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A good number of British tourists will be familiar with the Balearic Island of Ibiza, off the Spanish coast. Tourists flock here in the summer, and so Ibiza has plenty of villas and holiday apartments for rent. From Ibiza Town to San Antonio Bay there are plenty of great villas and apartments in Ibiza, including holiday apartments for as little as £348 a week. So, holiday rentals in Ibiza can be a good value alternative to hotels.
Ibiza has plenty of exotic beaches, and a number of beach-side villas that will put you to within walking distance of them. Some of the more notable beaches in Ibiza include the Cala Salada, Cala Conta, and the longest beach of Ibiza Playa d'en Bossa/Platja d'en Bossa. Along these beaches lie the crisp blue Mediterranean waters that are ideal for water-sports such as windsurfing, jet skiing, or even banana boating. Notable resorts in Ibiza include San Antonia Bay which is a top Mediterranean resort with a variety of beaches, bars, and water-sports. In the south-east of Ibiza lies Ibiza Town which has a buzzing port area. Ibiza Town also has the Dalt Vila, which stands for high town, the old town which is a UNESCO heritage site. At the top of Dalt Vila lies the cathedral of San Maria d'Eivissa.
Ibiza has a number of family villas. Such villas include plenty of amenities for families such as fully equipped kitchens, pools, dining rooms, and BBQ along with additional services. Ibiza also has a few family resorts such as the Playa d'en Bossa which has long sandy beaches, amusement parks, and a bowling centre. The mini resort of Portatx is also a recommended family resort with shallow waters and is great for bathing.
To the north of Ibiza lies the Can Marca Caves at Puerto de Sanguel beach. The caves are open with guided tours, and the Sanguel beach is also worth a visit. Near to Ibiza Town is Aguamar, the biggest water park in Ibiza which has some great slides! Also worth a boat trip is Ibiza's sister island of Formentara, and its capital San Francesc. Alternatively, with a few holiday villa rentals in Formentara some prefer to stay at the small island. Formentara has further great beaches, and transparent waters which are great for snorkelling.


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Looking for family connection to myself through my GGrandmother Anastasia Jackman. She was born in 1857 at Bennettsbridge. Her father was Thomas Jackman and her mother Bridget Phelan or Whelan. Anastasia came to Western Australia with her brother's Walter and Thomas around 1882. I know there was other siblings but not sure if they stayed in Ireland or came out here or went to America. Can any one help?
Kind regards Nola.
Looking for any imformation on Obrien decendents of Tulla County Clare Ireland.
Willian Francis Obrien is my Ggrandfather he was born around 1863 he had a sister Ellen Obrien born 1864. Their parents where William and Jane Obrien and they were Hotel Proprietors. William Francis came to Western Australia around 1886 and married in 1891. Can any one help me as I have hit that brick wall.
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An Indian Bank's Success Story
It's rare to come across books on Indian businesses that make a compelling read. Most are packed with jargon, making it difficult for normal readers to follow.
"A Bank for the Buck," a story of India's HDFC Bank by Tamal Bandyopadhyay, avoids all this. It wasn't easy: As Mr. Bandyopadhyay puts it, HDFC is a "boring and monotonous bank." But he focuses on HDFC as a way of telling India's growth story, bringing the narrative alive through characters, dramatic twists and trivia, like a ban on biscuits during meetings.
Mr. Bandyopadhyay is the deputy managing editor of the Indian daily Mint, with which The Wall Street Journal has a content-sharing partnership.
One banker described Mr. Bandyopadhyay first book as "unputdownable," while a former central bank governor, Y.V. Reddy, introduced it as "an engrossing and sweeping tale of 21st century India."
HDFC Bank, a unit of Housing Development Finance Corp., was among the first private banks to come into existence when the Reserve Bank of India issued new licenses in 1994. It's today India's most valued bank. The book comes at a time when the central bank is looking to issue fresh bank licenses with the aim of reaching India's millions of unbanked citizens.
Mr. Bandyopadhyay spoke to The Wall Street Journal about his new book, the spirit of modern India and whether he ever thought of quitting journalism for banking. Edited excerpts.
The Wall Street Journal: Why a book on HDFC Bank?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: On one level, it is a book on a particular bank - the HDFC Bank. It is the most valued Indian bank and among the top four-five most valued banks across the world in terms of price to book. But it is beyond that. The book encompasses the past 18 years since the first set of new banks began operations in India around 1994. Some of those banks have failed, some have not done too well and are surviving. A few of them have done well and HDFC Bank is the best among them.
Through this bank, I wanted to catch the spirit of modern India: the spirit of entrepreneurship, of professionalism and the spirit of corporate governance. Our heroes are actors, politicians or cricketers. But middle class professionals too are heroes in their own way and I wanted to discover that heroism.
WSJ: The world is still recovering from the economic crisis, which hurt the banking sector the most. What's your assessment of the Indian banking sector in general, and HDFC in particular, at the moment?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: In banking, very often, what you don't do is more important than what you do. Why are the banks in the U.S. and Europe in trouble? They did things which they should not have done. HDFC Bank doesn't do a lot of things: It is a very steady, boring and monotonous bank. From a writer's perspective, it is a challenge to write the story of this bank. But it is hugely successful. There are two issues which differentiates HDFC. Firstly, there is a fine distinction between real risk and perceived risk. Broker financing is a very risky affair, apparently, but HDFC says: No it's not. And they made huge money in broker financing. If there is a real risk, they stay away from it but wherever there is a perceived risk, they shattered the myth. Secondly, more than ideas or the passion to be a pioneer, execution is more important. HDFC Bank does very ordinary things but the execution is extraordinary.
WSJ: Bankers are very reserved people. Was it easy to speak to them for your book's research?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: Yes and no. Because of whatever credibility I have, many doors opened. I met more than 100 people and conducted more than 100 hours of interviews both In India and overseas, like in London, the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore. Not just commercial bankers: I also spoke to investment bankers, regulators, central bankers, economists, corporate borrowers, competition and investors in the bank. A few of them spoke off the record. I was glad many spoke on the record. I wanted to be as honest as possible.
