SALISBURY, Md. – The No. 1 Salisbury University men's lacrosse team hosted Hampden-Sydney College at Sea Gull Stadium on Saturday afternoon and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals with a 25-12 victory.
Hampden-Sydney struck first but it would be all Salisbury in the opening quarter. Nick Garbarino got the Gulls' first goal of the game at 13:03 as Salisbury went for seven-straight tallies to bring the score to 7-1 before the Tigers responded with a pair to end the quarter.
Garbarino opened up the second quarter scoring on the man up when Adam Huber rifled a pass to the sure-handed attackman who buried it for one of his five first-half goals. Nathan Blondino had a big half as well with the senior accounting for three goals and two assists. The highlight came as Carson Kalama pushed the ball to Blondino on the wing who went low to high and punished the top shelf to put Salisbury up 9-3.
The SU attack went off again with Blondino getting 11 points from seven goals and four assists, Garbarino posting nine points from six goals and three assists, while Kalama posted two goals and two assists. The three seniors down low took a combined 20 shots to score their 15 goals (.750 percent).
Blondino now sits at 122 points for the season, while Kalama and Garbarino are tied with 77.
Salisbury extended its lead to 14-4 by halftime with the game-winning goal coming from the stick of Brendan Bromwell five minutes before half.
Salisbury outshot the Tigers 28-16 by the break and held a 30-14 edge in groundballs.
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Connecticut State Capital Prepares For Bankruptcy Amid Collapse In Hedge Fund Revenue
The state of Connecticut has been hit hard by the double whammy of a deteriorating local economy, coupled with a plunge in hedge fund profits - as well as hedge fund managers permanently relocating to Florida - leading to a collapse in tax revenues. According to the the latest Connecticut budget released last week, the state is reeling from the consequences of sliding tax revenue from the super-rich, i.e. the state's hedge fund managers. The latest figures showed that tax revenue from the state’s top 100 highest-paying taxpayers declined 45% from 2015 to 2016. The drop adds up to a $200 million revenue loss for Connecticut.
In a dramatic, if of questionable credibility, soundbite Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan says these wealthy people are “dramatically less wealthy than they were before.” He was referring to annual income, not actual asset holdings, because judging by the all time high in the S&P, the local financial elite have never had a higher net worth.
“When you look at the top 75, top 50 ... this is a group of wealthy people who are dramatically less wealthy than they were before,” said Kevin Sullivan, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services. “These folks, for a number of reasons, are either not realizing as much income or don’t have as much income.”
Just don't expect tears from the general public. Sullivan also noted how several international hedge funds have recently failed, resulting in “significant retrenchment” from investors. That drop in tolerance for risk brings smaller margins and ultimately less personal income for the state to tax, he added. It's fascinating how the Fed's central planning, superficially meant to restore "confidence" in a rigged, manipulated market is having such proound and adverse 2nd and 3rd order effects on state budgets.
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In a dramatic, if of questionable credibility, soundbite Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan says these wealthy people are “dramatically less wealthy than they were before.” He was referring to annual income, not actual asset holdings, because judging by the all time high in the S&P, the local financial elite have never had a higher net worth.
“When you look at the top 75, top 50 ... this is a group of wealthy people who are dramatically less wealthy than they were before,” said Kevin Sullivan, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services. “These folks, for a number of reasons, are either not realizing as much income or don’t have as much income.”
Just don't expect tears from the general public. Sullivan also noted how several international hedge funds have recently failed, resulting in “significant retrenchment” from investors. That drop in tolerance for risk brings smaller margins and ultimately less personal income for the state to tax, he added. It's fascinating how the Fed's central planning, superficially meant to restore "confidence" in a rigged, manipulated market is having such proound and adverse 2nd and 3rd order effects on state budgets.
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Saturday, May 13, 2017
Hamas assures critics Israel’s destruction still its goal
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar clarified Wednesday that his terror group’s new political program, which some interpreted as accepting the idea of a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, would not preclude Hamas from seeking to liberate all of historic Palestine, including Israel.
