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The Kidnapping and Palestinian Politics
The kidnapping of three Israeli teens last week by Hamas terrorists has largely flown below the radar in the mainstream American media over the weekend. The alarming developments in Iraq are part of the reason for this since Americans are generally indifferent to foreign news and have trouble focusing on more than one foreign crisis at a time. But just as the Sunni Islamist offensive overturned the Obama administration's claim that it had successfully ended the war in Iraq, so, too, does the kidnapping challenge its assumptions about the Palestinians.
The ho-hum reaction of the international community, and especially the United States, to the recent decision of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority to sign a unity pact with Hamas was rooted in a belief that both major Palestinian movements were essentially political entities that had transcended their violent pasts. Instead of understanding that the deal was a sign that both Fatah and Hamas were united in being irretrievably opposed to signing a peace accord with Israel rather than ready for peace, both the Obama administration and the European Union preferred to believe that the Jewish state was to blame for the collapse of Secretary of State John Kerry's initiative. The conventional wisdom peddled by the foreign-policy establishment instructed us that Hamas's financial problems and its isolation in the wake of the fall last year of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government meant that it was being forced to knuckle under to the dictates of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, the man whom the administration had dubbed a courageous leader for peace.
If all that was true, what then could possibly explain the decision of Hamas to commit a spectacular act of terrorism that may well lead to further violence and endanger the vital foreign aid that keeps the new Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government afloat? The answer is simple. In hurting Israel in this fashion, Hamas is giving the West a basic lesson in Palestinian politics. Far from surrendering to Fatah, the kidnapping shows Hamas is hopeful of not only holding onto Gaza but of extending its influence in the West Bank.
Abbas belatedly condemned the kidnapping today, but his reluctance to use the full force of his Western-backed regime on his would-be Islamist partner stems from his understanding of the political culture of his people. He knows that rather than undermining support for Hamas, the atrocity will bolster its popularity, especially on the West Bank where the lives of ordinary Palestinians may well be disrupted by Israeli efforts to find the kidnappers and their victims. Just as the national cause of Palestinian Arabs has always been inextricably tied to efforts to battle Zionism rather than the cause of building up their own culture and identity, their political factions have always understood that attacks on Jews were the only credentials that counted when it came to gaining support on the Palestinian street. Since neither Fatah nor Hamas can compete for such backing by pointing to their records in governance as the Islamists' rule of Gaza has proved to be every bit as disastrous as Fatah's West Bank kleptocracy, they must, instead, always revert to violence. The fact that the Palestinian media has generally welcomed the kidnapping rather than denouncing it illustrates this point.
As Avi Isacharoff writes in the Times of Israel, since the unity agreement was signed in April, Hamas has been working hard to foment unrest in the West Bank. Part of that was its exploitation of a hunger strike being undertaken by terrorists in Israeli prisons, but the main object of this activity hasn't been so much an effort to undermine their Zionist enemy but to destabilize Abbas's West Bank government even as it was in the process of absorbing Hamas and trying to retake control of Gaza.
Hamas must surely believe that a repeat of its triumph in both kidnapping Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and then trading him for over a thousand captured terrorists will put them in a stronger position to not only hold onto the independent Palestinian state in all but name that they have ruled in Gaza but also give them a shot at toppling Abbas in the West Bank. Even worse, they know that if Abbas cooperates with Israel in finding the kidnapped teens, as Prime Minister Netanyahu has rightly demanded, it will undermine him just at the moment when he was basking in praise for rejecting the Jewish state's peace offers and bringing Hamas back into the PA's fold.
All this illustrates the utter folly that was the foundation of both Kerry's peace initiative and the complacence with which the administration accepted the Hamas unity pact. So long as the Palestinian factions believe they stand to gain by practicing terrorism, an end to the conflict is nowhere in sight. Though Washington preferred to believe that Fatah and even Hamas had abandoned violence and were amenable to peace if Israel could be pressured into making even more concessions than those contained in previous rejected peace offers, the kidnapping offers President Obama a lesson in the basics of Palestinian politics that he has so far chosen to ignore.
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The Trump Right's Martyrdom of Kim Guadagno
Too many martyrs make a movement.
If the GOP is to be converted into a vehicle for politicians who evince Donald Trump's brand of pragmatic center-right populism, Trump will have to demonstrate his brand of politics can deliver victories for people other than himself. Presidential pen strokes help to achieve that, as do judicial appointments. Nothing is so permanent, though, as sweeping legislative change. On that score, the newly Trumpian Republican Party is coming up short. If the passive process of transformational legislative success fails to compel anti-Trump holdouts in the GOP to give up the ghost, there is always arm-twisting. It seems the Republican National Committee is happy to play enforcer.
The RNC's nascent effort to stifle anti-Trump apostasy by making examples of high-profile heretics has claimed its first victim: New Jersey's Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno. The Republican is running to replace the nation's least popular governor, Chris Christie, and the effort has been a struggle. Trailing badly in the polls and facing the headwinds associated with trying to succeed an unpopular outgoing GOP governor in a blue state, Guadagno needs all the help she can get. That help won't be coming from the RNC. According to NJ Advance Media, the committee's objection to helping Guadagno isn't the imprudence of throwing good money after bad. It's that she was mean to President Trump in 2016, and she must be punished.
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This source's version of events was supported by former two-term New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. "She went down there, and the (Republican National) Committee was reluctant to back the campaign in the way one would have expected," she said. "The implication was, 'Well you were not a Trump supporter in the primary, and so don't expect much money.'"
This is almost certainly a pretext. Republicans are facing stiff competition and an unfavorable political environment in November's gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. In 2017-2018, 27 GOP-held seats are up for grabs, nine of which are in some jeopardy of falling to Democrats. Republicans are going to have to husband their resources and triage their officeholders. That's a forgivable, if demoralizing, condition. Declaring Guadagno to have offended the leader and to be cut off from the font of Republican goodwill is not only unjustifiable, it's terribly foolish.
If Republican women are to be punished for saying that Trump's comments about sexually assaulting unsuspecting females were unacceptable, there are going to be a lot fewer Republican women. Moreover, the RNC has invited the perception that there is a double standard at play here. A slew of Republicans called on Trump to drop out of the race after that tape, but the RNC is unlikely to withhold support for Senators Rob Portman or John Thune when they need it. Among those calling on Trump to drop out was his own chief of staff, Reince Priebus—a fact the president reportedly won't let Priebus forget.
Cults of personality can be bullied into existence, but they rarely outlast the personality around whom they form unless that personality can claim some lasting achievements. In lieu of any compelling rationale, the effort to remake the GOP in Trump's image by force will only create dissidents. The ideological conservatives who once dominated the Republican Party are unlikely to make peace with the ascendant populist faction at gunpoint. And the RNC is not solely to blame for this boneheaded move. Even if the notion that Guadagno is being punished for disloyalty is a pretense, it is a response to a clear set of incentives promoted by this White House.
