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Where would you rather give birth – in the USA or Albania? Most of you would probably say the USA yet your chances of survival would then be lower. Yes, you as a mother are more likely to die from childbirth-related problems in the USA than Albania. Does that surprise you?
New research looking at maternal mortality is out
Canada and New Zealand have maternal mortality rates that are half of the USA. The UK has one that is a third. Australia's is a quarter of the USA's. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran, and Serbia all have rates that are lower than that of the USA. Countries that American citizens think are lacking in so many areas are proving they are better equipped to care for their mothers than Americans themselves are. Yet I bet you that the majority of Americans are blissfully unaware of this fact. They have to be, because if they aren't then they are turning a blind eye to a systemic problem that is killing women every day and that is inexcusable.
What's causing this? It's not, as some anti-homebirthers would suggest, a rise in homebirth. Although some of the rise may be attributable to how deaths are reported, the lead researcher has stated that even with this rise, the real number is likely larger than what we are seeing now as maternal deaths are often mischaracterized on death certificates. One of the main factors is a rise in certain diseases that make pregnancy riskier, like diabetes and hypertension. There are also other heart and neurological diseases that are on the increase that necessitate higher-risk pregnancies.
If most of these increases are due to increases in diseases, why are other similar, developed countries not showing the same problems? How is all the medical technology in the world failing American mothers? The only thing I can think of is that the system as a whole is broken. At this stage, it's hard to know what parts actually work, but clearly the system taken together doesn't. Perhaps it's the lack of integration, the lack of affordable care, or the focus on treatment instead of prevention. Likely it's a mix of all of it and more. So what is the USA to do? Are Americans prepared to scrap a system that is failing so many (it's not just maternal mortality but families being left in debt for regular procedures, people being turned away from treatment because they can't afford it)? Are people still willing to stand up and say in the realm of health care, the USA is not best? I certainly hope so.
We may not know how to fix the system at the moment, but we do know this: A woman giving birth in China (rank of 57) now has a better chance of survival than a woman giving birth in the USA. Is that really the best the US can offer their mothers?
Oh – to answer the question of where you would be safest giving birth: Iceland with a maternal mortality rate of 2.4/100,000 (nearly 1/8 that of the USA).
__________________________________[1] Kassebaum NJ et al. Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet 2014; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60696-6.


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Join our next #growthmindset Twitter chat on Monday, May 23, 4 p.m. PST/7 p.m. ET.
It's May. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and your students probably have spring fever! As you figure out what to do with their pent-up energy at the end of the school year, also consider how you can end on a positive note by celebrating their growth and success.
Based on the research of Stanford Professor Carol Dweck from her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, growth mindset is about approaching learning with the belief that we can all learn and grow. But too often, time runs short, the year ends, and, though many teachers have an end-of-the-year party, some might not get the chance to celebrate the growth of their students.
In our final #growthmindset Twitter chat on Monday, May 28, at 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, we're focusing on the topic of celebration, asking the question, How do I celebrate my growth and the growth of students? You could have students complete an activity in which they reflect on their growth and how they want to continue to grow, such as:
- Now and Then: Scholastic offers some tips on how students can reflect on what they know or can do now that they couldn't do when the school year began. They can also include what they hope to learn and how they want to grow moving forward.
- Awesome Awards: From the Teacher Idea Factory, Awesome Awards are certificates of accolade and achievement that students give each other.
- "Growth" Chart: Using a long strip of vertical paper, students write or draw ways in which they "grew" over the year. Students could even draw themselves first on the paper and then write their growth characteristics inside.
You could adapt any of these activities for your grade level. For instance, instead of a drawing or craft, students could simply write down the answers, send a letter to themselves, write a song using GarageBand, create a short video with Animoto Video Maker, or tell their story using a digital storytelling tool.
You're invited to share the ways you celebrate growth -- and get ideas from other educators -- in our next #growthmindset Twitter chat on Monday, March 28, 4–5 p.m. PST/7–8 p.m. ET. Superstar Common Sense Education Certified Educators Chris Carter (@christocarter) and Eileen Lennon (@eileen_lennon) will lead the discussion. I'll be there too, tweeting from @kellymendoza. Hope to see you there!

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Billy Hurley III ready to defend title at Quicken Loans National
POTOMAC — Billy Hurley III acknowledges he might have a slight advantage over his fellow PGA Tour professionals during the Quicken Loans National. That's because the Annapolis resident has significant experience playing the golf course that will host the tournament.
Hurley routinely practices at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm and has played two competitive tournaments there. READ MORE>>


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Nobels fredspris
Svenska Läkare mot Kärnvapen är den svenska sektionen av International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, IPPNW, som tilldelades Nobels fredspris 1985. Vi är även en del av International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, som tilldelades fredspriset 2017.
2017 tilldelades den internationella kampanjen, ICAN, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobels fredspris för sitt arbete att lyfta fram de humanitära konsekvenserna av kärnvapen i debatten och för arbetet att få till stånd FN:s konvention om ett kärnvapenförbud som antogs den 7 juli 2017.
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
I pressmeddelandet uttryckte den norska Nobelkommittén följande:
"Through binding international agreements, the international community has previously adopted prohibitions against land mines, cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons are even more destructive, but have not yet been made the object of a similar international legal prohibition.
Through its work, ICAN has helped to fill this legal gap. An important argument in the rationale for prohibiting nuclear weapons is the unacceptable human suffering that a nuclear war will cause. ICAN is a coalition of non-governmental organizations from around 100 different countries around the globe. The coalition has been a driving force in prevailing upon the world's nations to pledge to cooperate with all relevant stakeholders in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. To date, 108 states have made such a commitment, known as the Humanitarian Pledge.
Furthermore, ICAN has been the leading civil society actor in the endeavour to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law. On 7 July 2017, 122 of the UN member states acceded to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As soon as the treaty has been ratified by 50 states, the ban on nuclear weapons will enter into force and will be binding under international law for all the countries that are party to the treaty."
