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Truth in consequences: Virginia felons do the time
Virginia, with a maximum sentence of 10 years, may appear to be among the most lenient of the 40 states that recognize the crime of voluntary manslaughter.
According to a federal study, 29 states impose longer maximums. Twenty have a statutory maximum of 20 years or more, and nine have a maximum of 11 to 19 years, leaving Virginia one of 11 states in the 10-years-or-less category.
"On one level, you could say we're lenient," says Rick Kern, the director of the state's Criminal Sentencing Commission, "but when you measure it by time served, Virginia is among the toughest states when it comes to violent crime."
Kern says that Truth in Sentencing, a legislative program that took effect in 1995, forces Virginia inmates to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence. Kern says that since then-Governor George Allen signed the Truth in Sentencing laws, Virginia criminals have served on average 92 percent of their sentences.
If Andrew Alston is average, he will serve 33 months. Having been incarcerated since he killed Walker Sisk a year ago, Alston could be freed in August 2006.
In 1997, in response to concerns expressed by the Department of Justice that the federal system's own 10-year maximum was too soft, the U.S. Sentencing Commission appointed a task force to study voluntary manslaughter.
The group found that state maximum sentences ranged from a low of six years in New Mexico to a high of life imprisonment in South Dakota. The task force also noted some incongruities. For instance, the federal system's 10-year maximum matched the maximum for embezzlement or a second offense for mailing sexual advertisements.
One task force participant noted the irony that aggravated assault with intent to kill carries a 20-year maximum penalty. "It's conceivable," said the speaker, "that a defendant would receive a lesser sentence for killing a victim than for assaulting a victim."
According to a Virginia study, inmates convicted of voluntary manslaughter who have been previously convicted of severe violent crimes end up serving an average of 8.6 years behind bars.
"Ten years is ten years in Virginia," says Kern. "It isn't in most states."
Alston didn't qualify as a prior violent offender, prosecutor Jon Zug explains, because his Pennsylvania offense was for conspiracy, and his previous local charge– an alleged battery that his then girlfriend (the alleged victim) and his father tried to recant– was dismissed.
BOX- Jail time: Average incarcerations for voluntary manslaughter
4.1 years: Offenders with no prior violent record
6.8 years: Offenders with lesser violent records
8.6 years: Offenders with severe violent records
–source: 1998-2003 data from 2003 Annual Report of the Virginia Sentencing Commission

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From the Editor:
"My fellow Christians. I am pleased to welcome a man who needs only a brief introduction to our humble news site today. Pat Robertson has long lead the fight to bring truth to people, and today, I am happy to announce that Pat Robertson has faxed me a little something that he wrote."
Pat Robertson's Appeal to Good Christians:
"Brothers and sisters, hello. As you may note by the macabre decorations and glut of candy on the shelves of mercantalist and secular general interest stores, yet another installment of All Hallows Eve is upon us. Due to the reverent nature of this night, one would expect that every person acquainted with the Good Book of the Lord would be at home, saying a candlelight vigil for the coming of one of the Church's most holy days, All Saint's Day. However, as most of you, my brethren, know, this is not the case.
The pagan ritual of All Hallows Eve, long dismissed by the church, is known to good Christians as the day before All Saint's Day (a holy day of obligation, as you all know, so get to church!). But even the disgusting excuses for human beings that we so kindly call "the most hedonistic and useless forms of life God ever breathed life into" would be absolutely horrified by this travesty that is "Halloween".
I spit on this Halloween! I spit on it, rub its face in the dirt, tell it to autofellate, and then kill it, in the name of God. According to Exodus 32:7-10: "...they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them....Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them!" So, you see, the omnipotent Lord has spoken to us directly through the Bible! He is denouncing Halloween, in one of the very first books of Scripture!
Just as the golden calf in the passage mentioned above (surely you know how the story goes, and if you don't you are not a true God-fearing man), the disgusting perverts who have desecrated our reverent vigil are pigs. They will burn in God's firey hell, where they will be forced to do the hard labor they previously forced upon Mexican people! Those who celebrate this "holiday" shall join them in this eternal pain and suffering, and indeed will deserve it.
No, God is not willing to forgive those of you who, instead of joyously waiting a day of mass liturgy on the coming of all saints, cry out for pleasure lest you hand out debauchery in wrath. Who are we to speak as if we are God, telling people what to do, what is wrong and right? Doing this, you are worshipping yourself over God, and according to Yahweh Himself: "That's just wrong"
But as good Christians, we needn't despair! Men, make your wife prepare an evening of reverence and prayer. Women, do as you are told and go above and beyond, lest you disappoint your husband. Children, bow your heads in prayer throughout your school day and do not speak when spoken to. Black people, hide yourself and pray for mercy. The best way to avoid disgrace is to not associate with people, all ye who are faithful. Though they need us to be saved, we do not need them, nor should we want them.
Ignore the disgrace that is Halloween. Ignore all those who choose to follow its false truths. We are a people of God. It is time to start acting as such.
Praised be the name of Jesus Christ, now and forever."
