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Mental Toughness: A Champion's State of Mind (Hardcover)
|Author: Karl Kuehl
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|Working from a vast combined experience in professional baseball, the authors have broken down the elements of mental toughness into an easily understood package. Not only baseball players but other athletes as well as managers, coaches, and parents can learn how elements like attitude, confidence, and the ability to focus and make adjustments are built and how they can help players reach their maximum performance. With a Foreword by Tony La Russa. A must-read for future athletes and non-athletes alike. --Mark McGwire


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Refusing to Learn
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Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood, follows the character of Mason Junior, played by Ellar Coltrane, from the age of six until he arrives at college. Ethan Hawke plays Mason Senior, Patricia Arquette plays the boy's mother, Olivia, and the director's daughter Lorelei plays Mason's older sister Samantha.
This movie is unique in the field of feature films (though there are precedents in documentary film) in that the piece was made over a twelve-year period, so that we see the children grow up and the parents enter middle age.
In interviews, Linklater has said that they shot whenever everyone was available, presumably a few weeks each year. He says that there is not a lot of left-over footage.
From the point of view of the screen writer, who is the director in this case, the advantage to the method was that he only had to come up with a few scenes of a few minutes each between shoots, and he had time to think in between. He knew from the start what the last scene would be, and filled in the narrative episodically over the 12-year period.
Like his other films, most notably his break-through piece Slacker (1991), Boyhood is a series of snapshots of white middle class America with a Texan twist. The spectrum of social values portrayed runs from vaguely liberal through benign Bible-and-gun culture to get off my property or I'll shoot you. Linklater portrays these flatly, without comment. This angle gives the film its humor. There's a lot of laughter in the theater. Also, I saw my kid in it; the laughter showed that 500 other parents in the room similarly identified. As public experiences go, it was pretty special.
Morgan, Sr. (Ethan Hawke) plays a carefree two-weekends-a-month dad heavily invested in his GTO. He just can't understand why Olivia, his ex, is so uptight. What's the big deal is his general tone. His character matures somewhat and eventually he makes a long-term commitment to his new family and a set of in-laws who are at the charming end of the Guns'n'God worldview.
Olivia struggles. That's her trajectory. At first she struggles to make ends meet. Then she struggles to work her way through college, then she struggles through two more awful husbands, then she struggles more subtly, after she lands a professor gig and has a nice house, with the pending absence of her two children and the solitude of the American beauty in middle age.
What does the film tell us about America? The living is easy and/or nothing much happens. Wait a minute. Domestic violence, psychological abuse, and pathological drunkenness happen, but the consequences seem slight. Boyhood is, after all, about boys. Our heroes, you and I, pull through. The casualties – the step-kids left behind when Olivia flees her abusive second husband — disappear, so everything works out OK. (Maybe the movie says America is the place of invisible casualties?) It made me think for the umpteenth time about what women are supposed to put up with. But Olivia doesn't complain, she moves on. This is perhaps the film's most damning, most subtle statement.
Boyhood tells us that American high school kids are attractive white people who don't seem troubled by much of anything. You play video games, you watch baseball, you engage in minor vandalism and don't get caught, you make out in a station wagon, then you go to college. The worst thing that happens is an unwanted crewcut, but hair grows back. Your gorgeous girlfriend dumps you, but next day, your cool new roommate introduces you to one even more gorgeous. Life is pretty good in Texamerica, yessirree.
Why not?
The realism of this fantasy is its own critique. The character who starts out happy and winds up the happiest seems to be Mason Senior. He sails in and out of his first marriage, effortlessly gives up his rock and roll dream and gets some kind of white-collar job that we never see, trades the GTO for a minivan, and settles down to make babies with a younger woman. Maybe that's the message. In America, we middle class white boys enjoy the freedom to not experience the consequences of our thoughtless narcissism. The biggest problem Ethan Hawke's character has is how to sequence the Beatle songs on his homemade compilation CD, and when this is done, it's his biggest accomplishment.
David Byrne sings a song that goes, "heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." Ain't that America?


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Broun – More Headlines For The Sake Of Headlines
Tweet Congressman Paul Broun is good at making headlines. Being adored by the far right media or eviscerated by MSNBC are both good for his personal politics, and Broun knows it. And the way one makes headlines in those spheres is not to suggest good policy, but rather to stake out the most rigid position, [...]Read More →
Who, and What, Is Conservative?
Tweet National Journal has released its rankings of the most conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Georgia's Austin Scott was ranked 2nd on this list for 2012. Given that their number one choice, Todd Akin, is no longer serving due to his failed attempt to become a Senator, Scott can be said [...]Read More →
Blueberries and Venture Capital
Tweet Sometimes, quite by accident, two columns written about two completely different topics have the ability to tie concepts together that begin to show a pattern of problems and/or opportunities within our political framework. The commentary that follows these writings on our blog over at PeachPundit.com often helps to further develop issues, but also can [...]Read More →
Race To Replace Chambliss Creates First Vacancy In GA-10
Tweet With Senator Saxby Chambliss announcing his retirement, much of Georgia's political landscape will undergo a seismic shift over the next two years. While the surprise of the initial news has worn off, the aftershocks will continue to reverberate for months to come as candidates test the waters for various potential races.Read More →
Conservatives Who Disengage And Grandstand Hurt The Cause
Tweet I've had a couple of unrelated conversations this week that, when taken together, probably explain a lot about why we currently have gridlock in our political system, and why despite the efforts of those who prefer gridlock as a method to deter the government from continuing down a path they fear is reckless or [...]Read More →
2014 Campaigns Starting To Shape Up
Tweet By the time you read this column it will be out of date. The events that began with Saxby Chambliss' announcement that he will not seek a third term in the US Senate has set off a cascade of events which will keep many of Georgia's elected officials and those who would like to [...]Read More →
Poll touts Purdue as frontrunner
Tweet Written by Tom Knighton The ink is barely dry on the reports of Senator Saxby Chambliss and his decision to retire from the United States Senate. However, politics never sleeps. Discussions started almost instantly regarding who would take the senator from Moultrie's place in Washington.Read More →
Georgia delegation reacts to Chambliss retirement
Tweet Written by Tom Knighton Friday morning, the website Politico broke the news that Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss was going to retire after his current term ends. While Chambliss had been saying he intended to run again for some time, speculation was still running that he was finished.Read More →
It Wasn't A Slow News Week For Chambliss
Tweet It was a great Thanksgiving week. Most of us took the week off, or at least part of it. Washington was mostly empty of our politicians, so that they and even their staffers could evacuate the city and spend time back home with family. It wasn't supposed to be a heavy news week. But [...]Read More →


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Celebrate Black History Month: George Washington Carver Workshop
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Learn how plants played an important role in his early life and about his later achievements in botany, agriculture, chemurgy, botanical illustration, industrial engineering, and medicine.
