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Two water wells have been drilled at the Great Bend Public Library, the first step in adding geothermal heating and cooling.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday published a decision that upholds convictions of Kenneth "Kenny" D. Crawford, 59, for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and threatening a 12-year-old girl in Barton County in 2005.
Farmers Bank & Trust has been awarded an A+ in DepositAccounts.com's independent Bank Financial Health Rating System for the quarter ended June 30. The A+ rating is defined as the highest distinction in terms of relative financial strength and stability, according to their standardized measurement system. The service gives consumers information on the relative financial strength of U.S. commercial banks, savings institutions and credit unions.
The Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science (KAMS) was established by the Legislature in 2006, but like many good programs it is not well known to the general public.
With the second annual Hahn Brothers Supercross Shootout coming to Great Bend this Saturday and Sunday, motocross promoters Wil and Tommy Hahn spent a couple of hours in Jack Kilby Square on Thursday evening. The free meet and greet was an opportunity for fans to get autographs or to be photographed with the Hahns and their motorcycles. Several tickets to the races were also given away.
ELLINWOOD - Following a Town Hall on Thursday at the Ellinwood District Hospital, Kansas Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan made a visit to the historic Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 5 miles north of town. Tax credits administered through the Kansas Historical Society will reimburse 27 percent of the cost of restoring the former church's iconic steeple, said Ryan Robl from the Sts. Peter and Paul Heritage Association.
ELLINWOOD - Kansas is in a good fiscal position, Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan said Thursday at an Ellinwood Chamber Town Hall. One of his key points on Kansas tax policy is that the state ended Fiscal Year 2014 with $434.6 million cash-on-hand.
The judge who ordered a mental competency evaluation for first-degree murder suspect Jeffrey Wade Chapman now wants to hear why the evaluation at Larned State Security Hospital took less than a day.
The jury trial for the Great Bend woman accused of stealing more than $100,000 in money earmarked to honor World War II veterans was scheduled to start this week, but is on hold, with no date scheduled as of Tuesday. LaVeta D. Miller's court-appointed attorney has requested the trial be rescheduled to November or December if possible.
Photos taken Sept. 13, 2014 at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center
Most Kansas festival planners are at the mercy of Mother Nature to some degree, especially when nature is the featured attraction. Saturday's weather, an early taste of fall, was perfect for most humans attending the Kansas Wetlands Education Center's annual fall Butterfly Festival. Those who wished they'd brought a jacket could sip coffee or hot chocolate indoors before heading outdoors in the 55-degree weather.
Larned State Hospital Superintendent Dr. Tom Kinlen praised Barton Community College staff Thursday for creating a program that will allow LSH employees to advance in their careers and better serve patients. A program for a Mental Health Technician certificate is expected to begin by the fall of 2015, college trustees were told at their monthly study session.
Gold Girls Club, a ministry of teenage girls, is sponsoring "A Reflection of Christ," a conference for women and teenage girls, featuring author Kris Goertzen from Hutchinson. It will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, in the Perkins Party Room, 2920 10th St., Great Bend.
A youth sporting event turned into a brawl, this past Monday in Wichita. According to reports, a parent complained that his son wasn't getting enough playing time; then six men surrounded the coach and started hitting him. Police said one of the men had brass knuckles and one had a gun. Then the coach's wife pulled out a gun of her own and fired it into the air. The coach headed to his car to retrieve a gun, too.
TOPEKA - Kansas Supreme Court justices on Wednesday heard oral arguments in appeals to Adam Longoria's capital murder conviction. No decisions were made as the case was taken under advisement.
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Hagerty's offices are located in Traverse City, Michigan, where we've shared an exceptionally long and cold winter season with most of the upper Midwest. Now, it's not that we don't enjoy a bit of skiing or snowmobiling, and maybe even a little ice fishing, but 2009 came in like a lion and hasn't changed its mood since, so we thought it was time to look forward to some warm weather events you really shouldn't miss.
Spring kicks off with the Mecum Kansas City Auction March 20-21. Dana's crew always has a great fleet of American Muscle cars, and sprinkles in a few sports cars and customs as well. Visit www.mecumauction.com for details.
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For mixing great wooden boats with fine motorcars, there is none better that the Keels and Wheels event in Seabrook, Texas on May 1-4. The Lakewood Yacht club hosts them all, along with a wonderful auction run by Worldwide Auctioneers on the May 2nd.
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Waterbending Gods
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- They all are based from Greek Mythology.
- The humans are believe they're the spirits of the first humans instead of the Gods and Goddesses.
- The spirits called them as "The Olympians".
- They're the creators and rulers of the Spirit World.
- They never go to the Earth since the end of the era of Raava.
- They're the creators of Raava and Vaatu.
- The Lion turtle got the power of bending from them.
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- They can use bending both on Earth and the Spirit World.
- Only the Skrull that worship them as their Gods.
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"Learning your place"
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Rating R (some sex)
Summary: Lance and Ilana are having a little trouble adjusting to the new planet and choose to pick fights with each other instead.
Ilana tugged down her shirt and ruffled up her bangs as she did one last once over in the bathroom mirror. Perfect. She thought as grinned to herself. She turned on her heels.
Her smile faulted.
Lance apparently found it in himself to wake before noon, but not get dressed or… take a shower. His dark hair hung in this darkly rimmed eyes. His lips curled into something that could be called a wolfish smirk (or smile if you squint).
"Morn.'" He growled out as he stepped past her and the bathroom slammed shut ending their conversation.
"Good morning to you too." She huffed.
Octus greeted her with a plate of wedged apple slices in the shape of a smiley face. Her day was back on track.
School always left Ilana dissatisfied. The human teens were an odd breed uninspired, unobservant, and obsessed with honestly frustrating things. Did clothes, cars, friends, and dating really mean that much? In her opinion, these were minor distractions left the school fractioned and the teen incapable of uniting.
She huffed and watched the crowd of girls that had surrounded Lance. Some wore the mark of rank the cheerleading uniform.
"Honestly, what do they see in him?"
"Shiny dark hair, bedroom eyes, a rebel without a cause attitude but- "
"We have covered that theory." She snapped, regretting her actions continued.
"He is grungy, abrasive, and… moreover, what does he see in them?"
"They are attractive young women with many assets and they are…"
Her teeth grinded as Newton /Octus listed what was so great of the about these female humanoids.
