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Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chair of the USCCB's ad hoc committee on religious liberty, recently spoke with Our Sunday Visitor regarding the religious liberty fight in the United States.
Our Sunday Visitor: As the HHS mandate battle continues, what is the current status of religious liberty in the United States?
Archbishop William E. Lori: I don't think we're in the position where we can say that if one or two or three things were changed everything would be OK again. I think we're in the position, rather, where the sands are shifting beneath our feet, and the position of churches and church institutions, even the position of conscientious, intentional believers in our culture, is shifting and that the scope of toleration for religious expression and for religious institutions is narrowing. It's important for us to step back and realize we're in a different spot than we were.
OSV: What is the best possible outcome of this ongoing religious liberty fight?
Archbishop Lori: The first outcome every bishop should wish ... is that Catholics would become newly attuned to the value of religious freedom and would, frankly, cherish their faith more intentionally. So the first outcome any bishop ought to hope for is that people will be aware of religious liberty issues because they have been evangelized and because their faith matters to them and because they want to practice it not just in church, but at home and at work. A second outcome would be, in the meantime, as we are working on that, we could have some, at least, place-markers so that religious liberty won't erode further. My hope would be that somehow or another, at the end of the day, the Church is going to have the freedom for her institutions to serve the poor and to bear witness according to our Church teachings, be they popular or unpopular, accepted or rejected.
OSV: What are the biggest religious liberty challenges facing the Church?
Archbishop Lori: Prior to [the HHS mandate] we were able to fashion our health insurance plans for employees and other aspects of our internal operations simply and solely according to our own teachings. Chaos did not ensue; we provided very fine health plans for our employees. ... Now, in one way or another, we have been asked to become entangled or involved with providing for our employees benefits that are contrary to the teaching of the Church. There are different types of triggering mechanisms that have been proposed. But the bottom line is that we are introducing to our internal plans a Gospel different from the one we want to preach and promote. And that, to me, is what we really have to look at here. It isn't just a question of how close we might be to some moral evil; it's a question of whether we are introducing an anti-evangelization word into our institutions or not.
In terms of the other types of issues ... the ones that would arise with the coming of same-sex marriage, the tendency of colleges to sort of muzzle Christian groups — so many other local, nondiscrimination ordinances that have no religious freedom protections at all. I think the massive effort that we have is to evangelize, to catechize, to raise awareness, so that people who are believers and citizens will both finally speak for themselves here.
OSV: Why bother standing up for religious freedom?
Archbishop Lori: The real issue here is whether or not we're sort of "crossing the Rubicon" here on religious liberty. If we agree to this so-called accommodation, when it pertains to contraception, will we so readily agree to one about abortion, surgical abortion, if and when that should come down the line. Would our reasoning work for that? In other words, we have to ask ourselves, as we depart from this status-quo ante, where are we headed? What will this mean for our church institutions? How heavily regulated will they be in the future? How free or unfree will they be to proclaim the Gospel of family and the Gospel of life? I think those are serious questions worth pondering and worth having a struggle for.
OSV: What should parishes/churches be doing to continue to stay involved?
Archbishop Lori: Nothing beats instruction from the pulpit. People love, trust their parish priests [and] need to hear from parish priests about this. It can be difficult to preach on, but there are so many materials and so much guidance. If we never hear it from the pulpit on Sunday, we're not going to think we have a problem. Churches are still open; no one's gone to jail over this yet. People tend to think "well, it doesn't look too different." It's very important that people be alerted, not in an hysterical way, but simply in a very calm, reasonable way about the challenges that are being faced — what the real nature of the religious freedom challenges are.
Secondly, almost everywhere — state Catholic conferences, the bishops' conference itself — is giving people vehicles for expressing their views and their opinions. [It's] very important that we speak to our elected and appointed officials, very important that we raise awareness among fellow citizens. Catholic lay people every day are on the front lines and are in a position to do this. It takes courage; you get push back, but it is really worth doing.
Gretchen R. Crowe is editor of OSV Newsweekly.
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The Hurricanes (2-2) take on the 21st-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies (4-1) at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va. seeking to avoid an 0-2 start in ACC play. The last time UM started 0-2 in the ACC? 2008 when they lost to North Carolina and Florida State at home in back-to-back games. Saturday's kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. The game can be seen on ABC in the Southeast and on ESPN throughout most of the rest of the country (except parts of Texas, etc). Here is your Canes' TV coverage map.
> ABOUT THE HOKIES: Virginia Tech is coming off a 23-3 loss to Clemson at home a week ago. The Hokies haven't lost back-to-back games at home since 2002. The Hokies rolled to a 31-7 win the last time the Canes came to Lane Stadium. UM has only won one of the last five meetings. The Hokies lost five starters on each side of the ball from last year's ACC championship team including quarterback Tyrod Taylor. This Hokies team still has plenty of playmakers on offense, led by star tailback David Wilson (7th in nation in rushing), cornerback Jayron Hosley (3 INTs) and defensive ends J.R. Collins (leads ACC with 4.5 sacks) and James Gayle (3.5 sacks). Virginia Tech's national rankings on defense: 2nd vs. rush (58.20), 4th in total yards (249.60) and 29th versus the pass (191.40). The Hokies are also currently ranked 2nd in the nation in time of possession (35:48).
> WHAT TO WATCH FOR THE CANES: There have been two big injuries on UM's defense in the aftermath of the Bethune-Cookman win: starting strongside linebacker Ramon Buchanan (knee) and defensive tackle Marcus Forston (knee) have both been lost for the season. The Canes, ranked 105th in run defense, will suit up four healthy defensive tackles Saturday: Micanor Regis, Darius Smith, Olsen Pierre and former defensive end Adewale Ojomo. Tailbacks Mike James and Lamar Miller have also been playing banged up for the Canes, who on the positive side should get more production this week from sophomore tackle Seantrel Henderson. Hard-hitting safety Ray-Ray Armstrong is also back this week from suspension UM. If there is something the Canes may be able to exploit against Tech it's special teams. While that may sound surprising considering Frank Beamer's team has shined for so long on that side of the ball, Virginia Tech actually ranks 117th in net punting. UM's Travis Benjamin has had long returns in back-to-back weeks for UM and may be able to break one. In two games versus the Hokies, Jacory Harris is 10 of 27 for 153 yards with one interception.
> MY PICK: Virginia Tech 34, UM 21. The Hokies aren't as good a football team as they were a year ago -- Clemson showed us that. But the Hokies still have plenty of weapons on both sides of the ball and it's hard to picture them losing back-to-back games at home. Are the Canes totally overmatched? No. But the problems on run defense are very real. This team sorely misses Allen Bailey, Colin McCarthy and Brandon Harris, who all were exceptional on run defense. Ray-Ray will provide a lift. But the Hokies know how to ground and pound. They ran for 251 yards against UM a year ago. And against UM this season, that's all you really need to be able to do well to have success.

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Small plane carrying 14 missing in Mexico's Baja
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say a small plane carrying at least 14 people is missing in northern Mexico but they have suspended the search because of bad weather.
Communications and Transportation Department official Enrique Avalos says the pilot of the Cessna 208B lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after taking off Monday morning from the airport in the beach town of Loreto, a popular destination for American and Canadian tourists. He says the plane was headed to Ciudad Constitucion, another town in Baja California Sur.
Baja California Sur Gov. Marcos Covarrubias says state rescue crews and soldiers suspended the search because of heavy rains from Tropical Storm Octave, which is in the Pacific moving toward the peninsula.
