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It's the Economy
The latest McClatchy-Ipsos poll tells a story similar to other surveys:
The survey found the ranks of people who think the country is on the right track dropping to 40 percent, down 12 points since early June and the lowest since Obama took office in January.
As unemployment continues to rise, Americans who say the country' s on the wrong track jumped to 54 percent, a 12-point rise and the highest since Obama took office.
The number of Americans who approve of the way Obama is doing his job also dropped, to 57 percent, a 7-point decline from early June and the lowest of his presidency that McClatchy-Ipsos has recorded.
His biggest loss of support was among independents, whose approval decreased from 58 percent to 50 percent. However, he also lost ground among Democrats, down 5 points, and Republicans, down 3 points.
Notably, the total of Americans who "strongly" approve of Obama's job performance dropped 11 points in a month, to 29 percent, his lowest ever. Conversely, 22 percent said they strongly disapprove, up 6 points and the highest of his six months in office.
It seems that the voters expected the president to do something about the economy. He hasn't, and his excuse mongering isn't staving off public discontent. But where do we go from here? As this report makes clear, Obama isn't likely going to be able to deliver on those "immediate" jobs any time soon:
Federal Reserve officials are preparing for an unusual recovery, in which the economy grows more robustly than they had expected but unemployment gets worse, according to minutes released Wednesday of the Fed's policy meeting in June.
"Most participants anticipated that the employment situation was likely to be downbeat for some time," the minutes said. The unemployment rate is currently 9.5%, a 26-year high.
According to their quarterly projections, most officials expect the jobless rate to reach between 9.8% and 10.1% at the end of this year. It is expected to remain above 9% in 2010 and 8% in 2011, they said, well above its "longer run sustainable rate."
Well, when unemployment tops 10% we'll see if Obama's approval drops below 50%. Americans expect results and if those aren't forthcoming, no amount of eloquence, charm, or spin will save the president from the voters' wrath.
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Iran's Newest Hostage is Different
An escalation.
On July 16, 2017, Iranian Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi announced that Iran had sentenced an American to ten years in prison for alleged espionage. An Iranian judiciary website subsequently identified the American as 37-year-old, China-born Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University Ph.D. student in history.
Hostage-taking is nothing new for the Islamic Republic. Indeed, since revolutionary students acting on behalf of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini first seized the U.S. Embassy on November 4, 1979, hostage-taking has become a central pillar of Iranian policy. For authorities in Tehran, the reason for hostage-taking is simple: It's a strategy which has repeatedly paid off. The Carter administration rewarded Iran with millions of dollars and diplomatic concessions. Ronald Reagan, for all his tough rhetoric as a campaigner, did likewise with the arms-for-hostages policy, a scheme that backfired when Iran seized even more hostages once it had received the last delivery of weaponry and spare parts.
President Obama likewise rewarded Iranian hostage-taking by paying Iran over $1 billion for the release of imprisoned Americans, although he inexplicably left Robert Levinson, the longest-held American hostage, behind. No sooner had the U.S. government transferred the ransom in cash to a waiting Iranian plane (controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), then Iranian security forces seized several more Iranian Americans and permanent residents, most prominently Iranian American businessman and political activist Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer.
What makes Wang's arrest and imprisonment different is that Wang presumably had an Iranian visa. Americans must get a visa in advance and, on the off-chance Wang was traveling on a Chinese passport, he would likely also have required a visa, although there is some wiggle-room for Chinese citizens with confirmed bookings in five-star hotels.
Other Americans who were arrested in Iran in the years since the Embassy seizure were traveling on Iranian passports: Iran does not recognize dual citizenship for Iranians and requires Iranian-Americans to travel on Iranian documents. Renouncing Iranian citizenship takes an act of Iran's parliament, and so it is beyond the means for pretty much every Iranian-American. The Iranian government has no desire to ease that restriction for both ideological reasons—it's hard to demonize "the Great Satan" when so many Iranian citizens want to live in the United States—and because the requirement for Iranian-Americans to register births and keep passports current is a cash cow for the Iranian foreign ministry. When Iran has seized Americans, there, it has operated under the legal fiction that those arrested were simply Iranian citizens. Often, Iranian diplomats tell State Department and the Swiss diplomats who look out for American citizen interests in Iran to buzz off.
Levinson was a slightly different case: He traveled without a visa to Kish Island, an Iranian free trade zone which is visa-free (but which is dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' business interests). Regardless, the fact remains: previous Americans seized in Iran were not traveling on U.S. passports with Iranian visas.
Wang's arrest hits home for me as I went to Iran—with proper Iranian visas in my passport—for a total of seven months while I was working on my history Ph.D. Since I received my doctorate and since I won't self-censor what I think or write about the Iranian regime in order to gain access, I have since been unable to get the Iranian visa, even when I have been invited for academic conferences in my field. There's never an outright rejection—just an endless series of "maybe tomorrow"—until the conference has come and gone. For academics and other Americans, however, there was always an understanding, that if the Iranian foreign ministry (and behind-the-scenes, the Iranian intelligence ministry) issued a visa and the visa-holder behaved him or herself, there would be no serious problems.
So what does Wang's arrest mean? First, he represents the human cost of the Obama administration's willingness to pay ransom. Second, that the security forces and judiciary targeted him suggests both that they have augmented and consolidated control despite all the Western self-deception about Iranian moderation and also that they wish to humiliate the United States. Wang's arrest is also a signal by those who control Iran that Americans should think twice about traveling to the country. The New York Times may profit handsomely from its Iran tours, but Iran may profit more if they refuse to allow one or more of those tourists to depart.
No hostage-taking is acceptable, and the fact that any Western diplomat would trust, let alone tolerate, their Iranian counterparts absent an Iranian renunciation of the practice past and present reflects poorly on both the United States and Europe. The fact that Iran targeted an Iranian visa holder rather than an "Iranian citizen" suggests the Islamic Republic is crossing lines even they have long avoided.