1985 tilldelades världsfederationen International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, IPPNW, Nobels fredspris för sitt arbete med att informera och skapa medvetenhet kring de katastrofala konsekvenserna av ett kärnvapenkrig.
"It is the committee's opinion that this organisation has performed a considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes that this in turn contributes to an increase in the pressure of public opposition to the proliferation of atomic weapons and to a redefining of priorities, with greater attention being paid to health and other humanitarian issues. Such an awakening of public opinion, as is now apparent both in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South, can give the present arms limitation negotiations new perspectives and a new seriousness."
I presentationstalet av den norska Nobelkommittén uttrycktes det:
"Through this year's award of the Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to emphasize this aspect of the struggle for peace – to direct attention to the way in which the problem of disarmament is a concern, not only of politicians, but also of the general public in all countries."
"No one can avoid being aware of the anxious interest shown in this problem today, not least among children and young people. The reason for this is obvious: with the development of atomic weapons, the question of disarmament has been given a new dimension, we could almost say, an eternal dimension. The prevention of an outbreak of war is increasingly regarded as a question of life or death for the human race."


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The site is Berkeley IronWorks, the venue for Fellow Travelers Performance Group's latest evening of irreverent dance-theater, "Mapping the Mind." Directors Cynthia Adams and Ken James claim to have landed at IronWorks out of practicality -- James works there, and the pair, when not scaling the faces of Yosemite, climb its walls together. The site may seem convenient, but these artists, who in the past have made balloon-smacking appear ingenious, are unlikely to accept mere convenience -- at least not without a keen sense of irony. Adams and James are flypaper to irony.
James, a dancer, climber, and long-distance runner, makes jokes about reading Dante's Inferno for laughs and learning German by reading Wittgenstein in the original -- all with an offhand, self-effacing ease. (He's "worthless for conversational German," James notes.) Poker-faced, he announces, "I'm really not that fond of dance," and I don't doubt him for a second, since he says it with the philosophical detachment of fact. Despite his dispassion, his dream, he says, is to make "something that is so wrapped together that you have an epiphany sitting in the theater."
Adams shares James' flat humor and dry, easy way with understatement, but she is no straight man to James' clown. The married couple engage in "parallel play" (like children who play alongside each other without speaking), creating individual dances, taking on the role of comic, or playing foil to the dance. Adams, the more formally trained of the pair, has dance degrees from UCLA and NYU. In school, film played an important role in her choreography, and it continues to crop up significantly in her newer pieces. She also worked at the experimental Performance Garage in New York and danced in Berlin. Both have concentrated their time and energy along the more radical edges of the dance scene, in the U.S. and abroad.
James began messing around with movement at Oberlin College, working to loosen up a body stiffened by running and biking. He did contact improvisation -- the free-form interplay of bodies in improvised duets or groups that arose out of '60s experimentation -- and got involved in performance art in Cleveland. "We'd put a concert together in an abandoned warehouse," James said one recent Saturday afternoon at IronWorks, as children scrambled up the holds and noise reverberated off the walls. "Bands would come and set up that we didn't even know." That wild, experimental sense of play, unhindered by rules, freed the participants to explore whatever interested them. The events drew audiences despite their obscurity.
That rulelessness, which initially defined dance for James and which is behind Adams' ability to find inspiration in almost anything, is on evidence this weekend in Berkeley and next weekend at ODC Theater. "Mapping the Mind" is a vaudevillelike array of dances with ironically portentous names that sound like the titles of soap operas, among them A Life Worth Living, Project Earth: Our Violent Nature, The Boat, and Guardian Angel.
In Adams' riotous Project Earth, she intones an abridged version of David Brower's environmental manifesto, "Third Planet Operating Instructions," as she is floated through space by two dancers like a gravity-free astronaut. Her voice is as cool as liquid nitrogen and startlingly neutral, which serves to dramatize Brower's message ("This planet has been delivered wholly assembled and in perfect working condition ..."). Video images of black and red paint being poured over her, accompanied by visuals of water, fire, and the effects of wind, appear on a screen behind the action. No harangue by environmentalists could have delivered the quiet wallop of Adams' ironic passion.
The video element of Project Earth highlights the role images have in Adams' work and their ability to spur entire dances. One idea arose at a party, where a couple planted their faces into either side of a balloon. The odd, surrealistic sight was so erotic, Adams says, that it led her to explore the use of balloons in dance. Similarly, a film noir image of two folks in trench coats under a ghostly streetlight crops up in Project Earth. While eroticism and mystery often infuse her imagery, Adams is not content to stop there; she subverts the images by attaching a Beckettian silliness to them. For example, when Adams balances a balloon on the end of her nose or when the dancers "play" a balloon like a musical instrument, the prop can be either a bridge to intimacy or a link to childish amusement.
James adds a similarly surreal humor to his works. His A Life Worth Living includes spoofs on task dance, in which dancers carry out activities on command (as when James shouts, "Smile!" and the performers break into ridiculous grins). These satires, nevertheless, are still apt little task dances, in that the jokes on wrestling, baseball, and cell phones simultaneously are and are not the activities they seem to be. At one point in the piece, James appears swathed in plastic wrap; dancer Jenny McAllister slowly slides down his leg as the roll unfurls above her. Like so many images that Fellow Travelers creates, this one looks simple, but is, in fact, complexity distilled. Who is that woman slipping down that man's leg, and why is he being shrink-wrapped to "Ridi, Pagliacci"? With an expressionist's facility for juxtapositions, James creates an effect that is passionate and sensuous, yet as offhand as its maker. The cumulative vision is of a familiar world in which the mask of the banal has been pulled away to reveal a zone of strange, ridiculous puzzlement.
"Most of my work takes place inside the mind," James says, "so it is trying to chart the terrain inside you." For a couple that likes to climb hard places, what turf could be more challenging to explore than the unseemly gray walls of the brain?


