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TULSA, Okla. – The Duke men's tennis team concluded action at the 2013 Saint Francis Health System ITA All-American Championships Friday following a week's worth of play at one of the fall's largest collegiate tournaments.
After notching an 8-4 upset of the second-ranked doubles tandem in the country in Thursday's first round, the 25th-ranked pair of junior Raphael Hemmeler and sophomore Bruno Semenzato saw their run in the doubles main draw come to an end Friday evening. The Blue Devil duo came up short against No. 17 Andreas Bjerrehus and Amerigo Contini of Virginia Tech, falling 8-3.
Earlier in the day, sophomore Michael Redlicki took to the courts in the second round of singles consolation play. The 22nd-ranked player in the ITA's preseason poll, Redlicki started out by winning a first-set tiebreaker against No. 95 Daniil Proskura of Alabama, 7-6 (7), but was forced to retire in the second set due to illness.
In total, eight different players represented Duke in Tulsa, with Redlicki, Hemmeler and senior Fred Saba competing in the singles main draw and Hemmeler and Semenzato teaming up in the doubles main draw.
"As a team, we certainly have some areas of improvement in order for us to reach our potential," said head coach Ramsey Smith. "In their debut performance Bruno and Rafa had a big doubles win over the second-ranked team in the country, and I was happy to see them play well together. Bruno is playing at a very high level, and has put together quite an impressive fall so far."
Up next, the Blue Devils will send players to the Wake Forest Fall Invitational Oct. 11-13 in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Complete Duke results from the 2013 ITA All-American Championships can be found below.
2013 Saint Francis Health System ITA All-American Championships
Consolation Second Round – Oct. 4
No. 95 Daniil Proskura (Alabama) def. No. 22 Michael Redlicki (Duke) 6-7 (7), 3-1, ret.
Second Round – Oct. 3
No. 17 Jared Hiltzik (14) (Illinois) def. No. 26 Fred Saba (Duke) 6-2, 6-3
First Round – Oct. 3
No. 54 Winston Lin (Columbia) def. No. 49 Raphael Hemmeler (Duke) 6-1, 6-2
No. 20 Mac Styslinger (16) (Virginia) def. No. 22 Michael Redlicki (Duke) 6-4, 7-5
No. 26 Fred Saba (Duke) def. No. 73 Arturs Kazijevs (SMU) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
Consolation First Round – Oct. 3
Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) def. Bruno Semenzato (Duke) 7-5, 6-2
No. 22 Michael Redlicki (Duke) def. No. 37 John Morrissey (Stanford) 7-6 (5), 6-3
Second Round – Oct. 4
No. 17 Andreas Bjerrehus/Amerigo Contini (Virginia Tech) def. No. 25 Raphael Hemmeler/Bruno Semenzato (Duke) 8-3
First Round – Oct. 3
No. 25 Raphael Hemmeler/Bruno Semenzato (Duke) def. No. 2 Hernus Pieters/Ben Wagland (2) Georgia 8-4
Final Round – Oct. 2
No. 85 Axel Alvarez (30) (Oklahoma) def. No. 49 Raphael Hemmeler (2) (Duke) 6-3, 0-6, 6-4
Benjamin Lock (Florida State) def. Bruno Semenzato (Duke) 5-7, 6-0, 6-3
Second Round – Oct. 1
Bruno Semenzato (Duke) def. Hunter Nicholas (San Diego State) 6-1, 6-2
No. 49 Raphael Hemmeler (2) (Duke) def. Ashok Narayana (Columbia) 6-3, 6-4
First Round – Sept. 30
Bruno Semenzato (Duke) def. No. 79 Tony Lupieri (25) (Baylor) 6-1, 2-6, 6-4
No. 49 Raphael Hemmeler (2) (Duke) def. Oystein Steiro (North Carolina) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Second Round – Oct. 1
Benjamin Lock/Marco Nunez (Florida State) def. Cale Hammond/Fred Saba (6) (Duke) 8-3
Second Round – Sept. 29
Tommy Bennett (22) (Rice) def. TJ Pura (Duke) 7-6 (5), 7-5
Moez Chargui (Nevada) def. Josh Levine (Duke) 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4
Consolation Bonus – Sept. 29
Cale Hammond (Duke) def. Matthew Campbell (Oklahoma State) 6-2, 6-1
Tam Trinh (14) (LSU) def. Daniel McCall (Duke) 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5
First Round – Sept. 28
TJ Pura (Duke) def. Alexander Drean (UMBC) 6-3, 6-1
Marc Collado Castells (Penn State) def. Cale Hammond (Duke) 1-6, 7-5, 6-1
Josh Levine (Duke) def. Michael Reilly (Penn State) 6-2, 6-4
Justin Butsch (LSU) def. Daniel McCall (Duke) 6-2, 6-1


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When making a decision to buy bagless or bagged vacuum, there are a few things you may want to consider. With their suction technology and transparent debris containers, allowing consumers to see all the dirt they've picked up, bagless upright vacuum cleaners have gained popularity over the last few years. Since the removable canister collects the dirt, bagless cleaners do not require the additional purchase of bags. However, depending on how frequently the bagless vacuum is used its vacuum filter needs to be replaced two-to-three times per year.
Bagged upright vacuum cleaners do require the use of traditional disposable bags. Many people with breathing sensitivities prefer these models since manufacturers are now making these bags with a higher standard of filtering to keep microscopic dust particles from escaping the vacuum and circulating through the air. Most modern vacuum bags also have a closure that allows you to cover the hole in the bag before disposing of it. This helps prevent dust from leaking through the bag's opening back into the air after you have thrown it away.
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Gardening Hotline: During the winter months you can contact us via phone or e-mail. If you have a question please leave it on our voicemail (315)331-8415 ext. 107 or e-mail us at email@example.com Be sure to include a daytime phone number where we can reach you with any additional questions we may have.
4-H Enrollment: The Wayne County 4-H Program offers children and their family ways to explore topics they are interested in at a level of involvement that meets their busy schedules. Youth ages 5 through 19 may join 4-H. By offering "learn-by-doing" projects, youth can explore a broad spectrum of interests including environmental conservation and science, personal development and leadership, communication and the expressive arts, plants and animals, and science and technology.
If you are interested in joining 4-H please call Cornell Cooperative Extension at 331-8415. 4-H is the youth development program of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Wayne County and the National land grant University system.
Beekeeping Classes: If you are interested in learning about beekeeping the Ontario-Fingerlakes Beekeepers Association is holding training for beginning beekeeping. The five-class training will be held at the CCE Ontario Co. office - 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday evenings (Jan. 7, 21, Feb. 4, 18, and March 4) - for more info or to register go to www.ontariocountybeekeepers.org.
� Gardening tips
As we approach the New Year, there are still some garden tasks to complete.
Tie together or support the branches on evergreen shrubs with burlap, which will limit plant, damage from heavy, wet snow. Never use plastic to wrap shrubs, as it will heat up on a sunny day causing plants to �cook�.
This is a good time to transplant your houseplants using a lightweight commercial potting mix. Remember to water the plants with warm water.
Houseplants, with large leaves and smooth foliage like philodendrons, dracena and ficus, will benefit from washing their leaves at intervals removing dust and grime, which clogs leaf pores. You can use a soft, moist cloth, turning it as you clean or you can use commercial leaf shine products but use sparingly.
This is a good time to clean and sharpen garden tools. Sharpen hoes, pruners, spades, edgers and mower blades, as this will make tasks easier next spring. If sharpening mower blades, be sure that they are balanced and level before placing on the mower and remember to remove the battery from battery powered garden equipment and store it away from freezing temperatures.
Now is the time to re-apply rabbit and deer repellants if you have not already done so. Watch the snow height or rainfall to gauge when to it again. Research has shown that the �rotten egg� odor products seem to work the best.
Consider ordering your seeds early for this coming gardening season. Check with Cooperative Extension for variety recommendations for 2014.
If you have a home orchard, this is a great time to remove fruit still left on or around any trees. This will help prevent the spread of any disease problems. Make sure that your mouse and deer guards are in place as well.
To care for holiday plants you may have received remove the foil when watering and allow excess water to drain away. Locate the plants away from direct heat sources like a wood stove, heat run or on top of the TV. Remove drying leaves and flowers before they �die�. Pruning on a frequent basis can promote a longer bloom period.
Overwintering plants in outdoor containers: Plants that are hardy to USDA zone 6 may die when left outside in their container over the winter. Plants that you plan to grow in outdoor containers that will remain outdoors throughout the winter months should be hardy to at least USDA zone 4.
Move containers to a sheltered spot away from the wind and apply mulch to the tops of the containers to decrease freezing and thawing of the soil. Evergreen trimmings placed over the container can also help keep the container at consistent temperatures. Make sure you leave the material in place until spring.
If the plants are marginally hardy consider wrapping the containers with burlap (not plastic) for extra protection. You can surround pots with straw bales but this may encourage rodents. Smaller containers can be sunk into well drained soil or mulch pile for the winter leaving the top of the container just above the existing material/soil and covering with a bit of mulch. Remember: you are not trying to keep the container, plants, or soil warm, just protected from the extremes. Make sure you don�t leave porous ceramic/clay containers outside over the winter.
� Caring for live trees
Cover the area you will be digging for your tree with several inches of mulch to keep the ground from freezing. The hole you dig for your tree should be 2-3 times the width of the rootball and only as deep as the rootball.
Keep the tree indoors for no more than 7 to 10 days making the climate change gradually by moving the tree one to two days at a time, first by placing the tree two days in the garage, then one day in a cool basement, and then into the room where you plan to set it up and decorate it. Repeat this process in reverse when you take it back outdoors.
Spraying the foliage with an antidessicant spray before bringing it into the house will help prevent loss of moisture from the needles. (Always follow label instructions).
While the tree is inside, water it as you would a house plant. Water frequently and thoroughly, but never let the soil get either dry or muddy.
Indoor temperatures should be kept as cool as possible, especially at night. Be sure that it does not receive direct sunlight and never place the tree near a fireplace or any other heat source.
� Cut Trees
Keep freshly cut trees in a cool location such as a porch or garage with the butt of the tree in a bucket of water.
When you're ready to bring the tree indoors, saw off one inch from the bottom to create a fresh cut which helps increase water uptake. You may want to sterilize your tree stand which will reduce bacteria build up, then place and secure the tree in its stand. Fill the reservoir with warm water. No additives or formulas have been shown to preserve a tree longer than just plain water. Check the water supply at least twice a day and add water as needed so the reservoir never becomes empty.
Keep the tree away from heat sources, such as fireplaces, wood stoves, and heating vents as these will dry the tree out prematurely and create a fire hazard.
� Insects in Stored Foods
The most common insect pests in stored foods in homes are flour or grain beetles and flour or grain moths. Foods that commonly become infested include flour, mixes, pasta, rice, nuts, and pet food. Stored food should be inspected periodically and any infested food products thrown away. There is no satisfactory way of separating the insects from the food products.
Flour or grain beetles are very small slender, reddish brown beetles. During the larval or worm stage, grain beetles appear as small yellowish-white worms. Both larvae and beetles may be found in foods.
The Indian meal moth is another food pest commonly found indoors. They infest food and the adults may fly around the house. Indian meal moth larvae are about 1/2 inch long and are usually white or cream colored with a dark head. Foods infested with moths usually have a silk like webbing on the surface left by the larvae while they crawl about.
Carefully examine all susceptible foods that may have been exposed to infestation. Be sure to check birdseed and pet food. These are often a source of an infestation. For additional control recommendations contact our Master Gardeners.
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The next step for a campaign to promote St. Joseph County as a retirement destination will take place at the end of the month.
The next step for a campaign to promote St. Joseph County as a retirement destination for the Chicago-area market will take place at the end of the month.
Members of the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to meet at 3 p.m. March 26 at a work session that will include marketing firm 2 Fish Company.
Holland-based 2 Fish will present three different package levels, providing the five-member commission options in terms of the extent — and at what cost — it wishes to promote the campaign.
The county-funded project will rely on advertising through various sources to put St. Joseph County's name and images before a nearby market potentially interested in the county's natural resources, its relatively low housing costs and slower pace of life.
In other action Tuesday, Commissioner Rick Shaffer was appointed to serve as the county commission member on a soon-to-be created combined lake board for Lake Templene uniting Nottawa and Sherman townships.
Also Tuesday, permission was granted to fill a vacancy in the finance department. The opening was made when Gloria Tate took a new position with the county clerk's office.
In an unrelated matter, Loralee Knepper, who organizes volunteer schedules and duties at the county's animal control facility, announced the agency next month will begin promoting a volunteer recruitment program in an effort to secure additional volunteers at the site.
Commissioners also approved Sturgis residents Cathi Abbs and Emily Frohriep to serve on the county's Animal Control Advisory Board. A seventh position, someone who will serve in the role of a grant writer, is being left vacant for the time being.


