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Shanksville was happy to be Nowhere, USA, but the community has lost its innocence to America's grief tour, writes Gerard Wright.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania: The planes still roar, softly. They pass 10,000 metres above the restored land and the little town that can never be the same. On this stretch of open ground and in the nearby grove, the distant sound of the jets mingles with the wind and the buzz of grasshoppers, as though to lay a soothing, ambient balm over troubled, hallowed ground.
A few weeks ago, Wallace Miller, coroner of Somerset County, walked around the perimeter of this area with a local landowner. He can remember his first time there, at 10.45am on Tuesday, September 11: the stench of jet fuel, puddled on the ground, the smell of the burnt trees and grass and the silence of nature.
Then there were the men who arrived to find they could do nothing, and the overwhelming evidence that a Boeing 757 jet had somehow been obliterated, and with it, the 44 people on board. "Nothing brings you closer to religion than death," says Miller, also proprietor of the Miller Funeral Home of Somerset.
To most people, this region is "fly-over country", where nature's late summer patchwork quilt shows untidy spreads of vivid green and earthen beige, bisected by serpentine, silvery strands of highway. Shanksville, population about 250, eight kilometres east of the nearest large town, Somerset, is a geographic afterthought, an ink spot on the road map of western Pennsylvania.
"A sleepy little town with a great [school] basketball team," says Pamela Tokar Ickes, a commissioner of Somerset County and a lifelong resident.
"It's a very rural area and they trust easily," says Barbara Black, the Somerset County historian and a Shanksville resident. "I wouldn't say simple, but a little more relaxed."
"The little town of your dreams" in the words of Donna Glessner, a third-generation resident. "The little town you wished you came from."
THE 8am United Airlines flight 93 was 42 minutes late in taking off from Newark, New Jersey, for the trip to San Francisco.It had been airborne for about 50 minutes when it reached the outskirts of Cleveland. By then, America was already reeling from the impact of the three hijacked planes that had crashed in New York and Washington.
Air traffic control in Cleveland heard the violent entry of the terrorists to the cockpit of flight 93, and than an announcement from one of them: "Ladies and gentlemen, it's the captain" - telling the passengers to remain seated, and that they had a bomb on board.
What America wants to believe followed is drawn from compelling, if incomplete evidence. Calls from on-board and mobile phones alerted emergency and phone company operators and families to the hijacking and the plan by the passengers to try to retake the cockpit.
The cockpit voice recorder would reveal seven minutes of pandemonium in English and Arabic as the passengers, apparently led by Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham and Jeremy Glick, stormed the front of the plane.
Whether their assault was successful will never be known. For their fellow countrymen, the resistance symbolised the first victory in what had become the war on terrorism. Victory, in this case, could be measured by what did not happen - an explosive impact with either the White House or the US Capitol, the seat of American government, as was believed to be the intention of the hijackers.
After its abrupt U-turn, flight 93 was tracked on radar by the control tower at the Cleveland airport. The jet hurtled low and erratically south-east over Pennsylvania.
When it hit the ground, the cockpit and first-class cabin broke off and scattered into millions of fragments that spread and flew like shrapnel through the trees 20 metres away. A section of the engine, weighing almost a tonne, was found on the bed of a pond 200 metres downhill.
The rest of the jet continued its downward passage, the sandy loam soil closing behind it like the door of a tomb. Eventually, the plane's pieces and its human cargo came to rest against solid rock, 23 metres below the surface, on ground that had been reclaimed from coal mining during the decade beforehand.
The World Trade Centre had already taken its two direct hits when Roxanne Sullivan drove west from her home near Shanksville for her regular Tuesday lunch date with a girlfriend in nearby Boswell, where word of the jet that had crashed was spreading fast.
"Roxanne," her friend told her, "you need to get home." They drove back together before being stopped at a roadblock. "You aren't going in there," an officer told Sullivan.
She took an alternative route, turning off and then driving through a rocky field, and finally running down a hill to reach her home. Behind her, she could hear the policemen stationed at another roadblock. "Stop, lady! Stop! Stop!"
"That's my home!" Sullivan replied. "You can't go there," she was told. "Are you going to shoot me? Are you going to handcuff me? I'm going there."
Finally, an officer sat Sullivan down, then agreed to walk with her to her house, less than a kilometre from the crash site.
Pack your bags, she was told. Check the dog. "You're out of here. I'll come to get you in two hours." Sullivan went to her bedroom and wept.
On their next visit, the police relented. Sullivan could stay, but there would be a police presence in front of her house.
Before the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) and all the other acronyms that eventually encompassed 71 organisations and 1500 people, there were the women of Shanksville. They organised food, water and relief packages. The first delivery to the workers at the site was at 11pm Tuesday, followed by another at 3am.
In her sealed-off home, Sullivan was in limbo until the idea came to her on Friday, three days after the crash. With the approval of the police, she decided to erect a small memorial on the corner of her block, where it met the intersection of two of the roads leading to the crash site. She made bows from eight yellow ribbons, then added a wreath of impatiens flowers.
A steady flow of the curious, the concerned and the thankful backed up at the intersection of Skyline and Buckstown roads. The police stationed at the roadblock sent them back, adding that if they wanted to leave some acknowledgement of how they felt, Sullivan's home-made memorial to flight 93 would be as good a place as any to leave it.
There were other memorials around Shanksville, which were eventually consolidated into a single location, on a rise overlooking the crash site. Every day, from 10am to 6pm, one or two women stand slightly away from the memorial. Badges with red, white and blue ribbons identify them as ambassadors. They answer questions about the day, the place, the people and the town. They are from Shanksville.
Usually, they work two-hour shifts. Sullivan takes a four-hour stint on Thursday afternoons. Inevitably, the questions and answers evolve into explanations, and then stories. Sullivan listens to them and feels the recollection of that morning all over again.
"People tell you their stories, and they're so sad," explains Barbara Black, the Somerset County historian, another ambassador.
She says the temporary memorial attracts 6000 people a week. Many, but not all, pass through Shanksville, a place that feels as though it has been preserved in amber, from some distant, simpler time. But that's changing. The kids tell Glessner that they now have to look before they cross the roads.
Shanksville's first encounter with its new life came in late September. A woman from Illinois, on her way to visit her daughter, she said, stopped in front of the fire station and asked if she could shoot some video of the fire truck.
"We just thought that was so hilarious and unique," Glessner says. "The guys pulled the fire truck out of the hall. I went home and told my family, 'Listen to this!"'
It was like the first blowfly of summer. Terry Shaffer, the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department captain, has been an honoured guest at the White House, to NASCAR races, and more parades, presentations and interviews than he cares to remember. Shanksville, the town, has become a roadside attraction in what Miller dismissively refers to as "the grief tour".
The families of the passengers and crew of flight 93 saw Shanksville from the inside of buses that took them to the crash site from a nearby resort. They saw flags, flowers, waving hands and smiling faces.
They saw, or told themselves, that if there were a place in the world to let a loved one go, this would be it. In Courage After the Crash, a collection of interviews self-published by Glenn Kashurba, a Somerset child psychiatrist, Sharon Griffith, a member of the Somerset County emergency response team, remembers seeing a grandmother, with her arms around her two teenage grandsons as they looked out over the site. Griffith heard the woman tell the boys, "Isn't this a beautiful place that your daddy is at? Isn't this a beautiful place to be?"
The passenger families came to agree. Several of them became close friends with families in Shanksville, so close that on their visits to the site, they would stay with those families. A local family, whom neither Glessner nor Shaffer would identify, had lost a son. They were drawn to the parents who lost a daughter on flight 93.
For Shaffer, the strain on the town's smile muscles is starting to tell. "Yesterday, a guy walked in here and he claimed he was on a walking journey from Oklahoma to New York City, and this was one of his stops," Shaffer says. "I don't know when that sort of thing is going to slow down. We're pretty much saying, after September 11, we have to take a break."
Problem is, the rest of the world won't wait for Shanksville to gets its breath back.
"The Shanksville that existed on September 10 has gone forever," says Pamela Tokar Ickes.
