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Israel is the only country in the world that Isis fears, according to the first Western journalist to enter the group's territories and survive.
Jürgen Todenhöfer spent 10 days in the so-called Islamic State last year, publishing his findings in a book.
In an interview with the Jewish News, the German reporter said Israel is not included in Isis' planned "first stage" of colonisation in the Middle East.
"The only country Isis fears is Israel – they told me they know the Israeli army is too strong for them," Mr Todenhöfer said.
"They think they can defeat US and UK ground troops, who they say they have no experience in city guerrilla or terrorist strategies.
"But they know the Israelis are very tough as far as fighting against guerrillas and terrorists."
The former politician said the Isis militants he met claimed not to be scared of British or American soldiers but believed the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) were a "real danger".
Isis has made several threats against Israel and Jewish people in its propaganda videos, claiming in October that "not one Jew" would be left in Jerusalem and vowing to eradicate the "disease" of Judaism from the world.
Timeline: The emergence of Isis
Timeline: The emergence of Isis
1/40 2000
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (pictured here) forms an al-Qaeda splinter group in Iraq, al-Qa'eda in Iraq. Its brutality from the beginning alienates Iraqis and many al-Qaeda leaders.
2/40 2006
Al-Zarqawi is killed in a U.S. strike. Al-Zarqawi's successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, announces the creation of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI).
3/40 2009
Still al-Qaeda-linked ISI claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 155 in Baghdad, as well as attacks in August and October killing 240, as President Obama announces troop withdrawal from Iraq in March.
Getty Images
4/40 2010
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi becomes head of ISI, at lowest ebb of Islamist militancy in Iraq, which sees last U.S. combat brigade depart.
5/40 2012
In Syria, protests (pictured here starting in Daree) have morphed into what president Assad labelled a "real war" with emergence of a coalition of forces opposed to Assad's regime. Syria group Jabhat al-Nusra are among rebel groups who refuse to join, denouncing it as a "conspiracy". Bombings targeting Shia areas, killing more than 500 people, spark fears of new sectarian conflict. Sunni Muslims stage protests across country against what they see as increasingly marginalisation by Shia-led government.
6/40 2013
Al-Baghdadi renames ISI as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or Isis, as the group absorbs Syrian al-Nusra, gaining a foothold in Syria. In response, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri (Bin Laden's successor) concerned about Isis' expansion orders that Isis be dissolved and ISI operations should be confined to Iraq. This order is rejected by al-Baghdadi.
7/40 2014 - January
Isis fighters capture the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, giving them base to launch slew of attacks further south.
8/40 2014 - June
Isis declares itself the Caliphate, calling itself Islamic State (IS). The group captures Mosul, Iraq's second largest city; Tal Afar, just 93 miles from Syrian border; and the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. These advances sent shockwaves around the world.
9/40 2014 - June
Around the same time Isis releases a video calling for western Muslims to join the Caliphate and fight, prompting new evaluations of extremists groups social media understanding.
10/40 2014 - June
Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq - giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue.
11/40 2014 - August
James Foley is executed by the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner, fellow reporter Steven Sotloff.
12/40 2014 - August
Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, helping to stall Isis' along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar.
13/40 2014 - September
Isis release video showing Steven Sotloff's murder prompting Western speculation his executioner is same man who killed Mr Foley.
14/40 2014 - September
Obama tells us that America "will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country"
15/40 2014 - September
Isis release a video appearing to show David Haines, who was captured by militants in Syria in 2013, wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in the desert while he reads a pre-prepared script. It later shows what appears to be the aid worker's body.
16/40 2014 - September
Peshmerga fighters scrabble to hold positions in the Diyala province (a gateway to Baghdad) as Isis fighters continue to advance on Iraqi capital.
17/40 2014 - October
Aid worker Alan Henning is killed. Self-imposed media blackout refuses to show images of him in final moments, instead focuses upon humanitarian care.
18/40 2014 - October
Isis raise their flag in Kobani, which had been strongly defended by Kurdish troops. The victory goes against hopeful western analysis Isis had overextended itself, while alienating much of the Muslim population through the murder of Henning. Victory causes fresh waves of Kurdish refugees arriving in Turkey.
19/40 2014 - November
American hostage, who embarced values of Islam, Peter Kassig and 14 Syrian soldiers are shown meeting the same fate as other captives. But intelligence agencies will be poring over the apparently significant discrepancies between this and previous films.
20/40 2015 - February
Isis has released a video revealing the murder by burning to death of a Jordanian pilot held by the group since the end of December 2014.
21/40 2015 - February
Isis militants have released videos which appear to show the beheading of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.
22/40 2015 - February
American aid worker, Kayla Mueller was the last American hostage known to be held by Isis. She died, according to her captors, in an airstrike by the Jordanian air force on the city of Raqqa in Syria, though US authorities disputed this.
23/40 2015 - February
Isis militants have posted a gruesome video online in which they force 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages to kneel on a beach in Libya before beheading them. Egypt vowed to avenge the beheading and launched air strikes on Isis positions.
24/40 2015 - February
The British Isis militant suspected of appearing in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages has been named in reports as Mohammed Emwazi from London.
Rex Features
25/40 2015 - March
Isis triple suicide attack has killed more than 100 worshippers and hundreds of others were injured after the group members targeted two mosques in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
26/40 2015 - April
Iraqi forces have claimed victory over Isis in battle for Tikrit and raised the flag in the city.
27/40 2015 - April
Isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 35 people queuing to collect their wages and injured 100 more.
28/40 2015 - April
Isis' media arm released a 29-minute video purporting to show militants executing Ethiopian Christians captives. The footage bore the extremist group's al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax.
29/40 2015 - May
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis has been "incapacitated" by a spinal injuries sustained in a US air strike in Iraq. He is being treated in a hideout by two doctors from Isis' stronghold of Mosul who are said to be "strong ideological supporters of the group".
30/40 2015 - May
Isis has also claimed responsibility for killing 300 of Yazidi captives, including women, children and elderly people in Iraq
31/40 2015 - May
Isis attack on Prophet Mohamed cartoon contest in Texas was its first action on US soil. Two gunmen were shot and killed after launching the attack at the exhibition. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi have been named as the attackers at the Curtis Culwell Centre arena in Garland.
32/40 2015 - May
Isis's deputy leader, Abu Alaa Afri, a former physics teacher who was thought to have taken charge of the deadly terrorist group, has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike.
33/40 2015 - May
US special forces have killed a senior Isis leader named as Abu Sayyaf in an operation aiming to capture him and his wife in Syria.
Getty Images
34/40 2015 - May
Iran-backed militias are sent to Ramadi by the Iraqi government to fight Isis militants who completed their capture of the city. Government soldiers and civilians were reportedly massacred by extremists as they took control and the army fled. Charred bodies were left littering the city streets as troops clung on to trucks speeding away from the city. Ramadi is the latest government stronghold to fall to the so-called Islamic State, despite air strikes by a US-led international coalition aiming to stop its advance in Iraq and Syria.
