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2017 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair - February 2017
Grand Awards High School
1st Grand Fair I – Isuru Somawardana (going to ISEF!)
1st Grand Fair II – Abby Parker (going to ISEF!)
2nd Grand Fair I – Evan Meade (going to ISEF!)
3rd Grand Fair I – John Wilkins
3rd Grand Fair II – Nia Clements
3rd Grand Fair III – Ashlyn Roth
4th Grand Fair II – Ashara Somawardana
Grand Awards Middle School
2nd Grand Fair II – Allison Wivagg
2nd Grand Fair III – Corinthian Ewesuedo
High School Category Awards
2nd Place Team Fair III – Meghan Maloney
2nd Place Microbiology– Dan Covert
3rd Place Zoology – Beril Saygin
3rd Place Medicine & Health – Adithya Mummidi
4th Place Environmental – Paras Patel
5th Place Biochemistry – Ani Karla
Director's Award Zoology – Jack Covert
Middle School Category Awards
1st Place Team Fair II – Siona Manocha and Eric Liu
1st Place Physics – Sam Griffith
2nd Place Engineering – Sophie Skop
3rd Place Medicine & Health – Veda Atluri
3rd Place Medicine & Health – Shreya Chaudhary
2017 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Special Awards
American Chemical Society – Ashara Somawardana
American Physiological Society – Nia Clements
American Statistical Association – Isuru Somawardana, Adithya Mummidi
Association of Old Crows – Evan Meade
BioBridge Global – Nia Clements, Ani Karla
Diagnostic Research Group – Nia Clements
Genius International Olympiad – John Wilkins
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society – Ashara Somawardana
Intel Excellence in Computer Science – Evan Meade
ISWEEP Competition – Paras Patel
Men's Gardening Club – Ashlyn Roth
Office of Naval Research– Sophie Skop, Allison Wivagg, Evan Meade, Beril Saygin
Regeneron Science – Ashlyn Roth, Evan Meade, Adithya Mummidi
San Antonio Space and National Space Society – Ashlyn Roth
Society of In Vitro Biology – Meghan Maloney
South Texas Geological Society – John Wilkins
United States Metric Association – Adithya Mummidi
US Air Force – Shreya Chaudhary
UTHSCSA and Women's Faculty Association – Allison Wivagg, Veda Atluri, Nia Clements
Yale Science and Engineering Association – Evan Meade
Broadcom Recipients – Allison Wivagg, Sam Griffith, Corinthian Ewesuedo
Schreiner College $20,000 – Isuru Somawardana, Abby Parker
Schreiner College $16,000 – Evan Meade
Schreiner College $12,000 – Ashlyn Roth, John Wilkins, Nia Clements
Schreiner College $8000 – Ashara Somawardana
St. Mary's University $48,000 – Isuru Somawardana, Abby Parker
St. Mary's University $40,000 – Evan Meade
Trinity University $8000 – Isuru Somawardana, Abby Parker, Evan Meade
University of the Incarnate Word $16,000 – Abby Parker
University of the Incarnate Word $20,000 – Isuru Somawardana
San Antonio Book Festival Fiction Contest, sponsored by the Texas Cavaliers - February 2017
This contest, open to students in grades 7 to 12, received 210 entries. In the seventh-/eighth-grade division, eighth grader Corinthian Ewesuedo tied for third place with her story "Winter in Summer." Allison Wu, also an eighth grader, was one of ten finalists, recognized for her story "My Father on the Willow Bridge." Fiction contest co-chair Mark Kimberly said, "The submissions this year really impressed our pool of judges. We're proud that the quality of the stories continues to reflect a bright, talented, and creative student body in Bexar County, and we're pleased to see the contest grow with an increase in entries this year.'
Laws of Life Essay Contest, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau - February 2017
The contest, open to students in grades 6 to 8, encourages students to write about the core values or laws of life that guide them. Essays are judged by a panel of professionals from the business and academic communities. This year, Keystone has seven of the thirteen finalists. Winners will be announced in a ceremony at the March 22 Town Hall meeting in the Keystone theater. Please join us at 11:50 if you can.
Science Bowl
Please congratulate our Science Bowl Teams on their hard fought wins over the weekend. One of our 8th grade teams and all 3 of our high school teams ranked 3rd in their group matches. The 8th grade team of Kaitlin Albarran, Allison Wivagg, Kim Macdonald, Aidan Coleman, and Eric Liu advanced to the final rounds before taking 4th place. There were a total of 33 middle school teams and 34 high school teams participating.
High School Teams
Abby Parker, Beril Saygin, Victoria Nelson, Ben Felson
Evan Meade, Nia Clements, Adithya Mummidi, Ashlyn Roth, Luke Vilagi
John Wilkins, Carl Hileman, Javier Soza, Claire Yager, Mason Valicek
Middle School Teams
Kaitlin Albarran, Allison Wivagg, Kim Macdonald, Aidan Coleman, Eric Liu
Tatum Spriester, Siona Manocha, Nicole Grater, Ethan McKendrick, Hashim Latif
VASE Competition Results-February 2017
Eleven students participated in the VASE regional art contest on Saturday. Everyone did an outstanding job and received the highest possible score of 4. Daniela Tala mantes-Martinez, Rachel Jiang, Catie Poneck, Caroline Yager, and Nina Koneru also advanced to the state competition! This is one of the most competitive art competitions in the state with over 300 participants competing in our region alone, so please be sure to congratulate these students if you see them.
Writing News-April 2016
Senior Katie Mansfield had "Telephone" published in the latest edition of English in Texas, the nationally recognized journal of the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. As one of last year's National Council of Teachers Writing Achievement Award recipients, Katie was invited to submit her poem.
Eighth grader Stephanie Rao earned a silver key for her poem "Death by Poetry" in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards while six students earned Southwest Region-at-Large Scholastic awards. Those earning gold keys had their pieces submitted to the national competition. The region received 1500 entries and awarded twenty-three gold keys; Keystone students earned seven. Five of the thirteen students in the region earning gold keys attend Keystone. According to Brian's calculations, this means that "1.5% of submissions received gold keys and that Keystone kids received 30% of those, and Keystone kids made up over 50% of the students who received gold keys . . ."
Eighth Grader Stephanie Rao: two gold keys for her poems "Death by Poetry" and "The World beyond the Sky," a silver key for her short story "Regrets," and an honorable mention for her poem "Picture Frame"
Freshman Daniel Covert: a gold key for the short story "A Sheep among the Wolves"
Freshman Julia Mansfield: an honorable mention for the short story "Fresh Snow" and a gold key for the personal essay "The Temporary Tube"
Sophomore Liv Kane: a gold key for the short story "Cultured," a silver key for the short story "Plants," and an honorable mention for the poem "Another Sailor Song"
Senior Katie Mansfield: two gold keys for her writing portfolio "What It Means to Watch" and her poem "After McKinney"
Senior Sam Terry: two silver keys for his poems "Sonnet for Fallen Angel" and "Board Game on the Beach"
Keystone middle schoolers garnered four of six awards in the 6-8 division of the Dana Kay Barber Writing Awards, a statewide contest sponsored by Abydos Learning and open to students whose teachers have participated in a summer writing institute. Students were recognized in a ceremony at this year's conference in Houston last weekend.
Seventh grader Tatum Spriester: first place for her poem "Smoke and Perfume"
Eighth grader Anya Hansen: second place for her poem "The Bison"
Eighth grader Olivia Edwards: first place for her prose piece "Greetings and Salutations"
Seventh grader Megan Riebe: third place for her prose piece "The Snow Day"
Six Keystone eighth graders were finalists in the Better Business Bureau's Laws of Life Essay Contest. Students were recognized in a ceremony in the theater on March 30. The BBB Education Foundation selected eleven finalists from a pool of 173 submissions. Student essays are on display in the foyer of Founders' Hall. Please stop by and read them.
Sophia Rios: first place award of $200 and a diamond necklace for her essay "Perseverance"
Anya Hansen: third place award of $75 for her essay "Flat Stanley and the Sad Day"
Kishore Botla honorable mention award of $25 for his essay "Work Hard; Play Hard"
Olivia Edwards: honorable mention award of $25 for her essay "The Silence of Truth"
Kiri Holck: honorable mention award of $25 for her essay "Coy to Courageous"
Beril Saygin: honorable mention award of $25 for her essay "The Mountain View"
Seven middle and upper school students will have fourteen poems published in the 2016 Young Pegasus Anthology. For more than eighty years, the San Antonio Public Library has celebrated the talents of student writers with the Young Pegasus Poetry Competition. Entries are reviewed by a panel of independent judges. Rather than choosing a set number of winners, judges look for poems worthy of publication. This year, the judges selected fifty-seven of the nearly two thousand submissions. Recognized poets will receive a certificate and copy of the anthology at the May 1 awards ceremony. Selected poems are read aloud during the ceremony, either by the poets themselves or by a member of the judging panel.
