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Terrell Stoglin leaves Maryland with suspension looming
It's a bombshell, and seemingly out of leftfield; but it's true. Terrell Stoglin is leaving the University of Maryland after two seasons. Apparently, he never bought into Turgeon's system and the coach's view for their future together. The result is that Stoglin has been encouraged to leave the program. It's shocking, but Mark Turgeon has a vision and...
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Maryland guard Stoglin declares for NBA draft
Maryland guard Terrell Stoglin has entered the NBA draft after receiving a one-year suspension from the school. Stoglin averaged 21.6 points per game as a sophomore last season, tops in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The 6-foot-1 standout started 27 of 29 games and received 42 starts over two seasons for the Terrapins. The school announced Monday that Stoglin will be suspended...
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Terrell Stoglin declares for the NBA draft?
After indicating that he would return for his junior season earlier in the offseason, Stoglin has apparently had a change of heart. Sunday, April 29th was the final day that college players are able to declare for the NBA draft, and Stoglin has done so according to InsideMDSports.com. InsideMDSports.com Breaking News: Sophomore guard Terrell Stoglin has declared for the NBA...
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Stoglin leads Maryland past Wake Forest
ATLANTA (AP) -- Terrell Stoglin scored 25 points, including nine straight in a decisive 20-4 run to open the second half, and Maryland ran past Wake Forest 82-60 on Thursday in the lopsided opening game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Wake Forest led 28-27 late in the first half before Stoglin's basket capped a 9-0 run that helped give Maryland a 36-31 lead at halftime...
Via Fox Sports Carolinas
March 08, 2012 | Discuss
Maryland 82, Wake Forest 60
Terrell Stoglin scored 25 points, including nine straight in a decisive 20-4 run to open the second half, and Maryland ran past Wake Forest 82-60 on Thursday in the lopsided opening game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Wake Forest led 28-27 late in the first half before Stoglin's basket capped a 9-0 run that helped give Maryland a 36-31 lead at halftime. The Terrapins...
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March 08, 2012 | Discuss
Stoglin leads Maryland past Virginia Tech
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Terrell Stoglin scored 21 of his 28 points in the second half, and Maryland never trailed in a 73-69 Atlantic Coast Conference victory over slumping Virginia Tech on Saturday. Sean Mosley had 15 points for the Terrapins (13-7, 3-3), who snapped a three-game skid. Maryland let a 15-point cushion dwindle to two with five seconds left, but Stoglin made two...
Via Fox Sports Carolinas
January 28, 2012 | Discuss
Stoglin leads Maryland over Samford
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Terrell Stoglin scored 24 points and Maryland defeated Samford 75-63 on Saturday, setting a season high for margin of victory. Maryland (9-3) has won six straight and finished the month of December undefeated -- the Terrapins' last loss coming Nov. 29. It was the ninth time in 12 games that Stoglin, the Atlantic Coast Conference's leading scorer...
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December 31, 2011 | Discuss
Maryland slips past Florida International 65-61
Terrell Stoglin scored 20 points, and Maryland needed a late rally to squeeze past Florida International 65-61 Wednesday night. The Terrapins (6-3) trailed by 11 late in the first half and by 52-50 with 7:12 left before FIU (3-7) went cold. The Panthers went nearly six minutes without a point, and although Maryland made only two baskets over the final nine minutes, it was just enough...
Via AP on Fox
December 14, 2011 | Discuss
Stoglin leads Maryland over Notre Dame 78-71
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Terrell Stoglin scored 31 points, James Padgett had 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Maryland surprised Notre Dame 78-71 Sunday in the BB&T Classic. It was the most significant win of the season for the Terrapins (4-3), who are in rebuilding mode under first-year coach Mark Turgeon. Sean Mosley contributed 17 points and six rebounds for Maryland, which went...
Via Fox Sports Carolinas
December 04, 2011 | Discuss
Film Session: Terrell Stoglin in Motion
While Maryland was unable to pull out the victory over Illinois, they did arguably their best job to date of running their offensive sets. The Terps were able to get some open catch and shoot looks for Terrell Stoglin off the ball by setting some double screens. Here's a look at one such instance late in the first half which resulted in a big made three pointer. Faust brings the...
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December 03, 2011 | Discuss
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Republican support for the freedom to marry continues rapid growth
Postedon Jun 27, 2014 at 10:00 am
This week, United States Senator Susan Collins from Maine became the fourth Republican Senator to announce her support for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples, mirroring the growing national support for marriage among conservative groups.
One year after historic Supreme Court ruling, momentum for marriage surges
Postedon Jun 26, 2014 at 11:00 am
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Windsor v. United States, which struck down the core of the federal so-called Defense of Marriage Act and found marriage discrimination unconstitutional.
LANDMARK VICTORY: 10th Circuit Appeals Court rules in favor of the freedom to marry
Postedon Jun 25, 2014 at 11:24 am
Today the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in favor of same-sex couples' freedom to marry, upholding a marriage ruling out of Utah in December. It is the first ruling by a federal appellate court since last year's victory in the Supreme Court.
Federal judge in Indiana strikes down marriage ban
Postedon Jun 25, 2014 at 11:00 am
Today, June 25, 2014, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young ruled in favor of the freedom to marry, striking down Indiana's ban on marriage for same-sex couple and becoming the latest judge in an amazing year of victories for marriage in every corner of the country.
U.S. Conference of Mayors passes resolution calling for end to marriage discrimination
Postedon Jun 24, 2014 at 07:00 am
Yesterday, June 23, at its annual conference in Dallas, the U.S. Conference of Mayors overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on federal courts, including the Supreme Court, to expeditiously bring an end to marriage discrimination against gay couples nationwide.
One border and 30 miles make all the difference in how these same-sex couples are treated
Postedon Jun 23, 2014 at 12:30 pm
To illustrate the reality of these untenable marriage laws, we spoke with two couples who have led similar lives and yet, because of the state border between Illinois and Indiana are treated dramatically differently when it comes to accessing simple respect for their relationship.
Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, KY joins Mayors for the Freedom to Marry
Postedon Jun 20, 2014 at 02:00 pm
Today, Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, Kentucky signed on to Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, a broad-based and nonpartisan group of mayors who believe that all people should be able to share in the love and commitment of marriage.
Georgia Lawyers for the Freedom to Marry launches with more than 200 pledge signers
Postedon Jun 20, 2014 at 10:15 am
Today, Southerners for the Freedom to Marry – in partnership with our friends at Georgia Equality – announced Georgia Lawyers for the Freedom to Marry, a bipartisan list of more than 200 Georgia attorneys who are adding their names to the growing list of Georgians who support marriage for same-sex couples.
Administration extends key federal protections to married same-sex couples
Postedon Jun 20, 2014 at 10:00 am
Today, the Obama administration announced that it will take additional steps to provide increased federal respect for same-sex couples' legal marriages - However, social security protections for married couples will remain unavailable in nearly all states that do not respect marriage for same-sex couples.
10 Years of Marriage, 10 Milestones to Celebrate: How We Got Here
Postedon Jun 19, 2014 at 04:00 pm
On this 10th anniversary of the freedom to marry in America, let's take a moment to savor and remember how far we've come - and with full victory within reach, let's re-engage to finish the job and fulfill our goal of winning marriage nationwide!


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The main purpose is to test the safety and tolerability of SNS01-T. The first group of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, plasma cell leukemia or B cell lymphoma will be given a relatively low dose. If tolerated, a second group will receive a higher dose. If tolerated by the second group, a third and then a fourth group will receive higher doses. Treatment-related adverse events (side effects), changes in vital signs, physical examination, and laboratory values will be monitored. Patients will receive twice weekly infusions for 6 weeks and then will be followed monthly for 6 months. A secondary purpose is to explore whether SNS01-T is an effective treatment for multiple myeloma, B cell lymphoma and plasma cell leukemia.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. B cell lymphoma patients must have had their diagnosis confirmed histologically. Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) patients must have peripheral clonal plasma cells >20% of peripheral WBC and >2 x 109/L. Multiple myeloma and PCL patients must have been diagnosed by having met all three of the following IMWG criteria:
- Clonal bone marrow plasma cells >10%
- Presence of serum and/or urinary M-protein or, if absent, kappa or lambda serum FLC must be > 10 mg/dl accompanied by an abnormal kappa to lambda ratio (<0.26 or >1.65)
- Evidence of end-organ damage that can be attributed to the underlying plasma cell proliferative disorder, specifically, one or more of the following:
- Hypercalcemia: serum calcium >11.5 mg/100 mL
- Renal insufficiency: serum creatinine >2mg/dL
- Anemia: normochromic, normocytic with a hemoglobin value >2 g/100 mL below the lower limit of normal or a hemoglobin value <10 g/100 mL
- Bone lesions: lytic lesions, severe osteopenia, or pathologic fractures
2. B cell lymphoma patients must have measurable disease defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured for response in at least two perpendicular dimensions. Multiple myeloma patients must have measurable disease defined by the following:
- Serum M-protein ≥0.5g/dL or urine M-protein ≥ 200 mg/24 hours by protein electrophoresis
- If neither serum nor urine M-protein meet the criteria above, then kappa or lambda serum FLC must be ≥10 mg/dL accompanied by an abnormal kappa to lambda ratio (<0.26 or >1.65) (Serum FLC should only be used for patients without measurable serum or urine M-protein spike.)
- If neither of the above criteria are met, the presence of plasmacytomata measurable radiographically (CT, PET or MRI) or by direct measurement.
3. Have relapsed or refractory disease after two or more prior treatment lines, each of which may have consisted of either single or multiple regimens. The investigators will ensure that patients have had the benefit of standard treatments before considering the SNS01-T clinical trial.
4. Be at least 2 weeks beyond the last therapy and have recovered from acute toxicities of prior therapies
5. Have Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2
6. Have life expectancy of at least 3 months
7. Be ≥18 years of age and willing to provide written informed consent
8. For women and men of childbearing potential, have used effective contraceptive methods for at least 4 weeks prior to dosing and agree to continue using such methods during the study, and for at least 4 weeks after completing the study
9. For women of childbearing potential, have a negative serum pregnancy test within 24 hours before the initiation of SNS01-T therapy
10. Have an absolute neutrophil count >1,000/mm3
11. Have a platelet count >75,000/mm3
12. Have total bilirubin <2.0 mg/dL
13. Have aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase <3 times the upper limit of normal
14. Have serum creatinine ≤3 times the upper limit of normal
15. Have hemoglobin ≥8.0 g/dL
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Have presence of nonsecretory myeloma
2. Have an indolent lymphoma such as follicular lymphoma unless the disease is rapidly progressing
3. Requires renal dialysis
4. Have New York Heart Association Class III-IV heart failure classification
5. Have CNS or leptomeningeal disease
6. Have an active infection or serious comorbid medical condition
7. Be receiving other concurrent anticancer agents or therapies
8. Be receiving other concurrent investigational therapies or have received investigational therapies within 4 weeks of screening or 5 half-lives, if known, whichever is shorter
9. Be eligible to receive any other standard therapy available that is known to extend life expectancy
10. Be currently receiving steroids unless equivalent to 20 mg of prednisone or less
11. Be receiving or have received heparin therapeutically within two days before and after treatment with SNS01-T
12. Be pregnant or nursing
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We are all looking for ways to stretch our grocery dollars these days and still make delicious meals for our families. In this recipe series The Paula Deen Test Kitchen will share a new leftover recipe with you. Each recipe will start with the leftovers from one of Paula's simple and classic dinner entrees. With those dinner leftovers, a few inexpensive fresh ingredients and items from your pantry we created a simple recipe sure to delight your belly and not break the bank.
