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We didn't take many pictures then, but it was during Christmas of 2003 and a family wedding, so pictures are going to be taken. I was nervous to look. Like, I was pretty sure I hadn't saved any bad reminders of him in his helmet or all drugged up. But there they were- photos of him at his birthday party. Dancing at the wedding. On his first airplane ride. All during The Time.
I don't know what I really feel. Not really a sadness. Maybe a numbness. And confusion. Like that child in the photos isn't Noah. That was probably the most heartbreaking thing about his Epilepsy, that it wasn't him. You would look in his eyes and wonder where he went. And would he ever come back? No one could give us that answer. Especially not him.
I remember after he started the diet and we finally felt ok to let him go more & more without it. Like taking the training wheels off, we stepped out in faith hoping an attack wouldn't sneak in and make us put it back on. And I remember wanting to burn it when we knew he was all better. But it had protected him. And we wanted it to help someone else, so we gave it to another family that couldn't afford one.
There are days I don't want to have to tell his story anymore. It's not him. He's a regular boy now, seizures far, far, very far behind him, I pray. We could so easily block out The Time and move on with our lives. But hearing our story, for some parents, is the only hope they have to hold on to. To know it is possible to get your child back.
And we want our story, like that dang helmet, to help someone else. We share it for free to anyone that will hear. We lived That Time. Can't take it back. But we can go on living and enjoying The Now, the time we now create with every new day.
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Two years ago, Grantland.com – a site that covers sports and pop culture – was launched. At the time, the site received a good bit of coverage – especially for a website launch. One article from The Atlantic's title said it all – "Bill Simmons's Grantland Is Doomed Even Before Launch." Last week, Grantland celebrated its two year anniversary.
I'm not surprised. Its early detractors believed it would fail for many of the reasons I thought it would succeed – the identifiable personality of the site's founder and the high-price of the site's talent, to name just two.
Sure, hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to pick the winner two years later. But Grantland's success stems from two core strengths that were evident from the outset:
Fans who care
Bill Simmons – the site's founder – was probably the most widely read sportswriter in the America. The site's consulting editors – Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers and Chuck Klosterman – all had rabid, rabid fans. As content begins to look and feel more and more similar and as eyeballs are splintering in more and more directions, why wouldn't you bet on a core of writers who already have loyal readers?
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That's the most important thing. Always has been. Always will be. Grantland tells stories. They write in long-form. They experiment with formats. They do things differently. They are focused on not just having a point, but having a point-of-view. And while they don't take themselves too seriously, there is clearly a pride in craftsmanship. You get the feeling that the product they put out is not just one they stand behind, it's one they'd read themselves.
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Jessica Simpson has taken husband Eric Johnson's last name, posting an Instagram snapshot proudly proclaiming the moniker "Jessica Johnson" in its caption.
And what a snapshot it is: The star basks in the sun – and, no doubt, the glow of being a newlywed – as she lounges on a pool chair while wearing a festive one-piece swimsuit.
In hand? A refreshing drink to match the sunny vibe.
Simpson, 34, didn't let slip any other details about the pic, although it's not a stretch to wager that the star and her hubby, also 34, are on a rollicking honeymoon following their lavish wedding blowout.
The duo tied the knot on July 5 at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California, in front of 275 guests. The bride wore a stunning Carolina Herrera gown as she beamed alongside her husband, but it was the couple's two children – 2-year-old flower girl Maxwell and 1-year-old ring bearer Ace – who stole the show, drawing a standing ovation from fawning guests.
"Before I walked out, I kept hearing all the applause, so my kids got standing ovations!" the star gushed to PEOPLE, as she soaked up all the joys of her big day.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Wow. I haven't written a recipe column in two weeks. Have I closed down my Sierra test kitchen? No, I was moving. Friends and family are sick to death of me talking about my move, especially since it was only two blocks, but I have not whined about it to this audience, so... Yes, I was moving. Yes, I'm done. Kind of like our summer. The tourei (plural for tourist) are gone. Kids are back in school. Family has returned to the flat-lands. Your best friend's daughter - the one you took in for the summer to get her away from the bad elements in the city - has de-camped, taking your son's innocence with her.
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Glee actor Mark Salling is reaching out to costar Becca Tobin after her boyfriend was found dead last week.
"Losing someone that close – I've honestly never been through anything like that, so the most someone like myself can do is offer my condolences," Salling, 31, told PEOPLE on Saturday while attending Just Jared's Summer Fiesta at Pink Taco in West Hollywood. "That's a tough one."
Matt Bendik, 35, was in Philadelphia on a business trip with Tobin, 28, when the nightlife entrepreneur's body was discovered at the couple's hotel Thursday afternoon. His cause of death is unknown.
For Salling, the tragedy is a reminder of another Glee costar's passing: Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose in Vancouver on July 13, 2013. He was also found in a hotel room.
"Our prayers are with you," Salling said of Tobin, "and with what we went through a year ago with Cory – it's still fresh wounds, and I can't help but associate that feeling with what we went through. But she's such a strong girl, so she'll be all right."
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Gymnasts Open Year at No. 3 Ranked Florida Friday
Ball State's women's gymnastics team, under the direction of head coach Nadalie Walsh, will open the 2013 season at nationally ranked Florida Friday.
The Cardinals will take on the No. 3 rated Florida Gators in a dual meet at 7 p.m. at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. Florida finished second in the 2012 NCAA National Championships.
The Gators and Ball State have met twice previously with Florida winning both meetings. Florida defeated Ball State 197.55 to 191.35 in the last meeting, a 2010 dual meet at Florida.
Ball State welcomes the return of Nicole Allen, who qualified for the NCAA Central Regional in 2011 and 2012. She was an All-Mid-American Conference selection in 2011 and named to the second team in 2012. Allen, who was the co-champion on the vault and the floor at the 2011 MAC Championships, finished 14th in the all-around at the NCAA Regional last season.
In addition, the Cardinals welcome the return of Brittney Emmons, who missed the 2012 season due to an injury. Emmons competed at the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Regional in the all-around and was named to the All-MAC Second Team in each of those seasons.
