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Elmer L. Gifford, 79, of Stuttgart went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. He was born in Hagler on June 18, 1933.
He was a retired miller with Riceland Foods, a Mason, member of Eastern Star and member of Southside Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Walker and Althay Wilson Gifford; two sisters, Barbara Gifford and Willie Jean Ponder.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Brenda Reaves Gifford; one son, Todd Gifford; one granddaughter, Shelby Gifford; two brothers, Andrew Gifford of Texas and Algie "Pat" (Brenda) Gifford of Oark; three sisters, Joyce Ponder of Little Rock, Peggy Gallardo of Montana, and Hellen Vaughan of Coal Hill; and many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Funeral services are 10 a.m. Tuesday at Turpin Funeral Home chapel with burial following in Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery.
Visitation is 5-7 p.m. Monday at Turpin Funeral Home.
The family requests memorials may be made to Southside Baptist Church.
Please go to www.turpinco.com to sign the online guestbook.
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Err, you know that smoke grenades have been used in ops since ww1? And a smoke machine are often used on APC, there is even a M113 version that can produce enough of it to cover a armored bataillon. Smokes are a must in open ground situation. Well the disco ball thing might be a good idea tough since most pilots have their own mix. They like to play DG while they get to their drop point.
Still, smoke, it's not only a cigarette, it screen you from the ennemy.

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a) A term used in boardsports for getting up, standing sideways, and enjoying the ride.
b) A term used by Burton Snowboards recruitment to describe when one embarks on a fulfilling career in boardsports.
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I am restoring/updating my 1996 GF Paragon. Should be done soon and training starts.
I'm 6'1" 267. My goal is to get down to at least 210 or lower by December 2013.
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Skechers tones up distribution center
In the receiving department, cartons are palletized for putaway in a very narrow aisle reserve storage area.
Skechers USA, the No. 2 footwear company, is known for its Shape-ups line of fitness shoes that are designed to "change your life by changing the way you walk." The idea is that a good design can make us more efficient and effective in the things we do every day.
Skechers took a similar approach in the design of its new 1.82-million-square-foot, $225 million distribution center in Rancho Belago, an inland community about 80 miles west of the port in Long Beach, Calif., where Skechers imports all of its footwear and athletic gear.
The DC consists of three distinct areas of work, each measuring about 600,000 square feet. Two areas are devoted to receiving with about 400,000 square feet of reserve storage in each; the space in the middle is dedicated to order fulfillment and shipping.
The new facility shapes up distribution processes by consolidating activities that were once spread across 1.7 million square feet and five leased facilities in southern California into one highly automated DC to handle all of the footwear company's North American distribution.
"Each of those buildings had different equipment and each handled a different piece of the order fulfillment process," says Paul Galliher, senior vice president of global distribution. "We spent a lot of money due to the additional handling required to move product between buildings for the order fulfillment processes."
The new facility is not only one of the largest distribution centers in California, it was designed to be one of the most efficient. Although the facility is just now going live, Skechers worked with a systems integrator (Wynright) to design an automated materials handling system that not only minimizes the number of times a pair of shoes is handled between receiving and shipping, but is capable of managing an inventory of 70,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) and processing approximately 17,000 pairs of shoes per hour. That's more than double the 7,000 pairs per hour handled in its old buildings.
The number of times a product is touched between receiving and shipping has been reduced by at least 50%. Similarly, the new facility requires about 300 employees for average volumes and an estimated 500 during peak periods. That is less than half of the 1,200 associates used during peak periods when Skechers was operating five DCs.
At the heart of the system are two mini-load automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS; Daifuku Webb):
One is a 12-aisle system with 58,000 square feet of storage space and nearly 106,000 storage positions. This system was implemented to store partially filled master cartons, known as loose picks in the Skechers facility.
The other is a 44-aisle system with 150,000 square feet of space and more than 257,000 storage positions. This system holds packed orders until they are ready to ship.
Both mini-load AS/RS units are able to accommodate a random range of carton and box sizes, from 34 x 24 inches to 10 x 10 inches. Both also use motor driven roller conveyor and transfer stations to sort cartons rather than conventional sortation technology.
In addition to the two mini-loads, Skechers installed a cross-belt sortation system to feed the facility's packing stations; energy-saving motor driven roller conveyor; a narrow-belt shipping sorter servicing 26 shipping door accumulation lanes; an estimated 800,000 square feet of very narrow aisle reserve storage area; and a 135,000-square-foot mezzanine that was the winner of the 2011 design award from the Steel Joist Institute. The mezzanine is used for value-added services, print and apply, and taping prior to shipping.
The facility allows Skechers to meet two important strategic goals: It consolidates operations, and it sets the stage for continued growth.
"This is the first time since 1995 that we have had all of our North American distribution under one roof, and back then we were a much smaller company," Galliher says. "We also have options on the adjacent property. That will allow us to expand in the same area if we outgrow this facility."
And while it is one of the largest distribution centers in California and the largest LEED-certified building in North America, 1.82 million square feet under-represents just how big the facility really is. "We have 45-foot ceilings and use all very narrow aisle racking for reserve storage in addition to the two AS/RS," says Galliher. "If this were a traditional DC with 30-foot ceilings and conventional pallet rack, we would need significantly more space."
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David Perry: The future of Australia's Renewable Energy Target
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- 08 April 2013
David Perry, Research and Program Manager Australia, The Climate Group, takes an in-depth look at Australia's reconfirmed Renewable Energy Target.
Last month the Australian Government re-affirmed its support for the Renewable Energy Target (RET) at its current level of 41,000GWh in 2020. Despite being now considered the poor cousin to the carbon price (introduced in July), the RET has been immensely successful at getting serious amounts of renewable energy onto the grid, and at a very modest cost to consumers.