Category: Education, Nature, History, Kids, Black History Month, School Break
President's Week Vacation Family Workshops: Stargaze
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Using an empty cereal box, paint, and LED light strings, make your own light box to recreate your favorite constellation and gaze at the stars all day long.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Kids, School Break, Astronomy
Le Petit Zen Art Workshop for Adults
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Participants will create small Zen works of art in black and white. Learn Zentangle, and other meditative forms of art. Any color use will be minimal.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Art
Kids' Week in Manhattan: Inwood Hill Park
at Payson Center (in Inwood Hill Park), Manhattan
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
School is out! Get outside and get excited. Take the kids to the park to enjoy a variety of nature-related programs and activities with the Urban Park Rangers.
Category: Nature, Kids, School Break, Kids' Week
Remembering Yesterday: Queens and Its World's Fairs
at Kingsland Homestead (in Margaret I. Carman Green - Weeping Beech), Queens
2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Remembering is both a collective and a personal activity. In this exhibition, both are on display in relation to two World's Fairs that took place in Flushing, Queens in…
Category: Art, History
Brooklyn Nets Wheelchair Basketball Open Gym
at Al Oerter Recreation Center (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
7:45 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Similar to regular basketball but played in a wheelchair. Participants must be physically disabled and able to play in a sports wheelchair. There are available sportschairs for use at…
Category: Accessible, Fitness, Sports
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
2014 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park
at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition is a cornerstone of the park's visual arts program and is widely acclaimed for the ambition, breadth & innovation of the works on view.
Category: Art, Waterfront
Dickens: A Celebration In Pictures
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Celebrating the author's birthday with illustrations of his most important literary works, exhibiting at the Poe Park Visitor Center's gallery. The exhibit offers a selection…
Category: Art, Kids
Art In the Garden: Paul Lin & Botanical Therapeutic Art
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Art In the Garden: Paul Lin- Botanical Therapeutic Art Tuesdays through Saturdays, January 20 to April 12 in the Visitor & Administration Building Gallery. (Note: The…
Category: Art
Exhibition: The Migration
at Arsenal (in Central Park), Manhattan
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
NYC Parks' Ebony Society invites you to celebrate Black History Month with the Arsenal Gallery exhbition The Migration.
Category: Art, History, Black History Month, Seniors
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Christmas Dinner
I remembered to take photos of the food !!! Ham, Turkey, Chicken, mashed potatoes, candied yams, rolls, green bean casserole, 7 layer dip and chip's, crab dip and crackers, relish tray, followed up with pumpkin or pecan pie! Plus Grace made us a chocolate chip cake! We were stuffed ! The turkey and the chicken were deep fried outside! It gives the meat such a juicy flavor! It isn't dry at all ! You can't see it all here, but my bro put on a feast for us! I had a wonderful time talking to Elaine and playing with James and Gary! David was too busy with his new DS to really hang out with his old aunt! He is 6 now so I expect that! Grace was with Kay and in the kitchen helping! But Christmas night Grace always comes home with us so she can sleep over and hang out with the "big kids"! We kept her until dinner time the next day! I have more Christmas shots that I will post! I am sorry if you are sick of them! I just feel like I need to share my love!
...in other news....don't forget about the Story Assignment #5 ! It is due next week! (:
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Anticipating the Forty-Third Commencement
Commencement is an exciting time for students, family, friends, and the entire Bard College at Simon's Rock community. But the 'season' starts well before the 43rd Commencement takes place on Saturday, May 19th.
Long before the tent goes up on the Blodgett House lawn, the sound system is laid, and the rows of chairs are lined up, faculty and staff begin the behind the scenes planning and preparation for the most important event of the year. The search for a commencement speaker begins in the fall, agreements are signed and announcements go out. Invitations are sent, photographers are contacted, robes are ordered, and rehearsals are scheduled. The commencement program is designed and the print Shop is put on notice. The weather forecasts are tracked and backup plans reviewed.
Students are also working hard and preparing to mark this milestone. Senior Theses are completed and students deliver their performances, present their work, exhibit their art, and defend their arguments. Finals are taken and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.
The week leading up to graduation is filled with festivities and traditions. By the time students line up to receive their diplomas, seniors will have concocted the annual prank and the community will have gathered to watch as it unfolds, and faculty, staff, and students will have convened for the annual reading of the thesis highlights.
Provost Peter Laipson will have recognized those graduates who will be receiving their Associate's Degree at the annual AA Reception on Wednesday, May 16, in the Daniel Arts Center (DAC), those receiving their Bachelor's Degree at the BA candlelight dinner on Thursday, May 17, at the Beckerman Dance Studio in the DAC.
After a week of festivities and traditions, the pomp and circumstance begins.
Commencement Schedule
8:30 a.m.
Continental breakfasts will be served at 8:30 a.m. for the B.A. graduates and their families in the Dance Studio, and for the AA graduates and their families in the Dining Hall.
10:00 a.m.
Students and faculty report to classroom buildings to robe. A Bagpiper and longtime friend of the College, Brian Hopewell, will lead the procession to the tent.
