Death toll in latest Egypt clashes climbs to 12

Backdropped by Egyptian riot police, two men ask protestors not to throw stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Backdropped by Egyptian riot police, two men ask protestors not to throw stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

An Egyptian protestor runs toward security forces to throw back a tear gas canister during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

An Egyptian man stands in front of riot police blocking the road during clashes with protestors near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Egyptian security forces stand guard near the Interior Ministry during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egyptian protestors evacuate a wounded man by motorbike during clashes with security forces near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the soccer game violence. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)

CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day of clashes that have killed at least 12 people.

The violence followed a melee and stampede after a soccer match Wednesday in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which 74 people died in the world's worst soccer violence in 15 years. Protesters accuse the security forces of failing to prevent the bloodshed.

After two days of running street battles, clashes broke out again in downtown Cairo Saturday as demonstrators marched on the Interior Ministry. Security forces fired volleys of tear gas at rock-throwing protesters calling for the army to relinquish power. The ministry has been a frequent target for the protesters because it is responsible for the widely distrusted police.

In a bid to end the violence, a group of lawmakers and public figures said they met with Interior Ministry officials to try to negotiate a cease-fire. But security forces disregarded a plan to hold their fire, and lobbed tear gas and fired birdshot on a group of mediators attempting to convince protesters to clear a street leading to the ministry.

"The continued clashes are a way for the ministry to distract attention from the real demands for the military leaders to step down," said Bassem Kamel, a lawmaker who tried to negotiate the truce.

"We know the protesters aren't angels and come with a lot of anger from what happened in Port Said, but it has made people want to stand up to the military rulers," he added.

Some of the protesters themselves urged for an end to the violence and called on people to leave the Interior Ministry area.

"If you love Egypt, return to the (Tahrir) square," chanted protesters along the side streets of the ministry on Saturday.

Police cordoned off several streets with lines of riot police and barbed wire, pushing protesters further back from the ministry.

Rights groups and several newly elected members of parliament have called on the country's military leader, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who served as President Hosni Mubarak's defense minister for 20 years and took power after Mubarak's ouster last February, to immediately transfer of power to a civilian administration.

Egyptian presidential hopeful and ex-Arab League chief Amr Moussa echoed those calls Saturday, saying the situation in the country was "very frightening" and that the military needed to open up presidential campaigning in March and step down in favor of civilian authorities by April 30.

"The time has come to transfer power to a civilian administration which will promote stability and the achievement of the revolutionary goals," Moussa said in a statement carried by the state-run news agency, MENA.

Some of the worst violence in the latest unrest has been in the port city of Suez, where protesters set up cordons outside the police headquarters to ban people from demonstrating around it and keep the calm.

On Friday, security forces in Suez opened fire on a crowd of several thousand outside the police headquarters. A total of seven people were killed, a police official said Saturday. Egypt's state-new agency MENA reported the victims ranged in age between 18 and 21, and that the most recent victim died of a gunshot wound Saturday that he sustained the previous day.

By Saturday morning, five protesters were also reported dead in Cairo after security forces fired tear gas and birdshot. The death toll was provided by the security official and a volunteer doctor.

Abdolheliem Mahmoud, the doctor at a field hospital in Tahrir Square, said the latest victims died Saturday from birdshot to the head or chest in overnight clashes. Another protester was in critical condition, he said.

Field hospitals were set up in streets near the Interior Ministry to assist hundreds of cases of suffocation from tear gas inhalation on Friday.

The Health Ministry said Saturday that 2,500 people have been injured since the violence began on Thursday.

Also, a security officer died after an armored police vehicle ran him over in the mayhem outside the ministry Friday, the security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with police regulations.

The riot after the soccer match in Port Said has shocked Egyptians.

There have been accusations that plainclothes officers took part in the melee, and some have alleged that riot police intentionally allowed the bloodshed at the stadium to happen to retaliate against die-hard soccer fans of the visiting team Al-Ahly, known as Ultras, who played a key role in clashes with security forces during the uprising that toppled Mubarak.

Lawmakers have accused the interior minister of "negligence."

The violence in Port Said began after home team Al-Masry pulled off a 3-1 upset win over Cairo's Al-Ahly, Egypt's most powerful club. Al-Masry fans stormed the field, rushing past lines of police to attack Al-Ahly fans.

