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text: 10 out of 10 Roger High Wycombe Semi-professional pianist Good Points+ As a music teacher of some 50 years standing I can honestly say that this is the best learning course for adults that I have ever come across. Bad Points− I do believe that pedalling should have been introduced by this level. This is not just my view. I know of no other tutorials, even for children, that leave it so late in a course. It does improve the enjoyment of music so much more. Confirmed purchase: 17 September 2014 Published on: 03 October 2014


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on September 20, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Last Friday, Immaculata Academy hosted its fifth annual Battle of the Bands competition to benefit the school. The lineup included local bands Landslide, Rescue Dawn, Contents Under Pressure, the Cascos, Five Surviving and Dollar Diplomacy.
Rescue Dawn frontman RJ DeMarco was feeling quite confident before the show started, saying that he had a feeling they would place at least second. Rescue Dawn, a pop-punk band made up of DeMarco, Jonah Wrest, Tanner DeMarco and Boon Lieber, is known for high-energy performances, getting the crowd involved and great stage presence. Friday's performance was no different. They delivered creative sound clearly and impressively. Looking at these young men on stage it was clear that their passion and dedication to their craft poured off of them in sweat.
Five Surviving, a hard-rock band who had never played a show together before this one, seemed to get the crowd going almost as much as Rescue Dawn did. Lead vocalist Joe Kren said the band members were all at "varying degrees of nervousness" before the show, but their excitement prevailed. The band only played covers, but kicking off its set with "Sharp Dressed Man" by ZZ Top got everyone up and moving. Kren's dance moves, accompanied with his dress shirt, tie, vest and shades, fit the role perfectly. Any nervousness he had been feeling was either long gone or well hidden. Five Surviving's lead guitarist, Sam Osmond, looked right in his element as well; he nailed every solo. Besides Kren and Osmond, the other band members are Trek Fulater, Jourdan Pouliot and Nathaniel Kren. The band, with its solid, flawless sound, made it look look easy.
Dollar Diplomacy was quite impressive. Tyler Wright, John Harrington, Andrew Phillips and Zach Gilbride come together to create a unique sound, blending that of blues, rock and funk. Beforehand, the members had said they felt no nervous feelings and didn't even have major expectations for the show. "It would be nice to place but I think we're just happy to play," Wright said. It was hard to believe that the group had only had about three practices with each other under its belt. Dollar Diplomacy exemplified an original sound with creative and remarkable solos and they showed wonderful stage presence as well.
The Cascos came in first place, and Contents Under Pressure, second.
Neither of these groups get a gold star in my book for their performances, sound or any other category in which one may judge music.
I enjoyed the "in between" act more than I enjoyed the two winners combined. Casey Bolles, a senior at the Park School of Buffalo, played covers in between bands to gain some publicity. He gave a NeverShoutNever vibe with his funky acoustic guitar and strong vocals. If you ever get the chance to listen to him, don't pass it up.
The Cascos, a soft rock and indie band, had a nice sound, nothing jaw-dropping or incredibly noteworthy, though. And the lead singer was the only one who seemed to have much of a stage presence. The members of Contents Under Pressure, however, had even less stage presence. The music was all right - they stayed on beat. Each member looked lifeless and had an expression and body language that screamed, "I'd rather be anywhere else but here!"
The setup of the competition was organized, and those in charge seemed eager to accomplish their task of raising money for Immaculata Academy. In previous years, all the fundraising was done through tickets at the door and raffles, but this year they added voting to their fundraising techniques. At the door, everyone who paid for a ticket received a pink wristband for admission and an orange ticket for voting for their favorite band. The opportunity to vote multiple times was offered. For a dollar per vote, fans could vote as many times as they wanted for a particular band. The first-place prize was a studio session valued at $100 from True Sound Studios, and the second-place prize was a cash prize.
While a dollar per vote was a great fundraising technique, I believe it destroyed the basis of the competition and portrayed the idea that no matter who works harder or plays better, if you have enough money, you can buy your way to the top. Unfortunately, that's how the world is much of the time, but it shouldn't be that way for a high school level contest.
Hannah Gordon is a senior at Immaculata Academy.


text: Associated Press Feedback: Every Story Needs an Edit, Even the AP By John Hingsbergen • Jun 23, 2014 From the Listener Comment Line, "I was listening to the news on the Boone's Trace and I always thought that Boonesboro was in Madison County." The listener is, of course, correct and the error he heard was in Associated Press copy that we received. It's embarrassing enough that we did not catch that mistake, even more so for myself, since I am the newscaster who read it at noon last Tuesday. All I can say is we'll keep our eyes open for such errors in materials we receive from the wire service in the future. Health Exchange Voted Top 2013 KY News Story By John Hingsbergen & Associated Press • Dec 21, 2013 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The debut of a statewide online health insurance marketplace, which earned a thumbs-up from President Barack Obama for smoothly enrolling tens of thousands of people, has been voted Kentucky's top news story of 2013.


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Alex Gordon moved to the left field line and snared a fly ball off the bat of the Tampa Bay Rays?Matt Joyce and then crashed into the wall and fell to the ground. He was temporarily shook up but got to his feet and remained in the game.
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Okay, I need assistance, even if it's just what to try next! :-)
I have checked google, and I have found a few messages (with what I
searched with) and it did give me a couple of ideas to try, and I've tried
them. I now have a couple of specific observations, and would like to
know what should I try next?
I'm running RH 7.1. Yesterday, I started running NTP. (I downloaded
it and compiled it and started running it on my Linux system, and I
already had it and am running it on the Sun/Solaris system.) The Linux
system is running the NTP server, because I have an atomic clock monitor
hooked up to the Linux system.
On the Linux system, here is an ntpq -p:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
*LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 57 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001
On the Sun/Solaris system (the client), here is an ntpq -p:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset disp
barrycon LOCAL(0) 11 u 94 1024 375 0.61 9439.73 1512.51
Now, also, just yesterday, I noticed I didn't have a timezone set.
(!) (I did originally, and then I re-installed Linux, quite some time
ago, and had never noticed!) :-( So, I set the TZ variable to
"America/New_York" with the tzselect command in root.
I then had to reset system time all over the place, but I understood
this! :-)
I have discovered, overnight/since yesterday, that cron is running
nine hours ahead of time. Now, when I issue the command "date ; date -u"
I get what I find believable and good, such as:
Sat Sep 27 17:45:55 EDT 2003
Sat Sep 27 21:45:55 UTC 2003
(5:45:55 WAS the local time, and the UTC is four hours ahead, as it
should be, when EST is on daylight savings time.)
When I issued "hwclock --show" while ago, it was, sure enough, nine
hours ahead. So, I have issued things like "hwclock --systohc" and
"hwclock --hctosys" and now "hwclock --show" shows:
Sat 27 Sep 2003 05:47:50 PM EDT 0.292312 seconds
(And that IS the correct time when this was issued.)
The man page for hwclock said a --hctosys would set the kernel's
timezone value to the local timezone as indicated by the TZ environment
variable, which WAS "America/New_York" when the command was run.
I restarted cron, and saw no difference. I rebooted Linux -- even
turning the system off and unplugging it for a few seconds (which I don't
even normally ever power the system down) to just assure the hardware
clock, which had just been set correctly, so far as I could tell, was what
started the system time/clock.
After I reboot Linux, the hwclock is back to nine hours ahead. Here
is what a "hwclock --show" displayed, and the time was 18:02:56 at the
Sun 28 Sep 2003 03:02:56 AM EDT 0.629749 seconds
This is the time that cron is set to.
