text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Kosovo now independent, when the Palestinian will be? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Kosovo now independent, when the Palestinian will be? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message k.m.mJoined: 23 Jul 2006Posts: 121Location: Riyadh Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: Kosovo now independent, when the Palestinian will be? If the Kosovars want it why not? States exist for the sake of people and not the other way around. Many people said , Yes KOSOVA should be independent. That's the only way to stop misery in Europe. We have our rights .So our right is that Kosova to be Independent . But ,why some countries such as Spain , Romania and Cyprus reject the independent ? On the other hand lets pray for the Palestinian to have their own. kmm Back to top BourneNOIRJoined: 12 Apr 2006Posts: 113 Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject: Despite Serbia's rejection of Kosovo's independence, it has stated that it will NOT use military force to settle the matter. China has always made clear that any change in status quo by Taiwan toward a similar goal will be met by military force. Why? If it weren't for the military threat, the U.S. wouldn't be such a hypocrite. I guess Serbia is more of a man/country to settle things peacefully than China. One way or another, there'll be eventual realization that Communism and Democracy don't mix. Best wishes for people around the world seeking freedom and democracy for a better future. P.S. I hope this doesn't turn into a flame war. I'm just stating some facts sprinkled with my own emotional opinons. Look at it as propaganda and ignore it. I just need a place to exercise my freedom of speech. Thanks. Back to top flying_pig319Joined: 01 Jul 2006Posts: 369 Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: I'm so confused- do Jordan, Syria, Lebanon not count as "Palestinian" nations? You can use whatever words you want to sway public opinion, using the word "independence" to really mean "owning all land in the Middle East, including Israel, and wiping out the Jewish race", but this is deceptive and offensive to cases that actually DO deal with real independence, and those who know what they're talking about will not be fooled._________________peace-monger Back to top k.m.mJoined: 23 Jul 2006Posts: 121Location: Riyadh Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: I'm so confused- do Jordan, Syria, Lebanon not count as "Palestinian" nations? <<<Three countries for one nation , how lucky to be a Palestinian !! even if the Palestinian want to have those countries , the whole world "including me " will refuse .. this is remind me Saddam equipping Kuwait ... Still waiting for the Palestinian to have their independent state as every free nation on this earth, enough killing inesent people. I recommend to announce the state from one side only like Kosova did . too much waiting is useless. flying_pig319, welcome back to the show. kmm welcome back to the show Back to top flying_pig319Joined: 01 Jul 2006Posts: 369 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: If "Palestinians" don't want ALL the countries they already have to "count", that's their stupid business. However, no other race in the world wants to dominate the planet and wipe out other races the way the Arabs do, and most people do not realize this, so when they hear in the media that the Arabs have no land, they think the Arabs really DO have no land! The public never suspects that they already have plenty of countries, and they just aren't satisfied until they have all of them!_________________peace-monger Back to top Bob S.Joined: 29 Apr 2004Posts: 1767Location: So. Cal Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: k.m.m wrote: I'm so confused- do Jordan, Syria, Lebanon not count as "Palestinian" nations? <<<Three countries for one nation , how lucky to be a Palestinian !! even if the Palestinian want to have those countries , the whole world "including me " will refuse .. I think the issue is, those countries are also ethnic Palestinian countries. If you go back thousands of years, during the times of Israelite kingdoms of Judea and Samaria, the Palestinians were limited to a small area of Filestine (or Philistine) city states. During the time of the Judean uprising against Roman rule, Rome destroyed Jerusalem and consolidated the kingdoms of that area into Syria-Palestina. It gradually grew to include what is now Israel and parts of the Kingdom of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the British took control of this area known as the British Mandate of Palestine. In 1947 the British government gave up control of the Mandate to the U.N. which immediately divided it into Jewish Israel and an Arab Palestine (the Emirate of Transjordan east of the Jordan River having been given independence from the British the year before). Therefore, modern day Israel only occupies part of what was once all of Palestine, the remainder absorbed into the surrounding Arab (and Druze) nations. So, since the surrounding countries of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, et al have large ethnic Palestinian populations, or at least cousins to the Palestinians of Gaza and West Bank, F.P. is asking (rhetorically, not seriously I think because the answer is obvious) why are these countries not already considered Palestinian countries? Why do they feel a need to drive the Joooz into the sea to make yet another Palestinian country? Quote: I recommend to announce the state from one side only like Kosova did . too much waiting is useless. How many rockets each day do the Kosovars launch into Serbia? How often do Kosovar suicide bombers blow themselves up in Serbian cafés? It's a lot easier to accept a new state if its foundation is not dedicated to the annihilation of her neighbors. 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you can use cocoa butter or Shea butter. but you would half too melt it first.
Hi! Are there any substitutes for coconut oil?
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Researching and documenting the love legends of Punjab, is an attempt to simultaneously address the geopolitical as well as social contradictions that afflict Southasia in a mass scale today. There has been a need felt for a cultural project in Southasia which brings issues of cross-national and cross-cultural to a level where the mass public can empathise.
Tales of overwhelming love thwarted by the forces of societal constraint and circumstance are a staple across Southasia, all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan to the coast of Sri Lanka. Even as the thwarted love of two individuals is the focal point of these stories, they can be read at a number of levels. To begin with, they contain a wealth of information on the cultural norms and compulsions of the times; ranging from the laws of inheritance, the societal view of outsiders, the nature of the people's relation with their rulers, to the societal, community and familial hierarchy of the times, among other issues.
On another level, the reason for which the union between the two main protagonists is forbidden is also worth studying. Whether the objection is based on the ethnicity, faith, geographical origin, class or caste of the two characters is telling of societal priorities and prejudices. A systemic study of the forbidden in love is crucial to understanding the region outside the purely political framework.
Researching and documenting the four famous love legends of Punjab viz. Heer-Ranjha; Sohni-Mahiwal; Sassi-Punnu; and Mirza-Sahiban, is an attempt to simultaneously address the geopolitical as well as social contradictions that afflict Southasia in a mass scale today.
