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Beauchamp’s game-winner sends UE past Robert Morris

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Strawbridge leads UE with 21 points

 SAVANNAH, Ga. – With his team trailing by two points with 16 second remaining, Blaise Beauchamp knocked down his third 3-pointer of the night and it would prove to be the game-winner as the University of Evansville men’s basketball team defeated Robert Morris by a final of 54-53 at Enmarket Arena.

Trailing by 12 at halftime, UE opened the second half on an 8-0 run before taking the lead with 11:42 left in the game.  The teams swapped the lead multiple times before the Purple Aces earned their second win of the season.

“We told our guys that Robert Morris plays at a pace that we have not seen and we definitely struggled with it in the first half,” Purple Aces head coach David Ragland stated following the victory.  “I told our guys at halftime that we had a decision to make and I loved our response.  We kept fighting and showed our resiliency in the second half.  It is crazy how basketball works and I am happy for Blaise and our entire team.”

Strawbridge led UE with 21 points while hitting four triples.  Beauchamp finished the night with 14 points.  Robert Morris was led by Josh Corbin’s 22 points, 20 of which came in the first half.  Kahliel Spear notched a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds.

Eight of the first nine shots found the bottom of the net for Robert Morris as they took the early 19-8 lead.  Kenny Strawbridge Jr. opened the game with a putback before hitting two 3-pointers as he accounted for Evansville’s first eight points of the game.  The Colonials added another make to push the lead to 21-8.  Following eight missed shots in a row, Sekou Kalle turned an offensive rebound into a field goal to put UE back on the board.

Blaise Beauchamp converted his first triple with just over eight minutes left in the half to get his squad back within single digits at 24-15.  While the Aces got as close as seven points on a Chris Moncrief layup, Robert Morris extended the advantage to 14 before settling for a 37-25 lead at halftime.  Josh Corbin of RMU had 20 points, including six triples, at the break.

Just as he did in the first half, Strawbridge came out shooting, knocking down his third 3-pointer of the evening to open the second half.  His basket was the first of eight in a row by the Aces to make it a 37-33 game at the 16:51 mark.  Seven minutes into the half, Marvin Coleman II grabbed an offensive board and found an open Beauchamp who converted a triple to bring the Aces within one – 39-38.

Antoine Smith Jr. was held scoreless in the opening 20 minutes but his first field goal of the night was a big one as it gave UE a 40-39 lead with 11:42 left in the game.  His basket capped off a 6-for-12 start to the period for Evansville.  Robert Morris opened the stanza hitting one of its first 14 attempts before Corbin hit a layup with 9:24 left on the clock.

From there, it was a back-and-forth contest with each team holding multiple leads.  With UE down one, Strawbridge converted a 4-point play to give the Aces a 49-46 edge inside of the 5-minute mark but a triple on the other end saw RMU tie it right up.  He would make another critical play with 3:30 on the clock.  A perfect read on the defensive end saw him pick off a pass before turning it into a layup and 51-49 Evansville edge.

Robert Morris tied it up before taking a 53-51 lead in the final minute.  Just when it looked like the Colonials would wrestle away the win, Blaise Beauchamp drained a clutch 3-pointer with 16 seconds on the clock.  RMU was unable to convert in its final two opportunities and UE would hang on for the 54-53 win.  The Colonials finished with a slight shooting edge (38.8%-36.2%) while outrebounding the Aces by a 38-35 final.

Sunday’s Hostilo Hoops Community Classic finale pits the Aces against Fairfield at 7:30 p.m. CT.

THUNDERBOLTS DEFEAT HAVOC 3-1, MOVE INTO 1st PLACE

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Huntsville, Ala.: For the second game in a row, the Thunderbolts came through while tied in the third period to win on the road, this time defeating the Huntsville Havoc 3-1 on Friday night in Huntsville, moving the team into sole possession of 1st Place in the SPHL standings.  The Thunderbolts’ next home game will be on Friday, December 2nd against the Quad City Storm at 7:00pm CT.  For tickets, call (812)422-BOLT (2658), go to EvansvilleThunderbolts.com, or visit the Ford Center Ticket Office.