11:00 a.m.
Commencement exercises begin with remarks by Emily H. Fisher, Chair of the Board of Overseers, and from Provost Peter Laipson.
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Development of specialized skills in group counseling appropriate in the field of chemical dependence counseling. Methods of application of these skills and knowledge necessary for implementing effective counseling will be provided. (Carries MCC college credit and 45 hours N.Y.S. OASAS-approved credit.) Three class hours.
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Indianapolis EMS Updates
Welcome to Indianapolis EMS
Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is the largest provider of emergency pre-hospital medical care in Indianapolis, responding to nearly 100,000 911 calls each year. A division of the Indianapolis Department of Public Safety, Indianapolis EMS is a partnership between the City of Indianapolis, Indiana University School of Medicine and Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, with Eskenazi Health as the supervising health system. Indianapolis EMS strives to provide the best pre-hospital medical services to the community through the endless pursuit of excellence in patient-centered care, education, efficiency, efficacy, safety and quality of service. Indianapolis EMS serves the community not only through emergency care, but also through unique outreach programs and educational opportunities.
To make a donation to the Indianapolis EMS Fund, please click here.
Our Mission:
Right care. Every patient. Every time.
Our Vision:
To be a health care leader in:
1. The efficient delivery of high-quality patient care and science.
2. The professional development and engagement of our providers.
Our Values:
Compassion – Showing empathy towards those who are suffering by displaying understanding and offering comfort.
Excellence – Striving for the best pre-hospital health care with constant evaluation and improvement of our model and day to day operations.
Integrity – Upholding the highest demonstrations of character towards patients and fellow service members.
Unity – Fostering a positive relationship within our EMS family, supporting one another and holding fast to our common goal of serving our community.
Follow Indianapolis EMS on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The Latest
Indianapolis EMS Reminds Parents Never to Leave Kids in the Car in Warm Weather
Parents urged to recognize signs and dangers of heatstroke
Indianapolis, June 18, 2014 — Temperatures are rising across Indiana this week, with peaks expected to top 90 degrees. With the rising thermometer gauge also comes a rising risk of heatstroke.
Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (EMS) warns parents against leaving children in hot cars to avoid heat-related illnesses and fatalities.
"Some people think that cracking the car window while they run into the store for a few minutes is ok, but they often don't realize just how quickly heatstroke can occur in children," said Dr. Elizabeth Weinstein, deputy medical director of Indianapolis EMS and director of Indiana EMS for Children (IEMSC). "A child's body temperature rises about five times faster than an adult's."


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Back in the saddle
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I've been very bad about keeping up this blog- I have moved everything to a new host (I hope the last move for quite a while), and the "Brick and Mortar" business has been busy.
The move lost a bunch of my links to other blogs- I believe I can resurrect them, and some of internal links have changed.
But… stay tuned-
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Guests - We encourage you to use our Guest Links on the left to learn more about how this partnership has improved our student onboarding process and created a statewide network for clinical placements. You may also want to visit the TCPS National Site to learn how the Total Clinical Placement System is involved with other states!
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
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Seen on SF-LUG's list. Shall we set up a booth at the Farmer's
Market, like we've done in the past? (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008:
http://www.lugod.org/sfd/ )
----- Forwarded message from Grant Bowman -----
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:39:11 -0700
From: Grant Bowman
Subject: [sf-lug] Software Freedom Day 2010 - Saturday Sept 18th
Here's the first sighting I have seen about Software Freedom Day 2010
from the announce mail list. �I'm sure some events will be sprouting
up as the day gets closer. �Comments?
Grant Bowman
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From: Frederic Muller <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Subject: [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed �and testing ahead
To: SFD announcements <email@example.com>
Dear SFD supporters,
We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host
our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now
Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical
details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in
dear need of a lifting!
So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us
since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in
2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time.
Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a
real pleasure dealing with them.
This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped
to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and
various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience
some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches
so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the
short term, except from announcements.
We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software
alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If
anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far
(http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us.
That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for
this year SFD.
Thank you all.
Warm regards,
Frederic Muller
SFI President
Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010
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Jake's Corner
1/30/14 More Bieber Drama
Find me on Facebook: Jake Emily Poyet Webb
Thursday, January 30, 2014
We have no idea if all those rumors about BRUCE JENNER surgically becoming a woman are true. But the "Star" tabloid claims KIM KARDASHIAN and KANYE WEST don't want him in their wedding if he is indeed a woman . . . or in the process of becoming a woman . . . by the time they're ready to get hitched. It's mostly Kanye though. A source says, quote, "He told Kim that if Bruce is not a guy on the day they tie the knot, he doesn't want him to be part of the ceremony."
If you start a petition on the official White House website, WhiteHouse.gov, and it gets 100,000 signatures within 30 days, then the White House WILL respond to said petition. And that means that the White House now has to wade into the issue of whether or not to DEPORT JUSTIN BIEBER. Because last week, someone started a petition to deport him and revoke his green card. And it got those 100,000 signatures in SIX DAYS.
The Bieber Saga continues…Prosecutors in Toronto have charged Justin with CRIMINAL ASSAULT for allegedly beating up a limo driver back in December. The driver was reportedly hit in the back of the head several times while taking Justin and his posse to a hockey game. We're assuming Justin was the assailant, since he was the one charged. Justin turned himself in yesterday, and was released.
Meanwhile, in Miami, Justin's lawyer entered a NOT GUILTY plea to the charges he's facing there: Driving under the influence, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest.
1/29/14 Sienna Miller Cheating Scandal
Find me on Facebook: Jake Emily Poyet Webb
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
A GoDaddy Super Bowl ad will have a woman quitting her job LIVE on TV. GoDaddy says, quote, "Her boss doesn't know! . . . After the commercial, a formal resignation letter will be delivered, and she'll give her two-week notice."