Beyond that, it is also relevant to contemporary society, at a time when a number of Southasian societies are becoming increasingly rigid and intolerant in their definition of what constitutes an 'acceptable' love or marriage. We are also actively using the research material as tools to facilitate workshops with youth across colleges and universities in both, India and Pakistan; opening avenues to bring into the public sphere – free and open discussions on 'forbidden love'.
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Dancing the Giddha, women in Punjab question social norms and metaphorically complete Sohni's ill-fated journey across the stormy river.
So Far From Home - Biratnagar Exhibition
Hri's audio visual exhibition carries the voices of women back to the places from where they set out on long journeys to seek better prospects. Smita Magar reports.
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The emergence of the practice of female infanticide among certain clans in Punjab could well be linked to attempts to prevent the birth of rebellious daughters like Sahiban who 'dishonoured' their
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Centuries old love legends of Punjab help trigger vibrant discussions where teenagers talk about love, desire and breaking barriers.
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There was a special reunion at South Lenoir High School Thursday afternoon as a soldier and his 16-year-old daughter hugged for the first time in nearly a year.
DEEP RUN � Early Thursday afternoon, an anxious soldier paced the empty hallways of South Lenoir High School � with a smile.
As the classrooms were busied by working students, he could only think of one thing during his walk from the school�s front doors to his daughter�s classroom: seeing her face.
Army Staff Sgt. Jerry Tyndall hadn�t seen his only daughter for 11 months before Thursday. His U.S. Army duties included a nine-month deployment to Kuwait with the North Carolina Army National Guard.
He returned home Wednesday, but his daughter, Tanna Jo, was unaware of his arrival until he graced her English course in the middle of class the following day.
She was utterly shocked.
�I was surprised,� was all Tanna Jo could stammer out through dried-up tears. �I was really surprised. I missed him a lot.�
Her eyes grew wide and bright � as if she�d seen a ghost � when Tyndall made his way down a row of desks to meet her. Upon their first face-to-face encounter in nearly a year, all Tanna Jo could do was hug her father.
The pair�s reunion sparked an arousing emotion visible throughout the classroom. Classmates wiped tears from their flushed faces, covered their ajar mouths or simply looked up to the huggers with heartwarming smiles.
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�I knew I was going to tear up when I saw her,� he said. �I was just so excited. I could see her trying to tear up (and) I knew she was happy.�
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He was unable to come home for Christmas, thus missing her 16th birthday which fell in the same month. Tyndall browsed YouTube videos for ways to surprise Tanna Jo and settled with the idea to walk into her classroom.
He was in contact with South Lenoir Principal Steve Saint-Amand for about 10 days before his homecoming, solidifying the plan as Thursday came closer.
�Her father has served our county overseas,� Saint-Amand said. �It�s a very emotional time for her, and we�re just happy to be a part of it. We�re all just very excited he was able to come back and share this moment with us.�
Tanna Jo�s classmates and teacher recognized how much she missed Tyndall. They said she talked about him often and even wrote about his distance in class essays.
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Summer Hartley said Tanna Jo is one of her best friends who heard her talk about how excited would be when Tyndall returned home.
�I was shocked because she said that her dad wasn�t coming home for a while,� Hartley, 15, said. �I know she really missed him. I�m really happy for her.�
Students� sparkling eyes converted to applause after the initial stun of Tyndall�s appearance faded away.
He will work toward retirement and a higher ranking since he is permanently at home, where the view outside his window expands beyond sandy dunes he experienced for nine months in Kuwait.
Tyndall said Tanna Jo always asked why he wouldn�t just quit the Army since it�s been more than 30 years, but now, she has nothing to worry about � no more Skype and Facebook for the Tyndalls.
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Göreme Open-Air Museum
The Göreme Open-Air Museum is the best known and most visited of all the monastic settlements in the Cappadocia region. It's also the largest of the religious complexes, and its churches, of which there are over thirty, contain some fascinating frescoes. Virtually all date from the period after the Iconoclastic controversy, and mainly from the second half of the ninth to the end of the eleventh century.
The three columned churches
The best-known churches in the main complex of Göreme are the three eleventh-century columned churches: the Elmalı Kilise ("Church of the Apple"), the Karanlık Kilise ("Dark Church"; separate entrance fee of TL8) and the Çarıklı Kilise ("Church of the Sandals"). All were heavily influenced by Byzantine forms: constructed to an inscribed cross plan, the central dome, supported on columns, contains the Pantocrator above head-and-shoulders depictions of the archangels and seraphim. The painting of the churches, particularly of Elmalı Kilise, is notable for the skill with which the form and movement of the figures correspond to the surfaces they cover, and their features are smoothly modelled. The intricately carved facade of the restored Karanlık Kilise is painted an expensive blue colour, obtained from the mineral azurite.
Barbara Kilise
The open-air museum holds various late eleventh-century single-aisle churches that are covered in crude geometric patterns and linear pictures, painted straight onto the rock. The Barbara Kilise ("Church of St Barbara") in this style is named after a depiction of the saint on the north wall. Christ is represented on a throne in the apse. The strange insect-figure for which the church is also known must have had a symbolic or magical significance that is now lost.
Yılanlı Kilise
The Yılanlı Kilise ("Church of the Snake") is most famous for the depiction of St Onophrius on the west wall of the nave. St Onophrius was a hermit who lived in the Egyptian desert, eating only dates, with a foliage loincloth for cover. Opposite him, Constantine the Great and his mother St Helena are depicted holding the True Cross. Between the Yılanlı and the Karanlık churches is a refectory with a rock-cut table designed to take about fifty diners.
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A new home to him that's still a new home to us. So now I'm going to be that person. The person with the puppy and dog pictures. Yup. That's gunna happen. It's pretty nice though because he's really well behaved thus far. Since B was the one who agreed to take him, he also got to name him and picked George. Why, I don't know, but hey, it works. We are teaching him slowly how to run, and he already knows how to sit and walk really well on a leash. He's only 9 weeks old, and basically no one knows what he really is. They think he'll get between 15 and 20 pounds. He will be going to puppy school soon.
