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BALTIMORE If you shot a lacrosse ball downhill from the home of the sport's most decorated family, within a mile it would pass the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and then reach the nation's oldest lacrosse stadium where the eight Stanwick kids who lived up the street would go to practice and spare their house's sunroom windows.

If one of the Stanwicks shot the ball with the accuracy that has produced more than 1,000 Division I goals over nearly two decades, it likely would wind up in an appropriate place: Johns Hopkins University's Cordish Lacrosse Center (what other university has a lacrosse center?), where nine NCAA lacrosse championship trophies are displayed in a two-story-high case, with the Blue Jays' 35 other national titles carved into a stair wall.

The windows atop the staircase provide a panoramic view of 8,500-seat Homewood Field, built in 1906 for a lacrosse program started in 1883. That was 13 years before the founding of the college conference whose logo has been displayed on the Homewood turf since the start of this season, marking one of the most dramatic changes ever in the sport's history.

"When we heard we were joining the Big Ten, it was kind of crazy, because when you hear Big Ten, you think of football and basketball," said Wells Stanwick, a Hopkins senior attackman. "To be in a big-time conference like this is something pretty special."

It also is a bit incongruous: a university with Division III status in every other sport not only going up against the Monsters of the Midwest but becoming the preseason pick to win the title in the inaugural season of Big Ten lacrosse. Fittingly, the league scheduled Saturday's meeting at Homewood Field against another Big Ten debutant, Rutgers, as the conference's first men's lacrosse game.

That it happened reflects the seismic changes in the landscape of big-time college sports, with conferences like the Big Ten spreading far beyond their natural geographic base.

In this case, it was the 2012 addition to the Big Ten of Maryland, partner to Johns Hopkins in lacrosse's oldest and fiercest rivalry, that motivated Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany to call JHU athletic director Tom Calder about two years ago.

"It came out of the blue, so I initially was thinking maybe this is a joke," Calder said. "Then I realized it really was Jim Delany, and he said, 'What are your thoughts about joining a conference in lacrosse? Why don't you consider us?'''

The conference switching involving men's lacrosse powers like Syracuse (11 NCAA titles) and Maryland (two) had Johns Hopkins concerned about how long it could continue as an independent.

Johns Hopkins' seemingly natural lacrosse home, the Atlantic Coast Conference, expressed no interest in adding the Blue Jays.

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A rendering of a proposed "Thank You America'' statue in the north plaza of the Santa Clara County building. (Photo courtesy Santa Clara County)

Jim McEntee came about as close to sainthood as our current political life in Santa Clara County permits. As a former priest and the director of the county's human relations for 27 years, he was a passionate advocate for social justice, civil rights and economic fairness.

Above all, McEntee was a man of peace. After county officials named the north plaza at 70 W. Hedding St. after McEntee, they dedicated a glass mural and a "gathering place for peace'' in his honor -- eight benches surrounding tilework of a dove.

Now, a dozen years after McEntee's death, the county is about to muddy that message. A group of Vietnamese-Americans has proposed a "Thank You America'' monument a few yards away, highlighted by a bronze American and a Vietnamese soldier, each carrying a gun.

A rendering of a proposed "Thank You America'' statue in the north plaza of the Santa Clara County building. (Photo courtesy Santa Clara County)

On their agenda Tuesday, (see goo.gl/rx6ZdU), the supervisors will consider designating the site for a work expected to be funded primarily by the Vietnamese-American community, which hopes to raise $300,000. A sketch shows the statue displaying the American flag and the old South Vietnam flag.

To be fair, the "Thank You America Monument'' is proposed for a landscaped area between the old county building -- now the DA's office -- and Hedding Street. As you face the county complex from the north, it's about 40 yards to the right of the McEntee tile work and 25 feet or so from the edge of the plaza itself.

Too close

But let's not tiptoe around the truth. This monument doesn't work next to the McEntee Plaza. I doubt it works on any public property, but certainly not here. McEntee dedicated his life to nonviolence. For all the gratitude behind it, this monument undercuts what he stood for.

To use a crass comparison, it's like the Yankees opening an adjunct area in center field to honor Boston Red Sox players. It's like a vegan place expanding the menu to offer steak and kidney pie. It's like Apple embracing Android. Tired of peace? We've got war a few yards away.

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Landscaping work at Bathursts city entrances has come to an unplanned pause, but mayor Gary Rush says it will still be completed by proclamation day.