This week, Leftover Baked Ham from dinner becomes another dinner of Ham Fried Rice with Pineapple and Fried Egg. Ready in 30 minutes and under $20.
Original Recipe: Honey Mustard Glazed Ham.
Leftover Recipe: Ham Fried Rice with Pineapple and Fried Egg
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 small onion, diced
2 tablespoons garlic, minced
2 tablespoons ginger, minced
1 cup frozen peas, thawed
4 cups cooked white rice
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups leftover ham, diced
1-20 oz. can pineapple rings, cut into bite sized pieces
1/4 cup soy sauce, plus more for garnish
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons hot sauce
4 eggs
4 scallions, sliced on bias, garnish
1/4 cup cilantro leaves, garnish
In a wok or large skillet, heat the vegetable oil.
Add onion garlic, and ginger. Cook until golden.
Add rice and fry until coated with the oil and slightly golden.
Add salt, ham, pineapple, peas, soy sauce, vinegar, and hot sauce.
Toss and cook 2-3 minutes.
In a separate skillet, crack the 4 eggs and fry at medium heat sunny side up, or to your liking.
Place fried rice onto a platter and place fried eggs on top.
Garnish with scallions, cilantro, and a drizzle of soy sauce.
Servings: 4
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh addresses education, innovation and more during Facebook Q&A
In a 30-minute live exchange on the city's Facebook page Monday, Boston's new mayor answered a plethora of question from residents.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to host Facebook Q&A
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh will take to Facebook today to interact with his constituents during a Question & Answer forum.
More than 2,000 Boston potholes filled in two weeks
In an effort to give local motorists a smooth ride this year, city workers have filled 2,192 Boston potholes over the last two weeks.
Pitch your ideas for improving Boston at tonight's development meeting
Members of Boston Mayor-Elect Marty Walsh's transition committee, a group that is focusing on economic development in Boston, will meet this evening to hear from residents about ways to improve the city.
Night owls eye Boston Mayor-elect Marty Walsh to make good on late night MBTA promise
Boston Mayor-elect Martin Walsh touted his stance on late night MBTA service during his campaign push, saying that he wants public transportation to be available later in the evening. With last week's victory, night life-loving residents are waiting to see if the promise will come to fruition.


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I have sql server 2005 as my default instace. i have recently installed sql server 2008 as named instance. I have "employee" table in XYZ(database name) database on ABC(default instance name). i have same table "employee"(exactly same) in XYZ Database on ABC\KATMAI. Now i am trying to load ABC.XYZ.dbo.employee table with data from ABC\KATMAI.XYZ.dbo.employee using SSIS Package. ABC.CONFIG Table contains connectionstring to those databases, 1 for ABC.XYZ and 1 for ABC\KATMAI.XYZ .
SSIS packages contains: 1 Dataflow Component which inturn contains one Oledb source component and one oledb destination component. Connection Managers : ABC.XYZ , ABC\KATMAI.XYZ, ABC.CONFIG
Now i am using Environment variable "ssisconfig" with values Data source = ABC; Initial catalog = 'XYZ' and remaing thing...
Now when i run the package, ABC.XYZ.dbo.employee is not getting populated. What is the reason??Thanks,
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Can any one of help me with your valuable suggestions/comments/answers please.
Jan 25, 2011 at 08:50 PM swethaashwini
Without knowing more, the possibilities are nearly endless as far as potential reasons go.
Is the package running to completion? Error free? Are you running the package from BIDS, command line, or SQL Server AgentAre you logging the package execution to a table or file (a good idea to help with troubleshooting)? Are there any helpful messages in the log? Can you share them here?
Jan 25, 2011 at 09:16 PM KenJ
Let me put it this way.I have data on one server that need to be loaded into another server.(both tables have same definition) and this need to be done by SSIS package which will be run as a job.i want to make use of Environment variable. So Please give me your suggestions
Jan 25, 2011 at 09:52 PM swethaashwini
Ah, but why do you want to use the environment variable when there are other easier ways of doing it?
Jan 25, 2011 at 11:51 PM ThomasRushton ♦
Instead of getting the connection strings from ABC.CONFIG Table can u try using an XML configuration file for the connection strings and then try and see if it works.
Jan 26, 2011 at 09:48 AM aRookieBIdev
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Bunk Mates: When a Sibling Must Share a Room with Baby
Is your baby-to-be going to share a room with his older sibling? Try these suggestions for decorating and introducing the concept to your older child.
My Name in Lights (or at Least on the Wall)
"Monogramming is very popular today in both children's and nursery décor, even if a child does not share a room. This is an adorable and stylish way to accessorize the room and also gives the child a sense of worth and importance. We all love to see our names and initials on our belongings, no matter what our age," explains Blum, who has created her very own line of personalized children's wall hangings and accessories. She uses the same basic design, yet, "each child's initial and name are incorporated into the design of their own wall hanging. The wall hangings work very well when hung over each child's bed or crib to help in identifying the child's personal space, which in turn gives each child his/her own sense of self worth and individuality within this shared space."
Words of Advice
Lesli Johnson reminds parents that they should maintain a focus on "the positive aspects of sharing a room, and also to hear each child's concerns in an empathic way." Dr. Hackworth, who is also CEO and founder of Askachildpsychologist.com agrees, concluding that parents should also "remember, for plenty of reasons from centuries ago until the present, children all over the world have shared rooms and they've survived just fine. It'll be OK!"
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Our Guests Got LightBombed At DUMBO Summer Friday [GALLERY]
We know you're still recovering from our Unboxed/DUMBO Summer Friday event last week — mostly because we're right there with you. Well, get with it already! It's time to sort through the scraps of the past, courtesy of our LightBomber photobooth.