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It will be easy to remember Nelson Mandela the iconic, larger-than-life activist and freedom crusader. Reflections on Mandela will, naturally, focus on the human rights advocate aspect of his life: from years unjustly locked in an apartheid-era prison to his obsession with racial reconciliation in a country that seemed irreversibly distant from it.
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Upon moving to Georgia from New Jersey, I had never heard the word "kudzu" before, but now I am pleased to talk about the new renovations taking place on Kudzu Hill at Foley Field!
Construction has begun on what are being referred to as "perimeter improvements" at the UGA baseball field, with the project to include a retaining wall beyond right field in the area known as Kudzu Hill to stabilize erosion on the existing bank. That will also allow for a new plaza to be constructed with portable bleachers. And as you can see above, the stadium is getting a new scoreboard!
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ATHENS, Ga. --- The Georgia Bulldogs are used to top-10 rankings on the playing fields, but now the UGA Athletic Department has stacked up in another area: social media.
According to lists compiled by the University of Oklahoma, the Bulldogs are ranked No. 4 among FBS institutions in Twitter followers and No. 9 in Facebook "likes" on their official pages as of Nov. 7. As of Nov. 19, Georgia's official athletic department-wide accounts had 65,371 followers and 468,283 "likes."
Below is a glimpse into what the Bulldogs are doing on Twitter.
Official hashtags: #godawgs #CommitToTheG
Official Georgia Bulldogs (@UGAAthletics): 65,371 followers/5,768 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Don't forget to listen in to AT&T Bulldog Hotline tonight at 8pm- Do you have a question for Coach Richt? Tag it #bulldoghotline"
Georgia Football (@WeRunThisState): 19,837 followers/1,084 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Check out @ajgreen_18's one handed TD catch against the Chiefshttp://www.nfl.com/videos/cincinnati-bengals/0ap2000000097347/QB-Dalton-to-WR-Green-4-yd-pass-TD ..."
Georgia Men's Basketball (UGABasketball): 2,295 followers/889 tweets
Most recent tweet: "We are in the Big Apple! #Dawgs vs. No. 1 Indiana tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn! Who's coming? #CommitToTheG"
Georgia Gymnastics (@UGAGymnastics): 7,221 followers/1,996 tweets
Most recent tweet: "The Gymdogs didn't get on the jumbotron but look who did! @dannadurante#GoDawgs http://instagr.am/p/SNew6LL8yw/"
Georgia Men's Tennis (@UGATennis): 1,758 followers/3,232 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Brand new video recapping the ITA National Indoor doubles final and the fall season:...http://fb.me/1MXdESqSc "
Georgia Women's Tennis (@UGAWomensTennis): 96 followers/120 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Fall Tennis Winding Down....Here's an update from Saturday's action:http://gado.gs/13k "
Georgia Soccer (@UGAWomensSoccer): 702 followers/1,228 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Bulldogs named NSCAA Academic Team for 10th straight year: http://gado.gs/141 "
Georgia Volleyball (@UGAVolleyball): 870 followers/912 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Georgia fighting to hold on but it's too little too late and the Dawgs fall 17-25 in the fourth set. Kentucky wins 3-1."
Georgia Equestrian (@UGAEquestrian): 841 followers/1,317 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Congrats to UGAs Sara Parr on winning most outstanding player in horsemanship against SDSU #GODAWGS"
Georgia Softball (@UGASoftball): 5,634 followers/2,838 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Congrats to former Bulldog @KSandberg23 on being named the NPF Rookie of the Year! Second year in a row that it went to a #bulldog!"
Georgia Men's Golf (@GeorgiaGolf1): 484 followers/146 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Nationally rated prospects Branson Davis, Parker Derby and Greyson Sigg have signed with the Bulldogs. http://gado.gs/145 "
Georgia Women's Golf (@UGAWomensGolf): 318 followers/290 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Our 2013 recruiting class is now 3: welcome to the Bulldog Family, Harang Lee#godawgs"
Georgia Swimming & Diving (@UGASwimDive): 870 followers/500 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Georgia's swimming and diving teams shook things up in Friday's 3meet with Division III power Emory. http://gado.gs/147"
Cheerleading (@UGACheerleading): 1,914 followers/890 tweets
Most recent tweet: "It's Tech Week! #nuffsaid #GoDawgs #cleanoldfashionedHATE"
Football coach Mark Richt (@MarkRicht): 50,683 followers/193 tweets
Most recent tweet: "DawgNation. Get some sleep friday night n be ready to get up early on Saturday. Fill Sanford stadium to the brim. Sr day. Tech. Enough said!"
Men's Basketball coach Mark Fox (@coachmarkfox): 11,784 followers/920 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Game day . . . In Brooklyn"
Women's Basketball coach Andy Landers (@UGACoachLanders): 1,676 followers/445 tweets
Most recent tweet: "#IfItWasUpToMe you'd #CommittToTheG tonight at 7:00pm. It's Game Time..pic.twitter.com/TO04ugKw"
Men's Tennis coach Manuel Diaz (@CoachMannyDiaz): 1,252 followers/1,920 tweets
Most recent tweet: "@Sports_HQ: Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. -Paul Bryant"
Women's Golf coach Josh Brewer (@CoachJoshBrewer): 418 followers/2,825 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Interesting #bcs"
Gymnastics coach Danna Durante (@DannaDurante): 431 followers/181 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Gym Dogs finish the week with a fantastic showing in the intrasquad! So good to see some of our most devoted fans in the gym! #lovethisteam"
Volleyball coach Lizzie Stemke (@CoachLStemke): 275 followers/222 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Thanks to a great flight crew! #smoothtravel pic.twitter.com/XN91hZoK"
Hairy Dawg mascot (@UGAHairyDawg): 8,206 followers/754 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Last time UGA had a freshman run for over 1,000 yards. 1980. Bama finished 2nd in SEC. UGA beat Notre Dame for the National Championship."
Between The Hedges, UGA Athletic Association Blog (@UGAHedgesBlog): 2,626 followers/854 tweets
Most recent tweet: :Monday morning thought: It's Georgia Tech week! #godawgs #CommitToTheG#GATA"
Football equipment staff (@UGAFBEquipment): 1,897 followers/114 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Movin on up! #SEC #closertothetop"
Facilities (@UGAFacilities): 509 followers/303 tweets
Most recent tweet: "I know its cold, I know its early, but I just wanted to make sure you know...pic.twitter.com/wQ1YYIdg"
Compliance (@UGACompliance): 610 followers/65 tweets
Most recent tweet: "With today being the first signing day of the National Letter of Intent (NLI), here's some compliance trivia:... http://fb.me/1YuhH6G5s "
Nutritionists (@DawgSportsNut): 790 followers/349 tweets
Most recent tweet: "High protein, low calories? → 3 oz Baked Skinless Chicken Breast = 26 g protein, 140 calories"
Student Services (@UGASAAC): 309 followers/26 tweets
Most recent tweet: "Saac meeting today!! Also, hunger bowl donations at rankin are looking great! Keep it up! pic.twitter.com/UFC5BsFQ"
By Loran Smith
CINCINNATI, Ohio - Paul Brown Stadium, the home of the Cincinnati Bengals, sits stately by the Ohio River, where six former Georgia football players are making a contribution to the central objective of a team that last sniffed a championship in 1988.
The Bengals are the brainchild of the legendary Paul Brown, whose genius went beyond coaching. The Bengals were originated by Brown in 1966 but have been a small market club without big-salaried players, which has led them to lowly finishes throughout their recent history. At Cleveland, Brown and the upstart All-America Football Conference rivaled the National Football League in the forties. Brown had won four AAFC titles when the Browns merged with the NFL in 1950. Brown, the classic innovator, proved that he could compete in any league. The Browns won the NFL title in 1950-54-55 after which their coach was let go by principal owner Art Modell. Brown went looking for a franchise and settled on Cincinnati as the place he would like to start a team. The NFL looked with favor on Brown and Cincinnati as a place to locate an NFL franchise.
In the early seventies, Cincinnati was a perennial playoff team. Later the Bengals won AFC titles in 1981 and 1988, but lost in the Super Bowl both times to the San Francisco 49ers.
