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High Honors: Como-Pickton puts finishing touches on sports year with Fighting Heart Awards
By JOSEPH ELERSON, News-Telegram Sports Writer
May 16, 2008 - COMO - Como-Pickton wrapped up its 2007-08 sports season with the recognition of student athletes in 11 different sports Thursday night at the All-Sports Banquet in the secondary cafeteria.
Junior varsity and varsity athletes were introduced and given individual accolades in Special Olympics, volleyball, cross country, football, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls track and cheerleading.
The top honor of the night in each sport was the crowning of the Ron Heflin Fighting Heart Award, named after the former head football coach, as 11 students received the honor.
Seniors Bethanie Stinson (cross country), Noe Tellez (football), Kaycee Thomas (basketball), Chase Beck (basketball) and Juan Bautista (track), along with juniors Ole Gutierrez (cross country), Austin Darby (baseball) and Deanna Garrett (track), sophomores Hannah Manverse (volleyball) and Courtney Thompson (softball), and freshman Hunter Cain (cross country) received Fighting Heart Awards during the ceremony.
��� The coaches also awarded two players the Eagle Award, which recognizes players who show the heart of an Eagle or Lady Eagle in their respective sports. Those winners were Darby (football and basketball) and sophomore Jeff Hendricks (baseball).
��� Below are the MVP awards in each sport along with a few comments from the respective coaches:
��� Cheerleading - Sponsor Shona Brewer said, "We are bringing back an old tradition with the Eagle Spirit Award to the cheerleading program and this student deserved this award." Brewer then recognized Aeron Green as the recipient of the Eagle Spirit Award.
��� Special Olympics - Coach Sherri Tate recognized Wayne Benson for being one of the top qualifiers in the Special Olympics competitions this season.
��� Volleyball - Coach Frances Mowat named Mollye Lay and Christina Sandate Co-Offensive Players of the Year, while Katie Moss and Mary Jo Sandate were named Co-Most Valuable Players of the Year. Shea Smith was named Defensive Player of the Year, while Shelby Harrison was the Newcomer of the Year. Junior varsity awards were given to Garrett, a defensive MVP, and Skye Brumley as offensive MVP.
��� Cross Country - With only three members on the team this season, coach Tim Butts named Co-Fighting Heart award winners on the boys side to Hunter Cain and Ole Gutierrez. On the girls side was senior Bethanie Stinson. In recognizing Stinson, Butts said, "Carry that Como-Pickton pride that you have shown your whole life to Alabama and give it everything you've got." Stinson will be running for the University of Alabama-Huntsville in the spring.
Football - Head coach Paul Tullis praised the play of the team in his first year and then handed out eight awards. The Secondary Player of the Year was given to Ryan Carpenter, while James Carter was named Linebacker of the Year. Aaron Kramer was the Receiver of the Year, Mitch Lowe was the Running Back of the Year, Dylan Mowat was the Defensive Lineman of the Year and Wade Arnold was the Offensive Lineman of the Year. Sophomore Hunter Cooksey was named the junior varsity MVP.
Girls Basketball - Coach Regina Sanders named Maci Kight the Most Valuable Player for the varsity. The Co-Defensive Player of the Year was Katie Moss and Mollye Lay, the Offensive Player of the Year was Rebecca Humphrey, and the Rebounder of the Year was Shelby Harrison. Dawnyel Spaid was named the junior varsity MVP.
��� Boys Basketball - Carpenter won his second award of the night as the Offensive Player of the Year, while Tellez was named the Defensive Player of the Year by coach Ryan Aguirre. Freshman Julian Ramirez was named the junior varsity MVP.
Softball - Kight was named the Offensive Player of the Year by coach Regina Sanders, while Harrison was named the Defensive Player of the Year.
��� Baseball - Carpenter was named the Outstanding Pitcher of the Year. Coach Dustin Carr also recognized the All-District team as Carpenter was named to the Second Team, and Zach Carpenter was an Honorable Mention selection along with Austin Darby and Noe Tellez. Sophomore infielder Merced Ramirez was named the MVP for the junior varsity.
��� Girls Track - Manon Schakel was named the Newcomer of the Year as she ran on the 4x400 relay and the 400 meters and also participated in the triple jump and long jump. The Most Valuable Player was Stinson as she ran the 1,600 and 3,200 meters this season.
Boys Track - Brandt Steele was named Most Valuable Player by coach Kent Richey. Also receiving awards were James Carter for Outstanding Field Event, Ole Gutierrez as the Outstanding Distance Runner and Aaron Kramer as the Outstanding Sprinter. Joseph Thornhill was the junior varsity MVP.
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Episode is on. Asem vs Deen pre-introsong!
Deen is part of some X-rounder squad like the magicians 8, except they all pilot Ghilsbains(sp?) the MP Khronos/Zeydra? ms
Seric vs Phantom three dude after lecturing Kio up again. Kio is once again ignoring the olivernotes civilians for the vagan ones
Seric got taken out, he is now afloat in a broken mobile suit... DUN DUN DUN.
Scratch that, Serics broken mobile suit is stuck on a engine? part of a vagan ship
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youtube is up http://youtu.be/7aWGx10CQfs
Wth is that?! The beams emitted by FX Burst look a lot like ELS Qan[T]'s wings! :twitch:
See! i told you burst mode was a fullonbeamsaber mode, scratch that, its fullon beamthruster? mode
Not to mention Kio is still a horrible character, ignore seric, that other clanche guy, get pissed off because of the guy he knew for two days dies >_> fuck this character, its retarded beyond redemption by now.