Survivors have said police stood by doing nothing as Al-Masry fans attacked Al-Ahly supporters, stabbing them, undressing them and throwing them off bleachers. Others died from the stampede down a narrow corridor after the stadium's gate, which was locked from the outside, was forced open by the crowd.

Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri said he sacked the Egyptian Soccer Federation's board on Thursday and referred its members for questioning by prosecutors about the violence. To keep in line with international soccer federation guidelines, which do not give el-Ganzouri the right to dissolve the board, its eight members formally submitted their resignations on Saturday.

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Associated Press writer Sarah El Deeb contributed to this report.

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UConn's Calhoun taking indefinite medical leave

STORRS, Conn. (AP) ? UConn's Jim Calhoun doesn't mince words when it comes to his health.

So, when the Hall of Fame coach of the defending national champions, who turns 70 in May, had just about had it with his back problems, he let people know.

"The bottom line is I'm going to need some work done," Calhoun told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. "In January the shooting pains were getting worse and after one plane ride I couldn't even get up. I tried to hide it. I'm taking medicine right now for the pain. They are waiting for things to quiet down, and I'll meet with the doctor next week."

As a result, Calhoun is taking an indefinite medical leave of absence, as he has been suffering for several months from spinal stenosis, a spinal condition that causes him severe pain and hampers mobility.

Calhoun said he told university President Susan Herbst about it but had hoped to gut out the final weeks of the season.

"But it's just so bad, even getting through practice," Calhoun said. "Now I'm going to see what the next step is. The bottom line is I'm hurting."

George Blaney, the team's associate head coach, will lead the team in Calhoun's absence.

He said Calhoun missed practice Thursday and could not get out of bed Friday morning. Blaney said Calhoun began feeling pain in his legs and buttocks during this week's road trip to Georgetown.

"When we got off the plane, he really had trouble getting in the car and going home," he said.

The Huskies (14-7, 4-5 Big East) have lost four games in a row and fell out of the Top 25 for the first time in 28 weeks. They host Seton Hall on Saturday before traveling to Louisville on Monday.

Calhoun has had a history of health problems. He is a three-time cancer survivor, overcoming prostate cancer in 2003 and skin cancer twice, most recently in 2008.

"I had back pain like never before last summer, thought it was back spasms," he said in the phone interview. "I saw a neurologist and he told me about scoliosis, stenosis and other things and that there could be things like a bone spur and that I could probably need something done at some point. I went for the physical therapy and it worked, but it started to lock up sometimes recently and it was worse."

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Calhoun is No. 6 on the all-time wins list with 867. He has won three national championships at Connecticut and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. He coached the team to its fourth Final Four and third national title last April.

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Connecticut has gone 9-9 in games that Blaney has coached, including 2-1 during Calhoun's recent suspension.

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"There's not as much yelling," he said. "Obviously the cuss words are down to a (lower) level. It's a difference."

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Chapter One

The Dream Palace of Walter O'Malley

The first time Billy Kleinsasser saw Walter O'Malley was in November of 1955, at Princeton, when O'Malley had come looking for a new ballpark. Billy Kleinsasser was twenty-six years old, a graduate student in architecture, and that fall he enrolled in a graduate seminar taught by the great architect, R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller had devised the geodesic dome, the great igloo that arched across the sky without benefit of intrusive struts and beams. Domes were the subject of the semester, specifically, the feasibility of creating a dome of the grandest scale, one that would, if done correctly, fit over a baseball stadium. This dome, however, was not Buckminster Fuller's idea. It was Walter O'Malley who had suggested to him just this sort of stadium for his Dodgers, in Brooklyn. Fuller, intrigued, enlisted his students who set about building a model for O'Malley. They worked through the fall and by Thanksgiving it was ready.

O'Malley came to Princeton with an entourage, which was to be expected; he was not a man who traveled alone. He brought an engineering friend, Emil Praeger, with whom he had been talking about a new stadium for years, and his public relations man, Red Patterson. And because O'Malley had been speaking of this stadium as a matter of great importance not only to the Dodgers and to Brooklyn but to the entire city of New York, he invited the press, who followed knowing that Walter O'Malley had a keen understanding of the nature of a good story.

