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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Coxe Cage was alive with Yale track and field action for the first time in months on Saturday as the Bulldogs hosted their season-opening meet. The unscored competition gave the team a chance to see how its preparations are coming befvore diving into the dual meet season and beyond in 2012. This year's freshmen made their collegiate debuts at the meet, and were the highest-placing athletes from Yale in several events.
The honor of highest-placing freshmen went to three athletes who all placed second in their events. Freshman Emily Cable, who was second of 36 athletes in the 200-meter dash in 25.56, just 0.01 seconds off of first place. This time, only Cable's first of the season, ties her for fifth-place on the Yale career list. She lead a barrage of Yale blue across the finish line of the race: senior Alexa Monti was sixth (25.87-- the ninth fastest time by a Yale athlete indoors), freshman Ashleigh Delemos was 14th (26.76), senior Emily Shulan was 15th (26.84), junior Dakota McCoy was 19th (27.82) and sophomore Amanda Snajder was 21st (27.95).
Freshman Anna Demaree was second in the 3,000-meter run, finishing behind sophomore Sarah Barry, who won the event. Barry crossed the line in 9:59.97, followed by Demaree in 10:18.96, then senior Madeline Adams in third (10:22.71) and freshman Alyssa Laguardia in seventh (11:12.46).
Four Bulldogs swept in the 5,000-meter run, claiming the first four places. Junior Victoria Flannery was first across the line in 18:41.80, followed narrowly by freshman Hannah Alpert in 18:44.65 and sophomore Rachel O'Driscoll in 18:45.87. Sophomore Clare Kane was fourth in 19:00.48.
Delemos also competed in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing fourth in the final heat after coming in third in the preliminary. Delemos finished both races in 9.32 seconds. Snajder (6th- 9.47) and Cable (7th- 9.57) joined her in the final and McCoy (11th- 9.79) and junior Jenna Poggi (14th- 10.30) also competed.
In other sprinting action, Monti was third in the 60-meter dash. She finished in 7.87, just ahead of senior Marieme Mbaye in fourth (8.01). Junior Allison Rue was third in the 500-meter dash in 1:18.03, finishing within a second of her seed time but just barely edged out of second place by Raysa Florentino of Southern Connecticut State University (1:18.03).
Yale's 4x400-meter relay team, comprised mostly of freshmen, put together a second-place effort. Freshman Elle Brunsdale, Cable, Delemos and Rue combined to finish in 4:02.49. A second Bulldog relay team of sophomore Teresa Parent, Mbaye, sophomore Emily Urciuoli and Monti finished in 4:10.76, good for third place.
For the vertical jumps, Urciuoli was second in the pole vault, tying her indoor personal best of 3.45m (11'3.75"-- third all-time) from last winter. Poggi took third in the pole vault with a leap of 3.14m (10'4"). Freshman Catherine Shih also competed in the event. Snajder placed sixth in the high jump by clearing 1.5m (4'11").
Freshman Alisha Jordan was fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 10.9m (35'9.25"). She was also 15th in the long jump (4.77m, 15'7.75"). Parent also competed in the triple and long jumps; she was sixth in the triple jump (10.76m, 35'3.75") and tenth in the long jump (5.02m, 16'5.75"). Brunsdale placed sixth in the long jump in 5.2m (17'0.75").
In the throws, freshman Korbin Richards was tenth in the shot put with a toss of 9.92m (32'6.5"-- eighth all-time) and 16th in her first contest of the weight throw (9.15m, 30'0.25"). Junior Antonia Renker was ninth in the weight throw with a heave of 13.15m (43'1.75"), which is a new personal record indoors and ninth all-time at Yale.
The team will use today's results as an indicator of how it needs to prepare further for its next meet, which will also take place at Coxe Cage. The Yale Invitational will take place on Jan. 14th, 2012.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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Community Service Days at Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation are offered monthly to students in grades 6 through 12 to help achieve community service credits.
Projects include work to to benefit ARF's shelter animals, such as creating enrichment items for ARF animals, baking dog treats, landscaping and animal care cleaning tasks.
These service days are offered monthly, and the cost is $30. For more information or for an application, go to www.arf.net or call 925-296-3147 for availability.
The Las Lomas High School fall play, the Michael Parker comedy "Whose Wives Are They Anyway," will be performed Nov. 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 16 at the Las Lomas Theatre.
In the play, two cosmetics company vice presidents go on a golfing weekend, but encounter their new boss, who insists on meeting the wives, stating "no one who went golfing for a weekend without his wife would ever work for me." The VPs try to cover for their missing wives.
All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Ticket information will be available at http://www.laslomasptsa.com/PerformingArts/PerformingArtsHome.html
Northgate High School ninth-graders can still sign up for the school's Challenge Day, this year on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
Challenge Day's mission is to provide young people and their communities with experiential workshops and programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection, going beyond anti-bullying discussion to celebrate students' diversity, truth and full expression.
Students will be chosen by lottery to participate, and student selection will be posted late this month.
Adult participants and volunteers for registration and assembly setup and tear-down are sought. For more information, go to www.northgatehs-pfc.com/
and Sponsor-a-Teacher Donations. Click here for Volunteer Information
For more information about the nonprofit organization Challenge Day, go to www.challengeday.org
Have an event or a news item to be publicized? To submit an item for School Notes, contact Journal Editor Sam Richards at 925-943-8241.

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Pacific Institute of Music, founded in 2009 in Folsom, California, provides an exceptional musical educational experience serving the Greater Sacramento Area. Initially, the institute only offered lessons on violin and piano, but over the past 6 years, the school has successfully expended its variety of classes to include pretty much every orchestral music instrument and voice. If the private lessons are not what you are looking for, the schools' range of group lessons spans across from Harmony Road Course for beginners to sophisticated chamber music for advanced students.
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By Claudia Assis
It looks like the famous The Graduate quote would sound something like this nowadays: "Fracking. There's a great future in fracking. Think about it."
(Brush up on the top 100 movie quotes.)
