Through 11 seasons of American Idol, many of the show’s winners have gone on to huge success in the entertainment world -- from the biggest names like Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, to newer stars like Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips.
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Jason Boland has traveled a long road since his whiskey-soaked, stoner days of pining over a "Rich, Young, Dumb Nymphomaniac."
While he's a sure match for a boat party, midnight back road cruises - and heavens yes, Schroeder Hall - the Oklahoma native has done some growing up.
From the Houston Livestock Show, Boland chatted with Get Out about his new album out in May, writing music with meaning and staying humble.
HOW WAS WORKING WITH SHOOTER JENNINGS ON THE NEW ALBUM, 'DARK AND DIRTY MILE'?
He's great. You need a certain air for it. I knew he possessed the knowledge we needed when we got in the studio: how to set the mikes and get the vibe. He's a piano player as well, so he's good with a range of songs. He's personal and down to earth. It was a smooth, organic experience.
We recorded it in Austin down at Cedar Creek and did some work at 12th Street Sound.
'RANCHO ALTO' SEEMED TO STICK UP FOR THE UNDERDOG. WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU WANT TO CONVEY WITH THIS ALBUM?
I don't think I intentionally go to say something. I write most of the songs we do as I experience life.
Sometimes, you find old songs that fit what you're doing. You tell them (your audience) different things in different songs. With all of our records, we try to take them on a ride of everything.
There's a lot of speaking for the downtrodden. There's already a lot of songs about how good it is to drive around, listen to music or party at the lake. We're the type of guys who gravitate toward the tradition of Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash - to have some form of social issue.
HOW DO YOU STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR ROOTS?
Touring keeps you humble, period. You go to new places. They don't know you. There's no special treatment. Even in some places where you 'think they ought to know who you are,' it's a big world out there.
If everything else is going right, you'll blow an axle. We've done it on trailers. We burned a tag axle last time we were heading east. We stayed in Longview, and I had to fly to Auburn to do a show acoustic. Then I rented a car and drove to Atlanta to do a show acoustic before the band caught up.
Hurricane Sandy closed down sold-out shows in Washington and New York.
It teaches you to roll with the punches.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE CURRENT STATE OF COUNTRY MUSIC?
Pop music - the stuff for 14-year-olds - people in their 20s and 30s have always called that bad. I don't think anything has changed.
When I first started getting into music, it was really cool to get into Jerry Jeff, Gary P. Nunn, Ray Wylie and the guys who we wanted to find out where it came from.
Now this day and age, it seems like they've already started to emulate pop: "We've heard you, now on to the next."
We try to stay relevant and push ourselves and make better music than we did when we were young. People heard the energy, the angst and the vitality of it, then they followed us through all the years and journey we've been on.
It's going on 14 years. We just now recorded an album basically the way we recorded "Pearl Snaps." It was straight to tape. It's not enhanced or pitch-shifted, not pieced together. The same original four of us and now Nick Worley with us on fiddle and mandolin - the fact that we can still get together and record music is pretty cool.
I'd rather it sound like this than everything else that's out right now.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE FUTURE OF TEXAS COUNTRY?
I don't see anything but it to keep getting bigger. The main thing that keeps anything going in a music scene, art scene or food scene is the people. The people in Texas are proud of their music and the Okies from the north. ...
This scene is always going to be great and have tons of bands and tons of bars and you can go see anything - western swing, singer/songwriters, rock 'n' roll, southern, four-piece bands - it all falls under the umbrella of being original and rootsy.
WHAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYONE'S EVER SAID ABOUT YOUR MUSIC?
This last album, "Rancho Alto," we got Country Music Album of the Year, from the Lone Star Music Awards. I believe that's still voted on by the fans online.
You think that'd be all the younger bands names. To be in it this long and our last album to get this award, that's one of the great ones.
Or when someone says the music does this or got them through something. That's why everybody puts it out there originally. You just want to put out a song that resonates with people.
IS SONGWRITING THERAPEUTIC FOR YOU?
They all come about from some situation. It's also just as important to capture something that inspires you in a good mood.
It's very easy to sit down with a guitar and start complaining. When the sun is shining, it's easier to get out and throw the football.
They all take grabbing their own inspiration in their own way. I've always been able to write tragedies and darker songs, but now for example, I got married June 11, and my wife has been an inspiration for a lot newer and lighter side of songwriting: "Lucky I Guess," "Only One," but also "Between 11 to 2"
THROUGH THE HARD TIMES AND THE GOOD, WHAT KEEPS YOU WRITING MUSIC?
It is naturally what I gravitated toward: creative writing. This is just a way I found my niche in creative writing. I wrote a few songs and people enjoyed them. So you sit around and keep trying to be honest with yourself.