Maybe the most intriguing question of the present political age is whether or not conservatives in the GOP will come to terms with a man they once saw as a usurper. A heavy hand will only catalyze resistance, and Trump needs his own party as much or more than they need him. Guadagno's gubernatorial bid is on no firmer ground today than it was yesterday, but the Republican candidate's allies can now legitimately claim persecution at the hands of personality cultists. Too many martyrs make a movement. The White House and the Republican National Committee should tread lightly.
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Macron's Terrorism Idiocy
Hyperbole yields cynicism, not the other way around.
Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron surprised almost everyone when he invited President Donald Trump to celebrate Bastille Day with him in Paris, especially after the two leaders' awkward first meeting in Brussels in May. After all, between now and then, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and Macron has become perhaps the most vocal critic of Trump among European leaders.
In hindsight, Macron's reason for embracing Trump might have been to get the president to reverse course on the Paris agreement. From the Associated Press:
French President Emmanuel Macron says his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump was carefully calculated — and may have changed the U.S. president's mind about climate change…. On their main point of contention — Trump's withdrawal from the landmark Paris climate agreement — Macron is quoted as saying that "Donald Trump listened to me. He understood the reason for my position, notably the link between climate change and terrorism."
According to Macron, climate change causes droughts and migration, which exacerbates crises as populations fight over shrinking resources. If Macron really believes that, France and Europe are in for some tough times.
First, droughts are a frequent, cyclical occurrence in the Middle East, the Sahel, and the Horn of Africa. The difference between drought and famine is the former is a natural occurrence and the latter is man-made, usually caused by poor governance. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in the Horn of Africa, where the same drought might kill a few dozens of Ethiopians but wipe out tens of thousands of Somalis.
Second, the common factor in the wars raging in the Middle East today is neither climate change nor extreme weather, but brutal dictatorship, radical ideologies, and the militias supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yemen could be a breadbasket. Its terraced fields rising up thousands of feet in the mountains grow almost every fruit imaginable. Yemen also catches the tail end of the monsoon. If Yemenis planted exportable crops like coffee rather than the mild drug qat, which does not bring in hard currency, they might be fairly prosperous.
It is not climate change that denied the Syrian public basic freedoms and liberty for decades, nor was it climate change that dropped barrel bombs on civilian neighborhoods, tortured and killed 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, or used chemical weapons. For that matter, when it comes to radicalization, the problem is Syria was less climate and more decades of Saudi-and Qatari-funded indoctrination and Turkish assistance to foreign fighters.
Regardless of all this, another obvious factor nullifies Macron's thesis: When drought occurs in regions outside the Middle East, the result is seldom suicide bombing.
Terrorism does not have a one-size-fits-all explanation but, generally speaking, when it comes to Islamist terrorism, ideology plays a key role. Most terrorists are educated, middle class, and relatively privileged. Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for example, has a Ph.D. Many of the 9/11 hijackers were educated. In the Gaza Strip, Hamas recruits inside schools. Simply put, there is no linkage between climate change and terrorism.
Not only would Trump be foolish to buy Macron's argument, but environmentalists who believe climate change puts the Earth in immediate peril should be outraged. It is hyperbole. Moreover, it is the casual invocation of climate change as a catch-all cause for every other issue that breeds the cynicism that leads so many to become so dismissive of everything climate activists say. Macron may look down up Trump as an ignorant bore, but Macron's own logic suggests he is also living in a world where facts and reality don't matter.
Trump Quietly Gives Putin What He Wants
Quid pro quo?
Until now, the notion that Donald Trump was providing Russia and Vladimir Putin with concessions at the expense of U.S. interests was poorly supported. That all changed on Wednesday afternoon when the Washington Post revealed that Donald Trump ordered his national security advisor and CIA director to scrap a program that provided covert aid to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.
The president made that decision on July 7, within 24 hours of his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The sources who spoke to the Washington Post accurately characterize it as a reflection of "Trump's interest in finding ways to work with Russia." That is a fool's errand but, more important, this move demonstrates that the United States is willing to cede ground to adversaries and bad actors as long as they are persistent enough.
I endeavored to demonstrate as thoroughly as I could why American interests in Syria and those of Russia not only do not align but often conflict violently. The president appears convinced, like his predecessor, that his personal political interests are better served by allowing Moscow to be the power broker in Syria—even if that makes America and its allies less safe.
Moscow has made it a priority to execute airstrikes on American and British covert facilities in Syria, and Donald Trump has just rewarded those air strikes on U.S. targets. Trump has sacrificed the goodwill he garnered from Sunni-dominated Middle Eastern governments when he executed strikes on Assad's assets and, as recently as June, the U.S. downed a Syrian warplane for attacking anti-ISIS rebels laying siege to the Islamic State capital of Raqqa.
America will continue to provide support to indigenous anti-ISIS rebels, despite the fact that those forces are often under assault from both Russian and Syrian forces. It should be noted, however, that the CIA suspended aid to Free Syrian Army elements when it came under attack from Islamist in February. The agency said it didn't want cash and weapons falling into Islamist hands, but this move exposes that claim as a mere pretext.
This concession to Russia is significant not just because it removes some pressure on Moscow's vassal in Damascus. It sends a series of signals to the world's bad actors, who will inevitably react.
The phasing out of aid for anti-Assad rebels (presumably the indigenous Sunni-dominated factions) gives Russia and Syria the only thing they've ever wanted: the ability to frame the conflict in Syria as one between the regime and a handful of radicals and pariahs. A cessation of aid will squeeze the remaining moderate, secular rebel factions in Syria and compel them to seek whatever assistance they can—even at the risk of augmenting the ranks of Islamist insurgents. How that advances America's interests is entirely unclear.
This move will only further embolden not just Russia and Syria but their mutual ally, the Islamic Republic of Iran. It will convince the region's Sunni actors that the United States is not on their side—a matter of increasing urgency in Iraq. The insurgency in Syria is unlikely to end so long as regional fighters have a means of getting into the country. America will simply sacrifice its leverage over those groups.
This move will confirm, finally, that the use of weapons of mass destruction in the battlefield is survivable. A truly resolute American administration might fire off a handful of Tomahawk missiles at an abandoned airfield, but regime change is not in the offing. That will only beget other bad actors who will test the parameters of America's willingness to defend the international norms prohibiting the use of WMDs. Because American servicemen and women are stationed around the world in unstable theaters, the likelihood that they will one day be fighting on chemical battlefields just became a lot more likely.
American covert involvement in Syria also filled a vacuum that the Obama administration allowed to expand in 2011 and 2012. "One big potential risk of shutting down the CIA program is that the United States may lose its ability to block other countries, such as Turkey and Persian Gulf allies, from funneling more sophisticated weapons—including man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS—to anti-Assad rebels, including more radical groups," the Washington Post speculated. Ironically, American withdrawal from the anti-Assad effort could actually fuel the fire, but in a way that we can neither control nor effectively influence. We've seen that movie before. We know how it ends.
And all of this is for what? To garner goodwill with the bloody regime in Damascus? To court Moscow or Tehran? There is nothing to gain from cozying up to these regimes that is not offset by the sacrifice of American national interests and moral authority associated with rapprochement. For all of the Trump administration's criticisms of Barack Obama's policy with regard to those regimes, this decision suggests he's willing to double down on Obama's mistakes.