Our Unboxed/DUMBO Summer Friday event was a roaring success, featuring awesome sets from Bosco Delrey, Zambri, Prince Rama and Javelin (video forthcoming) and demos from a passel of techie folks. Plus, the whole thing was livestreamed on Unboxed's homepage. If that wasn't enough posterity for you, we also had the folks behind lightpainting app LightBomber on hand to take pics of our party guests.
The crew used their new LightBomber app (which garnered 10,000 downloads after our event) and executed the snappage thusly:
We set up the app on a tripod, started an exposure, did some lightpainting around the guest, and then popped a lower-power flash (the Lomo Fritz the Blitz, to be exact, since our usual pro flash would be too intense) and once the photos were done and the oohs and aahs had subsided, we took down twitter info and tweeted it right to the guest! No twitter? No problem. We also emailed and texted photos.
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Some of the advantages that maybe offered with franchises include:
- proven business model
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Using a franchise business model can be a strategic and rapid way to help achieve growth for your own business.
Franchising your business enables you to:
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- acquire adequate capital and resource provisioning via franchisee involvement
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- use franchisees' vested interest to help motivate retail-based business sales
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If you're going to adopt a franchise business model you'll need to:
- carry out a viability study
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- franchise costs—both initial and ongoing
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Millions of unauthorized immigrants have been given legal status in Europe and the United States since the mid-1980s through programs and mechanisms variously referred to as legalization or regularization. The policy tool has been used variously to address rising numbers of unauthorized immigrants, regulate underground labor markets, or for humanitarian purposes. Viewed by critics as a spur for more illegal migration, such policies are touted as a humanitarian means of addressing the status of workers and residents living in limbo and of regulating the informal labor market.
Migration to the United States from Mexico and Central America's Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) has accelerated in the last four decades. This increase has been driven by economic opportunities and facilitated by social networks of friends and family already in the United States.
This Policy Brief examines four types of criteria for earned legalization (English proficiency, employment, continuous presence, and monetary fines) in the five major legalization bills proposed by Congress since 2006—and finds that the projected effects differ on the ability of unauthorized men, women, and children to gain legal status.
This policy brief examines the legalization debate on both sides of the Atlantic and discusses policy parameters that characterize legalization programs, such as qualifications, requirements, benefits, and program design and implementation.
This policy brief shows that more unauthorized immigrants in the United States have been legalized through population-specific and registry programs than through the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act general legalization provisions.
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The opening speech of the Sydney Equal Love rally. It gathered at Town Hall despite the Anglican Church attempting to shut it down. It marched up Oxford St with over 700 people:
My names Brendan Maclean.
I work at triple j, I'm a musician, I hate Lady Gaga's new songs but I know every lyric and when I was 15 my dad picked me up from a police station under a banner that said 'Gay and Lesbian Youth Services.' Hi dad!
On Tuesday, the 17th of May, we celebrated International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. We came together to say no to bullying, no to discrimination in schools, in our work places and in our social lives. I spent the day at RMIT University in Melbourne hearing students talk about what they felt had been achieved to combat hate in others and fear in themselves, and there was a lot of good things; the laws that have changed, the opinions shifted, but what we agreed was missing is why we're here today.
If marriage is just a word: give it to me. If marriage is just a piece of paper: give it to me. We want Equal Love and we want the symbols and language that applies to everybody else, as equals.
Today is something we fight for, for most of our lives. When students threw rocks at you, when you were denied work, when you battled depression bought on because you were being told it was wrong to be who you were. When you lost friends because they didn't win that fight. You were fighting for Equal Love.
I don't for a minute believe that when Tim Mathieson turns to Julia Gillard and pops the question, she'll proudly declare her Atheism and say "no Tim we'll have Civil Union." But because she is a woman and he is a man they are free to stroll in and out of the boundaries and many meanings of the word Marriage but not us.
The double standards are obvious and the arguments against us are just a few twisted words away from: "It's just not normal." There is a lot left to fight for all around the world; from recent atrocities against civil rights Uganda to hate crimes that go unnoticed in rural Australia. But we as a community, throughout generations, have been battling for too long not overthrow this baseless idea that after you fight through high school, after you fight through the work place, after we fight through bigoted talk-back radio hosts and narrow minded politicians, after you fight the fear to let go over your lovers hand when you walk down the street, that when you finally find that person you want to marry, after all that, you cant.
I can only tell my own stories. Many of you, probably most of you, grew up in a culture where a rally like this may not have existed. Every generation assumes the next one has it easier, but so they should, it's what we want. So today we stand together to send a message, a clear, confident message, whether we're young or old, gay or straight, whatever gender or sexuality you are and whether or not you choose to get married yourself, we stand together to say it's time for our country to move into the modern world, to demand Equal Love.
"It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions."
Harvey Milk
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When Robert Kardashian senior's widow Ellen sold her dead husband's personal journals to In Touch, everyone sort of took the news with a grain of salt. I mean, his diary alleged that Kris Jenner abused her children, which is pretty intense and seemed a little out of left field. Sure, Kris is the worst, but is she really abusive? Now, though, more details from the diary have been released that make those accusations seem a little more plausible. The latest entries divulge the results of a court-ordered psychological evaluation Kris underwent during her divorce from Robert, and oh boy, they do not paint Kris in a kind light.
The official court documents (official court documents!) call Kris "manipulative", extremely "narcissistic", and say she has a "Cinderella attitude."
They go on to illuminate that she's immature, selfish, and pleasure-oriented, and has a need to have "her sense of specialness mirrored."
Knock me over with a feather.
Whether this is officially true or not, it's most certainly not untrue. I mean, come on, is it so hard to imagine that a woman who put her kids on reality TV, who encourages them to do Playboy, who makes a living by managing their careers, who has no problem orchestrating her daughter's fake marriage for money, who tries to sell her grandchildren's photos for a profit, and who is so obtuse that she doesn't even care that her daughters disapprove of her slurry, wine-drunk nights could be called "selfish", "narcissistic", and "pleasure-oriented"?