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Long story short, that all happened.
Yesterday, on December 7, 2012, I was in that office when I was reminded that this was another anniversary of the day my good friend and hero (although I would never tell him that as he would not be cool with it) took his own life. I was sitting down, looking at the biggest framed poster of my collection—a black-and-white print of Marty Moates that was snapped on June 22, 1980, as he was on his way to winning the 500cc USGP of Motocross at Carlsbad, California. The poster still resonates on everything beautiful and brilliant about the sport of motocross.... And that's when it all came flooding back.
On December 7, 2006, I was maneuvering my Audi onto the San Diego Freeway towards Carlsbad when my cell phone rang. It was Mark Simo, then CEO of No Fear.
"EJ, where are you he asked.
"On my way in," I answered.
"Listen, Marty is dead," he said. "Marty Moates is dead."
Moates died on December 7, 2006.
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I was in complete shock. Mark went on to tell me that Marty had committed suicide, putting a gun against his head and pulling the trigger. Marty was a friend and hero to the Simo brothers too, working alongside them at No Fear for many years once his racing days were over. Now Mark needed me to come up with something to announce the news. I was still stunned. I didn't feel like writing anything, I just felt like crying.
"You have to wing it, dude," said Simo. "Please think of something."
At the time I was on a huge Jack London reading kick. I went to my office and dug out one of his books. I soon found a line that I thought punctuated Marty's life to the saddened and bewildered:
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
On that Sunday in June back in 1980, Carlsbad Raceway and Marty Moates would become synonymous with one another. On that sunny afternoon Moates, the consummate underdog as an empty-pocketed privateer, rode his LOP Yamaha to victory at the 500cc USGP, a race until then dominated by visiting European stars. It was the one race every American rider dreamed of winning, though no one had pulled it off up to that point. But in Cinderella fashion, Moates, born and raised in nearby San Diego, pulled off what remains arguably the single biggest upset in motocross history. It was Marty's finest moment.
Moates most famous win came at the 500cc USGP of Motocross at Carlsbad, California.
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"This was the first race I ever came to as a kid," Marty would tell a reporter a few minutes after the final moto that halcyon day. "While I was out there I just thought, 'I can't believe this is happening. It was great! I've dreamed about this race every year and now it's happened.'"
The night before Marty's funeral, Mark Simo and I sketched out what he wanted to say both to the funeral procession, as well as the press, the next day.
"I've known him since I first started racing motocross," said Simo. "When Marty used to ride the Nationals [in the late 1970s], I was his mechanic, his driver, and I followed him around the country. To the fans, Marty was the underdog, the working-class guy, the hero loved by the regular, everyday people because they could relate to him. Marty was the guy who rode all the junk and made the best of it. He fought his way through to make the name he did.
"All of us here at No Fear, and all of us who raced motocross, like Greg Theiss and Boris Said and Jeff Surwall, are deeply saddened by Marty's death. We've lost a friend. We've lost a brother."
Marty Moates loved the sport of motocross. Whether it was racing the 250cc World Championships in Europe aboard off-song Ossa motorcycles, living hand-to-mouth as part of the storied privateer LOP Yamaha team, or just riding as a vet at local races in SoCal, Marty was always in it because he loved it. He didn't get rich racing motocross, but that never bothered Moates and he was all too happy to see this generation of professional racers make the millions of dollars that they do. To all, Marty was a friendly, approachable, beloved fixture of the community willing to do anything to help his sport or a friend out. The waters ran deep with Marty Moates.
We will always remember #23.
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His funeral was just plain bitchin'. The royalty of the San Diego motocross scene showed up—the same guys who helped make the U.S. the world's #1 superpower in motocross: Broc Glover, Rick Johnson, Ron Lechien, Marty Smith, Marty Tripes. Near the end of the ceremony the lights went down and a number of large video screens were lit up. The ABC Wide World of Sports broadcast of the 1980 USGP flashed upon the screens and the start of the final moto. One could already hear the chatter in the hall begin to rise to another octave. The starting gate dropped and #23 holeshot the world's best, and simply rode away from them all. People clapped and cheered. Others cried. It was epic. It was perfect. It was just the way it should have been. It's also a damn shame that no one could pause the tape right there, Marty Moates alive and leading the world on his favorite track. It was his best day, and that's the way I still remember him.


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Disney California Adventure park guests will be racing through Ornament Valley and cruising down Route 66 when Cars Land opens.
Cars Land at the north end of Route 66 will feature Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, Luigi's Flying Tires, Flo's V8 Cafe, Radiator Springs Racers and so much more!
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A few of us were talking about what you might have been talking about and the general tenor was that on Channel 4 last night, the chosen issue, the people brought in to discuss it and the result of that discussion all came to nothing. One of us said:
Incidents can be presented today to include political content about matters that are marginal to that purported to be in in discussion. As Nigel Farage famously asked: "Who are you?" More to the point – who do they represent? Certainly not anyone I know.
So much today seems to sideline the really important stuff like the NHS scandal where lives are lost appalling conditions still exist and nobody is bought to book in any way at all and they present endless programs on a scam that hurts nobody and is basically the fault of the EU regulatory system.
Same with the Jimmy Saville inquiry – all is celebrity tittle tattle. The actual problems of local authorities and the running or not of children's homes is secondary to z-list or dead celebrities making the headlines.
Last night was another in this endless line that we are fed from people who have an agenda other than the one stated. No one today seems to address the real problems; its all diversionary and of little real value.
Just why are people like those last night continually given a platform to get their views over on subjects that have little or no bearing on what should be being discussed and is never challenged by the media?