When I shut down, I did see something that I figure probably lent
itself to having my hardware clock get so far off -- in the two years
since I installed this Linux! I saw this:
Syncing hardware clock to system time modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate
module char-major-10-135
But, I can assure you that the hardware clock had been set to the
system time, with hwclock --systohc, right beforehand. And, after doing
this, a hwclock --show displayed the correct time.
I've gone through the things I saw in google, but I'm out of ideas.
Can anyone help me know why my hardware clock is being reset to nine hours
ahead in the process of my shutting down and rebooting, even though it was
set correct, in root, right beforehand?
I've only specified what I felt was appropriate, in this message. If
you need information I have failed to provide, please just nicely let me
know, and I'll gladly provide it.
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Adults inhabit lagoon and seaward reefs (Ref. 9710). Each group of fish consists of a breeding pair and 0-4 non-breeders. Within each group there is a size-based hierarchy: the female is largest, the male is second largest, and the non-breeders get progressively smaller as the hierarchy is descended. If the female dies, the male changes sex and becomes the breeding female, while the largest non-breeder becomes the breeding male. The maintenance of size differences may avoid conflicts, because subordinates do not become a threat to their dominants (Ref. 47841). Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhere to the substrate (Ref. 205). Males guard and aerate the eggs (Ref. 205). Maybe found in shallower depths than A. ocellaris. Associated with the anemones: Heteractis crispa, Heteractis magnifica, and Stichodactyla gigantea (Ref. 5911). This species has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35404, 35413, 35420).
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Altoona High coach Tom Palfey sat on a bench outside the Mountain Lions' locker room, disappointment written all over his face.
A member of the WPIAL's rugged Big East Conference, Altoona was winless in 2010 but figured to do better this season.
A 55-13 win over neighboring rival Hollidaysburg in the 2011 opener gave Altoona fans reason to celebrate, albeit short lived as McKeesport thumped the Lions, 47-7, in Week 2.
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The Lions returned to Mansion Park on Friday night to host Fox Chapel in the Big East Conference lidlifter, and many Altoona followers felt this was one they could put in the win column.
It didn't happen, though. The Foxes scored three times in the second quarter and went on to a 28-14 victory.
"Greatly disappointing," Palfey said.
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Altoona's Dion Brown is brought down by Fox Chapel's Anthony Bonaroti on Friday night at Mansion Park.
"The defense did enough to keep us in the game, but we didn't capitalize on offense," Palfey said. "That's not acceptable."
The Lions appeared confused much of the night and Palfey attributed some of it to the number of injuries that have hit the team in three games.
"With all of our injuries, [many players] aren't getting enough reps [in practice]," he said. "[There were] too many missed assignments so maybe we have too much [offense and defense] in [the playbook]."
Two turnovers hurt the Lions also.
"That's something we hadn't done in our first two games but it hurt us big time tonight," he said. "We had some good things going early, but dropped passes, snapping early, leaving late, that kind of stuff, is either a sign of too much in or not enough reps and that must mean we're overloaded.
"We may have to cut back and get better at what we're doing."
Altoona's Danny Moyer raced 69 yards for a first-quarter touchdown, but things turned in the second quarter when the Foxes scored on three long plays - a 53-yard run by Renorvio Holloman and a pair of TD passes from Alex Romagno to Nigel Garnett (39 yards) and Ryan Frankert (22).
Garnett was on the receiving end of a 48-yard scoring pass from backup freshman QB Billy Urso in the fourth before Tyler Palfey and Rafeeq Barnes hooked up on a 25-yard scoring play late in the game.
It was the first win in three games for Fox Chapel, which is coached by former Penn State and Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Eric Ravotti.
"It feels good, but I wish we could quit making so many mistakes," Ravotti, the first-year coach, said. "Luckily, we were able to overcome some of them tonight."
The Foxes were guilty of several mistakes while losing two non-conference games to open the season.
"In the first two games, we weren't able to overcome [mistakes]," Ravotti said. "Hopefully, we took a step forward tonight."
The Foxes survived 10 penalties (100 yards) and two lost two fumbles Friday.
"We've got some skilled athletes, but we've still got to take care of a lot of discipline things," Ravotti said. "Plus, the turnovers are still a bit of a pain for us.
"We're getting there, but we've still got a long road ahead of us."
Game notes: Altoona senior quarterback Lou Bettwy was knocked unconscious when sacked with 7:50 to play. He was quickly attended to by medical personnel and gave a thumbs up sign to the crowd while being carted to an ambulance for transportation to a local hospital. ... Lions travel to Kiski Area next Friday.
Fox Chapel0 21 0 7 - 28
Altoona7 0 0 7 - 14
First quarter
A-Moyer 69 run (Caracciolo kick), 3:50.
Second quarter
FC-Holloman 53 run (kick failed), 10:32.
FC-Garnett 39 pass from Romagno (Bonaroti pass from Romagno), 6:52.
FC-Frankert 22 pass from Romagno (Mroz kick), 4:07.
Fourth quarter
FC-Garnett 48 pass from Urso (Mroz kick), 8:17.
A-R. Barnes 25 pass from Palfey (Caracciolo kick), 4:29.
RUSHING: Fox Chapel-Garnett 12-107, Holloman 7-70, Faulkner 6-27, Dunlap 1-1, Morgan 1-(-5), Romagno (2-(-20). Altoona-Moyer 21-143, R. Barnes 4-15, Brown 10-11, Johnson 2-9, Palfey 1-(-3), Bettwy 7-(-6).
PASSING: Fox Chapel-Romago 4-10-0-83, Urso 1-1-0-48. Altoona-Bettwy 6-12-0-55, Palfey 3-3-0-54.
RECEIVING: Fox Chapel-Garnett 3-111, Frankert 1-22, Holloman 1-(-4). Altoona-Brown 3-42, R. Barnes 2-30, Yon 2-29, Diviney 1-13, Moyer 1-(-5).
INTERCEPTIONS: Fox Chapel-Wirginis.
First downs1016
Yards rushing29-18045-169
Passing (comp.-att.-int.)5-11-09-15-1
Yards passing131109
Total yards311278
Fumbles lost2-22-2


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The American Telephone and Telegraph Divestiture: Background, Provisions, and Restructuring
Date: April 11, 1984
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A
Description: On January 1, 1984, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) divested itself of a major portion of its organizational structure and functions. Under the post-divestiture environment the once fully-integrated Bell System is now reorganized into the "new" AT&T and seven Ladependent regional holding companies -- American Information Technologies Corp., 3ell Atlantic Corp., 3ell- South Corp., NYNEX Corp., Pacific Telesis Group., Southwestern Bell Corp., and U.S. West, Inc. The following analysis provides an overview of the pre- and post-divestiture organizational structure and details the evolution of the antitrust action which resulted in this divestiture.
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AT and T Divestiture: Restructuring the U.S. Domestic Telephone Industry
Date: August 10, 1984
Creator: Congressional Reference Division
Description: On January 8, 1982, the Justice Department and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced the settlement of the Government's seven year old antitrust suit against AT&T. Nineteen months later, in August 1983, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene gave final approval to the AT& T divestiture agreement. The breakup of AT&T will affect every aspect of the U.S. domestic telephone industry from the yellow pages to the manufacture of telephones. AT&T officially spun off its 22 local operating companies into seven regional phone companies on January 1, 1984. This Info Pack focuses on the Department of Justice settlement with AT&T and how the resulting divestiture will affect the U.S. domestic telephone industry.