Mike McClure, Bob Childers, Tom Skinner, Red Dirt Rangers - I think the spirit of all of it is just be yourself and something interesting will be created in the process. You might even amaze yourself.
I'm amazed we still get to do it. I listen to old recordings, and I don't know what people were listening to. Maybe they heard the angst and the passion. Every album I think we sound better and better. We're at nine albums now.
GOT ANYTHING PLANNED FOR THE SHOW AT SCHROEDER?
If people want to see the real thing still standing, go out to Schroeder Hall. It's an oasis out there, just like it ought to be. It's what it should be. There's not a lot of them left.
• WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday
• WHERE: Schroeder Hall, 12516 Farm-to-Market Road 622, Goliad
• COST: $12 advance, $15 door
• FOR MORE INFO: SchroederDanceHall.com, 361-573-7002
Source: http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2013/feb/27/mc_jason_boland_022813_202533/
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Consider your options and decide on the type of commercial real estate you want to procure. You might lose a great deal of money if you make an ill-advised choice in commercial real estate property. Review these tips to learn to make good choices when seeking a commercial real estate property for investment.
Commercial real estate has many brokers to offer. Agents that work with tenants and landlords both are called full service brokers. There are also agents that only represent tenants. Brokers who work only with tenants have more experience with representing them well.
Create and maintain an online reputation by first, starting a blog. Doing so can assist you in finding buyers and renters for your properties.
If you are just getting started investing, focus on just one category of investments. Pick out a single property type that you would enjoy starting with and only pay attention to it. It is better to do your best at one type than to be average at many types.
In a new lease, you need to be aware of how the rent price will affect your investment. Decide the exact amount of rent you want to accrue each month prior to having even a first conversation with a possible renter. This will keep you from straying from your overall business plan, ensuring an increased chance for future success in regard to your investment.
Before you attempt to become active in the market, you must first establish an online presence. Create a profile on LinkedIn or put up a personal web site. Look into search engine optimization so that your website will rank higher in internet searches. People should be able to find your website by googling your name.
As you?ve seen from these tips, it is very possible to achieve success in real estate investing. The formula for success includes skill, research and some luck. Not everyone gets rich off commercial real estate, but the above advice can help you to make the most of even the smallest of investments.
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Feb. 27, 2013 ? Football fans have become accustomed to viewing televised games from a dozen or more camera angles, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo suggest another possible camera position: inside the ball itself.
The researchers have shown that a camera embedded in the side of a rubber-sheathed plastic foam football can record video while the ball is in flight that could give spectators a unique, ball's-eye view of the playing field. Because a football can spin at 600 rpm, the raw video is an unwatchable blur. But the researchers developed a computer algorithm that converts the raw video into a stable, wide-angle view.
Kris Kitani, a post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, is aware that a football league is unlikely to approve camera-embedded footballs for regular play. Even so, the BallCam might be useful for TV, movie productions or training purposes.
One of his co-authors, UEC's Kodai Horita, a visiting graduate student last year at the Robotics Institute, will present a paper about BallCam on March 8 at the Augmented Human International Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
Kitani said BallCam was developed as part of a larger exploration of digital sports. "We're interested in how technology can be used to enhance existing sports and how it might be used to create new sports," he explained. In some cases, athletic play may be combined with arts or entertainment; a camera-embedded ball, for instance, might be used to capture the expressions on the face of players as they play catch with it.
Other researchers have developed throwable cameras that produce static images or use multiple cameras to capture stabilized video. The BallCam system developed by Kitani and Horita, along with Hideki Sasaki and Professor Hideki Hoike of UEC, uses a single camera with a narrow field of view to generate a dynamic, wide-angle video.
When the ball is thrown in a clean spiral, the camera records a succession of frames as the ball rotates. When processing these frames, the algorithm uses the sky to determine which frames were made when the camera was looking up and which were made when it was looking down. The upward frames are discarded and the remaining, overlapping frames are stitched together with special software to create a large panorama. Similar stitching software is used by NASA to combine images from Mars rovers into large panoramas and is increasingly found in digital cameras.
The algorithm also makes corrections for some distortions in the image that twist yard lines and occur because of the speed of the ball's rotation. Further work will be necessary to eliminate all of the distortion, Kitani said, and a faster camera sensor or other techniques will be needed to reduce blurring. Multiple cameras might also be added to the football to improve the finished video.
