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Gold, Silver, and Miners Remain Junk-Grade Investments
Precious metals are technically very close to a major breakdown.
All investments move in cycles, waves, or trends -- whichever you want to call it. The market has four simple yet distinct stages and each one requires a completely different skill set and trading tactic to navigate.
Stage 1 – After a period of decline, a stock consolidates at a contracted price range as buyers step into the market and fight for control over the exhausted sellers. Price action is neutral as sellers exit their positions and buyers begin to accumulate the stock.
Stage 2 – Upon gaining control of price movement, buyers overwhelm sellers and a stock enters a period of higher highs and higher lows. A bull market begins and the path of least resistance is higher. Traders should aggressively trade the long side, taking advantage of any pullback or dips in the stock's price.
Stage 3 – After a prolonged increase in share price the buyers now become exhausted and the sellers again move in. This period of consolidation and distribution produces neutral price action and precedes a decline in the stock's price.
Stage 4 – When the lows of Stage 3 are breached, a stock enters a decline as sellers overwhelm buyers. A pattern of lower highs and lower lows emerges as a stock enters a bear market. A well-positioned trader would be aggressively trading the short side and taking advantage of the often quick declines in the stock's price. More times than not all of Stage 2 gains are given back in a short period of time.
Now that you know the stages and what they look like, it's time to review the gold, silver, and miner charts.
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Gold has been in a bull market for several years but is starting to show its age in terms of the size of the price patterns, volume levels, and extreme bullish sentiment. Back in 2011 a week before price topped my firm exited precious metals because the short term charts and volume levels were warning of a sharp drop. Since then I have not done many trades in either gold or silver because I do not like shorting in bull markets. Waiting for a bullish setup/price pattern before getting involved is my focus.
Gold has pulled back with a bullish 5 wave correction the last five months and is at key support. While the long term charts are pointing to higher gold prices, you must be aware that if gold and silver start to break down, things will likely get ugly quickly. To be honest I do not care which way it goes, I just want it to either rally from support here and make new highs or break down and crash. Both will be very profitable if traded properly.
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I'm sitting in front of Fido in Hillsboro Village reading my copy of East of Eden, waiting for my interview with Shane Piasecki, when a hand lightly slaps the table and a guy in sunglasses and a V-neck sits down to greet me.
He's a little fashionably late, but I'll let that one slide. Shane Piasecki's got a warm smile that will ease any would-be stiff conversation, and we immediately start talking about literature as if we'd been meeting up at Fido for weeks.
"That is an amazing book," He points at my reading pick, and later asks, "Do you like Hemingway?"
As if Set You Free (his latest album that dropped this past Tuesday) didn't do it already, I'm instantly a fan. After musing a little on books and Charles Bukowski, and talking of his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, we jump to the topic of Piasecki's youth, which had its fair share of sports. "I grew up [with that] competition," he confides. Music is so much the opposite—it's simply you." I'm thinking of the primal, often war-like competition of football and its contrast to the act of creating music (I mean, c'mon), and my interest is piqued.
"I started doing music (he picked up the guitar at age five) and I've been doing it ever since," says Piasecki, whose influences include legendary rock gods Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. But his style draws in a pop and bluesy vibe, too. "[Set You Free] was originally more of a blues record, but it ended up having a 'pop' vibe—that's been a challenge." Title track 'Set You Free' draws back on a classic rock n' roll feel, but fuses alternative and pop to sound at times like Matchbox 20's Someone Like You. Vocals range from deep, bluesy drawls on 'Roller Gone' to more southern, mellow lyrics on 'This Thing We Have,' giving Set You Free a variation that fully grasps that nostalgic, summery ambiance. Despite traces of heartbreak in tracks such as 'Mannequin Head,' and 'New To Town,' Piasecki brings Set You Free back to a centered happiness in the solid track 'Night Like This,' putting a finishing touch of the fluid feel of summer weather in its finale.
Featured twice on the 615 on Lightning 100, and now making their Artist of the Week, Shane Piasecki has had some grounding experience as an up and coming young musician. It hasn't come without a struggle, but you could never guess—he comes off as the most laid-back guy ever, and continues to talk throughout our conversation about the love he has for the people in his life (He dedicated "Set You Free" to his 16-month-old son).
He's also got a pretty big heart that I predict is somewhat hard to hide: our rambling conversation even led to a mutual reminiscence of Pound Puppies—"I had Pound Puppies on my bed when I was a kid. Every time I'd get sad that they [weren't eating when I was], I'd comfort myself and say 'They're magical. They can feed themselves.'" Piasecki's pit bull, Jack travels along on most of his tours, too—who would've guessed?
The struggle of growing up and becoming independent through his art is a key component in Piasecki's present, "[The struggle] made me realize what was real and true. It taught me about love and the universe… and self-love, all that." He later adds, "Good parents showed me the way, and that's when I knew I'd be a good dad."
As we're wrapping up, and continuing to bounce from topic to topic (the guy's got way too much interesting stuff to muse upon), a fly lands on Piasecki's shoulder. I motion that it's there, and he simply replies, "Want me to lick it? Protein."
What does Shane Piasecki, breezy personality with a big heart and adventuresome soul, have to say about his future? "Things are yellow," he says dreamily. "Brick by brick we're building something."
When asked about his versatile style, he says he doesn't worry about running out of songs. Why? "Authenticity," he remarks, drawing back to our earlier discussions of writers John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, "You don't question authenticity in their work, because their styles are so [unique]. It's who they are." And I can't help but agree. He concludes, "If you're a little different, that's how you're always gonna be, if you embrace it."
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"It doesn't matter how much money someone spends on Retin-A or photofacials. If she doesn't apply sunscreen every day, she'll look like a raisin when she's in her 50s—maybe even her 40s," Perrotta says. Most of us freely admit that vanity is our primary motivation for slathering on the SPF 30 (with UVA and UVB protection) each morning. But that doesn't mean we aren't keenly aware of the other, more sobering reasons to do so. "We did an article on a woman with melanoma, and she died right before the issue hit the newsstands," Perrotta remembers. "She was only 32. I haven't skipped sunscreen since."
The pitch from facialists and publicists usually goes like this: Toner removes the soap and dirt that face-washing leaves behind. But we don't see the logic in a product that can be made superfluous simply by rinsing your face a few more times. "I understand why people get sucked into buying these—the black shadow on the cotton ball and the clean, tingly feeling they leave behind," Byrne says. "But I promise you, they aren't necessary at all."
Those tiny pots of cream or gel may feel cool and silky, but they're not a skin-care staple for everyone. Most regular old face lotions can be used safely around the eyes as long as your skin is not sensitive or prone to puffiness. That said, sticking to staples can be pretty dull. "I like to use a separate eye cream because it feels more luxurious," Byrne says.
"What I've learned from talking to nine billion stylists is that the most flattering cut—on virtually any hair texture—is a little shaggy and layered. For someone like me, with thick, bushy hair, that means shoulder-length with a few long layers in front," Perrotta says. There should be no elaborate layering in back:It's too Carol Brady on straight hair and too puff-inducing for curls. That also means no layers (above eye-length) on short hair or above the earlobes on long hair. And by long hair, we mean a style that falls no more than a few inches below your collarbone. "If you aren't expected at fifth-period calculus, your hair should not hang lower than your breasts," Byrne says. "It looks like you're trying too hard to reclaim your youth." Sorry, Demi.
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Every time I want to use an antonym to "pertinent", I think of "impertinent", which I don't like to use because of its more common meaning. How did "impertinent" come to mean "intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil" (Dictionary.com)?
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Etymology Online suggests that the use of impertinent to mean "rudely bold" is connected to similar use in French, and happened around 1680. It also offers the tantalizing tidbit
Now the first thing I think of when I see "Molière" is intermediate French class and the play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Jean-Batiste Poquelin aka Molière was a French playwright whose satiric plays centered around characters who were taken out of their 'natural' element. In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, for instance, is the story of a middle class man who aspires to the aristocracy. He is like a fish out of water as he tries to learn to be a gentleman, and much hilarity ensues.
If we look closely at the etymology of the word, it is not too much of a stretch to equate "not pertaining to something" with "not a part of something." The association with Molière's works certainly could have helped impertinence take on this slightly altered meaning.
So it would seem that the "intrusive or presumptuous" meaning of impertinence is fashionably French.
The meaning of impertinent are two:
At least in the second case, impertinent is an antonym of pertinent.
The original meaning of the word is the second one; the meaning then slowly changed to the first one.
The Wiktionary has a note about the usage of impertinent:
"Pertinent" means "topical."
In its original form, "impertinent" meant "not topical," or in the language of this site, "off topic." That is actually an offense, because being "off topic" is widely seen as a form of "rudeness," or "lack of respect."
Over time, "impertinent" took on the connotations of "active," rather than "passive" rudeness. That is, it started to gain the meaning of outright disrespect (insolent or intrusive) as opposed to the milder "showing lack of respect" (rude or uncivil).
