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aoffan23 wrote:Apollyon wrote:I don't have it yet either.
I haven't bought LEGO in forever, i just hang out here for the trolling.
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aoffan23 wrote:Apollyon wrote:I don't have it yet either.
stubby wrote:omg noob, balrogs are maiars too, don't you know anything
aoffan23 wrote:So I was in Ottawa over the weekend, and stumbled upon a toy store that was right across the street from my hotel. I passed it off, but then I saw that it had giant posters on the outside of the Millennium Falcon and Jabba's Palace sets, with big "ON SALE NOW" captions on them. Obviously, I went in.
Holy sweet Jesus, it was amazing. Their Lego selection was huge, and they had everything currently on the market. And I mean everything. They even had a bunch of the Minecraft sets on the shelf, which sell out within like an hour of being restocked on the Lego site. The best part was the pile of sets they had on the floor that were marked down. Jabba's Palace was marked down $40, the Sith Fury-Class Interceptor was down $20, and so many more. The even had every Prince of Persia set except for Alamut (which they didn't have at all) marked down.
Tzan wrote:Quantumsurfer wrote:I generally agree with TzanWarhead wrote:I agree with QuantumSmurfer.
I agree with Warhead.
aoffan23 wrote:The people there said they were going to be moving in a couple of months, since they're in the middle of a bunch of car dealerships and auto shops right now.
Zupponn wrote:Colette wrote:You're free to make your own map from scratch, however.
All you have to do is flatten his head.
Silverdream wrote:TL;DR Be like Scratch.
Captain-Camper wrote:tl;dr I'm just going to assume don't be like voin and be more like scratch.
Zahru II wrote:Eh, I wanna buy it, just waiting it to hit clearance or something. Not too jazzed about paying 15$ local retail for such a small box. I could get a vintage Robo-Guardian or Saucer Centurion for that price from Bricklink.
CADmonkey wrote:Where are they gonna move to?
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A winner was selected from 224 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Shirt designs for "Cocky Apparel" branded clothing
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Mike has a BS and MS degree in chemistry and has spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in positions including laboratory, project management, marketing, licensing and acquisitions, and executive management. Before joining CollegeAmerica in 2010, he worked in software development, nanotechnology, and healthcare delivery companies and taught chemistry at Concorde Career College in Aurora. He is married to Susan Bowling, a physical therapist and energy healer, and they have two daughters: Elizabeth, who currently lives in Aurora, and Cheresse, who is married and living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I earned a BS in physical anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2001 and an MS in physician assistant studies from the University of St. Francis in 2006. During my undergraduate studies I worked at the Office of the Medical Investigator at UNM as a morphology technician. My duties included directly assisting the forensic pathologist in autopsies and evidence collection.
After the OMI, I worked as a surgical technician in the operating room at the University of New Mexico Outpatient Surgery and Imaging Center for four years. My position was "scrub technician," and I assisted in various outpatient surgeries in various medical disciplines including OB/GYN, general surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and plastic surgery. After going back to school and earning my master's degree in physician assistant studies, I worked as a physician assistant at New Mexico Orthopedics.
After some time in the medical field I gradually shifted my career to education. First, I worked with neurologically and behaviorally challenged adolescents at an inpatient treatment center in New Mexico. Since moving to Colorado, I have worked solely in the educational field and it has been a wonderful change. In 2013 I moved from Denver to Northern Colorado and began tutoring and instructing at the college level. I accepted a faculty position at CollegeAmerica in 2013 and have been employed here since. Teaching at CollegeAmerica has been truly the most rewarding and enjoyable of all my careers.
Jon Allison is the associate dean of medical specialties. He served in the Navy as a hospital corpsman for four years and was stationed with the Marines. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in biology. Most of his work experience has come from working in various pharmacies. He teaches many of the medical specialties classes including pharmacy, EKG, vital signs, A&P, and others. He has worked as a corporate trainer, a high school teacher, a community college adjunct professor, and has been with CollegeAmerica since 2011.
Amy Gibson, Associate Dean of Business and Accounting, has worked in education for 10 years. Like many CollegeAmerica students, Amy too had to work full time while going to school. She graduated from Johnson and Wales University with two associates degrees: one in business administration and the other in criminal justice. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration.
During this time, Amy was an active member of the Student Leadership team that volunteered at many non-profits, including Ronald McDonald House and the Denver Rescue Mission. Through this experience, she was able to truly connect with the community and gain real-world leadership experience. While at Johnson and Wales, she also studied abroad in Seoul, South Korea, for a semester.
Amy started at CollegeAmerica in 2008 as a corporate financial aid officer for several of the CollegeAmerica campuses. In 2013, she joined the Denver Campus and started as a second-year planner. During this time she also earned her master of science degree in teaching and learning from Colorado State University, global campus. In June 2013, she transitioned into the associate dean of business and accounting position. Throughout this time she also went to Independence University for an additional master's degree in business administration. She is expected to graduate in October of 2015.
After completing a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master of business administration degree in management, both from the University of Georgia, Ron Elsdon entered the US Air Force and trained as a pilot. Upon completion of three tours in southeast Asia flying B-52s, he performed four years of duty as an instructor pilot/flight examiner, attaining the rank of captain and the ratings of senior pilot and master instructor pilot.
Following his Air Force career, Ron gathered over 22 years experience in the business world as a senior project manager for the Motorola Government Electronics Group. During that time he was responsible for team building, development and instruction, and conducting various training courses in production, management, organization, and communication. He has been with CollegeAmerica, Colorado Springs for six years. During that time, he has served as an instructor, acted as the director of faculty development, served as the associate dean of business and accounting, and has been the dean of education for over four years.