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Setting up home in the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone might seem like a risky option, but anemonefish also known as clownfish and popularised in the movie Finding Nemo are perfectly content in their unlikely abode. Fending off peckish anemone predators in return for refuge, plucky clownfish have achieved a satisfactory arrangement with their deadly partners. Yet Joe Szczebak from Auburn University, USA, wondered whether there might be more to the unconventional collaboration than met the eye. According to Szczebak, coral reefs are awash with oxygen during the day, but levels can plummet overnight when photosynthesis has ceased. Adding that some damselfish waft oxygen-rich water over corals at night to supplement their oxygen supply, Szczebak wondered whether clownfish might have struck a similar deal with their anemone hosts. 'There had been almost no research done on the clownfishanemone mutualism at night', explains Szczebak. He and his Master's thesis advisor, Nanette Chadwick, publish their discovery that clownfish fan their anemone hosts to supplement the anemone's meagre nocturnal oxygen supply in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.
Szczebak and Chadwick travelled to Fuad Al-Horani's physiology lab at the Marine Science Station in Aqaba, Jordan, and went SCUBA diving in the Red Sea to find the diminutive fish and their anemone partners. Then the team isolated each fish from its anemone and measured their individual oxygen consumption rates before reuniting the partners. They discovered that the fish and anemone consumed 1.4 times more oxygen when they were together than when they were apart. Something was happening when the fish and its anemone were together to increase their oxygen consumption, but Szczebak wasn't sure what.
Having successfully returned the fish to their Red Sea home before flying back to the United States, Szczebak repeated the experiments with Ray Henry's help in Chadwick's Auburn lab. However, this time he tried an additional test. Separating the clownfish from its anemone with plastic mesh so that the clownfish could still see its partner and they could smell each other Szczebak remeasured their oxygen consumption, but it was still lower than when they were in contact. 'There was something about the physical contact between them that was the source of the increase', says Szczebak.
Spending long nights filming the clownfish as they nestled in amongst their anemone's tentacles, Szczebak realised that the fish were much more active than had been thought previously. He frequently saw the fish fanning the anemone with their rapidly weaving fins and the fish often burrowed deep into their host, sometimes making a 180deg turn deep within the mass of tentacles to open up the collapsed anemone and apparently circulate water through it. However, when Szczebak measured the oxygen consumption of isolated anemones as he flowed water through them at speeds ranging from 0.5 to 8.0cm/s, their oxygen consumption never increased by as much as it did when paired with a clownfish, suggesting that the clownfish also contribute the partnership's increased oxygen consumption.
'I think that I have found foundational evidence that, like similar symbioses on coral reefs, anemonefish may actively modulate flow conditions surrounding their host to benefit them under low oxygen scenarios', says Szczebak. He adds that Chadwick's group is continuing to investigate whether the fish indulge in their nocturnal antics purely to supplement the anemone's oxygen supply or for an as-yet-undetermined reason with the additional benefit of improved circulation.
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Setting up home in the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone might seem like a risky option, but anemonefish also known as clownfish and popularised in the movie Finding Nemo are perfectly content in their unlikely abode. Fending off peckish anemone predators in return for refuge, plucky clownfish have achieved a satisfactory arrangement with their deadly partners. Yet Joe Szczebak from Auburn University, USA, wondered whether there might be more to the unconventional collaboration than met the eye. According to Szczebak, coral reefs are awash with oxygen during the day, but levels can plummet overnight when photosynthesis has ceased. Adding that some damselfish waft oxygen-rich water over corals at night to supplement their oxygen supply, Szczebak wondered whether clownfish might have struck a similar deal with their anemone hosts. 'There had been almost no research done on the clownfishanemone mutualism at night', explains Szczebak. He and his Master's thesis advisor, Nanette Chadwick, publish their discovery that clownfish fan their anemone hosts to supplement the anemone's meagre nocturnal oxygen supply in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.
Szczebak and Chadwick travelled to Fuad Al-Horani's physiology lab at the Marine Science Station in Aqaba, Jordan, and went SCUBA diving in the Red Sea to find the diminutive fish and their anemone partners. Then the team isolated each fish from its anemone and measured their individual oxygen consumption rates before reuniting the partners. They discovered that the fish and anemone consumed 1.4 times more oxygen when they were together than when they were apart. Something was happening when the fish and its anemone were together to increase their oxygen consumption, but Szczebak wasn't sure what.
Having successfully returned the fish to their Red Sea home before flying back to the United States, Szczebak repeated the experiments with Ray Henry's help in Chadwick's Auburn lab. However, this time he tried an additional test. Separating the clownfish from its anemone with plastic mesh so that the clownfish could still see its partner and they could smell each other Szczebak remeasured their oxygen consumption, but it was still lower than when they were in contact. 'There was something about the physical contact between them that was the source of the increase', says Szczebak.
