text: UMW News BureauBulldog volleyball coach Katie Howells announced the signing of Jessica Brunett of Stevensville and Emily Gregg of Ennis to Frontier Conference/NAIA letters of intent. By Wally Feldt University of Montana Western volleyball coach Katie Howells announced the signing of two Montana high schools student-athletes to Frontier Conference/NAIA letters of intent. The newest members of Bulldog volleyball are 5-foot-8 outsider hitter Jessica Brunett of Stevensville and 5-foot-10 outside hitter Emily Gregg of Ennis. "We are looking forward to having both Emily and Jessica join our program," Howells said. " They will both have the opportunity to red-shirt as incoming freshman and learn more about the game. Both girls have done well academically and that fits in with our program goals." Brunett was selected her team's most valuable player for the past three years. She earned first-team all-conference honors after her senior season. Brunett maintains a 3.0 GPA and was selected to her school's honor roll. "It's always been my dream to play volleyball at the college level," Brunett said. "I am very excited to play for such a distinguished school." Brunett will graduate this spring from Stevensville High School. She is the daughter of Melanie and Darcy Brunett and plans to major in elementary education. "Jessica is a natural athlete who works hard and will develop into a solid player for us," Howells added. Gregg played on Ennis' 2009 state championship team. She earned all-conference honors and was selected to her school's honor roll. "I chose Montana Western because of their great teaching program," Gregg said. "The people are very friendly, and it's close to home." Gregg is the daughter of Kevin and Corriena Gregg and will major in elementary education. She will graduate this spring from Ennis High School. "Emily is coming from a winning program and she is ready to learn," Howells added.


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If you want your workout buddy to improve, keep your mouth shut.
If you want your workout buddy to improve, keep your mouth shut.
That's the advice from researchers at Kansas State University and Michigan State University.
Assistant Kansas State kinesiology professor Brandon Irwin said in a news release that the initial hunch was that encouragement would be motivating. But the researchers found it had almost the opposite effect.
In the study, subjects were told they would be exercising with a partner, although the partner was a looped video recording.
Researchers found that people exercised the longest when working out with a partner who was better and wasn't verbally encouraging. Irwin says the encouragement may have been perceived as condescending.
The findings are being published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Funding came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Liverpool are ready to give teenage Hungarian defender Kristof Polgar a contract after he impressed on trial, according to Sky Sports.
The 16-year-old centre-back spent two short spells on trial with the Reds in January and February, and Brendan Rodgers is thought to have pleased with his performances.
The report claims Liverpool are set to make Polgar an offer, as they look to bring the best young talent from around Europe to Anfield.
And Polgar's representatives confirmed they believe the youngster will sign for the Reds sooner rather than later.
Tibor Pataky, director of the Careers Management Group which owns Polgar's registration, told www.csakfoci.hu: "Kristof trialled with Liverpool on two occasions earlier in the year, and he and his parents are currently in Liverpool enjoying the hospitality of the club.
"We are looking forward to an exciting day, and in a few days the Hungarian presense at Liverpool will be extended."
Rodgers' has two Hungarian players in his squad already. Peter Gulasci is back-up to Pepe Reina and Brad Jones in the first-team squad, while Krisztian Adorjan is captain of Liverpool under-21s.
The Reds chalked up a precious win over Tottenham at the weekend, running out 3-2 victors at Anfield to move up to sixth in the Premier League table.
Brendan Rodgers' side came from behind to secure all three points as second-half goals from Stewart Downing and Steven Gerrard overturned a 2-1 deficit.
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Michigan State is about to play in its second top-five matchup of the season, and coach Tom Izzo is hoping the Spartans bring the right approach to the experience.
"It better not become another game," Izzo said Monday. "Otherwise, that's disappointing. And yet again, you don't want it to be where it's the biggest game of the year because you do have to learn in this program you're going to have a lot of big games."
The fifth-ranked Spartans (13-1, 2-0 Big Ten) host No. 3 Ohio State (15-0, 2-0) on Tuesday night. The winner moves into first place by a half-game over Big Ten teams such as No. 4 Wisconsin � with a lot of basketball left to play.
As a second-ranked team nearly two months ago, Michigan State beat then-No. 1 Kentucky. The Spartans have won six straight since losing their only game, a humbling setback at home against North Carolina.
The Buckeyes have defeated one ranked team, pulling away from then-No. 17 Marquette for a 52-35 road win in November after the game was tied at halftime.
Ohio State is off to its best start since the 2010-11 season � when it began 24-0 � thanks to its stingy defense that hasn't allowed an opponent to score 70 points this season.
How the starting point guards perform could be pivotal at the Breslin Center. Both traditional conference powers have good ones with much different styles.
Izzo is hoping Michigan State's Keith Appling doesn't worry too much about trying to outplay Aaron Craft.
"Sometimes Keith will do that," Izzo said. "It gets to be where those two get talked about and that's not good for Keith. He's got to just play his game. They're two different kinds of players, both very good defensively. But Keith can do some other things � scoring the ball � that I think Craft can't do. And Craft can do some things that Keith doesn't do as well. "
Craft does a little of everything for the Buckeyes. He was named the Big Ten player of the week after averaging just eight points because he also averaged seven assists, five-plus rebounds and more than three steals without turning the ball over once last week.
Appling, meanwhile, looks for his offense early and often, both inside and outside the paint. He is averaging 15.6 points and is shooting a career-best .472 on 3-point shots.
"You know he's going to make great plays," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "It's trying to disrupt his rhythm, if that's possible."
Matta seems to accomplish what he wants to do against the Izzo-led Spartans more than any other coach in the conference.
Since his debut season with Ohio State during the 2004-05 season, Matta has won more games (10) against Izzo than any other coach in the same span of seasons and has lost nine times.
"I have the utmost respect for coach Izzo," Matta said. "I look at what he has built in his time at Michigan State and he's done it the right way which is the most important thing.
"When you go into a game and you're coaching against a Hall of Fame college basketball coach, I enjoy the handshake because he's always got a couple nuggets of wisdom."
And even though Izzo has done a lot in 19 seasons of leading the Spartans, he is about to see just the second matchup of top-five men's teams in East Lansing. The first was Feb. 19, 2013, when No. 1 Indiana beat No. 4 Michigan State 72-68.
"Two top-five teams, that doesn't happen very often here," Izzo said. "It is a special event and you just hope the weather holds up so it becomes one."


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Dr Nawal Al-Hosany is the Director of Sustainability at Masdar. In this role she leads a team responsible for developing Masdar's sustainability standards & policies and sustainability auditing, monitoring and reporting.
With a successful track record, on January 2012, Dr Al-Hosany assumed the role of Director of Zayed Future Energy. Earlier in 2011, Dr Al-Hosany was appointed Sherpa to the UN Secretary General High Level Group for "The Sustainable Energy For all" initiative to support the appointed Principle, Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of Masdar.
At Masdar, Dr Al-Hosany is also in charge of liaising with government authorities, schools and universities to drive the sustainability agenda in the UAE. She serves on the boards of several initiatives and organisations regionally and internationally, including Co-Chairperson of Women for Sustainable Growth (comprised of members from the GCC
and Scandinavia), a Member of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group General Secretariat and Regional Convener for the EU-GCC Clean Energy Network.
During her career, Dr Al-Hosany has participated in numerous continuing professional development courses in order to keep at the forefront of the social science and sustainable development debates, as well as to remain updated on the latest project management
methods, and leadership, planning and decision-support mechanisms.