WSJ: There are few books documenting the success or failure of Indian businesses. Fewer still have done well, in terms of sales. How do you think this book will fare?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: This particular book is very different. It is not a mere chronicle. I wanted to tell a story where all the characters are real living characters. It is seeing the new India through the prism of business. In that sense, I wouldn't group this book with other biographies.
I'm a student of English literature and this book also reads like a racy fiction novel. K.V. Kamath [Chairman of ICICI Bank] has said it is "unputdownable." I stayed away from handling too much economic data and theory otherwise only bankers will read it. My entire objective was to focus on the narrative, tell a story and be a good storyteller.
WSJ: As journalists we are used to writing 800-1000 words-long reports? How difficult was it to write a book?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: It was a challenge. It is a different discipline, it's like asking a T-20 player to play a cricket test match. One has to change the style. I continued to research the book while working for six to eight months. I mentally divided the books into many parts. Then I took a two-month leave from work, left Mumbai and confined myself to a room. I got five weeks to myself and I worked 16 hours a day and finished it. I never saw it in the form of a book but treated it in the form of chapters and within chapters, sub-chapters.
WSJ: How did HDFC Group Chairman Deepak Parekh and the bank's managing director, Aditya Puri, respond to the book?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: The idea of the book [on HDFC Group] came from the publishers. I thought we should write a book focusing on the bank, as a new set of banks would soon come up and, in that context, it would become relevant.
Deepak Parekh strongly resisted the idea. He said the bank is too young, why do you want to write about it? Aditya had reservations as HDFC is a U.S.-listed bank and he wasn't sure how the subject would be treated. Aditya was very emphatic from the beginning that he had nothing to do with it. After much persuasion, I convinced both of them to cooperate. Both had two sittings each with me but I made it very clear from the beginning that when it came to data, I would cross check it and that this was my book and that they had no authority to change it. Neither of them interfered in any way and they saw the book only after it was printed. Both of them are thrilled.
WSJ: The Reserve Bank of India is likely to issue new bank licenses for private players. What are your views on the matter?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: The Reserve Bank of India is vary of corporate houses coming into banking because it feels they can outsmart the regulator. Then there is also the issue of corporate lending to its own group. At the same time, if you want to have serious financial inclusion you need more banks. You need serious players with deep pockets. Corporates should be welcomed and why just a few licenses, RBI can have banking licence on the tap. Let a few of them fail if they are not doing well. As long as you can ring fence the rouge banks and you can protect the interest of the depositors, you shouldn't be overly worried.
WSJ: You have covered the banking sector for more than 15 years. Did you ever think of being a banker?
Mr. Bandyopadhyay: No, I don't think so. It's like being a cricket commentator. You can talk about whether Sachin Tendulkar has lost its reflexes, but it is very difficult to go and play yourself. I'm interested in overall finance, economy, business. When I began reporting on banks, not many people were doing it. They were scared of the subject. But, when I started speaking to people, I found it damn easy. The subject is very nuanced and once you start joining the dots, you see the pattern. The advantage of being a bank reporter is that you are at a vantage position from where you can see the economy, the corporate health through the lens of banking. Tomorrow, I wouldn't mind leaving reporting and doing something else, like creative writing. But so far, I'm enjoying what I do.
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Health care law will raise insurers' costs, actuaries say
Washington (CNN) – Republican opponents of President Obama's Affordable Care Act got some new ammunition this week: A study released by the Society of Actuaries on Tuesday predicts that costs could rise an average of 32% by 2017 for insurers serving the individual health care market.
Insurers in some states could see costs rise significantly more than that, the study reports, with increases estimated to top out at 80% in Ohio and Wisconsin, and 60% in California, Idaho, Maryland and Indiana. These increases could then be passed on to consumers through higher premiums.
Republican lawmakers were quick to highlight the news, with many turning to Twitter to tout the study's findings. Utah Senator Orin Hatch tweeted the estimated cost increases for his state using the hashtag "#BrokenPromise."
But there are several other states that could see significant decreases in insurer costs. According to the group's estimates, New York's insurance costs for individual plans could decrease by 14%, and costs in Massachusetts and Vermont could decrease by nearly 13%.
"In simplest terms, the states that will see large increases generally have low current individual costs and those showing decreases have high current individual costs, with all states moving closer together but at a higher level overall," Kristi Bohn, SOA's consulting health staff fellow, said in a statement released with the report.
Independent health policy analyst Larry Levitt from the Kaiser Family Foundation warned against interpreting the SOA's estimates as a "projection" or a "certainty of what's going to happen."
"Consumers shouldn't look at these numbers and automatically assume that this is what they're going to have to pay," Levitt said.
The SOA study makes many "speculative assumptions" that could have a sizable effect on the expected cost increases, Levitt said. For example, the SOA doesn't factor in government efforts to drive costs down for both insurers and consumers, and it assumes huge increases in the number of individuals purchasing insurance on the open market in future years.
Currently, individual purchasers make up only a small sliver of the nation's overall insurance market.
"Only about 15 million people buy insurance on the open market today," Levitt said. That means just 6% of those under the age of 65 purchase insurance as individuals.
"I don't think anyone expects significant [cost] increases in the employer market," where the majority of Americans get their health insurance, Levitt said.
At an off-camera briefing with economics reporters on Tuesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged that some individuals in what she called the "underinsured market" could see health care costs increase in coming years, but she largely attributed those increases to improvements in the quality of insurance plans.
"These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, and so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market," Sebelius said. "But we feel pretty strongly that with subsidies available to a lot of that population, that they are really going to see much better benefit for the money that they're spending."
Those government subsidies weren't included in the SOA estimates.
Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest questioned the merits of the study at Wednesday's White House press briefing.