“If we liberate Palestine though the resistance until the 1967 borders, we will go directly to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948, and there will be no negotiations,” Zahar said at a conference in Gaza addressing international reactions to the new policy document, according to the Hamas-linked al-Resalah news site.
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“If we liberate Palestine though the resistance until the 1967 borders, we will go directly to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948, and there will be no negotiations,” Zahar said at a conference in Gaza addressing international reactions to the new policy document, according to the Hamas-linked al-Resalah news site.
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Why Do So Many Cities Have Poor East Ends?
From London to Paris, New York to Helsinki, poverty tends to cluster in the east. One study suggests a surprising reason why
The question is so obvious that you could easily forget to ask it: why do cities so often have a poor east side? To be clear, the mystery is not why every city has its leafy and its grubby sections – it costs money to live in nice places and to avoid nasty ones, which tends to group people into them by wealth. The mystery is why the poor groups always end up in the east.
Of course, the true picture is never neat nor simple, but by common consent a British-biased list of cities with poor eastern districts would include: London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Bristol, Manchester, Brighton and Hove, Oxford, Glasgow, Helsinki and Casablanca. No doubt there are some cities where poverty clusters in the west, but they seem harder to find; perhaps Delhi and Sydney?
The story seems easier to explain case by case. In London, for example, the docks are downstream in the east, and docks are rarely very salubrious in cities. For much of its history, the Thames also took the city’s waste, and smell, eastward. No wonder the poor wound up living there, you might say.
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The question is so obvious that you could easily forget to ask it: why do cities so often have a poor east side? To be clear, the mystery is not why every city has its leafy and its grubby sections – it costs money to live in nice places and to avoid nasty ones, which tends to group people into them by wealth. The mystery is why the poor groups always end up in the east.
Of course, the true picture is never neat nor simple, but by common consent a British-biased list of cities with poor eastern districts would include: London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Bristol, Manchester, Brighton and Hove, Oxford, Glasgow, Helsinki and Casablanca. No doubt there are some cities where poverty clusters in the west, but they seem harder to find; perhaps Delhi and Sydney?
The story seems easier to explain case by case. In London, for example, the docks are downstream in the east, and docks are rarely very salubrious in cities. For much of its history, the Thames also took the city’s waste, and smell, eastward. No wonder the poor wound up living there, you might say.
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Cyber genius halts global ransomware attack with shocking solution
More than 75,000 computers in 99 countries were compromised by the cyber attack, with a heavy concentration in the UK, U.S., China, Russia, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
The mastermind who figured out how to outsmart the architects of the nasty “WannaCry” Internet worm is a British researcher known by the Twitter handle @MalwareTechBlog.
The cyber genius reportedly discovered a “kill switch” embedded in the malware by its creators, in case things went awry.
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Buchanan Asks "What Is America's Goal In The World?"
For the World War II generation there was clarity.
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941, united the nation as it had never been before — in the conviction that Japan must be smashed, no matter how long it took or how many lives it cost.
After the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945, however, Americans divided.
Only with the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the fall of China to Mao and Russia’s explosion of an atom bomb in 1949, and North Korea’s invasion of the South in 1950, did we unite around the proposition that, for our own security, we had to go back to Europe and Asia.
What was called the Cold War consensus — that only America could “contain” Stalin’s empire — led to NATO and new U.S. alliances from the Elbe to the East China Sea.
Vietnam, however, shattered that Cold War consensus.
The far left of the Democratic Party that had taken us into Vietnam had repudiated the war by 1968, and switched sides to sympathize with such Third World communists as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and the Sandinistas.
Center-right presidents — JFK, Nixon, Reagan — accepted the need to cooperate with dictators who would side with us in fighting Communism.
And we did. Park Chung-Hee in Korea. The Shah in Iran. President Diem in Saigon. Gen. Franco in Spain. Somoza in Nicaragua. Gen. Mobuto in the Congo. Gen. Pinochet in Chile. Ferdinand Marcos in Manila. The list goes on.