Its great strength over the much more contentious carbon price has been a modicum of stability. Up until recently it enjoyed clear bipartisan support, and provides some direct assurance that energy prices will remain sufficient to support the infrastructure investment that will be required for a Clean Revolution. Its market structure means that renewable generators are in competition with one another to provide clean energy at the lowest cost, in contrast with fixed feed-in tariffs.
But for all its success, the RET has been chaotic.
It initially supported rooftop PV, solar/heat pump hot water and utility-scale renewables (principally onshore wind) under a single banner, despite the vastly different scales of investment involved. In 2011, a "solar multiplier" was dreamt up to maintain rooftop PV installations following the sudden cessation of a separate scheme, treating solar as if it generated up to five time more electricity than it was actually capable of. This caused RET certificate prices to tumble, and utility-scale wind projects to struggle. The multiplier has now been wound up, but the damage is still reverberating.
At the latest biennial review of the policy, the RET faced the prospect of yet more tinkering, this time the overall target being in question. While the RET is technically set at 41,000GWh per year, it was sold to the public as a more readily understood 20% by 2020 target. This is hard to define in practice, as we don't know what demand will be in 2020. Nonetheless, a forecast was made at the scheme's inception, and that's how we wound up with the current target.
However, from 2010 onwards, something quite unexpected has occurred in the Australian electricity market.
Up until then, growth in demand, ostensibly coupled to growth in GDP and population, was universally expected to continue. But demand has in fact gone down since 2010, and is now about 10% below where it was forecast to be. The market operator still expects growth to continue after this year, but all bets are now off. Everyone seems horribly shocked to learn that this energy efficiency thing (coupled with prodigious growth in rooftop PV) might actually work.
Actual (red) versus projected electricity demand (orange). Forecasts have now been revised downwards (yellow). Source: AEMO
As a result of this positive turn, the RET may end up delivering enough renewable energy to supply closer to 25% of demand rather than 20%. One might naively expect this to be a good thing. After all, the state of South Australia has already exceeded this target, and has reaped significant benefits as a result (including lower emissions and electricity prices). But unfortunately some forces within the Australian energy industry, particularly those that have underinvested in renewable energy, saw this as an opportunity to wind back ambition and protect the status quo.
Costs of the RET Scheme
Their argument revolves around reducing costs to consumers (crocodile tears, some say). They argue that if the target is realigned to 20% of demand (a "floating" target), then less infrastructure will need to be built, and electricity prices will go down. Alas, things are not so simple. Such tinkering would make investors very nervous, and even a slight increase in financing costs to reflect this added risk could completely negate any benefits.
A second consideration is the so-called merit order effect. Because wind has an almost zero marginal cost, it can outbid any other generator, and displace the most expensive (usually gas peakers). This in turn depresses the overall pool price, offsetting the cost of the RET.
Thankfully the Climate Change Authority saw through some of the more cheeky arguments, erring towards stability -- maintaining the target at 41,000GWh and spacing reviews out to four years instead of two in an attempt to calm the constant sense of upheaval. Modeling undertaken for the Climate Change Authority showed the impact of the RET on household electricity bills would be less than 1%; a minuscule price for the scale of investment that has been unlocked.
Future of the RET
But with a federal election in September, it may all be moot yet again. The coalition is expected to seize government, and while they state support for the RET, they have been coy about precisely what that target should be.
Most recently, Greg Hunt, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, stated that a coalition government would perform yet another review of the RET, and left open the option of recalibrating the target according to future electricity demand.
Alas, uncertainty continues to reign. An effective capital strike has been reported by renewable energy developers, with investors weary of supporting new projects that will take several years to reach the construction phase, all the while at risk of losing favor with the federal government.
In this context, one should not underestimate the capacity of early movers, including states, regions, local communities and corporates to drive renewable energy deployment in their own right.
South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (with a target of 90% renewables by 2020) aptly demonstrate that ambition from all quarters can overcome investor apprehension and compensate for the foibles and vulnerabilities of single 'do-everything' policies.
Photo: Wattle Point Wind Farm, South Australia by David Clarke.
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Hammers open season with 2-0 victory
Published: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 10:44 p.m.
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Three weeks ago, Kyle Greig made the Wilmington Hammerheads soccer team.
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Friday night, before 3,213 enthusiastic spectators, he scored his first USL Pro League goal as the Hammerheads opened the season with a 2-0 victory over Antigua Barracuda FC at Legion Stadium.
"It was an exciting feeling to first of all start and score in my first game as a professional,'' Greig said.
He broke a scoreless tie with an assist from Shawn Nicklaw in the 49th minute.
"It was an indescribable good feeling to get that goal,'' he continued.
He is from the Kansas City area and said family and fans back home watched the USL Pro League live online feed. He also got a kick, he noted, out of scoring in front of Hammerheads fans.
Greig showed flashes of potential with several goals in preseason games, mostly against college programs. A strong preseason built his confidence, enabled him to develop a rhythm, he said, and it carried over into his debut.
A year ago, Greig played for the Kansas City Brass in the Premier Development League and has made a smooth transition to the higher USL Pro League.
"Kyle Greig is probably our best goal scorer,'' Hammerhead coach David Irving said. "He is a big boy; he is hungry. He is strong and leads the line.''
The Hammerheads played without forward Cody Arnoux, the leading scorer in the preseason. He is sidelined with a strained hamstring.
Wilmington stretched the lead to 2-0 on Paul Nicholson's unassisted goal in the 69th minute.
Nicholson noted he seldom scores goals and considers it a lucky goal. It capped a flurry of shots at the net.
"The crowd was fantastic and might have been smaller because of the threat of storms,'' Nicholson said. "They helped us get over the jitters and it is nice to get a victory under our belts.
