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By Esther Yu Hsi Lee
EDINBURG, TEXAS — The recent detention of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-turned-advocate, Jose Antonio Vargas, in the border town of McAllen, Texas, made clear that border patrol agents remain indiscriminate in arresting undocumented immigrants. Vargas had flown into McAllen to visit a group shelter that's currently housing migrants who fled violence in Latin America, but had not known that he would have to prove his legal status to immigration enforcement officials when he left town. His detention made it evident that undocumented immigrants can enter the Rio Grande Valley, but are unlikely to leave past the dozens of border checkpoints without risking arrest, or worse, deportation. These border checkpoints affect not just recent border crossers, but also those who have lived for decades in the Valley.
Luis Maldonado, Tania Chavez, and Roxana M. define their livelihoods by the distance they can travel. A half hour's drive to the south. An hour and a half to the east. 45 minutes to the north. Two hours to the west. That's the only United States that Luis had seen up until last year for the past 10 years. Tania has seen even less of the country and has never left the Rio Grande Valley. Roxana travels infrequently, but when she does it, she wishes that her parents were with her. Both Luis and Tania are undocumented, while U.S.-born Roxana lives with undocumented parents — their limitations leave each young adult to make life decisions within a four-hour radius of Edinburg.
How they came to be "trapped" in the Rio Grande Valley is in part because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operates border checkpoints to crack down on drug smuggling, but also allows agents to check citizenship status in the interest of national security.
At least 1.7 million undocumented immigrants live in Texas, mostly concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley. Over the past decade, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, a DHS agency, doubled the number of agents to about 3,000 and set up at least 71 permanent and tactical border checkpoints in the Rio Grande Valley. Tactical checkpoints are not set up within permanent structures, but they allow agents to monitor and inspect traffic on less-traveled roads that the Border Patrol believes may be used by undocumented immigrants or drug traffickers.
Because two-thirds of the United States population live within a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the "external boundary" — the national border — of the United States, many people have been ensnared in these stops. The Fourth Amendment normally does not allow for citizens to be subjected to random search and seizures, however the government has exempted this so-called "Constitution-free zone," explaining that it was in the interest of national security to make Americans endure inspections. But undocumented immigrants could be subject to deportation if they cannot provide proper identification cards, like a U.S. passport, driver's license, or valid documentation.
American, but still trapped
East of Edinburg lies an unincorporated part of town where most people wouldn't think twice to stop. Even residents don't get out of their cars for basic needs. Gas stations are few and far between, grocery drive-thrus are commonplace, and giant posters entice people to stop for ten pounds of ice for $1. Turning off the main stretch of Highway 107 East, shoddy mobile homes are tenuously pitched on bricks. Some mobile homes do not have doors, others do not have windows. Many have aluminum siding for roofs. This side of Edinburg, a bit in disarray, is known as a colonia, which is cheap, "agriculturally worthless land" that many low-income families buy to build affordable housing.
Roxana, a 21 year old rising college junior, will soon go back to school at the nearby University of Texas at Pan American (UTPA). American citizen by birth, but tethered to the undocumented community by blood, Roxy has rarely traveled outside the Valley. For now, she's organizing with the Minority Affairs Council (MAC) to pressure President Obama to grant administrative relief to undocumented parents like hers. "It's very difficult knowing that I can travel and do whatever I want, but my family who fought so hard to bring me here is still struggling to even make it," Roxana told ThinkProgress in her parents' home.
She is one of nine million people in the United States who live in "mixed-status" families, which include at least one undocumented parent and one U.S.-born child. In search of a better life, her parents and her brother came across the Rio Grande River with coyotes in 1999. They paid $1,200 and the journey took 2.5 hours from their hometown of Reynosa, Tamaulipas in Mexico. Despite having lived in Edinburg for the past 15 years, Roxana's parents finally put down the last payment for their mobile home two years ago, solidifying a lifelong dream of home ownership.
The border as defined by checkpoints extends "an hour north; an hour east; 30 minutes south; and about 2.5 hours to Laredo." Her mother, a homemaker, is constantly concerned about "bump[ing] into the Border Patrol." Her father, Jorge, is cautious of the Border Patrol, watching to see if they show up at his work in the morning. He works long hours as a construction worker and can never have a sick day. As the sole financial provider, he must make sure that he doesn't get injured on the job since he does not have medical insurance.
Translating for her father, Roxana said, "There are usually raids at my dad's job and there have been times that he sees Border Patrol and he turns the car around and comes back home." On those days, he doesn't get paid and "only the American citizens go into work." Her father's income hovers at $1,000 a month, which partially explains why they live in the colonia, where the annual income falls below the poverty line. Her father makes "enough to eat and live," he said.
"Not being in Mexico and being here was worth it because of the freedom that America offers, but it's limited," Roxana said. If deported, her parents would be barred from coming back into the country for ten years. "Sending [my parents] to Mexico is not an option because we have a seven and 14 year old," Roxana acknowledged, sighing as she considered becoming the "replacement parent" to her younger siblings. The fear of deportation is partially why Roxana, despite her ability to travel, has stayed in the Valley to study school. "What would happen to my little brother and little sister? It was a matter of me having to step up and stay in the Valley."
She added, "not having my parents there for my graduation wouldn't be fair for them or for me."
The heartache of losing a loved one beyond the border seems like a reality that her family has to accept because they're undocumented. The last time that Roxana's father saw his brothers who live in the United States was ten years ago. "My dad's family lives in Wisconsin — they're undocumented — we don't meet up." One brother has already passed away.
When Hurricane Dolly hit southern Texas in July 2008, the family refused to leave their home to evacuate north to San Antonio. Translating for her father, Roxana said, "You have to take a risk and stay at home, but supposedly the government takes you as refugees so that we can go through the checkpoints, but my dad says that we aren't willing to take those risks."
Alone for the holidays
Until 14 years ago, Tania, 28, and her brother occasionally traveled back and forth legally between the U.S. and Mexico. She stayed in the United States for a high school education, but overstayed her visa and became undocumented in the process. She had been unable to qualify for a 2012 presidential initiative known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program because she had been legally out of the country during the program's cut-off eligiblity date of June 2007. That program granted temporary legal presence to some undocumented immigrants and allowed them to work and live in the country. "I never felt so undocumented until after DACA," Tania explained to ThinkProgress in her apartment in Edinburg, which overlooks other apartment complexes and fields of summer crops.
She wishes to obtain her PhD outside the Valley — Harvard, she hopes — but that would also mean never being able to come back to Edinburg, a place that she has called home for 14 years.
"It wasn't until I got to college that I knew what my limitations were," Tania said. "I knew [that] when I graduated high school in three years… when the opportunity to go to [University of Texas at] Austin and other universities came about, I had to make a tough decision whether I would stay in the Valley or go beyond the checkpoint, which meant I wouldn't be able to see my parents anymore, so I just decided to stay here. I didn't even apply to any schools other than University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA), which is the closest thing in the Valley. Having to push back or make life decisions based on your status is tough."
Tania paused several times as she turned the subject to her brother, who had passed away a year after she started high school. He was the one who gave her the "resilience to just keep moving" through life and through her education. She now holds a bachelor's degree and two masters' degrees in business administration and communications.
While others chased dreams beyond these checkpoints, Tania dived headlong into her work as a consultant for advocacy groups within the Valley, paying taxes using her Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). Most recently, Tania was the one who told Vargas that he might be detained at the McAllen, Texas airport for not having the proper paperwork. As soon as he was detained, Tania and other MAC members, riled up media pressure to bring awareness to the undocumented population who are restricted from going beyond the Valley. Vargas was released hours later. His case is pending a court hearing.
Tania longs for the clamor of family conversations at home. Unable to establish permanent residency in the country, her parents left to go back to Mexico so Tania does everything by herself like doctors' visits and milestone celebrations. Church, too. "I avoid going to church on Mother's Day, Father's Day, and holidays because I can't deal-" her voice trailed off as she fought back tears. "I just ask God that whatever mission he has for me in life that he uses me, whatever that may be."
Tania has two hopes if immigration reform ever passes — she would like to take her mom to Disneyland, a "cheesy" dream and she hopes to one day see her brother's grave in Mexico.
'I don't know what it is to feel the love of grandparents.'
When President Obama authorized an executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012 to grant some undocumented immigrants the ability to live and work in the country, the federal immigration agency processed a large load of Texas applicants. As of March 2014, about one of six applicants come from Texas. That's because DACA quite literally opened the country up to the program's recipients, many of whom are allowed to apply for valid state identification cards, a requirement to prove legal presence at border checkpoints. DACA opened the physical boundary lines to the absolute national border — the one propped up by border wall and fencing.