Spending long nights filming the clownfish as they nestled in amongst their anemone's tentacles, Szczebak realised that the fish were much more active than had been thought previously. He frequently saw the fish fanning the anemone with their rapidly weaving fins and the fish often burrowed deep into their host, sometimes making a 180deg turn deep within the mass of tentacles to open up the collapsed anemone and apparently circulate water through it. However, when Szczebak measured the oxygen consumption of isolated anemones as he flowed water through them at speeds ranging from 0.5 to 8.0cm/s, their oxygen consumption never increased by as much as it did when paired with a clownfish, suggesting that the clownfish also contribute the partnership's increased oxygen consumption.
'I think that I have found foundational evidence that, like similar symbioses on coral reefs, anemonefish may actively modulate flow conditions surrounding their host to benefit them under low oxygen scenarios', says Szczebak. He adds that Chadwick's group is continuing to investigate whether the fish indulge in their nocturnal antics purely to supplement the anemone's oxygen supply or for an as-yet-undetermined reason with the additional benefit of improved circulation.
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REFERENCE: Szczebak, J. T., Henry, R. P., Al-Horani, F. A. and Chadwick, N. E. (2013). Anemonefish oxygenate their anemone hosts at night. J. Exp. Biol. 216, 970-976.
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For the week of Feb. 11-17
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.89 million
2. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.87 million
3. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.69 million
4. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 13.45 million
5. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 12.59 million
6. "Elementary," CBS, 10.98 million
7. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 10.9 million
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.73 million
9. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 10.5 million
10. "Modern Family, ABC, 10.05 million
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was briefly hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder, the actress' spokeswoman said on Tuesday after video emerged of Fisher giving an unusual stage performance. The video came from a show Fisher gave aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean last week, according to celebrity website TMZ, which posted the clip. The clip shows Fisher, 56, singing "Skylark" and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," at times appearing to struggle to remember the lyrics. ...
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While you might be excited to start your new business, you should pause and take a look at your internet marketing strategy first. You may find one or more effective tips to use in the article below.
To drive traffic to your site, hold special events and promotions. Possibly, you could offer a particular e-book for $1 for one or two days. Your site will attract more visitors, who will see your other products and services while they are stopping by to pick up their promo item. It is not unusual for such visitors to purchase other things that you have for sale on your website in addition to the e-book.
Offer customers a freebie that features your brand name and that can be transmitted electronically. It can be submitted to various websites where the item can be listed and provided to customers at no charge. If you have an e-book, give it to free e-book websites. There are many websites that offer articles, e-zines, e-books, and general freebies that you can submit to.
Always include a limited time frame to order as an incentive to make a purchase now. Free shipping or giveaways can increase the traffic that comes onto your page. But it is important that urgency is created to get the people to act right away.
You could get more people to share a link to your content or feature it if you openly encourage them to do so. Anyone who likes your site will be more than happy to provide a link back to your site, just as long as you provide a link to their site, too.
Give yourself an impressive title so that people will show you respect. For example, make yourself the CEO if you are running your own company. If you are not owner, try finding a good title that shows power and authority. Using this title as your signature gives you the perfect chance to display your importance.
It is both a science and art to do internet marketing. True, you need to understand the technical aspects of marketing, but you also have to feel your way through the realistic side of things. Make sure you think it through when you are considering what your customer wants to experience.
You should think about mobile marketing. Offer customers the chance to sign up for texts alerting them to sales, product launches, or other happenings on your site. This has become one of the freshest ways to promote your business.
Take advantage of the many cost effective resources on the internet as a means to improve your marketing campaign. You can join online business communities, read marketing blogs, attend local business development seminars and conferences, and download and study e-books.
Your website should be well made and have content people want to see! Your site is the most essential part of your online marketing strategy. You want your visitors to stay around awhile, so you need to make the website eye-catching and interesting. The site?s design should be engaging to the visitors and make them want to visit and stay there long enough to maybe purchase something.
Consider using positive words such as ?guarantee? whenever you are writing ad descriptions. The value of a guarantee varies greatly depending on the company offering it, but the mere offer of a guarantee seem to allay many concerns. A guarantee makes people feel more comfortable when making a purchase.
You should give your customer an option of either buying in bulk or retail. Selling wholesale items at a small amount of profit is one way to boost the amount of items you sell.
Give rewards to your customers for referring others to your site. You can achieve multiple sales from just a few persons if you incorporate a referral program with freebies into your website. People love free gifts, and this can increase sales!
It is optimal to be able to run pages on numerous social networking sites, but consider the time that would need to be invested to keep them up-to-date and functioning. Stagnant profiles are useless and are often seen as spam.
