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WILTSHIRE archer Mark Rudd was savouring his opportunity to shoot for his country this week.
Rudd, 48, from Beeching-stoke, near Pewsey, is a member of the Devizes Bowmen club and was representing Great Britain for the first time at the first leg of the 2014 Archery World Cup in China.
Software engineer Rudd, who took up the sport fully in 2006 having tried it 20 years earlier, was competing in the compound event in Shanghai.
He said: "Eight years later I am now representing Great Britain for my first time at one of the most prestigious tournaments in the archery world and it is undoubtedly the biggest achievement of my archery career to date.
"My approach is to try to treat it as much as possible like any other tournament I have shot at and to focus on my shooting technique and let the score hopefully take care of itself.
"If I can shoot a score comparable to my average in other competitions I will be very pleased.''
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Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program
Integrated Residency in Child and Adult Psychiatry and Research Training
Welcome to the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program
The Yale Child Study Center and Yale Department of Psychiatry are delighted to present their joint venture in residency training. The Integrated Child, Adolescent, and Adult Residency Program began training residents in July, 2004 and continues to grow as it accepts two trainees a year who have a strong interest in developmentally-focused mental health and intend to follow an academic career trajectory.
Throughout the program, the Integrated Solnit residents train with both adult psychiatry residents and child psychiatry fellows.
This program is jointly funded by the Yale Medical School and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and incorporates six years of training that includes adult psychiatry residency training, specialty fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry, and more than 2 years of research training. Central to the Program's mission is helping trainees consolidate their identities as both developmental experts and clinician-scholars dedicated to the advancement of the field. Our program is named after Al Solnit, M.D. the first Yale trainee in child psychiatry who also chaired the Child Study Center and, in retirement, was commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for 8 years. Dr. Solnit is remembered as a superb clinician and educator who always emphasized the importance of a child-centered approach.
This joint venture at Yale is one of several programs nationally that are being implemented. The Overall Description provides a clear picture of this larger endeavor.
The Yale Curriculum meets all existing program requirements for residency education in both general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. As an alternative training route, it is meant to provide a national model that will increase the overall number and quality of child and adolescent psychiatrists. It is further designed to accelerate the development of outstanding candidates who are interested in pursuing a career in academic child and adolescent psychiatry, and who wish to be board certified in both general psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry.
The Child Study Center is internationally recognized for excellence in child and adolescent psychiatry training. The traditional child psychiatry fellowship program, which has been continuously accredited for over 40 years, graduates up to 7 child and adolescent psychiatrists annually. Trainees in this traditional track and in the new integrated program are a diverse group of talented physicians from all over the nation. Additionally, in recognition of the extent of need for child and adolescent psychiatrists worldwide, we have international trainees whose mission is to gain the expertise required to provide care and train physicians in their native countries to treat psychiatrically impaired children and adolescents. For physicians who have completed general psychiatry training, there is the 2-year clinical training program and a 4-year clinical and research academic training track. All training highlights the acquisition of superior clinical skills in working with children and families in the full arena of community and clinical care settings and multidisciplinary context. Additionally, opportunities for bench and clinical research, training in public policy and advocacy, and participation in international initiatives are unique aspects of the program. The Child Study Center seeks to train future leaders in the fields of clinical, research and public policy work to advance state of the art of prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children.

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Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Adopts Fiscal Year 2009 Budget
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Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Adopts Fiscal Year 2009 Budget
On April 28, 2008, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors adopted the
fiscal year 2009 budget, which begins on July 1, 2008. Last Monday, the
Board marked up the budget proposal. Today's action means that they
formally adopted the budget resolutions necessary to implement last
week's markup.
The FY 2009 plan approved by the Board of Supervisors provides for a balanced budget based on General Fund Revenue growth of 1.03 percent over the FY 2008 Revised Budget Plan and 1.02 percent over the FY 2008 Adopted Budget Plan. The Board also approved total General Fund Disbursements of $3.35 billion, a decrease of $30.77 million or 0.91 percent from the FY 2008 Revised Budget Plan.
Excluding adjustments in the current fiscal year, the actual increase over the FY 2008 level is $35.19 million or 1.06 percent over the FY 2008 Adopted Budget Plan. Of the increase over the FY 2008 Adopted Budget Plan, approximately $46.77 million or 132.9 percent is associated with increased funding for Fairfax County Public Schools. Net of the increase to Fairfax County Public Schools, County-only disbursements decreased $11.58 million or 0.73 percent from the FY 2008 Adopted Budget Plan.
The Board's funding decisions reflect their ongoing commitment to
achieving their strategic priorities, which are as follows:
Strong investment in education
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- Revenue diversification to reduce the burden on the homeowner
These strategic priorities have long shaped Board resource allocation and program delivery decisions in order to maintain the high quality of life for which Fairfax County is known. Maintaining sufficient funding in support of these priority areas has proved extremely challenging in this most difficult budget year; however this budget preserves these investments.
The FY 2009 approved budget includes a 3 cent increase in the tax rate from $0.89 to $0.92 per $100 of assessed value; however, due to lower residential assessment values, the average taxpayer in Fairfax County still will see a minimal reduction in their tax bill. This increase is necessary to address the following three issues:
The Board deliberations on the FY 2009 budget began by addressing a
shortfall of $24.8 million due to continued declines in revenue and
increased fuel-related costs.
The School Board requested an increase of $63.8 million, or 4 percent,
over their FY 2008 funding level. The approved budget provides an
additional $40 million to schools.
- There were a number of County requirements not funded in the County Executive's proposal, including full funding of employee compensation increases, additional support for the Code Enforcement Strike Team, and restoration of the P'CASO positions in the Police Department. These increases are largely funded by Board-approved reductions in other areas of the County budget.
At the $0.92 per $100 of assessed value rate, the average taxpayer will pay slightly less in real estate taxes in FY 2009 than in FY 2008 as a result of the decline in the average assessed value from $542,409 to $524,076.
Other important elements in the approved FY 2009 budget include implementation of an additional 11-cent real estate tax rate on commercial and industrial property in the County that will generate an additional $51.7 million for new or enhanced transportation initiatives.
Information on the FY 2009 budget is available by calling the Department of Management and Budget at 703-324-2391, TTY 711, as well as on the County's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/.
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Triathlete Martyn Matthews is gearing for his toughest challenge yet, as he prepares to tackle the searing heat of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Mr Matthews, 64, has been running triathlons around the UK for more than ten years, but is now in training for his first international competition, the Abu Dhabi Inter-national Triathlon, on March 3.
The ex-Army commando said: "I wanted a different challenge, I haven't travelled much lately and wanted to start doing so again."
The competition starts with a 3km swim in the Persian Gulf, followed by a 200km bike ride through the centre of the city into the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit, ending with a 20km run back out onto the seafront.
British Olympic men's triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee will also be taking part, but Mr Matthews does not plan on changing his usual training routine.
He said: "As long as you understand the distance and what the terrain is going to be like, it's not too bad. This is a very flat course, so it's not going to be difficult.
"I have prepared by doing the distance training the same way as I normally do, it will be just like doing it on a warm day.
"I've done a lot of intensive cycle training, which this time of year is mostly done in the gym, as you have to put a lot of hours in to get used to the distance."
By completing the race he aims to raise £5,000 for BLESMA, the British Limbless Ex Service Men's Association, which works with injured and disabled troops.
He said: "I am an ex-serviceman myself, and I have friends within the organisation who served in the same unit. They do a lot of the work restoring people, both mentally and physically, when they come back from the battle scene.
"I'm fortunate that I'm as fit and healthy as I am, and I wanted to encourage other people to support those who aren't."
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retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Alan,
What I'd suggest is to "be the change you want to see in the world"... give the responses you feel are appropriate, and they may well resonate with others, or they may not.
Everyone is different, and everyone has different proclivities and expectations they lay upon the shoulders of others.
People will explain things according to their own understanding, and most people do not profess to be teachers.
alan... wrote:so basically if you've been on here for a long time and know a ton about buddhism, handle newbies with kid gloves when setting them straight on the facts.