Tomorrow's Article: All Saint's Day: Why We Should Fight It (The Suppression of All Soul's Day)


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28 year old model Rozlyn Papa, who has been described as one of the most beautiful women in The Bachelor history, is fighting to clear her name in the latest Bachelor scandal.
As we previously reported, Rozlyn has been confirmed to be the woman who will be revealed on next week's episode as having had an inappropriate relationship with one of the show's producers. According to ABC and the show's host Chris Harrison, Rozlyn was immediately sent packing and the producer was fired as well.
While ABC has yet to use the word "sexual affair" to describe what happened, they did run a teaser video which had one of the other bachelorettes saying: "She's been having this sexual affair with somebody else in The Bachelor house."
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline, Rozlyn, vehemently denies having any sexual relationship in the house. "No, I did not have a sexual relationship with a producer on the show," Rozlyn said.
The show said she was terminated for an "inappropriate relationship" with a producer. "What they mean by inappropriate relationship is not what inappropriate relationship means in the real world," she told Radar as she defended her reputation.
So what is the current status of her relationship with the said producer? "I had a relationship with someone on the show that didn't benefit them," Rozlyn said, referring to the network and the show's senior producers. "We remained really close but we are not dating now," Rozyln said of the since-fired producer.
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Mark Wilson October 28th, 2013
DENVER, COLORADO–It is a tradition at the annual GSA meeting to have a Wooster Geologists alumni gathering. Here is this evening's happy crew of current students, faculty and alumni — or at least a snapshot of a continuum of people coming and going. We missed Dr. Greg Wiles, who could not be with us this year. Thirty people were present at some point.


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GREENSBORO, Ga. - In a riveting start to the 2011 spring season, the Yale men's golf team took down #26 Notre Dame by just one shot at Great Waters Course in Greensboro, Ga.. The Bulldogs combined for back-to-back days of 303 to get their first win of a spring that continues Thursday and Friday at the George Washington Invitational.
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Lest you think giving up on his 2012 first-rounder before he caught an NFL pass was going to change Jim Harbaugh's thinking, the 49ers coach was not ready to concede to the "so-called experts" who declared A.J. Jenkins a flop a year ago.
Harbaugh, like everyone else, invoked the "fresh start" both Jenkins and Jon Baldwin were getting after the 49ers and Chiefs traded disappointing former first-rounders.
But it was very different than Harbaugh's initial volley at reports Jenkins wasn't doing so well from a year ago.
"For those — the scribes, pundits, so-called experts — who have gone so far as to say that he's going to be a bust, should just stop," Harbaugh said on July 29, 2012, via Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. "I recommend that because they're making themselves look more clueless than they already did.
"I'll go on record: A.J. is going to be an outstanding football player. So far in camp and what he's done in the offseason has led us to believe nothing but he'll be an outstanding football player in the National Football League."
Harbaugh went back to his own experience going from Chicago to Indianapolis to defend the possibility that Jenkins might turn into something other than what he appears to be at the moment.
"A.J., the why, and that kind of thing, . . . I can speak from personal experience," Harbaugh said. "I was rejected by a team, sent to another team, and with the next team, my signature years came. So it can be a real positive. That's what everybody hopes for in this situation.
"A.J. is a very talented player. He's never been an issue or a problem as a teammate. He competes. He works very hard. There's no reason that both these guys can't end up having a great career."
From the moment the 49ers drafted Jenkins, he was viewed as an outlier, someone whose selection was so far off the normal projections that it drew notice, and criticism. In this case, however, the scribes and pundits weren't the ones who ended up looking clueless at the end of the day, and the so-called experts were glad to sell for pennies on the dollar.


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BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) -- "Mother Nature is not cooperating."
That was the message Sunday from frustrated authorities battling even more bad weather in flood-hit Colorado.
Heavy clouds and rain grounded helicopters, slowing the search for the nearly 500 people who remain unaccounted for. Authorities fear as many as six may be dead.
"Mother Nature is not cooperating with us today, and currently we are not flying. But tomorrow if we get that window of opportunity, which is sounds like we might get, we have the horsepower to hit it hard," incident commander Shane Del Grosso told reporters.
Up to 1,000 people are waiting to be evacuated, he said.
In the meantime, authorities are looking for opportunities to get in by ground and planning their next steps.
But they are waiting for their break.
"We need a change in the weather pattern ... to really go after what needs to be done out there," Del Grosso said.
'A river outside our door'
All things considered, Tim Ferenc and Kerry Cerelli consider themselves lucky.
The Boulder couple woke up early one morning last week to a rushing river.
"We heard what sounded like strong wind or a river outside our door," she said. Video he shot showed water running right around their house.
In case they couldn't later, they decided to evacuate.
"It's funny the things you think are important. In that moment, it was our dog, I grabbed my birth certificate, and a couple of our stuffed animals from our childhood, and that was the only thing that seemed important at the moment -- just us and a couple of sweet things," said Cerelli.
The outside of their home is a mess, but the structure itself is in pretty good shape, Ferenc said.
Others weren't so lucky.