Plastics is so yesterday. The National Society of Professional Engineers's magazine has an article on the changes brought to its profession by hydraulic fracturing, or, in a decidedly non-engineer definition of it, the process of using water, sand and other stuff to gut oil and natural gas out of rock.
The oil and gas industry faces a talent crisis that is "driving high salaries and multiple job offers for graduates, according to schools," the NSPE article said.
That was been compounded by industry history. In the 1990s, lower oil prices led to hiring freezes, and fewer students were interested in petroleum engineering. That lead to an age gap in experienced workers as older workers retire.
"Industry is providing sponsorships for students … and graduates are snatched quickly with 'astronomic' salaries," the magazine said.
"For example, a Denver news station reported last May on a School of Mines graduate who transformed himself from high school dropout to petroleum engineer with a starting salary of more than $100,000 a year."
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More about RVs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVs
The majority of RV owners are 50+ years old, middle-class retirees that enjoy spending vacations on the road, exploring the US. They use their RVs like portable homes, and can stay in them for days or weeks at a time.
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John Strugnell, former editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project and Professor of Christian Origins emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on November 30 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass after a brief illness.
Born in Barnet, England on May 25, 1930, Strugnell attended St. Paul's School in London and read Semitic languages at Oxford. He was appointed by Father Roland de Vaux to the Cave 4 publication team in 1954 and spent the rest of his scholarly career deciphering and editing Scroll manuscripts. His major editorial accomplishments include Miqsat Ma'asê ha-Torah (with Elisha Qimron) and 4QInstruction (with Daniel J. Harrington). In 1984 Strugnell became editor-in-chief of the Scrolls publication project and was instrumental in widening the circle of scholars working on the Cave 4 manuscripts, including for the first time Jewish scholars and women. He was forced to resign from his position in 1991, in the wake of a scandal brought on by mental illness.
Strugnell taught at the University of Chicago and Duke University, and in 1966 was appointed Professor of Christian Origins at Harvard Divinity School. He will be remembered as a devoted teacher and mentor to many students, devoting countless hours to discussion and critique of their work, whether in Dead Sea Scrolls studies, early Jewish literature and history, New Testament, or Greco-Roman antiquity. In Jerusalem, where he spent half of each year in the latter part of his career, he trained a younger generation of Scrolls scholars, giving generously of his time and expertise. In all his interactions with students, he displayed his enormous erudition, ready wit, and caring nature. These students will be his true legacy to scholarship.
Strugnell is survived by a sister, five children, and five grandchildren.
—Sidnie White Crawford, Chair, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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An open letter to the U.S. Postal Service
July 25, 2014
As I was picking my kids up at school the other day I passed again, as I have so many times before, the house of an elderly man.
This time he was obviously waiting for something as he stood upon his driveway with his hands in his pockets. This time I was stuck in traffic longer than was usual and so as I waited I had the opportunity to wonder for what was he waiting as he stood there.
A postal truck stopped on the other side of the street and the letter carrier driving it got out, negotiated the traffic to cross the street, and entered the man's driveway with the mailbag he was carrying.
I watched as, upon seeing the postman, the man's face lit up and the Post Office employee who obviously knew the man's name gave him a good greeting for the day and gave him the mail he was hoping to receive.
The smile on the man's face as the mailman gave him his mail and a friendly greeting struck me as a profound symbolism of our American culture and the connectivity that exists between all of us Americans among ourselves and with the rest of the world.
It also struck me, more profoundly so, as to how much the United States Postal Service represents and serves all of us in our desire for the feeling of community and connectivity with our families, friends and everyone else in this otherwise vast and distant world of ours.
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In closing, I want to reiterate how important I believe the Postal Service is to our neighborhoods, our communities and our nation — the Post Office is one of the most important glues that adheres us together as a people.
From the Pony Express and yesteryear's remote outposts to the automobiles, railcars and aircraft of today: thank you for all that you do, and long may you last against the privatists who falsely purport the USPS should be unfunded or otherwise dismantled.
There are some things the private sector can never account for and the United States Postal Service is one of those entities.
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Syringe Disinfection for Injection Drug Users
November 20, 2006
For 20 years, syringe disinfection has been a part of HIV prevention efforts for injection drug users (IDUs). Questions about it persist, however, because of limited scientific studies, varying recommendations on the right way to disinfect, and evidence suggesting that IDUs do not use this approach very much. This fact sheet presents basic information on disinfection, especially bleach disinfection. The central message is that disinfection is a back-up prevention strategy if the user cannot stop injecting; does not have a new, sterile syringe; and is about to inject with a syringe that has been used before.
How Did Disinfection Become a Widely-Used HIV Prevention Strategy?
The strategy of disinfecting syringes to prevent HIV emerged in California in the 1980s. East Coast epidemics among IDUs (especially in New York) made public health officials fear that HIV would be a major threat to California IDUs.
California IDUs, like those in other parts of the country, shared and reused syringes, in part because it was hard for them to get new, sterile ones. This greatly increased their risk of HIV transmission (see box below). State law made it illegal for drug users to buy syringes from pharmacies and a crime to possess them. Restricted access to sterile syringes, combined with limited capacity of substance abuse treatment programs, forced prevention programs to focus on reducing injection-related risks among IDUs who would not or could not stop injecting. Field research in California showed that IDUs would act to reduce their risks if acceptable measures were available to them. One such measure was syringe disinfection with household bleach. (Disinfection means using something to kill viruses and bacteria that cause infection.) Laboratory tests had shown that bleach killed HIV. Bleach also was cheap, quick, and available everywhere.
This led community programs to train outreach workers to teach IDUs how they could reduce the risk of infection by disinfecting their syringes and needles.
Distribution of bleach kits -- small (usually 1-oz. size) bottles of full-strength household bleach with instructions on how to disinfect syringes -- quickly became a standard component of IDU prevention in San Francisco. Other U.S. cities then rapidly adopted this strategy.