"I think that you're citing a study that I believe was conducted by a health insurance company that's critical of the Affordable Care Act," Earnest said. "So that part I'm not particularly surprised about."
While the SOA is not directly affiliated with a health insurance company, the group did retain an outside company, Optum, to help calculate its estimates. Optum is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which owns UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance company with nearly 4 million beneficiaries.
In response to the White House criticism, the SOA issued this statement: "The report was commissioned, paid for and overseen by the Society of Actuaries, the organization that credentials health actuaries. The analysis used a model that has been in use for more than 20 years by such organizations as the Pepper Commission and the Clinton Administration. The study was overseen by a project oversight group comprised of Society of Actuary members and its findings were exposed to the organization's membership for review and comment."
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Sometimes, inspiration can come from more than one source. Today's featured quilt "New York Skyline" by Jessica Blomquist has two definite inspirations. As the name implies it was inspired by the skyline of New York City as well as Denyse Schmidt's quilts.
In Jessica's words:
"I just started quilting (and sewing for that matter) in 2010. My mother and grandmother have quilted for decades, but I never was interested in learning how to quilt. My grandmother bought me a sewing machine as a wedding present and I decided that I wanted to learn how to use it. I thought a quilt could be an easy first project.
My "New York Skyline" quilt was the third quilt that I made. I googled ideas for quilts and fell in love with modern quilting and especially the work of Denyse Schmidt. I really like the concept of using only solid fabrics in quilts. I had recently moved to Los Angeles from New York City and I missed the city so much. I decided to make a quilt in honor of the city I missed and also using Denyse's "Drunk Love 2-Tone" style as inspiration."
"It was the skyline of New York that really inspired this quilt. The shapes of the buildings leave beautiful footprints on the island. The grey fabric has sheen to it reminiscent of the steel and lights of Manhattan. Water envelopes New York without overpowering the beauty of the city, similarly the blue border emphasizes the quilt top. The style of the quilt also represents New York. New York is contemporary, innovative, powerful, and loud like modern quilt making. New York is also rooted in tradition and long-established like traditional quilt making. This is my ode to a city that I love."
"The quilt is actually made from black and grey sheets from IKEA. I was a new quilter, I didn't have a fabric stash yet! I wanted each block to be unique, but I ran out of ideas. I ended up making several of the blocks a second time but switched the colors."
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This forcible humping of a Mercedes and Neon resulted when a woman was trying to perform a three-point turn. Looks to us like the Mercedes was trying to pull off the coveted Eiffel Tower instead.
A woman in the UK decided instead of gently pressing the brake pedal, she jammed down on the accelerator while attempting a three-point turn, causing her Mercedes to mount the front end of a little Neon. The owner of the car was awoken by a loud crashing sound and rushed out to make sure that the driver was okay. It turned out it was his neighbor's wife, so they all had a laugh over some tea and crumpets - all so British, wouldn't you say?
All involved did not feel so jolly as the house was reported saying that it was not happy with the unexpected mounting and therefore would not complete the necessary steps to complete the Eiffel Tower maneuver. The Neon was heard mumbling "Hi!" Another steamy shot of the car-on-car duo below.
We're big fans of crazy drivers and we've provided another great attempt at parking below.
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agrarian reform
agrarian reform, redistribution of the agricultural resources of a country. Traditionally, agrarian, or land, reform is confined to the redistribution of land; in a broader sense it includes related changes in agricultural institutions, including credit, taxation, rents, and cooperatives. Although agrarian reform can result in lower agricultural productivity, especially if it includes collectivization, it may increase productivity when land is redistributed to the tiller. Pressure for modern land reform is most powerful in the underdeveloped nations. See also collective farm.
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In today's g-fab news: Ray says he is not "Gay J".
The singer and star of VH1's For the Love of Ray J responds to somewhat persistent gay rumors, the most recent being hurled by a former contestant on his show, Monica "Danger" Leon. Over the weekend, she appeared on Los Angeles radio and claimed Ray J has been "smashing" rapper Young Buck for "years"
This morning, Ray J appeared on TT Torrez' popular radio show on Richmond's 92.1 FM and responded to Leon. Ray J's statement is one of the better responses to gay-baiting that we've seen in hip-hop. Rough transcript:
"I'm not gay but at the same time I have love for gay people, girls and dudes. I have friends who are gay, female and male. I'm not trippin' and I'm secure in my sexuality. I don't want people to think I like dudes, because I don't, but at the same time I work in Hollywood and [there] are many gays who work here. I'm not going to bash the gay community ... they are some really good people."
Ray J adds that Danger was upset he "hadn't returned her calls" and was "going through some drama", apparently referring to her recent psychiatric hospitalization and the court-ordered removal of her children.
Ray J, whose real name is William Raymond Norwood, Jr, is the younger brother of singer/actress Brandy. He's previously appeared at black gay pride events and it sounds like he's been getting some good advice. Listen to his radio interview with TT Torrez here.


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Online writing exercises
It's not a critique group, it's online writing exercises.
They don't charge money, you have to contribute regularly to have your work seen, and it seems pretty straightforward to me.
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- Tori Scott said...
I'm in a critique group that operates a lot like this, only we do it in private forums. It's an easy, painless way to get some feedback on your writing style, for sure.
But the absolute best kick-in-the-pants writing exercises I've done lately have been round robins I started on my blog. They've been a blast, and the last one has led to a collaboration of the participants to expand the different characters' stories into novellas,to see if we can publish them as a collection.
Writing begets writing, no matter how it gets started.
- 7/05/2006
- Steorling said...
hmm, interesting. I like that nanowrimo sticker especially...it says "Here's someone who's as crazy as you!" Comforting, in that strangely disturbing way that deciphering a lunatics journal cypher is comforting. Least you know what they're thinking. lol
Seriously, though, writing prompts are always so much fun. I personally am a devotee of Georgia Heard's "Writing Toward Home". It's one I use with students and almost never disappoints in starting some ball rolling.