The one he was referring to was that of cheap food:
I don't completely agree that that issue is marginal or irrelevant. In fact, the pushing of junk food onto the population by pricing crap relatively cheaply and good food expensively, along with shelf presentations and discounts, along with the way celebs have taken the issue up – guaranteed to turn off thinking people – and there is a ready-made means of command and control.
Keeping people under nourished and overfed and the implications for health, particularly in a National Health Service, are pretty dire. Let's just say that few would be in any condition to fight to defend the country, even if we knew who the country was in the first place.
I wrote a post supporting exercise some time back and had my head almost ripped off by almost everyone. Didn't know there was such strong anti-exercise feeling. Frankly, that really stunned me until I realized that what people were objecting to was not the actual nutrition and exercise but the celeb and govt pushing of it.
And this is what is going on. Something worthwhile such as eating halfway nutritiously, having that food available at an incentive price and exercising, which any sane society would support as a general principle, has been taken up by the wrong people and presented in the wrong way, coming up against the populace's deep resentment at being pushed around and told what to do.
So the issue is lost. Meanwhile, the real issues, e.g. the NHS losing of lives, is hardly addressed, the media do not demand heads and it's all cream puff and diversionary, as my friend said. And our fierce resentment is continually fuelled by CP controlled local government who make people walk with their wheelie bins and only collect once a fortnight and prosecute for the most ludicrous things.
Not giving too much away but I had to deal three days ago, with three regional authorities and a council together. That was not a good experience. What should have been low-key and streamlined was turned into a case of having a 23B/B784P which you needed in order to go for [not get but only go for if you behave yourself like a good boy and jump through hoops] your X34Z/7r-24N.
Each successive link was 15-28 days and I found myself having to tell one authority what another authority was saying. In short, no one wanted to accommodate a simple request. There's this heavy molasses – I hesitate to call it molasses as molasses is sweet – covering every move, every transaction, every phone call even. The moment any move is made in any way, it is bogged down in red tape to discourage the citizen from even trying, except of course at exorbitant cost at each stage.
Another way of looking at the above is that we really are looking at a fascistic socialistic State where nothing is easy, nor should it be. I wish I had a pound for the number of times over the past week we've reached resolution, all is plain sailing and then I've been told, "Well actually, Mr. Higham, no, you can't actually do that." Why not? "Well you don't have a Z786/34/5ez." And how do I get one of those? "Well actually, that's not under our authority but I can give you a phone number."
And have you tried shifting house? So between the deeply sluggish ability to do anything in this country, together with the public life situations described in this post, is it any wonder people just depart and go somewhere else?
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Center Andrew Bogut won't return from left ankle rehabilitation this week as the Warriors anticipated, and he's getting increasingly frustrated by the team's continued drumming up of expectations.
This all seems to stem from the team claiming that he had minor arthroscopic surgery in April, a procedure that he says wasn't so minor.
The 7-footer said he had microfracture surgery, a much more serious procedure, and there's still way too much swelling to engage in strenuous activity. Playing in Saturday's game against Indiana, he says, is absolutely out of the question.
"It's frustrating," said Bogut, who addressed the media Tuesday after missing consecutive practices in which the team had said he was likely to participate. "People look at you and think, 'Why are you still hurting? It's just an ankle.' That's the feeling I get sometimes. ... You feel like you're letting down the team, the fans and the organization."
The Warriors have followed a pattern of being overly optimistic with their recovery projections for Bogut:
-- They said he might return at the end of last season or play in the Olympics. He didn't.
-- They said he'd be ready for training camp. He wasn't.
-- They said he could play 20 minutes per game at the start of the season. He couldn't.
-- They said he'd return after seven to 10 more days of rehab. He hasn't.
-- And the latest: They said he'd practice this week with an eye toward playing this weekend. He won't.
"That's not going to happen. I can tell you that right now," Bogut said. "I'm still a little ways off. It's an interesting rehab, because there's no real timeline for it. I'll be back when I'm ready to play at 100 percent."
The Warriors confirmed Tuesday that Bogut had microfracture surgery, about seven months after claiming an arthroscopic surgery "to clean out loose particles and bone spurs" was a success and he should "return to basketball-related activities" in July.
The goal of microfracture surgery is to stimulate the growth of new cartilage by creating a new blood supply. A sharp tool is used to make multiple holes in the bone beneath the cartilage, which allows new blood to reach the joint surface. That brings new cells that will form cartilage.
Microfracture recovery can take up to a year, but the Warriors maintain that Bogut's was so minor that the need wasn't detected even by X-rays. They say it wasn't until the surgery started that microfracture was considered, and they stand by their original six-month rehabilitation prognosis.
While the Warriors were on the road last week, Bogut went to the Los Angeles area, where his surgeon, Dr Richard Ferkel, gave him blood-manipulation injections. The big man hasn't seen positive affects from the treatment yet.
Bogut is able to use the stationary bike and the elliptical machine to maintain his weight and conditioning, and he has gotten on the court for light shooting drills. But he can't do any running or anything that calls for contact or change of direction.
He said his ankle is still sore and swollen after workouts. Scans show no new damage, but there is still a lot of scar tissue and deep bone bruising, he said.
"We're not pressuring him," head coach Mark Jackson said. "I want him back when he's healthy. We're going to hold down the fort and take care of business. We're more than capable of going out and taking care of the job. We don't want him on the floor until he's 100 percent. You get uncomfortable and more frustrated when you try to rush it back."
Bogut averaged six points and 3.8 rebounds in playing four of the Warriors' first five games. They went 2-2 with him in the lineup, outrebounding opponents by 0.25 a game, breaking even in points in the paint, and limiting the opposition to 43.2 percent shooting.
Without Bogut, the Warriors have gone 6-4. They're outrebounding opponents by 6.1 boards a game, scoring four more points in the paint than their opposition, and posting a 43.1 opponents' field-goal percentage.
"That makes life much easier, because there's no pressure on me to come back right now," Bogut said. "If we had a bad record, I'd be feeling the wrath a little bit more from everybody."