"Although we played a lot of preseason games (7), we were nervous. The preseason games mean little; you use them for fitness. I think we did OK, but we can definitely improve. It will take a little while. We have a lot of new players. We are still getting use to how each other plays.''
Irving also pointed out the team was jittery early and would have preferred to have had the wind to their backs in the first half.
Irving also described it as a great victory because the windy conditions made it difficult to generate more goals.
"With better conditions on any given night, we could have gotten the ball down and it could have been 4 or 5 goals,'' Irving said.
Greig took four shots and made the one, and Irving said under better conditions he might have pulled off a hat trick.
Perhaps Greig summed up the win best when he said: "It kind of shows the character of the team. We are going to grind out wins from here on out.''
Wilmington visits Los Angeles next Friday to start a West Coast swing, concluding at Phoenix on April 28.
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In June 1996, film makeup artist Bobbie Weiner got a call that would change her life. "Can you make extras look dead and frozen?" the voice asked. Director James Cameron was shooting a movie about the doomed Titanic, and he needed to transform 75 actors into blue-lipped, icicle-dripping corpses bobbing in the ocean (actually a massive water tank in Rosarito, Mexico). The bodies had to look real and stay that way during five-hour stretches of filming. Word was that Weiner had created some impressive horror-flick monsters.
"I did not want to go to Mexico," says Weiner, who at the time had a steady gig in San Diego doing makeup for the TV show Renegade. Plus, "Cameron had a terrible reputation—as a screamer, a driven human being. But then I thought about having 'James Cameron' on my résumé."
Weiner signed on, and every day for the next five weeks she rose at 4 am and drove an hour across the border to join eight other makeup artists on the Titanic set in Rosarito. Cameron told her the looks had to last or else he'd make her go into the water to touch up the makeup. "I thought, They're not hoisting me into that tub!" She quickly discovered that if she applied three layers and pressed superfine setting powder into each one, the makeup would stay in place. "I was on top of the world," she says. "It was amazing to work for a director who knows what he wants."
The Titanic gig did more for Weiner than just sharpen her résumé. It also set her on the path toward building a multimillion-dollar makeup empire. Now, 15 years later, Bobbie Weiner Enterprises produces makeup lines for theater, films, funeral parlors and costume shops. She also publishes horror-themed comic books and sells novelty food items. But the company's biggest earner is her camouflage face paint for hunters and the military (the defense forces of the United States, Israel, Spain, Chile, Australia and New Zealand all use her products). "If I sold the business today, the U.S. government contracts alone would be worth about $15 million," she says.
Until Titanic came along, Weiner was scraping together a living. After three marriages, she thought she'd finally gotten it right when she married a doctor in 1983: "He was my greatest love." They were married for nine years, until he left her for a 19-year-old, she says. "I am not a great picker when it comes to husbands." After the divorce, she learned to live without her sprawling Bel Air home, Porsche convertible, country club membership and two-bedroom yacht. "I felt as if I'd been shot," she says. "I dropped 30 pounds. I was so traumatized, I lost my voice. All my friends left but one. At that social level, no one is interested in you unless you've got the package: the car, the mansion, the man, the money."
Although she had enough cash to live modestly for a year, she worried because she had no marketable skills, just an abundance of energy and a flair for connecting with people. One day, at the hair salon for what she feared would be her last highlights appointment ("too expensive"), she shared her crisis with the stylists. "I don't know what to do, where to begin," she admitted.
"Go to makeup school!" one of them suggested. Weiner protested that putting eyeshadow on wealthy ladies at a department store cosmetics counter was her idea of hell. "Oh my God, no!" said the stylist, a former soap opera actor. "Do makeup for TV and films. With your personality, you'd be great." Weiner had zero interest in makeup but thought working on films beat folding sweaters at the local Gap.
Two weeks later, she began a three-month course at Joe Blasco Makeup School. "It was very humbling to start over at 46," she says. "At first I turned all my models into Tammy Faye Bakker look-alikes. But I knew I had to make a living, so I stuck it out." Part of the curriculum entailed learning how to create fake corpses and wounds, so she visited funeral homes and hospital ERs to observe the real thing. "For my graduation exam, I had to give the model a beard, burns and bullet holes, and I had to 'break' his nose," she says. When she was finished, the model was so disturbed by what he saw in the mirror that he threw up. "My teacher said I'd created the most amazing burns and bullet holes he'd ever seen," says Weiner.
Three days after graduating, she got her first film gig assisting makeup artists on the horror flick Pumpkinhead II, soon to become a cult classic. The crew quickly discovered her talent for rendering realistic, gory details and affectionately nicknamed her Bloody Mary. The pay was $100 for the entire three weeks of filming, but she didn't care; the crew's respect was priceless. "With that, I no longer craved my old life as the doctor's wife," she says.
Weiner built her connections and found steady work doing makeup for commercials, music videos and TV shows. Then came the Titanic gig in Mexico. Midway through it, one of Leonardo DiCaprio's stunt doubles approached Weiner and asked whether she had any blue and gold makeup for him to wear to a San Diego Chargers football game. "I had only a few colors on me that day, just what I needed to do dead people. I had blue for their lips. I have no idea why I had the gold," she says. She handed him two paintpots. The next day, the stuntman went up to her and said, "We were on TV, and everyone wanted to know where we got the face paint." Listening to his raves, she realized that catering to rabid sports fans could be lucrative. I could be the anti–Estée Lauder, she thought.
Back in San Diego after her Titanic gig ended, Weiner set about launching Bobbie Weiner Enterprises. She pitched UCLA's campus-store buyer, showing off a photo of a young man whose face she'd painted blue and gold. The school immediately placed an order for 144 kits, priced at $1.75 apiece (for a profit of $1.15 each). Three weeks later, after touting her wares at a college trade show, she had 6,624 orders.