Sid Rubey is the Colorado Springs campus associate dean of business and technology. As an officer in the U.S. Navy, Sid completed training in nuclear engineering and served in this capacity onboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz CVN-68. He also has over 22 years experience in engineering, project management, and information technology positions. Sid has taught computer science, mathematics, business, and management courses at CollegeAmerica since 2009. He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master of science degree in computer science, a master of business administration, and has completed half of a doctoral program in computer science – data analytics.
Paul Benedict has a master's degree in project management from the Keller Graduate School of Management and a bachelor's degree in network communications and management from Devry University. He has worked as a chief information officer, project manager, team leader, store manager, IT technician and network engineer. He has performed these duties for companies such as Sprint, Whole Foods, Microsoft, The Geek Squad (Best Buy), and Circuit City.
Paul loves bringing extracurricular activities to the classroom and frequently takes students on fields trips to museums, Maker Faires, and other technical and scientific activities in the Denver area.
In his free time, Paul enjoys working as a minister along with his wife of 16 years, as well as hiking and photographing the splendid beauty of the Rocky Mountains where he lives.
Ludo Pierson is the associate dean of the computer science programs. He possesses a BS in information technology from Brighton University, England, and an MBA from Stevens-Henager College in Utah. Mr. Pierson is also a Microsoft® Certified Professional and holds networking certifications from Cisco® and CompTIA®.
Ludo has over 20 years of experience in the IT field. He has worked for Microsoft during the release of Windows 95, for several telecommunication corporations pioneering voice over IP technology as director of software development, for Unified Communications as a technical product manager, and he was an active member of the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program) association dictating standards for wireless multimedia messaging (MMS).
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Hello. My name is Jonathan Perkins. I am the director of IT for the Fort Collins, Colorado, campus. I am also one of the instructors for the computer science degree programs. I have been with the CollegeAmerica team for almost two years now, and it is a fantastic place that truly fosters a great environment for learning and focuses on the needs of the students.
I started building my own computers completely from scratch from a very young age. I was completely hooked and drawn to the field from the very beginning. After receiving my first degree, I worked in the field of computer graphic design. I then decided to continue my education even further and went back to obtain a degree in information technology. I changed my focus to the network and systems administration area of IT. I have been in this area of the field for almost 15 years now and still absolutely love it.
I pride myself in always making myself available to our students to discuss questions they have regarding the IT industry. A personally rewarding part to me is to always catch that "ah ha" moment when a new concept "clicks" for them. In my leisure time, I have enjoyed the sport of cross-country mountain biking for many years. I also enjoy building custom cars and motorcycles. I also participated in the seventy-fifth annual Sturgis, South Dakota, motorcycle rally this year.
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Fred Tower has been teaching at CollegeAmerica as the lead instructor in the School of Graphic Arts since 2009. Across a span of 45 years, he has been a photographer, a graphic designer, a soldier, a teacher, a counselor, a public speaker, a computer geek, and an award-winning writer/producer of educational television. Fred served for eight years in the U.S. Air Force as a graphic artist, aerial photographer, and intelligence analyst. From 1968 through 1976, he served in Texas, Colorado, and Alaska with a deployment to South Vietnam in 1971. Fred has developed two businesses: Midnite Sun Advertising in Tucson, Arizona, and Tower Media Group in Colorado Springs. He worked as a media production specialist with Colorado Springs Public Schools. His experience has included photography and video production, as well as presentations and developing curricula in computer-generated graphic design.
Kyle Mickelson is a certified public accountant (CPA) in the State of Arizona and holds a bachelor of science degree in accountancy from Northern Arizona University. He joined the CollegeAmerica team in May of 2013. His accounting experience includes six years of working as an auditor for a national accounting firm, three years of governmental accounting, and two years industry management. He mainly specializes in financial statement audits and preparation helping to achieve financial goals through external reporting. His experience on both sides of the accounting table has allowed Kyle to share real-life examples of hard-to-understand subjects in the classroom.
Jim Drohan was raised in an Air Force family, moving from state to state (and Korea) every few years. He attended the US Air Force Academy and the University of Northern Colorado where he earned a BA, MA, and professional teaching certification, all in English. He has taught a wide variety of English-related courses in public schools all over Colorado for the past 29 years at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels. He has four children and enjoys tennis, traveling, music concerts, and skiing. He has a strong passion for teaching and hopes his students will learn to love learning.
I was with Denver Public Schools from 1972–2005, the final 20 years at George Washington High School. I also served as acting foreign language supervisor for three years, taught staff development, and was active in student activities. I was honored as a Mile-Hi Teacher in 2005 by then-mayor John Hickenlooper. I was also named Most Valuable Teacher by the John Lynch (Denver Broncos) Foundation and recognized by GW PTSA (Parents, Teachers, Students Association) as an Outstanding Teacher. After retiring from DPS, I spent four years at Johnson & Wales University and am now beginning my fifth year at CollegeAmerica. For the 2011–2012 academic year, I was named Faculty of the Year. I am delighted to be part of the CA faculty and thoroughly enjoy
Kristine Stevens earned a BA in history from Kansas State University, an MA in human resources from Ottawa University in Kansas City, and an EdD in leadership education from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Stevens has more than 30 years of experience in higher education administration with a focus on international education and recently retired from her position as assistant provost for international programs at Kansas State University. She also has substantive experience in teaching and mentoring adult and nontraditional students. She teaches American civilization, U.S. history since the civil war, career development, and human resource management at the Colorado Springs campus.
Bruce Porter has bachelor's degrees in philosophy and psychology. He holds master's degrees in psychology and business. He has been teaching college since 2000, and he has taught at CollegeAmerica, Colorado Springs campus, since 2004. In addition to performing the scheduling duties, he specializes in teaching the introductory course, CSS101. During his time at this campus, he has held numerous positions, including dean and director of training.