Covarrubias says a search by ground and air will resume Tuesday.


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Apr. 30, 2005
WORCESTER, Mass. - MIT men's outdoor track and field collected 23 All-Conference honors en route to its fifth consecutive New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship. The Engineers copped seven individual event victories, with record-breaking performances by seniors Ben Schmeckpeper and Nate Ball paving the way.
The 20-event competition was under soggy conditions for much of the afternoon, as intermittent rain left the track wet and the field muddy. Despite the inclement weather, the Engineers muscled their way to another league crown; defeating runner-up Springfield College by 46 points.
Zach Traina was a triple-winner for the Cardinal and Gray, winning the 100 and 200-meter dash before anchoring Tech's winning 4x100 relay. Uzoma Orji was MIT's only other dual-event winner. The reigning NCAA Field Athlete of the Season, Orji took first place in the discus and cruised to his third straight championship in the shot put. The mighty junior was upended in the hammer throw, falling to teammate David Saylor in the first event of the meet. Both competitors made NCAA provisional cuts.
Ben Schmeckpeper and Nate Ball etched their names into NEWMAC lore in their final league competition. Winning the steeplechase and pole vault, respectively, each set championship records. Schmeckpeper's victory in the 3000 bettered his own record set last season with an NCAA provisional time of 9:20.00. Ball also secured a provisional mark after clearing 15'7".


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The Bradley effect isn't dead, but it won't sink ObamaPoint: Kareem Crayton
Even if we agree that this race is Barack Obama's to lose, it's probably worth discussing an issue that could affect his margin of his victory. Garnering 300 or more electoral votes would look far more like a mandate than getting barely more than 270 (though either is better than 269). While some polls show Obama leading John McCain by double digits nationally, that margin might not pan out in the end. Aside from watching for the obvious shifts that may occur in the polls due to unforeseen events, I'd bet that at least a few folks in the Obama campaign are on guard for signs of the "Bradley effect."
For the record: The Bradley effect derives its name from the late Tom Bradley, one of America's greatest mayors, who served this city for two decades. Most Angelinos credit Bradley, only the second black mayor of a major U.S. city, with constructing a modern, multi-racial coalition that bridged the liberal and more moderate parts of the electorate. Bradley had quite a successful tenure as mayor, having presided over a period of significant economic growth and development.
In 1982, Bradley ran unsuccessfully for governor against Republican George Deukmejian. Most media and polls during the campaign (and even on election day) projected that Bradley would win by a comfortable margin, yet he lost by less than half a percentage point. The "effect" in question refers to the difference between the reported and actual voter support for Bradley, which some link to the unwillingness of some white voters to register their clear opposition to a non-white political candidate when asked by a pollster.
Since that time, academics and commentators have argued that the Bradley effect has been at play in other contests involving nonwhite candidates who have sought statewide office -- Douglas Wilder's successful bid in 1989 to be Virginia's governor is one example. Wilder defeated his white opponent by a historically narrow margin even though polls indicated that he would cruise to victory. Apparently, some of the electorate who said they were Wilder supporters did not actually vote for him.
During the Democratic primaries this year, quite a few people revived the Bradley effect to explain Obama's narrow defeat in New Hampshire. After Obama handily won the Iowa caucuses, polls in New Hampshire suggested that he would show Hillary Clinton the final exit from the campaign. USA Today, for instance, claimed that he was ahead of Clinton by 13%. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Granite State's ballot boxes on Jan. 8; an obviously stunned and deflated Chris Matthews grudgingly acknowledged Clinton's victory early in the evening.
I don't think the Bradley effect was at play in New Hampshire. People simply had not made up their minds. What most forget about that contest is that it happened just days after the Iowa caucuses. Voters everywhere were rethinking their views after Iowa (to Obama's benefit in South Carolina). Any nonpartisan pollster would have a hard time accurately measuring an electorate whose opinions are in such flux. In fact, many of the polls showing the Obama lead also reported a sizable pool of voters who remained undecided, and exit polling showed that Clinton won a larger share of votes cast by the "late deciders." Without credible evidence linking those decisions to unsavory views (I've seen none), the Bradley effect explanation carries little water with me.
There is some research suggesting that the Bradley effect is a thing of the past. One study shows that the discrepancy between the polled and actual level support for nonwhite candidates in statewide elections has declined since the late 1980s, which strikes me as a plausible finding. Still, one can explain this trend partly by the technological improvements in polling. Political strategists have gotten much better at predicting what people want, and government has helped by doing a better job of recording and cataloging voting patterns. This practice has become more of a science than an art form in the last decade (just ask people such as Frank Luntz, a GOP pollster who now sports a doctorate in social science).
But I find that the essence of the Bradley effect -- that some white voters will never support a nonwhite candidate (whether or not they admit it) -- remains a relevant issue in American politics. Black voters have a long pattern of supporting white candidates in large numbers (how else could Bill Clinton become the first "black" president?). But the reverse, sadly, is not as true. Obama lagged behind Hillary Clinton among white voters in many primaries where a large share of voters said that race was a factor in their decision. And I suspect this pattern will endure through Nov. 4. Among white Democrats living in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, one can't help but wonder how much of the reported resistance to Obama is at least partially rooted in concerns about his race.
So what does all of this mean for the Obama campaign? I'd say there is good news and bad news. First, the bad news. Sorry, but there is no transcending the issue of race in American politics. We are a diverse country with a very complex (and, at times, unfortunate) record on race. This legacy means that at least some part of the electorate will remain unavailable to Obama because of who he is. There also may be people who claim either to support Obama or remain undecided who will not cast a ballot for him. But you don't seek the nomination for president if you can't face that reality. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Now for the good news: Obama is a major party's nominee. Presidential elections are fundamentally different from normal campaigns because they generate greater turnout. They also draw large numbers of new voters. Neither Bradley's nor Wilder's campaigns were held during presidential election years. Political science holds that there is a significant drop-off in voter participation in nonpresidential elections, which often shapes outcomes. The registration and turnout machines for statewide campaigns certainly are robust, but they are not as formidable as the multimillion-dollar national operations that draw out the vote during presidential races. In "high salience" campaigns such as this one, a larger percentage of us are likely voters.
By turning up the dial on his get-out-the-vote efforts, Obama has a chance to overwhelm any Bradley effect and inch closer to a November result that resembles a national mandate. And, for good measure, it probably wouldn't hurt to call Joe Biden for a few more joint campaign appearances.
Kareem Crayton is an associate professor of law and political science at USC. He is an expert on election law and serves as a consultant for redistrictinggame.com.
This isn't the same America as 1982Counterpoint: Matt Welch
I will defer to your professional expertise on the recent available research concerning the Bradley effect, which I figure is murky at best at this point, and instead go with the journalist's favorite crutch: the anecdote!
Anecdote 1: Though I'm usually wrong with political predictions (or else we'd be seeing GOP nominee Rudy Giuliani right now), I was right from the beginning of the Democratic primaries in predicting that Obama would win the nomination, on account of his steadfast opposition to a deeply unpopular war at a time when most Democrats still felt like they needed to at least partly support the invasion of Iraq to look "tough." I remember distinctly throughout 2007 sharing my conviction with a series of Hollywood and journalistic semi-conservatives, and hearing back the same answer over and over again: "Unfortunately, America's just not ready for a black president. The country's still too racist."
My response then was the same I make now when anxious Washington conservatives ask whether I think there'll be some kind of racial conflict should Obama somehow lose: I have more faith in America than all of that.