Fifth grader Sarah Cross, "Synesthesia," "Tree," and "Sadness"
Fifth grader Stella Ciaravino, "Rain Storm"
Fifth grader Maya Allen, "Life"
Fifth grader Aria Walker, "Chairs"
Eighth grader Ingrid Mayer, "Welcome to Society"
Ninth grader Jackie Pavlovsky, "The Little Dots"
Senior Katie Mansfield, "We," "The Week Without Water," "Summer, Suspended," "Compartmentalize," "Dead Weight," and "Old Man Winter"
Thanks for celebrating our students' accomplishments with us!
2016 Texas Science and Engineering Fair
Keystone's qualifiers for the Texas Science and Engineering Fair competed at the convention center downtown against the best projects from around Texas. Please congratulate all of the students on their accomplishments and work. Below is a list of the participants and also those who won awards. Note: This year only 1st through 3rd place awards were given.
Participants: Adithya Mummidi, Ashlyn Roth, Evan Meade, John Wilkins, Isuru Somawardana, Paras Patel, Glori Das, Nia Clements, Kim Macdonald, Ella Best, Hashim Latif, Andy De La Garza, Shreya Chaudhary, Sophie Skop, Allison Wivagg, Abby Parker, Beril Saygin.
1st Place Biomedical and Health Sciences - Nia Clements (Qualifies for ISEF!!!)
1st Place Biomedical Engineering - Isuru Somawardana
3rd Place Environmental Engineering - Paras Patel
3rd Place Biomedical and Health Sciences - Beril Saygin
Texas Board of Professional Engineers Future Engineer Award - Isuru Somawardana
Naval Science Award - Isuru Somawardana
2016 NSBE Awards - March 2016
Congrats to the following students on another successful NSBE National Convention!
Mathcounts Competition: San Antonio NSBE Jr. Team 1 won first place (Jada Young) and Jada was the 2nd highest scoring student!
KidWind Competition: San Antonio NSBE Jr. Kidwind Team (Christian Butler) received 2nd Place and a bid to the KidWind National Competition in New Orleans!
The NSBE convention took place in Boston MA and both Christian and Jada had an opportunity to tour Harvard while at the convention.
2016 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair Grand Awards High School 1st Grand Fair I – Isuru Somawardana (going to ISEF!) 3rd Grand Fair I – John Wilkins 3rd Grand Fair III – Ashlyn Roth Grand Awards Middle School 1st Grand Team – Ella Best and Kim Macdonald 1st Grand Fair II – Beril Saygin 2nd Grand Fair III – Abby Parker 4th Grand Fair II – Allison Wivagg High School Category Awards 1st Place Medicine and Health – Nia Clements 1st Place Medicine and Health – Adithya Mummidi 1st Place Math – Evan Meade 1st Place Engineering – Paras Patel 2nd Place Medicine and Health – Glori Das 3rd Place Engineering – Luke Vilagi 3rd Place Team Fair I – Steven Broll and Uri Joseph 5th Place Microbiology – Daniel Covert Middle School Category Awards 1st Place Team Fair I – Andy De La Garza and Hashim Latif 1st Place Team Fair III– Shreya Chaudhary and Sophie Skop 1st Place Medicine and Health – Tatum Spriester 2nd Place Computer Science – Adam Terenyi Top 6th Grade Projects Award 1st Place Team – Shreya Chaudhary and Sophie Skop 2016 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair Special Awards American Physiological Society – Beril Saygin ASM Materials Education Foundation – Luke Vilagi Association of Old Crows – Paras Patel, Evan Meade Intel Talent Search Award – Isuru Somawardana Mu Alpha Theta Award – Evan Meade NASA EARTH System Science Award – John Wilkins Office of Naval Research– Beril Saygin, Isuru Somawardana Southwest Research Institute Award – Isuru Somawardana South Texas Geological Society – John Wilkins US Air Force – Glori Das, Nia Clements UTHSCSA and Women's Faculty Association –Nia Clements, Glori Das, Beril Saygin, Allison Wivagg Yale Science and Engineering Association – Isuru Somawardana Broadcom Recipients – Ella Best, Kim Macdonald, Abby Parker, Allison Wivagg Scholarships Schreiner College $20,000 – Isuru Somawardana Schreiner College $12,000 – Ashlyn Roth, John Wilkins St. Mary's University $50,000 – Isuru Somawardana Texas Tech $8000 – Isuru Somawardana University of the Incarnate Word $8000 – Isuru Somawardana, Beril Saygin, Ella Best, Kim Macdonald
Varsity Basketball Honors - March 2016
1st Team All-District
Katie Mansfield
Zoe Wallis
Nabil Kapasi
2nd Team All-District
Olivia Addington
Daria Galbraith
Paul Lopez-Perrymen
Honorable Mention All-District
Carrington Kirstein
Mia Quintero
Academic All-State
(Given to Juniors and Seniors who receive 1st or 2nd team honors and have a GPA of 90 or above)
Poetry Out Loud - February 29, 2016
Congratulations to Sam Terry, Runner-Up in the Texas State Finals of the Poetry Out Loud Recitation Competition! Along with twenty-six other school winners, Sam recited from memory two poems at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. After two moving performances, first of George Herbert's "The Pulley" and then Marianne Moore's "A Graveyard," Sam was invited to participate in the final round, for which he recited Thomas Lux's "Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy." Performances were judged across five categories: accuracy, dramatic appropriateness, voice and articulation, dramatic appropriateness, and evidence of understanding. The second place victory brings Sam 100 dollars and Keystone 200 dollars for the purchase of poetry books. Student interest in Poetry Out Loud has grown over the years, and I hope that Keystone continues to participate in the event.
MathCounts - February 2016
The Keystone MathCounts team, Om Joshi, Beril Saygin, Kishore Botla, and Nicole Grater, earned fifth place at regional competition. Om placed eleventh overall, and will advance to state competition in March.
Other official competitors were Patrick Conroy, Jehan Chanmugam, Victoria Nelson, Abby Parker, Stephanie Rao, and Megan Riebe. Unofficial competitors were Gabriela Aguilar, Paul Conroy, Corinthian Ewesuedo, Siona Manocha, Mario Nicolas, Andrew Perez, Karina Sauceda, and Allison Wivagg.
Science Bowl - February 2016
Four teams from Keystone competed in the regional Science Bowl competition. The sophomore team of Evan Meade, Adithya Mummidi, Ashlyn Roth, Luke Vilagi, and Nia Clements came in 5th place in the High School division, and the 8th grade team of Beril Saygin, Isabella Sullivan, Abby Parker, Isabel Oxford, and Victoria Nelson came in 3rd place. The other two teams were Junior team Isuru Somawardana, Javier Soza, Carl Hileman, Mason Valicek, Claire Yager, and Sophomore team Jared Zhao, John Wilkins, Max Rattray, Daniel Tan, and Sam Delmer.
Academic World Quest
Keystone students represented Keystone School magnificently at the Regional Academic World Quest Competition on February 2. Our senior team of Chris Zhu, Katie Mansfield, Emily Ye, and Nabil Kapasi won first place for the third consecutive year. They will once again represent us in Washington, D.C. in April in their quest to win the elusive national title. Our junior team of Mishel Malik, Tamar Furman, Anna Christoffersen, and Isuru Somawardana won second place for the second year in a row. Our new freshman team of Julia Mansfield, Daniel Covert, Jackson Covert, and Evan Berkowitch earned a fourth place finish in the field of forty-four total teams. As testimony to the exceptional academic and personal quality of our students, as well as to the outstanding faculty and staff who have guided them in honing their analytic skills, Keystone School teams have now won the Regional Academic World Quest Competition for six consecutive years, and have placed in the top four teams numerous times. Such consistent success is an amazing record for any competitive team endeavor. Congratulations to these remarkable students, as well as their faculty sponsor, Ray Boryczka. Junior Academy of Sciences-January 2016
Eight students competed in the Alamo Junior Academy of Science competition. Please congratulate them on their success and hard work. Below are the results:
High School
3rd Grand Fair I – Isuru Somawardana
3rd Grand Fair II – Glori Das
5th Grand Fair II – Nia Clements
Best in Category (Math&Computer Science) – Evan Meade
3rd Place Engineering – Paras Patel
3rd Place Engineering – Luke Vilagi
Middle School
3rd Grand Fair II – Beril Saygin
8th Grade Poets Honored
Eight middle school poets will have excerpts of their work on display at Culture Commons, 115 Plaza de Armas, through Feb. 28, as part of Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero's call for "Love Poems to San Antonio." Along with other poets from throughout the city, the students will be honored this Thursday, Feb. 4, at a reception sponsored by the San Antonio Department for Culture and Creative Development. Their poems are also posted in North Hall.