According to the Colorado Office of Emergency Management, the floods have destroyed 1,502 residential structures and damaged 17,494.
They have also been blamed for as many as six deaths, counting two people presumed to have been killed.
The four confirmed deaths include a man and a woman, both 19, who were swept away after leaving their car Thursday in Boulder County. Authorities said the woman left the car first, and the man jumped out to try to save her.
Another body was found in a collapsed home in Jamestown in the same county. Rescuers recovered a fourth body on a roadway in Colorado Springs in El Paso County.
Those presumed dead include a 60-year-old woman and an 80-year-old woman, both in Larimer County.
Witnesses saw the younger woman swept away by floodwater that demolished her house. The older woman suffered injuries and was unable to leave her home.
Another 482 people remain unaccounted for.
"They are taking this stuff back'
Despite the devastation, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith told reporters Sunday that some of what he's seen has restored his hope.
The roads and homes might be gone, he said, but "inch by inch, mile by mile, community by community, they are taking this stuff back."
Smith spoke of firefighters who pulled signs out of the mud and residents using their ATVs to rescue neighbors.
He recalled "hearty people" who didn't wait for officials to reach them but who are "finding roads out." He said he'd heard reports of people hiking out of canyons.
In recent days, rescues in hard-to-reach areas have taken extraordinary measures. On Saturday a Chinook helicopter piloted by the Colorado National Guard picked up 78 children who got stranded while on a field trip.
Smith's hopeful tone was echoed by Boulder native Jake Koplen. His family nearly evacuated as floodwater surrounded his home. He snapped photos of the scene and posted them to CNN's iReport.
Now his family is beginning the slow work of cleaning up. But they won't do it alone. Koplen says his phone has been ringing non-stop with offers of food and assistance.
Still, authorities worry that any additional water on ground that's already soaked by up to 15 inches of rain will cause more flooding and dislodge mud and debris.
Smith said he couldn't begin to estimate the scope of the damage. "I've known these areas for 25 years," he said "I don't recognize some of them."
Damage worth millions
Boulder County alone will need an estimated $150 million to repair 100 to 150 miles of roadway and 20 to 30 bridges, county transportation director George Gerstle said. The repair bill will be "10 to 15 times our annual budget," he said.
A helicopter surveillance mission Saturday carrying Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and members of Colorado's congressional delegation was diverted twice to pick up people waving to be rescued.
After the officials' delayed arrival at a Boulder airport, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall promised a bipartisan push in Congress for federal aid for flood recovery.
President Barack Obama signed a major disaster declaration for Colorado on Sunday and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in Boulder County.
Hickenlooper said he spoke by phone with U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who "was adamant that the $5 million that was released Friday was just the beginning" of federal assistance.
"We're going to come back and rebuild better than it was before," the governor said.
Already some are doing their own math. Barb Vacek doesn't know the dollar amount but she's taken stock of the emotional cost.
Her family is exhausted, their home and many of their mementos, gone. "I did lose my family slides from my parents who are deceased," she said. "I was the person entrusted with them, so my childhood is wiped out."
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'Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.' 1 Peter 1:8
Suggested Further Reading: John 20:19–31
Carnal people will imagine that if there could be something to touch or smell they should get on, but mere believing and loving are too hard for them. Yet such thought is not reasonable, and I can show you so. Occasionally one meets with an illiterate working man who will say to those whose occupation is mental, 'I work hard for my living,' insinuating that the mind-worker does not work at all. Yet I ask any man who is engaged in a mental pursuit, whether he does not know that mental work is quite as real work—and some of us think more so—as working with the hand or the arm. The thing is mental, but is none the less real. Just transfer that thought. Coming into contact with Christ by touch looks to most people to be most real; that is because their animal nature is uppermost; coming into contact with Jesus by the spirit seems to them to be unreal, only because they know nothing of spiritual things. Mere animal men will often say, 'I can understand the headache, I can understand the pain of having a leg cut off;' but the pain of injured affection, or of receiving ingratitude from a trusted friend, this is by the rough mind thought to be no pain at all. 'Oh,' says he, 'I could put up with that.' But I ask you who have minds, is there any pain more real than mental pain? Is it not the sharpest when the iron enters into the soul? Just so the mental operation—for it is a mental operation—of coming into contact with Christ by loving him and trusting him is the most real thing in all the world, and no one will think it unreal who has once exercised it.
For meditation: Unlike Thomas we cannot touch the Lord to bolster our faith (John 20:27–29). Claiming that unscriptural religious acts are not articles of faith but visual aids to faith is carnal, not spiritual, in both origin and outcome (John 3:6). Finding it 'helpful' to confess sins to a human 'priest' ignores the existence of the Great High Priest in heaven who makes such a go-between surplus to requirements (Hebrews 4:14,16; 8:1).