Grade the effectiveness of your efforts in online marketing by making use of tech tools that determine how many of your visitors become paying customers. Statistics that show the quantity of visitors and sales can be useful in showing how a website is doing. One way to find statistic is the use of web trackers.
By placing surveys and polls throughout your website, you can solicit feedback from site users. This will make your customers feel included in the business, and it will assure that your site will have plenty of content that they will find very appealing.
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To encourage people to visit your site over others, work to offer something unique. Try drawing cartoons that relate to your website or product, or providing an e-book full of useful information. Having an item that is exclusive to your site is great at attracting plenty of customers to your website.
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How good is your service or product? You can have the best internet marketing around, though if what you are selling is below average, you will not see any changes to your bottom line. A first-rate product will go a long way towards increasing your sales profits.
When it comes to Internet marketing, it can be hard to learn everything. But everyone needs to start somewhere. In fact, the learning process never stops in this field, and even the experts and professionals are constantly refining their knowledge.
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After starting three small businesses, I?ve learned firsthand the headaches that accounting causes for most small business owners. It?s one of those back-office tasks that never cross your mind when you decide to run your own business, and yet it sucks up your day and makes running a successful business that much harder.
But there?s hope, and it starts with getting organized.?Here are 5 tips I?ve learned by helping business owners trying to tackle their accounting:
Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Wave Accounting. Wave is Kirk?s third start up. In between entrepreneurial ventures, he worked with some of Canada?s biggest media and corporate brands, primarily in strategic alliances, business development, sales and marketing.?
The?Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC)?is an invite-only organization comprised of the world?s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched?#StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and email lessons.
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NORTH DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS Regency Park Swim Team participated in the meet on Feb. 15?17 at Chinn Aquatic and Fitness Center in Prince William County. Team finished in third place overall (Girls finished second; Boys finished third). Individual Scorers: Girls?Jordan Durocher 4th, Margo Weber 8th;Boys?Brennan Paterson 1st.
Banzon, Christina (12): 50 Breast 40.96, 5th; 100 Fly 1:24.93, 7th; 200 Back, 2:37.91, 7th;
Brown, Madison (10): 500 Free, 7:36.86, 5th; 100 Back 1:19.62, 3th; 50 Back 35.90, 1st;
Carney, Kyle (10): 100 Back 1:30.88, 4th; 200 Free, 2:52.74, 1st; 100 Free 1:20.99, 7th;
Clarkson, Annabella (11): 50 Breast 41.14, 6th; 100 Breast 1:30.95, 6th;
Cole, Nathan (9): 200 Free, 3:12.59, 5th;
Cox, Anastasia (12): 100 Free 1:06.87, 2th; 100 Back 1:17.18, 3th; 50 Back 35.24, 2th; 200 Back, 2:46.98, 4th;
Daniel, Isabella (8): 25 Breast 23.84, 3th; 50 Breast 53.48, 8th;