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Sense of "rudely bold" is 1680s, probably modeled on similar use in French, especially by Molière, from notion of meddling with what is beyond one's proper sphere.


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A photographic portfolio of open spaces in Middlesex and Essex Counties in Massachusetts. You'll visit farmlands, forests, seashore, and reminders of the state's seafaring and fishing traditions. Photographer Paul Mozell is passionate about the environment, and has a painter's eye for light and composition.
Paul Mozell is a Boston area photographer who wears many hats. With over 25 years of experience as a pro, and a lifetime of immersion in the art and craft of photography he handles a wide variety of projects and assignments. His work includes nature & landscapes, architecture, executive & family portraits, and weddings.
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The exhibition of the National Museum of Slovenia, since June 2004, National Museum of Slovenia – Prešernova
The exhibition presents a selection of objects ranging from the Stone Age to the Medieval and Modern Periods.
These represent the most important and most precious artifacts from the archaeological collections of the National Museum of Slovenia. One exceptional archaeological site, the Ljubljanica River, is specially featured, as it is a true treasury of history in terms of the quantity, type, and excellent preservation of the finds (around 5500 in the NMS). The selected artifacts are valuable for their material, workmanship, form, or state of preservation. They consist of items that are exceptional not merely in our museum collections, but also within Slovenia, throughout Europe, and even world-wide. Some exponents were treasures or were highly valued by the people who once used them in the past, whether for their usefulness and worth or their symbolic significance. On the other hand, certain individual objects are valuable as archaeological or historical sources, as a documentation of the past, particularly if they come from a context that allows them to "tell" their own tales from long ago. In this manner the exhibition gathers together objects that were found by chance or were acquired in an unofficial way with those that were discovered in archaeological excavations and are hence professionally documented, conserved, and studied. All of them are part of our museum collection and are part of our common cultural heritage.
This exhibit gathers together objects that were found by chance or acquired in an unprofessional manner (with metal detectors, for instance), along with those discovered in archaeological excavations that have consequently been recorded properly, conserved, and studied. All of them represent part of our museum collections and thus part of our collective cultural heritage.
The most important objects or groups of material:
1. Early Stone Age (Paleolithic): the Neanderthal flute
2. Late Stone Age (Neolithic): the earliest pottery vessels and stone tools
3. Copper Age (Eneolithic): vessels, metallurgical implements and products from the pile-dwelling sites in the Ljubljana Marshes
4. Bronze Age: hoards of bronze objects and semi-finished products (ingots)
5. Early Iron Age: the Vače situla, weapons of the Hallstatt princes, priceless vessels, and female jewellery from sites in Lower Carniola
6. Early and Late Iron Age: the first coinage
7. Late Iron Age: Celtic weapons and jewellery
8. Roman period: Roman military equipment, selected pottery, glass, and metal vessels (such as the askos from Polhov Gradec), Roman figurines, ivory dolls, coins
9. Late Antiquity: Early Christian objects
10. Early Medieval period: Germanic jewellery from Kranj, the hoard from Sebenje, Slavic jewellery
11. High and Late Middle Ages: finds from castles, weapons from the Ljubljanica River
12. High and Late Middle Ages. Modern period: valuable small finds
13. Archaeological site: the Ljubljanica River: various finds from all periods
The exhibition was conceived and prepared by: the Archaeology Department of the National Museum of Slovenia
Authors: Neva Trampuž Orel, Peter Turk, Janka Istenič, Timotej Knific, Tomaž Nabergoj, with contributions by Alenka Miškec
Project coordinator: Tomaž Nabergoj
Design and computer layout: Roman Hribar, Miran Pflaum
Proof-reading: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Translation: Barbara Smith-Demo
Photographs: Tomaž Lauko and Igor Dolinar, Marko Habič, Srečo Habič, Jože Hanc, Katja Hrobat, Timotej Knific, Ciril Mlinar, Miran Pflaum, Nejc Saje, Marjan Smerke, Boris Vičič and arhives of the NMS
Drawing backgrounds: Roman Hribar and Peter Beus, Peter Conolly, Ida Murgelj, Igor Rehar
Preparation of material and documentation: Polona Bitenc, Barbara Jerin
Conservation and restoration of material: Irma Langus, Gorazd Lemajič, Sonja Perovšek, Janja Slabe, Anita Virag
Other contributors: Zoran Milić, Veronika Pflaum, Boštjan Pogorelc, Igor Ravbar, Andrej Šemrov, Nika Veršnik


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Direct Democracy and Health Care in Zapatista Land:
A Doctor's Experience on the Day of Political Transition
by Michael Kozart
It is October 8, 2007. From my perch in the health infirmary (casa de salud) of the Zapatista village of Emiliano Zapata, I can see straight across the open plaza to where the day's festivities are just beginning. People are assembling next to the building where the Autonomous Council meets, and it is the transition of this council, an event that occurs once every three years, that accounts for the fiesta, which began yesterday and ends tomorrow. Today is the official sign-off day, where the outgoing Council members hand their responsibilities to the incoming members, and the ceremony is a somber one, preceded by a Catholic mass and the singing of the Zapatista hymn, as well as the hoisting of two flags: one of Mexico and one of the EZLN, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
The village of Emliano Zapata is the seat of local government for the surrounding Zapatista municipality of San Manuel. Zapatista land is basically organized into five different regions called caracoles, each of which consists of a number of municipalities. Each caracol is governed by a board (the Junta of the Good Government), which consists of representatives from the autonomous councils of all the municipalities that make up a given caracol. The Spanish word caracol has multiple meanings. Literally it translates as a snail or conch shell which evokes the image of a home or, alternatively, in the case of the conch, the horn blast that calls Zapatistas together for events and encuentros. The spiral image of the shell is also symbolic of the human heart in Mayan belief, which implies that the caracol is the central organ of Zapatista life. The political bodies of the caracol, the junta and the autonomous councils, mediate disputes, establish development projects, manage economic cooperatives, oversee education and health care, etc. It is little wonder that the three-year transition of the Autonomous Council is a very important event and that San Manuel has pulled out all the stops for this fiesta. Later today there will be a basketball tournament featuring teams from villages all over the municipality, and then, at night, music and cumbia dancing until the wee hours of the morning.
My role today is to be stationed in the casa de salud, for I have come to Emiliano Zapata as a medical doctor interested in the Zapatista health care system. I am also part of a group called the Chiapas Support Committee (CSC), which has been invited by San Manuel's autonomous council to participate in the festivities. The CSC is a non-profit organization that has worked for years to support key development projects in San Manuel, the most recent of which has been the construction of a pharmacy warehouse (farmacia bodega), which now proudly sits beside the house of the Autonomous Council. Within months this sturdy concrete and cinderblock building will be stocked with medications and medical supplies that will be made available at affordable prices to the people of San Manuel, and indeed to everyone in the neighboring region whether or not they are Zapatista, because the Zapatistas hope projects like the bodega will benefit the entire region. As the famous Zapatista slogan states, everything for everybody, nothing for ourselves (para todos todo, para nosotros nada).
Since my current visit to Emiliano Zapata coincides with the fiesta of political transition, there are health promoters from all over San Manuel present in the village today, and I am able to talk with them about the kinds of public health problems they are seeing, how they provide care with so few resources, and their vision for a future health system in Zapatista land. Their main constraints are the lack of money to purchase medical supplies and limited access to hospitals. The closest hospital to San Manuel lies in Ocosingo, a city of about 35,000 inhabitants about a three- hour drive from Emiliano Zapata, assuming the dirt roads are passable and reasonably dry. There is also another hospital in Altamirano, about a six-hour drive from the village, run by the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul. Getting to either hospital is difficult under the best of conditions, and a veritable nightmare in the midst of a medical emergency. The promoters talk about their dream of an ambulance, fully stocked with emergency equipment, as well as the enhancement of a central clinic located in La Garrucha, the village where the Junta meets. They also speak about their legacy of traditional Mayan medicine, and their hope to cultivate and spread knowledge of medicinal herbs, both as a means to maintain aspects of indigenous culture and to achieve health care sustainability.
The need for a self-sufficient health system is not just a function of the geographic and financial inaccessibility of vital medical services. There is also the harsh political reality that confronted the Zapatistas when they first rose up in 1994 and which persists today. The Mayans who formed the EZLN faced imminent displacement by large-scale ranchers and industrialists who were (and have been) intent on using ancestral Mayan lands for private gains. The North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect on New Year's day 1994, would have paved the way for the appropriation of resource-rich regions of Chiapas by outside investors, forcing villagers off their land and into the swelling class of landless low-wage earners crowding Mexico's maquiladora sector. In 1992, in an act of naked aggression against the indigenous people of Mexico, then president Carlos Salinas modified one of the key provisions of the Mexican constitution that had been enacted after the Mexican revolution of 1917 to forestall the displacement of native communities from their land. The famous Article 27 expressly prohibited the sale or transfer of land that was held in common. Salinas made it possible for these land tracts, or ejidos, to be sold (or, more properly, seized) to enable the industrialization of the countryside and to spurn Mexico's integration in the global economy under NAFTA.