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I know I just said last week that I was going to focus more on illustration and less on felt pieces, and I am, but I've been obsessed with all things fun and fruity lately, and I couldn't let the summer get away without making some cute fruit brooches.
You can see them all here. I also made a fun stop motion video on Instagram. I tried to save it as a gif to share here but something weird happened to the colors and lots of areas became overexposed. But hopefully you can still see it by clicking the link above. :)


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French Travel Agents Association SNAV commits to the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics
PR No.: PR13008
The French Travel Agents Association – SNAV, les Professionnels du Voyage – has signed the Private Sector Commitment to the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism. With this signing, SNAV commits to promote sustainable tourism practices, with a special focus on socio-cultural and economic issues (2 February, Tenerife, Spain).
The signing of the Code entails the commitment by SNAV to promote and implement the values of responsible and sustainable tourism development championed by the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics.
"With this adherence, SNAV pledges to observe the principles of the Code as well as to disseminate and report on its implementation in SNAV's corporate governance", said Fréderic Pierret, UNWTO Executive Director for Programme and Coordination, who represented UNWTO at the signing held on the occasion of the SNAV Congress in Tenerife, Spain. "We are proud to have SNAV embracing the principles of ethical, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism", he added.
For Georges Colson, President of SNAV, "The signature of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism represents a strong and necessary commitment. We, French tourism professionals, are very pleased to join the signatories of the Code. Indeed, we must be the guardians of a new balance in the implementation of our businesses; a balance that fully respects the environment and our fellowmen".
Together with the environmental sustainability components being increasingly incorporated into businesses operations across the globe, the Commitment seeks to draw particular attention to issues such as human rights, social inclusion, gender equality, accessibility, and the protection of vulnerable groups and host communities.
Note to editors:
SNAV – les Professionnels du Voyage (snav.amadeus.fr) represents more than 1,400 tourism enterprises, generating more than € 24 billion in annual turnover.
Adopted in 1999 by the UNWTO General Assembly and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2001, the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism is a set of principles designed to guide the development of tourism in a way that maximizes the socio-economic benefits of the sector, while minimizing any negative impacts.
Relevant links:
The Global Code of Ethics for Tourism
UNWTO Principal Media Officer: Marcelo Risi
Tel: (+34) 91 567 81 60
UNWTO Communications Programme
Tel: +34 91-567-8100
Fax: +34 91-567-8218


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Financial Crisis & the Global Economy
The global economy is now facing its worst prospects in more than half a century, with increasing financial losses, falling asset prices, and a deep downturn in real economic activity. Several developed economies including the US, UK, Japan and Germany are already in recession. Overall global GDP growth is projected to decline by the World Bank, from 2.5 per cent in 2008 to 0.9 per cent in 2009, the weakest since records became available in 1970. International trade would decelerate sharply, with global export volumes declining for the first time since 1982. As labor market conditions have deteriorated, consumer spending, business investment, and industrial production have also declined, the Federal Reserve lowered the target for its benchmark interest rate and established a target range for the federal funds rate of 0 per cent and 0.25 per cent. The European Commission in November unveiled an economic recovery plan worth €200bln.with aims to save further job losses, stimulate spending and boost consumer confidence. The ECB has reduced its key policy rate from 4.25 per cent in September to 2 per cent by mid-January. The British central bank has reduced interest rates four times since April from 5.0 per cent to 1.5 per cent. The latest half-percentage point cut in January 2009, that brings the rate to its lowest level in the central bank's 315-year history, was necessitated by weakening consumer spending, a tightening credit market for households and businesses, and a deteriorating business and residential investment outlook. Bank of Japan has cut interest rates from 0.5 per cent to 0.3 and then to 0.1 per cent by mid-December, and has adopted several liquidity enhancing measures. The Bank of Korea lowered its Base Rate from 5.00 per cent in early October to 2.50 per cent by January 2009. China has cut lending rates considerably since mid-September and unveiled a 4 trillion-yuan fiscal stimulus package in early November to rejuvenate the weakening economy. The Bank of Thailand cut the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to 2 per cent in January, the decision, which follows a 1-percentage point reduction in December, is more aggressive than expected.
In early September, mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which account for nearly half of the outstanding mortgages in the US, were rescued by the US government in one of the largest bailouts in US history. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the first major bank to collapse since the start of the credit crisis. . During this time US bank Merrill Lynch, agreed to be taken over by Bank of America for $50mln. to avoid bankruptcy. The US Federal Reserve announced an $85mln. rescue package for AIG, the country's biggest insurance company, to save it from bankruptcy, in return for an 80 per cent public stake in the firm. Following a run on its shares Britain's biggest mortgage lender HBOS was taken over by Lloyds TSB in a £12mln. deal creating a banking giant holding close to one-third of the UK's savings and mortgage market. Soon after, Washington Mutual, the giant mortgage lender which had assets valued at $307mln., hit by mortgage defaults was closed down by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase. By the end of September, the credit crunch hit Europe's banking sector as the European banking and insurance giant Fortis is partly nationalised to ensure its survival. This was followed by a wave of nationalisations and government bailouts, as well as increased deposit gurantees for major European banks and mortgage lenders.
The UK government announced plans to pump £37bln. In to three UK banks Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds TSB and HBOS, in one of the UK's biggest nationalisations. The US government unveiled a $250mln. plan to purchase stakes in a wide variety of banks in an effort to restore confidence in the sector. South Korea announced a $130mln. financial rescue package to stabilise its markets - by offering a state guarantee on banks' foreign debts and promising to inject capital into struggling financial firms if necessary. The Dutch government injected €10bln into the banking and insurance company ING; the government had earlier announced the establishment of a €20bln fund to protect the financial sector from the credit crisis. Sweden's government announced credit guarantees to banks and mortgage lenders up to 1.5 trillion kroner ($205 bln.) and also set aside 15 bln. kroner as a bank stabilisation fund. In end November again, the US government announced a $20 bln. rescue plan for troubled banking giant Citigroup after its shares plunged by more than 60 per cent in a week. The US Treasury created the capital purchase program as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and allocated $250 bln. under the program to invest in US financial institutions; this is the first time the US Treasury has recapitalized private banks. Towards end November, Pakistan and Iceland received emergency loans from IMF, Iceland being the first western European nation to require an IMF loan since 1976, due to the failure of of Landsbanki and Ghitmir, the second and third largest Iceland banks.