Other top returnees include seniors Tiffany Brodbeck, Morgan Coslow and Emily Wehrle.
The Cardinals will compete at Iowa Jan. 11, before opening the 2013 home season Fri., Jan. 18, vs. Central Michigan at 7 p.m. in Irving Gym of Ball State's Student Recreation and Wellness Center.


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Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and best-selling author, mesmerized a crowd at Alumni Arena last night with a beautiful story about a woman named Alva Belmont.
The purpose of his hourlong tale, which recounted Belmont's extraordinary life, was to illuminate the motivations that drive underdogs — people who don't have any obvious advantages who still decide to put up a fight.
Gladwell, in glasses, a bright blue shirt and dark blazer, captivated the audience as only a master storyteller could. As the third presenter in UB's 27th Annual Distinguished Speakers Series, he spoke in tones both hushed and emphatic, his voice falling, rising and pausing at all the right moments to create suspense and intrigue.
As a writer, Gladwell is known for nonfiction works that turn to science to challenge common wisdom about why people behave the way they do and why they succeed. His books include "Blink," which examines how first impressions and gut judgments can help people make good decisions, and "The Tipping Point," which explores how trends and social behaviors take flight and go viral.
The latter title was offered for free to UB students, faculty and staff this year through the UB Reads program, which encourages the university community to share in reading a common book each year.
Gladwell's critics say he exaggerates the effect that certain phenomena and scientific studies have on the way people and society behave. But his talk at UB provided a taste of why readers have found his essays and insights to be so powerful.
Like his written best-sellers, Gladwell's story about Belmont invited his audience to rethink assumptions and pick apart intellectual theories. His chosen theme — the underdog — is also the topic of his newest book, "David and Goliath."
Alva, as Gladwell referred to Belmont, was born as Alva Smith in Mobile, Ala., in the mid-19th century before moving with her family to New York City as a child.
Little Alva was a "force of nature," Gladwell said: domineering and controlling, with a keen desire to get ahead in life. As she grew older, she turned her mind to landing a wealthy and handsome husband.
The man she picked was Willy Vanderbilt, "grandson of the richest man in the world," and after their marriage, she set out to become "the most conspicuous consumer in the history of conspicuous consumption," Gladwell said.
Alva purchased 800 acres of Long Island property and had a mansion built on it. She bought an entire city block in Manhattan and commissioned a faux French chateau worth $3 million — in 1890 dollars — and stuffed it full of treasures. Other luxuries included the world's largest yacht, which was so huge that a foreign navy once fired at it thinking it was a military cruiser, and a Rhode Island "cottage" with a facade of white, Italian marble.
When Alva and Willy's daughter, Consuelo, fell in love with a New York socialite named Winthrop Rutherfurd, Alva forced Consuelo to marry Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, also known as "Sunny" Marlborough, instead.
After the wedding, Gladwell said, Alva had a tear in her eye: "The little girl from Mobile, Ala., is now the mother of a duchess."
And then, seemingly out of nowhere, Alva became a radical, a leader in the suffrage movement that won women the right to vote in 1920.
"It would be as if one of the Kardashian sisters were to pull up stakes and move to the Middle East and join Hamas," Gladwell told a laughing audience. "It's not something that we would consider expected, should we say?"
So why did Alva do what she did?
Gladwell thinks the answer lies in a theory of the underdog called "legitimacy."
One common explanation for why people defy authority is deterrence: When the benefit of breaking a law or societal norm exceeds the cost, that's when order breaks down. By making punishments extreme, you can keep the streets quiet.
But this line of thinking isn't quite right because many historical case studies contradict it, Gladwell said.
A competing theory — one that aligns with past events — is legitimacy, he said. Legitimacy has three prongs: It says people obey authority when they feel that all groups in society are treated fairly and equally, that they can speak up and be heard when wronged, and that the laws and rules are stable and won't change in rapid, arbitrary ways.
Look at Alva's life, and you see these ideas at play, Gladwell said.
After Consuelo's wedding, "When that carriage pulls away and that tear comes to Alva's cheek, that's not a tear of triumph," Gladwell said. "That is a moment of tragedy."
Alva had made an incredibly difficult decision. By forcing Conseulo to marry the duke, Alva alienated a daughter she loved.
Alva did it, Gladwell said, to spare Consuelo from leading the existence of a high-society, New York City wife: vapid and tedious.
These women were expected to stay home and run the household. They could not work or get an education or have a public life. Their husbands often cheated. Willy Vanderbilt, for one, was a philanderer with a wandering eye.
The system wasn't fair. Alva wasn't respected. She was desperately unhappy, but there was no one to whom she could air her complaints, who could help her.
And so, beneath the boats and homes and riches, Alva's "life is anywhere but grand," Gladwell said. "She occupies an incredibly narrow and oppressive world."
Brilliant, ambitious and driven, Alva would have been an entrepreneur or run for public office today, Gladwell said. But at the turn of the 20th century, these were not options, so she built enormous houses because that's all she could do. She needed a challenge.
With time, her unhappiness bred a radical mind. She demanded a divorce and got one, a move that shocked her peers and made her an outcast among old friends. In 1896, she married Oliver Belmont, a New York socialite who served a single term in Congress. He died in 1908.
Later, inspired by strong-minded women including her daughter, Alva took her protest further and became a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
She channeled her money and talent into winning women the right to vote. She rented office space on Fifth Avenue so activists could move their headquarters to Manhattan from a small town in Ohio. She planned or participated in events like marches and fundraisers. She saw all women as women united a cause, so she invited black suffragettes to join her, and they did.
And, in 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed, granting women the right to vote.
"The lesson of that triumph applies as equally in our day as it did in hers, and that is, if you deny people legitimacy, they will one day, by one means or another, come back and defeat you," Gladwell said to a hushed audience.


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In line at Subway recently, my 4-year-old turned to the woman behind us and said, "I really like your colorful purse!"
It makes my heart happy whenever Noah does this because I know I've done some good modeling. I learned from my mother the importance of compliments and the importance of modeling for your kids the way they should approach the world with positivity.