Please. Whose decision was it to capitalize on the illegal release of Kim's sex tape? Do you think Kim was like, I know! Let's leverage this into a reality show! I sure don't.
And during the very first season of Keeping Up, who agreed to "accidentally" distribute and sell Kim's sexy calendar intended only for her boyfriend, Reggie? It was obviously an agreed upon and scripted miscommunication, but what mother would be like, Yes, I'm on board with this plan?
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm starting to feel sorry for Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and that son she has with the hair plugs. With a mother, excuse me, Momager like Kris, it's a wonder at all that they're not all addicts serving life sentences.
On second thought, they are imprisoned by the E! network and will forever be addicted to the fame -- maybe she has, in fact, thoroughly messed them up, after all.
Are you surprised by Kris' psych eval?
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She did what she needed to do to make sure her kids did not end up just average kids If I had the resorces and knew the right people I would give my kids fame to. Any one of those kids could chose not to be where they are today. Those kids have everything. Besides Kim is just like her mom and now she is gonna have her own child. The Jenner part of the family along with kloe is the only ones that have any sense.
Please. There are plenty of people that have to go through court-ordered mental evaluations in custody battles, especially if you have an ex that's a real piece of work or an asshole or both.
Who the hell sells their dead husband's diaries to a magazine? Sounds like both of Mr. Kardashian's wives are nuts.
Kris Jenner is a fame and money hungry nut job who has absolutely no principles, morals, ethics or anything else that would make her admirable or even respectable. I'm not in the least surprised that she's immature, selfish, narcissistic and pleasure-oriented. She is disgusting, period. She is also the worst mother I've ever heard of, selling her children to the highest bidder just so she can get richer as well as more publicity. The Kardashians need to disappear completely. The public is sick of them. The only Kardashian that is worth anything is Khloe, and I feel so sorry for her that she's got Kris as a mother.


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BUTLERVILLE, Ind. (WHAS11) – Jennings County Sheriff's Officers arrested 28-year-old Lacey Smith and charged him with murder after a meth lab fire caused the death of another man - prosecutors have since dropped the charge.
Officers said Smith and 39-year-old Brian Short were operating a meth lab at Smith's home on North County Road 750 East in Butlerville when the ingredients exploded and ignited a fire in the kitchen.
According to a police report, Smith placed Short's unresponsive body in a vehicle and drove him to his mother's residence. Short later died of injuries sustained in the explosion, police said.
Smith was originally charged with murder but that charge has since been dropped. He is now facing one count of felony methamphetamine production.


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Scammers are using Facebook to target your friends and their money.
This post comes from Jim Wang at partner blog Bargaineering.
As more and more people use Facebook and other social networks, the probability that someone you know will be ensnared by a phishing e-mail grows.
Phishing, as it applies in this case, is when someone tries to steal your login credentials by sending you an e-mail that looks like it's from the network itself. The e-mail will look as if it came from Facebook, but the links inside will go to another site that looks like Facebook, where you'll unwittingly log in and give up your credentials.
This scam works because while people are usually on guard when they get e-mails that appear to be from their bank -- though phishing for bank credentials still works more often than it should -- they aren't as aware when they get an e-mail that appears to be from Twitter or Facebook. ("Oh, Jim sent me a shotgun in Mafia Wars. Must log in to see!")
The only positive in getting your Facebook account phished is that you don't lose any financial information directly. That's why scammers have turned to the "mugged abroad" scam.
As the holiday season approaches, here come the predictions about where and how much we'll spend. Also, is Black Friday becoming passe?
This post comes from Michael Koretsky at partner site Money Talks News.
You know the holiday season is almost here when economists and forecasters start predicting just how much we'll spend on gifts -- and they all contradict each other. Take a look at these new reports:
- "After a ho-hum 2009 and a disastrous 2008, holiday retail sales are expected to increase a more moderate 2.3% this year," proclaims the National Retail Federation.
- "In almost every category this year, there is a drop-off in intended purchases," cautions market research firm NPD Group.
- "The overwhelming majority of shoppers will maintain a tight grip on their wallets as they hit the stores this holiday season, with 83% expecting to spend the same or less on holiday gifts compared to 2009," says business consulting firm Accenture.
Even though the experts don't know exactly what will happen by the end of the holiday shopping season, their reports give the rest of us some tips on what to do -- and not do -- as we begin to shop.
Does it matter that people didn't like the compostable bag? And was it really that environmentally friendly? Many voices weigh in.
We apologize that we're a little late getting to last week's top news development, which was that Frito-Lay is no longer selling most Sun Chips in compostable bags because customers found the bags too noisy.
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Temp work is the new normal. But you can still position yourself for full-time work if and when that's a possibility.
This guest post comes from Pop at Pop Economics.
Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics told us how bad the job market was in September. The economy shed 95,000 jobs, many of which were temporary census jobs that we expected to lose all along. But local governments, which are struggling to balance their budgets, also shed 76,000 people.
In a few months, we'll probably move to positive job growth, but even that doesn't necessarily mean the unemployment rate -- which stands at 9.6% -- will drop. Every year, about a million new adults enter the workforce as students graduate and immigrants start looking. That doesn't even count the discouraged workers who've temporarily given up looking and might try again as the jobs picture looks better.
The bottom line is that the economy needs to add 100,000 to 125,000 jobs per month just to keep the unemployment rate even. Anything less than that, and the unemployment rate will go up, despite jobs being added.
Even in the best-case scenario, where job growth hits the high rate it did in the late 1990s (about 200,000 per month), it would take until 2017 before we got back to the 5% unemployment rate we enjoyed before the recession. Of course, very few economists expect jobs to grow nearly that fast.