In 1994 the Zapatistas finally said enough, moving to reclaim land that had been taken away from them or that they were in danger of losing. The struggle continues today in the form of military checkpoints, harassment, discrimination, and in some cases outright hostility perpetuated by paramilitary organizations that are backed by wealthy ranchers. The ranchers in turn exert enormous influence over the state government of Chiapas, which the Zapatistas simply refer to as the "bad government." Not surprisingly, many Zapatistas feel uncomfortable about traveling outside the safety of their communities to seek health care in government-sponsored clinics and hospitals in neighboring cities like Ocosingo, which happens to be the seat of local power for the bad government. In fact, during my present visit to Chiapas, elections were held in municipalities throughout state, and in the municipality of Ocosingo, the reigning PAN party president was reelected, all but insuring the legacy of bad government for the region.
As we sit and talk in the casa de salud, the current Zapatista plan for health care in San Manuel is described to me. It involves the construction of a number of clinicas, which are much more substantial than the casas de salud. The one that I'm in is a rough wood hut with a cement floor, several shelves for medical supplies, and of course no electricity. In fact, there is no electricity in the village, and this is ironic given the presence of newly erected electric power lines alongside the main road through the village. I was told that this is merely one example of the corrupt nature of the bad government. Electric power is granted as a political favor, not as a right.
There is also a clinica being built in Emiliano Zapata supported by another NGO from the Basque country of Spain called Paz y Solidaridad. This clinic, when complete, will complement the farmacia bodega, transforming the village into a hub for health care in the entire municipality. However, everything that happens in the near future, as I am told, will depend upon the ongoing collaboration between the Zapatistas and outside organizations because buildings, medications and medical supplies cost money, of which the Zapatistas have very little. In fact, when we arrived in Emiliano Zapata two days ago and I toured the casa de salud, there were hardly any medications to be had. The local health promoter of the village informed me that they were desperately in need of antibiotics, especially ones to treat infectious diarrhea.
Yesterday I traveled with the health promoter all the way to Ocosingo to purchase medications with money that the CSC had raised. By Zapatista standards, this was a vast sum, about 600 U.S. dollars. Although I was a bit disappointed about missing the first day of the fiesta in the village, the long drive gave me a chance to ask a lot of questions. I was especially curious about the importance of the fiesta and how much that reflected the importance of the Zapatista political process. He told me that elections for the incoming autonomous council had taken place three months ago and that they were the result of an elaborate process involving many meetings and discussions about the future of San Manuel, and indeed of the entire Zapatista movement. I was told that everyone voted. There was never a question of not voting. Nor was the voting a question of money and fundraisers, expensive ads and flashy stump speeches. It was the product of simple town hall meetings and serious discussions. And the more we talked, the more it occurred to me that what seemed to be of importance for this fiesta was the political process itself, the fact that people had come together to directly shape their own future. The autonomous councils and juntas are the Zapatista government, and it is truly a government built from below, or "below and to the left" as the Zapatistas say. All this was in stark contrast to the flashy, money and political machine-dominated elections that recently took place in the parallel bad government system of Chiapas, which resulted in yet another cycle of corrupt leadership for the municipality of Ocosingo.
We returned to Emiliano Zapata with boxes loaded with medications, and today I will be doing health consultations. In fact, although most of the people in the village are assembled at the political transition ceremony, a rather long line has also begun to form outside the casa de salud. We have arranged that I will see cases throughout the morning and early afternoon, and that I'll work with two health promoters at a time. I am quite excited about helping, and learning, for already in my discussions with the promoters I've been impressed with their level of medical knowledge and their practical solutions to common health matters. As necessity is the mother of invention, they have evolved many creative clinical techniques. I am currently trying to grasp the mathematical formula they use to figure out pediatric antibiotic dosing. It is like nothing I've ever seen before. I compare their values to the ones I usually get from reference books, and I see that they are all consistent. I'm impressed! I'm hoping to use this formula when I return home to the clinic I run in California.
With the medications we bought in Ocosingo, we begin our consultations. The first patient is a middle-aged woman with very high blood pressure. She explained that she had received a prescription from a doctor in Ocosingo but did not have the money to buy the medication from the pharmacy. Fortunately, we had purchased some anti-hypertensives and were able to write a prescription for her. She immediately asked how much it would cost. It is at this point that my first real lesson in Zapatista health care occurred. I had assumed that medications we purchased would be passed onto the compas free of charge. However, the promoters explained that it is customary to pay for medications because this is what keeps the clinics going. It is what enables them to purchase more supplies. Zapatistas generally have very limited means to acquire real money, and the economy (at least in San Manuel) is based around subsistence farming. Nonetheless, it is possible to earn some cash from the sale of surplus beans or corn, or farm animals like pigs, chickens and cows, or from small manufactured goods like hand-woven garments or hand-stitched shoes. The point of all this, as it was explained to me, is sustainability. Each individual is expected to earn what they can to survive, and by paying for their own needs, they help to subsidize a system of care that can provide for everyone. Collectively, through projects like the farmacia bodega, the Zapatistas are doing whatever they can to lower the cost of essential goods, but the entire system rests upon each individual effort to obtain these goods for oneself, so as to enable the system to purchase goods for everyone else who can't afford them. In the end, perhaps because it was the day of the fiesta or perhaps because the village had such an abundance of new medications, we ended up giving most of what we had out for free, but not without this important lesson drummed into me by each of the promoters: the goal was for everyone to do the best they can to provide for themselves and, in so doing, to provide for everyone.
We left Emiliano Zapata the next day, just as the basketball tournament was in its final few rounds. The cash prize for the winning team would be 400 pesos (about forty dollars), and by the looks on the faces of the players, it was obvious that this was a very serious purse. As we made our way out of the village along a steep dirt road, it occurred to me that there was something organic about the entire experience. The fiesta of political transition was essentially a celebration of autonomous political empowerment, of direct democracy, and the health care system too was predicated on the effort of individuals to contribute to the collective system. The Zapatistas do not govern from above, and the people do not expect handouts or, for that matter, to be lifted from their suffering by any outside force. Rather, the government arises from villages, just as the health care rests on what each individual can contribute to the system. All this makes sense in terms of the spirit of communalism, of indigenous solidarity. In the end, I keep coming back to the image of the heart, the symbol of the caracol. The logic of the system seems to be that each individual makes a difference. No one is obscure, and no one is superfluous. Everyone works hard because they are all part of one very actively beating heart, and this heart is beating, I believe, for everyone.


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Places to See
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Tower Street, off Route 136, 401-253-8388. Located on Mt Hope Grant, the traditional lands of the Wampanoag peoples, the museum is a treasure trove of fascinating artifacts from the native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Brown University's only major museum, the Haffenreffer offers public lectures, performances, symposia, festivals, and much more. A gift shop is open during museum hours. Educational programs and guided tours are available. Open Saturdays and Sundays, September through May, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and June through August, Tuesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors, $1 for children 12 and under and free for members. www.haffenreffermuseum.org
Bristol Statehouse/Courthouse
240 High Street (Box 383), 401-253-0015. Located on the edge of Town Common, this 1816 Federal-style stone building is reputed to be the work of architect Russell Warren. From 1817 to 1852, it served as one of the five state houses used by the Rhode Island General Assembly, when the Governors and State Senators rotated through the five counties of Rhode Island, hearing cases and upholding the law. It was converted to a courthouse, in use until 1980. The Bristol Statehouse Foundation bought the property in 1996, and has spent $1.2 million renovating it to its original condition. The first floor houses a school library for the adjacent elementary schools, while the second floor courtroom has been restored to its original 19th century grandeur, where periodic court reenactments, plays and public gatherings are held. Call for hours and more information. www.bristolstatehouse.org
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For the first time in a while, the St. Louis Cardinals looked Thursday like a team that could win a world championship. Much of that was because of star Albert Pujols' newly awakened bat.
The game's most powerful slugger has yet to hit .300 this season, but in the final game of a series against the Milwaukee Brewers, he went 4-4 with a grand slam and another homer. The 3rd-inning blast was his 12th career grand slam and his third home run in less than 24 hours.
"I come out there to try to have good quality at-bats, and if it happens, great," Pujols told the media after the game. "If it doesn't, there's nothing I can do. As long as I go out there and give my 100 percent and get myself ready for the game, that's it."
The Cards won their third game in a row against the Brewers 8-4. Despite the sweep, the Cardinals still have a lot of work to do in a short time if they want to catch the first-place Brewers. The Cards are currently 7 ½ games behind with 25 games left.
"You hope this is how we play the last 25 games. We'll see what happens," left fielder Matt Holliday said. "You do the best you can, and if it's not good enough, it's not good enough."