Darensbourg, Kennedy (10): 100 IM 1:31.44, 8th; 50 Back 42.17, 7th;
Durocher, Jordan (8): 25 Free 16.08, 2th; 100 IM 1:26.14, 1st; 100 Free 1:13.49, 1st; 50 Free 34.19, 2th; 100 Breast 1:37.10, 5th; 50 Breast 46.06, 1st;
Durocher, Troy (9): 50 Free 33.14, 6th; 100 IM 1:30.31, 5th; 100 Back 1:28.42, 7th;
Elliott, Brandon (11): 50 Back 36.62, 8th; 100 IM 1:18.58, 6th; 50 Free 30.66, 7th;
Futrell, Brenna (10): 100 Breast 1:43.83, 4th;
George, Jeffrey (11): 500 Free, 6:31.77, 2th; 200 IM, 2:46.99, 6th; 200 Back, 3:01.78, 6th;
Hudak, Cole (10): 100 IM 1:30.89, 6th; 100 Back 1:26.20, 4th; 100 Free 1:20.17, 6th; 50 Fly 38.58, 7th;
Hudak, Ryan (12): 100 Fly 1:16.13, 2th; 200 Back, 2:56.10, 5th;
Hudson, Trevor (8): 25 Free 17.06, 7th; 50 Fly 38.95, 1st; 50 Back 45.97, 8th; 50 Free 37.77, 5th; 25 Fly 18.32, 2th; 50 Breast 53.23, 3th; 25 Back 20.58, 3th;
Kilkenney, Kaylee (12): 500 Free, 6:38.17, 5th; 200 IM, 2:47.16, 2th; 200 Free, 2:31.46, 5th; 50 Free 31.50, 8th;
Koch, Nicole (11): 500 Free, 6:50.65, 8th; 200 IM, 2:41.77, 1st;
Kyer, Michael (11): 500 Free, 6:34.86, 3th; 100 Free 1:03.37, 7th; 200 IM, 2:46.25, 5th; 200 Free, 2:23.05, 1st; 200 Back, 2:47.91, 3th; 100 IM 1:17.77, 4th;
Mesick, Megan (12): 100 Back 1:21.84, 7th;
Paterson, Brennan (11): 100 Free 59.30, 1st; 50 Fly 30.47, 1st; 50 Breast 38.80, 1st; 100 Back 1:11.47, 3th; 200 Free, 2:09.40, 1st; 100 Fly 1:07.11, 1st; 100 IM 1:08.68, 1st; 50 Free 27.40, 2th;
Peck, Garrett (8): 50 Breast 55.02, 5th; 25 Back 21.92, 6th;
Peck, Kyle (7): 25 Fly 21.09, 7th;
Perdomo, Cristal (9): 500 Free, 7:07.88, 1st; 100 Fly 1:20.13, 1st; 100 Free 1:09.45, 3th;
Polanosky, Natalie (11): 200 Back, 3:08.02, 8th;
Robinson, Nia (9): 100 Fly 1:41.72, 3th;
Ross, Marissa (9): 500 Free, 7:28.78, 3th; 50 Free 32.23, 7th; 100 IM 1:21.48, 5th; 50 Breast 42.68, 2th; 100 Back 1:23.61, 1st; 50 Fly 37.07, 7th;
Ross, Noah (12): 50 Back 35.44, 6th; 100 Breast 1:33.42, 7th; 50 Free 30.02, 2th;
Sandoval, Alice (11): 50 Fly 31.28, 4th; 50 Breast 38.93, 8th; 100 Back 1:10.28, 2th; 100 Fly 1:12.13, 6th; 100 Breast 1:23.09, 4th; 100 IM 1:10.23, 1st; 50 Free 28.52, 6th;
Sandoval, Samantha (9): 100 Breast 1:47.76, 7th;
Schmidt, Valerie (12): 50 Fly 35.29, 7th; 200 Fly, 2:53.81, 3th; 100 Fly 1:17.94, 1st; 100 IM 1:20.79, 8th;
Short, Caleb (7): 25 Free 16.45, 4th; 25 Breast 25.06, 7th;
Simila, Brooke (10): 50 Breast 41.72, 1st; 100 Back 1:23.34, 7th; 200 Free, 2:37.09, 3th; 100 Free 1:11.83, 8th; 100 Breast 1:35.27, 4th; 50 Back 38.02, 7th;
Smith, Eric (12): 200 Free, 2:27.90, 8th; 100 Breast 1:21.76, 5th;
Stephens, Marquise (11): 200 Breast, 3:39.56, 7th;
Turbyfill, Andrew (10): 50 Free 33.27, 7th; 100 IM 1:28.11, 4th; 50 Breast 48.15, 4th; 100 Back 1:27.92, 5th; 50 Fly 41.45, 5th; 100 Breast 1:43.17, 1st;
Urian, Maddie (11): 200 IM, 2:47.50, 3th; 50 Back 36.82, 7th;
Weber, Margo (12): 100 Free 1:01.25, 4th; 200 IM, 2:34.86, 5th; 100 Back 1:11.48, 6th; 50 Back 32.82, 4th; 200 Back, 2:32.51, 1st; 100 IM 1:11.13, 2th; 50 Free 27.91, 4th;
Wilcox, Justin (12): 100 Free 1:03.22, 1st; 50 Breast 37.02, 3th; 100 Back 1:16.40, 3th; 50 Back 34.34, 7th; 200 Back, 2:37.34, 1st; 50 Free 29.01, 8th;
Wilcox, Macy (9): 200 IM, 3:11.43, 8th;
Yankovich, Katrina (12): 500 Free, 5:59.24, 3th; 200 IM, 2:36.27, 7th; 50 Breast 38.65, 7th; 200 Back, 2:37.20, 5th; 100 IM 1:12.70, 5th;
Yazdi, Shahin (10): 50 Breast 49.71, 8th; 100 Breast 1:45.02, 3th;
NORTH DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS The Sharks Swim Team participated in the meet on Feb. 15?17 at the Chinn Aquatic and Fitness Center.