BILLY RAY CYRUS thinks he knows what JUSTIN BIEBER needs. He says, quote, "I would just invite him to come down and chill out with me, maybe in Tennessee. Let's go up to the teepee, build a fire, step away and just, you know, maybe take a break for a little bit, just think about what's important. Get back to life . . . Build a fire, count the deer and the hawks and relax a little bit."
Justin Bieber is reportedly moving out the posh Southern California neighborhood he's been terrorizing. TMZ says the Bieb "has had enough of suburban life" and that the egging incident and the Sheriff's raid on his Calabasas home were the "final straw." No word on where he's moving to, but you can be sure whoever his new neighbors are, they won't be happy about it. Meanwhile, prosecutors in Justin's egging case have asked for further investigation.
Jude Law wasn't the only person being unfaithful during his relationship with Sienna Miller. Turns out she was cheating with Daniel Craig. The revelation came out when News of the World reporter Dan Evans testified that he eavesdropped on the James Bond star's voicemails while under pressure to produce a front-page story. Evans said he heard a message from a woman calling from a number he later verified to be Sienna's. She allegedly told Daniel, "Hi, it's me. Cannot speak. I'm at the Groucho [Club] with Jude. I love you." Sienna and Jude eventually split after it was discovered that he had an affair with his children's nanny.
Getting beat up by Kanye West is a lucrative business. TMZ says Yeezy has agreed to pay the young man he pummeled inside a Beverly Hills chiropractor's office earlier this month more than $250,000. Sources say the man -- who allegedly hurled racial epithets at Kim Kardashian -- "now feels satisfied enough that he won't go forward with a criminal prosecution." The D.A. had not charged Kanye with battery, and now there's little chance of that happening. So case closed.
1/28/14 Kimye's Wedding Plans
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
STEVEN TYLER apparently doesn't think JUSTIN BIEBER is doing anything wrong. Asked if he had any advice for Justin, Tyler noted that he's the biggest pop star in the world and was riding in an expensive car with a gorgeous woman. Therefore, Tyler's "advice" to Justin was, quote, "Nice going."
This might be hard to believe but, during a meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Association, HILLARY CLINTON admitted that the last time she actually drove a car herself was in 1996. That's 18 years ago.
RadarOnline claims KIM KARDASHIAN and KANYE WEST'S wedding is happening in France this June . . . and that it will be TELEVISED. Supposedly, it'll air as part of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", so the E! network will be picking up "most" of the bill . . . not that Kim and Kanye would need any assistance in that regard. An "insider" says, quote, "Kim persuaded Kanye to let the cameras roll because . . . it's a lot easier for a network to deal with logistics of a foreign wedding than if it were just the two of them planning it."
Denise Richards has decided to move out of her home after her ex-husband Charlie Sheen threatened to evict her and their two daughters. Apparently, Charlie's porn star girlfriend wanted Sheen to evict her from the home because she is jealous. Sheen bought the $7 million dollar house for Richards and their daughters. He also lives in the same gated community. Sources say Richards is going to move out and is already looking at other homes to lease or buy.
1/27/14 Justin Bieber Intervention
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Monday, January 27, 2014
KRISTEN STEWART has an interesting item on her bucket list. She says, quote, "I'm definitely going to shave my head before I die. I will definitely tattoo my head while it's shaved before my hair grows back. I'm not sure which part, probably the bottom quadrant in the back. I don't know what the tattoo would be, yet. Still thinking."
Police were called to an Australian hotel Thursday night, after the smoke detector in one of the rooms went off. But it turned out that was SNOOP DOGG'S room . . . and he was just, you know, doing what Snoop do.
JUSTIN BIEBER flew to Panama over the weekend where, according to the Internet, his family and friends staged some sort of "intervention." Or something. Supposedly, Justin's dad flew there with him and the guest list also included: His mom . . . Justin's manager Scooter . . . USHER . . . the producer of his "Never Say Never" documentary . . . and Justin's so-called "best friend," Ryan Butler. While it's interesting that all these people gathered together with Justin . . . in Panama, no less . . . there's no evidence that an actual "intervention" took place. But it does seem like it was more than just a vacation. By the way, the girl who was with Justin when he was arrested, CHANTEL JEFFRIES, also made the trip to Panama.
They hung out together on the beach, but it's unclear whether or not they're dating.
JUSTIN BIEBER'S DUI arrest last week can't be swept under the rug . . . yet . . . but some of the details may not have been as bad as you may have heard. For starters, some "source" tells CNN that Justin blew .011% and .014% in two Breathalyzer tests at the police station. That's significantly below the general .08% legal limit. Since Justin is under 21 . . . that doesn't even really matter. But still, even Florida's "zero tolerance" law for underage drivers requires a reading of .02%. So .011% is a barely measurable amount. So maybe Justin wasn't legally drunk . . . but he did admit to also smoking pot and taking prescription meds . . . and he FAILED a field sobriety test. So he probably WAS driving under the influence, and he probably WAS too impaired to drive. Also, even though Justin was not charged with speeding, the arresting officer said that was his reason for stopping Justin and testing his sobriety. However, the head of the exotic car rental company that owns the yellow Lamborghini Justin was driving told CNN that the GPS tracking system in the car indicated that Justin didn't exceed 55 miles-per-hour in the 15 minutes before the stop. Justin was stopped in a 30 mile-per-zone . . . so even if he WAS speeding, the notion of it being a "drag race" is being called into question. In fact, the car's GPS said Justin was "steady" at between 27 and 34 miles-per-hour on that road.
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JUSTIN BIEBER was arrested after drag racing in Miami Beach early yesterday morning . . . and was charged with DUI, resisting arrest, and driving on an expired license. Here's the latest . . . After cooling his heels in jail for several hours, Justin made a brief appearance before a judge, who set a "standard" bail of $2,500. Obviously, he didn't have any problem coming up with that. He probably had that much ON him, in cash. In video from the bail hearing, Justin tried to look "tough," but didn't say anything to the judge. He left all the talking to his attorney, Roy Black. While leaving jail, Justin sat on top of a vehicle . . . and waved to his fans like a beauty queen or something. Clearly, this kid doesn't seem to regret the example he's setting for his fans, a lot of whom are his age and YOUNGER.