Although Titanic wasn't premiering for another year, word about the film spread, and producers at a San Diego morning-news show invited her to show off her skills by making the anchors look like frozen corpses. That led to a call from the PX manager at the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot: Could she make camouflage makeup? The stuff sold on the base stained clothing and caused acne. "Give me a couple of weeks," Weiner said.
She got to work, experimenting with substitutes for castor oil, which she suspected was the root of the Marines' problems. One morning Weiner headed to the La Jolla beach at 4 am and persuaded some surfers to test her paints. "They were in the water for hours. The damn stuff never came off," she says.
Weiner headed back to the depot with her new secret-formula pots of khaki, olive and black camouflage paint. "The manager gave the paint to some soldiers to wear while training," she says. "A half hour later, he returned and said that it smelled like perfume. He told me, 'Get the stink out, and I'll make you a rich lady.' " She instructed her lab to drop the fragrance from her recipe. When she returned with stink-free samples, the manager placed an order for 2,000 kits. Her next step was a booth at the Defense Logistics Agency trade show, which showcases companies that provide U.S. military forces with supplies. Under a sign advertising bobbie weiner's camouflage face paint, she decorated visitors' faces with jungle colors, and when buyers asked to speak to "Bob," thinking she was the owner's assistant, she set them straight. Soon, orders started coming in.
Titanicsailed into theaters December 19, 1997. "After it came out, I'd say, 'I did the dead people for James Cameron,' and, whoa, everyone wanted to talk to me," Weiner says. The instant cachet helped boost her sales. Two years later, she came up with a spin-off idea. While she painted visitors' faces at a Halloween convention, a reporter asked who made the best Halloween makeup. In a burst of inspiration, she replied, "I do. It's called Bloody Mary."
With her novelty makeup line launched, it only made sense for her to also produce fake blood, fangs and a slew of other vampire-related accessories aimed at the burgeoning goth teen market. She no longer worked on horror flicks but still enjoyed the challenge of creating realistic monsters. A bonus: She could sell the "blood" to the U.S. government for disaster drills and to film studios for special effects. "Gore is a year-round business," she says.
Bobbie Weiner Enterprises' sales hit the $1 million mark in 2007, and today annual sales exceed $3 million. Weiner lives outside Fort Worth, Texas, where she runs her business from a 3,000-square-foot warehouse decorated with Halloween convention freebies, like shrunken plastic skulls and little rubber duckies with devil's horns. She dresses in T-shirts, jeans and a cowboy hat, and the only trace of her former luxurious Hollywood lifestyle is a fondness for designer shoes ("I've been poor and rich—and rich is better"). She'd rather work than play tennis, and travels 26 weeks a year, speaking at conventions or visiting the 252 contract workers who make and package her wares in a California facility. She likes to spend weekends experimenting with products and colors. "I was pouring fake blood all morning," she said recently.
Among her proudest achievements, she says, are the awards she's received from the Department of Defense for her camouflage paint. She still personally attends military and hunting trade shows, touting her wares at a 10-foot-long booth beneath two American flags. "But these days," she says with a smile, "when the military comes calling, they don't look for a guy named Bob. They ask for me."
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Sam Cooke was one of the most influential performers in the history of American popular music. His work cut across the genres of gospel, R&B and pop, and Cooke is credited as being one of soul music's primary architects.
Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931, and his family moved to Chicago when Cooke was a toddler. He started singing in the church, and joined the most popular gospel group in the country, the Soul Stirrers, when he was still a teenager. His career with the Soul Stirrers was enough to secure his place in the annals of music history, but his ambition and talent would take him much further.
With the release of "You Send Me" in 1957, Cooke embarked upon a career in secular music that transcended the boundaries of R&B and pop. He was a pioneering figure in African-American entrepreneurship, gaining remarkable artistic control of his music and the business surrounding it. Recognizing the importance of owning publishing rights to music, he founded his own record label, SAR, with J.W. Alexander and Roy Crain in 1961, despite being courted aggressively by the leading record labels of the day. He became one of the most financially successful black artists up to that point.
His extraordinary voice and unforgettable melodies appealed to black and white fans, and the popularity of his music helped introduce many other black performers to mainstream audiences. In February 1964, World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay proclaimed, "Sam Cooke is the world's greatest rock and roll singer – the greatest singer in the world." Cooke was also a force in harnessing the power of music for a socially conscious cause.
He recognized the growing popularity of the early folk rock balladeers and the changing political climate in America, using his own popularity and marketing savvy to raise the consciousness of his listeners with such classics as "Chain Gang" and "A Change Is Gonna Come." His inspiration was often born of adversity.
Cooke's infant son drowned in a swimming pool accident in early 1963, sending Cooke into a deep depression. In the wake of his son's passing, Cooke became more interested in politics and African-American history. His songwriting became more introspective – even one of the more upbeat and light-hearted of his songs from this period, "Another Saturday Night," has a mournful feel. An incident at a Shreveport, Louisiana, motel, where Cooke and his touring entourage were refused rooms because of their race, may have been the starting point for the composition of "A Change Is Gonna Come." Hearing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" gave Cooke added impetus.
"A Change Is Gonna Come" had beauty, simplicity and a first-person honesty that perfectly and brilliantly captured the spirit of the American Civil Rights struggle. Cooke would eventually assign all proceeds of the song to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King's Civil Rights advocacy group.
When the song was released as a single, just weeks after Cooke's untimely death on December 11, 1964, the third verse was edited out – I go to the movie / And I go downtown / Somebody keep telling me, "don't hang around" – as it spoke too much truth to power, cutting too close to the bone of segregated 1964 America. The single reached Number 31 on the pop chart and Number Nine on the R&B chart in January 1965.