Really? you think its better to misinform people about other buddhist sects rather than just tell them the truth?alan... wrote:old head # 1: "i've heard things like this before as well, however to my knowledge the buddha never said any such thing. here are five sutta examples where he says otherwise. although it could have come from a little known mahayana sutra or some really late mahayana/vajrayana non canonical text written by an individual or something, but it's not likely a theravada idea. cheers!"
Admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life.
Reductor wrote:What's my point? None, really, except that only those with thick skins or prior knowledge of Theravada (or both) will stick around. And to me, this seems perfectly fitting.
David N. Snyder wrote:And part of progressing in the Dhamma and as a person is to have a thicker skin, to be able to handle insults and criticisms.
"So, Ānanda, be friendly towards me, not hostile. When I teach Dhamma seeking your welfare, give ear and exert your mind to understand. This will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time. I shall not treat you as the potter treats the unbaked pot. Repeatedly restraining you, I will speak to you Ānanda. Repeatedly admonishing you, I will speak to you Ānanda. The sound core will stand the test."
Mr Man wrote:I think a call to be nicer is a good call.
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Vibram is taking over my bag (Went from Zero Vibram Molds to Six). I used to be a tester when Vibram first started making discs but didnt really care for what they were doing at the time. Well its been a few years since then so I decided to revisit Vibram after toying with Steezo's Sole and boy oh boy have they come a long way. Some of their molds actually have glide now and damn they are so grippy. So far Im having great success with the Vibram Ive added. Cant wait for the Vibram Big D Driver (supposed to be very Destroyer like).
172 Champ Destroyer - Main Big D Driver (Stable/Overstable)
170 Champ Teedevil - Same as above just less HSS and LSS
156 Blizz Boss - Over the top shots or any other crazy line I can think of - FUN FUN FUN
175 C-DD - Headwind Distance.
175 CFR C-PD - Most Overstable duties, extreme flex shots especially with FH
175 *TB - Controlled D, so damn straight (glad I revisited the TB)
175 F Ascent - I call this my Teeagle (Straight like a TB with EagleX fade)
175 F Trak - Very workable and awesome for hyzerflips and turnovers. Surprising glide
167 Banshee - Mainly just for FH now that I have added the Ascent. Underrated and Forgotten mold but its definitely $$$
178 Sanny Q-Sent - Overstablish Mid
177 Firm Ibex - Still on the fence with this but when its good its great but when its not its poop. Point and shoot type mid
176 King Cobra - EagleX of mids. Just workable and has lots of glide
171 Z Comet - Still one of my Favorite discs to throw. Finesse shots and sweet turnovers
167 ESP Zone - Trick disc. This disc can do so many different shots its awesome. Great for exaggerated flex lines.
174 F Sole - Main Putter - Putts only
174 F Summit - Stable/Understable for approaches and drives. Also my long range putter
173 M Warlock - Just Stable. Used for drives and approaches where I want forced turnovers or mainly just STRAIGHT shots with pretty much no fade
171 F Ridge - Just added for re-testing. Planned to use for drives and approaches mainly when windy. Thinking itll be straight with dependable fade


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Oumar had lived at the Grace apartments exactly one day when Daniel Smith approached him in the parking lot and asked if he wanted to play soccer. Originally from Somalia, Oumar and his family had arrived at the east Denver complex the night before, after a long trip from a refugee camp in Yemen and a one-day stop at LaGuardia to fill out immigration paperwork. Oumar was still clad in the gold suit with black pinstripes that his mother had made him wear for the journey, as well as the black dress shoes that went with the suit. He didn't understand a word that Daniel said to him, but some of the boys bouncing soccer balls alongside Daniel translated: They were going to play soccer at a nearby park, they had been doing it every Saturday for a few weeks now, there was talk of eventually putting a team together. Was Oumar interested?
He was.
Daniel, the youth-program coordinator for the African Community Center, tried to explain to Oumar that he needed to change into practice gear, then meet them at Verbena Park just down the street. "I grabbed my own shirt, my shorts, and I was trying to show him," Daniel remembers. "I was like, 'Go, get shorts, shirt, tennis shoes, just like these. Go home, come back.' Then I started walking toward the park with the kids to go play, and all of a sudden I look back down the street, and there's Oumar, walking in his suit and dress shoes right behind us. I thought he was going to come check it out and watch."
But as soon as the scrimmage started, Oumar shot out onto the field with the rest of the kids and began slide-tackling with abandon, chasing down loose balls and errant passes.
"I just thought, 'Oh, no, his mother is going to kill him. This is his one good outfit to come to America, and he's out there getting grass stains all over it.' So I made him take off the jacket and shoes, at least," Daniel says. "By the end of the practice, he was playing in just a wife-beater and some tighty whities. And it didn't even stop him. He didn't think twice about it because he was having too much fun. He's been coming out to every practice since."
So have dozens of others. What began as an informal afternoon kick-about between Daniel and a few of the boys at the center has morphed into an effort involving nearly one hundred young African refugees living in Denver, as Daniel tries to integrate these boys — and a handful of girls — into the strange new community that is now their home.
It's a learning process, one that's almost necessarily clumsy: taking young refugees with diverse languages, backgrounds and physical abilities, and trying to teach them to play in the often rigid environment of American team sports. But it's a task that Daniel has embraced. Because while he's found that the Africans he helps are grateful for every ounce of support, they're absolutely crazy about soccer, known around the world as the beautiful game.
It's the one common language they all share.
Daniel Smith speaks the language of the game pretty fluently himself. Born into a Park Hill family of Peruvian descent, Daniel split his childhood between Denver and Lima, picking up a solid set of soccer skills down south that earned him plenty of playing time with Club Denver, the Colorado Storm and the East High School varsity squad. After graduating from East, Daniel headed to the University of San Francisco, where he red-shirted his freshman year, then broke into the team his sophomore season as a left-midfielder and a defensive center-midfielder under a former U-18 (eighteen and under) national team coach.
Already fluent in Spanish, Daniel studied French and went to Toulouse his junior year to really master the language. "It was beautiful there," he remembers. "The course I took was really intense, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day, nothing but French — grammar, language, history. You learn quickly in an environment like that."
So quickly that after three months, the study-abroad program let the students loose in the city to do an independent-study project of their choosing, to be conducted and completed in French. Daniel decided to focus on first-generation Africans born in France, and how they identified themselves. He went out into the community and interviewed countless Africans — in coffee shops, at social and sporting functions — and took his French to a whole new level. In his 35-page thesis, Daniel described how their experience was much like that of first-generation Mexican-Americans in the United States, where parents traditionally push for full assimilation as a means to success while the kids continue to identify with the country of their origin.
After graduating from college in 2005, Daniel stayed in San Francisco and taught language arts at an inner-city middle school. But then he started feeling the urge to get back home, and he returned to Denver last December. His mother had been volunteering at the ECDC/African Community Center, the Denver branch of the 24-year-old Ethiopian Community Development Council, which helps refugees fleeing political strife, persecution and war resettle in the U.S., and she told Daniel about an opening for a youth-program coordinator.
"The job was mostly working with kids who were newcomers to the country, predominantly from Africa," Daniel explains. "I had a really strong basis with youth in America in the public school system and had done my thesis on Africans coming to new places, so it just seemed like a really good fit."
Displaced people around the world apply for official refugee status with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR). Once that status is granted, the refugees wait for repatriation to their homeland, wait to be invited to stay in the country where they currently reside, or wait to be invited to apply for resettlement in a third country. If they're invited to apply to relocate in the U.S., they undergo an intense security screening in which their names are run through fifteen databases to make sure they are not terrorists. After that, the UNHCR contacts one of nine U.S. Department of State-sanctioned agencies that help refugees in this country, which will study each case and decide which branch of the agency would be best to go through. If a refugee has friends or family in a certain state, for example, an agency will try to relocate him there. But for the most part, the process is random, and many refugees who land in Denver have never heard of the place.
Of the nine sanctioned agencies, the ECDC is the only one that is ethnic-community-based (the others are faith-based), and the only one started by refugees, in Virginia in 1973. It opened its Denver office — in a small building off Colfax Avenue — in 2001. The state department provides for the first thirty days of a refugee's stay here — typically paying for the deposit on an apartment and the first month's rent on that apartment, which is often in the Grace complex — and some food. After that, the resettlement agency takes over.
