Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Homework assigned today

Math: Pre-Alg. pg. 134-135 6-38 evens
Math pg. 381 1-25 odds
MB pg. 187 SAT 1-5

History: Chapter 6 sections 1 and 5 #'s 1,2,3 and 5

Writing: Assignment due Friday

Lori Hacking's body found

Dental records confirm identity of long-missing woman

L.A. Daily News - News

Pyramid produces plans aplenty

Panel waits to judge ideas after marketing campaign



commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Business

U of M's Air Force ROTC may fold

Program given 2 years to improve numbers



commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Local

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Baseball

commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Baseball: "Cardinals reach NLCS despite Rolen's slump
By R.B. Fallstrom
Associated Press
October 12, 2004
ST. LOUIS -- Another round of playoffs is giving Scott Rolen a chance to get his timing back.
The St. Louis Cardinals advanced to the N.L. Championship Series for the third time in five years, dispatching the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games in the opening round.

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They did it without much of a contribution from their top RBI man.
Rolen drove in 124 runs and batted .358 with runners in scoring position, second-best in the NL. But he's been injured much of the final month and is still trying to get his timing back.
He was hitless in 12 at-bats in the division series, settling for six walks.
Several times during the first round, manager Tony La Russa said Rolen wasn't completely healthy but was 'playable.' And defense at third base has been a constant for the five-time Gold Glove winner.
'I'm not real worried about what the stats say or don't say,' Rolen said. 'I didn't get a hit the whole series, but we're in here popping champagne, and that's all that matters.'
The best-of-seven NLCS begins Wednesday night in St. Louis. The Cardinals play the Houston-Atlanta winner.
Rolen was sidelined for 16 games with a strained left calf muscle sustained Sept. 10 legging out a double right after fouling a pitch off his shin. He's in a 3-for-29 slump overall with one home run since returning.
This after batting a career-best .314, his first .300 season. He has driven in 100 or more runs five times in eight major league seasons and was the leading vote-getter on the National League All-Star ballot.
Teammates expect more of a typical contribution in the NLCS.
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commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Grizzlies

commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Grizzlies: "Grizzlies without J-Will at Orlando
Baby on the wayas preseason opens
By Ronald Tillery
Contact
October 12, 2004
When the Grizzlies begin their exhibition schedule tonight at Orlando, they will be without starting point guard Jason Williams.
That's the bad news.

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The good news is Williams's absence isn't because of injury.
Williams didn't travel with the Grizzlies on Monday afternoon so that he could be with his pregnant wife, Denika. They are expecting their second child at any moment.
The Grizzlies will gladly welcome continuity whenever it comes.
Circumstances -- mostly injury related -- have forced several key players to miss practice time since training camp began a week ago.
In addition to Williams, small forward James Posey is expected to sit out with a left foot sprain.
Coach Hubie Brown said the Grizzlies' first outing on the eight-game preseason schedule won't reveal much.
'You just want to see where you are after a week,' Brown said. 'We're handicapped because of the lack of key personnel. ... But this is not about wins and losses. This is about competition so that at the end of 30 days we have the right 10 guys in position. Then it's about us making the right decision because two guys will play their way off this roster.'
The Grizzlies still have 17 players and must trim their roster to 15 by Nov. 1. Coaches will form opinions rather quickly given the Grizzlies play two more games by the weekend.
Brown said he's optimistic the Grizzlies will enjoy better health by the end of the week. They play home exhibition games Thursday (against Cleveland) and Saturday (against Indiana).
Bonzi Wells, who could contend for the NBA's Sixth"

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Seven die in Japan 'Internet suicide' pact
Tue 12 October, 2004 13:40

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police say they are investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides linked to the Web.
The four men and three women, mostly in their 20s, were found dead on Tuesday in a car parked on a mountain road in Minano in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo, officers said.
Police said they found four charcoal stoves in the car, which was wrapped in blue plastic sheets and had its windows sealed from the inside.
'We believe they all died after inhaling carbon monoxide from the charcoal,' a police spokesman said. 'We believe they got acquainted through the Internet.'
One of the seven had sent an e-mail to a friend on Monday saying he would commit suicide, the spokesman said.
'We found no traces of violence that could have otherwise led to their deaths,' he said.
Empty cans of liquor were found inside the car and a box of sleeping pills near the silver vehicle, Kyodo news agency said.
No religious prohibitions exist in Japan against suicide and it has long been seen as a way to escape failure or of saving loved ones from embarrassment for financial loss. However, it has also been stigmatised as a shameful, taboo subject.
In Kanagawa prefecture, just west of Tokyo, police said two women in their 20s had killed themselves in a car in what was believed to be another case of Internet suicide.
Cases dubbed by the Japanese media as 'Internet suicide' pacts started to come to the fore in 2003. A total of 34 people killed themselves in such pacts last year, according to police data.
Police have asked Internet service providers to disc"