Dr Al-Hosany has published globally in a wide range of international journals and newspapers, including the International Journal of Management of Environmental Quality, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Renewable Energy, and International Journal of Renewable Energy Engineering. She is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches and sit on panels at regional and global conferences, including, for example, sitting with former President Bill Clinton and actor Brad Pitt on the closing panel of the Clinton Global Initiative Conference.
In December 2011, Abu Dhabi Magazine, cited Dr. Al-Hosany as one of the 40 most influential Emiratis who have helped shape the Emirate. She has also received several medals and accolades for her professional achievements, including a Chevening Fellowship from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Emirates Business Women Award for the Professional and Career Achievements category.
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Quieting the Irish by the first play of the second quarter, Eddie Lacy, AJ McCarron and the No. 2 Crimson Tide rolled top-ranked Notre Dame 42-14 for the BCS championship Monday night, locking up a second straight national title and third in four years with another laugher of a title game.
The Bear would've been especially proud of this one -- Nick Saban and the Tide romping to the second-biggest rout of the BCS era that began in 1999.
"We're going for it next year again," said Alabama offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandijo, only a sophomore but already the owner of two rings. "And again. And again. And again. I love to win. That's why I came here."
Lacy, the game's offensive MVP, ran for one touchdown and caught a pass for another in the final minute of the opening half. He spun away from the vaunted Notre Dame defense not once, but twice, to cap a 28-0 blitz before the bands even got on the field.
"They just did what Alabama does," moaned Manti Te'o, Notre Dame's star linebacker and Heisman Trophy finalist.
Lacy finished with 140 yards on 20 carries, coming up with two of his best performances in the two biggest games of the year. He rushed for a career-high 181 yards in a thrilling victory over Georgia in the SEC title game, and was nearly as dominant against the Irish.
You could almost hear television sets around the country flipping to other channels, a hugely anticipated matchup between two of the nation's most storied programs reduced to nothing more than the second straight BCS blowout for the Crimson Tide.
"We've had a lot of really great football players who've worked really hard," Saban said. "Because we've had a great team, we've been able to have a significant amount of success."
Alabama (13-1) scored 69 straight points against its title game opponents, going back to getting the final 13 against Texas in 2010, followed by a stifling 21-0 victory over LSU for last year's crown, then scoring the first 35 points on Notre Dame. Saban's team made the Irish (12-1) look like a squad that would be hard-pressed to finish in the middle of the pack in the mighty Southeastern Conference, which has now won seven straight national championships.
The Crimson Tide will likely wrap up its ninth Associated Press national title, breaking a tie with Notre Dame for the most by any school and gaining a measure of redemption for a bitter loss to the Irish almost four decades ago: the epic Sugar Bowl in which Ara Parseghian's team edged Bear Bryant's powerhouse 24-23.
Bryant won five AP titles during his brilliant career. The way things are going, Saban might just chase him down.
The diminutive man with the perpetual scowl has guided Alabama to the top spot in the rankings three times since arriving in Tuscaloosa in 2007, and if he's serious about finishing his career with the job he has, there seems no reason he can't win a few more before he's done with "The Process."
Already, Saban is the first coach in the BCS era to win national titles at different schools, capturing his first at LSU during the 2003 season. Now, he's the first coach with back-to-back BCS titles, and given the youthfulness of his team, Alabama figures to go into next season as a heavy favorite.
In an interesting twist, Saban's fourth college title came in the stadium where he had the only stumble of his coaching career, a two-year tenure with the NFL's Miami Dolphins that ended ugly, with the coach insisting he wasn't planning to leave -- then bolting for Alabama just two weeks later. His tactics may have been underhanded, but it's hard to argue with the call he made.


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Date: 1983
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Without Her
Without her I am nothing but a ghost of what I use to be. This must be what she felt when I left her. Now she's left me, and she can never come back. The dead can't come back. Without her my world is falling apart. Bella died and now Edward is slowly going crazy.
Just for fun, trying to get into Edward's head.
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September 13, the worst day ever. September 13, the day my Bella didn't get to see. The day that made my life just a little bit harder to live. The day that made me want to march into the lair of the Volturi and tell them to kill me once and for all. The day that I had been hating for the past seven years.
Seven years ago my Bella had given birth to our daughter, Renesmee, the most beautiful child on the planet. Her birth had also brought down the death of my Bella. My wife, my life, had died on that table. I had saved our child, I hadn't been fast enough to save my Bella. It was my fault that I hadn't been able to save her. I had been the one to kill her. I hadn't done enough. I should have done more. I should have done something, anything. I shouldn't have let Bella die.
Seven years still wasn't enough to wash away even one tenth of the pain I felt at the loss of my Bella. I couldn't even be around my family any longer, they made me think of her. My daughter caused me pain, she looked so much like her mother. I couldn't be around them. I had ran away, trying to escape the memory of her.
It hadn't worked. Everywhere I went I saw her face. Her father harassed me, telling me I had killed his daughter. The FBI even started an investigation into her death, but Carlisle quickly had the case put away, pulling some of his strings in the government. I was left in peace, for seven years to mourn the death of the most precious thing in my life. The thing that I need most.
Losing Bella brought out the worst in me. Killing was the only thing I could get swept up in. Killing so that I couldn't think about her. Killing so that I could never think about her. It was the only thing I could go. My eyes were always red, had been for seven years. It was the only thing I could do from going crazy from exposing my family and my race to the world. I wanted the Volturi to come down and kill me. It would be doing me a favor.
The loss of Bella in my life was the worst thing. The loss of my daughter, by my own choice, was hard. The loss of my family, the loss in their faith was twinge at my heart. The loss of my sanity was driving me into insanity. Edward Anthony Cullen was nothing like he had been, he was gone. Instead the old, rebellious Edward came back. The one that went through the streets at night, looking for someone to kill. Looking for trouble. Looking for some way to drown the pain.
Nothing could make me go back to the real Edward Cullen, I could only be the new one. The one that wanted his wife back, the one that could do nothing but kill. Without help I would slip into insanity and never come out of it. Without something to live for I would be nothing but a shadow killing in the night. I just had to have something to live for.
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Early on, I'm good meant "I am without sin," but that is now seldom the meaning. In later centuries, good - followed by the preposition at - acquired a utilitarian sense, as in "I am good at whist, as well as at hand-held computer games." When followed by the preposition for (meaning "in place of" or "with the purpose of"), the adjective good became the hyphenated adjective and noun good-for-nothing. Recently, it acquired the phrasal meaning of "readiness," good to go.Why does this usage seem odd? We've been saying "I'm fine" this way for a long time, and "good" and "fine" are pretty damned similar. James Brown sang "I Feel Good," and the Beatles sang "I Feel Fine." They were talking about the same thing, though Brown seemed to be enjoying it a lot more.
The sense we examine today is a response to a question about capability or mood. "I'm good" means "I can handle it" or "It doesn't trouble me"; its implied ensuing preposition is with, as in "It's all right with me."
I think "fine" is just a bit old-fashioned. As the stock answer to the question "How are you?" it's taken on a stodgy, phony attitude. "Good" seems more honest and friendly.
But have you noticed that people have taken to saying "It's all good"? Is there some character on a TV show I don't watch who's popularized that? The other day, I was being a little careless moving my shopping cart forward in line at the store, and it slightly touched the woman in front of me. I said "I'm sorry," and she said "It's all good." Man, what an optimist! I guess just the great joy of being alive is so incredibly cool that when someone bumps into you, she recognizes it as all part of the great gift of sensory awareness. It's all good.