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Convenience Features
Auto Photo Mode: YesAuto Shut-off: YesBRAVIA Sync: YesChannel Block (with password): Analog & DigitalChannel Jump: YesChannel Surf: YesEdit Channel Labels: YesInfo Banner: YesLabel Inputs: YesMultiple Language Display: EnglishMultiple Language Display: SpanishMultiple Language Display: FrenchOn-Screen Clock: YesOn-Screen Display for External Input: YesOn/Off Timer: YesParental Control: YesShow/Hide Channels: YesSleep Timer: YesTwin Picture: PAP (2 size) / PIP (OTA)USB Play: YesUSB Play (Contents): MPEG1 / MPEG2PS / MPEG2TS / AVCHD / MP4Part10 / MP4Part2 / AVI(XVID) / AVI(MotinJpeg) / MOV / WMV / MKV / WEBM / 3GPP / MP3 / WMA / WAV / JPEG / RAW(ARW)
Customizing Capability
RS-232C Control: Yes
Design Features
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Energy Saving & Efficiency
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General Features
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Inputs and Outputs
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Power Consumption (in Operation) max.: 202WPower Consumption (in Standby): 0.5WPower Requirements (frequency): 60Hz for UL cUL 50/60Hz for otherPower Requirements (voltage): AC 120V for UL cUL AC 110-240V for other
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VESA Hole Spacing Compatible: Yes
Sensing Features
LightSensor Technology: Yes
Service and Warranty Information
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Channel Coverage (Analog): VHF: 2-13 / UHF: 14-69 / CATV: 1-135Channel Coverage (Digital Cable): CATV: 1-135Channel Coverage (Digital Terrestrial): VHF: 2-13 / UHF: 14-69Color System: NTSCNumber of Tuners (Terrestrial/Cable): 1 (Digital / Analog)TV System (Analog): MTV System (Digital Cable): Clear QAMTV System (Digital Terrestrial): ATSC
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text: Issue 04 Preview – Mesa Tactical's Kel-Tec KSG Jerry Tsai 0 COMMENT It's not a far stretch to say that Kel-Tec's newest offering looks like it came fresh off the set of one of the Alien movies or even the upcoming remake of RoboCop. (Seriously, they are remaking the '80s classic RoboCop – look it up. And for the record, we can't wait.) That is to say, the Kel-Tec KSG (Kel-Tec Shotgun) is a seriously modern shotgun with features built into it that match its advanced looks. Looking to push the shotgun's envelope further is Mesa Tactical, a premier aftermarket shotgun accessories maker, with its SureShell Shotshell Carrier and Rail systems for the KSG. Kel-Tec made a splash at the 2010 SHOT Show with its prototype KSG. What people saw there took them by surprise. With its sleek angles, bullpup layout, and dual magazine tubes, the KSG certainly didn't look like any of the traditional shotguns at the firearms industry trade show. It's been well more than a year since the prototype's debut, and we're looking forward to getting acquainted with the production model. Mesa Tactical allowed us an up-close look at the KSG that it's been working on. For the rest of this article, subscribe digitally here: RECOIL Issue 4 Explore RECOILweb:No Ban On Magazines - ArmyRare Spare Parts Community Gets Hi-Tech Upgrade With The Chop SwapEDC Pack and other Goodness from Blue Force Gear - SHOT 2015Less Grinding, More Gourmet


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By John Goralski
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When CIAC officials kicked off the football championship luncheon at the Aqua Turf on Wednesday, Dec. 11, they were already contemplating the weather. Games might be moved, they told the group of coaches, players, and press in attendance, but they have to be finished by Sunday night or they won't be played at all.
That was the starting point for everything that followed. Games were moved up, but the storm swept through a little ahead of schedule. One game went off perfectly on Friday night. Two Saturday finals were finished with fields obscured by the growing winter storm.
As of the time that this article went to press, Southington and Fairfield Prep players were still waiting to play.
Southington's senior lineman Jim Nardi said that he was not concerned about the weather's impact on the game when he first heard the announcement at Wednesday's luncheon. He smiled at reporters, and said that the Knights will take it all in stride.
"I didn't even know about the snow until today, but I'm sure that we'll game plan for it today and tomorrow at practice," Nardi said. "If we have to run the ball more, we'll run the ball more. I don't think it really matters. Our defense is really good against the run, and we should be able to run against them as well as they run against us. Snow is no big deal."
That was over a week ago. Since the luncheon, the championship game has been postponed three times. The venue has been changed from Central Connecticut State University to West Haven High School, and the CIAC has pushed the final deadline past opening day for winter sports teams as a second round of snow pelted the state.
"There is still too much ice at West Haven to safely play the LL Football Championship this evening," officials said in a press release on Monday afternoon. "Based on the current forecast the game has beententatively rescheduled for 6:35 p.m. Thursday at West Haven. The latest possibility to play the game is Friday. If conditions do not allow it to be played by then it will not be played and co-champions will be declared."
Even if the game is played, the weather and dropping temperatures could affect play on the field. Poor weather conditions could favor Fairfield Prep (11-1) since the Jesuits rely so heavily upon the running game with over 3,300 yards this season. As a team, Fairfield Prep has run for an average of 277.2 yards per game while they average less than 130 passing yards per game.