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The Divestiture of American Telephone and Telegraph Company: The Impact on Shareholders
Date: December 7, 1983
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A
Description: This report analyzes the impact which the divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) will have on the 3.2 million holders of AT&T stock. The method of distribution and the listing and trading mechanics of the shares as well as dividend and tax information are discussed. A brief analysis of initial stock performance based on the first two weeks of trading concludes the analysis.
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> I am looking for a WLAN card that would work with Redhat 7.2. Any
> advice would be appreciated.
I had an Orinoco card (AT&T) that worked just fine. Perhaps you can
find a used one somewhere. Caveats: This was with RH 7.3, and I had
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How to fix Google Chrome profile issue
I had been using the bleeding edge developer version of Google Chrome — currently at version 12 — for about a year without incident, then it crashed and wouldn't launch. I had a copy of Google Chrome 10 handy, but it wouldn't run for more than a few minutes.
Thereupon, whenever I launched Google Chrome v10.x.x, it would spawn an error message:
Your profile can not be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome. Some features may be unavailable. Please specify a different profile directory or use a newer version of Chrome.
Well, if you're running Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard, then rectifying the problem is quite simple. Just navigate to the correct folder and delete a file:
~user/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default and delete "Web data"
Complicated cat
For those beta testing Mac OS X 10.7 beta, it's a little more complicated. That is, Lion hides the Library folder inside the user's home directory.
This problem likewise has a simple solution. Fire up Terminal (Utilities folder) and type or paste…
• defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
• Hit the Return key
Then just log out of OS X (Finder > Command + Shift + Q) and log back in to effect the change. Voila! You can see the folder and kill the offending file.
To make hidden files invisible again, replace "YES" with "NO" in the command terminal command, hit return, do the logout/login shuffle and you're good to go.
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Medco Health Solutions Inc.'s fourth-quarter net income rose 12 percent, as gains from generic prescriptions and the pharmacy benefits manager's specialty business helped offset expenses from its pending acquisition by Express Scripts Inc.
Its results beat Wall Street estimates, and its shares rose almost 2 percent in premarket trading.
A generic version of the cholesterol fighter Lipitor added about 3 cents per share to the Franklin Lakes-based company's earnings in the quarter. Lipitor, the world's top selling drug, lost its patent protection late in the fourth quarter.
Medco said its generic dispensing rate climbed 2.5 percentage points in the quarter to 74.7 percent of total prescription volume. While generic drugs are less expensive than their brand-name counterparts, they are more profitable for pharmacy benefits managers.
Overall, Medco reported net income of $424.4 million, or $1.08 per share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31. That compares to $378.5 million, or 88 cents per share, in the final quarter of 2010.
Revenue also climbed 12 percent to almost $19 billion from $16.9 billion a year ago. The latest quarter had an extra week compared to the 2010 quarter.
Adjusted earnings excluding costs tied to the Express Scripts deal and other expenses amounted to $1.25 per share.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected, on average, earnings of $1.17 per share on $17.38 billion in revenue.
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, process mail-order prescriptions and handle bills for prescriptions filled at retail pharmacies, acting as middlemen between employers offering prescription drug benefits and drugmakers.
Medco said mail-order prescriptions rose 9 percent in the quarter, as an increase in generic prescriptions countered a 1 percent decrease in brand-name volume.
Revenue from Medco's Accredo specialty pharmacy business climbed 28 percent to $3.8 billion. Accredo distributes drugs that require special handling, including treatments for chronic illnesses. It saw its biggest revenue growth in prescriptions for multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, oncology and hepatitis.
Medco's adjusted prescriptions — which count 90-day mail order prescriptions as three 30-day prescriptions — rose 7.7 percent in the quarter to 263.1 million.
Last July, St. Louis-based Express Scripts announced a $29.1 billion deal to buy Medco, a combination that would create a company that handles the prescriptions of about 135 million people, or more than one in three Americans. The new company would become the largest U.S. pharmacy benefits manager by far.
Shareholders from both companies have approved the deal, and the companies complied with a second request for information from the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month. Medco said Tuesday it remains confident the deal will close in the first half of this year.
The company had $43.6 million in expenses related to the deal in the fourth quarter, mostly due to legal fees and employee retention-related expenses.
For the full year, Medco reported net income of $1.46 billion, or $3.62 per share, on about $70.1 billion in revenue. That compares with earnings of $1.43 billion, or $3.16 per share, on revenue of $66 billion a year earlier.
Company shares climbed $1.10, or 1.7 percent, to $65.11 in pre-market trading Tuesday.


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Nestled in her home in a Herald eucalyptus grove, she sits. She is armed with a pair of scissors, a stapler, two weeks worth of newspaper ads and a big red binder.
Amy Radford was out of town last weekend, but it's time to catch up. She neatly organizes her pile of ads. Her fingers quickly and effortlessly group repeat ads together and staple the corners. Scissors glide through the paper quickly. Then, another staple secures similar ads together so they won't be lost or out of order.


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CHARLESTON - Musselman entered Saturday's Class AAA state volleyball championship match with some unfinished business.
The Applemen had reached the state final the past two years, and as the favorite, left Charleston with a runner-up finish.
Musselman didn't let it happen a third time.
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Members of the Musselman volleyball team celebrate after the final point of Saturday's Class AAA state championship match. The Applemen defeated Greenbrier East in three sets for the school's third state volleyball title. (Journal photos by Eric Jones)
Musselman's Taylor Lord sets up a pass during the third set of the Class AAA state championship game Saturday in Charleston.
Musselman's Megan Raney keeps the ball alive during the third set of the Class AAA state championship game Saturday.
Musselman team with trophies.
The celebration is on for Musselman's fans.
A dominating performance lifted the Applemen to a 3-0 (25-22, 25-14, 25-16) victory over Greenbrier East for the program's third state volleyball championship.
It was the second title in four seasons for Musselman, which was playing in its fourth straight state title match and sixth in seven years.
"Being there the past two years and losing both times, it gave us extra motivation to win," Musselman's Taylor Lord said. "We've been saying all postseason that we need to take care of our side of the net. We watch film, obviously, but we have to do what we can control.
"It was a complete team effort, and nobody outshined anyone else," she said. "Offense, defense, that's probably one of the best matches we've played."
Musselman coach Shawn Martz praised his players for their efforts.
"This team is easy to coach," he said. "I knew last night they were ready to go. A lot of these girls have been playing since they were 9, so to see it all come to fruition, it's great. They deserve it."
Musselman was the class of the field all weekend, winning all three of its matches by a 3-0 margin. The top-ranked team in the state most of the regular season proved their standing against a Greenbrier East team that knocked off Spring Valley in Friday's semifinals.
The third and final set might have been the most dominant for the Applemen, who won 25-16. Even though the final margin was close, Musselman was in control from the beginning.
The Applemen (44-6) built early leads of 4-0 and 8-2. Lexi Fritts served during the first run and Kelsey Bageant during the second run, notching an ace on the final point of the run.
With the score 14-5, the Applemen strung together six straight points for a 20-5 lead.
Greenbrier East made a run, cutting the lead to 22-13 on a kill by Abby Brown just past a Musselman defender.
That was the final run the Spartans made, and Lord finished the match with another kill.
"I saw the hole, and I knew that's where I wanted to hit it," Lord said. "When it was over, I just hit the floor."
The Applemen took a key first set by a score of 25-22, holding off a late Greenbrier East run. Musselman led the entire way but had to fend off the Spartans, who kept chipping at the lead.