"A Change Is Gonna Come" was voted Number 12 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," and voted Number Three in Pitchfork Media's "200 Greatest Songs of the Sixties." The song is also among 300 songs National Public Radio deemed the most important ever recorded and was selected by the Library of Congress for the National Recording Registry. Barak Obama paraphrased "A Change Is Gonna Come" in his presidential victory speech, and a recording of "A Change is Gonna Come" by the British artist Seal entered the charts in November 2008. After a "long time coming," indeed, the change that Sam Cooke predicted and never got to see finally came home to America.


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The DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star Football Game committee has announced the All-Star Buddies selected for the 59th annual DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star Game.
Matthew Lavelle, 13, will be representing the Blue Schools and he is paired with Archmere Academy football players Conor Furey and Jack Malloy. Andrew Grunow, 13, of Middletown, will represent the Gold schools. He is partnered with Middletown football player, Dennie Berger.
Lavelle is a student at Springer Middle School and Grunow attends Alfred Waters Middle School. This will be the seventh season both boys have participated in the Hand-Hand program.
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Charles Hardin Holley, a.k.a., Buddy Holly, is born in Lubbock, Texas.
Best friends Buddy (Holly) and Bob (Montgomery) audition for radio station KDAV in Lubbock. The teenage duo is given a half-hour show on Sunday afternoons, during which they perform country and bluegrass standards.
The trio of Buddy Holly, Bob Montgomery and Larry Welborn opens for Bill Haley and the Comets in Lubbock. Holly impresses a Nashville talent scout, leading to his eventual signing with Decca Records.
In the process of moving from their country-music origins toward the rockabilly sound, Buddy Holly's trio open for Elvis Presley in Lubbock.
Buddy Holly & the Two-Tones (Sonny Curtis and Don Guess) kick off a 14-date country & western tour in Little Rock, Arkansas. They're bottom-billed on a lineup that includes Hank Thompson, George Jones, Wanda Jackson and Cowboy Copas.
Signed to Decca Records, Buddy Holly heads to Nashville for his first official recording session. Overseen by veteran country producer Owen Bradley, the session yields four tracks, including Holly's debut single ("Blue Days, Black Nights") and a classic cover ("Midnight Shift").
Buddy Holly records "That'll Be the Day" at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. The single is released on the Brunswick label (a Decca subsidiary) and credited to the Crickets.
"That'll Be the Day" hits #1. "Peggy Sue" is released hot on its heels, reaching #3. Buddy Holly performs both songs on The Ed Sullivan Show in December.
"Oh Boy!" becomes Buddy Holly's third Top Ten hit.
Buddy Holly performs at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater as part of a bill that includes Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. It is the kickoff date for a two-month tour billed as "Alan Freed's Big Beat Show."
Buddy Holly marries Maria Elena Santiago back home in Lubbock.
Another caravan tour, "The Biggest Show of Stars for 1958—The Autumn Edition," kicks off in Worcester, Massachusetts. Buddy Holly and the Crickets share the bill with Bobby Darin, Dion and the Belmonts, Clyde McPhatter, and the Coasters.
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" becomes the last release from Buddy Holly before his death.
The "Winter Dance Party," an ill-advised tour through the frigid Midwest, is launched at George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Buddy Holly, who has parted ways with the Crickets, is the headliner. The other acts are Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and Frankie Sardo.
After performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy Holly charters a plane to fly him to Fargo, North Dakota. Shortly after takeoff, the plane crashes eight miles northwest of the airfield, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and pilot Roger Peterson.
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore," written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly at his last studio session, becomes a posthumous hit.
The Buddy Holly Story, a best-of album that has been in print since 1959, is certified gold (500,000 copies sold).
Lifelong Buddy Holly fan Paul McCartney purchases rights to the entire Holly song catalog.
On what would have been Buddy Holly's 40th birthday, the singer's life and music are the subject of a week-long tribute organized by Paul McCartney. "Buddy Holly Week" becomes an annual affair.
The Buddy Holly Story, a popular film biography starring Gary Busey in the title role, is released. Twelve years later, the actor pays a quarter of a million dollars at auction for an acoustic guitar that belonged to Holly.
A commemorative concert is held at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, exactly 20 years after the final show played by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Del Shannon and the Drifters are among the performers.
Buddy Holly is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first induction dinner, held in New York City. Holly's widow, Maria Elena, accepts on his behalf.


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My desk has been a mess and filled with clutter. Not your typical mess with plastic wrappers and coffee cups all over the place but a mess with items I don't need taking up all of my valuable work space. I cleaned out all of the drawers in my desk and I ended up throwing away two big bags of trash or things that I didn't need anymore.
I found old receipts from grocery shopping, rebate receipts, old coupons, and soo many pens that wouldn't write to save my life it wasn't funny. It always drove me nuts to grab a pen and not have it work. I don't know why I would put it back in the drawer instead of throwing it away. Well I got rid of every pen that didn't work, every highlighter that was dry and every pencil that kept on breaking. I actually have space in my drawers now it's amazing.
I think my favorite part of all is now that there is space I am really actually excited to sit down at my desk and do more work. It's nice to sit here and enjoy my cup of coffee on my nice clean desk. Why didn't I do this sooner? It's a big weight lifted off my shoulders and I'm loving every minute of it.


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The Bolshoi Theater general director Anatoly Iksanov speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Iksanov has rejected criticism from an increasingly assertive principal dancer, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who is openly aspiring to take his job. The two men have been locked in an increasingly ugly public battle since the Jan. 17 acid attack on Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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PFAFFTOWN | Thomas McCrary, 59, of Vienna Dozier Road, died Friday, July 19, 2013, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
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Winner update: 6/4/12: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks so much to everyone that entered! And the lucky random winner is… Commenter #11 – ROCIO. Congrats, have fun picnicking!