"Besides he is just assimilating to the culture." His speech finished.
Lance finally glanced at the pair and ran his fingers through his hair as he returned his attention to the blonde girls. One stuck out her chest even more.
Ilana huffed and glanced away from him. Fine. "I think I'm going to go study."
She gracefully rose off the bench to only trip over her own betraying bag; Newton/Octus tried to catch her arm but she managed stumbled on her own feet.
"I'm fine." She snatched the bag off the ground and stomped away head held high ignoring that Lance was halfway between the crowd and her table.
Lance sighed as he stood next to Newton/Octus.
"What's wrong with her?"
"She was going to go study. Most humans study in the library, so logically she would want to study there." Newton/Octus reported in that annoying chipper voice.
"Hmph." Lance shifted his weight from foot to foot this would take some research.
Nobility prided itself on justice and caring for its people but for every ounce of good intentions they made it up by being petty, jealous and vindictive, and Lance knew this better than most.
Ilana hadn't spoken to him for the better part of the day- which suited him just fine, thanks for asking- and when she finally did come around she just threw open his bedroom door and stomped to his bed. Apparently, working out was not anything important or anything, neither was privacy.
Twenty-five, Twenty-six, Twenty-seven, Twenty-eight…
He grunted tugging himself up once more, and she took that as permission to go on.
"I have been thinking, if we are going to be here for so long, I should try and assimilate more. Obvious clothing isn't the answer. I think I should join an activity or a club of some sort."
This can't be good. He wiped the sweat from his face and tugged himself once more.
"Cheerleading seemed like a good option. They are having tryouts next week."
"No." He dropped to the floor and began working on his push-up regiment.
She stuck her nose in the air. "Octus said I had a bubbly personality and this may be a chance for me to move up the social hierarchy."
She rose and stomped her foot.
"I don't think it is your place to decide."
"Then why did you ask me." He growled.
The princess covered her tracks. "I-I wasn't asking you. I was just informing you that there will be a schedule change."
"Really? Well, you could just leave a note or tell Octus to tell me if you are just informing me." Lance fumed and pushed himself up again.
"Next time, I will tell him to tell you. Goodnight!" The door slammed.
"YOU COULD AT LEAST LEARN TO KNOCK!" He yelled after the blazing blonde. He already lost count of how many push-ups, so he might as well burn all possible bridges.
Her slamming door gave him and answer and the things she threw against the wall they shared were her final thoughts.
The cheerleaders will be glad to inform her why she can't be with them. He cringed thinking of her inevitable rejection. At least she won't we wearing that uniform. He finally fell to the ground. The carpet despite having a musty odor was a comfort.
The words echoed in his head "I don't think it is your place to decide." He flipped onto his back with a grunt.
She was wrong about that. He did have his say and could decide.
Ilana found that her day was wrecked and her sleep was disturbed all because of that brute.
However, she could not let her plan for re-assimilation into human society be derailed by him and his negative attitude. As the humans say 'the show must go on' and she was going to prepare for her own show. Which would be amazing she was sure.
She wore the prefect outfit for working-out and 'cheerleading' it consisted of black short shorts hot pink tank top with a matching pink head band. The epitome of bubbly cheerleader. She happily thought as she preened one last time.
When it was time to work the obvious plan was to get blood pumping. She bounced around in her room to the music. She shook her hips to the left then right and waved her arms around. Her heart pounded in time to the bass of the song.
This is going to be easy. She threw her hip out far to the left which showed the fullness of her hips for emphasis. She could not help but check herself out in the mirror. Really easy.
It was really easy, until she tried to come up with a routine to showcase her 'skills,' and after attempting to do another cartwheel that landed her on the floor with a painful thump. Ilana realized it was time to get reinforcements.
She slipped quietly out of her room, down the hall, a quick tip-toe down the stairs and she arrived in the kitchen all this and she managed to avoid any brutes who want to put her down. The wolf is probably still sleeping in his den. She thought to herself as she approached the cooking man.
"Octus." The older man turned to her. "What does your database say about cheerleading routines?" She whispered as she rubbed her tender shoulder.
Lance had woken a while an ago first when the music thumped through the walls. He managed to drowned it out (a benefit of being a highly trained solider being able to sleep anywhere through anything), but her crashing around with the little cries of "GIVE ME A- OWWW" really just ruined any chances of sleep.
Some part of him wanted to run in and just stop her but a high pitched voice of a brat always reminded him "It's not you place" and that always managed to convince to roll over and ignore the crash. She obviously has the problem handled.
Despite his best efforts to ignore the princess he really couldn't help but listen when she tip-toed past his door and down the hall. His curiosity had really gotten the better part of him, but he forced himself to wait. He slipped from the warmth of his sheets in favor of pacing the room in his plaid sleepwear.
The clock slowly ticked away the minutes and his pace increased. He glanced at the clock once more. Can that thing go backward? He debated it for a second but just shook his head. His long bangs fell into his eyes.
He needed a plan, every war had a plan… it was nearing lunch and he did require sustenance… Perfect. Lance smiled as he stepped out of his room and padded down the hall. He resisted the urge to stay on the balls of his bare feet. I am in my prefect right to walk around the house. He justified quietly in his mind.
He glanced around the front hall and then the living room. Ilana and Octus were not in sight. His shoulders rolled forward. The kitchen exploration was much more successful. He munched on cereal. He swore (like he did most morning) these round circles of grains they call cheerios were the best thing these humans invented. He had to find a way to suggest this to the army chief on Galaluna…. Back to the primary mission.
Lance scanned the room. There was discarded food in the sink so Octus had been here a while ago. He casually carried along his breakfast as he stealthy leaned toward the sunlight. He looked out the windows that revealed the backyard.
Figures. Octus was helping her. He was standing next to her holding out his arm. She copied his move and then moved to clap and stomp a foot. She kept lifting the wrong foot and the whole thing was only more ridiculous watching a disguised Octus go through the routine.
She has no chance. He thought as he lifted the spoon to his lips. She bounced around adding her own moves to the basic routine and only succeeded only making the scene more ridiculous but her moves had not been the real focus of the munching Lance. Those shorts are… short. His mind redundantly informed him.
He slipped away from the window and refocused his energy on eating. He left to go finish the patrol around the house with his trusty companion.