Brown retired from coaching in 1975 and died in 1991, having turned the team over to his son, Mike, who has had difficulty fielding a contending team. That began to change when he hired Marvin Lewis to coach the team. These Bengals have a new mission, which they refer to as "DNO," which means "Destination New Orleans," site of the next Super Bowl.
"We certainly believe we can get there," Clint Boling, starting offensive guard who was a starter and a letterman for the Bulldogs in 2010. "We have to believe in ourselves and we do," he said at Paul Brown Stadium following a recent practice.
In addition to Boling, the Bengal roster includes former Georgia lettermen Dennis Roland (2002-05), Robert Geathers (2001-03), Orson Charles (2009-11), Geno Atkins, (2006-2009) and A.J. Green (2008-10). Green, the outstanding rookie of a year ago, is one of the most popular athletes in Cincinnati.
"We saw what he did at Georgia," Boling said of his former Bulldog teammate, "and we told people when the Bengals signed him that they would be seeing a great NFL receiver. Some people thought we didn't know what we were talking about, but A.J. showed them what he could do from that first day in training camp. Everybody is a big fan of his now."
Roland, who started his NFL career with the Cowboys and then spent two years with the Tampa Bay Bucs, came to Cincinnati in 2008 as a tackle but has often lined up at tight end.
"If David Pollack hadn't gotten hurt, we might have seven Bulldogs on our roster," Roland laughed. Roland and Geathers are the old timers of the Bulldog sixsome.
Following is a summary of the season for the six players through week 10. With a 4-5 record and having lost four games by 10 points or fewer, the Bengal-Dawgs still believe they have a shot at getting to the playoffs. They remember what took place last year with the New York Giants. The Giants were 9-7 in the regular season and won the Super Bowl.
Geno Atkins, DT: Started all nine games and leads the league in sacks by an interior defensive lineman with seven and that is tied for third overall among all players; Also tallied 28 tackles.
Clint Boling, OG: Started all nine games at guard this season.
Orson Charles, TE: A backup at tight end, he has seen action in all nine games this season with two starts and has five catches for 70 yards.
Robert Geathers, DE: Starter at LDE in all nine games with 19 tackles and 3 sacks.
Dennis Roland, T/G: Played in all nine games with two starts along the offensive line at tackle, guard and tight end.
A.J. Green: Started all nine games and ranks among NFL leaders with 58 receptions for 820 yards and nine touchdowns. Also, Green was named the AFC offensive player of the month for September.
(Photo Credit: Andy Ware, Cincinnati Bengals. L-R: Orson Charles, A.J. Green, Clint Boling, Geno Atkins, Robert Geathers, Dennis Roland).
**The following story was published by the SEC Digital Network on Georgia track & field athlete Elizabeth Tepe. Tepe is was a member of the Marine Corps from 2006-10, before competing for two years in junior college and transferring to Georgia this year. Beginning this spring, she will compete for the Bulldogs in the hammer throw, ready to use her many life lessons.**
By: Sean Cartell
SEC Digital Network
ATHENS, Ga. - She may have been just 18 years old, but Elizabeth Tepe could feel her life spiraling off course.
Her grades were poor, her home life even worse and her outlook for the future dim. A prep softball player at Ponderosa High School in Parker, Colo., Tepe was a non-qualifier out of high school with few options available to help recalculate her path.
"When I was in high school, I had kind of a rough home life," Tepe said. "I moved out of my house when I was 16. I didn't have much experience or knowledge of the world, and that comes with being young."
Tepe, now a junior on the University of Georgia track and field team, knew she had to make a change. Following her high school graduation, Tepe enlisted in the Marine Corps.
"I decided that I just needed to find a better path in life," Tepe said by telephone on Thursday. "I enlisted in the Marine Corps, graduated a month later and was in boot camp. It's one of those things you just know in your heart that you need to do."
Perhaps looking at the surface, one might not have been able to predict a bright future for Tepe. But if there was an understanding of the importance and maturity of her extreme perceptiveness and self-awareness, one would have felt the extraordinary character and determination she has always exuded.
"I think having to grow up quickly makes you bet on yourself a lot more," Tepe said. "Sometimes we're afraid to take a chance on ourselves and trust that we're going to do everything we can to make it. I was kind of forced to do so from that perspective."
From 2006-10, Tepe served as an ammunition technician in the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton in California, where she supported Combat Logistics Regiment-15 for training and deployment exercises.
"You don't find out right away what you're assigned to until the end of boot camp," Tepe said. "Essentially, I was a BB counter. I counted bullets, got them to units, went out in the field and traveled with them to field ops taking ammunition, making sure the ammunition was accounted for and everybody knew what they were doing. I moved to more of an administrative unit, where I was over a unit of more than 1,000 Marines."
The experience in the Marine Corps provided Tepe with much more than practical experience. It also introduced her to fellow female Marines who carried themselves in a way in which she wanted to emulate.
"I think being a female Marine is even a little bit more poignant for me," Tepe said. "It's hard to find good female role models. It was good to see women alongside me who were strong and motivated to do good things with their life. Serving your country and putting on that uniform, you realize who you want to be and who you can be. I took so much confidence from that and it made everything else just seem easy."
Her time in the Marine Corps helped teach Tepe everything she expected and much more. She emerged a highly confident and disciplined individual, and had married fellow Marine Jarrod Tepe.
"I went in knowing I needed discipline, knowing I needed to find a little direction," Tepe said. "When I came out, I had gotten married and I had experienced so many amazing things. You learn self-confidence, self respect and really, all the way around, I grew as a person. I became a woman and I became more athletic. I was always an athlete, but I became a little more pointed in my direction. I knew I had the confidence that I could really handle anything I needed to."
Following her time in Marine Corps, where she received the Good Conduct Medal, Tepe enrolled in Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., a two-year community college. Her husband had recently deployed and Tepe was looking for an activity to fill her time.
"I had gotten an exit in the Marine Corps and school, at that point, was a little too easy," Tepe said. "You need to be preoccupied when your spouse is on deployment. I thought I would go out for track and I was attempting to run a 200. The throws coach, Shawn McGinley, came up to me and asked if I was interested in throwing the hammer. I told him that I didn't know what it was, but I would try it."
Tepe found that the hammer throw, surprisingly, had a direct correlation to some of the skills she had perfected in the Marine Corps.
"I tried it and just really fell in love with it," she said. "In the Marine Corps, you drill a lot and there is a lot of footwork. With the hammer, there is a lot of intricate footwork, so it sort of came naturally."
For Tepe to say the hammer throw came naturally is a bit of an understatement. She thrived in the event, setting the national junior college record in the event with a personal-best mark of 186-9 her sophomore season. That was nearly a two-inch improvement from the previous record set by Michelle Amete of Mesa [Ariz.] College in 2006. Tepe finished third at the California Community College State Track and Field Meet in 2012, helping her team to a tie for sixth place overall. It marked the best team finish for the Saddleback women's program since finishing fifth in 1986.
Tepe's successes, however, weren't just limited to the track. She finished her junior college career with a 4.0 grade point average and was named the U.S. House of Representatives Student Veteran Leader of the Year.
"By the time that I got to junior college, I knew that was exactly what I wanted to do," Tepe said. "I was hungry to know about the world, and junior college presented that to me with books and class and learning. I wanted it. Before I joined the Marine Corps, I knew I wasn't ready. I just needed to grow."
Tepe's impressive performances didn't go unnoticed. Several coaches on the West Coast, including legendary UCLA throws coach Art Venegas, took notice and passed the message along to Georgia throws coach Don Babbitt, a former UCLA letterwinner.
That led to a conversation between Babbitt and McGinley that ultimately helped lay the path for Tepe to attend the University of Georgia.
"I learned about Elizabeth from her junior college coach, whom I spoke with while on a trip to the West Coast," Babbitt said. "He told me she was a very good athlete, learned very quickly, and she was a good person."
Though Tepe is a relative newcomer to the event, given her track record, Babbitt knew that she could immediately be a strong contributor on his team.
"I think she can be very good," Babbitt said. "She is still very new to the event, but she has good base technique and leans very fast. She should score well at the SEC level and has a great shot to make it to NCAAs."
Since arriving in Athens prior to the 2012-13 academic year, Tepe has been made to feel at home, affirming her decision to move across the country.