Voters in the Age of Affect
Is it Trump's posture, or is it simpler than that?
Though it enjoys a level of political dominance unseen since the 1920s, the Republican Party's agenda is stalled. Yet, despite their failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Republicans are damned like Sisyphus to keep trying. Republican office holders must now administer health care's taxes and subsidies, and the rest of the GOP agenda cannot advance without freeing up the revenue dedicated to the administration of ObamaCare. A dysfunctional, one-party Congress led by an unpopular neophyte in the Oval Office should precipitate a backlash among voters. But that outcome is far from certain. Ubiquitous surveys and studies dedicated to uncovering the mystery that is the curious and contradictory Trump voter suggests that this may indeed be a new political epoch.
Nationally, Trump's job-approval rating hovers around 40 percent. By contrast, a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of adults in "Trump country" (e.g. the counties that voted for Donald Trump) found the president enjoying a 50 percent job approval rating. Reflecting on these numbers, WSJ columnist Jason Riley observed that the political world may still be operating on a set of assumptions that do not apply to Trump; critically, that voters are transactional and that their support for politicians is contingent upon delivery.
"I think there's a lot of evidence to support the idea that Trump's main appeal was validating the fears and concerns of a certain segment of Americans who felt they were being ignored by elites in the media, elites in politics, elite Republicans," Cato Institute scholar and pollster Emily Ekins told Riley. That assertion is supported by the findings of another survey. A Washington Post/ABC News poll taking the temperature of the potential midterm electorate found that registered voters prefer a Democrat-led Congress over Republicans by a staggering 14 points. Democrats shouldn't celebrate too soon, however. The survey also showed that those who "strongly support" Trump are more motivated to vote in 2018 than are those who strongly disapprove of the president, and by a whopping 11-point margin.
This should not be. Voters should be discouraged by legislative failure, internecine feuding, and sprawling legal investigations into a nascent presidency. Voters should be repulsed by a party that sends to Congress members who physically assault journalists. They should be disgusted by a president who describes people on television he dislikes as "psycho" and "bleeding badly from a facelift." They should be unnerved by the fact that this president spent months spinning an erroneous exculpatory tale about his campaign's links to Russian-affiliated operatives only to pivot to defending those links when the lie was exposed for what it was. But they're not.
This is politics in the age of affect. As Riley observed, the voters who have received disproportionate scrutiny from the press demonstrate time and again that their support for the president is not contingent upon his achievements but his posture. He speaks to their concerns, even if he is ineffectual in his attempts to address them. His speech is not overburdened with pompous language. He does not moralize; he does not lecture; he clings to his character flaws like a security blanket. He eats poorly and his physique reflects it. Trump is no Olympian figure; he gets down into the mud even when he shouldn't.
Republican political professionals are starting to build an identity for their party around Trump's effective affectation. If Republican voters no longer care about the policies that allegedly so vexed them in the Obama years, then they will have to run on the cultural anxiety that Donald Trump so effectively marshals. There may be no better way to accomplish that than to use the political press as a foil.
A striking McClatchy report in June indicated that Republican strategists are preparing to rely heavily on media-bashing to retain control of Congress in 2018. "The press is held with disgust and contempt," said Tobe Berkovitz, an advertising expert who advises state-and district-level campaigns. "Battling the press isn't a bad strategy."
It is, however, possible that political reporters and analysts are reading more into this moment than it deserves. Perhaps Trump's voters are as transactional as anyone, but we're reading the receipts wrong. Maybe Trump's prickly demeanor and bull-headedness is part of his appeal, but not all of it.
The polling suggests that something simpler may be at work here. Only 40 percent approved of Donald Trump's job performance in the latest Bloomberg survey released on Monday, but it also found that 58 percent of respondents reported feeling closer to realizing their career and financial goals (a record high since the question was introduced in early 2013). On the economy and "creating jobs," Donald Trump dramatically outperforms his overall job-approval numbers (46 and 47 percent approval, respectively). The Washington Post/ABC News poll confirmed Bloomberg's findings. Despite his abysmal 36 percent job approval rating in that survey, 43 to 41 percent reported approving of Trump's handling of the economy.
Surely some of this is perceptional; the Trump administration's handling of the economy is six months old and characterized not by substantive reforms but by aesthetics and gestures. It is also aspirational. After eight years of recession and a sluggish recovery, Trump-country voters are exhausted by insecurity. The benefits of the Trump years are tangible for Trump voters, even if political journalists see them as illusory. Maybe political analysts are poring over the Trump voter to their own detriment. Maybe it's still the economy, stupid.


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Kidney stones and pain medication during pregnancy
I was recently diagnosed with kidney stones. Although they are uncomfortable they are not excruciating so I have been advised to take prescription pain medication and wait it out unless the discomfort becomes significantly worse. What is the best way to manage kidney stones while pregnant? Can I assume than the prescription pain medication is safe to take during pregnancy since it was prescribed by my obstetrician?
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The best way to manage kidney stones is the easiest, least invasive manner possible. There are no trials to indicate the safety or danger of pain meds, or any other form of medication in pregnant women. No one should remain in pain when it is unnecessary but these pills are also not without risk. Be sure to drink plenty of water and reduce salt intake, to help prevent future kidney stones from developing. As for the pain meds, take them sparingly if need be. If you can get by without them, however, I would recommend that you do just that.
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Hi Jessica,
Mom2Many is right in that you really want to take as few meds as possible during pregnancy. So here are some ideas that may help resolve the Kidney Stones naturally that will be perfectly fine for baby too.
1. One of the most effective natural remedies for kidney stones and the pain experienced by them is to mix 2 ounces of olive oil (organic if available) with 2 ounces of lemon juice (organic if available). This is about 1/4 cup of each. Drink it down (using a straw can be very helpful in getting it down) and follow immediately with 12ounces of water (distilled or purified if available).
Wait 30 minutes and then squeeze 1/2 of a lemon into 12 ounces of water (distilled or purified) and add 1 Tblsp. of apple cider vinegar (raw if available). Drink this down.
Repeat the lemon juice, water and apple cider vinegar every hour until the pain/symptoms improve.
Some studies have shown that people with recurrent kidney stones had a 92% improvement rate in reducing these stones when they took 300 mg. of magnesium orotate (a magnesium supplement). Taking this daily is recommended for prevention and reduction of stones. Magnesium is also really good for helping you to relax and can benefit breastfeeding.
Do not use celery seed tea or basil tea while you are pregnant, as these can cause contractions. After the baby arrives, you can try these things.
One thing that I really like to do is figure out what is causing a problem so that I can avoid the cause in the future. The cause of kidney stones is primarily unhealthy food intake. Drinking sodas, energy drinks, and alcoholic beverages can contribute to the formation of kidney stones as can eating processed foods, fast foods, and fried foods.
Focus on cutting those foods completely out of your diet and focusing on eating lots of fruits and vegetables each day. One really easy and tasty way to add fruits and vegetables to your diet is to make a green smoothie each day. Here's a great video showing you how to choose the best foods for your pregnant body.