How Disinfection Can Reduce Transmission Risk: It Reduces the Number of Viruses and It Kills Them
Current disinfection recommendations are based on the following steps:
The idea behind these steps is to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in two ways. First, flushing removes blood and drugs from the syringe, which reduces the number of viral particles. Second, using a disinfectant can kill remaining viruses so they can't infect anyone else. Instructions for disinfecting syringes usually include ways to make sure that viruses are removed and killed:
Does Disinfection Work Against Viral Hepatitis?
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) cause serious illness among millions of people. They also are closely connected with HIV, injection drug use, and high-risk sexual behaviors. Many people think that disinfection doesn't work against HBV or HCV, but laboratory studies on HBV show that disinfection works against this bloodborne virus in the same ways that it does against HIV.
An important thing to remember about HBV and HCV is that the numbers of viruses in blood are much higher for HBV and HCV than they are for HIV. As a result, getting rid of as much blood as possible by flushing out and rinsing is especially important in reducing the risk of becoming infected with viral hepatitis.
Disinfection Seems to Make Sense. What's the Problem?
A Disinfected Syringe Is NOT a Sterile Syringe
If it is done carefully and thoroughly, disinfection can reduce the amount of live HIV, HBV, and HCV in a syringe. However, even the best disinfection procedure cannot guarantee that all viruses have been killed. The plastic syringes usually used by IDUs are designed for one-time use. They are not designed to be cleaned and used again.
Disinfected syringes do NOT meet the standards that are applied in all other settings in which people use syringes (such as hospitals, other health care settings, and insulin injections by people with diabetes). In these settings, people must use a new, sterile syringe for every injection.
For these reasons, a disinfected syringe is NOT as safe as a new, sterile syringe. Recommendations about disinfecting syringes with bleach or others agents apply ONLY to situations in which IDUs do not have sterile syringes.
Scientists Have Limited Laboratory Evidence That Disinfection Works Against HIV in Syringes and Other Injection Equipment
Scientists have published a small number of laboratory studies on the ability of bleach and other agents to kill HIV. These experiments try to mimic conditions faced by IDUs and usually test the impact of disinfection on blood to which HIV grown in a test tube has been added.
However, these conditions are not the same as those faced by IDUs, and findings are not definitive. In laboratory studies, fresh undiluted household bleach (5.25% sodium hypochlorite) appears to kill HIV pretty well. Scientists also have tested whether other liquids can disinfect syringes. These liquids, which are sometimes used by IDUs, include dish detergent, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and fortified wine. Results of these few studies are limited.
Some research has found that even several vigorous rinses with clean water may be as effective as undiluted household bleach because they do a good job of reducing the number of infectious viruses.
Results of these studies depend on many things, including the strength of the agent, whether the HIV is in whole blood or by itself, and the steps used. Because few laboratory studies have been published, we have only limited data on disinfection as it is done by IDUs. As a result, we don't have clear answers to questions about which agents work best, the best disinfection procedures, or the time necessary for adequate disinfection.
Laboratory studies of the effect of disinfection on HBV and HCV are difficult because these viruses cannot be grown in a test tube. Studies with animals have shown that disinfection can prevent HBV transmission. Because HBV and HCV are similar, these findings may also be true for HCV. However, it's important to note that conditions in animal studies are not the same as those faced by IDUs.
Studies of IDUs Do Not Prove That Bleach Disinfection Protects Them Against HIV or Viral Hepatitis
Studies have looked for differences in the number of new infections between injectors who say they always disinfect and injectors who say they do not disinfect. They have found no significant difference in new infections among IDUs in the two groups. Several factors may help explain these findings.
Barriers Make It Hard for IDUs to Disinfect Correctly and Can Prevent Them From Doing It at All
IDUs may agree that disinfection is a good idea if they cannot get new, sterile syringes. However, some investigators have found that few IDUs actually use bleach to disinfect syringes or they don't go through all the recommended steps if they do use it. Many factors make it hard for IDUs to disinfect:
What Are the Take-Home Messages?
What Should We Tell IDUs?
Education and outreach workers should stress the following messages when they talk to IDUs:
To Learn More About This Topic
Visit websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Academy for Educational Development for these and related materials:
See the July 1994 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. This issue of the Journal includes seven papers from a workshop on the use of bleach to disinfect drug injection equipment. The papers provide an historical perspective on the use of bleach in HIV/AIDS prevention activities, review results of laboratory studies on the effectiveness of various agents in inactivating HIV, and describe the results of field studies on the disinfection practices of IDUs. (Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1994;7(7):741-776.)
See the April 1993 CDC/CSAT/NIDA HIV/AIDS Prevention Bulletin. This publication reviews the topic of disinfection and concludes that stopping injection or using new, sterile syringes is superior to disinfection. (Curran JC, Scheckel LW, Millstein RA. HIV/AIDS prevention bulletin. Centers for Disease Control, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and National Institute on Drug Abuse, April 19, 1993.) www.cdc.gov/idu/pubs/bleach_letter.htm.
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You've made it past Thanksgiving and even though your pants may be fitting a little snug (making you may feel like a stuffed turkey) let's face it, the food fest is not done because we are in the middle of Treat Season.
Between now and Christmas sweets seem to be EVERYWHERE- from the sugar cookies at the office your co-workers brought to share, to the tables of delectable treats at the countless holiday parties you will be attending.
Break the mold of typical holiday desserts with this Coffee Chiffon Cake. This recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth and has a welcomed ingredient- coffee!
Recipe taken from Adventures in Coffee cookbook
Coffee Chiffon Cake
Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl beat egg whites and cream of tartar at high speed until stiff peaks form. Set aside. In another bowl mix sugar, flour, pecans, baking powder and salt. Reserve. Combine coffee, egg yolks, oil, vanilla and almond extracts, and blend. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Carefully fold in egg whites, pour into ungreased tube or bundt pan, and bake for 50 minutes to an hour, or until top springs back when lightly touched. Cool in pan for 5 minutes. Turn out onto serving plate and cool completely.