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Tonight is the return of "Revenge" season 3 and fans are really excited for this show to be back on. On Jan. 4, Hollywood Hills shared spoilers about this season. Fans want to know if Emily Thorne really has amnesia or if she is faking and the spoilers are out.
She really does have amnesia and is not faking it at all. This will be an interesting twist to the show. Of course it won't last forever, but Emily is not going to remember everything which is going to cause some obvious confusion for her and everyone around her.
Daniel will have guilt over shooting her and this is going to cause him to be unsure of what to do. Victoria still doesn't know that Emily is Amanda Clarke, but she is confused on what to do. She doesn't know, but she is trying to figure out what is going on with her.
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Whitechapel has unleashed their sixth full-length, 'Mark of the Blade', today worldwide via Metal Blade Records! In conjunction with Mark of the Blade's release, Whitechapel has launched a new video for the album track 'Elitist Ones'.Read More
Armored Saint
Following their upcoming summer/fall tour dates, the mighty Armored Saint will head back out on the road this November/December as direct support to Queensryche! Midnight Eternal will also join this USA trek.Read More
On July 22nd, Revocation will release 'Great Is Our Sin.' Today, the band has unleashed a third blistering track from the album - check out the lyric video for 'Crumbling Imperium' now via Loudwire.comRead More
Hammers of Misfortune
On July 22nd, Hammers of Misfortune will release their sixth full-length, 'Dead Revolution.' In anticipation of this release, the band has now launched a new track, 'Sea of Heroes', today via Stereogum.comRead More
Denner / Shermann
Denner / Shermann has released a new video for the track 'Son of Satan', taken from their upcoming album, 'Masters of Evil', out June 24th. To watch 'Son of Satan', please visit metalblade.com/dennershermannRead More
Necromancing the Stone
If flaccid, identikit, breakdown-laden 'metal' is the disease, Necromancing the Stone is the cure. With their upcoming debut full-length, 'Jewel of the Vile', the group plans to vanquish 'Breakdownicus Gratuitous.'Read More
If These Trees Could Talk
If These Trees Could Talk has announced a USA headlining tour in support of their new album, 'The Bones of a Dying World'! Kicking off in August in NY, the trek also features Driftoff, Spotlights, and Alexander Turnquist as support.Read More
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Ben Affleck Hits Parked Car, Leaves Note
Truth rating: 10
Ben Affleck's hits are generally in movie theaters — not on sidewalks.
But while driving in Santa Monica on Saturday, the Argo star accidentally sideswiped a parked car, knocking off its side mirror.
Rather than just driving away, Affleck did the right thing.
He left a note that read, "Hi, knocked off your mirror! Very sorry! Will cover everything –Ben," along with his contact info.


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I was watching some new sitcom last night that takes place in a NYC bar. A bunch of NYFD dudes came into the bar and women swarmed around these heroes. One of the skeptical characters in the show walked up to them and pointed out the number of fires in this country were 85% lower than 50 years ago. He told them he had likely put out as many fires as they had in the last year. They got bent out of shape by him using facts to pop their hero balloon. Later in the show he told them rain could do their job.
The episode made me curious and lo and behold checkout this chart. Thirty five years ago we needed 225,000 career fire fighters to handle 2.4 million fires. Today, with much better equipment and technology, we somehow need 340,000 career fire fighters to handle 1.37 million fires. That's 50% more firefighters for 40% less fires. I smell something and it's not smoke. It's the stench of another government union scam.
The government and the firefighters' unions know these drones sit around the firehouse 99.8% of the time collecting high pay, gold plated benefits and retirement with full pay at 50 years old. They get more false alarms than actual fire calls. There was only one way to pretend they are useful and needed. Whenever an ambulance call comes in they send a fire truck just for shits and giggles. You've all seen fire trucks at the scenes of minor car accidents or other medical emergencies. Whenever you see six firefighters standing around at a fender bender accident scene remember that it costs you the taxpayer approximately $3,500 every time a fire engine leaves the station.
Who could possibly question the gold plated pension of a firefighter who has never fought an actual fire? This entire country is a scam.


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|Vandals stop Roadrunners
MOSCOW – The Idaho volleyball team put an exclamation point on the University's Homecoming Saturday with an energetic 3-1 victory over Bakersfield in front of a crowd of 772 in Memorial Gym on Saturday night.
After falling behind 1-0 in the match with a 25-22 first-set loss, the Vandals took control with 25-14, 25-17 and 25-17 wins to improve to 8-6 overall and 1-1 in the Western Athletic Conference. Bakersfield falls to 8-7 and 1-1 in the WAC.
"Part of it was learning," Idaho coach Debbie Buchanan said of Bakersfield's first-set win. "Every time you play a new team you learn what they're doing and it takes you sometimes a couple times around. I thought the girls adjusted well. We played with more intensity than we did the other night and we executed the game better from a passing standpoint to get more people involved. We got better as the match went on and we were able to take them out little by little as the match went on."
The Vandals out-hit Bakersfield .294-.169 in the match, owned a 9-4 advantage in blocks and a 63-62 edge in digs. Idaho also had four service aces, while giving up two to the Roadrunners.
"We served well tonight," Buchanan said. "We finally let the kids just go after it and they did a good job. I thought we were getting them out-of-system more than they were in-system."
Two Vandals tallied double-doubles in the win, as sophomore Meredith Coba finished with 41 assists and 12 digs, and fellow sophomore Katelyn Peterson had 10 kills and 12 digs.
Junior outside hitter Jessica Hastriter had a team-high 12 kills and junior middle blocker Alyssa Schultz added 11 kills with a .381 hitting percentage and six blocks. Senior Ashley Christman also had 11 kills while hitting .375 and senior Taylor Wilkinson added nine kills on a team-best .462 hitting percentage and four blocks. Freshman Terra Varney had a team-high 15 digs in the match while Jenna Ellis added nine and three assists.
"They all did a good job tonight," Buchanan said of her team's performance. "If we can get Ashley (Christman) involved it's always a plus. Our middles did a good job and our outsides were making some nice swings as the match went on."
The Vandals came out flat and trailed the entire first set, falling behind by as many as six at 15-9 before falling 25-22. Idaho broke a 9-9 tie in the second with a 6-0 run and closed the set on a 16-5 extended run for the 25-14 win. The Vandals never trailed in their fourth set victory and closed out the match-clinching fourth set in style with an 8-2 run giving them the 25-17 win. Idaho is back to .500 in the WAC's first weekend of action after a disappointing conference-opening five-set loss to Utah Valley on Thursday.
"It's huge just to show that we can come back, we can compete, we can play at a high level," Buchanan said of how her team rebounded from Thursday. "This is the type of team that we are. If we would have played like this on Thursday night the outcome would have been different. We just have to trust that and trust the type of team that we are. "
The Vandals wrap up their three-game home stand on Monday when they host Grand Canyon at 7 p.m. in Memorial Gym.


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BANGOR, Maine – Freshman Garet Beal set a new career-high in points, as he posted an impressive second half, but it wasn't enough as the Hartford Hawks downed the Maine men's basketball team, 91-79 at the Cross Insurance Center, Wednesday night. The loss drops Maine to 5-19 and 3-9 in conference meanwhile Hartford improved to 12-14 and 6-5 in America East play.
Beal scored 16 second-half points after tallying two in the first frame, shooting 4-of-6 in the second half. Beal played in just two minutes in the opening stanza but the first-year player took control in the contest, playing nearly the entire second half.
Beal finished the day with 18 points, five rebounds and two assists. The Beal's Island native paced the Black Bears offense while Zarko Valjarevic chipped in 16 points with Xavier Pollard and Till Gloger adding 12 apiece.
As a team the Black Bears shot over 50 percent, recording a 52-percent mark from the field and outrebounded Hartford 31-23. However turnovers and allowing long-range baskets plagued the Black Bears, turning it over 18 times for the game while allowing the Hawks to shoot 54 percent from beyond the arc.
Two players paced the Hawks as Evan Cooper and Taylor Dyson both had 16 points. Hartford had three other players register double-figure points as Mark Nwakamma had 15, Wes Cole had 12 and Nate Sikma poured in 10.
In the first four minutes the Black Bears got out to a three point lead, 7-4, sparked by a pair of jumpers by Gloger. The teams traded baskets before a trey by Dyson sparked a 20-11 run for the Hawks as they headed to halftime up, 42-29.
Sikma ended the half leading the way with 10 points for Hartford while Gloger's seven points paced Maine's offense.
Maine shot 47 percent for the first half while Hartford managed 53 percent from the field.
A trey by Valjarevic at the 18:15 mark of the second half got the lead to 11, but back-to-back 3-pointers by Dyson, minutes later, gave Hartford its largest lead to that point, opening the advantage to 16, 55-39.
Hartford kept the offense coming getting the lead to 20 at the 10:26 mark as Cole hit another long-range bucket to make it 66-46.