See www.ecofin-surge.co.in to read about the unfolding of the Financial crisis.


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Instructor in critical condition after New Mexico campus crash
On behalf of Law Office of Matthew Vance, P.C. posted in Pedestrian Accidents on Thursday, January 31, 2013
A college nursing instructor in Las Cruces was the victim of a car accident on the first day back to class after the holidays. The 53-year-old woman suffered severe injuries in a pedestrian accident on the campus of New Mexico State University.
Campus police said the victim was making her way through a crosswalk at a campus intersection controlled by stop signs. The vehicle that hit the Doña Ana Community College instructor apparently stopped and was moving slowly at the time of impact, according to investigators.
The pedestrian accident victim was transported to an El Paso hospital where relatives say her condition is critical. The nursing instructor's husband stated his wife suffered head trauma and was placed on life support.
School officials and students said the accident victim is a highly-respected member of the community college faculty. The woman was praised for her work in helping the DACC nursing school re-establish national accreditation.
The well-liked nursing instructor may not survive the injuries she received. So far, authorities have not issued any traffic citations or pressed charges against the driver -- an unidentified female student-worker at NMSU.
Campus police reports indicate that the driver appeared to do nothing wrong leading up to the accident. A vehicle entering a crosswalk when a pedestrian is clearly still using it is a violation of the walker's right-of-way.
A "low speed" accident is no indication that a pedestrian's injuries are minor. A fall onto a hard pavement or collision with a windshield can produce irreversible brain injuries.
Compensation for accident-related injuries and deaths is available through a civil court. Damages received in a personal injury or wrongful death claim depend upon evidence of neglect.
An attorney can describe the preparation necessary for a civil lawsuit and realistic outcome from a claim. Defendants in civil cases are often insurance companies whose coverage limits are challenged. Settlements are alternatives to jury trials.
Source: lcsun-news.com, "DACC instructor remains on life support after crash," James Staley, Jan. 21, 2013


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Nov. 20, 2005
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The eighth-ranked University of Notre Dame women's volleyball team (27-2) won its ninth title in 11 years of league membership, prevailing 28-30, 31-29, 30-21, 23-30, 15-8 over #7 Louisville (27-2) Sunday afternoon in the final of the BIG EAST Conference Championship in the Kentucky International Convention Center and shown live by College Sports Television. Sophomore OH Adrianna Stasiuk (Park Ridge, Ill./Maine South H.S.) posted 18 kills and 13 digs and was tabbed the tournament MVP, while senior All-American MB Lauren Brewster (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood H.S.) had a match-high 19 kills on .359 hitting and seven blocks, and senior libero Meg Henican (New Orleans, La./Isidore Newman H.S.) posted 25 digs and broke the Irish career record in the category.
Notre Dame took control of the final game early, using a pair of kills and a solo block from Brewster to go ahead 8-3. The Cardinals won three straight points to cut the lead to two (8-6), but the Irish would then finish the game with a 7-2 run, including a kill by senior OH Lauren Kelbley (Bascom, Ohio/Hopewell-Loudon H.S.) on match point #2. Notre Dame had nine kills on 15 swings for a .467 hitting mark, as well as three service aces.
The Irish continued their prowess in matches against top teams, extending their winning streak against top-15 squads to six straight and knocking off a top-10 Louisville team for the second time this season. ND won 30-28, 30-28, 27-30, 30-27 on Oct. 29 in the Joyce Center. Both of the Cardinals defeats this season have come against the Irish.
Though both resulted in Irish victories, Sunday marked a direct contrast to the regular-season meeting. In October, Louisville held statistical advantages in every category except serving and receiving. On Sunday, Notre Dame had edges in everything but blocking. The most notable aspect of that was the Irish defense containing a prolific Louisville attack. The Cardinals came into the week ranking fifth in Division I in hitting percentage (.315) and 10th in kills per game (16.77 per game). On Sunday, U of L managed only 60 kills – 12.00 per game and more than 13 in only the opening game – and made 26 errors (15 of them on Irish blocks) for a .205 hitting percentage. The Irish – led by sophomore setter Ashley Tarutis (Long Beach, Calif./Los Alamitos H.S.), who had 62 assists, matching the most ever by a Notre Dame player in the BIG EAST tournament (done first by Denise Boylan in the 2000 final vs. Rutgers) – matched their season high in kills with 83 and hit .227 for the match. It was the first time this season that the Cardinals had been outhit in a match. ND also had a season-high 107 points, compared to 88 for Louisville.
Notre Dame held senior OH Lena Ustymenko of the Ukraine, the BIG EAST Player of the Year, to only 15 kills (3.00 per game), well below her season average of 5.16 per game that led the conference and ranked 13th nationally.
As they have all season, the two Irish co-captains led Notre Dame's defensive effort. Henican posted 25 digs – tying the top performance ever by an Irish player in the BIG EAST tournament, a sum first done by her in last year's final vs. Pittsburgh. Her final dig of the match, which led immediately to a Stasiuk kill that put ND up 10-6 in the fifth game, was the 1,641st of her career, moving her ahead of Christy Peters (who had 1,640 from 1991-94) for first place on the Irish all-time list. Henican holds every Notre Dame digging record in the match, season, and career record books, except for three: career dig average, digs in a three-game match, and digs in a five-game match. She will hold the first mark upon the completion of her career, as she is averaging 4.04 digs per game during her career, and Peters' record is 3.72.