But while DACA can fulfill limited dreams like attaining a job or going beyond a checkpoint, DACA recipients are still held back by other undocumented family members who cannot leave the Valley. That was the case for 26 year old Luis Maldonado whose life changed in November 2013 when he received word that the government approved his DACA application. "God works in mysterious ways," Luis told ThinkProgress in a late-night interview as he recalled going "from not having any jobs to having three jobs." He had just ended a long shift taking inventory at a nearby hospital. 11:45 p.m. was the only time that he could schedule an interview.
Luis is grateful for DACA, but admits to feeling guilty that other people do not have the same freedom to travel beyond the Valley as he does. He is currently the "replacement father" for his nephew whose mother — Luis' sister — was deported five years ago. Luis' life is still put on hold. Because he has to take care of his nephew, he can't leave the Valley. He still gets angry when he talks about how his nephew was still traumatized from witnessing the arrest. He also gets frustrated that he was unable to fight his mother's deportation three years ago and his sister's deportation five years ago.
"My grandpa passed away two, three Father's Days ago," Luis said, recalling how difficult it was to grieve without being present for last rites. "I don't know what it is to feel the love of grandparents. I don't know what it's like to have cousins and aunts because I've never been around them. My cousin passed away a month after giving birth to her child. This was a month before I got DACA. My mother couldn't go up to see my aunt. That was one of the times that was very frustrating to not be able to travel up north. San Antonio is three hours away."
For someone who hadn't left the Valley in 17 years, Luis' first trip to Washington, D.C. was his way of fighting back against the deportation of the two most important women in his life. In the nation's capitol, Luis attended a prayer vigil and mock Thanksgiving dinner outside House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) townhouse as a symbol of the meal that he and other organizers weren't able to share with deported loved ones.
As Luis blinked away the tiredness from his eyes, he lamented, "It really sucks because they keep segregating us even more — there are 11 million undocumented individuals. Had the DREAM Act passed in 2010, it would have made eligible a big pool of applicants. But now with DACA, the pool keeps getting smaller. It seems that it's the educated that keeping going into that pool. Well, it's not just the educated that's contributing to the country, it's also the hotel cleaners and fruit pickers."
Luis is putting in long hours at the hospital so that he can pay off his tuition loan. He hopes that as an immigrant organizer, he can continue to push the Obama administration for administrative relief so that he can see his mother and sister.


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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Colour Me #67
10 comments:
- Tanja said...
love your coloring of the cute girl
- April 15, 2015 at 6:17 AM
- ~amy~ said...
This is DARLING.
- April 15, 2015 at 7:16 AM
- Jenny Engelke said...
She's quite a beauty, Katie! Your coloring is impeccable!
- April 15, 2015 at 7:51 AM
- stampwithsandy said...
This card is totally sweet! Love that sweet little girl and her kitty, which you colored so well. The striped paper behind make this card modern and striking.
- April 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM
- wienerhoneymooners said...
I think it is totally sweet!!!!!!!
- April 16, 2015 at 6:22 PM
- Joyce said...
This is really darling and perfectly colored. Thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.
- April 17, 2015 at 5:53 PM
- Tracey McNeely said...
Miss Katie what a sweet image and wonderful colouring. Thank you for sharing with us at CASology! Hope you are having a fabulous weekend!
- April 18, 2015 at 6:11 PM
- Kim Heggins said...
Katie...this is one sweet card and your little lady is just adorable. Thank you so much for your sweet comments on my blog, I have to say you made my day!
- April 21, 2015 at 6:16 PM
- Julia Wilson said...
Katie, the colouring you did on this sweet card is FAB-U-LOUS! :)
- April 22, 2015 at 7:11 AM
- cm said...
Echoing the others in applauding the absolute sweetness of your image and the way you've brought it to life with your oh-so-impressive colouring! Pure delight!
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Got this Nine West clutch for more than 5 months already (hubby's travel present from Dubai) and it still bears the tag…
I actually found it on the top shelf inside our small walk-in closet and it's still inside its original plastic! My existence must be soooooo centered as a stay-at-home mom. lol. and I don't get to go around so I didn't find a good use for this!
But then again, being a stay-at-home momma doesn't stop me from dressing up and going around. No, not at all!
And then I remembered hubby telling me we'll buy a pair of shoes that matches with this cute piece.
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Robyn Rihanna Fenty et al. v. Arcardia Group Brands Limited (t/a Topshop) et al.; No. HC12F01378, [2013] EWHC 2310 (Ch. July 31, 2013).
This case was before the English High Court of Chancery in London. In March 2012, the retailer Topshop started selling a t-shirt with an image of the pop star Rihanna on it. Topshop had a license from the photographer, but not from Rihanna who contended that sale of the t-shirts without her permission infringed her rights.
The court found it "important to state at the outset that this case is not concerned with so called 'image rights'. Whatever may be the position elsewhere in the world, and how ever much various celebrities may wish there were, there is today in England no such thing as a free standing general right by a famous person (or anyone else) to control the reproduction of their image." Instead, "this case is concerned with passing off." The burden was on Rihanna to establish that she has a goodwill and reputation amongst relevant members of the public, the conduct complained of was likely to deceive those members of the public into buying the product because they think it is authorized by her, and that misrepresentation damaged her goodwill. For passing off to succeed, there must be a misrepresentation about trade origin.
The Court concluded that Rihanna "was and is regarded as a style icon by many people..." and that she had ample goodwill to succeed in a passing off action. The scope of her goodwill was not only as a music artist but also in the world of fashion.
"The real issue in this case" was misrepresentation. The Court concluded that a misrepresentation was made, and held that "it is a matter for the claimants and not Topshop to choose what garments the public think are endorsed by her." Finding in favor of Rihanna.
August 2, 2013
English Court Finds TopShop's Sale Of Rihanna T-Shirt Without Her Approval Was "Passing Off"
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Turntabling is trying to verify and grow this collection of record stores that sell vinyl albums. If you know one of this list is now out of business, no longer selling vinyl albums, or about to close for good, please drop us a line in the comments section. We really appreciate it. This is by no means a complete or even comprehensive list. It's a work in progress. Here's a general list of record stores by state.
UPDATE–We'll be creating a listing of record stores by state soon with EACH STATE having its own page for easier reference. If your favorite record store isn't listed here, drop us a line and let us know! Stay tuned for the uber-ambitious by-state record store listing coming soon, one damn state at a time.
Vinyl Road Rage Record Stores
Vinyl Road Rage Summer 2010–Chicago to NYC:
Michiana Used Music & Media 4609 Grape Road Mishawaka, IN 46545-8257( 574) 247-1188
Music Saves 15801 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH 44110
Jerry's Records 2136 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Mr. Mike's 27 S 3rd St Harrisburg, PA 17101
Double Decker Records 808 St John St Allentown, PA 18103
Bleeker Street Records 239 Bleecker St New York, NY 10014
Generation Records 210 Thompson Street New York, NY 10012-484
Vinyl Road Rage Fall 2009 Chicago to San Antonio, Texas
(Complete list coming soon)
Recycled Records, Springfield, Illinois
Vintage Vinyl St. Louis Missouri
Record Exchange St. Louis, Missouri
Stick It In Your Ear, Springfield Missouri
Forever Young, Grand Prairie, Texas
Waterloo Records, Austin, Texas
Antone's, Austin Texas,
Hogwild Records, San Antonio, Texas
California Record Stores
1055 Valencia
San Francisco, California
Armory Records and Hip Hop Shop
630 9th Avenue
San Diego California
Conneticut Record Stores
Newbury Comics
194 Buckland Hills Drive
Manchester, Conneticut
Delaware Record Stores
Record & Tape Traders
101 Rehobeth Ave, Suite A
Rehobeth Beach, Delaware
Illinois Record Stores
Crow's Nest
2108 Plainfield
Crest Hill Illinois
Rock Records
175 W Washington St
Chicago Illinois
Laurie's Planet of Sound
4639 N Lincoln Ave. Chicago, Illinois
Indiana Record Stores
Luna Music
1315 86th St
Indianapolis Indiana
Kentucky Record Stores
CD Central
377 South Limestone St
Lexington Kentucky
Ear X-Tacy
1534 Bardstown Road
Louisville Kentucky
Maryland Record Stores
Record and Tape Traders
736 Dulaney Valley Center
Towson, Maryland
Record and Tape Traders
1409B Merritt Blvd
Dundalk, Maryland
Record & Tape Traders
Bel Air Town Center
558 Baltimore National Pike
Bel Air, Maryland
Massachusettes Record Stores
Newbury Comics
50 Main Street
Amherst, Massachusettes
Michigan Record Stores
Switched on CDs
39723 Grand River Avenue
Novi Michigan
Vertigo Music
129 South Division
Grand Rapids Michigan
Missouri Record Stores
Apop Records
807 Locust
Columbia, Missouri:
