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Birdhouses are a common sight around Sylvia Bailey's home in Lincolnville. She took early retirement from a job she held in California and moved to Lincolnville in 2004.
Bailey has at least 18 birdhouses of various sizes and shapes in her expansive backyard and another seven in the front yard. Cardinals, blue jays, finches, sparrows, orioles, and robins are among the many birds that find a welcome there. A large fish pond provides water and a feeder provides food.
"I love to garden, and birdhouses go with it," Bailey explained. "I love flea markets, so that gives me something to look for."
She prefers making the houses herself or buying homemade ones. Sometimes, while traveling, she finds some along the way, like the barn birdhouse she bought in Pennsylvania's Amish country. She often buys old birdhouses and embellishes them with fresh paint and pieces of hardware.
Several church-shaped birdhouses adorn a mantel above a fireplace in the back foyer. A birdhouse throw sets casually across the back of a stuffed chair.
Bailey already has plans to make another birdhouse out of a three-foot-tall old copper canister with a green sheen. She and her three sisters plan to attend a large flea market this weekend, and she will be looking for a top for the birdhouse.
Birdhouses are just one of Bailey's hobbies. She always has several projects going involving such things as antique doors, windows, and cupboards. She adds something new to her garden every year.
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For 85 years, The Community House at 15 Borage Place has seen many of those community leaders and volunteers in action. On June 23, 40 Forest Hills notables were awarded a "Certificate of Leadership Appreciation" by The Church-In-The-Gardens Community House Executive Board at an elegant ceremony.
The Community House is a nonprofit, nonsectarian recreational facility that offers a meeting place where the public can pursue constructive activities, programs for children, and activities and social events for adults.
Chairwoman Lily Zivkovic came up with the idea of hosting the close-knit community event. Zivkovic has a 25-year history in Forest Hills, including leadership roles with the Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish Council and the Women's Club of Forest Hills. She has.
Now her 14 year-old daughter, Nicole Zivkovic, is a dedicated community volunteer, and one of the 40 honored at Sunday's event. The younger Zivkovic opened the ceremony by reading a letter from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"It is a pleasure to join The Community House and its partners in celebrating the amazing history of Forest Hills," she read. "Forest Hills continues to thrive thanks to strong civic leaders, who benefit greatly from the support of institutions."
Some recipients were invited without prior knowledge that they would be recognized. Lily Zivkovic stated,
"We found people who are unsung heroes, and take on this role without call, and do not even realize the extent of their impact," said Lily Zivkovic. "Not all leaders have a title, just like not everybody with a title is a leader."
Recipients included Leslie Brown, president of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce; Susanna Hof of Friends of Station Square; and Helen Griffin, president of the Women's Club of Forest Hills.
Forest Hills native Suzanne Israel Tufts is a philanthropist and consultant for nonprofit organizations. As a student at PS 196 and JHS 157, she would volunteer at local hospitals.
"We were brought up to make the community a better place," she said.
Tufts served on the Friends and Family Committee of Margaret Tietz Nursing Center, which focuses on Holocaust survivors.
"I had the honor of being selected to work for President George H. W. Bush as regional director of ACTION, which focused on volunteerism with many community groups in Forest Hills and throughout Queens," she said. Tuft's husband's family emigrated on the Mayflower.
"It's very comforting to establish Forest Hills roots in the same way my husband's family did in the New World," she added.
Also recognized was Roland Meier, president of the West Side Tennis Club, who is spearheading an effort to revitalize the long-neglected Forest Hills Tennis Stadium.
"Our club has been removed from the community for a long time, so this award is a confirmation that we are doing the right thing," he said.
Anne Seeler has served on the Board of Trustees of The Church-In-The-Gardens for nearly 10 years.
"I grew up in the church, and so did my mom and grandma," she said. "It's been a privilege to be part of a historic church, which is so vital to our community with its extensive outreach. You do what you have to do without thinking of being awarded, and then you're thrilled when you are."
Anne Marie Cooley, a single parent, is a dynamo who is actively involved in various community events. Faced with a tough economy, she decided to create a non-denominational monthly job search networking group at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church. Most recently, she began volunteering at the Forest Hills Tree Giveaway at MacDonald Park.
"Forest Hills is a special town that is ethnically diverse with mostly young families moving in, and has a very influential adult population, as well as a fair senior population," said Zivkovic. "It is truly an honor to be involved, and help make our town bigger, better, and friendlier, especially with the support of neighbors, unnamed leaders, and volunteers."
Editor's Note: Columnist Michael Perlman was also honored at the event for his work with the Rego-Forest Preservation Council.