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WATCH: Iggy Azalea Falls Off The Stage During Pre-VMA Performance
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Any Australian knows what stacking it means — it's Aussie slang for falling on your ass, and that's exactly what Iggy Azalea did during a recent performance of her hit "Fancy."
The rapper fell off the stage at a pre-VMA concert in Hollywood this weekend, and was down for a good ten seconds before being rescued by some burly security guards.
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Now, there's two good things about this blunder: The first is that it proved that Iggy wasn't lip syncing, as her vocals cut out the moment she fell to the floor, and the second is that she bounced back like a trooper and continued the performance like a pro.
She even joked about her stage tumble by sharing the video on her own Instagram. She wrote:
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Home Invasion Attempt Goes South---For the Would-Be Robbers
Home invasion robbery is becoming one of the city's most dangerous professions.
1200 WOAI news reports two armed men, who apparently thought home invasion was as easy as they'd seen in the movies, forced their way into an apartment at the Pan American Apartments on NW 36th Street on the west side.
Police said the men had all the equipment that incompetent fantasy home invaders need to look good while pulling off their TV inspired crime, including a could of weapons, one of them police say was modified to look like a cooler weapon than it really was.
The men realized from the start that they should have stayed home watching the Spurs. Two men in the apartment, rather than forking over cash, attacked the home invaders. One of them pulled a knife and stabbed one of the home invaders to death.
The other wanna be did what all cowards do…and ran for his life.
One of the men who refused to be a victim is hospitalized but he'll be okay.


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The A's beat the Twins, 6-1, Thursday afternoon. Oakland has scored at least six runs in each of its last nine games against the Twins. That's the longest such streak by one major league team against another since the Tigers scored at least six runs in 14 consecutive games against the Royals during the 2006 season. The last time the A's had a streak like this was in 1949 when the Philadelphia A's had an 11-game streak against the Washington Senators.
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Biggio blazing his own trail with Blue JaysBlue Jays prospect Cavan Biggio is proud to be the son of a Hall of Famer, but the 22-year-old wants to make his own mark in ...
EL notes: Hinojosa relishes Double-A returnC.J Hinojosa didn't let a frustrating start to the season deter him from swinging a hot bat. After recovering from injury and...
Davis powers Grizzlies with two homersIn his seventh Triple-A game, Houston Astros No. 15 prospect J.D. Davis drove in five runs as Fresno earned a 10-3 win over N...
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Canha's turnaround continues for SoundsA's outfielder Mark Canha led the way on a big offensive night for Triple-A Nashville, going 5-for-5 with two homers and four...
Homer-happy Schwindel belts another oneKansas City Royals infield prospect Frank Schwindel slugged his eighth long ball in 10 games to lead Omaha to a 5-1 win over ...
Verdugo hits wacky homer, plates fourTop Dodgers prospects Alex Verdugo and Willie Calhoun both homered, though Verdugo's caromed off an outfielder's head in Trip...
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Twins fall below .500 for first time since AprilChris Taylor continued his torrid July with a pair of doubles and three RBIs as the Dodgers beat the Twins, 6-2, on Tuesday n...
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Hanny baby!!!
Hanny baby!!!
Just saw Frazier's HR, that was CRUSHED.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
RedTeamGo! (07-01-2013)
These guys really needed a game like this. Just settle the nerves and get back to business.
This is fun to watch.
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
I'm watching on ESPN Monday night baseball, and they actually led into the Frazier HR beautifully. They had just shown a mammoth Frazier HR from April, and were talking about how much power Todd has...then boom!
""Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." George Will
HeatherC1212 (07-02-2013)
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Someone get this Giant's pitcher a sandwich or something. I think I saw him on a Sally Struthers infomercial.
Tom: "See, that's the problem when you ask a guy who's never bunted…"
Jeff: "Take him out of the game! Take him out of the game."
Thom: "Ok, but…"
Jeff: "If he can't bunt take him out of the game. Put somebody else in there."
Thom: "Ok, but if you believe in the bunt in this situation…"
Jeff: "You're at home. You have to tie the game."
Thom: "But that's a by-the-book kind of thing. I don't know if there's anybody on that bench…that you're going to bring in…"
Jeff: "This guy is NOT a clutch hitter."
Thom: "But his numbers are contrary to that…"
Jeff: "He's not. He's not…not…not a clutch hitter."
Downer of the night? Kickham heading to the showers.
ProfessorTofty (07-01-2013)
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
I wonder if Votto reaches that if he wasn't choking up 10 inches.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Not enough bacon-safe lipstick in Porkopolis for this pig. --- corkedbat
Tom Servo (07-01-2013)
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Mom Threatened With Forced C-Section
(NEWSER) – Two weeks before she gave birth to her fourth child, a Florida hospital threatened to force a C-section on 29-year-old mom Jennifer Goodall "with or without [her] consent," Jezebel reports. Goodall wanted to try delivering vaginally before agreeing to what would be her fourth cesarean—if it was necessary. But Bayfront Health Port Charlotte also threatened to call the state Department of Children and Families because, the hospital said in a letter to Goodall, a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) could lead to "death or serious injury" to the baby, reports the News Press. "My health care providers have made me fear for my safety and custody of my children. I know I'm not the only one to go through this; I'm speaking out because pregnant women deserve better," Goodall says in a statement. She delivered Friday … by C-section, NBC News reports.
Read the full story on Newser.com
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January 2012
In this Issue:
Sustainable Offices
Aramark's Choose to Reuse
ECO Celebrates Green Living Tips
Renovated Woodstock Apartments are Energy Efficient …
Student Sustainability Project Ideas Funded
Purchasing Tips
Sustainability through Personal Wellness
Sustainable Offices
The campus Sustainable Office Certification program is going strong with new offices joining almost every month! We currently have 26 offices and over 200 people participating in the Sustainable Office Certification program.
If your office is certified, it would be a great time to review your commitments and rethink any processes or practices that could be improved. Do you have new people in your area? Now that they are settled, it would be a good time to review sustainability commitments and add new employees to your list of participants.
Academic Challenge – Kudos to the School of Business– ALL of their faculty members are participants in their Green Knight certification! For the other departments and schools – How many of your faculty can you add to your list of participants? Please recruit new participants and send us an updated list of participants.
If your office is not certified yet, please let us know how the Institute for a Sustainable Environment can help you with this process.
Aramark's Choose to Reuse Initiative
Under the direction of John Herman, Interim Food Service Director, and new Marketing Programs Manager Courtney Evans, our dining services have embarked on several initiatives to improve the sustainability of their operations. One of which is the Choose to Reuse campaign highlighting their efforts to encourage selecting reusable plates, cups and silverware over to-go containers and utensils that are thrown away. You can make a significant impact by choosing reusable dining ware at ARAMARK eateries, and when the items are returned for washing the program reaps the most benefits. You can also enjoy beverage savings across campus when you bring your own mug!!
Purchasing Tips
Looking for "green" office and break room supplies? The best sustainability practices would reduce your need for these materials in the first place.