Under Reagan, the Soviet Empire finally fell apart and the USSR then disintegrated in one of the epochal events of history.
The American Century had ended in America’s triumph.
Yet, after 1989, no new national consensus emerged over what ought to be our role in the World. What should we stand for? What should we fight for?
What Dean Acheson had said of our cousins in 1962: “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role,” was true of us.
What was our role in the world, now that the Cold War was history?
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941, united the nation as it had never been before — in the conviction that Japan must be smashed, no matter how long it took or how many lives it cost.
After the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945, however, Americans divided.
Only with the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the fall of China to Mao and Russia’s explosion of an atom bomb in 1949, and North Korea’s invasion of the South in 1950, did we unite around the proposition that, for our own security, we had to go back to Europe and Asia.
What was called the Cold War consensus — that only America could “contain” Stalin’s empire — led to NATO and new U.S. alliances from the Elbe to the East China Sea.
Vietnam, however, shattered that Cold War consensus.
The far left of the Democratic Party that had taken us into Vietnam had repudiated the war by 1968, and switched sides to sympathize with such Third World communists as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and the Sandinistas.
Center-right presidents — JFK, Nixon, Reagan — accepted the need to cooperate with dictators who would side with us in fighting Communism.
And we did. Park Chung-Hee in Korea. The Shah in Iran. President Diem in Saigon. Gen. Franco in Spain. Somoza in Nicaragua. Gen. Mobuto in the Congo. Gen. Pinochet in Chile. Ferdinand Marcos in Manila. The list goes on.
Under Reagan, the Soviet Empire finally fell apart and the USSR then disintegrated in one of the epochal events of history.
The American Century had ended in America’s triumph.
Yet, after 1989, no new national consensus emerged over what ought to be our role in the World. What should we stand for? What should we fight for?
What Dean Acheson had said of our cousins in 1962: “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role,” was true of us.
What was our role in the world, now that the Cold War was history?
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Driver in fatal Md. crash a no-show for sentencing
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| Tameika Curtis (left) and Typhani Wilkerson (right) died in a crash in Oxon Hill in 2014. (Courtesy Wilkerson and Curtis families) |
Anguished family members of the victims filled one side of a Prince George’s County courtroom and waited for Kelley, 27, to be sentenced.
But he never showed up.
As the minutes turned into more than an hour, frustration boiled into outrage. Court was adjourned while prosecutors and Prince George’s County deputies tried to find Kelley. Meanwhile, relatives screamed that there was no justice in the case, which left 10 children without their mothers.
Finally, Judge Albert Northrop returned to the courtroom to say that Kelley was a no-show, and that he recognized Kelley’s failure to appear was disappointing for family members and the court. He said he would reschedule the sentencing and order Kelley held without bond once Kelley was back in custody.
As they left the courtroom, one relative referred to Kelley and shouted, “I hope he doesn’t drink and kill anybody else tonight!”
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Md. gov. Hogan urges FAA to stop noisy airport technology
In a May 11 letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, Governor Hogan asks the FAA to “immediately return to the pre-NextGen flight patterns” at BWI Marshall Airport and Reagan National Airport.
The FAA has said that NextGen technology and procedures are boosting safety in the skies and also saving the airlines billions of dollars in fuel costs. In his letter, Gov. Hogan acknowledges that the current flight patterns are saving the airlines a lot of money but he wrote, “I will not have the citizens of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery Counties pay a human cost with their health and emotional well-being.”
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What TV Shows From the 1960s Taught Me and Why It's Important To Watch Them Today
I was born in 1962. One of my earliest memories of watching TV is watching"Batman" (1966-1968) starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Caesar Romero, and the rest. It was just so much fun singing along with the Batman theme song (pretty easy for a four year old), and trying to say the silly "Holy Hairdo" and "Holy Alter Ego Batman!" sayings by Robin. What a great, silly show!