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Landscaping work at Bathursts city entrances has come to an unplanned pause, but mayor Gary Rush says it will still be completed by proclamation day.

The work to revamp the citys entrances on the Mitchell and Mid Western highways has been designed to incorporate the citys history and heritage.

Motorists have been watching the project progress over the past few months, but it has now paused while contractors seek bluestone.

We thought we could buy it in tile form, Cr Rush said.

He said contractors are now searching for alternatives to the planned bluestone tiles.

There are design issues that sometimes present themselves in any construction, small or large, that need to be revised, he said.

Once found, the bluestone will be added to the brick wall already in place at both sites.

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Quick work by firefighters prevented a shed fire from becoming hazardous and forcing the evacuation of neighbours.

Crews from Guildford were called to a blaze in Barton Road, Bramley at around 1.20pm where they found two sheds well alight

A gas container was inside one of the sheds but firefighters managed to cool it before it became a hazard.

Paul Monkhouse, watch commander, said: It was a large fire in the garden involving two sheds and a closed LPG (liquid petroleum gas) cylinder. We managed to cool it down, if not we would have had to evacuate the local area.

The fire destroyed the two sheds and caused damage to nearby wheelie bins, fence, garden shrubbery and pipe work.

Adrian Knight, who lives in the property next door and had his fence ruined said: I was coming back from Godalming, when I got here I saw the fire engines.

"I am going to wait for the fire brigade to investigate [before clearing up].

There is damage to plastic pipe work, cracking of windows and damage to the doors. They had put it out by 1.50pm.

Mr Knight explained the heat of the fire was high enough to damage his metal bench, along with the fence at the side of his property.

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PHOENIX -- Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie spent a long time Tuesday trying not to say what appears to be the absolute truth in Philadelphia: Chip Kelly wanted then-general manager Howie Roseman out of the way in order to create the team in his vision.

"It wasn't Howie," Lurie said. "I think it was much more Chip's requirement to have sort of a football guy that he was comfortable with in terms of helping him day by day and minute by minute. We all recognize the value of, in organizations today, having someone that can manage the cap well, negotiate well, plan well and at the same time, evaluate well and be tied at the hip with the coach."

So basically, Kelly didn't think Roseman was a "football guy?"

"That may have been the interpretation," Lurie said. "But I don't think any of us really see it that way."

A lot of other people do, of course. But the reality is, Lurie is not making a bad football move here. A coach needs personnel to filter into his system. His system, which was wildly successful at the college level, is unique. He needs to re-tool the scouting department and re-teach all of the team's evaluators on how to interview and select prospects.

The problem is that Lurie isn't really guarding himself from what might happen if it all blows up, or if Kelly seeks more power, money or control in the future.

The owner admitted on Tuesday that he did not place any safeguards into Kelly's deal along with his new decision-making power, which ultimately allows the former college star to return to a place where any program would pay top dollar to have him.

Then, the Eagles would be left with all these unique ingredients with no chef to prepare them. They will have also lost LeSean McCoy, DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and Nick Foles in the process.

"You think it through very much," Lurie said. "Chip is bright, he's smart, he's obsessed with football. This man is all about winning and it doesn't matter to him the public perception of a trade or where he's coming from. He's all about football and making us better."

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How did the stock market do today ? All major benchmarks erased earlier gains in the last 15 minutes of trading to close in the red. The Dow Jones fell 11 points.

Investors weighed fluctuations in the U.S. dollar and its effect on global commodity prices.

Gold prices rose $3.10 to hit $1,187.70 per ounce. Silver prices climbed one cent to $16.89 an ounce.

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Dow: 18,116.04, -11.61, -0.06%

S&P 500: 2,104.42, -3.68, -0.17%

Nasdaq: 5,010.97, -15.44, -0.31%

What Moved the Stock Market Today : The markets were relatively muted this afternoon as investors are still digesting monetary policy decisions from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Stanley Fischer, who is second-in-command at the Federal Reserve, said this morning that the bank is "widely expected" to raise interest rates later this year and that the decision could come after any FOMC meeting when policy makers feel the time is right.

Brent crude oil prices gained roughly 1.1% on the day, despite increased concerns about global oversupply. Saudi Arabia announced today it is pumping more than 10 million barrels of crude per day, a new record for the region. Domestic oil prices gained 1.5% on a weaker dollar. Investors will be keeping a tight eye on inventory reports due out later this week.

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