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6-0 Jays. Maybe the Sox can bring back Ryan Dempster next.
Fans at Fenway got replica World Series rings tonight. The Blue Jays all got extra-base hits. 7 so far in 4+ innings.
Red Sox sign Stephen Drew and Xander Bogaerts makes 2 more E's, extends team lead to 6 for season.
2nd error for Bogaerts. Guessing that pre-game meeting wasn’t so cheery.
Bradley doubles in a run. Red Sox hold off on calling Johnny Damon.
Melky Cabrera two doubles and now a HR off the Pesky Pole. 7-2 Blue Jays.
Blue Jays' 9th hit of game is their first single, Bautista with 2 outs in 6th. 4 HRs, 4 doubles. Lead Red Sox, 7-2.
The Red Sox need an assistant GM in charge of convincing everybody else not to sign former NL closers.
In this game, Doubront's ERA has gone from 4.54 to 5.12. Mujica's ERA has gone from 7.71 to 8.04.
#RedSox will be represented at the draft by Derek Lowe and scout Jim Woodward.
Drew signs officially with #redsox and Doubront on DL.
The Doubront story must be true. Nobody would make up, right?
Drew thinks he'll need about 9-10 games to get ready.
"Straight Outta Compton" playing at Fenway. New Stephen Drew walk-up song maybe.
Drew: I'm excited, it seems like I haven't left, which is a great feeling.
All RH swings for Victorino in BP on the field so far.
Cherington: We believe Xander can play SS, play it well...just tyring to make the team better.
Napoli out of starting lineup with flu-like symptoms.
Sizemore draws a leadoff walk. New lineup looking good so far.
Lead-off BB and 2-out SB for Sizemore.
Stephen Drew is active and available to #RedSox tonight. Could be optioned Friday. Has to clear waivers first.
Another HR for Encarnacion. Leading off 2nd, on 2-0 FB, laser into 1st row of Monster seats. #BlueJays 1, #RedSox 0.
Another rocket off Buchholz. This one a HR by Encarnacion. That’s 22 hits over 11.1 IP last three starts.
To introduce incoming kindergarten students to what riding a school bus is like, Cobb County organized a pre-ride Friday morning.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution rode along as students, supportive parents and siblings were picked up and driven to a school, where a lineup of cheerleaders waited to greet and cheer the new kids on the block. The first student stepping off seemed a bit baffled by the reception.
I hope someone told him that the cheerleaders won’t be there Monday, when Cobb becomes the first major metro school district to open its doors.
The kids mostly had one word to describe the first ride. Check it out in the video.
Find out when your school district opens here.
And you can see a list of AJC’s back to school coverage here.
Mivi Collar is notable for its ergonomic design, light form-factor and affordable price tag.
Audio companies have been experimenting a lot with the design of their earphones. Indian company Mivi has released a new earphone which wraps around users’ neck instead of head. It is called the Collar Bluetooth Earphone and is priced at Rs2,999.
Collar’s key highlight is its unique design which includes two cylindrical earpieces with metal casing dangling from a rubber neckband which packs in the volume buttons, 150mAh battery, power button, microphone and a microUSB slot for charging. The wires connecting the earpieces to the neckband are short and don’t tangle easily.
Due to its light form-factor (30g), users can wear the neckband for hours without even realising it is there. It looks bland and doesn’t have any funky designer elements or colour options—it comes in black variant only. However, it still has a unique design.
Setting up the Collar Bluetooth earphone is simple. The moment it is switched on, it starts the Bluetooth pairing process. It supports Bluetooth 4.1 standard, and pairing is a breeze with Android smartphones and Apple iPhones.
Despite the small battery, the earphone can muster 7 to 8 hours of backup comfortably on one charge. It has a range of 30 feet, which is standard for most Bluetooth earphones. The audio quality is a mixed bag. It is good with bass intensive tracks, and offers great detailing on very busy tracks such as Papercut by Linkin Park or Titanium by David Guetta at 70% audio levels. At full volume, it sounds a bit hazy. Due to the cylindrical shape the earpieces fit in more comfortably in the ear and were able to block out some amount of noise bleeding. The audio quality during calls was loud and clear.
Mivi Collar is notable for its ergonomic design, light form-factor and affordable price tag. The fact that it can be used for receiving and making calls is a big plus. All these elements make it ideal for professionals looking for an earphone that doesn’t look too snazzy and can be used for calls and casual music playback while driving or at work.