It sure sounds like JUSTIN BIEBER'S parents are enabling his behavior. Justin reportedly told the police that he didn't know what prescription medicine he'd taken . . . he just takes whatever his mom gives him. Meanwhile, his dad was supposedly at the club with him just before his arrest, and was in one of the SUVs that helped block traffic so he could drag race.
Also, RadarOnline is reporting that Justin went down to South Beach after getting bailed out of the clink . . . to get DRINKS with his "cool dad". Unbelievable.
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(Editor's Note: On Aug. 9, I posted a piece entitled ŌĆ£Cal State Bisexual Latino Professor Supports Controversial Study About Gay Parents.ŌĆØ In it, I basically expressed confusion over why Robert Oscar Lopez, the self-described bisexual author of a piece about his ŌĆ£two moms,ŌĆØ would write for the NOM-affiliated Witherspoon Institute┬Ā supporting a controversial report on gay parenting by Mark Regnerus that an academic audit found is ŌĆ£severely flawed.ŌĆØ┬Ā Lopez got in touch with me and explained his views and why he had written the piece. ┬ĀSince I believe we humans are more complicated than we recognize at times, I asked him if he would re-write the email in a form that I could publish ŌĆō which is below. It is posted as sent, albeit I added one word for clarity. ┬ĀI request that comments remain civil and respond to the substance about which one might agree or disagree, rather than getting into delete-able personality attacks. Thanks ŌĆō Karen Ocamb)
┬ĀA Response from a Gay Prodigal Son
┬ĀBy Robert Oscar Lopez
I learned in the Army that courage is not the opposite of fear. Cowardice is the failure to act because of fear. Courage is confronting oneŌĆÖs fears.
In that spirit I begin this missive at the request of Karen Ocamb, to explain and respond to the controversy provoked by my August 6 article in Public Discourse, ŌĆ£Growing Up with Two Moms.ŌĆØ Part of the problem with discussing gay parenting is that everyone has to say everything they are going to say in 700 words. So this may get long. I apologize in advance.
I got this a lot in the last two weeks: ŌĆ£Why didnŌĆÖt you just write an editorial in a liberal pro-gay magazine?ŌĆØ
Which brings me to the long story I have to tell in order to answer KarenŌĆÖs question. I hope you donŌĆÖt get bored.
My development as a writer has taken place in the conservative world. I speak right-wing language and wield right-wing gestures; it is who I am. My monograph wears a political sign in the title. I invested ten years in the world of right-wing letters, and The Colorful Conservative, for all its obscurity, is the fruit of that investment.
It is the world of right-wing letters that has, for better or worse, given me the most crucial support IŌĆÖve needed as a writer. Part of this is my own ideology, which is complex but leans right. Part of it is also a question of who saw literary potential in me, and who didnŌĆÖt.
I spent many years trying to find my way into gay liberal discourse, but my writing never took hold there. I finished my first novel in 1995, Johnson Park, but publishers who liked gay authors didnŌĆÖt care for the book. In 1996, one famous editor, whom I wonŌĆÖt name (there are many unavoidable anonymities in this post), said that my narrative about five gay boys growing up in Buffalo and New York City in the late 1980s was ŌĆ£beautifully written, but too specific.ŌĆØ
It could very well be that I am just a terrible writer; I am more than willing to accept that explanation. The fact is that liberalsŌĆöespecially gay onesŌĆöhave never liked what I write, how I write, or who I am. They have an enormous reserve army of other writers more talented than I am who are more likely to appeal to their interests. To tell the story of my lesbian motherŌĆÖs journey from poverty in Puerto Rico to her death at the age of 53, and her profound love for her best friend, I found it would be impossible to go through liberal venues. They didnŌĆÖt want her story or at least they didnŌĆÖt like the way I was telling it, and unfortunately I was the only one who had written the whole thing down. It is still very likely, it seems to me, that her story is going to dieŌĆöbut at least because of Mark Regnerus and Public Discourse, there is a sliver of it hanging out there in cyberspace.
Lest you think I am improvising a lame excuse, I will go down the history of my efforts to give voice to the story that popped up uncomfortably in Public Discourse on August 6, 2012.
As early as 1996 I was shopping around fiction that referred to my experience growing up as the son of two lesbians, but a prominent gay writer told me my story was ŌĆ£radioactive,ŌĆØ especially since I ended up bisexual myself and fell into the sordid world of Bronx drag queens and underground leather. He told me, ŌĆ£this story could do serious damage if it got into the wrong hands,ŌĆØ referring to the passage that year of the Defense of Marriage Act. My story, he knew very well, confirmed what many conservatives said about gay parenting as they lobbied for passage of DOMA. Antigay forces said gay parents would turn their kids gay and lead to alcoholism and reckless behavior. Check, doneŌĆöthat sounds a lot like me circa 1996.
My brother, who at the time was working in a (very low) position in the Clinton administration, reacted with anger when I called him to say I was disgusted about ClintonŌĆÖs signing of DOMA. ŌĆ£How can you work there, when your brother and mother were both gay?ŌĆØ I said over the phone. Those words were jagged and heartless; I regret ever speaking them. It took years to repair that relationship. That was the only time my brother and I ever alluded to my motherŌĆÖs lesbianism aloud. Since then, we have never talked politics.
The gay publishing world was hopping with new authors in the late 1990s. At the time I was struggling to make ends meet in the Bronx, and helping three friends who were experiencing rapid declines in health because of AIDS. I spent spare time writing personal essays and short stories. Two essays were published in A: Inside Asian America, including one about Andrew Cunanan. But the gay editors who were working with me said they found my authorship disturbing. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs so relentless,ŌĆØ said one. ŌĆ£ThereŌĆÖs too much anger, and you donŌĆÖt seem to know what to do with it.ŌĆØ Many told me, as well, that my writing was dangerous because of the issue of my motherŌĆÖs lesbianism.