To make icing, combine sugar and vanilla, gradually add caf au lait. Mix until you reach a desired consistency to pour on a cake. Reserve some frosting, add more confectioners' sugar to thicken it, and pipe around base of cake. Garnish with pecans (or walnuts) and coffee beans.
Yield: 10-12 servings
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Police are investigating the accidental discharge of a weapon after two people were injured at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on Friday.
The gun went off in the office of a staff member of the School of Dental Medicine, said CU spokesman Dan Meyers.
Meyers said the gun belonged to a staff member who has a concealed- carry permit. The staffer and another person in the office were injured. Neither person was hospitalized.
The staff member is on administrative leave, Meyers said.
It was not clear if the other person in the office was a student or another staff member.
While this is the first injury at the school resulting from a concealed-carry weapon incident, the college has dealt with the matter previously.
In March, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld an appeals-court ruling that struck down CU's gun ban. The court said the Board of Regents overstepped its authority by refusing to allow permitted concealed weapons on campuses, in leased buildings and in any area under the control of university police.
In August, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs amended student-housing contracts, segregating students who possess a valid concealed-carry permit.
University officials said both campuses will establish a residential area for students over the age of 21 with a permit. In all other dormitories, guns will be banned under the new policy.
Those with a permit may still live in dorms on both campuses but may not have weapons in possession while in those general living quarters, officials said.
James Manley, a lawyer for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to individual liberty and free enterprise, said the organization would examine the policy change.
CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano told faculty they have no right to cancel class if a student is lawfully carrying a gun.
The warning came shortly after professor Jerry Peterson said he would cancel class if he learned any of his students was carrying a firearm.
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In an Inter-Ac track and field dual meet at Germantown Academy on April 22, visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy came out of the five field events with a 23-22 edge in the team scoring, but the host Patriots piled up a 46-31 advantage out on the track to win the affair by a final score of 68-54.
While the SCH Blue Devils slipped to 0-4 in league dual meets, GA leveled off at 2-2, having already defeated Episcopal Academy while suffering setbacks against Haverford School and Malvern Prep. SCH does have a non-league victory over Lower Moreland High School, having beaten the Lions in a three-way meet that included Inter-Ac rival Penn Charter.
In last week's dual meet, two Germantown Academy families were responsible for most of the Patriots' first-place finishes in the individual footraces. Senior Earl Edwards won both the 100 and 400 meter events, sophomore Sam Ritz took first place in the 800 and 1600, and Ritz's older brother Ben, a senior, captured the laurels in the 3200 meter race. Edwards and the elder Ritz are GA's co-captains this spring.
Sophomore Andrew Simon won the 200 and ran a mere 1/100 of a second behind Edwards to place second in the 400, while also coming in third in the 100 meters. The Patriots also picked up a pair of third-place performances from junior Nelson Floyd in the 200 and 400.
Scoring in four events, freshman Devon Goodman finished second in the 300 intermediate hurdles and third in the 110 high hurdles, and over in the field events he was runner up in the triple jump and landed third in the high jump.
Junior Matt Miller placed third in the 300 hurdles and led a one-two-three sweep for the meet hosts in the pole vault. Springside Chestnut Hill does not yet have a pole vault pit installed at its newly renovated track facility.
What SCH did have was junior Frank Jackson, who emerged as the top individual point scorer of the meet with his victories in the 110 hurdles, the long jump, and the triple jump. Senior Jamil Poole wasn't far off the pace, winning the 300 hurdles and earning the runner-up spot in both the 110 hurdles and the 100 meters.
In the longer races, junior Graham Allen gave SCH second-place finishes in the 800 and 1600 meters. It was senior Drew Dowds, a Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate, who produced the Blue Devils' fifth victory in the individual events, winning the high jump by clearing the bar at 5'8".
Going into the 4 x 400 meter relay, the last item on the agenda, GA held an insurmountable 68-49 advantage in the team scoring, but at least SCH was able to go home with a win in the final race of the day.
The Blue Devil quartet of (in race order) senior Mac Concannon, sophomore Chris Williams, Allen, and Poole posted a time of 3:38.08 to win comfortably. GA came in second at 3:45.15 with Floyd, Simon, junior Chris Kim and senior Devin Cody.
Meet Results
100 Meters
1. GA Earl Edwards 11.42
2. SCH Jamil Poole 11.69
3. GA Andrew Simon 11.70
200 Meters
1. GA Andrew Simon 23.95
2. SCH Jordan Johnson 24.14
3. GA Nelson Floyd 24.43
400 Meters
1. GA Earl Edwards 51.88
2. GA Andrew Simon 51.89
3. GA Nelson Floyd 54.41
800 Meters
1. GA Sam Ritz 2:04.10
2. SCH Graham Allen 2:07.23
3. GA Dan Chen 2:13.40
1600 Meters
1. GA Sam Ritz 4:33.05
2. SCH Graham Allen 4:36.49
3. GA Joe DiBello 4:54.82
3200 Meters
1. GA Ben Ritz 10:55.47
2. GA Trent Weiss 11:31.61
3. SCH Jeff Elliott 13:47.47
110 High Hurdles
1. SCH Frank Jackson 16.31
2. SCH Jamil Poole 16.38
3. GA Devon Goodman 17:08
300 Intermediate Hurdles
1. SCH Jamil Poole 44:07
2. GA Devon Goodman 44.76
3. GA Matt Miller 45.03
High Jump
1. SCH Drew Dowds 5'8"
2. GA Niki Roman 5'6"
3. GA Devon Goodman 5'6"
Long Jump
1. SCH Frank Jackson 18'10.5"
2. SCH Chris Williams 17'10"
3. GA Alex Dietz 17'1.5"
Pole Vault
1. GA Matt Miller 13'0"
2. GA Jared Whitman 12'6"
3. GA Chris Kim 10'0"
Shot Put
1. GA Cullen Doyle 36'11"
2. SCH Tommie Whitehead 36'3.5"
3. SCH Darien Bryant 32'8.5"
Triple Jump
1. SCH Frank Jackson 38'5.25"
2. GA Devon Goodman 37'7.5"
3. SCH Chris Williams 35'9"


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EXPERT OPINION: Michael Ishak
Posted on 07 October 2013
A committed scuba diving instructor in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has launched a national campaign to stop mining on the biodiverse island of Bangka. Backed by local communities, he is now planning to appeal to the President of Indonesia so that he sticks to commitments made at the Word Ocean Conference in 2009.