Honored Poets:
Iris Rodriguez, "Ode to San Antonio"
Siona Manocha, "The Five Senses of San Antonio"
Kimberly MacDonald, "Mi Ciudad"
Victoria Nelson, "My Home"
Beril Saygin, "My Goodnight Kiss"
Erica Stocker, "For San Antonio"
Ingrid Mayer, "Oh, San Antonio"
Sophia Rios, "Te Amo, San Antonio"
Texas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium-January 2016
Three or our sophomores, Nia Clements, John Wilkins, and Adithya Mummidi, presented their science projects up at the Texas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in College Station. The competition allows for only 64 competitors from around the state and just to be asked to present is an honor. The judges advanced Nia as the top Medicine & Health/Behavioral project to compete on Saturday morning with 7 other finalists. Nia came away with 4th place in the finals and received an all-expense paid trip to attend the national symposium in April. Congratulations to all of these students!
Geography Bee
Congratulations to sixth grader, Gabe Lynch, who won the school geography bee. Erica Stocker, an eighth grader was the first runner up. Gabe will go on to take an exam to qualify for the state exam. If he wins at state, he will compete nationally.
Spelling Bee
Eight grader Erica Stocker is the Keystone Spelling Bee winner! In a Spelling Bee first, we had 3 sets of sisters competing. Erica and her sister, Corinne, were the top two spellers. Erica won correctly spelling "estuary" and "garrulous." Erica will represent Keystone at the San Antonio Express-News Spelling Bee on Feb. 20th.
National Merit Announcement
Congratulations to the following students!
National Merit Semifinalists (8 out of 31):
Steven Broll
Augie Clements
Ellery Pickens
Regan Schuetze
Vinodh Srikanth
Emily Ye
Chris Zhu
National Merit Commended Students (9 out of 31):
Madison Carolin
Dave Gravely
Yugena Gunawardena
Mohan Iyengar
Omar Khan
Will Poneck
Sam Terry
Semifinalists scored in the top 1% of seniors in the state of Texas, based on their junior year PSAT score. Commended Students "placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students" who took the PSAT in their junior year.
Modern Pentathlon-Youth National Championships San Antonio athletes competed in the US Modern Pentathlon Youth National Championships last month at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Texas Pentathlon sent a team of six athletes to compete for the National Titles, and Keystone's Ingrid Mayer celebrated her 14th birthday by winning the Women's Youth C Gold Medal with a commanding lead over the field. ISEF
Keystone students Isuru Somawardana (10th) and Adithya Mummidi (9th), traveled to Pittsburgh for the annual International Science and Engineering Fair. As always our students represented us wonderfully. More than 2,000 high school students from 70 different countries participated this year. Isuru came away with a 4th grand prize in the category of COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS. Please congratulate both of them!
Keystone's Academic World Quest Team once again won second place in the world in the Washington, D.C. competition. This is the fourth consecutive time Keystone has taken the second place trophy home! Congratulations to Emily Ye, Katie Mansfield, Chris Zhu, and Nabil Kapasi. Each student was awarded a $1,000 scholarship towards the CIEE Summer Study Abroad Program.
2015 Broadcom Masters Award
Congratulations to Keystone student Alana Pickens, Broadcom MASTERS Nominee(s). This is a great national honor, as only the top 10% of middle school students receive this distinction at affiliated science and engineering fairs across the United States.
A nomination to the Broadcom MASTERS national middle school science & engineering competition is a very proud accomplishment. This summer, the Broadcom organization will name 300 semifinalists, and bring 30 finalists to compete in person in Silicon Valley. Students receive prizes at all levels of the competition, and compete for the top prize of $25,000. Teachers of semifinalists and finalists also receive awards, and schools of finalists each receive $1,000.
This program aims to identify talent and encourages kids to pursue STEM fields in high school and beyond. Alumni have gone on to attend the White House Science Fair, win the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, and do great things in their communities.
2015 Princeton Book Prize
Katie Mansfield was named one of the five most outstanding juniors in San Antonio by the Princeton Club of San Antonio. Every year, the Princeton Club invites every high school in San Antonio to nominate their best and brightest for this citywide competition. Katie's win marks the 7th year in a row that a Keystone student has been among the five winners, a feat unmatched by any other school.
The other winning students in 2015 represent Reagan, Clark, Brandeis, and Fox Tech Magnet High Schools. Congratulations, Katie!
2015 National Spanish Exam Results
These are the students who have been recognized:
Premio de Oro (Gold 95 or above percentile)
Spanish I: Peyton Spriester, Julia Mansfield, Evan Berkowitch, Madison Metzger, Rachel Lynch
Spanish II: Evan Meade, Ashlyn Roth, Luke Vilagi, Jared Zhao
Spanish III: Hagan Hensley, Musmin Zar, Isuru Somawardana, Mia Quintero
Spanish IV: Sam Terry, Katherine Mansfield, Ceci Hart
Premio de Plata (Silver 85 to 94 percentile)
Spanish I: Casey Cooper, Nikki Pathapati, Guillermo Harris, Elias Forrey, Maysoon Tirhi
Spanish II: Hailey Holck, Diego Quintero
Spanish III: Wesley Kirlin, Aristeo Canales, Daniela Talamantes-Martinez
Spanish IV: Emily Ye, Christopher Zhu, Augie Clements
Premio de Bronce (Bronze 75 to 84 percentile)
Spanish I: Josh Brown, Nikola Hew, Daniel Terenyi, Morgan Mark, Kendall Michaelis
Spanish II: Sadie Cavazos, Eli Skop, Aidan Rodriguez, Zoe Wallis
Spanish III: Kaval Aurora, Nina Freeman, Keve Bordás, Elise Koepp, Mason Valicek
Spanish IV: Yugena Gunawardena, Joseph Lopez
Mención Honorífica (Honorable Mention)
Spanish I: Isela Martin, Arianna Pachecano, Sydney Hileman, Wyatt Seal, Naman Patel
Spanish II: Madelyne Wilson, Daniel Tan, Luke DeMario, Meghan Maloney, Lily Fisher, Sky Blanchard
Spanish III: Aj Shah, David Howk, Zainab Agha, JohnAidan Uribe-Kozlovsky, Stephen Duffy, Zoe Barocas, Paras Patel
Spanish IV: Carrington Kirstein, Emily Andrews, Mohan Iyengar, Dave Gravely
Spanish V: Yianni Nikolaou
Astronomy Club-April 2015
Nine members of the Keystone Astronomy Club successfully launched a High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) with incredible results! Spearheaded by founder and President Hagan Hensley, the club released a large latex balloon filled with approximately 60 cubic feet of helium, along with a small payload (containing a still camera, video camera, GPS, altimeter, transmitter, etc.), two fins for stability in the wind, and a parachute. The HAB was released from a hilltop on the far north side of San Antonio in Bulverde, Texas and was expected to float northeast within the jet stream for several hours before popping and landing somewhere near College Station, Texas a few hours later. But the balloon mission far exceeded all expectations.
After losing the signal for several hours, the group learned that the balloon had landed in a very tall magnolia tree in western Louisiana!
Ultimately, Keystone Astronomy Club's High-Altitude Balloon travelled 325 miles from the launch site (more than double the predicted distance!) after about 5.5 hours aloft, with top horizontal speed in the jet stream in excess of 145 miles per hour! As it was falling, it may have actually reached speeds as high as 160 mph before the parachute did its duty! The evidence also seems to show that the HAB actually floated above the jet stream to an altitude of up to 85,000 ft., which is well above the troposphere into the stratosphere. That is about twice as high as all commercial airliners typically fly. The club hypothesizes that the fins, which were added to keep the payload stable and prevent spinning in flight, actually acted like sails to "catch the wind" and propel the HAB faster and farther than anticipated. The strong storm front that had passed through the area the night before and the strong jet stream currents that day may have also contributed to the great success of the HAB mission as well.
Kudos to the group, their parents, and their sponsor, Donald Howk!
State Golf
Congratulations to Shahbaz Hashmi! Not only is he the district golf champion, he tied for 7th place at the TAPPS 3A state tournament this past weekend. There were about 45 golfers participating in the state tournament. Shahbaz shot a 74 the first day, and an 85 the second day.