"It's a public/private relationship," explains Jennifer Kroeck Gueddiche, director of the ECDC/African Community Center in Denver. "We are contracted by the government, but it's on us to find funding to help these people."
The center uses grants and donations to provide everything from furniture to clothing to toothbrushes for the 1,082 refugees it's helped resettle here. Its employees are the first faces the refugees see when they arrive at the airport, and those employees take the refugees to their new home in their new, adopted city. So above all, the people working at the African Community Center must be welcoming. Daniel certainly qualified.
"I got a really good sense from him immediately," Gueddiche says. "Just the spirit that he has in him, I knew he would be perfect for the job."
In the four months he's been on the job, Daniel has done everything from helping young students register at a new school or sign up for the GED to advising new arrivals on how to set up a bank account. One day he's hosting "newcomer classes" on the rules governing alcohol and tobacco use in this country, the next he's organizing outlines of bus routes. "Helping these people resettle is different for every family," Daniel notes. "Some people come from remote villages in the middle of nowhere, others come from huge cities. Some people are looking for an immediate community, and some people don't want any support or help — they just want to be left alone. We have lawyers and doctors and teachers, and we have people who can't even read or write in their own language. Each case is extremely unique and totally different. You have to take it case by case."
The job has exposed Daniel to a world that he didn't know existed in Denver, the city where he was born and thought he knew so well. He can only imagine what would happen if he were suddenly removed from his country and dropped in a strange city, what kind of help he would need. That's what he tries to provide here. "I would expect that someone would want to do that for me if I was in a similar situation," he says.
Daniel noticed that while there were a lot of activities for refugee kids — trips to the zoo and museums, for example — there weren't many social programs that would get them out and interacting with people who were not like them. So one of his first moves was to set up an after-school program with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance School, so that the ACC kids could go to the studio for what Daniel calls "relationship-building," roundtable discussions between white kids, Latino kids, African-American kids and African kids, followed by music-making, dancing and goofing around. The kids loved it.
Daniel started looking around for a new project. "The more I started going into the community and seeing what these kids were up to, the more I kept seeing them playing soccer," he remembers. "Most of these kids come out of refugee camps. They say, 'I'm from Somalia, I'm from Sudan,' because that's where their parents were from — but most of these kids were brought up in actual camps elsewhere, where they had absolutely nothing. A lot of them weren't even in schools. And for many of them, all they did all day, every day, was play soccer. So I realized that they have this really profound passion for the game. You see a lot of Americans who love to play soccer, but it's not everything to them. They have basketball, too, they play baseball in the summer, go to camp, whatever. But these kids, that's it, man. This is what they love to do, and they know this is what they love to do. You go to their house and they're on the PlayStation playing soccer, their little brothers are running around the living room, jumping on the couches doing goal celebrations, they know all the players.
"Once I realized that, I just thought, 'Man, we have to get these kids into some sort of program as soon as possible.'"
Gueddiche had been thinking about a similar program for some time. In fact, Daniel's soccer background was part of the reason she took him on. "I was looking for someone who really got soccer," she says. "This is what these kids know. And there's a lot of talk going on right now about integration: How do you integrate these kids, these refugees? Soccer is the international language. This is something that these kids know and something that will help with that process."
Daniel started with weekend pick-up games with the kids living at the two Grace apartment buildings. Initially they played four-on-four, but every week more kids would show up, kids ranging in age from seven to seventeen, and it became clear that the numbers were there for something bigger. But early practices were chaotic: Players wouldn't listen; they'd lie in the grass, pouting, when the ball wasn't passed to them; they'd talk smack, wrestle or run off at the sound of the ice cream truck.
"Discipline was a major issue," Daniel says, "just because they've never really had that structure. I'm not going to lie — it's still a bit of problem. But we're working on it, and they get better and better every practice."
They already had the skills. While the top players may have lacked the polish of American club-soccer players who'd been trained since they were toddlers, their footwork and ball control, as well as their knowledge of the game, was extraordinary. Most practices in the States feature a Beckham jersey here, a Ronaldo jersey there. Kids from the ACC regularly came to practice sporting jerseys of such off-the-beaten-track stars as Milan Baros, Joe Cole, Michael Essien, Lionel Messi — jerseys that they treated as their most prized possessions.
"They know all the players," Daniel says. "Especially the African players — Diouf, Drogba — they love those guys. And when you talk about talent, it's tricky, because these guys have a long way to go in terms of learning structure. But in terms of pure talent and knowing what to do when they get the ball, for thirteen-year-olds they are head and shoulders above anyone else their age I've seen."
About the time Daniel introduced his Saturday practices, he also joined a men's league with Chivas Denver, a primarily Hispanic soccer club. In addition to its adult teams, Chivas offers a youth program, and Daniel talked to the club's president about starting a team within Chivas made up entirely of the African kids he was coaching on the side. The club agreed to give it a shot, and Daniel began taking African players to Chivas youth-team practices, chaperoning them on bus rides to various practice fields, watching to see if the Africans might fit in. But they didn't.
"No knock on Chivas, because they gave us an opportunity, and we're really appreciative," Daniel says. "But the truth is, they are a really highly competitive youth soccer program, on par with the Colorado Rush and the Storm. I mean, we're talking some of the top talent in the state. Not that my guys don't have talent, but they're not refined. They've really never played on a team before; they've never done drills, done laps or wind sprints, stuff like that. There was just not enough time with a club like Chivas for our guys to develop like they needed to."
So while Daniel continued the Saturday practices, he looked around for another way he could get some of his boys together on a team. Touting soccer as a means of integration, as a way of doing better not just physically, but in all facets of life, he wrote grant proposals, talked to other sports organizations.
And then he got a call from Hugh Evans.
In the swank conference room of Aspect Energy, LLC, an oil exploration company located on the 29th floor of a downtown building, Hugh Evans's cell phone will not stop ringing. A computer and information-technology guru for Alex Cranberg's oil empire for the past seventeen years, Evans recently committed to a full-time gig running the Colorado Clash, Denver's newest soccer club, and the job keeps him busy. Coaches call constantly, seeking updates on field availability, the latest number of players on a certain squad, information regarding the transport of teams.
Although the Clash wasn't formed officially until November 2006, Evans has been envisioning the club for years. An avid West Ham fan raised in England, at sixteen he moved to Houston. There he eventually hooked up with Cranberg's fledgling oil-exploration company, which soon morphed into a multimillion-dollar success. While Evans's interest in oil grew during that time, his interest in soccer dwindled.
"Over here I kind of diffused on it," Evans says, "because it was like, 'This isn't the way that soccer is supposed to be played.' It was too sterile. In some senses, youth soccer was like babysitting. You would see parents drop off their kids in pajamas."
But once Evans's twin daughters began playing the sport, he was sucked back in. The girls played in Denver for a while, then moved on to the Westminster Soccer Club, a team run by a couple of Brits whom Evans appreciated for their "nice, clean" program that emphasized a high quality of coaching. And then one off-season three years ago, deciding that his girls' indoor, winter soccer lacked a certain flair, Evans signed up as coach and began recruiting inner-city Hispanic talent for the league.
"I came down to Commerce City and met with some of the coaches of the Hispanic teams there and saw that they were dirt-poor teams with no resources, but that the kids played from the heart," Evans remembers. "They played great soccer; they just couldn't afford access to the better fields and facilities."
Through his work, Evans organized scholarships for about thirty inner-city Hispanic girls to come play with the indoor league. "I felt proud of myself," he says. "I was excited. I couldn't wait for my kids to be playing with their kids, each learning something different about the game from one another. And then game day came around, and no one showed up. It wasn't a cost issue; it was a matter of Mom and Dad working on Sunday mornings. There was no transportation, no help for these kids to get to the games. I realized then I was going to have to think about this a little more."
Evans had been doing a lot of volunteer work with Cranberg's education initiatives, particularly the Alliance for Choice in Education, the program that in 2004 promised college scholarships to 550 Horace Mann middle-school students upon completion of high school and, more recently, distributed $1.7 million in scholarship money to 800 Denver children so that they could attend the private school of their choice. "I was fascinated watching this whole thing going on," Evans remembers. "What impressed me most was how enabling it all was." He wondered if the same principles couldn't be applied to soccer. He was tired of going to his daughters' tournaments, looking out over a sprawling soccer complex of twenty fields and seeing only two black kids, maybe one Hispanic kid.