- 7/05/2006
- Amy said...
HHhhh... interesting - I'll take a look-see...
- 7/05/2006
- Unknown said...
Your round robins sound fun. As a writer who has recently relocated across country, I'm trying to build a sense of community with other writers and started a blog with writing exercises, critiques, etc., just so that I can keep the creative spark alive. I'm trying to be more regular about it...Tuesday morning assignments, for instance...and it does help to have others egging you on!
Writing begets writing...I'm putting that up on my bulletin board.
- 7/05/2006
- Maya Reynolds said...
For writers of Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Horror, Andrew Burt's Critters site is another good place to go for critiques.
Started in 1995, Critters is one of the oldest such sites. Many other sites since then have structured themselves on the Critters cooperative model
- 7/05/2006
- Battlerocker said...
Thanks for the tip.
- 7/05/2006
- Linda said...
Forward Motion (www.fmwriters.com) has a daily writer's exercise. Justin gets pretty creative with them, if anyone is interested. :)
- 7/05/2006
- Unknown said...
I'm a CC addict myself - www.critiquecircle.com - a new writing excercise is posted every couple weeks.
- 7/06/2006
- LoveRundle said...
I checked the Desk Drawer website and I really like it.
Thanks for posting it.
- 7/06/2006


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The US Fish and Wildlife Service has released an environmental assessment and an economic analysis of the Gunnision sage grouse proposals.
Pending a change due to a government shutdown, a meeting to address the studies is scheduled for October 8 at the Monticello High School auditorium.
The meeting will include an information session from 4 to 5 p.m. and a public hearing from 6 to 9 p.m.
A similar meeting will be held in Gunnison, CO on October 7.
Public comment on the studies will be accepted until October 19. It is expected that the US Fish and Wildlife Service will make a decision on designation by March 31, 2014.
The federal agency is considering the designation of the sage grouse as an endangered species and may designate thousands of acres of land as critical habitat.
An estimated 95 percent of the habitat is on private land and could severely impact use of the limited private land in San Juan County. About 92 percent of the land in San Juan County is owned and managed by governments.
At least two studies are underway on the economic analysis, which attempted to put a cost on the designation.
An economist from Utah State University is completing a review for the State of Utah, while the eleven counties impacted by the designation have hired a Colorado State University economist to complete a similar study.
San Juan County is one of the eleven counties potentially impacted by the designation, in addition to ten counties in Colorado.
It is anticipated that the analysis of the two studies will be available by the October 8 public meeting.
In addition to the Gunnison sage grouse proposal, Utah Congressmen Jason Chaffetz and Rob Bishop are in the process of developing a public lands proposal for Congress.
A San Juan County effort to submit proposals for the bill has been delayed.
San Juan County Commissioners are planning a series of meetings later in the month to address a local proposal.
Reps Chaffetz and Bishop called on any interested organizations to participate in the development of a public lands bill and many organizations have responded. To date, approximately a dozen organizations have submitted proposals for the public lands bill.
While Grand, Emery and Uintah counties have developed and submitted proposals, the San Juan County proposal is still in the developmental stages.
The concept of the local meetings is that three separate meetings will be held, with one each in Monticello, Blanding and Bluff. The commissioner representing the area will conduct each meeting, i.e. Commissioner Bruce Adams in Monticello, Commissioner Phil Lyman in Blanding and Commissioner Kenneth Maryboy in Bluff.
Rep Bishop chairs a powerful public lands committee in Congress and suggests that he and Chaffetz may be able to shepherd a bill through Congress that would address key public lands issues in San Juan County.
The Congressmen state that if San Juan County does not participate in the process, the bill will not address public lands in the county.
A number of county residents have expressed concern about the bill. Rep Chaffetz told those at a meeting to kick off the project in August that doing nothing may be a dangerous route to take.
A number of organizations are pushing for a wide range of public land actions in San Juan County, including the designation of a national monument that would affect most of the public lands west of Highway 191 and north of Highway 95.


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So, I'm a little inexperienced in Atheist vs Christian debate, and my buddy and I had the following FB convo (I didn't really know what points to bring up). What should I have said? What would you have said?
My Buddy Writes this: -- Conservative, Christian, Believes that the bible is the literal word of God, Has moral convictions, Does not believe in evolution, Believes in a literal Heaven and Hell, and despite what many with such titles have shown understands that to be these things means that I need to love you as much as I love myself. I will never tell you that you are going to hell, but wants to be with you in heav...en. Will not tell you that you are a sinner but will freely confess to being one. Will not judge you on who you are but is not ashamed to tell you who I am. Will not hold against you having a different set of beliefs in hope that you will do the same for me. Will pray for you even if you do not believe in it. And will be your friend even if you no longer want to be mine. And will love you even if you hate me.
I respond with this: --Liberal, Atheist. Personally believes in reason and fact over myth, legend, and faith. Also has absolute respect for everyone else's beliefs and feels that what or whom and individual worships is that individuals business and no one elses. Hates to see lawmakers force their religious beliefs on those who don't share the same faith. Also feels he is a better person for having been friends with *buddy* all those years ago, and again now.
He writes: --- you do realize that using the literary method that Christianity is the most provable religion on the planet right? And that that is backed up with archeological, geological, and Social historical proofs. I have to disagree when anyone calls my religion a myth or legend as it is not and is just as provable as the fact that George Washington was our first president. You can not prove history scientifically as we cannot recreate people and events in a petri dish but by using the literary method we can prove history through writings and proofs of people and events. But thank you for being the opposing force as steel sharpens steel :D
I respond with -- Regarding Christianity being provable, you apparently know some things that I do not. I was not aware that Noah collecting two of every animal and putting them onto a boat was proven to have been done. Where did they find the Ark, anyway? I also was not aware that the ten commandments have been found, or that scientific proof had been found that Jesus not only raised someone else from the dead (Lazarus), but rose from the dead himself. Furthermore, I hadn't read anything about concrete evidence of a middle eastern shrub being endowed with the gift of intelligence and speech, coupled with spontaneous combustion centuries ago. I've also not heard about concrete evidence finally being found about the walls of the ancient city of Jericho being brought down by the sound of trumpets. These are all things that I, in my meager understanding of, and infrequent notifications of scientific discovery, do not know about, so props to you, if you've heard about these things being proven. Maybe you could post the links to the websites you got this proof from?