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Trump's Naïveté on Display in Syria
The hen house is secured.
Eric Edelman–a former undersecretary of defense in the Bush administration, an aide to Vice President Cheney, and one of the most respected foreign policy hands in Washington–wrote that the July 7 meeting in Hamburg between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was the most disastrous superpower summit since John F. Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. That Cold War-era summit emboldened the Soviets to put up the Berlin Wall and send missiles to Cuba, thus bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. It's a harsh judgment, but its essential accuracy is being confirmed by what we have learned since July 7.
Trump appears proud of the fact that he actually raised with Putin the issue of Russian meddling in the U.S. election. But the way he did so engenders no confidence. According to Edelman, "Tillerson is reported to have told associates privately that he was stunned that the president opened the discussion by saying 'I'm going to get this out of the way,' in effect signaling his lack of seriousness about the issue."
Trump's own account is hardly more reassuring. On July 12, on his way back to Europe, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: "I said to [Putin], were you involved with the meddling in the election? He said, absolutely not. I was not involved. He was very strong on it. I then said to him again, in a totally different way, were you involved with the meddling. He said, I was not–absolutely not." Having failed to extract a confession from Putin, Trump then moved on to talking about Syria. What else can you do, he told reporters—"end up in a fist fight"?
What Trump should have done—what any other president would have done—was not ask Putin whether he did something that the U.S. intelligence community knows he did. The president should have said, "We know you did this—and here are the consequences." Only Trump himself won't publicly accept that Russia was the sole hacker, and he's not interested in meting out any consequences. Indeed, his administration is lobbying to water down in the House a Russia-sanctions bill approved by the Senate.
One of the summit achievements that Trump trumpeted initially was an agreement to form with Russia an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, [and] many other negative things, will be guarded and safe." This fox-guarding-the-hen-house proposal was met with such universal derision that within hours Trump disowned the idea, shortly after his Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin had loyally praised it on TV.
But Trump is still standing by the other summit take away, which was the announcement of a limited ceasefire in southwestern Syria. "We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives," Trump tweeted. "Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!"
In point of fact, the agreement between the U.S. and Russia did nothing more than ratify a unilateral truce announced the previous week by the Syrian government in this area so that Bashar Assad could focus his hard-pressed forces on other parts of the country. The truce is unlikely to hold for long, but it is already being met with considerable concern in Israel, since the territory in question borders the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and the land of Israel's ally, Jordan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out in stark terms against the ceasefire on Sunday, breaking with Trump to do so, because the Israeli security establishment is worried that the ceasefire will allow Iran and its Hezbollah proxies to consolidate their control of this strategically important land.
This development highlights the tension between Trump's anti-Iran policy (his national security adviser at the time, Mike Flynn, put Iran "on notice" in February) and his more accommodating stance toward Iran's ally, Russia. Contrary to what Rex Tillerson naively says, Russia does not have the same interests in Syria as the U.S. does. Russia is in Syria to consolidate Bashar Assad's rule—not to fight ISIS or other Sunni terrorist groups, except insofar as they pose a danger to Assad's rule.
To achieve its aims in Syria, Russia is working hand-in-glove with Iran, which remains Assad's most important sponsor. Iran's goal is to create a new Iranian sphere of influence stretching from Tehran to Beirut, and it is well on its way toward achieving that objective. The expansion of Iranian power is a mortal threat to Israel and a serious danger for other U.S. allies in the region.
Given the way that Moscow is collaborating with Tehran, Trump cannot be anti-Iran and pro-Russia. It's a package deal—choose one or the other. The worry is that at Hamburg Trump may have chosen Russia.
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The 'Intersectionality' Trap
No more Sister Souljah moments.
Republicans didn't always scoff dismissively at the self-destructive, reactionary, fractious collection of malcontents who call themselves The Resistance. The hundreds of thousands who marched in the streets following Donald Trump's election once honestly unnerved the GOP. This grassroots energy culminated in January's Women's March, a multi-day event in which nearly two million people mobilized peacefully and, most importantly, sympathetically in opposition to the president. It was the perfect antidote to the violent anti-Trump demonstrations that typified Inauguration Day, and it might have formed the nucleus of a politically potent movement. The fall of the Women's March exposes the blight weakening the left and crippling the Democratic Party.
The fever sapping Trump's opposition was evident in microcosm on Monday in the meltdown of the Women's March's social-media presence on Twitter. "Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur," the organization wrote, dedicating the day's resistance-related activities in her "honor." Shakur is perhaps better known as Joanne Chesimard, the name that appeared on the court documents in connection with her being tried and convicted of eight felonies, including the execution-style murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. She currently resides in communist Cuba, a fugitive from American justice.
The outrage that followed the Women's March's endorsement of a cop-killer, exile, and unrepentant black nationalist was such that the organization was compelled to explain itself. "[T]his is not to say that #AssataShakur has never committed a crime, and not to endorse all of her actions," the group flailed. "We say this to demonstrate the ongoing history of government [and] right-wing attempts to criminalize and discredit political activists." This fanatical display of befuddlement perfectly encapsulates the logic of "intersectionality." It demonstrates why this vogue ideology shackles its devotees to doomed causes and sinking ships.
"Intersectionality," the beast born in liberal hothouses on college campuses, slouches now toward the halls of power. It is a Marxist notion that all discrimination is linked because it is rooted in the unjust power structures that facilitate inequality. Therefore, there are no distinct struggles against prejudice. Class, race, gender, sexual identity; these and other signifiers are bound together by the fact that oppression is institutional and systemic. The problem with this ideology is it compels its adherents to abandon discretion. To sacrifice anyone with a claim to oppression is to forsake every victim of prejudice. So, sure, Assata Shakur robbed, assaulted, incited violence, and killed a cop. But she also hates capitalism and white supremacy. Therefore, she's one of us.
It is this logic that has rendered the "Sister Souljah moment" a relic of the past, and The Resistance is drowning in Sister Souljahs.