Instead, employers are stocking up on part-time, temporary, and contract workers.
Caution: Shipping clubs and other deals can be costly. Here's what to consider before you sign up.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Nothing is more annoying than seeing a great online deal upended by high shipping and handling costs. Shoppers abandon almost half of their potential purchases at checkout, and high shipping charges are the No. 1 reason.
In response, stores have stepped up free shipping promotions and formed "shipping clubs," which charge an annual fee to cover postage on all your orders, no matter how small. The most recent entrant, ShopRunner, launched last week with an offer of unlimited shipping at a consortium of stores, including Toys R Us, The Sports Authority and GNC -- for $79 per year. And Borders and Barnes & Noble launched clubs earlier this year as part of their store loyalty programs, priced at $25 and $20, respectively.
A break on shipping seems like a welcome respite, but the math works out solidly in favor of the retailers.
Beverly Hills wants to capitalize on its reputation (and help the city budget) with its own line of perfume and cosmetics.
As cities struggle to raise revenue, Beverly Hills has come up with a unique strategy: sell its own branded perfume.
If everyone from Lady Gaga to Bruce Willis is marketing a signature scent, why not Beverly Hills, the symbol for all things rich?
Wouldn't you rather your city be identified with a perfume than a Chihuahua?
Should your gift equal the cost of your reception meal?
I want to get married. That is, I want to get married after I've finagled an introduction to J. Money of the Budgets Are Sexy personal-finance blog. Once he and I are best buds, I want to get married a whole bunch of times, because J. Money's wedding gift of choice is a $100 bill.
"Nothing more, nothing less -- just a straight-up Mr. Benjamin for all our friends and family," he wrote in this post.
All right, I'm not actually looking to get married. (Unless it were for something really romantic, like health insurance.) But I have to say I'm tempted by J. Money's largesse, which is, well, large.
Transferred military couple didn't sell Vegas home at the height of the bubble. Now they're struggling to rent it out from afar.
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Fast-forward to 2004: The market was on fire. Houses were selling mere hours after being listed. Our house had appreciated by $120,000. It was also time for us to move again -- and time for us to take the money and run, right? Wrong.
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Buzz was in the air January 23 when Patterson opened its new Wal-Mart store, which created more than 300 jobs, and was expected to bring hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city's general fund from sales tax revenue.
Stanislaus County's largest Wal-Mart store celebrated its grand opening with a ceremony that included local politicians, veterans and store officials at the new supercenter at Sperry and Ward avenues.
While speaking at the event, Mayor Luis Molina said there would be a lot less road miles clocked in for Patterson residents as a result of the store's opening.
The opening marked the culmination of nearly four years of planning and more than a year of construction.
A foundation established by the retailer donated $8,000 in grants during the grand opening ceremony. Homeless advocacy group Helping Others Sleep Tonight (HOST) and scholarship foundation Patterson Recognizing Individuals Determined to Excel (PRIDE) each received $1,000 checks. The Patterson Apricot Fiesta, Patterson Volunteer Fire Department, Patterson Youth Soccer Association and Westside Food Pantry also received $1,500 each.
Just a day earlier, the City Council approved a memorandum of understanding between the city and its workers, outlining new benefits and pay based on revenue generated by new businesses coming into Patterson.
Employee negotiations finalized
The two-year MOU set to expire later this year was with the biggest bargaining unit for the city, which is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 10. It represents 53 employees in public works, community services, recreation, fire, community development and the finance department. The other unit is the 12-paid firefighter bargaining unit— the International Association of Firefighters local 4577.
The most previous MOU had expired June 30, 2012; the city spent the rest of 2012 negotiating the provisions of the new pact approved in late January.
The new agreement included a 4 percent base wage increase to all AFSCME 10 represented employees, effective April 1, 2014, if city sales tax revenues are more than $2.1 million. In addition, all normal evaluation-based salary raises will be put back into effect retroactively July 1, 2012, according to the report.
The city has had a council imposed citywide wage freeze for the last three fiscal years ending June 30, 2011. A cost of living adjustment was given to employees effective July 1, 2011.
The city will also pay 100 percent of health insurance for workers within the bargaining unit during the contract.
The firefighters bargaining unit would follow in February with a pact of their own for three years through the end of the fiscal year in 2015. The deal could cost the city as much as $80,000 to $95,000 a year if raises are triggered in the second and third years of the deal. The cost would be spread over several district pools of money and could cost the General Fund $30,000 to $36,000 annually.
Among some 37 changes made to the previous contract are a potential 4 percent raise on April 1, 2014 for the firefighters if the city reaches $2.1 million in sales tax revenue, and another 3 percent raise April 1, 2015 if those revenues hit $2.5 million. During the three year pact the city will also pay 100 percent of the monthly premium for Kaiser Permanente's HMO plan at the employee and two plus dependents level.
West Patterson Biz Park hits winter snag, passes later
In late February, facing mounting opposition to a massive 1,119 acre West Patterson Business Park expansion, the City of Patterson and land developers withdrawn their application to the county's governing land use agency. The matter, which passed the Patterson City Council in August 2012, was set to go before the Local Agency Formation Commission February 27, but the city retreated due to opposition from the commission's staff and county officials. LAFCo is an agency chartered to deal with land-use issues for Stanislaus County and its cities. It consists of two county supervisors selected by the full board of supervisors, two city council representatives selected by a majority of the mayors in the county and a public member selected by the other four members. None of the five commissioners are from Patterson.
The city originally planned to have the expansion continued to a meeting on March 27 and declared so in a letter Monday, Feb. 25, but fully retreated Wednesday in another letter from Deputy City Attorney Doug White.
In December, the Stanislaus Local Agency Formation Commission voted 5-0 in favor of a massive West Patterson Business Park expansion in spite of staff recommendations to sink the project.
