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Put your best foot forward with the McComb western boots from Laredo. These boots have traditional style with a leather vamp and leather-like shaft. The comfort insole offers complete comfort while you are on your feet. These simple yet stylish boots have a metal toe rand on the tip, adding to the great look of these boots. These boots will go great with your favorite jeans on a Friday night or with your slacks to that Monday morning meeting. The neoprene outsole helps keep you comfortable with each step and it is oil and slip resistant.

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Toe Type: Narrow/Pointed
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Lifestyle: Western
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Insole: Comfort Cushion
Shaft: 13"
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Taylor Swift‘s “I knew you were trouble” single from her Red album has dominated the #1 spot for six weeks at pop radio! In celebration of the song’s success, Tay tweeted this hilarious parody video called “I Knew You Were A Goat.”

We love that Taylor has a sense of humor! It’s so refreshing to see celebrities who can laugh at themselves.

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Murray Bushrangers let down by wayward kicking

Bushrangers coach Darren Ogier.

Bushrangers coach Darren Ogier.

JUST three points were the difference as the Murray Bushrangers fell agonisingly short of knocking off TAC Cup leaders Oakleigh Chargers.

Bushrangers’ coach Darren Ogier said his side had victory within their grasp but couldn’t convert though they led deep into the final term.

“Bad kicking is bad footy,” Ogier said.

“If we’d kicked 16.11 instead of 11.16 we win the game.

“If we kick 6.3 in the last term instead of 3.6 we win the game.

“We didn’t miss sitters — they were half opportunities but if you kick those you win the game.

“And we certainly had our chances and could have won.”

That alone will be enough to boost the Bushies who have begun to really show promising signs at TAC Cup level.

“We have certainly taken a lot of positives moving forward and we’re certainly getting closer to where we want to be,” Ogier said.

“The Chargers are the top side, but while it’s very positive we’re still disappointed we didn’t get the result we wanted — you’re never happy with a loss.

“We did a great deal of work to get back in front and unfortunately we let them get back in which was disappointing.

“But you want to take something out of every game and the trick is to implement that approach and attitude and character in our next outing in a fortnight.”

Ogier said he was very happy with the way the Bushrangers fought the game out to the end, and said it was one of the side’s best four-quarter efforts of the season.

“The fact that we could come back showed great resolve,” he said.

Albury’s Nick Coughlan (three goals) made his return from a stress fracture in his foot and had a big impact in the final term, bringing the Bushies close to an upset win.

“He ran out of gas early but finished strongly,” Ogier said.

“He kicked a goal and set up another and really did help us get back in the game.”

Isaac Muller also continued a stellar season in the ruck.

Ogier said Muller was easily the number one ruck in the competition on paper in terms of his stats.

After a week off the bushrangers will then face North Ballarat who have won their last four games, including against Sandringham Dragons this week with an imposing 24.3.

“They’ve been ridiculously good and it will be a huge challenge for us to knock their run on the head,” Ogier said.

“But we took a lot out of our game and we continue to develop as a group which they’ve done beautifully.

“We had six changes with the blokes coming in starting to really play at TAC Cup standard which is very promising.”

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Wodonga Raiders' trio rise to top of pack

WODONGA Raiders will blood three rookies in tomorrow’s Ovens and Murray clash against North Albury at Birallee Park.

Promising trio Sam Scott, Alex Daly and Dillon Blaszczyk were last night rewarded for some strong performances in the thirds by being promoted to make their senior debuts.

“We want to give the boys a taste of senior O and M footy,” Raiders’ co-coach Simon Bone said.

“Who knows what they can do unless you give them a chance.

“They will bring excitement and enthusiasm and that can only be good for a footy side.”

Scott, Daly and Blaszczyk have been standouts for Wodonga Raiders’ thirds and were given the chance to step up with top-liners Jydon Neagle, Luke Visser and Steve Jolliffe ruled out for the season.

“It’s a very young side, but that’s OK,” Bone said.

“I think we only have two or three players over 24 or 25.

“The boys who have come up from the thirds all have reasonably strong bodies and we’ll back them in.”

Wodonga Raiders also included Brad St John and Tom Marlow.

North Albury also went for youth at the selection table with Matt Endresz, Luke Holman, Rhys Dempsey and Lachie Taylor-Nugent coming into the side for Mitch Mahady, Rory Feltwell, Jason Akermanis and Isaac Muller.

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    Yes, making a play is Wilhite simply extending his arms up to defend the pass.  He was running with his arms at his sides and obvioulsy had no clue where the ball was.
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    Ok, I know B.B. said last week he acitvated T,Whaeatley over Springs due to him playing KO returner on special teams,....but this week Edleman returned kicks and Springs was inactive again...Unless his knee is still knicked up...shouldnt he be on the field...I mean Wilhite is ok...but being around the ball all the time just makes it worse if you never make a play...I recall Springs playing well when he was in this year, and I know he has ball skills...Wilhite does not turn and look for the ball and get beat even though he's there if you dont stop the ball from being aint Ish....Now it hasnt cost us that much other than Waynes TD, but my thing is get Springs in there..he is a vet..and cant be that much slower than wilhite...and I just dont see what the raves are about...he is good, but nothing more, and I would like to think a vet like Springs can offer something more than that...Bodden is gonna cash in and be gone,,,so after Butler., year we will have wheatley and Wilhite...Butler is a future start but not seeing the same for the other 2..they should draft another CB 2nd or 3rd rd next year to come in and compete with what we have....The exp. is good for Wilhite..but sooner or later you gotta start makin plays!
    Posted by patsfan76

    You can't be serious.  Springs is the primary reason teams moved up and down the field the first 5 games.  He has NO ball skills.  That's why he was BENCHED.  His footwork is severely lacking and reaction time is ridiculous.  Five years ago, he was a serviceable DB, not now by a long shot.  Perhaps we can convert him to Safety.  He was so bad, opposing teams and announcers began referring to him as Shawn "1st Down" Springs...
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    I dont know what you been watchin cuz Springs has barely been on the field the last 5 games...he has only played limited snaps this season..but when he did he was right there on his reciever, and yes he still has ball skills...go look up his career INT's and compare them to Wilhites...I am just saying how many TD's has Springs given up???  He cant do much worse than Wilhite..and his exp would help him when going against guys like maybe Wilhite is faster at this stage, but between 5 -15 yards Springs can still cover, and I dont know what you mean by servicable...I guess making the pro bowl means you are servicable..Reaction time...???  WHy dont you back up your statement with facts.,..cuz I'm not your run of the mill homer...I actually love football and watch every team w/ my sunday do you homework on Springs instead of making up ISh to support your argument.... And you have the nerve to post a quote talking about tellin the truth...LMAO!
    Posted by patsfan76