Overall meh episode, nice fights, Burst mode, giving it a 6/10 beause Kio just pisses me off even more now than before, seriously, crying again?
lol @ Deen getting Yurin'd though
You're right, Znozz. That's why I see AGE only for the action now. :D
i mean, the action isnt that good either, i mean it does make you laugh quite often, like the Legilis 6pack abs and stuff, and the ball bashing in the last episode, but overall i dont get why they introduce things like the Phantom ball or 90% of the characters since they barely do anything, and oh, not to mention the teenage girls they introduce two out of three arcs to kill off for drama.
seriously i dont understand why they introduce any females in this show at all, have the damn Asunos reproduce by mitosis and it wouldve made for a more interesting story, lol
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Damn Seric!!!! What a boss, probably one of the best deaths in the show (first being Yurin, second being Woolf), goes out in typical levelheadedness. It took DEEN of all people for Kio to go berserk/FX Burst Mode, and almost killed Zanald too...dude has some quick reflexes to survive.
Still, the preview looks grim too + talk of Zeheart and evildoing...oh boy two more episodes. Though I wish this new vagan character wasn't introduced, his introduction will remind me of whatshisface from the Gundam 00 Movie and we all know what happened to that guy..
Also kinda funny: Sand dude used a drill attack + Deen's seiyuu also voiced Simon (Gurren Lagann) = coincidence?
Kio seems to have taken the Pacifist(of SEED) and Understanding(of 00) too far in a merging of.... Horribleness. Kira was nowhere near as bad as Kio after he took up the No Kill thing. At least Kira would still kill at the end of the day if he had to if it meant protecting others. Kio though... Ugh. And the Understanding thing is going too far for him. Setsuna wanted to understand but he never let that get in the way of what must be done nor did he hold his punches back for the most part. The only one he did hold his punches back for was Louise since he knew her far longer than a couple days and she and Saji helped bring out his more human side when he was younger.
Anyway, I knew Seric was screwed.... A shame. It's like they're really trying to get people to hate Kio.
WHY YOU NO KILL ZANALD, KIO YOU BASTARD! :frustrated::frustrated::frustrated:
And yes, someone should stop Kio and his madness. I wonder how Kio will take Seric's death, and how by sparing the enemies he could have indirectly caused the latter's doom. What's wrong with killing a bastard that has no regard for life? Kio's much too affected by the outward gory appearance of his enemies, as it seems that no X-Rounder vision of his enemy will fail to stop his rampage. Kio Kio Kio, you must look beyond the physical, the inner demon of your enemies and rip them off this world forever. This X-Rounder ability should really let Kio witness the memories of his enemy, and let him decide their fate based on their (in)humanity, and not their sorry faces.
nice death scene for Seric!!! and Deen well it was expected
but damn that Zanald should have died right there, freaking Kio did not finish the job
atleast the FX Burst Mode was awesomely animated though looks like Gurren Lagann with a lot of Spikes all around :heh:
Why do i have this feeling that Zeheart will fire on Zanalds forces and not his own?
@ Destined_Fate, i wouldnt call Kira's policy a nokill policy, since he does actually kill, if anything it should be called disable policy.
Kio however, has a nokill policy.
My point is that Kira, even when he started acting all self-righteous, was nowhere near as bad as Kio and still did what was needed at the end of the day. Kira learned fast that his inaction and holding back when fighting friends gets people killed like Flay's father.
RIP Seric Abis. One of my favourite characters in the show. Didn't read the spoilers so his death was even more saddening, but he went out in a nice fashion. Now I really need a HG Clanche Custom! :D
Meh on Deen's death and Zanald's defeat. I wish Kio would've killed him, but I guess that job's reserved for Zeheart now.
Preview shows awesome Zeheart vs Asemu fight scene, can't wait.
Oh yeah, i fully agree, i was just pointing out that calling it a nokill policy when he does kill makes it .. you know ;) it would be better to call it a Disable policy, and leave the Nokill policy to the Prince of understanding, Kio
Did anyone else burst out laughing at Kio and the FX when it entered Burst mode? For some reason I just couldn't help it.
Fun episode and all, but still. I don't think that was supposed to be funny.
Point of comparison when Asunos are mad with grief.
Decil kills Yurin, Flit wrecks his mobile suit but can't kill a seven year old.
Decil kills Woolf, Asemu kills him.
Zanald kills Deen, Kio was about to kill him but spares him. Not out off mercy but more like "What have I done!". If he kills Zanald he becomes a murderer in his own eyes and also a hypocrite.
A lot of you won't agree with what I'm about to say.
Kio is the most self centered and egoistical of the Asunos. You are probably going what? He want everybody to live!
With Flit and Asemu they are doing what they do for the sake of others. Also they understand there are some people that can't be reasoned with.
Kio is doing what he is doing to satisfy his own ego. Placing in danger not only himself but his allies.
Hate to say this he is like Nekki Basara in Macross 7. Difference is Kio doesn't have the chops like Basara does.
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- The Food Network announced it will not renew Paula Deen's contract for the end of the month following the gigantic racism shitstorm that's been brewing all week. You can watch the extended cut of Deen's disastrous apology video over at Buzzfeed; the edited version has been yanked offline for some reason. Tonight, she drowns her sorrows in a melted bowl of buter. [TMZ]
- Also, so she's reportedly "in contempt of court" for failing to turn in a blooper reel containing someone performing a sex act on a pastry. Rough week! [Page Six]
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Militants believed to belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released 46 Indian women nurses this evening near Mosul in northern Iraq after bussing them over 250km from Tikrit, where they had been trapped for over three weeks.
