06 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: coach john, head coach, hensler, kaitlyn, loyalsock, montoursville
With Williamsport and Loyalsock leading the way, schools like Hughesville, Lewisburg, Montoursville and Montgomery who have exciting young talent and veteran leadership should make this girls tennis season a good one.
Williamsport is coming off a perfect 15-0 season but lost five of its seven starters to graduation. Junior Taquoia Lee and senior Caitlin Clemons return as starters. Head coach John Dorner expects strong performances from Trisha Synoracki, Amanda Hampton, Kaitlyn Hensler and Marlee Lovell will help the Millionaires finish with another great season.
“Losing five of seven starters is tough,” said Dorner. “But the returning starters and the other girls have the talent to put together another great season.”
Loyalsock is also coming off a great season, going 19-3 and winning its second consecutive District 4 AA championship. Doubles champ Cassie Beck graduated, but Loyalsock does return her partner, Kaitlyn Pellegrino, one of three returning seniors for the Lancers.
Both Hughesville and Montgomery will be led by plenty of veterans, both having no fewer than six seniors returning to the team this season. Lewisburg brings back senior Claire Smyth and juniors Sarah Graber and Alice Meng to go along with a strong sophomore class.
“I’m excited about the season, it’s a great group of girls,” Lewisburg coach Matt Barr said. “We should be able to compete while having a tough schedule that has us facing Montoursville, Hughesville and Loyalsock.”
The area will also see several new coaches for this upcoming season with St. John Neumann Regional Academy bringing in David Montis, Chandra Wiegle taking over at Mansfield and Alyson Leach now leading Galeton.
Assistants: Zooka Rajjoub
Last year’s record: 15-0
Roster: Freshmen – Payton Harris, Laura Kinley, Destani Szabo. Sophomores – Amanda Hampton, Olivia Kuzio, Lauren Taylor. Juniors – Canisha Belle, Jennifer Judd, Trisha Synoracki, Taquioa Lee. Seniors – Caitlin Clemons, Amanda Harding, Kaitlyn Hensler, Marlee Lovell
Coach: Rick Zimmerman
Last year’s record: 19-3
Roster: Freshman – Yaheia Brown, Anna Hoffman, Emily Hoffman, Kim Levy. Sophomores – Ashleigh Bair, Anna Criswell, Katie Keith, Emily Niditch, Anna Newcomer, Alaina Oberheim, Marina Seely, Trish Taylor, Sammie Via. Juniors – Ana Mulhern, Myrle Newcomer, Sara O’Dell, Jillian Ritter, Micaela Weber. Seniors – Theresa Bering, Annie Evans, Kaitlyn Pellegrino.
Assitants: Dave Wonderlich, Tiffany Steppe, Teressa Summerson
Last year’s record: 4-14
Roster: Freshman – none. Sophomores – Grace Summerson, Racheal Wonderlich, Sam Beers. Juniors – Maria Cioffi, Serena Engel, Sarah Lamade, Mikayla Parmenter, Molly Yeagle. Seniors – Alex Geise, Mackenzie Hengler, Chelsie Gawblick, Megan Cowher
Last year’s record: 1-15
Roster: Freshman – Janaya Danicle, Olivia Labate. Sophomores – none. Juniors?- none. Seniors – Ellen Van Dine, Hanna Facey, Bridget Norris, Megan Winters, Karissa Stone
Coach: Ann-Marie Dincher
Assitants: Jeannine Sheddy
Roster: Freshman – Megan Bower, Jordan Collins, Sara Danley, Julia Ely, Holly Enders, Erin Engel, Sarah Yorks. Sophomores – Brianne Brewer, Rachel Fravel, Tawney Squier, Lindsey Dudek, Kortnee Blair. Juniors – Gabby Chappel, Josie Ely, Amber Kachelries, Emily Packer, Alanna Vanemon. Seniors – Melissa Bass, Emily Cromley, Amy Dick, Madison Powell, Monica Richards, Gabby Rossman, Kira Seagraves, Ashley Weaver, Hannah Burdick