Cooper gave the Hawks their largest lead of the game just one minute later, hitting one of Hartford's 13 treys to make it 69-46 with 9:05 remaining.
The Black Bears posted a late surge as the squad went on a 28-15 run pushing the deficit to 84-74, as the team attempted the comeback, but that's as close as Maine got as Hartford closed the game out to the tune of 91-79.
The Black Bears will be back at it on Saturday afternoon as the Black Bears look for revenge against the Great Danes who edged Maine earlier in the year. The Black Bears will play Albany in Albany, N.Y. on Saturday aft


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How do you craft an experience such that a player doesn't breeze through content but also does not run into a brick wall? Finding that sweet spot in the middle area can be rather difficult at times, especially when it comes to certain genres which lend themselves to that unforgiving style. Dark Souls II does little to no hand holding and as a result those who do not dwell in the realm of the hardcore are often repelled and forced to choose between continued frustration of giving up entirely.
While Lords of the Fallen is only somewhat similar to Dark Souls as far as mechanics go, developer Deck13 Interactive wishes to be fair and a little more forgiving. Talking with executive producer Tomasz Gop, he comments on this exact situation and how his studio is attempting to teach players into something they may not be all that familiar with: defeat.
"[W]e're trying to make sure that people can experiment [by creating the] entry threshold, in terms of difficulty and the learning curve," says Gop," [Lords of the Fallen needs to be] accessible to everybody."
Despite the fact that much of what we have seen of the title so far has emphasized failing and proceeding to try again, Gop says everyone should be able to overcome each lord with enough will to learn.
"I still think this game is going to be challenging all-in-all, and to finish it you will have to learn certain things.
"[You need to] at least try to get the sense of the variety of tactics you have, so once you find a boss that you can't defeat with a great axe, for example, you already know that you can try different things." Gop continues, "But at the same time I think it's going to be relatively easy to get into because you're getting a lot of variety of gear at the very beginning and you can already try to learn [from that point on] so you have more time to learn things that you will need [later in the game].
"[From the get go] you already have a certain type of opponent, you have a certain type of weapon, and there's only one way you can apply one to another and defeat it."
That difference, between unfair and unforgiving is why Gop wishes people would stop comparing his title with Dark Souls II. Unfortunately for him, it's simply the closest available comparison to Lords of the Fallen. As time continues to pass and more details become available, perhaps the title will continue to distance itself from it's competitors, however, from what we've seen there are certainly connections to be made between the two.
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Researchers at Texas Tech School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy brought more than $6 million in grants to Amarillo in fiscal year 2001, officials said.
The school's fiscal year runs from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31.
"The more grants you get and the more investigators you attract, the easier things get for the future, so we are very optimistic that this is really just the beginning of excellent research development," said Dr. Steven Berk, regional dean of the Tech School of Medicine.
About $2.8 million was from the National Institutes of Health.
"We're quite pleased with the productivity of the faculty and the national recognition they have gained by having the National Institutes of Health recognize the value of their work," said Arthur Nelson, dean of the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy. "An NIH grant is the gold standard. There is nothing higher in the whole world in terms of competitive research funding."
Not including the NIH grants, the School of Pharmacy brought in $1,426,669 and the School of Medicine brought in $1,786,339.
Whether the grants were earned or brought with new faculty members from other locations, much of the money was put into the Amarillo economy.
David Allen, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, has two grants totaling about $260,000, including $140,000 from the NIH to research better ways to get drugs to the brain.
"Two-thirds of the grants probably go to support the local economy," Allen said.
Most of the money flows into the economy through the lab technicians and graduate students he hires to assist in the research, Allen said.
Girish Shah, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the School of Pharmacy, brought in NIH grants worth about $1.08 million to study what factors regulate lactation and the hormone prolactin in the body, and what factors make prostate cancer so aggressive and how to counter those factors, he said.
"The money is predominantly used for hiring new people," Shah said.
Dr. Seah Lim brought $740,000 in grants over two years when he came to Amarillo.
"We are working on a tumor vaccine and improving the outcome of patients undergoing stem cell transplants," Lim said.
Lim said 75 percent to 80 percent of the grant money is spent in Amarillo, covering everything except some supplies that must be acquired elsewhere.
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As everyone surmised, Matt Stairs has been designated for assignment to make room for Gomes. Of course, that's the MLB front; not our turf.
So far,
only one move has just a couple of moves have been officially announced in the minors…
• P Gregory Holt assigned from Auburn
(Unofficially, one of our commenters has informed us that RHP Colin Bates is on the way, too)
• P Colin Bates assigned from Auburn
• SS Justino Cuevas activated from Potomac DL and assigned from GCL
• 1B-DH Russell Moldenhauer assigned from Hagerstown Suns.
• P Ben Hawkins assigned to Auburn Doubledays from GCL Nationals
With Harrisburg short one man at 23, it's pretty clear that another move will be made soon. But it's not obvious who because both Potomac and Syracuse have four or less OFs on the active roster. My apologies for these kind of "placeholder" posts, but I feel like it's the best way to handle this until the dust settles… or another trade is made.
UPDATE: A few moves shuffling the deck between Auburn and Hagerstown, indicated in bold.
10 Responses to "Ripple Effects From Rhinehart/Manno Trade"
How long will Seth Bynum be rehabbing in Auburn on the big board?
Have you seen which teams Rhinehart and Manno have been assigned to? It will be interesting to see if they got promotions.
Manno is going to Bakersfield.
I know what the rosters say, but not correct. He is going to Bakersfield.
from my sources, i think they were considerin sending him to AA, but went the safer route.
Manno is going to be on a fast track guys, I heard a interview that says that Jockety is very happy to have manno in the system, Hey Manno dont forget where u started


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2004-05 -- Finished 70th at the West Region meet (32:21, 10K) and 62nd in the 8K race at Pac-10 (26:36) ... At the USF Invite, placed 19th in a time of 25:22.7 ... Ran 25:07 at the Notre Dame Invite ... In outdoor track, ran 31:15.73 in the 10,000m and 15:16.87 in the 5000m.
2003-04 -- Finished 70th at the Pac-10 Championships (28:01.00) ... Ran 27:02 at the Aztec Invite (26th overall) ... Finished eighth at the Big Wave Invite (5k, 15:55) ... Placed 11th at the UCSD Triton Classic (26:38.1, season-best). 2002-03 -- As a true freshman in cross country, ran a season best 25:59 at the Stanford Invitational ... Placed 67th at the Pac-10 Championships in 26:55 ... Highest finish was 16th (26:35.1) at the CS Fullerton Titan Invitational ... Redshirted the indoor and outdoor track seasons.
High School -- Placed 26th at the CA State Cross Country Championships in 16:04, helping lead Jesuit to the 2000 State team title ... As a senior in 2001, placed 27th at the State meet ... In track in 2002, was the Sac Joaquin Section 3200m champion and finished 11th in the 3200m at the State meet in a personal best 9:14.68 ... Placed fourth at the Junior Olympics in the 5000m (15:24) ... Also placed fourth at the Meet of Champions in the 1600m (4:18.58) ... Track prep bests were 4:18.58 (1600m), 9:14.68 (3200m) and 15:24 (5000m).


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Starfight Productions hosted Edner "Cherry Bomb" Cherry's return to his home in Tampa, Florida, in an ESPN2 televised fight against the speedy Wes Ferguson.
The standing-room-only crowd cheered as Cherry entered the ring with a parade of his titles in front of him and gospel music trumpeting. Wes Ferguson was accompanied by the pound-for-pound king, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his trainer, Roger Mayweather.
From the opening bell, Cherry smothered his opponent and used his size to keep Ferguson from finding his distance. Cherry became a little too aggressive for the referee's liking in the second and was warned for using his forearm. By the third round, Cherry started landing his signature right hand, and Ferguson still could not find an answer for Cherry's constant press.
In the fifth, Ferguson found some room and started landing the jab from the outside. The success didn't last past the round though, as Cherry brought back the pressure in the sixth. A big overhand right opened a cut over Ferguson's left eye and sent him staggering back to the ropes. Cherry was wrapped up before he could finish off his hurt opponent.
The "Cherry Bomb" used his size to push a very tired Ferguson to the floor in the opening of the seventh. Ferguson seemed to find his second wind in the eighth and started trading with the aggressive Cherry. Despite Ferguson's best efforts, Cherry continued to landed many unanswered combinations to Ferguson's head.
Ferguson remained on his feet, but lost to the judges' scores of 96-94x2 and 98-92. Cherry improved to 22-5-2, 10 KOs, while Ferguson dropped to 16-2-1, 4 KO's. It was made clear over the 10-round contest that the aggressive Cherry, who won ESPN's Boxer of the Year award last year, had returned from his disappointing showing against Paulie Malignaggi.
Montano outpoints Brownfield
ESPN opened their night of boxing with an absolute war between jr. welterweights Ramon Montano (12-3-2) and lefty Lowell Brownfield (9-4, 3 KOs).