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Moderates try to curtail influence of Islamic extremist rebels in Afghan-style outfits
BEIRUT (AP) — A slogan painted in small letters on a school wall reads, "We the people want Syria to be a civil, democratic state." Scrawled next to it in bigger letters is the response from an unknown Islamic hard-liner: "The laws of the civil state contradict the Islamic caliphate."
A quiet power struggle is taking place in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa ever since a Muslim extremist faction of the rebels swept in and wrested the town from the regime nearly four months ago.
Armed men wearing Afghan-style outfits patrol the streets, raising black Islamic banners at checkpoints instead of the rebellion's three-star flags.
But moderates are trying to counter the extremists' tight grip, establishing dozens of newspapers, magazines and civil society forums in an effort to educate the roughly 500,000 residents about democracy and their right to vote.
Raqqa, the first and only provincial capital to fall into rebel hands, is now a test case for the opposition, which has wrestled with how to govern territories it has captured amid Western concerns that Islamic groups will hijack power if President Bashar Assad is ousted.
The tensions reflect a wider struggle going on in the rebel movement across Syria, where alliances of Islamic extremist brigades have filled the void left behind whenever Assad's forces retreat, while moderate and secular rebels have failed to coalesce into effective fighters and the opposition's political leadership has failed to unify its ranks.
The rebel capture of Raqqa on March 5 consolidated opposition gains in a string of towns along the Euphrates River, which runs across the desert from the Turkish border in the north to the Iraqi border in the southeast.
Even so, the momentum on the battlefield over the past few months has been with regime, aided by Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon. More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011, according to the UN — though a count by activists puts the death toll at over 100,000.
Two extremist factions, Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, led the push into Raqqa, which fell relatively quickly after a campaign that lasted less than a month. Most of the Jabhat al-Nusra fighters in the city are foreign jihadis, while the Ahrar al-Sham fighters are Syrians with a jihadist ideology.
Other opponents of the Assad regime in the city have been put off by what they see as the extremists' unnecessary brutality. In the days after seizing the city, the Muslim brigades brought captured security forces into public squares, killed them and drove their bodies through the streets.
Then in May, fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda killed three men described as Shiite Muslims in the city's main Clock Square, shooting them in the back of the head. In a speech to a crowd that had gathered, a fighter said the killing was in retaliation for the massacres of Sunni Muslims in the town of Banias and the city of Homs, both in western Syria, according to online video of the scene. The statement was made in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a merger of Jabhat al-Nusra and Iraq's al-Qaeda arm announced in April.
Armed gunmen with their faces covered in masks shot pistols and rifles wildly in the air in celebration after the three men were killed. They wore clothing favored by Afghanistan's Taliban and Arab mujahedeen who fought in that country — a sign that they belonged to Jabhat al-Nusra.
The Shiites "were executed in front of everyone, young and old," said Mohammad Shoeib, an activist, recalling how for several hours, nobody dared approach the bodies to take them for burial until a nurse did. The nurse, Mohammad Saado, was assassinated by unknown gunmen the next day, Shoeib said. Other activists corroborated his account.
"Executing people in this manner in a public square and killing Saado was unacceptable and turned many people against them," Shoeib said. "Our revolution was against oppression and we don't accept such actions under any circumstance."
Activists set up a mourning tent in the same spot where the three were executed, receiving mourners for three days in a sign of their anger. "They didn't like it," he said of Jabhat al-Nusra, "but people demonstrated their right to an opinion and they should respect that."
Shoeib, 28, is one of the directors of "Haqquna," Arabic for "It's Our Right," an organization founded about three weeks after Raqqa fell that aims to educate people about democracy. The group's logo is a victory sign with the index finger bearing an ink mark, signifying the right to vote. The logo can be seen on walls in the city and on leaflets distributed by the group.
More than 40 publications have popped up in Raqqa, including newspapers and magazines as well as online publications, many of them run by young activists.
Many recall with pride the day rebels overran their city, about 120 miles (195 kilometers) east of the commercial capital of Aleppo, after capturing the country's largest dam and storming its central prison.
On March 5, cheering rebels and Raqqa residents brought down the bronze statue of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad after tying a rope around its neck. Others tore down a huge portrait of his son, the current president.
It was a striking scene in a city once considered so loyal to the regime that in November 2011 — early in the 2-year-old uprising — Assad prayed at Raqqa's al-Nour mosque for the Muslim holiday of Eid in an apparent attempt to show that the regime was fully in control there.
Activists like to compare Raqqa with Benghazi, the first major city in Libya to revolt against Moammar Gadhafi and fall into rebel hands.
But unlike Benghazi, which then became the rebel capital and the heartland for the militias of the months-long civil war in Libya, Raqqa feels sequestered and insecure. Regime warplanes still swoop down at random, shattering the calm with punishing airstrikes on opposition-held buildings.
Schools have closed and government employees have not been paid their salaries in months as a form of punishment.
Residents complain that the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, has paid no attention to the needs of Raqqa.
"The opposition groups are too busy fighting each other," said one owner of a sweets shop in the center of Raqqa. "They have not sent anyone to ask about our needs, nor is there any contact with any of them."
In March, the Coalition elected an interim prime minister, Ghassan Hitto, tasked with forming an interim government that would help administer rebel-held territories in northern and eastern Syria. But the opposition has been plagued with infighting, and Hitto has been effectively sidelined.
Khalid Salah, spokesman for the Coalition, insisted the opposition was trying to support Raqqa despite a lack of funds and other resources. He said the city was receiving aid from the Coalition but that it was unmarked so many people are unaware of its origin.
"We are trying to step up aid and make up for some shortcomings in the next weeks," he said, adding that regime airstrikes around the city made the work more difficult.
Rebel groups, particularly Ahrar al-Sham, administer daily life in Raqqa, setting up bakeries, keeping electricity and water going as much as possible and distributing aid they receive from international supporters. They have set up courts that impose Islamic law, mostly dealing with financial disputes and criminal cases such as kidnappings and theft.
Many residents are grateful, saying the Islamic brigades are simply making up for the shortcomings of the opposition in exile.
Mouaz al-Howeidi, a 40-year-old programmer and Web designer-turned activist, said it's promising that the power struggle has itself not turned violent.
But he said civil groups were at a disadvantage because the rebels have more means at their disposal to get their message across, through mosques and by controlling the city's resources.
"They control everything in Raqqa," he said. "And they have weapons and money — this makes everything easier."
The owner of the sweets shop, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals, said Islamic groups were the flip side of the regime.
"Raqqa has not been liberated. It has been re-occupied by the Islamists."
A Syrian journalist contributed from Raqqa.
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The six quad-core mobile processors that debuted Monday as part of Intel's first wave of Ivy Bridge parts could be enough to outfit Apple with processors for a complete MacBook Pro revamp, assuming Cupertino is ready to go quad-core for all its "pro" notebooks.
On Monday (as rumored) Intel launched a range of quad-core Ivy Bridge processors, built on its latest 22nm, 3D "tri-gate" transistor process. A product roadmap leak in late March suggested that some of those chips would launch in late April, while the rest would be delayed until early June. Among the leaked parts slated for April were 45W TDP quad-core parts that would make a good fit for Apple's higher-end 15" and 17" MacBook Pros. Dual-core parts that used less power (35W TDP) suitable for low-end models and the 13" MacBook Pro would have to wait.
However, Intel announced an OEM-only quad-core mobile processor, the Core i7-3612QM, which shaves a few megahertz off the maximum GPU and CPU frequencies to max out at 35W TDP. If Apple were willing to offer its MacBook Pros with quad-core only parts, it could do so with the processors Intel is already announcing.
We speculated last month that Apple could choose a staggered launch for Ivy Bridge-powered MacBook Pros, launching 15" and 17" models in late April or early May, and a revamped 13" model in June. This strategy isn't in keeping with Apple's style, however, which typically results in every model in a product line being updated at the same time. An all-quad-core strategy would fit that pattern, allowing new models in all sizes to launch at the same time.
Furthermore, Apple could use the quad-core/dual-core distinction to position the MacBook Pro for maximum performance, while its MacBook Air would still appeal to those willing to trade some performance for ultimate portability.
Rumors have suggested Apple may adopt thinner, more "MacBook Air-like" designs for the next MacBook Pro refresh, with one analyst even going so far as to suggest that Apple will kill its 17" MacBook Pro model altogether. We see little reason for Apple to adopt such a radical strategy, though. We think it's more likely that Apple would instead stick with something similar to what it currently has, perhaps ditching the optical drive for more battery capacity or expanded storage options. Add in the increased performance of quad-core CPUs across the board and Intel's HD4000 integrated graphics (particularly for the 13" MacBook Pro), and Apple will still have a formidable entry in the notebook market.
If Apple chooses to offer MacBook Pros with dual-core parts, however, we expect the company to wait until June to launch an entire series of MacBook Pro models. And if the company does have a more radical redesign in the wings, such designs might not work with the 45W parts currently on tap.
Regardless of the update strategy Apple chooses for the MacBook Pro, don't expect new MacBook Airs for at least another month. The ultra-low voltage Ivy Bridge processors necessary for the MacBook Air won't be available until June, either.