It had been two weeks of training and beside the bruises (which she was tempted to blame on Lance and his whole challenge) Ilana felt good about herself and her progress. She watched the whole series called "Bring it on" (for inspiration) and worked out each day.
She stretched her calves and stood with the rest of the girls who were trying out. She defiantly had the most spirit. Her outfit was composed of all school colors, and her headband/earring combo was the perfect. The rest looked uncoordinated and ready to the go to bed in those sweatpants.
Newton/Octus gave her thumbs up as he passed heading off to his own club. A math-lete club.
She smiled and stretched the other calf.
Lance showed up to just shake his head and walk on by despite the girls calling him over. She stuck her tongue out at him as she reached for the floor with both hands.
Things had been a little tense between them at home but like a wolf licking his wounds he knew better than to approach her. He obviously had accepted his defeat and he hadn't even protested her announcement that today was the big day. He had only been very formal and even slipped in a few "Yes, Princess" in any of their short conversations.
She finished off her stretch by pulling her arms behind her back. Another girl returned after slipping between the gym doors. The look of terror on her face was not a good indication. Ilana quickly reviewed her routine. Her confidence returned and bounced a little closer to the door.
When it was her turn she walked in with a mixture of pride and anxiety. They will just look at me and ask me to join. She reaffirmed. Now, Let's BRING IT ON!
"Name?" A busty blonde asked as she looked over the form that was snapped on a clipboard.
"Ilana Lunis." She chirped.
"Right. Did you bring your own music?" She tapped her pen on the board.
"Um… No" Ilana confessed. "But I assure you I will be fine."
A blonde eyebrow arched up. "Cocky. Alright start."
Her mind blanked. "Um… now yes… now…sure." She chattered too quietly to herself and she backed away from the panel. Ilana body covered for her mind and she shifted into her first position.
Lance had settled into his post. He propped up his foot casually on the locker below his. To any by stander he probably looked like any average loitering teen, not that he was waiting for her to come his way. Really, it was strategic positioning since Octus/Newton's club was meeting at the room at the end of the hall and this was the most efficient way for her happen to pass his way.
He folded his arms across his chest and leaned more fully against the cool metal of the wall of lockers. His expression just oozed the "I'm too cool for school" attitude.
The sound of footsteps broke him of his loitering act. He glanced up in time to see her green eyes rimmed with red as tears formed and welled.
He knew her defeat would be bad but he really did not want to see her so distressed. All Lance wanted was to watch her optimist bubble to be temporary popped not this.
She raced into his arms with a soft cry of "Lance". His heart lurched as he held the small young woman, and with every shake of his shoulders his anger bubbled up. After a few more shakes he was ready to snap off the heads of blonde bimbos, but that meant leaving Ilana for an extended period of time (he would have to find a good place to hide the bodies). So, for now, he settled on holding her.
"I'm sorry." He mumbled against her blonde hair. He didn't care that her head band was digging into his neck. "I shouldn't even…"
His words of comfort began to drip out of his mouth at an alarming rate. Tons of "sorry's" and "hush's" fell right out. Lance went on emptying his mind and sadly a thought leaked out that he really should have kept to himself when around a lady of such a delicate disposition.
"I told you so." He mumbled sweetly he tugged her in closer. "It was just foolishness to begin with and then I baited you to continue."
His endless dribbling stopped when the blonde froze in his arms.
"Whaph?" She asked muffled by his shirt and chest.
Oh no… he thought but his mouth kept running off like a spring of water.
"I told you so." He repeated as softly as possible that she would not hear him..
She pushed away from his chest with a hard shove and the tears magically disappeared, and they were replaced with anger and something Lance couldn't identify but knew he should fear.
"You told me so."
"I told you so." He repeated dumbly as his mind blanked while looking for a proper explanation. Why can I lead squadrons but not talk to her?
"You really think that?" She snapped.
"Um… yes" NO! He mentally cried, but it was too late. He debated how mad she would be if he just walked away to go find a plumber because his mouth was a leaky faucet that he couldn't turn off.
She slapped his chest as hard as she could but it didn't do much damage. This surprised the lady because she paused a second before doubling her efforts and began striking his chest with her little balled up fists.
"Well, the joke is on you!" She venomously declared with another audile slap to his chest. "I made it! I'm on the team."
Lance blinked and caught her wrist to stop her abuse.
"I'm on the junior varsity. I am a replacement and they called me "trainable" but I am on the team. I will get my uniform tomorrow at practice…" She rambled on for a second longer but Lance stopped listening as he attempted to digest the information. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath trying to calm himself.
"THEN why were you crying?" He barked cutting off the string of babble.
"I was happy I made it. You mistook my tears for the reaction you wanted to see. Then it became a test of how much faith you have in me." She took a breath and curtly added "which you failed." She smiled at him with all the smugness a woman could muster at having trapped a man in his own words.
Now that was enough for Lance. He still held her wrist and used his grip to reverse their positions, so her back was against the lockers. She was trapped and she had nowhere to go.
He snarled at the wide-eyed girl. Her mouth was agape her flawless lips were still frosted pink and making a perfect little "O." He took another deep breath and let go of her thin wrists. His joints in his finger protested at the release.
Her surprise gave way to the stubborn anger as she quickly rubbed her wrist. They were unmarked which was a good sign.
"I didn't really want you opinion." She whispered harshly as her hands began to wring each other.
"Then why did you testme?" He growled.
"It doesn't matter." She dismissed his question with a quick wave of her small hand. Slowly, Ilana slipped to her right to get out of his reach.
"I'm going to inform Octus." She didn't wait for his approval as she made a quick retreat. She practically ran around the corner.
Lance kicked the unlucky locker that was beneath his. It left a satisfying dent in the shape of his shoe. The pain that radiated from his toes began to dissipate as he walked away from the scene.
Fresh air would do him some good.
The next few days passed in silence and Ilana was glad that the corporal realized he had overstepped his bounds. At least she now knew that rumors were most certainly true that he was dog, a highly trained junkyard beast, and now he had the guts to bare his teeth at her. She would not stand for it.
It had been a pleasant day and Ilana stood before her bedroom mirror surveying her new look. She rearranged the pleats of her new uniform. It was wonderful to be in uniform again! It was just like life on Galaluna it was just one glance and you knew her rank. Uniforms were great equalizers but they are useful for setting the ranks apart when it comes to soldiers and nobility.