Anecdote 2: I have heard, from many of the same pools of non-Democrats, a perhaps surprising refrain: "I kind of hope Obama will win, and might even vote for him," just to prove once and for all that America is a comparatively nonracist land of opportunity, or to turn the page on the last century of largely poisonous and recently fatigued racial politics. I won't pretend that this marks a statistically significant percentage of the electorate, but if you take enough testimonials like these (of which I've heard, maybe, a dozen) and mix it with white-liberal enthusiasm for advertising the rainbow progressivism of both the Democratic Party and the United States, then we might have the beginnings of a reverse Bradley effect, where late-breaking voters decide at the last minute, "To hell with it, let's just vote for the black guy."
In fact, the more I hear Obama bash free trade, invoke the scary specter of China, talk enthusiastically about "reregulation" and express enthusiasm for sending U.S. troops to Pakistan and Darfur, the more I begin to realize that my barely perceptible enthusiasm for the guy is limited largely to three factors. First, he's neither a Republican nor John McCain in a year that both arguably deserve to lose. Second, he sometimes talks in a way that assumes the intelligence of the American people, which is a refreshing change. Third, and by far most important, he offers at least the possibility of putting Southern strategy politics and the racist antecedents in the legal code of many cities and states way back there in the rearview mirror.
In a country that still suffers mightily from its original sin, electing a black president named Barack Hussein Obama -- just seven years after 9/11, no less -- would be a powerful counterpoint next time some smarty pants from an ethnically homogenous white European country tries to tell you that "America is a racist country." I am 1,000% positive that I'm not the only one who feels that way, nor am I the only one who feels that way and yet still hasn't made up his mind about who to vote for on Nov. 4.
Anecdote 3: This is tangential at best, but since the Bradley effect refers to 1982, I thought it might be useful to set the clock back just three years before. When Iranian revolutionaries took 52 Americans hostage in Tehran in 1979, I was a fifth-grader at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach (in the days before that fair city became "the LBC"). At that moment and for the years immediately after (when a wave of Iranian exiles took root in Beverly Hills, Westwood and the San Fernando Valley), the amount of vile anti-Iranian racism was staggering to behold.
Some 22 years later, when Islamic fundamentalists pulverized the World Trade Center, many Americans -- myself included -- worried about a much bigger and more violent backlash against every weird-looking brown dude with a beard. As a matter of fact, I distinctly recall freaking out a day or two after 9/11 when a bunch of cop cars and ambulances went down Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz in the direction of a Sikh temple there. I eventually walked down the street to the house of worship and talked to one of the weird-looking brown dudes with a beard, who told me that the cops had nothing to do with him and that everyone in the neighborhood had been totally kind, helpful and even pre-emptively apologetic. America's response to 9/11, more than any one single event, convinced me that the noxious tribalism of my youth had given way to something new. Instead of trying to indiscriminately attack scary foreigners and their faraway conflicts, Americans tried their best to understand them.
Back in 1982, the vast majority of local law enforcement in Southern California was white, and I knew cops who bragged about beating up black kids. By 2008, the force is incredibly integrated and no longer seen as an occupying army in the nonwhite parts of town. Remember all those openly gay actors, politicians and musicians in 1982? Me neither. American society moves much, much faster than we usually give it credit for, and almost always in the direction of more tolerance, more personal autonomy and more individualized experimentation in lifestyles and identities. This is especially true for young people, for whom the kind of gay-bashing politics that the Republicans used to their advantage in 2004 just feels like Martian gibberish.
So the societal conditions are ripe, I think, for a black candidate to get just as much support as pre-election polls indicate, if not more. If he wins, hopefully the next iteration of this conversation will be less about the lingering strains of possible racism in the electorate and more about the lingering strains of possible unfairness in the legal systems of most every level of government, enacted to combat racism in the first place. If Americans are colorblind enough to elect an untested black guy with the middle name Hussein at a time of war over a heavily experienced, certified American hero, then maybe it's time to begin discussing whether the city of Los Angeles will ever become colorblind in its handing out of government contracts.
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine and the author of "McCain: The Myth of a Maverick."


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KnowledgeBase 00110: Changing the Phantom Log Name
A phantom process normally produces a log record in the $COMO file with a name of the form
PHuserno_date_timewhere userno is the phantom user number and date and time are six digit representations of the date (ddmmyy) and time (hhmmss) respectively. It is sometimes desireable to use an alternative log location, perhaps for compatibility with other multivalue products.
Supressing the Log
The PHANTOM command supports a NO.LOG option
PHANTOM NO.LOG commandUsing this option suppresses the log file entirely although the phantom process can go on to use the COMO command internally to start a new log.
Changing the Log
The phantom log file is simply an automatically enabled COMO file. It is therefore possible for a phantom process to terminate the log with which it starts and open a new log by use of the COMO command.
Using an Alternative Name
The default location of the log can be modified by cataloguing a subroutine named PHLOGNAME that takes two arguments. The first is used to return the log file and record names, the second is the command to be executed by the phantom process.
The value returned by the subroutine through its first argument should be the name of an existing file and a record name, separated by a single space.
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Among the numerous unique and compelling stories of immigration that our nation has witnessed in its rich history comes another one; one that is disturbing and moving in equal part. On May 14, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), was arrested as he was about to catch a flight from New York's JFK Airport to Paris. A 32-year-old housekeeper had courageously come forward to report that she was sexually assaulted by DSK during his stay in the midtown Manhattan Sofitel hotel. As the media storm around DSK's scandal and his political future intensified, the woman (her identity is being kept secret) who accused him remained well away from the media glare, protecting her identity and dignity amidst an increasingly messy situation. However, as a recent New York Times portrait of her life revealed, her story is extremely unique- in an environment that is increasingly hostile towards immigrants, it is rare that immigrant women who are victims of sexual and physical abuse (and there are many), are able to find the courage to report the crimes they face.
The woman was born in a tiny hamlet in the West African country of Guinea, a 13-hour drive from the nation's capital Conakry. While she was in her early teens, she was married off to a distant cousin, gave birth to her daughter, and was widowed soon after. While in her early 20s, she immigrated to the United States, seeking a better life for herself and her daughter, and began working at a small African restaurant in the Bronx. In 2008, she got a job as a maid at the Sofitel New York, a high-end hotel in the heart of Manhattan. Her lawyers confirmed that by this time she had documentation and legal status. Then on May 14, her world was suddenly thrust into the public eye as she became the center of an international scandal involving high-level diplomacy.
Her brother, Mamoudou, commented on her character-
She is a village girl who didn't go to school to learn English, Greek, Portuguese, what have you…All she learned was the Koran. Can you imagine how on earth she is suffering through this ordeal?…Before she left here, nobody even knew if she could speak up for herself. She never got into any arguments, with anybody.
While DSK has been charged with the crime, the trial is still underway and no verdict has yet been reached. However, the story of his alleged victim highlights the rapidly growing issue of sexual assault among immigrant women, and indirectly points to the fact that undocumented women remain the most vulnerable to abuse, as they are especially afraid to report the crime for fear of being pulled into the detention and deportation dragnet. The housekeeper in DSK's case has legal status, not to mention incredible courage, that enabled her to report the crime to the local police. But her courage seeks to remind us that there are many women who face violence, both at home and in their work, who continue to be exploited and are unable to seek help because of immigration status and their fear of being criminalized themselves.
