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NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: THUNDER v SPURS
May 27, 2014
Scott Brooks
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA: Game Four
Oklahoma City 105
San Antonio 92
SCOTT BROOKS: That was another good defensive game. That's one of the things that we wanted to do when we got back into our building is play the type of defense that we're capable of playing. I thought that was two good defensive games. We used our length and athleticism to disrupt their flow, and a lot of guys, a lot of guys were involved. Russell, obviously he had just a monster game, points, assists, rebounds, low turnovers. Serge obviously came in and came back and had another good game, solid all‑around game. Perk I thought was really good, 10 rebounds, two blocks. Everybody chipped in. The defensive mindset was outstanding. We've got to keep focusing. We've still got things to get better. We're going to watch the film tomorrow and figure out ways to improve going into San Antonio, which is obviously a tough place to play.
Q. You were talking about the defensive effort that you got. What's the biggest difference in these last two games in the defensive side compared to the first two?
SCOTT BROOKS: Well, one, we just played better. We talked about‑‑ that was the biggest adjustments. We played better. We didn't play a good basketball game. Give them credit. They played well. They were making shots, they were scoring in transition, they were scoring in pick‑and‑rolls, they were scoring all over the three‑point line. Tonight, zero points in transition. That was one of our keys going into this series. We didn't accomplish that in the first two games, but we did that tonight. Our activity, our length, our quickness, our speed, and we played with great toughness tonight.
Q. Would you talk about your thought process during the injuries and their quick recovery, what was going on? Do you pay attention to that or coach what's going on in the game? What's in your line of thinking during Serge and Reggie's exits?
SCOTT BROOKS: I was a little worried with Reggie when he hurt it in the first few minutes. I didn't want to make a change in the lineup to get ridiculed, so I wanted to make sure I could get him a couple more possessions. But I liked Reggie coming back and trying to make another effort. It was a little too sore, so we decided‑‑ I decided to rest him as much as I can.
Russell has energy to play back to backs in the same night. We all know that. So I wasn't really too concerned with that. We got Fish back there backing up if needed, but I thought his energy was outstanding. Russell's defensive toughness I thought really set the tone in this game tonight.
Q. Can you talk about Jeremy Lamb, the thought that you did go with him, and if Reggie can't go, will you start him?
SCOTT BROOKS: Don't know. I thought Jeremy came in and gave us a couple of buckets, got to the free‑throw line, he got a nice steal. He has to keep playing with a lot of confidence and give us energy and make impact on both ends. We expect two‑way players and we have to focus on that. I think he was solid tonight.
Q. When you left San Antonio a few days ago down 0‑2, it didn't feel like 2012. You're back 2‑2. Does this feel more like 2012 did with momentum and things going your way?
SCOTT BROOKS: You know, when we left San Antonio, we didn't feel good. It wasn't a good feeling. We were disappointed in ourselves. I was disappointed in myself. I was disappointed that we didn't play the way we're capable of playing. We're not even thinking about 2012. That was a great year, a great time, but we've moved on from that a few years now. The thing I love about our group is we've always been a bounce‑back ability team. We've always had the bounce‑back ability, and that's showed. Unfortunately it took another game, but it showed these last two games. We played with toughness, we played with energy and we played together, and that's been our recipe. We're a good offensive team, score enough points, but our defense is really what we hang our hat on, and I thought we did a good job defensively.
Q. This is now seven‑straight times you've beaten them with Serge. Why when you're at full health do you think you have so much success against them?
SCOTT BROOKS: That's the question. We were just‑‑ no one really knows. We play well with Serge. Serge is a really good basketball player. He's gotten better in a lot of areas. Defensively we can change some things up. We can do what we do with Serge in the lineup that we can't do with other guys, and we try to utilize his strengths and his ability to block shots and alter shots and mix things up with some of the schemes that we do.
Q. Did you want to get your starters out of there and then just felt like you couldn't because of the way their deep reserves played?
SCOTT BROOKS: Well, one thing, they went with their reserves and they're going to keep playing, and the thing about their reserves, they're great shooters. They throw four three‑point shooters on the floor and you have to play, because they can make three shots in a row and that's nine points. If they get three stops, it could be a 9‑0 run. Didn't like the way we finished but I'm not going to let that disappoint what we've done tonight. We had about a six or seven minutes that we just relaxed when they had their reserves in, but give them credit, they kept playing until the final buzzer and that's what we talk about as an organization, and I'm sure they do the same.
Q. KD and Russ have obviously been involved offensively, but it seemed tonight that they were more engaged defensively. Is that how you saw it? Did you see them playing their best game of the series, complete game of the series, both of them?
SCOTT BROOKS: No, I thought the last two games we played as a group. We talk about being a two‑way team, and it's just not talk. We have to have everybody participate in it, and we did that tonight. No matter who we threw out there we competed on that defensive end. That's how we generate energy and generate opportunities in transition. Russell was all over the floor, like I said. He has energy to supply the whole room, and that's how he plays. That's when we're at our best, when he is locked in defensively. He's guarding a really good player. It's not easy. I thought Tony had a really good start, but a lot of it was we didn't get into our coverage and he was able to get into the paint and score around the bucket.
Q. Speaking of Russ, it's obvious that KD is the leader of the team but Russ is kind of the emotional spark plug, the emotional leader. How do you explain the way his teammates react when he is engaged like that?
SCOTT BROOKS: To Russ or KD?
Q. To Russ.
SCOTT BROOKS: You know, he's been leading us for a long time, and he's had‑‑ KD and Russell had a very difficult job leading an NBA franchise at 20 years old five or six years ago, seven years ago for Kevin. But they handled it well. They continued to stay steady and did their job every day, and that's what we talk about. I give them all the credit. They focus on being a good teammate to one another and to the rest of the guys, but Russell's passion for the game is something that we need, and he supplies us with that, and guys respond. He's emotional, he's been a terrific guy in timeouts and halftime. I thought it was another terrific all‑around game for him tonight.
Q. When Russ is looking to pass as much as he was tonight with the 10 assists, how big is that for the flow of your offense?
SCOTT BROOKS: Well, it's always a good balance. Russell is an attack player. He has to be able to score for us, but he's been terrific the balance, averaging over eight assists during these Playoffs I'm pretty sure. But tonight 10 assists. We want him to be aggressive, we want him to attack. That helps our other guys get open shots. Russell needs Serge to attack. That's what he does. He finds Serge for easy, open jump shots. That's what we talk about. I'm glad we were able to execute it tonight. It was a great game, but still, all we did was what we were supposed to do, win our two home games. We still have to go down there and win a game, and we're looking forward to playing a good 48‑minute game.
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Great tips in this thread. I have just bought my bike in London and about to start my Ride report. I have been doing video blogs, edited together, about one per week, so far everything has been by train or plane and so I have not started a ride report yet. Next week will be my first video blog with the bike. I use an Olympus tough camera and just bought a Gopro because I realized without it I was not going to be able to get good footage on the bike.
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The story of our recent technological development has been one of ever-increasing computational power. At some future time we are unlikely to be content with constructing tightly circumscribed game worlds. We will surely begin to simulate everything, including the evolutionary history that led to where we are.
Flicking the switch on such a world simulation could have fundamental ramifications for our concept of reality, according to philosopher Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford. If we can do it, that makes it likely it has been done before. In fact, given the amount of computing power advanced ...
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I think this should be a very competitive fight.
Did anyone hear birds...?
Lets hope for a good fight!
Diego's the "most successful" fighter from TUF 1 eh?
Forrest was LHW world champ and I think Kenny and Kos have had far better post TUF careers. I'd put Diego above Leban, Bonnar and Swick. But that's a classic dumb Joe comment.