Nebraska Record Stores
Homer's Records
2711 S 48th St
Lincoln Nebraska
Homer's Records
6105 O Street
Lincoln Nebraska
Ohio Record Stores
Shake It Records
4156 Hamilton Ave
Cincinatti, Ohio
Oklahoma Record Stores
Randy's M&M's #1
3200 S. Boulevard
Edmond, Oklahoma
Randy's M&M's #2
432 S. Santa Fe Ave.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Randy's M&M's #3
917 E. Danforth
Edmond, Oklahoma
South Carolina Record Stores
Millennium Music
372 King St.
Charleston, South Carolina
Millennium Music
1732 Towne Center Way, Suite L
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Tennessee Record Stores
Disc Exchange
2615 Chapman Hwy.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Disc Exchange
8420 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, Tennessee
Virginia Record Stores
Plan 9
3012 West Cary St.
Richmond, Virginia
Wisconsin Record Stores
Strictly Discs
1900 Monroe Street
Madison WI


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Ziac [package insert]. Pomona, NY: Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.;2011 March.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Electronic orange book: approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations. FDA Web site. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/. Accessed April 5, 2009.
Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffe SJ. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation. 8th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.
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Running for rabies awareness
The U.S. Army's 64th Medical Detachment, Veterinary Services, organized runs in Iraq during September to mark World Rabies Day, which fell Sept. 28.
The 64th Medical Detachment held events in eight locations across the country. Hill's Pet Nutrition sponsored the events, donating funds to provide shirts to all participants.
"We wanted to do something to increase awareness of the rabies threat in Iraq," said Staff Sgt. Arturo Balsa, a veterinary technician who was the primary coordinator of the runs. "Soldiers think it is OK to feed feral dogs and cats that hang out around their living quarters. This has led to many rabies exposures in the past."
In the photo above, Army personnel and working dogs participate in a run at Contingency Operating Base Adder in southern Iraq. More than 1,700 people and several working dogs participated in the runs.


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- BATSMENRB4s6sSR48.5 got him with a beauty of a yorker. This is terrific. Full, straight and honing in towards base of middle from wide of the crease, Mire went for the big hit over long-on, swung through early and heard the ball rattle into the stumps. 284/805000.001.3 cramps him up with a short one on leg. Zhuwao pulls almost as if out of habit and gets a top-edge that is neatly taken by short fine running forward 2/17161043.755.5 that's a brute! Draws him forward with a fullish length and then gets it to prodigiously nip away to just about shave the outside edge. Early advantage for West Indies 28/2138124202111.2943.2 this is a miscue, ends up slicing this attempted slog and Nurse, who misjudged it at cover, keeps his composure and holds on. Magnificent innings, Harare Sports Club rises to applaud the knock. 246/619.3 chopped on! Roach has struck and this is a result of all the pressure he built. Ervine looks to steer this behind point but is cramped for room and ends up getting a thick inside edge onto the leg stump. This was a cross-seam delivery that skidded on much faster than Ervine expected. 79/3343140109.6730.3 pulled straight into the hands of midwicket. Keemo Paul sends the crowd into stunned silence. Went back to over the wicket for this short ball, Williams went fore the pull but had to fetch it from outside off, unlike the previous delivery where the ball was angling in, and he hit this straight into the hands of the fielder. 155/422332066.6642.1 the captain's done the trick, or has he? Off the pad and onto the stumps. Big, big scalp. This is clever bowling, sees the batsman looking to make room and followed him by angling this full down leg, Raza cramped for room as he looked to work this to the leg side, as the ball deflects off the pad onto the stumps. Raza was halfway down towards the dressing room when he was called back. That's because Holder has overstepped. Oh, dear. But that's been deemed legitimate. Big moment either way. The third umpire took a number of looks at that and deemed that a legal delivery. Harsh call, perhaps. There was nothing behind the line. Streak called it a no-ball from the dressing room, but was shocked at the eventual decision like many others. 234/501000.0043.5 gloves this short ball back to the bowler. Cremer is completely undone by the short ball, his technical shortcomings exposed as Roach bowls this at an uncomfortable length. He wasn't sure where this delivery was and hung his glove out. West Indies are fighting back and how 250/718221081.8149.5 walloped., has he cleared the ropes? No. Easy catch by Nurse at deep midwicket. Big buckets hands made it easy. He looked to swung this with the angle but got more elevation than distance. Looked to clear the biggest boundary, didn't have the timing. 288/9130033.3349.6 squeezed towards long-off, there's a scurry for the second but the throw is superb at the keeper's end as the bails are whipped off. He's well short of the crease. Bowled out off the final ball. 289/10not out0000-Extras10 (lb 3, w 7)TOTAL289 all out (50 Overs, RR: 5.78)Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Cephas Zhuwao, 1.3 ov), 2-28 (Hamilton Masakadza, 5.5 ov), 2-30* (Solomon Mire, retired not out ), 3-79 (Craig Ervine, 19.3 ov), 4-155 (Sean Williams, 30.3 ov), 5-234 (Sikandar Raza, 42.1 ov), 6-246 (Brendan Taylor, 43.2 ov), 7-250 (Graeme Cremer, 43.5 ov), 8-284 (Solomon Mire, 48.5 ov), 9-288 (Tendai Chisoro, 49.5 ov), 10-289 (Kyle Jarvis, 49.6 ov)
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR171302130.765.5 there goes Gayle. Blessing strikes early to get the crowd all worked up. And it's the big fish. It's short and angled across and Gayle scythes at it.The sharp angle and extra bounce results in the ball skewing off the outside edge of the lower part of the bat and lobbing to third man 38/164757185.3321.2 that's a big, big wicket. Tossed up, gets this to drift in and spin away a wee bit, Lewis looks to ease it past the bowler but this ball holds onto the surface. The grip and turn does him in as he ends up chipping the simplest of return catches. The local fans are dancing in joy. 110/276975178.3544.4 it's that superman Sikandar Raza who may have burst open the game again. Two set batsmen have been dismissed in quick succession. Hope fetches this sweep from way outside off, this was hit well and hit flat but Raza, who would've been well aware of the prospect of risking this for a boundary, dives forward, gets nice and low to pull off a stunner literally inches from the ground. Was in control and then he tumbled over nicely to ensure the elbows didn't hit the ground hard. The soft signal was out, the third umpire is happy, OUT comes the decision and the crowd goes wild. 249/4868064107.5043.5 that could be a big moment in the match yet. Floats this a touch ahead of length on off, Samuels looks to run this down to third man but can only mange a faint little deflection that has been pouched by Taylor, who moves to his right to complete it. This has been a fine innings nevertheless. Is there hope still for Zimbabwe? 245/313701185.7145.4 Redemption immediately! That's an MS Dhoni-like stumping. Hetmyer suffers a brain fade here. Why would you look to hit it out of the ground? Goes for a big heave over the leg side, swings through early and misses. Taylor whips the bails off in a jiffy. This is hara-kiri from the West Indies. Zimbabwe are alive and kicking. 265/66201300.0045.2 this time he's gone trying to hit over long-off. Cremer slowed it down just a touch, Holder didn't quite get underneath the flight this time and ended up miscuing this, Raza keeps his composure at the ropes with the advertising skirting very much lurking behind him and completes an excellent catch. 263/5not out151201125.00not out8810100.00Extras5 (lb 1, w 4)TOTAL290/6 (49 Overs, RR: 5.91)Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Chris Gayle, 5.5 ov), 2-110 (Evin Lewis, 21.2 ov), 3-245 (Marlon Samuels, 43.5 ov), 4-249 (Shai Hope, 44.4 ov), 5-263 (Jason Holder, 45.2 ov), 6-265 (Shimron Hetmyer, 45.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB KM Jarvis 9 0 49 0 5.44 29 5 1 0 0 Sikandar Raza 7 0 58 1 8.28 19 2 4 1 0 B Muzarabani 9 0 36 2 4.00 31 2 1 1 0 AG Cremer 10 0 63 2 6.30 30 5 3 0 0 TS Chisoro 7 0 38 0 5.42 22 4 0 1 0 SC Williams 7 0 45 1 6.42 15 1 2 1 0
Match Details
Zimbabwe , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Match days
19 March 2018 (50-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
West Indies 2, Zimbabwe 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 41 runs, 2 wickets)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 185 runs, 2 wickets)
- Zimbabwe: 50 runs in 12.3 overs (75 balls), Extras 3
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 65/2 in 16.0 overs (BRM Taylor 25, CR Ervine 8)
- Zimbabwe: 100 runs in 22.4 overs (136 balls), Extras 3
