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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Nothing Could Be Finer Than Some Wine From Carolina in the Morning
Raffaldini Wines I'm Using to Talk About Myself
Raffaldini NV "La Dolce Vita" $16
Raffaldini 2012 Pinot Grigio Swan Creek $15
Raffaldini 2012 Vermentino Riserva Swan Creek $19
Raffaldini 2011 Sangiovese Swan Creek $18
Raffaldini 2011 Sangiovese Riserva Swan Creek $23
Raffaldini 2011 Montepulciano Riserva Swan Creek $29
I received an invitation late last year to a comparative tasting of Italian varieties, notably Montepulciano, at Raffaldini Vineyards. Sounded fun, the only catch was that Raffaldini Vineyards is in North Carolina. I have no idea how I ended up on their invite list, but I sent a note to Thomas Salley, their Media Relations guy, expressing my regrets at being unable to attend, given that I wasn't sure North Carolina was an actual place. Eventually, Mr. Salley offered to send me samples of Raffaldini's wines. Yes, Virginia, there is a North Carolina.
Comparative blind tastings are a classic marketing tool in the wine business, and in thinking about the Raffaldini wines, I flashed on how many I've attended over the years. In some ways, they rely on the same principles as magic (performed by "The Great Raffaldini!")—misdirection, the human ability to convince yourself you can't be fooled, and outright lying. This is why I love them. But, like magic, most of the fun goes away when you know how it's done. You know that the magician didn't actually saw the woman in half, or make her levitate, or decapitate her, unless you're watching a bad rerun of Peter Falk as "Columbo," but you just can't quite figure out how it was done. You read a book on magic, find out, and now the tricks are suddenly stupid, replacing you.
Almost anyone who's been in the trade long enough has attended a Robert Mondavi blind tasting featuring Mondavi Reserve Cabernet versus First Growth Bordeaux. You sit and taste six wines, try to guess which are which, rank them in order of preference, and wait for the big reveal. Just like Three Card Monte, the dealer can't lose. Plus, the opportunity to taste a First Growth or two gets buyer butts in seats. Obviously, if the tasting group of sommeliers and wine buyers chooses the Mondavi Reserve as the best wine, it's a win for Mondavi. But even if the Margaux, or Latour, or Lafite, manages to eke out a victory, Mondavi wins. Why? Because the Mondavi is cheaper. By a lot. So a wine salesman can say to his customer, "I just had the Mondavi Reserve blind next to Margaux. The Margaux won, but the Mondavi was second, and it's half the price!" Just using Mondavi and Margaux in the same sentence is a win for Mondavi.
It also brings up an interesting semantic point. Well, interesting to me. Salespeople will tell you an expensive wine is "cheap." A really cheap wine they will tell you is "inexpensive." Used car salesman talk. For example, "Mondavi Reserve is cheap compared to Chateau Margaux!" sounds better than, "Mondavi Reserve is inexpensive compared to Chateau Margaux!" You want to leave "expensive" out of it. But a basic wine that sells for under, say, fifteen dollars is never referred to as cheap. "This is gorgeous Merlot, and it's really inexpensive!" is better than "This is gorgeous Merlot, and it's really cheap!" So always remember, those $100 bottles are cheap, your every day bottle of Trader Joe's Reserve Shoe Polish is inexpensive.
Wine shops love to rig blind tastings too. It's so easy to do. Let's say you're throwing a blind tasting of ten California cult Cabernets. One of those wines, Spottswoode, let's say, you were only allotted a single case. You know it's a great wine, but you do NOT want it to win. You want a wine you have a lot of to win. What do you do? You put it first. The first wine in a blind tasting only rarely wins. Most people, even if they know a lot about wine, can't believe that the first wine can possibly be the best wine on the table with nine more wines left to taste! So it won't win. But whatever does win will have won over the Spottswoode, making it truly amazing wine. Even if it's not. How do you make the wine you want to win actually win? Lots of ways. But the easiest is to say, first of all, that you, the owner of the shop, don't know the order of the wines being poured. Of course, you do know. When a magician asks a member of the audience, "Have we ever met?" and the audience member says, "No," what makes you believe him? He's a shill more often than not. It's the classic "willing suspension of disbelief" that entertainment often relies on. So you, as owner, know which wine you want to sell. You're at the front of the room, and all eyes are on you. All you have to do is to pick up the glass of the wine you want to move, smell it, raise your eyebrows as though greatly impressed, close your eyes, nod appreciatively, sip it, smile, spit it out, and make furious notes. Your crowd, who sees you as guru, will pick up on your cues, though you've never said a single word. And, magically, that wine drifts to the top of the voting. Believe me, this always works.
In my sommelier days, I had little patience for stupid marketing pitches that relied on blind tastings. One of my least favorites was a new winery telling me, "We tasted our 2007 Cabernet blind against Harlan Estate, Montelena, Opus One, Bryant Family, Colgin and Screaming Eagle, and our wine won! So we think $150 is a fair price." Who falls for that crap? I'd reply, "Wow! Really? A wine you made for your personal taste, that you've tasted thirty times, actually won? Amazing! I have a suggestion. Next time, taste your new, unproven, no track record Cabernet against wines that cost $50. It will still win, and you can charge $60, which is what it's actually worth." That wine sales technique is really a version of "the vineyard is right next to…name a famous vineyard." Such horse shit. And in the next breath, they tell you what makes their wine unique is its microclimate, it's terroir—forget that it's next to Petrus now, in other words, and focus on how singular it is.
The truth is that wines are not made to be compared to other wines. We all do it, for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't make it right. The longer you are involved with wine, the more experience you bring to every bottle you taste, and that's certainly invaluable, but comparing Lafite to Margaux, or Rayas to Beaucastel, is wrongheaded. Making purchasing decisions based on blind comparative tasting makes me think of paraphrasing Richard Pryor (who was paraphrasing Chico Marx in "Duck Soup"), "Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' palate?"
I'm pretty sure at this point Thomas Salley is really glad I didn't believe in the existence of North Carolina and show up to his Raffaldini tasting.
For no valid reason, I brought low expectations to tasting wines from North Carolina. Though I've certainly tasted North Carolina wines blind in various wine competitions, the Raffaldini would be the first North Carolina wines I've tasted intentionally. I have to say, I was often surprised by the wines, and in a good way. The wines, while all over the place from a quality standpoint, certainly reflect an owner and winemaker dedicated to quality. The motto of Raffaldini Vineyards is "Chianti in the Carolinas." Are there any wineries on the west coast with mottos? Maybe. Didn't Saintsbury used to say "Beaune in the USA?" Maybe there should be more. "Get yourself a DAOU Jones." OK, maybe not.