Last week, many women – mostly hotel housekeeping staff from around the city – gathered outside DSK's court hearing to protest against his alleged crime, claiming that many of them have been victims in similar incidents but are often afraid to speak out. One of the protesters, Ada Vélez Escalera, a housekeeper at the Hilton who had moved from Puerto Rico when she was 16, said-
A lot of us don't speak up. You're embarrassed or have a family to support and you know if it will be you or the guest who's believed. In this case she was brave enough to scream for help…I'm proud of being a room attendant and when guests come to our hotels they need to respect us and know we are there to make their rooms clean and comfortable, not for private service…I had to leave my education because I had a sick child. But the money I've earned as a room attendant helped me have a house, a decent life and put my son and daughter through college.
The issue raised by the housekeepers is a growing concern among the immigrant community. It is worsened further by damaging statements made by political officials that essentially discourage the reporting of sexual assault crimes by immigrant women. In Massachusetts, State Rep. Ryan Fattman (R-Sutton) has been part of a group of regional GOP representatives uniting against Governor Deval L. Patrick's decision not to join the controversial Secure Communities program (S-Comm). When asked if he would be concerned if a woman with undocumented status is raped and then is afraid to report the crime for fear of deportation, Fattman replied, "My thought is that if someone is here illegally, they should be afraid to come forward…If you do it the right way, you don't have to be concerned about these things." His comment brought him sharp criticism, and when contacted for further clarification, Fattman attempted to contextualize it with an even more troublesome allegory-
If someone got into a car accident, it's obviously a tragic event. But if they're drunk and they crash, it's a crime. If that person was drunk and survived the accident they would be afraid to come forward. I think if someone is here illegally they should be afraid to come forward because they should be afraid to be deported…But if you weren't here, the crime wouldn't happen.
Such brash disregard for basic human rights, such as the right to be safe from harm and the right to due process and justice, is alarming. Rep. Fattman's statements signal a dangerous situation in the country if victims of violence and sexual assault are afraid to report the crime for fear of being deported instead. This roundabout way of blaming the victim is incredibly damaging to our society, encouraging violent crime and making our communities less secure.
The harsh anti-immigrant enforcement laws that are being enacted in states around the country only seek to add to the environment of hostility and fear that makes it harder for local law enforcement to effectively protect communities. Last week Alabama Governor Bentley signed into law HB 56, the harshest anti-immigrant bill to be passed by any state thus far. The bill, inspired by Arizona's notorious SB 1070, imposes even stricter requirements on virtually all institutions in the state to conduct immigration checks. In a statement reacting to the bill, Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, said-
Today, Alabama effectively turned state workers, peace officers, and school teachers into de facto immigration agents. Immigrants and people of color will be subjected to additional, unconstitutional scrutiny when they take their children to school or interact with local law enforcement officers. Friends and family members of undocumented immigrants will face criminal charges simply for driving them to church or to the grocery store. By passing HB 56, Alabama's legislators have deemed an entire class of people not worthy of the most fundamental rights, which were carefully prescribed to all people by our Founding Fathers. This law effectively makes immigrants the latest group of people to suffer a legalization of discriminatory behavior against them, and threatens to turn back the clock on our hard-won civil rights.
Alabama's HB 56 adds to the growing number of states that have set in motion some sort of harsh anti-immigrant laws (see PDF map from the National Immigration Law Center for the latest Arizona-inspired legislation). These sweeping anti-immigrant legislations are not only unconstitutional and in violation of basic human rights, but they will also negatively impact the economies of the states that implement them. Most of all, communities will lose faith in their local law enforcement, always living in the fear of being racially profiled and arrested for deportation under the pretense of a minor offense.
With less than 18 months until the next presidential election, Democrats and Republicans are busy shaping their immigration policies to woo voters. At this time it is important that they focus on preventing draconian state-level anti-immigration laws from being enacted and instead, working towards comprehensive immigration reform that is enacted on a federal level. Statements such as those by Rep. Fattman only undermine the principles of freedom, justice and due process upon which our country is built. Victims of violence, such as sexual assault and rape, must be supported and made to feel safe and secure and given the justice they deserve, instead of being intimidated into silence. Denying basic human rights to one group will inevitably affect all our freedoms.
Sign the petition asking for Mass. Rep. Fattman to apologize for his comments and for the State House to publicly denounce his stance.
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Make a Horse "Color My Placemat" for your child or do as a class project. Just print and laminate for hours of fun coloring over and over again. Or let the kids color first and then laminate so they have their own art at their place setting every night.
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The first hour of the amazing race: http://www.dailymotion.com/hub/xb0j_Amazing-Race#video=xufmiiEach episode are 2h length.
I've been waiting for a french version for so long and I have to say it's great!. I only have two complaints. One is the really weird placing of the pre-race confessionals and the other (much worse) is how the host talks over the race. We can see what's going on, we don't need it told to us.I'm excited for the rest of the season.
The 1st leg is finish:Show contentAntoine & Helena are the last team to arrive and are eliminated. The first team, Heidi & Michel don't win a reward. The detour was Camel/ Pearl, some teams did the pearl task but have some trouble. The camel track was easier. The roadblock is a skydive at 13,000 feet. There is also 3 others task, the task of the locks with the key in Paris, a Route Info in the greatest tower of Dubai and another task in Ski Dubai, the winter station. They build a snowman outside the winter station. The next leg will be in Bangkok with a food task including scorpion and another task with elephant.
If only I had the video file, I wouldn't mind making a subtitled version for everyone.
Quote from: kevin2012 on October 23, 2012, 01:06:32 AMIf only I had the video file, I wouldn't mind making a subtitled version for everyone.Kevin.. Please find us the subtitle version..
If I had a way to get the video file, I wouldn't have a problem adding subtitles to it myself. Any suggestions?
Link to second hour ?
What's Heïdi & Michel's relationship? Are they friends or relatives?
Friends. I think I read that she's the daughter of one of his friends, but I may be wrong there.
The 3rd leg in Tokyo is finish. The first task of this leg is at Shibuya Crossing when they search a clue who is on a screen (looks like the 1st leg of TAR19). It's a word in japonese about a famous dog (i forget his name). When they found the word, they say to a man with clue. Some team got problems, especially a M/M team who fall at the last place.All teams go to a capsule hotel for the night period. Each team will start every ten minutes tomorow.The day after, teams go to the Raichukainkan Temple for the Roadblock. A task with a sumotori (Japanese Wrestler) and a clue attached to the sumotori. The task is easy because the sumotori is a young men.After that, teams go in Harajuku with another task. They meet a Manga Fan dressed as Sangoku (if you know dragon ball z) and offer him a pink present (pink is the favorite colour of manga's fan)The race is not finish at all, a team got a problem with taxi two different times. We are now at the detour Fish/Pasta.The fish task consisted to fishing 15 goldfish using the technic of a japanese game, goldfish scooping. It's a difficult task.The other task is also difficult, teams walk with samourai shoes to give pasta soup for 150 meters. If they overturn the recipe, they must restart. 3 teams got problem with this task.Teams make their way to Hikawa Jingan Shibukya for the 1st u-turn of the history of TAR France. The 1st team u-turn another team (the team who got difficulty with 2 taxis). After that, they go to the pit stop at Odaiba Park.All teams remain in the race because it's a NEL.I don't know if the last team to arrived (the team who was u-turn) will have a speed bump.
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Fitzpatrick, Goss advance to US Amateur final
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick took a page out of Francis Ouimet's book and advanced to the finals of the U.S. Amateur at The Country Club.