The Spartans cut the lead to 16-13 on kill by Brown, but the Applemen responded with a 5-0 run. Lord, who had a team-high 14 kills, had back-to-back kills down the left line to give Musselman a 21-13 advantage.
With the score 23-16 in favor of Musselman, Greenbrier East won five straight points to pull within two points at 23-21, the run capped by a Kaitie Shaver kill.
Another kill by Shaver pulled the Spartans back within two points, but a long hit on the next play gave Musselman the set.
"We got a big lead in the first set but let them get back in it," Martz said. "Definitely, to get off to a good start and get the first set, that was big."
"We got down early, and that's always hard to overcome," Greenbrier East coach Matt Sauvage said. "If we could have got the first game, that would have been huge."
Musselman cruised to a second-set win, 25-14, showing off its strength on offense and defense. A big run early was key to getting the Applemen going.
Musselman jumped out to a 6-1 lead, led by three kills and two blocks from Lord. The lead then went to 12-4 and 16-6, with the Applemen putting together an 8-5 run. Megan Raney had three kills during the run, while Kaitlin Ferretti had a kill and Autumn Bartles a block.
Bartles and Kaci Dove played a big part in the final point of that run, both keeping the ball alive on a dive on two separate occasions. The play kept going, Lord notched another kill for the point.
"We played great defense again. We've been solid defensively all tournament," Martz said. "We passed well, served well and were efficient on offense. I think we got them out of the comfort zone at times."
Musselman continued to roll, extending its lead to 21-9, with the help of back-to-back kills from Rebecca Kern. Lord finished the set with an ace, on a serve that just made it over the net and landed in front of a Greenbrier East player.
Bartles, Dove, Ferretti and Lord were named to the all-tournament team for Musselman, while Brown, Shaver and Abby Morgan made team for Greenbrier East.


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The Aspire V5 has a plastics body and is slimmer and with 2 kg also lighter than the competition. Acer has targeted users looking for a portable machine. In many aspects, this device is average in its class and does not stand out. The 15.6 inch capacitive touchscreen features a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and supports 10-point inputs, which is perfect for the pre-installed Windows 8. Colors are bright and crisp, and the viewing angles leave nothing to complain about. The full-sized chiclet keyboard with number pad offers a decent typing experience. In addition, it comes with an extra- large clickable touchpad with support for Windows 8 gestures.
Inside the Aspire V5 there is a 750GB hard drive, which is a decent amount of storage, and a 1.8GHz Intel Core i3-3217U ULV dual core processor. The performance is sufficient when compared to competitors of the same price range. It can handle light multimedia tasks easily, but is not suitable for hardcore gaming. But, casual social games are not a problem. Considering how thin and light the build is, battery life is a concern. Unfortunately, the Acer Aspire V5 fares much, much worse than the competition here. Overall, this is a good looking, well designed machine for an affordable price. Battery life is its main shortcoming, but if that's not an issue, the Acer Aspire V5 is great value.
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River Plantation (Bellevue), Nashville, TN. May 8, 2010
Today arguably represents the 2-year anniversary of the 2010 Nashville flooding. 13.57 inches of rain fell between the two days on May 1st and 2nd, and water began entering people's homes and businesses. I thought about posting here one of the more eerie, picturesque photos of downtown Nashville without power and full of water. Pretty pictures, maybe, but those photos don't really capture the true losses of the flooding. Those businesses quickly hired equipment and people, pumped the water out, cut their losses, and were back in business before too long. The hardest hit and longest affected areas, of course, were the least visible, and there was nothing pretty about it.
The photo above reflects the more painful reality of what countless individuals faced when the waters finally receded. Entire homes gutted and turned inside out, their life's belongings on display for all to see. Their neighborhoods and streets turned into makeshift dumps.
Bellevue was lucky, relatively, being a more visible and affluent suburb, quickly amassing a veritable army of volunteers to help strip the houses. I didn't even take a camera with me to Bordeaux, where things were a little more bleak. Many houses stood empty, abandoned, and some had a smattering of volunteers starting to trickle in. I recall the house I helped to demo: An older retired couple owned it, and were insisting that we carefully scrape the 20 year old linoleum off of the plywood subfloor, so they could salvage it. I didn't have the construction expertise, but mostly didn't have the heart, to tell him that it would all have to be ripped out. It's no easy task to tell someone that the home and life they're desperately trying to save is destroyed.
I won't moralize too much here about it all, since this blog is about pretty pictures. So, yeah. Tomorrow I'll post a photo of a flower and some kittens or something. Happy Tuesday!
power failure
Downtown Nashville. May, 2010.
One of the eerier aspects of the post-flood period in Nashville was wandering around the vast swaths of downtown that were entirely without power. Pictured here is the trail left by a maintenance worker with a headlamp on.
things we lost in the flood
So, Nashville is under water. For those of you not from around here, Nashville had a "1000 year flood event" caused by around 16″ of rain in a 48 hour period. I assume this is one of those "oh fuck" situations they use in the Army Corps. of Engineers basic training (do they have that?) to scare the newbies. (YOU CALL THAT A TRUSS, SOLDIER?! THAT TRUSS AIN'T FIT TO SUPPORT YOUR MOMMA'S BE-HIND!! DO IT AGAIN!!) I haven't had much of a chance to get out and help, much less take any proper pictures, because I've been dreadfully ill and cooped up at home, shivering and sweating while my friends and colleagues bravely sandbagged and soldiered on (easily one of the most frustrating and helpless weekends of my life, but anyways). I had to get out today and see some of it for myself. The above picture is where I used to live, Market Street Apartments. While I was out, I ran into a friend that still lives there on the first floor — leaning against a wall on 3rd just crying her eyes out. Shit's real. It's not getting a lot of national attention, but it's real.
How can you help? Well, just go here. Also, keep your eye on this. And if you're in the Nashville area and I catch you watering your lawn, I'm gonna forcefeed you pictures of the Ghost Ballet until your eyeballs explode.


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July/August 1991 | Volume 42, Issue 4
"It was an hour after dawn one morning in spring," one of them recalled, "—a time of the year when the cool air and fogs of February are suddenly exchanged for the hot winds—that a 'faithful' domestic came to my bedside with the strange intimation that a ship was off the town laden with burruf (snow). … What could he mean? Ice from America! An entire cargo! So I at once jumped up, bathed, while my horse was being saddled, and then rode down to the ghaut. Engaging a paunchway, a small native wherry, I pulled on board the Yankee clipper. … I was allowed to peep into the abyss which contained the treasure. There it lay! in square masses of the purest crystal packed carefully and scientifically. … I hurried off giving my khansamah a wicker basket and a piece of green baize and sent him off with a rupee for a pound of ice. He soon returned with half the quantity. 'How is this?' 'Master, all make melt.' 'Did you wrap it well up in the cloth?' 'No Sahib, that make ice too muchee warm.' 'Did you close the basket?' 'No, Master, because that make ice more warm.' How many Calcutta tables glittered that morning with lumps of ice! The butter dishes were filled; the goblets of water were converted into miniature Arctic seas with icebergs floating on the surface. All business was suspended until noon, that people might rush about to pay each other congratulatory visits, and devise means for perpetuating the ice-supply. Everybody invited everybody to dinner, to taste of claret and beer cooled by the American importation. …"
William C. Rogers remained in Calcutta to supervise storage and sales. On November 22 the governor-general, William Bentinck, the highest-ranking government officer in India, published a letter in the India Gazette under the headline THE IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN ICE: "To W. C. Rogers, Esq. of Boston. Sir, The importation of American ice into Calcutta is an enterprise so novel and beneficial that I cannot resist the desire of expressing to you my sense of the spirit and skill by which it has been planned and executed. I beg that you, under whose superintendence it has been conducted, will do me the favor to accept the accompanying small token of the gratification which I have derived from the success of this extraordinary undertaking. A few months ago such a project as that which you have realized would have been regarded as visionary and I have no hesitation in declaring to you my opinion that its accomplishment must be attended with great public benefit. I sincerely hope that you may find ample encouragement to persevere in your speculation, bringing comfort to the inhabitants of this great and populous City. I am, Sir, your most obedient and humble servant, Calcutta 22nd November, 1833. (sd.) W. C. Bentinck."