Karen Jazowski is an adjunct professor at CollegeAmerica in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is a retired manager of morgue operation for the City and County of Denver with over 25 years experience teaching students, interns, and residence. She is a sought-out educator in the area of forensic radiology. She has shared her expertise in Canada and in the United States. Most importantly, Karen provides her education, experience, expertise, and tools to help all levels of students to achieve an understanding in many topics. She has a passion to share her knowledge with all.
As the Associate Dean of Medical Programs for over 9 years, I have more than 17 years' experience in the medical field, ranging from a phlebotomist to working as a medical assistant/office manager within internal medicine and family practice along with that I was a first responder for 14 years. I have the opportunity to share my passion with the many students I serve. I teach the entire Medical Specialties program and also the Healthcare Administration courses. I have an associate's degree in occupational sciences; I have completed my bachelor's in English Literature with a minor in Sociology from Grand Canyon University along with a Master's Degree in Education. I am an avid advocate for patient rights and health care delivery. I enjoy sharing with our CollegeAmerica students the importance of learning along with giving back to our community.
After nearly twenty years in private practice, Dr. Gary Paterno began instructing Medical courses at CollegeAmerica in 2010. In practice and business one of Gary's true callings was mentoring and teaching others to recognize their full potentials in the pursuit of their life goals and ambitions. He currently has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the University of Health Sciences of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Political Science from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Gary currently teaches Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology and is the Externship Coordinator.
Good health is the beginning of everything people want in life. As a primary healthcare provider and instructor, nothing gives me more pleasure than to see our students go off into the world helping others achieve and maintain good health by rendering quality healthcare.
I received my undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, and moved to Arizona to work for Intel Corporation. I obtained my Master's in Business Administration from Arizona State University in 2004. I have an extensive background in computer science and business and have been in the industry for over 30 years. I've worked at Briggs and Stratton, 3M, and Intel Corporation. I have traveled the world supporting installing, configuring and testing software systems in Ireland, Israel, just to name a few.
I have enjoyed over 18 plus years as a medical assistant and office manager. I have worked in a variety of areas, from geriatrics to endocrinology, gynecology, neurology, surgery, emergency, and fluoroscopy, as well as general diagnostics.
From private practice to hospital, I have been teaching medical assistance in my office on the extern program for over 14 years. All this being said, as a medical specialties instructor, teaching has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. I am happy to have joined the teaching team at CollegeAmerica and pass on the knowledge that I have gained over the last 18 years that I have worked in the medical field.
I have a medical assistance certification, I received my bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in interdisciplinary study with a certification in gerontology, and I also completed my master's degree at the University of Phoenix in healthcare administration and informatics.
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Erie may have registered more propane in its air than some large metropolitan areas in the United States, but that doesn't mean the health of the town's 20,000 residents is in danger.
So says a study that will be presented to Erie's Board of Trustees on Tuesday night. The report claims to put some findings from a 2011 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration air analysis -- which found 10 times more propane in Erie than was detected in Pasadena, Calif. -- into proper context.
"Just putting something out there and saying that it's elevated doesn't really help," said Dollis Wright, president of Thornton-based Quality Environmental Professional Associates. "People have to understand what that really means."
Propane and other emissions cited in the NOAA study are associated with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing -- an extraction method that relies on water, sand and chemicals to access gas hidden in deep pockets of rock. The agency's findings played a significant role in persuading all of Erie's trustees last month to pass a six-month moratorium on issuing new drilling permits.
Wright, a toxicologist who worked for the Centers for Disease Control for four years, said her analysis of the NOAA report revealed that the levels of propane the agency measured in Erie were actually "1,000-fold or more below those considered to be of health concern."
The peak propane level in Erie reported by NOAA was 115 parts per billion, Wright's report states, but people exposed to 1 million parts per billion of propane for 10 minutes have shown no ill effects from the gas.
Also, she said, the health issues that anti-fracking activists have claimed might be resulting from drilling activity -- endocrine disruption, diabetes and asthma -- are not caused by propane.
"I think it helps the citizen who wants to know what is really happening," Wright said.
Steven Brown, a NOAA scientist in Boulder, said his study only reported measurable findings of chemicals in the air but didn't make any conclusions about what constitutes an acceptable or unhealthy level of those compounds.
Erie Town Administrator A.J. Krieger said the town hired Wright's firm to give "analytical context" to NOAA's data, which he acknowledges were initially unsettling.
"That was the ghost that lingered after that (February NOAA) presentation, and as a town, we felt we wanted to get some information to our board and residents about the risks of these compounds in the NOAA study," Krieger said.
Erie is paying Wright $3,330 for her services.
But Jen Palazzolo, a resident who helped found anti-drilling group Erie Rising, said Erie made a mistake hiring Wright, who has done significant amounts of work on behalf of the oil and gas industry.
"My concern is that this is a huge conflict of interest," Palazzolo said. "She's working hand in hand with oil and gas and with the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. She doesn't seem like a true third-party, unbiased person to form an opinion on the NOAA report."
She said because Wright's report is focused on propane, it doesn't answer questions about other gases -- such as butane and ethane -- that are released during drilling that could be making Erie's air hazardous to breathe.
"These are precursors to ozone," Palazzolo said. "By emitting excess levels in the air, you could be making ozone worse than it already is."
Wright said Erie only asked her to look at propane. And while she admits working on behalf of industry, she said the numbers don't lie.
"Even if they hire another person, the science is still the same," she said.
Krieger said Wright is uniquely qualified to interpret air quality data, and the town isn't looking to whitewash any unpleasant realities.
"I don't think the messenger needs to be shot here," he said.
Wright's conclusions that propane levels in Erie are not at dangerous concentrations hasn't stopped the town from insisting to oil and gas operators that they need to capture all of their emissions, Krieger said.
"We're not suggesting that any level of propane in the air is fine to us," he said. "As a town, we're still all over 100 percent emissions capture."