With his 14-year-old brother on his bag and opponent Corey Conners sitting in the famous Vardon bunker along the 17th fairway, Fitzpatrick knocked his approach to 20 feet, then sank the birdie putt to win 2 and 1 on Saturday. He'll play in the 36-hole final against Oliver Goss, who beat fellow Australian Brady Watt 2 up in the other semifinal.
A victory on Sunday would make Fitzpatrick the first U.S. Amateur champion from England since Harold Hilton in 1911. And he would do it at the course where Ouimet, a local amateur with a 10-year-old caddie on his bag, beat British pros Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in the 1913 U.S. Open in an upset that gave golf its first and biggest boost in the United States.
"It's a nice position to be in," said Fitzpatrick, who along with Goss earned a spot in the U.S. Open and an expected invitation to the Masters just by making the finals. "But again, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't come off tomorrow. There is worse things, so I'm just giving it my best, and if I don't play well enough on the day, then that's that, really."
The low amateur at the 2013 British Open, Fitzpatrick fell behind by two after four holes but turned it around with a 30-foot birdie putt on the sixth hole, tied it when he chipped in from 25 feet on No. 8 and then added another birdie on the 10th hole to take the lead.
"I think that was sort of a bit of a turning point," he said. "Those three holes were the big change, really."
Fitzpatrick took a 2-up lead into the 166-yard, par-3 16th hole, but he landed in the bunker while Conners put his drive about two feet from the pin and made birdie.
Down one on the 17th tee, Conners drove into the same bunker that Vardon found during the playoff against Ouimet in the 1913 U.S. Open. His approach was short of the green, and the next shot was within a foot or two. But Fitzpatrick reached the front of the green — about where Justin Leonard was in the 1999 Ryder Cup — and made birdie to end the match.
"He rolled in his 25 foot putt up the hill, which I was kind of expecting from what he'd done all throughout the day," Conners said. "Any time he was in a difficult place where he had little chance of getting it close, he hit an unbelievable little flop shot or pitch shot and played right beside the hole. When your opponent does that ... it kind of deflates the tires a little bit."
Fitzpatrick, 18, has already committed to Northwestern, where he will be a freshman this fall, taking some pressure off this week as he waited the results of his "A-levels" back home. Now he can focus on Goss, a 19-year-old Australian who reached the quarterfinals last year.
Goss, who plays college golf at Tennessee, won the 2012 Western Australia Amateur.
"I'm trying to be as calm as possible, and I've got a big day ahead of me tomorrow," he said. "It hasn't sunk in yet, all the things that come along with being a finalist like playing in the Masters and the U.S. Open. I'm definitely trying to keep as calm as possible, but it definitely hasn't sunk in, and I don't think it will for at least a couple of days."
Goss and Watt, regular playing partners in Australia, were all square through 10 holes before Goss took the lead on No. 11. Watt, who was the co-medalist in the stroke play portion of the tournament, lipped out on an eagle putt on No. 14 and settled for a birdie, but Goss made a 30-footer to halve the hole and held on for the win.
"It really looked like I was going to be going even with four holes to play, and to sink that putt was just unbelievable," said Goss, who was scheduled to throw out the first pitch at the Red Sox game on Saturday with Fitzpatrick. "I don't know if I could do it again if I had 100 balls. But just to sink that putt was definitely a game-changer, and definitely had a huge advantage because I went to the next tee full of confidence."
For Watt, it had the opposite effect.
"Whatever I did really well, he kind of did a little bit better," he said. "But I'm right there, and I'm really happy with myself. It doesn't feel like a loss to me because I've had such a great experience in the States, and I take a lot out of it."


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Two studies that looked at the effects of smoking over a lifetime found that both men and women who smoke were about three times as likely to die before reaching age 80 in one study, and 75 in the other study. WSJ's Ron Winslow reports. Photo: Getty.
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Grilled Vegetable Panini
I don't use my electric grill often. So i searched online for some grilling recipes and found about the panini. It's basically a sandwich that's grilled. The sandwich can be made with any vegetable or meat of choice. I decided to make mine with grilled veggies and goat cheese.
Bread slices - 8
Onion - 1 (sliced)
Green bell pepper/Capsicum - 1 (sliced)
Mint chutney - as needed
Tomato ketchup - as needed
Chilli sauce - as needed
Cooking spray/oil for grilling (butter can also be used)
Goat cheese - as needed
Heat the grill to a medium temperature. When hot, spray with cooking spray and grill the sliced veggies. Meanwhile spread mint chutney on one slice of bread and ketchup on another. Add goat cheese to the slice with mint chutney and place the grilled veggies on top. Sprinkle chilli sauce and cover with the slice with ketchup. Grill the sandwich till crispy and brown on both sides. If you have an open grill place a heavy vessel on top of the sandwich to press it down. Serve by itself or with more ketchup.
Variations: Any number of veggies like zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, different color pepper can be grilled and added. Also different kinds of cheeses can be added.
Note: Goat cheese has a strong raw flavor and many people might not like it. It can be substituted with mozzarella or cottage cheese.


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(CNN) -- Doctors had never seen a case quite like it: An 86-year-old man showed up at the hospital with the handle of a pair of pruning shears stuck in his eye socket.
Amazingly, the man made it through this accident with his vision almost intact. His medical team, including surgeons who also treated Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in January, removed the shears and reconstructed the eye socket.
Leroy Luetscher of Green Valley, Arizona, had been working in his yard July 30 when the accident happened. He thinks he may have dropped a pair of pruning shears and fallen face-first onto the handle when he went to retrieve them. The handle drove into his eye socket and down into his neck.
"There was just blood all over," Arpy Williams, Luetscher's girlfriend, said Tuesday, according to CNN affiliate KOLD. "I saw this instrument in his face, and I just said, 'Leroy, honey, what have you done?' "
KOLD: Doctors: Man will retain sight despite pruning shears impalement
Luetscher was taken to University Medical Center's Level 1 Trauma Center in Tucson, Arizona. Surgeons had no idea how much the eyeball had been damaged; they couldn't even open his eyelid, oculoplastic specialist Dr. Lynn Polonski told CNN.
"This object was fixated to his face. It did not move, and we could not move any of the tissue around his face," Polonski said.
Luetscher didn't seem to have any mental status changes, which was a good sign, Polonski said. And he could sense light when it shone on him, letting doctors know he still had some vision.
Rather than just pulling the shears out, the surgeons decided to make an incision from his upper gum line on the right side of his upper lip to the anterior maxillary wall, which is in the middle of the cheek.
When they cut into the wall, they could clearly see the handle. Polonski was able to loosen it with his finger and a tong-like instrument called Kocher forceps.
Once the handle was loose, doctors could remove the entire handle from the face.
It turned out that the handle had compressed the eyeball in and pushed it up in the socket (think about squeezing a rubber ball), but it remained attached. Luckily enough, the eyeball was not ruptured or lacerated.
The next step was reconstruction. They removed some of the loose bone fragments from the eye socket and then placed a titanium mesh plate to help reconstruct the orbital rim and floor.
This is the same kind of plate that surgeons used in repairing Giffords' skull after she was shot in the head in January, said Polonski, who also treated Giffords. That was a distinct operation, however, because Giffords also required a neurosurgeon to perform a craniotomy.
"This was a little bit different because it's on the inferior orbit, so what's underneath me is sinus, not brain," Polonski said of Luetscher's case. "But hopefully, both will have a really good outcome."