After a scoreless first period which saw Evansville outshoot the Havoc 14-7, the Thunderbolts broke through in the second period, as Mike Ferraro scored from Brendan Harrogate and Felix Sasser at 8:08 to give Evansville the lead.  On a 5-on-3 power play, the Havoc tied it back up as Nathan Hudgin scored for Huntsville at 10:38.  In the third period, Matthew Barron deflected a Roshen Jaswal shot into the net at 10:40 to give Evansville a 2-1 lead, and Scott Kirton scored an empty net, power play goal with 52 seconds remaining, assisted by Sasser, to put the game away as the Thunderbolts held on to win 3-1.

Ferraro, Barron and Kirton finished with a goal each, while Sasser tallied two assists.  In goal, Zane Steeves stopped 34 of 35 shots faced in net for his SPHL-leading 7th win of the season.  These two teams meet again on December 4th at Von Braun Center.

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Ain’t that America?

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Ain’t that America?

By John Krull, TheStatehouseFile.com

This time, the mass shooting happened in Virginia.

A Walmart employee opened fire at the store in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he worked, killing at least six people. He also died.

This followed the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, another gunman shot more than 20 people, killing five of them before heroic bystanders subdued him.

That followed another shooting in Virginia in which three University of Virginia football players were shot dead on the way back from a college field trip.

Which followed—ah, any number of other mass shootings.

Here in America, we have shootings at shopping malls.

We have them in churches.

In the workplace.

And, of course, in schools.

Lot of them in schools.

These shootings occur in states that have strict gun laws. They occur with even greater regularity in states that have lax gun laws. They take place everywhere, all the time.

That’s because we are a nation awash in guns.

The United States of America has less than 5% of the world’s population. Americans, though, own more than half the guns in private possession on the globe.

There are, in fact, more guns than there are people in this country. The United States has a population of a little more than 332 million people.

The most conservative estimates of the number of privately owned guns in this country comes in at more than 400 million. There are more than 20 million privately owned AR-styled firearms in America.

Those are the weapons favored by most mass shooters. In most other nations, such guns are restricted to military use.

Here in America, they’re almost as easy to buy as a bag of potato chips.

America’s curious relationship with guns has tragic consequences.

We Americans have watched for much of this year the horrors of the war Russia unleashed on Ukraine. Daily, we are appalled by the carnage of that conflict, the staggering body counts, ceaseless suffering.

The best estimates suggest that more than 32,000 people have lost their lives in that brutal, inhumane war. That’s a lot of death.

A lot of suffering.

A lot of grief.

But that is war.

Here in the United States in 2022, we already have lost nearly 40,000 lives to guns and gun violence. We have lost 25% more lives than two nations locked in a vicious and savage war. We have lost those lives at discount stores, on school buses, in churches, at nightclubs and, of course, in schools.

Lots of schools.

And we are—in theory at least—a nation at peace.

We Americans have fallen into a pattern with these shootings.

When they occur, we shake our heads in dismay. We offer expressions of sympathy to the community where the horror took place and to the people who lost loved ones.

We vow to do something about this ongoing tragedy. We assert that we will get serious about gun violence.

But we don’t.

Instead, we allow ourselves to be held hostage by the special-interest spokespeople from the gun lobby. They stopped even pretending to try to make sense years ago, but still we let them hold the floor.

We let them write our laws.

We let them protect the guns and sacrifice the people.

And we listen to their nonsense while we do it. We listen to an Indiana state legislator spout drivel about how an entire community in Texas sacrificed schoolchildren as part of a “false-flag” operation aimed at coming to get his guns.

We treat such ravings with respect and ignore the suffering in our streets every day.

After each gun-related atrocity, we Americans say this is not who we are. We are better than this, we avow.

But maybe we aren’t.

Maybe this is the country we want, one in which people must fear going to the store, to the mall, to the workplace, to church and even to school.

No other country on earth has this problem. We’re alone—number one by a wide margin, with a bullet.

This time, the mass shooting was in Virginia.

Tomorrow, who knows?

John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The views expressed are those of the author only and should not be attributed to Franklin College.

Today Is “Small Business Saturday”

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Support Small Businesses in Downtown Evansville

The Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID) celebrates the 13th Annual Small Business Saturday® on Saturday, November 26 from 9 AM – 4 PM in Downtown Evansville.

“We emphasize the importance of shopping small year-round, but the most important shopping day of the year for our shops is Small Business Saturday,” said Josh Armstrong, EID president. Shopping small supports real economic growth in our community through jobs, business ownership opportunities, and tax base, and an average of two-thirds of every dollar ($0.67) spent at a small business in the U.S. stay in that local community.1“Many of our Downtown businesses search out local products and ingredients, magnifying the economic impact of consumers choosing small businesses,” he added.