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May 04, 2013
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AMLocation: FLTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE WEATHER. UCF Surf Team members and Ron Jon Surf Shop employees team up to clean the beach from St. Lucie Lane to Shepard Park. Public invited to assist in cleanup efforts on Saturday, May 4th from 9 - 10 AM.
Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PMRon Jon Surf School in Cocoa Beach, FL will be celebrating the grand opening of their new building as well as their 20th anniversary from 9 AM - 6 PM on Saturday, May 4th! Come out and enjoy $2 Taco City tacos as well as $25.00 one-hour group surf lessons!


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This trailer offers almost 11 minutes of gameplay from the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, showing combat, exploration, and environments featuring the new more anatomically correct Lara Croft. The clip is accompanied by narration from Noah Hughes, as the creative director on the upcoming action/adventure reboot walks us through what we're seeing.
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Katy Couric and Diane Sawyer battled fiercely while both were anchors of major network news programs.
The upcoming book "The News Sorority," by journalist Sheila Weller, outlines the rise of three respected and very competitive newswomen Couric, Sawyer and CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
The Daily Beast apparently got their paws on a copy of the book, which comes out Sept. 30 on Penguin Press. The website reported there's some surprising revelations inside, especially when discussing Couric and Sawyer fighting each other for exclusive interviews.
When Sawyer beat Couric for the exclusive interview with a 57-year-old woman who gave birth to twins, Couric supposedly blurted, "I wonder who she (expletive) this time to get it."
Well, now I'm sort of wondering, too.
Weller wrote that ABC News veteran Sawyer threatened to cut off a friend who was approached by Couric for an interview for NBC's "Today."
"When a friend of Diane's, a public figure, was being pursued by Katie's people, the wooed eminence got a call from (Diane's husband, director) Mike Nichols, who said -- in a very nice way, to be sure -- that he and Diane would essentially cut off all social contact if their friend appeared on 'Today.'"
A source friendly with both Sawyer and Couric reportedly told the Huffington Post, "It's unfortunate that the author would choose to alienate her core audience for the book by playing up the alleged catfight between these two very accomplished women."
Yeah. Too bad. I'm sure no one will want to read it now.
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Former Diablo III game director Jay Wilson admitted the real-money and gold auction houses "really hurt the game," as Blizzard underestimated the number of players who would turn to auctions to outfit their characters. Joystiq has details from a GDC talk where Wilson said they thought the auction houses were a service players of their action/RPG sequel wanted, and that hosting them in-house would reduce fraud and abuse, but as in the end, they created an environment where collecting money was a primary goal over defeating Diablo and his hordes. He also says they would turn off auctions if they could, but they have "no idea" how many players this would disappoint. His contention that Blizzard thought only a small number of players would use the auction houses is hard to fathom in light of the game's design, which, for a considerable time before a series of balance changes required the very best gear to complete on the highest levels, even though such gear dropped so rarely it was impractical to try to collect it without using the auctions. Blizzard has a GDC talk scheduled for today discussing their iterative design process for Diablo III, and their preview of that mentions a number of systems that were reworked during the game's design because they were unsatisfactory, but all the examples they use are gameplay mechanics, and not things like auctions.
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Some of the signs at Australia Zoo will make you smile. As we walked past a crocodilian enclosure, I couldn't help noticing a sign that described the mode of capture for a particularly large saltwater crocodile as the "jump-on method." Having previously watched a few episodes of the Crocodile Hunter TV show, it wasn't hard to picture Steve Irwin leaping onto the back of a wild crocodile.
Originally opened in 1970 by renowned herpetologist Bob Irwin, Australia Zoo became Irwin's passion when he took over the zoo's management from his father in 1991. On a recent family trip to Australia, we asked our four children what they would most like to see while there.
Although they were interested in visiting the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House, Ayer's Rock and other sites on UNESCO lists, their No. 1 pick was Australia Zoo.
We began our day at the zoo in the feature stadium known as the Crocoseum with the Wildlife Warriors show. Even though the Crocoseum has enough seating for 5,000 guests, it's a good idea to arrive early. A show introduces visitors to elephants, birds, giant snakes and saltwater crocodiles. The highlight is the hand feeding of a giant crocodile named Monty. Before his untimely death in 2006, Steve Irwin frequently fed Monty as part of the show.
Afterwards, we began to explore the rest of the 29-hectare Australia Zoo. Once a small reptile park, Australia Zoo became a major tourist attraction thanks to the attention Irwin received as the Crocodile Hunter. Today it has more than 1,000 animals. It's best known for feature exhibits of Australian wildlife including koalas, dingoes, wombats and Tasmanian devils.
Standing in the gift shop, there's no doubt the Australia Zoo has become a huge commercial enterprise, but the underlying message is still education and conservation. Steve Irwin is no longer there, but the zoo ensures his message remains larger than life.
Steve Irwin Day
Steve Irwin died on Sept. 4, 2006, when he was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef. He was filming a documentary called Ocean's Deadliest. Nov. 15 is set aside annually as Steve Irwin Day at the Australia Zoo. If you come dressed in your khakis, you get 10 per cent off admission and a free gift.
The day is dedicated to raising funds for Steve Irwin's charity, Wildlife Warriors (wildlifewarriors.org.au)
If You Go
- Australia Zoo is located in Beerwah, a 60-minute drive from Brisbane or a two-hour drive from the Gold Coast. Rail connections are not very efficient, so it's best to drive or pre-book the CC Croc Connections bus through the Australia Zoo website.
- Australia Zoo is open daily (excluding Christmas Day) from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Zoo admission is $53 for adults and $31 for children aged 3-14. You can buy a family pass that admits two adults and two kids for $157 Australian dollars.
- To pre-book interactive animal experiences or for more details on the zoo and its conservation efforts, visit: australiazoo.com.au.