The first wine I tried was the Raffaldini 2012 Pinot Grigio. Pinot Gris/Grigio is a variety I am not particularly attracted to. When you talk about Pinot Gris, everyone uses Alsace as the shining example, but most of the time I find those wines are just Tokay. Italian Pinot Grigio can be refreshing, even compelling, but not very often. Given all the superior Italian white varieties—Fiano, Garganega, Arneis, Greco, Tocai Fruilano--it seems odd to get worked up over the ubiquitous Pinot Grigio. It's the dullest grape at the party, the one trying so hard not to offend anyone--it's a grape wallflower. Yet the Raffaldini had quite a bit of personality, though it reminded me texturally of Alsace Pinot Gris more than Italian Pinot Grigio. Thick textured, aromatically like a fruit cocktail, the apple and canned peach character was appealing, and there was a nice backbone of acidity, though my overall impression of the wine is that it is a bit clunky, like a kid wearing shoes a size too big for him. However, it was damned nice with the Petrale sole I had sautéed for dinner. In fact, it lit up with the food, found its footing as it were, and I came away with a much better impression of it. Which, of course, is why you drink wine with food. For fifteen bucks, you could do a whole lot worse, and only occasionally better.
The Raffaldini 2012 Vermentino Riserva, don't think I've ever had a Riserva of Vermentino before this, it's sort of like today's special being french fries, was a joy to drink. I remarked to my wife that it reminded me of a white wine from Navarro, all the fruit intensity backed by racy acidity, a great purity of flavor and a mouthwatering finish. The nose was floral and very bright, peach blossom and apricot, and even had a trace of saltiness. But I was taken aback by how alive and delicious it was on the palate, and by the richness and sexiness of its texture. This is gorgeous wine for any state in the Union to produce. Here's an odd statement, it's the best domestic Vermentino I've tasted. Not sure how much weight a statement like that carries. It's right there with best black hockey goalie, but there it is. I'm a little surprised in this era of California producers fixated on varieties like Ribolla Gialla, Grenache Blanc and Arneis that there aren't more Vermentinos out there. Such a lovely grape, if not the most complex, and the Raffaldini Riserva is a marvelous example of its many charms. Liguria in the Carolinas!
You just can't be Chianti in the Carolinas without Sangiovese. You can't be Brunello in the Boonies either. The Raffaldini 2011 Sangiovese isn't bad. It isn't thrilling either. In its defense, I could say that about a lot of Sangiovese, especially domestic Sangiovese. I've heard people say they've had wonderful domestic Sangiovese, but I can't say I've tasted very many lately. The original Atlas Peak project ruined the California Sangiovese market—those were abysmal wines mostly. Now it seems like an afterthought of a variety in the state. The Raffaldini was pleasant, a bit on the ponderous side on the palate, but had Sangiovese's blend of ripe red fruits, mostly cherry here, and a bit of bitter almond skin on the finish. What was strange was that on the second night I put my nose in the glass and immediately flashed on a Rioja Crianza! Where did that come from? Sitting overnight hadn't done it any favors, yet it smelled like a very traditional, American-oaked Rioja. It was probably me.
The Raffaldini 2011 Sangiovese Riserva seemed like it was trying too hard. Hey, I'm a Riserva, I need to impress. People expect "more" from a Riserva, though how they define "more" is always suspect. Often, in Cabernet from Napa, for example, it means more new oak, or longer time in new oak. Over the years, I've found that in a lot of varieties of domestic wines, I prefer the non-Reserve wine. Too often, the Reserve wines are for status seekers, are for the people who have to go top shelf even if they have no idea what's on that shelf. It reminds me of my best friend going to buy tickets for the circus (what's more fun than going to the circus drunk, which we did when we could?) and getting talked into four seats in the "Owner's Box." Turns out the Owner's Box, at an extra twenty bucks a seat, was two feet from the regular seats. They saw him coming. That can often be a winery's Reserve. Anyhow, the Raffaldini Sangiovese Riserva had a raisined character to the nose, it reminded me of ripasso in a very vague sense, but also some nice dark red fruit and an unusual spiciness. It has nice energy on the palate, but, well, it's muddled. Sure, it's easy to drink, but I thought it lacked varietal definition. It did hold up well overnight, still displaying that energy, but it just seemed like they tried to make too much out of the materials they had at hand. Though, to be fair, it's Sangiovese from North Carolina, so it's way better than you think.
Montepulciano seems like a good choice for North Carolina. It's one of those grapes that's pretty resistant to downy mildew (which one can get from Robert Downey, Jr's career path) as well as bunch rot. And if you've ever had your bunch rot, you know how nasty that can be. I like Montepulciano, though it's so often pedestrian unless it's in the hands of someone like Valentini. The Raffaldini 2011 Montepulciano Riserva is an interesting wine. It wasn't until after I spent a few days with it that I read that it's done in appassimento style, the style of Amarone, where the grapes are allowed to raisin, sometimes on mats, sometimes hanging from hooks, but dessicated in order to concentrate the wines. It's an ancient technique, borrowed from dentists' offices, and, done properly, it's very labor intensive and delicate work. The Raffaldini is impressively robust, and very dense. It's a bruiser, and really needs something very hearty and smoky to eat to match it. I can't think of a Montepulciano anything like it. It's a very interesting style choice, and, here, it's a Riserva for a reason. It will have a very long life ahead of it. The question isn't whether it will age, the question is, will it evolve? I wonder. But as I said to the gentleman who sent me these wines, "It's one to Lay Down, Salley." But if you're a fan of, say, mammoth California Petite Sirah, or of Amarone, you will find this wine appealing. It has very dense blackberry fruit, with notes of espresso, and a nice touch of mild bitterness to the finish. Maybe a bit monolithic for my taste, but, really, considering the appassimento style, and the work involved with that, it's very impressive winemaking. Very impressive. Just don't serve it thinking it's your basic Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. It's a million miles from that.
Lastly, there's the non-vintage Raffaldini La Dolce Vita. When I opened the shipping box holding the Raffaldini wines, it was a surprise to see one of the bottles closed with a beer cap. It was La Dolce Vita, a sweet, frizzante white wine made, it seems, in the style of Moscato d'Asti. There's no Muscat in the wine, it's mostly Traminette, a popular hybrid that genetically can claim eight different species of vitis in its family tree (we've all had dogs like that), and it weighs in at only 7% alcohol. Fun wine, really. I'm sure it sells like crazy in the summer out of the tasting room. It doesn't have the refreshing sparkle that Moscato d'Asti has at its best, but, hey, what a great poolside drink, or the wine to serve that person in your life, and we all have one, who only likes sweet wines. Simply put, it's delicious, and filled with charm, a mouthful of juicy peach nectar flavor.
I couldn't resist a chance to talk about wines from North Carolina. There are about 160 wineries in North Carolina now. That's amazing, really. The Raffaldini wines gave me newfound respect for what vintners are trying to do there. I enjoyed all of the wines, at least on some level, and the Vermentino Riserva and Montepulciano Riserva are distinctive and worth trying if you run across them. If you want to add North Carolina to your life list of states from which you've had wine, Raffaldini would be my choice.
11 comments:
- Kiley Evans said...
Kind words, Ron, and very much appreciated. Robert Downey mildew...hilarious!
- April 10, 2014 at 10:10 AM
- Eric Degerman said...
Seems as if Kiley Evans, former winemaker at acclaimed Abacela in Oregon, has a pleasant portfolio to work with.
- April 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM
- Thomas said...
So now you gave away the whole blind tasting thing. Geez, are you trying to kill the wine business?