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When even the New York Times isn't PC enough
Exclusive: Marisa Martin discusses latest outrage over art critic's comments
Hunting season 2012 just opened on art critics. Accusations of racism and sexism are hurled against New York Times art critic Ken Johnson in a scolding petition circulating the Internet at this moment.
Johnson, generally considered mild mannered and fair, if a tad conservative, managed to offend almost all minorities in just a few sentences within a 2 week period. Is that some kind of record, or is our collective skin just getting thinner each decade? Johnson's unfortunate comments on black and female artists and the proceeding following hoopla are almost a case study in freedom vs. appropriateness of speech and are drawing comment from all quarters.
In his short November 11 piece "The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World," Johnson prognosticates, "The day that any woman earns the big bucks that men like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst rake in is still a long way off."
As a female artist I find that unfortunately likely to be true. Women have to deal with complex social history and perceptions that affect us unfairly at times.
Apparently not knowing when to shut up already, Johnson blames sexism for "inequities" asking, "But might it also have something to do with the nature of the art that women tend to make?"
Now those are fighting words: sweeping, banal generalities misting all female artists with a vague, indefinable reproach. But he's hardly the first Times commentator to deliberately antagonize women.
Contributor Camille Paglia once famously claimed, "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts."
Only her lack of Y chromosomes gives her a pass, though.
Johnson's second "offense" arises from his longer article on Oct. 26, "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The authors of the petition accuse Johnson of "starting with the claim that "black artists didn't invent assemblage," which actually appeared in the 7th paragraph of a supportive and generally positive critique. It's debatable that African or European people "invented" assemblage, so the entire thing is overblown and the outrage a bit contrived.
But the offended's grievances continue: "Mr. Johnson organizes his review around an oversimplified opposition between the apolitical, 'deracinated' work of white artists and the political, 'parochial' work of black artists."
Johnson's words are entirely lifted form context here. He was referring to two particular artists' pieces (John T. Riddle Jr, vs. Marcel Duchamp), and the petitioners are extending his point to cover entire races. This can only be a deliberate manipulation or a total lack of comprehension on their part.
Johnson later responded to the charges on Facebook: "I can see how my statement that 'black artists did not invent assemblage' taken out of context seems needlessly provocative."
My money is with manipulation born of a legitimate gripe with a few of the man's thoughtless and irritating remarks.
Johnson also transgressed one of the 21st century's cultural taboos: Only minorities may speak authoritatively on race, and only on their own race or subset at that. All pronouncements coming from outside the ethnic or sexual minority circles are verboten. Negative observations are racist, imperialist, sexist, colonial and "hateful," while positive ones are patronizing, patriarchal and feudal.
Johnson foolishly ventured a theory that "the art of black solidarity gets less traction because the postmodern art world is, at least ostensibly, allergic to overt assertions of any kind of solidarity."
This is probably true, but why state the obvious? The entire world is more splintered and polarized than ever, and solidarity of any type seems futile. Johnson should have known better; after all, the Grey Lady is the world's leading arbitrator on political correctness and self-censorship.
Other than the creative writing bordering on slander in a few places, the text of the "Open letter" to Times editors is thoughtful but not explicit. While not demanding Johnson's head on a platter, the authors make it clear the Times must do something. The question for the newspaper as well as larger community is what? The authors have backed off a bit lately, noting that it isn't meant to be a "petition" demanding a reaction, only a request for dialogue.
Exactly how much power art critics and commentators hold at this point is debatable, even those of the New York Times. Historically a well-placed critic could make or break an artist or movement – or at least significantly slow recognition and acceptance. The Internet has changed the landscape of commentary though, with floods of cognoscenti opining on all matters. Critics realize that poorly phrased attacks, especially emotionally charged personal reactions, remain on paper (or the exosphere) forever to haunt them. Future decades will justify or condemn the prescience and wisdom of the critic.
"The writing in these articles is below the editorial standards typical of the New York Times," the Open Letter chides.
A plea to professional pride? Past issues of the Times are fairly slathered with editorial scandals, open plagiarism and elaborate fictions masquerading as facts. I would probably appeal to something other than the faded past-grandeur of the Grey Lady.
I think the real issue here is who is allowed to be insulted and who is insulated. Conservatives, Jews and specifically Zionists, have been viciously targeted by New York Times writers and editors, especially in its op-ed pages. Times columnist Maureen Dowd outrageously attacked Republicans before the 2012 election so transparently that even leftist publications beat her down with reproach. I don't recall the Times doing a thing about that. Various readers of the Times have watched their op-ed pages with alarm. Blogger "Soccer Dad" tallied 38 anti-Israel opinion articles and 7 pro-Israel opinion articles in a 6-month period. Once again, no apologies.
While all true bigotry and bias is ugly and inherently dangerous, Mr. Johnson's opinions on the value of women's paintings or African-American assemblage probably won't cause enduring harm to their careers, as art will stand or fall on its own merit. It certainly won't encourage a reign of terror, but the Times open support for Hamas does.
How much offense is too much? Writers, artists, editors inevitably offend someone every day. The authors of the Open Letter to the Times claim they're not asking for Johnson's job, but there aren't many options other than an abject apology, which undermines his reputation and independence. I admit to penning rants on political and ethical matters, but not so much on art. Issues of public taste and opinion will self-balance eventually or follow the nation's culture wherever it leads.
The first line of the petition began, "The recent writing of art critic Ken Johnson troubles us."
To its authors and 1,500 "troubled" cosigners I sincerely say, "Join the club."
It will be amusing to see if the Times responds to these injured sensitivities while continuing their daily shiv to conservatives.


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Jeremy Guthrie spun 6 2/3 shutout innings en route to matching a Royals' franchise record in Kansas City's 9-0 rout of the Cleveland Indians in the first game of a doubleheader from Kauffman Stadium.
Guthrie (3-0) scattered six hits and three walks while striking out five to move to 8-0 over his last 16 assignments dating back to Aug. 3 of last season, tying the longest unbeaten stretch by a starting pitcher in Royals' history. Paul Splittorff set the mark between Aug. 13, 1977 to Apr. 22, 1978.
"Ultimately [the record] means a lot, because hopefully the guys behind me when they go out are confident they have a chance to win the game," Guthrie said. "That's the kind of confidence I want to go into each start with. Good stuff or not, I want to give us a chance to win."
The right-hander received plenty of offensive support in accomplishing the feat. Alcides Escobar had a solo home run with two RBI and Alex Gordon belted a two-run homer for Kansas City, with Jarrod Dyson also knocking in a pair of runs as part of a 2-for-4 day at the plate.
Asdrubal Cabrera collected three of Cleveland's eight hits. Justin Masterson (4-2) was saddled with the loss after permitting a season-high seven runs in 6 1/3 innings, though he did register nine strikeouts.
The Tribe have now dropped three in a row and eight of their last 11 games.
Guthrie was nearly touched for a run after Carlos Santana launched a deep fly ball that bounced off the top of the center-field fence with one out in the second inning, with the Cleveland catcher winding up with a double following a video review. Guthrie kept him stationed there, however, and got into little trouble until exiting after allowing a pair of singles in the seventh.
The Royals had built a healthy lead by that point. Back-to-back RBI doubles from Jeff Francoeur and Dyson in the bottom of the second staked Kansas City to a 2-0 edge, and Dyson drove in another run in the fourth to extend the margin.