The cup that accompanied this accolade stands nearly a foot high and is elaborately decorated in the style of William IV. Marks at the base identify its makers as Hamilton and Company, the largest and most important firm of Indian colonial silversmiths. The subsequent histories of the cup and its recipient are somewhat mysterious. One of the sources supplied to me from India indicates that Rogers sold his trophy and set up in Calcutta as a boardinghouse keeper and dentist. No one seems to know where the cup spent the century between its presentation to Rogers in Calcutta and its purchase by Anne Halliday's father on Cape Cod.
So eager were the British to maintain a supply of American ice that within three days they raised money to commission an icehouse to preserve the commodity. "The idea of having the purest ice at three half-pence a pound during the whole year," wrote one British resident in Calcutta, "instead of having the Hooghly slush for six weeks at four-pence the pound was irresistable."
The availability of ice soon affected the daily menus of the well-to-do British residents. Colesworthy Grant, a chronicler of Anglo-Indian domestic life in the middle of the nineteenth century, wrote that "it was not long ere the 'Ice-Chest' formed an additional and handsome item of domestic furniture, which custom has now rendered almost as common and indispensable as the sofa or the side-board. The Ice-Chest is a square box, made either of mahogany or teak wood, or japanned tin, fitted with zinc reservoirs for water, and receptacles for bottles, decanters, butter-pot, meat, jellies, and what not, closely surrounding and in contact with a chamber in the centre for the ice. The whole, lined throughout with zinc, and padded with flannel and green baize, unite neatness with utility and are sold, ready made, at prices varying from thirty to about sixty roopees."
The medical benefits of a dependable supply of ice were recognized at once, and by 1842 a leading Calcutta newspaper, The Statesman , reported that the abundant supply had enabled "our hospitals [to] extend its useful application to the poorest patients."
That year Tudor lowered the price of ice, and The Statesman urged citizens to increase consumption in order to keep it down so that "the second and third grades of the community may now be tempted to a greater indulgence in the most valuable luxury we have ever been blessed with. …"


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Jordan Hasay
|Personal information
|Full name
|Jordan Melissa Hasay
September 21, 1991
Fontana, California
|5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
|Track & Field
|College team
|University of Oregon
|Nike Oregon Project
|Coached by
|Alberto Salazar
|Achievements and titles
|Personal best(s)
|800 meters: 2:08.32[1]
1500 meters: 4:07.70[1]
3000 meters: 8:46.89[1]
2-mile: 9:35.05[1]
5000 meters: 15:28.56[1]
10,000 meters: 31:39.67[1]
Medal record
|Updated on 11-28-14.
Jordan Melissa Hasay (born September 21, 1991) is an American distance runner. She grew up in Arroyo Grande, California, where she attended Mission College Preparatory High School. She was unanimously selected 2008 Girls High School Athlete of the Year by the voting panel at Track and Field News.[2] In March 2009, she became the ninth high school athlete and third woman on the cover of Track and Field News magazine.[3] She attended the University of Oregon,[4] where she studied business administration and competed on the cross country and track and field teams earning 18 All-American honors, 2011 Mile and 3,000 meters NCAA titles.[5] Her father was a high school basketball star in Pennsylvania, and her mother was a national level swimmer in her native England.[6]
- 1 Running career
- 2 Competition results
- 3 U.S. records
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Running career[edit]
Before High School[edit]
Before entering high school, Hasay twice set the USATF Junior Olympics Youth record in the 1500 meter run, first setting the record in 2004 with a time of 4:34.02 and setting it again in 2005 with a time of 4:28.61. She also twice set the USATF Junior Olympics Youth record in the 3000 meter run, first setting the record in 2004 with a time of 9:48.77 and setting it again in 2005 with a time of 9:35.12. She went to St. Patricks Catholic School, and she ran in the San Luis Distance Club youth program, where she was coached by Jim Barodte.[7]
High School[edit]
Freshman Year[edit]
Hasay began her cross country legacy when she set the all time freshman record at the 2005 Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational. Here, she also gained her nickname of "The Little Pony," due to her long ponytail. Hasay won the 2005 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships race with a time of 17:05 over five kilometers,[8] being the second freshman to win this race and with the fastest winning time since 2001. She won the 3200 meter race at the 2006 CIF California State Meet with a time of 10:13.55 and won the mile race at the 2006 Golden West Invitational with a time of 4:42.21, just 0.21 seconds off the high school freshman mile record of 4:42.0 set by Mary Decker in 1973. She also won the 3000 meter race at the 2006 USATF Junior (19-and-under) Championship Track & Field Meet with a time of 9:50.66. Normally, the winner of this race would qualify to represent the USA at the 2006 World Junior Championship Track & Field Meet in Beijing, China, but at age 14, Hasay was too young according to IAAF rules.
Hasay lost just two races in her freshman year: her first cross country race in the fall of 2005 when she did not finish, and the Nike Outdoor Nationals mile, where she placed 3rd with a time of 4:42.27, three seconds behind junior Danielle Tauro. She was selected by Track & Field News magazine as the third best high school miler, second best high school two-miler, and the 17th best overall girls high school track and field athlete in the United States for 2006.
Sophomore Year[edit]
Hasay won the 2007 USATF Junior Cross Country Championship race in a time of 21:44 over six kilometers, leading from the beginning and winning by 14 seconds. She qualified to represent the USA at the 2007 World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya on March 24, but because of a terrorism warning at the meet, she did not participate.[9]
Hasay set the age 15 and national high school sophomore class records in the 3200m in her first race on the track in 2007 with a time of 10:04.52, the fastest high school time since 2004. She won the 3200 meter race at the 2007 CIF California State Meet in a time of 10:06.76 and won the mile race at the 2007 Golden West Invitational in a time of 4:43.34. Hasay also won the 1500 meter race at the 2007 USATF Junior Championship Track & Field Meet in a meet record time of 4:16.98. This was the fourth fastest HS 1500 of all time, the fastest ever by a US 15-year-old, fastest ever by a sophomore (eclipsed on June 1, 2012 by Mary Cain's 4:16.52), and the fastest HS time in 25 years.[10] She received a silver medal in her first international championships, running a 4:17.24 in the 1500 meters at the 5th IAAF World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, finishing behind the 4:15.47 run by Sammary Cherotich of Kenya.[9][11]
Hasay was selected by Track and Field News magazine as both the best high school miler and two-miler in 2007 (the first girls mile/2-mile double winner since Julia Stamps in 1997), and also the 5th best overall (and top sophomore) girls high school track and field athlete in the United States for 2007.
Junior year[edit]
Hasay won the USATF Cross Country Championships Junior Women's 6K on February 16, 2008 in 20 minutes, 32 seconds at Mission Bay Park in San Diego.