But purchasing new items will always be needed. St. Lawrence Supply carries a number of "green" office products and they are willing to order more if there is a demand. See http://green.iteminfo.com/ for ideas. St. Lawrence Supply will order any items from this site at a discount to you.
Our central purchasing also carries paper with recycled content (75% recycled/30% post-consumer). Testing this paper last year proved that it works in almost all campus copiers.
Its availability is making a difference! In FY11, nearly $29k was spent purchasing paper through Clarkson's business services department. Sixteen percent of these purchases were paper with recycled content. Thus far this year, 59% of the paper purchased had recycled content.
ECO Celebrates a Month of Green Living Tips
The Clarkson Green Challenge was organized and implemented by ECO, the Environmental Conservation Organization, throughout the month of November. They posted green living challenges for students each week related to water conservation, energy conservation, trash and food. Highlights of the month included a showing of the movies Tapped and Gasland, which provided critical reviews of the bottled water industry and shale gas recovery by hydrofracking. Although the month is over – these green living tips can be adopted at any time!
Renovated Woodstock Apartments are Energy Efficient and Enjoyable by Residents
Construction at Woodstock building #6 last summer is making a difference in student comfort as the temperatures drop. No more drafty walls and windows! Upgrades include energy efficient lights and appliances, low flow toilets, sink, and showers, 3'' thick spray foamed in wall cavities with 2'' of rigid foam insulation on the exterior to provide a thermal break and dual pane, thermal insulated windows. Dean of Students Kurt Stimeling is thrilled with the changes, he stated "The renovation of Woodstock Building 6 provides housing that sets a new benchmark for the standards of quality on campus." Renovation of the buildings 3, 5, 7 and 9 are expected during the summer of 2012Student
Sustainability Project Ideas Funded
In support of Clarkson's efforts to integrate sustainability into "everything we do on campus," revenue made available by charitable gifts from alumni and friends to the Clarkson Fund has been used to support campus sustainability projects. The $25,000/year fund is enabling members of our community to engage in the process of making our campus more environmentally, socially and fiscally sustainable. Additional funds from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute were received for several projects.
Look for the implementation of these projects throughout the Spring 2012 semester:
Energy Efficiency:
Motion Detected, Jason Cocca (sophomore, Mech. Engrg.);
Dormitory Motion Sensor Lighting* Jeannie Piekarz (MS EE.);
Refrigerator Replacement Feasibility Study* Erin Corrigan (sophomore, ES&P);
Wind Speed Analysis, Dan Barron (junior, Civil Engrg.)
Campus Culture and Access to Sustainable Goods:
Knight Bikes (bike sharing program), Alexander Cauwels (senior, Innov. & Entrep.);
Golden Grown (on-campus local food sales), Kristen Cardella (freshman, Busi.)
Solid Waste Reduction:
Increasing Recycling Rates, Emily Ball (MS ESE.);
Food Waste Management for the Digester, Ashley Waldron (senior, CivE.);
Feasibility Study for the Anaerobic Digestion of Clarkson Food Waste*, Stefan Grimberg (chair, Dept. CEE);
Installation of water bottle refilling stations*, Heather Masterson (junior, Env. Engrg.)
Sustainability Through Personal Wellness!
Sustainability kudos to Kelly Norman for her hints about exercise and eating in the special events mail list. Taking these hints to heart will help us all sustain our personal wellness throughout the winter.
Mark your calendars for February 22 when Clarkson's Human Resources Department will host our second annual Wellness Fair.
Find us on the web!
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By MICHAEL NOYES
HELENA – The state House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would authorize a health care compact seen as an alternative to Obamacare in that it would take health care out of the hands of the federal government and give it to the states.
House Bill 526, sponsored by Rep. Champ Edmunds, R-Missoula, pictured at left, now heads to the Senate for action after a 62-36 vote in the House.
An official with the Health Care Compact Alliance said the action is an important step.
"The Health Care Compact gives the health care decision-making power back to the people instead of the bureaucrats in Washington. It allows greater citizen influence, more competition, and more options for health care for millions of Americans," Eric O'Keefe, chairman of the Health Care Compact Alliance, said in a media release on Thursday. "This important legislation will provide the citizens of Montana with greater control over their government and, ultimately, over their health care."
A spokesman for the Democratic Party in Montana referred a request for comment to Jackie Boyle, a policy adviser for the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance.
Boyle said she doesn't disagree with the concept of introducing more competition into the market, but said she thinks the national exchange outlined in the recently passed national health care legislation is the way to accomplish that.
"We're really focusing all of our efforts on the health insurance exchange," Boyle said. "That's going to do exactly what (they) are trying to do on this interstate compact. It's going to make it where consumers can shop for policies and compare policies."
Edmunds could not be reached for immediate comment.
It does not need the signature of the president to take effect. The way health care works in a member state is not prescribed in the compact. Who and what is covered as well as the level of regulation are determined by each state after the compact is ratified.
The Health Care Compact is an initiative of the Health Care Compact Alliance, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing Americans more influence over decisions that govern their health care.
In January, political columnist Fred Barnes reported in "The Weekly Standard" that many states are using the Health Care Compact as an alternative to President Baraack Obama's health-care package commonly known as "Obamacare."
"By banding together, states would have far more political clout in Washington," Barnes wrote. "Backers of the health care compact figure they need more than 20 states to pressure Washington to go along. Their assumption is members of Congress (even Democrats who support Obamacare) would be inclined to vote for a formal request from their home state. Members who oppose Obama-care would vote for it as well."
Compacts, dating back to the Mayflower Compact of 1620, have been used to innovate reforms throughout U.S. history. Authority for compacts was established in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 10), and more than 200 such agreements have been developed. These are voluntary agreements between citizens, groups of citizens acting as states, and groups of states. When consented by congress, they have the force of federal law.


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Washington : Government Printing Office
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|Josephine Stevens Goering.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to Josephine Stevens Goering a patent in fee to the following-described lands, known as allotment 1264 on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana: the south half of the south half of the north half and the south half of section 29, the southwest quarter of section 28, and the north half of the north half of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 9 south, range 33 east, Montana principal meridian, containing six hundred acres.
Approved, August 17, 1950.


text: Looking to head down to Nicaragua August 2 through the 13 of 2012 and was wondering if any other level headed surfers were going down there around that time??? And If so would any of you be interested in maybe getting together and meeting up to stay at a condo around Playa Colorado with my brother and I to keep cost lower for all of us? Please let me know! Feel free to email me about any further information.


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Meek Mill Announces New Album Release Date
Listen to Meek Mill Radio on iHeartRadio
Meek Mill is pinning down a release date for his sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money.
The Philadelphia-based emcee has announced that the follow-up to 2012's Dreams and Nightmares will hit stores on September 9th.
Meek has already given fans a taste of what the album holds with the lead single, "I Don't Know" featuring Paloma Ford. The song arrived back in May.
Meek Mill has also reportedly booked studio time with Big Sean, Nas, Chris Brown, Timbaland, Pharrell and other hit-makers for the album.