Brewster continued a season of outstanding performances against nationally-ranked opponents. She posted a match-high 19 kills on .359 hitting to go with seven blocks (three solo) for a match-high 24 points. In five matches against ranked teams, she is averaging 4.48 kills per game on .312 hitting to go with 1.62 blocks for 5.55 points. Brewster has positioned herself to break the Notre Dame record for career blocks next weekend, as she currently stands just three shy of the record of 699 done by Mary Kay Waller from 1985-88.
Senior MB Carolyn Cooper (Houston, Texas/Lutheran South Academy) also was big at the net, matching her career high with four solo blocks, while Kelbley had four blocks, as well, including three solos (matching her season high).
Junior DS Danielle Herndon (Plant City, Fla./Durant H.S.) turned in an outstanding defensive effort, registering 16 digs, a career high for her when not wearing the libero jersey and the most in any match for her since Sept. 4. She also matched her career high in aces, with three.
Stasiuk became the ninth Notre Dame player to be tabbed the BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding Player. For the tournament, she had 35 kills (2.92 per game), 33 digs (2.74), three aces, and three blocks for 39.5 points (3.29). She also made just two reception errors in 66 attempts (.970 reception percentage).
Freshman OH Mallorie Croal (Villa Park, Calif./Los Alamitos H.S.) turned in a huge performance off the bench for the Irish, finishing with 15 kills on .310 hitting in four games.
Kelbley added 13 kills for the Irish, and Cooper had 11 to go with a career-high four service aces.
The Irish improved to 22-2 all-time in the BIG EAST tournament and have now won 15 conference-tournament championships in 21 years of competing as a non-independent.
Notre Dame improved to 14-3 all-time against the Cardinals, including 7-1 in Louisville.
With the victory, this year's Irish squad established itself as the best in program history in knocking off elite teams. Notre Dame – which is 5-0 against nationally-ranked teams this season (all of whom were ranked 11th or higher at the time of the match) – had registered more than three wins over ranked teams in a season on just one occasion previously: 1993. That squad had five wins over ranked teams, but also lost seven matches against the AVCA top 25. This year's team also is the first to ever defeat four top-10 foes in the same season, after having downed #8 USC, #6 Florida, #6 Louisville, and now #7 Louisville. ND also topped #11 Texas. That '93 squad remains the only Notre Dame team ever to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.
Notre Dame earned the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Championship, which begins on campus sites Dec. 1-4. The Irish figure to be a prime candidate to be one of the 16 host teams for first- and second-round action. The full bracket will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 27 between 2:30-3 p.m. (EST) on ESPNews.
Louisville was led by senior MB Jennifer Hoffman, who had 16 kills on .393 hitting to go with six blocks. Ana Yartseva added 14 kills, while freshman MB Rui Liu had 12 blocks. Nicole Bateman delivered a match-high 27 digs.
Game one was tight early, and Notre Dame went up by three at 9-6. The Cardinals responded with an 11-2 run that put them in control. Louisville went up by as many as seven on four occasions, the final one at 26-19, but the Irish put together a late push. ND saved a pair of game points to pull within one at 29-28, before Yartseva ended the game with a crosscourt kill on a slide. The Cards had 20 kills on .372 hitting and got six kills on seven swings from Hoffman, as well as five from Yartseva. Notre Dame had a balanced attack, with five players accounting for three or more kills.
Louisville jumped out quickly in game two, building a 12-4 advantage on the strong serving of Ustymenko, who delivered four aces in five points at one juncture. As it has on other occasions this season when faced with a large deficit, Notre Dame would rally and tie the score at 18-18. The game was close from then on, featuring nine ties and no leads of more than two. A Cooper kill at 28-28 gave the Irish a game point, which was deleted by a kill from Hoffman. Croal then hit off the Cardinals' block to give ND another chance, which Kelbley converted to even the match. Croal provided the big spark in the game, checking in when ND was down 7-2 and finishing with seven kills on 11 swings for a .545 mark. The Irish held Louisville to just 11 kills on .167 hitting in the game.
Notre Dame led for most of game three, though Louisville edged ahead at 16-15. The Irish responded by winning six consecutive points and concluding the game on a 15-5 run (including each of the last four points). The ND defense was the story of the game, as it used six blocks and 24 digs to hold Louisville to 11 kills and 11 errors for a .000 hitting mark. Henican led the floor game with 10 digs, while Brewster was in on half of the blocks. Stasiuk was the offensive leader with five kills.
The Cards turned things around in the fourth game, putting together an 8-2 run to break a 5-5 tie and holding onto that edge the rest of the way. The Irish got to within two at 18-16, but Louisville then pulled away. The Cardinals had 13 kills on .333 hitting.
Notre Dame has one more weekend of regular-season action remaining before the NCAA tournament. Next week will be the first-ever Irish Thanksgiving Invitational in the Joyce Center. ND will play host to Rice on Friday at 7 p.m. (EST) and #25 Tennessee on Saturday at the same time in a match to be televised by Comcast Sports Net. Louisville will make the trip north for the event, taking on Georgia on Friday at 4:30 p.m. (EST) and Rice on Saturday at the same time.
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Alameda Point wind power firm Makani Power has been acquired by Google, the company has announced. The acquisition was announced on May 23.
"This formalizes a long and productive relationship between our two companies, and will provide Makani with the resources to accelerate our work to make wind energy cost competitive with fossil fuels," the company announced on its website.
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Iasi, 30th January 2008, Feast of the Holy Three Hierarchs
This is an official call for papers and participation in our
15th International Conference on Eastern Chant
12th – 15th May 2008, at Iasi, Rumania
The conference will be organized by the Centre for Byzantine
Studies at Iasi in cooperation with the Rumanian Ministry of Culture
as part of the events celebrating the 600th anniversary of the first
documentary attestation of Iasi as a medieval settlement.