35/40 2015 - May
Isis rounded up civilians trapped in Palmyra and forced them to watch 20 people being executed in the historic city's ancient amphitheatre. The Unesco World Heritage site was overrun by militants, threatening the future of 2,000 year-old monuments and ruins. Thousands of Palmyra's residents fled but many are still living within the city walls, while the UN human rights office in Geneva said it had received reports of Syrian government forces preventing people from leaving until they retreated from the city.
36/40 2015 - May
A group of Isis-affiliated fighters have captured a key airport in central Libya. The militants took control of the al-Qardabiya airbase in Sirte after a local militia tasked with defending the facility withdrew from their positions. Affiliates of Isis, already control large parts of Sirte, the birthplace of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and a former stronghold of his supporters.
37/40 2015 - June
The US Air Force has destroyed an Isis stronghold after an extremist let slip their location on social media. According the Air Force Times, General Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, said that Airmen at Hulburt Field, Florida, used images shared by jihadists to track the location of their headquarters before destroying it in an airstrike.
38/40 2015 - June
Kurdish forces captured a key military base in a significant victory in Raqqa as well as town of Tell Abyad. YPG fighters, backed by US-led airstrikes and other rebels, consolidated their gains, when they seized the key town on the Syria-Turkey border. They are now just 30 miles to the north of Raqqa and have cut off a major supply route deep inside Isis-held territory.
Ahmet Silk/Getty
39/40 2015 - June
Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade as it seeks to boost morale among its fanatical supporters.
40/40 2015 - June
Isis has begun carrying out its threat to destroy structures in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, blowing up at least two monuments at the Unesco-protected site as Syrian government troops made advances on the Islamist's positions.
Although Isis-affiliated groups are believed to be active in Gaza, no terror attacks in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories have yet been claimed by the organisation.
Mr Todenhöfer described al-Qaeda as "peanuts" compared to Isis after being allowed to meet the group's officials, militants and followers around its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.
"They want to show that the Islamic State is working," he said afterwards. "I thought I would meet a brutal terrorist group, but I met a brutal country."
Israel is not part of the US-led coalition bombing Isis in Iraq and Syria but its intelligence services are thought to be passing information on the group to allies.
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- Isis
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|Public Law 91-264
|Indians. Hopi Tribe, Arizona.
|Sec. 2
|Delegation of powers.
|Sec. 2
|62 Stat. 939; 79 Stat. 887.
|Sec. 2
|Sec. 3
|Secretary of Interior, approval.
|Sec. 6
|Exempted securities.
|Sec. 6
|48 Stat. 906.
|Sec. 6
|48 Stat.882.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose
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of assisting in the economic advancement and contributing to the general welfare of the Hopi Indian Tribe of Arizona, the Congress hereby finds it to be fitting and appropriate to provide the Hopi Tribal Council with certain powers of self-determination that are necessary to enable the Hopi people to carry out the effective development and operation of the Hopi Industrial Park, which is located in the counties of Navajo and Coconino in the State of Arizona.
The Hopi Tribal Council shall have the following powers:
(a) To sell any part of the lands within the Hopi Industrial Park.
(b) To execute mortgages upon, or deeds of trust to, the lands within said Hopi Industrial Park. Such lands shall be subject to foreclosure or sale pursuant to the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona. The United States shall be an indispensable party to, and may be joined in, any such proceeding involving said lands with the right to remove the action to the United States district court for the district in which the land is situated, according to the procedure in section 1446, of title 28, United States Code, and the United States shall have the right to appeal from any order of remand entered in such action.
(c) To pledge any revenue or other income from lands within said Hopi Industrial Park, and the improvements situated thereon, and any other revenue or income that may be available to the Hopi Tribe without regard to source, to secure any indebtedness of the Hopi Tribe incurred in the development of said Hopi Industrial Park, and any action to enforce said pledge shall be in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona, and the United States shall be an indispensable party thereto to the same extent and under the same conditions as hereinbefore provided in the case of mortgage foreclosures.
(d) To issue bonds for and on behalf of the Hopi Tribe, and pay the costs thereof, to accomplish the purposes of this Act, in one or more series, in such denomination or denominations, maturing at such time or times, and in such amount or amounts, bearing interest at such rate or rates, in such form either coupon or registered, to be executed in such manner, payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, and containing such other restrictive terms as may be provided by tribal ordinance. Such bonds may be sold at not less than par at either public or private sale and shall be fully negotiable.
(e) To appoint a bank or trust company with its home office in the State of Arizona having an officially reported combined capital, surplus, undivided profits and reserves aggregating not less than $10,000,000 as trustee for all of the purposes provided in the ordinance authorizing and creating any issue of bonds. Any trustee so appointed may be authorized to commence an action for and on behalf of, or on relation of, the Hopi Tribe to enforce any obligation to the tribe pledged to secure payment of the bonds without joining the United States as a party thereto.
(f) To enter into any business venture as a shareholder of a corporation issuing nonassessable stock, or as a limited partner with any corporation, firm or person operating within said Hopi Industrial Park.
(g) To lease lands within the Hopi Industrial Park, any other tribal lands, and the improvements thereon, in accordance with the provisions of Federal laws.
The exercise of all powers granted the Hopi Tribal Council by this Act shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, or his duly authorized representatives.
Bonds issued by authority of this Act and bearing the signatures of tribal officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all of the persons whose
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signatures appear thereon have ceased to be officers of the Hopi Tribal Council.
All bonds issued by the Hopi Tribal Council for and on behalf of the Hopi Tribe and the interest provided in said bonds shall be exempt from taxation to the same extent they would have been exempt if the bonds had been issued by the State of Arizona or a political subdivision thereof.
Any security is issued by the Hopi Tribal Council (including any guarantee by such council), and any securities guaranteed by the council as to both principal and interest, shall be deemed to be exempted securities within the meaning of paragraph (a) (2) of section 3 of the Act of May 27, 1933, as amended (15 U.S.C. 77c), and paragraph (a) (12) of section 3 of the Act of June 6, 1934, as amended (15 U.S.C. 78c), and shall be exempt from all registration requirements of said Acts.
Approved, May 22, 1970.

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The royalist discusses Harry's ill-advised musings on the similarities between war and Playstation.
The name change is not without its critics - including the royalist.
The royalist has done his bit for Q&C and deleted the orignal pictures we posted earlier.
Buckingham Palace told the royalist they would not be commentin on the young royals movements.
She is absolutely writing the book herself," a Penguin flack told The royalist, "So it's nice to shout about it.
And when women rode to battle there was no mercy asked or given, from royalist or Confederate or Parliament man.
All the outlets from the kingdom were closed by the royalist troops.
But it would not do, and again you promised her to me if I could get you certain information from the royalist army.
Then they turned on the royalist conspirators and laid the blame at their door.
In 1653 permission was given to Digby to return, on condition he would not meddle with royalist plots.