Roster: Freshman – Sage Barton, Brooke Blaker, Megan Bryson, Kaylie Harer, Colby Heintzelman, Kaitlin Persing, Francesca Shrek, Emily Shnyder. Sophomores – Arissa LeBlanc, Ashlea Lovell, Sidney Schoch. Juniors – Kira Kitchen, Courtney Wilk. Seniors – Katrina Carpenter, Emily Gherghel, Samantha Hill, Loryn Kennedy, Hannah Lovell, Jessica MacPhail, Kazzi Sauers, Shelby Skelton
Roster: Freshman – Becca Bartlow, Sara Benson, Emma Coppes, Megan Schnelle. Sophomores – Mariah Chuprinski, Rachel Gresh, Kelly Reed, Salin Saka, Bethany Diehl. Juniors – none. Senior – Ala Miller, Alexis Orr
Roster: Freshman – Lakeisha Burgett, Sarah Cale, Lyndsay Kilbourn. Sophomores – Karina Fenstermacher, Kaylee Hanes, Kelsey McCabe, Samantha Miller, Trista Rathmell, Kaylora Thompson. Juniors – Kayla Eddy, Kaitlyn Evelhair, Katie Kustanbauter, Kate Michael, Megan Miller. Seniors – Emily Aderhold, Abbe Blair, Erin Kepner, Ariel Lyons, Sam Myers, Sam Rider
Assistants: Jessica Byerley, Bob McCormick
Last year’s record: 13-7
Roster: Freshman – Rachel Lipski. Sophomores – Shannon Alan, Lexi Featherman, Fallon Grindlinger, Rachel Murphy, Khadija Naqvi, Jamie Ptacek, Carlie Stockdale, Jordan Thomas. Juniors – Hannah Brock, Allison Freiry, Sarah Graber, Lily Hussar, Drew Kline, Alice Meng, Laura Sprunt. Seniors – Shirley Chu, Claire Smyth
Last year’s record: 4-14
Roster: Freshman – Julia Speak. Sophomores – Megan Rudloff. Juniors -Brittany Smith, Christine Soltys, Traci Eschbach. Seniors – Ashley Fridline, Jessica Eversole, Mandy Metzger, Merissa Gray, Oliva Brouse, Ruby Slabicki
Coach: Chandra Wiegle
Roster: Freshman – none. Sophomores – Jessica Crum, Katie Everdean, Noelle Payne, Paige Chester. Juniors – none. Seniors – Lexi Buckheit
Last year’s record: 2-12
Roster: Freshman – Cassandra Austin, Sabrina Esposito, Brianna Quimby. Sophomores – Kiana Acorn, Tawny Amarosa, Ashley Evans, Deanna Getgen, Franciszka Lupkowski, Taylor Russel, Mykaela Seeley, Corrine Young. Juniors – Kirsten Clemens, Christine Kennedy, Raina Rogers. Seniors – Megan Ludlam, Hannah Smith
Last year’s record: 7-7
Roster: Courtney Schauer; Debra Bieser; Kirsten McNeely; Haylee Painter; McKenzie Sweet; Blair Williams; Marisa Kump; Carley Murdock; Mikayla Andrews; Sonya Solomon; Stephanie Painter; Lyndsey King
Last year’s record: 9-4
Roster: Freshman – Mataya McPherson, Andi Leach. Sophomores – none. Juniors – Shelly Mainus. Seniors: Bethany Schweigart, Alivia Bollock, Rebecca Schweigart.
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06 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: antiques roadshow, bbc, broadcast, houses of parliament, live news
This guy has been making random appearances on live television for the last couple of months. he has appeared in the background of live news reports on BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News at random locations and at random times. it seems if there is a camera crew about at the moment, he is there too!
The latest time I’ve spotted him was today on the ITV lunchtime news where he stood in the background of an outside broadcast by the Houses of Parliament.
He has also been spotted in the background of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow.
Here are some more of his appearances!
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Who is this guy? Mystery man keeps appearing on live news reports – Artsy Spot
06 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: circumstances, roommate, sexual orientation
Sibel Altug
Why did you apply?