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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The Perfect Winter Day in Late Fall
Every once in awhile I like to reveal a little piece of my personal life. Here's a short note I wrote to my ski buddies last week after an epic day of skiing at the Grand Targhee Ski Resort in Alta Wyoming. My good friend Johnny N. left the mountain the night before the storm hit and that's why I mention his vulnerability at the top of the e-mail. He loves deep snow and missed it by just a few hours. Ouch! Jennifer is one of my favorite people in the world and she was planning to come over from Jackson Hole not expecting to be skiing in thigh deep powder. She nailed a rare beautiful and perfect day in the snow in early December (still Fall on the calendar) with me and only a handful of happy people. Lucky us!
PS ~ Gotamas are skis and when it's puking it means snowing hard.
PSS ~ If you love skiing, riding and the mountains like I do, come and join me and other BeachBody diehards at Jackson Hole for a mini-camp, February 27 thru March 1st. Contact JuliAnne Forrest at email@example.com
Here's the e-mail
What I don't want to do is rub it in, partly because Johnny is very vulnerable right now.
All I will do is relay the facts. About 9:00 last night I spoke with Jennifer. She would show up around 9:00 this morning. I went to bed before midnight with zero exceptions and not a flake in sight. When the alarm went off at eight AM I hit the snooze control... twice. What's the hurry, right? Why would today be any different than the last four? Knowing that Jen would be arriving soon I pulled myself out of bed at 8:15. The curtains were pulled tight but there was some light peering through a little crack at the top. Was that sunshine? Please no. Prior to opening the curtains I said out loud, "Show me something gorgeous!" OMG! There it was. Lots and lots of snow. Beautiful, new, fluffy, puffy, whiteness. I honestly couldn't believe it. It was like Christmas morning when you're ten years old. I threw my fist in the air and made some weird (non 50 year old) cheering sound.
I threw on the gear, grabbed the Gotamas and headed to breakfast. Muppet, Dino and Eric and two other strangers were the only people having breakfast. I stuffed my face with oatmeal, raisins, tea and burnt wheat toast, dry. Jennifer was easy to find, because it's easy to find anyone when there's only 20 people hanging around in a 5 thousand square foot area. Keep in mind that at least 8 inches were on the ground at 8 AM and it was still puking. By the time the whole team caught the chair by 9:15 we had close to a foot at the top of the mountain, and it was still coming down, hard.
If you've ever skied Targhee on a powder day you know the rest of the story. Untracked all day long, an empty mountain, shin to waist deep pow and huge grins from buzzer to buzzer, blah, blah, blah.
13 comments:
- Joey said...
That's a cool story. Makes me wish I was a skier. :0(
- Anonymous said...
SO Freakin JEALOUS!! I live in Northern Canada and we are just starting to get some good snow and powder up on the mountains...
You should make the trip to Whistler/Blackcomb (well maybe after they fix the whole Gondola fiasco) or even Banff/Lake Louise... Then I could totally join you guys for some shredding!
All the best and happy skiing!
- LORI J said...
....so I take it you had fun? ;)
:) :) :)
Thanks for sharing, "A Day In the Life of Tony Horton". It made me smile.
- nick from ny said...
Now, that's living "La Dolce Vita," my good man! I was just checking out the Alta Web site, and I gotta admit that it sure looks a heck of a lot more pleasing than Park Ave.-;) The place is really known for powder, and you guys were right there in the shadow of the Grand Teton, wow! I wonder if they have trails going off that bad boy? Probably helicopter accessible... They even have cross-country skiing, my personal favorite. And I really got a kick out of the name of one mountaintop run, "Mary's Nipple." I know you did that one, dude-;)
Just like our friend Lori said, thanks for making us all smile.
Live Life Outstandingly!
- Jim said...
You make it sound so fun!
Snow skiing didn't turn out to be my thing. Me and my wife got altitude sickness and spent a week literally puking. :P
I guess I'm truly a Beachbody person, as I like riding the waves of the ocean!
- LisaErin82 said...
So how 'bout in the summer some water skiing with a group of beachbody folks?!?! You know....show off the benefits of being so committed to an AMAZING program such as your AWESOME ones and have some fun?!?!
Well....so I don't know that I'd have fun water skiing since I've never been before...but it's warm and not cold like on a mountain with a THICK blanket of white....I'm not a skier (or a cold weather person) by any stretch of the imagination but appreciated the story (and the definition of 'puking' in the 'forward')
So anyway...how 'bout something fun like that in the summer for us who like to be warm and not flying down a mountain on two narrow flat 'sticks' full speed ahead
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- Ali said...
thanks for sharing. Wish I were a skier! Sounds like fun. Skiiing is on my list of things I want to do, right along with hiking to the bottom of the grand canyon and trying my hand at mountain climbing. I'm 38 and I feel like I'm running out of time! (Working mom, freelancer, very involved with church, etc) But, I'll get to tackle some of those things on my list, at least.
Love to hear about your life and what you're up to, love how you give it your best all the time. Thanks for inspiring others to do the same.
- Anonymous said...
its kinda fun to know that you hit the snooze. makes you seem more human, less superhero:P i like being able to relate
- Anonymous said...
Odd question, by "riding" do you mean motorcylcles, horses, or mountain bikes, or "all of the above"? LOL.
- CT Olson said...
As a fellow obsessed skier who loves powder, free riding and steeps, I can so appreciate this! We've gotten some 2 feet of snow this weekend back east and if it weren't for a 60 person party for Christmas Eve we're hosting I'd have been there for both days this weekend. I'll get away somehow tomorrow - this is what we live for as skiers - moments and days like this! I never regret taking a day and going skiing - we wait all year for these days!
- John G said...