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Coming up tonight on KLTV 7 News at 10:00: KLTV 7's chance
encounter with a former dentist accused of murdering his wife. 76-year old
Bobby Nichols was arrested June 29th after he says he got into an argument with
his wife Rosiland who, Nichols claims, was "nagging" him about how he
spends his Friday nights.
This afternoon, we ran into Nichols and his attorney
at the Smith County Courthouse. We waited for Nichols and his attorney to leave
the courthouse, and asked for an interview, Nichols only on camera interview.
You will hear what Nichols says happened the night of June 29 tonight on KLTV 7
News at 10:00.
A 13-year-old is hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a shooting early Thursday in Tyler.


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Channels 1-11 are used worldwide.
Channels 12 & 13 - Depends on location (e.g. not allowed in the USA)
Channel 14 is only in Japan
To enforce this, some manufactures limit/block some channels when writing the firmware to the device.
I have this card working on BT5R1 Gnome VM, however it wont inject on ch13? Any ideas?
I have started with airmon-ng wlan0 13, airodump -c 13 etc.
I followed the instructions from: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...reless_Drivers to update the drivers, although that may not have been neccessary.
Changing the AP to channel 11 I was able to inject fine.
Channels 1-11 are used worldwide.
Channels 12 & 13 - Depends on location (e.g. not allowed in the USA)
Channel 14 is only in Japan
To enforce this, some manufactures limit/block some channels when writing the firmware to the device.
Have you...g0tmi1k?
I'm in the UK so 13 is allowed, it will monitor channel13 and detects the AP. Will connect fully to the AP on ch13 etc.
Has anyone else tried this device on ch13?
Thank goodness for this thread.
I've been trying to get my AWUS051NH work and pulling my hair out because of it. Mostly because I'm a newbie and was making newbie mistakes. (Like wicd doesn't work when the card is in monitor mode, dude).
Anyway, I finally found the Wiki here and down at the bottom it lists the AWUS051NH as a card that is not working. I despaired. But then I noticed that it said the wiki page needs to be updated for BT5. Hope? Then I found this thread and hope was confirmed. At long last I found my way out of the newbie weeds and everything is working now.
So thanks to jpkirk et al. for giving me hope!
@Eltanin Are you still having difficulty?
if you can sit through this and listen over your self loling. kind of goodinfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0LewOFrO8
i have the alfa awus036h which worked fine in the beginning. now although it sees networks, in windows xp and windows 7, i cant get connected to them, i tested it at my workplace. in backtrack i can inject and capture the handshake but cannot connect to our network through wicd "bad password"
Okay, I just tested the Awus051nh and works great out of the box in both vmware workstation 7 and also hdd install. Both tests were in 64bit version's of BT5, However the signal was real weak and did not compare to the Awus036h.
I ended up selling my Nh to a buddy who didn't need strong signal right now. Now I'm on my way to get the awus36nh. Well see how it compares........
I'm a little confused. I want to use this wireless card for kismet aircrack-ng airodump etc. Will it work right out of the box?


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His journey has transformed him from outlaw biker to man of God to silver-screen celebrity.
Now Sam Childers, whose life inspired the 2011 movie "Machine Gun Preacher," journeys May 5 to Rancho Cucamonga to talk about his work in Africa and how God has changed his life.
"I usually draw a lot of nonbelievers," Childers said. "I usually draw people who are looking for hope."
Childers will be the guest speaker for Lifepoint Church's outdoor service at 10:30 a.m. at Red Hill Community Park amphitheater, 7484 Vineyard Ave.
He's bringing his custom Machine Gun Preacher chopper built by Jesse James, plus the bike used in the movie by actor Gerard Butler, who portrayed Childers.
Glenn Myers, senior pastor of the church, and also a motorcycle enthusiast, is hoping for a big turnout among bikers and residents of the area. "When I see God using someone so dramatically, I just think it needs to be shared," Myers said.
Childers, 50, is the founder of Angels of East Africa, a group that has helped thousands of orphans and child soldiers in Africa. He's fought against the Lord's Resistance Army, a group described on Childers' website as a brutal rebel militia responsible for kidnapping 30,000 children and killing hundreds of thousands of villagers.
The Pennsylvania native, a former armed guard for drug dealers, turned his life around in the early 1990s. He became a Christian and traveled to Africa to repair huts in war-torn southern Sudan for a church mission.
That visit motivated Childers to build an orphanage in the village of Nimule, an area the LRA was attacking in the early 2000s.
Word spread of his armed missions with the Sudan People's Liberation Army to rescue children from the LRA, earning him the name "Machine Gun Preacher."
His rescue methods and his blunt way of speaking often rile up other Christians, Childers says. But controversy, Myers says, often goes hand-in-hand with being a high-profile Christian.
"Anytime a Christian stands up for God there's going to be opposition," he said.
Childers wrote about his life in the 2009 book "Another Man's War," which led to the movie. He said the movie didn't illustrate exactly how troubled he was before he became a Christian.
"The thing that's messed up in the movie is they took 30-plus years and put it into a two-hour-plus movie," he said.
He plans to fix that. A documentary on Childers' life is set for release in August, and his second book, "Living on the Edge," will contain content edited out of his first book because it was considered too controversial.
Childers says his group is currently building its fifth orphanage in Ethiopia. They've built two schools and have acquired a farm to teach irrigation and farming to natives.
And though he does generate funds for his cause at speaking events, he says, the money is secondary.
"It's not about money. It's about changing lives," he said.


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Academic Affairs Accomplishments 2009-2010
- Provost's Office
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- School of Arts and Humanities
- School of Business and Economics
- School of Education
- School of Extended Education
- School of Science and Technology
- School of Social Sciences
- University Library
Provost's Office
- Reaccreditation of SSU: Next Educational Effectiveness Visit in 2019
- Diversity: SSU Diversity Plan and Hiring of Director for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence, Dr. Elisa Velasquez-Andrade
- Degree Progress Reports: Created a system of reporting course substitutions and are now implementing with departments. Majors, concentration and GE requirements are built into the system.
- Graduation Initiative: Creation of Core Implementation Group and successful implementation of block scheduling for first time freshmen for Fall 2010 (pilot: remediation and Pre-Business).
- Part Time Faculty Contract Process: For the first time more than 80% of contracts were received in the first week of August.
- Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: Increased the number of proposals submitted by 20%
Academic Programs
- Hired first Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. John Kornfeld
- WASC Substantive Change Interim Approval of new BA in Liberal Studies, Solano County
- $25,000 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant through the CSU Chancellor's Office for Center for Community Engagement
- Academic Resources:
- Enrollment Management – improved the process by using student groups, FTF seat distribution to schools & business process for schools
- FIRMS Program Codes – evaluated and adjusted FIRMS program codes
- Budget – implemented system for efficient department/fund level budget and reconciliation
Faculty Affairs
- Revision of Tenure Track Hiring Search Procedure Manual: New procedures address some concerns from both the ad-hoc diversity and President's Diversity Council
- Training presentations to department chairs on temporary appointments, entitlements, careful consideration
- Reviewed and streamlined procedures and forms for faculty resignations, retirements, chair appointments and Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP)
Institutional Research
- Conducted internal surveys including campus climate, alumni
- External data reporting including VSA, College Portrait
- Academic Planning Database improvements; developed training program for dept chairs, and cleaned up the APDB categories
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
- Updated pre-award forms, procedures and guidelines and provided all PEF signers with a refresher training to enhance efficiency and better facilitate submission of proposals
- Staged two university-wide events to formally recognize research and sponsored programs on campus (Provost's Recognition Event and Faculty Exposition Event)
- In collaboration with the FSSP, offered five internal competitions to support faulty and student research and scholarship, awarding 23 internal grants and/or recognition awards to faculty and students
School of Arts and Humanities
- Leny Mendoza Strobel hosted the First International Babaylan Conference at SSU on April 17-18, 2010. At the conference the book, Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous, edited by Leny Mendoza Strobel, was launched
- Brantley Bryant: (Book published in 2010) Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog / Medieval Studies and new Media. Palgrave, MacMillan, Publishers
- Anne Goldman: Published an essay on Dante and Primo Levi in the spring issue of the GEORGIA REVIEW and have an essay, "Wild Thing," forthcoming in a new literary journal (THE PEDESTRIAN)
- Kim Hester-Williams: (March 2010) was elected to serve as the chair of the Cultural Studies Association division for Media and Cinema
- Greta Vollmer: Visiting professorship, UC Berkeley School of Education, Spring 2010
- Ajay Gehlawat's book Reframing Bollywood: Theories of Popular Hindi Cinema is coming out from Sage in July
- Heidi Lamoreaux — co-authored a paper in a major refereed journal in her discipline (Geography) "Late Pleistocene and Holocene environments of the Southeastern United States from the stratigraphy and pollen content of a peat deposit on the Georgia Coastal Plain" in Palaeo: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- Debora Hammond's book The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, will be coming out in paperback in September, 2010
Modern Languages and Literatures
- Michaela Grobbel received a Fulbright Award for "2010 Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies
- Brian Wilson won a major composer award in the concert division of ASCAP
- Andy Collinsworth elected president of the California Music Educators Association, Bay Area section
Theatre Arts
- Nancy Lyons: Director, Choreographer, Nancy Lyons Dance Retrospective, Evert B. Person Theatre, April-May, 2010
School of Business and Economics
- Completed a five‐year comprehensive strategic plan, incorporating the input of a broad set of stakeholders. Implemented the plan by identifying action items and their staging across the next few years and acted upon those identified for 2009‐2010. Management Operating System (MOS): Developed a management operating system to support and implement fulfillment of SBE's mission as indicated in the strategic plan.
- Completed a branding initiative and a website overhaul to position the School competitively to attract students and engage the community.
- Launched the Executive MBA program in partnership with School of Extended Education; 19 students from major regional employers (Medtronic, BioMarin, Agilent, Sonoma County, Kendall Jackson), small business, and not‐for‐profits ($665,000 new gross revenue, strong diversity in cohort, broad reach into key North Bay Businesses).
- Accelerated SBE Career Center activities to better support students, including mentoring program, internships, and more job placements.
- Launched student and alumni engagement initiatives including partnering with ASI to host the Jessica Jackley event, launching a Financial Literacy Headquarters, conducting an alumni speaker series, and providing more support to student organizations.
- Professional Programs: Tasting Room Management Certificate Program; Hospitality Management Program with River Rock Casino; Human Resource Management Certificate Program.
- Financial Literacy Headquarters: Worked with alumni and students to conduct programs for the community on financial planning, tax advice, and mortgage counseling.
- Assurance of Learning: "Closed the loop" for AoL in four program learning objectives: Global Perspectives, Ethical Reasoning, Oral Communications, and Quantitative Applications.
- Career Center: Created and conducted career center programs focused on students' career development including the mentor program, the Career EXPO, the Internship program, and a series of workshops to deliver specific career skills. Increased full-time employment and internship opportunities.
- Support Research, Professional Development Support: Prioritized funding of research through professional development grants and awards for publications: Granted 20 awards across 13 faculty, most of the multiple awards went to junior faculty; 19 separate publications across 13 faculty, two of the publications were co‐authored internally. Promote Research Publicized faculty research to stakeholders through our annual report and other media.
- Economic Outlook Conference: Hosted the annual North Bay Economic Outlook conference; 200+ attendees heard SBE's "State of the Economy" analyses and call for regional economic collaboration; A special issue of the North Bay Business Journal was devoted to the conference.
- Comprehensive Campaign Foundation: Focused on engaging business professionals in SBE and working with the Development Office to identify prospects.
- Economic Development: Laid the groundwork for the Economic Development and Innovation Accelerator to create momentum for, and increase the velocity of, a variety of economic development initiatives focused on job creation and business growth.
School of Education
- Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education adjunct faculty member Nancy Case-Rico is involved with four federal for Teaching American History grants—a million dollars each grant.
- Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education Assistant Professor Jessica K. Parker has published a new book: Teaching Tech Savvy Kids: Bringing Digital Media Into the Classroom (Corwin). The book offers educators new ways of understanding young people's online lives and how the resources of new media and participatory culture can be effectively integrated into their pedagogical practices.
- Adjunct faculty member Elizabeth Galvez-Hard of the LEEE Department had the opportunity to teach in at the University of Madrid in Spain, putting SSU on the map for many people from Spain as well as students and professors from the East Coast who attended.
- LEEE associate professor Kathy Morris just completed 1.5 years on the Teaching Mathematics Advisory Panel for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. She served on a diverse 22-member panel which drafted recommendations for revisions to CTC standards.
- Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education associate professor Karen Grady gave presentations of three different research projects at the leading national literacy research conference. Dr. Grady completed the final evaluation of the Redwood Area Academic Literacy Initiative and presentation to funding agency for $970,000 federal grant that has been improving academic literacy in science, mathematics and history among high school students in northern California over the past four years. She also completed two manuscripts that have been submitted for review.
- ELSE associate professor Emiliano Ayala, Principle Investigator on the ENACT Grant - Recognizing the value of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a model pedagogical framework, EnACT~PTD offered more than 55 faculty from across the CSU the skills, support, and training necessary to successfully incorporate UDL principles into their coursework.
- CSSE associate professor Carlos Ayala and Mathematics and Statistics professor Ben Ford, received an NSF Noyce grant of $900K to support future science and mathematics teachers with scholarships, funding for travel. and internships.
School of Extended Education
- Thirteen students graduated from the Napa Degree Completion program
- M.A. In Spanish program graduated its first class
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) expands to its third site at Sonoma Vintage House
- OLLI fundraising efforts total $87,750
- Began internal marketing strategy as outreach to the campus
- 1,213 students enrolled in January Intersession and attended one or more of the 73 courses offered (40 GE classes)
- More than 120 courses were offered during the 2010 Summer Session and more than 1,500 students enrolled in summer 2010 courses
- Associated General Contractors and the Redwood Empire Construction Specification Institute collaborated with the School of Extended Education to offer scholarships for Construction Management and the Green Building Certificate Program, with more than $10,000 now available for students.