Model UN
Keystone's high school Model UN and WorldQuest teams enjoyed a lunchtime presentation by U.S. Foreign Service Officer Bridget Gerston. Dr Gerston spoke on her life in the diplomatic service, including her adventures and travels, which included Russia, Tunisia, and Afghanistan. She also spoke about internships at the State Department for high school/college students and potential careers after school. After her presentation, she held a Q&A. Model UN sponsor, Dr Caraway, was especially pleased to welcome a fellow alum of the Fulbright program and amateur of Italy and the Italian language. After the presentation, Mr Spedding and several students continued the conversation over lunch at La Fonda.
GEAR Robotics-April 2015
Please congratulate the following students who competed in this year's GEAR Robotics Competition at UTSA. One hundred teams participated in this competition. Our sixth grade team won 1st place in the middle school (6th-8th) division and our fifth grade team won 2nd place in the elementary (3rd-5th) division.
2nd Place Elementary Divison-Keybots
Elle Boehme-Leal-5th Grade
Gabe Lynch-5th Grade
Kyan Jones-5th Grade
Shreya Chaudhary-5th Grade
Sophie Skop-5th Grade
1st Place Middle School Division-Robocobras
Allison Wivagg-6th Grade
Ciara Hollis-6th Grade
Corinthian Ewesuedo-6th Grade
Gaby Aguilar-6th Grade
Jackie Rosenkranz-6th Grade
AMC 8 Results
Thousands of students across the United States participated in this contest back in late November. Here are the winners: Om Joshi—1st place and top 1% in the nation award, Josh Brown—2nd place and top 5% in the nation award, Nikhita Pathapati—3rd place, Rohan Shayi—4th place, Evan Berkowitch and Patrick Conroy—5th place tie, Julia Mansfield and Madison Metzger—6th place tie. All of these students were in the top 25% in the nation.
Keystone School received two awards. One was for our top 3 students' team total being in the top 5% in the nation, and other was for two of our students scoring in at least the top 5%.
Please congratulate these outstanding Keystone Cobras!
Scholastic Writing Awards
Please congratulate the students listed below for their recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition. This competition is the "nation's longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7 – 12." This year, over 300,000 entries of art and writing were first submitted at the regional level. Students awarded a Gold Key at that level were then entered into the national competition and judged by an impressive panel of judges. In past years, jurors for the writing contest have included such recognized writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, William Saroyan, Frank McCourt, George Plimpton, and Billy Collins. Entries are judged on three criteria: (1)Originality; (2)Technique, and (3)Emergence of a Personal Voice. This year, approximately 2,000 national entries were awarded.
This year, Katie Mansfield was not only awarded a Gold Key at the regional level but also at the national level, an incredible achievement. Along with other National Gold Key winners, Katie will be recognized in a national celebration and ceremony in New York City in June. Notable past winners of the Gold Key include Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Maynard, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sylvia Plath.
In addition, we have other talented young writers who received recognition at the regional level. Included below are all of the winners and submission information:
2015 Quiz Bowl
The quiz bowl team won 2nd place in the TX Quiz Bowl Alliance Central /South Texas regional Fiesta Tournament. They were undefeated all day until losing in a very close finals game to Reagan's A team, the only other undefeated team.
Hana Kapasi, a senior, was away at Model UN, and the team tapped freshman Adithya Mummidi to sub for her. This was Adithya's first quiz bowl experience. Congratulations to all!
Poetry Out Loud
Sam Terry represented Keystone at the state finals of the Poetry Out Loud recitation competition in Austin and WON. After performing Hopkins' "The Windhover" and Mueller's "Monet Refuses the Operation," Sam was asked to perform a third poem, Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." All poems were recited from memory. Impressive in both content and performance, Sam's recitations showcased his outstanding comprehension and dramatic range. Sam will go on to represent Texas at the national finals in Washington, D.C. at the end of April.
4th Grade Robotics
The 4th Grade Cobratics Robotics team participated in a First Lego League robotics qualifier along with 28 other teams, all competing for a chance to go on to the regional competition. They won 2 awards: Strategy & Innovation Award, and Robot Performance Award. The Cobratics are 1 of the 12 teams from this qualifier who will be advancing to the Alamo FLL Regional Championship on March 14th at the HBG Convention Center.
National Merit Recognition
Keystone School's Class of 2015 National Merit Honorees
Every year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), in partnership with the College Board, administers the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (the PSAT/NMSQT) to approximately 1.5 million 11th grade students in the United States. The NMSC officially recognizes the 50,000 students with the highest scores. National Merit Semifinalists are the top-scoring 16,000 students, representing the top half of the top 1% of students in each state. (Approximately 15,000 of the Semifinalists will be named Finalists after meeting additional standards and fulfilling several requirements.) The remaining 34,000 of the 50,000 top scoring students are named National Merit Commended Students in recognition of their academic promise.
National Merit Finalists
Serena Agrawal
Alexander Buser
Ceci Hart
Hana Kapasi
National Merit Commended Students
Llewellyn Fambles
Zachary Green
Trisha Mulamreddy
Camille Powers
Joseph Ratliff
Christina Rios
Shreya Tripathy
The National Achievement® Scholarship Program is an academic competition that provides recognition for outstanding Black American high school students. Black students may enter both the National Achievement Program and the National Merit® Program by taking the PSAT/NMSQT and meeting other published requirements for participation. Of the more than 160,000 students who currently enter the National Achievement® Program each year, the top 1% (about 1,600) are named Semifinalists. Of those, approximately 1,300 advance to Finalist standing by meeting additional standards.
National Achievement Finalist
Each year, the National Hispanic Recognition Program honors nearly 5,000 of the highest-scoring Hispanic/Latino students (out of more than 200,000 juniors who take the PSAT).
National Hispanic Scholars
Alejandro "Blue" Gonzalez
John "Yianni" Nikolaou
ARSEF Results: 2015 Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Congratulations to the science fair students represented the school well and received plenty of awards for their hard work. Many of them will be advancing to the state competition in late March. Isuru Somawardana and Adithya Mummidi will be going to the International Science Fair at Pittsburgh in May.
Please see the right sidebar for a detailed list of students, awards, and scholarships.
Keystone also received a special plaque of appreciation for all the years that we have provided the Alamo Regional Science Fair with a Tools/Materials table and for allowing them to have ISEF preparation meetings on our campus.
Cobratics- February 2015
Please congratulate the 4th Grade Cobratics Robotics team. They participated in a FLL (First Lego League) robotics qualifier this past Saturday along with 28 other teams, all competing for a chance to go on to the regional competition.
They won 2 awards:
Strategy & Innovation Award: recognizes a team that uses solid engineering practices and a well-developed strategy to design and build and innovative and high performing robot.
Robot Performance Award: Recognizes a team that scores the most points during the robot game.
The Cobratics are 1 of the 12 teams from this qualifier (there were 6 other qualifiers within the region) who will be advancing to the Alamo FLL Regional Championship on March 14th at the HBG Convention Center. There will be an estimated 80+ teams at the Championship…all the top teams from the qualifier they participated in. Good luck Cobratics!!
Science Bowl Results: February 2015
Please congratulate the following students for some hard fought rounds during the Science Bowl competition. Although no teams won an award they all represented Keystone well, and our Sophomore team ended their run within the top 6 teams of the tournament.
Middle School: Mark Morgan, Jacob Cohen, Evan Berkowitch, Alana Pickens, Kendall Michaelis, Julia Mansfield, Justin Parsons, Wyatt Seal, Leander Galbraith, Joshua Brown
High School: Nia Clements, Luke Vilagi, Evan Meade, Adithya Mummidi, Ashlyn Roth, Daniel Tan, Jared Zhou, Sam Delmer, John Wilkins, Meghan Maloney, Javier Soza, Claire Yager, Mason Valicek, Isuru Somawardana, Hagan Hensley
Junior Academy of Sciences Results-February 2015
Seven Keystone students presented their science fair projects at the Junior Academy of Sciences as a warm-up for the regional fair. Please congratulate them for their hard work.
Sr. Division:
1st Grand Prize – Academy I Isuru Somawardana
3rd Grand Prize – Academy II Nia Clements
3rd Grand Prize –Academy III Ashlyn Roth
Highest in Category – Computer Science Evan Meade
1st Place - Engineering Luke Vilagi
1st Place – Medicine and Health Glori Das
Jr. Division:
1st Grand Prize – Academy III Nakhita Patapathi
Please congratulate Adithya Mummidi and Jared Zhao for placing at the O'Connor High School UIL Academic Meet. They competed in number sense (mental math), high school mathematics (algebra through calculus), and high school science (biology, chemistry, and physics). Students (9th through 12th grade) all take the same tests, and they compete by grade level. In the 9th grade division, Adithya was 1st in number sense, 1st in mathematics, and 1st in science. Jared was also in the 9th grade division, and he placed 3rd in number sense, 3rd in mathematics, and 4th in science.