My sister and her husband were chosen out of 400 people to be on Rich Bride, Poor Bride and I wanted to do something like that for myself because I have experienced way too much to be 23 years old. a couple of years ago my fiancé passed away in a canoeing accident. Ever since then I have been questioning life, waking up every morning thinking, why this, why me?
Why should they pick you?
All my life people have been telling me you need to go out and show the world who you are, and I never got the opportunity because of the circumstances.
Rikki Ellul
Why did you apply? ?
I just want to show people who I really am,… as the person that I am and the way I look and my sexual orientation. I feel that I could help girls my age who aren’t comfortable with their sexuality or with the way they dress. I could help them come out and be themselves.
Why should they pick you? I would be a good roommate because ?I’m outgoing and I’m very easy going. I don’t like conflict. I like to talk about situations, so if there is ever a problem, I would sit people down and talk about it instead of getting involved. in it.
Theresa O’Neill
Why did you apply?
I applied because I am a party personality. I frequent the club area often and everybody tells me all the time I should be on a reality television show.
Why should they pick you?
Because I’m a smart-ass and I’m blunt and assertive and confident. it brings out little comments here and there that people don’t tend to say when they want to say it. I’ll say what people don’t want to say, but not in a rude way or a way that provokes a confrontation – I’ll say it in a way that makes a joke.
Jeremy Hernandez
Why did you apply?
To promote my career a bit [he's an actor, singer and dancer]. The thing with reality TV is it could really help me out or it could do the opposite, so I am hoping.
Why should they pick you?
Because I am very considerate. Growing up with a very traditional Asian family, I know when to give respect and when to fight back. I don’t believe in bottling your feelings, that’s very unhealthy for yourself and your aura. I am the type of person who says what needs to be said. sometimes when I do that, people think it’s confrontational, but for me it’s just therapy.
Rashida James aka Lady Rara ,19
Rashida James
The “Lady Rara”
Why did you apply?
My idol is Lady Gaga, so I aspire to be the Canadian Lady Gaga. I just finished high school and my mom said that when I get out of school I could do whatever I want.
Why should they pick you?
I’m over the top and I’m very original. I’m not afraid to put myself out there. when I dress like I do, people ask me what I am doing. I’m being myself. People look at me like, ‘Who does she think she is?’ but I don’t really care.
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/meet-tos-new-crop-of-snooki-wannabes/article1694500/tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/meet-tos-new-crop-of-snooki-wannabes/article1694500/Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:40:25 GMT 00:00″>The Globe and Mail
04 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: Aire, Corrientes, Import, Palacio, Reina, Spanish, translation
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04 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: alphabet, hard to find books, portishead, st vincent, waldenbooks
I’m going to miss the L.A. Times Festival of Books. I’ll be off in Indio trying to get up close for St. Vincent and Portishead. but that’s okay, because yesterday I discovered the Dollar Bookstore in Burbank. I happened on that particular block of San Fernando near Burbank’s town center because I’d just had a job interview at Technicolor, which is in the neighborhood. Being jobless, I had the rest of the day to kill, so I wandered in.
The place is a marvelous, low-frills joint, about the size of a Waldenbooks, but without all the attendant marketing gloss, and it’s simply packed with hard-to-find books of different sizes and thicknesses.
Don’t get the wrong idea, though. this ain’t a rare bookstore. I mean “hard to find” in a “there are categories, but no discernible acknowledgment of the alphabet” sort of way. So yeah, expect to do that bookstore tilted-head shuffle for a while. but hey, at a dollar a book, the money you save can go straight to your chiropractor.
The store is at 301 N San Fernando on the nether side of the 5 (map). It’s no Dutton’s, but then Dutton’s won’t be Dutton’s after next week. go now, while it’s still reasonably cool and pick up a handful of books. I picked up three. They had pretty covers. Someday, I hope to read them.
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03 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: Anea, cerillo, CHICA, Delfin, Edition, galon, GASOLINA, Millennium, SOÑABA, Spanish, Triologia, Vol.