Can you tell us about the Save Small Island Bangka North Sulawesi Initiative and your role in this initiative?I am a scuba diving instructor and have long been working in the recreational scuba diving industry on the island and its surrounding areas. I am also a passionate photographer and filmmaker.
I am very concerned about what's happening in the island and how it's affecting the communities, whose lives are being disrupted in regard to the pending destruction of our pristine marine treasures.
There's an ongoing Indonesian campaign to save Small Island Bangka. What is it all about?We currently have a petition on change.org which is mainly meant as a national Indonesian campaign and directed to an Indonesian audience. Its brand ambassador is well-known and popular local band vocalist Kaka Slank. We launched this petition to raise awareness among a large Indonesian audience on the critical issues facing Bangka Island and gain national attention.
The petition asks the national government and relevant agencies to stop the entry of mining activities in Small Island Bangka, which is located in one of the most bio-diverse marine areas in the North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. Such mining activities will destroy the fragile and valuable marine resources of this area, on which many people depend for food and livelihood.
The petition's main addressees are the North Minahasa Regency Head Sompie Singal who issued the mining exploration license which has been cancelled by law by an Indonesian High Court and the Governor of North Sulawesi Province, Sarundajang who once praised himself Indonesia's first green governor and runs for presidential elections in 2014.
This national petition is being supported by Friends of the Earth Indonesia (Walhi), Greenpeace Indonesia, change.org, LMND (National Students League for Democracy), and regional NGOs like Tunas Hijau (Green Sprout).
To sign the petition, please visit: http://www.change.org/id/petisi/gub-sarundajang2014-bupati-sompie-singal-tolak-tambang-di-pulau-kecil-selamatkan-pulau-bangka-sulut
For more information, please visit our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/SaveBangkaIsland
Can you expound on the immediate threats facing Bangka Island?Bangka Island, with a total area of just 4,778.24 hectares, has been designated by the North Sulawesi government to become an island for iron ore mining and related metals, which will cover as much as 2,000 hectares—almost half of its total area.
Such mining activities will endanger protected wildlife on land as well as in the sea. These unsustainable activities will heavily compromise the health of coral reefs, mangroves, and will likewise affect the cross waters between Bunaken Marine National Park and Lembeh Strait.
What has been the feeling on the ground by the local people and communities?There has been a lot of resistance to these proposed mining activities by the traditional fishing communities who have lived in this area for generations, as well as by the local dive tourism industry.
Several meetings have been arranged by the mining company and local government agencies, but all these have been met with strong opposition by the local people, and have even resulted in violence in some cases. The islanders' former peaceful lives are completely disrupted.
The message however remains clear: the local people are opposed to these mining plans and they need a strong voice to carry their cause.
What are the next steps of the campaign? Any plans to take this to the international level?Soon, we are planning to launch another petition on the international level, which will be directed to the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The goal is to give pressure from the international community and urge the government to stick to its past commitments such as those made at the World Ocean Conference in Manado in 2009.
As host and founding member of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF), the Indonesian government has a responsibility to fulfill its commitments to protect our ocean's valuable resources.
The goal is to convince the President that his word on international treaties should be honored and this includes not destroying Bangka Island, which interestingly, is only 34 kilometers away from the Regional Secretariat of the CTI-CFF. This even becomes more relevant since Indonesia is again planning to host the World Coral Reef Conference in Manado in 2014.
On a larger scale, we hope to make "Saving Bangka" a showcase for saving many more small islands throughout Indonesia from being sold off to mining companies, violating Indonesian law and international commitments the country has signed. The sale of Indonesian small islands for individual profit must be stopped by all means.
Why is Bangka Island so important and why do we need to protect it?Bangka Island possesses beautiful white sandy beaches, colorful coral reefs, diverse dive sites, and a rich flora and fauna on land including sea eagles, nocturnal primate tarsius spectrum, and marsupial bear cuscus—all on the IUCN red list.
Its forest and mangroves are protected by law. The rich marine environment of the island hosts various unique creatures like the sea mammal dugong, whale sharks, and also dolphins.
The mangrove areas of the island help keep the stability of marine and terrestrial life and help prevent global warming, while at the same time, help secure future sources of marine food.
If the mining plans for Bangka Island will go ahead, this will not only threaten local communities who live on the island, but also the marine life found in this area.
Bangka Island is part of the marine tourism industry of North Sulawesi—a source of income and livelihood to thousands of people. Mining will bring detrimental effects on the economy and sustainable growth.
World-renowned dive sites like Bunaken National Marine Park and Lembeh Strait will also be affected. In the long term, North Sulawesi may vanish from the marine tourism map.


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Former Ajax, Juventus and Barcelona midfielder Edgar Davids has taken up a coaching role with Barnet.
The 39-year-old, who has been out of football since a brief playing stint with Crystal Palace in 2010, has been named joint head coach of the npower League Two team alongside incumbent Mark Robson.
Davids told the club's website: "I'm happy to explore my possibilities and share my knowledge and experience with Barnet Football Club. I am very excited about the challenge ahead."
Davids first announced the news on Twitter, where he also stated his intention be part of the playing squad at the Football League's bottom club.
He said: "Happy to say I will join my local football club Barnet fc as a player/coach."
A statement on Barnet's website said he would be involved in training on Friday and could make his debut within a fortnight.
Robson was relishing his partnership with Davids, who played 74 times for Holland.
"I am delighted to welcome Edgar to our club," said Robson. "His experience as a player throughout his illustrious career will be a massive benefit to all our players and I look forward to forming a strong partnership with him."
Barnet have struggled under Robson. They sit at the foot of the League Two table, with no wins and just three points from their 11 games this season.