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NEW YORK -- The Major League Baseball Players Association today announced the results of its biennial player-officer elections.
Returning to their posts as association player representatives, the highest elected positions in the union, are Curtis Granderson (Yankees) and Jeremy Guthrie (Royals). Justin Masterson (Indians) was elected alternate association player representative, joining returnee Carlos Villanueva (free agent).
Chris Capuano (Dodgers) returns as one of two pension committee representatives to serve alongside newcomer Craig Breslow (Red Sox). Returning as alternate pension committee representatives are Ross Ohlendorf (free agent) and Kevin Slowey (free agent).
In accordance with the union's constitution and by-laws, elections for association player representatives and alternates and pension committee representatives and alternates are held during executive board meetings in even-numbered years. Each of the above players will serve a two-year term.
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Understanding Astrology > Celestial Points and Bodies
- Which
Lilith do you use in astrology? There are more than one,
The astrological tradition of Lilith/Dark Moon originates primarily in France and has spread over large parts of Europe in the last 25 years from there.
At least in Europe, Lilith always refers to the second focal point of the Lunar orbit, or to the Lunar apogee, which both are on the same axis and at the same position of the zodiac, from a geocentric viewpoint. The terms 'dark moon' and 'black moon' are both used for the same mathematical point.
The asteroid Lilith is a real asteroid (#1181), but there is no relevant astrological tradition associated with it. Currently there are about 36'000 numbered asteroids known with precise orbits, in the average you find 100 of them in every degree of the zodiac.
There is also a theory about a fictitious second Earth Moon. These are not documented by contemporary astronomers, even when a 100 years ago some astronomers have claimed to have seen such invisible objects.
Please see section 2.6 of the Swiss Ephemeris documentation for our policy as ephemeris authority regarding fictitious objects.
See also Lilith - The Dark Moon
- What
can you tell me about asteroids in astrology?
There is no public source on the web covering a large number of asteroids. Schmadel's asteroid enzyclopedia is the best source, but its website is for subscribers only; you need to buy the 150 USD book from Springer to get access.
Otherwise try www.google.com and enter something like "astrology and asteroids" - there should be some information around.
- What
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www.astro.com does not specialise in this field. Please find some book on Fixed Stars, e.g. by Bernadette Brady, who has done some inspired writing on the subject ("Brady's Book of Fixed Stars").


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Outside the Dairy Gift Shop, mid-Park at 65th Street
Fondly recollect the early decades of baseball, recall ladies riding sidesaddle along the bridle paths, envision the thrill of ice skating and boating on the Lake, cross the finish line of the NYC Marathon, and more. Learn how tastes of recreation have changed since the mid-19th century and how the Park has been changed to mirror those tastes. For directions, please call 212-794-4064.
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- Place garlic cloves in a small pan and cover with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and cook over a medium heat until the oil begins to bubble gently.
- Lower the heat to the lowest setting and cook the garlic gently for 25 minutes, or until the cloves are soft.
- Remove from the heat and remove the garlic using a slotted spoon.
- Push the garlic through a sieve and set aside.
- In a large saucepan, heat 2 tablespoons of the garlic-infused olive oil and gently fry the shallots for 5 to 6 minutes.
- Add reserved garlic purée, cloves, paprika, thyme, bay leaves and tomatoes.
- Fry gently for a further five minutes, then pour in chicken broth.
- Simmer on a low heat for 25 minutes to allow the flavors to infuse, then add Sherry vinegar and cook 5 minutes more.
- To serve, toast the sourdough so that it is slightly charred.
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Brink, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Gatling Gears get the show off to a fine start in Whatcha' Been Playin? this week. Andrea Rene of Clevver TV joins Xav, Jeff, and Garnett in the studio for the conversation. A look at some of the top IP's created this generation in the Warning brings out just how many great games we've had over the past few years. There's the latest update on the continuing downtime for the PlayStation Network in the news but it closes out on happier matters with a handful of game announcements and Finishing Moves.
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ROCKFORD — More than 1,300 people are signed up so far for this year's The Biggest Loser RunWalk Rockford, which takes place June 14.
Participants are signed up from 22 states. The event, which features a half-marathon, 5K, and kids' 1-mile fun run, kicks off at 7 a.m. at Davis Park, 318 S. Wyman St.
Finalists Bobby Saleem and Tanya Winfield from the 15th season of "The Biggest Loser" also will participate in the event.
Last year, more than 2,500 people participated in the event, which brought an estimated 6,000 visitors to downtown Rockford, according to organizers. One dollar from each registration this year will be donated to the Rock River Valley Pantry.
The event is aimed at helping people reach their fitness goals, whether they're avid runners or beginners. Registration for the various events range in cost from $15 to $85.
Visit biggestloserrunwalk.com to register or call Marla Wilson at 815-987-9897 for more information.


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This collection of rarely seen newsreels and U.S. government training films presents incredible footage of world events from 1939 to the fall of Hitler's Germany.
NEWS PARADE OF 1939: Air passenger service between America and Europe becomes a reality. A catastrophic Chilean earthquake leaves 30,000 dead. Highlights conclude with the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe.
PHOTOGRAPHY FIGHTS - 1944: This U.S. Navy produced short subject demonstrates how expert analysis of aerial photography helps our bombers pinpoint enemy targets.
RADIO OPERATOR: This Army Air Force production shows how the professionalism and rigid training of a radio operator saves the life of the crew of a downed B-59 bomber.
FALL OF THE NAZIS: Highlights include the bombing of Berlin and the liberated citizens of Europe welcoming the arrival of advancing Allied troops. Millions of German troops are taken prisoner and General Jodl and the Nazi high command surrender unconditionally at Reims.
BONUS: What's New In The Military


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PCC men 65, Colby 57. PCC women 68, Colby 44.
The Pratt Community College men's basketball team turned the tables on Colby Wednesday night. After absorbing a 4- point road loss to the Trojans a month ago, PCC prevailed 65-57 at the Dennis Lesh Sports Arena—the 8- point margin of victory being accounted for by the 4 thunderous slam-dunks engineered by the Beavers.
Pratt got up 6-0 quickly on the Trojans, DeShun Roberts, Deon Taylor and Aaron Abram each getting 2 points before Colby could get untracked. Sean Michaelson hit a 3 and Kazmere Boyd made 4 free throws to keep the momentum with Pratt. The score was 19-13 at the media time-out.
Pratt then inexplicably went cold—not scoring for over 5 minutes as the Trojans worked their way into the lead 20-19 at the 4:00 mark. Over the final 3 minutes of the half, however, Pratt once again found the range—going on an 11-0 run to get themselves back on top 30-22 at the break. Michaelson hit another 3 during the stretch, Bryan Hellman collected a Windex bucket and Javis Flynn connected on a 1+1 to pace the Beavers' resurgence.
After the intermission, PCC began to pound the ball inside with effective results. The next 24 points scored by the Beavers came from inside the paint or from the free throw line. Included in the short-range onslaught were 3 slam-dunks by Aaron Abram and 1 by Kazmere Boyd, each of which brought appreciation from the Sophomore Night crowd at the Beaver Dome.
While PCC was taking dead aim from point-blank range, the Colbys were doing nothing to improve their shooting percentage stats. On one incredible possession, the Trojans had inside offensive rebound position, but missed 7 put-back attempts before finally being sent to the free throw line—and then the freebies were off the mark.
Pratt was up 45-31 at the 2nd half media time-out. The Beavers increased their advantage to 18, 51-33 at the 8:26 mark— their largest lead of the night. Down the stretch, Colby began pressing and went to Smackyville. They managed to trim the lead some, but PCC was patient against the press and didn't turn it over much; and Lucas Stivrins, Devin Callon and Kazmere Boyd all collected 1+1s to help keep the Trojans at arm's length.
A flurry of points in the final minute got Colby back to within 65-57 at the final horn, but the Beaver lead was never in serious jeopardy.
Three sophomore Beavers celebrated their final home action with the victory: Aaron Abram, Sean Michaelson and Devin Callon.
The win gives the Beavers a 15-15 record as the regular season comes to a close, 5-11 in the conference. On Saturday the Region VI playoffs begin. PCC is expected to draw the 7th seed, which means they will travel to Cowley County to take on the Tigers.
Colby 22 35 57
Aaron Abram 22; Flynn 2; Kazmere Boyd 13; Callon 2; Michaelson 9; Taylor 6; Roberts 7; Stivrins 2; Hellman 2
Wednesday was a fun evening for the Pratt Community College women's basketball team as they handled the Colby Lady Trojans in relatively easy fashion, 68-44. It was Sophomore Night at Dennis Lesh Sports Arena, and the Lady Beavers celebrated by letting everyone get into the act.
"I wanted to let everyone play on Sophomore Night," PCC head coach Stephanie Thompson explained. "Everyone contributed. It was a good team win."
Sophomores who saw their final regular season action at the Beaver Dome included Hayli Jo Smith, Kelsey Strobel and Samantha Watson. Not suited up for the game for various reasons, (injuries etc.), but honored as sophomores as well were Hannah Mehl, Keosha Parks and Ashari Broadwater.
Colby got up 4-0 to start the game, but a 10-0 Pratt run put them back in the driver's seat. By the first half media time-out, PCC had an 18-11 lead.
After the breather, the Lady Beavers continued to press their advantage—leading by 15 at the intermission despite substituting freely. All ten players in uniform got minutes in the first half and nine of them put points on the board. Hayli Smith paced PCC with 11 first half points.
After the intermission, if anything, the Lady Beavers stepped on the gas even a little harder. They turned up the defensive pressure in the halfcourt and were able to get themselves several transition lay-ups in the early going. Tatiana Grant accounted for three coast-to-coast steals by herself in the first 4 minutes.
"We were playing good help-side defense," Coach Thompson observed. "We executed our defensive game plan very well. And Tatiana…If she plays like that for 40 minutes, she'll be dangerous." Grant ended the game with a double-double: 11 rebounds to go with her 13 points.
The Beavers had increased their lead to 48-23 by the 16:00 mark, and by the 2nd half media time-out, Pratt was up by 30+ at 59-28. From there, with reserves seeing many of the minutes, PCC coasted to a 68-44 win.
The Beavers were clicking offensively as well as defensively. In the first half, PCC shot 48% from the floor and 40% from long range. Point guard Maddie Pendry drilled 4/5 from behind the arc for the game. "We executed very well," Thompson mentioned. "We were making our shots and getting to the rim."
"Also, our passing was really sharp tonight, and I can't always say that," Thompson added mischievously. Pratt again outrebounded their opponents, 47-38.
With the win to round out their regular season, PCC stands at 15-15 overall, 5-11 in the Jayhawk West. Next up for the Lady Beavers are the Region VI playoffs. Pratt should have the 6th seed and travel to Coffeyville for their first round game on Saturday.
Colby 21 23 44
Wilkerson 3; Devlin 2; Tatiana Grant 13; Maddie Pendry 15; Hayli Jo Smith 21; Strobel 6; Brooks 2; Stein 2