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House Block Quilt Patterns
From traditional pieced House blocks to quilt designs with modern abodes, these quilt patterns will make any house a home!
Home for the Harvest [1]
To get the scrappy look of this quilt in a speedy way, invite your friends over for a house-block quilting party.
Where the Heart Is [4]
House blocks surrounded by floral prints and connected by bow tie blocks create a street scene in this wall hanging.
Summer Cabins [7]
Take a break from tradition. These cottages, framed in a Log Cabin style, bring back carefree memories of lake getaways.
Home at Last [10]
Stitch up a fast-to-fuse throw featuring house and heart appliqués using 10-inch precut squares and fat quarters.
Neighborly Welcome [13]
Use fabrics in deep, warm tones and combine House and rectangular Courthouse Steps blocks for a warm, hearthside look.
On the Block Wall Quilt [16]
Create a miniature neighborhood with cute house blocks in different sizes and colors. Small floral prints add interest to the houses.
Harvest Log Cabins [19]
Sew classic Log Cabin blocks in four colorways to create a welcoming wall hanging.
Holiday House-Block Throw [22]
A pieced cabin is the focus of a festive quilt. Create radiating diamonds of color with careful color placement of Hidden Square blocks and frame the quilt center with a trio of borders.
Friendship Houses [25]
Hand- or machine-piece traditional Schoolhouse blocks in a small wall hanging.
Buy this pattern here [26].
Row Houses Wall Quilt [28]
Use both piecing and appliqué methods to create a welcoming wall quilt featuring six different House blocks.
All Snowed In [31]
Though snow may be falling outside, the warm glow of a hearth shines out of each window. Use a polka dot background to simulate snow in the stitched village.
House and Trees Wall Hanging [34]
Use house and tree blocks to create a homey wall hanging. Choose stripe fabrics for some of the architectural elements to make it appear as if there are bricks in the chimney and siding on the house.
Old Glory [37]
Mix piecing, appliqué, and embroidery techniques in a folk art wall quilt.


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Sophomore Summer Workby Jeremy Sexton '07 • May 2, 2006 Share:
Ivan Acebo-Choy, San Cristobal Chiapas, Mexico, will be conducting research on Indigenous Painting in Southern Mexico as well as having an internship at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.; Syud Ahmed, Bangladesh, will be working with a chemist at the University of Wisconsin. Ahmed will be researching Field Chemistry and Nanotechnology.; Nelson Barre, Highland Ranch, Colorado, will travel to Greece, the Mediterranean, and Paris with Duke University in an ancient philosophy course.; Seth Baxter, Fort Wayne, will be working at K and K insurance company and also Subway in Fort Wayne.;
John Brauchie, Tulsa, Ok., Dave Culp, DeKalb, Ill., and Shaun Rico, Phoenix, Ar., will be training in Arizona for baseball and playing in a league in Pheonix and taking classes.; Barton Bridge, Indianapolis, will be working for the Hogan Mayflower Company and will be studying at the University of Copenhagen in the month of June.; Ben Bly, Indianapolis, will be working at the Wabash College Admissions Office and also training with the Cross Country Team.; Kyle Cassidy, Elwood, In., will be working for a bank in Elwood and saving money for off campus study.; Ian Cubie, Gambier, Ohio, will be working at a factory in Mansfield Ohio.;
Andy Deig, Evansville, will be working with Dr. Greg Redding on a research project over German immigration to America. He will be located in Evansville and is a part of the Know Indiana program.; Andrew DeRolf will be doing a Present Indiana Project over Native American Heritage.; Eric Eder, Fort Worth, Tx., will be working at the Lilly Library on the Wabash College Campus.; Rodney Frederick, Farmersburg, Ind., will be the head boys' counselor or Land Program director at YMCA camp in Princeton, In.; Justin Gardiner, Delphi, In., will have a social services internship at the Indianapolis Children's Museum.; Alex Goga will be working for Reemtsma, a German Tobacco company owned by Imperial Tobacco. He will be in Hamburg, Germany, for 2 weeks, Sofia, Bulgaria, for 6 weeks. He will keep everyone up to date with his blog, www.AlexGoga.tk.;
Steve Hernandez, Indianapolis, will be conducting research in the Atlantic from the Republic of Honduras in Central America sponsored by the G. Michael Dill fund. The title of his research is: "The Punta Funeral Ritual of the Garífuna People: An Examination of its Organological Resources and Contextual Significance."; Michael Heighway, New Palestine, In., will be working with campus services on the Wabash College Campus.; Drew Howk, Noblesvillle, In., will be working at the Fort Benjamin Harrison Reuse Authority in Lawrance Ind.; Lee Johnson, Clayton, Mo., will be working at the St. Louis Society, a non-profit organization dealing with children and adults with disabilities.;
Miles Johnson, Bloomington, in., plans on returning to the Culver Summer Naval Academy as a sailing instructor.; John Kasey, Evansville, In., will be the head lifeguard at the Hartke Pool in Evansville,; Nick Kraynak, Speedway, In., will be working at the Wabash College Bookstore.; Kyle Luth, Attica, In., will be working part time at
Andrew Newkirk, Shelbyville, In., will be operating his own Landscape business, Newkirk Property Management. He is in charge of landscaping over 20 park department properties in Shelby County.; Richard Roomes, South Bend, In., will be serving as Camp Counselor at the Christian Outreach Camp outside of Branson, Missouri.; Michael Schultz, Crown Point, In., will be playing baseball with the Melrose Park Indians, a semi-pro baseball team out of Chicago. Michael will also be coaching a 15-16-17 olds in American Legion Baseball League Post 20. He will be running his own car detailing/service business out of his own garage as well as working with fellow Wabash Students Ben Thrall, Elmhurst, Ill, and Luke Odom, Energy, Ill, in a pond building business called Ipond.; Jason Siegel, Fort Wayne, In., will be working with Dr. Todd Rowland '85 in Bloomington doing bioinformantics research.; Jason Simons, Logansport, In., has an internship at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. He will be exploring the roles of the ministry. He will be giving pastoral care, sermons, Christian education, leading mission trips. He is working with Dr. William Placher, who set up the internship.;
Brandon Stewart, Caruthersville, Missouri, will be working for the Financial Aid Office on campus. He is also attending summer conferences in D.C. and going to Toronto for Beta Theta Phi conference.; Garrett Thiel, Lowell, In., will have an internship at a genetics lab located in Covington, In.; Homer Twigg, Indianapolis, Clayton Craig, Morristown, In., and Zach Webb, Anderson, In., will be canoeing all 330 miles of the Wabash River over three weeks as part of the Lilly Present Indiana program. During their time they will be making a travel guide and taking biological observations.
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It is developed with Unity technology as a Web-based system with flexible open standards such as the WebGL. It allows learners to manage the use of spaces and materials of virtual learning within a modular structure. The applet allows learners to be teleported in various places of the areas, recording the different actions through a video-camera which is controlled through proper softare.