That Vermentino intrigues me. I am a fan of that grape variety and your description of the Raffaldini version is exactly what I expect from the wine. But I know they don't sell them in upstate New York retail outlets.
Have to wait until I make my next trip to No. Carolina...which is about as often as I date Scarlett Johansson.
- April 10, 2014 at 10:38 AM
- David Pierson said...
Man, was that ever an eye glazer.. made me pine for one of Walder's 9.5's...
- April 10, 2014 at 12:36 PM
- Thomas said...
Thanks for the post. You ended up on our contact list because we admire your writing style and perhaps, most importantly, choice of vocabulary.
- April 10, 2014 at 1:40 PM
- Thomas said...
Wait a minute: I didn't say that.
- April 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Nice wines. None of them were boring, and I dread boring wines. Each wine had something interesting to say, unlike me.
Thanks for chiming in.
Very nice wines from Raffaldini. I'd forgotten about Kiley's tenure at Abacela--it does explain some of the quality. The fruit gets some credit.
I liked the Vermentino a lot. Get the other Thomas (Salley) to send you a bottle. Delicious.
I'll send you a refund. Can't wait for your blog.
- April 10, 2014 at 6:21 PM
- David Pierson said...
It's coming! It's coming! And I'll consider it an honor if you barbeque my blog! Had it up for a bit, ya should have read how I got booed out of a theatre when I tried to take on Anthony Bourdain's bs..
- April 10, 2014 at 7:01 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I think you spoke for most of my audience when you talked about how dull this piece is. I don't mind. For me, these Wine Essays are a chance to do something different--actually talk about wine. Which, for the most part, is dull on the face of it. Drinking it with friends is wonderful and energizing. Talking about it to friends is dull. I try to inject some thought into these pieces, but it's simply a writing exercise for me.
Let me know when, or if, you restart your blog. Or you can have this one if you want it.
- April 11, 2014 at 7:30 AM
- David Pierson said...
I could never replace your wit! Wouldn't even try.. but hopefully give some people a chuckle.. funny, I was cleaning up my email and read one of your old columns where you wrote you got no interest in writing mind numbing, boring, useless wine descriptions. When I do my blog I was going to do what mama says, if you don't have something nice to say.. but realized that's not doing anyone any favors.. I once interviewed Alan Richman and he said, "Restaurant reviewing is not getting better and that disturbs me.. we're the Supreme Court justices, we have to have high standards and hold restaurants to them.. and you can say the same for wine reviewing.. so let the fur fly! Jus try not to be cruel...
- April 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I've panned quite a few wines in these wine essays. I always review all of the wines I'm sent, not just the ones I like. I don't think anyone makes horrible wine on purpose, except producers of Gruner, but now and again one turns up. But, for the most part, because I don't accept unsolicited samples (I don't list my home address anywhere on the blog), and I don't solicit samples otherwise, the wineries who contact me tend to be pretty good. If one contacts me that I know stinks, I don't accept the samples. The last time I panned a particular wine, the person who sent me the wine completely agreed with my opinion of it, and showed my thoughts to the owner and winemaker to help prove his own point.
When you don't use some kind of scoring system, you have to choose your words more carefully to communicate your opinion of the wine. Numbers aren't just foolish, they're also a lazy shortcut. Words give context and perspective, not just definitions of quality, or lack of it.
I seem to end up getting just the right number of wineries sending me wine to do a Wine Essay once a month. I spend a lot of time with the wines, and that's fun for me. And I do it for myself, not my common taters. For youse guys, I write stupid jokes.
- April 12, 2014 at 8:59 AM

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Wabash, Hampden-Sydney Journalists to do Exchange Visitby Patrick Smith '08 • September 21, 2006 Share:
Four Wabash students will travel Oct. 12-13 to Hampden-Sydney College (HSC) in Virginia to explore life at the only other traditional all-male college in the United States. The trip, over Wabash's mid-semester break, marks the first collaboration between the Bachelor and The Wabash Commentary. Three Hampden-Sydney students will spend time on the Wabash campus Oct 16-17.
"The idea of the trip is that we can begin an informal working relationship with another all-male college," Commentary editor Brandon Stewart said. "We are an endangered breed and we need to learn from and support one another in the future. Hopefully this first trip will open up the possibility of more such trips."
Stewart developed the idea after a conference of Wabash and HSC female faculty, hosted by Cheryl Hughes and Lucinda Huffaker, concerning the place of women at an all-male school. His initial plan, a conference of advocates and administrators of all-male education, evolved with input from the Wabash's Public Affairs staff to the exchange visit.
"I also spoke with Dr. (David) Blix about my concerns and he counseled me to pursue something more informal to get the ball rolling," Stewart said. " I had sought him out specifically, because he taught at Hampden-Sydney for a short while in the '90s."
Public Affairs director Jim Amidon noted that Stewart's project provided an opportunity for Wabash and Hampden-Sydney to have some contact.
"We've been looking for ways to get students from Wabash together with students from Hampden-Sydney for years," he said. "When Brandon Stewart came to us with the idea we began to get excited about the possibilities of what has become a 'journalism exchange.'"
Amidon also was interested in the overall function such an "exchange" would serve. "One of the more intriguing aspects is both schools have agreed to publish the stories of all seven student-journalists. Reading how men at another men's college view us should give us an interesting perspective."
The students venturing to Hampden-Sydney include two representatives from the Bachelor and the Commentary. Brock Johnson '07 and Campbell Robbins '09 will be the Bachelor reporters. The Commentary will send Stewart '08 and Sean Clerget '09.
The Wabash Commentary is a private, student-published conservative journal. Since its founding, it has not collaborated with the Bachelor on a project. In keeping with its mission statement to advocate for a traditional Wabash, the Commentary is approaching this trip as an opportunity to solidify all-male education at the College.
Stewart hopes that cooperation with another, similar school will provide answers to critics of the College and advocates for coeducation at Wabash.
"I hope that it brings more solidarity to the two schools," Robbins said. "I think that it's important, as one of the three all-male schools left, that we're able to support each other."
"But we have nothing, other than the care and devotion of Wabash's loyal sons, keeping us all-male," Stewart said. "And we have seen time and time again throughout the College's history that that is rarely enough to prevent some from attempting to change that."
Among the students who will be going on the trip, there is anticipation. Many Wabash students know of Hampden-Sydney as the "other" all-male school in the nation, but few have known more than that. Morehouse College at Atlanta, Georgia, is also an all-male school, but allows its students to take classes at Spellman College, an all-women's college in Atlanta.
Robbins is excited by the trip. "I honestly don't know what to expect, and that's really the most exciting part for me," he said. "I think not going in with any expectations will allow me to really look at everything with both eyes wide open."
Smith is a staff writer and Opinion Editor for the Bachelor.
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#1 Baseball Beats Cal 6-1; Sets School Record With 22-0 Start
March 27, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. - History was made on Saturday at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, as the No. 1 Arizona State University baseball team defeated California 6-1 to set a new school record for the best start to a season. A second consecutive sellout crowd of 4,371 saw the Sun Devils improve to 22-0, 2-0 in the Pac-10, surpassing the 21-0 start by the 1961 squad.