It was snowing in Princeton, an early storm that O'Malley commented upon as he walked into the architecture school's laboratory. The storm, he said, was further evidence of the wisdom of the plan: bad weather would never again wash out a Dodger game, which was good for the fans and for him, too. He had calculated that he lost $200,000 for every rained out game. The savings from the dome, however, did not stop there. He explained to Fuller and his students that he stood to save an additional $21,000 for a tarpaulin large enough to cover an infield, the pro-rated salaries of twenty-one groundskeepers who pulled the tarp out and then, when the skies cleared, rolled it back up, and fifty cents to repaint every weatherworn seat in his ballpark each spring. This final savings represented one of the incidentals that especially pleased him: he told admirers of his spring training stadium at Vero Beach, Florida, that he had purposely sunk the park into the ground and surrounded it with a berm to eliminate the need for an annual paint job.

Billy Kleinsasser had never before helped design a project for a real client and was excited to be moving from the theoretical stage of his budding career to the practical. Now he watched as O'Malley approached the model stadium. It was round, and as wide as a loveseat. Fuller explained the design of the dome. The top came off and the two men peered inside. There was no grandstand; there were no seats at all, only a ball field with pegs to show where the players would stand.

"This is great. I'm just thrilled with it," O'Malley said. "I'm absolutely delighted. Let's slip off our coats."

Fuller told him that there would be no shadows, that the sun would shine through the translucent roof but would not burn the patrons. "The grass would grow greener, too," he said. "That has been proved."

"That's an important point, Bucky," O'Malley replied. "That's extremely important psychologically because baseball is traditionally an outdoor game. Bucky, what seating capacity does your model suggest?"

"Walter, we thought 100,000."

"I think 52,000 would be more practical, Bucky."

"It could be 52,000 just as easily," said Fuller.

O'Malley looked at his cigar, a prop he was never without. He smoked big Antonio y Cleopatras. He lit each fresh one from the smoldering butt of its predecessor. Wherever he went ash and smoke trailed behind him.

"Oh," he said, "the advantages are endless." He noted the absence of posts and pillars, and the unobstructed view from every seat. He proceeded with a recitation delivered at length and with such grammatical and syntactical precision that it not only strained the note-taking skills of the assembled hacks, but sounded, in print at least, as if he knew precisely what he was going to say before he ever started talking. He did this effortlessly, without benefit of notes. He was a marvelous talker.

"Well, where do we go from here?" he asked, rhetorically. The moment had come for his pitch. He had his audience, pens at the ready. "Can we purchase the land we need for a stadium? Well, the City of New York has appropriated $100,000 for the study of the Flatbush and Atlantic Avenue area in Brooklyn. Perhaps, in the solving of many problems that must be solved in that area, perhaps as an incident in the rehabilitation of that area, some land will be made available for purchase by the Brooklyn Dodgers."

But that was getting ahead of things. In the meantime, he said, he was very pleased by the work, so much so that perhaps if he were ever allowed to buy the land where he might build his stadium, it would indeed be a domed stadium, which, he added, was both "practical and economical."

As if on cue, the publicist Red Patterson returned to the morning's refrain. "This stadium would be tremendous from the air," he said. "It would be a landmark of New York."

O'Malley tossed away his cigar. "It would be big enough to enclose St. Peter's in Rome," he said, his deep baritone rising for emphasis. "It would be one of the wonders of the world."

He returned in January of 1956 to see the finished model, not R. Buckminster Fuller's, but the work of Billy Kleinsasser. While his classmates moved on to other assignments, Kleinsasser decided to make the domed stadium the final project for his degree. He took Fuller's model and added 55,000 seats, 2,000 of them in hanging boxes. He shrunk the dome: Fuller wanted it 300 feet high and 750 feet in diameter. Kleinsasser made his 550 feet in diameter and 250 feet high, which, he reasoned, was still too tall for any fly ball to reach. He added a parking garage large enough for 5,000 cars. And, as a lark, he added a tramway that would run across the top of the dome. He thought it might be fun for children.

O'Malley was pleased, so pleased that he wanted to put Billy Kleinsasser's model on display. He took it back to Brooklyn, and soon had it placed in the lobbies of banks so people could pause and see what he had in mind for the Dodgers and for Brooklyn. He did not bother asking Billy Kleinsasser's permission to do this. Kleinsasser objected. O'Malley wrote to advise him that things might be made difficult for him if he made a fuss. Kleinsasser relented and was rewarded with an invitation to a dinner at which he was seated next to Sandy Koufax, a pitcher of vast but thus far unfulfilled potential.