Born, Isabel (11): 200 Breast, 3:17.79, third; 50 Breast, 41.33, seventh; 100 Breast, 1:29.83, fourth
Born, Sarah (9): 100 Back, 1:29.73, second; 100 Breast, 1:45.29, fifth
Day, John (8): 50 Breast, 57.46, seventh
Foley, Sean (12): 500 Free, 6:50.73, eighth; 200 Back, 2:56.02, fourth
Friend, Aaron (9): 50 Back, 42.63, third
Leaman, Olivia (12): 50 Breast, 38.51,first; 200 Free, 2:18.82, eighth; 100 IM, 1:12.58, fourth
Lohr, Dylan (12): 500 Free, 6:39.88, sixth; 50 Fly, 31.88, fourth; 100 Back, 1:14.43, seventh; 100 Fly, 1:13.97, sixth; 50 Back, 33.44, third; 50 Free, 28.95, seventh
Morrison, Hannah (11): 200 Breast, 3:21.55, fifth
Mueller, Steven (12): 200 Breast, 3:46.75, eighth
Sherwood, Matt (12): 100 Free, 1:04.08, second; 50 Fly, 35.48, sixth; 200 IM, 2:44.57, third; 100 Back, 1:18.95, eighth; 200 Free, 2:25.53, third; 50 Back, 34.92, fourth; 100 IM, 1:16.01, second
Smolen, Daryn (11): 50 Free, 30.44, second
Williams, Trey (9): 200 IM, 3:37.54, third; 100 Fly, 1:45.06, third; 200 Free, 3:17.67, seventh
NORTH DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP Tsunami Swimming participated in the meet held at the Chinn Aquatic and Fitness Center in Woodbridge. Fourteen New Tsunami Team Records were broken at the North District meet, Abigail Cook set sixs, Annika Luce set three New Team Records, Courtney Wolfgang set two New Team Records, Michael Luce and Cameron Murray each set one New Team Record. The 11-12 Boys 400 Free Relay also set a New Team Record.
Ainsley Allred G(10): 100 Breast 1:41.89 2nd.
Abigail Cook G (10): 500 Free 6:50.68 1st, 200 Free 2:39.66 4th, 100 Back 1:19.78 5th, 50 Free 31.90 5th,,200 IM 3:06.08 5th,,100 IM 1:24.23 6th,,100 Free 1:11.48 7th,, 50 Fly 43.03 7th, 50 Back 38.04 8th.
Ben Eckerson B(9): 200 Free 3:07.52 3rd.
KATIE Fiddler G(8): 25 Breast 25.41 7th.
Sierra Gibson G(12): 100 Back 1:17.01 2nd, 200 Back 2:40.67 2nd, 50 Fly 35.20 6th, 500 Free 6:15.42 7th, 50 Free 29.20.
Annika Luce G(8): 200 IM 3:19.26 2nd, 50 Back 42.87 2nd,,25 Free 16.46 3rd, 100 Free 1:26.82 4th,100 IM 1:40.23 5th, 25 Back 20.73 5th, 25 Fly 20.15 6th, 50 Fly 47.13 7th.
Ashlety Luce G(8): 200 IM 3:52.01 3rd, 20 Breast 25.24 6th, 100 IM 1:45.87 8th, 100 Free 1:36.42 8th.
Michael Luce B(8): 25 Free 15.80 3rd, 100 Free 1:26.61 3rd, 200 Free 3:12.56 4th, 25 Breast 23.55 5th, 25 Fly 19.67 5th, 50 Free 38.48 6th.
Ryan McOsker B(7): 25 Back 20.51 2nd, 100 Free 1:33.31 7th, 200 Free 3:31.42 8th.
Cameron Murray B(10): 50 Back 36.79 1st, 50 Fly 34.89 1st, 100 Fly 1:18.90 1st, 500 Free 7:24.00, 1st, 50 Free 33.11 2nd, 100 Back 1:23.30 2nd, 200 IM 3:16.81 5th, 100 IM 1:31.62 7th.
Joe Stephens B(12): 100 Back 1:09.41 1st, 200 Back 2:24.47 1st, 50 Fly 31.18 3rd, 400 IM 5:28.14 3rd, 50 Free 27.65 3rd, 200 IM 2:37.73 4th, 100 Free 1:02.03 5th, 100 IM 1:11.30 200 Free 2:15.39 6th.
Jacob Talkington B(12): 100 Free 1:07.92 7th.
Courtney Wolfgang G(12): 50 Fly 30.06 1st, 200 Fly 2:36.78 1st,100 Fly 1:10.21 1st, 200 Back 2:18.14 2nd.
