is that they wooed him -- talked him into taking less money for a chance to win a championship. Then they shipped him off to a lottery team, getting little value back in return. Agents and players have long memories. Next time Mitch Kupchak tries to convince a veteran to give up large sums of money to play in L.A. for a contender . . . he's going to hear a dial tone.
Grade: B-
Memphis Grizzlies
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Antonio Burks, Brian Cardinal, Andre Emmett
Players lost: None
Skinny: The Grizzlies need a big man in the worst way, but surprisingly decided to sign Cardinal, yet another forward, to a six-year deal for their full mid-level exception. It was probably a big tactical mistake. As the market for Dampier shrunk, he began considering taking the mid-level. The Grizzlies no longer have one to offer him. They've been after Dampier for more than a year but will have to pull off a sign-and-trade to get him now -- something the Warriors don't sound inclined to do. The Grizzlies have turned their attention to landing Eddy Curry. However, so far talks with the Bulls have led to nothing. The Grizzlies have scared off just about everyone eyeing restricted free agent Stromile Swift by threatening to match any offer. Burks and Emmett were both solid second-round picks, but given the Grizzlies' depth in the backcourt, no one expects them to play.
Grade: C-
Miami Heat
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Michael Doleac, Keyon Dooling, Damon Jones, Shaquille O'Neal, Wesley Person, Dorell Wright
Players lost: Rafer Alston, Baron Butler, Brian Grant, Lamar Odom, Samaki Walker
Skinny: Any time you add the most dominant player in the game and keep the best player on your own team, you've hit a home run in the summer. The trade for Shaq immediately makes the Heat contenders in the East. It also left them pretty thin at the point, small forward and power forward positions. The team has made a decent effort to patch a few of those holes, thought the Heat's supporting cast is still fairly thin. If Wright, the Heat's first-round pick, can end up contributing (he showed flashes of it in the summer league) the team will be very dangerous.
Grade: A-
Milwaukee Bucks
Cash remaining: Partial mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Zendon Hamilton, Mike James, Lonnie Jones
Players lost: Damon Jones, Brian Skinner
Skinny: Yawn . . . the Bucks have had a slow summer. They did make an aggressive offer to Etan Thomas, but the Wizards matched. With fears that T.J. Ford may not be able to recover from a back injury, they used part of their money on James, a backup for the Pistons last season. The team also believes it's close to re-signing Toni Kukoc. However, given the improvements of a number of teams in the East this year, the Bucks could be in for a long season, especially if Ford ends up missing significant time.
Grade: D
Minnesota Timberwolves
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: None
Players lost: None
Skinny: The Wolves took care of their own, re-signing Troy Hudson, Trenton Hassell and Fred Hoiberg this summer. When you have the best record in the West and all but one of the main threats to the Wolves have all gotten significantly weaker, the reluctance to change things is understandable. The Wolves have one of the best starting fives in the league and enough depth to make another deep playoff run. If they can move Wally Szczerbiak for more depth, they will, but right now nothing seems imminent.
Grade: B
New Jersey Nets
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Rodney Buford, Kyle Davis, Nenad Kristic, Ron Mercer, Jacque Vaughn, Eric Williams
Players lost: Eddie Gill, Kerry Kittles, Kenyon Martin, Rodney Rogers
Skinny: The Nets held a fire sale this summer, swapping Martin for three future first-round picks and Kittles for a second-rounder. It's probably only a matter of time before Jason Kidd is traded too. New owner Bruce Ratner has decided to cut costs and rebuild around Richard Jefferson, leaving team president Rod Thorn very little wiggle room. While the additions of players like Williams, Vaughn, Kristic and Mercer would have been great complements to the team the Nets took to the playoffs last season, without Martin and Kittles, what's the point?
Grade: D-
New Orleans Hornets
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Chris Andersen, Tim Pickett, Rodney Rogers, J.R. Smith
Players lost: Stacey Augmon, Robert Traylor
Skinny: The Hornets have quietly added depth in the front and backcourt this summer. Smith has the most impressive summer league stats of any rookie and should be able to contribute right away next season. Andersen gives them an athletic shot blocker and rebounder to back up Jamaal Magloire and Rogers gives the team depth and shooting -- especially if Jamal Mashburn is unable or unwilling to play next season.