Billy Kleinsasser, of course, was happy that Walter O'Malley liked his stadium. Yet there was something about O'Malley and the way he talked about the ballpark that perplexed him. "He seemed a little too nice, a little too enthusiastic," Kleinsasser recalled many years later. "He didn't ask the right kinds of questions. He talked about the idea. But he didn't push." In time, Billy Kleinsasser would learn a good deal about clients, about the way they asked questions and the sorts of questions they asked. The interested ones probed.

But that day in Princeton, Walter O'Malley did not probe. And this left Kleinsasser to wonder whether the whole exercise with Fuller and the class project and his own refinements of the dome had less to do with building a stadium than with building a model that Walter O'Malley could show as evidence of his desire to build a stadium. Billy Kleinsasser recognized, however, that he was only guessing. But then Walter O'Malley, a gregarious man, a talker, an infinitely accessible sort, nonetheless often left people who believed they knew him well wondering what, precisely, he was thinking.

Chapter Two

Himself

Walter Francis O'Malley was then fifty-two years old and in his manner and bearing cultivated the air of prosperity. He was thick in the middle and in the face; his jowls were so heavy they swallowed his chin. His onetime manager, the vulgar and trenchant Leo Durocher, called him "whale belly." His appearance had changed little over the years, other than in the thickening. His hair was dark and oiled, parted in the middle and combed straight back. He wore frameless glasses and double-breasted suits, the better to conceal his gut. He smoked too much and exercised too little; he golfed occasionally at Vero Beach, but mostly he gardened.

He and his wife, Kay, were approaching their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They had two children, a twenty-one-year-old daughter, Terry, and Peter, an eighteen-year-old son. They lived in the Long Island town of Amityville. The house had been his parents' summer home. O'Malley had remodeled it and relocated his family there from Brooklyn in 1944. The house stood next door to the house where Kay O'Malley had grown up and where her parents still lived. There was no fence between their yards, and the O'Malley children had had a wide field in which to run. He commuted to his office on Montague Street in Brooklyn in a big black Buick chauffeured by his driver, Tony DeMeo. Like so many of the people who used to come to his ballpark, he had moved his family from Brooklyn to the Island and went to work in a car.

He always tried to be home for dinner. The family gathered at one end of the long dining room table built from a thick, varnished piece of wood that sat on two tree stumps. Papers were piled on the other end, and that is where he worked after dinner. In the longer evenings of spring and summer, he retired with his wife to the small greenhouse on the side of the house and tended the orchids they kept.

His first act upon rising was to light a cigarette. Then, a devout Catholic, he dropped to his knees and said his morning prayers. He made breakfast for his wife and children before leaving for work. He attended Mass every Sunday with his family. Sometimes, after Mass, they went to eat at a diner in Massapequa. He liked to cook and he liked to eat and he swore to his family that even though he could not abide the taste of fish he would one day come up with a recipe that would satisfy both him and the church's prohibition against eating meat on Fridays. He tended toward lecturing when disciplining his children, especially when they fought-an only child, he did not understand how siblings could fight-and he launched into a refrain about how children fighting led to neighbors fighting, led to cities fighting, led to nations fighting which, during the war years, left his children thinking, guiltily, that they were somehow to blame for the battles in Europe and the Pacific. He made a practice of attending his son Peter's football games at LaSalle Academy. He and his wife chaperoned their daughter's dances, once prevailing upon one of his pitchers, Rex Barney, to join them at a high school party. His daughter was thrilled, but not nearly as much as she was when she was sixteen and received her driver's license. That day her father told her to pack her pajamas, her toothbrush, and a hairbrush because now that she had a license it was time for her to drive. He gave her the wheel and that day they drove for hours. They stopped at his uncle's farm and the next day they drove to Cooperstown, to see the Baseball Hall of Fame. On summer weekends he took his children sailing on his boat, Dodger.

If there was trouble at work he might talk about it at the dinner table but did not display rage or frustration. Sometimes he told stories that his storytelling catcher, Roy Campanella, had told him. When his wife, Kay, spoke, he and the children turned to face her so that they could read her lips. She spoke only in a whisper. Shortly before they were to be married, Kay O'Malley was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx. To save her life, doctors advised the new technique of removing her voice box and then treating her with x-rays. She would be rendered mute, and her doctors warned her that the x-rays could make her infertile. Walter O'Malley's father advised him to break off the engagement. He refused. She would be, he told his father, the same girl he loved, whether or not she could speak. When Kay told him that she might never be able to have children, he replied that if God intended them to have children they would have children and if he did not he would be married to her just the same. His parents did not attend the wedding.