- BRM Taylor: 50 off 65 balls (8 x 4)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (BRM Taylor 24, SC Williams 27, Ex 0)
- Zimbabwe: 150 runs in 29.6 overs (180 balls), Extras 4
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 155/4 in 30.3 overs (BRM Taylor 74)
- Zimbabwe: 200 runs in 37.2 overs (224 balls), Extras 8
- BRM Taylor: 100 off 105 balls (16 x 4)
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 47 balls (BRM Taylor 32, Sikandar Raza 16, Ex 4)
- Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 50.0 (Mandatory - 63 runs, 6 wickets)
- SF Mire retired hurt on 22* from 30/2 to 234/5
- Zimbabwe: 250 runs in 43.4 overs (262 balls), Extras 9
- Innings Break: Zimbabwe - 289/10 in 50.0 overs (B Muzarabani 0)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 54 runs, 1 wicket)
- West Indies: 50 runs in 9.6 overs (60 balls), Extras 1
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 163 runs, 1 wicket)
- Drinks: West Indies - 85/1 in 17.0 overs (E Lewis 48, SD Hope 18)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 68 balls (E Lewis 28, SD Hope 22, Ex 1)
- E Lewis: 50 off 65 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- West Indies: 100 runs in 17.6 overs (108 balls), Extras 2
- West Indies: 150 runs in 30.5 overs (185 balls), Extras 2
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 70 balls (SD Hope 20, MN Samuels 30, Ex 0)
- SD Hope: 50 off 71 balls (2 x 4, 1 x 6)
- MN Samuels: 50 off 54 balls (3 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: West Indies - 196/2 in 38.0 overs (SD Hope 62, MN Samuels 51)
- West Indies: 200 runs in 38.4 overs (232 balls), Extras 2
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 106 balls (SD Hope 36, MN Samuels 69, Ex 0)
- Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 50.0 (Mandatory - 73 runs, 4 wickets)
- West Indies: 250 runs in 44.5 overs (269 balls), Extras 3
Match CoverageAll Match News
Leaking 20-30 runs in the field hurt us - Taylor
Brendan Taylor blamed Zimbabwe's lapses in the field for their four-wicket defeat to West Indies even though he felt they had posted a "good total"
Jason Holder was outstanding - Law
The West Indies coach also showered praise on his side's energy and fielding, and called Brendan Taylor's century "one of the best one-day hundreds" he had seen
Holder, Samuels take West Indies closer to World Cup
Brendan Taylor's belligerent century went in vain as West Indies recorded their fifth-highest successful chase in ODI history
|Zimbabwe BOWLING
|KM Jarvis
|Sikandar Raza
|B Muzarabani
|AG Cremer
|TS Chisoro
|SC Williams
West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships
|CH Gayle
|E Lewis
|E Lewis
|SD Hope
|MN Samuels
|SD Hope
|SD Hope
|SO Hetmyer
|JO Holder
|SO Hetmyer
|SO Hetmyer
|R Powell
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I recently took a survey that asked how often my family eats at the table together. I smugly started to enter "every night" and then realized that was a big fat lie.
In a dream world, it would be every night. I'd cook a delicious, homemade dinner served promptly at 6:00. We'd drink out of vintage green glasses while we demurely cut our meat and ate our vegetables without complaint, having a detailed conversation about our days.
In reality, it just doesn't happen that way. While I do my best getting a solid, homemade meal on the table promptly sometime before bed, I don't usually sit and eat with the kids. When I do, I finish in half the time and spend the rest of the meal time cleaning the kitchen so I don't have to do it after bedtime.
Because after bedtime, I like to do this thing other parents may be familiar with—it's called: collapse.
We do talk, the kids and I, over our meals. We share what we did through the day with Joseph talking about recess, Elizabeth regalling us with preschool dramas, and me moaning over budget spreadsheets. But I'm walking around the kitchen for half the conversation while they sit at the nearby table and contribute their portions.
I wonder if the "family at the table for the whole meal" thing will happen when they're older. For now, this works for us. Though I hated to answer the survey with a low number.
Do you eat as a family every night?


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The Case against the Thirteenth AmendmentMay 22, 2013, 7:41 pm
by G. H. Peiris
Continued from
Midweek Review Yesterday
Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi and SL President JRJ sign Indo - Lanka peace accord. The agreement resulted in the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
Territorial Devolution and Ethnic Reconciliation
As I have shown elsewhere in detail, arguments in support province-based devolution in Sri Lanka based on federal experiences of the community of nation-states are also, for the most part, extremely tenuous. At the time romantic SWRD Bandaranaike extolled the virtues of federalism there were only a few multi-ethnic democracies with that system of government. The United States – often hailed as the model federation ? was yet to have universal adult franchise, and (as only a few in Sri Lanka would be aware) one of the compulsory requirements it had for any part of the country to be accorded recognition as a state was that it should have a white majority. Almost the whole of Canada was a snow- or forest-clad wilderness with a thin scatter of settlements dominated, for the most part, by Anglophone migrants, with the Francophone province of Quebec having uneasy links with the rest of the federation. The large federations in South America were under autocratic rule, as was the Soviet Union and Germany. The only exception at that time was the confederacy of Switzerland (smaller than Sri Lanka) which was, in fact, a lose association of scattered and, often, physically isolated, communities, spread over mountainous terrain, each of which had jealously guarded its tradition of independence and self-government over several centuries.
Devolution in conflict or post-conflict situations as a modality of either conflict resolution or post-conflict reconciliation has, barring a few experiences, been an unmitigated failure as shown in several highly authoritative world-wide surveys, a few extracts from which are cited below:
"Even if power-sharing can avert potential ethnic conflicts or dampen mild ones, our concern here is whether it can bring peace under the conditions of intense violence and extreme ethnic mobilisation that are likely to motivate intervention. The answer is no"… The core reason why power-sharing cannot resolve ethnic civil wars is that it is inherently voluntaristic; it requires conscious decisions by elites to cooperate to avoid ethnic strife. Under conditions of hypernationalist mobilisation and real security threats, group leaders are unlikely to be receptive to compromise, and even if they are, they cannot act without being discredited and replaced by harder-line rivals". KAUFMANN (1997): 265-304
"Proposals for devolution abound, but more often than not devolution agreements are difficult to reach, and once reached, soon abort. Most such agreements are concluded against a background of secessionist warfare or terrorist violence. Where central authority is secure, as in India, the appropriate decisions can be made and implemented by the centre. But, where the very question is how far the writ of the centre will run, devolution is a matter of bilateral agreement, and an enduring agreement is an elusive thing". HOROWITZ (1985): 622-3
"(I)n ethnically divided societies after intense conflicts they (i.e. power-sharing institutions) typically have a set of unintended but perverse consequences. They empower ethnic elites from previously warring groups, create incentives for these elites to press radical demands once peace is in place, and lower the costs for these elites to escalate conflict in ways that threaten democracy and peace. These dangers can be avoided when power-sharing institutions operate under very special conditions such as a political culture of accommodation, economic prosperity and equality, demographic stability, strong governmental institutions, stable hierarchical relations within ethnic communities, and a supportive international environment. Yet those conditions are unlikely to be present or difficult to sustain after severe conflicts such as civil wars." ROTHCHILD Donald & ROEDER Philip G, 2005: 29.
These findings are of particular salience to an understanding of the Sri Lankan experiences during the various peace efforts that punctuated the Eelam Wars and some of the post-war demands made by certain leaders of our minority communities, regardless of the legitimacy of their leadership claims. On the post-war situation, we note that, for one thing, some of them have made no secret of their commitment to secessionism. For another, such leaders seem to receive financial support and other tangible benefits from external forces that have continued to engineer the war against Sri Lanka, diverting the massive resources they had channelled earlier for procurement of weaponry, to subversion and destabilisation of the country by other means. It would certainly not require much imagination to surmise what these forces could and would do with a partially autonomous Northern Provincial Council.