One of the March organizers, Linda Sarsour, has enjoyed newfound popularity and legitimacy in the age of Trump. She is a self-styled organizer for civil rights and the Muslim-American community of which she is a part, and she's been acclaimed by organizations like the ACLU and Demos. Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand described Sarsour and her colleagues as "the suffragists of our time." In return for this lavish praise, Sarsour has only forced her defenders into awkward positions.
Sarsour has praised Saudi Arabia's social welfare state as appropriate compensation for stripping women of privileges such as driving a car. "I wish I could take their vaginas away," she wrote of women like the Somali-born Dutch-American activist and genital-mutilation victim Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "You'll know when you're living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans [and] credit cards become interest-free. Sound nice, doesn't it?" she asked. While delivering the keynote address to a Muslim-American conference, Sarsour advocated "jihad" against Donald Trump, defining the term to mean only speaking truth to power. Rather than admonish their political ally for this obvious indiscretion, the American left went to the mattresses to explain that only they understand the true meaning of the word "jihad."
For some on the left, advocating violence is not only justified but fashionable. Misanthropic so-called "anti-Fascist" activists like Shanta Driver and Yvette Felarca have become a ubiquitous presence in pro-Resistance mythology. People like Driver advocate for "militant actions" while Felarca appears at the head of armed mobs "resisting" the white supremacist alt-right "by any means necessary" (which happens to be the name of the organization to which she belongs). For this "activism," these and other "anti-fa" organizers are feted by left-wing magazines like Mother Jones and The Huffington Post.
Amid the celebration of left-wing political violence, a man who had been radicalized by liberal politics attempted the mass assassination of Republican members of Congress. Far from dwelling on this potentially generation-defining attack, the event passed through the national consciousness like an apparition. We don't talk about that now. Perhaps we don't want to think about what it might portend.
None of these individuals have roots in Democratic politics so deep that they cannot be deracinated relatively painlessly. Indeed, their counterproductive behavior would compel any competent political operation to make an example or two—particularly an operation struggling to demonstrate that it can be trusted again to govern seriously and effectively. Yet the Democratic Party and the liberals who animate it have come under the spell of a philosophy that explicitly forbids the exorcism of its demons.
Republicans have their devils, too. The excision of which may not seem a terribly urgent project today, given the GOP's political dominance. They will confront that crisis soon enough. In the interim, Democrats should be remaking themselves to appeal to the existing electorate; the one that delivered to the GOP near total control of state and federal government over just six years. Instead, Democrats are voluntarily yoking themselves to their most radical elements even as the number of Americans who describe the party as "too extreme" continues to climb.
Republicans may have their troubles, but a competent opposition is not among them.
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Apparently, There Is an Academic Medievalist Far Left
Even "Game of Thrones" has not quite rescued medieval studies from its reputation for stodginess. Yet the organizers of this year's International Medieval Congress must have thought their fellow scholars would think them a teensy bit cool for selecting the theme "otherness."
There were plenty of panels on gender, gendering, ungendering, and various gendered things. There was one devoted to "Hagiography Beyond Gender Essentialism: Trans and Genderqueer Sanctity: Rethinking the Status Quo." There was plenty on ethnicity, a bit on race, and, for those who like their politics unsauced, a panel entitled "The Historical Is Political: Understanding the Backlash against the Study of Race, Gender, and Representation in Medievalism."
I note these titles not to bash the conference, whose program contains many interesting things, or to suggest that medieval studies can cast no light on contemporary problems. I am saying only that the 2,400 scholars from 56 countries who descended on England's University of Leeds earlier this month may have thought they'd gone some way toward appeasing the academic left.
Nope. Some of their fellow medievalists are accusing them of abetting white supremacy.
This remarkable charge, though related to longstanding discontent about the field of medieval studies, is at the moment tied to a panel entitled "The Medieval Concept of Otherness." For the sake of focus, invited panelists were all historians of the early Middle Ages. The idea behind the panel was that whatever the medieval understanding of "us" and "them" or "self" and "other" was, it is was quite different from what ours is today. So the Leeds International Medieval Conference had a white supremacy problem because—no, really—this one panel consisted of "white Europeans" who were not steeped in critical race and postcolonial theory. You cannot have a discussion of how people in the early Middle Ages thought of "the other" without panelists of color versed in highly politicized contemporary theories of oppression.
Don't believe me? Here is one "rant" on the subject by Dorothy Kim, an assistant professor of English at Vassar College. Her politics may be guessed at by her apparently approving retweet of birthday wishes for the convicted (but left-wing, so hurray!) murderer, Assata Shakur and her decision to defend the academic boycott of Israel. Kim begins by being outraged that although the panel in question is about otherness, "the entire panel is filled w/ white Europeans."
She goes on to complain about scholars who are skeptical about the value of explicitly left-wing critical race and postcolonial theory for the study of the Middle Ages. The "other" under discussion in the panel has little to do with the scholars or tradition of scholarship captured under the "critical race theory" umbrella. But never mind. Kim informs us that it's "racist" to neglect critical race theory when you discuss "the other" in the early Middle Ages. And if you are among those who think that critical race theory is too political, Professor Kim has news for you. "The public sees medieval studies as political. It is political."
So there are only two choices for the scholar of the Middle Ages. "Decide if u want to uphold white supremacy or fight it." This ridiculous theme–that the public is somehow aware of medieval studies, that white supremacists sometimes appeal to the Middle Ages, and so the whole field now needs to be reconstituted to reject this appeal–is picked up with great earnestness by the Chronicle of Higher Education here.
Fortunately, for professors who undermine the reputation of academics by recklessly charging others with racism, the public is, I would venture to guess, completely unaware of what scholars of the Middle Ages are up to. If they were aware of it, they might be irritated by Kim's reference to the "free emotional/affective labor" academics like her are compelled to undertake to persuade others, who strangely are surprised and even upset when they are groundlessly charged with serious moral crimes. They might be appalled by Kim's contemptuous dismissal of such others—isn't she supposed to be some kind of expert on "others"—who should quit "having their white feelings."