Masterson retired the first two hitters in the fourth before walking Mike Moustakas, with Francoeur keeping the inning alive with a single before Dyson looped a single to center to plate Moustakas.
"Unfortunately the two-out walks hurt us in the sense of not being able to finish when we were there," said Masterson. "It's one of those (games) where, I think, you're going to have something like this where it's not going to always work out."
Escobar slugged his third homer of the season in the fifth to put the Royals up by a 4-0 count, and Kansas City later broke the game open with a three-run seventh.
Singles by Chris Getz and Gordon began the Royals' half of the frame, with Getz crossing the plate on Escobar's fielder's choice grounder. Masterson's day was done after he walked Billy Butler and gave up an RBI single to Eric Hosmer, and reliever Matt Albers forced in Kansas City's seventh run after hitting Salvador Perez to load the bases and subsequently walking Moustakas.
Gordon put the finishing touches on the win by following a walk to Getz with a blast into the center-field seats off Scott Barnes.
Game Notes
The game was part of the first day-night doubleheader ever held at Kauffman Stadium, which opened in 1973 ... Guthrie has posted a 2.44 earned run average over his unbeaten streak ... Gordon homered for the third time in five games and is batting .455 (10-for-22) over that span after going 2-for-4 in the opener ... Barnes was recalled from Triple-A Columbus prior to the game with the Indians allotted an extra pitcher for the twinbill ... Cleveland placed catcher Lou Marson on the 15-day disabled list on Sunday due to right shoulder inflammation, with catcher Yan Gomes promoted from Columbus.


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Holiday Mapmaking Competitions in Full Swing!
The Foundry Holiday Map-Making Competitions got underway this week, and there have been many creative entries from both amateur and foundry regular map-makers. The Central America Amateur Open has hosted 5 unique maps made by novices in the Map-Making business, although some of them could be mistaken for maps made by regular map-makers. It was thought there would be many entries for the Centerscape Redux Competition for Foundry Regulars, but to many peoples disappointment, only 4 of the best submitted a piece for the competition, therefore making it a very one-sided competition.
Central America Amateur Open
This is a very tight competition with only 2 days of voting left, Entry 2, 3, 4 & 5 are all fairly close in the voting scheme of things, while Number 1 is a simpler map and therefore is lacking votes. More than 300 votes have been cast in this competition, Are you one of them? If you haven't cast your vote for the Central America Amateur Competition then click this link VOTE! HERE
The Centerscape Invitational
Yes that's right the Centerscape Mangled Concoction will be no more once this competition is done, we will have a new themed map that we can all understand. There have been 4 entries and each one has a unique theme, it is certainly worth visiting the thread to check out all the voting action and to view the one-sided vote that is now so evident. To add to the one-sidedness or to balance out the competition please click this link and vote for your favourite map VOTE! HERE
Here is what one of the Cartography Assistants had to say:
gimil wrote:About the competitions, I have to say that I am happy with the enthusiasm and quality that the foundry has shown through both competitions currently being run.
In the The Centerscape Invitational the pro map-makers have produced some lovely work but it is the amateur Central America Amateur Open where I have been most impressed. In my opinion I would have to say that the quality of maps produced by the amateurs have easily outweighed the pros. Hopefully the amateurs stick around and become the next generation of pro map-makers.
This is definetly one of the best competitions the foundry has ever run. Special mention goes to oaktown who put the hard work in that made this fantastic competition possible.
Merry Christmas,
This Competition will not only see a new map for Centerscape but could also see entries that didn't make it succeeding outside the competition…
This is exciting news for us here in the Tournaments Forum, two brand new maps to play around with and let our imaginations run wild with new possibilities for Tournaments!
Well that's all from me for this weeks News Hound, I hope you have enjoyed this weeks issue.
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Who was the first person to obtain the maximum amount of Tournament Contribution medals?
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Super Triples Tournament
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2009 Players of the Year Tournament
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1 versus 1 Tournaments
JR's 1v1 Challenge II
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Cundy Comp I: Feudal War
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ULEB Cup 2008/2009
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The League
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General Tournaments
NHL League
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Doodle Deathmatch!
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Hitman: Asia
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My Map is Better than Yours
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Tupence's Little Freestyle Islands Tour
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Tupence's Bigger, Better, European Tournament
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Tupence's Big Freestyle Islands Tour
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The Dungeon Explorers
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One Chance to Assassinate
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Stephan's 4 Man Freestyle
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First Adjacent Attacks Tournament
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Continental Champions
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The N Tournament
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8 Thoughts Map Only
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Race 1
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12 Battles of Christmas II
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HighlanderAttack is the overall champion as he won the Elves division.
The Elves also won the overall leading the Reindeer 7-3 with only 2 matches left.
Asian Dinner Date
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Using a 5x5 windmill setup.
Only 9 people still drinking tea
City trip
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Using a 7x7 windmill setup.
Last group left Pearl
No group yet in Berlin
Planned end date: 1 March
Trippel Trappel
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Using a 6x6 windmill setup
Several people did sing a rather nice first song, others can improve
The Legend of Tor Na'Mit
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Round Seven is winding down.
The Long Walk
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All games before the next elimination are now running.
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Hath has won.
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Natewolfman's Lost in Translation Tournament
KidWhiskey Wins
Sir. Ricco's Mission – Survive the Longest V4.0
biscuit boy wins
Gozar's Battle for Waterloo Tournament
6/8 games of the finals finished.
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EdwinG wins
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Here are some tournaments that noted tournament organisers are planning on running soon.
From PaulusH: Mac Dinner Date
From amazzony: Fantastic Four Quads Tournament - End of December/Start of January
From keiths31:In keeping with the "Musical Chairs" theme there will be:
Musical Chairs: Mini Maps
Musical Chairs: North American City Tour
Tournament ideas from the mind of barterer2002 in the New Year
Gilligan's Islands
The Serbian Conquest
Kaplowitz's Unrelated Tournament
God of Godds
Night Sticks and Stones
Down and Dirty V
Brothers in Arms
7 Man Madness From Gilligan
January 1, 2009
Here are some recent tournament winners.
