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Some think Bradley "Chelsea" Manning is a "gay hero", as this poster reads.
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Manning's lawyer says gender issue is medical treatment, to deny request would be unethical
been convicted
one of the biggest leaks of confidential government information
in the history of the U.S. He's been
sentenced to 35 years in prison, with the possibility of parole in 6 and 1/2 years
, with time served. But even as the debate over the young former U.S. Private First Class (PFC) continues, Mr. Manning has issued a statement triggering a brand new debate.
I. Manning: Call Me Chelsea
At a press conference after the sentencing, David Coombs, Manning's lawyer remarked, "[And we are looking into] ensuring that a soldier who is in confinement who has gender dysphoria gets treatment."
That subtle comment might have been lost amidst the interest in his flashy comments about Manning's innocence and his bid for a presidential pardon. But on Thursday Mr. Coombs read a statement from Manning revealing just how serious the leaker is about his desire to undergo gender reassignment.
His attorney read
the letter
, which read in part:
I am Chelsea Manning. I am female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.
He signed the letter "Chelsea E. Manning"
Convicted leaker Bradley Manning, asked to be refered to as Chelsea and want taxpayer funded sex change surgery while he/she is imprisoned. [Image Source: BradleyManning.org]
It should be noted that Mr. Manning, openly gay since his teen years, was bullied over his sexuality in the military and at the time of his 2010 arrest was reportedly pursuing sex change options. He cited the bullying and his gender confusion as part of his motivation for leaking military secrets in a February plea deal, while asserting that his primary motivation was a belief that the leaks would help change the world view on U.S. public policys. He admitted in an apology on Wednesday that his actions were naive and had unintentionally harmed the nation he vowed to serve.
II. Does Eighth Amendment Require Taxpayer Funded Sex Changes for Inmates
To say that Mr. Manning's request is controversial is an understatement. Even some transgender advocates are decrying the request, as it would give the dishonorably discharged convicted criminal privileges that the U.S. military denies those who are serving and are honorably discharged.
Currently, the U.S. Military's policy is not to pay for the actual operative part of gender reassignment. It does provide discrete sexuality counseling, and since President Obama's rollback of "don't ask don't tell" has allowed gay/transgender individuals to enlist. The Department of Veterans Affairs additionally provides hormone treatments for honorably discharged soldiers -- an elective procedure not offered to to active servicepeople.
But in the general U.S. prison system there's some momentum to force taxpayers to pay for inmates sex reassignment surgeries. With some experts claiming it's a simple matter of medical ethics, the fight is likely to eventually be taken up by the Supreme Court. The
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
, which sets precedent for South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia in January
a decision by the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
to toss Virginia inmate Ophelia Azriel De'Lonta's lawsuit seeking gender reassignment.
Ophelia De'Lonta, a Virginia inmate who was born male and identifies as a female, won his/her case to have a Viriginia Federal Court reconsider overturning a state ruling that sex reassignment should be taxpayer funded. [Image Source: AP]
A state judge had previously order that the inmate -- who threatened to seriously injure himself/herself otherwise via self-castration if sex reassignment was not provided -- receive the requested surgeries/therapies. But the federal court tossed the case. Now it will be forced to debate the issue on the grounds of the finalclause of the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
De'Lonta is
being represented by
American Civil Liberties Union
According to
The Encyclopedia of Surgery
a male to female sex reassignment costs between $7,000 to $24,000 USD, while a female to male sex reassignment costs over $50,000 USD. Other expensive inmate surgeries have been paid for by taxpayers for over two decades,
such as plastic surgery
The U.S. is number one in imprisonment. [Image Source: Prospect.org]
Any new treatment allowance to inmates is a big deal from a taxation and federal budget perspective, as the U.S.
imprisons a higher percentage of its citizens than any other nation
in the world.
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It is simple. The crux of the entire problem can be summed up by an old old saying: "The square peg doesn't fit in the round hole."
And there you have it.
That's why there is all this fuss. It boils down to the basic reproductive biology of all life on this entire planet. Life exists for a single purpose--to reproduce. If life can't reproduce, it dies off and is replaced by another species.
We're not talking about even religion here despite my use of it as example. We're talking about elementary biology and human, no, mammalian physiology. This is why it has remained an issue for millenia and will continue to be one.
Regardless, Humans are unique amongst other life on this planet in that we share both self-awareness and empathy. Most other life is very non-empathetic to others. While acceptance of a weaker evolution of life (i.e. humans that desire equal sexes) is completely illogical, our empathetic side (in some) sees a need to at least facilitate a pleasant stay on our planet for the odd-century the individual remains here. Thus, to my previous post, civil-unions will provide this accomodation.
Like it or not, though, the biological implications remain and will continue to tug at our psyche for eternity.
"So if you want to save the planet, feel free to drive your Hummer. Just avoid the drive thru line at McDonalds." -- Michael Asher
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To have an accurate understanding of client protection, one must first understand what it is not. It is neither an admonishment of the profession nor an assumption that lawyers are somehow prone to behave badly. In truth, most lawyers are honest professionals who provide clients with competent representation. But client protection does acknowledge that even a single bad actor can cause catastrophic damage to clients and the reputation of the profession.
Client protection mechanisms have three primary objectives: (1) to help honest lawyers understand their professional obligations (prevention); (2) to provide a remedy to clients who have been harmed by dishonest lawyers (remediation); (3) and to help preserve the client-lawyer relationship (maintenance).
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Another method of ensuring that lawyers are engaged in proper trust accounting and recordkeeping procedures is a random audit program. The random audit of lawyer trust accounts provides an opportunity for those most educated in trust accounting procedures to review lawyer or law firm trust account-related books to determine if proper procedures are being followed and to provide direction to improve internal procedures. Similar to overdraft notification, random audit has the added benefit of highlighting patterns of dishonest behavior.