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Sports globalization will again be on display this week as the National Basketball Association holds the league's annual draft in Newark on Thursday and the National Hockey league holds the league's annual grab bag in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday and Saturday.
The NBA, the NHL and Major League Baseball have been global entities for a long, long time with baseball signing players from outside of the United States for decades. In the 1960s, the National Hockey league was essentially a closed shop with the league players made up entirely of Canadians with just one American, Tommy Williams and one Swede, Ulf Sterner who played with the New York Rangers.
Today, the National Hockey League teams all feature a good number of young and talented players from around the globe. Canadians, Americans, Swedes, Finns, Swiss, Slovakians, Czechs, Russians and other nationalities who take to the ice but it wasn't always like that.
The globalization of North American sports escalated in 1972 during the Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union. Team Canada took on the Swedish National Team in a pair of exhibition games in between the four games and Canada and the four scheduled games in Moscow. One NHL general manager, Toronto's Jim Gregory, took notice of the Swedish team during the two game series and dispatched his scout Gerry McNamara to a Christmas tournament in Sweden a few months later to evaluate talent.
Gregory and McNamara found two players they immediately liked and felt would be good NHL players, defenseman Borje Salming and winger Inge Hammarstrom. That really was the start of the globalization of the National Hockey League. Both players were free agents, so there was no need to worry about taking them in the draft so Toronto was able to sign them under the radar.
The two players signed Maple Leafs contracts in May 1973 and that would start a revolution that would ultimately change how hockey was played. The Canadian game borrowed significantly from the European version of the game and Gregory was at the forefront.
Salming was a Hall of Fame player.
"I brought Hammarstrom in, Gerry McNamara was our scout and we brought Hammarstrom and Salming in and they were welcomed additions to our club despite what (owner) Harold Ballard said," laughed Gregory who knew Ballard did not like non Canadian players.
"That was his prerogative. Borje Salming was an unbelievable player for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Inge Hammarstrom while he was there did a real good job as well."
Ballard needed to be sold on the addition of Swedes to his lineup and every though he would eventually warm up to Salming, Ballard did say that Hammarstrom could go into a corner with six eggs in his pocket and not break any of them. Back in the 1970s, the NHL was still a league of mostly Canadians although Gregory did his best to change that.
"Actually the Rangers brought in a player in 1964 (from Sweden) named Ulf Sterner and then Detroit brought over a player (Thommie Bergmann) and we had started scouting and Gerry McNamara went over and we were very lucky to get the players we did.
"We had a couple of other ones that should have been on our team. (Anders) Hedberg and (Ulf) Nilsson. We got into a little bit of bidding (with the World Hockey Association's Winnipeg Jets) and we did not win out."
The World Hockey Association was vilified by the sports media for being an inferior product, but the sports media like Pavlov's dog is conditioned to react in a certain way and putting down upstart leagues like Lamar Hunt's American Football League, Dennis Murphy's American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association was par for the course. The truth is that those leagues changed North American sports. Hunt brought new ideas to what was essentially a mom and pop organization—the National Football league. Murphy's ABA is on display every night dressed as the NBA as the old league "borrowed" from Murphy and his associates ideas which included the three point play and the All Star Weekend. The WHA sold the naming rights to the league's championship trophy and pioneered international play and welcomed Swedes and Finns into the league.
Established leagues were staid affairs.
Gregory left the Toronto Maple Leafs and joined Central Scouting in 1979. He fought to bring Europeans into the fold shortly after that.
"I had been to Europe very early when I worked with the Leafs and actually I was part of a committee that hired Jack Button, who started Central Scouting, and when I was let go by the Leafs, the league offered me that job. I had been to Europe and had seen the talent that was there and, of course, had Salming and Hammarstrom as part of the organization that I was with and we had some other players as well.
"I contacted a couple of gentlemen, one of whom who had lived in Toronto and was part of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, and we get together in talking and formed European Central Scouting to augment what was already there for the National Hockey League."
By 1979, NHL teams were very aware of European talent or at least players who could come over from Sweden and Finland. The Iron Curtain countries also had many talented players but Soviets and Czechoslovakians could only come to North America if they defected.
In 1981, Czechoslovakia allowed Ivan Hlinka and Jiri Bubla to join the Vancouver Canucks not long after the Statsny Brothers defected and signed with the Quebec Nordiques. Hlinka would eventually coach the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2000.
It was not until 1989 that players who played for Russia were able to free join NHL teams. The first Soviet player to legally join an NHL team was Sergei Priakin who signed a contract with Calgary. Later that summer, New Jersey added Vyacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov. Sergei Marakov and Igor Larinov were also cleared to join NHL teams. Fetisov and Larionov are members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Gregory said it was inevitable that Europeans would seek to come to North America and NHL teams would hire them "because of the popularity of the World Cup and Canada playing Russia, Sweden and Finland and the US as well."
The globalization of hockey and looking for hockey talent had an effect on the lifestyles of NHL scouts who back in the six-team league rarely ventured out of Canada looking for talent.
"No, I went close (to the Arctic Circle)," said Gregory of one of his initial trips to Sweden. "Salming's hometown is right near the Arctic Circle. When I was with the scouting bureau and you have to go look."


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Category: Fiction/Historical – Paperback: 224 pages – Publisher: Abacus (Hachette) – Source: Charity Shop
First Published: 1996
Orange Prize Longlisted 1997
Booker Prize Shortlisted 1996
Beryl Bainbridge takes on the sinking of the Titanic. The narrator, a 22-year-old named Morgan, brushes up against real-life victims such as John James Astor early in the voyage, while falling in love with the beautiful and unobtainable Wallis Ellery. The deadly maiden voyage of the world's largest ocean liner becomes a journey of self-discovery in this portentous, postmodern work, short-listed for the 1996 Booker Prize.
A Sample Quote: 'But you reckon we'll reach New York Tuesday?' pressed Ginsberg, and the purser replied, 'Tuesday night, yes. Barring accidents,' at which they both laughed.
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As my second read of the current Beryl Bainbridge Reading Week I tackled Every Man For Himself which is Bainbridge's version of the Titanic disaster. I previously tried and disliked this book a lot, but that was almost a decade ago and I have read more since then. :)
This time, after reading and enjoying The Dressmaker, I had more of an idea of what framework and style I was likely to find in a Bainbridge novel.
Like The Dressmaker, the book starts with a prologue that fits into the end of the story. It describes the narrator's moment of trying to jump off the ship, but doesn't tell you whether he or anyone else survives. After that we join our narrator, Morgan, on his very eventful day before boarding the Titanic and then spend four days in his company, knowing that the ship and iceberg are on a fatal collision course.
Morgan is a young man who knows his place in the world but isn't sure what to do with it. Originally an orphan he has been rescued from a life of obscure poverty because he is a relation of J P Morgan and given money, the chance at a career and an entrance into the smart set's social scene wherever he goes in the world. He has been working with Thomas Andrews, designer of the Titanic, and is about to put those newly learnt skills to the test but he is also on speaking terms with the millionaires and socialites who make up Titanic's first class. He's in love with Wallis, a high society girl who he will shortly discover is not so ice maiden-like as his original assessment of her:
'Dancing with her was like holding cut glass; Hopper got it about right when he complained she made him feel he left finger marks.'
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And there is of course the rest of first class to gossip about, an amazing and talented singer from third class who catches the attention of Morgan and another first class man when she attempts suicide and all the staff who are working to make the ship run like clockwork. It should be a fabulous book full of careful dialogue, tragic comedy and pathos.