Lisbeth Salander se ha tomado un tiempo: necesita apartarse del foco de atencion y salir de Estocolmo. Trata de seguir una ferrea disciplina y no contestar a las llamadas ni a los mensajes de Mikael, que no entiende por que ha desaparecido de su vida sin dar ningun tipo de explicacion. Lisbeth se cura las heridas de amor en soledad, aunque intente distraer el desencanto mediante el estudio de las matematicas y con ciertos placeres en una playa del Caribe. Y Mikael? El gran heroe vive buenos mome
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02 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: dislocated shoulder, florida marlins, manager jim riggleman, milton bradley, retaliation
Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan has had a week that would make Albert Belle and Milton Bradley proud. First he misses home plate because he is too preoccupied with putting a hit on St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ivan Rodriguez. Nyjer was benched the next game by Nationals manager Jim Riggleman, who said this about Morgan’s cheap shot, “[He] did an unprofessional thing. he went after the catcher. I certainly don’t condone that.” Then in a game against the Florida, Morgan absolutely flattens Marlins catcher Brett Hayes in this play.
Morgan was hit in the 4th inning in retaliation for his pummeling of Brett Hayes, who suffered from a dislocated shoulder from Morgan’s hit. he then promptly stole second and third base even though the Nats were trailing 14-3. that brings us to the sixth inning of last night’s 16-10 loss to the Florida Marlins. Marlins pitcher Chris Volstad threw a pitch behind Morgan’s derriere. Morgan thought about it for a half a second then sprinted to the mound to go after Volstad. Marlins first baseman Gaby Sanchez was not about to have his pitcher get attacked. he put a blindside hit on Morgan that he won’t soon forget. Morgan told the press after the game, “[You throw at me] once, it’s good enough. Twice, it’s time to go.” it was go time alright, Gaby Sanchez told you with his fists that it’s time to go to the hospital.
I guess I’d be pretty angry too if I was a black guy named Nyjer…
Nyjer Morgan Incites Nationals/Marlins Brawl
02 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: ant colonies, ants, family ties, s young
A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson’s latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution.
The debate centers around an idea called kin selection, which biologists use to understand altruistic behaviors such as honeybee workers raising the queen’s young but never having their own.
These selfless workers would seem to lose out in the evolutionary struggle to pass along genes to the next generation. But according to the idea of kin selection, workers without young more than compensate by sharing in the reproductive success of relatives, with whom they share genes.
In the Aug. 26 Nature, Wilson and two Harvard colleagues argue that the concept of kin selection is “limited” and “unnecessary.” and they propose steps for the evolution of ants, honeybees and other highly social species with such altruistic behaviors by just the broad “survival of the fittest” forces of natural selection without specifically invoking the power of kinship.
In recent years, Wilson has argued that the close family ties in ant colonies and other highly social groups may be consequences, rather than causes, of the evolution of such extreme social forms. in the new paper he combines his perspective with two co-authors’ mathematical critique of the methods used to calculate kinship effects, arguing that the techniques are as unnecessarily complicated as Ptolemaic astronomy.
“Babylonian astronomers look up in the heavens, and they see the planets moving in ‘epicycles,’” says paper co-author and mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. “But if you put the sun in the center, there are no epicycles.”
Some kin selection adherents are firing back that, even with new math, the challenge itself is old-fashioned. “This is such a tired old debate,” says Ben Oldroyd of the University of Sydney, who studies social insects.
The new analysis attacks the core of kin selection by examining how biologists calculate what’s called inclusive fitness. Evolutionary biologists measure fitness not by push-ups but by progeny, and inclusive fitness counts not just an individual’s direct offspring but some share of relatives’ youngsters. The closer the relative and the more the altruist helps to raise the young, the greater the share that counts.
Looking over decades of papers calculating inclusive fitness, co-author and Harvard mathematician Corina Tarnita says that she was surprised to find no rigorous mathematical analysis had been done to assess the conditions under which an inclusive fitness calculation can be used. “I find that very dangerous,” she says.
Nowak and Tarnita did such an analysis for a hypothetical population in which organisms use either of two strategies (which could be genes or behaviors, like cooperation). Mathematically, the researchers argue, inclusive fitness works only under very limited conditions, such as when two strategies occur at nearly the same numbers in the population, and when interactions among individuals occur straightforwardly in pairs.