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron


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Once again, teen pregnancy has consumed our national conversation. In discussing Bristol Palin, the pregnant and unmarried 17-year-old daughter of presumptive Republican Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, we are afforded an opportunity to examine hot-button issues of sex and public health. The Palin story illustrates the discrepancy in how teen pregnancy prevention is handled in our schools, and how it works in reality. Our schools promote "safe sex", though that was obviously not practiced in the case of Bristol Palin. The contradiction is that Bristol's mother, who is now suddenly a high profile political figure who may soon have a strong influence on public health policy, actively campaigns against sex education and promotes only abstinence as birth control. That clearly did not work to prevent teen pregnancy in the case of her own family.


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Lakers guard Shannon Brown has informed the team that he has elected not to exercise his option to extend his contract for the 2011-12 season, it was announced today. Brown, therefore, has become an unrestricted free agent.
Originally acquired by the Lakers from the Charlotte Bobcats in February of 2009, Brown has appeared in 182 games with the Lakers, averaging 7.9 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 18.7 minutes.
A two-time NBA Champion with the Lakers, Brown averaged a career-high 8.9 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists during the 2010-11 season.


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Three Utah Companies were named to Forbes' second annual America's Most Promising Companies list. Number 46 –
This week, Utah's MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) is naming Pedersen Utah's 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year. In honor of that event, I visited with Pedersen about his company's most unusual route to success, and had him give me his advice for others. Here's what I learned.
Todd Pederson is from Idaho (as I am – good points). He also counts Brigham Young University as his alma mater—no, wait a minute—he actually didn't complete his BYU education. Like fellow Utah entrepreneur Josh James, CEO and Founder of DOMO (one of last year's Most Promising Companies), he dropped out of BYU to continue building the startup company that the world now knows as Vivint.
(Pedersen jokes that his real reason for quitting the university was the due date for a 30-page paper, but I suspect the opportunity to continue growing his company was the greater motivation at play.)
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From his earliest days in high school and college, it was clear that Pedersen's academic curiosity was different than most. He didn't mean to be impertinent, but his questions were invariably along the lines of "How will this benefit me in earning a living? How will this help to differentiate me in my work?"
It was actually a job rejection from a pest control company that spurred him to launch the team that evolved into Vivint. Burned by the denial, he hired 10 of his buddies to sell pest control during the summer for the rejector's competitor—Terminex. He ran the team from a single-wide trailer on a single-horse stud farm. His mother was his angel investor, loaning him $5,000 (he repaid her with a $6,000 check at the summer's end.)
The goal had been to earn $10-15,000 for the summer. He eclipsed the goal, earning $80,000 instead.
"I was interacting with the branch managers at Terminex, figuring out processes to deal with the bigger organization's structure, which was bad," he recalls. "They lacked the ability to see the potential in what we were doing. We were bringing them customers and they were actually unhappy about it, because it was causing them more work."
Apparently someone caught on to the possibilities. In Fall, 1992, Terminex called Pedersen back and asked if he could expand his team to 80 people. He said, "Yes."
In 1993, as a college student, he was offered more than $1 million to sell altogether. He declined.
"This was where we learned to sell direct to customers," he says. "I could see the potential for something much greater than we had. But I'd have never have guessed we'd grow to $2 billion."
Fast forward to 1999: Pedersen founded APX Alarm, which he later evolved to Vivint. As the company grew he obtained credit agreements with Goldman Sachs in 2006 and 2009 to fund the company's growth. In late 2012, the company – now serving 700,000 customers with 3,200 employees – was acquired by The Blackstone Group for $2 billion.
As to the individual who turned down Pederson's job application—
"His company ended up going out of business," Pedersen says. "I don't rub it in his face. He's become a friend. We were running ourselves on folding chairs and I ended up buying his furniture and equipment."
Words to the Wise
Pedersen offers a few points of philosophy for other aspiring entrepreneurs.
- Be Customer Driven – "Profitability is a by-product of serving our customers. We've always been driven by thinking about the customer first. Let's see what the customers need and want, and then deliver it better than anyone else, and do it right. If we remember that focus, the profits will come."
- Be Dominant – "Our company's culture has a very relaxed dress code. I'm known for wearing casual work clothes and having mud on my boots. But we have a strong culture around dominating. Everyone here expects to be excellent, and to continually do better than projected and promised on every front."
- Be Observant - "What else is out there? What can we do better? How can we improve? Blackstone has been an excellent partner. Our vision for the future of this company is huge. They're at least pretending they believe we can actually pull this off."
- Be Frugal - "I've seen so many companies get thwarted by the expectation that as the company begins to grow and scale their incomes proportionately grow also. The founders and key executives think 'I deserve a really nice house and a cabin and a boat, and a new car every year.' They end up suffocating the business with their personal needs. I had two prior partners – and the one single thing we did best was that we never, ever put the company in a bad financial position because of our personal financial needs. We hardly paid ourselves anything until 2006. We had one dividend of $30,000 that year. But we reinvested to be sure we had liquidity. It was the best decision we ever made."
Crystal Ball
In the years from 2006 to 2012 the company grew from $50 million to $2 billion. Currently, the company is still adding new divisions and products such as its new solar business. A year ago, the solar business went from 10 employees to several hundred. Pederson is predicting as many as 400 employees in the solar division by the end of 2013.
What about the downsides to a company that sells door to door? "With 700,000 customers, certainly we can't keep that many people satisfied at once. Customer service is a continual issue," Pedersen says. "That's why we invest so heavily in our call center operations. Technology can break. And when people call you up, it's not to say, 'Hey there, I'm happy.' We're a consumer-facing business, and people call when they've got a problem. We have to stay continually focused on meeting those needs."
For the future: "We consider it vital that we continue to innovate. Integrated services is a way we can continue to please these customers. It's more important than ever that we stay relevant to the customers we have and to the base of consumers we don't have as customers yet. But no matter how you look at it, we'll need to be prepared to serve our customers. Lots of them."