We have a fun new GIVEAWAY up for grabs today! If you love cider AND good excuses to celebrate outdoors, this fun Summer Picnic Pack starring the brand new Michelob ULTRA Light Cider should be right up your alley… and one lucky HWTM reader is going to win it!
We received one of these picnic packs to review ahead of time, and everything about it is truly great, from the taste of the Light Cider itself – crisp & refreshing with only 120 calories! – to the super cute & convenient Table in a Bag from Crate & Barrel. My husband and I used this giveaway post as the perfect excuse to go "work" in one of our favorite grassy spots in Del Mar… and I can't tell you how many people stopped to ask us where we got "the cool little table" when we were setting up this mini shoot. ;)
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SEATTLE, Wash – Senior Hannah Kiser's top 10 finish highlighted a strong day for the University of Idaho cross country teams on Saturday at the Sundodger Invitational, as the women finished third and the men took fourth.
Kiser, who was competing in her first meet of the season, ran a 20:50.0 on the 6K course and finished sixth-overall. On the men's side junior Cody Helbling was the team's top finisher for the second meet in a row, as he ran 24:14.01 on the 8K course and took 10th.
The women's team put four runners in the top 25 scoring positions as sophomore Halie Raudenbush (9th,21:14.0), freshman Alex Siemens (25th, 22:00.0) and sophomore Abby Larson (26th, 22:00.0) rounded out the scoring for the Vandals, which scored 87 as a team.
On the men's side, freshman Nicholas Boersma (25th, 24:34.51), sophomore Santos Vargas (42nd, 25:11.42), freshman Tim Delcourt (46th, 25:18.09) and freshman Mickey Day (47th, 25:18.59) rounded out the top five finishers as Idaho put up 95 points.
For many of the young runners it was their first time on the course, but Raudenbush and Larson were two returning Vandals with significant time improvements. Raudenbush knocked off 1:17 from her time last year, while Larson cut 36 seconds.
Next on the agenda for Idaho cross country is the Dellinger Invitational. Idaho will have two weeks off between meets before traveling to Eugene, Ore., on Oct. 5.


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Two New York women facing drug charges from LPD
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Two women from New York have been charged by the Lexington Police Department with possessing 240 tablets of Oxymorphone.
Angela Ann Schlesing, 29, of 23 Erie St., Salamanca, N.Y., and Anne Elizabeth Robbins, 29, of 5 Briggs St., Lakewood, N.Y., were each placed in the Davidson County Detention Center on Wednesday under $50,000 secured bonds.
The women were charged with felony trafficking opium or heroin, felony possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver of a schedule II controlled substance, felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance, felony maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance and felony obtaining a controlled substance by fraud/forgery. Schlesing also is facing the charge of felony possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
The women are accused of obtaining the Oxymorphone from a pharmacy by altering the lettering in a prescription note, according to warrants.
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I was on Hawaiʻi Island today to speak to the Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce at UH Hilo's ʻImiloa Astronomy Center. About 70 local business owners and guests attended the meeting and presentation.
We discussed ways to educate our future generations on how to be participating citizens, roles the university is playing in building the society of the future and serving under-served populations.
My presentation emphasized that higher education is an excellent investment of public funds and how that investment in the UH System economically impacts Hawaiʻi Island.
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President Obama and Speaker of the House Boehner may be inching closer on a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, but an greement is no guarantee that all our long-term economic problems will be solved. We asked Maya MacGuineas to lend some insight into how we reached this precarious state and how it will impact each one of us.
As the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a non-partisan movement to put America on a better fiscal and economic path, MacGuineas testifies to Congress regularly and is a frequent contributor to both broadcast and print news reports. [The Wall Street Journal once called her an "anti-deficit warrior.']
We spoke with her about what citizens can do to let lawmakers know their concerns. An edited version of the interview follows.
MORE: We keep hearing "fiscal cliff," but what, exactly, does that mean?
Maya MacGuineas: The irony of the fiscal cliff is that, for the most part, it was actually created by policymakers to force them to do what they don't want to do. At end of 2012, all of the 2001, 2003, 2010 tax cuts will expire at the same time something called a sequester hits, which means across-the-board spending cuts from most parts of the budget, and a number of other policies will expire all at once.
What this means is that over the next 10 years, we'll have removed about $7 trillion from the economy, or that we'll have so much deficit reduction—and I say this as someone who believes that we desperately need deficit reduction—that it would throw the economy back into a recession.
MORE: Why wasn't this dealt with sooner?
MM: The sequester was the result of the fact that the super committee, a group that was supposed to come up with a bigger budget deal a year ago, failed to get its work done. And so policymakers put the sequester in so that there'd be automatic budgetary savings. Right now, policymakers are trying to figure out how you can change these policies to avoid the fiscal cliff; but you also don't want to punt, and just wave all the policies and extend the tax cuts, which would add tremendously to our already much too high debt. So they're struggling to replace the fiscal cliff with some kind of sensible deficit reduction deal.
That's what they should do, but obviously, it's hard. It's filled with all the kinds of policies that politicians don't like to talk about: raising taxes and cutting spending. That's why we're here, hovering on the edge of the fiscal cliff
MORE: How did the Campaign to Fix the Debt come to be?
MM: We work with policymakers on both sides of the aisle, and they kept saying they weren't hearing enough from business leaders or constituents or civic leaders back at home about how important it was to address the deficit and debt. They weren't sure if people cared. From our work of talking with these constituencies, we know people really do care, and we wanted to create a different kind of campaign.
We wanted to create something that was going to focus on the fact that citizens are actually aware that we have to make these hard choices—because they understand it's critically important for the country. So, we put together an incredibly diverse coalition of over 300,000 citizens, we have operations in 17 different states and are growing, we have over 2,500 business leaders, well over 100 CEOS, many former members of Congress, civic leaders and youth all trying to build a campaign. We want to strengthen the economy and leave this country better off for the next generation. It's the opposite of most lobbying campaigns. It's really not about the normal special interests who come to Washington; it's about the national interest.