The EID will distribute maps and limited-quantity custom Shop Downtown bags, courtesy of Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park, at 318 Main Street. Also, the EID will be selling Downtown Evansville branded attire, including special Christmas items as well. Individual stores will feature specials throughout the day, and unique specialty vendors with items ranging from clothing to baked goods will be located along Main Street from 2nd to 6th Streets. Brick-and-mortar merchants will also have a limited supply of free tote bags for shoppers, courtesy of American Express.

“Shoppers will be serenaded with live music through the event,” Armstrong added. “Make a day of it – shop, take family photos at our holiday displays, and enjoy great food and drinks from our over forty restaurants, bars, and cafes,” he suggested.

Visit DowntownEvansville.com/ShopSmall or Downtown Evansville Indiana on social media for individual shop and restaurant sales and specials. Consumers can learn more about Small Business Saturday and how to get involved by visiting ShopSmall.com.

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TO BECOME A JUDGE

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TO BECOME A JUDGE

GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine

Peg and I are about halfway through our assignment working with the judiciary in the country of Georgia. You probably already know that Georgia lies between Russia, Turkey and a to Georgia’s west the Black Sea. It has an ancient history of colliding cultures and proclaims that due to its geographical location along the major trade route between Europe and Asia it is, “[T]he most invaded the country on earth.”

Peg and I have been awed by the beauty of the Black Sea and Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains which can reach over 18,000 feet high. We have also found the Georgian people in the city of Batumi where we work and live to be amazingly hospitable.

One of my duties is to work with the judges in the Batumi and the surrounding Adjara region and to share my experience with America’s legal system with law students who are preparing to practice law and preside over the courts. In that regard, I have been asked to speak with fourth-year law students (law school is four years in Georgia).

The law school, the Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University, has asked me to address the members of the fourth-year class on the issue of becoming and being a judge. As I have now spent over 41 years as an American judge I have had some time to reflect on these esoteric matters. As Fareed Zakaria might say, the following is “My take” on what it requires to be a good judge and how we can avoid electing or appointing bad judges. The university has invited me to speak on December 09, 2022 because that is the global celebration of Humans Rights Week and judges everywhere have the opportunity to impact Human Rights. Following is some of what I plan to tell the potential future judges. Of course, the principles of judging are universal, not just applicable in Georgia:

“This is Human Rights Week. My wife Peg and I are honored to be invited to exchange thoughts with you on issues of Human Rights. First, let me congratulate you on your choice of law as a life’s work. In my family, we have 3 lawyers and one judge. One of my older brothers who was already practicing law when I was deciding which career path to follow told me, “If you want to make a positive difference, the legal profession is where you can do the most good for the most people.” And within the legal profession, judges have many opportunities to make the world a better place. I commend the role of a judge for your consideration.

Not only can you become a judge, but you can become a judge when the whole world is at the crossroads of great challenges and opportunities. Your generation has the opportunity to serve at one of those great historical times that can truly change your communities, your country, and, perhaps, the world for the better including helping to ensure Human Rights.

The law imposes upon judges the legal duties that judges are supposed to execute. However judges of good character do not need laws to make them perform their duties. The ideals of Georgia’s citizens are set forth in the Preamble of Georgia’s Constitution of 2020:

“We the citizens of Georgia – whose firm will it is is to establish a democratic social order, economic freedom, and a legal and social state, to secure universally recognized human rights and freedoms, and to enhance state independence and peaceful relations with other peoples – drawing on the centuries-old traditions of the Georgian nation and the historical and legal legacy of the Constitution of Georgia of 1921, proclaim this constitution before god and the nation.”

These principles that guide Georgia’s judges are remarkably similar to the foundation upon which the United States of America was founded. The Preamble to America’s Constitution provides:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

It appears the goals of justice and preservation of Human Rights know no time or borders. Neither do the characteristics that produce good judges. Good judging is a complex duty that calls for judges of high character who often must choose between an easier wrong and a harder right in their service both on and off the bench. A good character has always been the most important qualification for a judge. As Socrates told his Athenian judges 2,400 years ago, “your duty is to do justice, not make a present of it.” Socrates set forth four essential elements of judging:

  • To hear courteously;
  • To answer wisely;
  • To consider soberly; and
  • To decide impartially.