LAFCo staff recommended that the panel deny the project on grounds that it would impact water tables in the area and there were no agricultural mitigations to help offset the loss of farmland in the area. The panel sided however, with project studies that indicated the loss of farmland would actually help or keep the water table the same, stating industrial and commercial businesses use less water than agricultural land uses.
The expansion has two main park components, the Arambel Park and the KDN Business Center. The project will eventually increase the land size of the city by more than 30 percent.
The 948-acre Arambel Park will focus on light industrial businesses, similar to those already in the West Patterson Business Park, including CVS and Kohl's distribution centers. The 104-acre KDN center is planned for retail developments.
The expansion in west Patterson would encompass the Arambel Business Park and KDN Retail Center, projects proposed for land west of Rogers Road, east of Interstate 5, south of Zacharias Road and north of Sperry Avenue. Most of the area is farmland and would continue to be farmed until developed, even after annexation.
Developer and farmer Jeff Arambel said the project will provide an estimated 10,000 jobs with $3.1 million in net revenue to the county and another $3.5 million annually to the city of Patterson.
Giant distribution center approved for mystery tenants
That, along with another planned giant distribution center retooled in December from seven buildings to one giant 1.27 million square foot facility are attracting more businesses and jobs to the region as the new year opens.
The massive Patterson Logistics Center was approved December 17. The building, which is more than 25 percent larger than the Amazon.com building, was approved 4-0 for development at the regular Patterson City Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 17. The Patterson Logistics Center has two prospective mystery tenants, according to real estate developer Scott Cable of Buzz Oates and Cable and Kilpatrick properties. One known to the developer and another that was a mystery to Cable as well.
Council members seeking answers to questions of traffic impacts held up the project from October through three following meetings. However, traffic engineers and staff members insisted the project, which consolidates seven buildings with the same combined square footage into one giant structure, would create less traffic than was already approved.
Businesses knocking on door in New Year
With all of the available land coming into play in the New Year, Internet retailers looking to compete with Amazon.com are now knocking at the door of Patterson, especially after the West Patterson Business Park expansion near Interstate 5.
Government officials as well as real estate developers are confirming that at least two major Internet retailers or e-tailers, as they are sometimes called, are looking to locate in Patterson to bring more distribution center style businesses and jobs to the area.
While not revealing a name— one has remained anonymous to even the developers, much like Amazon.com did in early stages of development— Deputy City Attorney Doug White said as much as 5 million square feet of distribution center building space could be at stake and Patterson is in direct competition with its rival 26 miles to the north— Tracy.
He said one e-tailer that wants to directly compete with Amazon.com is looking to put in two distribution centers within a five mile radius of each other— one 1.2 million square foot facility and another 1.8 million square foot colossus— preferably next door to each other. Another anonymous e-tailer is looking to put in a 1.2 to 1.5 million square foot facility in Patterson— possibly into the Patterson Logistics Center
Public safety and City Government Reporter Nick Rappley can be reached at 209-568-9975 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LOS ANGELES - The game was there for the Orlando Magic, but Courtney Lee blew his shot to win it.
A shot that couldn't have been much easier.
Lee missed a layup that would have won Game 2 of the NBA finals at the fourth-quarter buzzer, and the Magic lost to the Los Angeles Lakers 101-96 in overtime Sunday night, falling into a 2-0 hole.
"He had a close one. He had a chance to finish the game. It just wasn't there for it to happen," Magic centre Dwight Howard said.
A perfectly drawn-up play should have given the Magic their first finals victory. Instead, it joins Nick Anderson's botched free throws from the 1995 finals as the most heartbreaking moments in franchise history.
"It was a good play, it was a good pass," Lee said. "Coach did a good job of drawing up the right play and I caught it. I tried to get the ball up as quick as possible and then it rolled off the rim.
The Magic had the ball on the sideline with the game tied at 88 and 0.6 seconds left. Rashard Lewis set a pick on Kobe Bryant that freed Lee to cut to the basket, and Hedo Turkoglu lofted a pass that led Lee right under the hoop.
Lee leaped to catch it, but perhaps bothered by Pau Gasol rushing over, threw it off the glass too hard as time expired.
"I was surprised he was kind of wide open," Gasol said. "But I tried to contest it as good as I could and then we gave ourselves a chance to win the ball game."
The rookie guard immediately put his hands over his head in disbelief and walked toward the bench in that same pose as teammates came onto the court to console him. Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy had a pained look on his face, perhaps aware his team had just blown the best chance it was going to get to seize home-court advantage before heading back to Florida.
The play was similar to one the Magic used two years ago -- before Van Gundy's arrival -- when Howard soared over Tim Duncan to catch Turkoglu's inbounds lob and dunked it home with 0.2 seconds left for a victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
Lee, obviously, isn't able to leap as high as Howard, so he didn't know if he could finish with a dunk, especially because the pass may have led him just a step too far.
"I probably could have. I can't say," Lee said. "It was a lob. You usually try to dunk lobs, but in certain situations you can't."
The loss Sunday came on the 14th anniversary of Orlando's NBA finals debut -- an equally painful one. Poised to beat the defending champion Houston Rockets in Game 1, the Magic watched Anderson miss four consecutive free throws late in the game with a chance to put it away and ended up losing 120-118 in overtime.
Same date, same painful June 7 ending for the Magic.
"It could have been better if he made it, but we can't really be down on ourselves because we played (better) than we did in the first game," Turkoglu said. "It looked good, but it just came out. We should have just done a better job in overtime."
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Research suggests that optimists do better in school, sports, sales, and politics. For one study, published in 1988 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers surveyed 99 men at age 25 and rated their degree of optimism about life in general. Doctors then examined these men at age 65 and found that the optimists had survived middle age in better health.
Pessimists tend to believe that bad times will last forever and that a single mistake will affect all areas of their lives. As a result, they often get depressed and give up too soon.