How often have we all had those days where nothing seems to be going right, only to have a stranger reach out with a compliment that brightens the gloom? What my mother taught me as a child was that a sincere compliment – even a small one about someone's colorful purse – can give another person something to feel good about.
I can't begin to count the number of times I've seen my mom tell a cashier she liked her earrings or give a waitress a compliment on how hard she was working.
I try to repeat this in my own life by remembering to tell someone when I appreciate what they're doing or giving a compliment on a pretty shirt.
And I love that my kids are picking it up, too. There is enough negativity to go around in the world, and I hope I can help my kids spread a little positive energy where they can.
I can't say it never annoyed me that my mom always saw the good in people and tried to find the positives in every situation, and I certainly can't do it as well as she can. But it certainly instilled in me an attitude that the world is full of people trying hard to get through their own junk. That most people who act like jerks do so because something is missing in their own lives.
My response as a kid was that some people who act like jerks are just plain jerks, and I still think this might be true in some cases.
But I hope I give most people the benefit of the doubt.
Empathy and understanding like that cannot always be explained to a 4-year-old, but they can absolutely be modeled for one. When I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs over a day gone terribly, I instead look around with my kids and talk about what went well. What good things happened between the 37 tantrums they threw or despite the car that broke down and stranded us at home?
So when Noah turns and tells a crabby-looking woman that he likes her colorful purse, I smile and know that I might be really bad at a lot of things, but at least I'm modeling those little acts of kindness that make the big differences in the long run.
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My response as a kid was that some people who act like jerks are just plain jerks, and I still think this might be true in some cases. But I hope I give most people the benefit of the doubt.


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Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces
Coming exhibitions take on matters of gravity, but the best events might not even appear on schedules.
September 13, 2015, Sunday
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Evasive and self-contradictory in person, Agnes Martin put all of herself into her work.
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The influential South African artist reflects on the late abstractionist, whose work he discovered for the first time during a trip to India earlier this year.
October 11, 2013, Friday
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Holland Cotter visits the Met's "Night Vision: Photography After Dark," which conjures memories of a treasured city nightspot: Lower Manhattan.
July 15, 2011, Friday
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Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History
"Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," at the National Portrait Gallery, delves deep into the history of art by and about gay artists.
December 11, 2010, Saturday
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This pair of documentaries exploring two contemporary art visionaries is interesting in that it shows just how different artists' methods can be.
January 10, 2007, Wednesday
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Remembrance of Downtown Past
A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.
September 1, 2006, Friday
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At Dia:Beacon, a light-glinting new installment of Agnes Martin's work from the 1980's, deep and purposeful, like the river flowing nearby.
August 25, 2006, Friday
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LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court on Thursday Sheridan S. Taylor, 21, Salineville Road West, Salineville, was bound over to the grand jury on a tampering with evidence charge. Court documents allege Taylor attempted to hinder an investigation by taking a digital CD from a case file on the desk of a police officer on Feb. 25.
A March 14 preliminary hearing was set for Charity A. Riggs, 19, South Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, charged with theft for allegedly stealing a check from Rebecca Simpson and writing it to herself for $175 before cashing it on Feb. 26.
Susan Jones, 51, last known address East Fifth Street, Salem, was sentenced to 89 days in jail for criminal damaging for kicking out a window and framing at the back door of Wayne Washington's home on Jan. 16. A restitution hearing was set for April 4.
Casey A. Hockman, 27, Roseville, was fined $1,675, had his license suspended for one year and sentenced to 15 days in jail for OVI second offense, driving under suspension, head lights violation, hit skip, failure to reinstate a license and failure to control.
Ray E. Callehan, 46, West Main Street, Salineville, was fined $1,225, had his license suspended for 180 days and was sentenced to 60 days in jail for OVI first offense, hit skip, failure to control and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
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James A. Huff, 37, state Route 558, New Waterford, was fined $250, sentenced to three days in jail, had his license suspended for 180 days, sentenced to three days in jail and required 20 hours community service for reckless operation amended from OVI first offense.
Jeremy Samuel Stanley, 29, North Market Street, East Palestine, was fined $225 for driving under FRA suspension and speeding.
Douglas P. Brayshaw, 24, East Rebecca Street, East Palestine, was fined $150 and required 40 hours community service for assault amended from domestic violence for entering the bedroom of George Gilbert while he was sleeping, starting an argument with him and then striking him in the head several times on Feb. 19.
John S. Brown Jr., 29, Continental Drive, Salem, was fined $100 and required 20 hours community service for disorderly conduct after he had been drinking and was screaming at his girlfriend in public after being warned several times to stop.
Tracey L. Woods, 33, Toronto, was fined $100 unsafe vehicle amended from failure to control.
An April 4 pretrial was set for Amanda S. Heverly, 38, South Union Avenue, Salem, cited with OVI second offense and driving under suspension.
An April 11 pretrial was set for Benjamin H. Wiley Sr., 39, Columbia Street, Leetonia, cited with use of unauthorized plate and driving under suspension.
An April 11 pretrial was set for Thomas O. Binion, 40, Mineral Ridge, charged with OVI first offense and use of an unauthorized plate.
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The Hanahan football team donned black jerseys for the first time and are no longer singing the blues against county rival Timberland.
Instead, the Hawks left Timberland black and blue, ending a skid against their county rivals with a 41-0 victory on Friday.
The Hawks were mired in a 10-game losing skid in the series but dominated from the opening bell. Offensively, balance was the name of the game as they finished with over 500 yards.
"We call our defense the Blackhawks and we wear some black jerseys at practice," HHS coach Charlie Patterson said. "I just felt like we'd all be Blackhawks tonight."
His squad had lost close games to Timberland several times over the last six years but was clearly the better team on Friday.
Bruising running back Quan Wade topped the 200-yard mark and reached the end zone twice. His 91-yard scamper gave the Hawks a 10-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. Then he added a 23-yard scoring run in the third quarter as Hanahan pulled away.