Robson was placed in charge of Barnet back in June, taking over from Martin Allen, whose short-term contract expired after the Bees stayed up on the last day of last season.


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BOGART, Ga. -- A sheriff's deputy armed with a broom and a gun opened fire on a wild turkey, saying he had to kill the bird when it attacked him.
The turkey was shot to death during the encounter Sunday afternoon on the front porch of a home in the small town of Bogart.
Jackson County sheriff's officials say the deputy was dispatched to the home on Georgia Highway 330 by a resident who said a turkey on her front porch was refusing to leave.
The deputy got the turkey off the porch, but then it charged him.
A sheriff's report says the deputy used the broom to fend off the turkey, but it attacked the broom and the deputy said he had no choice but to shoot it.


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The University of Minnesota is partnering with the Salvation Army to recycle student furniture and other items discarded curbside at the beginning and end of each semester.
The Salvation Army will run on- and -off campus collection routes through June 1 as students are on the move and dumping unwanted goods that might otherwise end up in landfills.
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Who read the book? I read the book last summer when I found out that Mark was making a movie about it...(what would my english teachers have to say about that!).
Though some people say that the movie does the book injustice, etc. I found I prefer the movie, and not just because Mark was in it (though he is 99% of the reason!). The book was great in giving narrative engineering, setting up all the facts and hypotheses of what happened on the boat when the meteorological forces came together, but it lacked one thing: emotional attachment.
I guess I'm more of a visual person, I have to picture the actual events to see the horror of mother nature going bad. This is what the movie allowed me to see.
I don't think you can make a movie (besides a documentary) using the same narrartive format as the book. The book didn't put human faces on the boat, but rather, events that led up to the "perfect storm" and what the boat went through technically when the storm hit. The movie provided the faces and through these actors we see what these fishermen endured.
Despite enjoying the book, I loved the movie!
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Well, I was an English major, and that was very well put! Thanks! I have the book-- and intended to have it read by now, but have not yet. So I will be seeing the film first (this Friday, the 7th), and then will read the facts in the book. It really is his "best guess" at what happened to the boat anyway, since no-one actually witnessed it who survived.
I agree that putting human faces on a tragedy makes it hit home more personally, and more profoundly. But there is also a place for "just the facts, ma'am", because they can help you understand some of the whys.
Linda Greenlaw, the swordboat Captain who was Billy's friend, has said that he did make a good decision in going out again, b/c of the money factor, but it was a big risk b/c of the lateness in the season.
It was unfortunate that the 3 storm systems colided and merged right over the area where the Andrea Gail was. I've seen some background documentaries, and they say that the storm blew up in minutes, from calm and just cloudy to hurricane force. The crew never had a chance.
The author also said that Billy's last communica with anyone was at 6 p.m. when he really did say, "She's comin' on boys, and she's comin' on strong!" It is estimated that the boat went down probably by midnight.
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I just get chills thinking of those poor men on that boat seeing what was coming at them and knowing, after a certain point, that they weren't going to make it. What I really liked about the book was getting a sense of the local culture in Gloucester, how closely linked the townspeople are to the commercial fishing industry. Even people who don't actually fish themselves have some connection to it. And how they are emotionally impacted by these trips their loved ones make, and the waiting for them to come back . . . For some reason, I didn't get as strong a sense of this from the movie as I did from the book , and that kind of lessened it's impact on me to some extent. Other opinions??
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I loved the book. It went into so much deatail and when I went back to see the movie for the second time I'm glad that I knew a lot more.
Like the part with the hook going into the hand and bringing him into the water, it was really true and my friend and I weren't sure at first. Things like that.
I did get more emotional with the movie, the second time was even worse...I have no idea why.
I just can't even imagine what those men actually had to go through. It's very scary and sad.
Well, just wanted to say that I liked the book and loved the movie, it's one I will be buying...
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A sailor friend of mine recommended the book this past February- he is a very well read guy, so naturally I took his advice...It was truly one of the most powerful books that I have read (former English major). I found it especially clever that as you read the story and approach the sinking of the "Andrea Gail", you are closer to the section in the book where the pictures are. As you finish reading about the crew's demise- you are looking into the faces of those men who just perished. It is heart wrenching.
I know that there have been a couple printings and two of them don't have the actual photos included- do yourself a favor and spend the few extra dollars for the complete book!
I was also engrossed in this book the same time we had a Nor'easter/ blizzard that paralyzed Baltimore for about a week.... it made it all the more realistic!
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I read the book after seeing the movie and found it to be actully more horrifying. The book doesn't end with the sinking of the Andrea Gail but goes on to describe what happened to others left behind in the storm and after. After I fininshed reading I went to bed but didn't get much sleep that night! I must add that I loved the movie and want to go for a third time!
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I read the book and I lived the life of fishing on the grand banks.Ialso met Billy Tyne in St. Augustine Florida in the spring of 1987. I knew of him more, just from radio chat. You may fish next to another boat for ten years and never acually get to met the fellows on board.I only met Linda Greenlaw face to face coming home one trip while she was lobstering in the Munson Canyon. She had done her season in the banks in three trips, where we had to make a fouth trip to stay ahead.She was on the end of her outrigger handing me a couple of cartons of smokes that we steamed twenty-five miles out of the way for! Thanks again Linda! Any way the book was given to me a couple of years from my sister, who among others in my family was always concerned for my well being out at sea.I can only say that the first time that I visited the trailer,it sent almost uncontrolable chills thru my body.And yes I did openly weep knowing the horror that Billy and his crew suffered.Any one that has been up there in the late fall can relate to the weather that you go through.I finally got up the nerve to see the movie,and it was well done,except in some parts, which is understandable.Read the book before you see the movie.
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Anil and I had a great (and public, at first) exchange during a formal Q&A session, in which he: a) denied the existence of a script for a remake of Mr. India (1987), and added, "some films can simply not be made again." (Whew, thank you sir -- talk of a Mogambo other than Amrish Puri is silly, I think); b) joked about how old he feels because I happened to see Mr. India when I was five (a slight gaffe on my part, although I was only trying to express the duration of my fandom); and c) proudly (and prudently) proclaimed that his best work is yet to have been made.