Merrill Kelly had his second consecutive great start, going 6.1 innings and allowing just two hits and one run with five strikeouts to earn the win. He is now 6-0 in six starts this season.
Kelly and Cal starter Justin Jones had a pitcher's duel early, as the game remained scoreless through the first four innings.
However, the Sun Devils would break through against Jones in the bottom of the fifth. Matt Newman walked to lead off the inning and Zach Wilson followed with a double down the left field line to put runners on second and third with no outs. Johnny Ruettiger then drove in the game's first run with a groundout, Austin Barnes followed him with a walk and then Deven Marrero provided the big hit of the night with a three-run home run to left. It was Marrero's first career home run.
Cal's Danny Oh hit a solo home run in the sixth to put the Golden Bears on the scoreboard, but ASU answered with a run of its own in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single by Wilson.
The Bears threatened in the seventh with two on and one out, but Mitchell Lambson came on from the bullpen and got a strikeout and a groundout to end the inning. Lambson also pitched a scoreless eighth, and Barnes had an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to cap off the scoring. Jordan Swagerty then pitched a scoreless ninth to finish off the victory.
Wilson, Ruettiger, Marrero and Riccio Torrez all had two hits each in the victory.
The Sun Devils wrap up their three-game series with Cal on Sunday, with first pitch scheduled for 12:30 p.m. at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark.
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Most have been so excited to get their discs open they haven't been noticing, but Engadget have spotted something weird on the Wii U's proprietary disc format: the discs' edges are rounded.
Because these are special Nintendo discs, and not DVDs or Blu-Rays, I guess the company needed to do something to differentiate their product, so rounded edges it is.
The effect is described "as if the folks at Nintendo took sandpaper to every edge of every disc, making them all the more friendly to the touch".
Which sure sounds like something Nintendo would do. "There is not enough joy in these discs! Round the edges to create more happiness for the user when they first experience the disc!"
Take a very, very close look at the round-edged Wii U proprietary discs [Engadget]


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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Twenty-four more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists have escaped and 85 still are missing, an education official said Friday.
Some of the women jumped off the back of a truck when they were kidnapped before dawn Tuesday from a high school in the extreme northeast of Nigeria. Others have escaped into the Sambisa Forest, which borders their school in Chibok town and is a known hideout of militants of the Boko Haram terrorist network.
"So far, we give thanks to God, for what we now have is 44 girls" who have escaped, the Borno state education commissioner, Musa Inuwo Kubo told The Associated Press by telephone Friday night.
He said some of the latest escapees were found Wednesday nearly 50 kilometres (30 miles) away from their school.
Extremists have been attacking schools and slaughtering hundreds of students in the past year. In recent months they have begun kidnapping students, who they use as cooks, sex slaves and porters.
But this week's mass abduction is unprecedented. The attackers also burned down many houses in the town.
The extremists have been on a rampage this week that started with a massive bombing attack on a busy bus station at rush hour on Monday in Abuja, the capital in the centre of the country, that killed at least 75 people. Twenty others were killed in attacks on two villages. And a soldier and police officer guarding the school in Chibok also were killed.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in the Islamic uprising this year, compared to an estimated 3,600 between 2010 and 2013. The attacks have undermined Nigerian government and military claims that they are containing the insurgency in the extreme northeast of the country.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful," believes Western influences are corrupting and wants to install an Islamic state in Nigeria. Africa's most populous nation of about 170 million is divided about equally between mainly Muslims in the north and Christians in the south.
Nigeria's military has remained inexplicably absent from Chibok, Kubo said, describing residents' "displeasure" that no security forces have come to secure the area since the attack.
Angry parents and all able-bodied men from the town have taken to the Sambisa Forest to try to find the students despite the dangers of confronting extremists.
The Defence Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, claimed in a statement Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 abducted students had been freed by security forces. But he retracted that statement on Thursday.


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"It's my job to create a giant umbrella and protect the studios from that because the game is first", Rohde told GamesIndustry during E3. "There's a name for that. My nickname is the Shit Umbrella. And it's very apropos."
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Polytech's strong second half leads the Lady Panthers to a 15-10 victory over Middletown in girls high school lacrosse..
After a slow and defensive-minded first half, the Polytech Lady Panthers exploded for ten second-half goals to defeat Middletown 15-10 Thursday afternoon in girls' lacrosse.
The Panthers are now 2-0 on the young season, while Middletown has a 1-2 record in the early going.
The two teams basically played strong defense in the first half, and essentially traded goals in the early going. Polytech did manage to pull ahead and take a slim 5-3 advantage into halftime.
The second half was more wide-open, as the teams were determined to put goals on the scoreboard. Overall, Polytech outshot Middletown 27-20 for the game, and outscored the Lady Cavs 10-7 in the high-scoring second stanza.
Sophomore Jamie Trabaudo scored seven times for the Panthers, while senior Kristin Wissler supplied four goals and sophomore Kathryn Richardson added two more. Middletown's senior Christina Gotthold scored five times, while junior Emily Pantazes had four goals and junior Alison Pantazes had one goal.
Middletown's Megan Hainsworth and Polytech's Lauren Lee both recorded ten saves apiece during the game. The Cavaliers next game is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at Christiana at 3:30 p.m.
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"…Shiny and sparkly/ And splendidly bright/ Here one day/ Gone one night" — Michael Jackson (Gone Too Soon)
Son of Alejandro Alegado Bargayo and Teofila Barcelos Cui.
Piano prodigy, even in a family of musicians; must have been the only sight reader of music in Carcar (then as today called primera vista–first sight) because musicians are always quick to attribute that ability of him: sight reading can be developed, but he seemed to have been born with it; equally quick learner on the violin; Carcar's Maestro Bindoy (Brigido Lakandazon) was there to guide his musical talents; to this day Carcar musicians and music lovers still talk of Baring Bargayo with a sigh when they talk music, and Carcar music that was.
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FEATURE | spring 2002
by Angela Davis
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No one-not even the men in the mob-had bothered to accuse Cordella Stevenson of committing a crime. She was black and that was reason enough. She was black and a woman, trapped in a society pervaded with myths of white superiority and male supremacy. She could be raped and murdered with absolute impunity. The white mob simply claimed that, a few months earlier, Cordella Stevenson's son had burned down a white man's barn.
It was 60 years ago when this black woman was raped and strung up on a tree. There are many who believe that incidents such as these belong to an era of racist terror now forever buried under the historical progress of the intervening years. But history itself allows only the naive to honestly claim these last 60 years as a time of unequivocal progress-especially when the elimination of racism and male supremacy is used as the yardstick.
Twenty-year-old Joan Little, one of the most recent victims in this racist and sexist tradition, is the cultural grandchild of Cordella Stevenson. She says that she resisted when she was sexually assaulted, but as a result she is currently being tried on charges of first-degree murder. In the event of a conviction, she will automatically get a death sentence and will be placed on North Carolina's death row-the result of a "legal" process, but still too close to the lynch law of the past.