Workers of humanitarian agency Red Crescent then brought the nurses to Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in northeast Iraq that is home to the Citadel of Arbil, one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the world. Indian officials have met the nurses in Erbil.
An Air India plane headed from New Delhi to Erbil today and was scheduled to fly the nurses and 70 other Indians back to India, reaching by Saturday morning.
NDTV reported late tonight that the plane was initially diverted to Iran but it later headed back to Erbil. The cause of the diversion — some reports said permission to land in Erbil was withheld initially — was not known. The nurses boarded the plane which took off around 3.30am.
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"We have won a small, little battle but we have a larger war remaining," foreign ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin had said earlier in the day.
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This Year's Most Popular Baby Names Are Pop Culture Soaked
When I was a kid, I wanted to name my first daughter Madison. Why? Because I'd just seen "Splash" and thought Daryl Hannah was just the awesomest. Little did I realize that zillions of other women were thinking the same thing and there was a big spike in the number of Madisons born that year. Pop culture can have a big impact on names, and the effect is pretty obvious looking at this list of Baby Center's 100 most popular babe names for the year.
The most popular names for girls:
- Sophia. I'd like to think that this is "Golden Girls"-related. But it might be more about "One Tree Hill" and Sophia Bush.
- Isabella. Which Twihards can easily shorten to "Bella."
- Olivia. Take your pick of Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, or "The City"'s Olivia Palermo. Or maybe our Olivia Allin?
- Emma. Emma Watson, Emma Roberts, and Emma Stone are all amazing young ladies.
- Chloe. After the fashion house, perhaps?
The most popular names for boys:
- Aiden. Maybe after the band or the character in "The Ring."
- Jacob. An ode to everyone's favorite werewolf.
- Jackson. This has to be about Michael Jackson dying last year.
- Ethan. After Ethan Hawke or Tom Cruise's character in "Mission Impossible."
- Jayden. As in the Jayden Smith, the "Karate Kid."
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The pyramids of ancient Egypt were funerary edifices. They were built over a period of 2,700 years, ranging from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the close of the Ptolemaic Period; but period. But the time at which pyramid building reached its acme, the pyramid age par excellence, was that commencing with the 3rd dynasty and ending with at roughly the 6th (c. 2686–2345 BC 2686–2325 BCE). During those years the pyramid was the regular usual type of royal tomb. It was not, as such, an isolated structure , but was always part of an architectural complex. The essential components, at least during the Old Kingdom at any rate, were the pyramid itself, containing or surmounting the grave proper and standing within an enclosure on high desert ground; an adjacent mortuary temple; and a causeway leading down to a pavilion (usually called the valley temple), situated at the edge of the cultivation and probably connected with the Nile by a canal. About 80 Scores of royal pyramids have been found in Egypt, but many of them , however, were reduced to mere mounds of debris and long ago plundered of their treasures.
The prototype of the pyramid was the mastaba, a form of tomb known in Egypt from the beginning of the dynastic era. It was characterized by a flat-topped rectangular superstructure of mud brick or stone with a shaft descending to the burial chamber far below it. Djoser, the second king of the 3rd dynasty, employing Imhotep (q.v.) as architect, undertook for the first time the construction of a mastaba entirely of stone; it was eight 8 metres (26 feet) high and had a square ground plan with sides of about 63 m metres (207 feet) each. Once completed it was extended on the ground on all four sides, and its height was increased by building rectangular additions of diminishing size superimposed upon its top. Thus Djoser's original mastaba became a terraced structure rising in six unequal stages to a height of 60 mmetres (197 feet), its base measuring 120 m metres (394 feet) by 108 mmetres (354 feet). This monument, which lies at Ṣaqqārah, is known as the Step Pyramid; it is probably the earliest stone building of importance erected in Egypt. The substructure has an intricate system of underground corridors and rooms, its main feature being a central shaft 25 m metres (82 feet) deep and 8 m metres (26 feet) wide, at the bottom of which is the sepulchral chamber built of granite from AswanAswān. The Step Pyramid rises within a vast walled court 544 m metres (1,785 feet) long and 277 m metres (909 feet) wide, in which are the remnants of several other stone edifices built to supply the wants of the king in the hereafter.
A structure of peculiar shape called the Bent, Blunted, Bent, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, which stands at Dahshūr a short distance south of Ṣaqqārah, marks an advance in development toward the strictly pyramidal tomb. Built by Snefru, of the 4th dynasty, it is 188 m square square metres (2,024 square feet) at the base and approximately 98 m metres (322 feet) high. Peculiar in that it has a double slope, it changes inclination about halfway up, the lower portion being steeper than the upper. It comes nearer than Djoser's terraced tomb to being a true pyramid. A monumental structure at Maydūm, also ascribed to Snefru, was a true pyramid, though not originally planned as such. The initial structure was gradually enlarged until it became a gigantic eight-terraced mass of masonry; then the steps were filled in with a packing of stone to form a continuous slope. The entire structure was eventually covered with a smooth facing of limestone; a geometrically true pyramid was the final result. In its ruined condition, however, it has the appearance of a three-stepped pyramid rising to a height of about 70 mmetres (230 feet). The earliest tomb known to have been designed and executed throughout as a true pyramid is the North Stone Red Pyramid at Dahshūr, thought by some to have also been erected by Snefru. It is about 220 m metres (722 feet) wide at the base and 104 m metres (341 feet) high. The greatest of the Egyptian pyramids are those of the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkure at Giza (see Giza, Pyramids of Giza).