Hasay's determination to win was illustrated in the All Star meeting between her and Christine Babcock at the Arcadia Invitational. In that race, both runners would not concede, turning the race into a rare home stretch sprint challenge for Hasay. As a traditional frontrunner, this was not thought to be Hasay's strength, but she held off Babcock to win.See highlights of the race on YouTube This race served as a precursor for the challenge in the CIF State meet Finals.
At the 2008 CIF California State Meet on May 31, Hasay held off Davis Senior High School senior Laurynne Chetelat down the home stretch to win her third consecutive 3200 state title in a meet record of 9:52.13, the second fastest 3200 time run by a high school girl ever (only behind Kim Mortensen's National Record) and the first (along with Chetelat) under 10 minutes since Caitlin Chock in 2004. See the race on DyeStat See the race on YouTube
She successfully defended her national junior 1500m title on June 22.
Hasay broke the national high school record for 1500m in a semifinal heat at Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon on July 4. Her time of 4:14.50 bested the previous mark, held by Christine Babcock, by 1.92 seconds. This time was also the record for the combined all-time (converted) US high school 1500/1600/mile events, as maintained by Track & Field News. YouTube video
Hasay closed out her 2008 track season on July 13 in Bydgoszcz, Poland by finishing fourth in the 1500m at the IAAF World Junior Championships in a time of 4:19.02. This finish was the best ever for a U.S. girl in the World Juniors women's 1500m.
Hasay was named the 2008 USA Track and Field's Youth Athlete of the Year on October 21. On October 23, Track & Field News announced that their voting panel unanimously selected Hasay the 2008 Girls High School Athlete of the Year.
Senior year[edit]
Hasay's senior year cross country season included her fourth straight California high school Division V win, making her the second athlete in California state history, after Sara Hall (née Bei), to win four state titles. Hasay then went on to win her fourth straight Foot Locker West Regional title, becoming the first athlete in the history of the Foot Locker National meet to win a regional title four times. Finally, she won the national Foot Locker Cross Country Championships for the second time, in a time of 17:22. This win makes her the sixth runner to win this prestigious meet twice, and the only athlete to win the meet in non-consecutive years. She decided not to defend her USA Cross Country Championships Junior Women's 6K title.
Hasay won Arcadia Invitational, CIF SS, CIF Masters, CIF State titles in track and field. Hasay won the two-mile at the 2009 Nike Indoor Nationals with a time 10:10.89, making her the sixth fastest U.S. high school performer of all time in her first indoor race. Hasay was named the 2008-9 MaxPreps Female Athletes of the Year.[12]
In February 2009, Hasay committed to the Oregon Ducks over many other prestigious programs.
High school personal bests[edit]
|All-time U.S. HS Rank [13][14][15]
|800 meters
|May 23, 2009
|1,500 meters
|July 4, 2008
|1,600 meters
|March 31, 2007
|One mile
|June 11, 2006
|3,000 meters
|May 31, 2008
|3,200 meters
|May 31, 2008
|Two miles
|April 7, 2007
Freshman year[edit]
Hasay did not disappoint in her Oregon debut, taking sixth at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in 16:39.71 for a 5000m, where she was the top freshman in the race which helped her team to a second-place finish. She was the top Duck, and third overall, at the Pre-National Invitational, covering the 6000m LaVern Gibson Championship Course in 20:33. She had a strong performance at the Pac-10 Championships where she finished third, as the top freshman. She took second in the NCAA West Regional. She was the Ducks' top runner at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, where she placed 18th to claim her first All-American Award. She was awarded Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year.
She opened her indoor season by running the lead leg of Oregon's relay team at the Texas A&M Challenge. She came back next day to win the mile in 4:38.48. Two weeks later, she won the 3000m at the Husky Classic in a time that was fourth-all time at Oregon. She helped lead Oregon to its first-ever MPSF crown by winning the mile in 4:35.01. This time was an NCAA automatic qualifier and was .02 seconds shy of the school record. She was a key point scorer at her first NCAA Indoor Championships where she placed fourth in the mile and ran the anchor leg on the Ducks' runner-up DMR team. This led Oregon to win the Indoor title for the first time in school history. The DMR time at this meet (10:58.96) was a school record and only the second time Oregon women had run under 11:00.
Hasay's collegiate outdoor debut was a memorable one as she won the featured section of the 1500m at the Standford Invitational in 4:14.67, which was less than a quarter of a second off her PR, as well as the junior national high school record, that she set at the 2008 Olympic Trials. In her Hayward Field debut as a Duck, she won the 5000m to help Oregon win the Pepsi Team Invitational. She led off Oregon's runner-up DMR team and anchored the third-place 4 × 1500 m squad at the Penn Relays. She was third in the 1500, the top collegian, at the Oregon Relays. At the Pac-10 Championships, she took third in the 1500m. She won her preliminary 1500m race at the NCAA West Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships. She took third in her heat to advance to the finals, where she produced one of the competition's biggest surprises. Keeping pace with the leaders the entire way, she finished third as a freshman behind a pair of seniors to become the highest placing freshman runner at the 2010 NCAA Championships. She was ranked eighth nationally in the 1500m (4:14.67) as a freshman in college.
Following her collegiate season, she ran at the USATF Junior Track & Field Championships, where she won the 1500 meters (4:26.38) and was the runner-up in the 3000 meters (9:18.92). This qualified her for the IAAF World Junior Championships in both events. At Worlds, she placed ninth in the 3000m, opening the competition with a personal best. She was second in her preliminary 1500m heart, but she placed fourth in the final, just off a medal.
Sophomore year (2010-11)[edit]
Early in the season, Hasay led the Ducks to an impressive runner-up finish at University of Notre Dame with her eighth-place finish (16:45) in the 5k. She earned her first collegiate cross country victory at the Bill Dellinger Invitational, edging out teammate Alex Kosinski to lead the Ducks to the team title. She won the Pac-10 individual cross country title, to help the women tie for third in the closest team race in Pac-10 history. She followed that performance up by winning the NCAA West Regional meet to help Oregon finish second and automatically advance to the NCAA Championships. She finished third at the NCAA CHampionships in 20:13 (6k). That was the best finish by a female duck since 1991. She earned her second straight cross country All American award. She was also awarded Pac-10 Athlete of the Year.
She set a school record and was part of two NCAA automatic qualifiers in her season debut at the UW Invitational. She broke the 3000m record by two seconds, winning in 9:05.42. She also ran the lead leg on Oregon's distance medley relay that won in 11:02.15. This mark broke the Dempsy Indoor Facility stadium record. She followed up that by running a nation-leading time in the mile at the Husky Classic, 4:34.75. At the MPSF Championships, she defended her title in the mile and tied for seventh place in the 800 meters. At the NCAA Indoor Championships, she led a 1–3–4 Duck finish in the mile to help Oregon capture its second national consecutive title. She broke the school record in the process. She came back the next day to hold off Villanova's Sheila Reid to win the 3000 meters. She also anchored the Ducks' runner-up DMR team, and broke the school record in 10:52.9. She was selected as the USATFCCCA's National Indoor Track Scholar-Athlete of the Year. With these two victories, she became the first person to win two Foot Locker Cross Country Championships and two NCAA Championships. That feat was duplicated in 2014 by Oregon teammate Edward Cheserek.