The story begins last August 27, when a guard at the jail in Beaufort County, North Carolina, was found dead in the cell of a missing prisoner. He had been stabbed eleven times with an ice pick, the same ice pick that he had kept in his own desk drawer. The jailer, Clarence Alligood, was white. The missing prisoner was black, and the only woman in the entire jail. Because of a conviction on charges of breaking and entering, larceny, and receiving stolen property, Joan Little was serving a sentence of seven to ten years and had already been kept in the Beaufort County jail for three months at the time of her disappearance.
When the autopsy report was released, it contained this evidence of recent sexual activity on the part of Alligood: "His shoes were in the corridor, his socks on his feet. He was otherwise naked from the waist down. . . . The left arm was under the body and clutching his pants. . . . His right hand contained an icepick. There was blood on the sheet, cell floor, corridor. . . . Beneath his buttocks was a decorated, partially torn woman's kerchief. On the floor was a night gown and on the cell door was a brassiere and night jacket. . . . Extending from his penis to his thigh skin was a stream of what appeared to be seminal fluid. . . . The urethral fluid was loaded with spermatozoa."
After a week of evading police-who conducted their search with riot weapons and helicopters-Joan Little turned herself in, stating nothing publicly about the case except that she did what she had to do in self-defense. At her own insistence, Jerry Paul, the lawyer she contacted, received assurances that she would be incarcerated in the women's prison in Raleigh-not in the jail where the incident took place, and where she feared that she would be subjected to further sexual assault and perhaps even that her life would be in danger. Shortly thereafter, Joan Little was charged with murder in the first degree.
The circumstances surrounding this case deserve careful attention, for they raise fundamental questions about the bringing of murder charges against her. Moreover, they expose conditions and situations many women prisoners must confront, especially in the small-town jails of this country.
In fact, the reality of Joan Little's life as a prisoner, even before the rape, may have been one of sexual exploitation; a fate she consistently resisted. Jerry Paul has said, "One possibility is that she was being kept in Beaufort County Jail for openly sexual purposes."
She should have been moved to the women's prison in Raleigh shortly after her original conviction, but she was never transferred. According to Paul, a TV camera was focused on her cell at all times, leaving her no privacy whatever even when she changed clothes or took a shower. When she used her sheets to block the view, they were taken from her. Joan Little's lawyers have said that on one occasion a highway patrolman visiting the jail on business unrelated to Joan, came into her cell and urinated on the floor.
Essential to a clear perspective on the Joan Little case is an analysis of what might have happened if the situation had been reversed. What if Alligood had overpowered her? What if he had stabbed her with the ice pick-as he may have intended to do if she could not otherwise be raped? What if the sexually violated body of Joan Little had been discovered in that cell on the night of August 27?
There can be little speculation about the turn events would have taken had Joan Little been killed by Alligood. A verdict of "justifiable homicide" would have probably closed the books on such a case.
But she had the courage to fend off her assailant. The price of her resistance was a new threat of death, this time issuing from the government of North Carolina. And so she is being tried-by the same state whose Supreme Court decided, in the 19th century, that no white man could be convicted of fornication with a slave woman.
Joan Little stands accused by a court system which, proportionate to its population, has sentenced more political activists to prison than any other state in the country. The number of state prison units in North Carolina is staggering-more than five times greater than in California, the most populous state in the country. In fact, North Carolina, along with Georgia, can claim more prisoners per capita than any other state-and they include, of course, an enormously disproportionate number of black men and women.
As this article is being written, there are 71 prisoners on death row in North Carolina, making that state Number One in the nation in condemning people to legal death. In the event of a conviction, the state's present sentencing policy could make Sister Joan Little the third woman in the country to be sentenced to death since the Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that the death penalty imposed at the discretion of judges and juries was cruel and unusual punishment. North Carolina subsequently mandated that a conviction on a first-degree murder charge automatically carried the death penalty. This procedure was appealed to the Supreme Court in late April. The other two women presently on death row are also in North Carolina-a black and a Native American.
Joan Little's attorneys relate numerous possibilities of judicial bias against her. In Beaufort County, for instance, where families are generations old, virtually everyone knows everyone else. Living in the area are numerous Alligoods. One of these Alligoods sat on the Grand Jury which returned the indictment against Joan Little.
Without exception, every pretrial motion filed, as of this writing, has been flatly denied. Despite inflammatory publicity about Joan Little-including unfounded and malicious charges that she was a prostitute-and in spite of the unconcealed public sympathy for Alligood, the courts have refused to grant a change of venue for the trial.
Although Joan Little is indigent, her motion to have the court assume the costs of expert witnesses has been denied. It was denied even though the court does not have to pay her attorneys' fees, since the lawyers are donating their services.
Efforts to gain access to the evidence, in the form of discovery motions, have also been thwarted. The sheriff at first refused to release a list of female prisoners previously incarcerated in the jail, leading to a belief that the authorities feared the exposure of other sexual assaults by Alligood and his colleagues. Later, after the State Bureau of Investigation had questioned 65 former prisoners, their names were released to Joan Little's lawyers-but even this SBI report stated that some of these inmates claimed Alligood and other jailers made sexual advances toward them.
After the difficulty in locating Alligood's pants, the defense attempted to have all the evidence assembled and placed in protective custody. This was denied.
Although Sister Joan seemed clearly eligible to be released on bail, District Attorney William Griffin employed every trick of his trade to prevent her release. When the defense attorneys attempted to post bail, for instance, Griffin, relying on a technicality, ordered the clerk not to accept the bond. Finally, as a result of a nationwide outcry, she was released in February on bail of $115,000: an amount that is itself clearly exorbitant.
Over the last few years, widespread concern about the increasing incidence of sexual assaults on women has crystallized into a militant campaign against rape. In the Joan Little case, as well as in all other instances of sexual assault, it is essential to place the specific incident in its sociohistorical context. For rape is not one- dimensional and homogeneous-but one feature that does remain constant is the overt and flagrant treatment of women, through rape, as property. Particular rape cases will then express different modes in which women are handled as property.
Thus when a white man rapes a black woman, the underlying meaning of this crime remains inaccessible if one is blind to the historical dimensions of the act. One must consider, for example, that a little more than a hundred years ago, there were few black women who did not have to endure humiliating and violent sexual attacks as an integral feature of their daily lives. Rape was the rule; immunity from rape the exception. On the one hand the slave master made use of his tyrannical possession of slave women as chattel in order to violate their bodies with impunity. On the other hand, rape itself was an essential weapon utilized by the white master to reinforce the authority of his ownership of black women.
Although the immediate victim of rape was the black woman-and it was she who endured its pain and anguish-rape served not only to further her oppression, but also as a means of terrorizing the entire black community. It placed brutal emphasis on the fact that black slaves were indeed the property of the white master.
In conjunction with the sexual exploitation of black women, the stereotypical image of the black woman branded her as a creature motivated by base, animal-like sexual instincts. It was therefore no sin to rape her. This bestial notion of the black woman, incidentally, played and continues to play a significant role in justifying the overexploitation of her labor. For such a woman would hardly be distinguishable from a beast of burden. Again, she is openly defined as property. If rape was, in effect, institutionalized during slavery, essentially the same institutionalized form of rape is present today in such vestiges of slavery as do-mestic work. How many black women working in the homes of white people have not had to confront the "man of the house" as an actual or potential rapist?