Keystone has the highest percentage of National Merit Semifinalists in San Antonio.
The team, along with official competitors Olivia Addington, Javier Soza, Jared Zhao, John Wilkins, Sam Delmer, and Daniel Tan, and unofficial competitors Ricardo Aguiar, Evan Valicek, Max Rattray, and Aidan Rodriguez, gave up lots of free time to prepare. Christian Butler also joined for prep, but was unable to attend the competition.
Congratulations to all of Keystone's Mathletes for the time and effort.
black velvet the way I see it, you're black velvet – brushing up against the fingertips of elegance, you smell like an old dusty memory of a first dance, senses melting together as my touch tastes the depth of your dark whirlpools. and maybe you think I'm black velvet too, all celestial and coruscating smoothly, but no, I'm corrugated like corduroy, with my upraised ridges and my in-betweens I could hardly pass for black velvet except maybe from afar, which is where you stand, for now.
On November 13th, seventeen 7th and 8th grade students took the 2012 AMC 8 (American Mathematics Competition) contest which is sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. MAA is a prestigious national organization for mathematics. Over 2,400 schools, and 150,000 students participated in the contest.
Keystone received a "Team Certificate of Merit" for having a score total of 50 or more for our top 3 students. We had a total of 58. Certificates of Participation were presented to the 17 students who took the AMC 8.
Keystone's top 3 students in each of the two grade levels were recognized with medals and certificates (see awards sheet). Four students were recognized with Honor Roll certificates for placing in the top 5% nationally. That score was 18 or more out of 25 questions.
The top student pin was presented to Adithya Mummidi, who answered 21 out of the 25 questions correctly, and missed receiving a place on the "Distinguished Honor Roll" (top 1% nationally) by just 1 question.
Kid Zone - Elementary Science Bowl
3rd Place - Purple Fire - Jada Young, Team Captain
1st Place - Aces - Christian Butler Team Member
1st Place - Shari Rohret
1st Place - Isaiah Thompson, Captain and Llewellyn Fambles
LitMag has done it again!
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced winners of the 29th Annual Gold Circle awards and our students were well represented.
Please congratulate Wallis, Amanda, and Gaby on their accomplishments in representing the 2011-2012 issue of LitMag!
Gaby Bucay was awarded 1st place for her collection of photographs in the Photography: Portfolio of Work category.
Wallis Monday was awarded both 2nd place AND honorable mention for her poems "You Are Four Shades of Lavender" and "Snapshot of Lonely Impurity" in the category of Free Form Poetry.
Amanda Rothbauer was awarded honorable mention for her poem "Tattle Tale" in the Traditional Poetry category.
Additionally, LitMag was awarded a nomination of SUPERIOR by the National Council of Teachers of English Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines. This is the highest nomination offered by NCTE.
Finally, please note that the editors and staff of LitMag have received a rating of First Place from the American Scholastic Press Association's annual magazine competition. Staff were praised for their superior efforts and Rachel Array's poem "Singing Saint-Saens" was recognized as a Best Poem. You may remember Rachel's poem was the winner of last year's Valentine Poem Contest. What great work from our LitMag editors Gaby Bucay, Emily Hernandez, and Travis Howk.
Her poem "Crossword Puzzle" will appear in the upcoming print issue of Teen Ink.
Read Daniel's poem below:
The National Hispanic Scholars are:
These students scored in the top 1% of all students who identified themselves as Hispanic, as determined on a state by state basis. They also must have a GPA of at least a 3.0
"The Hearse" is part of a larger thematic that Amanda is creating. This thematic offers brief sketches of various cars in a funeral procession. Her thematic is shaping up into a very powerful collection.
Here's the link to the National ACT-SO 2012 Winners Page:
Jamir is listed under Chemistry/Biochemistry. Shari is listed under Earth & Space Sciences.
Her poems Brittle Bones, The Moments that Stick, and breathsweattears appeared in the August issue of BrickRhetoric. BRICKrhetoric is a quarterly online arts journal based in Chicago with a multicultural and urban focus. The magazine is run by students at the East-West University in Chicago. Check out issue #9: http://brickrhetoric.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/issue-nine-i-august-25.pdf
Emily's poems are on pages 17 & 18.
The Playhouse, together with Keystone School, has been selected to receive $2,500 from Silver & Black Give Back, a charitable organization with the San Antonio Spurs. The grant, known as the Team Up Challenge, encourages students to participate in service learning, where they develop valuable skills, learn planning and teamwork, and have the opportunity to give back to their community. Projects are brainstormed, developed, and evaluated by the student applicants. The Playhouse and Keystone School's students will use the money to further the great works of The Playhouse TRIBE, a group of high school student whose goal is to create a youth arts renaissance in San Antonio through all types of artistic expression. TRIBE members promote Playhouse productions to their peers, encouraging them to see theatre as accessible to all ages. Additionally, TRIBE students create their own artistic works which are either performed or displayed at The Playhouse.
In addition to funding, Silver & Black Give Back will publicize the schools and their students' projects in a number of ways. Students may be asked to participate in TV shots, attend Spurs games, and pose for photos with Silver & Black mascots. Also, the program intends to rent billboard space to promote students and to advertise the schools and projects on VIA buses throughout the city. Silver & Black Give Back will launch a thorough social media campaign that will tie in to the more traditional media options. Each of the participating schools will receive months of coverage and schools are encouraged to use the Silver & Black logos and tags when creating their own media options.
KS students excelled in the National Spanish Exam.


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Sheriff's deputies are searching for two suspects in a Friday home invasion.
At about 1:15 p.m., the masked pair, believed to be a man and a woman, walked into the home at 7868 Holiday Drive through an unlocked door.
A woman inside the home at the time had her hands and feet bound, while the suspects stole some electronics and left.
Detectives say they do not believe this incident is related to a series of similar home invasions that have occurred since February in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 861-4900 or leave an anonymous tip with Crimestoppers at 366-TIPS.

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VANCOUVER, Aug. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME / TSX: COM) today announced that the company will host an exhibit booth and has sponsored a satellite symposium at the upcoming ESC Congress 2013 held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from August 31st to September 4th. This annual conference is organised by the European Society of Cardiology and focuses on the science, management and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
"We are excited to be able to participate again at the prestigious European Society of Cardiology Annual Congress Meeting," said Karim Lalji, Cardiome's Chief Commercial Officer. "This marks the first of several important upcoming meetings in Europe in which Cardiome plans to actively participate as we continue to execute our commercialization strategy for BRINAVESS."
The satellite symposium, titled "Recent Advances in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation" will be held on Saturday, August 31st from 13:00 to 14:00 in the Skopje Room at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Center. The symposium program is as follows:
A webcast of the symposium will be made available to the public at the ESC Congress 365 website (http://congress365.escardio.org/home.aspx) until September 2014.
About Cardiome Pharma Corp. Cardiome Pharma Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of new therapies that will improve the health of patients around the world. Cardiome has one marketed product, BRINAVESSTM (vernakalant IV), approved in Europe and other territories for the rapid conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in adults.
Cardiome is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market (CRME) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (COM). For more information, please visit our website at www.cardiome.com.
Forward-Looking Statement Disclaimer Certain statements in this news release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 or forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities legislation that may not be based on historical fact, including without limitation statements containing the words "believe", "may", "plan", "will", "estimate", "continue", "anticipate", "intend", "expect" and similar expressions. Forward- looking statements may involve, but are not limited to, comments with respect to our objectives and priorities for the remainder of 2013 and beyond, our strategies or future actions, our targets, expectations for our financial condition and the results of, or outlook for, our operations, research and development and product and drug development. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, events or developments to be materially different from any future results, events or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Many such known risks, uncertainties and other factors are taken into account as part of our assumptions underlying these forward-looking statements and include, among others, the following: general economic and business conditions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the other regions in which we operate; market demand; technological changes that could impact our existing products or our ability to develop and commercialize future products; competition; existing governmental legislation and regulations and changes in, or the failure to comply with, governmental legislation and regulations; availability of financial reimbursement coverage from governmental and third-party payers for products and related treatments; adverse results or unexpected delays in pre-clinical and clinical product development processes; adverse findings related to the safety and/or efficacy of our products or products; decisions, and the timing of decisions, made by health regulatory agencies regarding approval of our technology and products; the requirement for substantial funding to expand commercialization activities; and any other factors that may affect our performance. In addition, our business is subject to certain operating risks that may cause any results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this presentation to differ materially from our actual results. These operating risks include: our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; our ability to successfully complete pre-clinical and clinical development of our products; changes in our business strategy or development plans; intellectual property matters, including the unenforceability or loss of patent protection resulting from third-party challenges to our patents; market acceptance of our technology and products; our ability to successfully manufacture, market and sell our products; the availability of capital to finance our activities; and any other factors described in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission available at www.sec.gov and the Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com. Given these risks, uncertainties and factors, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements and information, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All forward-looking statements and information made herein are based on our current expectations and we undertake no obligation to revise or update such forward-looking statements and information to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.