Montano constantly landed big on the inside and won out on the trades the boxers exchanged. In the fourth round, the tides seemed to change when Brownfield found his distance and started landing good combinations to the head. By the last three rounds, Montano grew tired and Brownfield landed four- and five-punch combinations. The fight went the distance of eight rounds with Montano winning by scores of 78-74x2 and 79-7.
Barnett & Droz slug it out
Two local heavyweights, Jason Barnett (9-4, 4 KOs) and Moses Droz (13-6, 10 KOs), thrilled the crowed with a high action four-round bout.
Droz was constantly looking for the one big punch, but rarely found it. Barnett used his speed and jab to keep his distance early on and scored from the outside. Droz found more success on the inside in the second round and landed hooks to the body. Barnett took the fight to Droz in the third and blasted him with shots on the inside and out. Sensing he was down on the cards, Droz fought a very aggressive fourth round, but to no avail. Judges scored the fight 38-38, 39-37, and 40-36 in favor of Barnett.
The brawl minded Jenna "Cowgirl" Shiver proved she could box as well by defeating Mercedes Mercury (3-10, 1 KO) with a great jab and good combinations to the head and body. All three judges scored the fight 40-36.
Local light middleweight Tim Leonard improved to 4-1-1, 2 KOs with a good counter left hook that left Robert Newbiggin with a swollen right eye and knocked him down in the second. Judges scored the fight 40-35.
In other undercard fights Ali Tareh dropped to 7-7-4, 4 KOs against Eli Addison (9-3, 3 KOs) with judges' scores of 58-56 and 59-55x2.
St. Pete's Jr. Welterweight prospect, Derrick Samuels (11-3-1, 2 KOs) battered Travis Hartman (8-7-1, 6 KOs) around the ring for six rounds, forcing him to take a knee in both the fourth and fifth rounds. His speed even drew Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s attention, as the newly crowned WBC light middleweight champion begin to cheer for Samuels who swept the score cards with the score of 60-54x3.
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I've have 100% confirmed the filming of a MAJOR network movie/documentary on women's MMA for January 12-18 here in Evansville, Indiana.
British Broadcasting Company (THE largest TV network in the world) will be filming a full-length documentary on women's MMA for prime time broadcast.
For those who are reading my emails for the first time, this is a monumental step for women's MMA, especially given the recent developments. Things that have happened have knocked women's MMA back 3-5 years and these guys are willing to change it for the better.
This will not be a typical 5 minute piece on women, this is the real deal!
GFIGHT EXPO (sorry didn't really come up with a name)
January 12-18, 2009
Training with your peers
Amateur event
Pro event (featuring 8-woman 115lbs tournament to crown the first gfight champion)
FIRST EVER annual women's awards presentation (Fighter of the Year, Submission OTY, KO OTY, Rookie of the Year, etc.)
Photo shoots for publicity shots and Gfight Magazine
24 hour training available
Meeting and networking with other women in your sport
grappling tournament
special guests
This will probably the LAST 8-person tournament in the United States. I have about 15 interested women, PLEASE contact me NOW to be included for consideration.
I want this to be an annual event that grows every year. I hope that you find a way to get here! For those women who are coming just as "fans" or just to train. I priced roundtrip tickets and five nights hotel on Priceline for about $550 (that includes FIVE NIGHT hotel stay at a SUITE with laundry/kitchen/cooking arrangements).
We're going to try and make the gym available to stay in as well. Probably using air mattresses. NO MEN WILL BE STAYING THERE AFTER A CERTAIN TIME FRAME!
Of course those pro women fighting on the Saturday show will be moved to a hotel the night before for privacy and sleeep.
If you know of any vendors or sponsors wishing to help out and make some history, please have them get in contact with me ASAP!
Now is the time for all the women to come together and make a big splash. BBC and Minnowfilms are on board with this and I guarantee women's MMA will be shown in the most positive light possible.
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Show highlights will also be show on HDNet's Inside MMA as well as aired regionally here in the midwest.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING: The University of Arizona women's basketball team (No. 18 AP/No. 15 USA Today) will seek to extend its modest three-game win streak when it takes on Stanford on Saturday, Jan. 8, at 1 p.m. in the McKale Center.
ABOUT ARIZONA: The 18th-ranked Wildcats moved to 12-1 overall and 1-0 in Pac-10 play after a 71-58 win over California at home on Thursday night. The Cats are currently riding a school-record 15-game home win streak.
With 16.5 points and 8.8 rebounds per game, senior forward Tatum Brown remains the UA leader in both categories. Senior forward Angela Lackey is second in both categories with 12.4 ppg and 5.8 rpg, while sophomore forward Elizabeth Pickney is third in both at 11.5 ppg and 4.4 rpg.
Guards Lisa Griffith (9.2 ppg), Julie Brase (8.2 ppg) and Reshea Bristol (6.6 ppg) follow on the scoring chart. Senior guard Felecity Willis is the team's assists leader, at 5.4 per game, while Bristol is the steals leader, averaging 2.5 per contest.
As a team, Arizona is leading the Pac-10 in nine different statistical categories, including scoring offense (82.2 ppg), scoring margin (+17.6 ppg), field goal percentage (.479), assists (19.54 apg) and steals (11.23 spg).
Individually, Felecity Willis is tops in the Pac-10 in assists, Tatum Brown is first in field goal percentage (.647), and Julie Brase is the leader in three-point percentage (.432).
A GREAT START: With their victory over California on Thursday, the Wildcats have tied the 1995-96 team for the best-ever record over the first 13 games of a season (12-1). A victory on Saturday would give this team the best start in school history.
INJURY REPORT: Wildcat junior guard Reshea Bristol was forced to miss Thursday's game after hyper-extending her right knee in practice on Tuesday. She is listed as "possible" for Saturday's contest. Senior guard Monika Crank was hampered on Thursday by a corneal scratch which she suffered during practice earlier in the week. She is scheduled to play on Saturday, although her play will be affected by how long she is able to wear her contact lenses.
ABOUT STANFORD: After opening the season with a 2-3 mark, the Cardinal went on a five-game win streak, only to see that end with a 74-68 loss at Arizona State on Thursday night. The Cardinal are now 7-4 on the year and 0-1 in Pac-10 play. Stanford is not currently ranked but is receiving votes in both polls. Stanford is leading the Pac-10 with an average of 6.45three-pointers made per game and is second only to Arizona with a 39.0 team three-point percentage.
Junior forward Carolyn Moos is averaging 13.5 points and 6.4 rebounds per game to lead the Cardinal in both categories. Sophomore forward Bethany Donaphin is second in both scoring (11.5 ppg) and rebounding (6.2 rpg). Senior guard Milena Flores is third in scoring with 10.6 ppg.
In her 14th year at the head of the Stanford program, Tara VanDerveer (Indiana, 1975) holds a 331-86 mark with the Cardinal. She is 483-137 in 21 years as a head coach.
THE SERIES vs. STANFORD: Stanford holds a solid 29-8 lead in the series with Arizona, although the Cats won two of the previous four meetings with the Cardinal. Arizona took the most recent meeting, 81-67, on Feb. 27, 1999, in Tucson.
LAST TIME vs. STANFORD: Seeking retribution for a 15-point loss in Palo Alto earlier in the season, the Cats drilled Stanford, 81-67, in Tucson on Feb. 27, 1999.
There were six lead changes in the first half, and Arizona went into the lockerroom at the break with a one-point (36-35) advantage. The Cats went 8-of-8 from the charity stripe in the last 12 minutes of the first half.
In the second half, Arizona led by five points (40-35) in the first two minutes of the period, but Stanford built up its own five-point (53-48) lead at the 13:45 mark. The Cats, however, took the lead by two (62-60) with 7:27 left in the game, and they sealed the win with a 13-3 run over the final 3:51, giving them a 14-point victory. In the last 5:56 of the game, Arizona shot a crucial 15-of-18 from the line.
Four players reached double digits in scoring, led by Elizabeth Pickney's 18 points. Pickney hit 12-of-13 from the stripe, tying the school record for free throws made in a game. Angela Lackey had 16 points, Reshea Bristol dumped in 13, and Felecity Willis had 12.
The win was Arizona's second straight home victory over the Cardinal.
HISTORY LESSON: The UA is 1-6 all-time when playing on Jan. 8. The Cats' last game on that date was in 1998, a 64-61 buzzer-beater loss to Washington State at home.
ARIZONA'S LAST TIME OUT: The Cats had to overcome their worst shooting performance of the season to garner a 71-58 win over California at home in their Pac-10 opener on Jan. 6. The first half was a tight one, with nine lead changes and six ties, but the Cats managed a five-point (39-34) lead at the break. The UA opened the second half with a 16-7 spurt that gave it a 14-point (55-41) advantage at the 11:59 mark.
Cal fought back to within four but would come no closer as Arizona ended the game on a 12-3 run to claim the victory.