Skiing is a great addition to my P90X workouts. Lots of champagne powder falling here in Steamboat Springs and the skiing is great!!! Bring It! (Day 62 of Round 1 and the results are amazing!)
- Dena said...
just learned about your p90x program. will give it a try! Very excited to know that you ski my favorite spots - Jackson, Aspen, Whistler/Blackcomb. Check out Tyax heliski operation north of Whistler. Phenomenal. I hope you are doing another ski camp in 2010! D


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - It seemed only fitting that on a night in which everything came together for the Tennessee Tech baseball team, one of the most revered school records would see its end and a long streak would also come to pass, as the the Golden Eagles (26-9) defeated the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (15-18), 10-3 Wednesday evening.
A starter from his very first day in a Golden Eagle uniform, senior Zach Stephens stepped into the batters box in the fifth inning like it was just any other at bat. And until a hanging curveball on the eighth pitch of the at bat, it was. But after throwing fastball after fastball, MTSU pitcher Nathan Foriest switched things up to his own dismay. Stephens took the off-speed offering deep over the left center field fence, crushing his 52nd career home run while also propelling the Golden Eagles into the lead for good, up 4-3.
The long ball broke a tie that the first baseman held with former Tech baseball great A.J. Kirby-Jones for most career home runs in a Golden Eagle uniform. The moon shot was part of a 2-for-5 day at the plate for Stephens, who now sits just two home runs away from breaking the all-time Ohio Valley Conference career record currently held by former Western Kentucky great, Mike Williams.
Already Tech's career leader in runs driven in, Stephens now owns 203 career RBI after the contest, needing just six more to break the OVC's career record also held by Williams. The senior also remains just two hits from breaking Tech's all-time career hits record of 253 held by former Golden Eagle Chad Oberacker.
Outside of Stephen's career day at the dish, the entire Tech team peformed exceedingly well in the victory, clinching the first season series sweep of Middle Tennessee by the Golden Eagles since 1998.
Pitching played a strong roll in the Tech win, as five pitchers combined to record 14 strikeouts on the night. Starter John Gora struck out five Blue Raiders, tossing three innings and allowing three earned runs. Reliever Cain Sloan came in for the next two innings, punching out three and allowing just one hit and one walk while earning his first career victory in a Golden Eagle uniform.
Freshman Kyle Keatts took over for the sixth inning, surrendering one hit while striking out one. Senior righty Stanton Taylor covered innings seven and eight with two Ks and two hits. And finally, junior Justin Alexander finished off the game, fanning all three batters in the ninth to give Tech its 26th win of the year.
Both sides battled evenly through the first four frames, fighting to a 3-3 stalemate thanks to RBI from Stephens, junior David Allen, and Brandon Thomasson.
That was as close as things got for the Blue Raiders, as the Tech squad put together a huge two-out rally in the bottom of the fifth inning. Leadoff man Zach Zarzour started things off, singling to left center field. He would later be caught stealing, following a Tech strikeout, and the Middle Tennessee squad looked sure to head to the top of the sixth still knotted up with the Golden Eagles.
Things did not go according to plan for MTSU, however, as Stephens kicked off a six-run rally with his solo shot to left center field in the next at bat. Senior Daniel Miles followed with a walk and Thomasson drove him in when he crushed a double off the right center field wall. Junior shortstop Dylan Bosheers was hit by a pitch in the next plate appearance for Tech, putting two runners on base.
Jordan Hopkins laced a double to left center field, clearing the bases and setting up Tyler Brazelton for a chance. He didn't get one, as MTSU's Nathan Foriest plunked Brazelton and put runners on first and second. That brought in another Blue Raider pitcher, Jonathan Frebis. A passed ball led Hopkins and Brazelton to reach scoring position and Allen ripped a two-run double down the right field line, and at the conclusion of the inning, Tech suddenly held a 9-3 advantage.
Thomasson managed to finally go yard in the seventh inning after smacking a sac fly to the wall in the third and a double off the wall in the fifth. The solo shot marked the 10th of the season for the senior, giving him the lead in the OVC. It also propelled Tech to its final score of 10-3.
Thomasson finished 2-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored while Stephens finished 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Allen also had multiple hits, going 2-for-4 with three RBI.
The Golden Eagles will return to play on Friday as the team travels north for an important OVC series at Eastern Illinois. Game time on Friday is set for 3 p.m. CT as junior David Hess will take the hill for the Golden Eagles.


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Waiting For Pachenco: Fake Burial In Small Village Marks End Of Cuba's Carnival Season
SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, Cuba (AP) – Cuban villagers staged a mock funeral and burial of a living man this week in a boozy festival that has become an annual tradition in a small town near Havana.
A tractor pulled a trailer slowly through the streets in the early morning carrying the man in a coffin and a four-piece tropical band. Behind it, dozens of people drank, clapped and sashayed to the music, as a white-haired woman pretending to be the bereaved widow wept loudly for the "deceased."
"What a good man he was," Carmen Zamora cried, dabbing at her eyes with a kerchief. "He's leaving me all alone. I don't want them to bury him in the ground. My God, no."
The celebration in Santiago de las Vegas, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of the Cuban capital, has been held each Feb. 5 for the last 30 years and is known as the Burial of Pachencho.
"This breathes life into a town that needs it because life is hard here... Mourning a live dead man is not disrespectful to the dead — it's an homage to the challenge of life."
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"I never miss this party. I tell my boss and take a day off work," said 50-year-old Rebeca Morera, shaking her hips to the music. "This is a tradition of my town where I was born and raised. We can't lose it."
The bash kicked off Wednesday with a slow procession to the local cemetery. Pallbearers carried the coffin of "Pachencho," who's known the other 364 days of the year as Divaldo Aguiar, to an open grave and used ropes to lower it six feet under.
A man masquerading as a priest in a flowing blue frock made the sign of the cross over the grave and muttered, "rest in peace." People blew trumpets, banged drums and tossed flowers.