Luetscher was discharged four days later and has not been hospitalized since. Doctors waited a few weeks after the surgery to see how he was doing before presenting the case to the public.
"He's doing quite well for that significant kind of injury," Polonski said.
Luetscher still has some slight swelling in his upper and lower lids, and minor double vision in the eye that the shears penetrated. The muscle that allows for downgazing was traumatized, so Luetscher has problems moving his eye downward, Polonski said.
Surgeons may still need to do a little more work because he traumatized the muscle underneath the eye, in addition to his lower eyelid skin and muscle, Polonski said. They are waiting for the scar tissue and inflammation to go down to see what else needs to be done.
"The swelling is going to take a little more time to resolve, but he seems to be a very happy kind of guy," Polonski said. "I think he's very pleased at how well he's done."


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Morris, who was chosen as the Georgia state winner in judging conducted by the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, accepted a check for $12,500 from J. Thomas Ryan, executive vice president of Swisher International, which sponsors the award with the Sunbelt Expo.
Morris was one of eight state winners who were finalists for the prestigious agricultural award, now in its 13th year. It was presented during ceremonies at the Willie B. Withers Exhibitor's Luncheon on the opening day of the Sunbelt Expo. The Sunbelt Expo, North America's Premier Farm Show, was held Oct. 15-17.
"Mr. Morris is an outstanding entrepreneur and innovator who has overcome adversity to build an ultra-successful farming operation," said Ryan. "We are proud to honor him into this group of 104 farmers who have been honored during the 13 years of this award."
The presentation to Morris was the highlight of the opening-day luncheon, attended by more than 1,000 people. In addition to the $12,500 overall award and $1,500 award, which goes to each state winner from Swisher International on behalf of its Lancaster Premium Chewing Tobacco brand, Morris will receive a year's supply of Dickies clothing from the Williamson-Dickie Company, the use of a Massey Ferguson farm tractor from AGCO, Inc., a custom-crafted safe and a home security safe from Misty Morn Safes and a $1,000 gift certificate from Southern States Cooperatives, Inc.
State winners who joined Morris on the podium and in the judging for the Southeastern honor are from: Alabama, Charles Burton of Lafayette; Florida, William D. (Will) Putnam III of Alturas; Mississippi, Hugh M. Arant, Jr. of Ruleville; North Carolina, Craven Register of Clinton; South Carolina, Gill Rogers of Hartsville; Tennessee, Ed Rollins of Pulaski; and Virginia, J. Hudson Reese of Scottsburg.
"I never remember not wanting to farm," said Morris, a farmer for 38 years. "As a youngster, I dreamed that someday I would have a farm of my own."
Today, Morris farms more than 2,100 acres and grows 700 acres of peanuts - 200 acres that are irrigated. His irrigated peanut crop yields 3,625 pounds per acre while the remaining 500 acres yields 3,075 pounds per acre.
Cotton is also instrumental in Morris' success. He grows 1,400 acres - 500 acres that are fully irrigated. This yields 980 pounds per acre while the non-irrigated area yields 785 pounds. Other crops on his farm include 540 acres of wheat and 30 acres of rye, plus 365 acres of woodlands.
He also operates Morris Agricultural Services, Inc., which provides farmers in the region with chemicals and fertilizers along with being a USDA-approved peanut buying point for Golden Peanut Company, LLC.
"My goal was to have ownership and to provide my family with a comfortable living and to experience the thrill I enjoy each day of being close to nature and God's creation and to see things grow and develop. I have achieved this goal through hard work and dedication to my farming enterprise," Morris said.
Morris currently is the chairman of the Georgia Peanut Commission, representing 7,000 Georgia peanut farmers. He is also a board member of the American Peanut Council and has assisted in coordinating their international campaign by traveling to numerous countries to sell American peanuts.
"My goal was to help improve and save the peanut program, which is so valuable to the area economy. I made several trips to Washington to visit with congressmen, senators, staff and the secretary of agriculture expressing the plight of Georgia farmers," said Morris.
Morris also has served on the National Peanut Grower Group and helped lead the farmer delegation in crafting the 2002 farm bill for Georgia.
Morris is assisted in the farming operation by his wife, Brenda, and son, Jason, 27. Morris' daughter, Melanie, 30, resides in Upstate South Carolina with her husband and daughter.
Morris was nominated for the Georgia honor by Irwin County Extension Coordinator Gibbs Wilson.
Morris' farm, and those of all of the state winners was visited by a distinguished group of judges in August. The judges included former Lancaster/Sunbelt Expo Farmer of the Year James Lee Adams of Camilla, Ga.; Jim Marion, former dean of the Auburn School of Agriculture; and Jimmie Loftis, director of public relations and governmental affairs for Southern States Cooperative, Inc.


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Creepy Mario pics
Completely unrelated, but I'd wreck Emma Stone like Spielberg wrecked Indiana Jones.
LOL +bubbles. And agreed.
^^^This, and then some. Wait, Emma Stone? Don't you mean Emma Watson? Or, Both...at the same time...mmmmmmmmm.....
been there...done that.
first of all.. this isn't a meme. 2nd of all, if it was a meme... forced meme would be forced. edit: oh and, in case i didn't mention it, this is really, really, *really* crappy.
LOL @Pedobear!
@Quagmire- Emma Watson reminds me of Emma Stone(in name), that's why I said completely unrelated. But I'd tap both.
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Holy Shiznat! How'd you get that? BTW, Pedobear did it first, dunno why this is considered a meme?
lol actually dont remeber but feel free to copy it, doesnt matter to me
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some of those are funny.
Maybe around halloween, but now???? lol :)
... What is the meaning of this? -_- Reminds me of pedobear
I think that's all it is a pedobear rip off, I even gave the site traffic now that's tragic.
Why do you seem so familiar....
Seeing the 2 of you here confirms there are a lot of kids on this site :p
That last one would be perfect with the girls if someone pastes pedobear's face through the window lol
Can we please keep teh meme's on the darkest corner of the interwebz?
What a stupid attempted forced meme.
All memes are forced. I know. I've been here all summer!
Memes only work when they come out of nowhere. This guy is literally saying "HAI GUISE PLZ KEP THISMEME ALIVE BY POSTING PICS WITH MARIO IN IT!". Memes dont work that way.
Well I just killed 2 minutes of my life.
cealing mario was the only creative and funny one.
except the loser that created it can't spell 'masturbate'. some of the pics actually deserve the word 'creepy' and as such are awesome. many of them are pretty lame, though. EDIT @ 256bit: also, that would be 'ceiling'.
sorry but pedobear does this better.
Weegee is more creepy. Also forced memes don't really work especially unfunny ones.
Creepy mario is weegee's long lost brother
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The King Of Cashmere
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It's hilariously self-serious, what with the dramatic Einaudi soundtrack and all. But pretty cool nevertheless.ReplyDelete
I think this is actually a great video to show what goes into actually making Cucinelli level garments. I don't think many "designer" fashion houses that charge similar prices could say they're on the same level of quality control and production. Especially when the man himself is right there as it's going down. The music certainly plays into a slightly over-impassioned feel, but one that serves the video well, perhaps quieting the naysayers about the price and look of the items. Certainly you aren't going to get cheap gear when you run a little shop populated by Italian women handmaking the best of the best. I know if I had FU money I would be up in there all day having crazy colored cashmere suits being made.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 6:10 PM
David - The crazy thing about your comment is how it demonstrates just how little the average, or in this case, even above average consumer actually knows about garment production. Watch the video again, there's one quick shot of hand stitching, the rest is done by machine. Cucinelli's clothing is almost entirely machine stitched (some of the knits are hand knit but most aren't) and all of his tailored goods are fused. The main differences between Cucinelli's facilities and an RL factory in China are smaller work rooms, Italian women instead of Chinese and better food in the cafeteria.ReplyDelete
The truth is actually that many of the "designer" brands you refer to like Hermes and Gucci use significantly better manufacturers (Belvest, Cantarelli and Caruso) than Cucinelli but they don't design or market to you, so you just don't know.