D'Angelo Russell credits Brooklyn coach Kenny Atkinson for giving him an extra push this season.
A night after being benched for the entire fourth quarter during a tough loss at Boston, the Nets point guard stepped up with an impressive second-half performance.
Russell scored 24 of his 30 points over the final two quarters, Shabazz Napier had 24 off the bench and the Nets beat the Chicago Bulls 122-117 on Tuesday night for their ninth straight win at home.
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson had 18 points and Joe Harris had 17 for the Nets, who improved to 28-24 and matched last season's win total.
"I give him a lot of credit for the teaching moments," Russell said about Atkinson, who wasn't pleased with his guard's rebounding effort from the previous night. "My knowledge and IQ has really rose to another level just from learning from my mistakes and him breaking it down and us (dissecting) the film together."
The Nets, who played their third straight game without injured key reserve guard Spencer Dinwiddie, have won 13 of 14 at Barclays Center and seven of eight overall.
Brooklyn started slow in the first quarter, shooting just 8 for 29 from the field, after losing at Boston on Monday night.
The Nets trailed by nine at one point and 54-50 at halftime but turned it around after Russell made three straight baskets during a one-minute stretch that bridged the end of the third quarter and the final period.
Zach LaVine had 26 points and Jabari Parker added 22 points and nine rebounds for the Bulls, who have lost four straight and 10 of 11.
Lauri Markkanen had 18 points and a career-high 19 rebounds, each on the defensive end of the court.
"We need toughness and I think everybody stepped their game up and I am trying to do the same thing," Markkanen said.
Markkanen scored five straight points late in the fourth to inch the Bulls closer at 110-106 with 2:18 left.
On the next possession, Parker blocked DeMarre Carroll's driving layup and Russell was able to recover the ball near midcourt after a Chicago defender tried to scoop it up. Russell's hustle play was capped with a nifty pass to a cutting Harris that made it 112-106.
"I thought D'Angelo really managed the game well at the end of the game," Atkinson said. "They're double-teaming him, he's getting it out, he's making the right play."
Candle lighting by Armenia’s Coalition to Stop Violence against Women on 1 October 2017. The posters feature victims of domestic violence. Photo courtesy of Zaruhi Hovhannisyan. All rights reserved.
This October, the Armenian government redeveloped its draft law on preventing domestic violence and opened it for public discussion. This started heated debates between state representatives and several groups who oppose the law. Women’s organisations and domestic violence survivors have been left on the periphery of a male-dominated vicious circle, and the draft law has been artificially turned from a preventive and protective tool into a mechanism for “family reconciliation” between abusers and survivors.
Domestic violence remains a prevalent problem for Armenian society. Despite the latent character of the issue and women’s reluctance to seek refuge from abusive relationships, as of October 2017, there were 602 cases of domestic violence officially registered by the Armenian police this year. Women’s rights NGOs received around 5,000 hotline calls.
In its most cruel form of power and subjugation, femicide in Armenia continues to demonstrate the systemic oppression of women. Between 2010-2017, at least 50 women were killed by their partners or ex-partners, often on the grounds of “male jealousy”. These crimes were not properly punished, and were justified even on the level of court judgements.
Thanks to increasing media attention towards violence against women and the fact that more survivors are empowered to speak up about their abuse, the number of known cases of domestic violence is increasing, breaking the hindering silence around these unpunished and normalised crimes.
Not so long ago, members of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia were denying the existence of domestic violence in the country. For instance, in 2014, Eduard Sharmazanov, current Vice President of the National Assembly, stated: “There is no issue of violence against women as Armenians are a nation that honours mothers”. Three years on, the government seems to have “recognised” the need for protective legislation. “The public demand for this kind of law has existed for a while... The current legislation does not ensure effective and necessary mechanisms to protect and support victims and to prevent domestic violence,” remarked Armenia’s Minister of Justice Davit Harutyunyan on 1 November.
The redevelopment of the draft of domestic violence law by the Armenian government, however, is neither an indication of its sudden increased awareness of the issue — nor the magical manifestation of political will.
Will women’s rights organisations fight for the final adoption of the law in its current format? Or will they call for its total dismissal?
Under its Human Rights Budget Support Program, the European Commission has made an €11m grant to the Armenian government. One of the conditions of the grant’s provision was the adoption of a standalone law on domestic violence.
This conditionality can be attributed to the persistent advocacy and lobbying efforts of Armenian women’s rights organisations, which have worked on the law since 2007. Their initial efforts resulted in the draft law being rejected by the Armenian parliament in 2013. This decade-long struggle eventually led to the new draft redeveloped by the government this year. But this work also triggered an artificially produced public controversy and media manipulation.