SOURCE Cardiome Pharma Corp.


text: Must Read: 20 Essential Tips on Rewriting Your Story Until it ShinesCharlie Jane Anders7/03/12 10:30amFiled to: Afternoon readingWritingBooksStorytellingMatthew salessestweetshutterstockwriting advice412EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink A big part of the revision process in fiction-writing really is re-vision, seeing your story anew. And over at Necessary Fiction, this month's "Writer in Residence," Matthew Salesses, offers 20 absolutely indispensible tips on making your fiction much, much stronger. Including a lot of stuff I've never seen before, and some hot-coffee-in-the-face startling stuff. Here are the first four tips: Advertisement 1. To me, the most important question to ask as I revise is: Am I bored here? The best "advice" I've ever heard on revision was from the wonderful teacher and writer Margot Livesey. It was something like this: if you are bored, it's not because you've read that section so many times, it's because it's boring.We tell ourselves all sorts of excuses-and that our writing would be interesting to someone else, reading for the first time, is one of the worst. Good writing is always engaging, even after reading it over and over. We reread favorite books. If it's boring to you, then why would it interest your readers? Just about the worst offense a writer can commit is to be boring.2. It's hard to revise because you know what you were intending, and you might read that into what is there. Sometimes it helps to change the font, change the margins, change the medium. Do something to divorce yourself from the text before you read it again, anything to trick yourself into thinking it's something you've never seen before. To revise, I have to will myself to see my work as someone else's.3. Rewrite. You'll see this one mentioned several times. Type the draft out again in a new document, in this way making sure you are using the words you really want to use.4. Read out loud. A similar idea. Your ear will hear the points that ring false.Check out the other 16 great tips at the link. [Necessary Fiction] Advertisement Top image: Shutterstock.com/Bruno Passigatti.Reply41 repliesLeave a reply


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The City of Orlando's Mayor, Buddy Dyer, has challenged the community to develop a plan that would transform Orlando, within a generation, into one of the most environmentally-friendly, economically and socially vibrant communities in the nation. In an effort to do so, the city is introducing the Envision 2040 competition, which aims to illustrate what the city will look like in the future. Participants are being called to visualize what Orlando, the most sustainable city in the southeast, will look like in 2040. If all the goals and objectives of the plan were implemented today, what would our city look like in the future? The deadline for registration is March 18 and the deadline for submissions is April 15. For more information, please visit here.
Envision 2040: Green Works Orlando Design Competition
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Before their march from Dewey Square to the BIO Convention, we caught up with Ciclovida activists Ashley Trull, Taylor Miles, Matt Feinstein, Scott Guzman, and Dania Flores to talk about their day of action.+ + + + +
Trull: My name's Ashley. I'm out here with Ciclovida. I'm out here today protesting the 2012 BIO International Convention happening up the street. It's a gathering of some of the largest corporations in industrial agriculture and the big farm industry. So it's a lot of folks like Monsanto, Syngenta, Novartis. Sponsors like Coca Cola, Dupont, all the big players in the corporate world. And they're right now having a week full of workshops, talking about how to get GMOs further into our food supply, how to further industrialize agriculture, and basically how to make people think GMOs are okay, and to want [GMOs] in their food.We're out here today to make sure that they know, and that the public knows, that there is another way … and we don't want genetically modified food. We want local agriculture, small scale, family farms. We don't want GMOs. There's an enormous health risk with it, and it's not sustainable for continuing to farm and provide food for ourselves.
Miles: Part of what we've been trying to do, with what we've been calling like a counter-conference and a coordinated action against the corporate control of food at the biotech convention, is to just basically say: we don't even need what you're been talking about in there. We're going have our own counter-conference and bring together local farmers, food justice and environmental justice groups.
We had a really awesome alternative gathering last night at Spontaneous Celebrations, and we're really hoping that with alternative solutions we can do things like sharing seeds. There was a lot of seed networking last night and we're hoping to keep in touch about some of the seeds we've shared and how that development is happening and just stay in solidarity together in that way.
How is this protest related to Ciclovia? Can you explain that group?
Miles: Ciclovida is an international project, a group of activists, mostly based around a documentary of two landless workers in northeastern Brazil who traveled to Argentina and back slowly by bike. And they were spreading awareness about the devastating effects of industrial agriculture on the environment and communities and in all the places they were stopping they were getting seeds from that area and then brining those back and kind of creating a seed bank.
People think of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, but in fact they are not creating any benefit for farmers, for climate change issues, they are in fact causing more deforestation and displacement of small farms throughout the world, and lots of health effects with the pesticide use that it takes to grow these agro fuels. So that's large plantations of soy, of sugar cane …. and now they're trying to do what are called second generation agro fuels where they feel the pressure from the critique of food crops. We're not going to use food for fuel anymore right? We're going to use these crops that maybe take trees, like eucalyptus trees, and cellulosic fuels. They're going to try to break down these very fibrous plants and make them into fuel. Well it's actually not very effective. They're not generating a lot more energy than they're using to create the fuels, and not to mention all the potential impacts from the genetically modified organisms that they're using like trees that can spread their pollen for thousands of miles. So some scary stuff. So we're doing some education, we're doing some networking, we're doing some public speak outs here today so we want to hit up all the different avenues to get the word out to empower folks to have more power over their local food.
Aside from Ciclovida, what other sorts of activism surrounding these issues is going on in Boston right now?
Trull: We're connected to a lot of awesome projects happening here and around the northeast. A lot of our connections so far have been with folks doing urban agriculture projects, folks turning lots into farms, working on growing food organically here in an urban setting. I can't speak specifics right now but we've also had a lot of great support from people doing farming all around the Northeast. And a lot of people who are just starting out, a lot of young farmers who are saying 'I want to learn this, I want to do this' and going out there and learning how to grow their own food, how to save seeds and building that network of support. So it's been really cool to see that there is a growing movement around this. And a lot of it is very solutions oriented. It's like saying we're going to build what we want to see. We're not going to waste more time yelling at a building trying to fight industrial agriculture, we're going to learn what we need to learn and do it and create new systems of local food and local power.
Miles: We're collaborating a bit with Occupy Monsanto and Occupy Boston, and I just generally think that we found that the Occupy movement is really relevant here because [their goals are in line with] what needs to happen within our food system. You know, the food system needs to be back into the hands of the 99 percent, so …. occupy the food supply.
Also, last night we had Claire Allen from Roxbury Safety Net come, who has been resisting the BU Biolab for about ten years now. So we were really trying to draw the connections there, because BU has been very supportive of the 2012 BIO International Convention.. So, part of our event last night was being in solidarity with the community of Roxbury who has not consented about the placement of that level four lab.
If you had to just really simply explain to someone how the conversation surrounding GMOs is relevant to their life, what one thing would you tell them?
Trull: It mostly comes down to food. Everyone needs food. And what's happening now is a lot of our food has GMO products in it, and we don't know what the health implications are, but it is thought to be attached to a lot of health concerns. So, it's just the fact that this is something we used to nourish ourselves with. Food. Everyone needs healthy food to sustain ourselves, but when you're messing with genetics and what goes into the food, we don't know the impacts. It is probably causing a lot of the diseases we're seeing on increasing levels today. There's a lot of research going on about it, but also Monstanto is doing a lot to cover up that research, to make sure it's not getting out there. So people don't know the health risks of genetically modified food. The biggest thing I say to people is, "hey do you know what you're eating? Do you know that your food is genetically modified? Do you know what impact that has here? Wouldn't you like to know if your food is genetically modified?" We don't have a labeling for it here in the US, so there's no way to know. But its very pervasive in a lot of the food that we eat.