"That's what we strive for, is balance," Patterson said. "We try and take what the defense gives us. Some nights we might run it more. Some nights we might pass it more. We just try to take what's there… I feel like we left some points out there."
"They pretty much beat us in every phase of the game," Timberland coach Art Craig said. "… I knew going in they were a great team."
HHS quarterback Mason Schwerzler threw for over 220 yards and hit Terrell Green for a 25-yard score with under a minute left in the opening half to make it 17-0. Hanahan then blew it open with 17 points in the third quarter.
The Hawks were just as potent on defense and forced four turnovers. Timberland finished with under 200 yards of total offense.
"We don't have a lot of numbers and they wore us down," Craig said. "They stuck it to us."
Kicker Kyle Spigner added two chip shot field goals for the Hawks, while backup quarterback Christian Leakey ended the rout with a 20-yard touchdown run.
The Hawks improved to 2-0, while Timberland fell to 1-1.
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WEXFORD - There are a number of reasons why North Allegheny is the top-ranked Class AAAA team in the state and the top seed in the WPIAL playoffs.
The first is quarterback Mack Leftwich, who entered Friday's first-round game with Altoona with more than 1,700 yards. The second is running back Alex DiCantis. The third is a defense that has recorded three shutouts. Add nearly 100 players on the roster, including Michigan lineman recruit Patrick Kuglar, and you get an unbeaten team.
All of those forces were in play against the Mountain Lions, except DiCantis, who was held out with an ankle injury. Leftwich threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns, backup running back Josh Bergman scored three TDs and the defense pitched a shutout until the fourth, when the Lions scored twice in a 42-14 loss at Newman Stadium.
"That is one incredible football team," Altoona coach John Franco said. "They're in another league, another class. They are very well coached, and they are great players from a great program. All of the publicity they get is well-deserved. They're going to be tough for anybody to beat."
"I'm happy how we played offensively and defensively in the first half," NA coach Art Walker said. "Mack is picking up where he left off last week. He's very calm and level-headed in the pocket and doesn't give up bad plays."
The Tigers (10-0), who rolled up 435 yards in offense, and the Lions, held to 132 yards, exchanged turnovers and an Altoona punt on the first three possessions until Leftwich got it going. The Stephen F. Austin recruit, who completed 8-of-12 passes, threw a 19-yard TD pass to tight end Zach Lyon 4:31 into the game.
It only took one play on NA's next series as Leftwich threw a perfect bomb to Elijah Zeise, who took it the rest of the way for a 78-yard scoring connection. The PAT was block, leaving the score at 13-0.
"I think in the past they've been pretty one-dimensional with just pounding the ball," Franco said. "This kid really makes them explosive. He can throw the ball with the best of any of them, and he's such an innovator when he's back in the pocket. When things break down, he creates."
On the next series, Altoona quarterback Brennan Luciano, who completed 8-of-15 pass for 100 yards, fumbled after getting sack on third, and NA lineman Rudy Ceniceros recovered at the Altoona 21. Six plays later, Bergman scored from the 2, and the Tigers coverted the two-point play.
Gregg Garrity, the son of the former Penn State receiver with the same name, caught three passes for 122 yards. His second catch went for 36 yards to the Altoona 14. Six plays later, Bergman scored on a 1-yard run. Bergman scored on another 1-yard run with 38 seconds left in the first half, and the PAT made it a 35-0 mercy-rule game.
"[Bergman] is a young kid learning," Walker said. "He's got to learn not to put the ball on the carpet, but he's getting better. It's a tough situation for a young guy to be in a playoff game, but I think he grew up tonight, and he'll be better."
Many of the NA starters, including Leftwich, were on the sideline to start the second half. One Tiger who wasn't was Garrity, whose weaving, third-quarter sideline-to-sideline 77-yard TD reception from backup QB Cage Galupi was NA's last score.
"That showed their athleticism pretty well," Franco said. "There were 11 guys that he outran. We didn't quit. We went after him, but we didn't have the speed to stay with him. And he's not even their most explosive kid. He might be fifth or sixth."
The Lions managed two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Avery Howsare scored on a 2-yard run with 9:33 remaining, and Tyler Wray scooped up a fumble and returned it 33 yards to the end zone less than 2 minutes later. Altoona recovered four NA fumbles in the game.
"The thing that I was most proud of our kids is even though we were overmatched, we never quit," Franco said. "They battled from the first play of the game to the last. The only thing that was upsetting was we gave them two easy scores off of two turnovers in the first quarter. That's unusual for us because we have not turned the ball over much this year."
The Lions finished the season with a 4-6 record, one more win than in 2011, and Franco, in his first year of his second stint, is encouraged.
"There were a lot of positive points in this," he said, "but we've got a long way to go. We really need to change the culture of the program. We're starting to do that. We're not even close to where I would like it to be. It's going to take a lot of work, but the kids that we have are workers."
Notes: NA has outscored its opponents 397-51. ... The Tigers will play Bethel Park, a 31-20 winner over McKeesport, in the next round. ... Kevin Given led Altoona in rushing with 35 yards on 10 carries.
Altoona0 0 0 14 -14
North Allegheny13 22 7 0 -42
First Quarter
NA-Lyon 19 pass from Leftwich (Buchert kick), 7:29
NA-Zeise 78 pass from Leftwich (kick failed), 4:03.
Second quarter
NA-Bergman 2 run (Lyon kick), 10:42
NA-Bergman 1 run (Buchert kick), 6:08
NA-Bergman 1 run (Ziolkowski kick), :38
Third quarter
NA-Garrity 77 pass from Galupi (Buchert kick), 6:01
Fourth quarter
A-Howsare 2 run (Savino kick), 9:33
A-Wray 33 fumble return (Savino kick), 7:35
RUSHING: Altoona-Givens 10-35, Mencer 2-10, Howsare 4-6, Barnes 6-3, Luciano 8-(-22). North Allegheny-Idowu 9-85, Bergman 15-63, Leftwich 4-12, Galupi 2-2, Sullivan 1-2, Cully 2-0, Neugebauer 2-(-3), TEAM 1-(-2).
