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Aces fall short in weekend opener

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UE is at Illinois State on Saturday

 PEORIA, Ill. – Giulia Cardona and Angelica Gonzalez combined for 17 kills on Friday as the University of Evansville volleyball team dropped a 3-0 decision at Bradley.

Cardona led the Purple Aces with 11 kills and Gonzalez added six.  Jenna Heidbreder posted five kills.  Ainoah Cruz had 10 digs while Lexi Owen paced the team with 14 assists.  Kaylenn Hunt completed the match with 11 kills for the Braves.

Game 1 – Bradley 25, UE 16

Bradley took a 3-1 lead out of the gate before pushing the advantage to 10-4.  From there, the Braves went up by a 19-10 score and took the set by a similar 9-point advantage to pick up the 1-0 match lead.

Game 2 – Bradley 25, UE 15

After scoring the first three points, Bradley added to the lead to make it a 13-4 game.  Evansville made a nice run to make it a 14-9 game as Maddie Hawkins registered an ace while Angelica Gonzalez picked up a kill.  Gonzalez kept the deficit at five with a kill that made it a 15-10 game before BU regrouped to complete the set on a 10-5 run to take a commanding 2-0 lead.

Game 3 – Bradley 25, UE 16

Looking to clinch the match, the Braves quickly jumped out to a 4-1 lead.  Evansville never gave up, remaining within striking distance as a Chloe Cline kill saw the Aces get within three at 14-11.  Things quickly turned when Bradley countered with a 6-1 run that put them up by a 20-12 margin.  They finished with a 25-16 win to take the match.

Saturday evening features a match-up at Illinois State with a 6 p.m. start time.

Eagles suffer first OVC road loss at Little Rock

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– University of Southern Indiana Volleyball (8-10, OVC 3-3) were unable to mount a comeback digging an early hole against the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (9-10, OVC 4-2) falling in four sets, (23-25, 21-25, 25-16, 15-25). The Screaming Eagles and Trojans entered play tied for fourth place in the Ohio Valley Conference both looking to make jumps into the top three after the weekend as Little Rock gains the edge.
 
Freshman Kerigan Fehr earned a career high of 14 digs, while sophomore Leah Coleman tied her career high of 13 kills on the offensive side. Sophomore Ashby Willis extended her double digit kill streak to five games with a team best 18 tonight.
 
Set 1: USI 23, LR 25
USI’s defense came out strong in set one as junior Keira Moore had three shoestring digs and Willis swatted a block to fire up the Eagles leading 8-7. Two straight USI service errors helped the Trojans gain a 11-9 lead. The outside hitters kept the Eagles within striking distance as graduate senior Jasmine Green, Coleman, and Willis combined for eight kills trailing 17-19. Green laid her body out on the line diving into the scorers table, along with getting rewarded with a kill later in the rally as the Eagles trailed 23-24 before the Trojans clinched set one with a kill. The Trojans took advantage of two USI service errors, while manufacturing three aces and three and a half blocks.
 
Set 2: USI 21, LR 25
Coleman smashed her team leading sixth kill as both squads traded early points. Junior Bianca Anderson found the seam in the block with two slides, along with an ace from freshman Layla Gonzales tying the match at nine. Willis transitioned into the net three times before finally finishing her seventh kill tying the match at 12. Senior Abby Weber gave the Eagles a 18-16 lead with her 19th service ace of the season. The Trojans used a 7-1 run to end the set as the Eagles dug themselves a hole down two sets. Middle hitters senior Paris Downing and Anderson took their turns in set two with eight combined kills.
 
Set 3: USI 25, LR 16
Anderson’s signature slide worked again helping the Eagles gain a 7-5 lead. Willis used an off-speed kill for her 11th of the match gaining the 10-8 advantage. Senior Carly Sobieralski and Anderson executed a textbook block assist extending the lead to 17-14. Another successful Gonzales ace and slide from Downing helped contribute to the 8-1 run giving USI a 23-15 lead. Back-to-back kills from Willis gave USI the dominant set three victory tallying 15 on the game, along with 15 digs.
 
Set 4: USI 15, LR 25
The Trojans used three early blocks to build a 11-5 lead. Coleman helped the Eagles climb back with her 12th kill closing within four. Little Rock totaled their eighth service ace to build a 18-9 lead. Redshirt Freshman Maeve Moonan tallied her first statistic as an Eagle with a block assist with Sobieralski to cut the lead within ten. However, the Trojan attack oulasted the Eagles winning round one of the series.
 