Provincial Devolution and the Vulnerability of the North
I have all along adhered to the view that it was the post-independence marginalisation of the North and parts of the East from the economic mainstreams of Sri Lanka and the resulting unrest among the more depressed segments their youth that facilitated large-scale mobilisation for the secessionist war waged by the LTTE. The circumstances that alienated the youth in these areas persist, the post-war reconstruction efforts notwithstanding.
In the case of the Northern Province, 'reconstruction', if it means only the restoration of what was destroyed in the course of the war, would be far from adequate to eliminate youth alienation -one of the main impulses of political violence and rebellion. In any case, the restoration of pre-war conditions in Jaffna would not be achievable for the reason that at least 300,000 persons, drawn largely from the more affluent segments of the population have emigrated from the area. What would hence be needed is a concerted attempt to bring about a major structural transformation of the northern and eastern regional economy. The promotion of village tank-based paddy cultivation in the Vanni interior is, of course, the surest way of perpetuating abject poverty and the alienation of youth there. Nor should it be imagined that a scatter of ill-conceived international airports, cricket stadia and film villages could serve as a realistic way of bringing about that transformation. This is altogether another topic. Sorry to have digressed.
The East, especially its maritime fringe, has a terrestrial resource base which, if properly harnessed, could effectively annex even the more depressed localities in that part of the country into the buoyant segments of our macro-economy. Much of the North, in contrast, is not richly endowed with land-based resources. But it does have a marine resource base which might assume enormous significance, but in the harnessing of which Sri Lanka is likely to encounter stiff competition from India. What is more, as in cricket, that competition will not be enacted on a level playing field. These are circumstances that are likely to make the North far more vulnerable from the viewpoint of Sri Lanka's national security than it has ever been, before or during the war.
In addition, there are other considerations that must necessarily be accorded utmost priority in the formulation of constitutional policy – especially on the issue of whether Sri Lanka should persist with an arrangement involving province-based devolution, and, in the short run, proceeding with elections to the Northern Provincial Council, even if the present government has the assurance of a Council so established being committed to the concept of a unitary Sri Lanka. The changing political conditions in India should loom large among the additional considerations I refer to. The overarching dominance of the All-India National Congress Party over India is very distinctly a thing of the past. The more recent norm is the formation of fragile coalition governments at the centre. Even with the substantial majority which the 'Congress' secured at the last Lok Sabha elections, we saw how Delhi's relations with Bangladesh had to be decisively adjusted to please Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, how strongly Indo-Sri Lanka relations have been affected by electoral considerations in Tamil Nadu, and how Indo-Pakistan relations are constantly and adversely influenced by the political forces in the 'saffron belt' of Western India.
Rights apportioned out on the basis of the Indo-Lanka maritime boundary agreement of 1966 has all along been frequently violated, making Palk Strait an arena of cross-border clandestine movement of people and goods between the two countries at the time the LTTE held sway over the northern plains of Sri Lanka. Poaching by Tamil Nadu fishermen in the resource-rich Wedge Bank off Jaffna peninsula will also remain virtually unrestricted, causing spells of friction between the two countries. The related problems are likely to intensify when India's 'Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project' reaches completion, and if exploitable petroleum and/or natural gas reserves are discovered beneath the Gulf of Mannar seabed. Needless to stress, all these considerations are germane to the issue of the nature of control which the central government of Sri Lanka should continue to have over the northern parts of the country.
External Compulsions
One of the main elements of external intervention in the internal affairs of post-war Sri Lanka is the continuing pressure being brought to bear on the government to adopt a system of province-based devolution as one of the instrumentalities of ethnic reconciliation. It is, indeed, unfortunate that the LLRC itself has made a similar prescription. There is no evidence in the voluminous report produced by the Commission that it made any attempt to draw 'lessons' relevant to the subject of territorial devolution and sub-national inter-group conflict from our own experiences, leave alone the abundance of international experiences. Its recommendation, however, has had the effect of legitimising the demand made by the global west which, in earlier times, was so obviously based on a nakedly superficial, local NGO-nurtured, understanding of Sri Lankan affairs.
Admittedly this pressure is difficult to circumvent or surmount, given Sri Lanka's dependence on aid and trade. Yet, one cannot overstate the importance of our country pursuing an independently charted course in matters pertaining to internal and external affairs. It is a vital necessity that could be achieved by the present regime which, despite its shortcomings, has demonstrated extraordinary strength in acting on the basis of its own convictions while continuing to enjoy an unprecedented level of popular support. If Sri Lanka succumbs now, it is unlikely that the prevailing circumstances would recur in the foreseeable future.
It must also be remembered that the two thematic concerns of the present external interventions specifically focused on post-war affairs – 'reconciliation' and 'accountability' – are not interrelated in the sense that whatever progress Sri Lanka makes towards reconciliation (there could be no denial that tangible progress has already been made), the demand for accountability (for 'war crimes' and 'crimes against humanity' allegedly committed by the government during the concluding phase of the war) will remain, probably with increasing vehemence. This, I think, is primarily because the segments of the Tamil diaspora that has continued to be committed to the mission of dismantling the Sri Lankan nation-state, and has thus provided the main impulses for external intervention, will persist with their desire to make martyrs of the criminals who perished in mid-May 2009 and vent their fury at those who brought about that debacle, but remain hostile to any possible 'reconciliation' outcome of a future Northern Provincial Council. To them and their allies within and outside Sri Lanka – the latter includes governments hostile to the Rajapaksa regime that have already established an abnormal 'diplomatic' tradition of maintaining direct contact with elements pledged to destabilise the elected government of the country – an NPC with even a limited range of powers of government will serve as an ideal launching pad for a resurgent armed struggle for Eelam with greater external sponsorship and support than the earlier one.
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1) Cheap
2) Woman (No offense ladies)
3) Carefree
In no particular order: Renault Kangoo (Company Car), Volvo XC60(Mum's Car) & Honda S2000(Mine). Guess which is which?
Volvo XC60. Yes I'm not kidding you. How much do you value your life? Is it worth $60K or $200K or much much much more. This car is built like a tank and safety features to make me go reallly mad. This car auto slams it's brakes when I go near car park barriers. I'm just too impatient to wait 1M away from the barrier. This car has heavy doors as they are reinforced. 2 rear impact bumpers... and list just goes on and on and on. As you are seated high, this car is pretty easy to drive.
The Woman One
Honda S2000. This car is a legend. 1st produced in 1999, it when on for production all the way till 2009. Until now(15 years later), it is still the MOST powerful 4 Cylinder NA engine producing 240BHP. Hand built, FR drive. This car was designed with passion to celebrate Honda's 50th Anniversary and hand built with love.
I have driven many cars, lambo/ferrari/rx7/370z/hummer/x6/lorries/swift/hyundai etc..., BUT somehow.. just somehow I find this car hardest to gauge. It's just so unexplainable, just like a woman, cough*. When I park this car, I have to hug the corner so people won't open their door and slam into my precious. I can't parallel park this car as almost definitely, the car in-front will reverse into my car as my hood is so long and short. The same problem my dad had with his RX7. It's very stressful to keep worrying. I worry about people using a pen knife to cut my fabric roof thus I installed a 24 hrs camera into my car. ARGH!!!!
BUT by being woman like, they give you the greatest joy. It is just awesome to look at. Evergreen design, the curves, you could stare at it for hours at every angle and just admire. Being inside, it too feels good like a woman, cough* The panels and buttons are all angled towards you. Driving position is same as an F1 car of the 90's. The feedback the car gives you is so precise. Whatever feelings you are having at that moment, driving at night with the top down makes me feel what life should be all about. The previous owner installed a dammm expensive sound system to make the whole experience even better. Just yesterday after having a great time at my usual salon (2hrs+), dinner and great quality time, driving in this car back really just made the day complete. No words can describe this feeling. It's just so damm awesome.
Carefree One
Renault Kangoo. This is the car, for some unknown reason, I have the 3 car keys infront of me, unconsciously I will pick the van time and time again. I don't need to worry someone slamming their door onto mine, at most I will use my door to slam them back. I can just anyhow park head in, I can park in loading bays, I can park so near others with them fearing for their own cars.
This car looks like crap, even if I left my doors unlock, nobody would even take a second look. I do it very often because I bring my dog out and I need to leave him in the car for a while. I will wind down all windows and leave car unlock for safety reasons like fire etc.... and also for cool air to get it.