Unfortunately I did not find it so. I've been trying to work out why the book falls flat for me and I think it comes down to tension and temperature.
Bainbridge is just too cold a writer to make me feel any connection to these characters. I am not sure if this is deliberate and I am supposed to feel that in some ways the loss of the first class was A Good Thing, that this glittering world that opens up and welcomes you only if you have the money or the right name deserves the end it comes to. I just know that I read this and didn't want the Morgans of the world to prosper and continue. Is it hideous that I wanted the ship to go down and only the third class passengers to survive at the end of the book? Perhaps if the relationships on board had seemed warmer than the cold, black depths beneath the ship I'd have felt differently.
The other problem I have with the book is far bigger. The tension possible in this story is completely rejected in favour of foreshadowing. I like foreshadowing as a general rule but here it destroyed the book for me as it dominated everything.
Within the first fifty or so pages Morgan had witnessed the fire in the coal store, the coal stokers working fifteen hour shifts, betting on the speed of the ship and arrival times, met the Captain, the owner of the White Star Line, the designer of the ship and every famous passenger on board, looked at the main staff passage called Scotland Road, seen a telegraph being received about ice… It goes on. Morgan is the perfect character for showing us around the ship but he is used a Cassandra-like info dump of basic trivia we need to know about Titanic to prove Bainbridge did her homework. It's tiresome for anyone who's read anything about the ship or the night she sank and unnecessary for those who haven't.
Which leads me to my final point, why set it on Titanic at all?
Setting it on board a known ship made the novel feel straight-jacketed into a timeline that Bainbridge didn't really explore. I wanted to see more of this world in microcosm. I wanted more knowledge of what happened to the other characters after the ship went down. I wanted more knowledge of what else was going on amongst the rest of the passengers. I wanted to care. Honestly though, after the foreshadowing and random splurges of Titanic trivia and 200 pages of being claustrophobically limited as a reader to following this small circle of very unlikeable people around… I finished this book with a real feeling of having missed the point of the book somewhere along the way and still hoping the water around Bainbridge's version of Titanic was full of sharks with big, pointy teeth.
Ironically I'd urge you to avoid this unemotional fictional account and grab a copy of the non-fiction account offered in A Night To Remember by Walter Lord instead. Based on real testimony from those who survived it's far more interesting and much more moving than this.


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Volunteers to count people without homes in Hillsborough County this week
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Volunteers are taking to the streets in Hillsborough to count how many people donât have a place to live. The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County will also take calls on Thursday to gather information about people without homes or who are about to become homeless. Lesa Weikel, the groupâs spokesperson, said the count done two years ago found some 18,000 people who didnât have a permanent residence.
âWe really donât know what to expect. Itâs a very common question as to whether itâs going to go up or down or how numbers are going to change. What we do know is itâs going to be the best number that we can get.â
Thatâs because the coalition uses an organized process of gathering information that reduces the chances of people being counted more than once.
âWhen we go out and do the count, we just donât go and say, â1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.â We actually have volunteers who engage homeless people and ask them a series of questions - demographic questions â and we get information like the first letter of their first name, the first three letters of their last name, date of birth, state they were born in and we create a string of numbers that is unique to that person so even if that person answers the survey three times, they will only be counted in our numbers once.â
Weikel said the homeless census is needed so that the agency can plan.
âUntil we understand who our homeless neighbors are - how old they are, what gender, veterans, non-veterans, medical-psychological issues, families â we canât plan as a community as how to implement programs to meet their needs and end their homelessness.â
The count also includes people Weikel describes as doubled up. That could mean crashing on a friendâs couch or staying with family.
âBeing able to count those who are doubled up, who are about to become homeless allows the community to use that information for planning purposes as well. We know that these are people who are very much likely going to end up on the street or in the shelters so we need to be looking at that plan as well.â
The count isnât directly tied to any funding sources.
âBut the numbers are looked at and all sorts of federal, state, local, private funding sources â they want to know what their need is and how what theyâre going to fund is going to help reduce that need.â
Volunteers will canvass the streets beginning at 4:30 a.m. Thursday wearing bright orange shirts looking for people who might be homeless. Weikel said they organize the search before hand by finding out popular places for people to sleep like parks and vacant lots, but they also rely on people who are sleeping on the streets to tell them where else to look.
âSo youâre going to have reactions from âI want nothing to do with youâ because they donât trust, they donât believe anything is going to change for whatever reasons to âyes, Iâll do this and let me take you to ten of my friends.â
People who donât have a home or who are living with someone else can call a phone bank to report their situation. Volunteers will take calls on Thursday from 4:30 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. The number to call is 1-800-528-0808.comments powered by Disqus


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For installing ICS you need to install few softwares in your PC:
First install Flashtool 0.9.8 in your PC. You can download the software from here. Install this software, and if you're running a 64 bit windows then start Flashtool 64 bit version. Make sure you have USB Debugging active.
Download the original ICS firmware from xda-developers.
Copy the firmware FTF file to c:\Flashtool\Firmwares
- Go to c:\Flashtool\Drivers and run "Flashtool-drivers.exe" to install the proper drivers for Xperia Sola
- After installing the USB drivers reboot your PC
- Go to c:\Flashtool and run "FlashTool" (if you have Windows 64 run "FlashTool64″)
- Click the flash button (yes: the thunder icon up left)
- Select "Flahsmode" and click "OK"
- Select the "MT27i 6.1.1.B.10″ firmware and click "OK", DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE
- Flashtool will prepare the files for flashing, just be patient
- A Window will pop up asking you to connect the phone in "Flashmode" showing instructions for an old Xperia phone: ignore it, here is how our shiny new Xperia Sola enters "Flashmode":
- Turn off the phone
- Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN key
- Keep it pressed, connect the USB cable to your PC
- Release the Volume Down key when phone's GREEN LED lights
- Flashtool will start flashing automatically, let it finish to 100%
- Disconnect the USB cable when Flashtool reaches 100% and indicates flashing has finished giving some extra info about activating debugging mode etc (don't care, that's optional)
- Turn on your phone (press and hold the Power button for some seconds)
- The first boot takes some minutes, don't worry let your phone prepare your Ice Cream Sandwich for you


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Archive for June, 2009
Dia's Gluten Free & Vegan Chocolate CheesecakeSaturday, June 20th, 2009
It had been a rough week for me, so I needed a chocolaty treat! And yes, this is a vegan cheesecake–no dairy products in this whatsoever! I actually made my own vegan sweet cheese to put in the cake because the UK is lacking in any kind of vegan products. I know in the US you have vegan cream cheese, so if you would like to substitute it with that, it will be quicker. But if you would like to try to make some easy homemade vegan cheese, please give my recipe a shot.
Dia's Gluten Free & Vegan Spicy Noodle SoupTuesday, June 16th, 2009
Dia's Macrobiotic PizzaTuesday, June 9th, 2009
Dia's Upside Down Cake (Gluten Free, Macrobiotic and Vegan)Saturday, June 6th, 2009
I almost fainted when I tasted this cake this afternoon–one of the most delicious desserts I have ever experienced. You may think I'm a little biased, but believe me, I'm my worst critic! For me to say this is by far the most fantastic cake I have ever made, means it tastes wonderful! And it is refined sugar free!!


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It seemed like years ago when Super Fighter Team announced that Star Odyssey would soon be released for the Sega Mega Drive. Really, it was only about six months ago, but anticipation will warp one's sense of time.
Star Odyssey is a full translation of the classic Japanese role-playing game, Blue Almanac. It is an obscure but tantalizing tile that was a Japanese exclusive for twenty years until Super Fighter Team broke the secret to the world. Now, you can own the sixteen-bit title for the Genesis.