Grade: B
New York Knicks
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Trevor Ariza, Jamal Crawford, Jerome Williams
Players lost: Othella Harrington, Dikembe Mutombo, Cezary Trybanski, Frank Williams
Skinny: Isiah Thomas turned four players he didn't want into a young, talented guard he desperately wanted when he swapped Harrington, Mutombo, Trybanski and Frank Williams for Crawford and Jerome Williams. However, he may have blown a great chance to land center Erick Dampier. According to Vin Baker's agent, Aaron Goodwin, the Knicks agreed to a contract with Baker before Dampier showed up willing to take the Knicks' mid-level. If Goodwin is right, the Knicks blew an unbelievable chance to land a dominant big man. If Goodwin's wrong, and Dampier's still in play, Isiah will up this grade to an "A" by the end of the summer.
Grade: C+
Orlando Magic
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Stacey Augmon, Tony Battie, Michael Bradley, Kelvin Cato, Steve Francis, Dwight Howard, Cuttino Mobley, Jameer Nelson, Hedo Turkoglu
Players lost: Reece Gaines, Drew Gooden, Juwan Howard, Steven Hunter, Tyronn Lue, Tracy McGrady, Anderson Varejao
Skinny: GM John Weisbrod has been bold. Not only has he traded away his superstar, Tracy McGrady, he's also added nine new players to the roster who range from young, dynamic athletes to grizzled blue collar veterans. What he wants are a group of players who won't give up and who will play their hearts out every night. Francis is the best player of the group, though his attitude doesn't always fit the mold. Howard showed huge promise in the summer league. Mobley, Turkoglu, Nelson and Battie could all contribute next season. Still, the Magic's success depends in large part on Grant Hill's health. He's been playing all summer without pain. If he can come back and play well, the Magic could be dangerous again. If he doesn't, they'll be better than last year, but that's not saying much.
Grade: B
Philadelphia 76ers
Cash remaining: Partial mid-level; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Kedrick Brown, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Ollie, Brian Skinner, Corliss Williamson
Players lost: Derrick Coleman, Zendon Hamilton, Amal McCaskill, Eric Snow
Skinny: The team had a solid draft and added some frontcourt depth with Skinner and Williamson. But the backcourt is now an issue. Without Snow, who is going to keep Allen Iverson in check? There's talk that new head coach Jim O'Brien will move AI to the point and let Willie Green play the two. They'd probably be better off with Iguodala, who at least knows how to pass the ball on occasion. Are the Sixers just running to stand still?
Grade: C
Phoenix Suns
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Steve Nash, Quentin Richardson, Jackson Vroman
Players lost: Antonio McDyess
Skinny: The Suns really set the tone of the free-agent market on July 1 when they offered Nash a six-year, $66 million deal. Nash stunned the Mavericks by accepting it a few hours later after Cuban refused to match it. The team also made a run at Okur and Turkoglu but was outbid both times. Finally, they settled on Richardson. While Richardson is a solid addition, he creates a logjam at the two with Joe Johnson and Casey Jacobsen also looking for time there. Expect the Suns to explore trading Shawn Marion in an effort to free up time for Johnson at the three and to land a legit center.
Grade: B+
Portland Trail Blazers
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Richie Frahm, Viktor Khryapa, Sergei Monia, Ha Seung Jin, Sebastian Telfair, Nick Van Exel
Players lost: Omar Cook, Dale Davis, Dan Dickau
Skinny: The Blazers still haven't taken care of their most important piece of business this summer -- re-signing free agent Darius Miles. Everything else they've done this summer hasn't made much sense. The draft could end up being a bust this year. Telfair, an under-sized, inexperienced high school point guard, won't see much time this year. Khryapa is out for the season with an injury and Monia is heading back to Russia. Van Exel could help the team . . . but didn't management make a commitment to the fans to quit bringing in players like Van Exel who have loads of talent on the court and loads of problems off it? Their inability to move Shareef Abdur-Rahim, who is also demanding a trade, is also bewildering considering the level of interest in him.