He says -- your arguments are smug and shallow. And as typical for atheists they come with an edge of reproach to them. I know you well enough to know that you have had more than your fair share of bad experiences with "organized religion". But hopefully you have not had those bad experiences from me. And while I am always up for a friendly argument I will not abide with ill-mannered verbosity. (now that I have used all my big words I can continue )
Again you are looking for scientific proofs of some very specific events. But your arguments over look akums razor. For instance science tells us that there was a global flood (they have found sea shells on top of the himalayas) and that it was not millions of years ago and the animals we have alive today (including us) would not have survived such a flood. But despite that scientific evidence you are asking me for a boat abandoned mountain top some 4,000+ years ago. now that would be a miracle of natural survivability.
You ask about lazurus being raised from the dead but again are overlooking the historical literary proof. It would be akin to me asking you to prove that Abraham Lincoln studied by candlelight or approved the emancipation proclimation. But because of proven literary sources we accept it as truth. But the proof of Jesus is more provable than Abraham Lincoln. But people still blindly disregard him as myth.
The city of Jericho has been found and it was destroyed rapidly. (just a note it was their voices according to the Bible that brought the walls down not the trumpets)
As for the burning bush. You are asking for scientific proof of a miraculous event. how can a baby fall out of a high rise and walk away unbruised. there are so many recorded evidences of miraculous events but you question one that was witnessed by but one person and yet discredit the source.
I have done a lot of searching and it takes more belief to believe that there is no God than to accept his excistence. I know that my own experiences would sound like fantasy and myth to those that have not personally shared in such things
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First of all, seashells on top of a mountain do not a global flood make. Your friend admits and knows that nothing in the bible is provable. Also I question this baby falling from a high rise and walking away unscathed. Is there evidence of that? Sure, unexplained things happen all the time. The difference between an atheist and a believer, is the atheist will freely admit he does not have the answers, while the believer will immediately say god is the answer. Believers need to know, not knowing makes them feel scared and unsafe. I've no idea why. BTW, I don't think you were smug at all in your responses. He was smug for calling you smug. :P You will probably never get your friend to question his faith or his bible. All you can really do is explain why you don't believe and leave it at that. Whether Jesus existed or not, whether Jericho was found or not--doesn't prove there is a god. Seashells? Ridiculous. http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC364.html
Fantastic response, Eric. Thank you for that insight. Wish I'd had you on the phone when I was trying to come up with answers to his post, lol!
Couple of things:
As to god in general, the believers are the ones making the outrageous claim, so theirs is the responsibility for substantiating that claim, not ours. And based on the Null Hypothesis, absence of evidence IS evidence of absence, unless and until they can prove to the contrary.
Hope this helps.
BTW, it's "Occam" or "Ockham" as it comes to the razor.
Hi, I am afraid your friend has fallen into the same trap as the majority of bible believers in that he apparently gets all of his "science" from reading other Christian books on this subject. The proofs in these are typically based on poor reasoning,fallacious argruments, and just plain, really bad science. Researchers on the subject generally agree that there was no such global flood, and there is extensive discussion on what evidence there would be for such an event should it have happened, and of which there is apparently none.Your friend simply refuses to read such things and the reason is obvious.There is absolute evidence that modern man has existed for at least 200,000 years, and we have found tools indicating we go back twice that time, yet the bible says we came on the scene a mere 6,000 years ago.Ask your friend to explain that.His statement about it taking more faith to be a none-believer than a believer is the subject of a popular Christian book (I forget the author) which is also filled with really bad scientific arguments, and which he has apparently also read.To assume that seashells on a mountaintop are proofs of a flood and not proof of tectonic plate movement simply shows his ignorance on the subject, as well as his unwillingness to investigate these matters beyond the pseudoscience of Christian writings. Please ask your friend to challenge his beliefs by reading more mainstream science writings-I suspect he will refuse to, and there the two of you be- right where you started. "There is none so blind as he who will not see"-indeed. Good luck.
maybe you could ask him to explain the archeological, geological, and Social historical proofs of the taking snake. I don't know why theist try to prove biblical or whatever on scientific evidence, its faith!. I believe that the Holy book of Lord of the Rings is more believe, at least we know the creator and has a better sense of a moral compass
Your first mistake was, IMO, debating the bible with him before having him prove that there is a God. If he wants to assert that the Bible is the word of God, he must first demonstrate that there is a God. Only after that is done, can you then move on to determining which God (if any among the extant religions on earth) he is.
There are also other points too. Even if he were to demonstrate, without a doubt, that Earth and/or life were specially created, that would not be indicative of a divine creator. Most theists don't understand this, that even if Evolution, the Big Bang, etc. were proven to be false (and they won't be), this does not mean a God did it. To assume so is unfounded. In lieu of Evolution, we do not have creation, it isn't even an option as it is not independently supported by evidence.
Also tell him he needs to read more science, and less apologetics.
If you find yourself losing your patience and/or realizing that it is futile to argue against dogma, simply reflect on the words of the great poet, Schiller: "Against ignorance, even the angels fight in vain." My argument would be the one from evil espoused by J. M. Mackie, the Australian philosopher, who pointed out the impossibility of evil existing if all is determined by a good omnipotent God.
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A public hearing is scheduled for December 8 at 11:30 a.m. to consider the proposed Large Public Assemblies Ordinance. The hearing will take place in Commission chambers in the San Juan County courthouse in Monticello.