Super Fighter Team is known for its authenticity and loyalty to the games of old, and Star Odyssey will come in an authentic-appearing casing with a detailed manual. It is available for USD$40, plus shipping and handling and can be ordered here to update your Sega Mega Drive collection.
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Two new faces injected some new life into Harrow's season. The second half performances of wide-man Chet Johnson and debutant striker Steve Ferguson, newly signed from Tooting & Mitcham, were the catalysts for some vibrant attacking play and Harrow's first league win since 21 January.
There were some changes after the awful evening against Concord last Tuesday. Out went Lee Wootton, Aryantaj Tajbakhsh and Jon-Jo Bates, with Rob Wolleaston, Danny Buckle and Johnson coming in to replace them. Straight from the kick-off Borough looked to have more purpose, and they were in front inside a minute. Michael Barima sent Tristan Toney in on goal, but he delayed his shot and allowed a defender to block for a corner. Johnson's far post delivery was nodded across goal, and although Keith slammed the ball to clear it, Danny Leech got his foot in the way and it flew into the net.
Johnson, looking very lively, had a shot blocked, before bringing down a Toney cross and shooting wide. But the visitors levelled after 18 minutes. Ruel got down the left, Rickelle Christian slipping as he attempted to track back. His cross dipped over Jack Bonham and went into the goal. Bonham saved a shot from the same player, before a decent Harrow build-up ended with Barima's shot blocked and Buckle's follow up deflected wide. Buckle climbed highest to meet the resulting corner from Johnson but saw his header saved by Wray. Gilbey fired wide for the Rocks before a 'route one' attack nearly paid off, Bonham's long free-kick nodded on by Wayne Walters for Buckle to shoot, his effort saved by Wray's legs.
Into the second half, Johnson fired over the bar after cutting in from the left. Collins shot across goal for Thurrock before Ferguson came on after 61 minutes for a misfiring Toney. It took only two minutes for him to have a positive effect. Johnson's corner was cleared to the right, where Buckle chased it down and played the ball infield to Ferguson. His fine cross was swept past Wray's right-hand by Leech, for his second goal of the day.
Ferguson's intelligent movement brought a new dimension to Harrow's play. Johnson's shot was saved, and a Lee Wootton drive was blocked after a Johnson corner was half-cleared. Barima headed wide from a Johnson cross, and Ferguson chased a ball that looked like it was going out, turning it into an effort that Wray had to save with his feet. Johnson then made a mazy run ending with a shot that Wray tipped over. Leech headed the resulting Johnson corner across the goal.
After 88 minutes, Harrow sealed the win with a third goal. A clever Ferguson run created a space for Barima to surge up the right. His cross was intended for Wolleaston in the middle, but Peddie got to the ball first. However, his intended clearance soared over Wray, hitting the post. But the ball rebounded out, hit the unfortunate Wray, and went into the goal.
Bonham saved a late Gilbey shot to ensure that there was no nail-biting at the death.
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Okay, I have deleted the OLD Soft Skin Lights, it was getting too confusing for everyone, I'm sure… and I have uploaded a new set.
Included is four light presets. Two have the key light on the left, two on the right.
The close lights are 200cm away from the studio center, the Far Away lights are 800cm (8 Meters) away from the studio center. Their hight is exactly in line. Not sure why I needed to do that, but I did, I think it'll be useful…
There are ALSO four Material Presets. One is for the LANA texture set.
The rest are for three freebie V4 characters out there and you will need those textures to use the presets.
I was very careful in constructing the materials to work in a manner I think works best, or is (more accurately) as good as I can make them.
Everything in the ZIP file is public domain. Pull it appart, rebuild it, make it your own… if you're selling a character on R.com or RDNA or wherever, feel free to include them (lights and material settings) with your product (credit would be nice, but don't worry too much about that)...
BUt, if you make it BETTER, my only demand is that you share…
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The beautiful landscaping at East Lake Village is maintained with automatic sprinklers. The community features concrete driveways and sidewalks, underground utilities and fiber-optic infrastructure for cable, telephone, Internet, security systems. East Lake Village is located in southeastern Port St Lucie. Port St Lucie has been named the safest city of its size for several years.
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Army Commendation Medal - Army Sgt. 1st
Class Robert J. Arnholter has been decorated with the Army Commendation
Medal. The medal is awarded to individuals who, while serving in any
capacity with the Army, have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism,
meritorious achievement or meritorious service. Arnholter is a cavalry scout-platoon sergeant-instructor with Headquarters
and Headquarters Troop, 5th Battalion, 15th Cavalry at Fort Knox, Ky. Jan
Martin Pennock receives U.S. Army Commendation Medal
Army Maj. Martin T. Pennock has completed his second deployment
to Iraq and has been decorated with the Army Commendation Medal. zwire.com
21 Jan 05
graduate honored for bravery in Iraq The U.S. Army has
honored a soldier for saving a soldier injured when a roadside bomb tore
through a vehicle, killing two others in a convoy traveling south toward
Baghdad. Already a Purple Heart recipient, 20-yer-old Spc. Bianca
Henderson, a medic in the 411th Military Police Company, received a Commendation
Medal for valor in a Dec. 22 ceremony. The Army described her action as
"inherently notable" because her first concern was the safety of
her fellow soldiers even though she was in danger herself. According to the
Army, the eight-vehicle convoy was traveling on an Iraq roadway July 27 when
the bomb exploded, knocking the second vehicle carrying three soldiers on
its side. Henderson, who was in the fifth vehicle, raced to the scene and
pulled an injured soldier to safety. An incendiary grenade from the bomb
ignited a fire inside the vehicle filled with ammunition and weapons, the
Army said. Henderson, 20, treated the injured soldier for a chest wound and
an exit wound on his side as they waited for the air medivac helicopter. ledger-enquirer.com
5 Jan 06
Bronze Star with 'V' device
Capt. Gabriel Barton
1st Lt. Eric Schonbachler
Staff Sgt. Jonathon Ramer
Pvt. Charles Swank
Army Commendation Medal with
'V' device
Capt. Devin Hollingsworth
1st Sgt. Frederico Dottin
Sgt. 1st Class Donel Hagelin
Staff Sgt. Ezell Brown
Staff Sgt. Jesse Burroughs
Staff Sgt. Kristopher Gullixson
Staff Sgt. Stanley Millwood
Sgt. Justin Brown
Sgt. John Kurtz
Cpl. George Anderson
Cpl. Cezar Cruzatte
Spc. Wayne Emerson
Spc. Keith Jones
Spc. Christopher Thoms
Spc. Jason Wilson
Pfc. Henry Cameron
Pfc. Adam Green
Pfc. Jason Meade
Pfc. Craig Moskalik
Pfc. Shawn Myers
Pfc. Michael Zinsmeister
Purple Heart
Spc. Jason Wilson (2 awards)
2nd Lt. Jesse Acosta
Sgt. 1st Class William LaFever
Staff Sgt. Andrew Mangrum
Staff Sgt. Jeremy Stout
Sgt. Jaime Aleman
Sgt. Cory Brassine
Sgt. Joshua Evans
Sgt. Barry Foster
Sgt. Sebastian Pineiro
Sgt. Aaron Westman
Spc. Chad Baker
Spc. Kurtis Durocher
Spc. Bobby Gunnoe
Spc. Damen Gutshall
Spc. Jason McKean
Spc. Damien Muse
Spc. Billy Slater
Spc. Gregory Wallace
Spc. Brad Willey
Pfc. Richard Whipps
Pfc. John Adamic
Pfc. Antoine Cottle
Pfc. Elijah Godwin
Pfc. Joseph Heit
Pfc. Aaron Light
Pfc. Steven Oleson
Pfc. Napolean Register
Pfc. Richard Rosengrant
Pfc. John Salwolke
Pvt. Matthew Schilling
Pvt. Jacob Morang fayetteville.com
6 Feb 04
soldier Bryan Marsh earns Army award for valor Bryan Mitchell
Marsh was patrolling with five other soldiers in an APC 113, a vehicle
smaller than a Bradley tank with a machine gunner on top. They were hit with
a rocket grenade, and all were knocked out. Marsh and another soldier, whose
eardrums had been blown out, were the first to wake up. Marsh's helmet,
goggles, and one earplug were knocked off, but he and the other soldiers
kept fighting. The Gaston soldier helped the soldier whose eardrums had
burst into a Medivac. That soldier was flown to Germany for surgery and was
medically discharged from the Army. For his bravery, Marsh earned a U.S. Army
commendation medal with a "V" device for valor, and may get a Purple
Heart medal as well, since he was wounded. He has hearing loss in both
ears and suffers headaches and ear pain. oregonlive.com 6 May
United States - SF
soldiers recognized for valor in battle Lt. Gen. Robert Wagner,
commanding general of Army Special Operations Command, presented a host
of awards, including two Silver Stars, one Soldier's
Medal and
11 Bronze Stars
for valor.