When a third-party liability claim is settled, the client/payee is sometimes the last to know. Payee notification programs provide that the client be given notice when a payment has been distributed to the lawyer. Because payee notification requires insurance companies to forward the notice to the client, payee notification is often enacted by statute or insurance commission regulation. The reasoning behind payee notification is simple: if the client knows the money is there, the dishonest lawyer is less likely to forge an endorsement on the settlement check and misappropriate the funds. In fact, jurisdictions with payee notification have reported a marked decline in lawyer theft of insurance proceeds.
Remediation. Despite the profession's best preventative efforts, a few lawyers will still misappropriate client funds, leaving the client with little recourse for recovery. Unfortunately when this happens, it taints the reputation of the entire profession. In response, every state and the District of Columbia has established a lawyers' fund for client protection (lawyers' fund) to reimburse losses to clients following lawyer misappropriation. Most lawyers' funds are financed through mandatory assessments of the members of the bar.
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Client protection initiatives prevent and, when necessary, address harm caused during the practice of law. It is in all lawyers' best interests to learn about the client protection programs in their jurisdictions. For more information on these and other client protection programs, visit the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection website at http://ambar.org/ClientProtection.

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GSK and Theravance reported positive data from four pivotal trials evaluating their investigational combination long-acting muscarinic antagonist/long-acting beta agonist (LAMA/LABA) drug in over 4,000 patients with chornic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The firms say they now project starting global regulatory filings ahead of schedule, from the end of 2012.
The once-daily dry powder inhaled drug UMEC/VI combines GSK's LAMA umeclidinium bromide (UMEC/GSK573719) with the LABA vilanterol (VI), which the firms selected as a lead candidate through their LABA collaboration, originally signed in 2002. The four reported 24-week UMEC/VI studies included over 4,000 COPD patients and evaluated and compared UMEC/VI, VI, and UMEC either in comparison with placebo or with tiotropium. The results showed that UMEC/VI led to greater improvements in FEV1 than either component alone or tiotropium.
Data are now awaited from a 52-week safety study, and two replicate 12-week crossover exercise studies. "We are very encouraged by the results of these initial studies for our LAMA/LABA, an important cornerstone of our broad respiratory development portfolio," comments Darrell Baker, svp, respiratory portfolio optimization leader at GSK. "Subject to successful completion of the ongoing studies we plant to commence global regulatory filings from the end of this year."
UMEC/VI is one of several late-stage assets in the GSK respiratory development portfolio, which includes Relovair™ (fluticasone furoate/vilanterol, or FF/VI), VI monotherapy, and muscarinic antagonist-beta2 agonist (MABA) GSK961081, developed in collaboration with Theravance, as well as GSK's investigational FF monotherapy, UMEC monotherapy, and anti-IL5 MAb (mepolizumab). GSK says the latest Phase III UMEC/VI trial data will also help support its ongoing development of the UMEC monotherapy, for which it projects initiative global filings in 2013.
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For the third year in a row, Catholic Charities of Buffalo exceeded its annual fundraising goal, topping its $10.7 million target by more than $100,000.
It was the first appeal for Bishop Richard J. Malone, who was installed last August.
The bishop noted that more than $2.2 million was raised since March 25.
"After months of planning, we launched this year's campaign on a cold but sunny morning in early January, with hopes of raising $10.7 million," Malone said Friday, when he gave the final 2013 campaign report at Catholic Charities' downtown headquarters. "Much like a long-distance runner facing the last several miles of a marathon, our appeal leadership team, our many volunteers ... and, of course, our dedicated staff, simply refused to give up until the race was complete."
The contributions help pay for more than 70 programs for the poor, the homeless and those in need of various types of social assistance in the eight-county diocese.
In the midst of the economic downturn in recent years, Catholic Charities endured financial hardship, similar to the people it serves. Campaigns failed to meet their targets from 2007 to 2010.
Through mid-March, the pace of this year's campaign lagged. But Catholic Charities officials, encouraged by an uptick in corporate donations and a new social media campaign geared toward younger donors, expressed confidence at that time that the goal would be met.
Sister Mary McCarrick, Catholic Charities' diocesan director, highlighted the work and dedication of the community's youngest and most faithful supporters.
"The compassion and help demonstrated by students this year show us that the future of the appeal is in good hands," McCarrick said Friday. She recognized the efforts of the 412 students at St. Mark Elementary School in North Buffalo, who raised $12,545. The students, under the leadership of Principal Lee Brenner and Assistant Principal Margaret Smith, raised "an impressive" amount, McCarrick said.
St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, whose students raised $4,500, was honored for raising the most among local Catholic high schools.
The Rev. Michael Sajda, president of St. Francis, and student Matt Unger were honored with a plaque.
"The efforts of the young men at St. Francis during Lent are especially significant because they gave dollars of their own, from their hearts, which is what we are all called to do," McCarrick said.
Appeal Chairman Stephen M. Ulrich acknowledged the ongoing challenge of attracting new donors, both Catholic and non-Catholic.
"While challenges remain, we have a lot to celebrate today. Curbing the impact of donor loss, our average gift each year continues to grow," said Ulrich.
This year's average gift was $185.64, up from $175.68 in 2012. "It's the highest in the history of the appeal," Ulrich said.
The corporate, community and leadership divisions each recorded significant increases in donations.
The more than $1 million raised by the corporate division, under the leadership of Bill Lawley, Kathy Lawley Best and Anthony Delmonte Jr., represents a 20 percent increase over 2012 and is only the second time that million-dollar milestone has been attained.