Commissioners say that more than a dozen activities a year threaten to overwhelm local law enforcement and emergency services. Whether it is the annual Moab Jeep Safari, the 24 hours of Moab bike race, jeep crawls or spring break, a large number of activities, which originate in the Moab area, are taking place in adjacent San Juan County.
"We get all the liability and no real benefit," said San Juan County Administrator Rick Bailey. "And it all comes at a significant cost to San Juan County."
The San Juan County Sheriffs department requested that the county develop an ordinance to deal with the activities. They complain that they often hear about the events too late to insure public safety and then face a nightmare situation with blocked roads, out of control crowds, and little or no services. "We are overwhelmed at the event and end up with the entire bill," said Commissioner Bruce Adams.
The proposed ordinance would require a permit for any activity with 100 or more participants. The permitting process would require event organizers to address a host of issues, including liability insurance, crowd control, potable water, enclosed toilets, traffic control, parking, emergency response, and more. The ordinance would require a $100 fee and a $1,000 deposit for smaller events, with increasing fees for larger events.
While the proposed ordinance states "It is not the intent of the county commission to, in any way, shape or form, regulate free speech," several San Juan County residents are concerned that the proposed ordinance moves far beyond crowd control and threatens First Amendment rights.
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Will iPad lovers give Windows 8 tablets a chance?
That's the question we asked for this week's installment of Geek on the Street. GeekWire stood outside of the Apple Store in Seattle's University Village, and showed people who came out of the store a tablet running Microsoft's new operating system.
The hardware we used was the very basic Samsung slate that Microsoft has given to developers and journalists for testing, not a Microsoft Surface or any of the nicer devices that will be launching with the new operating system. We focused their attention on the user interface, and even without the best hardware, the reaction might surprise a few people.
Microsoft plans to release Windows 8 on Oct. 26, and it's counting on the new touch-friendly interface to compete with the iPad and other tablets.
We ended up talking primarily with people who already own iPads or were thinking about buying them, although one diehard PC user also gave us her reaction. Watch the video to hear the consensus, or read the summaries below.
Delen from Seattle
First impressions? "It's very cool – I like the visuals. I'm very visual and I like the tiles. You can click and point to which one you're looking for. It's easy to see as opposed to a tab bar across."
You have an iPad… "I do have an iPad and ironically, one of the things I just complained on the new Safari update about was that it all went to tabs as opposed to individual boxes when you open Safari. So, I didn't like that. This is pretty cool and timely."
Would you consider replacing your iPad? "I would consider getting (a Windows 8 tablet), definitely."
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First impressions? "It's like every new product — they're cool. That's why people come up with this stuff – to find out what works better each iteration of the product. It gets better and better."
Would you buy one? "Microsoft has the best online storage capacity right now so that'd be something to consider. But I'm so wrapped up in Apple I don't think I would. Everything I have is linked together."
"I am an Apple guy. Over all the years I had trouble at work with some Microsoft products and viruses. I've never had that issue with a Mac. Not to say that isn't going to haunt me someday, but it's an issue that hung with me enough times."
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First impressions? "I can just sort of touch and go – I don't have to push something and then go to it. I just grab from the side with my finger, so that's really great. It's clear and the pictures are clear."
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Would you buy one over an iPad? "Yes. Everything I do is PC. I get lost as it is and I don't need to be even more lost with a new product. Microsoft has been great they are very helpful and I like it. I'm invested already in Microsoft. The products are consistently good. I like it a lot, actually. I love my computer. So yeah, I would be game for one of these."
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LINCOLN, Neb. — The collective eyebrows of Nebraska fans were raised when coach Bo Pelini publicly challenged his Cornhuskers to go 6-0 in their remaining regular-season games.
It's not that the goal is too ambitious — even though no Nebraska team since 2001 has won six straight in the same season. No doubt, Big Red backers hungry for a first conference championship in 13 years hope it can be accomplished.
What caught people off guard is that Pelini issued his challenge moments after the humiliating 25-point loss at Ohio State, and it seemed to run counter to the coaching profession's one-game-at-a-time mantra.
Nine days later, Pelini wasn't backing off. The Huskers (4-2, 1-1 Big Ten), coming off a bye week, start their mission Saturday at Northwestern.


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필리핀북부한인회 공지사항(2016년 8월 12일)
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필리핀북부한인회에서는 교민분들을 위해 PhilHealth 가입 신청을 받고 있습니다.
필리핀북부한인회에서 교민 여러분의 의료 혜택을 위해 실비로 필리핀 국민 의료보험(PhilHealth)의 가입 신청을 받고 있사오니 교민 여러분의 많은 참여 바랍니다.
접수처 : 필리핀북부한인회 사무실
보험료 납부 : 1개월 200페소, 최소 3개월 납부.
필요 서류 : ACR I -Card, 여권 원본, 본인이 직접 신청하러 오셔야 합니다.
기타 문의 사항 : 필리핀북부한인회로 방문 문의 부탁드립니다. ▩
◈ 열린 운영이사제 시행
필리핀북부한인회는 2016년부터 필리핀북부루손 지역에 거주하는 교민들의 적극적인 한인회 활동 참여를 위해 누구나 운영이사로 참여하여 함께 활동할 수 있는 열린 운영이사제를 실시하고 있습니다.
즉 필리핀북부루손 지역에 거주하는 한인이라면 누구든지 필리핀북부한인회의 운영에 참여하여 원하는 한인회를 만드실 수 있습니다.
적극적인 참여로 바기오 한인 사회를 지금보다 더 좋은 사회로 만들어 주시기바랍니다. ▩
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필리핀북부한인회는 교민여러분에게 무상으로 대여해 주기위한 문고를 사무실에 만들고 있습니다. 이미 보신 책의 기증을 바랍니다. 픽업은 저희가 하겠습니다. ▩
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Mario, the Italian plumber with a kidnap prone girlfriend is the poster child of Nintendo. But is there hidden sexual innuendo in the world of Super Mario? Some Japanese players seem to think so. Consider the following:
Mario: The size of his nose as a metaphor for a large member.