    Wow, no one attack you, so where you come off is absurd.  Obviously you have some vision or reading problems, because I CLEARLY STATED THE FIRST 5 GAMES.  Is that better for you?  R.I.F. "reading is fundamental" to all you may want to accomplish in life.  Try it, it works.  What Shawn Springs did many moons ago is totally irrelevant to his current capabilities (this means that is doesn't make any difference regarding what his abilities and physical condition enable him  to do on the field today).  My apologies, that was for the "comprehensively" challenged.   I won't deny that Springs wasn't formerly upper tier DB, but those days are long gone.  Springs has given up the most first downs of any NE DB this year.  "If you by into the "IN BILL WE TRUST" motto, then your argument isn't with me, it's with BILL".  SURELY YOU DON'T QUESTION HIS DEFENSIVE PROWESS!!!  BTW, I don't make up anything, nor am I myopic.  The truth really does set you free... ALSO, I'm happy for you and your DirecTV...
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    Well..I'm sorry we will have to agree to disagree...I wasnt attacking you...but Its not fair to make up ish when the guy is not here to defend himself...You said Springs was once a servicable CB??  Randall Gay is a servicable CB...not even close...Once again you make a crazy statement like "Springs has given up the most 1st downs this year"...Really?? when he doesnt even play much...back up your talk with facts and show me the # of 1st downs given up from a legit source...  I'll give you to 5 p.m......
    Posted by patsfan76

    Shawn Springs portfolio is on video for everyone to assess.  Apparently his coaching staff has done so.  Early is the season (when he was playing), he was glossed "1st Down" by TV commentators.  I didn't do it, it was done by those in the know, some of his former peers.  Where did you see me state ANYTHING ABOUT RANDALL GAY?  Just to appease you, I'll search for such a stat for DB's.  But I have an extensive backround in the game and my own eyes tell me everything I need to know about this issue.  I too, have seen every play this year...
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    I dont know buddy...I used R.Gay as an example of a servicable CB..which is what you called Springs...Servicable to me means yeah you can throw him in there but he is not ideally who you want...Springs is a perrinnial pro-bowler..and although he hasnt done much here doesnt mean you can throw away his career accomplishments and call him servicable......I also have never heard any commentator call Springs "1st down" or whatever you are tryna say...Please find one other person on this board who has heard these commentators call out Springs as 1st down..I will pay you 10.00  real talk.....Well I cant see through your eyes and you cant see through mines soooooooo link 5 if you can...
    Posted by patsfan76

    The following is the definition of perrinial:

    Main Entry: pe·ren·ni·al
    Pronunciation: \pə-ˈre-nē-əl\
    Function: adjective
    Etymology: Latin perennis, from per- throughout + annus year — more at per-, annual
    Date: 1644

    1 : present at all seasons of the year
    2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part <perennial asters>
    3 a : persistent, enduring <perennial favorites> b : continuing without interruption : constant, perpetual <the perennial quest for certainty> <a perennial student> c : regularly repeated or renewed : recurrent <death is a perennial literary theme>

    synonyms see continual

    perennial noun

    pe·ren·ni·al·ly \-nē-ə-lē\ adverb

    As you can see, this does not invoke visions of Mr. Springs. Since I'm 4 hours behind you on the eastern seaboard, I doubt I'll get to you before you leave.  But I really don't need to.  The COACH has spoken for me in his decision to BENCH the "perrinial" pro bowler.

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    His entire bio equals 1 Pro Bowl selection in 1999.

    Shawn Springs

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    Shawn Springs

    Springs during his tenure with the Redskins.
    No. 29     New England Patriots
    Personal information
    Date of birth: March 11, 1975 (1975-03-11) (age 34)
    Place of birth: Williamsburg, Virginia
    Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)Weight: 204 lb (93 kg)
    Career information
    College: Ohio State
    NFL Draft: 1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3
    Debuted in 1997 for the Seattle Seahawks
    Career history
     As player:
    Roster status: Active
    Career highlights and awards
    • 2× First-team All-Big Ten (1995–1996)
    • Big Ten Defensive P.O.Y. (1996)
    • Pro Bowl selection (1998)
    Career NFL statistics as of 2009
    Tackles    703
    Sacks    8.5
    INTs    32
    Stats at

    Shawn Springs (born March 11, 1975 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American football cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks third overall in the 1997 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.

    A Pro Bowl selection in 1998, Springs has also played for the Washington Redskins. He is the son of former NFL running back Ron Springs.

    [edit] Early years

    Springs was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Prior to attending Springbrook High School, Springs was a standout athlete at Orange High School in Orange, Ohio. He was an all-state selection in football at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring where he played running back and cornerback.

    [edit] College career

    When he graduated from high school, Springs decided to play college football at Ohio State. He started all 37 games after being redshirted his freshman year. Springs earned All-Big Ten honors as a sophomore and junior, as well as an All-Academic selection. He was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 1996.

    [edit] Professional career

    [edit] Seattle Seahawks

    Springs was drafted third overall by the Seattle Seahawks in the 1997 NFL Draft. He started 10 games in his rookie season, recording one interception. Springs was selected to the 1999 Pro Bowl in his second season in the NFL, after starting all sixteen games, and recorded 76 tackles, seven interceptions, and two defensive touchdowns. He started every game of his next two seasons in Seattle, recording five interceptions in 1999 and two in 2000.

    The 2001 season would be a shortened one for Springs; he would miss three games with a hamstring injury and was suspended four games for violating the NFL's steroid policy.[1] In 2002, he returned to start 15 games and record three interceptions on the season. In 2003, his final season with Seahawks, Springs played in 12 games, starting eight, finishing the year with 39 tackles and an interception.

    [edit] Washington Redskins

    Springs was signed as a free agent on March 4, 2004 by the Washington Redskins. In his first season in Washington, he led the team in interceptions with five, and sacks with six, and was the first cornerback to lead his team in sacks and interceptions in NFL history. In the 2005 season, Springs played much of the season with a leg injury; he finished the year with one interception and recorded 50 tackles in 15 starts. The 2006 season saw Springs on the bench for most of the year, battling nagging injuries while the Redskins compiled a 5-11 season. He was eventually placed on injured reserve on December 26 with a fractured scapula. Springs ended the 2007 season with 62 tackles and four interceptions, the latter in the last four regular-season games, as he helped the Redskins make the playoffs.

    Springs was released by the Redskins on February 27, 2009.

    [edit] New England Patriots

    Springs signed a three-year contract with the New England Patriots on March 11, 2009.

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    Thanks for the research...Touche......But I was really asking for the stats showing Springs giving up the most 1st downs on the team, but I realize that one may be had to find considering its not dont look too long ok....Seriously though...I am not arguing why someone is playing, or who is better...but this started with you throwing out made up stuff....I admit I thought he went to more pro bowls...but thats because of his injury problems..but compare his second year to Wilhites..and its not close...and thats what the argument you lost that one..than you went on another post saying Bodden has no ball skills and Wilhite has excellent ball I will have to end on that note..cuz that was too have no stats or anything that has happend this year to support that...yet you are yelling it in caps to the high heavens like its gospel...thats just your misconstrued opinion....and the fact you keep saying the Coach did his evaluation...than why is Springs still on the team????  obviously if he was no good he'd be released like Galloway right...Its because he is hurt with a bad knee, and BIll is holding out hope he will be healthy come playoff team and he can be used...but to hear you tell it he is a bum.....I am not knocking Wilhite...but let him get some years under his belt before you say he has excellent ball skills and is better than Bodden...
    Posted by patsfan76