The first public hearing on Armenia’s new domestic violence draft law took place in Yerevan on 9 October. After state representatives finished their public speeches and presentations, several groups, angry and dissatisfied with the Q&A format of the agenda, attempted to take the stage.
Some members of these groups distributed leaflets in Russian containing information on the differences between Russian and western values in relation to domestic violence legislation. One woman, who had spoken to the Minister of Justice in Russian, condemned the work of a diaspora Armenian women’s rights defender. “You are not Armenian!” she told Maro Matosyan, the director of the Women’s Support Center, which has run a shelter for women survivors of domestic violence for many years.
Groups opposing the law on domestic violence attempt to hijack the first public hearing. Photo courtesy of Lara Aharonian. All rights reserved.
In this state of turmoil, the floor was given to the Primate of Shirak Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church Bishop Mikayel Ajapahyan who tried to calm down all sides, stressing the importance of Christian education to prevent violence and encouraging the audience not to seek conspiracy in the draft legislation.
Semi-satisfied, few, if any, participants questioned the fact that neither women’s rights organisations, nor domestic violence survivors were given the floor to express their deep concerns and disagreements on the draft law.
The absence of radical criticism by women’s rights groups made it appear as if their standpoint aligned with that of the state. As a result, instead of demanding improvements, for women’s groups, the fight was lowered to merely preserving the current draft, which not only fails to criminalise domestic violence, but also contains a number of problematic provisions.
For instance, the draft law includes a “mediation clause” that gives abusers the opportunity to reconcile with survivors via an “independent body” called a “Support Centre”. This is a clause that makes the Armenian domestic violence draft law distinct from other countries’ similar legislation as the state starts fulfilling a function of a reconciliation institution.
The draft does not envisage serious punishment for non-compliance with the protection and restraining orders or for revealing a shelter’s location. It also suggests creating a council to oversee the law’s implementation. The council members would, however, be appointed by the Prime Minister, thus completely discrediting the council’s independence. These and several other problematic clauses were not widely criticised, and the discussion became an attempt to “justify” (or “disprove”) the need for legislative changes to struggle against domestic violence as a serious trouble for Armenian society.
During the second public hearing, several individuals who were active in the 2013 anti-gender movements and proven to be backed by Russia, delivered speeches in the Armenian parliament. “This law envisages manipulations and blackmailing,” stated Arman Boshyan, the coordinator of Pan-Armenian Parents’ Committee, and president of the Yerevan Geopolitical Club, a group aimed at strengthening Russia’s political influence in Armenia.
In fact, the domestic violence draft law was condemned by “opposition” groups, as well as by a wider public affected by their misinformation, for being a “new” mechanism to take children from their parents and give them to state-run shelters. The manipulations from these groups and the media were so intense that little, if any, attention was paid to the fact that such a clause (Article 43.2) already exists in the Armenian Family Code. As to the draft law on domestic violence, it neither envisages any mechanisms for taking children away nor opens shelters for children.
Hasmik Khachatryan, a survivor of domestic violence, shares her story before Armenia’s parliament. Photo (c): Anna Nikoghosyan. All rights reserved.
At the second public hearing on the draft law in parliament, Arman Ghukasyan, the director of International Humanitarian Development, an NGO whose profile is impossible to find online, stated: “Women’s NGOs have an interest in the high rate of domestic violence cases in order to be able to receive more grants.” Despite the fact that none of the people opposing the legislation was a professional working in the field of domestic violence or a related area, the opinions of these groups were seriously taken into account both by state representatives and the media.
In this environment of “suddenly emerging” deep expertise on domestic violence, Hasmik Khachatryan, a survivor of domestic violence who was subject to violence by her husband for nine years and whose abuser received an amnesty and was set free, shared her story in parliament.
As Khachatryan highlighted, the first time the investigator came to see her, he recommended her to return to her husband: “Women should obey their husbands when they beat them, he told me.” As she stressed the importance of the law, she referred to many women who live in a constant state of fear and do not know how to seek help. Despite Hasmik’s powerful speech, which was accompanied by applause, the draft was not saved from further distortions by the government.
In the middle of complying with the EU’s budget support programme and menace from Russian-backed campaigning against the law, the Armenian government decided to make dramatic changes in the draft, including its title. Hence, on 16 November, the government quickly and silently approved the draft law and presented it to the National Assembly. The new draft is now entitled “Preventing violence in the family, protecting the victims of violence in the family and restoring harmony in the family”.