There was power in her current outfit, and now all students, male and female, acknowledged her status. The girls who once ignored her now nodded their heads as she passed and boys who once would have had no second thoughts about shoving her into a locker as they rushed around now cleared a path and smiled.
Her new found peace was not without costs. Her companionship at home was less than satisfactory. Octus seemed out of sorts as he tried to take care of both teens (if care meant helping Ilana practice and leaving out cheerio boxes and fruit for lance), and Lance had found a lot of time to patrol and sulk on the roof like a gargoyle (or whatever he did in his free time).
Lance. Thinking of his name, not rank, was dangerous. She froze in thought and her fingers on instinct rubbed the hem of her skirt between her fingers.
She could still feel those dark eyes burning into her, and the way his hands gripped her wrist so tight. She released the fabric that she twisted into a folded knot.
The heat had crept up her neck and threatened to overtake her. Ilana shook her head trying to remove all thoughts of that dog, but a sense of dread sunk in. She knew something was wrong with her room it was the same sickly feeling you get when like someone had come in moved your stuff but you can't place what they actually touched. She could feel eyes watching her.
She glanced up in the mirror in time to see a figure slide out. Ilana shivered as she walked to her door.
A quick inspection of the hall yielded nothing other than dread. She shut the door quietly and went to change out her uniform and into her pajamas.
She slipped the large t-shirt tomato over her head. It was like a short version her old night gown only larger, baggier and redder. The fabric grazed about mid thighs and was on the side of comforting rather than 'hot'. Lance probably would have died laughing at the thing. She blushed thinking of him again.
This is getting ridiculous. She sighed resting her head against the palm of her hand. I'm ending it. The only way to take down a wolf was to face it first. She can't spend the rest of their time her on Earth getting those weird feelings of somewhere between scared of him and strangely entranced. She had never fought with a man like that before in her whole life. Besides, he is just a corporal. She reminded herself. Not a suitor or anything more than a bodyguard and I better make sure he knows that.
She slipped out into the hall and toward his den. She doubted he was asleep but he could be working out and that was not something she needed to see. A shivered whipped down her spine. She stiffened and mustered all of her royal airs and briskly knocked on the door.
She counted back from three if he didn't answer by then he was probably out and she should just go back to her room and get some sleep, but he opened the door right as she reached the end of her mental countdown.
His expression was the same sour look he had for the last few days. Something between I'm-bored-with-you and I-just-drank-some-orange-juice-after-chewing-five-sticks-of-spearmint-gum-and-I'm-going-to-throw-up-now.
"May I come in?"
"At least you learned to knock." He swung the door wide open.
"Least I'm not as rude as you." She retorted without a second thought.
He slammed his door shut as part of his witty repartee, or at least that is what she guessed. Her heart raced a little faster as he turned back to face her.
"What do you want?" He snapped.
"To talk."
"About?" His tone was formal but he circled closer to her.
"I think your recent attitude has been out of line." Ilana's head bobbed in agreement with her own statement
A dark eyebrow arched in disbelief.
"You have been sulking."
"You have been parading around in that skirt."
"My skirt is fine." Ilana stood straighter. A nerve had been hit. Why was he looking at the length of my skirt.
" It doesn't even cover your…" He cut off his statement with a sigh. "Out." He pointed back at the door.
"You can't order me about." Ilana snapped.
"It is MY room. Now out." He stared at her hard "Or I will put you out." He looked somehow taller but that did no stop a princess on the war path.
"You did not just say that."
He looked a taken back for a moment, and shook his head. "Out."
Ilana couldn't stop her hand, it just happened. Her palm struck across his check with a painful snap. Despite the pain she felt, she did not flinch, and neither did Lance.
"You should learn your place, corporal." Her words hit like a second slap.
He caught her wrist.
"And you should learn yours, princess."
Ilana attempted to tug her wrists free but it just led to a short back and forth struggle between the teens. Her green eyes widened with the realization. He is not letting go. He is not letting... Her eyes met his dark hungry ones.
Her mind raced with thoughts of calling Octus, but his stare was hypnotic. She found herself leaning into his gravitational pull.
Lance responded in kind by brushing his lips against hers for but a second.
She found her voice and mumbled softly "A princess should be the one in charge, corporal."
"But a man should lead." He rumbled.
The dull ache in her wrist and growing numbness in her fingers brought Ilana back to the real world. Yet, his grip was becoming increasingly tighter.
"Lance, are you going to let go?"
"Are you going to hit me again?"
"Then no." He chuckled and used his grip to tug her closer crushing their lips together. He broke protocol by nipped and tugged on her bottom lip instead of chastely kissing to lead in. It was rough but exhilarating. He broke the kiss.
"But I'll be kind, Princess. Just give up the whole cheerleading thing and I will let you lead." He paused in thought "tonight." His voice dropped lower as he leaned in to kiss along the column of her throat. "Trust me; you will have no more time for that frivolous activity."
"I think you presume to much, Corporal," she purred as he nibbled more on her neck. She groaned and used his grip against him. She slowly turned him around in a slow circle (the world was spinning so much already) so when she shoved him back he landed on the end of the bed with her one top and in control.
The teens gasped as she was fully introduced to his thinly shielded hardness. He finally released her wrist only to reach for more available and valuable skin. His hands tugged up the end of her shirt so he could capture her thighs. His long fingers dug into the underside of the tender flesh.
"Lance." She tried to lift off him but he kept her centered over his hips and managed to force her to straddle him more fully. His hardness only seemed to grow.
"Just say yes." He begged.
She wiggled around his lap as the blush crawled up her neck.
His lips twisted into a wolfish smile. "So, it is my little red riding hood. That is a yes?"
The blush only spread further until her forehead burned crimson.
Lance used his legs to roll her even more across his lap as he pulled up her shirt to reveal her precious flesh. He continued to work until he stripped her to her undergarments. He raised an eyebrow at the lace and little bows that adorned her pale pink bra.
"Don't laugh. I thought it was cute when I purchased."
He smiled and kissed the tops of breast along the ribbon of lace. From her feet to her hair her skin was on fire.
One hand still held her thigh as the other slide behind her back. Nimble fingers unhinged the contraption freeing her breast. They fell softly in all their glory. Silence fell as Lance stared at them for a moment.
"They look smaller."
The red mark bloomed on his cheek and her palm stung.