All this said, I think Cucinelli is doing great things. I just needs to be acknowledged that his stuff is drastically overpriced and the contemporary consumer's view of quality and value is as equally skewed.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM
My local loehmanns has racks is this stuff all the time and I have zero desire to own any of it even at 90% off. It's all kind of eurotrashy and doesn't lookReplyDelete
particularly well-made and I hate the "Made Expressly For__________" label in the jackets. Yeah, I'm going to write my name in a $2500 jacket like it's the underwear I took to summer camp.
That said, I know where to go if I need a cashmere mock turtleneck and matching sweatpants.
been there...love him. It is truly and art and passion at its best!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Anon, I know they do machine stitching, many companies use machines for certain aspects of construction now. Whether or not it matters largely depends on where and when they use it and if a knowledgeable person is inspecting every garment to make sure the machine has not erred. For instance, I have no problem with machine stitched padding, but for the price you should definitely be getting hand stitched and felled buttonholes, lapels and pockets.ReplyDelete
I said "many" fashion houses; an intentionally unenumerated amount because I do not know how many, I certainly did not specify any in particular. I happen to have many designer goods that are quite poorly constructed, yet cost a significant amount of money originally, but I won't name names. Also do not forget that within certain companies are certain lines and division of clothing, some with better construction than others depending on price point, market, design, collection, and designer.
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 9:42 AM
Anon - There is no hand stitching on any Cucinelli tailoring (even the pick stitched lining is done by machine) and all of their jackets are fused. From an actual construction perspective, there is literally no difference between a $2400 BC jacket and $350 Rugby one.ReplyDelete
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Its most recent outing, Divinity II, came out right at the beginning of 2010 and was a direct "many years later" sequel to its first game, Divine Divinity.
Divinity: Original Sin is being cast as a prequel, in the "top-down RPG" mode that made Divine Divinity fun, along with a two-player-character approach reminiscent of 2004's forgettable Beyond Divinity.
Aside from the name, the 2002 original had much to recommend it. Original Sin promises the same approach to an expansive, explorable world and to class-free character development, but this time with turn-based combat, a cooperative multiplayer mode and user-generated content added.
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Based out of Milwaukee, WI, Rockwell Automation Inc. has 22,500 employees and, after today's trading, reached a market cap of $13.01 billion. The stock's P/E Ratio is 15.1. Its P/S ratio is 2.65, P/B ratio is 5.76, and P/FCF ratio is 21.7.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After an impressive showing last Saturday at the New England Invitational swimming meet, MIT freshman Emily Ryan (Indianapolis, Ind.) was named a Counsilman Hunsaker Swimmer of the week by CollegeSwimming.com it was announced today.
Ryan was impressive in winning three races. She broke an MIT and two pool records as well as recording NCAA B cuts in a pair of events. Ryan started with a win in the 200 Freestyle, setting a pool record with her time of 1:53.48 that was also a 'B' cut. She then took the 100 Free with a time of 53.83 and finished her trio of wins with another pool and 'B' cut mark in the 500 Free with an effort of 5:01.21, a time that also set a new Institute record.


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Gold Cup Concludes With A Robertissima Ring, Melges 32 Miami World Championship Next On Deck
9 November 2014
Miami, FL - With every ounce of optimism, all fifteen competing teams anxiously took to the waters off South Beach on Sunday morning, the final day of competition at the 2014 Melges 32 Gold Cup Regatta, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC). Unfortunately, the wind Gods disappeared and the rain filled in, basically washing away any hope of additional racing. Instead, despite the periodic heavy downpours, the fleet filed into Monty's for an awesome afternoon of food, beer, drinks, music, celebration and awards — the absolute perfect fleet ramp-up and send off for the World Championship taking place on December 1-7 in Miami.
Around midday, PRO Anderson Reggio realized that the conditions the fleet had hoped for was not going to materialize, hence the decision to call off any further racing. Shortly thereafter, at Monty's Sunset at South Beach the awards ceremony took place naming Pierre Casiraghi and his Robertissima team comprised of tactician Vasco Vascotto, Federico Michetti, Giovanni Cassinari, Gunnar Bahr, Simone Spangaro, Stefano Nicolussi and Armin Raderbauer as 2014 Melges 32 Gold Cup Champions!
With no added races on Sunday, overnight results stand as final. In second overall is Alessandro Rombelli's STIG with Terry Hutchinson on tactics, followed by Japan's Keisuke Suzuki and tactician Bill Hardesty on Swing finishing third.
At the awards ceremony, the Coconut Grove Sailing Club Cup award went to Dalton DeVos on Delta. Congratulations to Dalton as his team was the highest ranked Melges 32 in the Gold Cup results that also competed in last month's Coconut Grove Sailing Club Cup Regatta.
Maximum thanks to each and every team that competed in Miami at Gold Cup. As a class, were are so fortunate to have all of you racing in our fleet! We so very much look forward to welcoming you back for an incredible World Championship next month.
As always, thank you to the ever watchful and articulate Anderson Reggio for his continued excellence in race management on the course. Enough can't be said about the league of outstanding members/volunteers that make up the Coconut Grove Sailing Club Race Committee team. Their constant drive to deliver the most amazing on-the-water experience is second to none by our standards. In particular we would like to recognize the outstanding efforts of Ron Rostorfer, Sandrine Quenee, Richard Etkin and our scorer JoAnn Mathieu. Thank you CGSC and we can't wait to work with you all again next month at the 2014 World Championship.
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1.) Pierre Casiraghi/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima; 2-3-1-2-7 = 15
2.) Alessandro Rombelli/Terry Hutchinson, STIG; 6-14-4-1-1 = 26
3.) Keisuke Suzuki/Bill Hardesty, Swing; 5-1-10-5-6 = 27
4.) Dalton DeVos/Jonathan McKee, Delta; 11-4-3-3-8 = 29
5.) John Kilroy/Paul Goodison, Samba Pa Ti; 12-6-7-4-2 = 31
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My Great Outdoors: Maria's Companion Planted Patch
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Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: This is my second year trying out this thing called gardening. I have switched from having one huge bed to having 3 boxed beds and what I like to refer to as the Free Range potato patch. It is a strictly vegetable/edible garden that I have planted using Companion Planting strategies.
I love going out in the morning over the weekend and just picking weeds, smelling the tomato plants, and making sure my babies are healthy and strong. I can't wait for our first harvest! We have 46 potato plants growing so I see a lot of potato dishes in our future. Yum!
The vegetables we are growing include: Carrots, Beets, Parsnips, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Herbs (Parsley, Lettuce, Dill, Oregano, Thyme, Rosemary, Chives), Red Potatoes, White (baking) potatoes, Cauliflower, Spanish Onions, Red Onions, Spring Onions, Red Cabbage, Zucchini, Butternut Squash, Spaghetti Squash, Sugar Snap Peas, Yellow Wax Beans, Green Beans, Scarlett Runner beans.