As the new title and changed provisions suggest, this law shifts the focus from protecting individuals and preventing crime to “reconciling the family”. According to members of the Armenian Coalition to Stop Violence against Women, a unity of NGOs fighting for the adoption of the law, this concept “not only lacks a legal definition, but also contradicts local and international legal norms”.
Furthermore, the term “domestic violence” has been switched out for “violence in the family”, thus narrowing the targets of the law. One of the principles enshrined in the new draft is now the strengthening of “traditional family values”, while one of the actions prescribed by the law is a review of educational materials to include information on values in “traditional families”.
As Anahit Simonyan, a women’s rights defender, told me: “Legislation exists so that relationships between people are regulated on the basis of laws, not traditions.” The approved draft, however, does not question Armenian traditions — the root causes of women’s violence and oppression. Instead, it perpetuates them.
The Armenian government continues to be influenced by political groups whose agenda seems to align with their own politics. It is ignoring the advice of experts from the field of domestic violence and voices of domestic violence survivors — the people who should be at the frontline of these discussions. Both the effectiveness and necessity of a law that risks aggravating the situation, rather than becoming a support mechanism for survivors, are questionable.
Will women’s rights organisations fight for the final adoption of the law in its current format? Or will they call for its total dismissal? This remains uncertain. But one thing is clear: Armenia’s patriarchal state bodies are nurturing laws and policies that reflect their values — and keep getting paid for it. Even at the EU level.
Panthers General Manager Dale Tallon said he's looking for a veteran defenseman in free agency, but he also believes that any of his young corps of defenseman such as Colby Robak, Alex Petrovic, Michael Caruso and Mike Matheson could earn a roster spot in training camp.
Under the new collective bargaining agreement the Panthers could've used either of their two compliance buyout options in which a player's salary is removed from their salary-cap allotment without penalty. But because the Panthers tend to operate to the cap's basement instead of the ceiling, that wasn't necessary.
The Panthers will pay Kuba $1.4 million this season and the next, but only $1.2 million counts against their salary cap this year and $1.4 million in 2014-15.
Kuba, who was coming off a sensational season in Ottawa when he had 32 points, including 26 assists, and a plus-26 rating, struggled with conditioning after the lockout, before rounding into form.
Kuba had 10 points, including one goal, in 44 games to go with 24 penalty minutes and a mediocre minus-18 rating. Because Kuba had a no-move clause in his contract, he didn't have to enter unconditional waivers.
Peter Horachek, who the Panthers recently named coach of the San Antonio Rampage, their AHL affiliate in San Antonio, attended the draft last weekend.
Horachek, who had been with the Nashville Predators for nine years, the last two as associate head coach, was brought in by Panthers assistant General Manager Mike Santos, a former Predators front-office executive.
The Panthers made former Rampage coach Chuck Weber an associate head coach and director of hockey operations.
"It was time for me to be a head coach again," said Horachek, 53. "I can do well, work with young players, getting them prepared, helping them understand how to be a good pro."
Horachek and Weber, who have worked together in three other winning hockey organizations, will work together on the bench.
"We have good chemistry, we communicate well. He has good assets that complement me," Horachek said. "We want to make this a better culture, a better environment."
Horachek has a history with the family of Panthers coach Kevin Dineen, who has one more year remaining on his contract.
"We all do. That's the aspiration for us as coaches to be at the highest level and have the most success possible and work with good people," Horachek said of wanting to be an NHL head coach some day.
The Panthers will hold their annual development camp next week from Monday to Friday.
Sessions are open to the public.
On June 6, 2005, KENNETH M. CALLENDER. Beloved father of Kenneth Dean Callender and his wife Christina. Loving brother of Ronald David Callender and his wife Betty, James Harry Callender and his wife Laverne, Donna Marie Paugh and her husband David and the late Thomas William Callender. Devoted grandfather of Kenny, Maranda, Brittany, Megan and Brooke. Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 3331 Brehms Lane (at Mannasota and Erdman Avenues), on Thursday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where funeral services will be held on Friday at 10:30 A.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.
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Two men face multiple charges after police say they burglarized a Corning residence and then led officers on a pursuit.
Corning police officers responded at 10:44 p.m. Tuesday to Sunset Drive in the city for a report of a burglary in progress.
Officers located the suspect vehicle, as described by witnesses, leaving the area on West First Street.

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