Successful launches of the following programs:
- Sonoma cohort graduated 20 social work students in Long Beach program
- Executive MBA launched its first cohort Spring 2010
- The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education selected the SSU School of Education in collaboration with the School of Extended Education as the only campus in the United States permitted to offer programs for primary level school science teachers for Sustainable Certificate Program approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners to offer continuing education professional credit
- In collaboration with Solano County Community College, signed an MOU to move plans forward to offer a B.A. Liberal Studies program to Solano County students
School of Science and Technology
- Seven grants awarded to Biology faculty totaling $5.35 M
- Dan Crocker was awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to study mechanisms of oxidative stress in elephant seals
- Karina Nielsen was awarded $288,677 to lead the "Sandy Beaches and Surf Zone Ecosystems" study as part of a $4 million grant to the North Central Coast Marine Protected Areas Baseline Program
- Michael Cohen received the Theodore Roosevelt Environmental Award from the Association of California Water Agencies.
- Grants in submission - 6 totaling $3.15M
- Peer reviewed publications in submission - 3
- Peer reviewed publications published - 18
- Professional talks/seminars/presentations – 20
- Michael Cohen received the Theodore Roosevelt Environmental Award from the Association of California Water Agencies
- Hall Cushman received the SSU Goldstein Award for Excellence in Scholarship
- Graduate student Alexandria (Zannie) Dallara won second place at the 24th Annual CSU Student Research Competition for her work on the "Effects of Incubation Temperature on Development and Phenotype in the Western Pond Turtle, emys marmorata"
- Michael Cohen is an active contributor to a $1.5 M award to the CSU for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) service learning. SSU is one of 5 CSU campuses involved in developing STEM service learning initiatives in the curriculum
- Peer reviewed articles by Assistant Professor Farmer, Associate Professor Fukuto, Associate Professor Lillig, and Associate Professor Works with undergraduate co-authors
- Grant awarded to Professor Su
- Chemistry 110 approved for GE credit
- Establishment of Chemistry 492 seminar course
- Winter retreat to discuss and revise curriculum
- Submission of 8 grant proposals currently pending: NSF MRI (core faculty), NSF RUI X 3 (Lillig, Works, Fukuto), NSF REU (Works and Lillig), NIH X 2 (Fukuto), NSF TUES (Perri)
- Student research awards (Professor Works)
- Farmer presented at the UC Davis Miller symposium
- Associate Professor Fukuto presented at the Gordon conference
- Associate Professor Lillig had student presentations at CSUPERB
- More than 20 students from the Chemistry Department presented their work at the Northern California Undergraduate Research Symposium in Santa Clara under the guidance of faculty members Carmen Works, Jennifer Lillig, Steve Farmer and Jon Fukuto
Computer Science
- Two applications written by computer science students were accepted into the Apple App store (iRovio – iPhone/iPad controls for Rovio mobile webcam and Forsaken – fantasy arcade adventure)
- Dr. Suzanne received $16,800 in student stipend and travel funding for "Modeling the Power Consumption of Computer Systems with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)" from the Computing Research Association. She also has published 4 papers
Engineering Science
- New Bioengineering track in Masters in Computer and Engineering Science (MSCES) program as a third concentration
- Approval of Electrical Engineering minor in BS program
- Faculty held a retreat and identified the mission and vision of the Engineering Science department
- First BS graduates from the ES department
- Graduate 20 students, including the first 4 students to receive degrees in Statistics from SSU
- Had successful Fall and Spring Colloquium series (12 talks in the fall, 12 talks in the spring; the 24 speakers represented 12 distinct institutions)
- Held a successful Math Festival on April 28, 2010, with keynote speaker John Martin from SRJC, followed by an alumni and awards dinner
- Two SSU teams competed in the internationally recognized Mathematical Modeling Competition the weekend of February 18, 2010
- Six SSU math majors competed in the Putnam Mathematical Competition (a national competition held for the past 72 years) on December 5, 2009
- Successfully completed mandatory program continuing approval process with the California State Board of Registered Nursing for the Prelicensure Undergraduate Nursing Program, the Direct Entry MSN Program and the MSN- Family Nurse Practitioner Program. Full approval granted for maximum 8 years with no areas of non-compliance to state regulatory requirements (Jan 2010).
- First-time pass rate for national RN licensing examination for 20 DEMSN graduates was 100% and for 32 prelicensure BSN graduates was 97% (continue to exceed the national and state averages of 85-86%).
- Voluntary national specialty credentialing rates for MSN Family Nurse Practitioner graduates and DEMSN Clinical Nurse Leader graduates continue to exceed 90%.
- Family Nurse Practitioner Rural Distance Program with CSU Stanislaus and Chico continues to receive Federal funding ($149,000) and Song-Brown funding ($235,000) – a total of 114 nurses are currently enrolled in this graduate program.
- Collaborative Nursing Education Continuum Model (CNECM) with the five SSU service area Community College Nursing Programs, five area medical centers and two regional human simulation centers has successfully piloted the specially designed streamlined academic path for community college nursing students to begin BSN and MSN coursework while enrolled in their prelicensure nursing programs. ($400,000 funding for 3 years).
- Liz Close appointed Special Consultant and Coordinator, CSU Nursing Education Pathways Project
Physics and Astronomy
- The Cycromagnetic 17 tesla superconducting magnet came online and is currently being used by students for research and coursework with Professor Qualls. This instrument is extremely rare among undergraduate institutes around the world and signifies high-end infrastructure capable of projects and intensive research normally reserved for graduate institutions or national labs.
- Professor Severson and collaborators were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for more than $630,000 to develop an astronomical adaptive optics system. The system to be installed at Pomona College's Table Mountain Observatory will be built with substantial student involvement. SSU students will work with Professor Severson during the four-year duration of the grant in his Darwin Hall Laboratory and at the telescope site in Southern California.
- Professor Shi's laboratory experiments have yielded honeycomb-like regular arrays of nanometer (nm) sized pores in aluminum substrate. Facilities in the Keck Lab show that these pores are less than 100 nm in diameter and can be tuned by manipulating the fabrication parameters. This work has huge potential in applications such as data storage as different materials can be filled in these pores to demonstrate quantum-size effect.
- Professor Qualls and students synthesized a number of organic superconductors and ferromagnetic colloidal suspensions in Darwin 303. The synthesis required very inert working atmosphere and growth conditions, which were provided by a Vacuum Atmosphere glove box and vibration isolated optical table. Samples are being shipped to numerous researchers around the world, promoting SSU's visibility as a leader in material science.
- Professor Severson and coauthors submitted five articles for conference proceedings entitled "Learning from Inquiry in Practice." The conference, held in January, honored the achievements of the education program of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Adaptive Optics on its ten-year anniversary.
- Professor Qualls and coauthors published two articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals on spin density waves in low dimensional superconductors. This basic research is seeking to understand the fundamental mechanisms as to why organic materials can be superconducting.