How did you create it? We rototilled a 20′ x 15′ patch in our yard and only used about 3/4 of it. My father in law built us 6'x6′ boxes with a divider down the center. These I filled half way with soil and began planting by the square foot.
Everything has approximately 1 square foot of room, except for the root vegetables like carrots, beets, and parsnips. Those have less room as I was able to fit 3 rows per foot. It's a tight garden space, but things are filling in and shading out the weeds!
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Montgomery, Ala. – The Tennessee State University volleyball team dropped its first match of the season to the University of South Dakota, 3-1 (19-25, 25-21, 21-25, 15-25). However, the Tigers avenged their loss with a 3-0 (25-16, 25-15, 25-14) sweep of Alabama State.
In match one, TSU (1-1) was led by junior setter Erika Moss who had a team-high 27 assists and two blocks. Moss was also tied for the team lead in digs with 12. Redshirt sophomore outside hitter Naomi Wells added 14 kills to lead all Tiger scorers.
Tori Kroll paced South Dakota with 37 assists and five digs. Kendall Kritenbrink was the sole Coyote with double-digit kills, tallying 18.
In the first set, Tennessee State roared out of the gates to claim an early 3-0 lead. After padding the lead to 7-1, a string of TSU errors led to an 8-2 South Dakota run. With the set tied at nine apiece, South Dakota built an insurmountable lead with an 11-5 run, highlighted a handful of South Dakota kills.
The second set started much like the first with TSU jumping out to an early advantage at 2-0. The teams traded blows throughout the set until sophomore middle hitter Sherryce Butler finally ended the set at 25-21 with one of her six kills.
The score was knotted at 10-10 when South Dakota went on a 10-7 run to pull away by three. The Tigers tried to recover, and even reached within one of the lead before ultimately falling by four points.
Down two sets to one, the Tigers came out flat in the match's fourth set. South Dakota soared to a 6-2 run, and never relinquished the lead. TSU came within two at 7-9, but a bevy of kills from South Dakota buried the Tigers, 15-25.
Tennessee State ended match one of the day with a .113 hitting percentage while South Dakota hit .244
Match two proved to be a much better result for TSU thanks in large part to the team's .413 hitting percentage.
Moss led the Tigers once again in assists- this time with 32- and Wells again had 14 kills. Butler was not far behind with 12 kills of her own.
Senior libero Britani Hathorn led all players with 13 digs.
It was a sloppy match for Alabama State as the Hornets mustered a paltry .081 hitting percentage. Although, the team did have three players with more than five kills and Brooke Beasley chipped in 24 assists.
In the first set of match two, the Tigers raced out to a 13-5 lead on the back of seven kills and a handful of ASU errors. The trio of Butler, Wells and sophomore outside hitter Rachel Ambroch took turns racking up kills off of assists from Moss.
The second and third sets were more of the same for the Tigers. Each point seemed to add to TSU's momentum, and an increasing number of ASU errors did nothing to stop the attack.
Tennessee State will look to continue its winning streak tomorrow with contests against Southeastern Lousiana and Stetson.
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Over the past four-and-a-half years, Jerry Goehring has been juggling his day job as executive director of the Edgerton Performing Arts Center in Fairfield with the development of a new stage musical version of the beloved holiday film, "A Christmas Story."
The many months of work on the show paid off earlier in the month when the musical opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for a limited run through the holiday season, with Goehring listed as the lead producer.
Goehring has used the project as an educational and employment tool for the students who have been studying theater at Sacred Heart University, the home of the Edgerton Center.
"I've produced national tours and off -Broadway shows, but this is my first time on Broadway. It's been fun to see my idea come to life," Goehring said in an interview just before the official opening night of the show on Nov. 19.
Like most Americans, Goehring has been a longtime fan of the 1983 MGM adaptation of the Jean Shepherd story about one particularly dramatic Christmas season of his Midwestern childhood in the 1940s.
"A Christmas Story" was only a modest success when it played theaters, but annual television showings have made it second only to "It's a Wonderful Life" in terms of audience affection.
"My producing partner thought it was a good idea, so we said, `Yeah, let's give it a try,' " Goehring said of transforming the film into a stage musical.
Juggling "A Christmas Story" and his duties at Sacred Heart became easier when the producer decided to figure out a way to make his students a part of the experience of getting a show ready for Broadway.
Goehring has been developing theater as a "minor" that will eventually grow into a full major at SHU. "When I decided to jump into this production I wanted the students to go on the journey, too," he said.
About 100 SHU theater students followed "A Christmas Story" from its earliest workshops and public try-out runs through the planning for the show's Broadway debut. Some of the seniors who graduated earlier this year have been hired to work with Goehring on the New York run.
The students who take courses at SHU and who have been involved with the Broadway show won't necessarily make theater their life's work. "I just want them to leave college loving theater. Some may work at their local community theaters. But I hope they'll all be more appreciative of everything that goes on behind a show before it opens," he said.
Goehring is confident that "A Christmas Story" will become a stage perennial that can exist side by side with the movie.
"We were lucky that the `Grinch' and `Elf' came before us so we could watch them from a distance," the producer said of two other holiday shows that have found success on Broadway and around the country. ("Elf" is back for its second limited New York run this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.)
"The goal was to create a first-class professional production (on Broadway) and then start to do split week tours and regional productions," he said of the future of the show.
"I've been telling our investors that we are creating a piece that will eventually be licensed to every high school and community theater and they will have it as a perennial."
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A stage version of the popular "Angelina Ballerina" books by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig will be presented at the Westport Country Playhouse on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 1 and 4 p.m. "Angelina Ballerina, The Musical," is part of the venue's Family Festivities Series.
The books have been adapted into a PBS animated series. The stage show is a production of the Vital Theatre Company and is recommended for ages 6 to 10. One hour before each performance, there will be pre-show activity presented by the Ballet Etudes Company.
In conjunction with the performances, the playhouse is hosting a book collection for Read to Grow Inc., a statewide nonprofit organization that helps parents take an active role in their children's literacy by providing free books to families with limited access.
Call 203-227-4177 or visit www.westportplayhouse.org.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Mental health care professionals around the state say Vermont's mental health system is overburdened, and that too often the mentally ill end up in the state corrections system.
Nearly half of all inmates at Vermont prisons seek mental health treatment, making the Department of Corrections likely the largest mental health care provider in the state.
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center and the Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) will join forces to substantially expand the county's only Suboxone program to help opiate addicts, a move that will allow Bristol Internal Medicine to deliver the much-needed service to 80-90 patients, up from the current 25.
The Porter board approved the expanded Suboxone program last week, and did so even with the prospect of a $200,000 annual budget hit.
MIDDLEBURY — One of the Counseling Service of Addison County's latest fundraising efforts is on a roll — yes, literally.
On a sunny Aug. 16 morning, almost 100 CSAC backers, sponsors, employees and clients gathered at the Middlebury Recreation Park for the nonprofit's third annual bocce tournament, an event that met organizers' goals.
CSAC Executive Director Bob Thorn said the number of teams that raised money to sign up jumped from 11 in 2012 to 17 this year, while business sponsorship took a similar leap forward.
MIDDLEBURY — When most people think of "first aid," they think of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the Heimlich maneuver and other emergency measures to keep someone alive during a physical crisis.
Now the Counseling Service of Addison County (CSAC) wants people to be able to dispense first aid to people suffering from what might be less overt, but very serious mental health ailments.
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