"Wrestling Tournament" -sapato
"12 Battles of Christmas" -HighlanderAttack
"Termination: Crossword" -ZionT
"JR's 1v1 Challenge I" -prismsaber
"Blitz Masters Quads Tournament" - Benjikat is Dead, Lt. Pie, Waseemmalim, Velvecarrots
"Battle for Madagascar 1v1" -negoeien
"Around All CC's Maps: Alexanders Empire" -pogophiles
"Northern Europe Maps 1v1" -topper
"Around All CC's Maps: Ancient Greece" -Blitzaholic
"AOM Singles" -demonfork
"2008 Sprint Cup Series" -aspalm
"Foundry Update 6.0" -killmanic
"Around All CC's Maps: Australia" -zissou2
"Best Movie Ever, CC Edition" -gehrem
"Just Win a Game II" -BENJIKAT IS DEAD
"Subprime Crisis 2008" -gunner1980
"AOR 3 Singles 1v1 2500+" -DBandit70
"King of Merchant" -blitzaholic, davidwain, nephilim
"2500+ Midkemdil 1v1" -White Moose
"Around All CC's Maps: Africa" -elmerfudd
"Qwert Bracket Tournament III" -Natewolfman
"Space 2500+ 1v1 Singles" -Reptile
"Conquer the Continents" -Godd
"Canadian Football League 2008" -vexx & goggles paisano
"2500+ Malta 1 on 1 Singles" -White Moose
"Around All CC's Maps: Arms Race!" -joriki
"Around All CC's Maps: Archipelago" -Blitzaholic
"World Maps 1v1 Tournament 3" -gamefreakguy
"Oasis Single" - -Maximus-
"Territories Become Alive" -harvmax
"Around All CC's Maps: Age of Realms 1" -White Moose
"Around All CC's Maps: Age of Realms 2" -Sir. Ricco
"Around All CC's Maps: Age of Realms 3" -Vikorus
"Star Wars II" -MudPuppy, ultraman, otis89 and magneto_acolyte
"Supreme Feudal Doubles Tournament" -Tammy Delee and Homer_Jay
"Assassins of the World" -RAM16
"Square Dancing" -Gehrem
"Fantasy World Cup Championship" -Gehrem and Endar1077
"Short WW2 Tournament" -blockhead15
"The Private/Lower Tournament" -scottishleaf
"The 8 Thoughts" -Zissou2
"Ultimate All Maps 1x1 Tournament" -ubcman64
"Literature Prize" -killmanic
"Don't Take Too Long: Bracket Edition" -amazzony
"CC Gaming Tour 08" -NoobX200
"Snowy Rock Races" -Shino Tenshi
"Battle of Actium" -elmerfudd
"US Pro Sports Showdown" -killmanic
As promised, this time we will look more closely into some tags that I'm using and find very useful both to myself and to players who play in my tournaments. Before I get to specific tags, I would like to write a few words how to put the tags into your message/post the most easy way. For some of you it may be simple but I think that explaining it won't hurt.
- To add tags, may it be color, size or anything else, you have 2 possibilities. First possibility is to enter the tag(s) and then type your text between them. Another possibility is to write the text first, then highlight/select what you wish to put between tags and then press the tag button.
- First I would like to introduce you the most common one used in tournament forums. I'm sure that many players and organisers are very grateful for this one.
- It's game-tag and looks like this: [Game][/Game]
- This is an easy way to get to games fast. Putting game number between the tags makes a simple shortcut to the game so players could enter it and organisers check the results fast. Are you a player looking to post results or an organiser sending out games, this is the tag that you should always use.
- How to use it. To get this: Game 123456; type this:
- Code: Select all
- An upgrade to game-tag is to-tag and it looks like this: [to][/to]
- This is meant for organisers who wish to put an extra effort into sending out games. I personally don't use it because it's not in the "tag-strip" so I have to type it every time I wish to use. Secondly I think that if people first see the game they are joining then it might help to avoid joining wrong-setting games. So, I just don't find it comfortable enough to use but I understand completely people who wish to use it and I encourage to test it out to see if it's suitable for you.
- How to use it. To get this: View Game 123456 (Auto-Join Game); type this:
- Code: Select all
[to]123456 password[/to]
Of course, "PASSWORD" needs to be replaced with the actual password of the specific game.
- Last tag that I will introduce is spoiler and it looks like this:
- Code: Select all
- I think the main purpose of this is to avoid awfully long posts so loading and scrolling wouldn't take forever. How you wish to use it is up to you and your imagination. I'm personally using it to keep a long schedule short in here (scroll down after scoreboard). To see/hide what's hidden behind spoiler, just click show/hide.
- How to use it. To get this:
- Code: Select all
[spoiler]Guess who hid in here? Nobody :D[/spoiler]
You can also "name" your spoilers like this:
- Code: Select all
[spoiler="schedule"]Guess who hid in here? Nobody :D[/spoiler]
That's it for this time. Please send me your questions, comments, feedback and complaints. May it be a simple sentence like "keep it up" or "enough of the crap, we don't need it". We can put it into newspaper under your name or anonymous or just answer the things by private message if you wish.
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Stockport Air Raid Shelters
Step back in time to 1940s wartime Britain and experience the sights and sounds of Britain's homefront. Stockport Air Raid Shelters have been carved into the natural sandstone cliffs in Stockport Town Centre. When they opened in 1939, they were the largest purpose built civilian underground air raid shelters in the country. Reopened in 1996, the Shelters have been imaginatively restored to give visitors a feel for the era.
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Tuesday - Friday: 1pm - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Monday: Closed
Closed: Mondays, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day
Adults: £4.05, Concessions/Under 16s: £3.05
Leisure Key and Under 5s: Free
Explorer Tours
Fully guided public tours on the first Wednesday of the month (19.00), lasting approximately 1.5 hours, taking in parts of the tunnels not usually accessible during the day.
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Booking is essential. Call 0161 4741940 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more details and to book. Adult ticket: £5.50, child/conc: £4.50.
Family Tours
Fun for all the family! Explore Stockport Air Raid Shelters. Listen to stories and learn the history of the tunnels on Sundays at 14.00. Suitable for all ages.
How to obtain
Booking is essential. Ticket prices are as follows: Adults: £3.95, children/conc: £2.95, Under 5s: free.
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Family to Clay Murdock extends to the team at Rancho San Miguel, the California farm Murdock has managed for more than 30 years, and to the offspring of the farm's stallions.
Family to Clay Murdock extends to the team at Rancho San Miguel, the California farm Murdock has managed for more than 30 years, and to the offspring of the farm's stallions.
Hard-knocking Richard's Kid, winner of three grade 1 races, is now a winning sire after Mama's Kid rushed to the lead and never looked back in a 2-year-old maiden special weight sprint at Del Mar July 20
Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed, died of a heart attack the morning of Sept. 19.
View more photos from our magazine series training offspring of Lemon Drop Kid.
Lemon Drop Kid was the complete package when he went to stud in 2001 with an impeccable pedigree, top-of-his-class ability all three years racing, and dashing good looks.
Millionaire and multiple grade I winner Richard's Kid (Lemon Drop Kid--Tough Broad, by Broad Brush) has been retired to Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, Calif., where he will stand the 2014 season for $4,500.
Richard's Kid, two-time winner of the Pacific Classic (gr. I) and of six total graded stakes through a 47-start career, has been retired due to a slight tendon tear.
Overcoming concerns about the Del Mar Polytrack, Game On Dude demolished the field by a record 8 1/2 lengths in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) in the most dominant performance of his career Aug. 25.
A six-time grade I winner whose problems with the Polytrack at Del Mar have been well-chronicled, Game On Dude is on the verge of a breakthrough in the TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) Aug. 25, trainer Bob Baffert believes.
Game On Dude will break from post 11 at Del Mar Aug. 25 in a field of 13 for the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I), the richest race in the west for older horses.
Richard's Kid, looking for an unprecedented third victory in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I), had trainer Doug O'Neill smiling after a six-furlong jaunt in 1:13 3/5 over the Polytrack for Joe Talamo Aug. 16.
Mired in a year-long slump since moving to the Doug O'Neill barn from Bob Baffert, Richard's Kid snapped out of it with a repeat victory in the $100,000 Cougar II Handicap (gr. III) July 26 at Del Mar.
Consistent Kettle Corn is to try for the second graded stakes win of his career and first since 2011 when he faces an expected 10 other starters in the $100,000 Cougar II Handicap (gr. III) on the night of July 26 at Del Mar.
Odds-on choice Last Gunfighter collared pacesetter Eighttofasttocatch in the final furlong and drew off by 4 1/4 lengths for his sixth consecutive victory May 17 in the $300,000 Pimlico Special (gr. III) in Baltimore, Md.