    Multi-year contract.  He still is "serviceable" in a COVER 2 scheme.  I don't need years, his presence on the field during "crunchtime" speaks volumes.  Again, until you learn what the term "ball skills" entails, it's best to keep it in the closet.  Here's an idea, when you tire of looking "not so bright", change your screen name and return anew.  Just have your information partially correct before 1 finger hits that keyboard...
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    Seriously though...We play Monday night next its the best time for Sunday Ticket....Are you should come by we can watch the games together...unless you are unruly....I got plenty of beers....We can have a ball, and I can show YOU what football is bout'll be fun,,,kinda like school...You did go to school right..NA...let me stop messing wit you seem like a cool dude..just got a strange outlook on football,,,are you from Europe?...Seriously though (I know thats aggrivating)  Why dont we just make a Poll....The who, what, where , and why of Ball skills...WHo has it, Who doesnt, and what does it all mean....Even a fairweather football fan knows what ball skills are why havent you given me the correct explanation....times a tickin......
    Posted by patsfan76

    Had to check out for a few, LIFE was callin...  I'm not local.  As stated in a previous post, I'm 4 hrs behind you.  I currently reside in ALASKA.  Only the ex govenor thinks it's part of EUROPE lol.  Yes, it is totally plausible for a person to have ball skills and 0 interceptions.


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Passenger on derailed Connecticut train describes violent collision, acts of kindness

Scott Bartelson is a twice-daily commuter on Connecticut’s Metro-North Railroad, which takes him between his hometown of Stratford, Conn. and his job at a small non-profit theater company near the train station in Darien, Conn.

On Friday night, Bartelson’s familiar commute home suddenly turned into chaos when his eastbound train derailed and then was struck by a train traveling in the opposite direction on an adjacent track. The violent crash sent 60 passengers to hospital, several with serious injuries, and brought rail traffic to a standstill on the busy Northeast Corridor, a portion of which runs from Washington DC to Boston.

The incident began shortly after the train left a station in Fairfield, Conn., Bartelson said in a phone interview this afternoon.

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“Right as the conductor was taking my ticket, the train went right off the tracks,” said Bartelson, who estimated the train was traveling 40 to 50 miles per hour. “It started tipping to one side, constantly bumping up and down and back and forth like crazy. I saw sparks right outside my window.”

Bartelson said he gripped the armrest of his seat with all his strength to keep himself from flying through the cabin, exchanging an intense “this is it” look with the passenger sitting next to him.

When the train finally came to a rest, it started filling with either smoke or dust, Bartelson said.

“We were all looking at each other, saying, ‘we have to get out of here,’ ” he said.

But before anyone could make it out of the train, it was violently struck by the train moving in the opposite direction on an adjacent track, Bartelson said.

“Thirty seconds later, the train going the other way came and jammed right onto us,” he said. “It scraped the side of our car and gave us another bad jolt.”

A few seconds later, the doors of the train opened.

“At that point, it became about getting out of the train as quickly as possible,” Bartelson said. “We had to drop down about 3 feet to the ground. There were two guys helping people down... As I climbed out, I could see the tracks were totally deformed and bent of out shape.”

Bartelson noticed an elderly woman who was bleeding from the head and had apparently injured her hand.

“I saw this woman whose hand was totally bent and in bad shape,” he said. “She smashed her thumb and fingers; she was in incredible pain.”

Bartelson said he dialed 911 as soon as he was clear of the train, and emergency vehicles started to arrive about 10 minutes later.

Several doctors and a nurse who were aboard the train jumped into action, he said, triaging and comforting the injured until ambulances arrived.

Passengers became worried about being electrocuted by dangling overhead wires, Bartelson said, so they collectively decided to move toward a safe area underneath a nearby highway overpass.

Bartelson was impressed by the way his fellow passengers reacted to the emergency.

“There was no one in hysterics,” he said. “Certainly, there were people who were emotionally upset and physically hurt, but most people were in control and trying to figure it out, trying to organize and keeping everything secure, calming people down.”

Passengers shared food and water with each other, he said, and even offered to share taxis or help arrange rides. “It was nice to feel like you had someone there for you,” Bartelson said.

Bartelson said he enjoys taking the train, because it allows him to do work or relax while commuting. But whether he will feel comfortable getting back on the train depends on the cause of the accident.

“Life goes on, and it’s not like we’re going to get rid of trains,” he said. “But you have to figure out what caused this. The accident was right in the middle of what looks like a construction zone —did that play a part? You have to ask the questions.”


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By Jennifer C. Kerr
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WASHINGTON - Toys carrying the Barbie and Disney logos have turned up with high levels of lead in them, a California advocacy group says - a finding that may give holiday shoppers pause.

The Center for Environmental Health tested about 250 children’s products and found lead levels that exceeded federal limits in seven. Lead can cause irreversible brain damage.

Among those with high lead levels: a Barbie Bike Flair Accessory Kit and a Disney Tinkerbell Water Lily necklace. The group also found excessive lead in a Dora the Explorer Activity Tote, two pairs of children’s shoes, a belt, and a child’s poncho.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown wrote to Target, Wal-Mart, and other retailers who sold the seven products, warning that children’s goods with illegal levels of lead should be pulled immediately from store shelves.

The findings come about a year after a product-safety law ushered in strict limits on the amounts of lead and chemicals in products for children 12 and younger. Congress acted after a slew of recalls of lead-tainted toys in 2007, including several Mattel-related recalls that involved 2 million toys.

The Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, Calif., did an initial round of testing and sent products singled out as having high lead to an independent laboratory for additional testing and confirmation.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating.

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By Ben Stocking
Associated Press / April 29, 2010

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HANOI — Thirty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the people of this country are optimistic about the future, bullish about the free market, and rarely think about a conflict that still ignites political passions in America.

A new Associated Press-GfK Poll, one of the most exhaustive surveys to date of contemporary Vietnamese attitudes, underscores how rapidly life has changed in Vietnam. Under a single-party Communist government, the country has embraced market-oriented reforms and lifted tens of millions out of poverty.

Eighty-five percent said the economy is stronger than it was five years ago, and 87 percent said they expect it to be even stronger in another five years. Eighty-one percent said the country is moving in the right direction.

“The country has changed so much in so many ways since the end of the war that you can’t imagine,’’ said Luong Trung Thanh, 72, a retired teacher from Hanoi. “It changes every day, right in front of your eyes. There are tall buildings going up everywhere.’’

The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.

Initially, hunger was widespread as the government launched a centrally planned economy and the West imposed an economic blockade. But two decades ago, the communist leadership began opening up the economy, sparking a boom.

Economic growth has averaged more than 7 percent annually over the last decade, and the share of the population living in poverty has fallen from 58 percent in 1993 to 11 percent last year.


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A pair of these seats from Shea Stadium will cost you $869. Yankee Stadium also will have a going-out-of-business sale. A pair of these seats from Shea Stadium will cost you $869. Yankee Stadium also will have a going-out-of-business sale. (Frank franklin II/Associated Press)
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Associated Press / September 7, 2008
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NEW YORK - As a season ticket-holder, Darrell Buono spent 13 years rooting for the New York Mets in blue loge-level seats at Shea Stadium. So he bought them.