Her outdoor season debut was a memorable won, winning the 1500m in 4:18.61 at the Pepsi Team Invitational. She ran a nation-leading 15:37.29 in the 5000m at the Mt. SAC Relays. She ran the 1500m at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in a field of professionals, with an impressive performance of 4:10.28. She doubled at the Pac-10 Championships in the 1500m and 5000m. She successfully executed the demanding double again at the NCAA West Regional. She earned All-American honors in the 1500m and 5k at the NCAA Championships, where she was eighth and fourth respectively. She was named the National Academic All-American of the Year for Women's Track & Field/Cross Country.
She capped off a strong season by finishing ninth in the final of the 1500m at the USATF Championships in the senior race against professionals.
Junior year (2011-12)[edit]
She had a terrific season debut at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, where she was the runner-up to defending NCAA Champion Sheila Reid of Villanova. She showcased a solid run at the Pac-12 Championships where she placed third, to help Oregon place fourth overall. She successfully defended her NCAA West Regional title. She finished as the runner-up at the NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship. She covered the 6k LaVerne Gibson Championship Course in 19:41.8, just a step behind Reid who won in one of the closest finishes in NCAA Cross Country history, 0.6 seconds ahead. She led the Oregon Women to a fifth-place team finish, their highest placing in three years. She was named Pac-12 Cross Country Athlete of the Year.
Hasay opened her indoor season with a win at the Texas A&M Challenge in the mile. She broke her own school record in the 3000m in a tight runner-up finish at the MPSF Championships in 9:03.95. She scored 11 team points for Oregon at the NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships where she placed third in the mile and fourth in the 3000m, leading her team to their third consecutive indoor title.
During this outdoor season, she focused on the 1500 meters. She opened the season with a 1500m at the Oregon Relays. She successfully defended her Pac-12 title at 1500m. She won easily at the NCAA West Regional, which advanced her to the NCAA Championships. She took third in the 1500m final at the NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 4:14.03. She ran her only 5000m of the season at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational.
After her collegiate season, Hasay qualified for the Olympic Trials, where she advanced to the semifinals but failed to make the final. Hasay won 2012 U-23 NACAC 1500 meters in Mexico representing USA.
Senior year (2012-13)[edit]
Hasay placed seventh overall the Bill Dellinger Invitational with a time of 17:04, where her teammate and best friend, Alexi Pappas, won. She had a strong showing at the Pre-Nationals by placing fifth overall, which was instrumental in helping the ducks place second as a team. She came in second at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 20:10, which led the team to win the conference title. She won the NCAA West Regional for the third year in a row with a time of 19:16, propelling the Ducks to win the meet. She was named the USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year. She placed third in the NCAA Cross Country Championships and was Oregon's top finisher. She led the ducks to winning their first national Cross Country title since 1987. She again won All-American status, making her the first women in NCAA history to win four cross country All-America awards. She was named Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year.
At the 2013 NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship, Hasay did not run the mile due to starting to focus on the longer distances. She placed second in the 3000m and fourth in the 5000m, leading Oregon to its fourth indoor title.
During her 2013 outdoor season, she ran 32:06 in her 10000m debut, getting third at the Payton Jordan Invitational to Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher. This time was only one second off the B Standard for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow. She finished a disappointing 18th in the NCAA West Regional 10k, but won her heat of the 5k to advance to the NCAA Championships. In her last race in a Duck uniform she took third in the final of the 5000m, getting second to winner Abbey D'Agostino and Betsy Saina. Hasay was named 2013 Track & Field Scholar Athlete of the Year. Hasay finished her University of Oregon tenure as 16 time All-American.[16]
|6 km Cross Country
|Indoor Track
|Outdoor Track
|18th, 20:23.1
|DMR, 2nd
3,000 Meters, DNF
Mile, 4th
|1,500 Meters, 3rd
|3rd, 20:13.0
|DMR, 2nd
3,000 Meters, 1st
Mile, 1st
|5,000 Meters, 4th
1,500 Meters, 8th
|2nd, 19:41.8
|3,000 Meters, 4th
Mile, 3rd
|1,500 Meters, 3rd
|3rd, 19:28.6
|5,000 Meters, 4th
3,000 Meters, 2nd
|5,000 Meters, 3rd
In 2013, upon completion of her time at the University of Oregon, Hasay signed with Nike, Inc. and joined the Nike Oregon Project, to be coached by Alberto Salazar. She placed 2nd in the 10,000 at the 2013 US National Championships and ran faster than the World Championships "B" Standard (32:05) shortly thereafter (with a 31:46.42, narrowly missing the "A standard of 31:45), gaining her spot on her first Senior World Championship Team. After getting the standard, Hasay flew to Europe where she raced in the London Diamond League meet 3000m. She placed sixth and the race was won by Shannon Rowbury, however she set an 11-second personal best. This was her last race before Worlds, as well as her international professional debut.
In the 2013 World Championships she finished 12th overall, though her time was about 30 seconds slower than her qualifying race.
At the 2014 Payton Jordan Invitational she improved upon her personal best at 10,000, running 31:39.67.[17] Her 10km time is the 5th fastest in the world in 2014[18] according to IAAF as of July 11th. Hasay is the second rated 10,000 meter woman (behind Shalane Flanagan) to qualify for 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. At those championships, Flanagan did not run, but Hasay still came in second in 32:03.28, her kick unable to break a second surge by Kim Conley.[19] Hasay later ran a personal best 1500 metres in 4:07.70 at a meet in Glasgow, Scotland on July 11, 2014.[20]
Jordan Hasay won the 2014 Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women in a personal best time of 31:38.[21] Hasay's time is less than 2 seconds from the American Road 10km record set earlier this June by Molly Huddle.[22]
Jordan earned a silver medal in two mile at 2015 Boston USATF Indoor Championships in 9:44.69.
Although Hasay was scheduled to race in the 10km at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, she scratched because of plantar fasciitis and severe tendinitis throughout her foot.
Hasay achieved 2016 Olympic standard at the 2016 Payton Jordan Invitational at 10,000 meters, running 31:58.33.[23]
Hasay placed 8th at Portland Track Festival 15 June 2016 in 5000 meters in 15:32.19.[24]
Competition results[edit]
USA National Championships[edit]
Outdoor track and field[edit]
|USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
|Eugene, Oregon
|1500 m
|US Olympic Trials
|Eugene, Oregon
|1500 m
|USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
|Des Moines, Iowa
|10,000 m
|USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
|Sacramento, California
|10,000 m
|US Olympic Trials
|Eugene, Oregon
|10,000 m
Indoor track and field[edit]
|USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
|Albuquerque, New Mexico
|3000 m
|USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
|Boston, Massachusetts
|2 mile
|USATF Cross Country
|Junior Women's 6K
|2007, 2008[33]
|USATF Track & Field (outdoor)
|Junior Women's 3000m
|USATF Track & Field (outdoor)
|Junior Women's 1500m
|2007**, 2008,[35] 2009, 2010
** Won in a meet record 4:16.98.[35]
NCAA championships[edit]
Cross country[edit]
|Representing Oregon
|NCAA Cross Country Championships
|Terre Haute, Indiana
|NCAA Cross Country Championships
|Terre Haute, Indiana
|NCAA Cross Country Championships
|Terre Haute, Indiana
|NCAA Cross Country Championships
|Louisville, Kentucky
U.S. records[edit]
High school class[edit]
|Class [15]
|3000 meters
|3200 meters
|1600 meters
|3200 meters
|2 miles
|1500 meters
|3000 meters
|3200 meters
|12 [40]
|3000 meters
|13 [41]
|1500 meters
|3000 meters
|14 [15]
|1500 meters
|3000 meters
|3200 meters
|15 [15]
|1500 meters
|1600 meters
|3000 meters
|3200 meters
|16 [15]
|3000 meters
|3200 meters
USATF Age Group[edit]
|Age Group
|1500 meters
|3000 meters
|9:35.1 [41]
- ^ a b c d e f All-Athletics. "Profile of Jordan Hasay".