There's another new project on Pedersen's agenda as well – together with four iconic Utah entrepreneurs Rick Alden, Alan E. Hall, Josh James and Greg Warnock, he recently launched a program to jump start Angel-level investing through a new funding initiative called Plus550.
Plus550 is a streamlined funding program that provides high-speed and high-energy investments to fitting candidates in amounts that typically range to $100,000. Companies seeking additional capital can also benefit from the "50" additional co-investors that have aligned themselves with Plus550. Candidates provide information to the group via www.plus550.com. Most financings close within several days of submittal and companies often receive a check during their first meeting. Plus550 has funded seven companies so far, according to Clay Andrus who has been working with the group since its beginning: Chargeback Guardian, CloudVu, Contact Point, Drop Ship, Marketecture, Right Intel and Salt Stack.
Finally, a few words from Devin Thorpe (fellow Forbes contributor), current President of MWCN, on the reasons the group is naming Todd Pedersen its 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year:
"Todd Pedersen is an entrepreneur who effectively transformed a small group of students who formed a small sales force into a high-tech, capital intensive international enterprise," said Thorpe. "Vivint is just now beginning to deliver on its full potential in home automation. I believe Pedersen's future is destined to be even more interesting than his past."
Thorpe also notes, "Todd has mastered the art of team building, recruiting both experienced and high potential sales associates, compensating them remarkably well and motivating them to achieve dramatic results."
What does Pedersen think of the award?
"I don't consider this to be my award – it's a representation that the right set of people, working together, have been able to do something great," he declares. "There are plenty of people smarter and more capable than me. But I've worked really hard. I'm 44 and have probably put in the career hours of somebody who's 74. But at the end of the day – with children who are 15, 12, 6-year-old twins, and a 2-year-old-I'm still changing diapers. You can't do all of that and be feeling like you've gotten too cool."
Disclosure – we have no agency relationship with Vivint, although Snapp Conner Partner A. Cory Maloy serves as a Trustee of MWCN. Additional reporting for this article was provided by A. Cory Maloy.
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Investigating blaze: Welding accident explored as spark
Firefighters worked to stamp out the remaining hot spots Wednesday at an apartment complex that was consumed by flames in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, as investigators looked into whether welding work ignited the inferno during construction of the huge project.
Hundreds of residents of homes in nearby buildings remained evacuated because the fire's intense heat blew out windows, set off sprinkler systems and caused other damage.
Water pooled at the base of the gutted structure as firefighters poured millions of gallons of water on the building throughout the day. Puffs of smoke rose periodically as onlookers gathered to take pictures. Workers with brooms swept glass, the debris from the busted windows, from the sidewalk.
Tuesday's blaze - the city's biggest in years - had advanced quickly through the six-story structure, which city officials and building experts said was particularly vulnerable to fire because materials that repel fire hadn't been added and safety systems such as sprinklers hadn't been installed.
Smoldered an hour
Whatever the cause, officials said, the fire appears to have smoldered for up to an hour before crews arrived about 5 p.m., finding 40-foot walls of flames and a plume of smoke that billowed above the city and could be seen across the Bay Area.
Mayor Ed Lee, who visited the site on Fourth Street near China Basin Street on Wednesday, credited firefighters for keeping the conflagration from spreading. The fire was confined to a 172-unit portion of the apartment complex, with the exception of a roof that briefly ignited at an adjacent UCSF research facility.
The scorched building is part of an emerging Mission Bay neighborhood, just south of AT&T Park, where several developments are in the works as part of city revitalization efforts.
"People will say the city responded well, and our Fire Department deserves some kudos on this," Lee said.
The Fourth Street apartments are part of a 360-unit project known as MB360, headed by developer BRE Properties Inc. of San Francisco. A second piece of MB360, where 188 apartments are under construction nearby, did not burn. The homes were expected to be completed late this year.
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Officials at BRE Properties said Wednesday that the site was insured for fire damage. However, the future of the site remained unclear as the company plans to merge with Palo Alto-based Essex Properties later this year. Essex Properties officials did not return a call seeking comment.
On Wednesday, demolition crews arrived to begin tearing down the burned building. About 30 firefighters remained on the scene, dousing the ruins with water. They wanted to make sure the fire was completely out before razing what remained.
Steven Johnson, a 27-year-old game developer, returned briefly to his apartment across the street from MB360, having been cleared out the day before. He said he had signed a lease for his rental hours before he was forced to leave.
"You could feel the heat through the windows. It was like a movie effect," he said as he retrieved a few items from his new home. Asked what he wanted to get most, Johnson replied, "Sleep."
MB360 is being built by Suffolk Construction, one of the nation's biggest private builders, with headquarters in Boston and a recently opened office in San Francisco. Federal records show that the firm has no major workplace safety violations in California over the past seven years.
The builder broke ground on the Mission Bay complex a year ago, estimating it would cost $227 million to build. The "luxury" apartments were scheduled to be finished by the end of this year.
Suffolk Construction uses subcontractors to do much of its building. City records show that 41 companies were hired for the MB360 project, though which contractors were on scene Tuesday is not clear.
Mayor Lee on scene
Mayor Lee, echoing reports from firefighters and workers at the site, said that welding had been taking place Tuesday afternoon, giving rise to the possibility that the fire was caused by a construction accident.
"It appears that the fire started aboveground," Lee said. "They were doing some welding. We don't know what occurred there. I'll be very patient to wait until the investigation is concluded by our Fire Department and by the contractors themselves."
Both Suffolk Construction and BRE Properties referred questions about the blaze to fire officials.
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the investigation would be wrapped up soon, but she did not offer a timetable.
She said the fire had presented "unique challenges," because the building's sprinklers and other fire-suppression systems had not yet been installed. Half of the Fire Department's on-duty firefighters battled the blaze, she said.
Two firefighters were hurt. One suffered first- and second-degree burns to his hands and face while on a ladder but continued to work. A battalion chief twisted her ankle. Both were treated and released from a hospital.