Luigi: His name in Japanese (ru-i-ji) is an anagram for the word, "to touch" or "twiddle" (i-ji-ru).
Princess Peach: A peach can be seen as a woman's rear.
Bowser: The king of the turtles. Turtles in Japan can be viewed as symbols for the male genitalia.
Mushroom Kingdom: Mushrooms are shaped like... Need I say more?
Other pieces of evidence include how when Mario eats a mushroom, he gets bigger, or flowers as symbols for the female genitalia, and when Mario gets one of those, he turns red and spurts out hot little balls... Maybe there's something to this. Maybe it's just perverted minds reading too much into it. Maybe.
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Apple Oatmeal Bites
Sue Violette of Neillsville, Wisconsin sends these chewy snacks that are perfect packers. Take them with you on car trips, hikes, or pop them in the kids' lunch bags. And with lots of oats and apples, you'll have plenty of fruit and fiber in every bite.
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch
Makesabout 2-1/2 dozen
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 cup fat-free milk
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup chopped peeled apple
- In a large bowl, beat the egg whites, milk, oil and vanilla. Combine the oats, flour, sugars, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and nutmeg; gradually add to egg white mixture and mix well. Stir in apple.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 51 calories, 1g fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 48mg sodium, 9g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 starch.
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I was very surprised at how delicious these were! I am a die-hard butter baker, but try to find healthier alternatives, the catch is that they never taste as good- but these do! They are like apple pie in a cookie. I used ground ginger also (I always use in apple stuff) and it was a great addition.
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Tea Party Heroes Ron And Rand Paul Make For A Bitter Brew; Seventh Response.
The following is the seventh paragraph of Barry Germansky's op-ed Tea Party Heroes Ron and Rand Paul Make for a Bitter Brew, from earlier this year, interspersed with my rebuttals from within the last few days.
BARRY GERMANSKY: The Pauls' default stance of misrepresenting the historical record also helps them peddle the absurd Austrian School idea to deregulate all private businesses and subsequently create a utopian free market.
HENRY MOORE: We have already dealt with the historical record, which you have ignored, but must you now ignore the point of science (economics is a social science, one for which there are many competing theories)? You are here misrepresenting the Austrian School of Economics. To quote Walter Block, "No, Austrian economists can't oppose or favor anything. To say that they do is to violate the normative positive distinction. Austrians are limited to saying that a given policy will have thus and thus effects; they logically cannot say, qua Austrians, that a policy is good or bad, nor may they favor or oppose it, again qua Austrian economists. Certainly, they can do so as citizens, as ethicists, as philosophers, but economics per se is and must be value free, despite the fact that this stricture is all too often violated, as in the present case."
So Austrians do not oppose or favor any policy, such as deregulation, privatization, "utopian" free markets, as Austrians. They may do so as libertarians, which many Austrian economists are in varying degrees, but not as members of the economics profession, regardless of the school they find the most useful. Why is adherence to the Austrian school or other free market theories, and to libertarianism often found in the same people? Emphasis on such things as individual choice and individual action, as well as the fact that utility (relative to societal norms) applied to knowledge gleaned from the scientific theory, and the morality of the philosophical/political theory often lead to compatible conclusions.
A general example would be where policy a leads to unintended result b, an Austrian neither favors nor opposes policy a in and of itself, rather its merit depends on whether result b is in line with the original intent of policy a and/or the societal norms that the policy derives from or is in reaction to. To the scientist, the policy and its result have no moral value relative to science, only relative to the purported intentions of the policy in question. To the philosopher, especially one coming from a framework that values liberty highly, the Austrian (though not as an Austrian) may oppose the policy (and favor alternatives) on those grounds, regardless of whether or not he favors or opposes them (or remains objective, in the case of science) on other grounds.
A specific example following these same lines would be economically interventionist policies that intend to increase homeownership rates because the societal norm is that home ownership is a worthy and valuable goal, which then have the result of decreasing homeownership or stopping the growth of home ownership in the long run, or that have myriad other unwelcome (by society, not necessarily the scientist, who is mostly an observer) effects that outweigh those results considered more positive. The Austrian that is also a libertarian might oppose these policies on the grounds that public policies favoring one group (generally socio-ecnomic, ethno-cultural, political, or regional) at the expense of others necessarily violates the rights of the those in other groups. I just described to you the Housing Bubble and ensuing economic crisis.
[It is sometimes observed that Austrian school luminary Ludwig von Mises, though libertarian in his conclusions, was very much a utilitarian/consequentialist, and when coming to conclusions about the moral worth of a policy, applied this to his scientific knowledge, rather than a deontological libertarianism apart from his scientific knowledge. This is somewhat true, taking into account semantics, but upon further study, when all is put into context, the label is somewhat of an oversimplification.]
Furthermore, your idea of regulation is arbitrary. Because there is a public policy and it is called a "regulation," that automatically means it regulates? No. Often so called "regulations" create irregularities, and occasionally the blame for economic crises rests on their shoulders. The free market, on the other hand, is capable of regulating without the aid of government so-called experts. Markets can regulate themselves because each person only needs knowledge about a small portion of that which affects him, whereas central planners can not regulate markets because there are far fewer of them and by comparison the knowledge required is too vast for them to master, in a given point in time, let only keep tabs on throughout a large span of time. This is an overly simplistic way of looking at it, of course, but when one clearly can not even grasp this concept, up till now I hope, it is pointless to delve much further. Though I have attempted to do so here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
BARRY GERMANSKY: The Pauls refuse to believe that deregulation caused the Great Depression and the 2008 recession, despite vast quantities of evidence to the contrary.