"I couldn't shake the feeling that the kids who live and breathe this game were not out there," he says. "They were being priced out. In the rest of the world, most of the best players are the incredibly poor kids, the players who are pulled out of the barrios and favelas. I just thought, how many kids are we missing here?"
He talked to Cranberg about starting a soccer club that would give underprivileged kids access to better soccer, a club that would eventually cultivate top-notch soccer teams to rival the suburban powerhouses but would also focus on developing players off the field. He wanted to create a club like those in other parts of the world, where soccer is viewed as an entry point into other things, including education, health care and community spirit. And Cranberg gave Evans the go-ahead, agreeing to keep him on the payroll — Evans is supposed to help with technology when he can — while giving him the time to operate the Colorado Clash as a philanthropic endeavor backed by Aspect.
One of Evans's first moves was to hire Marc Francis, an Australian who's the former director of coaching for the Colorado Storm and has coached around Denver for a dozen years. Francis liked Evans's vision.
"If you look at soccer all over the world, apart from the United States, it's a lower-income, working-class sport," Francis explains. "South America, Africa, Asia, even in Europe. Because all you need is something that resembles a ball and you can play. But in this country, it's developed into an upper-middle-class sport, and there are kids, great players, who are missing the opportunity because of the way it's funded and structured. And these are kids who need soccer in their lives. That's where I want to help. I'm more interested in making them better people than better soccer players. The reality is that very few people ever make it professionally, but if you can instill some values and self-discipline, then you can help them in their lives."
Earlier this year, while the Clash was awaiting certification by the Colorado State Youth Soccer Association, Evans and Francis went to Belize and, through a partnership with the Football Federation of Belize and Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, soccer's world governing body), put on a coaching clinic with about a hundred kids and 22 coaches. For Evans, it was a way to get to know his new coaching director while also testing his vision for the Clash. Once back in Denver, he pursued that plan in earnest. While Francis has been training new coaches and conducting camps, Evans has been recruiting and incorporating Hispanic teams from Commerce City into the Clash.
And then last month, he formed a partnership with Daniel Smith to support the African Community Center soccer team.
"Daniel's a super, super guy," Evans says. "We hit it off right away because he was trying to do with his team exactly what we're trying to do with the Clash: use soccer as a vehicle for other things — education, integration, learning about different cultures through the game. And he's an interesting combination of energy and entrepreneurial spirit. He's looking for opportunities all the time. How can we integrate? How can we do more for these kids? He's all about meeting new people, getting new groups together. As opposed to questioning how everything is going to be done, his attitude is 'Let's just do this.'"
To get the ball rolling, they held a Clash-sponsored combine at Verbena Park on June 2. Daniel printed up fliers and told everyone he saw at the Grace apartments and the community center to come out and play. About a hundred players showed up for the three-hour camp, where they were split into three groups: girls, boys fourteen and under and boys over fourteen. Francis ran a hectic scrimmage with a sea of smaller boys, then one for the girls. The sight of twelve burka-clad Muslim girls kicking around a soccer ball was jaw-dropping for the African boys, who'd never witnessed such a thing.
Daniel ran the over-fourteen scrimmage, an intense few games that showcased some of the stronger players on the field: Espoire, whom everyone calls Ronaldo, with his impeccable dribbling skills; Muhammad, a Somali Bantu, who is a rock of a defender; and Benjamin Intangishaka, a silky smooth player who stood out not only for his athletic talent, but for the intelligence of his play.
While any of these players would be a welcome addition to one of the state's top soccer teams, Daniel's not pushing for that anytime soon. Most of these kids are still struggling to set up their new lives. At this point, soccer is a diversion, and few of them view the game as anything more than a fun reprieve.
Besides, Francis isn't certain that the boys are ready to move up. "The skill level and the knowledge is very high," he says. "But the sense of self-discipline is not. The sense of team is not high. Right now they lack that determination to make it to the next level."
Daniel thinks that will come as the boys adapt to their new home — with soccer as a major aid. "My long-term goal for this soccer program is to get some consistency with the age groups and make it an ongoing process," he says. "This summer, we're just going to keep putting on camps and have some scrimmages and hopefully have a few recreational teams ready to play in the fall season. But ideally, what we want is like a club system, so that kids can continue to move up in the same age group and build relationships and support for each other and the community as a whole. I want it so that a kid who starts in the system as an eight-year-old, by the time he is eighteen, he'll not only be a good soccer player, but he'll have a much stronger idea of how to be community-oriented and work with other kids, and hopefully a stronger idea of what his goals might be for the future. And if there are a couple of kids who go on to play college ball from that, then great. If not, then great. My goal is to really give them opportunities, opportunities that they would never have otherwise."
For the club to evolve as Daniel envisions it, he can't just pluck out the best players and ship them out. He needs to build layers, with older boys serving as role models for the younger ones. He needs to create a team. But even so, at last month's initial meeting, it was already clear who was one of the top players.
Benjamin Intangishaka.
Although thirteen-year-old Benjamin has been in this country for just a little over three months, he's quickly adjusting to life here. His English is getting better all the time — he understands almost everything said to him — and while he only attended the final few weeks of seventh grade, Merrill Middle School deemed him ready to move on to the eighth grade this fall. He's looking forward to school, but for now is content to spend these hot days of summer the way any American kid could: horsing around with his three younger brothers, playing video games and playing soccer.
Other kids told him about Daniel's pick-up games the week he arrived in Denver, and he's been a regular ever since. "Ronaldinho is my favorite player," Benjamin says with a shy grin, noting that he likes to play central midfield, too.
Benjamin's father is Jonathan Nduwayo Sarukundo; they do not share a last name because Jonathan did not want his family persecuted based on his name. He was a middle-school French, geography and math teacher in the town of Kivu in his native Democratic Republic of Congo — a long way from Denver. "Just the fact that I am in a place where my security and the security of my family is guaranteed is incredible," says Jonathan through Daniel, who is translating from French to English in the family's basement apartment. "It is the most important thing. For the first time in a long while, I am able to live comfortably knowing that I don't have to look behind my back all the time."
Jonathan and his family are part of the Banyamulenge tribe of eastern Congo, a faction of the Tutsi ethnic minority whose rivalry with the majority Hutus has claimed millions of lives during the past forty years in Congo, as well as neighboring Rwanda and Burundi. In 2004, fighting among rival groups forced the family — as well as 900 other tribesmen — to relocate. Moving east into Burundi, they were relocated by the UNHCR to a camp just inside the border, the Camp of Gatumba, on June 9, 2004. Just two months later, Gatumba would capture the attention of the entire world.
On the night of August 13, a Hutu rebel group worked its way across a marsh from Congo into Burundi. Some rebels wore military uniforms, others civilian clothing; there were grown men as well as child soldiers, and as they marched they sang religious songs. At first, many of the refugees thought they were bandits coming to steal the camp's cattle, but as they started setting fire to tents, their intent became clear. Although repatriated Burundis were housed in the same camp, the rebels only went after the Banyamulenge. They burned, slashed and shot their way through, killing more than 150 of the Congo-born Tutsis and injuring another hundred. Benjamin lost two fingers in the blaze. A cousin, who was later relocated to Denver, was burned so badly that she will soon undergo two months of surgery in Salt Lake City to even out the length of her legs. But the family survived, unlike many in the camp.
They were transported to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, where they lived under the protection of the UNHCR. Benjamin and his brothers were able to continue their education there, and Benjamin even managed to work his way onto a soccer team. But after two years, the family was granted admission to the United States as political refugees and assigned to the ECDC in Denver. "Because all these big events were happening and my specific tribe and ethnic group was so targeted, we were accepted," Jonathan says. "Pretty much everyone in the tribe who survived was accepted."
The acceptance didn't stop there. "Before we arrived in the United States, we were afraid that we were going to be really isolated and by ourselves, just a family that takes care of itself," Jonathan explains. "But from the moment we have arrived here, we have been treated so well. We have gained many friends, and people have been so generous. We have only been here three months, but it feels like we have been here for three years."