PASSING: Altoona-Luciano 8-15-1-100, Diviney 0-1-0-0. North Allegheny-Leftwich 9-12-0-199, Galupi 1-1-0-77.
RECEIVING: Altoona-Ward 5-45, Diviney 1-42, Barnes 1-9, DeCriscio 1-4. North Allegheny-Garrity 3-122, Zeise 1-78, Lyon 2-27, Coniker 1-25, Edwards 1-13, Cox 1-11.
INTERCEPTIONS: Altoona-none. North Allegheny-Coniker.
First downs713
Yards rushing30-3236-159
Passing (comp.-att.-int)8-16-1 9-13-0
Passing yards100276
Total yards132435
Fumbles lost2-26-4


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text: All new students are required to participate in the Full Meal Plan, most often called the 21 meal plan, but because it includes unlimited dining hall access, it is now called the Full Meal Plan. That means you can enter the two large dining halls as many times a day as you would like during their open periods (see schedule below). A diner and campus pub provide equivalency meals (you can eat one of their "specials" instead of eating in either of the two dining halls), but they are not part of the unlimited access program. The meals are good, the choices are many, the dining facilities are clean and well-maintained, the set-up is creative, and our food service, Bon Appetit, does a great job attending to the culinary needs of students here at Hamilton. There is also Café Opus, an independent coffeehouse that provides specialty coffees, muffins, fruit, and drinks daily. If you have special dietary needs or medical concerns, please indicate those needs on your housing preference form. Please note that dining halls will be officially closed for breaks during 16-17. Students on campus can eat on a pay-as-you-go basis during that time.


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The Environmental Studies senior seminar class invites you to...
Bring us your E-sCRAP!
Do your part for the environment and people in developing countries by recycling your electronics safely, responsibly and for FREE during the week of Earth Day, April 19th - 23rd.
Bring your used electronics to our booth at Westminster's Earth Day, Wednesday, April 21st from 11:00am - 3:00pm, in the Westminster Commons (in front of Shaw).
For big or bulky items, request a pick-up!
Can't wait for the event? Recycle your old cell phones and rechargeable batteries now by dropping them off at the Call2Recycle box in the Environmental Center (Walker 1). It's safe, easy and also free!
Collection event sponsored by Westminster's Environmental Studies program, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Recycling Coalition of Utah.


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EVANS — One thing became clear during a Saturday roundtable on immigration reform: the current draft of a bill in Congress has blurred political lines on both sides of the debate.
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., was joined at the Monfort Family Clinic, 2930 11th Ave. , by about 25 people chosen to represent various levels of community involvement. Later in the day, Udall was the keynote speaker at the Roosevelt Dinner in Greeley, the Weld Democrats' annual fundraiser. The event drew about 120 people.
After a brief explanation of the bill, named the Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, Udall asked for questions about its implementation.
One of the concerns shared by several of the roundtable's participants was the balance of interests between businesses and families.
Sandi Elder, an at-large Greeley city councilwoman and Republican, said the current system has had severely negative impacts on the city. In particular, she noted that a 2009 raid on undocumented workers caught the city by surprise.
"Social Services wasn't notified. It was just a chaotic situation, and I just don't want to see that happen in my city again," Elder said. "I don't think it does anything for immigration other than separate families and cause havoc in our city, where children are waiting at their schools for their parents to return and there's nothing."
Udall agreed, and said raids are a good example of mixed messages from Washington when it comes to immigration.
"(The raid) didn't benefit anybody — employers, employees, your city or the economy," Udall said. "It's important to remember these are misdemeanors, not felonies, that are being committed. And we have different treatment of misdemeanors than felonies. But there still has to be a punishment per se, some accountability."
The bill also drew fire from Glen Colton, a resident of Fort Collins, for its impact on future population growth.
In Colorado, "we already have incredible water issues and so forth," Colton said. "What other environmental or worker legislation could you possibly envision that would offset the negative impact of doubling our population through mass immigration?"
Colton, a member of NumbersUSA, an organization that advocates for reductions in the number of immigrants allowed into the United States, also said he doesn't believe the bill would improve border security.
The bill "provides immediate amnesty to illegal immigrants with promises of future enforcement that are hard to believe, because we've been promised enforcement back in 1986, and several other times," he said. "I think that would be a big job for you to try to solve if you really support that, because I don't see it happening."
The bill, drafted by a group of four Democratic senators and four Republican senators, also takes into consideration the interests of businesses, particularly in agriculture. Mary Kraft, owner of Badger Creek Farm and Quail Ridge Dairy, said undocumented workers make up a significant portion of their workforce because they can't get citizens to stay in the positions.
"You have to be really in dire straits as a person who has lived in a higher level of living to be interested in the sorts of jobs that happen oftentimes in agriculture," Kraft said. "You are working in manure. When we have babies — we have 25 babies a day — you are working in all sorts of amniotic fluid and that sort of thing, and the babies are slobbering milk all over you. It is not a glamorous position.
"But you can't do it with people who aren't showing up for the job."
Overall, Udall said he'll be pushing hard for the passage of a bill that will best fit the interests of Coloradans.
"If we have a final bill, it will probably have elements that some of us will be happy with and some won't be happy with. That's somewhat the nature of policy making and legislation," he said. "All in all, I think it's time for reform. And I'm going to push for it as hard as I possibly can."


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at a post-election
press conference at the White House on Wednesday, U.S.
President Barack Obama called on his political rivals the Republican
Party (also know as the GOP, short for Grand Old Party) to join him
in supporting electric vehicles. He said that while the pair
sparred on many issues, that he hoped electric vehicles would be
something that the two parties would see eye to eye on.The
President will need GOP cooperation if he hopes to push further
grants for the EV industry. While the Democratic Party hung on
to control of the U.S. Senate, Republicans seized a majority in the
U.S. House of Representatives.Obama is trying to sell
Republicans on his
plan to push one million electric vehicles onto U.S. streets
by 2015.Automakers have been partially supportive of Obama's
plan. They've lauded the $5B
USD in special battery and EV technology loans and grants
that he's lavished them with. The legislation to fund these
grants did enjoy a degree of bipartisan support, with some
Republicans jumping on board.However, $10B
USD more in proposed EV loans and grants for the EV industry
was torpedoed during President Obama's first two years in office.
