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Those all seem like things coach Anthony Grant can use as the Flyers try to bounce back from a 14-17 season that snapped their NCAA tournament streak.
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Regarded as a late bloomer, Toppin went to prep school for a year after high school and signed with the Flyers in May 2017 over offers from Illinois and Mississippi State.
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He was 6-foot-8 then but said recently he has grown to 6-10.
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Toppin wasn’t eligible to play last season because of academics, but he could jump right into a significant role this fall after the graduation of Darrell Davis and the exit of five players who had eligibility remaining.
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President Barack Obama’s announcement today that he soon will name a cyber czar to lead a five-point program aimed at protecting the security of computer networks has provoked early praise and some questions from the contracting and business community.
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The president said increased cyber security is long overdue. “Cyber space is real, and so is the risk that comes with it,” he said.
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“Cyber threats are real, growing, and causing significant challenges for businesses,” said Ann Beauchesne, vice president of national security and emergency preparedness at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a statement.
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“President Obama promised to make cyber security a top priority during the campaign. The chamber welcomes the administration’s efforts to turn a campaign promise into action,” she said.
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“The timing is perfect. There is a lot of enthusiasm for it,” said Zal Azmi, senior vice president for strategic law enforcement and national security programs at CACI International Inc. and formerly chief information officer for the FBI.
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Referring to the five-point plan, Azmi said, “It’s a very comprehensive plan. It lays out a very good strategy.” In addition, it answers some concerns from the community: collaboration, transparency, working with the private and public sectors, investments in research and development, and national awareness, he added.
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“It’s not a trivial task. It’s a complicated task,” he said. “The stars are all aligned to make this happen,” Azmi added.
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“We applaud President Obama for his leadership on this vitally important issue. And we commend his team for laying out a robust and common sense plan and establishing a Cybersecurity Coordinator to engage this nation's experts to protect this strategic asset,” he said in a statement.
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“President Obama and his administration have taken an important first step toward creating a safe cyber environment by releasing the 60-day Cyberspace Policy Review,” said Edward Mueller, chairman and CEO of Qwest Communications Inc.
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“We have worked actively with the government and industry on issues associated with protecting our networks and the information that flows through them. This collaborative approach will continue to be necessary to ensure that the administration’s goals of leadership, education, shared responsibility, effective response, and continued innovation in the cyber security arena are meaningful and actionable,” Mueller said.
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On Tuesday, our president-elect lifted up his leg and urinated on the First Amendment.
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“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences. Perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet early Tuesday morning.
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How the nation does not grind to a halt after our new leader thoughtlessly disregards our most sacred of Constitutional amendments, I will never know.
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I guess it makes sense because he was able to win the presidency running a fact-free campaign.
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Over the weekend, he erroneously said that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton in the election. The story was, of course, another product of a fake news website. So it is clear that he is going to continue being devoid of facts, or worse, give misinformation.
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So anything is fair game.
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But the First Amendment? There’s a reason it’s the first one – it’s the most important one. The five freedoms it provides are vital for a free society.
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In Texas v. Johnson in 1989, the Supreme Court decided that burning the American flag was a form of expression which is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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I am not pro flag burning, but I am pro expression freedom.
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What’s next? Will Trump suggest that maybe people shouldn’t have the right to speak out against the government? Wouldn’t that be a tidy dictatorship. Perhaps he’ll suggest anyone who votes against him is a criminal.
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Letting his sleepless, early morning tweets go without challenge is dangerous.
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Be against burning the flag all you want, but please comprehend why it’s important that Americans be free to do so.
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People are free to burn the American flag in protest of the government, and you’re free to be pissed off about it. That’s what makes this country so great.
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Silencing voices leads to unquestioning support that creates fascism – an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization that leads to authoritarianism, totalitarianism and dictatorships. Oh, and a total lack of tolerance.
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Tell me I’m wrong and that I should go to hell, but know that you’re able to do so because the First Amendment says so.
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Flash-forward four years, to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
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You're watching the parade of athletes on television, and with seemingly every new camera shot, there is a familiar face to Ozarks sports fans.
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There’s Nixa’s Courtney Frerichs. And Marshfield’s Bailee Nunn. Former Missouri State volleyball player Lily Johnson is there, too. And Bears baseball great Jake Burger. Maybe a few others.
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But the way things are falling, the 2020 Games could have more athletes with ties to the Ozarks than we've had in recent memory.
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It starts with Frerichs, who is coming off a big performance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Rio Games, finishing third in her preliminary meet and 11th in the finals.
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The former Nixa High School star will have a full-time job running for Nike-funded Bowerman Track Club in Oregon for the next four years, with her eyes on the World Championships in London in 2017 and the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
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Her long-term future may include a career in the medical field, but that’s down the road.