This is evidently the new thing. Indeed, in the one nuanced piece I read on this subject, Rachel Stone, a medievalist who actually was on and knew something about the panel, made the mistake of quoting Kim's characterization of her own comments as a "rant." In response to those who then accused her of belittling Kim by, you know, reporting exactly what she said, Professor Stone removed the offending word. This was not enough for lily white male medievalist Karl Steel, who complained that Stone's post "still comes off as white fragility." This sounds like "mansplaining" to me, but I admit I am not conversant in these newfangled ways of settling arguments.
In any case, I am glad that Professor Stone spared herself the emotional labor of responding to Steel. If the persistent attempts of Ph.Ds to make themselves look foolish proves one thing, it is that some people never learn.
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Should the U.S. Revive Nuclear Power?
Keeping the lights on.
Progressives, environmentalists, politicians, and even many corporations have dedicated themselves to increasing the amount of alternative energy Americans produce and use. To many Americans, this means foregoing coal and oil in favor of wind, hydroelectric, or solar power. Fights over the Keystone XL pipeline or Dakota Access Pipeline have less to do with fears of spillage or respect for Native American sacred ground and more to do with antipathy toward expanding gas and oil use and encouraging any further development or exploitation of Canadian oil reserves, especially from Alberta's tar sands.
None of these trendy renewable energy sources is a panacea. Wind farms shred migratory birds, and solar farms fry them. Dams can wreak havoc on ecosystems. None produce energy as cheaply as fossil fuels, even after decades of government incentives and subsidies. Too often, however, alternative energy advocates ignore nuclear energy.
Nuclear power plants are shutting down across the United States; the Three Mile Island plant famous for a partial meltdown in 1979 will close completely in 2019. Nuclear plants produce zero emissions, and utilities (and, by extension tax payers), have paid off the capital investment decades ago. Even if many of the arguments against oil are spurious, oil alone won't provide energy security, especially as, history shows, its price rotates between peaks and valleys. As Americans shift toward alternative energy, can the United States meet its energy needs without nuclear power?
A new book being released next month by the Hoover Institution suggests not. Written by Jeremy Carl and David Fedor, two energy experts who respectively have experience making nuclear power plants safer and building them, Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants argues that, while nuclear power alone is not a panacea to resolve energy problems, the United States won't be able to solve its energy needs without nuclear power playing a major role.
They make a persuasive case: While nuclear power provides about 20 percent of U.S. electricity today, it accounts for two-thirds of carbon and pollution-free power produced. They do not ignore the downside of nuclear power, but nor do they exaggerate it. They note that nuclear power releases less radioactivity into the surrounding environment than burning coal. Nuclear power has also produced less death and injury to humans than any other form of energy production.
Security matters. The U.S. investment in nuclear plants has given the United States unique leverage. "We know that our country's dominance in civilian nuclear power has been a key part of America's ability to set norms and rules not just for power plants in less stable places around the world but also for the control of nuclear weapon proliferation," they write. The nuclear plant building boom in East Asia and the Middle East means that reactor technology will continue to develop and become safer.
The authors are realists. They lament the polemics and "zero-sum mindset" so many activists adopt. Instead, they recognize that "Fans of gas or nuclear, electric cars or oil exports, fracking or rooftop solar—in the end, all are linked by common markets and governments. Each shot fired in anger ricochets through the system, sometimes with unexpected consequences."
The whole monograph is worth reading. The authors are both academics and experts, but write clearly and make the technical and regulatory issues easily digestible. They are environmentalists but do not allow politics or polemics blind them to science. They are policy prescriptive, and make the case that—whether Democrat or Republican and whether at the federal or state levels—nuclear power is not going away. If the United States turns its back on nuclear energy generation, the consequences will be felt environmentally, economically, and in terms of global energy influence. Keeping the Lights On should be on the reading list of any serious executive or legislative branch energy-issue policymaker, and the journalists who cover them.
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The Sebastians present a program featuring J.S. Bach's famed Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, trio sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli and William Boyce, and concertos by G.F. Handel and Antonio Vivaldi.
Daniel S. Lee, violin
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Winners of the Audience Prize at the 2012 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competitions, the Sebastians were also finalists in the 2011 York International Early Music Competition and the 2011 Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition. They have participated in the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with L'Arpeggiata, and have performed at Music Matters (LaGrua Center in Stonington, CT), Friends of Music at Pequot Library (Southport, CT), Juilliard in Aiken (Aiken, SC), and in the Twelfth Night Festival and Concerts@One at Trinity Wall Street (New York, NY).
For the tricentennial of the publication of Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico concerti, the Sebastians commissioned composer Robert Honstein to write a companion suite, Night Scenes from the Ospedale, which they premiered alongside Vivaldi's work in December 2011. The suite will receive its New York premiere on November 20, 2013 at Columbia University's Italian Academy, and in November the Sebastians will also record Vivaldi and Honstein for their debut recording.
In 2013–2014, the Sebastians continue for the second season as ensemble-in-residence at All Angels' Church in New York City and will spend a semester as artists-in-residence at Connecticut College. In addition, their season contains a tour to Columbus, OH, collaborations with TENET (www.tenetnyc.com), performances with Salon/Sanctuary Concerts and Parkville Classicals, among others. In August 2013, the Sebastians collaborate with dell'Arte Opera Ensemble to present a fully-staged production of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea.

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MARS HILL, N.C.- A jump shot from Mars Hill's Kevin Haynes with 2.7 seconds left lifted the Lions to an 84-83 win over the Brevard College men's basketball team on Wednesday night in South Atlantic Conference action from Stanford Arena.
Haynes grabbed the long offensive rebound of a Devonte Williams missed layup to set up the game-winning shot, a fading jumper from the left wing. The sophomore finished with 16 points and seven rebounds while Isaiah Cuthbertson paced the Lions with 17.