And then I remember sitting in Daddy's lap and watching "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968), "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966), "Petticoat Junction" (1963-1970), "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-1971), "Gunsmoke" (1955-1975) (Mama liked "Bonanza"), "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (1954-1991), and "Gomer Pyle USMC" (1964-1969). I barely remember watching "The Outer Limits" (1963-1965) and "The Twilight Zone" (1959-1964), and cowering under an end table. We also loved watching "The Ed Sullivan Show" (1948-1971), and yes my sisters screamed and squealed with the rest of teenage America when the Beatles appeared.
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And then I remember sitting in Daddy's lap and watching "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968), "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966), "Petticoat Junction" (1963-1970), "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-1971), "Gunsmoke" (1955-1975) (Mama liked "Bonanza"), "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (1954-1991), and "Gomer Pyle USMC" (1964-1969). I barely remember watching "The Outer Limits" (1963-1965) and "The Twilight Zone" (1959-1964), and cowering under an end table. We also loved watching "The Ed Sullivan Show" (1948-1971), and yes my sisters screamed and squealed with the rest of teenage America when the Beatles appeared.
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Friendly reminder: Valerie Jarrett, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, were setting the stage for 'President Hillary" to fire Comey
Then she lost.
Now, you spend your days wandering through your worst nightmare. You stop briefly to forage for a latte, scream at someone in the comment section of a website you claim to hate, then turn back to MSNBC. There, terrified broadcasters report on the GOP's efforts to dismantle the Obama agenda.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. Russians must be behind it. Or sexism. ...Or that monster, James Comey. Oh sure, you wanted him fired, but that was last year. Now that Donald Trump has acquiesced to your former demands, it's a constitutional crisis.
...Apparently, you've forgotten that - just about six months ago - people like Valerie Jarret, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were setting the stage for Hillary to do exactly the same thing.
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Letting Go: 5 Lessons For Parents Facing An Empty Nest
Soon my wife and I will celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary. We have four kids. We don't have a perfect family; we have our share of strife. But we are happy, especially whenever all the kids can come home, like at Christmas or Thanksgiving. Nowadays, it seems like those special holidays are the only times all six of us can be together.
My wife and I are facing something we've never faced before ... the empty nest. Two of our three boys are off on their own pursuing their careers. One son still lives with us, but he is rarely home (he's busy either at his full-time job or at the gym or with his friends). He has plans to soon be on his own too. Our daughter is graduating from high school and will be heading off to follow her chosen career.
The house is quiet.
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My wife and I are facing something we've never faced before ... the empty nest. Two of our three boys are off on their own pursuing their careers. One son still lives with us, but he is rarely home (he's busy either at his full-time job or at the gym or with his friends). He has plans to soon be on his own too. Our daughter is graduating from high school and will be heading off to follow her chosen career.
The house is quiet.
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1 in 5 UK health trusts hit by massive cyberattack
The ransomware impacted nearly 20 percent of the U.K.'s 248 public health trusts on Friday. All but six have been restored.
According to cybersecurity firm Avast on Friday, more than 75,000 ransomware attacks were reported in 99 countries, making it one of the largest and most damaging campaigns in history.
"The type of ransomware that's making its way through many organizations and industries is called Wanna Decryptor," Leon Kuperman, CTO of cybersecurity company CUJO, told us Friday. "It’s been around for two weeks but has only started spreading like wildfire today."
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Mormon Church to Pull 130,000 Boys Out of Boy Scouts
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a longstanding partner of Boy Scouts of America (BSA) but which has grown uneasy with BSA's increasingly liberal stances on gay and transgender issues, took a step away from the organization Thursday. The church insisted that the decision had nothing to do with LGBT issues, but with the needs of older boys.
"As part of the Church's ongoing effort to evaluate and improve its service to families and young people worldwide, the Church will no longer charter Varsity or Venturing units with the Boy Scouts of America and Scouts Canada effective January 1, 2018," the church's office of the First Presidency declared in a letter Thursday.