In contrast, the Knights feature a more balanced attack. Southington has rushed for less than 2,000 yards over the course of the season while passing for 2,769 yards. Snow and rain could hamper the passing game, but co-captain Tyler Hyde said that the offense takes whatever an opponent gives them. Hyde has averaged over 150 yards per game in the postseason, and he said that Southington's running game is more than able to compensate for poor conditions.
"I don't think it matters," he said. "The best football teams will go out and execute in whatever conditions there are, regardless of whether it goes one way or another. With the guys we have up front, we'll be able to execute either way. I believe in these guys around me, and I have confidence in every one of them. We'll go out there and get it done."
Jesuit coach Tom Shea didn't mention any advantages that the weather might bring when he talked about the upcoming duel. "We have a tremendous challenge now to play Southington High School," he said. "It's a great program, and this year, of course, they have some tremendous athletes. We know it's going to be quite a challenge."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.
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The new Welfare Dawn Raids
If you were wondering how the Government intended to fill all those private prisons with 40 hour per week work gangs, fret no more. Here come the latest bennie bashing dog whistles to happily fill SERCOs new private prisons, this time it's a year inside prison for being in a relationship with a beneficiary who has taken money 'fraudulently'.
What does that actually mean? There are a complex set of rules that claim if a boyfriend or girlfriend spends a certain amount of nights at the same house then those on welfare suddenly lose their status and get reclassified as a couple. That in turn cuts down what they can claim on welfare and the officials get to claim the 'couple' are defrauding them and they either cough up $5000 plus split repayments or it's a year in prison.
What these changes mean is that we will start seeing a new age of welfare dawn raids with officials wanting to see who is sleeping where so that they can be reclassified and of course get punished.
So the question of course is when will we be arresting rich housewives who know their banker husbands are tax avoiding? Why are we only arresting the partners of beneficiaries? Welfare fraud costs us what, $20million per year where as tax avoidance is a minimum of $140million per year.
When Bill English double dipped his housing allowance, we should be calling for his wife Mary English to be arrested?
Of course not. This isn't policy that cracks down on the problem, this is policy that mauls the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us while demonizing them so that the outright injustice of their treatment compared to the wealthy housewives of tax avoiders is utterly ignored.
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Developed by Pandemic Studios, creators of Full Spectrum Warrior, Destroy All Humans! turns players' conventional expectations of playing the human defending against an alien invasion to now allow them to play the alien hell bent on infiltrating and taking over all of humanity. Destroy All Humans! delivers an open ended world where the player can rain down destruction from his UFO or land at any point to walk among the humans as the 3rd person alien subverting and terrorizing all of humanity. Packed with humorous science-fiction mythology and tons of conspiracy theory. Players will soon discover that it is better to be the superior being.
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Dec. 2, 2006
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - When the UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team advanced to the program's first College Cup in 2004, the Gauchos lost the national championship match to Indiana 3-2 in a penalty kick shoot-out. Now, UCSB will have a shot at the title once again after advancing past No. 2 seed Wake Forest in a 4-3 penalty kick decision Saturday afternoon in front of 6,314 at Robert R. Hermann Stadium.
The Gauchos, who have gone on an incredible run over the past seven weeks, advance to face UCLA in the national final Sunday, Dec. 3 at 12:00 p.m. (PST). The Bruins defeated Virginia 4-0 in the first semifinal of the day, led by a pair of goals from forward David Estrada. The championship match will be televised live on ESPN2. UCSB enters Sunday's final with a 16-7-1 overall record.
The Demon Deacons, who had more wins than any other College Cup participant and made their first trip to college soccer's final weekend, saw their season come to a close at 18-3-4.
"I am so excited for the players," head coach Tim Vom Steeg said afterwards. "We didn't play our best and they had every reason to say not tonight. But we slugged it out. We are a completely different team than six weeks ago. For me, it is as rewarding as any game this season, winning tonight, because we just fought through."
After a winter mix of sleet and snow forced the postponement of the College Cup semifinals, the grounds crew at Saint Louis University had the snow cleared and the field in great shape for kickoff of UCSB's match with Wake Forest. Game time temperature was a toasty 34 degrees, which was a welcomed improvement from local conditions on Friday, when the semifinals were originally scheduled.
Once the game was finally underway, WF's Jamie Franks had the first quality look of the match in the seventh minute, when he collected a ball in the box on the right wing, snuck inside a Gaucho defender and shot past senior goalkeeper Kyle Reynish, but the ball went wide right. Franks got by his defender on the right wing again in the 17th minute and crossed for midfielder Ryan Solle, but senior Eric Frimpong recovered to break up the play and stop the Demon Deacon's attack.
Forward Michael Lahoud had the game's first shot on frame, when he got the ball inside UCSB's backline, but Reynish was there for the first of his five saves on the afternoon.
The Gauchos were only able to manage one shot against the stout Wake Forest defense in the first half and it came very early from junior midfielder Tyler Rosenlund. The first 45 minutes saw just six total shots, with only one on frame.