The general theme of this year's conference will be
ECCLESIASTICAL MUSICAL CULTURE — EAST AND WEST', thus
offering a new opportunity for putting into practice results attained in
many countries during the past decade by enthusiastic
individual scholars and/or dedicated research teams. New
interesting materials in form of digital copies of MSS will be put at
the disposal of the participants to illustrate new perspectives in
obtaining deeper knowledge of notations, and their influence on
transmission, from the parallel analysis of 'lucky pairs' of MSS. One
of the hopes of this conference is the establishment of small
transnational teams that would be willing to work on subjects
related to verifying current interpretations of notational systems,
such as of the middle-Byzantine, znamenny, Kievan staff.
As in previous years, potential contributors are invited to interpret
this theme broadly. Submissions from other fields related to the
cultural and spiritual significance of ecclesiastical chant, such as
history, linguistics, ecclesiastical arts, theology, interdisciplinary
research, continue to be welcome. Both scholars with academic
affiliation and those working independently, as well as postgraduate
students, are encouraged to apply. A panel of three scholars will
review the submitted papers, whose acceptance will be notified in
due course on a first-come, first-served basis. Please distribute this
announcement to colleagues, and interested institutions or
Within this extended theme area two key-note speakers are invited
to address plenary sessions. Related to that, an attempt will be
made off-list to attract the contribution of a few scholars willing to
offer their knowledge in a one-day tour d'horison in general Christian
ecclesiastical culture, and specifically in musical culture and related
investigation tools, possibly modeled on the Current-Status-of-
Research-in-… type of reports, which would be meant as a
teaching-learning preamble to the conference. Should this attempt
prove successful, the duration of the conference may be prolonged
by one day.
The conference sessions will be held in the newly-refurbished,
excellently-equipped Museum of National Union at Strada Alexandru
Lapusneanu 16, and in the Gothic Hall of the Three Hierachs
Monastery, at Bulevardul Stefan cel Mare 28. As in the past, we
shall enjoy the gracious hospitality of Fr Archimandrite Clement, the
abbot of the monastery.
The main communication languages will be English, French,
German, in that order of priority. Russian and Rumanian can also
be accepted in certain cases.
Event highlights
- The customary joint festival of church music to which, besides a
number of Rumanian choirs, we are pleased to be able to
announce the first-time participation of:
- the ISON Ensemble from Berlin, under the direction of Dr. Oliver
Gerlach, which will give, among other appearances, a lesson-
concert in the MISSA GRAECA;
- the GRAZER CHORALSCHOLA from Graz, under the direction
of Prof. Franz Karl Praßl, will illustrate, among other musical
traditions, particularly the archaic organum;
- depending on manifested interest, other representative choirs or
ensembles from this country and abroad.
- Visits to MSS repositories of Iasi University Library, Library of the
Metropolitanate of Moldavia, Moldavian State Archives, where a
variety of MSS will be able to inform on practically the whole range
of musical styles and notations and provide illustration backgrounds
to current research projects undertaken in this country;
- A number of liturgical services given by the monks and choir of the
Three Hierarchs Monastery of Iasi, in which guest choirs and/or
individual participants are encouraged to join;
- A 2-day cultural discovery trip to a number of monastic
establishments in Northern Moldavia and the Maramures after the
- the ISON Ensemble from Berlin, under the direction of Dr. Oliver
Administrative matters
Due to the limited number of places available, pre-registration will
be required. With the exception of the key-note speakers, all
participants are expected to cover their own traveling expenses. 15
places, with all other expenses (accommodation, meals, trip
expenses) covered by the organizers, have been reserved,
particularly for young scholars and researchers, and will be
allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. From all other
participants a participation fee worth the equivalent of EUR 80 (EUR
40 for students) will be required, payable into our centre's bank
account, as follows:
- EUR bank account No.: IBAN RO53 BTRL 02404205.408043.xx
- SWIFT code BTRL RO22
Banca Transilvania S.A., Filiala Iasi
- USD bank account No.: IBAN RO53 BTRL 02402205.408043.xx
- SWIFT code BTRL RO22
Banca Transilvania S.A., Filiala Iasi
- Prof. Gabriela Ocneanu
- Scientific director, Centrul de Studii Bizantine Iasi,
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The remaining – moderate – costs for the optional meals and the
trip can be paid on arrival. Hotel accomodation can be booked via
the Internet. The costs of the trip will be announced in late April,
when the approximate number of excursion options will be known.
Please submit paper summaries of 400-500 words in length,
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Tristan Thompson, Cavaliers fail to reach agreement on contract
The qualifying offer is for $6.9 million and that would be a one year deal for Thompson that makes him an unrestricted free agent next summer. At this point, however, it has become a topic of contention among fans and followers of the Cleveland Cavaliers as to why LeBron James has not said anything about the issue since he last commended Tristan Thompson .
Boxing News & Rumors: Amir Khan Wins Manny Pacquiao Sweepstakes, Bob Arum
Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum says he is nowadays in negotiations with the Khan camp and that a fight in Las Vegas could be a possibility. Earlier this month, reports about Russian contender Ruslan Provodnikov's side negotiating with Khan's for a possible November bout swirled, but Arum shot down the rumors.
Venus Williams wins 700th career match
And by virtue of that victory, Williams now has 700 match wins in her career, just the second active player to reach that milestone after her younger sister Serena Williams, who achieved the feat earlier this year en route to the Miami Open crown.
San Francisco 49ers 0-14 Arizona Cardinals
San Francisco is 15/34 on third and fourth down conversions and opponents are 7/21. In a game that was ugly for the 49ers from start to finish, San Francisco was pounded 47-7 to fall to 1-2. Once the clear quarterback of the future, Kaepernick now must fight for his job. Arizona is even in turnovers. It will be broadcast on FOX in San Francisco and Arizona, as well as other select areas throughout the country.