John Gunther's Last Gunfighter, who has won five in a row since his maiden victory last October, will invade Maryland and face mostly locally based horses in the $300,000 Pimlico Special (gr. III) May 1.
Cyber Secret has not won on the dirt at Churchill Downs, but fresh off a 5 3/4-length victory in the April 13 Oaklawn Handicap, trainer Lynn Whiting is willing to put his unbeaten season on the line.
Successful Dan, coming back off a layoff of nearly 10 months, dictated an easy pace and held off the pursuing Boisterous in the final furlong to post a one-length victory in the Ben Ali Stakes (gr. III) April 21 at Keeneland.
There was a time when "the other Dan" was Wise Dan, who went on to become Horse of the Year. On April 21 fans will witness the return of the original, Successful Dan, in the $150,000 Ben Ali Stakes at Keeneland.
Claire Novak catches up with the connections of Wise Dan, Richard's Kid, Ramsey Farm, and Daisy Devine.
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Calidoscopio makes his first appearance since he scored a major upset in last fall's Breeders' Cup Marathon (gr. II) when he takes on seven opponents in the $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (gr. III) March 23 at Santa Anita Park.
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Called to Serve registered his third straight bullet work in preparation for the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) when he went five furlongs on Santa Anita Park's fast main track Feb. 22 in :59 1/5 with Gary Stevens up.
Returning to his favored distance, Slim Shadey will try to win the San Marcos Stakes (gr. IIT) for a second straight year on Saturday at Santa Anita Park.
Game On Dude, looking to rebound from his seventh-place finish as the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I), drew the rail for the $250,000 Native Diver Stakes (gr. III) Dec. 1 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Multiple grade I winner Game On Dude heads an expected field of six or seven in the $250,000 Native Diver Stakes - Presented by the Oak Tree Racing Association (gr. III) Dec. 1 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Janis R. Whitham's Fort Larned led from gate to wire and held off a sustained stretch bid by Mucho Macho Man to win the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) before a crowd of 55,123 at Santa Anita Park Nov. 3.
Game On Dude could put himself atop the favorites list for Horse of the Year with a victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I).
Doug O'Neill discusses Breeders' Cup horses such as Handsome Mike and Richard's Kid.
Doug O'Neill discusses Breeders' Cup horses such as Handsome Mike and Richard's Kid.
Handsome Mike, frontrunning winner of the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II), is headed for the Breeders' Cup Nov. 3 at Santa Anita Park although a decision on which race is still to be made, trainer Doug O'Neill said.
Game On Dude maintained his unbeaten record at Santa Anita Park with a smooth victory in the $250,000 Awesome Again Stakes (gr. I) Sept, 29, a perfect tuneup for his return to the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I).
Though he came up half a length shy in the Pacific Classic (gr. I) last time out, Game On Dude should be back in his comfort zone as he goes for a repeat in the $250,000 Awesome Again Stakes (gr. I) Sept. 29 at Santa Anita.
Shipped to Southern California by trainer Dale Romans after a pair of lackluster efforts, Dullahan collared Game On Dude in deep stretch to take the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) in track-record time at Del Mar.
The Aug. 26 edition of the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) at Del Mar is about more than a trophy for trainer Bob Baffert, who last week lost two-time Classic winner Richard's Kid in a swiftly-orchestrated sale.
The countdown to the Nov. 3 Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita officially hits the second half of the season with the Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
Leading TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) contender Richard's Kid was sold privately Aug. 18 and has been transferred from the barn of Bob Baffert to Leandro Mora and Doug O'Neill a week before the renewal of the $1 million race.
The field for Del Mar's $1 million TVG Pacific Classic, the fourth of six "Win and You're In" races for the Breeders' Cup Classic, is beginning to come together.
If the first three Breeders' Cup Challenge races were any indication, the road to the 29th Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) Nov. 3 at Santa Anita (NBC 8-9 p.m. ET) is going to be one fun ride.
Odds-on choice Richard's Kid gave every indication he's ready to try for a third win in the Pacific Classic (gr. I) with an impressive turn of foot to capture the Cougar II Handicap (gr. III) in track record time at Del Mar.
Millionaire and multiple grade I winner Richard's Kid will be conceding from three to 10 pounds to his rivals as he tops the six-horse field entered in the Cougar II Handicap (gr. III) at Del Mar July 27.
Odds-on choice Game On Dude repelled a major challenge from stablemate Richard's Kid to make Chantal Sutherland the first female jockey to win the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I) July 7 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Game On Dude seeks the third grade I victory of his career in the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup July 7 at Betfair Hollywood Park, a race he lost by a nose last year.
Multiple grade I winner Richard's Kid was victorious in his first start in the United States in more than 20 months, romping by 7 1/4 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park in the $71,650 Prove It Stakes on the night of June 8.
Grade I winner Richard's Kid is scheduled to make his first start in the United States in more than 20 months in the $70,000 Prove It Stakes June 8 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
A full field of 14, including seven grade/group I winners, will square off in the $300,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-II) at Meydan Racecourse March 3.
Group I winner Twice Over makes his 2011 debut March 3 in the Al Maktoum Challenge Round III. Gitano Hernando will start in the same race; his performance will decide whether he starts in the Dubai World Cup March 26.
Millionaire Richard's Kid has repeated as Maryland-bred Horse of the Year and champion older male of 2010 in the annual poll conducted by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association.
For the second year in a row, AmWest Entertainment will offer worldwide distribution of the racing signal for wagering on the Dubai International Racing Carnival from Meydan Racecourse.
The recent retirements of many 2010 stars leaves major question marks for next year.


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The Heartland Symphony Orchestra (HSO) has recently welcomed its newest conductor, Sergey Bogza.
The young conductor comes to the HSO well-qualified. Bogza, 27, was the assistant conductor at Central Washington University while attending school there. He has been a lecturer and master-class teacher at the Music and World Cultures Center, an organization that offers precise teaching, focusing on one piece of music or discipline. There he was also the artistic director and founder of the first Slavic Youth Orchestras.
Bogza recently went to the Ukraine to teach students about new music software, items sometimes hard to get there. He was also the conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival from 2006-2010, held in Eugene, Ore.
In Minneapolis, Bogza conducts the Hyperion Singers, a Twin Cities-based vocal ensemble that entertains with baroque and classical music.
He is currently a James Sample Conducting Fellow at the University of Minnesota where he also conducts the Campus Orchestras, Campus String Orchestra and serves as an assistant conductor for the Opera Theater.
He has not only studied in the United States, but also in Berlin, Germany, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Before coming to the University of Minnesota, he appeared as a guest conductor, presenter and clinician in the northwestern part of the country. He has been invited to conduct the Berlin Sinfonietta, the International Conductors' Festival in the Ukraine, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Masterclass and more.
In addition, Bogza is also a composer with more than 40 compositions, some of which have been featured at the 21st International New Music Festival in Russia. His most recent composition, "Remember," is scheduled to be heard in both Germany and Russia.
Bogza moved to the United States from Taganrog, Russia, in 1995, when he was 7 years old. The Soviet Union had fallen and his family didn't know the future; they weren't sure about Russia's economy nor its politics. While a scary venture, his family fled their country for a more stable life in the United States.
"There is a great Russian community in Portland, Ore., where we lived," said Bogza.
Bogza said he has always been interested in music and in sounds. He said that in Russia, lessons were expensive, therefore difficult to come by.
"My parents had nine children and signed each of us up for music and Russian lessons when in Oregon," he said. "They did not want us to lose our identities."