Group Support Company, Seventh Special Forces Group, was
recognized with the Meritorious
Unit Commendation. Chief
Warrant Officer 2 Angel DeJesus and Staff Sgt. Erasmo Espino Jr. from
3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, were awarded the Silver Star for their actions during a May
19 ambush. The Silver Star is the Army's third-highest medal
for combat valor. When their detachment
was attacked by as many as 200 enemy fighters, DeJesus and Espino
orchestrated a fighting escape and saved many lives, the news release
said. The Soldier's
Medal, the
Army's highest recognition for heroism unrelated to combat,
was presented to Staff Sgt. Gary Wedemann, who earned the award for his
actions on a combat rescue operation in May 2005.
Wagner also presented Bronze Stars for valor
• Sgt. 1st Class
Michael A. Bergstrom
• Staff Sgt.
Elisha R. Bremmer
• Warrant Officer
Luis Chamorro
• Staff Sgt. Jose
A. Guitierrez
• Sgt. 1st Class
Carl F. Harris
• Staff Sgt. Mark
R. Hawver
• Staff Sgt.
Craig G. Kubala II
• Sgt. 1st Class
Antonio D. Pastor
• Staff Sgt.
Brandon B. Pechette
• Staff Sgt.
James H. Sanchez
• Sgt. 1st Class
Joseph A. Serna
Seventeen soldiers
received Purple Hearts:
• Staff Sgt.
Matthew A. Binney
• Sgt. 1st Class
Melvin Candelario
• Sgt. 1st Class
John Fishetti
• Sgt. 1st Class
Eric C. Horton
• Sgt. 1st Class
John C. Hunnings
• Capt. Matthew
N. Johnsen
• Sgt. 1st Class
Richard Lopez
• Sgt. 1st Class
Darren S. Markwick
• Warrant Officer
James A. Mayernik
• Sgt. 1st Class
Sean D. Mullins
• Sgt. Joshua S.
• Sgt. Jimmie L.
• Sgt. 1st Class
Oscar B. Wynne
Sanchez and Johnsen
received double awards
of the Purple Heart.
Soldiers who received double Commendation Medals for
Valor were:
• Master Sgt.
Keith Fedo
Soldiers who received the Army Commendation Medal for valor
• Staff Sgt.
Ariel Aponte
• Capt. James D.
• Sgt. Dustin E.
• Capt. David W.
• Sgt. 1st Class
Gregory Hankel
• Staff Sgt.
Robert Martinez
• Sgt. 1st Class
Johnny Moses
• Staff Sgt.
David M. Nolan
• Sgt. 1st Class
Donnie M. Ochiltree
• Sgt. 1st Class
Eddy Rojas
• Staff Sgt.
Rumaldo Rosas III
• Staff Sgt.
James H. Sanchez armytimes.com 23 Feb 07
sergeant receives Army valor medal Chad Larson, has received
the Army Commendation Medal with Valor for his service in Iraq.
Larson, a sergeant, belongs to the South Dakota National Guard's 200th
Engineer Company. He got the medal for helping build a berm to keep a fire
from spreading while his unit was under enemy fire 35 miles north of Baghdad
in August 2003. aberdeennews.com 10 Dec 04
soldiers awarded medals for prompt action Staff
Sgt. Eric Lee has received the Bronze Star Medal. Lee recently led a
patrol that discovered a large cache of explosives and weapons, including a
vehicle-borne bomb that could have killed many U.S. soldiers and Iraqi
civilians. Soldiers who were in the raid and were awarded the Army
Commendation Medal. Recipients of the Army Commendation Medal were Sgt.
1st Class Miguel Robles, Staff Sgt. Erik Alvarez, Sgt. Roger Allen, Sgt. Kip
Cochran, Sgt. William Cook, Sgt. Dominick Torti, Sgt. Paul Trucinski, Spc.
Chase Breed, Spc. William Cox, Spc. Trey Harold, Spc. Ryan Jacobsen, Spc.
Justin Lowery, Spc. Alan Parker, Spc. Joshua Stapf and Spc. Lou Wetuski, and
Spc. Craig Nelson. shreveporttimes.com
22 Dec 04
soldier wins medal for battlefield valor Sgt. Will
Stover was on security duty when the attack happened. Part of the Army's
Bravo Battery, 1st Infantry Division, 6th Field Artillery Unit, the
24-year-old soldier from Augusta and his five-man crew placed themselves
around concrete blocks that already had been destroyed in an earlier
artillery barrage. Their mission was to protect a road south of Baqubah, a
city northeast of Baghdad. For his quick reactions in the face of that day's
car bombing, Stover and the unit's gunner both received the Army
Commendation Medal with Valor, on New Year's Eve. Stover, who has been
in Baqubah for about a year, already has earned one Purple Heart and
two others are pending -- all for shrapnel wounds. kennebercjournal.mainetoday.com
13 Jan 05
Rock Sergeant awarded U.S. Army Commendation Medal
Sgt. James Kurth was presented with the U.S. Army Commendation
Medal for his outstanding leadership and performance while stationed
with the 4th Battalion, 3rd Air Defense Artillery, 1st Infantry Division
of the U.S. Army in Iraq. newportnewstimes.com 31 Dec 04
soldier awarded medals for valor in action Shilo
Smith of Grannis was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation
medal with "V" device on December 15, 2004 for valorous
achievement while under direct fire in the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan,
according to officials with the 1st Battalion, Bravo Co., 3rd Special Forces
at Fort Bragg, N.C. On March 24, 2004, Smith and his Special Forces
"A" team were conducting a combat patrol when they were suddenly
startled by a man riding a bicycle in front of their vehicle at a very slow
pace. dequeen.com 14 Feb 05
awarded two medals while serving in Iraq
Sgt. Charles "Chuck" Ferguson of Moses Lake, Charlie Company,
1-161st Infantry, was awarded the Army Commendation Medal and the
Purple Heart Medal during his service in Iraq. Ferguson
received the Army Commendation Medal for his performance as a machine
gunner while under heavy enemy fire last May. According to the official
wording of the award, Ferguson was commended for his courage and
initiative under fire and for greatly contributing to the successful
removal of enemy forces from the Jisr-Diyala NAC advisory building. columbiabasinherald.com
14 Feb 05
guardsmen recognized for bravery in Iraq Two Alabama National
Guardsmen have been recognized for their bravery in battle after their
convoy was hit by enemy fire while on its way to Camp Victory, Kuwait, the
last leg on its journey before coming home to Alabama. Chief Warrant Officer
Three Gary A. Clark of Lineville, received the Bronze Star Medal and
Specialist William J. Johnson Junior, of Ohatchee, was awarded the Army
Commendation Medal with "Valor". The 1151st Engineer team was
attacked when some 60 insurgents fired at them in the town of Al Amarah in
Iraq on May first, 2004. Clark, who received his award for his overall
performance in maintaining utilities at the Al Asad Air Base, said the
success at the air base was the result of team work. Johnson was recognized
for shielding Clark with his body and giving him first aid for a wound he
suffered in the neck. whnt19.com 4 Apr 05
receives Army medal for valor in Iraq Spc. Shane Courville,
210th Forward Support Battalion combat medic, has been awarded the Army
Commendation Medal with valor device for providing medical aid to his
fellow Soldiers while under enemy fire. blackanthem.com 2 Apr
vets honored for valor Lt. Chris Gosch recently earned
two Bronze Stars, including one with a V for valor, during service in
Afghanistan. Gosch is among several soldiers with Central Illinois
connections to earn the prestigious Bronze Star medal for service in
Afghanistan and Iraq. During his nine-month stay in Afghanistan in Operation
Enduring Freedom, Gosch conducted about 70 missions with Special Forces
groups, helped train Afghan militia units and conducted missions with them.