MORE: Why haven't the Republicans and Democrats been able to come up with a solution? Is it just politics?
MM: One part of it is politics. You haven't seen a lot of working together recently. Two, it's really hard. In this country, we have been borrowing beyond our means for decades. Undoing that means doing all the difficult policies—raising revenue, cutting spending, reforming entitlement programs—things that can be done in a smart and thoughtful way, but they're still politically difficult. And third, until recently, I don't think the public understood how important (dealing with the nation's debt) is. … Until recently, I think deficits were really just a confusing and removed issue. Now I think people can see that it's different, but not all that different, from a household. You can't borrow beyond your means with no plans to repay it indefinitely.
MORE: Do you think an agreement will be reached?
MM: The mood changes so regularly, it's very hard to see behind the curtain here. We're talking with everybody on all sides, and I truly believe they care about getting a deal and they understand how important it is for the country. I think we won't go off of the cliff.
MORE: What would going off the fiscal cliff mean to MORE readers?
MM: It's devastating. Recessions are bad enough, in that they come along in a regular business cycle and hurt people so badly, but for the country to have a self-imposed recession is truly unforgiveable. There are so many jobs that are on the line, that if we were to go off of the cliff and start seeing more joblessness instead of less it would be a devastating set-back. It will have an effect on wages, it will have an effect on the stock market. Basically, we could all become both poorer and more uncertain.
As the chief economist for the White House said, some of the biggest damage would come from the psychological damage that comes from saying our government truly can't govern.
MORE: What can each of us do?
MM: People should pick up the phone and call their members of Congress and write them letters and say we want you to work together to fix the problems of the deficit and the debt in this country. There's nothing high-tech or magic about it. Politicians don't like to do hard things – just like none of us do – so they need to hear that you are watching and that you care.
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Group B streptococcus (GBS) are bacteria that can be found in the digestive tract, urinary tract, and genital area of adults. Although GBS infection usually causes no problems in healthy women before pregnancy, it can cause serious illness for the mother and baby during pregnancy and after delivery.
One out of every four or five pregnant women carries GBS in her rectum or vagina. In the pregnant mother, GBS infection may cause chorioamnionitis (a severe infection of the placental tissues) and postpartum (after birth) infection. Urinary tract infections caused by GBS can lead to preterm labor and birth.
Newborn babies contract the GBS during pregnancy, or from the mother's genital tract during labor and delivery. GBS is the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns, including pneumonia and meningitis. About one out of every 100 to 200 babies whose mothers carry GBS develop symptoms of GBS disease. Premature babies are more susceptible to GBS infection than full-term babies.
GBS can be cultured from the mother's vagina or rectum with a swab during a pelvic examination. GBS can also be cultured from a mother's urine. Cultures are usually done between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy and may take a few days to complete. Cultures collected earlier in pregnancy do not accurately predict whether a mother will have GBS at delivery.
Specific treatment for GBS will be determined by your physician based on:
A positive GBS culture means that the mother carries GBS. It does not mean that she or her baby will definitely become ill. However, the decision to treat GBS must be balanced with certain risk factors.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommend treating women with positive GBS cultures with intravenous (IV) antibiotics during labor to reduce the risk of transmission of the infection to the baby. Treatment may also be needed for women with certain risk factors, including the following:
It is important to understand that, in spite of testing and treatment, some babies still develop GBS disease. Research is ongoing to develop vaccines to prevent GBS disease. (In the future, women who are vaccinated against GBS may make antibodies that cross the placenta and protect the baby during birth and early infancy.)
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Where can one obtain an accurate blueprint for the PSL? I was thinking about a Coldsteel 80%. Does it come w/ one?
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Where can one obtain an accurate blueprint for the PSL? I was thinking about a Coldsteel 80%. Does it come w/ one?
i have a stick on one that seems accurate also i have a decent blueprint as well. I'll see if i have time to scan them tomorrow, and if i find one tonight in pdf i'll let you know.
Edit-also i believe that the cold steel blanks come with the glue on one and you only buy it if you don't order a blank but i am not certain since i haven't gone the CS way yet, just figured from what they say on the site. Hope that helps but you could always give them a call to make sure. if you would like the blue print anyways let me know and i could scan it for you
I have a coldsteel blank here that I'm just starting to work on. It comes with a drawing but I hear coldsteel's drawings are not accurate. I'd like to see yours too jreifsch as a cross-reference... The trunnion holes I will locate off the trunnions themselves. The magwell I'll locate off of the trunnion with the magazine. The trigger guard holes aren't that critical. The grip nut hole I'll locate off the stock. That only really leaves the hammer and trigger axis pins and the safety hole that are really critical and need some kind of dimensions to locate.
actually i found cad drawings of everything on thompson machine's website and you can download a free veiwer there when you click on the links to go to the different cad blueprints select all copy then paste into notepad so you can save it as a dxf file that the veiwer will display. if it's confusing then send me a pm. I am expanding my personal electronic library so i could help you guys if it's needed :)
hey all i've been making pdf files of the psl prints, pm me if anyone wants these pdf files since it would save a guy time. Just so everyone knows these are from the cad drawings on thompson machines project section in their site, I assume that they are free to be shared and used since they are posted to veiw on their site. if this all isn't kosher then someone please let me know.
Thankyou. PM sent. Check this thread for any additions to your electronic library. Scan the whole thread, G2 was moving them to post 1 for awhile but I don't think they all got moved. PM me for others you might not have.
wow that's awesome so much good reading my wife might wonder if i'm still alive haha, thanks, and if you need it i have a psl/fpk owners manual on pdf but those aren't too hard to find i suppose
On my PSL I just started from the trunion, then fit the magazine and then the magazine release/trigger guard. Also use the top cover for fitting the back stock tang.