Today, everyone in Bogza's family is a musician of one form or another.
"But, I am the only one with a formal music education," he said.
Bogza received his bachelor's degree in music education from Portland State University; his master's degree from Central Washington University and is currently working on his doctorate in orchestral conducting in Minneapolis.
"I am excited about the upcoming year," he said. "I would like to grow the orchestra's numbers by finding more people who love to express themselves with music. All my training points to my becoming a full-time conductor, building organizations.
"Conducting is not a job, it's something I am lucky to do for the rest of my life," he said. "Each group I have been with has inspired me and given me hope. Music has always provided tenderness, sincerity and expression. I want to tailor a performance to give all these feelings to everyone who comes to enjoy the music."
When Bogza is not conducting or attending school, he loves to hike, spend time at the beach and with his family.
The HSO currently has about 50 members. This winter three concerts are planned. Each will have a performance in Little Falls and in Brainerd.
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1. Shaliyah Geathers, East Hamilton: This speedy University of Tennessee signee has great range in center field and batted .496 last year with 19 extra-base hits, 40 stolen bases and 56 runs scored.
2. Brook Womack, Central: The Southern Illinois signee batted .466 a year ago with 22 extra-base hits. Her 30 stolen bases were a big increase and helped her score 55 runs. She also drove in 41 runs while primarily batting leadoff.
3. Sidney Hooper, Walker Valley: She had a 14-10 pitching record and 1.52 ERA in 2012, but six of her losses were to the Class AAA state champion and the Division II-AA champion and runner-up. She batted .423 with 20 extra-base hits and has signed with Austin Peay.
1. Baylor: The 2012 Division II-AA state-champion Lady Red Raiders (40-5) had one of the most potent lineups of any softball team in the tradition-rich history of Hamilton County. Gone are Braleigh Angel (Carson-Newman) and Kelsey Clark (Tusculum), but the rest are back. The key is finding a successor for pitcher Kaitie Sims (Carson-Newman).
2. East Hamilton: This is the fourth season the Lady Hurricanes are fielding a varsity team. They'll be trying to build off several firsts from last year, when they won the District 6-AA and region tournaments and advanced to the state tournment. Some freshmen will have to play key roles if East Hamilton is to return to the Spring Fling.
3. Arts & Sciences: Kaity Holloway moves up from assistant to head coach this season. She is succeeding her sister, Kristin, who left to take a job at GPS. In their history the Lady Patriots have one region berth to their credit but have never won a district title -- regular season or tournament. They're on a quest to change that this season.
East Hamilton softball coach Cara Stiles is on a mission this spring. Then, starting in September, she really is going to be on a mission.
Stiles already has told her team she'll be leaving the Lady Hurricanes' program when this high school season ends. In 2012 they earned the first state-tournament berth in the varsity program's third year of existence, so she has her sights set on having her team back in the Spring Fling before she leaves.
But as much as she loves softball -- she's a former player at Soddy-Daisy, Chattanooga State and the University of Memphis who has been involved with the game since she was 5 years old -- her love in another area is greater. She's leaving softball behind, at least temporarily, to be part of an 11-month Christian evangelism trip.
"Two summers ago I spent five weeks in Israel," Stiles said. "While in Israel I just really developed a passion for God and for people. I decided to be obedient and heed the call."
Stiles will be among 30 people who will journey together each month to different locales globally with their message. The stops will include the Phillipines, Cambodia, Ruwanda and the Ukraine.
The venture is part of The World Race, an organization that builds churches and schools, visits hospitals and conducts ministries, among other things, around the world. Stiles' adventure can be followed through her blog at carastiles.theworldrace.org.
"The time is now," Stiles said of her decision. "I don't have a house, or kids, or a husband. I feel like if I don't do it, 20 years from now I'll look back and absolutely regret it."
After a year as an assistant coach at Tyner and one as head coach at Rhea County, Stiles came to East Hamilton last school year. She enters her farewell season with an abundance of talent, led by senior speedster Shaliyah Geathers and junior slugger Kelsey Payne.
Junior first baseman Amber Phillips is another returning starter from last year's team, which won the District 6 and Region 3 tournaments in Class AA. Sophomore catcher Emma Brooks, who missed much of last season after having surgery on her thumb, also returns.
Returning left-handed pitcher Maria Walshe, a senior, has been bothered by shoulder problems. Junior right-hander Rachel Gamble is expected to have more starts than before, and freshman right-hander Lexi Hargrove could contribute in the pitching circle, too. A few freshmen could push for starting positions.
"I can look at batting practice all day," Stiles said, "but until I see how we do in a game it's hard to judge our hitting. Defensively we'll be much more solid than we were last year."
Stiles turned in her resignation a couple of weeks ago, so the quest to find her successor can begin now. However, East Hamilton athletic director and assistant principal Brad Jackson said things are currently "in limbo."
The school is waiting to hear from the Hamilton County Department of Education's central office regarding enrollment figures, and word may not come until the end of this school year. That will determine if it can hire another faculty member after Stiles leaves.
According to Section 9 in the TSSAA handbook, softball is one of the sports in which the state organization requires the head coach to be on faculty or be a retired faculty member. The Lady Hurricanes' next coach, as they move to the Class AAA level, will be their fourth in five years.
"We want some stability," Jackson said. "We thought with hiring Cara we were getting that. It's a great school, but you can't argue with a higher calling."
Although the Lady 'Canes were 0-2 in their first state-tournament trip, Stiles believes the experience was immeasurable for her returning players and a return trip could prove to be more fruitful. So if at the end of May, Stiles is able to say "mission accomplished" in celebration of a state championship, would she consider aborting her other mission?
"No," she said. "It would just be a sweet exit."
Broadcaster coaching
Former WRCB-TV sports anchor Randy Smith has been hired as head softball coach at Brainerd.
Smith, who teaches a broadcasting media class at the school, has experience coaching his daughter, Christy, in summer ball, but her last season in 18-under was in the 1990s.
"I enjoy coaching," said Smith, who will take a squad of 16 into Tuesday's opener against fellow District 6-AA opponent East Ridge. "I look forward to just getting back in it. We have some really, really good athletes, just not a lot of softball players. We can work on that. My number one goal is to not forfeit a game."
District 6-A's Richard Hardy is fielding a varsity program for the first time. Girls' basketball coach Kelby Ferrell will be the head softball coach.
Former Soddy-Daisy coach Clifford Kirk "unretired" and now heads Sale Creek's program. Wes Skiles will debut as Soddy-Daisy's coach Tuesday at home against District 5-AAA foe Ooltewah.
Ricky and Janice Ritchie coached Bledsoe County in 2011 and return to the Lady Warriors' dugout this season. Other new coaches at area schools include Katie Albright at Notre Dame, Jason Evans at Grundy County, Lauren Flores at Chattanooga Christian, Kaity Holloway at Arts & Sciences and Shaina Manning at Signal Mountain.


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The books do tend to suck a lot more than non-engineering subjects. I suspect it's because engineers who are well-versed in their respective fields have trouble breaking down concepts for relative newcomers. It's not surprising for me to find an advanced concept wedged into the introductory chapters, and helpful beginners' explanations stuck curiously near the end of the book.
I cannot even begin to count the number of times where I've been doing my course readings, and completely not understanding a concept... and then running across a neat little paragraph explaining it all in a very concise way... in an unrelated chapter, half a book later.