Spc. Jeremy Church of Normal, a member of the Bartonville-based 724th
Transportation Company, was the first Army Reservist to be awarded the Silver
Star during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He received the honor in February
for his actions during an ambush in April 2004, when he dodged detonating
explosives and other obstacles set up by insurgents as he drove to a medevac
station. Church's actions are credited with saving the lives of the convoy's
commander, two wounded soldiers and four civilians. Lt. Stephen Rice, 24, of
Godfrey also received a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq with the
233rd Military Police Company, a Springfield-based unit of the Illinois
National Guard. Two days after Christmas in 2003, Rice and others rushed to
an ambush scene where Americans were under fire from insurgents and a bomb
had exploded. Rice's leg was severely injured as a second bomb exploded
while he was helping an injured soldier. After several operations, the leg
was amputated earlier this year Bloomington native Sgt. Luis Sandoval of the
U.S. Army Reserve's 762nd Transportation Company, based in Akron, Ohio,
received the Bronze Star after he pulled a fellow soldier from a
burning vehicle and rescued a U.S. contractor trapped in a car in another
incident. U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class William Ferguson, a graduate of Olympia
High School, Stanford, and a member of the Charlie Company, 1st Battalion,
5th Cavalry Regiment, received the Bronze Star and two Army commendation
medals, one with valor, for his support of the 2nd Brigade during combat
under fire on April 10, 2004, in Iraq. Two soldiers with Central Illinois
ties were given their Bronze Stars after their deaths. National Guard
Spc. Jessica Lynn Cawvey of Mahomet, a junior at ISU, was killed by a land
mine on Oct. 6, 2004, on a main supply route in Fallujah, Iraq. Cawvey, 21,
the mother of a 6-year-old, also was posthumously promoted to sergeant. ISU
graduate National Guard Spc. Jeremy Ridlen of Maroa, died May 23, 2004, when
a suicide bomber drove into a military convoy in Fallujah, Iraq. Ridlen, 23,
also had earned two Purple Hearts and had received national attention
because he was serving in Iraq with his twin brother, Pfc. Jason Ridlen. pantagraph.com
14 Jun 05
home from war, three medals later On November 8, 2004,
approximately 6,000 United States and 1,300 Iraqi troops rolled into the
city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, which had become an insurgent stronghold
and one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq for American troops. Among them
was Corporal Tyler M. Colly, who served as a gunner of a Bradley Fighting
Vehicle. His cool head under fire earned him one of two Bronze Star
medals earned in Iraq. He also received an Army Commendation Medal for
Valor and a promotion to sergeant. hesperiastar.com Jul
cop wins Bronze Star with valor in Iraq When the
mortar rounds hit at the Abu Ghraib base in Iraq, Plymouth's Philip R. Rand
Jr. moved into action quickly.Rand, 33 — a police officer in Bridgewater
was one of two state Guardsmen who received the Bronze Star with
"V" for valor for helping to repel the insurgent attack on
April 2. Rand and Master Sgt. Joe Young, 52, of Orange, were awarded the
medal in a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib, 32 kilometers west
of Baghdad. Three others who helped repel the attack received the Army
Commendation Medal with "V" for valor. Sgt. Jimmy Lok, 28, of
Randolph, Staff Sgt. Christopher Yarger, 38, of North Attleboro and Sgt.
William Gates, 28, of Belmont received the commendation medals. enterprise.southofboston.com
24 Aug 05
trio earns medals for saving Iraqis Labor
Day 2005 will be a day to remember for three Soldiers who were awarded
medals that day for risking their lives to rescue four Iraqi National Guard
members during an insurgent attack earlier this year. Staff Sgt. Javier
Echols and Sgts. Matthew Acosta and Zachariah Collett of the 108th Military
Police Company from Fort Bragg, N.C. received the medals from Multi-National
Corps-Iraq Commander Lt. Gen. John R. Vines in a ceremony here Sept. 5. On
the morning of April 30, Echols, Acosta and Collett, were patrolling a main
supply route as part of squad Warlord 11 when an improvised explosive device
detonated nearby. A transport vehicle filled with Iraqi National Guard
Soldiers was hit by the blast. Echols, who received the Silver Star
for his bravery, led his team in the rescue of four ING Soldiers who were
wounded in the explosion. Exposed to dangerous crossfire between insurgents
and ING Soldiers, the trio moved the wounded to safety and administered
medical aid until an evacuation helicopter arrived on the scene. For one
wounded Iraqi Soldier, the team crafted a makeshift stretcher from a piece
of metal that had been blown from the transport truck in the explosion. As a
result of their actions, Acosta received the Bronze Star Medal for valor
while Collett earned an Army Commendation Medal for valor. army.mil
13 Sep 05
Force Reservists to Receive Army Medal "Join the Air
Force, Serve with the Army" may be a new twist to an old recruiting
slogan. In fact, five airmen with the Air Force Reserve's 908th Airlift Wing
based here, did such a good job that the Army is recognizing their
contribution to America's senior service during their year in Iraq. In
December, they will receive the Army Commendation Medal for their
service. "The wing was tasked to provide vehicle operators to serve in
Iraq," said Air Force Master Sgt. George Campbell. "We
volunteered." Master Sgt. Vera Berry, Staff Sgt. John Traum, Tech. Sgt.
Steven Smith and Tech. Sgt. Cynthia Blais joined Campbell as they served
with their sister service in Balad. In early 2004, the Army needed
transportation units to supply the Army and Marine forces in Iraq. Air Force
and Navy personnel volunteered to help their ground-pounder colleagues. defenselink.mil
11 Sep 05
finally receives award for Vietnam valor Allen
Paul has received a Bronze Star he earned 37 years ago as a Private
First Class serving in "the Nam.". Paul earned the medal when he
rushed across an open area under enemy fire to tend to wounded comrades.