By structure design, it is has been proven with many vans, the rectangle shape is a very strong shape. My friend's van got hit really bad by a BMW. His bumper sustained a little little dent while the BMW radiator leaked and bumper dropped. Yea so it's definately really safe. A sweet friend of mine loves it when I drive the van as I'm unable to drive fast. 40 litres get me 800+ km all the time. Awesomely CHEAP! If I include depreciation + road tax + fuel + insurance, it's only about $400 a month!!! that's peanuts for singapore standards. It's cheap, safe and carefree.
To conclude my blog post and thoughts, I'm pretty lucky and grateful to be even be able to write about such experience. People may think (in sg) the Kangoo got (no face value). I had it for 5 years. After owning one, it's pretty hard never to own it again.


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Long Wait Times at Medical Appointments
How To Maximize Your Time When You Are Waiting On A Doctor
A few weeks ago, I had a medical appointment in a new office. I literally waited four hours before seeing the doctor. I was so annoyed with myself for not bringing much with me so the time was wasted. Of course, I was even more annoyed that I had to wait so long to see this specialist. If I didn't truly need to see this doctor, I probably would have left.
In researching this post, I have found that long wait times for medical appointments is extremely common these days and will likely get worse over time. Two reasons are that doctors regularly overbook appointments, assuming there will be cancellations and because of requirements from management (if they are in a large medical group). Additionally, in many parts of the country, there is a shortage of doctors and it will probably get worse in the next several years.
According to a study by Harvard Medical School, a typical visit to a doctor consumes an average of 121 minutes of the patient's time – 37 minutes in travel, 64 minutes in care of filling out forms. The average time spent with a doctor is 15 minutes.
If you are a person with a chronic condition, or caring for someone with a chronic condition, the amount of time dedicated to medical appointments is mind-blowing. Also, if you live far from your medical provider, travel time is far more than 37 minutes.
In Los Angeles, I have yet to visit a medical office that offers free parking. The rate is usually calculated by the amount of time you are at the facility. So, waiting an hour or two hours for a medical appointment doesn't only set you back in time, it can be a significant financial hit. On average, I pay between $12 – $20 for parking for my medical appointment. I have at least four medical appointments a month, so those fees add up.
Reducing Wait Times At Medical Appointments
There are a few ways to potentially cut down on your wait times. These tips are actually suggested by medical providers, so hopefully, they'll work for you.
- Book your appointment first thing in the morning, right after the office opens, or immediately after the office opens after lunch.
- Request any forms you need to fill out be mailed or emailed to you in advance to cut down on paperwork time at the office. You should also bring all insurance information and a list of medications and concerns.
- Call ahead to find out if your doctor is running behind. I admit, this one never occurred to me, but I'm going to start doing it! Why sit in their office if they are running an hour behind when you can be at home or running errands. For example, I had a medical procedure yesterday and was supposed to begin my procedure at 10:45. I didn't get called back until 11:30. I overheard my doctor telling her resident that she was supposed to be in at 9 a.m. but woke up at 8:45 so she was way late that morning. I wish I had known! I wouldn't have rushed.
- If you have been waiting a long time, it is perfectly acceptable to politely ask the front desk staff how much longer the wait is and let them know about your timing concerns. You should also consider following up in writing, perhaps even bring up the increased parking fee/costs to you (lost work time, etc.).
- If this is a regular occurrence with your doctor and he/she isn't the only specialist covered by your insurance, consider switching doctors.
Maximizing Your Time While Waiting On Your Doctor
Now that we've explored how you can hopefully cut down the time, here are things you can do to make the most of that wait time. Face it, there are some mandatory doctors who keep you waiting that you may not be willing to change, or, they are the only game in town so you are out of options.
- Practice Self-Care: I usually make sure I have a book or magazine with me and use the time to read. I rarely have the opportunity to dig into a book in the middle of the day, so it feels like a treat. You can take an adult coloring book, knitting or whatever other portable hobby you enjoy.
- Be Productive: If you don't want to use that time for entertainment, you could take the opportunity to plow through some of your to dos. Here are some tasks you can do on the go – pay bills, update your to do list, write thank you cards, write letters to family/friends, review your calendar and list appointments to book, review paperwork or work (I sometimes take my laptop to appointments to get offline work done).
- Catch Up On Current Affairs: This could fall under self-care for some, but I don't particularly enjoy reading the news, so I consider it more a necessity to be informed of what is going on in the world. Read the newspaper, read news on your phone or check out Twitter media accounts to get updates on the headlines.
Hopefully some of these suggestions will help your reduce your wait times, or at least maximize the time you do have to spend there. As someone with a chronic condition and many, many medical appointments, I'm going to try some of the time-savers myself.


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TIGERVILLE, S.C. -- Belmont Abbey took the first two sets, then fought off a furious North Greenville rally to earn a thrilling 3-2 (25-21, 25-19, 23-25, 20-25, 21-19) victory in Conference Carolinas men's volleyball action Saturday night. With the win, the Crusaders improve to 13-10, 8-6 in league play and move into a tie for third place with a week left in regular-season play. NGU falls to 15-11, 8-7.
- Liam Maxwell hit .439 with 24 kills in 41 attempts. He added six digs, tied for the team high.
- Brian Long tallied 13 kills and one error in 19 chances for a .632 hitting percentage.
- Brennan Davis registered 48 assists, while adding six digs.
- William Morris and Andrew Kohut posted six and five blocks, respectively.
- Belmont Abbey jumped out to a 2-0 lead with wins in the opening two sets. In the first, the Crusaders used five straight points to open an 8-4 lead and never trailed again. In the second, The Abbey broke a 10-10 tie with three straight points that turned into a 9-1 run.
- North Greenville answered with 25-23 and 25-20 wins to force a fifth set.
- In the decider, NGU held a 6-4 advantage, but The Abbey evened the set at 6.
- The teams were then tied at every point until 19-19. The Abbey had trailed 19-18 when Head Coach Nolan Albrecht called his second time out and the team responded. A kill by Maxwell tied the set for the final time, then an attack error gave BAC its fourth match point. An ace by Brennan Davis gave the Crusaders the victory.
- The Abbey saved two match points at 18-17 and 19-18.
- The match was the longest in school history by points. The 21-19 decision in the fifth topped a 20-18 win by The Abbey over Erskine last year.
- Belmont Abbey wraps up the regular season next weekend with a homestand against Erskine and Emmanuel on Friday and Saturday.
- The Crusaders will earn a home date in the Conference Carolinas quarterfinals with a two wins.


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Kingdom of Stormwind, Alliance, Uncrowned (allied)
- "Agents of SI:7 undertake clandestine tasks for the good of Stormwind and its citizens."
SI:7 (Stormwind Intelligence),[3][4][5] also spelled SI-7,[6] is a secretive military force of Stormwind's sovereign monarch.[7] It includes rogues specializing in special operations, espionage, assassination and stealth tactics. It is referred to as the Alliance's intelligence agency[8] and Azeroth's most elite spy organization.[9]
The organization is currently led by Master Mathias Shaw. SI:7 is located in the building with the same name in the Old Town quarter of Stormwind City. They have operatives all throughout the Eastern Kingdoms who carry out secret missions for Stormwind, such as Renzik "The Shiv" and Flint Shadowmore. They also have some operatives in the Kalimdor region, such as Andello Porter.
The black stallion is rumored to be favored by the SI:7 for night missions due to its dark coat.[10]
- 1 History
- 2 Members
- 3 People in touch with SI:7
- 4 In the RPG
- 5 Notes and trivia
- 6 Speculation
- 7 Videos
- 8 See also
- 9 References
Their earliest known activities date to the time before the Third War, when King Varian Wrynn used SI:7's elite, Reigol Valdread, to spy on the kingdom of Lordaeron.[4]
World of Warcraft
This section concerns content related to the original World of Warcraft.
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SI:7 underwent reconnaissance efforts for many agents of the Alliance. Their missions consisted of varied matters; as wide-ranging as the Defias Brotherhood, the subversive traitors who sought to destroy Stormwind from within, to the Undead Scourge.
SI:7 was instrumental in the Lescovar Incident in which agent Tyrion uncovered Lord Gregor Lescovar's treachery to Stormwind and aided in assassinating the traitor.
Andello Porter uncovered a secret alliance involving the Forsaken and the Grimtotem tribe.
Agent Kearnen was sent to Westfall to spy on Klaven's Tower. Five agents were also sent to investigate the missing corpse of Nathanos Marris. Only Flint Shadowmore survived the investigation.
Agent Calia Hastings was stationed on Theramore Isle to deal with deserters undermining Lady Jaina Proudmoore's rule via a propaganda war. SI:7 also had Renn McGill investigating the Defias Brotherhood's involvement in the The Missing Diplomat quest chain by having him scrutinize a recent shipwreck directly north of Theramore Isle.