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Broadway takes on Goffstown man's storyBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News March 17. 2013 12:59AM
This is a photo of Michael McAlary standing in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. Actor Tom Hanks is playing McAlary, who grew up in Goffstown, in the Broadway play "Lucky Guy," which opens April 1. (COURTESY)
He's played Forrest Gump, the hero who saved Private Ryan and an Apollo 13 astronaut. Now Tom Hanks, one of America's most beloved actors, is starring on Broadway in the real-life story of a New York City tabloid reporter who grew up in New Hampshire.
Michael McAlary was a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist, a loving husband, a father of four - and a 1975 graduate of Goffstown High School. When he died of cancer on Christmas Day in 1998, he was 41 years old.
Hanks is portraying McAlary in the play, "Lucky Guy," which opens April 1st and is currently in previews. It's Hanks' first Broadway role and the last work by the late writer Nora Ephron.
Kevin McAlary, Michael's younger brother, said Ephron was a fan of his brother when he was writing for the New York tabloids in the 1980s and '90s. After he died, she contacted his widow and proposed a movie about his life and career.
Over the years, that script turned into a play that Ephron kept working on even as her own health was deteriorating. She died of leukemia last June, but not before she had convinced her friend Hanks to star in her play.
Kevin McAlary is planning a trip to Manhattan the weekend of April 13 with his parents, Jack and Ellen McAlary, and other family members to see the play. They'll get to go backstage and meet the cast. "I think it's going to be a pretty spectacular night," he said.
Seeing Tom Hanks play his big brother, he admitted, "is going to be almost surreal."
The play recounts McAlary's rise to become one of the highest-paid columnists in the country. At one point in the early 1990s, the Daily News and New York Post were in a bidding war for his talents.
Kept illness secret
Alice McAlary, who lives in Port Washington, N.Y., said Ephron approached her after Michael's death, and they worked together over the years. She never knew the writer was terminally ill.
When she first heard the title of the play, she wasn't sure. "He passed away. He was 41," she said. "I don't get the lucky."
"But then when you think about his life and everything that happened along the way, he really was. He was really blessed."
Being involved in the play has been like an "out-of-body experience," she said.
"I have somebody on stage that I can't take home that looks exactly like my husband."
But the experience has also reignited old friendships with her husband's colleagues. "We all have so many stories to tell," she said.
She met her future husband when both were students at Syracuse University; Michael was a year older.
She literally ran into him at the local campus bar, where beer was a quarter and mixed drinks 75 cents. "I don't know what he was looking at but it wasn't me," she recalled. "He bumped smack into me and he dropped his mixed drink. So he looks at me and says, 'Now you have to buy me another one.'"
"We talked all night long and laughed."
Beginning their life
That was the beginning of their long and happy love story. "He was this light bulb to me," she said. "He was funny and he was gregarious. Everybody knew him in the place. He had a million friends.
"Plus he was very handsome."
They had four children together; their youngest was conceived while Michael was undergoing chemotherapy, a treatment doctors said would leave him sterile. "They were wrong," she said.
Quinn was just a year old when his father died.
Now 15, her son is getting to know his dad because of "Lucky Guy," Alice McAlary said. "It's a good experience for him," she said.
It's harder for her.
At the first rehearsal, she watched Hanks, who had studied taped interviews with McAlary, capturing her husband's mannerisms, even his appearance. "He looks so much like Michael. It was a little eerie at first," she said.
"It took my breath away."
She had brought Quinn to the rehearsal and they went backstage to meet Hanks and the rest of the cast, who erupted into applause when they found out who they were.
"I got a big bear hug from Tom," she said. "It was just really phenomenal that this greatness was applauding us because this was our life.
"It breaks my heart."
N.H. beginnings
McAlary's story started in Goffstown, where friend and classmate Kerry Steckowych remembers Michael as a voracious reader, a great writer and conversationalist - with a knack for getting in trouble.
"If he was going to throw an egg at a house, his arm would release the egg just as the police cruiser was going by," he recalled. "He had terrible luck when it comes to those foolish kinds of childhood hijinks."
But he was also "a really bright young man" who was driven to get where he wanted, Steckowych said.
When McAlary was 16 and working as a sports stringer for the weekly Goffstown News, he decided to hitchhike to the Volvo tennis tournament, held at Bretton Woods back then.
He happened to get picked up by one of the organizers of the tournament, who gave him a press pass and got him an interview with tennis great Rod Laver, recalled Kevin McAlary. "That wound up getting published in the Union Leader," he said.
Going to the streets
McAlary would refine his craft in the mean streets of New York, modeling himself after the legendary Jimmy Breslin, his brother said. "He really knew how to craft a story," he said.
McAlary was hooked up to a chemotherapy drip in 1997 when a source tipped him to a vicious assault by a police officer on a Haitian immigrant who had been wrongly arrested; he left his sick bed to pursue the story. His work won him the Pulitzer Prize.
Steckowych, who is the police prosecutor in Goffstown, said he holds McAlary up as an example to local youngsters. "I think it's great that he's recognized and I think it's wonderful that you can see somebody who comes from small-town America that ends up winning the Pulitzer prize," he said.
But there was more to McAlary than the awards and honors he won. "He really was a powerful voice for people that didn't have a voice," his brother said.
Steckowych started a scholarship program in his old friend's name at Goffstown High School. Awards are given not necessarily to top students but to those like Michael McAlary, he said: "Kids who really are showing they have character and drive and they've set goals, and no matter what gets in their way, they somehow find their way to get there."
Kevin McAlary said there's such a big New Hampshire contingent going to New York to see the show that they have to split up and go to two performances. He knows, he said, "It's going to be a very emotional day."
"Because hey, we know how it ends."
Still, the trip means a lot to those who loved Michael McAlary, he said. "We're a pretty close-knit family, and we're really proud of what Michael was able to accomplish in his lifetime."
Steckowych will be part of the group going to see "Lucky Guy" on April 14.
Alice McAlary, who is portrayed in "Lucky Guy" by actress Maura Tierney, will be in the audience on opening night; she said she's proud that people who never knew her husband will get to know him through Hanks and Ephron.
"He was brave, and he had a great spirit," she said. "People would get mad at him for things he would write, and then they'd see him in a room and they'd forgive him.
"He had a big, big heart. And we miss that."


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A trial date has been set for a woman who was convicted in 2010 of involuntary manslaughter but recently granted a new trial.
A trial date has been set for a woman who was convicted in 2010 of involuntary manslaughter but recently granted a new trial.
The trial for Monica F. Rivera, 31, is scheduled for April 15 in Leavenworth County District Court.
The date was selected as Rivera appeared in court Friday.
Rivera was convicted in August 2010 of involuntary manslaughter and endangering a child. She later was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
The charges were connected to the death of Rivera's 4-year-old son, Gabriel. He reportedly died in 2009 from blunt force trauma after he was left in the care of Rivera's fiancé, Jason L. Jones. The incident occurred in Leavenworth.
Jones was sentenced in 2010 to more than 38 years in prison for the second-degree murder of the boy.
During Rivera's 2010 trial, the prosecution argued Jones had abused the boy prior to his death. And Rivera had endangered her son by leaving him in Jones' care.
The defense argued Rivera had never seen Jones abuse her son. And at least some of the injuries the boy suffered prior to his death resulted from accidents.
In December, the Kansas Court of Appeals released a decision ordering a new trial in Rivera's case. The judges of the Court of Appeals found that errors had been made in instructions provided to jurors during the 2010 trial.
In court Friday, Rivera requested a court-appointed attorney. District Judge Gunnar Sundby appointed Elaine Halley to represent the defendant.
Sundby said Halley would be familiar with the case. Halley previously represented Rivera in the case. Rivera had a different attorney during her appeal.
A March 21 hearing was scheduled for pretrial motions in the case.
Rivera had been serving her sentence in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections. But she was transferred to the custody of the Leavenworth County Jail as a result of her case being remanded to the District Court level.
Halley asked Friday to address the issue of bond.
"We are requesting an OR bond," she said.
This type of bond allows a defendant to be released on his or her own recognizance.
Halley said her client is indigent and already served 2.5 years of a prison sentence. Rivera had been in minimum custody.
The attorney said Rivera has strong family support.
Family members of the defendant were in the courtroom Friday.
Assistant County Attorney Cheryl Marquardt said the prosecution didn't have a position on the amount at which the bond should be set. But she said an OR bond was not appropriate.
Sundby said he was convinced to reduce bond in the case. He set bond at $100,000 without a requirement of supervision. He also set a $20,000 bond with a supervision requirement.
The judge said the bond amounts were high because of the severity level of the charges.
"It is a significant case," he said.
Sheriff Andy Dedeke later said Rivera had posted bond Friday using a bond agency.