I had finished two novellas by 1998, For Love of Latin Men and Flamboyantly Yours, both dealing with Puerto Rico and alluding in careful ways to my motherŌĆÖs story. I tried hard to couch the story so it wouldnŌĆÖt trigger any alarms or hurt the gay cause. Publishers and agents again found the narratives strange and disturbing, this time also telling me it was ŌĆ£forced.ŌĆØ I performed a section of Flamboyantly Yours in front of a crowd of people in Manhattan in late 1997 as a monologue. My mother was transposed as a young gay mulatto in 1940s Puerto Rico; I performed it as part of an acting class. The crowd applauded and the acting teacher said, ŌĆ£who wrote that?ŌĆØ I choked and said IŌĆÖd gotten it from a friend. The next week I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had to leave New York City for extended treatment in Buffalo. My friend who was struggling with HIV moved into the apartment I had in the Bronx, but then he vacated the apartment suddenly and I donŌĆÖt know what happened to him. I believe he may be dead. My only copy of Flamboyantly Yours was lost, this being the closest thing IŌĆÖd written to tell my motherŌĆÖs story, which might have gotten approval from a liberal audience.
After I recovered from cancer, I continued writing but there was a rapid move away from liberals toward conservatives, who were showing themselves much more receptive to my essays. My writing was contemptuous of dependency and hostile to the hypocrisy of wealthy white liberals, which oddly appealed to many conservatives. My two religious experiences in 2001 and 2008 drew me into deeper Christian territory, and writing became a way to connect with other religious people, including many who could not reconcile themselves with homosexuality but bonded with me literarily over spiritual matters. While a few liberal professors helped me at SUNY Buffalo, where I conferred my doctorate, our friendships ended promptly when I revealed I was bisexual and opposed Hillary Clinton within the same year. I do not know why the relationship soured but we are no longer in contact. When I shipped off to training with the Army Reserves, one of them made it clear that she could never respect me again for agreeing to fight in BushŌĆÖs wars. (I never got deployed overseas.)
Those ŌĆ£irreconcilable differencesŌĆØ between my writing and the liberal gay world only deepened after I went into the Army Reserves. My motherŌĆÖs story was still inside me, begging to be told, but it seemed impossible for me to find a way to share it. It never felt safe and other issues always got in the way, something for which I take a lot of personal blame; I was selfish and couldnŌĆÖt give myself entirely to authoring her story, since my own was too painfully entangled with hers.
In the Army, for the first time, I was surrounded by a lot of conservatives who viewed the world as I did; my separation from liberal or radical thinking, which was an important part of my motherŌĆÖs Democratic psyche (she was religious but leftist), was final.
In the Army, also for the first time, I was exposed to gay men [who] had the power to overcome me physically. There were so many gays, both closeted and out, where I servedŌĆöbut these were unlike other gays I had known. They were masculine to a fault and extremely misogynistic. They were cruel to other gays because other gays reminded them of women. They were vicious especially to bisexuals because bisexuals both reminded them of women and slept with women, which disgusted this type of gay man. I cannot say too much, except that I returned from my first bout of active duty to civilian life, feeling that the repeal of DonŌĆÖt Ask DonŌĆÖt Tell was a terrible mistake. I knew most servicemembers who used the separation chapter were young and vulnerable. I knew of cases where DADT had saved young gays or bisexuals from violent situations and prevented them from disappearing due to sabotage or suicide.
My unwillingness to rally for the repeal of DonŌĆÖt Ask DonŌĆÖt Tell sealed my fate with the gay writing community. I wanted to tell my motherŌĆÖs story, even if it had nothing to do with what I had been through, but no pro-gay publications would allow me near them after I published my reasons for asking that DADT be preserved. Gay colleagues at my university snubbed and snarled at me but showed great delight when Dan Choi came to campus to speak.
I had submitted to countless pro-gay venues, including Advocate, Out, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, but none of these ever responded. In the meantime, my work was taking hold at the right-wing American Thinker and I was finding my voice in hardcore conservative circles that shared my values. In a few pieces for American Thinker, I alluded to my motherŌĆÖs relationship with her partner and my own struggles, but nobody, it seemed, read them, with the exception of a few conservative men struggling with bisexual tendencies who emailed me for some advice.
After much prayer and deliberation with my sister, I had decided, by late 2011, to let my motherŌĆÖs spirit rest. She had passed away 21 years earlier; her widowed partner was now in her mid-70s. Her story did not need to be told. Too many skeletons would rattle. Too many feelings would be hurt. I would be emotionally wrecked in the process. The gay community would throw its entire artillery at me. I told my sister, ŌĆ£some truths are better left alone.ŌĆØ She agreed. My book, Colorful Conservative, had little to do with lesbian parenting and came out in late 2011, so it was time to move on at last.
Then, a few months later, I saw in American Thinker a review of a study by someone named Mark Regnerus. It caught my eye because of the reference to adult children within my age range, whoŌĆÖd been raised by parents in same-sex relationships. ŌĆ£DonŌĆÖt comment,ŌĆØ I told myself. ŌĆ£This is PandoraŌĆÖs box ŌĆō it will turn into Hell.ŌĆØ
But the Regnerus story wasnŌĆÖt going away. It appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and I succumbed to my eternal inability to keep my mouth shut (something I must say, I inherited from an in-your-face 1970s Puerto Rican lesbian mom). I started commenting on the threads ŌĆō not, initially, to defend Mark Regnerus, but rather to challenge the people who were attacking Mark Regnerus.