Jarryd Hayne's brilliant punt return
But when he finally got his chance to shine, he certainly took it. The 27-year-old caught a high ball from a Drew Butler punt and blasted through the Cardinals defence, showing great pace and footwork for a 37-yard gain. "There's nothing anyone in that locker room could have done to change that game the way I played today", Kaepernick said, via Cam Inman of the San Jose Mercury News .
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From Turin take the motorway north towards France and exit at Aosta West/ Saint Pierre. Continue towards Courmayeur, after circa 3 km turn off right for Valsavarenche. Drive up the valley to the last bridge which crosses River Savara.
From Chamonix drive through the Mont Blanc tunnel and reach Courmayeur. Follow the main road towards Aosta and after Arvier turn off for Valsavarenche and contiue on up to the bridge.
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As the cold weather bites and with the Fire Brigades' Union (FBU) set to go on strike, we're warning people to take extra care with their electric heaters.
A third of fatal electrical fires involve heaters and there have been 10 deaths in the last five winters.
We're especially concerned about portable electric heaters as most fatal fires involving heaters are started when nearby clothes and furniture are ignited.
The chill is expected to hit London around the same time that the FBU are holding a 24 hour strike starting at 9am on Tuesday, 9 December.
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said:
"As it gets colder, the temptation is to huddle closer to your heater but that could be a fatal mistake. Shockingly, over two thirds of fatal fires involving heaters are caused by clothing or furniture being too close. People need to make sure their portable heaters are standing upright and kept well away from clothes, curtains or furniture.
"Portable heaters should never be used to dry clothes or placed too close to bedding. This is even more important with the Fire Brigades' Union set to strike."
The Electrical Safety First (ESF) – the UK charity dedicated to reducing deaths and injuries caused by electrical accidents – supports our advice.
Emma Apter at Electrical Safety First said:
"Having a warm home this winter is something everyone deserves, so we welcome electric heaters as a cheaper option at a time when energy costs are high. However, it is vital that the dangers associated with these items are understood – particularly as people are putting themselves and their loved ones at risk by using them in an unsafe way. By following this short, simple guidance, people can stay safe and stay warm this winter."
The Brigade's warning for people to take extra care comes shortly after a serious house fire started by a halogen heater in Chelsea last week. The heater caught some nearby clothes alight, the owner quickly spotted this and believing that the fire was out she put the clothes in the bin. She then left but the bin caught fire and firefighters were called to deal with a kitchen blaze. Thankfully no one was injured.
• Electric heaters have caused 427 fires, 10 deaths and nearly 80 injuries over the past five winters
• Despite heaters starting only five per cent of the capital's electrical fires, a third of fatal electrical fires involved heaters.
• The highest number of electrical heater fires were recorded in the winter of 2010-11, which saw the UK's coldest December since 1910, with an average temperature of -1°C.
• Most of these fires are easily preventable and are caused by heaters falling over and setting clothes or furniture alight.
We're asking people not to become another statistic and to follow this advice:
• Never sit too close to the heater as you could set light to your clothes or chair, especially if you fall asleep.
• Heaters should stand where they can't be knocked over, away from beds, furniture and fabrics.
• Do not put anything on the heater or use it to dry clothes.
Notes to Editors
Heater fires statistics taken from December, January and February of , 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14. Local stats available on request.


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Although Bee Sting has yet to go to trial, available evidence (Facebook photos, news reports, team mate's eyewitness account) suggests that this was about an ounce away from being the very worst RLSH scenario. Bee Sting could have easily shot himself, the person he was fighting (who, unless proved otherwise, was only in violation of a noise ordinance), or accidentally shot a bystander or responding officer instead of the empty trailer he hit when the shotgun went off.
Tea Krulos: Zero, we've had a couple of troubling incidents over the past couple of months that have painted a pretty negative portrait of the community watchdog. The first is a well known case, nationally-- George Zimmerman shooting an unarmed youth named Trayvon Martin after following him for "looking suspicious."
And then, and this is closer to home for RLSH and X-ALTS-- we had the case of Bee Sting confronting a motorcyclist with a loaded shotgun, reportedly over a noise issue.
How have these incidents affected what you do and what other people with similar goals do?
Well, as of right now I'd say they really haven't, but bear in mind that this Bee Sting incident just happened a few days ago and so far it's remained pretty low profile on the news. I don't expect that to last very long. Actually, I personally believe it's only a matter of time until someone of note connects the two incidents together and someone raises a campaign against any kind of citizen self-empowerment.
That's really sad, and more than a little alarming in a world where a lot of people are expressing a distrust in their government, and having that distrust backed up by cases of excessive use of force, wrongful death and just a callous disregard for humanity in some law enforcement.
That said, I don't really believe in absolutes. There are tons of good cops and LEO's out there. I've met quite a few. Generalization has and always will be a huge enemy of compassion, and even worse for progression as a society.
I believe that our system is failing and we're all getting hit with the fallout. I also believe that you're going to hear a lot of negative reports before you hear positive ones. That's just how the news works. We've tried to stay positive, and work on positive goals.
Honestly, we're not worried. No one is ever going to stop us from helping and protecting people.
Sure, all the time. There's always that part of you that wishes you could just live your life and rely on someone else for protection; but then you see something happening right in front of you, and you can't turn away. You have to do something. And then you do the math and realize it's happening all over.
Stuff like that, you can't UNsee.
After a few times of successfully diffusing a conflict that might have blown up into something much larger, you develop a taste for it. Wearing a badge, being under someones thumb and enforcing someone else's politics upon people, that was never for us. Call it grassroots. I believe that a safe society is one where all are capable of watching out for each other. I don't believe that's a polarizing issue, really.
Protecting our fellow human beings is all we want to do. That and finding new and innovative ways to help people. I think we are approaching a New Renaissance of Necessity; Creativity, Compassion, and Action. Lines are about to be crossed, definitions blurred, boundaries demolished.
Everyone keeps saying the future is bleak, but I say it's an exciting time to be alive.