Tatum Brown led all scorers with her 15 points, adding eight rebounds. Angela Lackey earned her second double-double of the season with 12 points and a game-high 12 rebounds to go with a game-high four steals. Julie Brase was the only other Cat in double digits, scoring 11.
As a team, the UA shot a paltry 37.3 percent from the field, its worst performance of the season to date and worst since shooting only 35.8 percent at Rutgers in the second round of the NCAA tournament last year.
LOOKING AHEAD: The Wildcats hit the road again next weekend for games against the Washington schools. Arizona will play at Washington State on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. PST, then the Cats play at Washington on Saturday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. PST in Seattle's Mercer Arena.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Arizona is currently riding a 15-game home win streak, dating back to Jan. 4, 1999. This is the longest home win streak ever in the history of UA women's basketball. The previous long streak was a string of 10 games midway through the 1997-98 season.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, PART DEUX: During Joan Bonvicini's tenure at Arizona, the Wildcats have posted an 87-38 mark in McKale Center, including a 56-10 record over the last five seasons combined. Arizona has a record of 153-146 on its home court since the 1976-77 season.
HEAD COACH JOAN BONVICINI: In nearly a decade at the helm of the University of Arizona's women's basketball program, head coach Joan Bonvicini has collected an unparalleled list of accomplishments, both for the university and for her career.
Now in her ninth year at the UA, Bonvicini has posted a 146-99 (.596) mark and has a 471-170 (.735) record in 20 years as a collegiate head coach. She also has a 22-13 mark in NCAA tournament play and has never lost a first-round game in 13 appearances.
Prior to taking over at the UA, Bonvicini led Long Beach State to 10 consecutive NCAA appearances, including two trips to the Final Four. She registered a 325-71 mark in 12 seasons with the 49ers.
RACKING UP THE WINS: Joan Bonvicini needs only 13 more victories at the UA to collect as many wins as the six previous Wildcat coaches combined.
DID YOU KNOW: Since Joan Bonvicini took over the Arizona program in 1991, the Wildcats have gone 73-72 against Pac-10 teams, although they have a 39-16 league mark over the last four seasons combined.
BONVICINI VS. STANFORD: Head coach Joan Bonvicini has a 10-16 career record against Stanford.
THE REST OF THE STAFF: Awarded the title of associate head coach during the summer of 1998, Denise Dove Ianello (Northern Illinois, 1991) begins her eighth year at the UA, functioning as both the team's recruiting coordinator and the perimeter coach. Second-year assistant coach Karen Caires (Cal State Northridge, 1990) works with the perimeter players, assists with scouting and recruiting and directs the Joan Bonvicini Hoop Camp. In his first year at the UA, assistant coach Curtis Loyd (Southern Utah, 1994) is involved primarily with scouting and with coaching the post players.
BENCH CONTRIBUTIONS: The UA bench has been quite productive this season, contributing an average of 32.0 points per game. The highest point total from the bench so far this year came on Dec. 10 against Texas Southern -- a whopping 47 of the Cats' 96 points came from the subs.
FREE THROW WOES: After hitting a hot 81.2 percent (13-16) from the line against UC Santa Barbara on Nov. 30, the Cats have seen their free throw shooting decline steadily ever since. Over the first five games of the year, the Cats hit 68.5 percent from the line, but they have hit only 65.2 percent at the stripe over the last eight games combined.
The Wildcats, who shot 70 percent or better from the line in only six of this season's 13 games, ended the 1998-99 season shooting 72.1 percent from the stripe.
NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS: The Cats went 11-1 in regular season non-conference play this year, their best non-conference mark since the 1995-96 team went 9-0. The 11 victories are the most regular season non-conference wins ever under Joan Bonvicini.
During the 12 non-conference games, the Cats averaged 83.1 points per game and outscored their opponents by an average of 18 points per game. They shot 48.8 percent from the field, including a blazing 42.3 percent from three-point range. The UA outrebounded its opponents by an average of 6.2 boards per contest. The Cats also averaged 20.0 assists and 11.0 steals per game, while forcing opponents to commit an average of 22.8 turnovers per game.
GOIN' DEEP: The best evidence that the UA is a deep squad this season? Lots of people playing lots of minutes. Currently, eight different Wildcat regulars are averaging more than 15 minutes a game.
STRONG SCHEDULE: Four of the UA's opponents this season were ranked in this week's polls. Pac-10 foe UCLA is ranked 17th in this week's A.P. poll, while UC Santa Barbara is 22nd, Kansas is 23rd and Oregon is 24th. Stanford, Colorado State, Louisville, Oklahoma and New Mexico all received votes for ranking.
In this week's USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll, UCLA is No. 17, UC Santa Barbara is No. 22, Kansas is No. 23 and Oregon is No. 24. Stanford and Colorado State both received votes for ranking.
DUALLY SUCCESSFUL: Ten schools had both their men's and women's basketball teams ranked among the A.P. Top 25 this week. They are Arizona, Connecticut, Auburn, Duke, Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Louisiana State and UCLA.
WE CAN HANDLE THE CLOSE ONES...: Under head coach Joan Bonvicini, the Cats have gone 23-17 in games settled by five points or less, including a 7-4 mark in games settled by one or two points.
...BUT WE REALLY PREFER THE BLOWOUTS: Over the last nine seasons, Bonvicini's Arizona teams have won 49 games by spreads of 20 points or more.
80 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER: Seems that the 80-point mark almost always means adding another to the "win" column for the Wildcats. In the 28-year history of Arizona women's basketball, the Cats have posted a 117-15 record when scoring 80 points or more in a game. Under Joan Bonvicini, the Wildcats have gone 77-8 when topping that 80-point plateau.
CAT SCRATCHES: Dating back to last season, Arizona has won 21 of its last 25 games... The Cats are forcing opponents to commit an average of 4.0 more turnovers per game than the UA... The Arizona women's basketball program has a 305-390 (.439) all-time record, however it is 109-54 (.669) from 1994 to present... Joan Bonvicini has a 163-86 career record against Pac-10 teams.
KEYS TO THE WIN: This season, Arizona is... 11-1 when out-rebounding its opponent... 11-1 when shooting better than 40% from the field... 12-0 when scoring 70 points or more... 11-1 when three or more players reach double digits in scoring.
ON LOCATION: The Wildcats are 7-0 at home this season, 2-1 in road games and 3-0 in neutral contests. Arizona posted an 11-3 mark at home, was 5-8 on the road and notched a 2-0 record in neutral contests last year.
RECORD WATCH: Lisa Griffith is Arizona's career leader in both three-pointers made (239) and attempted (639). She is in the #7 spot on the UA's top-20 all-time leading scorers' list, with 1,045 career points. She needs only 25 more points to move into the #6 spot.
Griffith is also on the career top-10 list for games started, coming in at #4 with 91 career starts. She stands at sixth on the career assists list, with 401, and sixth on the career steals chart, with 184.
Felecity Willis is seventh in career three-pointers attempted (158) and eighth in three-pointers made (43). She is holding down fourth place on the all-time assists chart, with 442 career dishes.
Willis is also the latest addition to Arizona's all-time top 20 scoring list. She has 799 career points, which puts her in the #19 spot. She needs only six more points to move up to #18.
Sophomore forward Elizabeth Pickney has already entered the UA's top 10 list for career blocked shots. She stands in seventh place with 47 career blocks.
CATS TAKE SEELBACH CLASSIC TITLE: Arizona won its third regular-season tournament when it swept through the Seelbach Cardinal Classic in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 28-29. The Cats had a solid showing in the first round with a 91-61 pounding of Marshall on Dec. 28. Although host team Louisville managed to hang with the UA most of the contest, the Cats pulled out an 80-70 victory in the championship game to take the tournament title.
After averaging 14.0 points and 13.0 rebounds per game over the two contests, Wildcat Tatum Brown was selected the Tournament MVP, her second such honor of the year. Louisville native Angela Lackey was selected to the All-Tournament Team as well, also her second such honor of the season.
GRIFFITH JOINS 1,000-POINT CLUB: With 3:04 left in the first half at Kansas on Dec. 21, senior guard Lisa Griffith knocked down her third three-pointer of the game to become the eighth Wildcat to reach the 1,000-point plateau in career scoring. The last Wildcat to join the 1,000-point club was Griffith's former teammate, Adia Barnes, who reached that mark during the 1996-97 season.
WILDCATS CLAIM TITLE OF INSIGHT.COM BOWL BASKETBALL CLASSIC: After falling in the championship game of the 1998 tournament, Arizona re-claimed the title of its ninth annual Insight.com Bowl Basketball Classic with victories over Texas Southern (96-46) and Indiana (87-70) on Dec. 10-12. The UA's Tatum Brown was unanimously voted the Tournament Most Valuable Player after averaging 20.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals over the two games. Angela Lackey was named to the All-Tournament Team, as well.