- ^ Track & Field News: Jordan Hasay Slam-Dunk Choice
- ^ Hasay to grace national magazine cover
- ^ EliteRunning.com: Interview with Jordan Hasay
- ^ Oregon wins Jordan Hasay sweepstakes
- ^ Hasay is on track for Ostrava
- ^ Smith, Erick (16 August 2009). "Larger than life figure: Jordan Hasay's career took off when she learned how to race". San Luis Obispo Tribune. Archived from the original on August 19, 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ^ EliteRunning.com: Interview with Jordan Hasay
- ^ a b San Luis Obispo Tribune: Jordan Hasay's amazing success
- ^ USATF: Hasay assaults record book on Day 4 of Finish Line USA Junior Champs
- ^ Santa Maria Times: Hasay aims for another West title at Mt. SAC
- ^ http://www.maxpreps.com/news/tQE-8v00xkuwo_R1f4umlg/maxpreps-2013-14-female-athlete-of-the-year--ariana-washington.htm
- ^ Track & Field News: High School Girls All-Time Top 10 Lists
- ^ Dyestat database (2005 forward)
- ^ a b c d e Shepard, Jack (2008). High School Track 2009. Jack Shepard.
- ^ http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3759217
- ^ 2014 Payton Jordan Invitational 10km
- ^ 2014 IAAF World Rankings
- ^ 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships women's 10km
- ^ Jordan Hasay IAAF profile
- ^ http://www.letsrun.com/news/2014/10/jordan-hasay-outlasts-caroline-rotich-claim-tufts-10k-title/
- ^ 2014 Tufts Health Plan 10K
- ^ 2016 Payton Jordan Invitational 10km results
- ^ Portland Track Festival 15 June 2016 in 5000 meters
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/results/complete_senior.asp
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-TF/results/Results10-2.htm
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2012/U-S--Olympic-Team-Trials-TF/Results.aspx
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2013/USATFCS/Events/USA-Outdoor-Track---Field-Championships/Results---Full.aspx
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USATF-Outdoor-Championships/Complete-Results.aspx
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USA-Indoor-Track---Field-Championships/Results.aspx
- ^ http://www.flashresults.com/2015_Meets/Indoor/02-27_USA/009-1_compiled.htm
- ^ http://www.flashresults.com/2015_Meets/Indoor/02-27_USA/
- ^ USATF: USA Cross Country Champions - Junior Women
- ^ USATF: USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Champions Women's 3,000m
- ^ a b USATF: USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Champions Women's 1,500m
- ^ 2009 NCAA Women's Divisoin I Championshiops results. Track and Field News. Retrieved March 4, 2016
- ^ 2010 NCAA Women's Divisoin I Championshiops results. Track and Field News. Retrieved March 4, 2016
- ^ 2011 NCAA Women's Divisoin I Championshiops results. Track and Field News. Retrieved March 4, 2016
- ^ 2012 NCAA Women's Divisoin I Championshiops results. Track and Field News. Retrieved March 4, 2016
- ^ a b USATF: Hasay clocks fastest youth time ever by a female
- ^ a b c USATF: American Youth Outdoor Track & Field Records
External links[edit]
- Jordan Hasay profile at IAAF
- Hasay named Gatorade National Cross Country Athlete of the Year
- MileSplit: Jordan Hasay: A Mission Transcending High School Running
- ESPN: Young Hasay captures spotlight at U.S. trials
- Sports Illustrated: Youth movement taking over trials
- Los Angeles Times: Teen is going the extra mile
- DyeStat: 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Daily recap - Taking Eugene by storm
- Sports Illustrated: Jordan rules - Calif. sophomore runner a step ahead of field
- Santa Maria Times: Hasay's calendar year nets victories, accolades
- Running Times Magazine: Catching up with Jordan Hasay
- Running Times Magazine: Jordan Hasay
- San Luis Obispo Tribune: Hasay enjoying moment of obscurity
- DyeStat: Jordan Hasay - A Work in Progress
- San Luis Distance Club Biography
|Preceded by
William Wynne
|USA Track & Field Youth Athlete of the Year
|Succeeded by
Bryce Love


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Plautus' Miles Gloriosus (The Braggart Soldier) features one of the great stock character types of comedy. Likely a play of Plautus' early career (probably around 206 BCE based on lines 211-212 which scholars think refer to the imprisonment of the playwright Naevius), it focuses on the conniving of Palaestrio (the clever slave) to rescue Philocomasium (the girlfriend) for his master Pleusicles (the lover), from the clutches of Pyrgopolynices (the braggart soldier) whose sense of his own hyper-masculinity is constantly undermined by other characters. Palaestrio must first deceive the soldier's slave Sceledrus in order to remove him from the picture before turning his attention to bamboozling the soldier. Through these …
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NEWARK — A passenger plane en route from Minneapolis experienced a "brake malfunction" as it landed tonight at Newark Liberty International Airport and had to be towed to its gate as a precautionary measure, officials said.
Shuttle America Flight TCF 3531 landed at about 7:40 p.m. at and experienced the brake problem, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the airport.
The nature of the malfunction was not detailed by the spokesman who also did not know how many people were on board the plane.
Shuttle America operates as a subsidiary of United Airlines, the spokesman said.
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There cannot be much doubt that the average Muslim in this country is as decent a person as anyone else. The dispute concerning the location of Cordoba House does not lie there. A setting for dialogue can only be a good thing. It is, unfortunately, also true that hardly anyone of that faith in the U.S., or for that matter the world, seems to want to step up and go on the record against the more radical and violent among their number. Do slogans like "silence = equals death" apply only convenient? Tacit approval is approval.
To have stood up against the Nazis, Stalinists, or any terror group, took more guts than many can muster. It still does.
My own grandparents came as Catholics to a basically Protestant country and saw their sons, without qualm, go off to fight not only for their country, but against their own former homeland. Talk about going on the record. This is and always was a nation of immigrants. It is not religious or ethnic bigotry that is at the heart of the opposition to the Ground Zero area construction, but legitimate concern.
In 1998, some may recall there was a controversy about Christian symbols at Auschwitz. Even though some nuns and priests spoke out against Hitler's regime, and paid the ultimate price, the crosses were deemed inappropriate at the site of so many Jewish people's deaths.
In 2000, South Carolina approved a bill removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse dome amid cries that it represented a slave owning society, which it did for four years. The U.S. flag, which is still there, flew over slave owners for nine decades. To put a 13-story Islamic cultural center and mosque so close to Ground Zero would be akin to putting a Confederate museum near the site of a fire bombed church down south. Legal? Maybe. Right or wrong? You got me. Sensitive toward the families and memory of the 9/11 victims? Hardly.
Islamic culture, since its first expansions, has made a point of constructing mosques on the sites of conquered countries' most symbolic places. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was erected soon after the occupation by Muslim forces. In Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia, though now a museum, was converted into an Imperial mosque. These are only two examples of how buildings have been used to display the supremacy of Islam. The problem caused by this policy are still unresolved centuries later.
It is perhaps the Hudson County Brotherhood/Sisterhood Association that is failing to take into account some core values regarding human nature. I think that maybe it is these good people who are missing the point. Sensitivity, like charity, begins at home, and if the proponents of this project really want to reach out they might start by choosing a different location.