The POWER UP TOUR 2012 is an Initiative Collective nationwide project to bring not only empowerment, proper training, and confidence to Neighborhood Watch and Block Guardians, but also accountability and transparency. After the arrest of Bee Sting, Phoenix Jones and of course the ever-present and looming implications of the Trayvon Martin case, we feel that it's time to bring the power back where it belongs: The People.
We will be launching a fully functional website on June 1st, in tandem with a physical tour in which we contact each and every PD Community Affairs office and established Block Watch in our respective cities and organize meetings. These meetings will introduce the site, give a tutorial, and drop off our PowerPack… a brief list of solid, low cost resources for initial training and resources to get people started, or to give them momentum to continue their efforts to protect their loved ones and their neighborhoods responsibly.
From there, they can use the website to report crime anonymously, track crime patterns, build block watches, trade skill training between professionals and communicate with each other and their precinct's Community Affairs offices. In addition, we will be building strong communication and trust between not only ourselves and the community, but as we move from neighborhood to neighborhood, the community itself. As they teach and learn from each other, they will build confidence in themselves and their skills in practical self defense, medical assistance, legalities and most importantly for this kind of work, non-violent communications.
And as they learn, so will the Initiative. We all teach, we all learn, we all prosper.
And how will this help prevent incidents like the one with Bee Sting, George Zimmerman, or other RLSH or neighborhood watch group who have been arrested or made bad decisions?
I think the problem with a lot of issues like these is not enough focus on non-violent conflict resolution techniques. In fact, a lot of people scoff at the idea because they have never seen just how effective these techniques can be.
Going at an argument with personal attacks, baseless commands or just plain rudeness is like taking a jackhammer to build an ice sculpture. The only way to GET someone to understand is to put aside your ego and try a little understanding yourself.
People who act erratic or irritate you are most often coming from a place of pain. If you contribute to their defenses by acting offensive, you feed a fire. You don't put one out.
With a program like the Power Up Tour, we're going to try to put into place a skill trade system which will allow people to train each other in their respective fields, as well as keep people up to date with free or low-cost training resources. This method of facilitating free training will lead to stronger skill sets, which will give people a better grasp on actual technique and eliminate the overcompensation that often happens with the undertrained and overzealous.
There are many facets and peripheral goals of the Power-Up Tour, but the skill trade is one of my favorites. Just the idea of "trade anything" always leaves me excited, and I hope that it gets people thinking about the possibility of living outside the box even further.
At it's base, what we're doing here is creating a central communications hub, a skill trade system, and an quantifiable recruiting pool. Then we're physically going from block to block to establish a real-time, face to face connection with PEOPLE. This is something that is important, as it's really easy to forget that there are a whole lot of people behind all of those little avatars on the internet. We need to re-connect.
Again, as with any project the Initiative does, we wouldn't be presumptuous enough to think that this is THE solution to save the world… It's just us putting what we know to work to get something started. If this whole thing crashes and burns, but someone ends up making a better resource because of it, we will have done our part. That's all I want.
How can people get involved with this project if they want to participate?
Literally EVERYONE can get involved in this project. Check out the site, make a profile, find a block watch near you. List your skills, certifications, anything legal you want to teach or learn to make a stronger and safer community.
The skill trade sections are Fitness, Conflict Resolution, Legal, Medical, Self-Defense, Miscellaneous Professional and Safety Resources.
In addition, if people really believe in this and want to go the extra mile, they can always grab the PowerPack and go talk to Community Affairs and block watches to introduce them to the site and how it allows for better communication. No one has to put in any money, or subscribe to anything. There is no allegiance to organizations, no papers to sign, no promises to keep.
It's just a social contract and people working with people, that's all.
The REALLY sweet thing is how this opens the doors to something that has been going on in professional circles for a long time, but never really utilized on a game-changing level; Skill trade can get people better jobs, and strengthen us as a people overall, regardless of it's connection to block watches.
Not only can you, say, trade some training in a skill you have to get better at self defense, you can also tap into the "Pro Skills Misc" section to pick up some skills to trade for other skills. The possibilities are endless, all working towards making us stronger as a people, and more confident in our private lives.
Anything else you want to say to anyone reading this about these crazy times we live in?
Yeah. Just breathe. We will make it through together.
Trust Yourself.


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Tom Steele (12 June 1909 – 30 October 1990; age 81) was a stuntman and stunt actor who played a slave in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Bread and Circuses". He was uncredited for his appearance. He filmed his scenes on Tuesday 12 September 1967 and Wednesday 13 September 1967 on location at Bronson Canyon.
Steele was born as Thomas Skeoch in Scotland, United Kingdom and entered the stunt industry in the early '30s. He has doubled actors such as Allan Lane, Jack Randall, George Reeves, George Montgomery, and James Arness and performed stunts and stunt acting roles in over three hundred movies and television series.
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Stanford saw the legendary career of long-time head coach Mark Marquess come to an end just a couple of weeks ago. And now the Cardinal have their newest head coach as California's Dave Esquer will move down the road.
The 52-year-old California native played his college baseball at Stanford under Marquess and served several seasons as an assistant for the Cardinal before enjoying a stint at Pepperdine and then getting the head job at Cal.
Esquer guided the Cardinal to five NCAA tournament appearances in 18 years, the most notable coming in 2011. In that year, the Bears announced they'd be dropping baseball at the end of the season. However, Esquer's team rallied around that news and reached the College World Series for the first time since 1992 and only the sixth time in school history.
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Esquer, who had a 525-467-2 overall record as the head coach at Cal, now has the keys to one of the nation's most prestigious programs. As for Cal, one would think that Pacific head coach and former Cal assistant Mike Neu would get a very strong look for that job, while San Diego's Rich Hill and St. Mary's Eric Valenzuela are high-quality options that would have interest. The Golden Bears would also be smart to take a look at Gonzaga's Mark Machtolf, who has done an impressive job with the Zags and has ties to the Bay Area.


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