Community division donations increased by 64 percent, from $170,161 in 2012 to $279,385. Leadership gifts increased by 17.5 percent, from approximately $2.93 million to more than $3.44 million.
The parishes of Immaculate Conception in Wellsville and St. Joseph-University in Buffalo were recognized for significantly surpassing their 2012 totals.
Immaculate Conception went from $38,900 last year to $69,000. St. Joseph-University recorded the largest increase, from $175,000 in 2012 to more than $209,000.
Ulrich also applauded the Faith Formation program at St. Gregory the Great Church in Amherst, the top program contributor among such groups. Through a bowl-a-thon, spaghetti dinner and hot chocolate sale, the program raised $4,400.
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Parents with children entering kindergarten in the Lake Shore Central School District this fall should register their kids between Feb. 11 and Feb. 15.
To be enrolled in the Sept. 2013 kindergarten class, a child in the district must be 5 years old on or before Dec. 1.
Registration materials can be picked up in the main office of each of the district's three elementary schools. Parents can also contact the school offices to have packets mailed ahead of time, so the materials can be submitted during this week.
The phone numbers are 926-2370 for J.T. Waugh Elementary School; 926-2350 for A.J. Schmidt Elementary; and 926-2460 for Highland Elementary.
Also this week:
• The Lake Shore Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Shore Middle School, 959 Beach Road.
• The Town Board will hold a regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Town Hall, 8787 Erie Road. An agenda meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.


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The Mirror is about to "blitz" the area with high school football coverage.
An inaugural full-color preseason glossy magazine, "Blitz," features 26 area high schools and covers 116 pages.
Coverage of each school includes a profile of a returning player, written by John Hartsock, along with players to watch, analysis by Mirror Assistant Sports Editor Philip Cmor plus 2012 statistics and 2013 schedules.
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"Blitz," which costs $4.95, goes on sale Monday at the Mirror - 301 Cayuga Avenue in Altoona. It is also available at Giant Eagle locations in Altoona, Ebensburg and Bedford as well as at the Logan Valley Mall.
(For a complete list of sales outlets, please see Page F12.)
"Blitz is a natural evolution, for both our local sports coverage and our glossy magazine initiative at the Mirror," said Ray Eckenrode, Mirror General Manager of Advertising. "We retain the mass appeal and audience of our newspaper coverage, but the magazine provides great value to special interest readers who just can't get enough about high school football."
Mirror Managing Editor Neil Rudel said "Blitz" will not replace but will supplement the Mirror's annual preseason football tabloid, which will run on Tuesday, Aug. 27. The tabloid will include lettermen's pictures, up-to-date preseason rosters and a capsule look at each team's projected starters.
"We've always had the attitude that we cannot overcover high school football," Rudel said. "Blitz is a wonderful addition to our commitment of high school football coverage."
"Blitz" can also be ordered online at blitz.altoonamirror.com.
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January 29, 2013
Eighty-nine Saint Vincent College students participated in the 40th annual March for Life on Jan. 25 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Under the direction of coordinator Mary Kate Kenna of the Saint Vincent College Respect for Life Club, the group was joined by Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president, and Fr. Jean-Luc Zadroga, O.S.B., Saint Vincent College Campus Minister. The Saint Vincent delegation was sponsored by the Office of Campus Ministry in cooperation with the campus chapter of the Knights of Columbus and the Respect Life Club. The Saint Vincent group joined with tens of thousands of abortion protestors including about 6,000 marchers from southwestern Pennsylvania.


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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Former Altoona police officer Duane Eichenlaub was ordered Wednesday to pay an East Freedom man injured in a Memorial Day 2010 bar brawl $9,791 in medically related expenses that were the result of being punched repeatedly by the officer.
Defense attorneys on Monday argued that Blair County Judge Timothy M. Sullivan should have ordered the restitution when Eichenlaub was sentenced for aggravated assault and obstruction of justice on May 28.
At the time of sentencing, however, representatives of the Blair County Victim-Witness Program were still attempting to determine the money that Earl P. Eshelman, 60, paid out of pocket for medication and treatment he needed after the incident at an Altoona bar.
Sullivan at the time set restitution at $1 and said he would hold the record open for 30 days, giving authorities time to finalize Eshelman's restitution claim.
The judge stated that the defense had 10 days to challenge the claim.
Sullivan, in an opinion released late Wednesday, said this is what occurred. Deputy Attorney General Christopher Jones submitted Eshelman's restitution claim within the 30-day period, and Eichenlaub's Harrisburg attorneys, Timothy M. Barrouk and Theodore C. Tanski, contested the restitution within the 10-day period.
Sullivan held a hearing Monday, during which time the defense attorneys argued that the state's Superior and Supreme courts required restitution to be resolved at the time of sentencing.
The judge reviewed the precedential cases presented by the defense attorneys but took exception that his way of handling the Eshelman restitution claim was "illegal."
Citing general rules of court, Sullivan pointed out that a judge is to order restitution at the time of sentencing but also found that the court may "at any time" alter the restitution if it states the reasons for doing so.
He said the defense in May did not object to his $1 order and his decision to hold open the record on restitution for 30 days.
He added, "We find no prejudice to the defendant herein."
Sullivan ruled, "There is no dispute that Mr. Eshelman suffered serious and extensive physical injuries as a result of the assault by the defendant that occurred on the date of the incident." The judge said, "There is certainly no surprise here that Mr. Eshelman is seeking restitution for his injuries."
Sullivan found substantial differences in the Eshelman restitution case when compared with the precedential cases cited by the defense attorneys.
In one case, the judge waited 18 months to have
a hearing, the judge
He concluded by stating he believes the way the Eshelman restitution was handled complied with the law, "which provides the sentencing court broad authority to modify restitution amounts at any time if we state the reasons for doing so as a matter of record."