The Tornados (3-16, 3-12 SAC) inbound attempt following the Haynes go-ahead jumper was intercepted as the clock expired, allowing Mars Hill (4-16, 2-13 SAC) to escape on the narrowest of margins.
The Tornados had erased a 10-point deficit with 7:12 to play thanks to a 25-14 run that put the Tornados in front 83-82 after a pair of Trevon Shaw foul shots with just over 12 seconds to go.
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Dominique Pickett had 20 points for the Tornados while Miles Leathers contributed 11 points in addition to seven boards and four assists.
The Tornados finish their three-game road trip on Saturday as they visit the Queens University Royals for a 4 p.m. tip inside the Levine Center.


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I got a question for the punks. Its a gay question, just give me shit about it later.
Ive been putting patches onto my jacket for a while, and it was getting pretty dirty, so I decided to wash it. And when I took it out of the drier, all my patches were all frayed and the seams had torn out. So I was wondering, do I wash it in cold water instead? Or hang it to dry? I just dont wanna have to resew all my patches again. It took way too long the first time.
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Are they stitched on or ironed on?
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Stitched. And it was startin to get pretty dirty so....
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idk maybe like a gentle cold wash or do the old fashioned way by hand. Also let it air dry. Drape it over a chair or something
A wise China man once said,
"If you don't get burned, you will never rearn"
should have either spot washed by hand or not washed it.
personally I wouldn't have washed it. Punks are supposed to be dirty.
did you hand stitch the patches on? if so, it frayed because hand stitching is generally weak because you only use one thread. use a sewing machine or hand stitch it a second time so the stitches interlock.
If you don't want to do that then stitch a border around the patch before you sew it on. Thats not as strong as using a sewing machine but its better than a weak single thread stitch.
Talking about sewing and using sewing machines isn't gay. its part of punk culture. DIY.
I dont think the problem was that I ran it through the washer, I think it was because all my patches shrank from their first wash. I think I might just cold wash it and hang it to dry next time. Or maybe just like get into the bathtub with it still on. Whatever.
I think I might start a camo vest soon. How do you guys make sure your backpatches are on straight?
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just make it crooked, it looks dumb if everything is perfect about it, you'll just look like a boy scout
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nefore i learned how to sew i used to put patches on wth studs haha i'd just lift as many stud belts as i could and pull all the studs off. now i have like 5000 pyramids and nothing to do with em
Yeah. I own enough fucking records, Im a DJ. And Im in a ska-punk band. So now Im going to put a back patch onto my jacket. Shut the fuck up about it.
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so you can't be punk if you don't wear a patched up jacket or if you sign a contract to allow yourself to eat. Every band progresses, obviously their sound changes, and I'm sure, if you were in a band getting paid $0 you would rather change your sound a bit to make more cashmoney. When you think about it a bands head should be thinking, fuck the fans they only like us cas their friends like us, a record company offers mad moola to do what we normally do with a little bit of tweaking Lol.
I have no idea what you people are talking about. But I dont see why people have to like prove their punk-ness before they talk about sewing patches. I listen to the music. Way before I got into the fashion. I also like hip hops style, I also like Psychobilly and rudeboy fashion. I listen to the music, Im into the scene, so Ill dress that way if I want to. I dont. Because I dont need a genre to tell me who I am. But if I want to, I dont have to prove it to anyone. If you want to point your finger at a poser, go find a Greenday fanatic with studded bracelets or some shit.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:05 pm
Post subject: Why Does These Dolphins Make Offense Seem So Hard?
I mean ever since Jimmy Johnson was hired offense has gone the way of the dinosaur for the Miami Dolphins. Time after time, year after year, we continue to be less entertained by efforts made by "skilled professionals" in offense futility. We continue to find away to become offense inept. We draft a QB and come up with every excuse as to why he is a franchise QB. We say phrases like "give him time, the offensive line is not giving him time to throw, the scheme is prehistoric" or my favorite "he needs a Tight End". Now, many of you think I am referring to young Tanneyhill, but I am not. I am referring to young Chad Henne. Remember him? He too showed promise. He even dropped 400 yards on the Jets on Monday Night Football. The FIns even traded for a WR to give him the opportunity to succeed. But that did not even work, did it? Instead, we continue cuddle in front of our HD TV's and watch the least entertaining brand of football displayed by our team why we continue with the same ole phrases like "give it time, they need a deep threat, the defense is squating on the receivers routes, the QB has no time to throw the ball and we need a TE".
My point in writting this thread is to think for one second and answer the question "do receivers make the QB better or do we have it backwards?" Surely Calvin Johnson has aided in Staffords development. But QB's often times then most make receivers (Brady-Welker, Manning-Current Broncos WR duo). I wonder if we would would be harping on the shortcomings of our receivers if Manning was the QB? I notice we were not talking about the Fins receivers shortcomings after the Cardinals game.
Just something to think about.
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I think if Hartline and Bess were on another team alongside an all pro Quarterback they would do amazingly well. Alot of it is our Oline is terrible, inconsistant playcalling and a rookie QB. Tannehill might be Henne 2.0 so who knows.
I have always been under the assumption good QB's make average WR's good but there is a cap. Luck still has Wayne, RG3 has Moss and Garcon, Wilson has Sidney Rice and Marshawn Lynch. Im sure a majority would rather have any of these QB's seeing as how the season has played out but who does Tannehill have.
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We could go the other way also and say Rivers is no where the same QB since they stripped him of his weapons. Every QB needs to have playmakers. The whole denver comparisn is not valid to me. thomas and decker are playmakers and you would have found that out last year if they had anybody in the league other then Tebow as there QB
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yea rivers is in about the same boat as tanny. [inappropriate/removed] oline with crap running game and mediocre wrs
I am not giving up on tanny until i feel he had enuff time with good wrs and oline. Its moronic to suggest we need to use more of our top picks on qbs when we clearly have other major needs.