"The team is awesome; I couldn't have expected anything more," Tepe said. "Everybody is so nice, making sure that I'm adjusting well. Moving 3,000 miles away from home is not easy, but the team definitely made it a lot easier. School was rough at first, trying to balance my practice schedule and classes, but I've definitely gotten used to it. I'm having a good time."
Tepe is certainly at a different stage of her life than the majority of her teammates, but that hasn't prevented her from fitting in well among her team and throws group.
"They keep calling my husband my boyfriend because they're not used to it," Tepe said with a laugh. "I think everybody's been very accepting of it. I just try to be a good role model and do the right thing. I wish I had somebody when I was 18 or 19 that was 25 that I could look up to. I hope to be that for them."
Babbitt agrees, saying that he is excited about the positive influence Tepe can provide for her teammates.
"I think she will be a voice of reason and experience, and help keep things in perspective for the younger throwers," Babbitt said. "She has a good outlook on life, and realizes what is truly important and what is not important. I think she has a great perspective and is thankful for the position she is in. I think this could be very, very beneficial for the team and her teammates."
Tepe will begin competing for the Bulldogs this spring and Babbitt believes that his newest pupil has the ability to accomplish even greater things at the NCAA Division I level.
"I think she can be top eight at the NCAA level and she has a shot to win the SEC title down the line," Babbitt said. "She still has a ways to develop, but I can see she has tremendous potential."
Tepe's time in the Marine Corps prepared her to achieve far more than she ever thought possible. That is one key attribute she has carried over to her collegiate athletics career, along with many other transferrable abilities.
"I think that they go hand-in-hand," Tepe said. "There are so many things that you need to be an athlete and that you need to be a Marine or person in the military. You have to have discipline, judgment and justice. When you see somebody do something wrong, you have to call them out. You have to have your own set of morals established and then there is the whole physical side of it. The transition from the Marine Corps is hard, but to go into something like athletics seemed very natural."
Her coach agrees, saying that her accomplishments have been nothing short of impressive.
"I think she has had to stay very motivated and disciplined these past few years," Babbitt said. "That is hard to do. Many can't or don't do that at her age. I am very impressed by it. She will be very successful in the future because of her attitude."
Experience is a valuable asset and Tepe has more than most 25 year olds. She hopes to be able to use her knowledge to help others achieve their dreams, including her own teammates.
"I hope they can see what I've done and not compare themselves, but understand that anything is possible," Tepe said. "Something I always go by is that it's not the fact, but your attitude toward the fact that determines the outcome. I try to pass on that you need to do the right thing, even if it's a hard situation. You are able to get through it if you have the right attitude."
My love for all things Georgia (minus Tech) did not come through environmental influences in my geographical culture. I was born in Columbia, S.C. where seldom was heard an encouraging word about UGA. When I was less than a year old, we moved to New York City where indifference and apathy reign supreme when it comes to college football. Phrases like "Hunker Down Hairy Dawg", and "Gooo Dawgs, sic em" could be taught as a foreign language in NYC public schools. "Between the hedges" is where your property line ended, and prophesies like "Man is there gonna' be some property destroyed tonight" were sometimes heard but had nothing to do with a celebrating a win over Florida. The football universe for the average New Yorker starts with the Giants and ends with the Jets who play in the same building across the Hudson in New Jersey.
My love for Georgia football can be traced back to my mother, Anna, who grew up in Armuchee near Rome in Floyd County. She met my father, Ed, in 1982 at Prince Avenue Baptist Church in Athens when they were both students at UGA. At the time, he was on the football team. He didn't grow up loving the Dawgs as my mother did. He grew up in Western Pennsylvania and transferred to Georgia from Pittsburgh as a sophomore. After college, they married and my dad went into the ministry. In 1992, he accepted a call to be the pastor of a small Baptist church in Queens (NYC), and they have been there ever since. We would try to travel to a game each fall where I would get to see Athens in all its glory. It was a thrill to walk out onto the field at halftime when my father's teams would be recognized. But primarily my love for and knowledge of Georgia came from inside the home. In a city of eight million people, we were, to the best of our knowledge, the only family who decorated the house and the yard in Red and Black every autumn Saturday. I am a New Yorker to the core who loves the Georgia Bulldogs.
As a home-schooled student, I never had an opportunity to play football growing up. My sports career consisted of Little League baseball in the spring and touch football in the fall. When I transferred to Armuchee High School for my senior year, I was on the football team and played on special teams and as a back-up defensive end. That was the first time I had ever put on a football uniform. So I find it a bit comical that I am the only one from my high school team that still suits up in full pads every weekend.
I also have the privilege of wearing silver britches with a tail on the back of them, a football #1 jersey, oversized paws with only 4 fingers, and an enormous bulldog head commonly known as Hairy Dawg. Contrary to popular belief, the suit itself has no ventilation system, which means temperatures in the suit rise anywhere from 25 to 30 degrees hotter than the immediate surroundings. There are only a few students that get to assume the responsibilities of Hairy Dawg. One student suits up for the pregame Dawg Walk, another works the first half, and the third handles the second half. We rotate each week.
In addition to UGA sporting events, we are often called to make appearances at private and corporate functions as a goodwill ambassador for the University. From the perspective of the attendees, Hairy Dawg just appears. My highest profile "gig" to date was an opportunity to shoot two commercials in Bristol, Conn., at the ESPN studios. ESPN contacted UGA this past January and asked for Hairy Dawg to make an appearance in a commercial with former Bulldog and current NFL quarterback Matthew Stafford. Also, they shot another one with Hairy Dawg and Robinson Cano from the New York Yankees.
The ESPN gig was a thrill, but it does not rank as my highest honor serving as Hairy Dawg. What brings me the most joy while being the mascot is being able to brighten the day of those who often need it the most. I often get to visit hospitals, assisted living facilities, special education classrooms, and even handicapped sections at sporting events. There is no greater feeling than seeing a little boy in a hospital bed light up, or being able to hold the hand of a child in a special education classroom or hug those in wheel chairs who are unable to stand up; that rare opportunity is the primary motivation for why I am the mascot. Being Hairy Dawg gives me a unique chance to bring joy to so many different types of people. It truly is an honor.
In order to assume the reigns of the great Hairy Dawg, one must try out. A two-minute dance or skit must be performed in front of former Hairy Dawgs, the dance coordinator, the cheerleading coach/spirit squad coordinator and various judges. I have always loved to dance so naturally, my tryout consisted of mostly dancing. The first time I had ever put the suit on was the day of tryouts, and I was scared to death. Fortunately, the judges liked my routine enough to select me as one of the next Hairy Dawgs. The position is not handed down from year to year so I had to try out again this year. Being a returner, I knew my tryout had to top all others (and there were 22 of us trying out). I pulled a few strings and actually recruited 20 members of the Red Coat band to come to the coliseum. For my grand finale, I lead the band in a rendition of "Shout It Out." The judges approved, and I am currently in my second full season as Hairy Dawg.
The role of Hairy Dawg is shared between four Georgia students including (l-r) Colton Fowlkes, Charles Purcell, Parker Moore and Billy McWhorter (not pictured) {Photo by Lindsay Boyle}
ATHENS, Ga. --- The University of Georgia will host the 2014 NCAA Men's & Women's Tennis Championships as well as a 2014 NCAA Gymnastics Regional, according to an announcement from the NCAA on Thursday.
The Dan Magill Tennis Complex has hosted the men's tournament 24 times and the women's event three times, in addition to three combined tournaments for a total of 30, most recently in both 2010 and 2012. The event has been combined since 2006. The Georgia men's tennis team has won six NCAA titles on the men's side - five of which came while playing in Athens. The women claimed the national title in 1994 and 2000 - the former coming at home.
The NCAA has recognized a national champion in men's tennis every year since 1946. It has done so in tournament format since 1977. The first women's championship was held in 1982. The tournaments have undergone some changes since their inceptions, including moving from a 16-team field to the current 64-team field in 1999. The first two rounds are held at on-campus sites, followed by the Round of 16 and beyond at the designated NCAA Championship site.