The rape of the black woman and its ideological justification are integrally linked to the portrayal of the black man as a bestial rapist of white women-and, of course, the castration and lynching of black men on the basis of such accusations. Struggle against the sexual abuse of black women has demanded at the same time struggle against the cruel manip-ulation of sexual accusations against black men. Black women, therefore, have played a vanguard role, not only in the fight against rape, but also in the movement to end lynching.
For black women, rape perpetrated by white men, like the social stereotype of black men as rapists, must be classed among the brutal paraphernalia of racism.
Whenever a campaign is erected around a black woman who has been raped by a white man, therefore, the content of the campaign must be explicitly antiracist. And, as incorrect as it would be to fail to attack racism, it would be equally incorrect to make light of the antisexist content of the movement. Racism and male supremacy have to be projected in their dialectical unity. In the case of the raped black woman, they are mutually reinforcive.
Joan Little's assailant had probably been exposed to all the racist myths about black women, and was aware of the lack of redress available to victims of white rapists. In the aftermath of the incident, in fact, vicious accusa- tions were hurled at Joan Little: she was called a prostitute and it was claimed that she engaged in sexual activities with jailers.
Of course, the conviction rate for rape is the lowest of all violent crimes -regardless of the victim's ethnic group. Only in those instances where the accused rapist is black and the alleged victim is white can a long prison term or death penalty be antici- pated. From 1930 to 1967, 455 men were executed as a result of rape convictions: 405 of them were black, 48 of them were white, and two were of other ethnic groups. This means that almost 90 percent of all rape executions during this period involved black men.
Courts have established the pattern of either acquitting or not trying the majority of white men who are charged with rape. In New York, for instance, in 1967, 30 percent of all felony indictments ended in convictions, but in only 13 percent of all rape indictments were there convictions.
There must be a reason behind this social and judicial encouragement given to rape. This reason, in turn, must be related to the social and political function of male supremacy in general.
The oppression of women is a vital and integral component of a larger network of oppression which claims as its foremost victims black people, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asians, Indians, and all poor and working-class people. Just as class exploitation, racism, and imperialist subjugation of peoples abroad serve to nourish this larger system and keep it functioning, so male supremacy is likewise essential to its smooth operation. The larger system, of course, is monopoly capitalism and its overall driving motive is profit.
It is in the interests of the ruling class to cultivate the archaic patriarchal domination of women-based on male ownership of females as property-that flourished during the feudal era. As long as women are oppressed, enormous benefits accrue to the ruling class. Female labor can be even more flagrantly exploited than male labor. (White women's median wages are even lower than black men's and, of course, women of color receive the lowest wages of all workers.)
The social definition of women as housewives provides, as Alva Buxenbaum states, the most effective "rationale for failing to make housework and child care a social responsibility." A list of examples could go on and on. The social incentive given to rape is woven into the logic of the institutions of this society. It is an extremely efficient means of keeping women in a state of fear of rape or of the possibility of it. It is, as Susan Griffin wrote, "a form of mass terrorism." This, in turn, buttresses the general sense of powerlessness and passivity socially inflicted upon women, thus rendering them more easily exploitable. Yet, just as working-class and poor white people who exhibit racist attitudes toward people of color are unconscious agents of a higher power, so rapists (though they may be individually unaware of this) are performing deeds that give sustenance, not to them, but to the existing system.
Joan Little may not only have been the victim of a rape attempt by a white racist jailer; she has truly been raped and wronged many times over by the exploitative and discriminatory institutions of this society. All people who see themselves as members of the existing community of struggle for justice, equality, and progress have a responsibility to fulfill toward Joan Little. Those of us-women and men -who are black or people of color must understand the connection between racism and sexism that is so strikingly manifested in her case. Those of us who are white and women must grasp the issue of male supremacy in relationship to the racism and class bias which complicate and exacerbate it.
Let us be sure that the leitmotif running through every aspect of the campaign is unity. Our ability to achieve unity may mean the difference between life and death for Sister Joan. Let us then forge among ourselves and our movements an indivisible strength and with it, let us halt and then crush the conspiracy against Joan Little's life.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Running back Montee Ball spent his college career shoving aside Barry Sanders, Ricky Williams and Ron Dayne in the record books.
The runner Ball will pursue in the NFL: One-time Denver star Terrell Davis — and the Broncos couldn't be happier about it.
Denver used its second-round draft pick Friday to take Ball, the 5-foot-10, 217-pound bruiser out of Wisconsin who patterned his running style after Davis, the former Broncos great who led the franchise to its two Super Bowl titles.
"I've watched Terrell Davis — all his interviews, all his highlights, everything," said Ball, who described himself as a lifetime Broncos fan and even has a wooden Bronco head hung up on the wall of his apartment. "I grew up watching him a little bit. It's really crazy right now."
In the third round, the Broncos selected South Florida cornerback Kayvon Webster, a speedy cover man who gets to learn under Champ Bailey and might someday replace him.
"I love Champ," Webster said.
Ball, meanwhile, adds to Peyton Manning's growing group of playmakers on offense. Both coach John Fox and executive vice president John Elway described him as an every-down back who, as a second-round pick, is expected to compete for a starting job.
"We expect all these guys to contribute," Elway said. "The earlier you go, the more we hope they contribute."
Ball rewrote record books in both the Big Ten and Division I during his four years with the Badgers. He broke the touchdown record once held by Williams, finishing with 83 overall and 77 rushing.
Ball's 39 touchdowns in 2011 matched the single-season mark held by Sanders. Ball also left Dayne, the former Heisman Trophy winner from Wisconsin, in the dust. Dayne's 63 scores had been the Wisconsin record before Ball came along.
Ball's numbers as a senior were down from the year before, possibly in part because he suffered a concussion when he was jumped by several men Aug. 1 while he was walking home. That may have sent his draft stock downward, as well, but the Broncos chose him over Alabama's Eddie Lacy with the 58th pick, even though Lacy was rated 20 to 30 spots higher by many of the draft experts.
Lacy, who had dealt with a toe injury during his college career, went three spots later to Green Bay.
"It was a close call, no question," Elway said. "You're talking about two great backs. The bottom line is, we looked at the medical. It came down to the medical side."
Both of Denver's second-day picks addressed weaknesses that showed up in the team's playoff loss to Baltimore last season.
The Broncos secondary got beaten for three long touchdown passes in that game. Bailey gave up two of them, bringing on the predictable chirping about the cornerback, who turns 35 in June, losing a step. Earlier this month, Bailey said he wouldn't flinch if the team picked a cornerback.
Also in that 38-35 loss, the Broncos led by seven late and needed a couple of first downs to run out the clock. But with Willis McGahee on injured reserve and former first-round draft pick Knowshon Moreno on the bench with a knee injury, they handed off to Ronnie Hillman, a 190-pound rookie built more for change of pace than grinding.
Denver couldn't move the chains and the rest is history.
Both Elway and Fox said they were in the market for a big back. They got Ball, whose 5,140 career yards are also a Division I record, and now, the question is whether McGahee, Moreno or both have seen their last work in a Broncos uniform.
"I think we'll get through the draft, sit down, look at the offensive board and see what we're going to do there," Elway said.