Eshelman was injured when he attempted to break up a fight in the men's restroom of the bar during the early morning of May 30, 2010.
Eichenlaub and a fellow officer, Eric Kriner, followed a man into the restroom after he allegedly improperly touched Eichenlaub's wife. Eichenlaub and Kriner began to beat the man.
When Eshelman, who was in the restroom at the time, attempted to break up the fight, Eichenlaub punched him several times in the face and head, severely injuring his left eye and inflicting injuries that require ongoing medical treatment.
Eichenlaub is serving 11 to 23 months in jail for aggravated assault, simple assault, conspiracy, hindering apprehension, tampering with a public record and obstruction of law and other functions.
Kriner was given four years' probation for his part in the brawl with the other man, Herman "Bo" Lardieri, but was not involved in the Eshelman case.


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BRISTOL - Wanting to make sure local children have enough food when they are out of school for winter break this week, members of two local churches and the Cortland Moose stocked them with their annual backpack program.
Pastor Roger Norton of Bristolville United Methodist Church said the backpacks filled with food items were delivered before Christmas break to students in kindergarten to sixth grades.
Students who received the backpacks were identified through the school district's breakfast and lunch programs as those needing assistance.
The Bristolville United Methodist Church, West Farmington United Metho-dist Church and Cortland Moose worked together on the effort, which is in its fourth year, Norton said. The public helps with cash donations.
He said there were 190 participants who volunteered in sorting food and then packing 140 backpacks.
"There was enough food for seven school days that each child will be on vacation. Norton said there was cereal and hot chocolate for breakfast, crackers, macaroni and cheese, canned pasta, soups, applesauce and pudding for lunch.
Norton said volunteers signed up from both churches to help. Both the churches have often taken part in projects together.
It took one day to get all the food and one day to package and deliver to the school, Norton said.
"We have heard from the school officials and the parents who are so appreciative of what has been done in the past,'' he said.
Eighty percent of the backpacks are returned to be used again. Norton said those families helped in the past will let him know if they don't need help this year and asked that the backpacks be given to other families.
"We want to make sure the children won't go hungry," Norton said.


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MACON, Ga. – The Stetson men's basketball team, now nearly two weeks into official practice, was selected seventh in the 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, announced by the league on Thursday afternoon.
After a banner year in which they finished third in the A-Sun during the regular season, and made a trip to the conference semifinals, the Hatters lost three of their top four scorers from 2012-13 to graduation.
Fortunately, Stetson returns three former starters in seniors Willie Green, Aaron Graham, and Hunter Miller, and head coach Corey Williams brought in a wealth of new talent to join the squad, so the Hatters were picked to remain in the playoff hunt.
Stetson received 37 total points in the poll, placing ahead of eighth place Lipscomb, ninth place Northern Kentucky, and 10th place Kennesaw State. The Hatters were also picked seventh in the media poll.
Defending champion Florida Gulf Coast was picked to repeat, earning 95 total points and six of the 10 first place nods. Holding the regular season title from a year ago, Mercer was picked second with 92 points and three first place votes.
USC Upstate (3rd, 75 points), Jacksonville (4th, 63 points), North Florida (5th, 58 points), and ETSU (6th, 55 points) rounded out the teams selected ahead of Stetson. The Ospreys received the final first place vote.
USC Upstate's Torrey Craig was selected as the Preseason Player of the Year, while FGCU's Bernard Thompson was picked as the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. The 10 player Preseason All-Atlantic Sun Team was made up of three members of FGCU, three from USC Upstate, two from Mercer, and one each from Jacksonville and North Florida.
College Sports Madness, which handed out its own A-Sun preseason honors earlier in the fall, selected Aaron Graham as a third team all-conference honoree, and recognized Andrew Zelis as a freshman to watch in the league.
Stetson opens the season with a pair of home exhibition games at the Edmunds Center. Stetson will host Tamp on Oct. 26 at 1:00 p.m., and then welcome Palm Beach Atlantic to DeLand on Nov. 4. The regular season kicks off on Nov. 8 when the Hatters travel to Clemson.
The home opener is on Saturday, Nov. 30 when Stetson plays host to Davidson at 1:00 p.m. Season ticket are now on sale. For information go to GoHatters.com/tix or call 386-822-HATS.


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That may be, but recently they've said they will hold the line on programming costs, and IMHO if they can't reach a deal that they think is reasonable they'll take a pass.
While I'm not to sure if they will come to agreement before the start of the preseason, doubt it will be Christmas before these to come to an agreement. They both need each other.


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quote: you can't perform sexual acts in clear view through a window that can be seen from a public area.
quote: Hell, back in the 60s, in my younger and more paranoid days, with the knowledge I had what was possible in surveillance and such, I decided that I was going to build an underground house and the only thing above ground was going to be the garage. (It was not only for surveillance reasons but also for thermodynamic reasons.)


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LISBON - Clutching their daughter's last school photo and a few things written by her before her death, the grieving parents of Olivia S. Thompson addressed Todd Roberts, the driver of the vehicle which struck her and then drove away.
"Mr. Roberts, you took so much from me," said Billy Thompson, Olivia's father, while standing next to his wife at the lectern in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court on Friday. "You took my heart. You took my soul. You took my light."
Through tears he described his daughter as their "miracle" child, adding she was "unexpected and full of life." She was 9 years old when she was struck by Roberts in a Chevy S-10 pickup while she was crossing East State Street in Salem while walking with a 12-year-old child near the Dollar General after 9 p.m., Nov. 9, 2012.
