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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Oct. 13, 2009) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team swept Panama, 25-13, 25-15, 25-8, on Tuesday on Bayamon, Puerto Rico, to move into a tie with Canada atop Pool B of the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship.
Team USA will play Canada for the pool lead on Wednesday at 3 p.m. PDT. Panama (0-2) will play Mexico (0-2).
Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) led four U.S. players in double figures with 12 points on nine kills, two blocks and one ace. Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) scored 11 points on five kills and a match-high six aces. Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), playing in his first 2009 match for the U.S. Men, contributed 11 points on eight kills, one block and two aces. Andy Hein (Carols Stream, Ill.) compiled 10 points on seven kills and three blocks.
Domingo Avila led Panama with 10 points on a match-high 10 kills.
Team USA dominated its rival, leading 13-1 in blocks and 9-0 in aces.
"Today definitely we served better and blocked better," U.S. team captain Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.) said. "We handled the ball better and our overall game improved."
"It's an honor for us to play a team like United States, the Olympic champions," Panama team captain Ricardo Brown said. "People don't believe us when we say that we played against a team they have seen only on TV. It was a learning experience."
Among other U.S. scorers, Hoff scored six points on three kills and three blocks. Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) scored five points on two kills and three blocks. Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) scored one point on one block.
The United States completed 34 of 57 kill attempts (60 percent) with six errors. Hein completed seven of 10 kill attempts (70 percent) with one error. Salmon completed nine of 17 kill attempts (53 percent) with two errors. Priddy completed eight of 16 attempts (50 percent) with two errors.
Panama completed 21 of 70 kill attempts (30 percent) with 18 errors.
The U.S. Men were credited with 21 excellent receptions on 30 attempts with no errors (70 percent). Priddy was six for eight (75 percent), Alfee Reft (Oxnard, Calif.) was seven for 10 (70 percent) and Salmon was eight for 12 (67 percent). Reft was credited with seven digs on 14 attempts with five faults.
Hansen was credited with 15 running sets on 47 attempts.
U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) started Priddy and Salmon at outside hitter, Hoff and Hein at middle blocker, Hansen at setter, Patak at opposite and Reft at libero. Winder and Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) played as substitutes.
Click here to view the official P2 statistics.
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NORCECA Men's Continental Championship
Oct. 12-17 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
U.S. Men's Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
16 Andy Hein (MB, 611, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
17 Jonathan Winder (S, 6-8, Irvine, Calif., Pepperdine)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe
Team Manager: Bill Neville
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato
Therapist/Trainer: Charlie Sullivan
Team Doctor: Andrew Gregory
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson
Medical Support: Aaron Brock
Pool Play Schedule (All times PDT)
Group A
Oct. 12
Cuba def. Dominican Republic, 25-17, 25-15, 25-14
Puerto Rico def. Barbados, 25-9, 25-16, 25-18
Oct. 13
Cuba def. Barbados, 25-10, 25-11, 25-16
Puerto Rico def. Dominican Republic, 25-18, 25-20, 25-19
Oct. 14
1 p.m. Dominican Republic vs. Barbados
5 p.m. Puerto Rico vs. Cuba
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Oct. 12
USA def. Mexico, 25-15, 28-26, 25-16
Canada def. Panama, 25-13, 25-23, 25-19
Oct. 13
Canada def. Mexico, 21-25, 25-16, 26-24, 25-12
USA def. Panama, 25-13, 25-15, 25-8
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1 p.m. Mexico vs. Panama
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Panama City Beach police charged an Ohio police officer with aggravated child neglect early Thursday, according to a news release.
PANAMA CITY BEACH � An Ohio policeman and his wife were jailed early Thursday for felony child abuse after investigators alleged they left their children with a loaded gun in a truck parked outside a bar while they went inside to drink.
Staff at the Coyote Ugly Saloon on Front Beach Road became suspicious of Michael Webb and Staci Hall late Wednesday night and went out and checked their vehicle, where they found a toddler and an infant sleeping. Staff then called Panama City Beach Police, according to court records.
When officers arrived they found Webb, 35, and Hall, 29, sitting at the bar drinking �with no apparent view of their children.� When they went to the truck, the windows were only slightly cracked, and they found a 3-year-old and an 11-month-old sleeping in the backseat. Both were warm to the touch.
Police found a loaded .40-caliber Glock pistol with a round in the chamber in the driver�s side door where the children could have reached it. The gun was not secured in any case or holster.
Webb, a police officer with the Ross Township, Ohio, Police Department, and Hall were arrested about 12:30 a.m. after at least an hour at the bar. They were booked into the Bay County Jail on charges of felony child abuse. Bond for each is set at $500, according to jail staff.