The people attacking Mark Regnerus were saying that the only kind of people who could count as gay ŌĆ£parentsŌĆØ were same-sex couples exactly like heterosexual married couples, which meant there couldnŌĆÖt be a divorce or a third party (the excluded biological parent) floating around anywhere. Darren Sherkat, an Illinois sociologist, used ŌĆ£bullshitŌĆØ to describe a lesbian woman in a situation like my motherŌĆÖs. Sherkat was also eliminating me as an LGBT parent, since I was still married to the mother of my child, though I was bisexual. So his ŌĆ£bullshitŌĆØ comment was a double slap. If my kid ends up gay, it will be a triple slap.
When I looked at Mark RegnerusŌĆÖs article in Social Science, I found the first public validation of what IŌĆÖd been through in the 1970s and 1980s. All the factors he measured ŌĆō divorce, suicide attempts, dropping out of school, unstable relationships ŌĆō were things I recognized in the lives of people whoŌĆÖd grown up with gay parents during the same period. I knew tons of them. We had all been scared of ever speaking about how hard things were, because we loved our parents and didnŌĆÖt want to hurt the gay community. But the notion that there was ŌĆ£no differenceŌĆØ between growing up in a straight household versus a gay household simply didnŌĆÖt pass the laugh test for me or anyone else I knew in that situation. It was hard. My fluency in Spanish allowed me to read through 30 years of my motherŌĆÖs diaries after she passed away ŌĆō I knew how hard it was, for her and for her partner and for her kids.
And it suddenly dawned on me. I realized why IŌĆÖd had so much trouble with my writing in the gay liberal world.
TheyŌĆÖre embarrassed by me.
They think IŌĆÖm disgusting. They think my motherŌĆÖs disgusting.
We ruin their perfect portraits.
TheyŌĆÖve wanted me to go away. And they almost succeeded.
I posted roughly five extended comments in the discussion section of the Chronicle explaining who I was. The Regnerus study made perfect sense to me, both as a scholar and as a human being who came out of the situations he was documenting. Someone who knew people at a place called the Witherspoon Institute (I hadnŌĆÖt heard of them) saw my comments and suggested that I write a 2,000-word essay about the Regnerus affair. I received an honorarium of $200 and the piece came out on August 6, 2012 in Public Discourse. I had no idea what was about to hit me. I wonŌĆÖt get into the backlash since itŌĆÖs still ongoing.
LetŌĆÖs talk about the Regnerus affair for a moment. Certainly his data were not what the gay activist movement wanted to hear. But you know what? I was sick of telling the gay activist movement what they wanted to hear. So were lots of other people who had to deal with gay parents, siblings, kids, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. I knew my comments were going to set some people ablaze, because for many readers of the Chronicle, I was perhaps the first person willing to break ranks instead of doing anything to keep up appearances. In fact, the overwhelming need of LGBTs to keep up appearances had finally led to my breaking point.
I threw caution to the wind and told the truth in a comments section of the Chronicle, where I figured my motherŌĆÖs story would have one last little gasp of airŌĆöcertainly, not the way I would have liked, but at least something. It was my way of saying:
Yes, my family was an embarrassment to the gay community. We were loud and uncouth. My mother was a manly stereotype who liked to take us to a trailer in a tacky park smelling of sulfur everywhere. She was born under a tree in Puerto Rico without a doctor and the midwife dropped her on her head, which was why everyone said she acted like a man all the time. She knew how to fight with a machete and loved getting drunk. She had a big broken front tooth that she thought was funny. Our house was a complete mess. I was a freak. It was the Jerry Springer Show. Because, damn it, thatŌĆÖs what being a gay family is. YouŌĆÖre weird, youŌĆÖre loud, youŌĆÖre wildly inappropriate. Since the basic facts about your household are controversial, you start losing any sense of whatŌĆÖs controversial at allŌĆöwhich will forever make you poisonous to the hypersensitive, eternally victimized people in the gay community who were raised in ŌĆśnormalŌĆÖ households and learned how to cover their ass, act professional, and blend in with boring white suburbanites. Kids from gay parenting make terrible writers ŌĆō we tell people everything, because weŌĆÖve never been able to figure out whatŌĆÖs better left unsaid and whatŌĆÖs better shouted. Or at least, thatŌĆÖs me ŌĆō I wonŌĆÖt speak for everyone.
But my motherŌĆÖs story is amazing because itŌĆÖs painful. HereŌĆÖs someone whose father never finished fourth grade, who was born under a plantain tree and didnŌĆÖt have shoes when she went to school, who went on to finish medical school and open a clinical services business in an all-white town in upstate New York. While girls in her town were running around acting like flirts and airheads, my mom was in the rooster cages with her father. She loved cockfighting, building things, and the outdoors. At the height of her business success in Buffalo she had two offices and oversaw a staff of fifteen people. And nobody ever gave her handouts. She built that on her own, Obama!
Men quaked in fear of herŌĆöespecially her father, who reared her to be more of a man than he was. Women didnŌĆÖt know what to make of her. While they were all dressed up in frills and rouge, preparing to get knocked up, my mother had this insane idea that she was going to become a doctor. Who but a wild-eyed lesbian would ever dream of such a thing? She was valedictorian of her small-town high school and headed to university in the capital of Puerto Rico, leaving behind the valley full of sugar cane and plantain trees. Her father sold his small plot of land to send her to school. She never forgot that. When it was time to go to medical school, she went to Buffalo, where her relatives had settled during World War II to pick apples.
And when she got to Buffalo, she met someone who wouldnŌĆÖt give her up. There was a friend, a woman who was quieter and meeker; she knew how to handle my motherŌĆÖs wild temper. Six children between them couldnŌĆÖt shake their friendship. Soon the husbands were gone, and they had clear sailing for two decades, to raise their children as best they could together. Nothing could ever separate themŌĆönot my motherŌĆÖs bouts of rage, nor her partnerŌĆÖs melancholy moods. They stayed together.
When my wife gave birth to our first child, my motherŌĆÖs partner coached her through the delivery, and I closed my eyes and promised I would stay as true to my wife as my motherŌĆÖs lover was to her. I learned devotion from them. Had I been raised in a ŌĆśnormalŌĆÖ household, I would have been too quick to feel shame and embarrassment, perhaps, and I would have fled my wife as soon as any scandal arose (of which, with me, there is always too much). For that I am grateful.