Opposition came primarily from the Republican party, but also from
some fiscally conservative Democrats.Obama tried to drum up
support for more EV grants among both parties at the conference,
stating, "There's a lot of agreement around the need to make
sure that electric cars are developed here in the United States, that
we don't fall behind other countries. That gives opportunities
for Democrats and Republicans to come together."Many of
the big Japanese and U.S. automakers are preparing to release
electric vehicles this year or next. Nissan will release
its LEAF
EV and General Motors Company will release
the Chevy Volt. Next year the Ford
Focus Electric and the Toyota
Prius Plug-in will launch.Automakers have asserted
that grants will be greatly helpful in ensuring that the expensive
research needed to develop electric vehicles -- a radically different
internal architecture -- moves head at a sufficient pace. But
while they have praised the "carrot" side of Obama's EV
approach, they have noisily
criticized the "stick" side of his plans -- a proposal
to mandate a 62 mpg average light vehicle efficiency by 2025.
Automakers were forced to begrudgingly accept a 34.1
mpg mandatory fuel efficiency increase that must be reached
by 2016.Perhaps acknowledging that he faces an uphill battle
to pass more electric vehicle legislation, Obama took an apologetic
tone about the broader bailout, stating, "[Some voters] started
looking at all this and it felt as if government was getting much
more intrusive into people's lives than they were accustomed. We
thought it was necessary, but I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at
it and said this is looking like potential overreach."Very
significantly, the President also essentially agreed to drop plans
to pass
"cap and trade" legislation which would
spend billions
(if not trillions) in taxpayer money to set a hard limit on
the amount of greenhouse gases companies can emit, in a bid to fight
the supposed "global warming" crisis, which some
researchers claim mankind is causing.The President
acknowledged that the bill wouldn't pass the House due to Republican
opposition and argued that he only tried to push it because of the
Supreme Court decision that found greenhouse gases a danger to public
health. That decision mandates the EPA to adopt some sort of
action to fight GHG emissions in the U.S.Obama said that
there's plenty of alternatives to cap and trade, though -- including
promoting lower-emission EVs (centrally produced power, even with
transmission losses is typically lower emissions than small internal
combustion engines). He states, "Cap and trade was just
one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. It was a means,
not an end. And I'm going to be looking for other means to address
this problems."
quote: The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler's posed an excellent question at Wednesday's news conference by President Obama. From the transcript: You said earlier that it was clear that Congress was rejecting the idea of a cap-and-trade program, and that you wouldn't be able to move forward with that. Looking ahead, do you feel the same way about EPA regulating carbon emissions? Would you be open to them doing essentially the same thing through an administrative action, or is that off the table, as well? The President's answer included a claim that is just not true: The EPA is under a court order that says greenhouse gases are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction. And I think one of the things that's very important for me is not to have us ignore the science, but rather to find ways that we can solve these problems that don't hurt the economy, that encourage the development of clean energy in this country, that, in fact, may give us opportunities to create entire new industries and create jobs that — and that put us in a competitive posture around the world.
quote: Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute refutes the President's contention in a post at the American Spectator's blog: The 5-4 majority in Massachusetts v. EPA — and we know how the Left feel about 5-4 majorities effectively making decisions assigned to the political branches or process (coughBushvGorecough) — held that EPA could determine greenhouse gases are 'pollutants' if it chooses to but must ground any such decision in the statute. In short, EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change. Its action was therefore "arbitrary, capricious, … or otherwise not in accordance with law." 42 U. S. C. §7607(d)(9)(A). We need not and do not reach the question whether on remand EPA must make an endangerment finding, or whether policy concerns can inform EPA's actions in the event that it makes such a finding. Cf. Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837, 843-844 (1984) . We hold only that EPA must ground its reasons for action or inaction in the statute. (Justice Stevens writing for the majority). This plainly exposes the president's claim today as factually incorrect. The majority made this decision by determining that "all airborne compounds of any stripe" that are 'emitted' can be called a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. To which Justice Scalia replied in his dissent in a footnote "It follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an 'air pollutant'. This reading of the statute defies common sense." (emphasis in original but, give them no ideas, please
quote: The EPA absolutely must be stopped. They are literally destroying America's economy.
quote: The president also appeared to nuance his stance on a "cap-and-trade" bill to control greenhouse gas emissions through a trading market. Several analyses showed more than two dozen members of Congress who voted for the Waxman-Markey bill lost their elections. And he hinted at a more conciliatory tone between Congress and the EPA, which reportedly will be a target of GOP House committees. "Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. It was a means, not an end. And I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem. And I think the EPA wants help from the legislature on this. I don't think that, you know, the desire is to somehow be protective of their powers here. I think what they want to do is make sure that the issue's being dealt with." Obama twice brought up the nation's reserves of natural gas and mentioned a revived nuclear power industry as an avenue of enhancing energy independence. "We've got, I think, broad agreement that we've got terrific natural gas resources in this country. Are we doing everything we can to develop those? ...There's been discussion about how we can restart our nuclear industry as a means of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases. Is that an area where we can move forward? ...So, you know, I think when it comes to something like energy, what we're probably going to have to do is say, here are some areas where there's just too much disagreement between Democrats and Republicans. We can't get this done right now. But let's not wait."


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Those who like to cook, and especially those who express their feelings through food, always have "go to" recipes for when the going gets tough for somebody else.
These folks are the angels in our midst who make the time and effort to prepare a casserole, bake a cake or put together a salad and bring it to a family bound up in sickness or death.
In these times, the gift of food not only nourishes the body but consoles, comforts and eases burdens. And it has another important function: bringing people together.
Mary Miller of Summerville asked readers to share their best "go to" recipes for these situations (or just to say thanks for any reason). And then she shared her own.