RECORDS FALLING ALREADY: Tatum Brown's 11-of-12 shooting performance against Colorado State on Dec. 6 tied the UA single-game record for field goal percentage (.917). It is also a new McKale Center record, breaking the previous mark of 84.6 percent (11-13) set by former UCLA player Denise Curry on Jan. 17, 1981.
Arizona also set a new school record by hitting a sizzling 75.9 (22-29) percent in the first half against UC Santa Barbara on Nov. 30.
BROWN NAMED PAC-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK (Dec. 6): Senior forward Tatum Brown was named the Pacific-10 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week for Nov. 29-Dec. 5. Brown scored a career-high 21 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds to lead No. 21 Arizona to an 86-76 upset over No. 15 UC Santa Barbara on Nov. 30. In just 26 minutes of action, she shot 9-for-12 (.750) from the field and 3-for-4 (.750) from the line.
The Player of the Week honor is the first of Brown's career, and the 17th all-time selection. Brown's honor followed Elizabeth Pickney's Player of the Week laurels the previous week, marking the first time in school history that the Wildcats have had back-to-back Pac-10 Players of the Week.
SHOOTING THE LIGHTS OUT: The Cats shot a school-record 75.9 percent (22-29) from the floor in the first half of the UCSB contest on Nov. 30. For the game, they shot 63 percent (34-54), the highest field goal percentage for any team since the school record was set at 64.3 percent (36-56) against Drake on Nov. 25, 1990.
PICKNEY NAMED PAC-10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK (Nov. 29): Elizabeth Pickney was named Pac-10 Player of the Week for Nov. 15-28. Pickney averaged 16.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots per game in the UA's four straight victories to open the season. She shot a team-high .575 (23-40) from the field and .720 (18-25) from the line during that stretch.
Pickney was named the Tournament MVP at the Hawaiian Regent Wahine Classic, leading Arizona to the team title with three wins. In the tourney, she averaged 18.0 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. The Player of the Week honor was the first of Pickney's career and the 16th all-time selection for Arizona.
SULTANS OF SWAT: The Wildcats racked up nine blocked shots in the contest against Tennessee Tech on Nov. 20. That is the highest single-game block total since the 1985 squad collected 10 at Tennessee-Chattanooga on Jan. 5, 1985. Elizabeth Pickney had five of the UA's blocked shots against Tennessee Tech, a career high for her.
As a team, Arizona collected 20 blocks over the first four game of the year, the highest block total ever over that stretch in any season.
CATS TAKE CHAMPIONSHIP AT HAWAIIAN REGENT WAHINE CLASSIC: The Wildcats swept through three games in Honolulu on Nov. 19-21 to take the title at the Hawaiian Regent Wahine Classic, hosted by the University of Hawai'i.
Arizona garnered victories over Oklahoma (75-59), Tennessee Tech (87-71) and host team Hawai'i (86-73) to open the 1999-2000 season with a perfect 3-0 mark.
Elizabeth Pickney averaged 18.0 points and 7.3 rebounds per game for the Cats and was the overwhelming favorite for tournament Most Valuable Player laurels. Felecity Willis and Tatum Brown were named to the All-Tournament Team, as well.
GOOD BEGINNINGS: With Joan Bonvicini at the program's helm, the Wildcats have won five straight season openers and a total of seven in the nine years she has been at the UA.
In the 28 years of Arizona women's basketball, the Wildcats have won 15 season openers. The UA went on to post winning records in eight of those first 14 seasons.
DOVE IANELLO AMONG TOP ASSISTANTS: In a survey of women's basketball head coaches conducted by the Women's Basketball Journal last fall, Arizona associate head coach Denise Dove Ianello received votes for consideration as one of the top assistant coaches in the country.
FUTURE WILDCATS: On the first day of the early signing period (Nov. 10), Arizona inked a trio of high school recruits from the state of California. The signees were 5-10 guard Candice Allen (Ontario, CA/Ayala HS), 5-7 guard Aimee Grzyb (San Jose, CA/Archbishop Mitty HS) and 6-3 forward Veranda James (Pomona, CA/Ganesha HS).
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: For the third year in a row, the Wildcats earned a preseason national ranking. The Cats were ranked 25th in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25, and they were 24th in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Preseason Top 25.
The Wildcats were ranked among the top 25 teams in five different "unofficial" preseason polls this fall. The UA's highest ranking in these polls was 13th by Women's Basketball magazine and the lowest was 22nd by both Street & Smith's and the Basketball News Report.
Angela Lackey earned preseason third team All-America honors from Lindy's College Basketball and honorable mention All-America laurels from Street & Smith's College Basketball.
1998-99 IN REVIEW: Despite losing the squad's only two seniors before the season ever started, the very young 1998-99 Wildcats held their own and came up with an 18-11 overall record and went 12-6 in the Pac-10 to finish in fourth place.
The Cats faced a rough non-conference schedule that featured three teams which spent most of the season among the top four in the national rankings. Arizona went 5-4 against those non-conference opponents, with quality losses to Purdue, Louisiana Tech and Colorado State and a big road win over UC Santa Barbara.
That tough early slate prepared the Cats for a season of Pac-10 play which showed more parity than it has in years. After getting off to a rocky 1-3 start in league play, the Cats rebounded to finish the season 11-3, with wins over Pac-10 co-champion Oregon and over perennial power Stanford.
The Wildcats then received their third consecutive berth in the NCAA Tournament, earning a #6 seed in the Midwest Region. In Piscataway, N.J., Arizona faced NCAA tourney veteran Florida in the first round of play and defeated the Gators, 87-84, in overtime to move on to the second round for the third straight year. The Cats then took on host Rutgers, only to end the season on a sour note, falling to the Scarlet Knights, 90-47.
For the season, Arizona had its most balanced offense in five years, with four players averaging in double digits in scoring, and ended its season by winning 12 of its final 16 contests. The Cats broke or tied 13 school records on the year, including setting new marks in single season free throws made (520) and blocked shots (88).
With 14.4 points per game, Angela Lackey led four Wildcats averaging in double digits in scoring. Felecity Willis came in second with her 12.1 ppg scoring average, followed closely by Elizabeth Pickney at 11.4 ppg. Pickney was the team's top rebounder, with 5.8 per game, while Willis was the team's assists leader, averaging 5.5 apg. Lackey was second in rebounding with 5.4 rpg, and Reshea Bristol posted 11.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.
POSSIBLE STARTING LINEUP: 34 Angela Lackey F 6-0 Sr. Louisville, KY 12.4 ppg 5.8 rpg 1.4 spg 53 Tatum Brown F 6-4 Sr. Tacoma, WA 16.5 ppg 8.8 rpg 0.7 bpg 3 Lisa Griffith G 5-6 Sr. Portland, OR 9.2 ppg 2.0 spg 4.0 apg 20 Julie Brase G 5-9 So. Tucson, AZ 8.2 ppg 2.8 rpg 2.2 apg 23 Felecity Willis G 5-7 Sr. Apple Valley, CA 6.2 ppg 5.4 apg 1.5 spg OFF THE BENCH (listed alphabetically): 33 Tysell Bozeman G 5-8 So. Riverside, CA 2.7 ppg 0.6 rpg 0.6 spg 10 Reshea Bristol G 5-10 Jr. Omaha, NE 6.6 ppg 3.2 rpg 2.5 spg 22 Monika Crank G 5-7 Sr. Page, AZ 5.8 ppg 3.1 rpg 2.2 apg 51 Michelle Mitchell C 6-4 So. Oregon City, OR 1.4 ppg 2.0 rpg 45 Elizabeth Pickney F 6-4 So. Houston, TX 11.5 ppg 4.4 rpg 0.9 bpg 21 Jamie Sturdivant G 5-7 Fr. Simi Valley, CA 1.2 ppg 0.4 rpg 50 LaKeisha Taylor C 6-4 So. Houston, TX 1.7 ppg 2.2 rpg 35 Krista Warren G 6-2 Fr. Cloverdale, CA 2.7 ppg 2.8 rpg 0.8 apg WHAT THE COACHES THINK: Here is the predicted order of finish for the Pac-10 this season, according to the league's coaches... 1. UCLA 6. Washington 2. Oregon 7. USC 3. Stanford 8. Oregon State 4. ARIZONA 9. California 5. Arizona State 10. Washington State WHAT THE MEDIA THINK: Here is the predicted order of finish for the Pac-10 this season, according to the league's women's basketball media members... 1. UCLA 6. Arizona State 2. Oregon 7. USC 3. Stanford 8. Oregon State 4. ARIZONA 9. California 5. Washington 10. Washington State ARIZONA ON THE TUBE: The Wildcats are currently scheduled to make television appearances for three more games... Sat. Jan. 22 USC Fox Sports Net 2 p.m. Sun. Jan. 30 Arizona State Fox Sports net 2 p.m. Sat. Feb. 19 at UCLA Fox Sports Net 1 p.m. PST


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