In the inaugural men's tournament held at the University of Georgia, Stanford defeated UCLA in the team portion while the Cardinal's Matt Mitchell was the singles champion and Bruce Manson and Chris Lewis of Southern California claimed the doubles crown. In the first women's tournament, Stanford defeated UCLA in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Cardinal's Alycia Mouton won the singles championship and the Bruins duo of Heather Ludloff and Lynn Lewis took the inaugural doubles honor.
"We are extremely excited to have been selected again," said 25th-year men's tennis head coach Manuel Diaz. "It's a credit to the many wonderful people in our athletic department who make the event so special, as well as all the volunteers in our community and the fans from around the country who make it the best collegiate event in our sport. Our athletic director [Greg McGarity] and everyone here at UGA are committed to continuing to host championships."
"This is fantastic news for the University of Georgia and the community of Athens. We're very excited and honored to host the incredible NCAA Tennis Championships again," said Jeff Wallace, in his 28th season as the head coach of the women's tennis team. "It all started with Coach Dan Magill in the 1970s and his vision to make Georgia the 'mecca of college tennis,' which it became under his leadership. Some of the greatest moments in our program's history have taken place at the complex that most deservedly bears his name. We're looking forward to having the nation's best players and teams come to Athens, and our staff and community always do a tremendous job of supporting the event."
Georgia is also one of six host sites for a 2014 NCAA Gymnastics Regional. The regional competition will be held at Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Teams and all-around competitors advancing out of the regional championships will compete at the 2014 National Collegiate Women's Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, Ala., hosted by the University of Alabama and the Alabama Sports Foundation.
The other five host institutions for NCAA Regionals include Arkansas, LSU, Minnesota, Penn State and Washington. Georgia has served as host of a regional 11 times, most recently in 2011.
"To be able to host a regional championship is a bonus for our fans and our team," said first-year gymnastics head coach Danna Durante. "Georgia always puts on well-run championship events, and Stegeman Coliseum is an outstanding venue for a regional championship and the teams traveling in. Looking at our 2014 schedule, we have tough road meets against several national powers, so for us to be able to host regionals is really beneficial from a planning standpoint. We are looking forward to it."


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Due to the CLOSING of the PS Wine Shop in June 2012 we have had to temporarily move the Wine Book Club to the Library for the remaining summer. Due to this we have had to also change the date to a TUESDAY evening.
The remaining two meetings for the summer here at the Library will be on the following dates and the SUMMER OF MYSTERY book selections are:
Tuesday, July 24th @ 6:00 p.m. in TLC
"The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles" by Esri Allbritten
Tuesday, August 28th @ 6:00 p.m. in TLC
"The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl
A new location will be announced soon for the upcoming season, September 2012 – May 2013.


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Submitted to: American Society of Agri Engineers Special Meetings and Conferences Papers
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/16/2006
Publication Date: 7/9/2006
Citation: Brown Brandl, T.M., Jones, D.D., Gaughan, J.B. 2006. Modelling the components of livestock stress for precision animal management. American Society of Agri Engineers Special Meetings and Conferences Papers. Paper No. 064204 Interpretive Summary: Animal stress originates from a combination of three areas: weather, the animal itself, and the physical surroundings (pen). A model is under development to predict the animal stress level based on these three factors. This paper details the development of just one of the factors—the animal's own characteristics. The paper provides details on the type of model chosen, the development of the model, and the initial testing of animal's characteristics as part of predicted response.
Technical Abstract: An individual animal's stress level is the summation of stresses from three areas: the environment, animal, and management. A model is being developed to summarize components of each of these three areas to determine the overall stress on the animal. The purpose of the model will be three-fold. First, the animal component will be used to identify animals at high risk for suffering from heat stress. This would allow producers to sort these animals and provide them with extra care. Second, the model could be used to monitor weather events to indicate extreme weather, so precautions could be taken. Third, producers could investigate different management strategies and impacts on stress. All three components could be used in conjunction to investigate management strategies under different weather events on animals with different risk factors. This paper documents the first component of the model—animal susceptibility. The details provided explain the type of model, method of integrating a prediction of ambiguity associated with each prediction made, and an initial validation of the animal susceptibility model.


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Shipping flour around the world
It's one thing to ship our products within the U.S. – usually a fairly simple process today of getting something from one city to the other – but our glimpse into the General Mills Archives this week shows that shipping used to be very complicated.
Especially for flour shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 1800s and early 20th century.
Washburn Crosby and Co. was one of the first American companies to export flour to Great Britain in 1878. Washburn Crosby was a flour milling partnership formed in 1877 in Minneapolis between Cadwallader C. Washburn (considered the founder of General Mills), his brother William, and John Crosby.
There was a demand for quality American flour in Europe. Initially, flour was shipped in barrels and arrived in good condition.
Here's an insurance certificate, dated January 17, 1878, for Washburn Crosby flour shipped from New York to Liverpool, England.
Shipping flour in sacks proved to be difficult because there were delays in shipment and damage to the flour in transit. The sacks were loaded and unloaded many times, often with hooks. And the holds of ships were not necessarily clean and dry.
An 1878 letter from Percy Young (a commission merchant for Washburn Crosby in London) says "flour shipped in barrels received in better quality than a later delivery of flour in sacks."
A European sales office was established in July 1920. By 1923, our flour markets included Central and South America, the West Indies, West Africa, Brazil, Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa.
(Photo: Gold Medal Flour being delivered in Constantinople, The Eventually News, Vol. III, No. 37, February 28, 1923.)
In 1929, Gold Medal flour was exported to 85 counties and territorial divisions in Europe, Asia and Africa. From Reykjavik, Iceland, to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, Gold Medal flour was found in nearly every important market.
Customers were valued, no matter where they were.
"Our foreign customers however, are not merely buyers, but correspondents and friends of long standing …" said R. F. Bausman – who was in charge of European, Mediterranean and North African markets – in The Eventually News in 1923.
Editor's note: The photo at the top of this post shows a reindeer in Lapland assisting with the delivery of Gold Medal flour to a Lap bakery in the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland, from The Eventually News, Vol. III, No. 32, December 20, 1922.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Cracking the camel's back
Actually, that's MY back that is cracking. As in breaking. As in LAST DAMN STRAW.
This year I've battled heat and drought, chipmunks and cabbage moths, high winds and low humidity, thoughtless golfers and a wacko neighbor. I've stood up to Japanese beetles, carpenter bees and hornets on the deck. It's been hard. It's been draining. But I've stayed on the front lines throughout.
But now.... I'm ready to walk away.
I'd found a cropped plant occasionally over the past week or so. Looked like deer, but no other evidence (droppings, sightings, etc.).
But last night they came. And they ate. Lilies, sunflowers, zinnias, butterfly bushes, asters..... All flowers that I've babied along in this drought.
The veg too. (CLICK HERE)
I'm hot. I'm angry. I'm tired. I can't afford the 8' fences it takes to keep out deer. I'm not allowed to shoot them. And I don't want to invest in miles of electric fence. (How charming would THAT look?)
So I'm throwing in the trowel. There's just so much of me and I can no longer do it myself. I no longer have the stamina, the motivation, or the encouragement necessary to keep up the battle.
Why bother? In this heat/wind/drought nothing thrives anyway. I had scaled back expectations to just surviving this year, but the deer have made it quite clear that nothing I do will make any difference.
I'm tired of being the general AND the army. I'm not surrendering, exactly. But I think I'll have to just walk away. I may or may not be able to regroup. I'm just so discouraged.
Good luck to the rest of you.