"You have two daughters," Billy Thompson said to Roberts. "They deserve a father, but you don't deserve them. Carelessly, you left my daughter in the street like a dog."
Roberts' children were reportedly riding in another vehicle behind his at the time of the accident and Billy Thompson questioned if they saw what happened and saw him drive away, asking what kind of role model he provided them. He expressed he will always have hate for Roberts and will always carry the loss of Olivia.
"You will do your four years and never have to think of my daughter again," Billy Thompson concluded, "but you will always be in my thoughts. You will always be in my nightmares."
Beth Thompson, Olivia's mother, questioned Roberts about the lack of emotion he has shown throughout the court process.
"Was this worth it to be in such a hurry that night," Beth Thompson asked. "You took a loving and vibrant child away from (her family)."
Billy Thompson read things his daughter had written, like in a Mother's Day letter when she referred to her mother as Supermom and wrote the thing she liked the best about her mom is that she was funny. He added his wife would never again know what it was like to be called mother by her daughter.
One of Olivia Thompson's aunts, Cyndi Dickey, spoke before the parents relaying she and another relative are nurses and were the ones who provided the aftercare to the body at the hospital the night Olivia was declared dead.
"The trauma caused to that child's body was worse than anything I had ever seen in my professional career," Dickey said, adding Roberts hit her and left her by the side of the road, something she said she could not even do to an animal.
Salem police testified at an earlier preliminary hearing Thompson's body was found under a vehicle, 130 feet from where the impact was believed to have occurred.
Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones said Roberts was using excessive speed and had passed other vehicles in the area before striking Thompson. She added he then compounded the behavior by making the "completely selfish, self-interested decision to leave."
Jones said Roberts continued down the road for awhile, then stopped to check the damage to his own vehicle, before continuing home to hide his vehicle. He then went drinking with friends at the Endzone Bar in Washingtonville. It was the next day "and at the urging of friends" when Roberts called Salem police to let them know he may have been responsible for what happened.
Roberts, 29, Thompson Road, Lisbon, had agreed in November to plead guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and failure to stop after an accident.
Himself the father of two daughters ages 11 and 6, he apologized to Olivia's family in court prior to sentencing. He also explained while he knows Olivia's family would like to see him serve more time in prison, he has "to get home to his daughters."
Roberts said he had prepared a speech, but added really he has felt lost and has not been able to figure out what to do since the accident and with the charges hanging over him.
"I'm sorry I left her on the side of the road," he said. "I'm sorry everything happened and if I can change this I would do so in a heartbeat."
Judge C. Ashley Pike went along with the terms of the plea agreement. Roberts was sentenced to a four-year prison term followed by a four-year probation term. Roberts' license has been revoked for 10 years. Part of the plea agreement includes Roberts going to nine local schools or organizations during his probation and speaking about the dangers of driving recklessly or while impaired.


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|August 15, 2013, 09:11 PM
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1-3/4" long
Make sure they will function reliably in your shotgun before you use them 'for serious'...
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|August 16, 2013, 09:48 PM
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They did great in the Mossberg 500, except last shell OUT twisted...
Made the first one IN a full sized, and ALL cycled perfectly! Even during
Live Fire! Cycling them out w/o firing showed the flaw. It's All Good!
|August 18, 2013, 12:53 AM
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The instructor who sold me the shotgun advised #4 buck. When I went to favorite local gun store, they advised #4 buck. CCW instructor advised #4 buck.
Is anyone surprised that my Mossberg 500 has 6 rounds #4 buck?
|August 24, 2013, 03:43 PM
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Where shotguns are concerned, there are no stone tablets writ by the finger of God and brought down from the mountain by Moses.
I don't care who told you what, where, how many times.
What I do care about is how much YOU have experimented/demonstrated/proven/patterned/experienced/trained/practiced with YOUR shotgun and YOUR finger on the trigger.
THAT is worth talking about. Everything else is pretty much hearsay.
A pile of hulls that you have fired is not hearsay...
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|August 24, 2013, 04:39 PM
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Very Nice, Fred Fuller... Very Nice!
|August 24, 2013, 08:53 PM
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Pretty much the sort of thing Dave McC said for years here... it isn't just me
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|August 24, 2013, 09:15 PM
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re-reading the OP and this thread.
I've got to say, in my admittedly limited experience, "disrupting the central nervous system" is certainly not "normally required to stop the threat".
Most 'hardened' killers, rapists, and mental wackos give up the second someone gets smoked - even in a group. The only consistent exception to this is when the criminal is high with some kind of drug, or very drunk.
Criminals understand force. Many of them ONLY understand force. When someone is willing to level a weapon at them and pull the trigger, 99% of the time they want no more part of whatever is going down - be the projectile rubber slugs, blocks of wood, or lumps of lead. Tacti-cool "CNS disruption" not normally required.
|August 24, 2013, 11:51 PM
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The only consistent exception to this is when the criminal is high with some kind of drug, or very drunk.
Or living in Miami, perhaps? Might be something about that subtropical air...
A perception that many have held the intervening years is that the eight FBI agents' marksmanship was gravely lacking. Not so, argues Dr. Anderson, and presents a persuasive brief that a number of FBI hits were good ones; they just happened to run up against two highly trained (military police, 101st Airborne and Rangers), well-practiced (approximately 750-1,500 rounds per week which they had purchased or robbed from several unfortunate civilians plinking in the Everglades), and extremely focussed individuals in Platt and Matix. The FBI fired a verified 70 rounds (possibly as many as 77 or 78) and delivered 18 wounds to the bad guys, firing at extremely hostile targets obscured by gunsmoke, considerable amounts of dust and debris from the crashing, careening cars, and the deep shadows of the trees beneath which their vehicle came to rest.