- Professor Severson assumed the mantle of directing and organizing the long-running "What Physicists Do" lecture series after the retirement of Professor Joe Tenn. Highlights of the 2009-2010 academic year, included Professor Raymond Jeanloz, UC Berkeley, discussing his role as Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control and Dr. Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley, presenting on his groundbreaking first images of an extrasolar planet orbiting a normal star.
NASA E/PO group and Professor Lynn Cominsky:
- Professor Cominsky was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, through the Forum on Education. The citation reads "For her seminal work to promote student and teacher education using NASA missions as inspiration." Cominsky was also elected Vice Chair of the APS California section, and a Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee for the APS' Division of Astrophysics
- Received new funding totaling $499,596 from NASA to develop an on-line curriculum in Cosmology for college students. This three-year program is a partnership with Chicago State University and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, under the direction of Principal Investigator Lynn Cominsky
- Professor Cominsky, Dr. Kevin McLin and 10 of the NASA Astrophysics Educator Ambassadors attend the First Fermi Science Symposium in Washington DC, in November 2009. Part of the trip included the premiere of the Cosmic Reflection Symphony at the Kennedy Center, and a ceremony which honored the teachers and Professor Cominsky's work on behalf of Fermi
- Professor Cominsky (along with at least 150 other people) was a co-author on about 30 peer-reviewed papers resulting from the first year of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
School of Social Sciences
- Dr. Steve Estes, History, was awarded a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Fellowship in Germany from April to July 2010. He taught two classes on American history at the University of Erfurt. Erfurt is in the state of Thuringia, a state that was in East Germany before reunification two decades ago. On the Fulbright, Dr. Estes taught an undergrad class on the History of the American South and a class for MA students on the American Civil Rights Movement.
- Dr. Dave McCuan, Political Science, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic during the 2009-2010 academic year. His responsibilities included courses on Terrorism and International Law, US Foreign Policy Since World War Two as well as Elections and Electoral Behavior. Information about the University and these Departments can be found at: http://www.muni.cz/iips
- For academic year 2009-10, Dr. Amy Kittelstrom, History, was a fellow in Christian Thought and Practice at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. The year was devoted entirely to completing her first book, The Religion Of Democracy: Liberals And Self-Culture In Evolutionary America, 1838-1912.
- Dr. Heather Smith, Psychology, completed two grants. The first was a collaborative grant with faculty from Channel Islands and San Diego State University on the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and the other was a meta analysis of what relative deprivation predicts funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Dr. Kathy Charmaz, Sociology, has one book, seven articles and an encyclopedia article in various stages of publication. Her specialties, Qualitative Research Methods, Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory, has made her an internationally renowned scholar who gave invited talks in Australia, University of South Denmark and University of Pisa in Italy, all in 2010.
University Library
The University Library collaborated with SSU Academic Departments and the community to present the following:
Library Art Gallery
- Collaborated with art history professor Michael Schwager past, present, future: artists reflect on sustainability
- Collaborated with communications professor Jonah Raskin on field days: a year of farming, eating, and drinking wine in California
- Collaborated with art professor Jann Nunn "I think I see What you Mean by That"
- Collaborated with German Professor Michaela Groebbel, Live – Dance – Paint: Works by Ceija Stojka, Romani (Gypsy) Artist
Lecture Series
- Field Days Lecture series: collaborated with faculty from 6 different departments
- Collaborated with Dr. Michaela Groebbel to present Romani Film Series of 7 films
- Presented Open Access speaker John Willinsky (Stanford)
Collaborative instruction
- Librarians taught many components on research and information literacy skills across all disciplines — 71 sessions/classes total reaching 1,965 students.
- Collaborated with Center for Teaching and Professional Development and IT in creating and presenting Teaching and Technology Series — 17 workshops with 36 attendees
- Collaborated in planning and hosting several Moodle programs for the campus
- Collaboration on the North Bay Digital Maps Project included Dayle Reilly, Joe Marquez, Christine Hayes, Steve Norwick, and the ENSP department. http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/regmaps_sonoma.php
- Collaboration on the North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection included input from faculty and faculty emeritus, community members, and library staff. Highlighted in the 2010 Faculty Expo of Scholarship and Sponsored Research; showcased in March, 2010, and is currently being written up in the Press Democrat and Community Voice newspapers.
- SSU ScholarWorks (SSU/CSU institutional repository) went public with beta version. http://sonoma-dspace.calstate.edu/
- Provided distance education services, instruction and orientation for specific departments, notably Nursing, Education, Liberal Studies, Social Work, among others
- Provided services and assistance to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute students, SSU and CSU Alumni, Tech High teachers and students, Upward Bound students, Cotati Rohnert Park Unified School District teachers, SCOE teachers and aides, Roseland University Prep, Nursing mentors, campus volunteers, faculty and students from other CSU campuses, SRJC faculty and students, Chancellor's Office, Center for Distributed Learning and community borrowers.
Community Service
Library faculty and staff participated in a variety of community endeavors such as:
- Chair, Big Reads NEA program, Mini-Grant program
- Faculty Advisor, Omega Sigma Alpha sorority
- Website art director for the Cotati Historical Society http://cotatihistoricalsociety.org/
- North Coast Mac User Group Computer Expo volunteer
- Judge, Jack London Awards 2010, for University Center at Elsie Allen High School
- Chair, Rohnert Park Public Library Advisory Board
- Sonoma County History Day Project 2009, Library Research Instructor
- Glaser Center events and weekly homeless breakfast @ UUCSR
- Board of Directors, Sonoma County Wine Library
- Board of Directors, Kenwood Educational Foundation
University Service
Library faculty serve on many campus committees, often chairing. Below are some examples:
- Professional Development Subcommittee
- Structures and Functions
- Educational Policies Committee
- General Education Committee
- President's Diversity Council, 2009-2010
- SSU Jewish Studies Program, Advisory Board
- Faculty Subcommittee on Sponsored Programs
- Sabbatical Committee – School of Education, Modern Languages and Literatures
- University Affairs Division, Marketing assistant Interview committee
- University Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion subcommittee
- Faculty Standards and Affairs Committee
- Academic Foundation Board
CSU System Service
- CSU Institutional Repository (ScholarWorks) Planning Committee
- CSU Electronic Access to Resources Committee
- CSU Council of Library Deans/Directors, Executive Committee
Library faculty and staff attended and participated in presentations and conference papers for many professional conferences, national and regional, such as:
- Library hosted a Local History Digital Resource Project (LHDRP) grant run by the California State Library and supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
- Hosted a Society of California Archivists workshop
North Bay Historic Preservation Digital Collection (LHDRP grant,
July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010, (http://northbaydigital.sonoma.edu/).
- Launched with 200 of approximately 800 digitized images from our Sonoma County Preservation Project.
- The project was funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
- Collaboration on this project included input from faculty and faculty emeritus, community members, and library staff.