The Department of Children and Family Services took custody of the children.
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Panama City Beach police charged an Ohio police officer with aggravated child neglect early Thursday, according to a news release.
Investigators wrote that Michael A. Webb, 35, an officer with Ross Township and his companion, Staci D. Hall, 29, were both drinking at a bar on Front Beach Road just after midnight. While they were drinking the couple left two boys, ages three and 11-months alone and without supervision in their vehicle, the news release states.
Officers also discovered a loaded and unsecured handgun within reach of the 3-year-old and determined that the couple had left the children alone in the car for more than hour, officers said.
Webb and Hall were both charged with aggravated child neglect and the children were turned over to Florida's Department of Children and Family Services.

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Albertus van Delden, Dutch Minister of Finance, was born 21 February 1828 at Deventer, and died 7 November 1898. He never married, but lived with his unmarried sister.
He rendered outstanding service to his native city, his country, and the Mennonite brotherhood. From 1858 until his death he held high and honorable political office in provincial (Overijssel) and national legislative bodies, and finally the portfolio of Minister of Finance in the cabinet. His service to the Mennonite Church in Deventer was equally outstanding. In 1862 he became a member of the church council, and then its treasurer. For some years, when his political duties kept him away from home for long periods, he resigned this position, but after this obstacle was removed, he gave the church his devoted and untiring service as deacon and chairman.
He was a simple man who avoided all show and cared nothing for the applause of the world. He persistently followed the way he felt was right. With his money he was very generous. He fully deserved his place of honor in city, nation, and church.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 400.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; I just wanted to post a topic about Aaron Brooks... Personally I like the Guy. I know we have some fans out there that dont and thats fine. But for some of these people to talk about trading him for ...
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I just wanted to post a topic about Aaron Brooks... Personally I like the Guy. I know we have some fans out there that dont and thats fine. But for some of these people to talk about trading him for Jay :eck25: Feidler... really makes me sick... Come on now who you gonna get if you get rid of AB? There is no one out there and I think the guy is gonna come throu eventually... Give him a chance.. Ok he has made some of the dumbest plays I have ever seen but at the same time he has made some of the best also.... Just dont get some bum in here please...
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i agree with you about fieldler but the point isnt so much about his stupid plays to me. its more about his attitude. quite frankly it stinks. before the last game he came out saying how he was a great qb on a good team and how jake was a good qb on a great team. which basically mean that the team is at fault and not the great arron. thats why i say get rid of him/. maybe not next year but in the next year or two.
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Ok I agree with you dog... totally... I dont see how he could have said that and it was a dumb comment by him... He has a damn good cast around him.. I mean we are deep at WR and Duece is a beast when not hurt... I think if the D steps up this year his confidence will come up.. Cause I sure dont think that Carolina has a Great cast.. Maybe on D.. but Mussin Muhammed was a scrub before Steve Smith got hurt. I mean in College they didnt even thow to the guy.. He stepped his game up thou... Lets just hope that we keep him another year or two and see how things go..
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I agree with you too. Aaron Brooks makes a lot of dumb plays but he still is a much better QB than a lot of the people that are available. Besides, if our defense could keep the other team from scoring 30+ points on us every week, we would win a lot more. And we all saw a completely different D from the Saints in the last few weeks of the season. Unfortunately, some people just don\'t look at the positives at all and as soon as AB screws up they call for his head. Heck did you see Big Ben today? He sucked it up but I bet Pittsburgh fans aren\'t complaining because the D performed as well as the rest of the team. There is more than one player responsible for a teams loss. Too bad the Brooks Bashers don\'t understand that.
Witht he right coaching changes and a few personnel additions we should easily be in the playoffs next year.
And by the way, don\'t bother replyting with comments like \"Pittsburgh fans arent complaining because their team is consistently good\" or \"theyre in the playoffs so they dont need to complain\" BS. That has no bearing on this subject or my post. I am talking about how the TEAM came through for Big Ben and our team (mostly Defense) does not.
OK, and for those who want to play \"Mis Cleo\" in response to my posts...I am 27 so I guess if you\'re older than that I am young. I don\'t think I\'m \"naive\", I like to think I have a rather good amount of experience in several walks of life. That includes my present experinece of being a 5th year Ph.D. student in Biochemistry.
:exclam: And with that one more thing: Aaron Brooks name is Aaron, not Leon. I\'ve seen this quite a bit as of late in several posts. It\'s a shame that a forum discussing football that I have visited for some time now would have people who in my opinion use racist tones. This in itself really makes me not want to visit this site and makes me ashamed to feel as if there are other Saints fans who act in such a way. And trust me...though I am white I know all about racism...I\'m engaged to a black woman (just in case anyone wants to personally question me as for some reason usually occurs with my posts.