Then villagers splashed rum into Aguiar's mouth from above, and he opened his eyes and climbed out of the tomb.
"Being reborn is the most beautiful thing there is in life," said Aguiar, who said he has played "Pachencho" for several years running.
The tradition was born on Feb. 5, 1984, when villagers got the idea of putting on a mock burial to mark the end of local carnival season. It took its name from the title of a play that had been shown in what was then the town theater.
"Pachencho" is not representative of any real person, living or dead, explained Alvaro Hernández, head of a learning and recreation center that today is housed in the former theater.
"He's a product of popular imagination," Hernández said.
Following Aguiar's miraculous revival, the procession returned to the center and the party went on all day long.
"This breathes life into a town that needs it because life is hard here," said Yaumara Solis, a 39-year-old homemaker. "Mourning a live dead man is not disrespectful to the dead — it's an homage to the challenge of life."
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New Haven, CT - For the second year in a row the Yale men's tennis team led the nation (all divisions, NAIA, and junior college) in Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athletes with nine. The women's team had five honorees, and both teams won the All-Academic Team award for having a GPA of over 3.2.
The men's honorees were Andrew Arons (Dix Hills, NY), Matt Feldman (Hewlett, NY), David Goldman (Miami, FL), Milosz Gudzowski (Houston, TX), Chris Lawler (Greenwich, CT), Johnny Lu (Louisville, KY), Andrew Rosenfeld (Beverly Hills, CA), Neil Tolaney (Arcadia, CA) and William Vidal (Guaynabo, PR). Arons, Feldman, Goldman, Gudzowski, Lu, Rosenfeld and Tolaney were all honored in 2003 as well.
The women's honorees were Aimee Kim (Irvine, CA), Ashley Martin (Barrington, IL), Karlyn Martin (Barrington, IL), Reshmi Srinath (Farmington, CT) and Stephanie White (Jamaica Plain, MA). It was the second year in a row of honors for both Martins along with Srinath and White.
In order to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status a player must be a varsity letter winner, have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year, and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters (including freshman thorough senior year).
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The brutal and merciless slaughter of a Jewish man and three Jewish children in southern France last week shone a spotlight back onto a problem many had been doing their best to downplay - the escalating anti-Semitism in Europe.
The the Toulouse shooting itself was an anti-Semitic act driven by the killer Mohammed Merah's irrational hatred of Jews is without question. And yet, there are many coming to his posthumous defense.
Merah's older brothers, Abdelkader Merah, is now suspected of assisting in the attack on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, and told French investigators that he was "very proud" of what Mohammed had done. "I regret nothing for him and approve of what he did," said Abdelkader.
Merah's father, Mohammed Benalel Merah, told French media that he intends to sue the French government for killing his murderous son. Mohammed Merah was eventually killed after a 32-hour standoff during which he shot and wounded several French police officers.
"France is a big country that had the means to take my son alive," the elder Merah told the AFP. "They could have knocked him out with gas and taken him in. They preferred to kill him. ...I will sue France for killing my son."
The remarks made by Abdelkader Merah and his father will be quickly dismissed by many as being the rantings of distraught family members. Unfortunately, their sentiments are shared by many.
Most schools in France last week marked one minute of silence for the victims of the Toulouse shooting. But at the Gustave Flaubert High School in Rouen, Normandy an English teacher had her class mark a minute of silence for the deceased murderer. Many of teacher Lorraine Collin's students reportedly walked out in protest, but some remained and were quoted as saying the Jewish victims "deserved" what happened to them.
Back in Toulouse, a large group of women held a public gathering to honor the memory of Merah. The leader of the group told participants, "What we ask today is that we stop demonizing Mohamed... We share the pain and suffering of the families because it is the same pain for us here." It is the same argument used by the families of Palestinian terrorists, who insist that their own hardships put them on equal footing with the families of Israeli Jews killed in terrorist attacks.
Also around Toulouse, French authorities found and cleaned up graffiti reading "Viva Merah" and "F**k the kippa." [via Elder of Ziyon]
On the Internet, a French Facebook page was set up to in "Homage to Mohamed Merah," and received many favorable comments before being shut down at the request of the French government. Meanwhile, the Palestinian-run propaganda website Electronic Intifada accused Israel of trying to cover up alleged abuses of Palestinians by focusing so much attention on the Toulouse murders.
Some print media employed the tactic of turning the aggressor into the victim, suggesting that Merah's actions were a natural result of social and economic hardships. Le Figaro wrote that it had "no doubt" that Merah's killing of four innocent Jews was incited by the "Islamophobia" of so many in France. The New York Times similarly noted that in France "Muslims complain widely of feeling vilified by some political elements, on the right in particular."
Neither newspaper explained how Merah's emotional state, even if the result of real discrimination, could possibly justify the heartless slaughter of innocent children.
The French government has responded to all this with a firm hand, demanding that media outlets not broadcast footage Merah took of his murders, banning the entry of radical Islamists, and suspending the teacher who tried to get her class to honor the killer of innocent Jews. But it is clear that a new wave of anti-Semitism is rising, this time fueled by Europe's exploding Muslim populations. And once those Muslim anti-Semites reinvigorate the Jew-hating European ultra-nationalists, the situation could quickly spiral out of control.
It may already be happening.
In a conference call hosted by the French Jewish publication Le P'tit Hebdo, a recent French Jewish immigrant to Israel painted a picture of modern-day Europe that Israel National News described as looking a lot like pre-Holocaust Europe, at least as far as Jews are concerned.
"Jews are being attacked all the time," said Liora Zachary. "Children, in the buses, in the Metro, going to school, coming from school, couples in the street – this is just an unbearable situation."