All that I have written in italics above is true. But what Mark Regnerus found was also true. The gay liberation movement was a necessary thing to overturn Victorian repression, which for 100 years had kept men who loved men and women who loved women in a state of terror. But like so many liberation movements, it wrought enormous casualties, and the gay community has simply never taken responsibility for the people who were wounded so that they could be free to pursue love on their own terms. For us to be free, other people had to suffer, and we simply havenŌĆÖt said ŌĆ£I am sorryŌĆØ enough. Politics has gotten in the way.
Since ŌĆ£Growing Up with Two MomsŌĆØ came out, I have received messages in the hundreds about those unsung sacrifices at the altar of gay liberation. My article prompted many to contact me: The women left by husbands who wanted to celebrate their gay freedom, the kids abandoned or confused by parents divorcing over sexuality, the parents still wounded by how their gay children purposefully hurt and embarrassed them, the people who werenŌĆÖt gay but looked gay to others and got savagely pressured, the people raped at drunken parties, the drug addicts or alcoholics who had to get out of gay life in order to be free of their addictions, the people horrified at the bathhouses, the squeamish people alarmed at the Gay Pride Parades who didnŌĆÖt know what to sayŌĆ". So they told me their stories. Their stories are real. IŌĆÖve seen them. We cannot try to erase them.
I say ŌĆ£weŌĆØ because I am bisexual. We, the LGBT community, are grown up now. Marriage equality isnŌĆÖt life or death. The major battles have been won. We are not victims. It is no longer necessary for us to stick to a certain script ŌĆō ŌĆ£I was born this way,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£I didnŌĆÖt choose,ŌĆØ etc. WeŌĆÖve made choices. IŌĆÖve done horrible things. So have many of us in the LGBT world. WeŌĆÖve chosen to snoop into other peopleŌĆÖs lives. WeŌĆÖve created a discourse community full of Kathy Griffins and Dan Savages, nasty and mean and pointlessly crude. WeŌĆÖve turned away from people who needed us. WeŌĆÖve thought too much about ourselves, what we want, what we need, how we suffered, how we feel, who we are ŌĆ". And now it is time to think of others. It is frightening to leave the victim position and understand that our choices have impacts that burden us with guilt and responsibility. It means we donŌĆÖt get immunity anymore. It means we have to decide for ourselves rather than letting other people, gay leaders or straight leaders, tell us what to think and feel and believe and study. It means that some things we may want, such as children, might not be right for us. It is scary to be grown up enough that others will tell us what we do not want to hear. But courage is not the absence of fear.
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In this young off season, the Cleveland Indians are already making moves, trading for Mike Aviles and Yan Gomes, sending Esmil Rogers to the Blue Jays. It'll be a while before we see how these moves impact the team, but hopefully they can provide the Tribe with an offensive jolt. The Cleveland Indians today announced the club acquired INF MIKE AVILES and CA/INF YAN GOMES from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for RHP ESMIL ROGERS. AVILES, 31, appeared in 136 games for the Red Sox as their starting shortstop last season, batting .250 with 13 HR and 60 RBI. Aviles was drafted in 2003 by Kansas City and named the Royals Minor League Player of the Year in 2007. He was the Royals MVP in 2008 and finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting after batting .325 with 10 HR and 51 RBI in 102 games. GOMES, 25, spent the majority of 2012 season batting .328 (100-305) with 44 RS, 29 2B, 13 HR & 59 RBI in 79 games for AAA Las Vegas . H/T Cleveland Indians
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Scoreboard: 7th of 7, Patriot League
Championship, Hamilton, N.Y., April 24-25
Schedule: Season has completed.
- The Holy Cross men's golf team rounded out its 2009-2010 campaign with a seventh place finish at the 2010 Patriot League Championship, held at the Seven Oaks Country Club in Hamilton, N.Y. Lafayette won the 2010 title for the first time in school history riding an individual title performance from sophomore Rob Robertson and placing two others players in the top six of the field
- The Crusaders had two players finish in the top-10 individually, as freshman Steve Zychowski (Mendham, N.J.) was named to the first team All-Patriot League for his fourth place finish. He led the team with a three-round score of 224, his best performance of the spring. Zychowski was the team's best overall performer twice this season, as he also led the team with a season-best 221 at the MacDonald Cup back in October. Zychowski's honor was the first time a Holy Cross player has been named to the first team All-Patriot League since Matt Czarnecki won the tournament outright in 2007.
- Classmate Michael McCarthy (Tolland, Conn.) earned second team All-Patriot League honors after he tied for 10th place in the Patriot League Championship. He tallied a final three-round score of 229, placing amongst seven other league players. His three-day total was his second-best performance in a three-round tournament this season, as he marked a career-best 225 at the George Washington Invitational earlier. McCarthy ends his freshman campaign as the team's top performer in four total events, the most of any performer on the 2009-2010 Holy Cross roster. He also ends the season with the team's lowest stroke average (76.2) and tied for the most rounds played with 20.
- The Holy Cross men's golf team finished its campaign with four top-five team finishes, three coming in the fall portion of the schedule. Junior Colin Andrade (Assonet, Mass.) won one individual title for the team, winning the Lou Flumere Invitational held in early April. Andrade also had the team's lowest round of the season, a career-low 68 at the New England Championships. He finished the season third on the team in stroke average (77.4).


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Audi TT v Nissan 370Z v Peugeot RCZ
Bruce Newton For more than a decade, Audi's iconic TT has set the stylish coupe benchmark. Now, Peugeot's new RCZ and Nissan's 370Z want to put it out of fashion. By Bruce Newton.
New design direction could delay Nissan's luxury brand
Bruce Newton Nissan may delay the Australian return of its Infiniti luxury brand until the range has been updated with next-generation styling


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