Jonathan is thankful for the assistance he's received to pay the rent. He is thankful for the food and medical treatment they've been given. He is thankful for the school bus that stops just two blocks from the apartment to take his four sons to school. He's thankful for Daniel, who has become "like a member of my family." Now he'd like to be thankful for a job. He wants to continue working as an educator, but he knows he'll first need to work on his English. His children will need to study, too, but in the meantime, they have soccer.
"Education comes first," Jonathan says. "But it's great that Benjamin has the opportunity to play on this team. Sports are something that are going to be able to help him out. Being able to go out with other kids is something that will be very beneficial to him, as a way of socializing and meeting new people, growing. It will help him to acclimate here in Colorado as we continue to move forward in our lives."
Daniel rarely leaves the Grace apartments without eating at least two meals. He spends so much time there, helping the African residents with favors both big and small, that everyone is eager to repay him — and payment usually comes in the form of mammoth meals, great trays of pasta and lamb and potatoes. Daniel will obligingly scoop up the food with his hands to eat, then wash everything down with impossibly sweetened juice.
But today there is no time to waste, so Daniel ignores all the invitations to come into the apartments and dine. He ignores the pleas of the young girls to play marbles with them on the floor. Today is game day for the boys from the African Community Center.
Through the Colorado Clash, Daniel has arranged for a group of his U-14 Africans to play a scrimmage against another U-14 Clash team, a Spanish-speaking squad from Commerce City. In the parking lot between the two Grace apartment buildings, Daniel picks out the players for the game today, patiently explaining to the younger boys that there is not enough room for them in the few cars that will be heading to the field. The kids are upset to learn not only that they'll they miss the game, but that there will be no practice because of it. But Daniel settles the unrest by announcing that practices will now take place on Mondays and Wednesdays, too.
Players are quickly assigned to cars: these five with Daniel; these five with Frederick Agyeman-Duah, the University of Denver graduate school student from Ghana whom Daniel has taken on as a coach; these five with Yoal, one of Daniel's co-workers at the center. A handful of parents get into cars as well, and the African caravan makes its way north to the pristine fields surrounding the immaculate Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.
The boys are awed by the sight of the stadium where the Rapids will play that night — and the dozen teams already playing on the fields are just as awed by the sight of the African players. But once they hit the field, the ACC boys focus on their own game. They have to. The Mexican players, all in green, are warming up on the opposite side, and they look good: Shots from twenty yards out curl smoothly into the side netting of the goal; a big kid with a mustache rips a volley off the cross-bar with a loud, metallic bang that ricochets across the fields. Hugh Evans and Marc Francis greet Daniel, giving him a friendly hello and a clipboard. Then they're off: Evans giddily snaps photographs of the play while Francis oversees six games at once with the hawk-like glare common to all good coaches. After a few warm-up drills and a quick determination of the starting lineup, the members of the African team don yellow jerseys and take to the pitch.
Game on.
Initially, the play is sloppy — too much dribbling, not enough defense, no more than two or three successful passes in a row. Despite its pre-game prowess, the Mexican squad seems incapable of putting a shot on net — a nice break for the ACC crew, who otherwise could easily be down 3-0. Then a breakaway: One of the African boys starts sprinting toward the goal, only to be taken down some twenty yards out. It's a foul, a direct free-kick, and Benjamin steps in for the shot. With his hands on his hips, he coolly steps back several paces and then chips a left-footed shot over the wall. The goalie pays the knuckling ball no mind — it seems destined to soar over the top of the goal — but Benjamin has put some wicked backspin on it, and all of a sudden the bottom drops out and the ball falls several feet, dipping into the back of the net, directly over the head of the motionless keeper. Goal.
The sideline explodes. Benjamin's brothers and father cheer loudly; Benjamin sprints all the way back to his own half with his arms spread wide in post-goal ecstasy. The younger players who have somehow managed to get to the complex sprint onto the field to shower Benjamin with praise, and Daniel herds them back onto the sideline. The Africans are up, 1-0.
Within minutes, though, the Mexican team scores.
At the half, Daniel gathers his team and stresses the importance of passing, how one player cannot do it all and they need to work with each other to patch together a coherent offense. It's blistering hot, in the high 90s, and he assures his players that passing in this heat will make them far less tired. Miraculously, they all listen.
The second-half team is a far cry from the first, with the players moving after they pass the ball, spreading the field out wide to allow more space for the offense to work with, closing the field down on defense. Players are helping each other, and each sub who comes in melds smoothly into the flow. But without warning, the Mexican team puts together a series of crisp passes, then a cross into the box, a shot, a deflection, another shot and a goal. They're up 2-1.
Moments later, an African player is charging straight down the middle of the field when he's taken down in the box and the team is awarded a penalty kick. Benjamin takes the shot. It's a well-hit ball but a little too high, and it clangs off the middle of the cross-bar.
The clock is ticking down against the Africans. They are only playing thirty-minute halves, and this second half has gone on for quite some time. But then Ronaldo manages to steal the ball at midfield. Clad in his favorite long-sleeve Brazilian jersey and red wool headband — heat be damned — he takes off, absolutely smoking the defender who tries to stop him. It's a race now, and as Ronaldo sprints toward the goal, a defender charges diagonally across the field toward him. A quick stutter-step pull-back sends that defender hurtling awkwardly past Ronaldo and then it's just him and the goalie, one on one. The goalie springs out from the net and gets a foot on the ball, which suddenly pops away from Ronaldo's feet toward the center of a now completely empty goal. Hot on Ronaldo's heels is Hussein, who's trailed him the entire length of his run and is now at the right place at the right time. Hussein calmly taps the ball into the back of the net, tying the game 2-2.
Hysteria reigns on the African sideline.
Not two minutes later, the referee blows the whistle sounding the end of the game. Daniel's African players — many having just finished their first organized game ever — walk away happy with a hard-fought tie.
After instructing the boys on how to administer the standard American, good-sportsman high fives, the coaches talk to the team one more time about how much heart they showed today and how impressive an outing this was for their first time together. Behind them, little kids kick the ball around the field.
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"Benjamin," Daniel says playfully. "What's up with that missed penalty kick, man?"
Benjamin nods his head, smiles, shrugs his shoulders. He's not going to worry about that missed kick. After all, he scored a ridiculous goal today, and if there's one thing he has learned in his thirteen years, it's to never dwell on the negative and always appreciate the positive.
To find the beauty wherever you can.


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By Karen Johnson
Nelson Mandela, who rose from militant antiapartheid activist to become the unifying president of a democratic South Africa and a global symbol of racial reconciliation, has died. His death jolted a nation that made a political prisoner South Africa's first black president.
Around the world, leaders mourned his passing. "So long as I live, I will do what I can to learn from him," President Obama said. His life left the world a little better, writes Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
The U.S. Gulf Coast—home to the world's largest concentration of petroleum refineries—is suddenly awash in crude oil. So much high-quality oil is flowing into the area that the price there has dropped sharply
Big Lots Inc. disclosed a plan to exit the Canadian market, as the retailer conceded its efforts to turn around a business it acquired in July 2011 were unsuccessful.
Nearly seven decades after World War II ended, the final Holocaust survivors are aging and dying off, making it immensely harder to convey the tragedy's reality.