Without good character no one can be a good judge. With good character, a judge is likely to produce a just decision regardless of the judge’s other qualities. And while the American Bar Association Model Code does not use the term “character”, the character is what is required by each of the canons of the Model Code.

That good character is the hallmark of a good judge and is not news. Socrates was the founder of the Classical school of legal philosophy. Judges may also refer to St. Thomas Aquinas (1205-1274) who about 1,000 years after Socrates postulated that all humans were created equal by god and therefore under Natural Law should be treated equally by the legal system.

Another philosopher the good judge may wish to study is Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) whose Social Contract theory of government theorized that people of a certain culture agree to laws that mutually benefit all citizens so all should obey them.

Then Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) developed his Categorical Imperative which is a Golden Rule type of legal theory. Kant’s near contemporary, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), expanded on the Categorial Imperative in his Utilitarianism, whereby the judge should be guided by whatever is the greater good.

The important thing for judges is to keep an open and inquisitive mind as different factual scenarios play out in the court. A good judge should consider the ramifications of her or his decisions both to the parties in court and society at large. Judges should follow the guidance given by the legal theorist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) who in 1881 in his Common Law advised lawyers and his fellow jurists to not be mechanical in deciding cases:

“The law embodies the story of a Nation’s development through many centuries and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.”

In other words, good judges study what good and bad judging has been for thousands of years and apply the wisdom of the ages to the cases in court. The people who must rely on the judge deserve nothing less.

Thank you for wanting to serve. There is no higher and more challenging calling than judging. I commend it for your consideration. The courts and your country need you; there is much good to be done.”

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A Gift For Supporting Ascension St. Vincent Mobile Dental Clinic!

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Since its launch in 2000, Ascension St. Vincent Mobile Dental Clinic has provided dental care to children in need at Tri-State schools. The Clinic would not be able to provide this life-changing care without the support of generous donors. Treatment barriers such as insurance, transportation, and a lack of services in counties are eliminated.

On average, 3500 school-aged children are seen through the clinic per year, primarily in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey and Gibson counties. Routine exams, preventative care, as well as restorations, stainless steel crowns, and extractions are provided.

Mobile Dental Clinic parent, Brandon, shares this about his experience: “The Mobile Dental Clinic is a wonderful asset to Ascension St. Vincent Evansville and the surrounding community. My son has been a patient with the Dental Clinic for three years. He is autistic and loves the staff and we as parents love the care he receives at the clinic. It is very convenient for parents to not have to take off from work to take their children to the dentist, they can get their exams, fillings, and x-rays, all at the clinic while it is at their school.”

Will you support the dental care of a child? Just $200 provides full dental care through the Clinic for one year for a child in need. Through your support, children without access to dental care due to no fault of their own will be afforded the chance to smile, laugh and eat without the pain and embarrassment of dental decay.

Thank you in advance for putting a smile on the faces of the children we serve!
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Estella Dean Home & Y Factor Studio open on Saturday, November 26

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Businesses Expand Into A New Home In The Historic Ridgeway Building At 313 Main St.

Estella Dean Home and Y Factor Studio have relocated to a new home at 313 Main St. and will host a grand opening on November 26. The location will be open Monday – Saturday, 8 AM – 5 PM.

Estella Dean Home, a home and gift store, will occupy the first floor. The store is ready for the season, with a curated collection of holiday décor, home furnishings and accessories, and gift items. The second floor will house the commercial and residential interior design team of Y Factor Studio. Y Factor is a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certified, full-service interior design firm that offers comprehensive interior design services from consultation to installation.

Community members can shop at Estella Dean Home during Small Business Saturday hosted by the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID) on Saturday, November 26, or during their regular hours.

Jennifer Scales is the owner and has been an interior designer for 15 years. She began as the sole practitioner and now employs seven professional interior designers and ten people. “In 2010, I purchased the Old Gus Doerner’s Building at 207 Main St. Our business has rapidly grown through the years. Our new location will also allow us to grow our team and provide even more space for design consultations, meetings, and experiences. Being Downtown proved to be everything we dreamt it would be!”

“Expansions like Estella Dean Home speak first to the talents of Jennifer and her team, but also to the important role experiential retail plays in creating a more vibrant neighborhood. We congratulate Jennifer and her team on their expansion and look forward to many more years of success and collaboration,” said Josh Armstrong, president, EID.

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