Grade: D+
Sacramento Kings
Cash remaining: None
Players added: David Bluthenthal, Kevin Martin, Ricky Minard, Greg Ostertag
Players lost: Rodney Buford, Vlade Divac, Tony Massenburg, Anthony Peeler
Skinny: The Kings decided to let Divac slip away and instead used their money to bring in Ostertag. Basketball wise, the swap made little sense. In the locker room, however, it appears that Chris Webber was partly behind it. Now Peja Stojakovic is demanding a trade. Are things beginning to fall apart in Sacramento? Martin and Minard both looked great in the summer league, and Euroleague vet Bluthenthal is one of the best shooting big men out there . . . but is this really enough to keep the Kings in contention next year. That answer may be yes, but only because some many teams have tripped up worse than the Kings this summer.
Grade: C+
San Antonio Spurs
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Brent Barry, Tony Massenburg, Romain Sato, Beno Udrih
Players lost: Jason Hart, Ron Mercer, Hedo Turkoglu, Charlie Ward
Skinny: The Spurs have been busy. They've fortified their backcourt by agreeing with Ginobili (six years, $52 million), Barry (four years, $22 million) and Bowen (three years, $12 million) on contracts, but lost Turkoglu in the process. Udrih proved in the summer league that he's capable of coming in and backing up Tony Parker right now. The loss of Turkoglu will hurt in the long run, but in the short term, Barry is an upgrade to a backcourt that got pretty shaky at times in the playoffs.
Grade: B+
Seattle SuperSonics
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Danny Fortson, Robert Swift
Players lost: Brent Barry, Calvin Booth
Skinny: What are the Sonics doing? They are a lottery team that drafted a high school center and let their starting point guard slip away in free agency for nothing. Now they're simultaneously trying to hammer out an extension with Ray Allen while testing the trade market for him. They refuse to trade either Vladimir Radmanovic or Rashard Lewis despite the fact that they're incompatible on the floor. The team seems to be slowly sinking into quick sand and nothing the team has done this summer will reverse that process.
Grade: D
Toronto Raptors
Cash remaining: $1.6 million exception
Players added: Rafer Alston, Rafael Araujo
Players lost: None
Skinny: Rob Babcock inherited a disaster in Toronto and has been able to do little to turn things around so far. Alston and Araujo will help the team, but not enough to propel them into the playoffs. Vince Carter wants to be traded, but so far, the Raptors haven't been able to find a deal that makes sense for them. That could lead to some disastrous chemistry issues during the season. Things don't look good in Toronto right now.
Grade: C-
Utah Jazz
Cash remaining: None
Players added: Carlos Boozer, Kris Humphries, Mehmet Okur, Kirk Snyder
Players lost: Greg Ostertag, Michael Ruffin
Skinny: No one has done more this summer than the Jazz. Their goal was to land a veteran center and power forward, and they did a great job in stealing Okur and Boozer. The team also has agreed to new deals to retain Gordan Giricek, Jarron Collins and Carlos Arroyo. Add in tow very solid draft picks in Humphries and Snyder and no one has done more to improve their team this summer than Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor.
Grade: A
Washington Wizards
Cash remaining: Mid-level exception; $1.6 million exception
Players added: Antawn Jamison, Anthony Peeler, Peter John Ramos, Michael Ruffin, Samaki Walker
Players lost: Christian Laettner, Jerry Stackhouse
Skinny: Opinion around the league on what the Wizards have done this summer has been split. Personally, I like it. Jamison gives them a legit low-post scoring option that they've never had. The fact that they were able to dump Stackhouse to land him was just gravy. Also, Ramos, who has looked very good this summer, could be a steal. Teams were scared away in the draft because of some off-the-court issues, but if his head is screwed on right, he can help the Wizards.
Grade: B
Chad Ford covers the NBA for ESPN Insider.


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