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text: River City Youth Ballet puts 'Music in Motion' By Bill Lynch November 28, 2012 Story Share WANT TO GO?"Music in Motion"Presented by River City Youth Ballet Ensemble WHERE: Culture Center TheaterWHEN: 7 p.m. FridayTICKETS: Adults $12, seniors and children age 3 and up $8INFO: 304-925-3262 or www.rcyb.org CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- River City Youth Ballet isn't calling its new "Music in Motion" production a sequel to last year's "Poetry in Motion" so much as a spin-offArtistic Director Michelle Raider said, "Last year, with 'Poetry in Motion,' we used some West Virginia poets and even had some of them come and read during the show.""Music in Motion," which will be presented Friday night at the Culture Center, is a music and dance showcase that includes local dancers and live music. "We've got 10 pieces we'll be doing," Raider said. "The dance is a mix of classical, contemporary and abstract pieces. Some of them are original. We have a hip-hop piece, which might be something kids unfamiliar with ballet could relate to."Hip-hop instructor Kristen Pennington-Hackman choreographed the piece, "Young People, Big Problems." Hackman, who is also the director/owner of Dance Underground in South Charleston and the Elite Wildcatz Hip Hop Team, composed the dance with music by Eugene "E-Dub" Weems and lyrics by Jabbar K. Thomas.Hackman said putting the piece together was nothing unusual for her, but like every composition, it had some challenges. This time, it was the use of original music."We had to go through several beats until we found one that worked," she said. "But we got an original beat, and that's where things started to come together." The beat came from Weems, a local hip-hop producer with big league connections, including rapper Lil Jon. Thomas said he's known Weems for years."We were lucky to get him," he said. "As far as local producers who can make a beat, they are few and far between. It's not just making a beat, but understanding how it adds up with the verses and chorus. A lot of people know music, but they don't understand it." Weems, he said, gave them a professional foundation for the music, which Thomas, Hackman and local rapper Influ could build on to complete the piece. (Influ will perform the music live on Friday.)"He understood how to make a commercial beat."Raider said when they first started discussing "Music in Motion," she wanted to cast a wide net and bring in many different music styles."We got a lot of our musicians through the West Virginia Symphony and the youth symphony," she said. "We've worked with them and also with http://kanawhavalleypipesanddrums.org/ " target="_blank">Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums. I wanted to get as many instruments as possible involved."Some of those instruments include a harp, drums and even bagpipes.Rehearsals, Raider said, took place over several months and went relatively smoothly, though working with so many live performers took time to get used to. She explained that the dancers needed to adjust to the change in how music sounded live versus recorded. "The musicians might play a little faster [live] as they became more comfortable with their piece, as they knew it better," she said. "But everybody adapted very well, and I think it was good for our dancers to work with live music."In some ways, Raider said "Music in Motion" was an easier show to construct than a traditional ballet."It's not like a ballet," she said. "Usually, this time of the year, we do a shortened version of a ballet like 'The Snow Queen' or 'Cinderella,' and there's a whole story involved. You have to put the pieces together. These are individual pieces, and so it's maybe easier in that aspect."Naturally, Raider hopes the show is a success but wasn't sure if there was another spin-off to come."I don't know," she said. "Got any ideas?"Reach Bill Lynch at email@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Police seek car driven by woman found dead in Kanawha River 2 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 4 Man allegedly cuts father in Rand over argument about sandwich 5 Esa Ahmad ineligible for first half of WVU men's basketball season Annual nativity exhibit opens Thursday Previous Story 'Most unfortunate': Locals react to first look at MTV's 'Buckwild' Next Story


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Daniel Chong, Violin
Ying Xue, Violin
Jessica Bodner, Viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, Cello
Formed in 2002, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself
as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began touring on the
international circuit after winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the
Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in
France. Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland
Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons.
Performance highlights from recent seasons include appearances at the Library of Congress,
92nd Street Y, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall,
Vienna's Musikverein, Seoul Arts Center, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Festspiele
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and San Miguel de Allende festival. The quartet members have
collaborated with Kim Kashkashian, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Anne-Marie McDermott, Shai
Wosner, Jörg Widmann, and Claron McFadden. In 2012, the Parker Quartet received a
Chamber Music America grant, enabling the ensemble to commission Capriccio by American
composer Jeremy Gill. The 2013-2014 season includes return engagements to the Library
of Congress and Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, performances of the Beethoven quartets in
Buffalo's Slee Hall, and collaborative concerts with Kikuei Ikeda of the now retired Tokyo
String Quartet.
Record label Zig-Zag Territoires released the quartet's debut commercial recording of
Bartók's string quartets nos. 2 and 5 in July 2007. The quartet's second recording-of
Ligeti's complete works for string quartet-was released by Naxos in December 2009 to
critical acclaim and won the 2011 Grammy Award for best chamber music performance.
Currently based in Boston, the Parker Quartet holds teaching and performance residencies
at the University of South Carolina and the University of St. Thomas. From 2008 to
2013, they resided in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they served as quartet in residence with
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (2008-2010), were the first-ever artists in residence with
Minnesota Public Radio (2009-2010), and were visiting artists at the University of
Minnesota (2011-2012). In fall 2014, the Parker Quartet will start a full-time faculty
appointment as Blodgett Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University.
The Parker Quartet's members hold graduate degrees in performance and chamber music from
the New England Conservatory of Music and were part of the New England Conservatory's
prestigious professional string quartet training program from 2006-2008. Some of their most
influential mentors include the Cleveland Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, György Kurtág, and
Rainer Schmidt.
Felix Mendelssohn wrote the
first of his six numbered quartets in 1823, at age 18, and the last more than 20
years later. The D-Major Quartet falls squarely in the middle and shows
Mendelssohn's preternatural ability to blend classical poise with romantic
passion and freedom. By turns brilliant and introspective, the score contains
hints—especially in the writing for the first violin—of Mendelssohn's great
E-Minor Violin Concerto, composed some six years later.
"Surreal" and "sculptural" are
among the adjectives that spring to mind in describing the music of
contemporary British composer Thomas Adès. Like his sometime teacher, György
Kurtág, Adès has a penchant for delicately tinted, distinctly contoured, and
richly evocative soundscapes. Arcadiana—the
first of his two string quartets—uses harmonics, glissandos, quarter-tones, and
other special sonic effects to depict a gauzy pastoral world that is by turns
idyllic and nightmarish.
The ninth of Dmitri
Shostakovich's 15 quartets dates from 1964, a period in which the beleaguered
composer—whose music had long been suppressed by Soviet authorities—finally
achieved the recognition he deserved, both at home and abroad. The five interconnected
movements of the E-flat–Major Quartet veer vertiginously between morbid
brooding and raucous high spirits. As so often in Shostakovich's music,
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2012-2013 Reynolds Historical Lectures Available to View Online
Did you miss one of the Reynolds lectures this year? Or maybe you would like to see one of them again. This year's series is now fully available for viewing online. Links to videos of all lectures in the 2012-2013 series, as well as many from past years, can be found on our Reynolds Podcasts page. They are listed in order of posting, so the most recent lecture by Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Josiah C. Trent Professor of the History of Medicine, Duke University, titled "Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War," is at the bottom of the list.
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Noonan inching closer to earning roster spot
MESA, Ariz. -- Nick Noonan strengthened his bid for the remaining utility infielder's spot on the Giants' Opening Day roster with a strong overall effort Monday.
Noonan started at third base in the Giants' 9-3 Cactus League victory over the Chicago Cubs and rescued Ryan Vogelsong from a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the fourth inning. Noonan ended the threat by spearing Alberto Gonzalez's sharp grounder, which appeared destined to be a two-run single, and throwing to first for the out.
"That was nice. That was a really good play," Vogelsong said. "It seems like he handles himself well. I'll play with whoever they put out there, to be honest with you. But it looks like he's having some good at-bats and playing some good defense, too."
Said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, "Defense is so important. As you know, we're [all about] pitching and defense. Hitting is nice, but we have to catch the ball. He's [originally] a shortstop. Those guys are usually more comfortable playing third and second. He's athletic."
Noonan also doubled twice in five at-bats and scored two runs. Optioned to Triple-A Fresno on March 15, the left-handed batter received a second chance to prove himself beginning last Thursday, when infielder Kensuke Tanaka was reassigned to Minor League camp.
"He's getting a lot thrown at him and I like the way he's handling it," Bochy said of Noonan, 23.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DETECTIVES are renewing appeals for information today four weeks after Nahid Al-Manea was murdered.
Det Chief Supt Steve Worron said: "We are trying to build up a clearer picture of who may have been using the Trail on the morning on Tuesday, June 17.
"There are currently around 100 detectives from across the region working to solve both the murder of Nahid and the murder of James Attfield.
"Colleagues have come from Kent, the Metropolitan Police, Suffolk and Norfolk to assist our teams. We are grateful for their assistance.
"We also have a team of officers in Saudi Arabia who are offering support to Nahid's family.
"This is so they know we are doing everything we can to bring justice for their daughter.
"We are continuing to appeal for information from the public to find witnesses who may be able to help us.
"In particular would like to speak to a man who was seen on the Salary Brook Trail between 10.20am and 10.40am, shortly before Nahid was found.
"He is thought to have been wearing a very distinctive jacket. It is described as being an Italian designer item, it was slightly longer than waist-length, had brown buttons up the front and two pockets also with buttons.
"It was beige in colour, and had a belt which may or may not have had a buckle.