Scholarly Activity
Library faculty and staff have an active publishing record. Below
are some examples:
- Daniels, Erin. "Ten Tips for Teaching College Freshmen." C&RL News. Accepted for publication April 2010, awaiting final publication
- Daniels, Erin & Laurie Prothro (June 2010). "Information Literacy Now: Helping Students Become Information Savvy One Step at a Time." CCNews: Newsletter of the California Council on Teacher Education. Vol. 21, No. 2
- Daniels, Erin (2010). "Using a Targeted Rubric to Deepen Direct Assessment of College Students' Abilities to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources." College & Undergraduate Libraries. Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2010. Pg 31-43
- Robison, R. (2010). Annual Register: World Events. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 49(3), 288-289.
- Robison, R. (2010). International Encyclopedia of Gambling. Reference & User Services Quarterly, (In press).
Professional Development
Library faculty and staff participate actively in a wide variety of professional development activities to keep skills up to date. Some examples include:
- Center for Intellectual Property, Copyright Leadership and Management Certificate Program
- Xerxes 2.0
- 21st Century Reference Collections
- Moodle Update
- Teaching 2.0
- QuestionPoint 24/7 reference service
- Utilizing & Organizing RSS Feeds
- Web Of Science training, September 16, 2009
- Institutional Repositories webinar
- EduCause Copyright Webinar
- Multicultural Service Learning Workshop
- EduCause – Library in Your Pocket webinar
- What happened to the Computer Lab webinar
- Teaching Generation Next – PDS Workshop
- ATI and Copyright webinar
- Dismantling Color-Blind Racism – Tim Wise Workshop
- Universal Design for Learning workshop
- Future is Mobile webinar
- Introduction to Teaching with Moodle and More about Moodle
New or expanded library services and pilot projects
- Created a Student Presentation Room for students to utilize in practicing presentations and to use for thesis defense
- Expanded 24-hour study hall during finals to include the week before finals
- Investigated digital and streaming video options and began a pilot program
- Full library web site redesign, ADA compliant, to incorporate user-friendly navigation and web 2.0 tools. The new website provides a focus on library events and resources beyond the catalog that add value for the library researcher


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Pomeranz solid in tuneup for Majors
Rockies top pitching prospect tosses four shutout innings
By David Heck / Special to MLB.com | April 10, 2012 9:08 PM ET
Biding time until the big club needs a fifth starter this weekend, the Rockies' No. 2 prospect allowed four hits over four shutout innings in his season debut as the Double-A Tulsa Drillers defeated the Corpus Christi Hooks, 6-3.
Pomeranz, who was pitching for the Drillers because of weather concerns at other Rockies affiliates, threw 48 of 77 pitches for strikes. He fanned four and walked one.
"I was just trying to go out there and get that first one going," he said. "I couldn't throw strikes, honestly. I kind of struggled and, for some reason, my fastball started cutting a lot. I still only had one walk and hit a guy, but other than that, I was able to pitch out of some jams. I felt pretty good, maybe a little over-pumped up for that first game."
The 23-year-old left-hander worked a perfect first inning before pitching into some trouble in the second. He issued a leadoff walk to top Astros prospect Jonathan Singleton, then yielded back-to-back singles to Brandon Barnes and Jose Martinez to load the bases. He was able to strike out the next two batters, Jair Fernandez and J.C. Thompson, then got pitcher Henry Villar to ground out to escape unscathed.
"I was just trying to make pitches," Pomeranz said. "I've always been real good at that, been able to make pitches like that. Stay calm, relax and focus on making pitches, honestly. And I got out of it."
Pomeranz again ran into some issues in the third and fourth, but was able to strand a pair of runners both times to keep the Hooks off the board.
The Ole Miss product also came through at the plate, going 1-for-2, despite planning to keep the bat on his shoulder.
"I told everyone I wasn't even going to swing tonight," said Pomeranz, who recorded one hit in seven plate appearances last year. "I was just going to stand, but I couldn't help myself. I'll take hits where I can get them."
Selected fifth overall in the 2010 Draft by the Indians, Pomeranz was traded with three others to the Rockies last summer in the deadline deal that sent Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland. After making four starts for the Rockies in September, Pomeranz posted a 0.53 ERA in five spring outings to earn a spot in the rotation.
"I had a curveball and changeup, some off-speed to pitch with this year," Pomeranz said. "Last year, I didn't really have either one of those. I just wanted to throw pitches for strikes and win a rotation spot, and I did."
Although Pomeranz effectively will be replacing Jimenez only a few months after the trade, the left-hander doesn't view it that way. After being with the Indians for less than a year, he said he just feels like any other Rockies prospect.
"I try not to think about that. I don't think any of us in that trade do," Pomeranz said. "I feel more comfortable over here. I wasn't even that settled in with the Indians -- I hadn't even played a full year with them. I think I just feel more comfortable over here for whatever reason. I've almost forgotten I was even with the Indians, I was with them for such a short time.
"I don't feel any pressure toward me. You can't expect to go out and compete in a baseball game if you think about things that don't really matter."
While the transaction was made last July, Pomeranz had to wait more than two weeks to be officially included in the deal. Draft picks cannot be traded within a year of signing, keeping him off the mound during that period. He also missed time at the end of the year following an emergency appendectomy. Given all that, Pomeranz said his aim this season is simply to take the ball when it's his turn.
"I think my main goal is to go out there and pitch every five days," he said. "With all the weird things I had happen last year, I didn't really make my starts. I didn't pitch consistently every five days for the whole season. That's my goal, pitching every five days and putting my team in a good spot to win every game. That's all I care about."
David Heck is a contributor to MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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For many local media outlets, the highlight of last night's Amgen Tour of California press conference was Sunday Times sports writer Paul Kimmage when he pointedly asked Lance Armstrong why he admires cyclists who, in Kimmage's opinion, are proven, unrepentant dopers. Armstrong, visibly angry about Paul Kimmage's infamous "
the cancer is back speech
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Beyond the negative article that Armstrong mentioned in his answer to Kimmage, there's a long history about cycling, doping, and Paul Kimmage.
Paul Kimmage and his brothers followed their dad -- Ireland's 1962 road cycling champ -- into racing. In 1990, Kimmage published the book
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, an autobiographical tell-all book about the world of professional cycling that included claims of widespread drug use within the peloton. His book was among the first to reveal doping among professional cyclists. He was condemned in the cycling world for breaking their code of silence and having "spat in the soup." His countrymen vilified Kimmage for slurring Irish cycling heroes Stephen Roche and Seán Kelly.
Kimmage has expressed admiration to cyclists like David Millar who owned up to his doping and has apparently cleaned up his act. To cyclists like Floyd Landis, though, he has nothing but scorn. Kimmage is also critical of his fellow sports journalists who "are frightened to ask the searching questions." Many cyclists -- including Armstrong -- refuse interview requests from Kimmage specifically because of his probing questions about drug use.
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Like LeMond, Kimmage might be in need of a little tact, but he's asking the right questions.