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The fact though is we lack a deep threat. At the end of the game Philbin knew which is why we saw Mathews come in the game and they went deep. I do believe that the QB makes the receivers better. I also believe that we finally have a QB that we can start building around that plays to his strengths.
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It's no mystery that Hartline, Bess, and Fasano is slow as molasses. For all their positives, not a single defense coordinator is intimidated by our skill players.
We need speed at WR, period. Not across the board, Hartline and/or Bess could be a complimentary WR. But we need someone who can stretch the field. Tannehill may or may not be a franchise QB. But even if he is, we can't succeed with our current skill players. We need playmakers.
I believe the Philbin and McCarthy know how to coach an excellent offense. I don't believe that Ireland knows how to draft one.
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Bess and Harline are great slot and # 2 recievers, but without a legit deep threat you make the opposing defenses job a lot easier. Just think if Miami had a great deep threat reciever that had to have double coverage.
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Bess and Harline are great slot and # 2 recievers, but without a legit deep threat you make the opposing defenses job a lot easier. Just think if Miami had a great deep threat reciever that had to have double coverage.
I think Hartline is his draft position. I 5th round WR. He has overachieved for what we thought we were getting. Having said that, he is a #4 WR and Bess is a #3 slot.
I am just tired of Miami making offense so hard. They cant even run a screen pass. The blocking scheme is down right poor.
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Great question. Now I saw "great" because it's one that needs to be addressed not because it's a revolutionary concept. We're in here judging these players and coaches based on what we know. That of course comes from what we've been told, what we've read, what we've watched, etc.
I'll try and answer as concisely as I can in 2 areas:
QB Performance
Overall Offensive Performance.
Henne and Tannehill were both drafted relatively highly amongst their pears because of the talent they displayed and because of the need of the team. Henne's Michigan Highlights are still worthy of a 1st round pick I think. They are exciting, explosive and appear to translate directly to the NFL. Tannehill by comparison is I think a lesser prospect in some ways and in others probably better. I believe based on his education he's probably more intelligent. I believe based on his background he's more athletically gifted.
I'll tell you what the difference is. It's not the QBs, it's who's developing them. Henne started well but become a feral child unable to learn and progress because his coaches (I believe) failed to teach him adequately. I trust offensively-minded coaches who've worked around QBs (Sherman, Philbin, etc) more and while there's a chance they will fail here with Tannehill, we have a far greater chance of developing a good QB now than with Sparano, Pasqualoni, Daboll, etc.
Now, how do I feel about Tannehill as a prospect thus far? I think he's done a very good job of displaying the type of things you're going to look for: arm strength, accuracy, touch, ball placement, pocket awareness, poise, pocket manipulation, etc.
Has he been perfect? No. He's been a rookie showing flashes which is great. He's thrown a few bad balls but they really have been few in number. He's overthrown a few deep balls but they haven't been clownishly off as Henne's were. Tannehill's been missing some of the check-downs and this is where I believe Luck is better. Luck can make accurate, well-placed throws while out of position and falling down. Tannehill can make those throws but not from those positions.
Expecting him to be making players look better in his rookie campaign is only going to show bias against him, which I don't necessarily think you are (yet) Ovaw.
To continually remind everyone that Tannehill isn't proven is fine, but eventually you'll have to concede the fact that he's a rookie, he's on a bad team, he has limited options, he has no running game and he's actually one of the few bright spots of optimism we all have on that side of the ball.
And that's where you get to Offensive Performance. Until we can bring in an up-to-date offensive plan, draft players for 3-4 years that feed that system, develop those guys and let them gel I don't see how we can sit here and complain.
Ireland & Sparano had time and actually built a half-way decent roster but simply based it on a terrible offensive system making the whole endeavor ultimately somewhat worthless. Now, we're at least able to say we've got the right system to go ahead and start building. It appears we have a serviceable QB we can develop and people who can actually develop him, too.
However, this offense does not need my sitting here explaining it's faults. Those show glaringly to everyone watching each and every week.
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The blocking scheme is down right poor.
No the scheme is fine. It's not a new invention either. It's an nfl staple.
But it only works with linemen that can move. As bad as we where in 2007 we ran screens to perfection.
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No the scheme is fine. It's not a new invention either. It's an nfl staple.
But it only works with linemen that can move. As bad as we where in 2007 we ran screens to perfection.
I had a conversation the other day regarding what this team would look like and where we'd be if Cam Cameron was entering his 6th season as Head Coach.
I called for his head. I'll admit it. I'm not sure how you felt at the time but more recently you've defended him and now I can see why. Even if we hired Philbin, we'd have been better off having come from 5 years with Cameron than 4 years with Sparano & Co.
I think we were heading in the right direction but the Parcells era was a huge, costly mistake.
Ronnie Brown, Ted Ginn...maybe they aren't quite Ray Rice and Torrey Smith, but the direction was obviously. The way the Ravens look today is exactly how the Chargers looked when Cameron had Rivers and Tomlinson looking so good and the deep balls were flying.
Hell, when you consider he brought in Satele and Soliai to anchor the lines, you gotta admit those two picks right there were probably his best.
I do admit that it burns badly when I think about the position we gave up. We hired the hottest offensive coordinator and he rewarded us with a rather interesting draft but there's no doubt that with 4 or 5 more he could've probably done something special and made us even better.
Here we are again following a hot offensive coordinator (Philbin).
Same spot in many ways but at least Cameron's offense was proven. I'm not sure Philbin is the genius that made it all come together in Green Bay, ya know? I think with Cam Cameron it was like getting a Sean Peyton...the single figure who absolutely understood everything offensively.
I hope Philbin can develop this team but if I could...man what might have happened had we not sold out to Parcells.
It looked so sensible at the time, too!
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I mean I'm at a loss. Its like we've tried absolutely everything imaginable and everything comes out with the same offense. I wouldn't have been surprised if you told me Wannstupid was coaching us instead of being D Coordinator for the Bills.