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The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is seeking information on the whereabouts of a 14-year-old Lawrenceville girl who apparently ran away during a shopping trip to the Tanger Outlet Center in Commerce Dec. 19.
Galilea Magana is described as a Hispanic female with black hair, brown eyes, five feet tall and weighing 125 pounds.
"Investigators are working this as a runaway juvenile, as they have discovered information that the child left a note that she intended to run away, and also had been talking with someone over a dating site," said Major David Cochran. "Investigators are in the process of following up on those leads at this time. She and her mother had been at Tanger Mall on Dec. 19 shopping when this incident took place. We do not know at this time how she left the mall."
Officials believe Magana was picked up by Eduardo Hernandez or Eduardo Jiminez, also known as "Lalo," to whom Magana had been talking over the Internet.
Anyone with information on her location is asked to contact the sheriff's office at 706-367-8718.
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Access to justice for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence will be improved by a Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament.
The Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm Bill tackles the way modern technology can be used to perpetrate abuse, creating a new offence of sharing private intimate images without consent, or so-called 'revenge porn'.
The new bill also modernises criminal law and strengthens powers for the police, prosecutors and courts to take action against perpetrators of domestic abuse, harassment and sexual offences.
Under the new law judges will be required to give juries specific directions when dealing with sexual offence cases, designed to improve juries' understanding of sexual violence, which is a known barrier to access to justice for victims.
A new statutory domestic abuse aggravator will also be introduced to ensure courts take domestic abuse into account when sentencing an offender.
The bill ensures that child sexual offences committed in England and Wales by Scottish residents can be prosecuted in Scotland. It also reforms the system of civil orders to strengthen protection for communities from those who may commit sex offences.
Commenting, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "Domestic abuse and harassment are appalling crimes and with this new law we are sending a strong message that they will not be tolerated in Scotland.
"We are taking bold steps to improve the way the justice system responds to abusive behaviour, holding perpetrators to account for their actions and improving public safety.
"We are continuing to modernise the law and to make sure our legislation best fits the needs of a modern Scotland both in the way it supports victims in their access to justice and tackles crimes which adapt as technology changes. That is why we are creating a new offence of sharing intimate images without consent, reflecting changing technology and the harm this sinister crime inflicts.
"At a time when survivors are displaying greater confidence at coming forward about the abuse they have suffered, we want to help break down the barriers to victims of sexual violence accessing justice.
"This includes helping juries' understanding of the crime of sexual violence and strengthening the powers for police, the prosecutors and the courts to take action against perpetrators."
"At the same time as passing this Bill we are consulting on how a ground-breaking specific offence to tackle domestic abuse across Scotland might be taken forward. Scotland will be one of only a handful of countries across the world to introduce dedicated legislation that would not only capture types of conduct that are already criminal but also other forms of psychological abuse and control which cannot usually be prosecuted under the existing criminal law.
"We know legislation alone is not enough to tackle the scourge of domestic abuse, harassment and sexual violence. This is part of a range of measures we are putting in place, including an additional £20 million to tackle all forms of violence against women and girls. These measures show domestic and sexual abuse will not be tolerated."