The seats cost $869 for a pair and will have a place of honor in Buono's basement in New Hyde Park when they are shipped, sometime after the last game is played at Shea this fall and the Mets begin dismantling the stadium.

"My wife kind of gave me a strange look when I told her I was doing it," Buono said. "But she was OK with it."

The Mets and Yankees are finishing final seasons in their current stadiums and will open 2009 in new ballparks. Before they move to their new homes, memorabilia buffs expect them to strip down the ballparks and auction off anything that will sell.

The Yankees say there will be a sale but haven't released the details, and so far the Mets have only put seats on the market. But some think that everything from lockers to strips of sod may go on the market by the time the teams begin taking down the stadiums.

New York City will reap the bulk of the profits, because it owns the ballparks.

"This is a cash grab," said Richard Aurigemma, a collector who owns more than 100 seats from different stadiums and also sells ballpark seats through a Web site. "They'll sell anything and everything."

The $869 price tag for Mets seats is a reference to the two years the team won the World Series, 1986 and 1969. Yankees seats will no doubt be pricier, said Aurigemma, who suggested $1,923 a pair to celebrate the year Yankee Stadium opened.

Other teams have held memorabilia sales in recent years as they have moved into new parks. Tiger Stadium seats in Detroit sold for $279 a pair last year. St. Louis Cardinals fans spent nearly $1 million in 2005 to buy pieces of Busch Stadium after it closed, including the locker used by star slugger Albert Pujols (about $20,000) and a clubhouse urinal that fetched more than $2,000.

The Mets put 16,000 pairs of seats up for sale on the team's Web site Aug. 25 after a pre-sale for season ticket-holders.

The team will ship the seats 8-12 weeks after the final game at Shea, which the Mets hope will be in the World Series. Then the stadium will be taken down piece by piece. City regulations do not permit Shea or Yankee Stadium to be imploded.

The Mets' field-level orange seats and loge-level blue seats sold out quickly. Red and green seats from the mezzanine and upper levels were still available as of Thursday.

A pair of sold-out blue seats was being offered on eBay with a "Buy It Now" price of $2,499.99.

Under the deal between the city and the Mets, the city gets 70 percent of the profits from Shea Stadium, with the team donating its 30 percent to charity. The Yankees and the city are negotiating over how to divide profits from the House That Ruth Built.

Jason Fry, a freelance writer from Brooklyn, said he surprised himself by buying green mezzanine seats on the Mets' Web site.

"I'm more than ready for Citi Field," Fry said. "But when I started to think about it, I thought back to all these extraordinary games I saw at Shea . . . and I suddenly found myself wanting to have a tangible memory from the Shea Stadium era."

Buono said he, too, is ready for Citi Field, which is being built on Shea's former parking lot.

"Shea has been our home but it's time for an upgrade," he said. "And I'll have a little bit of Shea Stadium in my basement."

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Foe's been the rage in the cage

Lundqvist had answer for every Bruins bid

The Bruins’ Brad Marchand is stapled to the boards by the Rangers’ Steve Eminger during the first period. The Bruins’ Brad Marchand is stapled to the boards by the Rangers’ Steve Eminger during the first period. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff)
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First Milan Lucic, then Tyler Seguin, then Dennis Seidenberg. All were hopeful, at various points of last night’s visit by the Rangers, that a puck had gotten past New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.

No, no, no. Ultimately, 42 times no.

Lundqvist took on all comers, and impressively turned every one away, giving the Bruins 60 more minutes to stew over and everybody else watching the game a first-hand look at this season’s possible Vezina Trophy winner. Until those in the stands chose to leave, that is, many of them well before the final horn.

With the reigning Vezina holder, Tim Thomas, observing from the opposite end of the ice, Lundqvist added to his personal domination over the Bruins, earning his sixth career shutout in 25 games against Boston. New York’s 3-0 win also increased its lead in the Eastern Conference to 9 points over the second-place Bruins, and left the home club wondering when - or even if - it’ll ever be able to solve the 29-year-old Swede.

“He plays well against us, and we’ve just got to do a better job,’’ Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “There’s some luck involved, but a good goaltender makes his own luck.

“He plays deep in his net, but he’s sharp and very quick. I’ve always said he’s a good goaltender, and just because he doesn’t play for you doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve these compliments.’’

Lundqvist improved to 18-5-2 in his career against the Bruins, and has won his last four starts at TD Garden.

“I just like this building. Nice people, I guess,’’ Lundqvist said. “I like the type of games where both teams are battling a lot in front of the net. I’m a goalie that likes to battle myself, so I kind of feed off the players, and to see my own players work that hard, being physical and paying the price in front of me, I get excited to play.

“Also, knowing that Boston is a team that is not going to give up much, I personally have to be sharp if I want to help the team get 2 points.’’

He was certainly sharp, but that’s not to say the Bruins were without decent scoring chances, especially after the first period, when the Rangers built a 2-0 lead. They peppered Lundqvist with 32 shots over the final 40 minutes, all coming up empty.

Lucic thought he sneaked one through during the second period, when the Bruins carried the play throughout the 20 minutes, outshot the Rangers, 14-5, yet left the ice still in a two-goal hole. Late in the period, Lucic deflected a shot under Lundqvist’s pads, with a large scrum pushing the goaltender across the line. Because his stick was knocked loose, Lucic raised both hands, sure that his redirect had gone in.

Only it hadn’t. Lundqvist got his pads down, and kept them there, trapping the puck. Denied.

Midway through the third period, Seguin thought he had his 21st goal of the season when he sent a rebound toward Lundqvist, with plenty of net visible and the goalie falling down. But Lundqvist gloved the attempt at the last instant, causing Seguin, whose momentum had carried him away from the goal, to snap his head back around, incredulous that his bid had failed.

“We thought we had a goal, but that was a symbol of tonight’s game,’’ Julien said. “We weren’t going to catch a break. He stuck the glove out and made the big save on Seguin.’’

Finally, off a faceoff a few minutes after Seguin was robbed, Seidenberg found the puck on his stick, and rifled a shot that got past Lundqvist, flicked the net, and triggered the red goal light to come on behind the glass.

Well, no. An overhead camera replay showed that the puck went just to the left of the pipe and got caught on the outside of the net. The goal was waved off, dousing the Bruins’ best chance.

“I was surprised when they called it a goal, because I saw his pad was covering the short side, so I didn’t really think there was a chance for it to go in,’’ Seidenberg said. “Once they called it off, I kind of expected it.’’

It was that kind of night. It’s been that kind of night for the Bruins against Lundqvist, especially in the Boston barn. They’ll get at least two more shots at him, assuming he starts the remaining regular-season games between the teams, both at Madison Square Garden. Then, perhaps, a playoff series.

So far, Lundqvist has had the upper hand. The Bruins, it seems, bring out the best in him.

“We’re a confident group right now,’’ Lundqvist said. “They kept coming, but we kept calm.’’

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Building Credit through Rent Reporting

by Sarah Chenven, Credit Builders Alliance
Winter 2014

 Reporting rental payments offers low-income renters an opportunity to build credit as a financial asset. Mission-driven affordable-housing organizations are poised to help them.