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I mean I'm at a loss. Its like we've tried absolutely everything imaginable and everything comes out with the same offense. I wouldn't have been surprised if you told me Wannstupid was coaching us instead of being D Coordinator for the Bills.
You guys are the more reliable posters here yet you make it sound as though we can't explain our ineptitude.
You want an idea?
Here's one:
Give me a time in the last 15 years when the Dolphins had these things:
Good Coach
Good Offensive Scheme
Good QB
Good O-line
Good Skill Position Players.
I can give you single examples of those things like Cam Cameron's offense, Brandon Marshall's short stint here or Ricky Williams' glory-days but at what point can you actually say that each one of those 5 necessary things existed at the same time?
They exist in New England, in Green Bay, in Pittsburgh, in New Orleans, in Atlanta, in Indy, in Denver, in Baltimore, in NY (Giants) and certainly have in other places like San Deigo too.
They have never come together in Miami.
People need to stop talking about single guys like Marshall and Bush. We need to start at the top with a good coach and a good scheme. We need to find a good QB and then develop the team around him with linemen and weapons.
Have we not taken a step in that direction this year?
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I feel like we could take the Packers offense and put Dolphins jerseys on them and they would suck.
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Let me say it again. All of these iron-clad facts are easily checkable, except by deranged lunatics who can't read or sustain rational thought.
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If there are any dangerous sociopaths who hate America so much that they will offer to take exception to this, I am ready to hear them out.
If a big gun show in an uneasy Southern California is a good idea at this time, perhaps we should take a look at other shows and exhibitions that will offer the same sort of reckless excitement.
How about a wild bear show, for example? We'll round up a lot of savage wilderness bears from our local mountains and set them loose in a crowd of people at the Ontario Convention Center. Yes, we may be exposing a certain percentage of people to peril, but we'll be sending an important message: Bears are not the problem. The problem is what a few irresponsible bears do with their claws and teeth. We can't blame all bears for the unfortunate actions of a few.
Let's also have a giant fire festival in the National Forest. We'll build huge bonfires amongst the trees as a demonstration of our right as a free people to do so. In our responsible hands, nothing can go wrong, right?
Let's hold a big street racing festival, where we all drive 100 miles per hour in heavy traffic around the Ontario Convention Center. Whee! Just remember, cars don't kill people, people do.
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LONG BEACH -- Whether it's as small as snatching an iPhone left unattended in a car or as intricate as an organized burglary, thieves have found opportunity in an economic downturn.
Police and business officials say the economy has played a factor in a recent uptick in property and commercial crimes in Long Beach.
"Everything plays a factor in crime statistics," said Long Beach Police Detective Division Cmdr. Eric Ledesma, who oversees all property crime details including auto theft, burglary, forgery and identification theft. "When the economy has spiraled downward as unemployment rises, you have a rise in crime -- violent crime, but definitely property crime."
Recently released crime statistics for 2011 show an 18.8percent spike in commercial burglaries, a 14.8 percent jump in grand theft and a 10.5 percent increase in property crimes citywide.
Commercial burglary rates were highest in shopping centers such as the downtown area encompassing Walmart, and within the North Long Beach boundaries of Cherry Avenue, Paramount and Artesia boulevards and 70th Street.
Petty thefts were highest at the downtown and the Long Beach Towne Center Walmarts.
The area near the Pike at Rainbow Harbor and Shoreline Village reported a high number of grand theft incidents and ranked high for auto burglaries.
Dianna Gee, a Walmart spokeswoman, said she couldn't discuss the downtown store specifically, but said the company, where more than 140 million U.S. customers shop weekly, takes proactive security measures.
"Every single store puts a lot of focus on security and crime prevention measures," Gee said. "We have asset protection teams that do a great job at identifying those who commit crimes and that may result in more arrests because we do have the resources dedicated to identify and stop shoplifting from happening."
Ledesma said businesses are adding more security camera systems to protect their losses.
"Businesses aren't tolerating first-time offenders," he said. "They're prosecuting everyone because they can't afford to take the losses."
Crimes of opportunity, especially in harder economic times, often drive up crime statistics -- especially when it comes to auto burglaries, police said.
"(Thieves) are walking by and they're seeing a computer sitting in the front seat with a GPS in the car and a necklace hanging in the rearview mirror," Ledesma said. "Then they'll smash it real quick, grab the stuff and take off because those are easy items they can sell on the street and get extra money for."
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Property crime is rising across the country because of the down economy and the growing number of professional criminals, said Joseph LaRocca, senior adviser of asset protection for the National Retail Federation.
Retailers lost $35.3 billion in 2010, a half-billion of that to shoplifters, according to the University of Florida, which conducted a survey on shrinkage, a term in the retail industry for loss of inventory.
That's a jump from the $33.5billion lost in 2009. Also, 95 percent of retailers surveyed said they were a victim of professional thieves, up from 89 percent in 2009.
"We hear a lot about the economy and in almost every shoplifter case, somebody will come up with a rationalization -- I lost my job, whatever. But the reality is that people are stealing for greed, not need," LaRocca said.
Organized thieves are stealing everything from baby formula to luxury goods and reselling them on street corners, pawn shops and flea markets, he said.
"When the recession struck in 2008-2009, consumers started to look for discounted goods and started to shop at alternative places," LaRocca said.
"Professional criminals saw a business opportunity to steal more goods because they needed to stock their shelves like a retailer."
LaRocca said it is not unusual for higher theft rates to come from larger retail centers.
"The more shoppers you have, the more shoplifters there are," he said.
In the past three years, there's been a coordinated effort to prevent crime among law enforcement agencies and retailers in Southern California called the Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crime Association. The group meets bimonthly and organizes a yearly conference, which this year is expected to draw nearly 900 people.
The conference, which will take place Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center, is an opportunity for law enforcement representatives and retailers to learn from each other, LaRocca said.