He looked just like his father, Edwin, who had been a middle-level functionary in the New York City Democratic Party-commissioner of markets, a ward heeler's plum-and who made his money in the dry goods business. His father was the son of Irish immigrants; his mother's parents were German. Walter O'Malley let the world think of him as Irish.

He grew up in the Bronx. He rooted for the Giants as a boy, or so he said years later, establishing his bona fides as a baseball fan. He would talk of his devotion to the game as "a virus"-"It's in my Irish bloodstream, and I revel in it"-and of how his uncle Clarence would take him to the Polo Grounds. He would tell, impishly, of sneaking into the Polo Grounds-"There were ways, ho, ho, there were ways." He insisted that he once traded ten Dodger pictures that came with packs of Sweet Caporal cigarettes for a single picture of the great Giant pitcher, Christy Mathewson.

He also liked to hint at a rough-and-tumble childhood, growing up "with the rock-throwing gangs of Crotona Park." Still, he did become a Boy Scout, rising to the rank of Star, two grades below Eagle. He also organized a unit of scouts, the Pine Tree Patrol, an early foray into politics-his father's world-that foreshadowed the sort of life he would fashion for himself. His father sent him to the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. He did not want to go; "my parents," he later said, "made me." He arrived at Culver a husky boy with a penchant for joining and organizing: corporal of "the Battery," his military unit; manager of the company baseball and tennis teams; member of the executive staff of the Vedette, the student newspaper; member of the Hospital Visitation Committee, the Debating Team, the Bible Discipline Committee, and the YMCA. The comment about him in the 1922 Roll Call student yearbook read: "A pleasing personality is perhaps his greatest asset, and with it he has won himself many friends." His teachers regarded him as "a very promising student" with "an excellent attitude." Friends thought he might one day become a newspaperman. He played baseball but stopped when a ground ball bounced badly, struck him in the face, and broke his nose. He graduated in 1922 and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania.

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How to Understand the Differences Between Home Care and Home ...

Do you know the differences between home care and home healthcare in Mason OH? Realizing the difference between home care and home health care can be challenging to begin with. When an elderly family member initially starts to need to have to services, it can be a struggle to find out which services are mandatory and when. If the senior demands an injected medication or nursing care while recuperating from an operation, then home healthcareis needed. If the elderly family member needs assistance in bathing, cooking or housekeeping, then home care can provide the support.

Home care and home healthcare are different in two ways.

Home care offers non-medical services and is not paid for by by Medicare, however some home care services and agencies may be licensed by the states. Home care services are private pay services, meaning the patient or the patient?s family will pay directly for home care. Once in a while long-term care insurance may handle home care as well. Home health care, however, is medical care that is contained by health insurance or Medicare. To acquire home health care, a senior or a patient must be homebound and in need of assistance of medical care as decided by a doctor. Medicare might in addition cover non-medical providers ?implemented by a home health aide, but these services are only covered when alternative medical care at home is needed. Commonly these non-medical services materialize at the same time as medical care visits.

Home care presents non-medical services to seniors and patients recovering from operations. Assistance in bathing and dressing are common home care services. Other activities home care workers present include light housekeeping, meal preparation, running errands and transportation. Guidance in walking or exercise and other light aid to make life easier are offered by home care professionals. As the population grows older, home care agencies proliferated to meet the needs of the elderly who want to stay in their homes, but who might require assistance to do so.

Home healthcare is doctor-prescribed, and is provided by skilled medical personnel such as nurses who can administer medication. Physical and occupational therapists may also be concerned in the health care treatment. Home health aides may be assigned to aid with activities of daily living. These services will be covered by Medicare as long as other medical care is also required.

Home care workers can present medication reminders, but cannot administer the medication. Home care workers also assist with daily living activities such as preparing meals, light housekeeping, helping with bathing, running errands and providing transportation to appointments. Home care services are privately funded by the patient, senior or their family. Long-term care insurance may also cover home care services.

For information about how Family Bridges Home Care can help your family with home care services Norwood OH, call our caregivers today, 888-900-0048. We provide home care services?and assistance to our seniors, veterans, and the disabled in our community.

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