That's the main way I like to connect to folks about these issues. And then you can get into from there just to the fact that it's not sustainable in the long term because of the seed issue. Genetically modified seeds are designed to be terminator seeds to not reproduce, so you can't save the seeds, you need to keep buying them. And that's not a way to sustain farmers and sustain small scale agriculture. Not to mention they're usually paired with pesticide use, which is another toxin we're putting in our food, connected with cancer levels and lots of developmental diseases and disorders that are happening with children.
So, yeah …. food. We don't want to poison our food. It's as basic as that.
Flores: I think also part of it is that [the seed market] is a created market. Seeds. Everybody should be able to have access to seeds. Usually farmers harvest the seeds for next season. And usually those are the best seeds that they collect from the crops. But right now they cannot do that … there's going to be a point where we're not going to be able to harvest seeds. We're going to have to buy them. And it's a created market. Having control over our food supply? That's basically like playing God, for money. The way I talk to people is asking, "do you want to control what you eat? Or do you want somebody else to control it?"
And it's not just food, it's what animals eat, too. Because they grow [GMO-filled food] for animals too. And that modifies the animals. It's dangerous stuff.


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Fennemore Craig earns recognition from Chambers
Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West law firm, announced 17 of its attorneys and 6 practice areas in Arizona were recognized by Chambers USA 2016, a prominent and prestigious annual ranking of law firms and attorneys. "We are honored to once again be recognized by Chambers USA," said Steve Good, managing partner of Fennemore Craig. "It is gratifying when an… Read More →
Fennemore Craig attorneys recognized by Chambers USA
Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West law firm, announced that 22 attorneys were selected to the prominent Chambers USA 2015 and the practice areas of Environment (including water rights) and Real Estate were listed in band one in Arizona. The Real Estate practice was also listed in band one in Nevada. "The success… Read More →
Super Lawyers: Fennemore Craig
Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West law firm, announced 41 attorneys have been named as 2015 Southwest Super Lawyersfor Arizona. In addition, 14 attorneys have been recognized as 2015 Southwest Rising Stars, Super Lawyers. "The firm congratulates the 55 Fennemore Craig lawyers selected as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in recognition of their dedication to… Read More →
AZ Big Media honors Most Influential Women
They are the best business minds in Arizona. They are innovators, trailblazers and leaders of men. They are Az Business magazine's Most Influential Women in Arizona Business for 2014, as selected by the editorial team at Az Business magazine and a panel of industry experts. The Most Influential Women were honored Thursday at a reception… Read More →
17 Fennemore Craig Attorneys Recognized for Excellence
Fennemore Craig, one of the largest law firms in the Southwest, announces 17 of its attorneys were named to the prominent Chambers USA 2013: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for 2013. "The firm's reputation has been built on our attorney's continued commitment to excellence," states Tim Berg, managing partner of Fennemore Craig. "We are honored… Read More →


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1 Killed In Multi-Vehicle Crash On 710 Freeway In Long BeachAt least one person was killed Wednesday in a multi-vehicle accident on the 710 Freeway.
2 Killed, 8 Wounded In NYE Party Shootings In LAThe sheriff's department is investigating two separate New Year's Eve party shootings that claimed the lives of two men and wounded eight other people in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles.
1 Killed In Crash Involving Big Rig In SylmarA 27-year-old man killed in a crash with a big rig truck in Sylmar was identified Sunday by the coroner's office.


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Okay, since Mace had the purple saber in E2, I think we need to see some more colors in E3. The only purple saber among green, blue, and reds has led to many questions, and the only answer is that Sam Jackson wanted a purple saber so he got it. For this not to be a distraction I'd like to see more purples in E3 and especially at least one YELLOW saber. A Yellow blade would be awesome. As a kid I always wanted to see one. Who knows, maybe it was because the old toys came with the yellow toothpicks as lightsabers, but I really want to see something other than one unexplainable purple in E2.
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Rise of Islamists frays UAE-Egypt relations
Dubai, February 18, 2013
By Rania El Gamal and William Maclean
Days before his overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a senior visitor from the UAE, one of several Gulf monarchies long supportive of the most Arab populous country and its veteran strongman.
What transpired between Mubarak and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahayan is not known, beyond the fact that a letter from UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahayan was delivered.
But the significance of the February 8, 2011 visit was clear: It was a gesture of understanding and concern for a longtime friend who had been a trusted diplomatic ally for most Gulf Arabs, not least in their confrontation with non-Arab Iran.
Fast forward to 2013 and the picture is starkly different.
The UAE-Egyptian relationship has been strained by the regional spread of Islamist influence - Egypt now has an elected Islamist president - with implications not only for the two protagonists but all Arab states hit by the uprisings against dictators and dynasties that began two years ago.
Poorer, densely populated Arab states like Egypt often look to Gulf states for investment and financing, as well as overseas work for their nationals, a need ever more acute with rulers under unprecedented pressure to produce jobs and services.
The UAE, home to around 380,000 Egyptian expatriates and a major investor in Egypt, pledged $3 billion of aid to Cairo in 2011. But the funds have not yet been transferred, an Egyptian source familiar with the matter told Reuters, mainly due to the political instability in post-revolution Egypt.
A break in relations between the Arab political heavyweight and the Gulf financial powerhouse would be unthinkable. But the unfamiliar chill in their dealings reflects an increasingly complicated relationship between these two groups of countries.
Gulf states historically have sent aid and investment to less moneyed fellow Arabs, and in return have received diplomatic support and sometimes military protection.
The UAE-Egypt spat "does have a huge bearing on the success of the Arab transitions", said Jane Kinninmont of the British think tank Chatham House.
"Here you have a number of countries which are going through transitions but which have huge economic needs. The obvious place for them to look is the wealthy Gulf Arab countries."
Arab countries received 62 percent of all Gulf aid from 1970 to 2008, according to a study by researchers Bessma Momani and Crystal Ennis in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
For its part, the UAE needs to tread a careful line, analysts say.
Aggravating Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood could also affect UAE relations with other countries, like Syria, where Islamists are playing a major role in the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
And irking Egypt's new rulers could also push Cairo closer to Shi'ite Iran, arch-adversary of the Gulf Arabs.
Gulf Sunni Muslim rulers fear that, despite being a Sunni group itself, the Brotherhood is soft on Iran, unlike Mubarak.
"The Emirates recognise that Egypt's centrality in Arab affairs is an important counter to Iran," said Frederic Wehrey, Middle East program senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank.
Gulf Arab states need a prosperous Egypt for a host of reasons, not least to protect their own investments.
But history shows that financial help from the region sometimes reflects shifts in the diplomatic climate - even if governments insist their assistance is not political.
For example Jordan's ties with Gulf were hurt in 1990 when it refused to join an alliance against Iraq after it invaded Kuwait.
There are implications, too, for Gulf Arab states. Most saw Mubarak's fall as the result of a US decision to cast adrift an erstwhile ally and common adversary of Iran, rather than as an acceptance of an unstoppable revolution.
Crucially, Gulf Arab rulers alarmed by Mubarak's ouster were further disconcerted by the subsequent ascent to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mubarak's sworn foe and a group once cited in a US diplomatic cable as the UAE's "mortal enemy".
If Washington was ready to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, could it do the same in the Gulf, if a new democratic dispensation swept away the region's tradition of princely rule?
There is no shortage of evidence of UAE worries about the reach of Islamists. On Jan. 27 the UAE announced 94 of its citizens would go on trial on charges of seeking to seize power, accusing them of being in communication with the Brotherhood.
Many are believed to be members of al-Islah, an Islamist group suspected of links to the Brotherhood, a movement founded in Egypt in 1928 and which is banned in the Gulf Arab state. Islah says it has no connection to the global Brotherhood.
Some analysts say the arrests are meant to send a message that Islamist activities will not be tolerated, rather than reflecting a belief they pose a significant security threat.
"The UAE has a rule: zero tolerance for political organisations of any sort whether Islamists or non-Islamists, and these guys (Emiratis and Egyptians) broke the law. Pure and simple," UAE political scientist Abdelkhaleq Abdullah said.
But the UAE has continued to strike a firm tone in public.
In October, Sheikh Abdullah, the foreign minister, said: "The Muslim Brotherhood does not believe in the nation state. It does not believe in the sovereignty of the state."
An Emirati source close to the government said the minister's comments were directed at the Brotherhood, not Egypt, and the UAE saw the bilateral relationship as a strategic one.
On Jan 1, a local newspaper reported that the UAE had also arrested 11 Egyptians on suspicion of training Islamists in how to overthrow governments.
The Brotherhood replied by saying the 11 were wrongfully arrested. Local media in the UAE said the Gulf Arab states had rejected a subsequent request by Cairo to free the detainees.