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BOULDER -- Immediate possession will not get an immediate decision in the Dillard's eminent domain case.
After a day-long hearing, the Boulder County District Court recessed without ruling on whether the Longmont Urban Renewal Authority can lay claim to the Dillard's store in the Twin Peaks Mall. LURA wants to have the store's title and take immediate possession, so that an $80 million redevelopment of Twin Peaks Mall can start.
The result means more delay of a project that was supposed to break ground this fall. Final arguments will be submitted in writing on Aug. 2 and 12 by the two sides; a ruling by Judge D.D. Mallard may come later that month.
On the city's side, the situation is a row of dominoes. LURA has offered $27.5 million to assist the project. But the assistance depends on mall owner NewMark Merrill Mountain States getting a construction loan. That loan, in turn, depends on NewMark holding the Dillard's title, LURA attorney Robert Duncan said.
"The clock is ticking," NMMS managing partner Allen Ginsborg testified. "We've received notice from a couple of our existing tenants that they're going to terminate their leases. We're going to be effectively vacant by the end of the holidays this year, if not sooner."
Dillard's holds a spotlight role because it owns its own building and has an agreement giving it veto power over any rebuild of the mall. Negotiations to either buy the store or include it in the project fell through earlier this year.
State statute allows title to be vested before a price has been reached on a condemned property. But Dillard's attorney Leslie Fields argued that the statute was unconstitutional, and that the store had a right to be heard by a jury before surrendering its rights over the property
"Allowing these rights to be thrown away, we believe, is contrary to the Colorado Constitution and to Colorado jurisprudence," she said.
She also claimed the blight decision was made in bad faith and that, contrary to state law, Longmont's actions had been motivated by dollars and cents rather than an honest effort to cure blight.
Blight studies on the mall were prepared in 2007, 2009 and 2012. The most recent, performed by economic development director Brad Power and redevelopment manager David Starnes, found 10 of 11 statutory blight conditions had been met.
Those conditions included the Dillard's lease making the property "unmarketable" because of the veto conditions. In cross-examination, Starnes said he had not read the lease.
Starnes said the 2012 study found 158 instances of blight throughout the mall, including on the Dillard's property. That's slightly less than the 170 found in the 2009 study. The study did not include an interior inspection by Starnes or Power.
Ginsborg said the veto power given by Dillard's agreement was less and less common in modern malls, a contention disputed by Dillard's vice president for real estate Chris Johnson, who oversees more than 300 stores.
"Every store I have has these kinds of agreements," he testified. "Every new store I have has these kinds of agreements. ... Mall developers actually draft these things and send them to us. These approval rights are in the first draft I get from a developer. ... It's just a way to protect our investment."
Johnson described Ginsborg as unyielding in his negotiations. Some details of Ginsborg's plan, he said, were less desirable but could have been worked out, such as the intention to have a movie theater right next to Dillard's. Others, he said, were unworkable, such as an insistence on $3.85 per square foot for "common area maintenance" -- shared maintenance costs for the mall as a whole -- when the store had been paying 39 cents, or offering to buy the store for $2.8 million and then lease it back at $1.1 million.
"Do you feel like he was making unreasonable demands?" Fields asked.
"Oh, yes," Johnson responded.
LURA attorney Donald Ostrander, meanwhile, confirmed that neither Johnson nor any other Dillard's representative had challenged the blight finding or attended any of the hearings related to it, or, for that matter, any public meetings related to the mall's new site plan.
"The city council didn't own the mall," Johnson said. "I didn't see where I had need to (attend)."
"If LURA had no input from you ... what specific allegation do you have that supports your 'bad faith' (charge)?" Ostrander asked. "What did LURA do that was in bad faith?"
"Blighted my property," Johnson said.
"What about that determination was done in bad faith?" Ostrander asked.
"That they blighted my property."
While cross-examining Ginsborg, Fields explored other avenues, asking if it was possible for a developer to deliberately let a property go downhill so that he could qualify for financial aid to cure the blight.
"Anything's possible," Ginsborg said.
"In the real world, is it probable a developer would blight his or her own property?" Duncan asked in return.
"No," Ginsborg responded. "It's collateral for our loan and it's our investment. To try to destroy our investment is irrational."
If immediate possession and title are granted to LURA, work on the mall can go ahead while the court works out how much compensation Dillard's should get. If not granted, work could not proceed until that determination is reached.
A complete dismissal of the eminent domain case would leave Dillard's in possession and NewMark still having to get the store's permission for redevelopment.
Scott Rochat can be reached at 303-684-5220 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ENID, Okla. — Wide swings in spring temperatures, including a late March cold front that plunged much of the Southern Plains below the freezing mark, have raised fears of potential freeze damage for crops already stressed by a lack of moisture.
Freeze injury takes several weeks to appear and can be difficult to diagnose, but wheat farmers in Texas and southwestern Oklahoma are likely to see signs of it in coming days. Yellowed tillers, or plant shoots, are a common indicator.
Unusually low temps were "sufficiently cold to cause severe injury to wheat in advanced stages of growth," cautioned Travis Miller, an agronomist with Texas A&M. "It's a large and complex problem out there. But if you had wheat that was blooming and your temperatures got down to 26, you're going to have some injury."
Further north, experts gathering for an area-wide Canola College that drew nearly 300 farmers from at least four states, said freeze damage would remain a concern over the next couple of weeks although so far any damage locally was minimal.
"At the end of the day, I don't know if what we've seen so far will have any effect," said Tim Bartram, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association. "The heat and the moisture situation is a bigger concern."
He predicts the state will harvest an average wheat crop at best, based on weather patterns resembling the 1950s and the likelihood that sustained drought relief won't come until late summer at the earliest.
Agronomist Mark Hodges, who is director of Plains Grains Inc. and Oklahoma Genetics Inc., said much of the wheat was maturing slowly, and conditions had not been as unseasonably warm or as variable as they were a year ago. But he also said overall the wheat is hindered by a lack of tillers and poor root development.
"We can't afford to lose any tillers (to freeze or other causes,)" he said. "Typically, we have primary tillers and a lot of secondary tillering. This year we don't have as much of that luxury."
Jeff Scott, who grows both wheat and canola near Pond Creek, Okla., said late freezes are always a threat. But he was more worried about whether the area would continue to receive needed precipitation.
Canola is less vulnerable to spring freeze than wheat, he said.
"As hardy as we've always thought wheat was, canola is proving itself to be even hardier," noted Scott, who serves as president of the Great Plains Canola Association. "If we do get a freeze, the canola will just branch out lower down on the plant."
Canola becomes most vulnerable to freeze after it bolts. That's the stage where it begins to shoot vertically upward before blooming and setting seedpods, according to private crop consultant Chad Godsey of Stillwater.
Oklahoma State University canola specialist Josh Bushong, who goes by the Twitter handle "Tall Okie," added that the maturity of wheat and canola was running close to average (compared to last year when it was nearly three weeks ahead of normal.) But he did say dry soils amplify the impact of unseasonable cold. Any severe dips in temperature would delay maturity and decrease yield potential, he predicted.
A key prospective plantings report, released in late March by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, triggered lower grain prices on the news that farmers intend to plant a record corn crop again this year. The report showed winter wheat acreage 2 percent higher than the previous year. Bartram, with the Wheat Growers association, was not surprised to see bearish numbers but pointed to the uncertainty still surrounding the future harvest.
"Kansas wheat acreage was predicted to be up considerably because they did not have a good summer crop season. They went back to wheat because it fits the current weather patterns better," Bartram said. "What the plantings report indicates isn't of huge importance. The big factor is going to be how much abandonment we have."
As for the canola, Michael Stamm, Kansas State University canola breeder who collaborates on research projects with Colorado State, Texas A&M, Nebraska and New Mexico State, predicted an average crop or better was still possible across the region. Winter canola acreage has set new records each of the last three years, with roughly 280,000 acres now planted in Oklahoma, 30,000 in Kansas, and 10,000 in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado, he estimated. It is being grown successfully as far northwest as Torrington, Wyo.
Drought-stressed crops at risk for spring freeze
ENID, Okla. — Wide swings in spring temperatures, including a late March cold front that plunged much of the Southern Plains below the freezing mark, have raised fears of potential freeze damage for crops already stressed by a lack of moisture.