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I made the joke shortly after AB\'s comments about how he was a \"great QB on an average team.\" This reminded me of the beer commercial where \"Leon\" is asked if his four fumbles affected the team, and he replies: \"Not if my teammates had jumped on the ball. Let\'s face it, Leon can\'t do everything.\"
If you\'ve ever seen the commercials, you\'ll notice the Leon character is black. Aaron Brooks is black, but if he were purple-freakin\'-polka-dotted the similarity would still be there. The joke was about comments, not skin color.
If you can explain to me why this is \"racist,\" by all means do so. If not, you need to think long and hard before you throw that label at someone.
PS - Congrats on your engagement, it no doubt makes you an expert on race relations. I dated a girl from India for a couple of years, so I guess I\'m ready to negotiate peace with Pakistan...
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Sorry, I don\'t sit in front of the TV long enough to see every TV commerical ever created. I apologize for not reading every post created on this web site too and misinterpreting your post. I have to work.
When I saw lots of people calling him Leon and using this in a derogative way, it came across as somewhat racist to me. :exclam: My fiance, who is black, saw these things and felt the same way.
Had I seen the reason for this use of the name \"Leon\" I wouldn\'t have felt that way, it was a natural reaction to the things I was reading. The fact that I know a lot more black men named Leon than white men, combined with the insulting manner of the posts, probably had something to do with my OPINION.
Sorry to take your post out of context. Maybe you shouldn\'t have done the same with mine as I simply stated my opinion. I never said anyone in particular was racist, I only said I saw what in my opinion, were racist tones/language in some posts.
Your sarcastic remarks about my being engaged to a black woman are downright despicable. The only thing I will say is the reason I mentioned it: to make sure everyone knew that I know about racism because I experience it sometimes when I am out with my fiance. I never said anything about making peace with other races. There was no need for the childish sarcasm.
As with your posts about \"Leon\", maybe you should think about how other people will feel about, or interpret, your posts as most people don\'t read every single one, besides the mods.
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In any event, I\'ll try and refrain from the \"Leon\" comments from now on. Though I don\'t agree there\'s anything \"racist\" about it - and in fact, I still think it\'s a pretty funny comparison - it is an unnecessary diversion. Seems a little too PC for my taste, but this isn\'t my site and for the sake of the good folks who provide it, I don\'t want my comments to make anyone feel unwelcome.
No need for this to get ugly. Aaron Brooks is Aaron Brooks again, as far as I\'m concerned...
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Hey, Leon is fine with me. I just never saw that commercial and misunderstood you is all. Now that I know the reason for the name it\'s actually kind of funny and I also don\'t see anything racist about it. And besides I don\'t have the right to make you change it anyway. I appreciate the gesture though.
That\'s one of the reasons I don\'t post often, things can be miscontrued in text in all kinds of manners (especially when all the info to clarify the post isn\'t in one post). I much prefer talking in person.
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It\'s all good, alsaints113. Hopefully no hard feelings...
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In my opinion, the problem with Brooks is not talent, not statistics, not mistakes, not \"intangibles\". The problem is the OBVIOUS disparity between where Brooks plays in comparison to the rest of the QBs in the league, and where Brooks THINKS he plays in comparison to the rest of the league.
Brooks makes some great plays. Brooks makes some horrible plays. Brooks has mobility. Brooks has little accuracy. Brooks has a strong arm. Brooks can\'t read a defense. I could go on and on with an example of something good and then something bad.
The point is that most QBs in this league with similar \"style\" don\'t consider themselves great, or become offended when the media/sportswriters/fans don\'t group him in with those that really are great. Those other QBs (Plummer, Green, etc.) can recognize their own flaws that take action to deal with them. I suspect that one of the reason Brooks has not evolved as a QB is coaching, but another is the fact that it seems he cannot see himself realistically.
He still throws off his back foot, like he did five years ago. He still has happy feet in the pocket, like he did five years ago. He still can\'t throw the touch pass.... He still can\'t audible for &%@... These things can be practiced and taught if the patently AVERAGE Aaron \"Leon\" Brooks will step back away from the mirror, put down the attitude, and accept that he needs a lot of work before he can become a \"good\" QB, let alone a \"great\" one.
btw, Love the Leon commercials. If you watched the Super Bowl at all in the last three years, you would know who he is. He\'s only one of the most popular commercial figures of all time. My personal favorite is when he hurts his \"psyche\" when the fans boo him and he takes himself out of the game. The coach offers him herbal team, hilarious.