Willis lead offensively with 18 kills for third straight match along with capturing her sixth double-double at 18 digs. Sobieralski racked up 44 assists on 17 digs, while Moore led defensively with 23 digs. Moore has snatched 15+ digs in her past five matches. Sobieralski and Anderson both swatted three blocks, while Gonzales finished with a career high three service aces.
 
As a team, USI finished with 64 kills, 48 assists, 97 digs, nine aces, six blocks, and a .089 attacking percentage. The Trojans earned 43 kills, 40 assists, 92 digs, nine aces, 15 blocks, and a .143 hitting percentage.
 
Next up for the Eagles
USI is back in Little Rock tomorrow looking to sweep the Trojans at 2 p.m.
 

Trailblazers split doubleheader to begin tough weekend tournament

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PARK HILLS, Mo. – The Vincennes University volleyball team opened a very tough weekend tournament Friday evening and split their first two games of this four-game weekend at the 2024 Mineral Area College Cardinal Classic in Missouri.

The Blazers took their first game of the day against Hutchinson Community College in Kansas 20-25, 25-21, 18-25, 25-21, 15-12 before falling in game two of the day to host Mineral Area College 11-25, 15-25, 11-25.

Vincennes opened their day against Hutchinson Community College and this match was very even right from the beginning.

The two teams traded points for most of the opening set before the Blue Dragons pulled away late with five straight points and close out the first set with a 5-1 run to take set one 25-20 and gain the early 1-0 match lead.

Set two was another back and forth battle with Hutchinson gaining the early advantage with a 16-12 lead midway through the set before the Blazers battled back with four straight points.

Vincennes would close out the second set by scoring five of the final six points to take set two 25-21 and even the match at 1-1 going to a pivotal third set.

VU would ride this momentum into the third set, taking a 14-11 lead midway through the set before Hutchinson answered back strong with a pair of 4-0 scoring runs to pull away late and take set three 25-18.

Vincennes looked determined to force a fifth set early in set four, gaining the early 11-8 lead before Hutchinson shifted the momentum back to their side with six straight points.

The Trailblazers would get the momentum back with a 6-0 scoring run of their own, before using another late 6-0 scoring run to take set four 25-21 and force a winner take all fifth set.

In set five, Vincennes once again got out to the early lead, leading 11-5 before Hutchinson would rally back with five straight points to cut the deficit to a single point.

Vincennes was able to regain composure and close out the fifth set strong, completing the comeback with a 15-12 set five victory.

The VU offense was led by sophomore Laura Tavares (Merida, Venezuela) who finished the first match of the day with 17 kills, four blocks, two digs and one set assist.

 

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Jim Redwine, Gavel Gamut: THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE

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GAVEL GAMUT

By Jim Redwine

www.jamesmredwine.com

(Week of 14 October 2024)

THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE

The Bible contains some fine literature. There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. My favorite is Ecclesiastes, that I learned about at church, whose authorship is disputed but whose ironic, sarcastic, hopeful philosophy rings of Grecian thought. When one reads Ecclesiastes, Homer’s Iliad and the plays of Sophocles, such as Oedipus Rex, that I was taught in high school, come to mind. Great literature is like that, one learns great thoughts from great thinkers regardless of their origin. Concepts of law, justice, perseverance and human frailty are at the heart of great teachings.

When a culture wishes its youth to learn these essential elements of human knowledge the example of Socrates is instructive. Speaking truth to power is our best hope for having our temporal rulers make the right choices. To speak such truth our students should study the lessons of history. And the best way to impart that knowledge is through the study of good literature. Of course, such lessons could be learned through experience such as war but if bad experience can be avoided by a society’s youth learning from the past bad experiences of others, that is preferable. Good literature may light our way. 

By definition, good literature is not dogma. We want our students, and ourselves, to study, investigate, question, test, evaluate, doubt, prove, disprove, discuss, listen, debate, laugh, cry, honor, disavow, set aside, enjoy and most importantly learn from those who have already made mistakes and created good. This cannot occur if students are led to simply accept concepts as gospel. The teachings of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Christians during the Inquisition, and the Zionists in Israel are dogmas to be avoided.