Is this tradition fading? I hope not, but the initial response might indicate otherwise. I think this is a great request that deserves enthusiasm and should be extended another week. So if you have a good "go to" recipe or two, please don't delay in sending them my way.
Meanwhile, here is a dish that Mary often turns to:
Chile Relleno Squares
Heat oven to 300 degrees. Spray nonstick spray on a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread 6 cups shredded mozzarella cheese in dish. Sprinkle 1 or 2 (4-ounce) cans of green chiles on top of cheese. Pour 8 beaten eggs over top and bake for 1 hour or until knife placed in center of dish comes out clean. Cut into squares. Mary serves these with salsa and sliced tomatoes when made for breakfast, just salsa for an appetizer and with a salad for lunch.
I wasn't surprised to hear from Sharon Cook of Charleston, a faithful contributor. She writes:
"It seems that most people tend to go with casseroles, desserts, or deli platters. In order to avoid duplication, I like to make fresh green or fruit salads or chicken salad to offer something different. Recently, I have been using my own pasta salad recipe, which seems to have become a big hit because I use a vinaigrette dressing rather than a creamy one and the pasta salad can be served hot or cold."
Sharon's Pasta Salad
Serves 8-10 people
2 pounds of your favorite whole-grain pasta (Sharon suggests 1 pound bowties or wagon wheels and 1 pound tricolored rotini)
1 tablespoon sea salt
4 cups frozen mixed vegetables
2 cups cubed cooked chicken or ham; or tuna
1 pound cherry or grape tomatoes, cut into halves
1/2 cup each diced onion and bell pepper
1 cup fresh celery, diced
6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup sliced pitted olives (Sharon uses both green and kalamata olives)
1 (16-ounce) package broccoli or coleslaw mix
1 tablespoon Montreal Steak Seasoning blend (or Seasoned Salt)
4 ounces feta cheese, cut into cubes
1 (16-ounce) bottle of a favorite vinaigrette dressing (Sharon uses Ken's Greek Dressing.)
Cook pasta al dente according to package directions, adding the sea salt to the boiling water first. (Sharon cooks the pasta only 5 minutes).
Place frozen vegetables in large lidded plastic food storage container with a lid. Add remaining ingredients except for feta cheese and dressing.
When pasta is done, drain well and add it to the rest of the ingredients while still warm. The residual heat from the pasta will defrost the frozen vegetables without cooking them. Stir mixture until well-blended. Pour vinaigrette dressing over and give it another good stir.
Add the cubed feta to the top of the salad after it goes into its delivery container. (Sharon likes to enclose an extra 8-ounce bottle of vinaigrette to allow for absorption and personal preferences.)
"I always include a short note which alerts the recipient(s) that the pasta salad can be served cold or warm," Sharon says. "I also buy disposable containers to use for this purpose so that nobody has to worry about returning the right container to the right person."
Who's got the recipe?
Remember, the hunt is still on for your best go-to recipes when there is an illness or death or to say "thank you."
A James Island reader says when she sees cauliflower on sale, she wants more options for preparing it other than just plain steaming. She would welcome recipes for making it more of a "dish."
Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call Food and Features Editor Teresa Taylor at 937-4886.


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Wendy Castillo, a single mom and senior business student at OSU-Cascades, said Friday she was "super-excited" to hear that the Bend branch campus has chosen its new home, a 56-acre parcel on the west side of town.
"I'm more excited for those freshmen and sophomores of 2015," Castillo said.
The four-year branch campus choice, a closely guarded secret, was revealed Friday, with a price tag of nearly $13 million.
"We think this will give us a really great start to a four-year campus in the fall of 2015," OSU-Cascades Vice President Becky Johnson told NewsChannel 21 during a visit to the site on Friday.
"It's really very indicative of Central Oregon's environment," she said. "You've got the Ponderosa pines, the High Desert landscape."
It's not all pretty, though – 46 acres were part of a pumice mine – nor was the site the school's first choice.
"A lot of things that we were hoping to be looking at, in terms of existing buildings, have just gotten out of our price range right now," Johnson said.
The timeline to transform the land into a campus is aggressive: "We're hoping to break ground in June or July of next year," Johnson said.
First up is a living and learning center – part dorm, part classrooms.
"If you want to attract students from outside the region, parents want to know that their kids are going to have a safe place to live," Johnson explained.
After the purchase, the university will have about $11 million left to develop the site, bordered by commercial land on three sides and already zoned for the university.
Despite the challenges ahead, students like Castillo have their eye on the future.
"Having that environment, that school environment – you know, the student community," she said. "So I think that is one of the things that this new campus is going to bring."
The full announcement Friday morning from OSU-Cascades:
OSU-Cascades officials announced Friday they have chosen two adjoining parcels on Bend's Westside, totaling 56 acres and costing roughly $12 million, as the new home for the school's four-year branch campus.
School officials will propose the acquisition to the Finance and Administration Committee of the State Board of Higher Education at its Sept. 20 meeting
University officials are planning for a campus that will welcome freshmen and sophomores for the first time in fall 2015 and anticipate an enrollment of 3,000 to 5,000 students by 2025.
OSU-Cascades has operated within a "2+2" model since it was founded in 2001, partnering with Central Oregon Community College for lower division courses, and providing upper-division and graduate courses leading to bachelor's and master's degrees.
While the 2+2 model will continue, the State Board of Higher Education endorsed OSU-Cascades' expansion to a four-year university in August of 2012 and the 2013 Oregon Legislature authorized initial funding for the expansion to a four-year branch campus of OSU.
The properties are located adjacent to each other and consist of a total of 56 acres. They are located near the intersection of Southwest Century Drive and Chandler Avenues in Bend and are a half-mile from the Graduate & Research Center, 1.9 miles from downtown Bend, 1.3 miles from the Old Mill, and 2.8 miles from Central Oregon Community College.
One parcel is a 10-acre undeveloped site zoned for limited commercial use on Chandler Avenue. The seller is Cascades Property Holdings, LLC. The second site, also located on Chandler, is 46 acres, part of which contains a pumice mine and the balance of which is zoned for residential use. The seller is 4-R Equipment, LLC.