As PK mentioned, "cancer" is a commonly used and accepted metaphor for a poison that is infecting an institution or system (like pro cycling). Maybe not the best choice of metaphors to use with Armstrong, but it's easy to see what was really meant by it. (Reminds me of the McCain camp's response to the "lipstick on a pig" comment.)
While it's a shame that the mainstream media attention was primarily on a negative issue, who's fault is it really? I'm still waiting for a big name current pro to stand up and take a strong anti-doping stance beyond participating in his team's internal anti-doping program. Where is the indignation from within the peloton that some are still cheating and harming the sport?
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Armstrong seems to define himself by his cancer fight, so you're right that the cancer metaphor was probably poorly chosen. But then maybe Kimmage did that on purpose to get a rise out of him?
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Yokota Fritz
Paul Kimmage is not a journalist with class and I will never read a book that was written with obvious frustration by someone who enjoys making others feel bad.
There are proper ways to practice decent journalism. He doesn't know them yet.
Lance Armstrong is not only a great cyclist but a great human being who deserves respect and admiration.
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I have read Rough Ride and Kimmage's articles. Firstly, Kimmage has no respect for David Miller at all.
Secondly, kimmage loved cycling and effictivley had his love/dream ruined by a bunch of cheats in the 80's who were doping all around him. you can't blame the man for being disgusted with the likes of Landis, Ullrich, Basso, Pantani, Riis...need I go on?
Unfortunately, statistics have showed, with those above and as we all know with most, that in cycling you almost have to be pressumed guilty, and it's people like Armstrong who are at fault for not condemming cheats and dodgy doctors and protecting the peloton, when they should speak out. Why refuse to talk to Kimmage and David Walsh, when they have been proven correct over the years? Why surround yourself with yes men? Armstrong doesn't help himself or the sport of cycling
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Kimmage has made a name for himself by bad-mouthing cyclists and constantly rising the specter of drug use by these athletes. This is the same routine as the french press uses as well. Fan the fires of doubt and increase readership and fame. Papers sell on controversy. Meanwhile, cyclists HAVE to play hardball to keep their name from being smeared. Every one who has made such drug use claims always makes money and/or fame from those claims. The facts are that if Armstrong had failed a drug test, he would be kicked-out. But he has not failed a test and he is tested many times.
This whole thing has much in common with big-foot stories or UFOs. There are those that believe even though there is no real proof of either. Yet that doesn't stop people like Kimmage from speaking as though every one knows better. Well, I don't believe in big-foot, UFOs, or Lance Armstrong's drug use during his past cycling career. I'll gladly change my view if proof arises, but until that time, I'm not going to assume these things exist just because the Kimmages of the world keep saying they do.
Of course, Armstrong is to cycling like Tiger Woods is to golf. Both are quality competitors and they bring in the fans. Organizers and sponsors love them for this reason. The result is, of course, is fatigue for those who follow the sport, but that is the fault of the press. LA and Tiger have NO control on that issue.
In summary, Kimmage is chicken little, rising his own image while simply repeating the same baseless claims while LA continues to bring great exposure to cycling to the average fan. Kimmage, do us all a favor and either do some investigative journalism to prove your claims or shut up.
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Save your money Rough Ride is a worthless read, written by a disgruntled cyclist who was in over his head and should never have become a professional cyclist.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend Mr Kimmage, cancer took my mother and aunts by attacking Armstrong you side with cancer.
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Kimmage is Chicken Little? I think there are plenty of pieces of the pro cycling sky that have been falling.
I think history, so far, has been on Mr. Kimmage's side regardless of his methods.
Convicted or admitted dopers (just the famous ones from the late-90's on):
Riis, Zulle, Landis, Virenque, Hamilton, Basso, Musseuw, Ullrich, Millar, Schleck, Zabel, Aldag, Pantani, Rassmussen, Hamburger, Bolts, Simeoni, Abdoujaparov, Festina team of '98, Andreu, Frigo, Herve, Garzelli, Rumsas, Vandenbroucke, Camenzind, Jaksche, Sinkewitz, Vinokourov, Ricco, Sella, Beltran, Kohl, Schumacher, Piepoli.
Remember, a number of these never tested positive but admitted to doping. Since when is passing a drug test proof that one didn't dope? The testing system has been weak until recently.
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Doping goes back way before steroids or EPO. Fausto Coppi did amphetamines, as did Mercx, and of course Tom Simpson. Before that strychnine, nitroglycerine and opiates. To claim that doping is a recent phenomena, that it has "ruined" cycling, and that it is a product of the 1990's is farcically naive. That doesn't mean testing, or investigating, should stop. But it's pointless to act surprised or disappointed.
Sports, and society in general, reward success and turn a blind eye to the paths taken to that same success. With enough money or pride on the line, people will push the limit - in anything. From a weekly group ride to Wall Street there are some who will test the envelope, others who will run roughshod until they are stopped. There needs to be someone to push back. That system, within cycling, has been weak in the past. It is getting stronger.
But using a phrase like "foks, the cancer is back" when describing Lance Armstrong, or any other cancer survivor, is deliberately and extremely provocative. It is very similar to the trolls and griefers who inhabit the internet. Perhaps Lance should have "manned up" and granted an interview with Paul. Perhaps he should ask him to step outside. I'm of mixed mind myself.
http://news.surfwax.com/cycling/files/Fausto_Coppi_Cycling.html http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/worlds08/?id=/features/2008/woodland_merckx_worlds08
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Kimmage needs to crawl back under whatever rock he came from. Kimmage admitted he WAS a doper whilst racing thus has no credibility in my eyes.
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I read the book and I have to admit I liked it, I think it's a quite honest biography from someone who really had the illusion that cycling was clean during the 80's and 90's.
I am also an admirer of Lance and I think he is reasonable clean (I know from my own racing experience that there is a grey area, which 99.9% of the pro's use to the max - this for certain includes Lance). However, recent cases - with DeLuca and Rebellin being the most visible - show that the 'cancer' still hasn't disappeared (and probably never will). As long as they let cyclists ride for 20 days for over 5 hours a day (mind you, even during rest days they will sit for a couple of hours on their bike) and use >5000 kcal per day - and pay big bucks, there will be cheaters. I think that cycling has become cleaner then in Kimmage's days, but I think it has also become more clever in finding the limits of what can be used within acceptable limits. Let's appreciate both Kimmages as Armstrongs views - I like them both.
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Kimmage has been proven correct over the last number of years. Cycling is riddled with drugs - how could anybody argue against him???
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"Kimmage has been proven correct over the last number of years. Cycling is riddled with drugs - how could anybody argue against him???"
Paul Kimmage has proven NOTHING at all! He's just a jealous-bitter-frustrated human being who has nothing better to do than to bother other people's lives. On the opposite, nobody has proven that Lance has EVER cheated.
Cycling is riddled with drugs???!!! hahahahahaha...are you Paul Kimmage? Only Kimmage and other frustrated cyclists say ridiculous statements like that.
Cycling is the most beautiful/strongest sport in the whole world!
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