"I remember after everything was over sitting under a tree in the
rain," Paul said. "We were all so tired. "The lieutenant came
up and said he was putting me in for the medal. He showed me the muddy
letter he had written." But medals were being awarded by an allocation
system then. Only so many Bronze Stars were given each month. Paul didn't
get his. Instead, he received an Army Commendation Medal. In the
intervening years, the Army reconsidered its allocation policy. Pence heard
about Paul's situation and two years ago started the paperwork to rectify
the situation. The Bronze Star that Paul received this month is his second.
His first was for meritorious service during a battle in which Paul's unit
participated. The ribbon worn for the first medal carries the "M"
device. The second medal will have the "V" for valor. pal-item.com
16 Oct 05
Guardsman receives Army medal Sgt. Christopher S. Searcy of
Harrodsburg has been awarded the Army Commendation Medal while
serving in Kuwait. Searcy was awarded the commendation for helping to save a
fellow soldier from injury and a helicopter. He was in Kuwait working the
night shift, helping to unload Black Hawks. According to the award
recommendation documents, when one of the helicopters was coming off a boat,
it slipped on a ramp and jackknifed. Searcy tied the aircraft down and
prevented the helicopter from falling down the ramp. His action prevented
extensive damage to the helicopter and possible injury to the soldier
driving the boat. amnews.com 18 Oct 05
soldier earns medal for actions Specialist Scott
Lenhart, who is stationed at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee border,
returned from Iraq in June after driving a Freightliner tractor — pulling
a 40-foot trailer there for a year — in the 594th Transportation Company.
On Nov. 8, 2004, the humvee lead gun truck was hit by a bomb near Fallujah.
The explosion punctured the humvee's fuel tank, igniting fuel on the road,
and the shrapnel hit the humvee's driver in the elbow, Lenhart said. The
incident earned Lenhart an Army Commendation Medal with Valor. The
interchange is considered one of the most dangerous sections of road in
Iraq. The convoy was returning to its base camp at Taji, 17 miles north of
Baghdad. "SPC Lenhart heroically distinguished himself by exceptionally
valorous conduct under fire by coming to the aid of fellow soldiers,"
the narrative states. vindy.com 9 Oct 05
For Broke' unit wins 10 medals for bravery For
displaying bravery under fire during an August ambush, 10 members of the
"Go For Broke" 100th Battalion, six of them from Hawaii, will
receive the Iraq-deployed unit's first Army Commendation
medals with valor devices.
The medals are for valor displayed by members of Charlie
Company's 3rd Platoon, which survived a harrowing early-morning, three-hour
ambush in which one Iraqi Army soldier was killed and two others were
wounded. They are: Sgt. 1st Class Alfred Tachera, Sgt. Orlando Ulep, Spc.
Michael Correa, Sgt. Lafaele Faatamalii, Spc. Harry Mahoe, Spc. James
Inabnitt. Also honored were: Spc. Cameron Ortega, Spc. Christopher Panzier,
Spc. Dustin Mendoza, and Spc. Daniel Weinland. Of the nearly 800 awards and
citations given to the battalion since it was mobilized in August 2004,
these were the first for heroism under fire. To date, at least 46 Purple
Heart medals have been awarded. starbulletin.com 4 Dec 05
Security Squadron 2 Sailors Receive Army Awards An awards
ceremony was held to honor Sailors from Mobile Security Squadron 2, who
recently supported Army exercise Bright Star in the Egyptian desert. Army
Maj. Efran Delacruz, from the 3rd Transportation Command Element, presented
14 Sailors with the Army Achievement Medal and Army Commendation
Medal for "a job well done" while they were deployed to Dukaylah,
Egypt, in support of exercise Bright Star. Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SW)
John Brooks, a member of Mobile Security Detachment 27's boat team.
Gunner's Mate 3rd Class John Joyce, a member of Detachment 21. Detachments
21 and 27's primary mission was to provide waterborne security to the
Military Sealift Command (MSC) assets in Egypt. Chief Master-at-Arms (SW)
Darryl Everett from Detachment 21. Lt. Todd Mills was presented the Army
Commendation Medal. news.navy.mil 6 Dec 05
given award for valor Mention the 2003 Battle of Hadithah Dam
to any Ranger and watch him swell with pride.The Army thinks so highly of
the performance by the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment that it recently
honored the outfit with the Valorous Unit Award, second in unit
awards only to the Presidential Unit Citation. According to the award
citation, the Fort Benning-based Rangers, then part of a joint task force
engaged in an intense battle during the opening days of Operation Iraqi
Freedom, displayed extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy
from March 30 through April 9, 2003. Their mission: Seize the enemy-occupied
Hadithah Dam in Iraq to obtain a communication line across the Euphrates
River and to prevent the enemy from destroying the dam. Previously, four
Rangers received the Silver Star, 11 received the Bronze Star
Medal for Valor, five received the Purple Heart, 20 received Army
Commendation Medals for Valor, 15 received the Bronze Star Medal
and 71 received the Army Commendation Medal for this mission. The 3rd
Battalion last received the Valorous Unit Award for actions while deployed
to Somalia in 1993. ledger-enquirer.com 13 Dec 05
of Defense honors Bayonet Soldiers Capt.
William Swaims (Arkansas), a combat surgeon with Charlie Company, 173rd
Support Battalion (Airborne) was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor
for actions on July 25 in the village of Stah Chow in Oruzgan Province,
Afghanistan. Spc. Michael Vertucci (Fishers, IN), serving with Delta
Company, 165th Military Intelligence Battalion, was awarded the Bronze
Star with Valor for actions on June 21 in Miena Shin district, Zabul
Province, Afghanistan. Master Sgt Richard Steele (Florida), 1st Battalion,
3rd Special Forces Group, received the Purple Heart for wounds
received in action during an operation in southern Afghanistan. Capt.
Matthew Peterson (Eugene, OR), Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry, Sgt.
Angel Cortez (Willos, CA), Delta Company, 113th Aviation Regiment, and Spc.
Jose Rhodes (Texas), Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment,
received the Air Medal with Valor for actions taken during May and
June of 2005 in southern Afghanistan. Sgt. Kenneth Stover (Philadelphia,
PA), and Sgt. Angel Sanchez were awarded the Army Commendation Medal with
Valor for actions taken on July 25 in the village of Stah Chow in
Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan army.mil 28 Dec 05
Nesiba receives medal of valor
Eric Nesiba tries not to think about the 21-year-old female soldier who died
in his care in Iraq. "I pray for her every night," Nesiba, 39, of
Kearney said. "I just put it out of my head. I saw so much death over
there." It was October 2005 when Nesiba, a sergeant with Lincoln's 313th
Medical Company of the U.S. Army National Guard, and Spc. Donald Harrer of
Lincoln, both combat medics, tended to nine injured people, three U.S.