Denver heads into the last day with three picks (fourth, fifth and seventh round) and only one major spot still unaddressed. That's defensive end, where the Broncos lost Elvis Dumervil, who had 11 sacks last season. Dwight Freeney is still on the free-agent market, and Denver's choices Saturday could foreshadow whether the team will make an aggressive play for the veteran pass rusher.
"You're always looking for pass rushers," Elway said, "trying to find needles in the haystack that have upside. Hopefully, there will be a couple nuggets there."


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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Fun Lovin' 40s
When I thought of the 1940s, I never thought of wild-and-crazy times. I always imagined people who were always properly dressed, properly coiffed, and properly behaved. Everything very proper. Basically, sticks in the mud.
While that may have been the case for some people, I realized that folks in the 1940s must have also liked to have a good time. Just look at some of the fun stuff those crazy kids invented in the 1940s:
Silly Putty - Even though it wasn't officially introduced as a toy until 1950 (after no practical use could be found for it), James Wright originally discovered it during an attempt to create synthetic rubber during WWII.
Frisbee - the actual invention date and its inventor are disputed, but Walter Morrison, the WWII veteran who managed to patent his design in the late 1940s took the credit, and the toy became a hit in the 1950s and continues to be popular today.
Slinky - discovered accidentally by mechanical engineer Richard James in 1945, and took America by storm!
These inventors are part of the 132 million people who make up the Greatest Generation, and are enumerated on the 1940 census. Volunteers are needed to index these records! The names, dates, places, and other information entered will become part of the online search, opening up that record's information in ways that weren't possible before. Help make history by volunteering today at the1940census.com!
**These good-time toys should not be confused with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the psychedelic properties of which were also discovered in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman. He lived in Switzerland, and is not listed in the 1940 U.S. census.
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2 comments:
- Laura Aanenson said...
Who knew? What a fun post - thanks for sharing!
- March 15, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- Michael Pierce said...
Amazing...those are some of my favorite toys growing up as well, and I wasn't born until the mid-1960s! And my kids liked all 3 as well. Good things are timeless.
If you have a minute, would love to hear what you think about my post about technology thought of in the 1940s that we still use today (like I just did in this comment with the link).
- March 18, 2012 at 6:29 PM


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Player of the YearLouis Birdsong Mount St. Joseph, senior
Birdsong epitomized the team concept that led the Gaels to a state record for wins in a season by a boys basketball team. The 6-foot-6, 240-pound senior forward's constant hustle and all-around play helped lead the Gaels to a 38-1 season and a No. 5 national ranking by USA Today.
Birdsong's strengths were in evidence in Frostburg this past weekend at the 46th Alhambra tournament, where he led the Gaels to their first final in that event in 35 years, which they lost to DeMatha, 70-55. Birdsong, who was named to the All-Tournament team, had team highs of 14 points and 12 rebounds in the final and finished with 40 points, 26 rebounds and seven blocked shots in three games.
The Sun's Player of the Year honor caps off a postseason flurry of awards for Birdsong. Baltimore Catholic League coaches voted him as Most Valuable Player of both the regular season and tournament.
Birdsong, who has a scholarship to George Mason, did not have the highest statistics among the area's elite players, but his value to a team with balanced scoring went beyond his numbers.
"Louis is always there when it counts on a team that shares the basketball and doesn't care who scores," Gaels coach Pat Clatchey said. "Louis is all about winning, and that's what this team is about."
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Coach of the YearPat Clatchey Mount St. Joseph
Clatchey led his alma mater to a state record for wins in a season by a boys basketball team, and has been named the All-Metro Coach of the Year for the second time in three years.
He led the Gaels to state records for single-season wins and most consecutive wins in one season. Mount St. Joseph finished as the runner-up in the 46th Alhambra tournament last weekend to conclude a 38-1 season that included four tournament titles and two regular-season crowns.
"Coach keeps everything on a low keel and is a great communicator," All-Metro guard Dejuan Goodwin said.
Clatchey's Gaels won the Gonzaga Classic in Washington, the Benedictine (Va.), the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference and the 35th Baltimore Catholic League tournament titles.
The Gaels became the first BCL team to go un-defeated in the regular season plus the tournament (19-0) since coach Charlie Reif's 1983-84 Calvert Hall team.
"We tell our guys to play with emotion, but don't be emotional, and I was amazed at their poise and composure," said Clatchey, 43, who has also been selected by his peers as BCL Coach of the Year five consecutive seasons, a span in which his Gaels went an area-best 151-24. "They've taken a lot of teams' best shots and didn't get rattled. They always found a way. It was never a goal to go undefeated."
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Baltimore City's leading scorer over the past two seasons, the 6-foot-3 senior guard led the No. 4-ranked Sabers to the Class 4A North regional title and the state semifinals. Barney, who led the metro area in scoring for most of the season, averaged 26.8 points and scored 1,366 points over his past two seasons, and more than 1,800 points in three seasons. This season, he scored a career-high 48 points against Williamsport (Pa.), and scored 41 against Carver. He also averaged 5.2 rebounds, six assists and four steals. Barney, also a first-team pick last season, has a scholarship to Providence.
Malcolm Delaney Towson Catholic, junior
A versatile guard who started his varsity career at McDonogh, the 6-3 junior has played the past two seasons at Towson Catholic and emerged as one of the area's top players. Delaney, who was a second team All-Metro pick last season after averaging 14 points a game, raised his scoring average to 18 per game this season and teamed with fellow junior Donte' Greene to give the No. 5 Owls a potent offense. They led the Owls to runner-up finishes in the Baltimore Catholic League and Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference tournaments. He also averaged six rebounds, five assists and 2.7 steals.
Dejuan Goodwin Mount St. Joseph, senior
After missing the past two seasons with a knee injury, the 6-0 senior guard made the most of his final year. Goodwin helped the Gaels to a No. 1 ranking and a 38-1 mark as their co-leader in scoring (12.2 points per game). An integral part of a cohesive starting unit, Goodwin stepped up in tournaments and big games. Goodwin shot 31 percent (18-for-59) from three-point range and 70 percent from the line. He also averaged 3.4 assists, 4.1 rebounds and two steals. Baltimore Catholic League coaches named him to both the All-BCL regular-season and tournament teams. Goodwin is uncommitted to a college.
Donte' Greene Towson Catholic, junior
Talented at both ends of the court, the graceful, 6-9, 225-pound junior forward led the No. 5 Owls in scoring (23), rebounds (12) and blocked shots (four). A second-team All-Metro pick as a sophomore, Greene, whose moves are reminiscent of former Owl Carmelo Anthony, helped Josh Pratt make a smooth transition in his first year as coach. Pratt credits Greene for pulling the team together. Greene, who also averaged 3.1 assists, often dominated in the post while All-Metro guard Malcolm Delaney patrolled the perimeter. They combined for 40 points a game. With smooth moves to the basket, Greene could play above the rim and deliver crowd-pleasing dunks. His quickness, instincts and strength allowed him to specialize in put-backs, and he also was adept at hitting short jumpers or three-pointers and played excellent defense. Greene has committed early to Syracuse.