As many as 64 million U.S. households are excluded from the mainstream credit system because they have thin credit histories or none at all. One reason is that so many people live in rental housing—approximately 100 million individuals, or 39 million households. And although making late housing payments can damage the credit of people who own their home just as much as it damages the credit of renters, historically only homeowners have been able to build positive credit histories when they pay on time. Credit reports and credit scores that do not recognize on-time rental payments as creditworthy behavior present an incomplete and negatively skewed assessment of the credit risk many renters pose.

That matters. The credit report that consumers can provide increasingly defines who will do business with them and under what terms and conditions. Low-income individuals, who are often renters, are more likely than their higher-income counterparts to have no credit or poor credit.

According to the 2012 Current Population Survey, 63 percent of U.S. renters earn less than $35,000 annually, and 41 percent earn less than $20,000 annually. Renters with few assets or savings often become susceptible to predatory financial service providers. Too many unscrupulous companies market expensive, asset-stripping, short-term credit as an option for making ends meet but have no intention of reporting their customers’ on-time payments to the major credit bureaus.

With little opportunity to build credit, many low-income renters face barriers to financial stability that are hard to overcome. Lack of good credit may mean that borrowers must make hefty deposits, pay higher insurance premiums, or be denied employment. Lack of credit also impedes access to, or dramatically increases, the cost of asset-building products such as mortgages, small business loans, and education loans—any of which might otherwise present a pathway out of poverty.

Is Rent Reporting Viable?

Fortunately, there is a way for low-income renters to overcome such barriers. Landlords and online rental-payment-services companies that undergo a rigorous credentialing process may now report rental-payment data directly to at least one of the three major credit bureaus. The emergence of this new opportunity could provide millions of low-income renters with the chance to build credit histories without taking on additional debt or incurring the burden and risk of an additional monthly expense.

Responsible reporting of alternative credit data such as rental and utility payments finally offers those who make on-time payments an opportunity to benefit from the mainstream credit system. Recent studies by the Policy and Economic Research Council and the Brookings Institution on alternative credit data show that reporting on-time utility and telecom payments enabled 40 percent of individuals who previously had no score to access prime credit. Consider the extent to which alternative credit reporting has already increased access for individuals:

  • by 14 percent for African Americans and 10 percent for Hispanics;
  • by 15 percent for youth under 25 and 11 percent for Americans 66 years and older; and
  • by 21 percent for those earning less than $20,000 annually and 15 percent for those earning between $20,000 and $29,000 annually.

For every individual consumer in the lowest household income category who experienced a reduced credit standing from moderately late payments, 27 gained access to mainstream credit.

One organization working to move this process along is the nonprofit Credit Builders Alliance (CBA). Founded in 2006 by and for nonprofit lenders, financial educators, and asset builders to catalyze their credit-building efforts, CBA now empowers a growing network of more than 350 members to help their low-income and underserved clients build credit and other financial assets.[1] CBA’s philosophy—namely, that good credit is a financial asset—has been adopted by mission-driven entities across the spectrum. Among them are nonprofit and public affordable housing organizations, which are well positioned to help lower-income residents harness the power of responsible rent reporting by pairing it with meaningful financial education.

With financial support from the Citi Foundation, CBA is building on groundwork begun in 2012 to pilot a rent-reporting program with affordable-housing organizations and help several thousand low-income residents build credit histories. The pilot’s goal is to combine rent reporting with credit education and identify impactful, replicable, and scalable strategies that maximize credit outcomes for low-income tenants. At the same time, the nonprofit is nurturing a learning community of practitioners who work in affordable housing. The learning community is now documenting and sharing rent-reporting models, experiences, and best practices in order to improve and strengthen their own organizations and move the credit-building needle for low-income renters generally.

Challenges and Successes

With every opportunity come challenges. Some in the affordable housing industry have raised legitimate concerns about the possibility of negative consequences for low-income residents who cannot pay their rent on time because of issues beyond their control. Nonetheless, many practitioners agree that the affordable housing residents who consistently pay their rent on time should be allowed to benefit from having those payments build their credit history.

Renters, too, are eager to leverage the opportunity. Although only 39 percent of residents in CBA’s pilot program indicated that they had reviewed their credit report in the last 12 months, 96 percent stated that having good credit is important to them, 75 percent plan to take action to build their credit in the next three to six months, and 97 percent believe that reporting rental payments is a good way for them to do so.

CBA is collaborating with Experian on the pilot, the first and only major credit reporting agency to incorporate positive rental data into the traditional credit file. Experian's Rent Bureau division database receives rental-payment histories from property management companies and online rental-payment services and currently covers more than 9 million residents nationwide. Property management companies contribute their rental data to RentBureau directly and automatically from their property management software. Experian currently includes rental payments on its credit reports.

Experian RentBureau manages rental data in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (consumers may request free annual reports and may dispute errors), works closely with each property manager to understand its particular business rules to ensure accurate data flow, and also provides education materials to help rental data furnishers meet their responsibilities and legal obligations as well as educate their residents.

Through this pilot, CBA is providing a solution to a gap in the financial system that currently penalizes renters. Rent reporting also presents the affordable-housing industry with an opportunity to effect systemic change.

Through its signature services, Reporter and Access, CBA enables hundreds of nonprofit lenders to report their low-income borrowers’ loans to the major consumer and business credit bureaus and to pull client credit reports for underwriting, financial counseling, and outcome tracking. As of this writing, CBA members report in aggregate more than 20,000 nontraditional loans worth half a billion dollars to the credit bureaus each month and pull more than 60,000 credit reports annually. CBA also has developed a unique training program that provides financial coaches, educators, and program managers with the knowledge and tools necessary to design, implement, and evaluate an asset-based credit building program.

In cooperation with its member nonprofits, CBA will continue to advance the understanding and use of credit building as a tool for asset building and financial capability among low-income and vulnerable populations.

Sarah Chenven is the director of programs and strategic initiatives at Credit Builders Alliance. She is based in Portland, Oregon. Contact her at sarah@creditbuildersalliance.org.

[1] See www.creditbuildersalliance.org.
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Munch bio recalls vivid life

Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloist Richard Burgin. When he arrived, the players were won over by Munch’s relaxed charisma and spontaneous approach.

It’s often lamented that classical music suffers from a Golden Age syndrome, placing all of its greatest moments in the distant past. But posterity can also be unkind to the re-creative artist. Serge Koussevitzky was the most significant music director in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s history, yet there is not a single modern English-language biography of him or an authoritative book written after his death that places his Russian and American careers in full perspective.

Until recently, Charles Munch, who presided over the BSO as its music director from 1949 to 1962, faced the same blank space on the musical bookshelf, one that has only now, fortunately, been filled by D. Kern Holoman’s elegant new biography, “Charles Munch’’ (Oxford University Press). Holoman, a professor of music and conductor at the University of California Davis, provides not just a colorful and warmly affectionate account of the life and career of “le beau Charles,’’ but also brings context to the major institutional changes that took place during his tenure, a pivotal period in American orchestral life.