Yet optimism can get you in trouble, too, says Andrew Shatte, PhD, of Adaptive Learning Systems in King of Prussia, Pa. Optimists tend to shift the blame to others when things don't work out. They can also be aggressive and impulsive, taking unnecessary risks.
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Last Tuesday basketball fans filled the stands and lined several of the wall of the Mount St. Joseph Academy gym, watching the Magic perform in their last major home game of the regular season.
The contest was an Athletic Association of Catholic Academies rematch against Nazareth Academy, whom the Mount had beaten on a last-second shot in a Jan. 6 road game. The Magic had a little more room to spare this time, defeating the Pandas, 40-33, with balanced scoring from Jen Sabia (11 points, six rebounds, four assists), Elle Hagedorn (nine points, eight rebounds), Mary Jo Horgan (nine points, four rebounds), and Shannon Bridges (eight points).
Two days later, Mount St. Joe had a closer scrape out at Villa Maria Academy, trailing by a point at the start of the fourth quarter but then coming on to beat the Hurricanes, 41-37. Sabia had another 11-point afternoon, and the winners received 10 points from Smith, nine from Hagedorn, eight from Horgan, two from Bridges, and one from Meg Rothwell.
Ending their week with Saturday's 59-40 victory over another AACA club, Merion Mercy, the Mounties closed out the month of January with a record of 13-0 in the league, and 21-0 overall.
As the end of the regular season approached, MSJ coach John Miller reflected, "After graduating the amount of talent that we did from last year's team [five of the top seven players], for this team to embark on what is now a 21-0 journey, I think has been quite remarkable."
On Tuesday, a key for the Magic was yielding a relatively modest total of 11 points and seven rebounds to Nazareth's Carleigh Brown, a 6', 1" forward who has signed with Rider University.
Speaking of her own teammate Steph Smith, Mount St. Joe's Hagedorn commented, "Steph did a great job guarding Carleigh; you wouldn't think she's a sophomore by watching her play. Actually, Coach came to me yesterday in practice and said he thought he'd have Steph cover Carleigh because she's more her size, and then have me there to help. I think that worked out really well."
Smith would finish with three points, four steals, and three assists in the game.
The Mount and Nazareth went through the opening quarter neck-and-neck, with a late trey by Sabia giving the Magic a 13-10 edge at the end of the period. By the middle of the second round the hosts had widened the gap slightly to five points at 18-14, but Nazareth's two senior "bigs" rallied the Pandas, with Leah Kuczynski driving the lane twice and Brown adding a bucket on an inside move to put the visitors ahead, 19-18, about two-and-a-half minutes before halftime.
After that, however, Nazareth would go without a field goal for 14 minutes and 48 seconds. MSJ defenders got a hand, or at least a few fingers, on numerous Nazareth entry passes, and when the visitors did manage to get the ball inside, they missed lay-ups.
The Magic didn't cause smoke to pour from the scoreboard themselves, but their defense stifled their ursine opponents, and the Pandas trailed, 31-22, going into the fourth quarter.
"After we got that lead," Hagedorn said, "I think our defense tightened up and was just playing really well."
That's a good thing, because even with some strong perimeter shooting, the Magic made just 11 of their 40 field goal attempts throughout the game.
"I think we were playing a little out of our element – a little faster pace than we normally play," Hagedorn remarked. "It was good for our defense, but I think on offense we rushed our shots a little bit."
Sabia, whose three-pointer at the buzzer beat Nazareth in the earlier meeting between the teams, had two treys in the book by the three-quarter mark, and the Pandas were also troubled by triples from an unexpected source, MSJ forward Shannon Bridges. She knocked down a "three" in each half and finished with eight points overall.
The Magic slowed down the pace on offense fairly early in the fourth quarter, but Nazareth sandwiched a score off a rebound by Brown and a three-point bucket by Maggie Borski around a lone Mount free throw, and it was a five-point game (32-27) as the clock cut into the final two minutes. Sabia and Smith each converted a one-and-one to lever the lead back out to nine, and a lay-up by visitor Jess Sylvester was matched by two free throws for Horgan as the tally rose to 38-29.
After Kuczynski scored on a drive for the visitors, the Magic bungled an inbounds play on their defensive baseline, and Nazareth's Kuczynski hit her final lay-up. The Pandas called their last time-out with 12 seconds remaining, then came back out and fouled Hagedorn. The MSJ senior collected both points to make it 40-33, and at the other end a missed shot by Nazareth was rebounded by Horgan.
In front of a throng of howling Hurricanes fans on Thursday, the visiting Magic trailed host Villa Maria at the three-quarter mark, 26-25. Mount St. Joe inched ahead and was leading 35-33 as the clock wound down to the two-minute mark. Villa forward Erin Mann would score the bulk of her game-high 14 points in the final stages of the game as the 'Canes tried to overtake the Magic.
Sabia related, "We literally would have three people on her, straight-up, like all over her, and she would turn around and make the shot."
The hosts had to foul to keep Mount St. Joe from holding the ball, and as the Magic got into the foul bonus flawless one-and-one's by Horgan and Hagedorn were balanced by Hurricane field goals to make it 39-37.
With six seconds to go Villa committed its ninth team foul, and Sabia stuck both shots from the stripe to put the final score on the board.
"I think Jen Sabia has just been the glue for us," MSJ coach John Miller remarked. "Her positive personality rubs off on everybody. Before every game, their mindset is just that they're going to win."
When Merion Mercy visited on Saturday for the Magic's last regular-season home game, Mount St. Joseph bid a ceremonial Senior Day farewell to Bridges, Hagedorn, Rothwell, and Sabia. After that, the Magic sent the Golden Bears packing, gaining a ten-point halftime advantage after a slow start. Mount St. Joe was out front, 46-29, after three quarters and coasted home behind 19 points from Hagedorn, 16 from Sabia, 10 from Horgan, and seven apiece from Smith and Tara Barr.


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