Mercyhurst improves to 8-1 with win at West Liberty

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WEST LIBERTY, W. Va. -- The 12th-ranked Mercyhurst University wrestling team jumped out to a 21-0 lead after the opening five matches and cruised to a 31-9 victory at West Liberty on Wednesday night. The Lakers have won three straight to improve to 8-1 on the season. The Hilltoppers dropped to 2-2 overall on the year.

Mercyhurst jumped in front 21-0 after earning victories in each of the first five matches before West Liberty stopped the Laker run in the 165-pound bout to cut the advantage to 21-6. Mercyhurst claimed victories in the next two bouts to extend the lead to 28-6, preceding wins by each team in the final two matches of the night for the final margin.

It marks the sixth time in nine duals this season that Mercyhurst has kept its opponent to single digits in team scoring this season.

Redshirt junior Ryan Bohince got the ball rolling in the 125-pound match with a 3-0 blanking of West Liberty's Zach Brown to give the Lakers a 3-0 lead. Redshirt sophomore Kody Young followed with a 9-6 win at 133 to extend the Laker lead to 6-0.

At 141 pounds, sophomore Dylan D'Urso, ranked seventh in the country at the weight, pinned Joe Wagstaff of West Liberty 30 seconds into the second period to give the Lakers a 12-0 lead. D'Urso improved to 16-2 on the season and 9-0 in dual matches. The sophomore from Greenville, Pa., has won 25 consecutive dual matches after losing his first collegiate bout at Ashland as a freshman.

Redshirt sophomore Jeremy Landowski earned an easy six points for the Lakers with a forfeit win at 149 pounds. Redshirt freshman Francis Mizia extended the lead to 21-0 with a 5-2 decision in the 157-pound match.

West Liberty stopped the bleeding in the 165-pound match when Mike Emery pinned redshirt senior Clint Schaefer ten seconds into the third period. The win by Emery cut the Mercyhurst lead to 21-6.

Redshirt sophomore August Mizia followed the win by West Liberty with a 12-0 major decision victory at 174 pounds over Eric Antesberger. Freshman Dakota DesLauriers picked up three more points for the Lakers with a 3-1 win in the 184-pound match.

Danny Doyle of West Liberty and freshman Andrew Welton of Mercyhurst exchanged three points in their matches at 197 and 285 to close out the scoring.

The Lakers will return home to square off with Lake Erie College on Saturday, January 18 at the Mercyhurst Athletic Center. Wrestling is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m.

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Ending the Drug War, Reforming Immigration, and Ending War are Key Libertarian Principles – Video

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NSA reform? Obama faces headwinds in a Congress divided on surveillance policy.

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Views on Capitol Hill over reforming NSA policies aren't breaking along party lines, as libertarian Republicans join with leftist Democrats to oppose the mass collection of phone records.

President Obama says hed like to put the US government out of the business of storing Americans phone records though he maintains its still necessary to collect those records en masse for anti-terrorism purposes. To make this and other suggested changes to the National Security Agency's surveillance system, hell need the help of Congress.

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Capitol Hill, however, is as divided on the subject as is the American public. Libertarian-minded conservatives align with liberals in opposing the phone-dragnet program altogether, while other Republicans and Democrats largely support it. Last July, the House fell short of ending the NSAs bulk collection of phone records, on a close, bipartisan vote.

On the key House and Senate committees responsible for drafting relevant legislation, members of the judiciary panels tend to want wholesale changes, while those dealing with intelligence want only tweaks.But even that is a bit of a generalization, as division also marks the committees. The upshot is that Congress could well have a tough time agreeing on the legislation required to alter the program.

Considertwo key changes proposed by the president, both of which would require approval by Congress:

President Obama proposes that the government stop holding phone records. In making this recommendation, the president followed the advice of a blue-chip review panel he convened after the furor over massive leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Although the panel found no intentional abuse of the records so far and the NSA collects data about a phone call but not its content it warned that the government's storage of the data creates the potential for abuse and public mistrust. Mr. Obama has asked the attorney general to come up with an alternative storage arrangement. The panel suggested either keeping it with the phone companies or entrusting it with a third party.

"While I am encouragedthe president is addressing the NSA spying program because of pressure from Congress and the American people, I am disappointed in the details, said Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, in a statement. The senator, a tea party favorite, described Obamas solution as the same unconstitutional program with a new configuration. In the end, Senator Paul told CNN, little changes: Private records will still be collected without a search warrant. He gave Obama an A for effort though.

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British Virgin Islands signs deal with Norwegian, Disney cruise lines

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TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands The British Virgin Islands signed an agreement Friday with two major cruise ship companies expected to help boost the territory's sluggish cruise tourism sector.

Norwegian Cruise Line and Disney Cruise Line promised to deliver a total of 425,000 passengers yearly beginning in 2015 for the next 15 years or pay for lost tax revenues if the quota is not met.

The deal also gives preferential berthing to both cruise lines, a move that angered Carnival. Last year, that company delivered some 53,000 passengers to the territory of 30,000 residents. Carnival said in October that it would cancel its British Virgin Islands itinerary in 2015, but it has since rebooked some of those trips.

Some 340,000 cruise ship passengers visited the territory last year, compared with 571,000 in 2008. Officials blame the decrease partly on an existing dock unable to accommodate larger ships that have gone elsewhere.

The government said the deal could help them obtain funds to lengthen the dock. The bidding process to select a contractor is ongoing and construction is expected to start in upcoming months.

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Special to The Spokesman-Review: Single-payer system the best option for health care – Sat, 18 Jan 2014 PST

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By Daniel Schaffer M.D.

By now, almost everyone has developed an opinion about the status of health care in our country, and it usually divides along ideological lines, with the word Obamacare in the middle. This is unfortunate if it ends the discussion, because both advocates and opponents agree that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not the final solution to our current health caredilemma.

We are still left with the fact that up to 10 percent of our population will continue to lack health care coverage. Some would rather pay the tax penalty than sign up for insurance; some because they cannot

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By now, almost everyone has developed an opinion about the status of health care in our country, and it usually divides along ideological lines, with the word Obamacare in the middle. This is unfortunate if it ends the discussion, because both advocates and opponents agree that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not the final solution to our current health caredilemma.

We are still left with the fact that up to 10 percent of our population will continue to lack health care coverage. Some would rather pay the tax penalty than sign up for insurance; some because they cannot afford the rates even with a subsidy, some because their employers have cut their hours to part time, and others because their states have elected not to expand Medicaid. We also have not addressed the inevitable increased cost of fully enacting the ACA but once again have kicked the can down theroad.

There are many factors that will determine what our health care system will eventually look like, but one of the most important is the mechanism of paying for those services. Unlike the other industrialized nations, our payment system for those under age 65 has evolved using private insurance companies, both for-profit and nonprofit. The result is that health care and insurance have unfortunately become fused into a singleterm.

Insurance is designed to protect people from events that will rarely occur, such as an automobile accident or a house fire. The system works because the majority of people paying their premiums will never collect any benefit, so there is a substantial cash reserve to pay for those whodo.

Health care, however, is something that everyone will utilize at some time and, in fact, should be utilizing even more than they currently do to obtain preventive services. To create a large enough cash reserve, in addition to paying for administrative costs and dividends to shareholders, insurance rates continue to escalate. This is made even worse when only the people with health problems that require expensive treatment are the ones who have insurance. This system is unsustainable in the long term because at some point premiums will exceed what individuals and employers are willing to pay, or co-pays and deductibles will reach the point where having insurance will be beyond the means of mostpeople.

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