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Born in 1891 in Strasbourg, Munch came to conducting relatively late, beginning his career as a violinist and honing his instincts for orchestral color from deep within the string section. He climbed the ranks to eventually serve as concertmaster under Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, before moving to Paris, marrying a Nestle company heiress, and launching his conducting career. (Holoman mentions the questions occasionally voiced about Munch’s career in Nazi-occupied France, but vigorously defends his subject, writing “there is not a shadow of anti-Semitism to be found in his life or work.’’)

By the late 1940s in Boston, Koussevitzky wanted an American - Leonard Bernstein - as his successor, but the orchestra’s trustees ignored his wishes and went with Munch, at that point already an international celebrity who radiated French charm, and, as an Alsatian, was conveniently heir to both French and German traditions. Holoman describes the press conference announcing the conductor’s first season in 1949, at which Munch, with his still-limited English, managed a simple yet powerful declaration: “There will be joy.’’

That was apparently a cherished commodity for the players after years under the baton of the revered yet feared Koussevitzky. Munch was true to his word. The men of the orchestra - and back then they were almost entirely men - were won over by his relaxed charisma and refreshingly spontaneous approach to music-making. He was an instinctual musician, with an inborn feeling for line and phrasing. He also became legendary for his casual attitudes toward rehearsal, and one BSO retiree I spoke with recently, violinist Sheldon Rotenberg, 94, still recalled over a half-century later the day that Munch showed up to rehearsal, asked the men if they knew the music, received an answer in the affirmative, and told them all to go Christmas shopping.

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As Munch saw it, music could not be prepared within an inch of its life and then reenacted at concert time, but had to be created fresh in the moment of contact with the audience. The tempos he chose could vary wildly across different performances of the same repertoire. Oboist Ralph Gomberg is quoted describing the collective exhilaration that Munch’s conducting could sometimes unleash in the orchestra, likening the playing of the final movement of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique’’ to riding “an avalanche going down a steep mountain.’’

The BSO-Munch relationship has of course been documented in an extensive catalog of recordings for RCA Victor, but you can hear this element of spontaneity best in recordings from live radio broadcasts. Included in the BSO’s Symphony Hall centennial box set, for instance, are singularly electric performances of Franck’s symphonic poem “Le Chasseur maudit,’’ Debussy’s “La Mer,’’ and Ravel’s “La Valse.’’

The biography also makes clear just how much the basic job description of music director has evolved over time. When Munch first arrived, he was expected to conduct the vast majority of the concerts. Guest conducting was extremely rare. So too was a month of concerts without contemporary music. The amount of premieres on a typical Munch season in fact makes James Levine’s advocacy for new music look tame by comparison. In his first season alone, Munch led first performances by Poulenc, Honegger, Pfitzner, Walton, William Schuman, and Lukas Foss.

When a listener once complained about this diet of new music, Munch addressed the matter head on in a remarkably forthright letter published in the Boston Herald that merits quoting. “I understand your point of view,’’ he wrote, “since you come to concerts for amusement or distraction or perhaps for consolation - surely for pleasure. But we are asking you . . . to listen to something new, something difficult to understand, even difficult to listen to, especially at first encounter.’’

Munch continues: “I consider it our duty to devote, let us say, one-quarter of a concert - which is truly the minimum - to the music written in our time. . . . Music to exist must be played - and who is to play it if we do not? I tell you frankly that it would be easier for us to play only older music just as it would be easier for you as a listener, but if we imposed this restriction on ourselves, we should be abandoning our obligation to history.’’ (The BSO at the time proudly circulated this letter in a press release and reprinted it in its programs. Needless to say, any BSO music director candidate today who proposed Munch’s one-quarter principle would simply not receive the job.)

Munch’s signature repertoire, especially in his later career, tended toward the French composers such as Ravel and Berlioz with whom he is still most closely associated. But Holoman shows just how often he played Brahms, essentially persuading the French to embrace him, and Bach as well. Munch also led the BSO on its first international tour, in 1952, an event one Boston critic breathlessly called “the most historic milestone in the cultural life of the city in our times.’’ The CIA, Holoman recaps, was a major funder of the tour.

Just four years later, in 1956, came the BSO’s landmark tour to the Soviet Union, led by Munch and former BSO music director Pierre Monteux, and colorfully reconstructed by Holoman: the banks of welcome flowers in Leningrad station, the ecstatically received concerts, the sleeper train to Moscow greeted in the morning by the soloists David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter. The orchestra’s fees were paid, as BSO manager Tod Perry recalled, in “bushels and bushels of ruble notes wrapped in newspaper,’’ rubles which, of course, couldn’t be taken out of the country.

The stories from this tour make irresistibly dramatic narratives, but their ultimate impact on the international political situation remains an interesting question. Holoman describes the tour as “a true turning point in the Cold War,’’ and yet it’s hard to point to tangible political consequences. At the very least, the extensive press coverage must have humanized the Soviets in the eyes of US readers, if only momentarily.

Late in Munch’s Boston tenure and afterward, the joy element was turned on its head and he was accused of letting discipline falter in the ranks. Even BSO executive Henry B. Cabot, in a glowing letter to the Globe after Munch’s death in 1968, at 77, speculated that Munch retired in part because he did not have the heart to tell players they were no longer up to the BSO’s standards. Memories of the Koussevitzky era also began to reassert themselves and Munch was cast as a shallow sensualist by comparison. “National leadership has been given up for local titillation,’’ one respected music professor damningly wrote in The New York Times, calling for new leadership at the BSO. The Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf succeeded Munch and painted his era uncharitably.

But it is the long shadow cast by Koussevitzky that has in some ways continued to dim the memory of Munch’s time in Boston. Holoman describes how, in the many oral histories taken of the players, Koussevitzky seamlessly dominates their recollections, and I have encountered the same phenomenon in speaking with retirees. It’s also clear that Koussevitzky, beyond his larger-than-life persona, left his stamp institutionally, through the creation of Tanglewood, and nationally, through his broader vision for the role of the orchestra in American public life.

Both men, of course, deserve the kind of meticulous and wide-ranging appraisal that at least Munch has now received. And on a not unrelated note, the BSO could be doing a lot more to showcase its own history by digitizing its archives and placing them online, as the New York Philharmonic has done so marvelously. In an organization as proudly tradition-minded, shouldn’t a higher priority be placed on tending its own traditions?

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Northward: Peary’s 1908-09 Expedition

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On account of it being such a poor harbor here the Captain decided to go to Sizes Harbor to paint, but Mr. Croucher let us have some heavy chains mooring us forward and aft preparing us to meet any weather which may come.
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Edwin Rodriguez with stiff test against Ezequiel Maderna on 3/30

WORCESTER, Mass. (February 15, 2013) – Undefeated, United States Boxing Association (USBA) super middleweight champion Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (22-0, 15 KOs) is following the path to Monte Carlo, set more than 40 years ago by another Massachusetts boxer, “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler.

Rodriguez faces the stiffest test of his professional boxing career on March 30, against unbeaten 2008 Argentina Olympian Ezequiel “El Olimpico” Maderna (19-0, 13 KOs), in the opening round of “Monte Carlo Million Dollar Super 4” at Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco.