With the temperature dropping in the second half, the Gauchos came out of the locker room aggressive and recorded three corner kicks in the first six minutes, but came up empty. Senior midfielder Bryan Byrne had a good look in the 51st minute, when he got a ball in the box, but Wake Forest keeper Brian Edwards made the save.
The Demon Deacon's first good look at the net in the second half came after forward Marcus Tracy connected with Lahoud just inside the 18-yard box in the 63rd minute, but his shot went wide. Lahoud had another chance minutes later on through ball that split two Santa Barbara defenders, but his offering sailed high.
Perhaps the best scoring opportunity of the game came with less than eight minutes to play in regulation, when defender Evan Brown sent a ball out of the Wake Forest backfield. Tracy out-ran the Gaucho backline and dribbled towards the net, with only the keeper standing between him and the score. Reynish, making one of several excellent plays in the match, rushed the ball and made a sliding stop before Tracy could get a shot off.
But neither team could push through with a goal and the match went into overtime. The Gauchos had a 2-0 record in extra periods this season entering Saturday's contest.
Sophomore midfielder Chris Pontius had the first shot in the overtime period from the right side, but Edwards was on top of the play and made the save. Forward Zach Schilawski got a look with under a minute remaining in the first ten minutes, but his shot was deflected in the box. Tracy put a head on the ball that went wide left just as the clock expired.
UCSB opened the second overtime period with a cross from Frimpong to sophomore forward Nick Perera in the box. Perera had a look at the net, but his header sailed just over the crossbar. Both teams took just one shot in the second extra period before the game went into a penalty kick shoot-out.
"It was a very, very tough game tonight," Vom Steeg said. "It got to a certain point where I actually thought we needed to get this thing into penalty kicks. Kyle Reynish is good at PKs and we are a good PK-taking team. So I felt pretty good getting to that point."
Santa Barbara was the visiting team and shot first. Perera stepped in a knocked the ball through the center of the net as Edwards dove to his left. Steven Curfman took the first shot for the Demon Deacons and put a low shot inside the left post to tie the score at 1-1.
After Frimpong chipped his shot above an out-stretched Edwards for the 2-1 advantage, Will Clayton tied the score again, after not playing a single minute during the game.
Pontius took the third shot for UCSB and got the same result after going the right side of the goal when Edwards guessed the opposite. After Solle missed high on Wake Forest's third shot, Byrne had a chance to put the heavily favored Demon Deacons in a serious hole, but the senior co-captain sailed his penalty kick high as well.
The next to shoot was Sam Cronin, who tied it at 3-3 with a shot low to the left side, past a diving Reynish. Sophomore midfielder Eric Avila, who struggled to get it going in regulation and overtime, took the Gauchos' fifth and final shot and gave Santa Barbara a 4-3 lead, shooting past Edwards in the top right corner.
The Demon Deacons elected Schilawski to take their final shot and when he missed high, the Gauchos stormed the field and celebrated their second trip to the national final in the last three years.
"Losing in a shootout in the national championship always sticks with you," Reynish said. "So having a shootout in the College Cup, when it looked like it was going that way, it was just good to get a second chance. The guys came through and made four of five shots."


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Irrelevant by Memorial Day
Irrelevant by Memorial Day
Obnoxious John
The old baseball axiom that says the team in first on July 4th is likely to win the pennant is more often true than not.
Locally, our team struggles to not be out of the race by Memorial Day. At least for the last 10 years anyhow. Given this is Memorial Day weekend lets look at the standings, the players and see if indeed, the M's are already looking to the 2013 season to give fans a reason to go to the ballpark in August.
As of this writing (5/25-3:30pm-PST) the Mariners are last in their division, 7 games behind the powerful Texas Rangers. Now seven games isn't anything to be overly concerned about, at this time of the year, if you have a balanced ballclub. Many of you will remember the run in 1995, the one that probably saved baseball here for us, when the M's behind by 13 games in August, eventually came back and forced the one game playoff with the Angels to win the division.
That ain't happenin' this year baby.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Mariner fan and a baseball fan though sometimes the two ideas seem opposed, and want them to succeed. Baseball, like all things in life, is more fun when your team is winning and providing a reason to follow their progress.
I was thinking about the roster the other day. With the exception of Ichiro, Ryan, Olivo and Figgins, the team is very young. Raw, inexperienced, wet behind the ears.
We all know the deal made with Figgins hasn't worked out. The speculation as to why is rampant and varied. It's a deal we all would have made at the time though. For some reason, unexplained and apparently unknown, he went right into the ditch after getting here. So he's now on the far end of the bench, trying to stay awake during games and not cause any trouble in the clubhouse.
Brendan Ryan is a great fielding shortstop, perhaps the Mark Belanger of this era (look it up). Except even the late Mr. Belanger hit better than Brendan. He has a lifetime average of .228. Brendan's is better than that, but in the 'what have you done for me lately' category, today his average is .180!
Miguel Olivo, in his third appearance on the M's roster, is the best the team has been able to do since Dan Wilson retired. He's tough and plays hard but doesn't seem to be able to prevent passed balls.