The 3D environment provides learners with an immersive experience of farm management through which they can test themselves in managerial/entrepreneurial roles as a way to improve their abilities to take initiative, self-confidence, learning to learn, decision making, work in team, take on responsibility as well as develop transversal, professional and technical skills in order to train them to become future agricultural entrepreneurs and managers, able to interact in a proactive way with the business scenarios.
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memories that arise in the mind, memories of long ago: these are classified under sankhara-khanda, yes?
Here is where I'm a bit confused. A memory arises, which is a 'formation', a 'mental fashioning'. But I can have either a pleasant feeling associated with that memory, or a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling. So - the memory itself is sankhara, but the feeling(s) that come up alongside it are vedana, yes?
For example, we might remember being a child, walking in the yard of our home. Recollecting that, there is a happy feeling. The memory and the happy feeling seem to arise together, but they are actually separate things, are they not?
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SAN BERNARDINO - The likelihood that Acting City Manager Andrea Travis-Miller will soon take another job and the possibility that many others might follow her out hung over Thursday's special City Council meeting.
Contracts with consultants to help with the city's finances already had the close attention of council members, given how far behind the city was on finance-related tasks that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith Jury indicated were vital for the city to retain bankruptcy protection.
The contracts become even more important now that Travis-Miller has been nominated to be executive director of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, several council members said.
If the full board of that agency approves her, the city would lose the top manager who has worked with consultants to shepherd the city through its tumultuous bankruptcy process.
The prospect of losing Travis-Miller means the city should be extra vigilant about ensuring consultants are clear on exactly what they are being asked to do.
"I know this sounds like micromanagement to some folks," Councilwoman Wendy McCammack said as she suggested small changes to the language of one contract, "but if Ms. Miller ends up in the best job in the world 30 days from now, they'll say you already agreed to this scope of work, and I don't think that's right."
When city managers have left the city in the past, it has often been followed by other top-level departures, although City Attorney James F. Penman said only one supervisor had written a resignation letter this year. Penman didn't name that person, but police Lt. Paul Williams, the department spokesman, said Steve WilKomm was leaving as division manager of Code Enforcement, which as part of a 2012 budget reduction was moved into the Police Department.
WilKomm will leave Jan. 17, and Williams and Capt. Raymond King will take over his duties until another decision is made, Williams said.
Travis-Miller has not resigned.
Councilman Fred Shorett said he was concerned that employee turnover, particularly in the city manager position, might complicate attempts to finish the financial reviews and other budget tasks required by the bankruptcy court.
"Not knowing who we might be dealing with or how that position might be filled in the future, I want to be careful we're looking at the long term and not just the short-term needs that are critical," Shorett said.
Travis-Miller, who had declined to become city manager on a non-interim basis, said longevity was important.
"We are cognizant of your concerns and we've tried to fill these positions on a longterm basis," she said.
The council extended a contract with Urban Futures, which has helped the city develop its budget reports and plans since just before moving toward bankruptcy, by up to $200,000 and added $100,000 to the contract with the consulting firm Prostaff.
Council members delayed a decision on whether to start a $60,000 consulting contract with Intellibridge Partners.
Only Councilman John Valdivia, who said he was "uncomfortable with the response" from Urban Futures, voted against the contracts.
Still, McCammack said she was concerned about the rising costs and encouraged staff to look for current city employees who can perform the jobs whenever possible.
The declining size of the city staff was driven home when Finance Director Jason Simpson said the number of people assigned to risk management was "maybe less than one."
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BREVARD, N.C. - A half-court three-point buzzer beater from Queens' Shonice Pettaway stunned the home crowd while Queens University of Charlotte squeaked past BC, 67-66, in South Atlantic Conference action Saturday afternoon at Boshamer Gymnasium in Brevard, N.C.
The Royals (3-5, 2-3 SAC) claimed their second consecutive victory by a total of three points after defeating Tusculum, 77-75, last Saturday and defeated BC in the first-ever meeting between the two squads. The Tornados (2-5, 1-4 SAC) wrapped up a three-game homestand with consecutive losses despite a career-high 21 points from freshman Madison Lenox.
The Tornados stormed out to an early 8-0 advantage following an inauspicious beginning while Queens received a technical prior to the tip. BC's Katie Williams chipped in with four points while Chelsea Turner drained a triple during the spurt.
However, the Royals responded with a 9-0 run and took a one-point lead following a Lacey Singletary layup.
Both squads played even throughout the first half while the game saw six ties, but Queens was able to take a four-point lead into the intermission, 40-36, after Pettaway knocked down a pair of free-throws with a tick left on the clock.
Williams enjoyed a 10-point performance while Pettaway notched 14 points and teammate Tia Hudgins added 12 in the first 20 minutes.
Queens stretched its lead to seven, 56-49, following a made free-throw from Nikia Squire, but the Tornados responded with a 7-0 run thanks to a jumper from Lenox and another three from Turner.
Lenox continued her highlight day with a steal before ripping off five consecutive points prior to a Taylor Hiatt three to give the Tornados a 64-58 lead with 1:53 remaining in regulation.
The Royals refused to back down while Pettaway buried a jumper followed by a pair free-throws from Singletary made it a 64-62 game.
Queens fouled immediately, but Lenox knocked down a pair from the charity stripe with 14 seconds remaining. However, Singletary snagged a rebound and scored a basket to cut the deficit to two, 66-64, with six seconds on the clock.
The Royals forced a turnover on the ensuing possession and Pettaway threw up a three-pointer from half court that banked in as the buzzer sounded, giving Queens the one-point victory.
Pettaway led both teams with 26 points and nine boards while Lenox paced the Tornados and Williams tallied 17 points and a team-high five rebounds.
The Royals dished out 17 assists, compared to BC's six. The Tornados held the advantage on the charity stripe (22-26 to 12-16).
The Tornados return to action Friday, Dec. 20 when they travel to Anchorage, Alaska to battle Saint Leo in the AT&T Hoops Classic at 5 p.m. ET.
Queens vs Brevard College
12/14/13 2 p.m. at Brevard, N.C.
At Brevard, N.C.
Shonice Pettaway 9-20 4-4 26; Tia Hudgins 4-6 5-7 13; Micha Cox 4-6 0-1 11;
Abby Pettit 3-6 0-0 6; Lacey Singletary 2-3 2-2 6; Nikia Squire 1-7 1-2 3;
Erin Brundage 1-1 0-0 2; Alexys Taylor 0-0 0-0 0; McKell Oliverio 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 24-50 12-16 67.