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"Stewart's zany debut cleverly reimagines the central events of the French Revolution in a thrilling novel that explores the meaning of success and the unlikely bonds that unite a family...Deep-cutting and full of cartoonish surprises, Stewart's hilariously bawdy satire casts fresh light in a dark corner of the past while portraying a family whose members have somehow survived history." - Booklist
"Whimsically allegorical...amusing and quite clever." - Boston Globe
"A wildly imaginative novel of family and out-sized dreams. A book that embraces San Francisco's contradictions - and then some. The French Revolution is over-the-top and I for one am grateful." - Peter Orner, award-winning author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
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The Department of Education (DOE) formally submitted its proposal for the $80 million school to the city on March 13, according to DOE spokesman Will Havemann. According to law, the City Council has just 20 days to review the proposal once it's submitted before voting on it.
Just five days after the DOE set the clock ticking, a Land Use subcommittee postponed voting on the proposed school at a March 18th meeting. This was the second delay, as the City Council already pushed back voting on the school earlier this month.
In a statement, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley said the decision was made to allow more time for negotiation on the school - proposed for 74th Street and 57th Avenue in Maspeth - between the DOE and community representatives.
"My focus remains on quality of education. I strongly believe that parent and community involvement is crucial to a school's success," said Crowley.
At this point, the standoff largely comes down to the city's school zoning policy. The councilwoman and Community Board 5 have been urging DOE to include a local zoning provision in the proposal, which would give Maspeth-area students enrollment priority.
The DOE has agreed to give School District 24 students priority at the new school, but has stopped short on promising preferential treatment for Maspeth teenagers alone.
"We want to make sure this school is as useful as possible," Havemann said. "We don't want to spend scarce city resources on a school to be used just by a very small neighborhood."
Crowley, who has not wavered in her support of local zoning for Maspeth, said she remains committed to ensuring the school be built for the community.
"Our community needs a school to alleviate the dire overcrowding of classrooms," Crowley said. "I will only support a school that gives neighborhood preference to local students."
The proposal returns to the council's Land Use Committee and its subcommittee for separate votes on March 31. If both approve the school, it would move to a full City Council vote at the next stated meeting scheduled for April 8.
Havemann said DOE looks forward to completing the review and approval process. "We're eager to get this done as soon as possible," Havemann said. "We wished that it would have happened sooner."


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Details about John Zawahri, the body-armor clad man who Santa Monica police say killed four people in a shooting spree Friday, are scant. But so far, early reports agree that those who knew Mr. Zawahri believed he was a troubled young man.
Mr. Zawahri had been hospitalized for treatment several years ago after allegedly talking about harming someone, a law enforcement source told CNN on Saturday. The source said Zawahri suffered mental-health issues.
A close friend of the family, who worked with Zawahri's mother, said "John had a fascination with guns. We were all worried about it," according to a Los Angeles Times report.
And one neighbor of Zawahri and his mother, who lived together, told the Times that the mother is "a lovely woman. Petite, sweet, quiet, brunette, and classy – with a crazy kid."
The accounts offer an echo of Newtown, Conn., where a single mother apparently struggled to keep a "crazy kid" in line. There, the mother was the first victim, killed before Adam Lanza went on a his shooting spree, killing 20 first-graders and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary.
In Santa Monica, Calif., the 23-year-old Zawahri killed his father and brother before fatally shooting three other people on the campus of Santa Monica College, stocked with an arsenal of bullets, a handgun, and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, police say. Zawahri was ultimately killed by law enforcement on the campus. Zawahri's mother, Randa Abdou, is reportedly on a one-month vacation in Lebanon.
In the debate over gun control, discussion quickly turns to demagoguery. But Santa Monica, in particular, could stand as evidence of how hard it is to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them, even when laws are in place.
In Newtown, Mr. Lanza apparently had ready access to the stockpile of weapons owned by his mother, a gun enthusiast. But there are no reports yet that Ms. Abdou had the AR-15 allegedly used in the massacre Saturday. The Times quotes the Zawahri family friend as saying: "Everyone is wondering where he got the money for the weapons."
Newtown resulted in a flurry of laws nationwide aimed at making it harder for the mentally ill to buy guns. In fact, though the package of nine gun-control bills introduced in the US Senate this spring was ultimately revoked, the aspect that dealt with mental health was one of the two bills that passed. Even the National Rifle Association backed the bill.
"This is a place where people can come together," Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) of Michigan told The New York Times in April, speaking of the mental-health bill. "As we've listened to people on all sides of the gun debate, they've all talked about the fact that we need to address mental-health treatment. And that's what this does."
New Jersey and Florida also strengthened regulations regarding gun control and the mentally ill. Last month, the California Senate passed a bill that would establish a 10-year ban on buying weapons for anyone who violated court-ordered mental-health treatment.
Even now, before that bill has passed the Assembly, California has strict guidelines in place regarding gun control and mental illness. Regulations include a prohibition against anyone owning or buying a firearm who "has been adjudicated to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness."
While the details of Zawahri's case are not yet known and could take the case in a different direction, Friday's massacre clearly does not hit California unawares. In passing the recent bill, California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D) said: "We all can recite the horrific acts that have occurred in our country over the last year. These bills attempt to respond to those well-publicized tragedies and many more that go unpublicized."
For mental-health professionals, the danger is in going too far and stigmatizing the mentally ill as dangerously violent, which is not true in the vast majority of cases, they say.
"There are mental illness diagnoses that do increase your risk of violence," Josh Horwitz, executive director of the gun control group Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told US News & World Report. "But identifying which [diagnoses] those are and who those people are is going to be difficult."


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College has asked students to delete images and take down tweets.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A University of Iowa teaching assistant e-mailed "inappropriate content to her students" this week, an incident that now is under review, university officials said Wednesday.
Officials are asking anyone who received the message, which reportedly included nude photos of the teaching assistant, to delete the e-mail and not pass it on.
"The individual who sent the messages has stated that it was an accident. She regrets her actions," University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore said in an e-mail.
"This incident was inappropriate, and the university will look into it and take appropriate actions under our policies and procedures," he said.
The incident was made public Wednesday morning on the website TotalFratMove.com, which stated the teaching assistant in the university's math department had accidentally e-mailed nude photos of herself to students.
The website also posted what it claims is a copy of the assistant's e-mail, which reads: "Hi Class, I attach the solutions for number 76 and 78 in this email."
According to TotalFratMove, which claims it has copies of the nude images, "The images are from a video chat that is quite sexual in nature. It appears that two people are 'cyber-sexing' from different locations using video equipment."
A student tweeted, "The TA was teaching her 7:30 discussion session this morning trying to act like nothing happened but (was) clearly very rattled. No one said anything about it but it was just extremely awkward."
It didn't take long for students to begin tweeting about the incident.
"breaking news: An Iowa TA accidentally emailed naked pictures of herself to 80+ students instead of the study guide," read one student's tweet.
Another tweeted: "A math TA here accidentally emailed naked pics of herself to her students instead of the study guide."
"Class with the most famous TA in University of Iowa history starts in an hour and a half. Wish me luck! Should I ask for an autograph?" tweeted another student.
Kembrew McLeod, a University of Iowa professor of communication studies, said in order to deal with these types of situations, universities should keep their policies flexible and consider who is involved.
"It seems to me more general policies about inappropriate behaviors can be easily crafted to cover a variety of situations," he said.
For example, McLeod said a full professor with a history of inappropriate behavior who sends out nude photos of himself to students should be dealt with differently than a teaching assistant, with no such history, who "clearly didn't mean to send nude photos of herself to her students."