Among American pyramids the best known include the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán (q.v.) in central Mexico, the Castillo at Chichén Itzá (q.v.), and various Inca and Chimú structures in Andean settlements. American pyramids were generally built of earth and then faced with stone, and they are typically of stepped form and topped by a platform or temple structure. The Pyramid of the Sun, with base dimensions of 220 m by 230 mmetres (722 by 755 feet), rivals in size the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, which measures 230 m squaresquare metres (2,476 square feet).


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The bands on the Imperium label to cleanse the soul of this mindwash disease have names such as Aryan Rebels, Jew Slaughter, Platoon14 and Pure Blood. It is a brotherhood of blood, in which they would take racial pride. But really, it is no more than the brotherhood of the apoplectic bully, stunted of spirit.
Germany, of course, has a historical link to far-right extremism. The country has some of the world's most stringent anti-hate laws, particularly in relation to neo-Nazi propaganda.
A government official said last week that Landser's aim was "to spread extreme right-wing beliefs among young people". "The lyrics of these albums were characterised by racist, nationalistic and anti-Semitic tirades of hate," the official said. "They call for violence against foreigners, Jews and people with other political ideas and were intended to defame Germany and its pluralistic society."
The musician/composer Frank Zappa once said, in relation to censorship, that he knew of no song that had ever killed a person. In a literal sense, he's right. Sound waves cannot maim the flesh. Destroy the eardrums? Yes. But wound? No.
However, there is a causality at play between song and listener. People buy the work of a certain artist because they agree with that artist's attitude and/or music. They don't buy music to have an argument with it. The connection between the two legitimises both the creator and the receiver. It is a flowering of hate.
In Germany, free speech is hostage to the country's history. Can the authorities prove a link between the music of bands such as Landser and racist attacks?
Prosecutor Kay Nehm believes so: "Skinhead music is, in our experience, one of the things that pave the way for right-wing extremist acts of violence." Perhaps the point is moot. Given the barbarism from which it arose, to the German state the mere existence of this foaming-at-the-mouth music is enough reason to try to stamp it out. Against this background white noise, the country is also battling to contain a rise in racist crimes, especially against non-Aryans.
One of Landser's songs is in praise of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. Part of the lyrics read: "Rudolf Hess, your faith was stronger than dungeons and pain, Rudolf Hess, you continue to live in our hearts." All music is sound, (notwithstanding John Cage's 1952 composition 4'33") but not all sound is music; nor is it art. It is the howl of hatred.
The jazz guitarist Pat Metheny once put out an album called Zero Tolerance for Silence. In its avante garde dissonance, it defies anyone to listen to it. Hate music is a dissonance that runs deeper than notes on a score. It goes to a wasteland of intolerance. It should be silenced to less than zero.
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The red light must have been on.
An unnamed woman in Jeffersontown, Kentucky crashed her red pickup truck into a Krispy Kreme Donuts (KKD) on her way to pick up some of the shop's tasty morning treats.
Jeffersontown Police Sgt. Brian Colebank said the 72-year-old driver had pulled her red Ford F-150 truck into a parking spot at the doughnut shop when the accident happened.
"She went to hit the brake and may have mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead," Colebank said.
The name of the driver, who was not injured, was not released. Her son, Troy Holder, said his mother had gone to buy doughnuts.
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Themes: Conservation
States Parties: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Properties: Frontiers of the Roman Empire
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Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One, TMA-1, or the Tycho Monolith is a large, black, crystalline monolith found on the moon in 1999, near the crater Tycho. The exact origin, purpose, and composition are unknown, though the monolith was presumably placed on the moon by an unseen alien race.
TMA-1 is fashioned to the exact proportions of 1:4:9, the height is 9 times the depth and the depth is one-fourth of the width. Such exact dimensions ruled out any naturally occurring phenomena, and because the monolith was four million years old, it would have been impossible to have been forged by humans, since there were no humans at the time the monolith was placed. This left only one possibility, that an alien race passed through the solar system four million years ago and placed the monolith on the moon.
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The Tycho Monolith was first discovered in 1999. American survey satellites discovered a strong magnetic field near the crater, Tycho. It was first assumed to be a giant nickel-iron meteorite, but not even that could produce such an intense field. Excavation at the site unveiled the three million year old black monolith, buried 20 feet below the lunar surface. The Tycho Monolith was officially dubbed Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One, or TMA-1.A cover story was produced by the National Committee for Astronautics, as the knowledge of TMA-1 would most certainly cause some cultural shock. The cover story was that an epidemic of unknown origins had broken out at Clavius Base, though most members of the NCA found this cover story to be rather embarrassing. All communication with Clavius had been cut for several days, and a Soviet shuttle had been denied an emergency landing at Clavius; Dr. Heywood Floyd, chairman of the NCA, was taken up to Clavius to investigate the monolith. Soon after arrival at Clavius, he was shuttled to the excavation site of TMA-1. When he arrived, he approached the black enigma and reached out to touch it. The crew then gathered together for a photograph to be taken of them in front of the monolith. Soon after the picture was taken, the sun rose up from behind the lunar horizon. The Tycho Monolith gave off a single, very powerful, radio emission, aimed directly at Saturn (Jupiter in the film).