The auditorium was filled to capacity, and I was startled at the applause received by my mere mention of Mr. India, which remains in my top two favorite Anil films to date. Of course, I managed to squeeze in a comment on Lagaan (2001) while I had the microphone (I'm serious), but that's another story ;) He was kind enough to meet with some of us afterward, and my brief conversation with him was centered around his films with Sridevi, and Eeshwar (1989 - my other Anil favorite).
Enjoy the title song (and all its masala goodness) from one of the more underrated Anil-Sridevi movies, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993).
And to stay consistent with the title to this post, here's a link to My Name is Lakhan from Ram Lakhan (1989).
The film we saw -- Gandhi My Father (2007) -- is discussed briefly in this post. The English version (of which this was a World Premiere, I believe) is not dubbed, which is quite a feat. And the ArcLight cinemas have some of the best audio-visual equipment I've experienced an Indian film on, for which I'll definitely re-visit. And finally, here are AK and yours truly. (Please note the source of the Aamir sketch.) Thank you IFFLA! Thank you Anil!


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Colin Bailey ready to lead Fine Arts Museums
Colin Bailey is well prepared to lead the Fine Arts institute out of its troubled waters
It's easy to issue a vote of confidence in Colin Bailey, the man who replaced John Buchanan as director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco a year and half after Buchanan's untimely death. In a private conversation with The Chronicle, Bailey, trim and calmly energetic at 57, speaks effortlessly about everything from Old Master paintings to the condition of buildings and grounds and the politesse demanded of a museum director.
When asked directly about the Fine Arts Museums' difficulties, Bailey answered with characteristic diplomacy. "An institution that's been without a director for a year and a half needs reinforcing," he said.
"I think that everyone at many levels has worked tremendously to maintain the program, to fund the program, to fill the program and make sure that these two buildings are impeccably maintained and welcoming."
Looking forward, after a week spent debriefing staff individually in every department, Bailey said: "There's an opportunity to assess what talented professionals within the institution need support, how we can create that support and perhaps instill confidence again - in some quarters - that this is a ship that's being very carefully navigated."
Since the day he was appointed, people in the art world have wondered whether Bailey could lead the institution out of the shadows fallen upon it lately: low staff morale, symbolized by an ongoing wrongful termination suit, and declining reputation as a collecting and research institution. (About a week after he arrived here, the FAMSF board re-elected its controversial president, Dede Wilsey.)
But Bailey arrives here with a string of noteworthy publications and a dozen years' experience as curator and deputy director at the Frick Collection in New York, to which he brought a doctorate in art history from Oxford University.
Curator training
In 2008, Bailey enhanced his stellar professional background by enrolling in Columbia University's newly created Center for Curatorial Leadership. His study entailed a residency at the Louvre in Paris, observing its director closely.
As for his domestic life, Bailey has enjoyed a partnership of more than 25 years with Alan Wintermute, an Old Master paintings expert at Christie's New York auction house.
"We were married two weeks ago in New York," where same-sex marriage is legal, Bailey said. Wintermute plans to move to San Francisco in July, where he will continue working for Christie's.
Bailey, a London native who has spent most of his career abroad, speaks with a mild British accent. He meets an interviewer with a steady but nonconfrontational gaze. His manner bespeaks polite refusal to be hurried or diverted.
Bailey at first could not settle on an individual work when queried as to which picture he would most like to transplant to the FAMSF from the Frick, a much smaller but more prestigious institution. It would be not a single picture but "the Fragonard room," he said, referring to the 18th century French artist whose ornate and sensuous imagery define Rococo style.
"That's a room that I've known since the very beginning of my life as an art historian that I love," he said, "that I really was able to work on relighting and reinvigorating, and about which I've published. It's really one of the most magical museum spaces anywhere."
Knowledge of single works
His reply when pressed again to name one work signaled a key difference from his predecessors among FAMSF directors: a passionate knowledge of and engagement with individual artworks.
"One of the pictures I became fondest of," he said, "was Vermeer's 'Mistress and Maid'... the last of the three Vermeers that Frick bought."
He described it with an accuracy and intensity that sharpened the listener's memory.
"It's a large picture of a woman - with a pearl earring - and a yellow ermine jacket, at her desk, writing, which in itself is striking for a 17th century painting. She's being greeted by her maidservant, who's handing her a letter. Now as to the letter, we don't see a seal, we don't see writing, we don't know what that letter is. The woman writing looks up, somewhat surprised that this letter's coming.
"So what Vermeer was doing was using a well-established gallant, if slightly libertine, idea that the mistress perhaps is being given a clandestine love letter by her complicit maidservant. This is a theme relatively common in Dutch art, but by removing that sense of anecdote, also there's no sense of anything being inappropriate, no one is colluding, no one is winking or behaving badly, it would seem. So what seems at first like a very obvious exchange is in fact quite a mysterious one."
The gap Bailey thinks most needs filling at the Fine Arts Museums "is one shared with the Frick - Nicolas Poussin," a 17th century French painter known for his classicizing response to the Baroque taste of his age.
"The Fine Arts Museums has a very handsome religious painting that was thought to be a Poussin for a while," he said. But no longer. The reattribution was a blow.
Literary prize
Before the Frick, Bailey worked as chief curator and deputy director of the National Gallery of Canada, after curatorial positions at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He has written or contributed to a small shelf full of books in his area of expertise, 18th and 19th century French painting. In 2004, his book "Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris" won the Mitchell Prize, the ultimate literary honor for an art historian.
Nothing in Bailey's childhood as the younger son of a London hairdresser foreshadowed his eminence in his field. Inklings manifested as soon as he switched from history to art history at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate.
What motivates a distinguished curator to become a museum director? Bailey credits, in part, the Center for Curatorial Leadership program.