"Our objective last night was to contain the fire to the building of origin," Hayes-White said. "Crews did a phenomenal job."
Michael Theriault, secretary/treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, which advocates for workers, said buildings as this stage of development are at relatively high risk of fire.
"Once the sprinklers are in, it's great. Once the drywall is in, it's great. But prior to that there's a vulnerability in this type of structure," Theriault said.
He added that San Jose's Santana Row, an upscale shopping destination that burned in August 2002 in a fire that sent up embers and damaged dozens of nearby homes, was at a similar point of construction when it caught fire. The precise cause of that fire was never found.
Projects to proceed
San Francisco officials vowed Wednesday that plans to revitalize Mission Bay would not be deterred by the blaze.
At least four other residential construction projects are proceeding on or near Fourth Street, with shops and restaurants slated for many of the ground floors of the new buildings. A UCSF hospital is taking shape nearby.
While Fourth Street remained closed Wednesday, officials said it would reopen as soon as it is deemed safe.
"Certainly it will take a while to work through insurance issues," said Tiffany Bohee, director of the city's Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure. But she added, "The development will continue going. These are things that can be overcome."
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Federal officials had heard stories about Scott Vitkovic. People at his Cambridge mosque said he wanted to attack the United States. And he had worn an Osama bin Laden T-shirt, outraging one mosque member who called it "completely irrational behavior."
That was enough to get Vitkovic, an immigrant from the former Czechoslovakia, locked up in the secretive immigration system for the past seven years without ever being charged with a crime. Vitkovic denied in court records that he was a threat to anyone but himself, saying he had once attempted suicide and had been treated for depression, but federal officials remain determined to deport him as a threat to public safety.
"Nobody should be facing any of this kind of persecution," Vitkovic, 43, said in one of several phone interviews from the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied the Globe's request for an interview in jail. "I have not done anything against the law."
Hundreds of immigrants such as Vitkovic have been jailed for months or even years while they await deportation, often on what critics say are shaky legal grounds. And Vitkovic is far from the longest held. That distinction belongs to two Cuban nationals: Aurelio Marquez-Coromina, who has been detained for more than 18 years because Cuba won't take him back, and Manuel Reyes, locked up for 20 years in the same Indiana prison complex.
These detainees are not imprisoned for crimes, but because the United States wants them out and, for a variety of reasons, the government has not been able to deport them. Officials say Vitkovic himself delayed the deportation process significantly by refusing to apply for a Czech passport that was needed to deport him. The Cuban nationals could not be sent back home either, but they had violent records and mental illness, making their release in the United States impossible. US immigration officials say they regularly review their cases.
But advocates for immigrants say these and other costly incarcerations violate a Supreme Court ruling that barred the immigration agency from jailing immigrants for more than six months after they received deportation orders. They say officials should release people they cannot deport. Otherwise, officials should commit the mentally ill to hospitals or punish nations that refuse to take them back.
"You can't lock up people forever," said Michael Tan, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project. "We aren't arguing that dangerous people should be allowed on the streets. They should be put in the right system."
On the other side, conservatives, frustrated that the 2001 Supreme Court ruling led to the release of thousands of criminals, are pushing to expand the immigration agency's powers to jail immigrants longer. People such as Vitkovic have been held longer based on special rules passed after the court's ruling, they say, but some appeals courts have struck them down.
"We cannot achieve a lasting solution without strong internal enforcement," said Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the chairman of the House immigration subcommittee. He is pushing to clarify the agency's authority to jail specific categories of immigrants, including those who are mentally ill and dangerous and those who refuse to cooperate with their own deportations.
Federal immigration officials say long-term jailings like Vitkovic's are rare. Nationwide, the average stay for an immigrant in custody is roughly 30 days. But the average stay on one day in September 2012 was more than 80 days, according to records provided to the Globe under the Freedom of Information Act. The same records showed that more than 900 immigrants on that day were jailed longer than six months after their deportation orders, despite the Supreme Court ruling.
But getting clear explanations for the jailings is elusive because federal officials refuse to identify the individual detainees. The Globe identified Vitkovic and others in interviews and through lawsuits they filed in the federal courts, where records are public.
Critics say the immigration agency often seems arbitrary in deciding whom to hold, and whom to set free.
Federal immigration officials jailed Vitkovic, but repeatedly released his fellow citizen Ivan Vaclavik, saying the Czech Republic would not take him back. In Massachusetts, Vaclavik racked up more than 100 criminal charges over almost four decades, including shoplifting, assault, and accosting a child. After the Globe published an article on him last year, officials deported him.
US immigration officials also locked up Marquez-Coromina for his mental illness and criminal record, but released Huang Chen, a Chinese national with a history of erratic behavior who had been convicted of attacking a woman in New York. The last time they set him free, Chen killed her. After he was convicted of the slaying, federal court records say, Chen was sent to a mental hospital.
And the immigration agency's response to the Globe's request for a list of detainees raised questions about how well the agency tracks its own prisoners. The agency initially omitted Reyes, the longest-held US detainee, from its list.
Little is known about the 59-year-old Cuban detainee, convicted in 1984 of kidnapping, sexual battery, and grand theft. Reyes has filed more than 100 federal lawsuits across the United States to get out of jail. But the suits have been so nonsensical — he appeared to call himself "the unofficial prison cat man" in one — that judges have dismissed them.
Immigration officials say the detentions are not indefinite and they emphasize that each case is decided on an individual basis. Often an immigration judge must first sign off on a long-term detention, and immigration officials review immigrants' cases as frequently as every six months. Immigrants can also file federal court lawsuits, which make their cases public.
But the American Civil Liberties Union is so concerned that the agency is not properly monitoring long-term detainees that it filed a lawsuit to examine detention records. A New York federal judge awarded the group thousands of documents last year. Other lawsuits have won bond hearings for immigrants, which gives them a chance to argue for their release.