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LE CENTER, Minn. — One man is dead and another recovering after being overcome by carbon monoxide in south-central Minnesota.
Authorities say the men were working on farm machinery in a garage when they were overcome about noon Monday.
Le Sueur County authorities say 90-year-old Tony Kaisershot died at the scene and 83-year-old Clayton Block was taken by helicopter to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he is listed in satisfactory condition.
Both men are from the Minnesota town of Cleveland. The sheriff's office said they were winterizing a tractor, which apparently was running in an enclosed space at Kaisershot's home near Lake Jefferson.
The Free Press of Mankato reported that both men were unconscious when first responders arrived.


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Marvel's newest superhero is a Muslim-American teen
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 11/6/2013, 3:01 p.m.
Comic book fans meet Ms. Marvel, Marvel Comic's first Muslim-American superhero.
Kamala Khan, a fictional New Jersey teenager, transforms into Ms. Marvel in the debut of Marvel's new monthly series in January, the comic book publisher said.
"At her core, Kamala is just a 16-year-old girl, exploring the many facets of her identity when she is suddenly bestowed with super-human powers that send her on the adventure of a lifetime," Marvel Comics Editor In Chief Axel Alonso said.
Kamala uses her powers to become like her idol, Captain Marvel, which "challenges the very core of her conservative values," Marvel's announcement said.
"Like any teenager, all of her opportunities are in front her and she is full of potential, but her parents' high expectations come with tons of pressure and has led Kamala to carve out a future that she has little interest in," Marvel said.
Ms. Marvel will be "true-to-life, something real people could relate to, particularly young women," writer G. Willow Wilson said.
"High school was a very vivid time in my life, so I drew heavily on those experiences -- impending adulthood, dealing with school, emotionally charged friendships that are such a huge part of being a teenager." Wilson said. "It's for all the geek girls out there, and everybody else who's ever looked at life from the fringe."
The inspiration for the character "stemmed out of a desire to explore the Muslim-American diaspora from an authentic perspective," series editor Sana Amanat said.
"This story isn't about what it means to be a Muslim, Pakistani or American," Amanat said. "Those are just cultural touchstones that reflect the ever changing world we live in today. This is ultimately a tale about what it means to be young, lost amidst the expectations bestowed upon you, and what happens when you get to choose."


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte business leaders are backing plans to improve the Carolina Panthers stadium.
The Panthers are asking for $144 million from the city of Charlotte and $62 million from the state of North Carolina to upgrade Bank of America Stadium.
The total project is expected to cost about $250 million.
City officials are asking state lawmakers to approve a 1 percentage point increase in Charlotte's prepared food tax in exchange for the team agreeing to stay in Charlotte for 15 years.
Chamber of Commerce Chairman Brett Carter says raising the taxes will be necessary to improve the stadium.
Panthers President Danny Morrison gave a closed-door briefing to the chamber's board of directors on Monday.
Legislative leaders say it will be hard to find $62 million in a tight state budget.


text: A national study co-sponsored by the CDC shows that 1 in 50 newborns is a victim of non-fatal abuse or neglect. David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes against Children Research Center, tells the AP that the statistics suggest that families without health insurance are not getting satisfactory care for their children. "It's not primarily kids being hit, but parents showing signs of not being able to really care for their kids," Finkelhor says. Only about 13% of the cases of abuse and neglect were outright physical harm, the study showed. Some politicians have suggested the creation of federally-funded parenting classes, but would people like Tracey Hermann and James Sargent — the couple whose baby died after they left him alone in his crib for eight days without food — even take the classes in the first place? [ Breitbart]


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LeTourneau University's Automotive Society is revving up for its 35th annual Car Show to benefit missions. The event will take place Saturday, April 16, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, April 17, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Exhibit Building at the Maude Cobb Convention Center, 100 Grand Blvd. in Longview. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students with valid student identification. Children 12 and under get in free.
This year's Car Show will feature a range of vehicles from classic muscle cars, race cars, custom restorations and a few new cars mixed in.
"If you are a car enthusiast, the Automotive Society Car Show is always a very fun time with lots of great cars and gives you the opportunity to meet other car lovers in the community" said LETU student Jonathan Olson, coordinator for this year's Car Show.
"This year we will donate 75% of the proceeds from the Car Show to Interfaith Hospitality Network," Olson said. IHN brings the faith community together to help homeless families regain their housing, independence and dignity. The ministry currently operates in 41 states and partners with congregations within a community to help transform lives.
Proceeds from the last two car shows have gone to restore and equip a Toyota Land Cruiser sent to a missionary family in Africa.
The LeTourneau University Automotive Society is a Christ-centered group of student auto enthusiasts with an auto shop on campus. The LETU Auto Society receives financial contributions and raises money from the local community to fund its projects and then use the proceeds to help others.
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The conference landscape in college sports continues to shift with the biggest two defections of the year announced this morning.
According to ESPN, University of Maryland's Board Of Regents accepted an invitation Monday to join the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2014-15 school year, effectively leaving the Altantic Coast Conference. Rutgers is expected to follow suit, leaving the Big East and becoming the Big Ten's 14th member on Tuesday.
The move makes sense for Rutgers, which is locked into a conference in constant transition since conference realignment began.
Next year, the Big East will no longer have any geographic stability next season when Boise State, Houston, Memphis, San Diego State, SMU and Central Florida join the fray. The Scarlet Knights would be forced to play three of those teams (excluding Central Florida, who they would play every season) putting a strain on their travel budget, while seeing a downgrade in competition in most sports.
A Big East television contract has yet to be decided.
A move to the Big Ten, places RU's burgeoning football program into the mix with some of the most historic programs in college football. Rutgers will be required to pay a $5 million exit fee and provide the conference with 27 months notice.
Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia all opted to leave the conference in the last two years.
On the other hand, Maryland's move was a bit more perplexing.
The ACC is headed in the right direction, picking up Syracuse and Pittsburgh in the last year, and gaining Notre Dame (in every sport but football), one of the nation's flagship programs in the last year.
Competitively, the ACC and Big Ten conferences are virtually on par in football, with two teams a piece in the BCS Top 25. In other sports, like men's lacrosse, baseball and basketball the edge could go to the ACC when those other three teams join.
And Maryland would be forced to pay a hefty $50 million exit fee to leave the conference.
But then again, Maryland and Rutgers' decision is easier than competitive balance or geography. It's the money.
The ACC just agreed on a $3.6 billion TV deal over 15 years, which equates to $17.4 million to each school every season. The Big Ten's TV deal, which is set to expire in 2017, earns each university roughly $24.6 million per year, and adding Maryland and Rutgers could add value.
That explains it. Over time, both schools pockets are going to fill exponentially in the Big Ten compared to their deals with their current contracts.