Among those wounds, McNeill hit Matix with that head shot plus a neck/chest shot early on in the fight; Dove delivered that difficult hit as Platt was wriggling from the passenger window of the Monte Carlo, as well as two others; Risner (from 30 yards!) also made a lethal chest wound on Platt in mid-fight; and Mireles, after his shotgun blast had delayed Platt with four 00 foot wounds, had one-handedly put three rounds into Matix's head and two into Platt (one central nervous system, one scalp) all while himself gravely wounded.
An adversary gets hit square in the head with a 158-grain +P, and he isn't stopped, you are having a bad day! McNeill, Mireles and Hanlon had bad days only Grogan and Dove had worse ones. In light of this information, perhaps John Hall's "ammo failure" assessment has some merit but then as a war veteran chum with more than three dozen confirmed kills continually asserts, "the more I see of this stuff, the more I'm convinced that nothing hand-held is absolutely reliable."
This is one reason why Dr. Anderson undertook such a time-consuming labor of love, as he related in an interview with the author. "I've been fortunate in life," he avers simply and with characteristic modesty. "And the law enforcement community has taken good care of me, witness that I am still alive after a number of death threats I have received." (Bio chemists involved in genetic engineering are viewed with considerable alarm in many fundamentalist sectors.)
So, long fascinated with the "nuts 'n' bolts" of the Miami Massacre, Dr. Anderson set about to answer some lingering questions in his and the minds of many who have studied that bloody suburban firefight.
Through interviews with the six surviving Agents, Sgt. Rivers and P.O. Martin Heckman of the Metro-Dade P.D., civilian witness to the firefight Sidney Martin, and the post mortem reports, photographs, x-rays, slides, notes and ancillary materials provided by Dr. Jay Barnhart, the Metro-Dade County Medical Examiner who actually responded to the crime scene between 120th and 124th Streets, and subsequently performed the autopsies, Dr. Anderson uncovers some previously obscured "truths" about that bloody Friday morning, all of which are documented and substantiated in his fully detailed volume.
Forensic Analysis of the April 11, 1986, FBI Firefight is truly a magnificent achievement, with never-before seen full color crime scene and autopsy photos, as well as painstakingly detailed graphic illustrations of not only the Miami killing field, but the wounds Platt and Matix received. At the risk of sounding like a certain writer who opined that the Colt's All-America 2000 "instantly made the 1911 design obsolete," it is my view and others with whom I have consulted, that Dr. Anderson's oeuvre has immediately taken its position as the standard text in this benignly neglected genre.
Certainly it is an indispensable adjunct of every wound ballistics student's bookshelf, or that of those interested in gun fights, and the volume is finally available to the general public.
What Dr. Anderson's extraordinary artifact shows in graphic and detailed color, is that on 11 April 1986 there were three huge pairs of balls on Miami's Southwest 82nd Avenue fortunately for the good guys, the biggest set belonged to Ed Mireles and with the aid of some solid hits from Gordon McNeill, Ron Risner and Jerry Dove, the good guys won, but at a terrible expense of life.
-- http://www.thegunzone.com/11april86b.html
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|September 8, 2013, 10:09 PM
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I vote 00BUCK and 1 ounce slugs.
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|September 9, 2013, 04:12 PM
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"the more I see of this stuff, the more I'm convinced that nothing hand-held is absolutely reliable." Yep I agree Phineas P. Gage took a 1 1/4 tamping bar through is head exiting out the top walked upright with little assistance to a cart to get treatment and lived for 12 more years
|September 22, 2013, 09:16 AM
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I carried and used a standard 12 riot gun for many years down here in paradise (and was working the day the "Miami shootout" occurred -fortunately not there but in the north end of Dade county..). I retired out in 1995 having only fired one round on the street where it counted. I relied on my shotgun whenever there was even the possibility of an armed confrontation and took some ribbing about it from my officers. The one time it was needed all nine 00buck pellets went into the chest cavity and ended the matter on impact... All I ever used was issued 23/4 00buck or slug rounds and that's what I used on that one occasion.
As an old "country boy" with a short tour in Vietnam before going into law enforcement I always understood that the human animal is so wildly variable that there are a few walking around that you might actually have to out-run AFTER you've made a killing shot... Anyone who believes otherwise should pray they never find out the hard way...
As noted above, know your weapon, practice to become competent, and pray you never need it.
|October 19, 2013, 11:29 AM
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Hi folks, just watched penetration tests on youtube and agree that 00 buck would do the job. Thanks for sharing that leymaymiami, but i do have concern of over-penetration. In your case, how far was the distance and was there any pellets that went through? I am seriously doubting stocking up my tubes with 00 bucks now not from UNDER-performing but Over-performing.
|October 19, 2013, 01:54 PM
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Shoot to stop the threat. Shoot and shoot until it stops. Aim for the chest and head using slugs!
|October 20, 2013, 12:47 AM
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As I used to tell my students, Shoot to stop the aggression. The best way to do that is center of mass/heart area, that way if you somehow miss you still may get a piece of him. If he dies that is irrelevant.
|October 23, 2013, 07:30 AM
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Seems pretty clear to me.
|October 23, 2013, 05:43 PM
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|December 2, 2013, 05:51 PM
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In over fifty years of shooting and killing game I still remember that first rabbit and how I felt watching the twitching body as I realized what I had done. I hunted to eat or to protect property and life.
No sane man wishes to have to kill another but sane men do accept that at times it may be the result of their actions. It is a grave responsibility.
I remember being told that a man armed with a drawn knife and within 20 feet could cover the distance in less than 2 seconds. Can you draw and fire in less than 2 seconds? Most gun owners can't even decide to fire in 2 seconds. Train your muzzle on the threat and at the first hostile act move to save yourself. That is what this is all about, self preservation. Most people have no idea what incoming gunfire sounds like. I do and I don't like it.