Dark Riders
This section concerns content related to the Warcraft manga or comics.
Brink Spannercrank was sent to retrieve several magical artifacts the Dark Riders had gathered over the years, and recruited Revil Kost to aid him in his quest. Along with Mardigan, Karlain and a group of Night Watch led by the Commander Althea Ebonlocke, the party pursued the Dark Riders to the cursed tower of Karazhan and was able to escape its dangers with their missing artifacts. He obtained the Scythe of Elune and said he was going to deliver it to a night elf,[11] most likely Valorn Stillbough.
Cataclysm era
This section concerns content related to Cataclysm.
Before the Shattering of the world, a group of eighteen SI:7 assassins led by Owynn Graddock and Varian Wrynn infiltrated Ironforge to liberate it from the hands of the Dark Iron dwarves.[12]
In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, SI:7 is located in a green area just outside the Old Town, roughly where the Command Center was in vanilla.
A group of SI:7 members battled against the Bilgewater goblins on the Lost Isles. They also operated in Southern Barrens[13] and Stonetalon Mountains.
Agent Jack Bauden was sent to infiltrate the Twilight Hammer cult and uncovered their plot to use stolen explosives to blow up the Cathedral of Light.
They also spied on the Dark Iron dwarves in the Searing Gorge.[14]
Master Mathias Shaw takes the field and leads SI:7 operatives in the war against the Twilight's Hammer in the Twilight Highlands.
Mists of Pandaria
This section concerns content related to Mists of Pandaria.
A team of elite SI:7 agents consisting of Rell Nightwind, Mishka, Sully "The Pickle" McLeary, and Amber Kearnen are sent to find the shipwrecked Anduin Wrynn and Admiral Taylor. Brought by the Skyfire, the team finds themselves on the lost continent of Pandaria.
The term "the White Pawn" was SI:7's code name for the lost prince.[15]
Other groups of SI:7 agents were brought as a part of the Landfall campaign against the Horde in Krasarang Wilds.
SI:7 Field Commander Dirken and SI:7 Rangers were sent to spy on Horde activity in Ragefire Chasm.
During Battlefield: Barrens, Amber Kearnen and Sully McLeary were sent to spy outside of Orgrimmar and prime it to be besieged. The SI:7 agents learn of the Darkspear Rebellion and escalated the conflict between it and Garrosh Hellscream's True Horde by supporting the Horde rebels.
Warlords of Draenor
This section concerns content related to Warlords of Draenor.
SI:7 has quickly established a presence throughout Draenor. Bodrick Grey was directing their assistance to the war effort from the Commander's Garrison in Lunarfall and Jeanine Amrell was sent to Nagrand to spy on the Iron Horde leadership. Owynn Graddock spied on the Bloodmaul ogres in Frostfire Ridge. Amber Kearnen was seen in battlefield in Tanaan Jungle. Chris Clarkie directs the Wrynn's Vanguard's operations against the Horde in Ashran.
This section concerns content related to Legion.
Before the Alliance and Horde arrived on the Broken Shore, SI:7 were there and discovered that there was a trap set by the Burning Legion. Before they could warn the approaching armies, Detheroc ambushed the agents and captured Mathias Shaw before impersonating him. As Amber Kearnen was a witness to this, Detheroc had her killed before she could warn the Uncrowned.[16]
With Detheroc in command, the Uncrowned began looking into SI:7's recent suspicious activity.[17][18] They discovered the truth about the nathrezim, and the Uncrowned freed the real Shaw from Felsoul Hold, sneaked into Stormwind, and exposed and defeated Detheroc.
Although officially not a part of the Uncrowned, several members of the SI:7 are seen in the Hall of Shadows and Mathias Shaw himself is allied with them.
SI:7 later led the Alliance's operations in Silithus in their race against the Horde to claim Azerite. Shaw himself personally oversaw the battle on the Seething Shore.
Before the Storm
This section concerns content related to the Warcraft novels, novellas, or short stories.
Following the Argus Campaign, the SI:7 learned about the existence of the Desolate Council in the Undercity. They also spied on the Forsaken on Thoradin's Wall during the Gathering.[19]
Battle for Azeroth
This section concerns content related to Battle for Azeroth.
|This section is a lore stub.
Prior to the War of the Thorns, a massive amount of SI:7 spies infiltrated Orgrimmar.[20] Their mission was to keep the Horde under constant surveillance and to use their overbearing presence to dissuade any Horde aggression. Their sheer numbers would be too costly for the Horde to uproot them all, forcing Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner to tolerate their presence. Renzik "The Shiv" was one of the SI:7 agents undercover in Orgrimmar, and he reported a fistfight between Varok Saurfang and Nathanos Blightcaller. Apparently, Varok was advocating for a deployment of troops to conquer Silithus and the Azerite proliferating there, while Nathanos considered Saurfang's campaign a waste of resources. Nathanos' subsequent reprimanding seemed to confirm the Alliance leaders' suspicions of the Horde's capability to make Azerite weapons and that Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner had endorsed Saurfang's Silithus campaign, which consequently caused the Alliance leaders to deploy the night elven army to deter them. It was later revealed that the Horde's campaign in Silithus was a ruse, and that their true objective was the invasion of Ashenvale and the conquering of Darnassus.[21]
During the Battle for Lordaeron, SI:7 infiltrated the Undercity alongside Druids of the Claw while battle was being waged on the surface. Renzik "The Shiv" stole intel from the city during the attack.[22]
SI:7 later was assigned to aid the 7th Legion from the shadows in their efforts to secure Alliance footholds on Zandalar.[23]
When the Horde leadership was to meet in Warfang Hold in Stormsong Valley, SI:7 agents spied on the area.[24][25]
The SI:7 was looking for the [Fluctuating Worldvein].[26]
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- Barrens Operative
- SI:7 Agent
- SI:7 Agent
- SI:7 Assassin
- SI:7 Infiltrator
- SI:7 Marksman
- SI:7 Operative
- SI:7 Squad Commander
People in touch with SI:7
|Baros Alexston
|Stormwind City Architect
|Cathedral Square
|Stormwind City
|Watcher Backus
|Night Watch Militia
|Manor Mistmantle
|Kirsta Deepshadow
|Spy on the Scarlet Crusade
|Northridge Lumber Camp
|Western Plaguelands
|Bishop DeLavey
|Stormwind Keep
|Stormwind City
|Valley of Heroes
|Stormwind City
|Bartender (Former rogue)
|Menethil Harbor
|Commander Samaul
|Theramore Isle
|Dustwallow Marsh
|Gryan Stoutmantle
|Westfall Brigade
|Sentinel Hill
|Wiley the Black
|Redridge Mountains
|Jorik Kerridan
|Northshire Abbey
|Elwynn Forest
|John J. Keeshan
|Bravo Company
|Redridge Mountains
In the RPG
This section contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.
Originally, the Warcraft RPG called the Stormwind rogue faction as the Stormwind Assassins. With the release of the World of Warcraft RPG the rogue organization was referred to as SI:7 and the Stormwind Assassins.
SI:7, or the Stormwind Intelligence Agency,[27] is an Alliance organization. It is one of the most active organizations in the Alliance.[28] It is described as a union of thieves.[27] It was rumored that King Wrynn employed the secret society. The assassins were spies and saboteurs wielding royal carte blanche.[29]
The Stormwind Assassins are a neutral group of elite assassins dedicated wholly to the Alliance's goals, but willing to do the dirtier jobs. Their membership counts to 2,500.
The Stormwind Assassins are one of the oldest surviving organizations on Azeroth. Long before any of the wars, the Alliance faction of Stormwind felt it was unable to do everything it wanted to within the law. One of the leaders, Erwill Youngton, secretly approached a thief in their prisons. Pathonia Shaw had been imprisoned by the Alliance repeatedly for theft. Caught perhaps three times, she was notorious for scores of high profile crimes. Youngton offered her clemency if she agreed to form a society to take care of the Alliance's dirty work quickly and cleanly. She agreed at once — and added that she would find a way to do it with a sense of style as well. The Stormwind Assassins began that day, with the agreement of Erwill Youngton, she combed the prisons for her fellow thieves to bring into the family, as they were called, and soon built a small force to serve the Alliance. The Assassins were there when the orcs poured from the Dark Portal, taking out stray scouts; yet they found it difficult to make a true dent in the enemy forces because of the Horde's sheer numbers and the Assassins' lack of military training. The Assassins work best one-on-one, they quickly discovered, and concentrated more on aiming for the Horde's leaders.