Ichiro. Well, I don't know what to say except after watching him play for a decade, he can hit. He can catch. He can throw. He can run bases. But he seems to do these things in a vacuum. Not that the ideas I grew up with about baseball can't be changed, but he seems to be the only right fielder I can recall that doesn't hit for power. Clemente, Kaline, Paul O'Neill, Dwight Evans are just a few of the names I recall and they all hit far more homers and doubles than our light hitting, highly paid, stand offish right fielder does.
If a team is lead by its veterans because the Ackelys, Seagers, Smoaks, Monteros and Carps are young, unseasoned and too green to lead, we are doomed. For this year anyhow.
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May 9, 2000
Santa Barbara, Calif. -
In Tuesday's 2-0 shutout loss to 14th-ranked Loyola Marymount, the UC Santa Barbara baseball team had to feel a little like Gilligan, The Skipper and the guests aboard the S.S. Minnow. Stranded.
The Gauchos stranded 14 base runners over the first seven innings and failed to take advantage of five Lion fielding errors in the defeat. Loyola Marymount, on the other hand, scored a run in the first and another in the third and then went scoreless the rest of the way.
LMU scored its first run when center fielder Mike Hymes led the game off with a single to center field. Hymes then stole second. After left fielder David Maffei struck out swinging, catcher Scott Walter singled up the middle to score Hymes and give the Lions a 1-0 lead.
In the second inning, UCSB came as close to scoring as it would. Shortstop Jeff Bannon was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Catcher Donovan Warrecker then drilled a single to left field with Bannon stopping at second. After center fielder R.J. Smith struck out looking, right fielder Andy Campanella singled to shortstop to load the bases. Left fielder Jeff Carter then bounced back to pitcher Justin Abreu who came to the plate for a force on Bannon. First baseman Mike Kolbach ended the inning by grounding out to first base.
The Lions doubled their output in the top half of the third. With Joe Isaacson on the mound in relief of starter Jeremy Sugarman, Walter singled with one out. Shortstop Jason Aspito then singled to left field with Walter stopping at second. Walter then moved to third base on a fly out to right field by second baseman Anthony Angel. Aspito then got caught off of first base by Isaacson and while he was out Isaacson to Kolbach to Bannon, Walter scampered home with the second and final run of the game.
In addition to leaving the bases loaded in the second, the Gauchos left two runners on in the first, third, fourth, fifth and seventh. In all, UCSB collected only five hits on the afternoon, a double by Kolbach and singles by Carter, Bannon, Campanella and Donovan Warrecker. LMU had eight hits and stranded eight runners of their own.
Not only were their a total of 22 runners left on in the game, but there were also 19 strikeouts, 12 were called third strikes.
LMU's Justin Abreu went the distance for his fourth win of the season, striking out nine and walking three. Sugarman was tagged with the loss, going two innings and giving up three hits and one run. Isaacson pitched well, allowing only four hits and a run in five innings. Jim Bullard went two innings allowing only one hit and no runs.
The Gauchos drop to 24-23 on the season. They will complete their home schedule this weekend when they host Sacramento State in a three game series. Friday's game will be at 2:00 p.m., Saturday's game will begin at Noon (originally slated at 1:00 p.m.) and Sunday's home finale will begin at 1:00 p.m.
The Lions are now 36-15 on the year.


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Grier and Kevin Murphy and Catherine B. and L. Phillips Runyon III to Kevin and Grier Murphy, 725 Hinton Avenue, gift.
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Feiner Properties LLC to Kathryn A. Grant, 709 Ridge Street, $237,200.
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Richard J. Sundberg to Carsten D. Clark and Barbara E. Heritage, 2001 Greenbrier Drive, $290,000.
JPA Investors LLC to Robert D. Brown, 1800 Jefferson Park Avenue, $180,400.
Blake O. Denton, trustee, to Alexandra Gibson, Todd P. Whiting, and Christopher J. Borunda, 2013 Greenbrier Drive, $214,900.
Paul M. McKee and Dana K. Tornabene to Badry Jones Carmichael and Tatania T. Slack, 1401 Forest Hills Avenue, $225,000.
Robert D. Coleman Jr. to Christopher J. Borunda, Alexandra C. Gibson, Todd P. Whiting, 1104 Grady Avenue, $245,000.
William C. and Courtney M. Thompson to Thomas H. Hoover and April D. Ristan, 2731 McElroy Drive, $326,500.
JPA Investors LLC to Quicksilver LLC, unit 701 in condominiums at 1800 Jefferson Park Avenue, $177,000.
William R. Love II to Charles N. Hartley, 101 Birdwood Court, $237,000.
Luck Penny Properties LLC to Travis Purviance, unit in Cedars Court condominiums, $85,000.
Gordon B. and Leela Lipscombe to Lowell T. and Pamela E. Hill, 2303 Delmead Lane, $258,000.
Church Hill Development LLC to William G. and Courtney M. Thompson, 831 Village Road, Village Place, Johnson Village, $533,300.
Vernon L. and Wanda G. Breeden to Diana Parker, 522 Meade Avenue, $185,000.