Johnny Higgins Randallstown, junior
The heart of the two-time defending state champion Rams, Higgins finished the season as the area's leading scorer at 27.8 points per game. The 6-2 guard, who is a junior academically but just concluded his final year of athletic eligibility, was a second-team All-Metro pick last year after playing a major role in the Rams' Class 3A state championship by averaging 15.5 points, 5.2 assists, 5.4 rebounds and 3.1 steals. Raising all of his statistics this season - 6.3 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 3.2 steals - for the Rams (26-1), Higgins was the team's go-to player. His leadership qualities also were evident this season. Higgins, who can drive, tip shots back in or hit shots from three-point range, had a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds in the Rams' 64-54 victory over Wicomico in this season's Class 2A state final.
Sean Mosley St. Frances, sophomore
Although only a sophomore, Mosley is a repeat All-Metro first-team selection. The 6-4 forward, who combines strength with gracefulness, averaged 18.5 points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots for the seventh-ranked Panthers (24-10). Mosley's statistics were similar to those of last season, even though he drew more attention from defenses this season. Although St. Frances was unable to repeat as Baltimore Catholic League tournament champion, Mosley helped the Panthers remain one of the top teams in the BCL and MIAA A Conference. At the start of the season, Mosley led St. Frances to a tournament title in Ketchikan, Alaska, with 59 points and 30 rebounds in three wins.
Walter Sanders Mervo, senior
Sanders led Mervo to its first final four appearance since 2002, and he did it with all-out hustle and intensity in his first and only season as a starter. As the sixth man the past two years, Sanders was the Mustangs' second-leading scorer. In this his senior year, Sanders led Mervo in scoring (17.9 points per game) and to the Class 3A state semifinals with a 54-48 upset of defending champion and then-No. 2 Walbrook. Sanders, the first Mervo player chosen to the All-Metro first team since Marcus Hatten in 1999, had 18 points and six rebounds in the win over the Warriors. Despite Sanders' 15 points, Mervo lost to Lackey in the Class 3A semifinals. He also averaged 5.1 rebounds, 3.9 steals and two assists while shooting 72 percent from the free-throw line for the 10th-ranked Mustangs (21-5). Sanders has a football scholarship to Saint Augustine's College.
Rodney Spruill Walbrook, senior
After an All-Metro season as a junior, Spruill, 6-4, worked hard in the offseason to shed 35 pounds to improve his quickness and overall game. The result was another outstanding season, as the senior swing guard again led the Warriors in scoring, this time with 22 points a game, up from last season's average of 16.9. Spruill helped No. 3 Walbrook repeat as Baltimore City League champion, leading the Warriors to a 21-5 record and a 47-7 mark over the past two seasons. His all-around game was on display when he scored 22 and added 11 rebounds and three blocks in a 55-34 romp over then-No. 3 Southwestern in the city final. He set a personal high with 43 points in a regular-season win over Southwestern. A strong, left-handed shooter, Spruill, who can post up or take it outside and shoot three-pointers, improved his jumper by following it instead of fading away. Spruill also averaged 11 rebounds, three blocks and four assists. He has a scholarship to Towson University.
DaJuan Summers McDonogh, senior
Summers completed his high school career by receiving Baltimore County Player of the Year honors for a second straight season. The fluid, 6-9, 235-pound forward averaged 20 points a game for the Eagles (17-12) for a second straight season. Scoring a game-high 29 points against top-ranked Mount St. Joseph in a 53-49 loss in the MIAA A Conference semifinals, Summers finished his three-year varsity career with 1,502 points. Explosive around the basket, Summers can shoot off his dribble and has a soft touch on his jumpers. Summers also averaged nine rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 blocks. He committed at the end of the summer to Georgetown. "In the Baltimore area, Summers stands alone as the top recruit," said Bob Gibbons, who has been a recruiter for 32 years for the All Star Sports Report. "I saw him play last June and I was very impressed. He has that great inside-out game. If you guard him close, he'll blow by you. But if you play back on him, he'll knock down the outside shot."
Second team
Jimmy Dorsey, Winters Mill, junior guard
Andrew Engel, Old Mill, senior guard
Russell Frederick, Calvert Hall, senior guard
Corin Henry, New Town, senior guard
Jeff Pettiway, Joppatowne, senior guard
Leandre Richardson, Aberdeen, senior guard
Darrell Bryant, Randallstown, junior forward
Jarwand Rheubottom, Southwestern, senior forward
Darryl Webb, Long Reach, senior forward
Delano Johnson, Dunbar, senior center
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Greensboro, N.C. - The Farmingdale State men's golf team missed the cut at the NCAA Division III National Championships after shooting a second day team total of 319 on the East Course at the Grandover Resort. The Rams posted a two-day total of 625 and missed the cut by 25 strokes.
Freshman Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) recorded Farmingdale State's second hole in one at the Championship as he carded a one on the 125 yard par 3 12th hole. Larkin hit a pitching wedge 15 feet behind the pin and spun it back into the hole for his ace. Freshman Rich Kelly (Oceanside, N.Y.) made the first hole in one in over 10 years at the NCAA's yesterday on the 15th hole of the West Course.
Larkin led the Rams with a second round 77 as he finished with a two-day total of 152. Kelly, after shooting 74 yesterday, posted an 80 on day two. Junior Chris Arnold (Hauppauge, N.Y.) also shot 80 today and finished the Championship with a two-day total of 156.
St. John's (Minn.) (286-291-577) holds a three stroke lead over Greensboro heading into tomorrow's third round. Centre College's Chris Morris (-12) shot a tournament low 65 today and leads defending National Champion Tain Lee (-8) by four shots.
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There had been an attempt to introduce amendments, but that was shot down procedurally. And an hour debate did little to get to the heart of the matter. Rep. Zoe Lofgren fought the good fight, pointing out that "I think the government needs to comply with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution all the time... We can be safe while still complying with the Constitution of the United States." However, Rep. Dan Lungren -- who previously had insisted that there was no evidence that the NSA was abusing its powers, while refusing to even ask the NSA for basic info on how it was using the powers -- insisted based on absolutely nothing that "this is critical to the protection of the American people."
Even worse, Rep. Terry Gowdy made a ridiculously ignorant statement in response to Lofgren's highlighting of the 4th Amendment:
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Of course, House approval is just one step. The Senate version remains on hold thanks to Senator Wyden, who is one of the only elected officials who is actually asking the NSA and the Obama administration to (a) reveal the secret interpretation and (b) disclose how many Americans are being spied on under the rule.
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For example, an authorization targeting "al Qaeda"—which is a non-U.S. person located abroad—could allow the government to wiretap any telephone that it believes will yield information from or about al Qaeda, either because the telephone is registered to a person whom the government believes is affiliated with al Qaeda, or because the government believes that the person communicates with others who are affiliated with al Qaeda, regardless of the location of the telephone.Take that and expand it, and you've basically given the feds and the NSA a blank slate to spy on Americans by claiming that if it believes the spying will yield information about a threat, then it's fine. And our "Representatives" are standing up and -- either through ignorance or straight-up dishonesty -- are pretending that this is about spying on foreigners only. Shameful.


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