Shaw had been a thief for the thrills and was not necessarily evil. Once she was allowed to do her favorite thing in the world and still get paid for it, she became a loyal Alliance fighter. She made sure to hammer this home in her recruits: one does not steal from the hand that feeds. If the thrill of the stolen goods and the secret kill, along with a steady salary, was not good enough for her thieves, they were not initiated into the Assassins. The message was clear: only commit the crimes sanctioned by the Alliance. Shaw had one other requirement when she built the society: secrecy was a must. The thieves did not normally walk around claiming to be thieves, and they had no reason to do so once they were legitimate assassins either. The leader of Stormwind is the only one with a full list of the Stormwind Assassins, and when one was assigned to be part of a larger operation, as happened in the three wars, her true purpose was not revealed to the other troops. They passed as fighters or scouts, even wizards from time to time, but still did their primary jobs of stealing and killing when needed. Their commanders would know of their secret when needed, but often only the assassin knew of her true reason for being in the field.
The population of Stormwind knows the Assassins exist, and the public relations machine has taken their reputation to the extreme: these are glamorous fighters, too talented to serve with the mere warriors in the army; they are stealthy people who work by the night, shrouded in mystery and barroom tales. Some children — even wealthy types — become thieves in the hope that someday they can be Stormwind Assassins too. No one knows who they are, but almost everyone claims to have seen them at work, although this is highly unlikely.
Shaw retired 10 years ago and put her grandson Mathias in charge. She had groomed him for the job from when he was an infant, testing his speed and dexterity on a physical level and making sure he understood the difference between doing what was right and doing what was necessary, and how those two do not always mix. The Cathedral of Light understands that the Stormwind Assassins must exist for the good of Stormwind and the Alliance, but the priests do not condone assassination. They choose simply to look the other way.
The Stormwind Assassins are based in Stormwind, but often travel to other Alliance-held lands in Azeroth. They have influence in Elwynn, Redridge, and Westfall. They have done jobs in other areas, such as Duskwood and Deadwind Pass, but they almost never go further south.[30]
A young woman of the Stormwind Assassins rescued Antonio Kremen.[31]
The Stormwind Assassins view themselves as a hand grasped around a knife, forming the organization into five branches. Mathias Shaw and his group of leaders make the thumb, dealing with the management and leadership. The leadership consists of about 30 older rogues, many of whom knew Pathonia, some of whom were appointed by her. They are familiar with how she wished the organization to be run, and often steer the young Mathias on the correct path. The other leaders are in charge of the other four Fingers, leading, training, taking reports, and even running the books and making sure salaries are distributed.
The next two Fingers of the hand are made up of the highest-level members and consist of about 500 rogues each. The First Finger, the highest level an assassin can reach before leaving the life behind to become a leader in the Thumb, is dedicated to assassination, targets being anyone from rival military leaders to corrupt priests. The Second Finger is dedicated to "acquisitions" of material, either taking already stolen material to give to its rightful owner, or taking a particularly powerful item from a person it would be politically uncomfortable to kill outright.
The 500 or so rogues who make up the Third Finger excel in espionage, often working with rogues from the First and Second Finger to gather information, read and remember scrolls without stealing them, and serve as lookouts and diversions while the others do their jobs. The Fourth Finger rogues make up the largest and lowest level. These 1,000 rogues are the jacks-of-all-trades: they commonly handle burial of victims (and Stormwind Assassins), body-hiding, and alibi-establishing. It is their job to make sure the Stormwind Assassins' identities do not get discovered. They are also in charge of recruitment.[30]
Every rogue and thief in Stormwind wants to be part of the Stormwind Assassins. The entire city views their work as necessary and admirable. It is a difficult organization to join, however, as the leaders of Stormwind do not want to endorse the Assassins' way of life. The organization began by a judicious picking through of the prison for "trustworthy" rogues, and word spread. Some thieves attempted to get caught just for the chance of getting picked (and the pardon didn't hurt either). When Stormwind found the Stockade filling with hapless, eager-faced thieves, King Anduin Wrynn approached Mathias and demanded he do something about it. Mathias assigned the Fourth Finger of the Stormwind Assassins to recruit others, training a handful of rogues to recognize talent and discreetness (something the rogues in the city had left behind in their eagerness to join the Assassins). A rogue from the Fourth Finger will follow a rogue and leave him a note card with a place and a drawing of an open hand on it. If the rogue arrives alone at the meeting place, he meets with the Fourth Finger rogue. If the meeting goes well, the rogue will then receive another note card with another meeting place and a closed fist on it, indicating his acceptance.
Some of the rogues under Pathonia wanted to show their pride with tattoos of the fist that is the organization's symbol, but she did away with that thought, warning that they should make no permanent indication on their bodies that they belong to the Stormwind Assassins. They instead took to wearing one piece of white clothing with a single red thread carefully sewn in, looking like a stray piece of lint. Stormwind Assassins know what to look for, while others would not notice. Initiation is difficult. The rogue is tested in everything from skills to morals. Many of the tests are subtle: the rogue must be entirely trustworthy, for without trust among the rogues, the entire organization of the Assassins will fail. Morality and a desire to serve the city of Stormwind are two of the most important aspects in an Assassin, and these qualities are understandably difficult to find. When prospects are rejected, they leave with only the face of their recruiter in their minds — if even that. The society does not feel the unveiling of a Fourth Finger's identity will hurt them too much, so this is an acceptable risk. Upon full acceptance, the new Fourth Finger is given dirty work to do, all the while training, buffing his skills, working to become a Third Finger. Even accomplished rogues, thieves and assassins must start at the bottom and work their way up.[32]
Notable members
Notes and trivia
- Generic SI:7 agents are often armed with katana and wakizashi swords while wearing khaki infiltration uniforms.[33]
- Some believe [Experiment 12-B] is the result of a covert SI-7 initiative.[6]
- John J. Keeshan is of high enough rank to request files from SI:7, of which there are ones covering people of importance in the Alliance, such as Shandris Feathermoon. Coincidentally, likely as she is general of the Sentinels, Shandris is also able to request files.[34]
- It is unknown if SI:1-SI:6 even existed, let alone what happened to them. SI:7 appears to be a clever reference to MI5 and MI6, the remaining sections of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence. SI:7's operations are similar to those of MI6 in that they deal with cloak-and-dagger external affairs.
- In the Russian version of the game, this organization is called ШРУ (ShROO, Shotrmgradskoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye - Stormwind Intelligence Agency) as reference to US CIA (ЦРУ in Russian).
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
Stormwind Assassin's Guild may be an alternate name for SI:7, its subgroup or completely another group.
See also
- [SI:7 Standard Issue Vest]
- [SI:7 Special Issue Dagger]
- [SI:7 Special Issue Facemask]
- [SI:7 Operative's Manual]
- ^ SI:7 Scout
- ^ [16] Erion's Behest
- ^ a b Traveler: The Spiral Path, chapter 17
- ^ Master Mathias Shaw (Through the Dark Portal)
- ^ a b Mount Journal entry for [Experiment 12-B]
- ^ Ultimate Visual Guide, pg. 113
- ^ Spy vs. Spy
- ^ [110] Under Cover of Darkness
- ^ Mount Journal entry for [Black Stallion Bridle]
- ^ Dark Riders
- ^ The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm
- ^ [34] Intelligence Warfare
- ^ [48] Hero's Call: Searing Gorge!
- ^ War Crimes, chapter 11
- ^ a b [110] Deciphering the Letter
- ^ [103 - 110] Searching For Clues
- ^ [101 - 110] Spy vs. Spy
- ^ Before the Storm
- ^ [110] The Warchief Awaits
- ^ Elegy
- ^ [110 - 120] The Battle for Lordaeron
- ^ [110 - 120] The Zandalar Campaign
- ^ [120] Spy Games
- ^ [120] Communication Breakdown
- ^ [120] Worldvein Rumors
- ^ a b White Wolf. Alliance Player's Guide, 138. ISBN 9781588467737.
- ^ White Wolf. Alliance Player's Guide, 177. ISBN 9781588467737.
- ^ World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, pg. 13
- ^ a b Arthaus. Lands of Conflict, 168, 169. ISBN 9781588469601.
- ^ Lands of Conflict, pg. 38
- ^ Arthaus. Lands of Conflict, 169. ISBN 9781588469601.
- ^ SI:7 Assassin (Lost Isles), SI:7 Infiltrator, SI:7 Squad Commander
- ^ [120] Tortollans in Distress, [120] The Savage Hunt