Elizabeth Porter Matheny to Mary Beth Boyd Rodriguez, unit in Queen Charlotte subdivision, 123 Middlesex Drive, no price given.
Loupe LLC to Robert E. Daniel,three lots in Forest Hills subdivision, $500,000.
Beulah W. Mitchell to Keith F. Cheely and Mary Elizabeth Jensen, 1500 Meridian Street, $104,000.
Starr Hill Cottages LLC to City of Charlottesville, easement for underground sewer line, no ptice given.
Southern Property LLC to Chekisha A. Mitchell, 164 Old Fifth Circle, Willoughby Townes, $270,000.
Keith O. Woodard to Graduate Court I LLC, 224 14th Street NW, no price given.
Cherry Hills Inc. to Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Johnson Village, $113,750.
James K. and Margaret A. Wicks to Brian Wimer, 1006 Grove Street, no price given.
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Timothy P. and Miriam E. Nissley to Peter James Magelnicki, 1412 Rugby Road, $275,000.
John F. and Motana K. Gaffney to Gaffney LLC, three parcels, no price given.
Mindy and Charles T. Martin III to Lester A. Wilson III, 1106 Herndon Road, no price given.
Steven D. Provence to Fields Enterprises LLC, 511 Stewart Street, $410,000.
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Recently, a colleague of mine from the Foreign Service told me about a former U.S. ambassador to Sweden who, some years ago, had passed out in the snow, too drunk to get up. He had been partying hard during an outing in the countryside. Fortunately, an embassy officer found him in time to save his life. America's boozy man in Stockholm was a non-career political appointee—no surprise. The fellow who saved him was a professional diplomat. And the roles the two men played that night is emblematic of a familiar routine.
That was the thought I had earlier this week when word came that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved nominations of President Barack Obama's latest batch of ambassadorial picks—including a couple of first-time diplomats whose cringeworthy performances during their testimony suggested they'll need to rely heavily on their Foreign Service staff to keep from embarrassing the United States. Of course, we have little reason to worry about longtime Montana Senator Max Baucus, whose appointment to serve in China the Senate passed unanimously on Thursday. But some wealthy campaign donors with backgrounds a bit further afield from public service should give us concern. They've already embarrassed themselves.
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When hotel magnate George Tsunis, Obama's nominee for Oslo, met with the Senate last month, he made clear that he didn't know that Norway was a constitutional monarchy and wrongly stated that one of the ruling coalition political parties was a hate-spewing "fringe element." Another of the president's picks, Colleen Bell, who is headed to Budapest, could not answer questions about the United States' strategic interests in Hungary. But could the president really expect that she'd be an expert on the region? Her previous gig was as a producer for the TV soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She stumbled through responses to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) like, well, a soap opera star, expounding on world peace. When the whole awkward exchange concluded, the senator grinned. "I have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees," McCain said sarcastically.
For the purposes of comparison, Norway's ambassador to the Washington is a 31-year Foreign Ministry veteran. Hungary's ambassador is an economist who worked at the International Monetary Fund for 27 years.
The resumé imbalance, of course, owes to a simple fact: The United States is the only industrialized country to award diplomatic posts as political spoils, often to wealthy campaign contributors in an outmoded system that rivals the patronage practices of banana republics, dictatorships and two-bit monarchies. A similar system once allowed political allies to become military officers, but Congress outlawed the practice after the Civil War, during which the public recoiled at the needless slaughter brought on by incompetent cronies who had been appointed generals (men like Daniel Sickles, whose insubordination at Gettysburg caused more than 4,000 Union casualties). Representing the United States in a foreign capital, however, is a privilege still available to any moneyed dolt with party connections.
And President Obama—who entered office promising to limit the practice and instead appoint more Foreign Service professionals to ambassadorial positions—has arguably done more to exacerbate the problem than his recent predecessors. His second-term appointments have gone to political allies more than half of the time. Since World War II, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, that number has been lower: About a third of the ambassador posts have been offered to non-professional diplomats.
The reason a hotelier and a television producer, for instance, might be appealing choices is blindingly obvious: money. Bell raised $2,101,635 for President Obama's re-election efforts. Tsunis, who flipped his affiliation from Republican to Democrat in 2009, embraced his new party with gusto, raising $988,550 for the president's 2012 bid.
Among the ambassadors serving in 10 of the choicest cities in Europe and the Caribbean, the average amount raised per posting in the last election was $1.79 million, according to the Guardian newspaper. And the cost for a plush post in a city like Rome, Paris, Stockholm or Canberra seems to be going up. The Guardian reported that appointees to these embassies raised a total of $5 million in 2012, up from $3.3 million in 2008, $1.3 million in 2004 and $800,000 in 2000.
Apologists for the ambassadorship-for-cash status quo point out that the embassies where political friends are in charge are often quite stable countries with which America has a solid relationship. Others claim that envoys who enjoy direct access to the president can be the most effective. This is utter hogwash. Ambassadors' chain of command goes through the secretary of state. Acting outside of that chain is cause for confusion and misunderstandings and is actually frowned upon by White House and State Department officials alike.