Find the location of the safety selector based on the top cover. Now for the axis pins just locate the holes based on the location of the safety and trigger guard. From this, you can locate the axis pin holes relatively close with Eyeball 1.0 and a good understanding of the trigger hole location - look at all of the receiver pics of any AK as reference. I followed this process on mine and it turned out perfect. So long as the safety works and you aren't so far forward with your trigger hole that you are reaching for the trigger, you'll be fine.
Center support is easily done as the PSL has the last-round bolt hold open tab and you locate it based on that tab.
All too easy ;)


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The Smyrna/Clayton Pop Warner cheer squads and football teams still have spots available.
For the cheer squads, there are 11 spots available for the Junior Pee Wee team; ages are 8 to 11. The Pee Wee cheer squad has 10 spots available; ages are 9 to 12. The Midget cheer squad has 16 spots available; ages are 11 to 15.
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Gardening Articles: Flowers :: Bulbs
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Big and exotic leaves of caladium add a tropical flair to gardens.
Any garden with a shady location has a perfect spot for caladiums. These tropical tubers, most of them varieties derived from Caladium bicolor, are grown for their dramatic summer foliage. They are naturals in beds with ferns or coleus, in pots to accent shady spots, or indoors as knock-your-socks-off houseplants.
But caladiums have their limitations, particularly when it comes to temperature. A primary requirement is soil warmed to above 65° F, no surprise for a plant native to tropical South America. In cool climates, you certainly need sun to attain that level of warmth. Fortunately, several of the best varieties tolerate full sun beautifully as long as they get plenty of water.
Tall, Short, and In-Between Varieties
Until fairly recently, caladium varieties could be neatly divided into tall fancy-leaved and shorter lance-leaved types. Each has special talents and uses. Tall kinds such as white 'Candidum' and pink 'Carolyn Whorton' put on a beautiful show, but since each tuber has but one to three active buds, the leaf count is low. De-eyeing tubers (removing the terminal buds on the tuber when it first spikes to encourage side buds to develop) before planting will increase leaf numbers. Lance-leaved types, including 'Rosalie' and 'White Wing', produce many more leaves from multiple buds, but the leaves are thinner and not as long.
At the University of Florida's Gulf Coast Research Station in Brandenton, Gary Wilfret has spent 25 years breeding caladiums that combine the best of both types and are custom-made for growing in containers. Of the eight varieties released so far, pink-and-green 'Florida Sweetheart' is his runaway hit, with red-and-green 'Florida Red Ruffles' poised to enter the big time as soon as growers accumulate sufficient stock. Besides its vigorous leaf production, 'Florida Red Ruffles' may have a slight edge in terms of cold tolerance. Wilfret's long-term goal? To extend caladiums' growing range into climates where nighttime temperatures drop below 55° F.
Because 80 percent of caladiums are now grown in containers, which can be moved about as needed to expose the plants to the warmth they need, give them a try no matter where you live.


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Senior linebacker Waymon Johnson has been named one of three finalists for the Farm Bureau 4A Defensive Player of the Year award, the organization announced Monday. The Farm Bureau Awards honor Arkansas' top offensive player, defensive player and coach of the year for each classification.
The staff at Hooten's Arkansas Football selects three finalists for each category, and those 45 finalists and their families are invited to attend the Farm Bureau Awards Dec. 10 in North Little Rock. The 4A defensive player of the year finalists are Johnson, Jon Halbert of Prairie Grove and Jeremiah Young of Dollarway.
The 4A offensive player of the year finalists are Joel Hendry of Nashville, Austin Warford of Malvern and Sterling Stowers of Highland. Ozark's Jeremie Burns, Tony Travis of Pea Ridge and Spencer Hill of Highland are the 4A coach of the year finalists. daily leader file photos
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QPR named preferred bidder for Warren Farm site
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QPR are set to move into a new state-of-the-art training ground facility ahead of the 2013/14 season.
The club is the preferred bidder to a 200-year lease on the land, subject to successful planning application.
The new 63 acre site in Ealing will be developed into a multi-purpose Elite Training Facility and Community Sports Complex.
QPR Chairman, Tony Fernandes said: "We are absolutely ecstatic and must thank everyone involved in the process, especially David Leed (CYD Projects Ltd) who oversaw the bid, for their tremendous support.
"This decision means we are now in a position to build a new state-of-the-art facility which will enable us to attract, retain and train world class talent.
"The community package that will accompany this facility will additionally deliver great benefits for those in our local boroughs.
This marks the first step of Fernandes' vision for the club.
"We said when we arrived here that we wanted to build this Club for the future and this is another huge step in the right direction," he added.
"We already have a first class senior management team in place, with Mark Hughes at the helm, and the recent appointment of our new Technical Director, Mike Rigg, is further testament to what we are striving to achieve here.
"Clearly though, to achieve such goals, a new training ground facility is paramount so we are absolutely delighted."
Rangers CEO Phillip Beard believes it will help the club attract players.
"This will be a long-term benefit to the Football Club and QPR in the Community Trust," he added.
"It will enable us to compete and attract the best players, and that applies equally to the young Academy players.
"It will mean that we can offer the best training, coaching and fitness facilities, to the benefit of both the Club and the local community."
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High School: A 2006 graduate of Desert Vista High School (Phoenix)... lettered four times each in track & field and cross country for the Thunder... named school's student-athlete of the year as a sophomore, junior and senior... selected to the all-city, all-region and all-state cross country teams in 2003, 2004 and 2005... named East Valley Tribune Cross Country Athlete of the Year in 2005... cross country state champion in 2005... also won the state 3,200m run in 2005... All-American in cross country... captain of the cross country team as a senior.
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