His eyes met hers. "Do I have you hold your wrist again?"
"You should learn to hold your tongue."
"You don't have to worry; my tongue will be occupied soon." He began to kiss the exposed skin as the free hand went to finger the elastic of her panties.
He lifted off the milky flesh for another question.
"Why don't they match?"
"What?" she hissed. He better not mean what I thought he said. God, Why does he bother talking to me? He is so much better when he keeps his mouth shut. He mind rambled.
"The undergarments. I thought they were supposed to…" he trailed off reattaching himself to her skin.
"Oh. You can buy them in sets, but it is not a requirement." She curtly replied
He hummed against her skin accepting the answer as he hooked his thumb into the elastic.
"Are you fond of them?" He oh-so-innocently inquired. Beneath her, his hips began rocking slowly back and forth to some internal rhythm. Ilana understood his question now.
"I'll slip them off. You don't have to rip them."
"But it would be so much faster." His continued rocking motion sent a shiver down her spine.
"It will give us both some time to um… undress." She lifted off of him as best she could until his hands set her free. She rose and turned away.
He casually leaned back so he could be propped up by his elbows. Lance watched curiously.
"Strip," she said as she hooked her own thumbs in her underwear and looked back at the man over her shoulder.
"Is that an order, princess?" He sounded like he was holding back a laugh. She frowned
"It is."
He smiled now enjoying her game. "Yes, Ma'am." He tried to sound as respectful as he could but his smile showed his true feelings. In a swift motion he could free himself of his only clothing. He returned to his relaxed sprawl upon the bed.
Ilana blushed and avoided looking at his um… sword. She turned her back to him and slid down her panties and quickly stepped out. Before she could even turn back around. He purred out, "What is your next order, my princess."
"Lay down, Corporal."
He pulled himself up to the pillows, and he laid out unashamed of his body. He had cockily followed her orders.
Ilana carefully climbed over the man so she could lightly straddle his hips without sitting in his lap. She leaned over and began to kiss down his center of his chest, where there was only a light touch of hair. Her kisses ghosted lower.
"Ilana." He growled exposing more skin his hip began to bob to the rhythm.
"Hush." She smirked against his skin, and he grunted in response, his hungry fingers began to rub circles into her thighs that left the skin raw and red. "We move at my pace, Lance." She practically sang against him.
He leaned up to nip at her ear, and Ilana gasped as a hot tongue brushed her earlobe. His hips naturally lifted a few inches and Lance lined up his slow rocking pace continued. Ilana slowly sat back onto Lance and allowed him to enter.
His hands stayed on her thighs to keep her from lifting off and her hands on his biceps prevented him from sitting to far up. They kept each other at a rigid distant as they made the best of gravity.
It might have started slow but his pace only sped up to match her heart rate. Their breathing became erratic as his pace increased. One of his hands stopped abusing her thigh to touch her lower. His used his thumb to brush a button. That was positivity electricity.
Ilana moaned as he hit some spot so deep. He moan only set him off as he rocked even faster.
"L-L" She moaned but could never finish the name the feeling had built to high for Ilana.
It washed over her first and Lance had to continue pound in a few more times until he was able to find his release.
The teens collapsed and Lance managed to turn her away so he could wrap around her back.
"Ilana." His voice was heavy; he nuzzled the nape of her neck. "Can we agree on something?"
"Hm?" She shifted closer to his chest.
"You quit cheerleading, but keep the skirt."
She laughed. "I don't think you learned your lesson."
He kissed her neck as his arms tightened around her. "You can tell me again later. I need a nap."
A/N: Thanks for reading this is really one of my first attempts at this kind of story.


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1. Bullying is an assault; therefore, its illegal. So if you bully, you're breaking the law.
2. 1 in every 3 students claim they've been bullied.
3. 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied while at school.
4. When someone commits suicide, because they've been bullied it's called bullycide.
5. The actual definition of bullycide is: The act or instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying.
6. Teens and children who are bullied often commit suicide to escape the intenseness of the bullying they endured.
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Bullying can be prevented and eventually eliminated all together by just doing some things like:
1. Making songs with lyrics that condemn bullying.
2. Be an advocate against bullying and violence.
3. Start or join organizations against bullying.
4. You could join the L.G.B.T. (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Youth Group or an organization like it, because a great deal of bullying is directed towards this community of people.
5. Help prevent suicide and be proud of who you are.
Why Does Bullying Matter?
Bullying matters, because it takes lives daily. Its also important, because it can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time, and we need to be aware.


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This past Fall I taught "XML 101" online and to library school graduate students. This posting echoes the scripts of my video introductions, and I suppose this posting could also be used as very gentle introduction to XML for librarians.
I work at the University of Notre Dame, and my title is Digital Initiatives Librarian. I have been a librarian since 1987. I have been writing software since 1976, and I will be your instructor. Using materials and assignments created by the previous instructors, my goal is to facilitate your learning of XML.
XML is a way of transforming data into information. It is a method for marking up numbers and text, giving them context, and therefore a bit of meaning. XML includes syntactical characteristics as well as semantic characteristics. The syntactical characteristics are really rather simple. There are only five or six rules for creating well-formed XML, such as: 1) there must be one and only one root element, 2) element names are case-sensitive, 3) elements must be close properly, 4) elements must be nested properly, 4) attributes must be quoted, and 5) there are a few special characters (&, <, and >) which must be escaped if they are to be used in their literal contexts. The semantics of XML is much more complicated and they denote the intended meaning of the XML elements and attributes. The semantics of XML are embodied in things called DTDs and schemas.
Again, XML is used to transform data into information. It is used to give data context, but XML is also used to transmit this information in an computer-independent way from one place to another. XML is also a data structure in the same way MARC, JSON, SQL, and tab-delimited files are data structures. Once information is encapsulated as XML, it can unambiguously transmitted from one computer to another where it can be put to use.
This course will elaborate upon these ideas. You will learn about the syntax and semantics of XML in general. You will then learn how to manipulate XML using XML-related technologies called XPath and XSLT. Finally, you will learn library-specific XML "languages" to learn how XML can be used in Library Land.