Even in those special circumstances, Nowak says, mathematical approaches like those used in game theory can predict the same outcomes without using inclusive fitness.
Nowak clarifies that the team isn’t arguing that kinship is irrelevant in biology. “Relatedness does matter,” he says. What he and Tarnita are challenging is the accounting method of inclusive fitness, which he contends is overly complicated.
Michael Doebeli of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver says the analysis is “a very welcome attempt at clarifying several key issues in the theory of social evolution, yet it will surely take time before its conclusions will be embraced by more traditional evolutionary biologists.”
But others, like evolutionary biologist Andrew Bourke of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, disagree with the new argument. Bourke laments that the researchers take “a very narrow view of inclusive fitness theory, focusing on details of algebraic expression of the theory at the expense of its essential insights.”
Whether kin selection has indeed been useful is one of the more contentious arguments of the new paper. The authors dismiss most earlier work as finding mere correlation between kinship and social behavior without strict analysis of costs and benefits. “We can find no case that presents compelling evidence for the explanatory adequacy of kin selection and inclusive-fitness theory,” they write.
As an alternative, Wilson, Nowak and Tarnita describe how extreme societies based on nonreproductive workers could evolve without invoking kin selection. Organisms might cluster at first for any reason, such as a good feeding site, and then accumulate traits that eventually prove important to a social structure, such as building defensible nests. Eventually crucial colony-building behaviors could evolve, such as adult children sticking around the home nest instead of striking out on their own.
The key argument in this scenario, says William Hughes at the University of Leeds in England, is that cooperation between individuals that share a gene vital for extreme social living would be enough to spur the evolution of altruism.
Hughes objects that previous studies have considered this scenario but found such genes vulnerable to cheating or to conflicts with other parts of the genetic instruction book.
“Previously I always had a nagging concern that maybe Wilson had thought of something that everyone else had missed,” Hughes says. “Having read this paper, I’m now quite confident that’s not the case.”
In all the furor, however, Tarnita says she’s looking forward to the comments she might hear several weeks after the publication. By then, she says, people should have had time to do the math.
Image: Waugsberg/Wikimedia Commons
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01 Sep 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: courants, dair, dans, French, Girl, Hornet's, Imported, Kicked, Larsson, Millenium, Nest, palais, Policiers, Reine, Stieg, Tome, translation
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
Auteur: Stieg Larsson
Traduction: Lena Grumbach
Editeur: Actes Sud
Date de parution: 03/09/2007
Collection: Actes Noirs
Format: 16 cm x 23 cm
ISBN: 2742770313
Illustration: Pas d’illustrations
Nombre de pages: 600
Coincée dans une chambre d’hôpital sous bonne garde policière, Lisbeth est l’enjeu du combat décisif entre Mikael et les forces du bien d’une part, la Säpo et toutes les aberrations d’un système d’autre part. Coincée, oui, inactive, peut-être pas… L
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30 Aug 2010
by in Uncategorized Tags: Aire, Corrientes, Palacio, Reina
Los lectores que llegaron con el corazón en un puño al final de La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina quizá prefieran no seguir leyendo estas líneas y descubrir por sí mismos cómo sigue la serie y, sobre todo, qué le sucede a Lisbeth Salander.
Como ya imaginábamos, Lisbeth no está muerta, aunque no hay muchas razones para cantar victoria: con una bala en el cerebro, necesita un milagro,o el más habilidoso cirujano, para salvar la vida. La esperan semanas de conf
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LANGUAGE: FRENCH
Auteur: Stieg Larsson
Editeur: Actes Sud
Date de parution: Juin 2006
Collection: Actes Noirs
ISBN: 2742761578
Illustration: Pas d’illustrations
Ancien rédacteur de Millénium, revue d’investigations sociales et économiques, Mikael Blomkvist est contacté par un gros industriel pour relancer une enquête abandonnée depuis quarante ans. Dans le huis clos d’une île, la petite nièce de Henrik Vanger a disparu, probablement assassinée, et quelqu’un se fait un malin plais
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