Madison Lenox 7-15 7-7 21; Katie Williams 4-9 9-9 17; Chelsea Turner 3-7 0-0
9; Shelby Wolfe 2-8 2-4 6; Taylor Hiatt 2-4 1-2 6; Lynsey Crisp 0-1 3-4 3;
Hadara Bannister 1-1 0-0 2; Kadijah Watts 1-1 0-0 2; Jennifer Martin 0-0 0-0
0. Totals 20-46 22-26 66.
Queens........................ 40 27 - 67
Brevard College............... 36 30 - 66
3-point goals--Queens 7-18 (Shonice Pettaway 4-9; Micha Cox 3-5; Abby Pettit
0-2; Nikia Squire 0-2), Brevard College 4-15 (Chelsea Turner 3-7; Taylor
Hiatt 1-1; Shelby Wolfe 0-1; Katie Williams 0-3; Madison Lenox 0-3). Fouled
out--Queens-None, Brevard College-None. Rebounds--Queens 27 (Shonice
Pettaway 9), Brevard College 28 (Katie Williams 5). Assists--Queens 17 (Erin
Brundage 3; Alexys Taylor 3; Lacey Singletary 3; Shonice Pettaway 3),
Brevard College 6 (Katie Williams 2). Total fouls--Queens 19, Brevard
College 15. Technical fouls--Queens-TEAM, Brevard College-None.


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Billy Ray Cyrus Honors Slain Teacher At July 4th Event
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Billy Ray Cyrus is honoring a teacher who lost his life in a school shooting last fall. The country star paid tribute to 8th grade math teacher and Army National Guard veteran Michael Landsberry during his performance Saturday at the Red, White, and Tahoe Blue festival in Incline Village, Nevada.
Prior to the event, organizer Jim Smith told the Sierra Sun Cyrus wanted to play the special show. He said the singer contacted them and asked if he could "provide a tribute to Michael" at the event.
Cyrus' guitarist Brandon Friesen adds that Landsberry's loved ones were the singer's focus from the start. He said when he mentioned the show, Billy Ray asked if they could "reach out to the family" and "if he could do a few special things" for them.
Landsberry was shot and killed last October as he tried to talk a 12-year-old student into surrendering his gun.
Billy Ray performed twice at the event. In addition to Saturday's full show, he made a special appearance Friday night to sing "Some Gave All" with the Reno Philharmonic. Cyrus also performed the song on Saturday, dedicating it to Landsberry, while Michael's widow was recognized as well.
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Jil Sander Fall 2013
Flicking through the program notes at Jil Sander, looking for what the German designer was thinking for her second season back at the house that bears her name, and this leapt off the page: "Vigorously articulated tailoring; as structured as a gemstone, as intriguing as moving shadows." That doesn't even begin to approximate what this writer was thinking as he watched the show, so thanks for that, but what he does know is this. This collection had a few gems, and those indeed would be of the structured variety, as in a multitude of inventive coats; lean crop pants with which to wear them, blessed with a tiny zipper inserted on the inseam to keep the line neat and narrow to the leg; a chic, flat adornment-free bag that was held in the hand, its strap acting as a kind of arm guard; and some of the best versions of that curious new phenomenon that lies south of the ankles, which is the shoe that is so substantial that it could double as a short boot, with some part of it sliced away to show off just a sliver of skin. Based on a loafer with a pointed or snub toe, perhaps a buckle, and resting on überchunky block heels of various heights, Sander's looked great and was offered in colors from gray to silver to oxblood.
In the end, though, it was Sander's meditations on all the ways that you will want to take cover come winter that were the best moments of her show; a show, incidentally, that was all but devoid of evening looks and was focused firmly on what you'll wear during daylight hours. A good thing, too, since there has been rather an absence of polished and resourceful everyday clothes this season so far. (Strangely, there has been pretty much a dearth of after-dark clothes, too. Who knows, perhaps there are some unnamed and unidentified events we are yet to experience that designers are creating statement-y clothes around that can be worn to them once we've all been invite.) The closest Sander got to big-night dressing was the series of black looks that closed the show, such as a roll-neck sweater and slit skirt or a strapless dress to below the knee, all three bearing bands of gold leaf. But back to those lovely coats—they ranged from the deep inky blue greatcoat that opened the show, denuded of any detailing save for a matching belt in velvet, to an oversize gray peacoat, a raising seam down the back giving it an injection of volume, and any one of the curved hourglass numbers (in muted checked tweed to a 1950s-like blue wool) with gently rounded short sleeves, adding yet more examples to fall's story of the statement sleeve.


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Sopheap Pich's appearance in Documenta 13 in 2012, followed by his current solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (part of New York City's spring 2013 Season of Cambodia festival), have garnered enormous attention, with features in practically every major art newspaper and magazine dedicated to covering serious Asian art. But what makes his art so important?
At first glance — when viewed amidst the Met's elaborate stone deities, animals, and other figures from the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia — Pich's work appears stark and bare. One would expect that the simplicity of his sculptures and his use of basic materials might make the work appear less significant in such vaunted company.
But in fact, Pich's rattan sculptures, devoid of the details of ancient rendering, distill beauty to an elemental form. Divested of complex references to history or religion, his depiction of the morning glory, Cambodian household objects, abstract body parts, and even his spare Buddha sculpture reveal the inherent aesthetic quality of commonplace materials in his native country.
Similarly, while some of his art makes reference to his childhood memories of the Khmer Rouge, the work isn't so much about reclaiming history as it is about using everyday arts and crafts and indigenous materials.
Thin sinuous strips of Cambodia's ubiquitous bamboo form the latticework of his outer structures, which combine his training as a painter and conceptualizing as a sculptor. Pich's medium captures the Buddhist philosophy of essentially being free and letting go: fluidity and grace emerge from the curvaceous stomach parts of Cycle (2011) [image #3, above], and lean graphic lines communicate a sense of movement from the strands that hang off Buddha 2 (2009). Viewers are drawn by a sense of calmness that emanates from the space that flows through the sculptures.
Pich breaks with conventional art-making practices as he finds his own voice and methodology. The spare grid-like paintings made from bamboo, burlap, resin, and natural oxidized powders on view at the Met and the Tyler Rollins Gallery present minimalist painting in a new form. What's compelling about works such as Luminous Falls No. 1 (2013) is that light reflects off the shiny organic surfaces, giving an illusion of movement as if one were passing a mirror. This three-dimensional quality gives a sculptural form to his 2D paintings, making it a unique combination of 2D and 3D effects.
As Pich assimilates and adapts from both Western traditions and his own culture, his art's authenticity and individuality set it apart.


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(Reuters) - Injury-plagued Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather has been ruled out for the rest of the season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, the National Football League team said on Monday.
The twice Pro Bowl selection suffered the tear without contact in the third quarter of Washington's 31-6 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, his first game this season after being sidelined by sprained ligaments in his left knee.
Mayweather had initially hoped to make his season debut against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week Four but re-injured his knee when he collided with team mate Aldrick Robinson during a pre-game warmup.
The 28-year-old tweeted: "I want to start off by saying I'm sorry to all the redskins fan. Y'all are the best. But this was a bad season for me.
"I promise that I'll be back next yr better then ever. Hard work pays off. God had something different for me this year. So see y'all next yr."
Meriweather, a Pro Bowl selection with the New England Patriots in 2009 and 2010, signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Redskins in March.
Despite playing a little more than half the game on Sunday, he had one interception and made seven tackles to galvanize a pass defense unit that ranked 30th in the league.
"He was a boost for us," said linebacker Lorenzo Alexander. "He's a guy that loves to fly around, is real physical and has a ball of energy. That's somebody we definitely need."
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