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Can you shoot them with a BB gun to scare them away? What about a small rocket launcher? Paintball gun? Dig a moat around your house and fill it with alligators? Please don't give up!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Good suggestions all. Where the heck can someone buy a pack of timber wolves when you need 'em? It's hard NOT to give up when you've come to realize no matter what you do - it's for nothing. (Sorry, It's hard to be positive. I'm tired and don't know how to dig myself out of this setback.)Delete
Sweetie, I wish I could do something other than type "there there". I'll carry on our email conversation off-blog.ReplyDelete
Me again ... I was thinking about CM's small rocket launcher. Not a smart idea unless you want Homeland Security showing up (although that would sure scare off the deer). However, can you still buy that neat kids toy where you pump air into a soda bottle that has just a little water in it and when it's pumped to whatever the limit is the bottle SHOOOOTS into the air, the water comes out and it all makes a hell of a noise. Great fun and isn't going to damage anything but would scare the b*ggers away.ReplyDelete
You could sit on your deck at night firing empty pop bottles around your yard and the neighbours would know you'd finally gone loco :}Replies
Then I'd have to go round up all those dang bottles the next day. Besides, who's got extra water to use like that? LOL No, I think I'll stick with what I told you one of my emails. I'll let you know how my stake-out goes tonight.Delete
Anyway the neighbors already think 'highly' of me. After all, I've been caught previously barking at the deer. *heh*
Bilbo - Have you ever been to DC? By the time Homeland Security made it through rush hour traffic, you could destroy the evidence. I think a moat is the best bet. :o)ReplyDeleteReplies
*grin* Nice one, Tammy. Wonder how alligators would fare in our frozen winters.... ?Delete
Kris, I understand very clearly how you are feeling. We haven't seen the pair of deer that were running across the back pretty regularly in quite some time now, not since we heard "target practice" in the distance. But even after spending $3000 for a tall fence for the garden, we still have to do some more work on it to keep the rabbits out, and apparently we have a family in there. I've seen three little ones so far. But it's the heat that's killing us, and the hot, dehydrating wind. We're struggling to keep trees and bushes alive and it is just wearing us smooth. Maybe it was a mistake to move out here, at our ages.ReplyDeleteReplies
Your trials and tribulations of last year and now this year is almost as bad for you. We are all HOT and PARCHED and suffering these persistent desiccating winds. Add to YOUR troubles are trying to grow things on rock.Delete
I'm totally switched into survival mode in the gardens. Thank goodness I planted out the white willow and hemlock last year when it rained every week. They've got good enough roots to tough it out.
I picked a single cuke today and I will have it for lunch. There is no feeling of festivity about it though. :-(
I guess I should feel lucky - all the deer have done around here so far is eat some of the sunflowers (last year) and mutilate a maple tree and a crape myrtle by tearing off strips of bark with their antlers.ReplyDelete
The deer problem is just one of the ways that we humans have screwed up the ecosystem. We've probably screwed it up in many ways that are less obvious, but since the deer are so big and do so much damage, this type of screw-up is obvious to see.
The problem, as you alluded to with your pack of wolves suggestion, is that we've killed off or driven away most of the natural predators. And we've banned hunting. So the only thing that's going to usually kill a deer would be disease, cars or starvation.
Cars kill plenty of deer -- and sometimes the people driving the cars too or their passengers.
And of course deer are one of the links in the growing deer tick epidemic.
And apparently the deer herd is so large now - tens of millions strong in the Eastern US - that they're denuding forests and thus hurting the populations of birds that like to nest in the undergrowth.
I believe we'll probably have to take a stand at some point and reintroduce hunting on a wider basis or maybe some form of deer birth control.
Or maybe the natural hunters will make a comeback after all. Coyotes are adapting to live in and near cities. But it's not clear that coyotes do such a good job at 'managing' deer herds (http://bowsite.com/bowsite/features/articles/deer/seminars/coyotes/) nor is it clear how much we're all going to enjoy living next to packs of hunters. But hey, at least the coyotes probably won't eat our gardens! ;)
ps - Ranting aside, how about one of those automatic watering systems (I think it's called a Scarecrow?) that shoots a jet of water when a motion detector is triggered. Not sure if it would scare the deer away or if they'd just think of it is a free shower. In Japanese gardens, they sometimes have ingenious little fountains that also serve to scare away critter like deer - http://www.creatingjapanesegardens.com/japanese-water-features/shishi-odoshi/Replies
Thanks for chiming in on the deer situation. Yes, the herds need to be thinned. And soon! Like the Canadian Goose problem, they are ecologically unbalanced due to laws that people, ignorant of the widespread damage and disease they pose, pass. We could easily reduce the herds/flocks by allowing HARVEST. Venison and goose is great protein and would benefit everyone.Delete
As for the water canons - not feasible during a drought and with well considerations. Sorry I was so long finding your comment.
- Anonymous7/19/2012 4:52 PM
Have you ever tried Shotgun or Ropel? I use to use it but it is quite expensive. Read the labels. Rotten eggs (use 2), garlic, hot pepper,( 2 tsp.) mix and add to gal. water, let stand for at least 3 days. Strain it to get rid of the crushed garlic. Spray on all plants even flowers. We DO NOT use on veggies or anything you want to eat. You can also make a Daffodil tea from stems and leaves after flowers fade in Spring. Use some of this tea in you gallon mix. Daffodils are poisenous, nothing eats them. Spray after any watering or raining. We still have beautiful hostas, daylillies and roses. This does not work for Japanese beetles. Butterflies and humming birds still come as do bees. Good luck. JudyReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the tip, Judy. But its the edibles that need the most protection. I've used hot pepper spray with good results in the past, but the drought this year is so intense the deer are eating just about anything - sprayed or not. Sorry I didn't see your comment sooner. Ironically *knock wood* the deer have not eaten ANY of my hostas. Go figure....Delete
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Not only is Google the world's leading online search site, it also runs the world's best mobile website, according to the Yankee Group.
The analyst firm on Tuesday announced results of its third annual survey of mobile sites. And the difference between now and the stark mobile landscape of 2008 is dramatic, as IDG reports:
According to Yankee Group director, Carl Howe, mobile web sites are getting better every year with online shopping proving to be the best improvers. He added that apps, such as those found in Apple's App store, were not included in the survey. "The mobile Web is no longer a novelty," he said. "When we started doing this two years ago this was actually pretty rare...it was only one year after the original iPhone showed up and as a result there weren't as many mobile Web users.
Not so now. According to Howe, there are 205 million mobile data users in the U.S., with Yankee forecasting 125 million smartphones being activated here by 2014.
Yankee's awards covered four categories: technology, retail, transport and national wireless carrier sites. Testers in New York and San Francisco accessed the 48 sites being judged on a number of devices and via four major networks -- Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.
Among the top factors determining the rankings were page-loading speed, the volume of data downloaded from a site and access reliability.
In the technology category, Google finished well ahead of runner-up Bing, with 81 points to 70. AOL earned a grade of 69.
The overall runner-up was retail category winner Walmart, which had 75 points, with Best Buy finishing second with 68 points and Amazon.com grabbing a retail bronze with 67 points.
Three transport sites tied for first in that category with 73 points each -- Amtrak, JetBlue and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit mobile site.
This next part is interesting: The four national wireless carrier mobile sites weren't up to snuff, with Sprint leading a sorry field with 59 points. AT&T and Verizon each had 15 points, while T-Mobile had 14.
How is it that wireless carriers allow themselves to have such bad mobile websites? You'd think they'd care about their images, if not their subscribers.


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Recently, a report sprung up claiming that giant panda populations are in danger of being cut significantly over the next several decades, and the population may even die out entirely in 70 years.
The problem, scientists said, is that females have a very small fertility window–between 24 to 72 hours a year–which severely hampered reproduction. Now, a new study is suggesting that male giant pandas are to blame for the reproduction difficulties, too.
In the wild, this short window still works. Usually, a female and partner's reproductive cycles will align–once the female becomes fertile, the male panda tends to become more interested in sex. In captivity, however, scientists have noticed that the reproduction cycles go out of sync, which can severely reduce the chance of a female giant panda being held in captivity birthing a cub.
"The reproductive strategy the giant panda works well for them in the wild, otherwise, they would not have evolved to develop this strategy," said Dr Copper Aitken-Palmer, veterinary medical officer at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia.
"However, once we brought them into captivity, we changed all the rules. Frankly, we as scientists and animal managers were the ones that did not fully understand the complexities involved in giant panda reproduction."
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Crowned With His Glory
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Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM
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The women's ministry department at Liberty Worship Center (LWC), Stone Mountain Georgia, is sponsoring a Fundraiser Event titled "Crowned With His Glory". Five women have been chosen to raise funds and represent a woman from the Bible. I will be representing Abigail and my personal goal is to raise $3,000. The proceeds will help fund LWC's partnership with Atlanta Mission (My Sister's House) women's shelter and the LWC Annual Women's Conference.