"We express sincere appreciation and gratitude to all adult leaders who have supported young men in these programs and are grateful for our long-standing and continuing partnership with the Boy Scouts of America and Scouts Canada," the letter added. "Cub Scout and Boy Scout programs will continue to be chartered through local wards and branches."
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"As part of the Church's ongoing effort to evaluate and improve its service to families and young people worldwide, the Church will no longer charter Varsity or Venturing units with the Boy Scouts of America and Scouts Canada effective January 1, 2018," the church's office of the First Presidency declared in a letter Thursday.
"We express sincere appreciation and gratitude to all adult leaders who have supported young men in these programs and are grateful for our long-standing and continuing partnership with the Boy Scouts of America and Scouts Canada," the letter added. "Cub Scout and Boy Scout programs will continue to be chartered through local wards and branches."
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Student Arrested after Threats Made to School
The initial investigation began on Thursday, March 30, 2017, after Troopers received information that a subject had posted several threatening comments directed toward Sussex Central High School on social media. As a result of the posts, multiple troopers responded to the school on Friday, March 31, in order to provide additional security. No incidents occurred at the school, however.
Through further investigation, troopers were able to trace the the online posts to the home of a 12th grade student of the school, Zefryn Stillman, 18, of Millsboro. On Friday, May 12, 2017, a search warrant was obtained for Stillman's residence located in the 28000 block of Cedar Street, and upon the execution of the warrant, evidence linking Stillman to the incident was located.
Zefryn Stillman was arrested and charged with felony Terroristic Threatening. He was arraigned at JP Court 2 and released on $2500.00 unsecured bond.
A mugshot of Zefryn Stillman is not available at this time.
Maxine Waters Thinks It Would've Been Fine for Hillary to Fire Comey, But Doesn't Support Trump Firing Him
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is not only becoming a leader of the anti-Trump resistance movement, she is also saying crazier and crazier things in public. She rallied a crowd for Trump's impeachment and then said she never called for impeachment (in the same week), she forgot how to say the words North Korea, and now this. She actually said it would have been fine for Hillary Clinton, had she become president, to fire FBI Director Comey, but that it was not okay for Trump to do it. Even MSNBC wasn't buying her hypocrisy! MSNBC's Peter Alexander asked, "To be clear, you believe it would have been better to keep in place an FBI director who you said had no credibility to oversee this investigation than to find someone who you think would be a better choice?" She mostly ummmmed and ahhhhed during her response.
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Council Agrees To Sale Of Five Taxi Medallions
OCEAN CITY — Resort officials wrestled this week with its new policy on voluntarily buying back taxi medallions in order to increase their value in the face of stiff competition from Uber, but ultimately agreed to approve each of the requested transfers.
The Mayor and Council had before them on Tuesday a request to transfer five taxi medallions in three separate transactions and initially decided to allow two and reject three, the latter because the proposed cost of the transfer of the three medallions at $2,000 was considerably lower than their original price, perhaps illustrating the financial impact of ride-sharing operations, such as Uber, on the resort’s cab industry.
In the other two independent transfers, the sale price for one medallion was $4,000 while the other was $4,100. The council quickly approved the latter two requests, but struggled with the request to transfer three medallions for a total of $2,000. After considerable debate, they ultimately agreed to the three-medallion for $2,000 transfer by a 4-2 vote with Councilman Matt James and Wayne Hartman advocating for the town to buy back the three medallions.
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The Mayor and Council had before them on Tuesday a request to transfer five taxi medallions in three separate transactions and initially decided to allow two and reject three, the latter because the proposed cost of the transfer of the three medallions at $2,000 was considerably lower than their original price, perhaps illustrating the financial impact of ride-sharing operations, such as Uber, on the resort’s cab industry.
In the other two independent transfers, the sale price for one medallion was $4,000 while the other was $4,100. The council quickly approved the latter two requests, but struggled with the request to transfer three medallions for a total of $2,000. After considerable debate, they ultimately agreed to the three-medallion for $2,000 transfer by a 4-2 vote with Councilman Matt James and Wayne Hartman advocating for the town to buy back the three medallions.
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