HENRY MOORE: There is hardly any evidence (it is certainly not vast) that deregulation caused the Great Depression or the 2008 Recession, unless of course we see deregulation (which is often cleverly misused to refer to not only deregulation, but regulation, reform, and combinations of all the aforementioned) as a mitigating factor (e.g., rapid deregulation of a sector accustomed to regulation can indeed cause "problems,"; a separate issue entirely is the fact that these "problems," though painful for some, are necessary to liquidate malinvestments and to shift misallocations, and that without these temporary wounds reopening, worse infections would fester).
In fact, it is more accurate to blame regulations. I use the term loosely (but nowhere near as loosely as some use the term "deregulation") to refer to such things (during the 2008 Recession) as the Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate of price stability and low unemployment, manipulation of interest and exchange and tax rates, price controls, implicit bailouts (this is the type of regulation most commonly ignored by progressive-types griping about the so-called "repeal" of the Glass-Steagall Act, which often bears the brunt of the blame for the 2008 Recession), the Community Reinvestment Act and related or similar laws, the financial actions of certain Government Sponsored Entities, and the exacerbation of the ensuing problems with things like explicit bailouts, stimulus, and Quantitative Easing.
BARRY GERMANSKY: Following the Great Depression, when FDR introduced strict, compartmentalized regulation of the marketplace, the United States enjoyed a forty-year period of virtually uninterrupted growth, transforming the country into a superpower.
HENRY MOORE: The growth was not the result of any regulations, it was the result of a reinvigorated post-world war private sector, which had been stifled by the Hoover and Roosevelt economic and foreign policies in the 1930s and early 1940s. Without these policies the boom would have been that much sooner and by the time in question that much bigger. This is part of the reason the US became a superpower (it already was prior to the Great Depression, but after World War Two, increasingly so), but just as significant was what occurred with World War Two. The United States was comparatively insulated from the world wars in terms of structural damage. So it recovered from them more readily than the other superpowers, those in Europe and Asia. The competition, even that from the other supposed superpower, the Soviet Union, simply did not compare.
BARRY GERMANSKY: Then, when Reagan took office in the 1980s, he was aided by Alan Greenspan and company to remove the historically-proven regulations.
HENRY MOORE: The regulations were not historically proven. They led to the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, and the regulations imposed because of that (which were diminished some by Carter, Reagan, and Volcker), including wage and price controls, and the slow unravelling of the currency, both of which were major factors in 1970s Stagflation.
A lot of the regulations that Reagan got rid of were not just FDR's. Some of them were also Nixon's. Paul Volcker (under Carter and Reagan) actually did more to deregulate than Greenspan (only briefly under Reagan, more closely associated with Bush Senior, Clinton, and Bush Junior) ever did. A lot of Reagan's policies, including deficit spending were the opposite you make them out to be. Supply-side economics is not the same thing as free market economics. Any "economics" that puts too much (i.e., artificial) emphasis on either the supply side or the demand side (or on both as they are not mutually exclusive) is liable to create distortions. It is true that supply drives demand, but this does not mean supply should be propped up in any way by government. For the record, supply-side economics is subtle corporate welfare (as opposed to that which artificially prop up demand which is things like wage and price controls and welfare for the poor) and has been practiced by every administration and Congress going back for decades, including FDR, often in combination with more policies aimed at propping up demand.
Greenspan's policies were far from free market reforms. For a former proponent of the gold standard and follower of Ayn Rand, he had comparatively little to show for it in his actual policies, often moving in the opposite direction.
BARRY GERMANSKY: This helped big businesses make more profits while sending the rest of America into the gutter. This culminated in the 2008 recession.
HENRY MOORE: So is it deregulation or profit that causes recessions? Which is it? Didn't small businesses get profits too? And didn't some wages go up in real terms? And weren't the wages that didn't go up start on that trend before Reagan and Greenspan? What is it about profit (or deregulation) that sends "the rest of America" to the gutter? Is it that some of these new profits are not in fact new, but simply the same profits but less of them stolen through taxation? In other words, is the reason that some of these Americans were no longer permitted to live off of someone else? If you want a policy to blame for making the middle class poor and the poor desperate, look at things like minimum wage laws, which take the bottom rungs off the employment ladder; unsustainable lines of production encouraged by an elastic currency and cheap credit; dependence on high priced foreign cartel energy sources because the Executive Office, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and public rent seeking special interests don't want the United States to access her own abundant natural resources; and outsourcing caused by high tax rates, onerous regulations and managed trade. Those are your culprits.
BARRY GERMANSKY: The Pauls are able to ignore all of these historical events because they treat their personal ideology as more credible than primary evidence. This is a big no-no for any serious historian.
HENRY MOORE: You mention few, if any, actual historical events, and virtually no reliable evidence. Mostly personal ideology and vague platitudes. And hardly any context to accompany them. You are not a serious historian. Neither are most of the people you have been reading or listening to. You are all certifiable laughing stocks. You and your arguments have no credibility whatsoever.


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BOSTON—Kaela Barker scored the game's lone goal in the first half, as Northeastern overcame an 18-save performance by Crimson goalie Cynthia Tassopoulos to defeat the visiting Harvard field hockey team, 1-0, Monday afternoon at Sweeney Field.
The only score came nearly 25 minutes into the game. Barker logged the goal with a shot from the top of the circle on the right side following a penalty corner and a pass from Allison Conti. The Huskies registered the final four shots of the half to hold a 12-5 shots edge at halftime.
Tassopoulos made seven first-half saves, and Christy Haughey made a defensive save to keep Northeastern off the board in the opening minutes. The Crimson forced four saves by Lizzie Priest in the first half, with two of those shots on goal coming from Noel Painter.
The Crimson goalie added 11 saves after the break to help keep Harvard close. The offense, in turn, earned a pair of penalty corners and put pressure on the NU end in the closing minutes, but could not break through. Priest finished with six saves for the Huskies.
Painter, Sydney Jenkins and Georgia McGillivray finished the game with two shots each for Harvard. Carly Dickson had a team-high three pass intercepts, while McGillivray and Carly McNeill logged two each. Dickson and Rachael Rosenfeld each drew one penalty corner.


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