Rodriguez vs. Maderna is half of a historic four-man tournament, also matching two-time, two division world champion Zsolt Erdei (33-0, 18 KOs) vs. Denis Grachev (12-1-1, 8 KOs) in a light heavyweight bout. The championship final of the “Super Four” will feature the winners of the two aforementioned fights at a catch-weight of 171 ½ lbs., worth $1,000,000 (60-40 split) to the champion, on July 13 in Monaco.

The Dominican Republic-born Rodriguez has a lot in common with Hagler than their respective journeys to Monaco. Both relocated to Massachusetts; Rodriguez in Worcester, New Jersey-born Hagler in Brockton. In 2005, Rodriguez captured the middleweight title at the 2005 USA Boxing National Championships, the first Bay State amateur boxer to accomplish that feat since Hagler in 1973.

Six long years into his professional boxing career, future Hall of Famer Hagler (45-2-1 at that time) was the most avoided middleweight in the world, forced to travel to Monte Carlo in 1979 to fight Norberto Rufino Cabrera, who failed to answer the bell for the eighth round, before finally earning his first world title fight. He fought Vito Antuofermo to a controversial draw but, four fights later, Hagler knocked out Alan Minter capture the World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) titles.

Five years into his pro career, Rodriguez has been unable to get any of the contemporary world super middleweight champions in the ring, despite his lofty ratings at No. 3 in the WBC, WBA and International Boxing Federation (IBF), as well as No. 12 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and No. 10 by The Ring Magazine.

“Marvin Hagler has been in the back of my mind since I won The Nationals in 2005 and became the first Massachusetts fighter since him to do that,” Rodriguez said from his Houston training camp. “It was an honor for me to meet him a few years later in Brockton at an amateur tournament. He was such a great fighter and fought in such a great era, including one against another of my all-time favorite fighters, Roberto Duran. To be mentioned, never mind compared to a fighter like him, who accomplished so much in boxing, makes me feel good about myself.

“I certainly understand that boxing is much different today and boxers don’t fight nearly as often, but my promoter (Lou DiBella) and manager (Larry Army) have done a good job positioning me. I’m going to Monaco to fight a great opponent and I am proud to have been selected as one of the four fighters in this tournament. I think it’s a good move for my career. I plan on going there to win the tournament, come back home with a bigger name, and fight one of the champions for the world title.”

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Maderna, a 2008 Argentina Olympian, is continuing the rich tradition of Argentinean boxing, starting with Luis Angel Firpo, continued by Carlos Monzon, and carried on today by world champions Sergio Martinez, Lucas Matthysse, Omar Narvaez and Juan Reveco.

Ranked No. 5 by the WBO and No. 13 by the IBF, Maderna will be fighting outside of his native Argentina for the first time as a professional. He has reunited with his first amateur coach, Alberto Zacarias, the son of legendary Argentinean trainer Santos Zacarias, who trained world champions Jua Cogi and Sergio Palma.

Army believes the potential reward associated with “La Bomba” participating in the “Super Four” far outweighs the risk of losing or waiting around for a world title shot. “The decision to have Edwin fight in this tournament was a no-brainer,” Army explained. “He’s fighting an undefeated Olympian and then, if Edwin wins he either fights a two-time world champion of an extremely tough Russian fighter who gave Lucian Bute all he could handle. We believe this tournament will give Edwin’s career the boost he needs for him to get a world championship fight. Right now, unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of options for a world title shot. This tournament is the next best thing for Edwin. We’re all looking forward to Edwin putting on a great performance in Monte Carlo.”

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We followed the tale of Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre and their efforts to marry which ended in a joyous celebration in Tierra del Fuego. Now another couple has been declared entitled to marriage equality. (AFP)

A judge on Tuesday authorized two men to marry in Buenos Aires in what would be the country’s second same-sex marriage.

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The United States appears to have finally taken sides in the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands. The recent announcement that the U.S. and Japan will jointly review their defense-cooperation guidelines in the coming months reveals a thinly veiled secret: Washington has Tokyo’s back in the East China Sea.

According to Japanese Vice Defense Minister Akihisa Nagashima, who was recently in Washington for talks with the Obama administration, Japan and the U.S. will revise the guidelines with the intent of adapting them to fit the current geopolitical climate in East Asia, including “the fallout” from “China’s spectacular rise”. Back in Tokyo, Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto emphasized that revisions were necessary given “China’s maritime advancement” – a sure reference to China’s increasingly assertive claim to the islands.

Beijing and Tokyo have long been arguing over the islands, with each claiming sovereignty and dispatching maritime patrols to the area. Taiwan also claims the islands, but because of the generally positive relations between Taipei and Tokyo, and their important positions within the American bilateral alliance system in the Asia-Pacific region, tensions remain low compared with those emanating from the Sino-Japanese dispute.

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The dispute took an interesting turn in September when the Japanese government purchased the islands from the Japanese family who had owned the islands since the seventies. In response, angry Chinese took to the streets in widespread protests that led to the egging of the Japanese embassy, the destruction of Japanese cars, and the ransacking of Japanese businesses.

Throughout all of this, Washington has attempted to remain on the sidelines by calling on both parties to exercise restraint and utilize diplomacy but, when pressed, U.S. officials have quietly suggested American support for Japan should the situation turn violent. The recent American decision to hold talks on the security guidelines, however, is a loud and clear expression of Washington’s commitment to the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty – by which the U.S. has pledged to aid in the defense of Japan – and sends an unmistakable message to China that it would back Japan’s claim to the islands. While this is perhaps not a surprise given the close security relationship between the U.S. and Japan since the end of the Pacific War, this public siding with Japan could mean that Washington is now inextricably involved in a territorial dispute in which it has historically wanted no part.

Japan formally annexed the islands in early 1895 during its victorious war against China in 1894-95. During the American occupation of Japan following World War II, the United States assumed control of the islands, which Washington maintained until the Nixon administration agreed to return them to the Japanese in 1972. In Oval Office discussions during the run-up to reversion, it became clear that the U.S. government hoped to avoid becoming embroiled in a burgeoning East Asian dispute over the islands involving two American allies, Japan and Taiwan, and one potential new friend, China.

After learning of the American plan to return the Senkakus to Japan, Taiwan pressed its claim and asked the U.S. to retain possession of the islands. The State Department’s position, however, was to return the islands along with Okinawa to the Japanese, but it also stated that “the U.S. passes no judgment as to conflicting claims,” believing that these “should be settled directly by the parties concerned.” The implicit pro-Japan bias in this approach did not please Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, who advocated for a more neutral position. Kissinger had become fed up with Japan’s reluctance to contribute more to its own security and its failure to implement textile export quotas for the United States market.

Nonetheless, contravening Kissinger’s preference and the request from Taipei, Nixon continued with the plan to return the islands to Japan because the deal had “gone too far,” with too many commitments already made. And so, the U.S. attempted to formally remain out of the dispute by declaring that the status of the islands was undecided and by urging the Japanese government to confer with Taiwan before officially agreeing to take back the islands. The American hope, however, that its allies would resolve this dispute on their own was dashed a month later when they received word from a Taiwanese official stating that “the Japanese so far have refused to talk in any meaningful way on the subject.”