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The experience in Rio will only help, especially as she has a training partner in fellow Bowerman runner Colleen Quigley, a St. Louis native who finished eighth in the steeplechase finals.
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Bailee Nunn just started her freshman year at Drury University, but the Marshfield native already has a wealth of experience, participating in the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., in the 100-meter breaststroke, 200-meter breaststroke and 200 individual medley.
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Nunn finished in 70th place in the 100 breaststroke, and 43rd in both the 200 breaststroke and 200 IM at the trials.
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Like Frerichs in Rio, the experience was the thing. She was able to watch how some of the best in the world strategize and approach their races.
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Now she’ll get four years of coaching from a proven staff led by Brian Reynolds, and the timing lines up perfectly for her to take a shot at Tokyo right after graduation.
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Nunn had a “wow” moment at the trials, when she found herself in the same area as Ryan Lochte — the U.S. sensation who has won 12 Olympic medals, including six golds.
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“I was just kind of like, ‘Whoa, I’m seeing you in person,’” Nunn said.
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Lily Johnson has experienced a lot of firsts while playing volleyball for Missouri State the last two seasons.
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She was the first player in program history to earn All-America honors as a freshman. Then the first player in program history to be a two-time All-American as a sophomore. She helped the Bears reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011.
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This summer, the Wildwood, Missouri native played for Team USA as the U.S. Collegiate National Team went on a tour of Europe and won the gold medal in the Global Challenge in Croatia.
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Johnson was one of the team’s top players, as the only player who didn’t come from a Power 5 Conference school.
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She was a standout while playing on a team full of players from schools like UCLA, Ohio State, Michigan and Washington State.
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“It was a very big eye-opener, even from the get-go, to be in the same gym as a lot of the top Division I players in the country, and being able to scrimmage against them every day,” Johnson said.
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It has helped Johnson’s dreams of playing in the Olympics much more realistic.
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“I still have a lot to learn, but getting to play at that level has made having those dreams a lot more real,” she said.
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This could be an interesting name as baseball returns to the Olympics in Tokyo.
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The Missouri State junior-to-be played on USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team this summer.
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The team split four games with Chinese Taipei in Taiwan, won two of five games against host Japan, then won three of five in a trip to Cuba. It was the first series victory ever for Team USA in Cuba.
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Burger started every game at third base, hitting .271 with four doubles and three RBIs.
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The two-time All-American from Chesterfield surely will be drafted after this season with the Bears, and his place in the minor-league system will likely determine whether he has a chance to play in the 2020 Games.
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The Olympics are expected to be comprised of minor-league players, so if Burger is in the big leagues, a spot with Team USA probably won’t happen. If he’s still in the minors, he has a strong chance.
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Kate McCarville is a 12-year-old from Springfield who is swimming for Springfield Aquatics.
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She recently finished the Mega Zone Meet in Indianapolis, a large meet that caps off the summer swimming season. McCarville was second in the 400-meter IM for her age group, third in the 200 IM, third in the 400 IM and third in the 200 butterfly.
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Brian Reynolds is the Drury University coach and also is the head coach of the Senior Group for Springfield Aquatics.
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He said McCarville should have a good chance at making the Olympic Trials qualifying time in the 200 butterfly and 400 IM, even at age 16. That may mean her best chance at the Olympics would come as a 20-year-old in 2024, but a lot can happen between now and the 2020 Trials.
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Reynolds also said there are other talented swimmers in the SPA program who have a chance to make the Olympic Trials for 2020 Tokyo Games.
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Kurtimah represented Canada in the Rio Olympics, running on the 4x100 relay team. She was an alternate in Thursday's preliminaries, where the relay team qualified for Friday night's finals.
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She will only be a junior this school year, so she should still be in prime condition to make a return in four years.
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Los Angeles County this week issued a moratorium on the use of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer, citing the need for more research into its active ingredient, an NBC News affiliate reported.
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The move by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday came the same day that a federal jury in San Francisco delivered a verdict in favor of Edward Hardeman, who said his cancer was caused by exposure to Roundup.
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More than 50 U.S. cities and counties have banned the chemical, the most commonly used herbicide in the world.
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Across the country, Bayer AG, which bought Monsanto last year, faces more than 11,000 similar lawsuits alleging that glyphosate causes cancer.
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The World Health Organization in 2015 classified glyphosate as a "probable human carcinogen.” The Environmental Protection Agency says the weed killer has low toxicity for humans is not likely to cause cancer.
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Environmental groups praised Los Angeles's decision.
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Monsanto did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Dr. Raymond Rezaie pleaded guilty to evaluating patients inadequately and then prescribing medication without justification.