For its part, the Brotherhood has sought to reassure Gulf Arabs it has no plan to push for political change beyond Egypt's borders. Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has said there is no plan to "export the revolution" - comments welcomed by the UAE.
Both Egypt and the UAE publicly assert that they have a special relationship. After all, Sheikh Abdullah had a meeting with Mursi, whose roots are in the Brotherhood, in Egypt in September 2012 and delivered an invitation for him to visit the UAE. A response is awaited.
And yet the discordant tone will stir questions over Gulf Arab willingness to make good on promises of support to Egypt, which desperately needs funds to avert financial crisis.
While Gulf Arabs have pledged large sums to Egypt, helping stabilise its currency, they are motivated by their own interests, Richard LeBaron, a former US ambassador to Kuwait, wrote in a study for the Atlantic Council think-tank.
He said most Gulf Arab states, wary of the Brotherhood, had adopted a "wait and see" attitude toward new leaders in Egypt and Tunisia before committing significant additional funds and seemed not to sense any urgency in making such decisions.
Carnegie Endowment's Wehrey wrote that while UAE-Egypt ties could face more turbulence, matters could be resolved due to shared interests including a need to counter Iranian influence and the Brotherhood's need for Gulf investment.
"A key first step is for both sides to avoid strident and provocative statements that fuel the rancour that currently afflicts the relationship," he said. - Reuters


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by Gene Principe / Edmonton Oilers Taylor Hall is denied by Nashville's Pekka Rinne in the shootout on January 23, 2011 (Photo by Andy Devlin / EOHC).
This team is too good when it comes to scoring talent not to be better when it's a one-on-one scenario. The Oilers sit with a 1-7 record in the shootout heading into their last two games before the All-Star break.
Okay, they may have a team at the bottom of the standings but they should have a team closer to the top when it comes to the shootout. How does this sound for a shootout lineup? Hemsky, Eberle, Hall, Paajarvi, Omark, Gagner.
To me that sounds like a win, but that hasn't materialized for the Oilers and I'm not quite sure why that is the case. Easy answer is they're not scoring goals but it has to to be a littler deeper rooted problem than simply that.
Here are the numbers: Edmonton has had a total of 35 shots and scored six times in their eight shootouts. The players who led the way are Eberle and Hall with six shots each. Jordan has scored three times and Taylor twice. That adds up to five leaving a grand total of one goal to be shared by all the other shooters, which happen to be Omark (he has the other goal), Paajarvi, Cogliano, Brule, Jones, Penner, Fraser, Foster, Horcoff, Hemsky and Gagner.
While I am mildly surprised that Hemsky and Penner are both 0-3 I am baffled at Sam Gagner's status of having five shots and yet he still doesn't have a goal. Can this be possible from that 18 year old kid who burst onto the scene as a rookie and made goalies look silly? Apparently it is.
Ironically as Sam has become a better player in the first 65 minutes of the game it's been the opposite when the clock is off. Those goalies I speak of include JS Giguere. Jiggy was months removed from a Stanley Cup title when, in Anaheim, he looked like a Duck out of water. This being done by the league's youngest player that season. Sam led all rookies with four shootout deciding goals. Now that Gagner magic has disappeared.
So has the entire team's mojo from that 2007-08 season when the the Oilers went a whopping 15-4 in the shootout. They were 8-1 at home and 7-3 on the road. Along with Sam's bullseye aim, Ales Hemsky also had four game-winning shootout goals and Shawn Horcoff pitched in with three.
While I've been focusing on the shooters it takes netminding to go along with it. That year the Oilers went 15-4 Edmonton goaltenders Mathieu Garon and Dwayne Roloson faced 69 shots and they stopped 57 of them; they only allowed 12 goals. By comparison this year the duo of Nik Khabibulin and Devan Dubnyk have also allowed 12 goals but they've come on 31 shots.
Whether it's the shooter or netminders or both this is a team with enough talent that it should be looking forward to shootouts and not dreading them.
Author: Gene Principe


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October 31, 2013 Playoff ProspectusBoston's Fast Track to Success
The Boston Red Sox were nobody's offseason champion, which is understandable for a team that was coming off a 69-93, last-place season. Sure, they did stuff. They did a lot of stuff compared to most bad teams, because most bad teams didn't have the expectations, the window, and the recency of success that the Red Sox had. Their four biggest offseason moves can be written pessimistically as this:
Somewhere this addition problem got as drunk as the goggled celebrants in the home clubhouse last night, because 69 wins plus that mess doesn't always add up to this party. Eight months later, Victorino was smashing the biggest hit of Game 6 off the wall to cap a season that was actually a bargain for his employer. Napoli was in the cleanup spot after a nice vacation at Busch Stadium. And the bullpen problems were washed away by the much less heralded move of signing Koji Uehara and otherwise building a bullpen the way you're supposed to. "That part didn't turn out the way any of us envisioned, obviously," general manager Ben Cherington said of the bullpen. "The guys who were pitching in the games at the end of the year were not necessarily the guys we envisioned at the beginning of the year." Indeed, for all the reshaping in the offseason, which included hiring John Farrell and a new coaching staff, the Red Sox won in spite of a few of their own decisions, too. Where they do deserve credit is in believing that this was a 69-93 team that could win and being right about it—unlike the Phillies and to some extent the Royals, who also went further in or failed to cash out. And also for believing that rebuilding and contending don't have to be isolated phases—that you can trade players who don't fit and also acquire those who do without either being some huge statement about your place in the world. Remember, the Red Sox are only 14 months removed from the late-August blockbuster that sent Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Josh Beckett to the Dodgers. "I saw that after August, we had the capacity to rebuild," Red Sox President Larry Lucchino said, with more emphasis on the "build" part of the rebuild. "We could redeploy some significant money—the question was: would we do it the right way, bring in the right manager, coaches and players. I think it all started on (August 25) and a lot of things flowed from that." Lots of times we like to look at a team that's having success and try to learn from it. We did it with the Giants two of the last three years, telling a story about building around pitching and catching and plugging in a few veteran hitters—whether that last part was said seriously or mockingly depends on your publication, probably, but the first part was standard narrative. If we didn't do it anyway in defeat, we would have killed that line of conversation to death with The Cardinal Way, too—how can their success in the draft and in player development be duplicated? With Boston, though, what exactly is the defining characteristic of how this team was built? Some of it goes to show just how fast fortunes can change even in the face of the best division in baseball. That the theory of playing to your window and how many wins away from contention you appear to be might not be a best practice. There is probably some non-negligible difference attributable to changing managers as well, but no combination of that and the offseason moves combines to make the 28-win difference from 69-93 to 97-65 and eventual World Series champions. So did everyone just get good together? Well, sort of. Back on April 1, Sam Miller took a look at what would happen if the Astros all hit their 90th-percentile PECOTA projections. This wasn't quite that level of best-case scenario for the Red Sox, but a lot of things just went right all at the same time. Of their nine starting position players plus Daniel Nava, who played enough to be viewed as a starter, and their five pitchers, six of the 15 finished above their 90th-percentile PECOTA projection in either a rate metric (TAv or ERA) or in WARP or both. It's important to look at WARP because it accounts for how lucky the Red Sox got with health compared to 2012—which rate stats don't—and also considers defense and baserunning. But it's also important to look at the rate stats because those percentiles aren't based on our human projections of how much they'd play. So both. (Note in looking at this that Koji Uehara and Craig Breslow also surpassed their 90th percentiles and that Junichi Tazawa was close, but that's too much benefit of hindsight, because Hanrahan was supposed to be the guy and he hit his yuck percentile.) Anyway, the list:
Part of this might be a little self-selecting. If anyone were kissing the 0-9 range, they might not play enough to make any postseason recaps. Still, the Red Sox had an awful lot of things just go right, including a pseudo-new-acquisition in Lackey, whereas if they had played to their projections, their season would have been a much different story. The lesson for the rest of baseball might just be that you don't want to take a lot of lessons from this team. Having 69 wins doesn't mean you can just go do what Boston did. And don't forget, the Red Sox didn't just win the World Series; they did something we've become unaccustomed to seeing in this age of diluted playoffs. They went all the way as the best team in the better league and dominated the World Series to a greater extent than 4-2 would indicate. Having 69 wins and having money doesn't mean you can just go do this. And you certainly can't do it that fast unless everything goes right. In a culture where those on the inside love to say that only those on the inside believed, Lucchino wasn't even saying that. "I didn't think we would go all this far this quickly," Lucchino said. "I knew we'd be better, that we'd take a big step in the right direction." "I just didn't know how fast it would go."
Zachary Levine is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @zacharylevine
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