In this, the second week of "XML 101 for librarians", you will learn about well-formed XML and valid XML. Well-formed XML is XML that conforms to the five or six syntactical rules. (XML must have one and only one root element. Element names are case sensitive. Elements must be closed. Elements must be nested correctly. Attributes must be quoted. And there are a few special characters that must be escaped (namely &, <, and >). Valid XML is XML that is not only well-formed but also conforms to a named DTD or schema. Think of valid XML as semantically correct.
Jennifer Weintraub and Lisa McAulay, the previous instructors of this class, provide more than a few demonstrations of how to create well-formed as well as valid XML. Oxygen, the selected XML editor for this course is both powerful and full-featured, but using it efficiently requires practice. That's what the assignments are all about. The readings supplement the demonstrations.
DTD's and namespaces
DTD's, schemas, and namespaces put the "X" in XML. They make XML extensible. They allow you to define your own elements and attributes to create your own "language".
DTD's — document type declarations — and schemas are the semantics of XML. They define what elements exists, what order they appear in, what attributes they can contain, and just as importantly what the elements are intended to contain. DTD's are older than schemas and not as robust. Schemas are XML documents themselves and go beyond DTD's in that they provide the ability to define the types of data elements and attributes contain.
Namespaces allow you, the author, to incorporate multiple DTD and schema definitions into a single XML document. Namespaces provide a way for multiple elements of the same name to exist concurrently in a document. For example, two different DTD's may contain an element called "title", but one DTD refers to a title as in the title of a book, and the other refers to "title" as if it were an honorific.
Schemas are an alternative and more intelligent alternative to DTDs. While DTDs define the structure of XML documents, schemas do it with more exactness. While DTDs only allow you to define elements, the number of elements, the order of elements, attributes, and entities, schemas allow you to do these things and much more. For example, they allow you to define the types of content that go into elements or attributes. Strings (characters). Numbers. Lists of characters or numbers. Boolean (true/false) values. Dates. Times. Etc. Schemas are XML documents in an of themselves, and therefore they can be validated just like any other XML document with a pre-defined structure.
The reading and writing of XML schemas is very librarian-ish because it is about turning data into information. It is about structuring data so it makes sense, and it does this in an unambiguous and computer-independent fashion. It is too bad our MARC (bibliographic) standards are not as rigorous.
RelaxNG, Schematron, and digital libraries
The first is yet another technology for modeling your XML, and it is called RelaxNG. This third modeling technology is intended to be more human readable than schemas and more robust that DTDs. Frankly, I have not seen RelaxNG implements very many times, but it behooves you to know it exists and how it compares to other modeling tools.
The second is Schematron. This tool too is used to validate XML, but instead of returning "ugly" computer-looking error messages, its errors are intended to be more human-readable and describe why things are the way they are instead of just saying "Wrong!"
Lastly, there is an introduction to digital libraries and trends in their current development. More and more, digital libraries are really and truly implementing the principles of traditional librarianship complete with collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination. At the same time, they are pushing the boundaries of the technology and stretching our definitions. Remember, it is not so much about the technology (the how of librarianship) that is important, but rather the why of libraries and librarianship. The how changes quickly. The why changes slowly, albiet sometimes too slowly.
This week is all about XPath, and it is used to select content from your XML files. It is akin to navigating a computer's filesystem from the command line in order to learn what is located in different directories.
XPath is made up of expressions which return values of true, false, strings (characters), numbers, or nodes (subsets of XML files). XPath is used in conjunction with other XML technologies, most notably XSTL and XQuery. XSLT is used to transform XML files into other plain text files. XQuery is akin to the structured query language of relational databases.
You will not be able to do very much with XML other than read or write it, unless you understand XPath. An understanding XPath is essencial if you want to do truly interesting things with XML.
This week you will be introduced to XSLT, a programming language used to transform XML into other plain text files.
XML is all about information, and it is not about use nor display. In order for XML to be actually useful — to be applied towards some sort of end — specific pieces of data need to be extracted from XML or the whole of the XML file needs to be converted into something else. The most common conversion (or "transformation") is from some sort of XML into HTML for display in a Web browser. For example, bibliographic XML (MARCXML or MODS) may be transformed into a sort of "catalog card" for display, or a TEI file may be transformed into a set of Web pages, or an EAD file may be transformed into a guide intended for printing. Alternatively, you may want to tranform the bibliographic data into a tab-delimited text file for a spreadsheet or an SQL file for a relational database. Along with other sets of information, an XML file may contain geographic coordinates, and you may want to extract just those coordinates to create a KML file — a sort of map file.
XSLT is a programming language but not like most programming languages you may know. Most programming languages are "procedural" (like Perl, PHP, or Python), meaning they execute their commands in a step-wise manner. "First do this, then do that, then do the other thing." This can be contrasted with "declarative" programming languages where events occur or are encountered in a data file, and then some sort of execution happens. There are relatively few declarative programming languages, but LISP is/was one of them. Because of the declarative nature of XSLT, the apply-templates command is so important. The apply-templates command sort of tells the XSLT processor to go off and find more events.
Now that you are beginning to learn XSLT and combining it with XPath, you are beginning to do useful things with the XML you have been creating. This is where the real power is. This is where it gets really interesting.
TEI — Text Encoding Initiative
TEI is a granddaddy, when it comes to XML "languages". It started out as a different from of mark-up, a mark-up called SGML, and SGML was originally a mark-up language designed at IBM for the purposes of creating, maintaining, and distributing internal documentation. Now-a-days, TEI is all but a hallmark of XML.
TEI is a mark-up language for any type of literature: poetry or prose. Like HTML, it is made up of head and body sections. The head is the place for administrative, bibliographic, and provenance metadata. The body is where the poetry or prose is placed, and there are elements for just about anything you can imagine: paragraphs, lines, headings, lists, figures, marginalia, comments, page breaks, etc. And if there is something you want to mark-up, but an element does not explicitly exist for it, then you can almost make up your own element/attribute combination to suit your needs.
TEI is quite easily the most well-documented XML vocabulary I've ever seen. The community is strong, sustainable, albiet small (if not tiny). The majority of the community is academic and very scholarly. Next to a few types of bibliographic XML (MARCXML, MODS, OAIDC, etc.), TEI is probably the most commonly used XML vocabulary in Library Land, with EAD being a close second. In libraries, TEI is mostly used for the purpose of marking-up transcriptions of various kinds: letters, runs of out-of-print newsletters, or parts of a library special collection. I know of no academic journals marked-up in TEI, no library manuals, nor any catalogs designed for printing and distribution.