Religion is based on faith. Education is the search for fact. All religions believe they know the truth with no examination needed. Educators believe there is no ultimate truth as each new discovery changes the facts. A free society can and should accommodate both religion and education but it must not conflate them. Most importantly, to safeguard religious liberty and democracy our federal, state and local governments must not put an imprimatur on any particular dogma. Protecting everyone’s right to believe as they wish does not grant license to anyone to behave as they wish. Law must both protect and defend, not endorse.

So, our public schools can, if they choose, teach from portions of the Bible, the Torah, the Quran, the Vedas or any other religious texts but must not elevate one over another; that can always be done by the religions themselves. That is their right and we must assure it. However, we will be on that slippery slope to theocracy, not democracy, if we allow our governments to decree or demand our public schools teach that any faith is fact and superior to any other.

It is likely that those who propose the indoctrination of America’s youth in any particular system of faith do so with the purest of intentions. They believe their faith is founded on truth and that America was founded on that truth. Both concepts are ill-founded. Faith is not fact; that is why it is called faith. America was founded by people who may well have been religious themselves but who had the lessons of the Enlightenment to caution them to keep religion personal and government secular.

And when it comes to the malleable minds of young public-school students who are required by law to attend, those who proclaim lessons from the Bible or any other religious text can be sanitized, have forgotten their own youth’s susceptibility to suggestion.

No, better to learn in school from good non-denominational literature and, even if religious texts may contain good literature, to leave such lessons to the home and temple unless it is clear to the students that any lessons from religious tomes are not an endorsement or condemnation of any particular system of belief.

For more Gavel Gamut articles go to www.jamesmredwine.com

Movie Review: Tethered by Fear: Halle Berry Bears Her Trauma in ‘Never Let Go’

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Tethered by Fear: Halle Berry Bears Her Trauma in ‘Never Let Go’

By Scott McDaniel, TheStatehouseFile.com

The new Halle Berry horror film “Never Let Go” brings hopeless tension in themes of inherited family trauma and faith.

French director Alexandre Aja (“The Hills Have Eyes”) tells the story of a momma (Berry) and her two children, who are only able to walk away from their home in the middle of the woods if they have ropes wrapped around their waist connecting them to the house. She tells the kids that the evil outside can’t touch them as long as they stay connected to the house. After all, that’s what her momma taught her.

“What’d it look like this time?” one of her sons asks.

The evil takes many forms, often that of her deceased mother, disturbingly flicking a forked tongue like a snake. But only Berry’s character can see it, leaving the audience to wonder if the evil lurking is real, or if Mom has gone bonkers.

As if a commentary on helicopter parents, we see her instilling fear, keeping her children from experiencing the dangerous world outside, literally tethered to their home.

That theme grows deeper as religious symbolism appears throughout – from the evil taking the form of a snake, to the way the family recites a sort of prayer to the purity of the house, to the kids saying “It’s either the house or the evil.”

Just as a parent’s trauma is often passed down, so too is the influence of religion. And if this story is a metaphor for faith, the same central question is in play: “Is it real?”

After all, isn’t faith believing in things you can’t see?

Berry excels in her role, doing her best work when she’s portraying emotionally drained characters. She teeters on the edge of madness, yet maintains her priority of protecting her children from perceived threats.

There are a handful of effective jump scares, but it is a horror movie that relies on discomfort and uncertainty in a consistently dark and dreary atmosphere, never venturing farther than a rope’s tug from the creepy wooden house.

Some may find a lack of focus in the direction of the film. But it took my mind a number of ways and didn’t force one interpretation, and I like that about it.

The rope is tight in this one, and it doesn’t let the audience get comfortable. “’Never Let Go” crafts a spine-tingling reminder that the ties that bind us can both protect and imprison, leaving us to ponder which is truly more terrifying.

3.5/5

Scott is an assistant professor of journalism at Franklin College. He lives in Bargersville with his wife and 3 kids.

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USI Women’s and Chamber Choirs present first concert of Fall Semester October 27

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The University of Southern Indiana Women’s Choir and Chamber Choir, under the direction of Dan Craig, Associate Professor of Music, will present their first Fall Semester concert in the Rice Library Second Floor Reading Room at 3 p.m. Sunday, October 27. This concert is open to the public at no charge.

The concert will feature a variety of music for sacred and secular spaces emphasizing the movement from darkness into light. Included in the concert are pieces by Józef Świder, Thomas Tomkins, Randall Thompson, René Clausen, Glenn Burleigh and many more.