"He was walking on the footpath near the underpass on the A133 side of the Salary Brook Trail. He has still not yet come forward and we urgently need to speak with him."
This is one of a number of appeals for help from the public while the investigation continues.
A decision has also been made to continue high visibility patrols in Colchester
More than 2,500 exhibits including more than 50 knives were recovered from both areas with results coming back daily.
Det Chief Supt Steve Worron said he cannot be sure any are the murder weapon and he, and the teams of more than 100 detectives, are busy going through what they have got.
Nahid Al-Manea, 31, of Woodrow Way, Colchester, was stabbed 16 times and killed on the trail just before 10.40am on Tuesday, June 17.
The Saudi Arabian student was studying at Essex University and walking towards the university when she was attacked.
Father-of-five Jim Attfield, 33, of East Bay, Colchester, was stabbed 102 times and killed on a path between Castle Park and Guildford Road.
He was found shortly before 6am on Saturday, March 29.
Four people remain on bail after being arrested in connection with the Jim Attfield murder.
Detectives believe the killer or killers are still on the loose.
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My husband was diagnosed in Febuary 2011 with CC inoperable and has been having chemo with gem/cis since April 2011. He has managed to keep the same number of tumors with some shrinkage
He recently had a scan that says his stents are gone and his liver has been resected. Neither of these two things has been done. We have tried to get them to rescan him as this does not sound like his scan but they say it's to soon. The Dr says its just the way the CT was taken, wouldn't you think they could see part of the liver they say has been resected
My question has anyone had their stents pass? Wouldn't you know it was happening. Five weeks before on another scan it talks about the stents being there. So can two fall out in five weeks?
We have no idea what another man was having CT but there were two Darrell's at the CT department at the same time. The person working there named them Darrell one and Darrell two, but like I said we have no idea what he was having scanned. Thank you for any info you can give us.


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Championship game added to Caribbean Series
HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- The 2013 version of the Caribbean Series guarantees drama, because for the first time since the tournament was revived in 1970, an actual championship game will take place.
Previously, the Caribbean Series was played strictly in double round-robin format, giving the crown to the club that finished with the best record after six days. That has led to some anti-climactic finales at the four-nation tourney.
Like last year, when the Leones del Escogido -- which returns as the Dominican Republic representative -- clinched the title on the second-to-last day after winning its first four games, then lost the last two games, which didn't matter.
This year, a new format has extended the Series an extra day, with a championship game pinning the teams with the two best records taking place on Thursday.
"It's perfect," said Escogido infielder Miguel Tejada, who signed a Minor League deal with the Royals this offseason. "I like the competition, and I think [the new format] is good for every country."


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The birth of photography was celebrated in Lacock last weekend, with a show illuminating the abbey's cloisters – which runs to February 9.
This second Illuminating Lacock display was themed this year for the 175th anniversary of inventor Henry Fox Talbot's first image of the abbey's window.
The photography pioneer developed the first negative photographs at the abbey. The window featured in his original images takes pride of place in the display.
Abbey spokesman Kristine Heuser said: "It has gone really well... it was a great way to celebrate the anniversary last Saturday. They have done a great job setting it up.
"The fact that you can see it in the evening as well adds a really special atmosphere to the whole place.
"On Saturday night some of the staff came out and it was beautiful, and there were a lot of people there with cameras who were very positive about it.


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Yanks exceed slot to sign third-rounder DeCarr
OAKLAND -- The Yankees have signed right-hander Austin DeCarr, their third-round selection in the 2014 First-Year Player Draft, MLB.com has confirmed.
DeCarr, the 91st-overall selection in the Draft, received a $1 million signing bonus. The recommended slot value for the pick was $585,100.
The 19-year-old was selected from Salisbury School (Conn.), where he pitched a post-graduate year after excelling at Xaverian (Mass.) High. The 6-foot-3, 218-pound hurler is expected to begin his professional career with the Gulf Coast Yankees.
"Austin is a special talent," said Salisbury head coach John Toffey. "The first thing I think you notice about him is his size and how well his arm works. His arm looks really easy, his fastball is 91 to 96 mph, and one of the things that really sets him apart is the curveball. He's got a classic 12-6 curveball, so you're looking at two plus pitches right there.
"I think he has the makings of a plus changeup. He obviously didn't need to use the changeup at our level a whole lot this year, because he was dominant the entire season. It's one of the best seasons I've ever had the privilege to coach."
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ST. PETERSBURG -- The locker David Price occupied inside the Rays' clubhouse is now empty after the team's ace was traded to Detroit on Thursday for left-hander Drew Smyly, infielder Nick Franklin and shortstop Willy Adames.
Though his former teammates made it clear he is missed, they appeared ready to try and continue the roll they enjoyed in July, when the team posted a Major League-best record of 17-6.
"This is just how we have to operate," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "This is who we are. I think the players have done a wonderful job of understanding this moment, and I don't anticipate any let down or let up."
Added Alex Cobb: "We've had to move forward as an organization to try and make ourselves better. Not only now, but leading into the years to come."
Price had a large persona; not only on the field but inside the dugout and within the clubhouse. Evan Longoria noted that the team will have to "pull the collective weight of David on a daily basis, which will be tough."
"He brought a ton of energy to the ballpark," Longoria said, "so the goal for us should be to try not to dwell on the past. As tough as that may be, we have to move forward with the guys that we have.
"This game -- it's almost unfortunate -- but it does have a way of forgetting guys really quickly. And I know I'll never forget David and what he meant to this organization and what he means to me as a friend. … It has a funny way of moving forward. That's not meant to hurt his feelings or anything. But I'm sure he understands that once he gets into that clubhouse that he's going to have to put us behind him and worry about winning for the Tigers and their organization."
One of the main concerns in losing Price, aside from his pitching abilities, is the fact he normally gives most of the bullpen a day off by pitching into the seventh or eighth innings. Without that, the Rays will likely have to cover more innings with their bullpen. Maddon doesn't look at that as a negative, rather an opportunity.
"I think this is a time for other people to accelerate their games and then become more of a household name," Maddon said. "It's called opportunity, for me. When you get in these moments, and there's guys that have been clamoring for the moment, now here it is. Here's your opportunity. Go. Go take advantage of your opportunity. Here it is."
One other offshoot of the trade is the fact the Rays are once again in their familiar underdog role, which is a role the team seems to embrace.
"That's who we are," Maddon said. "I don't think that's ever going to go away. OK, we were picked to go to the World Series and win it by some people. That kind of went away. That's a very usual moment. We're definitely back into the underdog."
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I think part of it is that he now knows help isn't coming... the trade deadline has passed... and he just isn't getting much help with what we have. Actually, we all know that now. So WYSIWYG with the team. We're heading into a stretch where we could overachieve and still not do very well record-wise.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Vulpes pilum mutat, non mores!
You know what is so frustrating about this team....we know they can play better. We have seen games where we thought this team could contend, but then they have a stretch of 2-3 games where they play like ****, play good again, then play like **** again. It's like they don't bring it every night. That's the thing with Reggie that everyone loved so much, you knew what he was going to bring to the table everynight. It's like this team takes games off, then shows up for other games. I'd like to see their record on Friday-Saturday games compared to Sunday-Thursday games.
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WYSIWIG: What you see is what you get.
I saw so many problems on offense that I'm not even going to touch on the defense, which spoke for itsself.
Here's my impressions (in no order of significance):
- Armstrong's offense sucks. He can't dribble very well, so he passes at the same points every time up the court. Thus we have people who can't pass turning the ball over. He also can't shoot. With him in the game the Pacers had noone who could create a shot.
- When Dunleavy is your "slasher" you know your team needs a talent upgrade.
- Marshall is afraid to shoot. Why is Marshall afraid to shoot? I don't know. I like his build and he tries on defense. But on offense he's soft. Which is how I'd describe the entire team outside of O'Neal and Tinsley (and occasionally Murphy) when it comes to offense: SOFT!
- The team played with no heart. I would have benched Granger for attempting that lacksidaisical layup on a fast break. He's lucky it was goaltended, as the defender should have sent it 10 rows deep.