"After three million years of darkness, TMA-1 greeted the lunar dawn."
Scientists hypothesized about what the purpose of the monolith might be. Several theories were put out, such as the monolith might be a storage unit, or perhaps some solar-powered energy generator. However, the most plausible theory, and perhaps the most frightening, is that the monolith is some sort of alarm, and it has been triggered, sending a message to the alien intelligence that created the Tycho Monolith, and alerting it to our presence.
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By the year 3001, the Tycho monolith had been moved to the United Nations building on Earth, where it served as a reminder that mankind is not alone in the cosmos.
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The Naval Academy announced Tuesday that its game against Notre Dame in Dublin, Ireland will be played at Aviva Stadium.
The game will be played on Sept. 1, 2012.
"To see this stadium is to believe it has to be one of the finest venues in the world," said Naval Academy athletics director Chet Gladchuk in a statement from the school. "Although modest in capacity, few stadiums anywhere have attended to the detail, aesthetics and fan comfort found at Aviva. I guarantee those who travel to Ireland and attend this event will enjoy an experience that will be awesome and a memory not to be forgotten. Navy is very much looking forward to our visit and the wonderful experience we expect our coaches, players, fans and friends will enjoy."
The stadium, which opened in May, has a seating capacity of 50,000 with all seats under cover. The game in 2012 will be the 86th consecutive meeting between the schools, a rivalry dating back to 1927.
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Madison Scholarly News — April 2005
Sally L. Chappel (Secondary/Transition Coordinator, Training/Technical Assistance Center) received $3,000 from the Virginia Department of Education to support the second annual Shenandoah Valley Autism Partnership Conference.
Dr. W. Dean Cocking (Associate Professor, Biology) received $22,598 from DuPont for "Support for Fisheries Survey (Creel census) along the South River in Augusta County, Virginia," to provide field and laboratory technical support for study of fishing activity in association with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
Christopher S. Coverstone (Lieutenant, Public Safety), Dr. Jeanne M. Martino-McAllister (Associate Professor, Health Sciences) and H. Cecilia Van Zyl (Counselor and Substance Abuse Specialist, Counseling and Student Development Center) received $1,000 from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office to support Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students and CHOICES training as a statewide event through Operation Undergrad.
Dr. Michael L. Deaton (Professor, Integrated Science and Technology) received $85,000 from the Department of Homeland Security to assist local governments in Virginia in developing a decision support system for hazardous materials incidents.
Dr. Daniel M. Downey (Professor, Chemistry) and Dr. Gina M. MacDonald (Associate Professor, Chemistry) received $84,360 from the National Science Foundation to provide research experiences for undergraduates in a 10-week session that includes opportunities in the sub-disciplines of materials science, biochemistry, synthesis, environmental chemistry and spectroscopy.
Dr. Steven W. Evans (Director, Alvin V. Baird Learning Disabilities Center) received $179,642 from the National Institutes of Health for "Developing School-Based Treatment of ADHD Adolescents" to complete a small controlled clinical trial to obtain the necessary pilot data to potentially support a larger scale evaluation and to develop treatment fidelity measures.
Dr. Steven P. Frysinger (Professor, Integrated Science and Technology and Computer Science) received $9,000 from the National Park Service to develop graphical and multimedia components for the Ecology Views module and to gather field data to support the project.
Dr. Kevin L. Giovanetti (Professor, Physics) received $81,356 from the National Science Foundation to characterize the low-lying three quark bound and resonant systems in terms of Quantum Chromodynamics.
Jane Hubbell (Director, Office on Children and Youth) received $25,000 from the Office on Children and Youth for the Reading Road Show to continue to provide a book-bag exchange program and intergenerational storytelling activities to low-income families and to increase the number of Spanish-speaking families being served. Hubbell also received $1,979 from the Virginia Department of Education for the Shenandoah Valley Migrant Education Program to provide supplemental educational services to the children of migrant farm workers in collaboration with local school districts and to assess language and educational experience and progress of individual students.
Dr. Merle E. Mast (Head and Professor, Nursing) received $434,776 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to implement a new master's of science in nursing program designed to provide graduates with eligibility for adult nurse practitioner or gerontological nurse practitioner certification.
Dr. Joseph P. Meyer (Assistant Professor, Graduate Psychology, Center for Assessment and Research Studies) received $64,145 from the Institute of Education Sciences/U.S. Department of Education to conduct secondary analyses of the nationally representative achievement data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Dr. Kevin P. Minbiole (Assistant Professor, Chemistry) received $5,000 from the Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program to provide a summer undergraduate stipend to allow a student to develop a novel cyclization pathway for the synthesis of two nitrogen-containing heterocycles, piperdines and azepines.
Kenneth Newbold (Associate Director, Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance) and Darlene H. Quackenbush (Information Security Officer, Information Technology) received $892 from the University of Virginia to provide travel and general support for the outreach, consulting and training activities of the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking to improve information security programs in educational organizations.
Dr. John B. Noftsinger Jr. (Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs; Associate Professor, Integrated Science and Technology; Assistant Professor, Education) and Elizabeth B. Knight (President, Shenandoah Valley Technology Council) received $1,500 from the Verizon Foundation to support the Shenandoah Valley Technology Gala.
Christopher B. Nye (Executive Director, Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center) and Jane Hubbell (Director, Office on Children and Youth) received $508,064 from the Virginia Department of Education to provide administrative and planning services for the HIV Consortium to improve the quality, availability and organization of health care and support services for individuals with HIV disease in the northwest region.