And, last week, US District Judge Michael Ponsor in Springfield cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit by detainees who are ineligible for bond hearings, saying the immigration agency's argument for jailing them without a hearing was "ultimately flawed" and could not "withstand scrutiny."
Because of these and other concerns, advocates for immigrants have called for a sharp reduction in the roughly 30,000 immigrants held on any given day across the United States for deportation. The immigration system is frequently criticized for poor health care and a lack of lawyers for immigrants, who are not entitled to public defenders. Advocates are particularly worried about services for people who are mentally ill: Three agency detainees committed suicide last year.
Vitkovic, the Czech citizen detained for seven years, is a complex figure who came to America to study. Over the past two decades, he has changed schools, religions, and even his name, saying he was misclassified at birth in Czechoslovakia as a girl. He has also suffered severe depression and attempted suicide at least once; he still takes antidepressants.
But federal officials have issued conflicting opinions in the past on whether he is dangerous.
In 2006, a Boston immigration judge said there was "no reliable evidence" that Vitkovic was a danger and ordered him released on $2,500 bond. An FBI agent had testified that Vitkovic told mosque members he wanted to attack the United States, but the judge dismissed his testimony as hearsay because the agent did not investigate it.
The judge also pointed out that Vitkovic had a glowing recommendation from the top administrators at Harvard Extension School's health careers program, where Vitkovic studied premedicine, comparing him to Gandhi in his "affections and enthusiasms."
Vitkovic never got out of jail, however, because immigration officials swiftly appealed and won on the grounds that Vitkovic had failed to prove that he was not dangerous.
In 2008, Vitkovic said, the same Boston immigration judge who had granted him bond denied his request for asylum.
Immigration officials said the judge also declared him a threat to national security in 2008 based on witness statements, including from the FBI, and Internet postings in which Vitkovic expressed a desire to "commit terrorist acts" with Islamic militants in the United States. Yet Vitkovic was never charged with any crime.
Vitkovic denies the judge declared him a danger and the immigration courts refused to provide information about the case, citing privacy rules that block an independent review of his file. The immigration agency also declined to provide the judge's final decision, though Vitkovic gave the agency permission to do so.
He insists he made huge sacrifices to get to the land of the free, working as an operative for American intelligence in communist Czechoslovakia, getting beaten and nearly killed. He even has a 2007 endorsement letter from the brother of the Czech Republic's late president Vaclav Havel, saying that Vitkovic aided the anticommunist revolution and could be in danger if deported. Ivan Havel confirmed in an e-mail to the Globe that he wrote the letter.
Vitkovic said US officials rewarded him with a visa in 1991 to study at a military school in New Mexico. He graduated and transferred to Norwich University in Vermont.
But immigration officials say Vitkovic transferred illegally to Norwich, giving them grounds to deport him. And when they finally started deportation proceedings, they said Vitkovic stalled the process by refusing to apply for a passport, which is required to put him on a plane and deport him. The agency could have prosecuted him for delaying his deportation and did not.
Vitkovic said he transferred legally to Norwich, but admits that he did not initially cooperate with efforts to deport him because he fears for his life if sent back to his homeland. For years, he said, he has bounced from one jail to the next in Massachusetts and Virginia, exacerbating his health problems.
"I just don't know what is going to happen," he said. "They may take me out of here anytime. I may be dead anytime."
Vitkovic's mother, who lives in North Carolina, said she is worried about her son. "I don't know why he is in prison," said Ludmila Weichel in halting English. "He is very honest, good person."
Martin Pizinger, spokesman for the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, declined to comment on the case. The FBI referred questions to US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who declined to comment through a spokeswoman.
Immigration officials said Vitkovic has recently cooperated in his case and they expect to deport him soon.
But Vitkovic could actually be considered fortunate in comparison to Marquez-Coromina, who could be in prison for the rest of his life.
Marquez-Coromina, a 61-year-old former welder, has been behind bars almost since the day he got off the boat in the Mariel Boatlift from Cuba in 1980; he was convicted for armed robbery in a case in which prosecutors said he threatened to blow a shopkeeper's head off. Federal officials say they have kept him in jail for the past 18 years, though his sentence is long finished, because he is dangerous and Cuba will not take him back.
"In very rare cases, ICE is authorized to detain for extended periods of time individuals who pose an extreme risk to public safety. Marquez-Coromina is one of these individuals," said agency spokeswoman Gillian Christensen.
According to immigration records, Marquez-Coromina suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and harbors uncontrollable urges to kill people, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
He has refused to take medication, and immigration officials have never tried to put him in a mental hospital that could force him to take it.
In 2006, Marquez-Coromina filed a federal lawsuit denying that he was dangerous. He described himself as a devout Christian who participated in sports, Bible studies, and book readings in a Maryland prison, where he was held at the time.
He noted that he had a lesser criminal record than other immigrants the courts had released and that the government was holding him in only a medium-security prison. "Señor Coromina is not a dangerous individual," he wrote.
Immigration officials — and a US District Court judge in Maryland — disagreed. In 2010, the judge ruled that immigration officials had the authority to hold him longer, another in a series of conflicting federal and appeals court decisions on long-term detention.
Lawyers say the conflict will probably continue, unless the Supreme Court weighs in again. In its 2001 ruling, the high court said the indefinite jailing of immigrants would raise "serious constitutional questions," but the ruling was vague enough that lower courts are still arguing over who can be held — and for how long.
Maria Sacchetti can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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February 28, 2013
Windermere Kids: Raising money for afterschool programs
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
On March 3, the Windermere Foundation and the YMCA will participate in the annual Husky Hoops free-throw fundraiser.
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February 11, 2013
Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report
Posted in News from the Foundation by Christine Wood
Happy 2013 – hope this New Year is off to a great start! We have many stories (and raves!) to share with you about how your support of the Windermere Foundation translated into meaningful and necessary help for so many struggling families in 2012. Collectively, we raised an impressive $1,359,032. This is up 13% from 2011.
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