Please show your support by giving a donation and attending the event. All contributions are tax-deductible.
The event will take place on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. Cocktail attire is recommended so please come dressed for the occasion. There will be live jazz music, Christian comedy, prizes and surprises for this elegant affair.
LWC's vision is to build God's house, minister to the lost and to help those in need. Thank you in advance for your generous support and assisting in bringing this vision to pass.
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Interview with Sunny Gupta, Apptio
This morning, Bellevue-based Apptio (www.apptio.com) announced it had raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round for the firm, as it looks to expand and grow--despite still sitting on funding from its last rounds. To gain more insight into why the firm is raising funding, as well as to hear about how the firm has already been seeing great growth in the past year, we talked with Sunny Gupta, the firm's CEO.
Sunny, thanks for the time today. For our readers who aren't familiar with Apptio, what does your firm do?
Sunny Gupta: Apptio is delivering business applications for the CIO, via an on-demand delivery model. In its simplest form, what we help CIOs do is number one, help them get deep visibility into the cost and quality of services and the value of IT products and services. Two, we help them produce a bill for IT, communicating the value of IT and the cost of technology, and billing that back to business units; and three, we help CIOs make business decisions on how to run their technology better--whether that's around virtualization, deciding whether to shut down their data center and moving infrastructure into the cloud, or figuring out what's the cost of their infrastructure, relative to an outsourcing provider. Fourth, we help CIOs automate their key business and financial management processes, such as budgeting, forecasting, and so forth. Apptio, as a company, is focusing on managing the business of technology. While CIOs have traditionally deployed lots of products to manage the technology itself, there have been no systems to manage the business of technology itself. That's a new category, andt hat's what Apptio does. We have fifty customers at this stage, and are just seeing phenomenal growth in the marketplace.
What is driving that growth?
Sunny Gupta: There are three things, at the macro level. One is, spend on technology, because the budget of IT customer have gone through the roof. For our Fortune 500/1000 customers, it's very common for them to have a 50 million dollar, to multiple billion dollar spend on IT resources. One of our largest customers, spends 10 billion on technology. Because of that spending on technology, and because business units are ultimately writing checks for that technology, companies are demanding transparency of cost and value of IT products and services that IT groups are delivering. Two, is for a CIO, who has mostly been focused on managing technology, cloud and virtualization has now come into play--and virtualization is pushing that cost structure into the shared service model. Also, because there are now external cloud options available, CIOs are under pressure to understand their own cost structure better. How can you move your infrastructure to the cloud, or your applications to the cloud, if you don't fully understand your own infrastructure and its fully loaded cost? So that's the two big macro level reasons for the growth--big spend on technology, and because of external options like the cloud, virtualization, and the shared services model.
SWhat will you use the funding for?
Sunny Gupta: We will be applying it towards two things. One, is to drastically accelerate our sales and marketing. We think it's a multi-billion dollar opportunity. It's a great time for us to expand sales and marketing footprint. Our product works, and we hae lots of customer traction. On the product side, we plan on launching new modules and new capabilities on top of our platform, so we can provide more value to the CIOs, which will enable them to run the business of technology better.
As you know, it's been a fairly troublesome economy--yet, you mention you have been seeing fairly good growth. What's the dynamic there?
Sunny Gupta: From Apptio's perspective, because we're helping CIOs understand their cost structure, we are helping them figure out how to operate in a new environment, and manage the business of technology better--we consider ourselves counter-cyclical to the economy. We were founded in 2007, which was the worst economic time. At the end of 2007 and 2008, the meltdown happened, but as a result, we were able to deliver lots of value to our early customers. They were making decisions and trying to navigate through the financial cuts CIOs needed to make. Now, what we're finding, even with signs of recovery, is that every CIO is starting to say--in order for me to be effective, I have to do more with less. They have to understand things at a granular level, and the cost structure of what they are doing. That's one of the reasons we've seen the growth rates we've had. This year alone, to date, we're up 300 percent relative to where we were last year this time. We've absolutely been growing, countercyclical to the economy.
What was the decision to take another round now?
Sunny Gupta: First of all, our cash position is really, really strong. We're still sitting on some of the money back from our Series A. We raised $7.0M in our Series A, and $14.0M in our Series B. The company has done extremely well, and the company has been doing well just with the money coming from customers. So, we didn't need money from an operating perspective, but a couple of things happened. One, is there was very, very strong interest from outside venture capitalists in the summer timeframe. They asked us that if Apptio would be open to new money. We thought about that decision, and saw we are sitting on a multi-billion dollar opportunity, and that with more capital, we would grow much faster than we are today. That kind of drove our decision. Lastly, we wanted to make sure the money we got was on great terms, and was not very dilutive to our existing investors or to the team at Apptio. Because the terms were really good, there was lots of strong interest, and it would allow us to accelerate our business faster, we decided those were all good reasons to go take a Series C.
Finally, what are the challenges for your firm in the next year?
Sunny Gupta: Frankly, the biggest challenge for us is not the market opportunity, but that we have to execute like we have in the last three years. We believe in the market opportunity, we've assembled an incredible team, and we've executed like nobody else. We've exceeded and beat every milestone in front of us, so the biggest risk is making sure we continue to execute like we have, continuing to hire, and continuing to deliver value to our customers. If we can continue to do that, we'll be a really, really large business in the next couple of years.


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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
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In sports, championships are won on the field and not on paper. If the names in the program were all that mattered then the St. Louis Rams would have won the 2001 Super Bowl, the New England Patriots would have shut Mercury Morris up with a 19-0 season and Vancouver might still be in one piece.
However, as much as Lebron James would prefer we skipped the games and just jumped to the awards ceremonies, we play the games because the games rarely unfold as expected.
Adam Dunn hit exactly 40 home runs each year from 2005 to 2008 and then slugged 38 more in both 2009 and 2010. He has just nine this year. Ichiro Suzuki has never batted less than .303 in any of his 10 seasons in America, but he was batting just .267 at the All-Star Break. Heck, the Pittsburgh Pirates, perennial losers who have spent more time in the cellar than a fine wine or a redneck lovechild, are challenging for the NL Central lead and a potential playoff birth.
Anything can happen, so just because these three players have been scuffling for the majority of 2011 doesn't mean you should cast them aside and keep running Ryan Roberts (.257, 11 HR, 13 SB) and Kyle Lohse (8-6, 3.32 ERA) out there each and every week. It's time to cut bait with the over-performers and get these guys before they're unattainable.
Most fantasy managers are afraid to cut ties with a big name player like Zimmerman out of fear of getting swindled. Given the state of third base this season (shallower than a kiddie pool) it's unlikely that a player of Zimmerman's caliber will be highly available in most leagues, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth casting out a line and seeing if the other manager nibbles.
Zimmerman is batting just .254 with four homers and 15 RBI in 34 games this year, but his 1.35 strikeout-to-walk ratio would be a new career best and his power (as represented by HR/FB rate) is only slightly below where we'd expect it to be. He's batting .279 in July with an .812 OPS (career .835) and doesn't look far off the Zimmerman of old.
There's a pretty good chance you can pick up Pagan for free as he's owned in just 56 percent of Yahoo leagues, but even if someone already has him rostered it shouldn't cost you too much to trade for him. Pagan finished 2010 as the 20th ranked outfielder, making him extremely valuable in even the shallowest of leagues, but a terrible start to 2011 has him buried in the rankings.
Thankfully, we began seeing the 2010 version of Pagan in June as the Mets outfielder batted .300 with one homer, 16 RBI, 16 runs scored and seven steals that month. Since he's a speed-based player, his success comes when he's not striking out while minimizing the amount of fly balls he hits. When Pagan batted .159 in April he was striking out 11.0 percent of the time while hitting 51.7 percent of his balls in the air. When he batted .300 in June he was striking out 8.6 percent of the time while hitting just 34.2 percent of his balls in the air. Get him before he gets to 20 steals and his perceived value increases as a result of hitting that benchmark.
Jimenez raced out of the gates in 2010 only to slow off considerably in the second half. This year the opposite has been true. After starting the season 0-5 with a 5.86 ERA through the season's first two months, Jimenez has been a completely different pitcher. He hasn't allowed more than three earned runs in any of his last nine starts and has walked more than two batters just once over that same span. In his nine starts in April and May, Jimenez allowed more than three earned runs five times and walked more than two batters five times.