"I began to see from my experience in New York," he said, "that curators could have active skills - management, financial, strategic, diplomatic - that were sometimes innate, but could also be trained and developed," he said.
"And that if you believe that the collection's content ... should drive as much as possible, you might have an opportunity to lead that vision. ... This course was the first training I had in management techniques. I'd been, like many of my colleagues, slightly skeptical of what ... was going to be taught. And it was remarkable."
'I'm a runner'
The program concluded with a residency enabling curators to observe close-up the daily work of an admired museum director. Bailey chose Henri Loyrette, head of the Musée du Louvre.
"For me to watch Henri Loyrette in operation was the most exhausting thing," Bailey said. "I remember the first day coming back to my hotel in Paris and just flaking out. He was going to go on for another five hours. But I felt there was an excitement about enabling professionals to do their best. And also a bridge to funders, donors, trustees, a way of representing the institution that gave them confidence that your needs, desires were good. And the feeling of real satisfaction when you're able to mold something and have it happen well."
As to how he will unwind as his workdays begin more to resemble Loyrette's, Bailey said: "I'm a runner. From where I've been staying in Pacific Heights, I've found this route that takes me down those steps on Lyon Street, through the Presidio, around Crissy Field and up to the Marina. It takes about an hour. Also I very much like music, cinema and theater. What I'm not doing for a while is a writing project, a research project."
Kenneth Baker is The San Francisco Chronicle's art critic. E-mail: email@example.com


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|No More The World Of Man - Sacramento
No More The World Of Man
Upper Playground - Sacramento
Upper Playground opened here in Sacramento almost a year ago, and has hosted a lot of the great stuff you expect from them since. If one local artist was due for his minute in the sun, it's Skinner. Dude's about as big as it gets on the art scene in Sacramento, having pretty much done everything there is to do, whether it be here or blowing up galleries all up and down the state.
When he got the venue lined up, Skinn knew he'd have to bust ass and elevate for himself and to "raise the bar" for other locals. I've watched him working on the pieces in this show over the past few months, turning out more in a week than most of us will in a year. So when the evening of Saturday, July 12 finally rolled around, I knew shit was gonna go down.
Apparently I wasnt the only one. I got there around 9 to a crowd spilling out all over the sidewalk, which led into the sweating-room only space. A friend who'd gotten there hours before said the same... hundreds of people packing the place in shifts for hours. Unheard of for Sacto.
When the crowds thinned for maybe 30 seconds at a time I saw pretty much the entire skate and art community had turned out. Gus from Goodtimes/Bloodwizard had come down from Grass Valley and Jay Howell, Matt Revelle (Juxtapoz) and Gabe Scott (111 Minna) had made it over from the bay, while the Smash Hit team and Tank Theory heads lurked about.
Looking past all the face-value "monsters and gore," the body of work is actually a gnarly critique of the stupidity and racism of capitalist culture.
The rest of the work spoke for itself, with new pieces on canvas installed on one wall over some of Skinn's trademark Lurkers. These paintings show his more psychedelic/fantasy/D&D/metal side and is really his best work.) I know dude had at least a dozen more of these burners still left back at the studio.
To contrast the acrylic tech-steeze on one side, Skinn built these "puppets" and HAND-FUCKING-WELDED these swords from scratch to build this nice little "Portrait Of An American Family"-type installation just inside the store window.
The rest of the place was packed wallpaper style with these small framers... some altered photos, some "just funny as fuck left untouched" portraits and other small paintings and collages. These walls totally dominated the space and made the packed house seem less hectic in comparison.
As a bonus, UP hooked Skinn up with two tshirt designs. I think they may only be available in the Sacramento store, but worth tracking down. -Aaron Winters {moscomment}
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June 13, 2005
They lie, steal, get expelled from school and even get arrested. These teenagers could end up behind bars if their parents don't do something to stop the violence and rebellion. Dr. Phil offers advice on managing crisis.
A Teen on the Edge
In the past month, Jennifer's 16-year-old son, Tim, has been expelled from school and arrested on six counts of breaking and entering. He also admits to drinking and using drugs.
An Intervention
Dr. Phil walks backstage to convince Tim to enter a wilderness therapy program. If Tim refuses, an agent will escort the teenager to the program.
No Longer a Threat?
Dr. Phil follows up with Terri and David, whose 15-year-old daughter had a hit list of 27 people she wanted to kill. Now that she's at a facility for at-risk teens, Terri struggles with guilt.
"I still have nightmares," she says.
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Adley Stump Impresses Blake Shelton With Carrie Underwood's 'Last Name' on 'The Voice'
It's obvious from her blind audition performance that Adley Stump has country music in her blood. Now, the Tulsa, Okla. native has a home on NBC's 'The Voice' — thanks to her grizzly rendition of Carrie Underwood's 'Last Name' that got both Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera spinning in their chairs… Literally.
At first, Shelton wasn't whole-heartedly considering hitting his button, but the idea of Aguilera snagging such a country great was too much to bear. He admitted that he chose to pump the big red circle once he saw that his fellow judge was sincerely interested, he was only hasty because of his already packed team.
In the end, the win was all Shelton's, though it wasn't as easy of a battle as you would have guessed. The 'Honey Bee' hitmaker fought tooth and nail for his girl, even trading insults and injuries with the pop vocalist judge. As the only remaining judges who still needed a teammate on tonight's final blind auditions episode, the pair bickered back and forth, figuratively tugging Stump and almost tearing her in half.
She chose Team Blake, despite the fact that she grew up idolizing Aguilera and her big voice. While Stump has a big voice herself, we think her country heart will override that on 'The Voice' — and clearly she and Shelton, who both call Oklahoma home, have something in common.
As for her Underwood cover, we'd say it was even spicier than the original. While Stump doesn't quite have the grace and vocal beauty that the 'American Idol' winner boasts, she's got spunk and grit, which will suit her just well in the genre, because if there's anyone who loves sassy country girls, it's Blake Shelton.
Watch Adley Stump Perform Carrie Underwood's 'Last Name'