“This will be the first of many concerts this year including our upcoming USI Madrigal Feaste in December and a concert tour to Ireland in May 2025,” says Craig.

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Gov. Holcomb to lead U.S. delegation to Greece, fostering American democracy and Indiana’s global engagement

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INDIANAPOLIS  – Governor Eric J. Holcomb will lead an international trip to the Hellenic Republic, better known as Greece, next week at the invitation of the Council of State Governments. The trip will focus on cultivating democracy and business, incorporating a mix of policy, business and cultural exchanges.

“I’m excited to showcase Indiana on the global scale once again,” said Gov. Holcomb. “As Indiana is a state built on democratic principles, it is fitting to travel to the birth place of democracy itself. In Greece we will forge new relationships and foster cultural ties for the betterment of our collective regions.”

Gov. Holcomb, First Lady Janet Holcomb and representatives from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation will depart for Greece this weekend, and convene with the delegation of U.S. state and business leaders in Athens. There, the Council of State Governments delegation will explore the region’s unique history, tracing the Grecian origins of American democracy and the tradition of governing by means of political debate among citizens.

Gov. Holcomb and the delegation will also spend time fostering relationships with U.S. and Greece government officials, meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Greece George J. Tsunis; Minister Vassilis Kikilias, Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection of Greece; Deputy Minister Kostas Fragogiannis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dimitris Skalkos, Secretary General for International Economic Affairs of the Hellenic Republic. The delegation will also work to advance private sector business opportunities between the U.S. and Greece, meeting with representatives of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Greece) and Enterprise Greece.

Gov. Holcomb has made global engagement a priority for his administration and for Indiana since being elected governor in 2016. The state is home to more than 1,090 foreign-owned business establishments, 40 countries and territories. In 2023, foreign-owned companies committed to investing $20.49 billion to locate or expand operations in Indiana – a 182% increase from 2022 and 71% of the IEDC’s total committed capital investment in 2023 – and create approximately 8,500 new Hoosier jobs.

This marks Gov. Holcomb’s 26th international economic development trip as governor and his first visit to Greece. Indiana and Greece exchanged more than $53.6 million of goods in 2023, and Greece is home to three Hoosier Corporations: Eli Lilly and Company, Corteva and Zimmet Biomet.

The cost of the governor’s travel is being paid for by the Council of State Governments.

In latest welfare fraud win, Attorney General Todd Rokita secures six-figure settlement & criminal conviction against Highland home health provider

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A years-long investigation into a home health care provider in Highland, Indiana, has resulted in a $217,000 settlement and criminal conviction obtained through the hard work of Attorney General Todd Rokita’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU). 

Following a tip, MFCU investigators discovered that Allpoints Home Health Care Inc. billed the Medicaid program for thousands of hours not actually worked. In all, the business was found to have submitted 1,055 false claims. 

“Week after week, our nationally renowned Medicaid Fraud Control Unit does outstanding and incredibly thorough work on behalf of Hoosiers,” Attorney General Rokita said. “And of all the types of fraud committed, what is more sinister than stealing money which was intended to help low-income sick people pay their health care bills?” 

In some instances, the perpetrators were particularly sloppy in their falsification of records — such as claiming to provide home health care to one patient during a time when that individual was hospitalized and not even at home to receive the purported home services. 

As part of the investigation, MFCU staff analyzed claims submitted to Medicaid, interviewed Allpoints employees, reviewed medical records and perused Electronic Visit Verification sheets.  

By the time all the facts were gathered, investigators had enough evidence not only to pursue a settlement but also to work with the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office to achieve a criminal conviction as well.  

Mohammad Adnan Satti — the employee who prepared and submitted the majority of the false claims — was convicted for felony theft and sentenced to 18 months suspended jail time as part of a plea agreement.  

Allpoints agreed to pay Indiana $217,019.61 in exchange for escaping civil liability for violations of the Indiana Medicaid False Claims and Whistleblower Protection Act. That’s three times the overpayments identified by our team’s analysis of the claims data. 

Attorney General Rokita thanked MFCU Director Matt Whitmire, Deputy Attorney General JeremyJohnson and former Deputy Attorney General Jordan Stover for their work on this case. 

The Indiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a federal grant. The remaining 25 percent is funded by the State of Indiana. 

 

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