"We know that working together and sharing information will make us all more successful at preventing and detecting the criminal groups that are targeting stores," he said.
Preventing crime
Locally, businesses also are working with police to combat theft and enacting their own preventive measures.
"Obviously, perception is reality for a lot of people and we are always faced with that dilemma or challenge of overcoming safety perceptions, whether it's downtown or other parts of the city," said Kraig Kojian, president and CEO of the Downtown Long Beach Associates.
Several proactive measures have been taken over the years, Kojian said, including the installation of security cameras, establishing a Public Safety Task Force of stakeholders and the Downtown Safety Program, a group that patrols downtown.
"They really serve as an extra set of eyes and ears for police officers downtown," Kojian said.
In Belmont Shore, where there's been an uptick in bicycle thefts and shoplifting, the Belmont Shore Business Association is encouraging businesses to get cameras or, if they have indoor cameras, to install them outside and along the alley way.
The business association is also encouraging businesses to give the police department their IP (Internet Protocol) address, the numerical label attached to a device in a computer network, such as internet-connected security cameras.
"When something happens, they (the police) can dial directly into that IP address and get the information as quickly as they can and hopefully catch that person while they're still in the area," said Dede Rossi, executive director of the Belmont Shore Business Association.
Businesses are also using Facebook by posting photos of thieves caught on camera.
"We're communicating right away," Rossi said. "It's very frustrating for businesses when they get ripped off like that. People are very, very bold."
Most property and business- related crimes are preventable, police officials said.
For businesses, it's making sure that the area around the storefront has adequate lighting, regularly emptying cash registers and putting away ladders and other items that thieves can use to gain access to rooftops.
For residents and visitors, it's parking in well-lit areas, locking car doors and either placing valuables out of sight or not leaving them in the car.
"We can't can do it without the community's help," said Nancy Pratt, Public Information Officer for the Long Beach Police Department. "The safety tips are very simple and common sense. (People) don't think to do those simple things that can really make the difference."
Crime prevention tips
The Long Beach Police Department strongly recommends that all residents consider the following preventive steps:
-- Lock your car, close the windows and sunroof, and never leave valuables in plain sight (including loose change).
-- Store valuables in the trunk or take them with you when leaving the car. If the trunk can be opened without a key from inside of your car, lock or disable this feature.
-- Do not leave any connector cables (GPS, phone, MP3) or docking stations in plain sight, since it may appear that you have electronics inside.
-- Park in well-lighted areas.
-- Activate your alarm system or consider installing one.
-- If you have a garage, use it, and keep it closed and locked.
-- Immediately report suspicious activity to police, including people loitering near parked cars, by calling 911, or the Long Beach Police Communications Center at 562-435-6711.
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When Melissa Gentry arrived at USC's Office of Parents Programs in 2007, Parents Weekend drew about 3,000 people with five events on the schedule.
This year, more than 7,600 family members from 38 states registered for formal Parents Weekend events at Carolina. The schedule of events is so extensive it fills nine pages, including receptions, picnics, educational classes, a beach bash, informational sessions and a tailgate party.
The growth is a combination of parents wanting to be more connected to their students' college experiences and USC faculty and staff members willing to share their time and insights.
"Several years ago, when we wanted to expand Parents Weekend, we asked deans, department heads and staff to think about ways they could contribute. The response surprised me beyond my imagination," said Gentry, the director of communication and events for the Department of Student Life. "Faculty are opening their classes on Friday, staff are hosting drop-ins and receptions and giving the educational sessions in the Russell House. We could not do all of this without faculty and staff participation."
"If I ever left the university and I had to pick a weekend to come back to visit, I'd come back on Parents Weekend. It's so much fun, so many people are here, everybody's happy, there's good food and there's lots to learn."
Jerry Brewer, associate vice president for student affairs
The 45-minute sessions that run Friday afternoon at the Russell House are presentations about resources on campus, opportunities at the USC Career Center and study abroad opportunities. The weekend's signature events include a Friday reception at the President's House hosted by President Harris Pastides and Patricia Moore-Pastides, the Carolina Beach Bash at the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center on Friday night, the Parents Weekend 5K race Saturday morning and the tailgate party near Williams-Brice Stadium before the USC-Missouri football game Saturday. More than 5,500 people are expected at the tailgate party.
"We get great feedback from parents about the weekend. They love the opportunity to do so many things on campus, and they love the signature events," Gentry said.
Jerry Brewer, associate vice president for student affairs, said getting parents involved is important both for their children and for the university.
"It's a well-known phenomenon that parents are more engaged in their students' college education than they have been in previous years," Brewer said. "We want parents to support their students while they are here and we want them to be involved with the university."
Brewer said some of that increased interest – both in their students and in the classes offered over Parents Weekend – can be traced to the demographics of the parents.
"Most of our parents are Baby Boomers. They grew up as an inquiring group. They are naturally inquisitive about what goes on," he said. "We've increased the academic units offered on Parents Weekend, and that makes sense. You want parents to not just see the recreational and social side of campus, but the academic process as well."
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- 2,278: Number of families attending (1,883 attended last year)
- 97: Number of families attending with two Carolina students
- 2: Number of families attending with three Carolina students
- 62: Percentage of families visiting whose students are freshmen; 23 percent are sophomores; 9 percent are juniors; 5 percent are seniors and less than 1 percent are graduate students.
- 78: Percentage of families visiting from out-of-state
- 38: Number of states represented, plus the District of Columbia.
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Starting shooting a compound bow 5 months ago. I am obsessed with archery. I started with a Mathews craze and now shoot competition with hoyt carbon spyder turbo. I've learned a great deal in the past 5 months and look forward to learning so much more. I love shooting different 3d outdoor ranges. I love the challenging shots. Over the past 5 months I shot in all 3 IBO triple crowns and world championship. Love shooting with people that love archery as much as I do. I enjoy my Love Affaire with Archery. I live in the Enon, Ohio area.
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