Dr. Brenda M. Ryals (Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $125,000 from the National Institutes of Health to clarify the developmental progression of the anatomy and function on the inner ear of two strains of canary with normal hearing and with hearing loss.
Dr. Kristen E. St. John (Associate Professor, Geology and Environmental Science) received $5,000 from Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc. to determine the abundance and composition of ice-rafted terrigenous sand in the glaciomarine sedimentary sequence from the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Basin.
Dr. C. Steven Whisnant (Head and Professor, Physics) received $33,000 from the National Science Foundation to conduct research that centers on the use of photonuclear reactions to investigate the properties of the nucleon through the production of mesons and nucleon resonances.
Dr. J. Peter Pham (Assistant Professor, Justice Studies) has been named a 2005-06 academic fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington, D.C. Pham will travel to Tel Aviv University in Israel in May to participate in a 10-day course in terrorism studies focusing on how democracies confront the phenomenon of global terrorism. In addition to lectures by academics, diplomats, military and intelligence officials, the program provides academic fellows with hands-on experience through visits to police, customs and immigration facilities, military bases and border zones to learn the practical side of deterring and defeating terrorists.
Dr. J. Peter Pham (Assistant Professor, Justice Studies) has been elected secretary of the American Society of International Law and designated editor of the organization's new journal on international law and mass violence in Africa. The ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950 to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.


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Let's go, people, break the comments record. Maybe that's what's been giving our Yanks the boost.
Go Yanks!
Fifteen minutes!!! Anyone watching this horrible pregame on TBS?
I'm at work and my Slingbox player is acting up, so will have to catch a few innings on the radio.
TBS has got to be the worst. I don't remember it being that horrible last year on ESPN. Then again, I tried to push the last year out of my head so I actually don't remember if ESPN coverage was any better.
Does the slingbox work on an iPhone?
I think there's been some movement/announcements there. Not sure if it currently supports it.
The crowd is nuts, let's give them something to cheer about.
I see 1-0...what happened...?
What's The Comments record....?
Can't see the game, but appears Wang is shaky tonite? First inning jitters, I hope.
83 is the record. Sizemore led off with a bomb for the run.
how did he hit that shit...
That national league lineup is looking pretty good against wang
Damn that Grady Sizemore!
yes he got hit because you can take a 95 mph fastball to the finger and then come back and catch next inning. s uch bullshit
His right knuckle was definitely swollen. Maybe that happened before (or after the ball hit the bat), but it was bigger than his left knuckle for sure.
Please. The ball hit his bat, clear as day.
Raining hard up here in North Jersey...our weather hits The Bronx about 5 minutes later...
1. another little dinker into the OF for an rbi, they must practice these.
2. theres no way even with HD you can honestly say his knuckle was swollen f rom watchin on tv.
Then he has a naturally swollen right knuckle. That's all I'm commenting on. I didn't say it didn't hit his bat, just that his knuckle is swollen. Something worth pointing out, I thought.
Matsui, Cano and Melky....let's chip away...get one or two runs back right now.
As I was driving home and listening on ESPN, Miller and Dusty said they clearly saw the ball hit the bat, not the hand.
All right, here we go, the comeback begins.
It was obvious, Mike. No question about it.
Here comes the rain.
It was a short little storm...should stop soon...Doug has been hitting well of late...
Not sure whose favor the rain be in for.
We want Byrd in there.
Ok, we'll take that. No some Bobby magic here please.
YEA good thing mike lowell isnt playing third...
Moose is doing great, but the pitch count a bit high. Need him to go deep today.
This is the inning A-Rod goes yard...
We just need something to change the momentum. Moose putting up a zero or two would be a good start.
All right, I'll take an A-Rod bomb in a crucial moment later in the game.
ok seriously, byrd fucked up at least 5 pitches in that inning, and we got zero runs.
They're just waiting to explode. Can't wait too long, though.
Moose is definitely getting squeezed. Byrd is getting the corners, he isn't.
moose is doing well, they need to f*ckin score before the rafaels come in...
Shit... I walk away for an inning to come back to find Moose in the game. Not a good omen, but he got out of the third.
It's hard to think of Byrd as Public Enemy #1. He was undrafted, got cut by the Mets, released by Atlanta, pitched in Philly (twice), was exiled to KC. He's soft spoken and every other word he seems to mention God in an interview (at least he did when he was a Phillie).
It's also hard to believe he's a 15 game winner when the Phils gave up on him...
Byrd should be out by the 6th, though. I don't recall him finishing many games when he was a Phillie.
Anyone pitching against the Yanks in the post season is an enemy, nothing personal against Byrd.
Wtf, Moose. Trying to be too perfect with his pitches, it seems.
Put Hafner on, right now.
That Sizemore is a really tough at bat...that was a beautiful bunt. Nothing Mussina could do but get Sizemore.
That wasn't Sizemore bunting.
Shoot... that was another senior moment...sorry.
We need one little break here....the crowd will carry them.
Come on Moose.
Torre better be reaching for the 'pen now...pull out all of the stops....
There aren't too many stops left to pull. He's gonna have to go to Pettitte for any kind of length.
Every inning starts out so good, with walks or hits and they just can't drive anyone in. Maybe they're due for one big inning tonite. Against one of the Rafaels.
Good inning, may it'll energize.
Abreu, A-Rod, Posada. Need to get to work here.
Moose didn't look bad there.
C'mon A-Rod!