TEI, more than any other type of XML designed for literature, is designed to support the computed critical analysis of text. But marking something up in TEI in a way that supports such analysis is extraordinarily expensive in terms of both time and expertise. Consequently, based on my experience, there are relatively very few such projects, but they do exist.
As alluded to throughout this particular module, XSL-FO is not easy, but despite this fact, I sincerely believe it is under-utilized tool.
FO stands for "Formatting Objects", and it in an of itself is an XML vocabulary used to define page layout. It has elements defining the size of a printed page, margins, running headers & footers, fonts, font sizes, font styles, indenting, pagination, tables of contents, back-of-the-book indexes, etc. Almost all of these elements and their attributes use a syntax similar to the syntax of HTML's cascading stylesheets.
Once an XML file is converted into an FO document, you are expected to feed the FO document to a FO processor, and the FO processor will convert the document into something intended for printing — usually a PDF document.
FO is important because not everything is designed nor intended to be digital. Digital everything is mis-nomer. The graphic design of a printed medium is different from the graphic design of computer screens or smart phones. In my opinion, important XML files ought to be transformed into different formats for different mediums. Sometimes those mediums are screen oriented. Sometimes it is better to print something, and printed somethings last a whole lot longer. Sometimes it is important to do both.
FO is another good example of what XML is all about. XML is about data and information, not necessarily presentation. XSL transforms data/information into other things — things usually intended for reading by people.
EAD — Encoded Archival Description
Encoded Archival Description (or EAD) is the type of XML file used to enumerate, evaluate, and make accessible the contents of archival collections. Archival collections are often the raw and primary materials of new humanities scholarship. They are usually "the papers" of individuals or communities. They may consist of all sorts of things from letters, photographs, manuscripts, meeting notes, financial reports, audio cassette tapes, and now-a-days computers, hard drives, or CDs/DVDs. One thing, which is very important to understand, is that these things are "collections" and not intended to be used as individual items. MARC records are usually used as a data structure for bibliographically describing individual items — books. EAD files describe an entire set of items, and these descriptions are more colloquially called "finding aids". They are intended to be read as intellectual works, and the finding aids transform collections into coherent wholes.
Like TEI files, EAD files are comprised of two sections: 1) a header and 2) a body. The header contains a whole lot or very little metadata of various types: bibliographic, administrative, provenance, etc. Some of this metadata is in the form of lists, and some of it is in the form of narratives. More than TEI files, EAD files are intended to be displayed on a computer screen or printed on paper. This is why you will find many XSL files transforming EAD into either HTML or FO (and then to PDF).
RDF is an acronym for Resource Description Framework. It is a data model intended to describe just about anything. The data model is based on an idea called triples, and as the name implies, the triples have three parts: 1) subjects, 2) predicates, and 3) objects.
Subjects are always URIs (think URLs), and they are the things described. Objects can be URIs or literals (words, phrases, or numbers), and objects are the descriptions. Predicates are also always URIs, and they denote the relationship between the subjects and the objects.
The idea behind RDF was this. Describe anything and everthing in RDF. Resuse as many of the URIs used by other people as possible. Put the RDF on the Web. Allow Internet robots/spiders to harvest and cache the RDF. Allow other computer programs to ingest the RDF, analyse it for the similar uses of subjects, predicates, and objects, and in turn automatically uncover new knowledge and new relationships between things.
RDF is/was originally expressed as XML, but the wider community had two problems with RDF. First, there were no "killer" applications using RDF as input, and second, RDF expressed as XML was seen as too verbose and too confusing. Thus, the idea of RDF languished. More recently, RDF is being expressed in other forms such as JSON and Turtle and N3, but there are still no killer applications.
You will hear the term "linked data" in association with RDF, and linked data is the process of making RDF available on the Web.
RDF is important for libraries and "memory" or "cultural heritage" institutions, because the goal of RDF is very similar to the goals of libraries, archives, and museums.
The MARC standard has been the bibliographic bread & butter of Library Land since the late 1960's. When it was first implemented it was an innovative and effect data structure used primarily for the production of catalog cards. With the increasing availability of computers, somebody got the "cool" idea of creating an online catalog. While logical, the idea did not mature with a balance of library and computing principles. To make a long story short, library principles prevailed and the result has been and continues to be painful for both the profession as well as the profession's clientele.
MARCXML was intended to provide a pathway out of this morass, but since it was designed from the beginning to be "round tripable" with the original MARC standard, all of the short-comings of the original standard have come along for the ride. The Library Of Congress was aware of these short-comings, and consequently MODS was designed. Unlike MARC and MARCXML, MODS has no character limit and its field names are human-readable, not based on numeric codes. Given that MODS is flavor of XML, all of this is a giant step forward.
Unfortunately, the library profession's primary access tools — the online catalog and "discovery system" — still heavily rely on traditional MARC for input. Consequently, without a wholesale shift in library practice, the intellectual capital the profession so dearly wants to share is figuratively locked in the 1960's.
Not a panacea
XML really is an excellent technology, and it is most certainly apropos for the work of cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums. This is true for many reasons:
- it is computing platform independent
- it requires a minimum of computer technology to read and write
- to some degree, it is self-documenting, and
- especially considering our profession, it is all about data, information, and knowlege
On the other hand, it does have a number of disadvantages, for example:
- it is verbose — not necessarily succinct
- while easy to read and write, it can be difficult to process
- like all things computer program-esque, it imposes a set of syntactical rules, which people can sometimes find frustrating
- its adoption as standard has not been as ubiquitous as desired
To date you have learned how to read, write, and process XML and a number of its specific "flavors", but you have by no means learned everything. Instead you have received a more than adequate introduction. Other XML topics of importance include:
- evolutions in XSLT and XPath
- XML-based databases
- XQuery, a standardized method for querying sets of XML similar to the standard query language of relational databases
- additional XML vocabularies, most notably RSS
- a very functional way of making modern Web browsers display XML files
- XML processing instructions as well as reserved attributes like lang
In short, XML is not a panacea, but it is an excellent technology for library work.
You have all but concluded a course on XML in libraries, and now is a good time for a summary.