I've been in school four years now, and I've had maybe 3 textbooks that I felt were truly helpful. The rest were just shameless wastes of my dollars and many trees. In their defense, all the information is in there somewhere, but rarely where you'd expect it to be.
There's surprising variability in text book quality. Some are written for scientific rigor, precision and conciseness at the expense of readability and accessibility. Others give a little on using the precise scientific terms at every turn, focusing instead on being approachable and accurate. For example, consider the following paragraph from my Thermodynamics book, introducing the 2nd law:
An object at an elevated temperature Ti placed in contact with atmospheric air at temprature T0 would eventually cool to the temperature of its much larger surroundings, as illustrated in Fig. 5.1a. In conformity with the conservation of energy principle the decrease in internal energy of the body would appear as an increase in the internal energy of the surroundings. The reverse process would not take place spontaneously, even though energy could be conserved: The internal energy of the surroundigns would not decrease spontaneously while the body warmed from T0 to its initial temperature.
That was from Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by Moran and Shapiro, 2nd Ed., p 160. I took this as an electrical engineering student many years ago (1995, I believe).
Some years later, my girlfriend at the time was studying toward her mechanical engineering degree. Her textbook (which I don't have handy), introduced the topic in what I thought was a much more approachable manner. Paraphrasing, it went something like this:
Consider, for example, a cup of hot coffee placed in a room at room temperature. As you would expect, the cup of coffee will eventually cool to the temperature of the room. In the process, it will transfer energy to the air in the room and energy is conserved. The reverse process, spontaneously heating the cup of coffee by drawing energy from the cool room would not occur, even though energy would still be conserved.
Both are engineering texts covering the same material, but with completely different treatments. Both cover the same range of topics, the same steam tables, the same cycles... everything. But, which text book is more accessible? Which text book is more effective? All I know is I had a really hard time in Thermo, whereas she picked it up very quickly. (I did manage to eke out a B, but she aced it as I recall.) Some of it's aptitude—we each picked our disciplines for a reason—but a big factor is accessibility. I found myself understanding Thermo much better than I had, just reading portions of her book.
And that's kinda how it goes. Some classes have impenetrable texts, others don't. These days, the wealth of online materials is astonishing compared to what I had when I was in school—1992 - 1996—and so that helps a lot.
The main thing is to have fun. If you're not having fun doing engineering, then maybe another line of work is better for you. Sure, the projects are challenging, the homework is difficult and often draining, but it's all worth it when you get to the other end and see things come to life. If that doesn't make it worth it to you, then perhaps it's not your field.--Joe
That's true in school and real life kid. I'd like to tell you life is fair... But then I'd be lying and in a management position."Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores." For many students, earning a degree in engineering is less than enjoyable and far from what they expected. If you want to complain about your education, this is your chance."
I think the only majors with a higher general opinion of themselves are philosophy majors.
Now that all depends on how we define one's ability to form a general opinion. For more information read my paper for Philosophy 416, "Our ability to form opinions, real or not." It's clearly an excellent paper, I got an A++++. I'm right because I'm smarter than you are, I have a 4.83 GPA.
In my experience, engineering school isn't geared specifically for content. It's designed to teach you some basics (electronics, math, logic, assembly language in my case), and everything done above and beyond that was designed to teach you how to solve problems. I may not know how to build an amplifier anymore, but I do know how to build a circuit, simulate it, how to adjust properties, and develop an answer.
I think the same thing goes with Calculus - Everything you did in math was done to give you the 'aha' moment that occurs when you learn derrivatives. You suffered endlessly computing deltas manually, but then you learned what a derivative is, and all of a sudden your world changed. There are other ways to solve problems. And when you realized that, then your approach to math suddenly changed - it's not about slogging through a procedure to get the answer, but to look at problems and see new ways of solving them.
The importance of college isn't what you learn there. It's whether you learn HOW to learn.
Write a short story. Write a slightly longer story. Write the story in rhyming verse. Write a non-fictional story. Write this story. Write that story. Writing assignments look boring to me. However, I saw challenges and differences in the engineering stuff I did. Maybe this guy is just ignorant of the necessary knowledge to see those differences.
Why chose a major you have to work for where you can find correct answers, when you can have one where you just have to BS enough that the teacher can't tell the difference between BS and insight? Clearly, you should just chose you major based on your possible GPA. I know they hire CEOs based on what their GPA was 30+ years ago.
Really? I had some wicked smart professors who could help with this. And I heard plenty from other students who thought this kind of thing about their non-engineering courses. I smell an anecdote.
I had encouraging professors. I had interesting professors. I also had boring professors. Why is that every Engineering professor is a stodgy old bore, while the Lit students get class after class of Dead Poet's Society teachers? Oh, that's right, they don't. Besides, maybe if you were interested in the material instead of in it for the $$$, you wouldn't have this problem. You've never seen a teacher engage some students who are interested in the subject, while called terrible by the students who didn't care about the subject? I've seen that since at least middle school.
My Literature textbooks weren't very good at all. I've seen history books that were a joke. There were almost no good textbooks. Blame the publishers, blame the teachers requiring their own text book, blame the difficulty of writing a good one. Again, Engineering shouldn't be singled out
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It does NOT suck to be an engineering student. If - and here's the big part - if you like engineering. If you're in this because you parents told you to do it, or because you think there's big money in it - there's the door and don't let it hit you in the ass.
Complaining about how engineering is hard work is like someone studying to be a proctologist and coming home from the first day at work and complaining about all the assholes. How could you possibly be surprised by this? Anything that requires you to learn differential equations is going to be a little taxing.
As for myself, I loved being an engineering student. Having a building full of PhDs that would explain anything, absolutely anything to me ROCKED. I miss college.
In fact, you only needed about 8 credit hours of extra engineering classes to graduate out of the electives. I graduated with over 35. Took extra classes in antenna design, digital number theory, non-linear controls...you name it. I loved it all and dearly miss college.
On the flip side, you know what actually does suck? A mortgage. That's what.
The trouble with studying engineering today is that it used to pay better. In 1970, the IEEE reported that electrical engineers and lawyers were making about the same salaries.
I had a quite good undergraduate engineering education. What sucked was going through Stanford CS for a Master's in the mid-1980s. I went through just as it was becoming clear that expert systems weren't going to lead to strong AI, but many on the faculty didn't want to admit it. Yet the expert systems people were still in charge. This was just as the "AI Winter" was starting, and the first-round AI startups were going bust. The whole experience was disappointing. I was fed way too much bullshit, and I knew it at the time. I have the Stanford diploma, but as an educational experience, it sucked.
Stanford finally had to transfer computer science from Arts and Sciences to Engineering and put in adult supervision. It's much improved now.
And one more thing. A Ti Silver Edition is not a real calculator. It is a toy given to kids who can't do math to keep them busy during math class. I know the 'plus' makes it seem like a real calculator, but it is not. It is most useful for passing notes. Get and HP.
For the record my girlfriend is an advertising major. Her classes require her to do the insanely difficult tasks of glueing gummy bears onto paper and cutting up magazines to make ransom notes. Her classes grade on curves and she's usually allowed to redo assignments for higher grades. She does everything the night before it's due.
On the other hand I'm a CS major, my professors usually start the semester off with the statement "I don't believe in grading on a curve." That's often followed by "late work is not accepted." I usually have a non trivial project do every week. I have to start early or I wont have time to finish the projects. I have to try to balance my time between math, science and computer science classes. My girlfriend has told me an innumerable number of times that I work too much and my major is difficult, she's right. But I don't care because I love the work and I love my major.
Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them?