What's been behind this stunning turnaround? Jimenez's walk rate is way down and his ground ball-to-fly ball ratio is way up. Jimenez has always been a ground ball pitcher, and having Coors Field as a home ballpark makes this even more crucial.
FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) is a nice indicator of how well a pitcher has actually been pitching because it normalizes for everything pitchers can't control, basically removing luck from the ERA equation. This season Jimenez's FIPs have decreased every month from 5.53 In April to 3.63 in May, 3.04 in June and 2.02 in July. Jimenez is back, but judging by his 5-8 record, 4.08 ERA and 1.31 WHIP, your opponent might not know it yet.
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NORTH ANDOVER, MA- Junior Kerri Bergquist (Mashpee, MA) has been selected as the Northeast-10 Conference Goalie of the Week for the fifth time this season. The Merrimack field hockey team stayed at #4 in the NFHCA National Poll announced Tuesday afternoon.
Bergquist was also recognized as the womensfieldhockey.com Division II Player of the Week, announced Tuesday morning.
Bergquist posted her 15th and 16th-straight victories of the fall to help the Warriors improve to 16-1 overall and 10-0 in the Northeast-10. With the undefeated mark in league action, Merrimack clinched its first-ever regular season title and heads into the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament as the top seed.
Bergquist recorded five stops in the Warriors' 2-1 win over #5 UMass Lowell October 18. With the victory over the River Hawks, Merrimack secured a share of the Northeast-10 regular season crown. The lone goal Bergquist conceded was a penalty stroke with 11 minutes to play in the second half.
The junior closed out the regular season with a five-save performance in a 1-0 overtime-win for the Warriors against Adelphi October 23.
Bergquist sports a 0.71 goals-against average on the season with a 16-1 record between the pipes. Her 16 wins and nine shutouts this fall rank first in program history for highest single-season totals. Bergquist became the all-time winningest goalkeeper in program history earlier this season and has 37 victories to her credit in three seasons. She also set the all-time program mark for most shutouts in a career with 16 clean sheets.
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Joseph Arthur's Van: Seized, Auctioned, Rescued
Musician and painter Joseph Arthur found himself in a bind this summer when his tour van -- filled with art and music gear -- was seized by NYC officials for unpaid parking tickets. The story that ensued, however, was one that inspired music, protest, and an intervention from famed civil rights attorney Ron Kuby. Joseph Arthur joins us to explain how he finally answered the question "Where Is My Van?" and got his ride back.


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April 25, 2013
KNOXVILLE -- The University of Tennessee announced Thursday that Mike Vollmar has been named senior associate athletics director for football administration. Vollmar joins the Vols from Michigan, where he spent the last two years as the associate athletic director for football.
"Mike brings a wealth of firsthand knowledge and expertise to this role," said Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Dave Hart. "Our athletics program is fortunate to have him join our Executive Staff while also providing outstanding administrative leadership within our football program."
Vollmar is a veteran of 25 years in college athletics and was in his second stint with the Wolverines, beginning his career with a three-year stint (1988-90) working in recruiting and administration in Ann Arbor. Before his recent time at Michigan, he worked three seasons at Alabama (2008-10), where he oversaw the administration of the football program during a time in which the Crimson Tide went 36-5 and won the 2009 BCS National Championship.
"We are extremely excited to welcome the Vollmar family into the Tennessee football family," said head football coach Butch Jones. "Mike is well-respected in our profession and brings great knowledge and credibility based on his experience with multiple high-profile football programs."
Vollmar also worked for five years at Syracuse (1991-95), during which time the Orangemen finished 41-15-1 with three bowl victories. He was responsible for oversight of recruiting and administration during that time, and four players recruited during his tenure were named to the Syracuse All-Century Team (Donovan McNabb, Kevin Abrams, Donovan Darius, and Kevin Johnson).
Vollmar then spent 12 years at Michigan State (1996-2007) as assistant athletic director and director of football operations, overseeing all phases of the Spartan football program's operations while also managing construction of a new football facility. The Spartans appeared in six bowl games during his tenure.
"It was an absolute privilege to work with Coach Hoke and the entire football staff at Michigan, and I'm very appreciative of the opportunity they afforded me," said Vollmar. "That said it is an honor for me and my family to join the University of Tennessee as I further my career professionally.
"Having worked with Dave Hart for three years previously, I am confident great things are in store for UT Athletics, and with the reputation Coach Jones has built in a short amount of time, I know Tennessee Football has a bright future as well. My family and I are excited to be Tennessee Volunteers."
Vollmar is from Riverview, Mich., and graduated with a degree in history with a minor in speech communications in 1988 from Siena Heights University in Adrian, Mich., where he competed as a pole vaulter on the Saints' track and field team. He also has a master's degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy in 1999. He and his wife, Tami, have a daughter, Bailey Lauren.
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text: HOUSTON, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco's Balanced-Risk Allocation strategy has been named the winner of the Strategic Beta Management category for the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards. A presentation ceremony will be held Dec. 4 in New York. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110131/MM39469LOGO-a ) The aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards are split into two general categories, including asset management/servicing, and are chosen entirely by the aiCIO editorial team using input from their advisory board as well as surveys and applicable data. The aiCIO editorial team cited a combination of the Invesco Balanced-Risk Allocation strategy and Invesco's strong advocacy for the inclusion of risk-parity strategies within defined contribution plans and target-date funds for providing the advantage needed in the competitive Strategic Beta Management category. "This award continues the strong recognition for our risk-balanced management approach that has served retail and institutional investors well," said Scott Wolle, CIO of Invesco Global Asset Allocation. "It's a strategy we believe will become increasingly important to plan sponsors and their participants going forward, whether through an allocation within a custom target-date fund glide path as a better balanced fund, or through our target-date series." With the convergence of two trends – the transition of defined contribution plans to a primary means of retirement savings and the projected concentration of assets in target-date funds – many companies are re-examining their target-date fund options. The Invesco Balanced-Risk Allocation strategy invests in bond, equity, and commodity markets and seeks to build a portfolio that may perform well in diverse economic environments while balancing investment risk. For those companies with custom target-date funds, the strategy can help plan sponsors balance the risk across the glide path of their target-date funds so plan participants are less reliant on any specific type of economic environment for their retirement security.


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I have a 2011 wrx. Has about 3200 miles on it.
Clutch has been fine until this morning. I was driving to work and all was well. I stopped at a street light, light turned green, and as I let the clutch out I feel this vibrating feeling. I pulled into my work parking lot and I still feel it. I parked and went inside.
Just a few minutes ago I went out to the car, started it up, press in the clutch slowly and I feel like it's rubbing or chopping or like vibrating (but it's not vibrating). Not sure how to explain it, but it feels like there are notches or something as you push it in. If you push it in fast, feels completely smooth. Push it in slow and I feel the rubbing or a notchy feeling.
I'm had manuals for 20 years and never felt anything like this. Clutch seems to work fine, it just feels like it's rubbing and it's annoying.
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Ajmer, May 22: As many as 13 people, including three BJP activists, were arrested for alleged fake purchase of the United Church of Northen India's Bishop House property here on forged lease deed and other documents.
According to the police sources, BJP Dehat unit former president Shivraj Chaudhary, Srinagar Panchayat Samiti Deputy Pradhan Gopal Chaudhary, BJP Nasirabad block unit former president Vishnu Prasad Chokdiwal and others were nabbed by the police last night from the Bishop House premises after a preliminary scrutiny of documents.
Earlier, a delegation of Christian community led by Bishop Colin Theodore, met Superintendent of Police S Sengagir and lodged a complaint in the alleged fake sell of the Bishop House.
A police team was also sent to Indore for the arrest of Canadian Presbitarian Mission's Moderator Soloman Smith who had allegedly sold the property to the accused on fake lease deed.


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Not all curation tools are the same. Some are built to tell a story, and some are built to record history. Our KBucket solution is built to record history. In this post, I'd like to explore the difference between these two forms of communication, point you to curation tools that serve each market, and share some ideas on content marketing using KBucket.