- Shawne Williams isn't allowed to shoot. This is not the same as Marshall. Marshall gets the ball, is wide open, then passes and runs as far away from his teammates as possible. Williams is the one guy outside of O'Neal who might be able to cause matchup problems on offense. Too often he's not even looked at on offense. He's smooth, quick, athletic and has a nice shot. Exactly what the team needs. But, like I said, he isn't allowed to shoot.
-The Pacers did well when they pushed the pace and fell apart when they tried to slow it down to a snail's pace, which is why it's so easy to force a turnover by double-teaming the ballhandler as soon as he comes up the court. Which reminds me, ...
- When someone is double teamed, at least one of his teammates should be open for an easy shot. This means you protect the ball, pivot, and find him before you make a retarded turnover.
- The same play is run over and over and over. Tinsley brings the ball up. Dunleavy comes off a screen and recieves the pass. Dunleavy then stops and throws it to Murphy or JO. I like Rick Carlisle, I really do, but it isn't difficult to outcoach anyone when the game plan is that simple.
On the positive side of things, I thought Dunleavy looked good out there, O'Neal was impressive and Shawne did his thing in limited action.
To me it looked like the last 2 games, and for a good portion of the season, the effort hasn't been there. I really think the players are tuning out Rick. After the season, he needs to go into the front office, and we need to bring someone new in, and take a look at a rebuilding effort, possibly involving trading JO, if we can get solid value for him.
only reason i'm awake right now is so I can hear how Rick tries to talk his way out of this one in the post game quotes on pacers.com and how incredibly ticked JO is if he even comments on anything.
Magic Rat, you don't miss a trick. Do you? The most interesting thing about the second half was Scott and I sneaking by the gate keeper/usher to get into the club level from the balcony.
...Still "flying casual"
I usually just don't post after a blowout. I try not to get too down after a loss, or too up after a big win, and I never agree with the doomsday post that usually follow the loss. This team is frustrating to watch right now. Even in this game they show a lot of promise, if they can get it together. Our best defensive lineup hurts our offense, but I think I'd rather see the defensive lineup get more p.t.
J.O. played with the effort to win, so he has to be really frustrated. I don't think that means he's gone. LB, or DW aren't going to trade J.O. if they can make him happy by going after the missing pieces in the off season.
I like a lot of things about Dunleavy, but his defense, and shooting make him a poor fit for the needs of this team. Reggie why did you have to get old.
If we could upgrade only 1 position, I think I could live with Tinsely in order to go after a 2 guard.
I like Murphy as well, but man is he a lot slower then Foster. The choice of D versus O.
Rick, and LB are right in that we've got to stop the big quarter, and the defense is killing us. This team isn't going to improve it's shooting, so in order to compete they've got to step up the defensive intensity, or find the mix of defensive players to make that happen.
It's a shame that we're not gaining ground when we have the chance. I see the team coming together more as they get the time to gel, but by then the schedule will make it harder for them to gain the ground. This team could still make some noise in the playoffs.
Oh we'll make some noise in the playoffs alright. That noise will be the team bus engine starting & departing for Indianapolis after a first round playoff exit.
I feel sorry for JO too. He's had a great year.
If he has to go, I hope we get the best GUARD possible for him.
If JO goes it will be a sad, sad day for the Pacers franchise.
I'd like to add that I boo'ed from home as the crowd was booing from the arena.
They got whupped, at home, by a mediocre team minus arguably its best player.
I'm a fan of his to begin with, but I really wish we had James White running out on fastbreaks instead of Granger and Armstrong. At least Flight can finish a play.
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The third quarter was our undoing, thats when they got by us and got to the free throw line. They got to the line 42 times as a team. Thats going to be a losing number most nights. We gave up 23 free throws to one guy and thats too much. Defensively, it was a struggle all night. Defense is an issue for us right now in a big way. Its something we have to keep spending time on and emphasizing. To really be a good basketball team, your man to man defense has to be the core of what youre doing.
Really rick the 3rd quarter, the time you decide to put in Darrel Armstrong and Tinsley in the same quarter to start the 3rd quarter? That was the quarter we let get away from us?
JO didn't comment, either that or it wasn't suitable for print and i'm leaning towards the latter, I think he's due for another JO confrontation with TPTB and Rick.
sad really
It's true, I really haven't been that sad for a single pacer since Reggie Miller had to walk off the court for his last game when the pistons knocked us out.
yeah it's what it seemed like...JO just doesn't know what to do anymore...the man came out and played hurt and his team was uninspired? if your leader and star playing hurt doesn't give you a spark then what will?
If he does leave, and it looks like it's a great posibilty, it's going to be a sad, sad day.
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Yes, this is really sad and depressing......how far have we sunk! Still glad I saved money by cancelling league pass after watching tonights game...awful!
JO has returned to form by dominating the defensive glass and commanding strong double teams. Reminds me of our 61 win season (JO's performance only)! It is a shame he's got basically NOTHING around him.
It was also a shame to see him get screwed tonight by horrible officiating around him...just disgusting the amount of contact he endures without a foul. He should be at the line as much as that "traveling" Martin.
Bird needs to pull a Riley and come out of the front office and coach this team, but he probably realizes what a ****ed up group he's put together and would rather let Carlisle look the idiot.
The worst part of watching tonight's game?
Down 15 with 5 minutes to go, and watching nobody play with a sense of urgency. That was the worst thing I've ever seen on an Indiana basketball court.
The frustrating thing is that we have the talent and some of the pieces to make this work, but we have a group very LOW energy players that don't want to play hard. We'll probably lose one or two more, win a couple, and repeat the cycle for the rest of the season.
What's saddening is that we are now a more inconsistent team than before the trade, O'Neal is now disgruntled, the players are tuning out the coach, and our defense is worse than it was last year.
I agree though that it is frustrating to see the guys go out there and not give the effort. Thats been a trait of our team for a couple seasons now unfortunately. The players just don't believe they can win and I don't know how this problem can be fixed. Maybe if we got that 2nd star player the team would start beleiving in themselves again? I don't know...
We simply have no guards that can take over a game the way Bibby and Martin did. {Daniels is our 1 guy who has shown the ability but he's become Bender II} Of course it helped that the same guy helped both of them get off. Bibby torched Tinsley in the 1st and Martin got his game rolling by abusing Tinsley in the 3rd. {Although it was a bit unfair of Rick to expect JT to stop the much bigger Martin.}
Granger is our starting 3. Don't get cute and jerk his role around. Let him start and play his game. He looked terrible out there tonight and never got in the flow. Staying with guys playing out of their roles, why is Shawne Williams playing if he's not even allowed to look at the basket. Does Rick think Shawne is Michael Curry? Finally, we don't ever have to worry about Rawle having the quick trigger during a late night incident. What's he waiting for out there? Shoot the ball when you're wide open.
Armstrong was initially supposed to be our 3rd PG. He's playing too many minutes. It's one thing when he's the enrgy guy off the bench for a couple of minutes, but all of his flaws show when he's out ther for an extended period of time. McLeod, despite looking awful tonight, should be given a chance as the backup PG for several games. Greene was given a crack at it, why not Keith McLeod?
This offseason a big guy has to be dealt. {Preferably Foster, who other than JO has the most value} Ike needs to play. Our perimeter play sucks and our offense is way too predictable. Why not put another post scorer in at times to take some pressure off of JO and even help the 2nd unit score some buckets. We are lousy defensively anyway so Ike can't be anymore of a liability than the immovable object, Jamaal Tinsley.
I've already criticized him a little bit, but the poster child for what is wrong with the Indiana Pacers will continue to be Jamaal Tinsley. How many more lazy passes are you going to throw? When are you going to have some pride and refuse to let your man torch you? We get it, you hate playing for Carlisle and his boring offense. Of course Tinsley fails to realize that playing like horse**** makes him difficult to deal. It's a win-win if he were to play well and allow "Good Jamaal" out of the house for a couple of months. Short term we'd win ballgames and in the summer we can unload our final problem child. {Now if Carlisle is moved upstairs and off the sidelines, I'd be willing to keep Tinsley around and see what he does with a new coach----Mark Jackson?}
Final Thought: I'm so glad I don't have to watch these bums every night. I listen to every game, but watching this garbage consistently would just kill me. It's in my blood to care about this team, so right now is a very difficult time to be a Pacer fan.
**Don't trade JO unless the Big Ticket is coming here in return.