In spring 2012, Oregon State University President Ed Ray charged OSU-Cascades administrators with proposing a future campus site that would help meet Oregon's education goals and enroll 3,000 to 5,000 students by 2025.
Selection of proposed sites for the campus was also informed through a space planning study and a survey of available Bend area real estate. The study considered the site's appeal to prospective students, parents and faculty, as well as the sites' ability to attract public-private partnerships that could support the region's economic development. Proximity to COCC was also a factor.
Becky Johnson, vice president of OSU-Cascades said other attributes were also considered important to the campus site selection. She said the location of the properties -- near hiking and biking trails, athletic and medical facilities, and shopping areas -- allows the university to partner with local businesses while focusing state resources on the construction of student learning, housing, dining and gathering facilities.


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PFS Interview – Getaway
BY Alex Gibson
The streets of Sofia, Bulgaria are alive with the Christmas spirit. Garland curls up the lampposts, lights twinkle, and a holiday market has sprung up in the park. Brent Magna comes home expecting to see his wife trimming their tree, but instead finds broken glass ornaments and their apartment trashed. The phone rings. A mysterious voice tells Brent that his wife has been taken and the only way they'll be reunited is for Brent to follow the voice's instructions precisely. The voice's orders lead Brent to commandeer Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Super Snake, along with its owner, and tear through the city until the seemingly omniscient villain is satisfied. This is the plot of the high-octane new thriller Getaway, which recently screened in Manayunk.
The film was directed by co-founder and CEO of After Dark Films, Courtney Solomon. Solomon has made such acclaimed films as An American Haunting, starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, and Wristcutters: A Love Story, starring Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon. On the horizon, Solomon will be working on new action films under the banner of After Dark Action, and a movie based on Dungeons & Dragons. Earlier this month, he sat down with me to animatedly discuss the ins and outs of Getaway, which opens August 30 and stars Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, and Jon Voight.


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(Editor's note: The Morning Journal news staff voted on the top 10 news stories of 2012. This story was voted No. 4 for the year.)
KENSINGTON - First came the announcement. Then anticipation. Then the cranes came in.
In early November-little more than seven months after the announcement that a shale gas collection and processing plant would be built somewhere in the county-the beginnings of the plant could be seen on a small hill in Hanover Township.
Each day more equipment is being delivered to the 170-acre site located between state Route 644 and Tunnel Hill Road, and the gas collection and processing plant should be operational next summer.
Rumblings of the planned plant began in late March, after a meeting of the Hanover Township trustees, who were approached by officials with Chesapeake Energy, Momentum/M3 Midstream LLC and Independent Land Services.
At that time officials would not disclose the location of the plant that would be the first in the county. Later, it was learned the location was near Kensington, a small community not far from the border of Carroll County.
The plant is being constructed by Momentum, and the-Houston-based company has partnered with Chesapeake Energy and Enervest on the $400 million project. It will serve as a collection and compression site for the natural gas from wells being drilled in eastern Ohio and includes a 160-foot-tall tower that will serve as the cryogenic facility that will extract natural gas liquids (NGLs) from the shale gas, such as propane, butane and ethane.
Although the entire project will span roughly five years, company officials expect the plant to be operational in June. The NGLs will be transported from there across Carroll County to a $500 million shale gas storage and transfer hub being built by MarkWest Energy Partners near Scio in Harrison County.
Initial processing capacity has been estimated at 600 million cubic feet per day. While it is the first of its kind here, others are cropping up elsewhere, including neighboring Mahoning County, and they are a by-product of the oil and gas boom that is putting the area on the map in the industry.
(Tomorrow: The No. 3 story for 2012)


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DeLAND—Taylor Cockrell tossed five shutout innings and hit a game-breaking grand slam in the seventh to help lift Stetson to a 10-6 win over USC Upstate in Atlantic Sun Conference play, Thursday at Melching Field.
Cockrell, who finished with three hits and five RBI at the plate, allowed just one hit in his five innings of work and left the game with a 2-0 lead. But the Spartans (16-37 overall, 5-19 A-Sun) scored three times in the top of the sixth and still led 3-2 when Stetson (23-31, 12-13) rallied for eight runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Stetson won despite eight pitchers combining to walk a season-high 12 batters. Hatter hurlers did, however, hold the Spartans to just three hits.
"We swung the bats well enough to win," said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn. "We dodged a bullet. I realize that Upstate has struggled this year, but they had the tying run at the plate in the eighth inning. That's disappointing. As a coach you hope (the walks are) an aberration."
In the seventh, Tyler Bocock gave the Hatters a 4-3 lead with a two-run single with bases loaded. After a walk to Patrick Mazeika re-loaded the bags, Cockrell cleared them with a high drive over the left field fence, giving Stetson an 8-3 advantage.
Kyle Zech and Kyle Pitts added run-scoring singles in the seventh to give the Hatters a 10-3 lead as Stetson scored a season-high eight runs in the inning.
But the Spartans clawed their way back into the game with three runs in the top of the eighth, as three Stetson pitchers walked four consecutive batters in the inning.
Tyler Warmoth was the fourth Stetson pitcher of the inning, and the sophomore right-hander was able to end the Spartan uprising by retiring the final two batters of the frame with the bases loaded. Warmoth tossed a perfect ninth to earn his ninth save of the season.
Stetson pounded out 14 hits. Bocock, Zech and Pitts had two apiece. Kevin Fagan scored twice and Pitts knocked in two runs.
Upstate's Stephen Dowling collected all three Spartan hits, going 3-for-5 with three RBI.
Kurt Schluter (2-1) picked up the win after tossing a scoreless inning of relief. The senior right-hander struck out the side in the seventh, earning his 18th career victory.
Zac Manuppelli (3-6) took the loss for Upstate.
The Hatters and Spartans resume their series, 6:30 p.m., Friday.


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We've added time-lapse animation to the images so you can view movies from any camera of the last half hour, or even search the archive for full hour or day time-lapses from any day in history.
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