Belmont (SID): Defense Carries Men's Basketball Past Boston University

December 28, 2012

ORLANDO, Fla. - - Behind strong team defense and balanced scoring, Belmont University men's basketball defeated Boston University, 64-48, Friday night in the first round of the UCF Holiday Tournament.

The Bruins, looking to build off of impressive home victories over Middle Tennessee and South Dakota State leading into the Christmas holiday, faced yet another confident and defensive-minded mid-major stalwart in the Terriers.

Five early points from senior Ian Clark (Memphis, Tenn.) gave the Bruins a 8-5 lead five minutes in. With passes and shots contested at every turn, consecutive three-pointers from senior Trevor Noack (Keller, Texas) pushed Belmont to an 18-15 edge midway through the first half.

After Nathan Dieudonne trimmed the margin to 22-20, Belmont intensified its defensive pressure and sharpened its offensive execution to close the half on an 18-4 run.

Junior J.J. Mann (Smyrna. Ga.) supplied two three-pointers and Clark produced two jaw-dropping drives during the run as Belmont took a 40-24 lead at halftime.

Belmont shot 46 percent (15-for-33) from the field in the opening 20 minutes - including 6-for-16 from three-point distance. The Bruins limited the Terriers to 38 percent shooting while forcing 11 turnovers.

But just as the Bruins appeared poised to seize control, Boston University offered a stern reply and fought back into the game.

A deep three-pointer for Dom Morris capped a 7-0 Terrier run in the first 1:51 of the second half to close the margin to 40-31.

Three free throws and a basket from junior Blake Jenkins (Knoxville, Tenn.) increased the Bruin lead to 47-34 with 13:29 left, but Boston U. pushed onward.

With Belmont?missed opportunities?mounting, back-to-back baskets from Malik Thomas got the Terriers within 53-48 with 6:49 remaining.

But the experienced Bruins held Boston U. without a made field goal thereafter, closing in impressive fashion in all facets. A gorgeous baseline feed from senior Kerron Johnson (Huntsville, Ala.) set up Jenkins for a dramatic slam dunk to push the advantage back to seven.

Jenkins then added a conventional three-point play moments later to give the Bruins a 58-48 lead with 5:31 to go.

A string of defensive stops and two determined driving layins from Johnson enabled Belmont to secure the victory.

All told, Belmont shot 42 percent (25-for-59) from the field, outrebounding Boston U., 40-30. The Bruins limited the Terriers to 34 percent shooting, and 4-for-20 from behind the arc.

Clark and Jenkins paced four Bruins in double figures with 15 points each. Johnson had 12 points and six assists, while Noack recorded his first career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.

Maurice Watson led Boston University (5-7) with 11 points.

Belmont (9-3) returns to action Saturday against host UCF in the championship game of the UCF Holiday Tournament. Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. CT.

The live play-by-play of Voice of the Bruins Kevin Ingram can be heard on the Bruin Sports Network. Live video streaming will be available via UCF All-Access (subscription rates may apply). Live updates will be available on Twitter @BelmontMBB.

NOTES: Belmont records its fifth victory away from home this season ... The Bruins got timely bench contributions from Chad Lang, Reece Chamberlain, and Craig Bradshaw.

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Horse Coaching Requires Persistent Patience ? Sports and ...

If you?ve been riding horses for a while, you?ll probably have experienced the actual joy of riding a horse that?s remarkably highly trained. But did you ever give thought to the amounts of time and energy, and probably money, spent on making that pony that way?

You can?t train a horse in a day, a week or a month, I?d go so far as to say a year, because so far as I am concerned , coaching is an everlasting process. It takes amazing patience and persistence.

When coaching a horse, it is essentially a battle between your patience and the horse?s resistance. If you show implacable patience, you?ll come out the winner. If you lose patience and snap on any particular day, you lost that day?s battle. Lose too many battles and you?ll land up losing the war. Handling horses is like handling youngsters. Anger and disappointment only inflame bad circumstances. Annoyance has no role to play in training or handling a horse, and demonstration of annoyance is a conclusive no-no. Loud remonstrations, cursing and physical action are among the seven deadly sins.

If you cannot accept the unshakable fact that there is no alternative choice to patience, you?ve no business coaching horses. My apologies, but that?s the blunt truth. Each shortcut you take today is a failure waiting to happen along the way some other day. Like most kids, horses learn only through continual repetition. And like with kids, some horses need a load more repetition than other horses.

If you come across any books or videos or audios that guarantee to show you exactly how to teach your pony everything it needs to be taught in one hour, a day or a month, you want to burn that baloney. The single thing you achieve with super fast teaching techniques is disaster. Your pony isn?t designed by nature to be a genius, so don?t try and make him one. When he learns at his very own pace, he learns for life. When he learns at a turbocharged pace, he learns for an hour, or perhaps a day. It is irrelevant that you take days to show him something that to you seems to be the easiest thing in the world to learn. You are not a horse, and your horse is not you. Start every day with your horse brightly, and make sure it ends brightly. If you happen to feel anger building up over something, take the day off and do something, anything that has nothing to do with horses. Tomorrow will always dawn fresh.