Most injuries to border patrol officers is from rocks. Rocks are considered deadly force and should be defended against as appropriate. Do you think the person coming into your house will be armed with just a rock?
Like the quote from Patton in the movie, "It is not your place to die for your country, it is to let that other poor sob die for his." He knew what he spoke of as he had ended the life of a Mexican Villista charging him on horseback with a shot from his colt peacemaker.
Feel bad about it later but be alive to have feelings.
|February 17, 2014, 07:14 AM
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I'd love to get my hands on some 15 pellet #1 buck though. I have some but it's a 3" 24 pellet magnum load, recoil is stout.
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|March 10, 2014, 05:00 PM
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No intention of hijacking this thread, though here's some food for thought on the matter in general. (Don't shoot the messenger here, these are simply thoughts from a discussion)
Having years of law enforcement in my past, as well as a family member who before retirement, served as an assistant DA, we've discussed, hypotheticly, some of the scenerios posed here.
His concensus is that, (based on) individual responses here, as well as some posted photos, He would more than likely pursue criminal charges against the home defender, even though, they did in fact believe they were defending life and property.
The reason being, there was obviously premeditation about self defense, ammunition used with the intent of inflicting the most damage or death, as well as the design of a "specialty" weapon for this exact purpose.
As he puts it, there is a distinct difference between protecting ones home with grandpa's old (shotgun of choice) should a break in occur, the planning and practice some people practice. Therefore its a fine line between being prepared and being seen as an aggressor, and as he puts it, he could easily convince a jury that the shooter had in fact been planning for such an occasion and was looking forward to the opportunity to stop by any means, such an attack.
We also discussed what might be a reasonable (legally speaking) home defense shotgun and ammo, and agreed that the following would provide plenty of plausible deniability.
a midrange priced pump or autoloader, with a shorter 26 inch bbl and screw in chokes, using an improved cylinder tube. For ammo factory or handloaded 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 ounce of lead BB or BBB shot at nominal hunting velocities. (Since these loads could in fact be readily available as turkey loads it could be argued they were not designed primarily for self defense.)
The argument by a defense lawyer would of course be, that it was a shotgun designed for hunting as was the ammo thus at least while used as home protection that wasnt the prime goal.
Now these thoughts are from a couple of pro gun folks, just imagine what the anti gunners could do with it in court?
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Any prosecutor who would take a good home defense shoot an pervert it into the acts of a deranged premeditating killer based on the home owner's choice of the proper tool for the job should be disbarred, tared (the hotter the tar pot is before dipping him/her in it the better) and feathered, and rode out of town on a rail.
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His consensus ?
Is he schizophrenic?
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A "consensus" of one amounts to an "opinion". A consensus implies a group decision making process.
This DA obviously is out to get convictions regardless of the circumstances, it seems to me.
It also seems to me that this DA has no concept of what the word "deadly" means with respect to "deadly force". If I need to use deadly force to defend myself or another person, then by definition I'm using force which I know will either kill or seriously injure another human being. And if I've reached that point, I have absolutely NO business intentionally planning and using anything LESS than deadly force. Like bird shot. Bird shot is deadly to birds, not humans; hence the name "bird shot".
To have a well thought out defense plan is not pre-meditated murder. Or premeditated manslaughter. Not having any plan is leaving one's defense of life and limb to "chance".
It is the job of the DA to press charges against those whom he perceives to be in violation of the law as he sees fit, in accordance with the circumstances and evidence of each particular case. In self defense cases, that is SUPPOSED to start with what the states laws say with respect to deadly force and when it's permissable. From there, the DA has to look at the case and determine whether or not there is a reasonable suspicion as to whether or not its use in that case was NOT justified.
If the use of deadly force was NOT justified, or it's not clear that it was justified, then the DA must, in good conscience, press charges. That's what he's paid to do.
If the evidence is clear-cut that it WAS justified, then the next question is whether or not any other laws were violated in the process.
For example:
A gang of five armed people chase a man and woman into their home, forceably breaking their way inside, destroying everything in their path and discharging firearms. Man reaches his gun and defends himself and his wife with deadly force, resulting in the death of all the attackers. The entire attack is caught on various security cameras from the moment the attacker's van screeches to a halt and dumps the armed attackers off all the way through to their armed home invasion and their sudden deaths at the hands of the armed homeowner.
Open and shut case of self defense where deadly force is clearly permitted by state law and the DA chooses not to press charges.
HOWEVER, the homeowner defended himself and his wife with deadly force using a firearm with an illegally owned silencer per the federal laws under NFA. The DA chooses to prosecute the homeowner for the illegally owned silencer.
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The aim is to stop the attack perminantly which is why I load 000 buckshot and layer bbs in the voidsand use 20 some grains of Red Dot. What ever I hit aint gonna survive so shot placement is critical meaning avoiding anything that I do not want destroyed.
I too load my own 5 000 and the voids filled with BBs for 2 3/4 hulls 7 000 and the voids filled with BBs for 3 inch hulls. I used the phone book and sheet of scrap plywood methods to test. They sure worked well.
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The fellow a few posts ago who talked about "an ADA" and how he'd prosecute many of the "defend home and life" cases might just have come from my area - south Florida. During my time on the job I saw a number of cops prosecuted (mostly during the Janet Reno era - before she went to Washington to work for the Clinton administration...). Since I was my department's representative to the then monthly Dade county police/prosecutor meetings she ran way back then I had a front row seat to that kind of mindset. The good news for all concerned is that almost none of the cases I knew about were ever successfully prosecuted. That, of course, says nothing about the stress, aggravation, and costs of finding yourself on the wrong end of any prosecution....