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Each novelist requires circumstance — a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises — and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about a Fortune 500 company or those who built the Cabot Trail; why not invoke old campus adventures instead? That hoary advice to the young author "write about what you know" results in volume after volume about school: All writers have been students, and nowadays a sizable number are teachers, so it seems nearly unavoidable that we write about the golden groves we knew.
It's easy to dismiss "Tom Brown's School Days" or "Stover at Yale," or to make fun — as Tom Wolfe did more recently in "I Am Charlotte Simmons" — of a fictionalized Duke University. But there's a sizable shelf of books about bookishness — some of them first-rate — which take education as their subject and explore the idea of learning as initiation rite. As with any other category (the Southern novel, the Jewish novel, the on-the-road novel) there are excellent and execrable texts. It's a question not so much of genre as of how well it's done.
In the largest sense, this has been going on since the Socratic dialogues or "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise." Both of them report on an encounter (platonic and/or physical) between the teacher and taught. Virgil led Dante to that point in "The Divine Comedy" where he could relinquish his role as guide; Paolo and Francesca closed their books and "that day read no more." The bildungsroman has always offered a protagonist who comes into increased awareness of selfhood at tale's end; the campus novel in this sense is simply an arena within which to chart growth.
It focuses on institutions, but there have been wandering minstrels and tutors and scholars aplenty who conduct their study outside of campus walls. A figure such as the Rev. Casaubon in George Eliot's "Middlemarch" or Mr. Gradgrind in Charles Dickens' "Hard Times" represents the intellectual as pompous stickler and petty tyrant. In Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" he's a drunken boor and bore. "The Art of Fielding," by Chad Harbach, and "The Marriage Plot," by Jeffrey Eugenides, describe school with a kind of benign condescension. Slightly older novels such as Alison Lurie's "The War Between the Tates" or Randall Jarrell's "Pictures from an Institution" are more avowedly satiric, and books like Jane Smiley's "Moo" or James Hynes' "The Lecturer's Tale" are powered intermittently by rage. Vladimir Nabokov's "Pnin" makes fun of a college community; David Lodge's "Changing Places" sends up academic faddishness; Francine Prose's "Blue Angel" eradicates the boundaries between the class and bedroom.
More often than not there's a comic aspect to the campus novel. I myself wrote such a story, "Old Scores" (a book based on the love affair of Abelard and Heloise), and it was hard to do so without tongue in cheek. The life of the mind and the life of the body — as every student knows — get easily conflated and, at times, confused.
I want to cite, at slightly greater length, three examples of the genre that were published in the 1960s and seem to me wholly successful: Bernard Malamud's "A New Life," John Williams' "Stoner" and John Barth's "Giles Goat-Boy." A half century has passed, but these books retain their relevance. All three in their separate ways stake out terrain that can properly be described as that of the college campus: Malamud's parable of the displaced S. Levin at play in the fields of Corvallis, Oregon; Williams' noble evocation of a teacher devoted to standards who is shunted aside by bureaucracy; and Barth's hilarious extravaganza of a futurist university.They cover it, chapter and verse. But the quiddities of place and time are only situational. What matters to Levin and Stoner and Giles has more to do with the human condition than with promotion or tenure. What these protagonists are up against (in very different tonal terms) is the issue of how best to conduct oneself: which rules to accept, which to break. Other authors might well use a whaling ship or battleground to frame their tales; here it's the academy instead.
As suggested above, there are bad books as well that deal with the circumstance of education. The professoriate makes an easy target; so does the undergraduate. Often a writer gets tempted to make intellectual molehills into mountains; lord knows it's easy enough to overstate the cultural significance of freshman year. The risk is that of stereotype and even caricature: the absent-minded professor, the scheming administrator, the idealistic and then disillusioned student — stock figures from English 101. But the college campus is no more and no less fertile a place to situate a story than is, say, a boxing ring or tenement or cattle barn.
The proof is in the telling, not the thing told.
Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan. His most recent books are "Sherbrookes" "Lastingness: The Art of Old Age."
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By Jim Garamone
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2006 – Pentagon officials unveiled a reorganization of the Defense Department's policy office that will increase interagency cooperation.
Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, told reporters yesterday that the reorganization will allow DoD to better partner with colleagues in other agencies and to help DoD focus on developing the capabilities needed for the war on terror.
The reorganized office changes the geographic responsibility for policy, and it places cross-cutting functions under one chief.
The geographic policy responsibility has shifted. Europe and NATO, the Middle East and Africa will come under the assistant defense secretary for international security affairs. Asia Pacific, South Asia and Central Asia will come under the assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs. Western hemisphere policy decisions will come under the ASD for Homeland Defense and Americas' security affairs.
The assistant secretary for special operations/low intensity conflict is just that, but also picks up responsibility for strategic capabilities and forces transformation.
The reorganization calls for appointing an assistant secretary for global security affairs. This cross-cutting office will oversee policy guidance for building partners capabilities, security cooperation, technical security policy, detainee affairs and POW/MIA affairs.
This is the first reorganization of the policy office since the fiscal 2002 National Defense Authorization Act that established the assistant secretary for Homeland Defense.
Edelman has been in the position for about a year. Before that he served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey. He is a career foreign service officer and has worked at State and Defense since the early 1970s.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Edelman to examine ways to reorganize the office in light of new realities. He said he approached the reorganization very deliberately. "The guidance (Rumsfeld) gave us was to develop a set of balanced portfolios that would enable the organization to interact more effectively with the combatant commanders and … to work more effectively with outsiders," he said.
The reorganization brings the DoD way of looking at the world more in line with the way the State Department and the National Security Council.
Edelman said the reorganization will be phased in beginning Oct. 1, and running through March 2007.
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STANDING ON THE CORNER OF 125th Street and Eighth Avenue in Harlem at 3 A.M. one recent Sunday, the 6-foot-3, 280-pound rapper Biggie Smalls appeared not so much large but larger than life.