First of all, XML is one of culture's more recent attempts at formalizing knowledge. At its root (all puns intended) is data, such as the number like 1776. Through mark-up we might say this number is a year, thus turning the data into information. By putting the information into context, we might say that 1776 is when the Declaration of Independence was written and a new type of government was formed. Such generalizations fall into the realm of knowledge. To some degree, XML facilitates the transformation of data into knowledge. (Again, all puns intended.)
Second, understand that XML is also a data structure defined by the characteristics of well-formedness. By that I mean XML has one and only one root element. Elements must be opened and closed in a hierarchal manner. Attributes of elements must be quoted, and a few special characters must always be escaped. The X in XML stands for "extensible", and through the use of DTDs and schemas, specific XML "flavors" can be specified.
With this under your belts you then experimented with at least a couple of XML flavors: TEI and EAD. The former is used to mark-up literature. The later is used to describe archival collections. You then learned about the XML transformation process through the application of XSL and XPath, two rather difficult technologies to master. Lastly, you made strong efforts to apply the principles of XML to the principles of librarianship by marking up sets of documents or creating your own knowledge entity. It is hoped you have made a leap from mere technology to system. It is not about Oxygen nor graphic design. It is about the chemistry of disseminating data as unambiguously as possible for the purposes of increasing the sphere of knowledge. With these things understood, you are better equipped to practice librarianship in the current technological environment.
Finally, remember, there is no such thing as a Dublin Core record.
Epilogue — Use and understanding
This course in XML was really only an introduction. You were expected to read, write, and transform XML. This process turns data into information. All of this is fine, but what about knowledge?
One of the original reasons texts were marked up was to facilitate analysis. Researchers wanted to extract meaning from texts. One way to do that is to do computational analysis against text. To facilitate computational analysis people thought is was necessary for essential characteristics of a text to be delimited. (It is/was thought computers could not really do natural language processing.) How many paragraphs exists? What are the names in a text? What about places? What sorts of quantitative data can be statistically examined? What main themes does the text include? All of these things can be marked-up in a text and then counted (analyzed).
Now that you have marked up sets of letters with persname elements, you can use XPath to not only find persname elements but count them as well. Which document contains the most persnames? What are the persnames in each document. Tabulate their frequency. Do this over a set of documents to look for trends across the corpus. This is only a beginning, but entirely possible given the work you have already done.
Libraries do not facilitate enough quantitative analysis against our content. Marking things up in XML is a good start, but lets go to the next step. Let's figure out how the profession can move its readership from discovery to analysis — towards use & understand.


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Monitor Activity in Folders
- Monitor Activity in Folders
- FolderMon: Download It Here
Context Menu Bugs
Normally, when you hold the mouse cursor over context menu items you can see help strings (or hints) displayed in the Explorer status bar. But you may notice that these hints don't appear when the context menu is opened by right-clicking on a FolderMon item in Explorer's tree pane. This is because Explorer never calls IContextMenu::GetCommandString. The hints work correctly when the context menu is triggered from an item in the right-hand pane.
A workaround might have been to have FolderMon answer the WM_MENUSELECT messages itself and modify the status bar using IShellBrowser::SetStatusTextSB. But the WM_MENUSELECT message is not always sent to the same window, and it does not reach the view window each time it is sent. No wonder help strings are never displayed for context menus that are opened in Explorer's tree pane!
The most difficult bug to trap in FolderMon involved strange behavior when Explorer activated an item's context menu in the left-hand pane. Selecting an object in the left-hand pane causes the associated view to be displayed in the right pane. This view is managed by the IShellView interface. But right-clicking is not the same as selecting.
When the user right-clicks on a subfolder in the left-hand pane, Explorer creates a new view object for the subfolder and then destroys it immediately. This led to major problems in FolderMon, which assumed initially that a view object was created only when a view window was needed. When instantiating the class representing the view object, FolderMon assumed the physical view window would always be created afterward and did its initialization work at this time. Wrong guess: This anomaly generated random crashes. The fix was to do the initialization work only after the physical window was actually created--that is, after the window received the WM_CREATE message.


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Bergmeister, Pruett and Diaz Earn First Team Selections to 2006 AARWBA All-America Team DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (December 8, 2006) -- For the third consecutive year, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve ...
Bergmeister, Pruett and Diaz Earn First Team Selections to 2006 AARWBA All-America Team
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (December 8, 2006) -- For the third consecutive year, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve Daytona Prototype champion has earned a First Team selection to the prestigious American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) Auto Racing All-America Team.
Jorg Bergmeister, the 2006 Daytona Prototype champion as driver of the No. 76 Krohn Racing Ford Riley, was the leading vote-getter among drivers nominated in the Road Racing category, earning the German a spot on the First Team. Co-drivers Max Angelelli and Wayne Taylor earned First Team selections on the 2005 team by virtue of their Daytona Prototype championship, as did 2004 co-champions Scott Pruett and Max Papis.
For the second year in-a-row, drivers who finished first and second in the Daytona Prototype championship were First Team selections, as 2006 Daytona Prototype runners-up Pruett and Luis Diaz, who co-drove the No. 01 CompUSA Chip Ganassi Racing Lexus Riley to a series-leading five victories, were also named to the first team. It was Pruett's fourth consecutive First Team selection and the eighth time that the Californian has been chosen for the First Team. Only luminaries such as Steve Kinser (18), John Force (14), Don Garlits (10) and Tony Stewart (9) have earned more First Team selections. Racing legends Mario Andretti, Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon have also been selected to the First Team eight times.
Bergmeister and Diaz, meanwhile, earned their second-consecutive First Team selections. Diaz was a member of the 2005 First Team in Road Racing for co-driving to second in the Daytona Prototype championship with Pruett, while Bergmeister claimed First Team honors in the At Large category for winning the ALMS GT2 championship.
Angelelli, who followed-up his 2005 Daytona Prototype championship with a third-place performance in the 2006 driver standings, earned a Second Team selection in the Road Racing category. Also taking Second Team honors in the At Large category were No. 65 TRG/F1 Air Pontiac GTO.R co-drivers Marc Bunting and Andy Lally, who claimed the 2006 Rolex Series GT championship. Colin Braun, Bergmeister's No. 76 co-driver for all but three races in 2006, was an Honorable Mention selection in the Road Racing category.
The AARWBA Auto Racing All-America Team will be honored at the AARWBA banquet on January 13 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis. Information on the banquet--which is open to the public--is available from AARWBA at (818) 842-7005 or email@example.com.
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