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An elated London Mayor Boris Johnson took a zip line after Great Britain notched its first gold medal — and delivered his own memorable Olympic performance.
London's colorful mayor got stuck while riding the zip line in Victoria Park, near Olympic park in east London. He was seen dangling 20 feet in the air while clutching two union flags.
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In a picture that is most certainly going to get her a lot of flack, model Gisele Bundchen went on a joyride on a 4-wheeler with her baby. And neither of them wore helmets.
The duo were in Costa Rica on Jan. 12 when they hopped aboard an ATV and went for a ride.
And not only were neither of them wearing helmets, but Bundchen was only driving with one hand so the other one could hold her child.
According to TMZ, it's illegal to drive or ride an ATV on public land without a helmet, but they're not sure whether Bundchen was on private or public property at the time.
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Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation, and Cultural Capital
The Graduate Students of George Mason University invite paper proposals for our 4th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. The Conference will take place on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
This conference considers practices, institutions, and products that promise happiness, in a sense of inducing "the good life," typically expressed as self-realization or finding one's purpose-borrowing Agamben's term, subjective technologies that have a specific relationship to social and political forces. How do practices designed or claimed for such diverse purposes as personal stress management, recovering from colonization, parenting, global conglomeration, and corporate development work? What kinds of transformations do they bring, in terms of personality, power, and communitas? And what becomes of the living cultural traditions from which these practices are abstracted, as in the care of the psychotherapeutic practice of "western Buddhism," which Zizek claims is the "hegemonic ideology par excellance of late capitalism?" From the transmission of packaged idealisms and practices with a putative relationship to traditional sources to the commodified transactions for services and goods, the conference organizers seeks papers that investigate the growing cultural industries, both global and local, devoted to manufacturing happiness.
The wide-ranging contexts for our investigation include, but are not limited to: the social positions within the family, home, workplace, community, or nation-state; geographical and global considerations of institutional development and affiliation; the political economy of corporate training models; cultural capital and legitimation; media and mediation (print, television, DVD, Internet, radio, etc.); religious connections and origins; the confirmation and construction of identities (gender, physical, class, spiritual, national, sexual, and race) in social or political realms; and the rise and intensity of ecological subjectivities.
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By Henry Davis
July 12, 2013
Dr. Dham Gupta also must serve five years of probation after the suspension and, before resuming a medical practice, must undergo a psychiatric evaluation and comply with all treatment recommendations, according to the decision of the state Board for Professional Medical Conduct.
A board hearing committee sustained charges against Gupta of gross negligence, failure to keep accurate records of the conversations with the patients and conduct that evidences moral unfitness.
Gupta, 60, of Williamsville, who practiced at a number of locations in the Buffalo Niagara region, did not respond to a call to comment. His attorney, Mark Affronti of the Roach, Brown, McCarthy & Gruber law firm in Buffalo, said he had no comment.
A 49-year-old female patient under Gupta's care at the Niagara County Department of Mental Health in 2010 alleged that Gupta asked for her assistance in obtaining a girlfriend for sex, according to state hearing documents.
The patient had a history of delusional disorder, paranoid personality disorder and substance abuse. She was being treated at the time for paranoia, depression, anxiety and suicidal and homicidal thoughts related to an abusive domestic relationship, according to the documents.
Gupta, a psychiatric consultant for the county department, admitted that the conversation took place during a treatment session and that he contacted the patient later about the status of his request, according to the documents.
Another patient, a 53-year-old male with a history of depression, anxiety disorder and substance abuse, reported a similar set of circumstances.
He was seen by Gupta in 2010 at the Niagara County Department of Mental Health for feeling suicidal. During an office visit, the patient alleged, Gupta asked him to help find a girlfriend age 20 to 27, with no drug problems, and followed up with several phone calls.
In both cases, the patients told officials that Gupta offered to pay them for their assistance, according to the documents.
In his hearing, Gupta admitted that the conversations took place and that he contacted the patients about the status of his requests, according to state documents. But he testified that the requests for a sex partner were made in "jest" and that the incidents were being taken out of proportion.
The hearing committee concluded that Gupta was not joking and was, instead, serious when he requested the assistance of his patients in obtaining sex partners. The standard of care for treating the patients required that the physician maintain appropriate professional boundaries, the hearing committee concluded.
"This behavior is intolerable in a physician entrusted with the care of our most vulnerable patients," the hearing committee wrote.
Gupta can request a review of the hearing committee's decision. A colleague of Gupta's who asked not to be identified described the physician as a "complete professional" who exercised poor judgment but, from his perspective, received an overly harsh punishment.


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