soldiers and six Turkish truck drivers, after their convoy was indirectly
hit by several improvised explosive devices. Nesiba and Harrer's convoy
still was under fire as they treated patients. For their efforts that day,
Nesiba and Harrer today received the Army's Commendation Medal for
Valor for heroism under fire. Nesiba and Harrer are two of 17 Nebraska
National Guard soldiers who were honored with either the Bronze Star of
Valor, the Army Commendation Medal for Valor or the Purple Heart for service
during Operation Iraqi Freedom. kearneyhub.com
22 Feb 06
Guard soldiers honored Complete
list of recipients:
Bronze Star with Valor
Spc. Jennifer Beck
Spc. Joshua Birkel
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Michael Sharples
Purple Heart
Staff Sgt. Jeremy Preister
Sgt. Terence Ricketts
Sgt. Matthew Rouse
Sgt. Chad Schroetlin
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Justin Diggins
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. John Harris
Spc. Kelsey Lamb
Spc. Fenton Phan
Spc. Rachelle Spors
Army Commendation Medal with Valor
Sgt. Eric Nesiba
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. Donald Harrer
Spc. Nathan Reitz journalstar.com 24 Feb 06
Bronze Star with Valor
Spc. Jennifer Beck
Spc. Joshua Birkel
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Michael Sharples
Purple Heart
Staff Sgt. Jeremy Preister
Sgt. Terence Ricketts
Sgt. Matthew Rouse
Sgt. Chad Schroetlin
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Justin Diggins
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. John Harris
Spc. Kelsey Lamb
Spc. Fenton Phan
Spc. Rachelle Spors
Army Commendation Medal with Valor
Sgt. Eric Nesiba
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. Donald Harrer
Spc. Nathan Reitz journalstar.com 24 Feb 06
Bronze Star with Valor
Spc. Jennifer Beck
Spc. Joshua Birkel
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Michael Sharples
Purple Heart
Staff Sgt. Jeremy Preister
Sgt. Terence Ricketts
Sgt. Matthew Rouse
Sgt. Chad Schroetlin
Spc. Richard DeLancey
Spc. Justin Diggins
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. John Harris
Spc. Kelsey Lamb
Spc. Fenton Phan
Spc. Rachelle Spors
Army Commendation Medal with Valor
Sgt. Eric Nesiba
Spc. Jacob Graff
Spc. Donald Harrer
Spc. Nathan Reitz journalstar.com 24 Feb 06
Security Forces officer receives Bronze Star, team earns medals
The commander of the 66th Security Forces Squadron received
the Bronze Star Medal for his service in direct support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom during the 66th Air Base Wing commander's call Feb. 15. Maj.
Michael E. Gimbrone, along with three noncommissioned officers from the 66th
SFS, received awards for their efforts while deployed to Southwest Asia
during the first half of 2005. The team stood up the first-ever purely U.S.
Air Force unit responsible for law and order operations at a U.S. Army
installation within Iraq. Among the NCOs who were recognized, Master Sgt.
Jody L. Laffon received the Meritorious Service Medal for contraband
sweeps, unit morale assurance, and personnel and equipment accountability.
Sergeant Laffon seized two rifles, more than 100 bottles of alcohol and
unauthorized cellular phones, military articles, ballistic vests and digital
cameras. Seizing this contraband material prevented their use in future
possible terrorist attacks. Staff Sgt. Jason R. Lussier earned the Army
Commendation Medal for his services as noncommissioned officer in charge
of the supply section, crime scene photographer and member of a contraband
sweep team. Sergeant Lussier's efforts safeguarded $500,000 worth of
military equipment, provided key photographic evidence to military
investigations, and uncovered possible intelligence gathering equipment and
weapons leading to investigations of six people. Staff Sgt. Theodore R. Yost
II also received the Army Commendation Medal for his work in customs,
victim response and investigation assistance. Sergeant Yost detained one
suspect after an intelligence-based sweep of local national interpreters,
which protected against possible bomb-making materials. He also assured no
harmful materials were transported into the continental U.S. while working
with the customs division. blackanthem.com 3 Mar 06
Shot Airman Receives Army Medal
A Barksdale Airman who survived three bullet wounds delivered by a
California deputy, is now back at the base, where he just received a medal
from the army. It was a chilling scene caught on tape back on January 29th, as
a San Bernadino County deputy shot Barksdale Senior Airman Elio Carrion.
On the tape, it happens right after you hear the deputy, Ivory
Webb, telling Carrion to get up. Just before the shooting,
Carrion had been a passenger in a high-speed chase. That deputy is now
awaiting trial on a charge of attempted 'voluntary' manslaughter. But
that's not where this story ends. At an award ceremony at
Barksdale Air Force Base, Major Kevin Cullen, the Commander of the 2nd
Security Forces Squadron handed Carrion the Army Commendation Medal
for his achievements during his 6-months of service in Iraq, last year. ksla.com
4 Aug 06
Brown and Vallee awarded Army's Commendation
Medal State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, and
state Rep. James Vallee, D-Franklin, were awarded the Army's
Commendation Medal on Nov. 5. This award is presented to servicemen
and women for sustained acts of heroism and meritorious service,
specifically in Brown and Vallee's case for their service in Homeland
Security efforts following Sept. 11, 2001, and for their support in
preparation for deployment of National Guard troops around the world.
"It is humbling to receive this recognition," said Brown, who is a
major in the National Guard. "I am very proud to serve our country and
it was a privilege to help our brave men and women as they readied for
deployment." Brown has served for the past 27 years. "I am honored to
have been a part of this process," said Vallee, also a major in the
National Guard, with 14 years of service. "This award serves as a
reminder to me of the great experience I had with helping prepare other
soldiers for service." milforddailynews.com 13 Nov
Lexa soldier receives Medal of Valor in
Iraq A Phillips County soldier, who will turn 21 on Dec.
2, has been awarded one of the Army's top honors. Specialist Kenneth
Howie, of Lexa, who pulled his commanding officer out of a burning
vehicle after it had been struck by rocket fire, was presented with the
Medal of Valor. Specialist Howie was injured himself in the blast. Howie, of the A/3-67 Arkansas Unit, is serving in
Rustamiah, Iraq, just
south of Baghdad. He was the driver for Capt. Matt Holmes during a
routine operation patrol. On Sept. 9 a vehicle borne explosive device
struck the passenger side of the HUM-V and exploded. Smoke and debris
engulfed the vehicle. Howie quickly dismounted and attempted to put out
the fire. When he realized that Holmes was injured, he began to pull him
from the vehicle. Howie's quick actions saved the life of his commander.
The massive explosion injured all three passengers. Holmes, the truck
and company commander, suffered a shattered right arm and a fractured
pelvis. The gunner, Specialist Brent Whitten, also suffered a fractured
pelvis. Howie sustained a deep laceration on his chin and was left dazed
from the blast. For his brave actions, Howie received the Army's
Commendation Medal for Valor, a Purple Heart, a Combat
Infantry Badge and Hound Herald Hero award. helena-arkansas.com10 Nov 06
awarded Army Commendation Medal Capt. Michael L.
Wallace was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for
his exceptional meritorious service during mobilization training.
"Capt. Wallace performed an unprecedented accomplishment by
producing a comprehensive unit newspaper two or three times each week
despite training with his unit for their overseas Operation Iraqi
Freedom mission," said Col. Robert J. Staiert, 635th Regional
Support Group (RSG) Commander. Wallace is the Public Affairs Officer
for the 635th Regional Support Command, headquartered in Hutchinson,
Kansas, which is now deployed to Southwest Asia. His area of
responsibility includes Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and
parts of Africa, forcing him to travel to these areas and supervise
operations in public affairs. "This newspaper was crucial to the
unit, as it informed the many soldiers being deployed about their
training, what to expect on their deployment, and it raised their
morale. It was also crucial to the family members that they left
behind, as it contained information they needed in case they required
help during the deployment, and it was crucial for a major part of the
Army, that of the historic value-keeping a record of the 635th RSG's
deployment, and mission being accomplished. augustagazette.com
27 Dec 06
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I just received this ring and being a pearl lover instantly loved it. It is simple, understated and elegant, however the prongs holding the diamonelle catch on everything. I choose a size 9 for comfort and it fits quite tight. I would agree that this is not an everyday ring!
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I was overjoyed to see you giving Jochen Flasbarth space to dismantle the pro-nuclear fission claims (18 May, p 24) and noticed that he did not answer his own question as to why governments keep building fission reactors.
One answer, of course, is that they provide the means to make nuclear weapons for some.
Fusion and renewables have always made the most sense.
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