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This pattern would be cool!
Spinneybeck also carries other leather tiles. Here's a few of their products...
Ann Sacks Piel leather tiles look so decadent
Ann Sacks Cowden Bell Tile
Ann Sacks Cowden Bell Gator
Edelman Leather is another great leather company that makes both floor and wall tiles.
This is my favorite!
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Look at these cool wall cow hide tiles!
We also did a blog on faux leather tiles http://studiobcreativejuice.blogspot.com/2011/07/fresh-squeezed-napatile.html
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Brook Valley Waimarama Sanctuary
A great place to see native New Zealand birds on this short walk through one of Nelson's best kept walks.
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Situated at the end of the Brook Valley Road (through the Brook Valley Holiday Park) is the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary.
The Sanctuary's Visitor Centre is open: Summer hours – daily 10am – 4pm
Winter hours – weekends 10am – 4pm which has information about the local wildlife and an interesting model of the surrounding hills.
From the visitor centre is a very pretty 45 minute return walk through the forest past the historic 19th Century waterworks.
There is a potential swimming hole just below the dam if the weather is warm enough. As the Trust is working towards a preditor free environment, there is an abundance of bird life in the area.


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It's already our third day in Rome and I have to say the weather is really hot. So hot that pesky mosquitoes bit baby Aria and me so much! My husband Lulu says it's because we're so sweet. I like to think it's because of the things we eat and drink. Speaking of sweet drinks, I prepared a large pitcher of strawberry green tea for the family to enjoy after our visit to the Vatican.
The recipe is ultra easy. I steeped green tea leaves and added fresh, flavorful strawberries and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
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|During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.
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|Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais, L?szl? Szab?, Georges de Beauregard


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With sluggish growth, an expanding budget deficit and fears of a downgrade, the U.K finance minister will next week use his Autumn Statement to update his plans for the economy with predictions emerging that a tax crackdown on multinationals could be on the cards.
Triple-A rated Britain is currently on a negative outlook with a review by Moody's due in early 2013 and HSBC says that Osborne's speech could be key if the U.K. is to avoid following France with a one-notch downgrade.
"The U.K. can only be given the benefit of the doubt for so long. The ratings agencies want to see debt metrics stabilize in the medium term. If fiscal pain is kicked too far
down the road, a downgrade is inevitable," HSBC's chief U.K. economist Simon Wells said in a research note.
"One obvious time for a re-appraisal of the U.K.'s growth potential and debt dynamics is around the Chancellor's Autumn Statement."
(Read More: Why a UK Downgrade Wouldn't Be a Big Deal)
On Tuesday gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter was confirmed at 1 percent over the previous quarter, but year-on-year GDP fell by 0.1 percent. Wells says a further deterioration in the growth outlook for Britain or a worsening of the debt-to-GDP ratio could cause the credit ratings agencies to act.
Fitch has previously warned that a trigger for a downgrade would be if debt-to-GDP touches 100 percent, a figure they believe Britain will come close to in 2015/16. Moody's meanwhile looks likely to downgrade the country if the debt-to-GDP ratio looks unlikely to fall in the next three to four years from its current level of 85 percent.
(Read More: France Is Dealt Another Downgrade — Who Is Next?)
Despite this, HSBC says positive factors are playing on Britain's side especially that it has control over its own currency (unlike the euro zone), and not forgetting that its government actually has a deficit reduction plan when compared with other nations.
But according to research firm Capital Economics, tax avoidance by foreign multinationals could be the real issue that needs to be tackled by Osborne.
(Read More: UK Lawmakers Slam Starbucks, Amazon and Google on Tax)
The U.K. government's budget deficit came in at 8.6 billion pounds for October compared to 5.9 billion pounds for the same time last year and the Capital Economics blames this on a drop in corporation tax receipts.
"High levels of capital expenditure by companies operating offshore — which can be written off against their tax bills — is estimated to have risen by 4-5 billion pounds in 2012," Capital Economics' Martin Beck said in a research note.
"Cracking down on perceived corporate malfeasance will no doubt be part of any revenue-raising announced at the Autumn Statement."
Multinationals such as Amazon and Starbucks have hit the headlines for the low amounts of corporation tax they pay in the U.K. The Autumn Statement is set to made by Osborne on December 5 at 12.30 p.m. London time.