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Huskers Remain Perfect with Win over UNO
Dylan Talley scored a Husker career high 22 points to lead four players in double figures, as the Huskers fought off a determined UNO squad, 75-62, at the Devaney Center Sunday afternoon, as part of the Joe Cipriano Nebraska Classic.
Talley, who also added four rebounds and five assists while playing a career-high 38 minutes, joined with fellow senior Andre Almeida in keying Nebraska's decisive 14-4 run which allowed the Huskers seize control from the Mavericks.
The Huskers trailed 46-44 with 15:46 remaining before Almeida's offensive put-back started the run, as the senior scored on consecutive possessions to begin the surge. Almeida finished with a season-high 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting and matched his career best with seven rebounds. UNO, which was held without a field goal for 8:47, was within 50-48 after a pair of C.J. Carter free throws, but baskets by Brandon Ubel and Ray Gallegos pushed the lead to six before Talley connected on layups on back-to-back possessions to help Nebraska build its largest lead at the time at 58-48.
Almeida and Ubel combined to shoot 14-of-17 from the floor, as the Huskers enjoyed a 46-14 advantage in points in the paint against the Mavericks. Almeida's 19 points were one off his career high, connected on 9-of-11 from the floor and had five of his seven boards on the offensive end. In all, Nebraska had 16 offensive rebounds and turned them into 24 points to remain perfect at 3-0 on the season.
UNO (1-4) got to within 65-55 after a Marcus Tyus 3-pointer with 5:36 left, but Talley, who was 6-of-8 from the floor in the second half, the Mavericks' comeback hopes with a pair of baskets to make it a 68-55 game.
In addition to Almeida and Talley, Ubel and Gallegos both added 11 points apiece, as the Huskers scored a season high in points and committed only nine turnovers. The Huskers overcome poor shooting from distance, hitting only 3-of-22 from 3-point range while withstanding a UNO squad which was 8-of-13 from beyond the arc.
Justin Simmons led UNO with 19 points while Alex Welhouse added 14, including 4-of-5 from long range, in a losing effort.
UNO, which shot 57.1 percent in the first half, built an early 23-17 lead before the Huskers and Gallegos got going from long range to roar back. Nebraska had missed its first six 3-point attempts before Gallegos hit a pair of 3-pointers as part of a 12-2 run that put NU up 29-25 after his second 3-pointer of the run. The Huskers eventually took a 36-34 lead into the break and led 44-40 before UNO scored six straight points, including an offensive put-back by Koang Doluony to earn its only lead of the half.
The Huskers continue tournament action on Wednesday evening, as they host the Tulane Green Wave (3-1) at the Devaney Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and tickets are available by going to Huskers.com, calling 800-8-BIGRED or visiting the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office during business hours.


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Analytics company Actuate has announced availability of the BIRT Viewer Toolkit, a free-of-cost companion product to open source BIRT. This developer tool is supposed to speed the integration of BIRT visualizations and reporting capabilities into own applications.
The BIRT Viewer Toolkit includes Actuate's JavaScript integration API. Using JavaScript, BIRT content can now be embedded into applications without having to write Java code. BVT also offers other commercial-grade performance enhancements, including "demand paging" (the ability to jump to any page in a report) and "progressive viewing" (ability to view pages while BIRT completes rendering), providing much reduced response time for users viewing large reports.
BIRT developers can immediately deploy the BIRT Viewer Toolkit within a Java application server and, in theory, offer end users a variety of features including the ability to view, save, link to, print, and export reports in CSV, XML, HTML, AFP, PostScript, and PDF; as well as in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
BVT also shows a report's built-in table of contents, offers parameter collection features including a date picker and multi-page navigation, and handles content hyperlinking.
According to Actuate, BIRT Viewer Toolkit is compatible with its commercial product line powered by the BIRT iHub platform. "Organizations using open source BIRT turn to Actuate's commercial products when their project development outpaces the feature set of open source BIRT, and the need for scalability and security becomes mission critical," said the company.


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The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey
Bilbo Baggins has been swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Bilbo not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know. Presented without trailers (runtime: 2hrs 47min)
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Gay Pundits & Groups at Odds Over Hagel's Defense Secretary Nomination
On Monday President Barack Obama nominated Republican Chuck Hagel to serve as Secretary of Defense a controversial move that has caused concern from some of his fellow Republicans in Congress as well as some Democrats.
LGBT groups have been scrutinizing Hagel's record and his past comments as well.
As the Associated Press reported, the Human Rights Campaign took issue with his anti-gay comments he made in 1998 and with his voting record.
"The next secretary of defense must be supportive of open service as well as equal benefits for lesbian and gay military families and Sen. Hagel must address these issues immediately," HRC's president Chad Griffin said. "Whomever is selected to be the next secretary of defense needs to understand there are clear expectations for progress at the (Defense Department) and that the president's views on key issues must be reflected by the secretary."
Soon after that release, Hagel apologized for the remarks he made in nearly 15 years ago against the nomination of James C. Hormel, an openly gay Democratic donor, for an ambassadorship, AP pointed out in another story. During the Hormel hearings, the then-Nebraska senator said called Hormel "openly, aggressively gay," and that he believed "it is an inhibiting factor to be gay" for a U.S. ambassador.
"I apologize to Ambassador Hormel and any LGBT Americans who may question my commitment to their civil rights," Hagel said recently. "I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families."
His apology apparently wasn't good enough for the Log Cabin Republicans, the leading group for LGBT GOPers. They slammed Hagel by taking out scathing full-age ad in the New York Times. Some have questioned not only LCR's motives but also where the group would have gotten the funding for such an expensive ad.
Observers have noted that LCR has not shied away from supporting many candidates whose stances on various gay issues were, by any measure, hostile. The ad called Hagel, "Wrong on gay rights, wrong on Iran, wrong on Israel." It went on to ask readers to "Help us create a stronger and more inclusive Republican Party."
LCR then published another full-page ad in the Washington Post in which the group outlined Hagel's voting record on gay rights. The ad's tag line read "Chuck Hagel's Apology: Too Little, Too Late."
In a recent blog in the New Yorker, Richard Socarides, a Clinton aide who worked on the Hagel nomination, expressed a belief that Hagel may have evolved on gay issues. Still, Socarides wrote, "should-and, presumably, will-be pressed to do substantially more than give his assurance that he will carry out the President's policies on gay rights."
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is another noted out-gay Democrat who is taking issue with Hagel. On her show, she slammed him on his views. The conservative magazine National Review, among others, gleefully picked up on Maddow's scathing critique.
What the Community has to Say
There's at least one major Obama supporter who is not mincing words about Hagel. Barney Frank, until recently an out-gay congressman, last week called out Hagel. "He voted consistently against fairness for LGBT people and there does not seem to be any evidence prior to his effort to become Secretary of Defense of any apology or retraction of his attack on James Hormel," Frank wrote in a release.
"To those of us who admire and respect Mr. Hormel, Sen. Hagel's description of him as aggressive can only mean that the Senator strongly objected to Hormel's reasoned, civil advocacy for LGBT people," he went on "I cannot think of any other minority group in the U.S. today where such a negative statement and action made in 1998 would not be an obstacle to a major Presidential appointment."
One leftwing gay group was scathing in its critique of the president's choice to head Defense.
"With our country facing so many important battles ahead on such crucial issues as immigration reform, climate justice, and gun control, it's baffling why President Obama would spend political capital on a nominee who so clearly is at odds with his Administration's values," Heather Cronk, managing director for GetEQUAL said in a statment. "While Hagel's remarks 15 years ago about Jim Hormel pulled back the window on how he felt then about gay Americans, his voting record seems more in line with those remarks than with the Obama Administration. The majority of his votes in the areas of civil rights, economic justice, and environmental conservation -- the areas articulated as priorities for President Obama's second term -- rank him in the bottom rung of all members of Congress."
OutServe-SLDN, the major group representing out-gay military personnel, has demanded that the military extend benefits to those married to same-sex spouses. Hagel now specifically says that he endorses the end of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."
The position of Defense Secretary has become particularly important to the LGBT community in the wake of DADT repeal. Several issues remain unresolved, such as pension benefits, spouses being able to join on-base groups, how far chaplains can go in expressing personal opinions about gay issues, and incidences of continuing harassment.
"Our message to the next Secretary of Defense would be the same, no matter who was nominated and confirmed," SLDN-OutServe said in a statement. "A commitment to support LGBT service members and their families must be a commitment to action. It's past time to extend all benefits available to married same-sex military couples and families while the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is still on the books."
White House Defends as LCR Continues Attacks
The White House acknowledged the LGBT community's concern in a statement that defended the decision toto nominate Hagel. The White House re-affirmed Hagel's apology for his anti-gay comments and maintained that he vows to support "LGBT civil rights as well as his support for open service and the families of gay and lesbian service members."
"One of the great successes of the LGBT civil rights movement is that it provides the space and opportunity for people to change their hearts and minds, to right past wrongs, and, over time, to evolve," the statement reads. "The President believes Senator Hagel's statement of apology, and his commitment to ensuring that all service members and their families are treated equally. The President would not have chosen him unless he had every confidence that, working together, they will continue to ensure that our military and DoD civilian workforce are as welcoming, inclusive, and respectful as possible."
In an appearance on MSNBC, LCR's interim head Gregory Angelo called Hagel's apology "weak. If he was truly genuinely sorry about this, he could have called James Hormel directly instead of releasing his apology via media sources." Angelo said.
Rightwingers Criticize Hagel's 'Homophobia'
Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows, however, and some of the most striddent anti-gay websites are not suddenly fulminating about Hagel's perceived homophobia.
Breitbart published an item entitled "Chuck Hagel's Anti-Gay Stance Deserves Scrutiny." After an explanation that homosexuality in the Old Testament is a pretty minor infraction, "a religious sin that is not a moral infraction since no one is being lied to" (who knew?), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach goes on to write that Hagel's "opposition to gays is motivated not by religious convictions but just good old-fashioned homophobia."
If Hagel had taken anti-gay positions, his apparent reversal has not endeared him to ultra right-wingers like Bryan Fischer, the head of the American Family Association. "I Flatly oppose Hagel nomination because he used to support natural marriage but now supports radical homosexual agenda," Fischer wrote.
A New York Times op-ed piece that called him a war hero ticked off the Right. News Busters, a right-wing media monitoring site, critized the Times. The newspaper "went so far as downplay anti-Jewish and anti-gay comments Hagel made during the Clinton administration about an ambassadorial candidate to Luxembourg, James Hormel."