Moments before, he had finished the third of three sold-out concerts at the Apollo Theater and, wearing the same brown leather Army jacket and pants and beige Kangol cap he had worn on stage, he then slipped out the back door of the theater. At the corner, he relaxed in the middle of a circle of friends but soon heard his own voice booming back at him from the radios of cars as they stopped at or cruised slowly through the intersection. As the rapper surveyed the scene, he found himself being inadvertently saluted by his own song "Big Papa."
Such a moment isn't an unlikely occurrence in Harlem or any place where hip-hop fans are in abundance. With both his debut album, "Ready to Die," and the single "Juicy" having gone gold, the 20-year-old rapper, who is known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G. and to his mother as Chris Wallace, is the rapper of the moment.
In a realm where the demand for newness is a constant, it's little surprise that despite releases by veterans like Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Public Enemy and Arrested Development, nearly all the most acclaimed albums this year have come from newcomers: Nas, Method Man and Keith Murray.
Biggie Smalls is not the best vocalist of the group, but he stands out because his lyrics mix autobiographical details about crime and violence with emotional honesty, telling how he felt while making a living as a drug dealer.Continue reading the main story
The evening after the Apollo show, he sat on the stairs outside the third-floor apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn where he still lives with his mother, Voletta Wallace, and talked about his life. "I used to sell crack," he said. "My customers were ringing my bell, and they would come up on the steps and smoke right here. They knew where I lived; they knew my moms."
He says he began dealing around the age of 12, working the area on Fulton Street between St. James Place and Washington Avenue while his mother taught preschool children during the day and attended school at night. (She says she only learned of her only child's drug dealing recently. "I found out about my son and his little antics through his music and through magazines," she said. "I read this thing and said, 'Huh? I never knew.' ")
As a 17-year-old high school dropout, the rapper says he was arrested for selling crack and spent nine months in a North Carolina jail before making bail. His case is still pending. He fell into a career in rap music when a tape he had recorded for fun was brought to the attention of Andre Harrell, president of Uptown Entertainment, a New York record label that specializes in hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues.
"He had a voice that just sounded like it was heavy, funky and rhythmic," Mr. Harrell recalled. "And it had a lot of personality -- like a light on his feet kind of big brother." He signed the rapper but dropped him after Sean (Puffy) Combs, the young assistant who had first heard the tape, left Uptown to start his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment. Mr. Combs then made Biggie Smalls's album one of his first releases.
With the success of "Ready to Die," the rapper has put drug dealing behind him but retains the dealer's constant fear that his life is in danger. "One thing I learned about the game is when you get a lot of money, niggers don't like you," he said. "I'm getting more money now."
Every time the front door of the apartment building opened, he leaped up to see who was climbing the stairs. On this day, there were a pair of black 9-millimeter Rugers under the mattress in his bedroom. "I'm not paranoid to the point where -- " He paused. "Yes, I am. I'm scared to death. Scared of getting my brains blown out."
His fear is hardly unjustified. Last month alone, two rappers -- Tupac Shakur and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan -- were shot in what the police described as robbery attempts. Still, Biggie Smalls doesn't let fear dominate him as his Apollo performance and its aftermath attest. "I got to see what's going down, where the party's at," he said. "I can't live my life in no bubble."
THOUGH MANY RAPPERS exaggerate about the lives they led before becoming performers, some are actually former drug dealers. Few have ever been as open in detailing their criminal past as Biggie Smalls, and none have ever been as clear about the pain they felt at the time. "He doesn't want anyone to see that he's not as tough as he thinks he is," said Ms. Wallace, the rapper's mother. "He cries inside. He bleeds inside. But he doesn't want anyone to see the vulnerable side of him."
"Ready to Die" is, indeed, marked by pathos unusual not only in hip-hop but in pop music. "In street life you're not allowed to show if you care about something," said Mr. Combs, of Bad Boy Entertainment. "You've got to keep that straight face. The flip side of that is his album. He's giving up all his vulnerability. He's letting you know how he has felt about his mother. He's letting you know how he cried. How he has thought about killing himself."
Though drug dealing carries tremendous heroic value with some young urban dwellers, he sacrifices the figure's romantic potential. His raps acknowlege both the excitement of drug dealing and the stress caused by the threat from other dealers, robbers, the police and parents, sometimes one's own. In presenting the downside of that life, "Ready to Die" offers perhaps the most balanced and honest portrait of the dealer's life of any in hip-hop. "He's trying to enlighten people to the way your mind thinks when you're broke, when you're young growing up and not feeling like nobody cares about you," Mr. Combs said.
On "Everyday Struggle," for example, Biggie Smalls rhymes: "I know how it feel to wake up . . . / Pocket broke as hell/ Another rock to sell/ People look at you like you's the user/ Selling drugs to all the losers/ Mad Buddah abuser/ But they don't know about your stress-filled day/ Baby on the way/ Mad bills to pay/ That's why you drink Tanqueray/ So you can reminisce/ And wish/ You wasn't living so devilish."
By expressing the self-loathing and self-doubt he felt while dealing, he hopes that his experiences may resonate with other living that life. "I want them stressed-out niggers to be, like, 'Yo, this nigger be hitting it right on the nose, man,' "he said. "That's what I'm trying to do." And he added, venting those feelings was also therapeutic. "I got a lot off my chest with that album."
And he has put a lot in his pocket. Next month he will move his mother from the apartment in which she has lived for 25 years and into a house in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. But despite new-found economic independence and the fear he feels while sitting in his own home, he is reluctant to move.
"I could never see myself moving in the suburbs," he said. "It ain't going to be right, and the lyrics are going to be soundin' nasty. I know it. There won't be nothing to rap about except the birds."Continue reading the main story


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