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In a survey by Dr James Powell, 69,402 out of 69,406 climate change researchers accept human activity is causing global warming.
What do scientists who research climate change say?
Professor Tim Palmer FRS, Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford:
What do scientists who research climate change say?
Professor Tim Palmer FRS, Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford:
"The threat of dangerous man-made changes to global climate is quite unequivocal.
It follows that if we want to reduce this threat, we must cut our emissions of greenhouse gases."
Professor John Shepherd FRS, Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton:
"The evidence is very clear that the world is warming, and that human activities are the main cause.
Natural changes and fluctuations do occur but they are relatively small."
Professor Joanna Haigh CBE FRS, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College London:
"The concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere now exceeds anything it has experienced in the past 3 million years and its continuing upward trend is almost certain to result in further global warming."
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins FRS, Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London:
"The evidence of changes in many different aspects of the climate system, from the ice sheets to the deep ocean, shows that climate change is happening.
To reduce the serious risks posed by increasing changes in the climate, we need to redouble our efforts globally to limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions."
The Royal Society has also published a "Short Guide to Climate Change"
In addition, the Royal Society has produced a 2017 update on recent research -
"What have we learnt since the IPCC 5th Assessment Report?"
Another organisation offering an important document is the Geological Society of London.
The Geological Society of London say -
This rate of increase of CO2 is unprecedented.....
even in comparison with the massive injection of carbon into the atmosphere 55 million years ago that led to the major PETM warming event....
and is likely to lead to a similar rise in both temperature and sea level.


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Dolphins coaches loved Mississippi guard John Jerry at the Senior Bowl. They also like him on tape.
Now, they'll get to add to the relationship as the Dolphins have just drafted Jerry with their third round pick.
Jerry is a rookie but he's quite experienced. He started 46 of 49 games for the Rebels. He played at tackle a lot but he projects at guard in the NFL.
The Dolphins obviously need help at left guard.
"I feel like I can play either one," Jerry said. "I have experience at both so I feel I can play either one."
Jerry is the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman Peria Jerry.
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It's true. No matter how much I try, I can't control the circumstances that'll come my way this year.
I'll want to.
I'll manipulate.
I'll contrive.
I'll wring my hands in frustration.
But, I still can't control them. That's just the way it is.
I have resolved, however, to take charge of what I can control — my attitude — and be more optimistic.
Why optimism?
For one thing, it's better than the alternative. The Chicago Tribune once reported on an interesting study in which a British psychiatrist named Giles Croft set out to discover if people who believe in the reality of the "Monday Blues" were actually more likely to feel bad on Monday. He formed three groups of volunteers. One was given a report that stated Monday blues are real; the second was given an article refuting the existence of Monday blues; the final group was given nothing at all.
Guess what happened?
The first group was more likely to rate Monday as the worst day of the week.
This study simply confirms a Biblical truth: what I believe is crucial! If my mind is set on the idea that Monday is always going to be a rotten, stressful day, odds are good it will be … but only because my attitude is dictating my outlook.
Secondly, I choose optimism because my endeavors might lead to greater things.
Christopher Columbus, searching for a direct route to Asia, stumbled onto the Americas.
Thomas Edison invented a phonograph while looking to create an electric light.
When Benjamin Franklin saw a spark while flying a kite during a storm, he started an industry.
Bertrand Piccard, who with Brian Jones became the first to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon, once compared balloon flight and daily life.
"In the balloon," he said, "you are prisoners of the wind, and you go only in the direction of the wind. In life people think they are prisoners of circumstance. But in the balloon, as in life, you can change altitude, and when you change altitude, you change direction. You are not a prisoner anymore."
Finally, the Bible tells me to be optimistic … particularly when it comes to serving God.
The Apostle Paul exhorts the believers in Ephesus, "to be made new in the attitude of your minds" (Ephesians 4:23). He urges the Christians in Rome to, "be transformed by the renewing of your mind" in order to,"test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will" (Romans 12:2).
He writes in Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things."
Notice that Paul's command is not based on how I'm feeling at the time. He's teaching me to make a conscious decision to predetermine what I will think about. Plus, all the attributes he lists in this passage — truth, purity, loveliness — automatically establish optimism in my thinking, transforming my outlook.
So, I've made up my mind: Heading into this next year, one sure to be rife with joys and challenges, I've decided to be optimistic.
It's the resolution that'll give back to me — in the form of a positive and proactive attitude.