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It's one of the bracket questions that everyone asks when the smoke clears.
As Selection Sunday gives way to Bracket Evaluation Monday in office spaces across America, the hot topic is always the bracketbuster, the team that will become the darling of the nation for 48 hours and create a bit of "little guy magic" before the big boys take over in the Sweet 16, Elite Eight, and Final Four.
The great secret to picking the NCAA tournament is not to "pick upsets." No, that's much too simplistic a view. The key is to pick the right upsets, to identify where the upsets come from. Higher seeds generally work their way up the bracket — it's not as though you should be picking a 12 seed to play a 7 in two regional finals and a 6 against a 5 in the other two. No, you need to pick your spots with upsets. Here are the five best recommendations on the board:
The best round-of-64 game on the board is also the most attractive 12-over-5 upset pick. You might immediately say that VCU, as a 5 seed, crushed Akron last year in the round of 64 and that the Rams will be ready to play this game. Fair enough. Moreover, when you're picking an upset, that means you're not picking the team that's expected to win. VCU is indeed expected to win this contest, a reality that's actually reinforced (not diluted) by the fact that the Rams lost the Atlantic 10 Tournament final to Saint Joseph's. If anything, VCU's focus will probably be sharpened by that loss. Losing is often the best teacher at this time of year, and VCU might make the kinds of adjustments that will enable it to play with more effectiveness.
Why pick Stephen F. Austin, then? The Lumberjacks are just the kind of team that can be kryptonite for VCU and Shaka Smart's "HAVOC" project.
Ask any college basketball observer, anyone who studies this sport for a living, about VCU's great weakness. Go on ahead. Do it.
You'll get this reply in almost every instance: If VCU can't force turnovers with its extended defensive pressure, it becomes a very ordinary and vulnerable team. VCU needs its defense to rattle the opponent on the other side of the court. If it doesn't, the Rams are not imposing in halfcourt situations. They don't get the easy baskets they depend upon. They don't establish the tempo they prefer.
Stephen F. Austin, ladies and gentlemen of the bracket-evaluation jury, is eighth in the United States in assists per game, with 16.6. The Lumberjacks are in the top 70 in turnovers committed per game, with 11. If you saw any of SFA's Southland Conference Tournament final on Saturday night against Sam Houston State, you saw how structured this team's halfcourt offense really is. You saw the backcuts, floor spacing, and constant flow. If you wanted to identify a team that can solve the VCU puzzle, this is it.
The notion of an upset also stems from a realization that in the present moment, an outcome just doesn't seem likely.
Indeed, what would make a rational person think that Iowa — the loser of six of its last seven games — can get off the deck and beat Massachusetts?
What would make an intelligent human being think that Tennessee — the team that got swept by Texas A&M and failed to beat the other two NCAA tournament teams from the SEC (Florida and Kentucky) in four bites at the apple — could find the resources needed to usher the Minutemen out of the Dance hall?
This is part of the NCAA tournament's strange but always fascinating powers.
Remember that Wichita State did not enter the 2013 NCAA Tournament with a full head of steam. The Shockers lost in the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and were not a trendy upset pick. They created their momentum from scratch, winning once in the Dance and then using that sweet taste of success against Pittsburgh to then carry them forward.
One larger reason why the NCAA tournament is such a special sporting event is that in the first week of the event, the breadth of competition — encompassing 68 teams — is simply too great to confine various outcomes to certain patterns or categories. You will rarely if ever see only one kind of team thrive in the first week. In the East Region, you might see the hot team — the winner of a conference tournament — pick up where it left off. However, in the South Region, you'll see an underachieving high major catch fire and tap into the talent it always had all along. One section of a bracket over here will be calm and peaceful, with no surprises. Another section of the bracket over there will bust wide open and put a 12 versus a 13 seed in the round of 32 on Sunday evening. The variety of outcomes and success stories in the first week lends the Dance such marvelous diversity, giving the tournament the eternal power to surprise the human mind.
So… for all the ways in which Iowa and Tennessee have underachieved this season, the fact that the Hawkeyes and Volunteers are meeting each other in the First Four will give the winner a chance to enter the round of 64 with great confidence. You could see an emotional change in the Iowa-Tennessee winner, a transformation that could promptly unlock so much of the talent those two teams have squandered over the past two months. When you then realize that Massachusetts — after a blazing-hot start to the season — is just 8-7 in its last 15 games, it becomes apparent that this 6-11 game will feel like a contest in which seeds really don't matter. There are a lot of those games to be found in this and every NCAA tournament.
Tennessee and Iowa aren't good very now. However, the winner could immediately snap out of its funk and be inspired enough to recapture a better, older version of itself. Tennessee beat top-seeded Virginia by 35 points. Iowa beat second-seeded Michigan by 18. If those versions of the Vols or Hawkeyes show up against UMass, the Minutemen will be outgunned.
The Wolfpack fit perfectly into a very specific category at NCAA tournament time: Coach Mark Gottfried's team is that unlikely at-large selection, the team that sneaks into the field with the last bubble bid and throws the biggest Selection Sunday celebration you've ever seen. This kind of team is supremely motivated to show the selection committee that its decision was wise and appropriate. With the nation questioning its inclusion in the bracket, N.C. State — like any other team in such a position — wants to answer the doubters and silence the haters with an authoritative performance on the big stage. This in itself is reason enough to pick the Wolfpack over Xavier in the First Four, and then over Saint Louis in the round of 64.
There's an even better reason to tab the Wolfpack as a winner over Saint Louis if this matchup does indeed emerge: The Billikens' pilot light is out, as Marty Schottenheimer would say.
Saint Louis did once author a 19-game winning streak, a surge that carried into late February. That streak ended three weeks ago, but it might as well be three months ago. The SLU crew that has taken the court the past few weeks has looked tired and sluggish. It is just not reacting as well on defense, for one thing — Dayton hit 47 percent of its shots while winning in Saint Louis. (That game got Dayton into the field of 68, by the way.) In the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Tournament, Saint Bonaventure hit 51 percent of its field goal attempts.
When Saint Louis can't defend, it has no safe place to turn to; defense is the rock upon which the Billikens' church of basketball stands. A fellow named T.J. Warren should be able to get the shots he wants against SLU, and if that does indeed happen, it will once again be the case that seeds… won't… matter. The 12 will look like the 5, and the 5 will look like the 12.
The North Carolina Tar Heels are another kind of team that can easily be spotted a mile away at this time of year. UNC can either catch fire and make a deep run, or it can flame out in the round of 64. The Tar Heels have the potential to be great, but they can just as easily collapse. North Carolina's regular season shows this. Coach Roy Williams guided his team to wins over Michigan State and Louisville, both away from home. Yet, Carolina also lost to UAB and (at home) to Belmont. The Tar Heels played Duke on fairly even terms in two games, but they also lost to Wake Forest and Miami.
Will Good North Carolina or Bad North Carolina show up? If it's the latter version, Bryce Cotton (pictured above after winning the Big East Tournament on Saturday) can definitely power Providence past the Tar Heels. The Friars' energy on the glass is what enabled them to fend off Creighton in New York, and if James Michael McAdoo does not get out of the right side of the bed for Carolina — he needs to be great for his team to be great — the Tar Heels will head home early.
It's quite true that the American Athletic Conference was not treated well at all on Selection Sunday. Every team in the league with NCAA tournament aspirations was either underseeded (four of the five) or left out of the field (SMU, the fifth team in that group). Cincinnati earned a 4 seed more than UCLA did over the course of the full season. Getting a 5 represents a raw deal for Mick Cronin's team. The Bearcats are better than the number in parentheses on the bracket sheet you're passing around the office. If Cincinnati does lose to Harvard, it would represent a bigger upset than any of the other ones previously mentioned in this piece.
Yet, it could very realistically happen.
How did Harvard upset New Mexico last season? The Crimson used a multi-pronged formula, but the heart of the Ivy League's great triumph last March was that New Mexico missed a lot of shots, particularly from three-point range (11 misses in 14 attempts).
You're thinking to yourself, "Whoa — a team missing a lot of shots. Now there's a bit of brain-busting analysis that I couldn't find anywhere else."
Yes, analysts often say the most obvious things — that's a pet peeve of mine when I'm watching games on television. Yet, some games are simply "make-or-miss" games — not all or even most of them, but some of them. A "make-or-miss game" emerges when a team gets a reasonably good shot on a fairly consistent basis but can't hit that (quality) shot often enough to matter. New Mexico had this problem against Harvard, and Cincinnati is the kind of team that can fall victim to this dynamic against Harvard as well.
Cincinnati has one reliable offensive player, Sean Kilpatrick, one of the most prolific and decorated scorers in the proud history of the same program that produced one Oscar Robertson. Yet, Cincinnati's weakness is not just found in the fact that Kilpatrick lacks a secondary scoring option on his team, one that can dependably remove pressure from his shoulders. No, it's a little deeper than that. Kilpatrick frequently scores by driving pell-mell to the basket and earning foul shots. If Harvard can defend Kilpatrick without fouling too much, the Bearcats will have to do one of two things:
1) Someone on the UC roster will need to hit an appreciably high percentage of jump shots. That's not a team strength.
2) The Bearcats will have to chase missed shots on the glass and put them in the basket. This route — the putback route — is the more likely path to victory for Cincinnati.
If Harvard can box out, though, and make Cincy a "one-and-done" team at the offensive end of the floor, the Crimson can also make Cincy a "one-and-done" team in that much larger sense: one game and out at the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