Soon after the U.S. and Japan signed the island reversion agreement in 1971, China, which was emerging from international isolation and would soon take over Taiwan’s seat at the United Nations, issued its own claim of sovereignty over the islands. China loudly denounced Japanese assertions of island ownershipduring one of its first U.N. appearances (the Law of the Sea Conference, 1972). The issue threatened to derail Sino-Japanese talks on the resumption of diplomatic ties later in the year, but in the end, Tokyo and Beijing’s eagerness for formal relations prevailed. When the Japanese and Chinese normalized relations in September 1972, the islands question was shelved for the future.

That future is now. While tensions have flared over the n the last two decades, China has enjoyed spectacular growth and is now the world’s second largest economy with a robust U.S. trade relationship. China is now projecting its new power outward by asserting past territorial claims.

China’s rise, however, does not change the fact that Japan continues to be a stalwart American ally in the Asia-Pacific based on the enduring relevance of the US-Japan security pact. For America, the territorial integrity of an important ally is now being challenged by an equally important trading partner. This Sino-Japanese stand-off thus represents a wall that prevents the U.S. from kicking the islands question any further.

This wall has now forced the U.S to take sides. This is not necessarily a bad thing for the parties concerned because it eliminates the uncertainty that confronts policymakers in Beijing, Tokyo, and Washington. The decision by the U.S. and Japan to revise the security guidelines in response to China’s growing international assertiveness could prove to have a calming effect on tension in the region. This newly exhibited American resolve should make China think twice before directly challenging Japan’s hold on the islands. Similarly, the commitment shown by Washington to Tokyo’s position should put to rest Japanese worries of Chinese encroachment but also its fears of Japanese right-wingers provoking a crisis to draw out an American response.

As with the post-Cold War era, the U.S. again has the opportunity to be a stabilizing agent in the region by avoiding obfuscation and pursuing clear and consistent policies. There has already been indication that Washington realizes this. The recent decision concerning the U.S.-Japan defense guidelines is a further step in the right direction.


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NASHUA, N.H. – The sixth-seeded Brandeis University softball team staged a seventh-inning rally today to pick up their first-ever ECAC tournament victory, 2-1, over No. 3 seed Rivier College.

Brandeis (22-19) trailed, 1-0, headed into the top of the seventh and had mustered just two hits against Rivier rookie pitcher Monica White (Augusta, Maine). The Judges led off the final inning with back-to-back bunt singles by senior CF Marissa Rubin (Teaneck, N.J.) and rookie SS Chelsea Korp (Worcester, Mass.). With junior RF Natalie Volpe (Southington, Conn.) at the plate, Rivier sophomore catcher Jenna Beadle (Rumney, N.H.) erased Rubin on the back end of a double steal to put a runner on second with one out.

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On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripped establishment Republicans for going out of their way attacking and undermining the defunding Obamacare effort and ensuring that Senate and House Republicans would never be united in order for the strategy to succeed or conservatives to gain leverage in budget negotiations.

Though there were House Republicans–like Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on the record and a host of Representatives and their aides off the record–that never gave the defunding effort a chance from the beginning, Cruz singled out Senate Republicans for becoming the “Air Force bombing our own troops” that bombed House Republicans and conservatives repeatedly.

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Cruz said their compromise was “complete” and “abject surrender” that did “noting for the American people” and gave Obama “everything he wants.”

Cruz said while House Republicans “stood strong for two weeks,” Senate Republicans “were attacking House Republicans from every venue from every front.” Those like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) relentlessly attacked Cruz during the defunding fight.

While he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) were fighting to defund Obamacare, Cruz always said, contrary to how he is being attacked, that it would be easier to convince Democrats in red states to support the strategy if Republicans were first united in the effort. On Wednesday, Cruz singled out Senate Republicans who did not keep their criticisms private and made a point to bombard the airwaves to attack and demean House conservatives and those like Cruz, Lee, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Those Republicans never gave the defunding Obamacare strategy a chance to, at minimum, offer Americans some type of relief similar to what Congress and big business were getting and instead spent all their time, as Cruz said, sabotaging the effort.

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Imagine sitting in a hot air balloon tied down by six ropes. Each rope is tied to a metal pole dug into the ground. This is the Jew in exile. He has a soul that is designed to reach the highest of heights, but is constrained by everything around him. Even though he knows no other reality, he feels, deep inside, that this is not the way his life is supposed to be. Instinctively, he tries anything he can to grow beyond the web of restraints.
His mission is to break free.
He decides to do something crazy. He learns a little Torah. He dedicates an hour to learning the text with Rashi, or a Midrash. He downloads some Torah lessons onto his iPod and makes it a part of his daily routine.
POP! One of the ropes breaks. The hot air balloon begins to sway. For the first time, there is something other than dirt underneath. A small corner of the balloon rises a few inches with each burst of wind.
Things are beginning to feel the way they were originally designed to. His energy rises. His anticipation perks. Not wanting to lose the moment, he discovers Emuna. He realizes that everything in life is not random. Hashem is watching over us at every moment, and all our challenges in life are really catalysts for greatness. He reads Rabbi Shalom Arush's Garden of Emuna and Rabbi Lazer Brody’s Trail to Tranquility. Resentment and anger give way to patience and perseverance.
Another rope gives way. The balloon is fully airborne, even if only a foot. Every brush of the wind feels like a kiss by Hashem to this elevated soul.
But he is still tied down to the earth.
The two ropes giving him the most trouble are called “Television” and “Internet.” The strands that form the rope are called “News,” “Stocks,” “Entertainment,” “Politics,”
It will take forever to break free. You cannot break a rope with thousands of strands bound together, it’s impossible. But you can cut the strands one by one. Slowly but surely he works on himself. Even if he still likes television, he reduces the habit. Even if he still surfs the net, he does it a little less. Following politics and his portfolio of assets may be important, but it is no longer the primary focus of his life. Hashem is the King of the Universe, why worry about Presidents and Prime Ministers? He is the Provider to every living being on earth, what’s the rush to check how his assets are performing?
As the strands weaken, the ropes loosen. The momentum of his life has changed. Instead of the inertia of his life keeping him down on the ground, his actions have created a constant rhythm pulling him up. It is easier for him to keep ascending. The final strands soon give way to winds growing more and more powerful by the moment.
That’s when he sees the final two ropes. They are the foundation of what keeps this man tied to the earth. Some of the strands inside these ropes are made of steel. They are super reinforced to keep everything right where they are. It will take a lot of energy to break out of these constraints.
Enter the mitzvah of personal holiness. Slowly, the man decides to learn about the laws of physical morality. Tentatively, he takes things on bit by bit. Months pass. Years even. He rechannels his limbs. He rechannels his eyes. He rechannels his thoughts. After much exertion his soul has acquired a glimpse of its true potential.
He is a new man.
BOOOM! The steel gives way. One of the ropes snaps completely. The only rope holding it back is fully extended. The balloon is ten feet in the air. It is winding back and forth. The man has never felt such exhilaration. He has never experienced being so high up in his life.
From being bogged down into the dirt to soaring the heavens on earth, there is only one thing stopping him. Wanting with all his being to come closer, he cannot let any obstacle get in his way. Immediately he makes a phone call.
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