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If this has already been covered here, I apologize, but those different tabs--how fakeable do you guys think they're gonna be? It's not as if the people up in Maple Plains, Minnesota, or wherever it is, are going to be examining the forms with magnifying glasses or anything.And if it's morally-wrong to fake some tabs, well, it's even more wrong to require people to buy multiple Greedos and Han Endors just for the "privilege" of buying their special action figures.
For the most part, board members here will be honest and not steal tabs and what not. It's the scalpers that I'm worried about who will do anything to load up on the GL figure (to put on ebay).
Arrgh, does hasbro see what they have done??? This is gonna be nuts...then again I dont live in the u.s and these things are exclusive to the u.s right?
Someone should send in an offer with all Biker Scout tabs, for example. I'd bet they'd score a figure.
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Friday, October, 31, 2008
Stanford Offers Money-Back Guarantee to First-Time Season Ticket Buyers
Stanford University offers a money-back guarantee to first-time season-ticket buyers.
Friday, October, 31, 2008
Numerous Decisions Go Into Buying the Right Synthetic Turf Field
Synthetic turf systems have evolved over the past quarter century, but buying the right field still requires plenty of decision-making.
Friday, October, 31, 2008
Athletic Departments Rethinking Ways to Make Travel Dollars Go Farther
Athletic departments are rethinking ways to make their travel dollars go farther.
Friday, October, 31, 2008
Health Clubs Aggressively Marketing One-On-One Stretching
Health clubs have begun aggressively marketing one-on-one stretching sessions as part of their personal training menus.
Wednesday, October, 01, 2008
Assisted Stretching Loosens Up Health Club Members
Health clubs begin marketing one-on-one stretching sessions.
Monday, September, 29, 2008
Hawkers More Likely than Concessions Stand Workers to Sell Alcohol to Minors
New research suggests stadium hawkers are more likely than concessions workers to sell alcohol to minors and impaired individuals.
Monday, September, 29, 2008
Author of Death At the Ballpark Shares Views On Fan Safety
The co-author of Death at the Ballpark shares his views on fan-safety issues.
Monday, September, 29, 2008
Sand Volleyball Has Shot at Becoming Varsity Sport
Thursday, September, 18, 2008
Quality Ice Begins With Pure Water and Thrives Through Attention to Detail
Quality ice begins with water that's pure -- but not too pure -- and endures through ongoing attention to detail.
Thursday, August, 28, 2008
Athleticism Found In Abundance Among Disabled Athletes
Athleticism can be found in abundance among individuals with disabilities, if you know where to look.
Friday, January, 05, 2018
AB Today 2017: Our Top 10 Stories of the Past Year
Deregulation and legal action. Out-of-control training and recruiting practices. These were topics that drew much of our readers' attention in 2017. AB Today has compiled a list of the top stories that broke in this space over the past year. Here are the 10 that garnered the most page views, in ascending order:
Wednesday, November, 30, 2016
AB Show 2016: The Magic of Orlando
There's something about Orlando, Fla., that stirs the nostalgia in this AB Show-goer. It's where the conference and expo (as it used to be known) was held my first eight years at Athletic Business, and it has been there another four times since. In all, Orlando has served as the annual home away from home for AB roughly half the time in our show's 35-year history.
Monday, November, 10, 2014
Get to Know Your Peers When Attending ABC
This is a story about a conversation Lou Holtz and I never had.
Tuesday, August, 12, 2014
Robin Williams Drew Attention to Inaugural Augie's BASH
Robin Williams possessed the kind of frenetic magnetism that dared you to look away. For me, it wasn't possible. The actor/comedian's larger-than-life persona was tailor-made for a movie screen.
Thursday, January, 17, 2013
Blog: The Tangled Webs of Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o
The twisted tales of Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o are now intertwined. Heroes to many, these athletes have lived lies before our eyes, and now those lies are unraveling within the same week.
Monday, December, 03, 2012
Blog: The Life and Death of Rick Majerus
The first time I saw Rick Majerus in person, he was sitting in seldom-used end-court bleachers that had been wheeled into position for a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Class C basketball sectional at my high school alma mater's field house. I was there to cover a game for my hometown newspaper, The West Bend News. Majerus, an assistant coach at Marquette at the time (this was the mid-'80s), was there to scout Kohler, Wis., phenom Joe Wolf, who would eventually attend North Carolina.
Friday, August, 17, 2012
Blog: Cheer These Pro Athletes for Giving Back
Assuming your membership in the Latrell "I have a family to feed" Sprewell Fan Club has expired, may we suggest a couple of options.
Sunday, January, 17, 2010
Blog: Still Believing, 34 Years (and Counting) Later
Editor's Note: AB Senior Editor Paul Steinbach authored this piece in January 2010, but with February 22nd marking the 34th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice and the U.S. men's hockey team facing off against Canada on Friday, the message still rings true.
For nearly 30 years now, the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team has been an off-and-on obsession of mine.
Thursday, December, 10, 2009
A Choice to Make
There's precedent for a Catholic institution sticking with a coach despite his pro-choice stance on abortion. Rick Majerus is in his third season heading the St. Louis University men's basketball program after admitting during a TV interview at a January 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign rally that he is "pro-choice, personally." But will a Catholic institution hire a pro-choice coach? Somehow, during speculation that University of Cincinnati head football coach Brian Kelly is next in line to bear the Notre Dame football cross, the rumor spread that Kelly, an Irish Catholic who decades ago campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart, is pro-choice. But no one seems to know for sure. "I searched online media archives all day today trying to find one reputable media reference to Kelly's stance on abortion," read a Tuesday post by Brooks at sportsbybrooks.com. "I found none."
Wednesday, November, 11, 2009
Hit 'Em Straight
When the AB editors dedicated our July issue to best environmental practices in the athletics, fitness and recreation industries, we managed to overlook one egregious hazard to our planet's health: golf balls.


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SALISBURY, Md. – The second-ranked Salisbury University women's lacrosse team opened its season Saturday afternoon with a 19-5 win over former conference rival Stevenson University. The Sea Gulls featured a balanced attack and a ball-hawking defense to come away with the victory.
Senior Katie Bollhorst, the reigning Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association's Attacker of the Year, started her season strong with a team-high three goals and an assist. The attacker from Severna Park, Md., continues to climb the career leaderboard, currently seventh on the points list and the fourth-most assists in program history.
Salisbury's control of the statsheet translated to the lead on the scoreboard. The Sea Gulls outshot Stevenson 31-9 and held a 17-8 advantage on draw controls. Salisbury (1-0) was perfect on clearing attempts, 15-for-15, and capitalized on the Mustangs' troubles getting the ball out of their zone. Stevenson (0-1) was 3-for-12 and the Sea Gulls were able to get instant offense off the turnovers.
Senior Lauren Feusahrens, the team's leading returning goal scorer from a year ago, netted two goals, as did junior Halie Lear, sophomores Bethany Baer and Kate Haker, and freshman Samantha Duranti.
Feusahrens opened the scoring just 1:55 into the contest, netting an unassisted goal. Steveson's Marissa Meiklejohn tied the score just over a minute later for the only tie of the afternoon. Duranti answered 1:25 later with the first goal of her career, which started a 6-1 Salisbury run to give the Sea Gulls a lead they wouldn't give back.
The top-ranked defense from a year ago stifled the Mustangs attack and caused 19 Stevenson turnovers. Junior Ashton Wheatley made two saves to pick up the decision in the cage for the Sea Gulls.
Stevenson's Leah Warner netted two goals to lead the Mustang attack.
Today's victory was No. 199 for Head Coach Jim Nestor while at the helm of the Sea Gulls. The team looks to improve Nestor's record to 200-24 at Salisbury a week from today, against the Catholic University of America.
The Sea Gulls will be away from home for just over three weeks, facing three teams ranked in the top 15 of the preseason IWLCA poll. Salisbury returns home on Sunday, March 17, when the State University of New York at Brockport visits Sea Gull Stadium. That contest is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.