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RESULTS (August 4):
Anna Dessoye, Maxine Fluharty, Katie Gerzabek and Team USA took seventh in the FIH Junior World Cup, while Sarah Sprink and Germany finished 10th in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Team USA fell to Australia, 4-1, in the Semifinals on Aug. 2, while Germany beat South Korea, 3-2. The U.S. played South Africa, 4-2, to take seventh place. Germany fell to New Zealand, 2-1, to take 10th.
"Coming into the tournament we knew we had a great team and we started connecting even more with each game," said Fluharty, after the U.S. beat South Africa. "Together we made that win happen today. The match against South Africa was a hard-fought battle and a great way to end the Cup."
For more on the Junior World Cup, long on to http://www.fih.ch/en/competitions-187-hockey-junior-world-cup-women-junior-world:format.
UPDATE (August 1):
Head coach Missy Meharg traveled to Mönchengladbach, Germany this week to watch Terps Anna Dessoye, Maxine Fluharty, Katie Gerzabek and Sarah Sprink compete in the FIH Junior World Cup.
"I am so glad I was able to come see our four outstanding Terps representatives and their teams play," Meharg said. "What a great experience for them and all the women involved and I am just excited to come witness great hockey and share this with them."
UPDATE (July 30):
Team USA beat Ghana, 6-0, Tuesday morning to close out pool play with a 2-1 record in the opening rounds of the FIH Junior World Cup in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The Americans will take on Argentina Aug. 1 at 6:30 a.m. ET in a quarterfinals match.
The U.S. lost to the Netherlands, 5-1, Sunday in its second match of pool play. Team USA and Team Netherlands were the top two teams in Pool A.
"Tournaments always have two halves," said Steve Jennings U.S. U-21 National Team head coach. "We're really excited we got through the first portion of the Junior World Cup this well but now we have to produce to get to where we really want to go. We're excited to be in the top half of the bracket and look forward to getting the best results coming through."
Sophomore Sarah Sprink and Team Germany won 6-1 over Belgium and tied with Spain, 2-2, in their first two matches. They will take on England Tuesday afternoon.
Semifinals will be played August 2, with the championship played on August 4.
For more on the Junior World Cup, long on to http://www.fih.ch/en/competitions-187-hockey-junior-world-cup-women-junior-world:format.
UPDATE (July 27):
Terrapin sophomore Anna Dessoye scored Team USA's go-ahead goal in a 4-1 win over South Korea Saturday morning in the Americans' Junior World Cup opener in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
The teams were scoreless for most of the first half, then the Koreans scored to take a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute. The U.S. scored a minute later to tie it before the break off a goal by Tara Vittese, which was assisted by Maxine Fluharty.
Shortly after the second half began, the game was paused for lightning and thunder. Dessoye put the U.S. on top for good with a hard shot in the 48th minute.
"Once we took a 2-1 lead, I think we grew in confidence," said U.S. head coach Steve Jennings. "The Koreans played with more panic in their game and that just played more and more in our hands and we were able to capitalize. It was a great result today."
The U.S. will play the Netherlands Sunday at 7 a.m. ET. Sophomore Sarah Sprink and Team Germany will take on Belgium Saturday afternoon in their Junior World Cup opener, then England at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday.
As teams from around the world prepare to play in the ERGO Hockey Junior World Cup this weekend, four Terrapins are ready to be a part of the action. Anna Dessoye, Maxine Fluharty, Katie Gerzabek will suit up for the U.S. Under-21 Team, while Sarah Sprink will play for Team Germany.
The FIH Junior World Cup will open Saturday and run through next week in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The U.S. will play South Korea at 5:35 a.m. ET on Saturday, while Germany will take on Belgium at 11 a.m. ET.
"I'm feeling really excited about heading into the Junior World Cup," Gerzabek said. "We have had some practice matches and have learned what we need to do and what we need to improve on to be a top competitor at this tournament. I'm so excited to represent the United States and believe that together as a team we can do anything we put our minds to."
The U.S. is competing in Pool A with South Korea, the Netherlands and Ghana. Germany is in Pool D with England, Spain and Belgium.
"I feel super excited," Fluharty said. "It's going to be an exciting and challenging tournament with the opportunity for so much growth. I can't wait to look back a see how much i have learned when it is over."
Dessoye said, "I'm so excited for what is to come. We have been working hard to prepare. I can't wait for the tournament to begin and am anticipating some great results."
For full results and information on the Junior World Cup, log on to http://www.fih.ch/en/competitions-187-hockey-junior-world-cup-women-junior-world:format.


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NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Duke's fourth-ranked women's cross country team competed in the 58th running of the Notre Dame Invitational Friday, with graduate student Juliet Bottorff notching her second individual victory of the season. Bottorff led a young Blue Devil squad that scored 314 points to a 10th-place finish out of 24 opponents. Second-ranked Florida State captured the team crown after scoring just 77 points. No. 15 New Mexico (82), No. 24 San Francisco (96), No. 28 BYU (187), No. 30 Princeton (201), No. 19 Notre Dame (205), Bradley (269), SMU (274) and Lamar (305) rounded out the top ten.
Bottorff's performance highlighted the competition for the Blue Devils, as the Newark, Del., native followed a record-setting performance two weeks earlier at the Adidas XC Challenge with a first-place finish at Notre Dame. Bottorff covered the 5,000 meter distance, located on Notre Dame's golf course, in a time of 16:43.8, nearly ten seconds ahead of second-place finisher Florida State's Colleen Quigley, who finished 12th at last season's national championship meet.
Duke's women's cross country head coach, Kevin Jermyn, was pleased with Bottorff's efforts in the competition.
"She looked real good," Jermyn said. "She looked honestly as good as I've seen her race in a long time. She looked very smooth. She made some moves late in the race and ran nice and patient in the early going. It's warm and humid and a little muddy so the time was really impressive in very challenging conditions. I think it was the best race I've seen out of her so far. We're definitely thrilled with her race."
The Blue Devils fielded a young contingent of runners on Friday, including sophomore Anima Banks, who competed in the fourth cross country race of her collegiate career, and junior Julianna Miller, who raced in her second cross country race since her freshman year. Banks followed her Adidas XC Challenge performance with a finishing time of 17:39.7 and a 25th-place finish at the Notre Dame Invitational. Miller raced to a 59th-place finish and covered the distance in 18:03.5. Jermyn commended the progress of his two younger runners.
"Anima is right where or a little ahead of where we hoped she would be, being that in the first race she was right around our fourth or fifth scorer," Jermyn said. "If we're able to race later in the season with five around where she was, that would put us higher in the team standings. Julianna had a great race, too. She's continuing to get better as the season progresses. I thought she ran real smart."
Senior Ashley Berry and graduate student Sophia Ziemian rounded out the scoring for the Blue Devils. Berry placed 116th in a time of 18:38.8 and Ziemian finished in 119th place. Ziemian crossed the line in a time of 18:41.7. Freshman Haley Meier raced to a 133rd place finish and ran a time of 18:48.8 in the second college race of her career.
Jermyn believes Friday's race provided crucial high-level racing experience for Duke that will benefit the team later in the season.
"It was definitely the most crowded race most of these girls have been in. If they didn't handle it well at first, it might hurt our team result today, but if they can gain experience and be more ready for that environment, and be able to push themselves, it can certainly be valuable. Ultimately, it's what they take with them from this race."
Junior Abby Farley placed 141st in the competition, with a time of 18:55.1, while sophomore Madison Granger, racing in just her second collegiate cross country race, finished in 153rd place and ran a time of 19:02.3. Sophomore Allison Sturges, also competing in her second collegiate cross country race, placed 166th in a time of 19:13.9.
The Blue Devils return to action next Friday, Oct. 11, as Duke travels to Charlotte, N.C., to compete in the Royals Challenge.


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