I´m gonna call it now... Jim Leyritz ties it up with a 3-run homer in the 7th, Yanks win in extra innings....
I think Shelley is this team's Leyritz, so I'm with ya SML.
This is friggin ridiculous and the time is running out.
WTF is wrong with these effing umpires??
Here comes Veras. Questionable move I think. You can't get on Moose for this outing.
Why you think he's taking him out, stats of the next batter?
Check that, Villone is in. This move worries me.
Good news, Byrd might be done soon.
Bad news, it sounds like Rafael Perez is
warming up in the bullpen...
What do y'all think of Villone? Can he get it done?
Oh, yeah, the Pronk is 0-5 against Villone. What are the odds Villone gives it up.
Good work by Villone. I wonder if Joe sends him out to face Martinez in the 7th.
Martinez is a switch hitter. I think Villone is a one-trick pony in Joe's eyes, so I'm guessing we'll see Veras or Farns.
Holy crap, how did he get that pitch?
Let's rally against the Rafaels, come on now!!!
He kept his hands back, somehow. That's what we needed, something to get us started.
Let's go, now!!!!
We have to get a couple here, we absolutely have to.
Perez is shaky, finish him!!!!!!
How anticlimactic, darn it.
Sick to my stomach.
unfuckingbeleivable. EVERYONE IS KILLING THE RALLIES! even jeter...
Shite, we had him on the ropes.
He hit that right on the nose, just right at Cabrera. Just one break, that's all it's going to take. They've been soooooooo close all night, just one break.
I'm envisioning a couple of key hits for A-ROD in the 7th and 9th. Meanwhile, Farns being Farns. Great strike out there neutralized by a hit here. What else is new.
6-2 was the score back in April in that crazy 9th inning comeback. So, it's not over.
ok, 9 outs and positive thoughts, lets do this yanks!
Good job by Farnsworth..... It ain't over....
Off topic, but Buffalo is beating Dallas, 24 - 13.
This here is the call they have to answer. Now, a couple of runs, 2-3 runs and we're right back in it. Just do it!!!!
I completely forgot there was a football game tonight. I'm always happy to see Romo fail.
All right Bobby, get it started.
I hate that damn Perez. He just nasty.
Key hit #1 for A-ROD. Will need another one in the 9th, A-ROD, don't relax yet.
Who will they bring in to pitch the 8th?
It might still be Farnsworth. You may have been right earlier today.
Uh, I kinda hope not. I think you're right... Joe has trusted him only for one inning at a time, now's not the time to push your luck.
Barring a caught stealing, A-Rod will come up in the 9th.
If not earlier.
When is FRANKENBOMB due up?!!!
quality inning but were still not stringing any hits together damnit.
I doubt we'll see Shelley in the 8th. If Betancourt comes in, we'll see Giambi.
3 runs is doable, just need to hold the fort here.
Football Update:
End of the third quarter, Buffalo 24, Dallas 13.
Time for the Nills to collapse ala the Jets this Sunday.
Dallas has already scored seconds into the 4th...
Dallas 16, Buffalo 24.
Mo to the rescue. Come on, Mo, shut them down.
All right Mo, let's do it buddy.
Mow them down, Mo!
god he's good.
That was a huge play by Jeter. I didn't see catcher's interference. It was obvious on Matsui earlier in the game.
No interference there. I want Borowski now!!!
Betancourt's fastball is straight as an arrow. Jump on one, Johnny.
It will be only fitting that A-ROD will be due last in the 9th, probably representing the tying run.
Let's hope he's representing the tying run.
Guys - I'm out...not our year (again)...ABTRS (anybody but the red sox)...
Hold out hope, Gerry. You may be pleasantly surprised when you wake up in the morning.
WOW!!! My heart almost stopped.
Come on people, nothing is over until the last out is made.
This now officially sucks. Oh, well. It's just a game, right?
Thanks for the comments guys. I'm probably going to be away for a day or two, my wife is going to be induced tomorrow afternoon. This one's going to sting for a while, and I think tonight truly was the end of a Yankee era.
Good luck Brian.
yea thanks for the heavy duty blogging and good luck man
Thanks Mike. We'll pick up the pieces and start talking about next year in a couple days. The 2007 baseball season is officially over.
Thanks for being part of it Prez, it was my pleasure.
Shit. The Cowboys pull out a last second victory, 24-22.
Every game goes the opposite of the way I want it to. Every single game, with the exception of last night's.
was there a baseball game today? i was watching the knicks clobber the sixers woo hooo go knicks what a day to be a new york fan !!!!
Brian, great blog. Too bad it had to end this way. See you next season.
This is one of the best days of my life...Yanks fans have more wine today than france
They should have gotten rid of Torre five years. The guy is brutal. He needs to go.
Bring on Bobby Valentine!!!!!!
Let Arod go. Let Mo go. Let Jorge go. Forget about Clemens. Give Mussina away. Give Giambi away. Bring up some more youth, and try to build a stronger bullpen.
Don't forget what an amazing turnaround this team had in the second half of the season. Everyone counted them out, and yet they finished with the wild card and with a .290 batting average, one of the highest team batting averages in the modern era. They were a run scoring machine!
Yankee fans are so used to being in the playoffs, they sometimes forget how hard it is to get there in the first place. They did a great job. They have young arms and young talent. Clemens and Mussina won't be back, (my assumption), so they will get even younger.
The future looks good for the Yankees.
"This is one of the best days of my life..."
Pretty sad life, then...