Of course as my Dad would say "Guess they told him (or them) what they thought of him". And that, of course, was the object of the exercise.
Despite that you have the right to defend yourself. My counsel to anyone asking would be just make sure you have no other choice before firing that first shot in self defense. You really want to be in the strongest position possible for all the really bad weather that will come your way afterward...
To come full circle I can still think of no better defensive ammo than ordinary 00buck, in a standard 2 3/4" shell. At ranges under 20 meters that load is a fight ender if you hit center mass...
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A central dogma of molecular biology is that a protein's sequence dictates its fold, and the fold dictates its function. Scientists typically expect that a protein has a singular structure (with some conformational variation), and that when an experimental structure is solved, it can used to understand the known biological function(s) of the protein. Recently, researchers used beamline capabilities at the ALS to demonstrate that a protein of Ebola virus, termed VP40, undergoes dramatic refolding rearrangements to achieve three entirely different structures for three entirely separate functions in the virus life cycle.
Evolution has compelled some viruses, such as Ebola virus, to maintain extremely limited genomes. Indeed, Ebola virus encodes only seven genes in its genome. Yet, the virus achieves many more than seven protein functions in its life cycle. Researchers set out to solve the question of how the Ebola virus does more with less.
They discovered that the answer lies in partial unfolding, rearrangement, and reassembly of the VP40 polypeptide into different forms for different, essential functions as the needs of the virus changed during its life cycle. VP40 appears to initially form an octameric ring to bind RNA and control transcription, later trafficking to the cellular membrane as a butterfly-shaped dimer, and finally rearranging into a zig-zagging hexamer to assemble and release progeny virions. Pairing of the x-ray crystallographic structures and protein biochemistry with cellular microscopy and viral replication studies definitively assigned the particular structures to particular, essential functions.
To perform this analysis, researchers built upon seminal VP40 crystal structures published by the Weissenhorn group in 2000 and 2003: a monomer in which N- and C-terminal domains appeared weakly associated, and an RNA-bound octameric ring formed by perturbation of the VP40 protein. At the time, VP40 was only known as the viral "matrix" protein, responsible for assembling the protein shell from which new virions are made. Mutants that prevented formation of the ring structure had no effect on virus budding. Thus, the function of the RNA-binding ring form of VP40 would not become clear for several more years until researchers found that VP40 also controlled viral transcription prior to assembly and release of new viruses. The researchers developed a point mutation that anchors VP40 into its ring structure, and used this mutant to demonstrate that the ring structure, and not a monomer, dimer, or the rearranged hexamer, is responsible for that transcriptional control.
First, the demonstration that VP40 must make and potentially interconvert between multiple distinct structures provides multiple opportunities for antiviral drug design. Drugs that inhibit the ring, the dimer, or the hexameric filament structure, or perhaps the flexibility required to interconvert among the three, would equally disable the virus. Additionally, the rigorous experimental proof that a single, unmodified, wild-type polypeptide doesn't have one characteristic structure, but instead, has multiple, distinct structures – each essential to the organism that encoded it –expands our understanding of capabilities of proteins in general, as well as the layers by which information is encoded in the genome. Such "transformer" proteins as VP40 may be more likely to be found in viruses, because they often make do on little genetic material, but they may be found in cellular organisms as well. Indeed, viral proteins are assembled using cellular amino acids, on cellular machinery, using polypeptide chemistry identical to that of cellular proteins. This research brings up the question of whether there are other transformers or morpheeins that exist in biology and may even be linked to human disease.
Research conducted by: Z.A. Bornholdt, D.M. Abelson, M.R. Wood, and E.O. Saphire (The Scripps Research Institute); T. Noda (University of Tokyo); P. Halfmann (University of Wisconsin); and Y. Kawaoka (University of Wisconsin and University of Tokyo).
Research funding: Burroughs Wellcome Fund, The Scripps Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: Z.A. Bornholdt, T. Noda, D.M. Abelson, P. Halfmann, M.R. Wood, Y. Kawaoka, and E.O. Saphire, "Structural Rearrangement of Ebola Virus VP40 Begets Multiple Functions in the Virus Life Cycle," Cell 154, 763 (2013).
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Surane got the start for the Cardinals and put down 17 kills off 38 swings. Junior outside attacker Shane Witmer and senior middle attacker Kevin Owens each tallied nine kills while Niemczewski tallied nine in the final set. Seniors Matt Leske, Graham McIlvaine and Larry Wrather each recorded five kills on the night.
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Grand Canyon called the first timeout of the second set after four-straight Ball State points capped by a Leske-Surane-Witmer triple block to give the Cardinals a 12-7 advantage. The Antelopes did not go away and managed to tie the set at 14-14 after capitalizing off errors by the Cardinals. The teams went back and forth and Grand Canyon called its second timeout of the set off a kill from Wrather to give Ball State a 24-23 lead. The set would be tied at 24-24 and 25-25 before Ball State took the set off a kill from Surane and a service ace from Leske.
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Niemczewski was inserted into the lineup in the fourth set and made his presence felt with nine kills off 12 swings and no attack errors. The back and forth nature of the previous sets were present in the fourth frame with Ball State able to grab a 17-14 lead off a kill from Niemczewski and two errors by the Antelopes. Coming out of its first called timeout of the set Grand Canyon rattled off three-straight points to tie the set up at 17-17. A kill from Witmer would give Ball State a 23-21 lead, causing Grand Canyon to burn its final timeout of the set. Two kills from Ponnet and a kill from Wrather would give Ball State a match point opportunity. The match ended on a service error by the Antelopes.
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