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The disciplinary council of the Quebec College of Physicians suspended a Montreal doctor for six months and fined him $10,000 for prescribing medication irresponsibly and writing fake medical notes for students at his downtown clinic.
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Dr. Raymond Rezaie pleaded guilty to evaluating patients inadequately and then prescribing medication without justification for insomnia, alcohol and drug addiction, depression and social anxiety.
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The College investigated 13 cases, mostly Cégep de Maisonneuve students, who were given diagnoses of major depression and anxiety disorders. In some of these cases, Rezaie’s medical files showed clinical notes for procedures he did not do, for example, measure blood pressure and pulse.
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Investigator Isabelle Amyot found the physician contravened the profession’s code of ethics by summarily issuing diagnoses and drug prescriptions without first evaluating his patients, not for physical ailments or for mental distress.
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He also handed out medical notes, for a fee of $65, to students who sought his services to drop one or several school courses. The diagnosis for each of the students is the same — an incapacity that started in mid-October 2015, although the medical examinations took place in December 2015, and ended in January 2016.
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Amyot started her investigation when someone informed the College that several students had their classloads lifted with the help of medical notes from a single physician.
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She got the students’ medical files and found Rezaie had billed the provincial insurance health board, the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ), for complete examinations that he didn’t do.
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Also, one person Rezaie treated was actually an undercover investigator posing as a college student who wanted a medical note to be excused from class. Rezaie gave her a diagnosis of major depression, generalized anxiety and adjustment disorder.
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The council’s decision made public Thursday found that Rezaie’s actions were premeditated, and he showed no remorse or regret.
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He demonstrated a lack of integrity, the council said.
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This isn’t the first time Rezaie has appeared before the College’s disciplinary council.
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In 2016, the College upheld its decision against Rezaie in connection with 31 botched circumcisions performed between 2010 and 2013 at his Guy St. clinic. The College found many of the babies had to have corrective surgery.
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In this instance, he was suspended for one month, fined $20,000 and barred from ever performing circumcisions.
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The College said Rezaie’s previous record is an aggravating factor in the current case. It noted that he had committed the 13 infractions between 2015 and 2016, while also facing the disciplinary council on charges of the botched circumcisions.
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RICHMOND - It took more than an hour, but more than two dozen men appeared in U.S. District Federal Court in Richmond yesterday to be arraigned on a variety of charges related to outlaw motorcycle gang activity in the region.
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The men - standing before the judge one at a time, and being led into the courtroom in small groups - included Jack "Milwaukee Jack" Rosga - whom federal officials in indictments described as the group's national president and two local men Charles "Chuck" Barlow, 43, and Dennis "Chew Chew" Haldermann, 45 both from Chesterfield.
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Barlow and Haldermann were listed in the indictments as alleged members of the allied Pagans Motorcycle Club. According to a federal indictment, the biker gang operated in Petersburg.
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Haldermann was charged in count three of the indictment - violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity. The indictment charges nine others with this offense, which involves an alleged assault against the Desparados Motorcycle Gang on or about March 14, 2009. The maximum penalty is 20 years in prison.
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Haldermann was one of two that appeared in court yesterday in civilian clothes instead of a prison jumpsuit because he is free on bond.
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According to the indictments, Outlaws and Pagans members set a trap and assaulted rival Hell's Angels and Desperados Motorcycle Club members at "Cockade Bar" - later confirmed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia to be Cockade City Grill.
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On March 14, 2009, three members went into the bar in "colors" - a vest signifying membership in the club. One man stood outside the bar in colors as a lure, while three other Outlaws members were waiting inside without the vests. Several others waited outside to trap rival bikers inside the bar, where they were assaulted.
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The fight spilled into the parking lot, where guns were drawn. Local police arrived and ended the standoff, the indictment says. They seized a knife and brass knuckles from one Outlaws member.
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Federal District Judge Henry Hudson warned Haldermann that he must abide by the release agreement and meet the next court date.
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Barlow was also one of the 10 charged with violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity for his alleged role in the assault against the Desperados Motorcycle Gang in March 2009.
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Petersburg appears to be at the center of much of the activity of the Outlaws outlined in the indictment.
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The indictment says that in July of last year, Rosga ordered a crowd of Outlaws at the Petersburg Clubhouse to shoot Hell's Angels and other rivals.
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In October, members meeting at the Petersburg Clubhouse discussed assaulting Hell's Angels over a recent attack in Florida that sent two Outlaws to the hospital. Following a shooting attack of a Hell's Angel in Maine, a member asked about staying at the Petersburg Clubhouse to avoid attention up north.
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As recently as February of this year, the Petersburg Clubhouse - the location of which was not revealed in court documents - allegedly took delivery of illegal gambling machines from North Carolina. In March, $580 of gambling proceeds were transported from Petersburg.
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