The #1 sign of a loser is taking joy in other people's misfortunes.
I wish all 4 of the remaining teams in the playoffs good luck. And yes, that includes the Red Sox. The Yankees were beat by a better team, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
And most of all, I'm glad that I stopped having the mentality of a 10-year old, like most sports fans have. Watching people's reactions to the Yankees lose, even people who aren't Indians, Red Sox, or Mets fans, really proved to me how stupid and immature the VAST majority of sports fans are.
Some (and I emphasize the word "some"...not "all") Boston fans were saying stuff like "I dont even care if the Red Sox win the ALCS, I'm just happy the Yankees lost". Is that not the most pathetic thing you've ever heard? Some Red Sox fans would prefer to see the Yankees lose than to see their own team win?
Also, wouldn't the Red Sox have rather played the Yankees? Considering, you know, that the Indians are the better team and it will be tougher for them to advance to the World Series...
Not to sound like I'm too negative on the Yankees or whatever, but they proved what the regular season showed. They were the third-best team in baseball (according to win-loss record), and they got beat by the second-best team. Making the playoffs in MLB is hard, and any team that makes the playoffs should be proud. Sure, losing in the Division Series sucks, but it's a good way of identifying where your problems lie, and what you can do to correct them
Maybe I'm rambling, but I guess I'm just not ready to push baseball aside just yet...
By the way, congrats on the new baby Brian, and thanks for all the work you've done on the blog. I stumbled upon it late in the season, and it was always a great read, written by a passionate, yet reasonable, baseball fan.


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Published: March 12, 1989
CHICAGO— Here is a typical story from the pages of the improbable career of Oprah Winfrey: It's 1984, the 30-year-old host of a Chicago morning talk show is in North Carolina, on the set of Steven Spielberg's film ''The Color Purple.'' Though she has no previous acting experience, she has been cast in an important supporting role in a lavish production of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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An Aspen man charged with three felonies for allegedly stealing more than $2,000 from his then-employers' safe had his bond reduced Monday from $5,000 to $1,000.
Joseph Kern, 35, has a job offer and can stay with friends if he is released from jail, said his attorney, public defender Laura Koenig, arguing for a lower bond.
Koenig told Judge Gail Nichols of Pitkin County District Court that she should also consider a public-recognizance bond, meaning he would be freed on his promise to return for his next court date, because he fulfilled requirements of a previous traffic case and never missed a court hearing.
Kern is charged with two felony counts of burglary, a felony theft count and a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer. He was arrested Oct. 3 after the owners of CP Burger in Aspen, Craig and Samantha Cordts-Pearce, told police that a surveillance camera had captured Kern earlier that day entering the restaurant's office and taking about $2,100 from a safe.
Kern had worked as director of operations for the four restaurants the couple own in town, but they had been trying without success to contact him so they could fire him, a police report says.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Arnold Mordkin said he had discovered additional criminal cases in Kern's past, though he didn't know their dispositions. He argued that the current bond of $5,000 was appropriate.
Nichols said she wouldn't consider the previous cases, one of which happened in 1994, because the outcomes were unknown.
After Koenig said Kern is also working with the Aspen Counseling Center, Nichols reduced the bond to $1,000 but made it of the cash, not public recognizance, type.
"It is a serious offense, and the evidence is very, very strong, if it's admissible," she said, adding that she was "somewhat concerned" about a potential suppression issue in the case.
If he is able to post bond, Kern would be living with friends because his Hunter Creek apartment was damaged by a fire two days before he was arrested.
Investigators with Aspen police, the Aspen Fire Protection District and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation were continuing to probe the fire's cause Monday, said Aspen police spokeswoman Blair Weyer.
Mordkin also submitted a restraining order in an effort to prevent Kern from contacting any employee of the four Cordts-Pearce restaurants. He said Kern had contacted some workers from jail, where he remained Monday evening.
But Nichols rejected the order, saying that not every worker was a victim. Such an order is perhaps appropriate to ensure that Kern doesn't contact employees who were there on Oct. 3 and allegedly saw Kern go into the office, the owners and other potential witnesses, Nichols said. But she declined to sign a restraining order until Mordkin names those people.
Kern's next court date is Nov. 5.
In other court news, a Carbondale man facing a rash of felonies after wrecking an allegedly stolen vehicle on Cemetery Lane can travel to California to enroll in a residential drug treatment program, Nichols ruled.
Dylan Martin, 21, is charged with 13 counts, including felony burglary, aggravated motor-vehicle theft, kidnapping and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Police say that early on July 4, Martin broke into an SUV in Basalt and drove it away. He allegedly offered to give a 12-year-old boy, whom he had met earlier that night, a ride home but instead headed upvalley at speeds of nearly 100 mph.
Martin apparently lost control after hitting a speed bump. He crashed the vehicle in a home's yard on the 800 block of Cemetery Lane, traveling through trees and rolling it once, according to police.
Both passengers, who were wearing seat belts, had to be extricated. The boy was treated for bumps and bruises and released, while Martin was hospitalized for some time for injuries to his ankle, which was crushed in the accident, wrist and facial bones.
He is being represented by Koenig, who told Nichols that Brad Osborn of the Aspen Counseling Center highly recommended the California treatment program.
After completing that program, Martin will undergo intensive outpatient treatment at the local counseling center, Nichols was told.
Staff at the California program will brief Osborn on Martin's status, and he can then update Nichols, Koenig said.
Martin's next court date was set for Dec. 3.
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