As vital as patience is persistence is. Your horse is not going to learn consistently if you?re not teaching him consistently.

For all the undeniable fact that it could take a lot of time, horse training is not a difficult task. The most important challenge is finding the patience needed. Any person who tells you that horse coaching is a difficult task is either too lazy to try it himself, or has screwed up by using shortcuts. Malicious manipulation of whips, bits and spurs will only bring about a rebellious horse, and the more the punishment, the more the defiance.

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Venezuela: South America's most dangerous country

According to calculations made by a respected NGO, Venezuela is now far and away the most dangerous country in South America, with Caracas one of the most dangerous capitals in the world.

By Jeremy McDermott,?Guest Blogger / December 28, 2012

A vendor wearing a T-shirt with an image of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sells vegetable at a state-run market in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday.

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The Venezuelan Observatory Of Violence (Observatorio Venezolano de la Violencia) has released a study on homicides during 2012?putting the national homicide rate at 73 per 100,000 of the population, with Caracas registering 122 per 100,000. As a point of comparison, neighboring Colombia, still in the midst of the civil conflict, last year registered just over 31 homicides per 100,000.

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The study was conducted by the NGO working with six national universities. It put the number of homicides during the year at 21,692, a significant increase on 2011 (19,336), which?had gone?down as the most violent year on record in Venezuelan history.

According to the government, the homicide rate for 2011 was just over 48 per 100,000 of the population. Even at this level Venezuela was one of the most dangerous nations in South America.

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While the statistics can be challenged, the upward trend in homicides cannot.

These figures are just part of a wider pattern that began with the election of Hugo Ch?vez to the presidency in 1999. The blame for this lies on both internal and external factors.

The internal factors include rampant corruption in almost all branches of the security forces, a lack of investment in the police force, weak gun control?that has led to a proliferation of arms, and a lack of coherent security policy on the part of the Ch?vez regime.

On the external side, there is the fact that Venezuela has become a principal transit nation for Colombian cocaine. This has led not only to the presence of Colombian criminal networks in Venezuela, along with Colombian Marxist rebel groups, but the development of Venezuelan organized crime. Principal among this homegrown organized crime is the "Cartel of the Suns," a powerful drug trafficking network allegedly led by senior members of the military.

--- Jeremy McDermott is a director at Insight Crime,which researches, analyzes, and investigates organized crime in the Americas.
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EDUC 807 ? Blog Archive ? Strong Arts. Strong Schools ...

?Encounters with the arts enable us to unlock some of the great stored wisdom of the ages. In other words, the arts are part of what make people well educated. Take them away, and people will be less well educated. There is no replacement.? page 42

?The Necessity for the Arts

The arts are necessary in our lives and in our schools because they? :: Teach us divergent, rather than convergent, thinking :: Develop craftsmanship, the ability to apply aesthetics :: Introduce us to perceptions and understandings we could not acquire in any other way :: Enlighten our understanding, making it deeper and more comprehensive

• Facilitate human communication within and across cultures
• Help us define who we are and articulate our own very special sense of being
• Characterize their age, distinguishing our relationship to time by showing us as we were yesterday and as we are today
• Replenish our spirit and, by nurturing it, consoling it, and inspiring it, affirm our humanity.

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Book or Article Title: Strong Arts. Strong Schools: The Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling

Author: Charles Fowler

Date Published: 1996

Brief Summary of Article:

Part Two (Justification, p. 35-74) discusses the importance of artistic intelligence with respect to Howard Gardner?s Theory of Multiple Intelligences underlining the challenge of overcoming the social perception of intelligence as being linked to verbal and mathematical skills which is perpetuated by standardized testing (SAT). With reference to Maxine Greene, Fowler explains that art education ?crystallize[s] experiences? (Fowler, 40) and provides individualized learning. Further, Fowler validates the importance of arts integration into the curriculum as a vehicle for encouraging empathy and ?improving the way people think? (Fowler, 41). The second chapter (Strong Arts, Strong Schools) of Part Two culminates with a comprehensive list which concisely summarizes the necessity for the arts. Fowler concludes this part of his book with a call to action in order to promote a vital change in social perception in hopes to foster the infinite potential of the arts in education.

How is this article relevant to your work and your colleagues:

I am currently researching the implications of arts integration in the social studies curriculum and am looking for research to advocate for the importance and implications of art in schools. Although this research is founded primarily in American school systems, and that it is dated (published in 1996), there are pertinent arguments/ scientific findings in defense of arts education as well as suggested ideas as to why the arts have been systematically dismissed as nonacademic. Charles Fowler explains the historical context of the removal of arts education and funding from curricula across American schools and provides statistical research as to its implications on students (including students with special needs and juvenile delinquents). These articles are accessible, researched and provide clear summaries and possible solutions to the challenges we face as educators.

Where can this book be found? (ISBN ? optional)

ISBN: 9780198026129 p ISBN: 9780195100891

Publisher: Oxford University Press Location: Cary, NC, USA Date Published: 11/1996 Language: en

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Fowler, Charles. Strong Arts, Strong Schools : The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press, 1996. p 42.

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