11-12 Boys 400 Free Relay: 4:45.41 6th (J Stephens, J Talkington, A Plonka, D Wheeler)
NORTHERN DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS The Rappahannock Area YMCA Stingrays (RAYS) participated in the meet (12 & Under Champs) on Feb. 15?17 at the Chinn Aquatic and Fitness Center in Prince William County. Overall, the RAYS finished first as a team, with the girls finishing first, the boys finishing second. Individual scores, the following RAYS swimmers finished: Michaela Sizemore 5th, Kinsey Brooks and Makayla Williams tied for 8th in the female category, and Chase Hensen 6th and Patrick Pins 9th in the male category.
Eden Baroody (10): 10 & Under 100 Back 1:36.49Y 8th; 10 & Under 200 Free 3:04.64Y 8th.
John Baroody (8): 8 & Under 50 Fly 49.00Y 4th; 8 & Under 100 Free 1:31.45Y 5th; 8 & Under 50 Free 40.15Y 7th; 8 & Under 50 Breast 55.21Y 6th.
Devin Bateman (9): 9-10 50 Free 33.36Y 3rd; 10 & Under 100 Fly 1:29.42Y 3rd; 9-10 100 IM 1:27.43Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Breast 47.38Y 2nd; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:31.51Y 6th; 9-10 100 Free 1:21.21Y 8th; 9-10 100 Free 1:21.21Y 8th; 9-10 50 Fly 37.10Y 5th.
Ian Bennett (7): 8 & Under 50 Fly 58.07Y 5th.
Connor Brooks (11): 11-12 50 Back 36.22Y 7th.
Kinsey Brooks (10): 9-10 200 IM 2:48.97Y 1st; 10 & Under 100 Fly 1:23.88Y 5th; 9-10 100 IM 1:18.25Y 2nd; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:18.25Y 2nd; 9-10 100 Free 1:08.68Y 1st.
Nicholas Brooks (12): 11-12 200 Breast 3:16.59Y 5th;
Olav Brooks (8): 8 & Under 50 Fly 43.90Y 3rd; 8 & Under 100 IM 1:37.82Y 3rd; 8 & Under 25 Breast 24.36Y 6th; 8 & Under 50 Back 45.02Y 4th.
Tessa Campbell (9): 9-10 100 IM 1:31.31Y 7th; 9-10 50 Back 40.77Y 2nd.
Carlie Clements (8): 8 & Under 100 Free 1:21.18Y 4th; 8 & Under 50 Free 36.09Y 4th; 8 & Under 50 Breast 47.13Y 3rd; 8 & Under 25 Back 19.66Y 1st.
Abby Dickinson (10): 9-10 200 IM 3:24.89Y 7th; 10 & Under 200 Free 3:00.99Y 4th.
Sydney Duffy (10): 9-10 50 Free 32.95Y 1st; 9-10 50 Breast 47.75Y 7th.
Logan Euker (9): 9-10 50 Free 34.70Y 7th; 9-10 100 IM 1:27.60Y 3rd; 9-10 50 Breast 43.83Y 2nd; 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:35.53Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Back 43.90Y 7th.
Moira Euker (11): 11-12 500 Free 6:32.59Y 3rd; 11-12 100 Free 1:06.96Y 3rd; 11-12 200 Free 2:27.48Y 3rd.
Bayley Furuie (12): 11-12 200 Breast 3:15.79Y 3rd; 11-12 50 Breast 41.87Y 7th; 11-12 100 Breast 1:29.66Y 2nd.
Kayla Geller (12): 11-12 200 Breast 3:35.57Y 8th.
Josh Gilbert (12): 11-12 50 Back 34.86Y 3rd; 11-12 100 IM 1:18.99Y 8th; 11-12 50 Free 29.67Y 1st.
Maggie Heath (10): 9-10 200 IM 2:50.81Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Free 31.15Y 2nd; 9-10 100 IM 1:20.09Y 4th; 9-10 50 Breast 44.79Y 8th; 10 & Under 200 Free 2:32.06Y 2nd; 9-10 100 Free 1:09.74Y 4th.
Pam Heiken (8): 8 & Under 25 Free 17.37Y 7th; 8 & Under 50 Fly 45.61Y 4th; 8 & Under 50 Back 45.39Y 4th; 8 & Under 25 Fly 19.04Y 3rd; 8 & Under 25 Back 20.13Y 2nd.
Chase Hensen (10): 9-10 50 Free 31.42Y 2nd; 9-10 100 IM 1:25.64Y 5th; 9-10 50 Breast 43.76Y 1st; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:19.08Y 1st; 10 & Under 200 Free 2:34.16Y 2nd; 9-10 100 Free 1:08.58Y 2nd; 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:36.82Y 6th; 9-10 50 Back 38.05Y 3rd.
Cole Hensen (12): 11-12 100 Free 1:00.99Y 4th; 11-12 200 IM 2:38.77Y 2nd; 11-12 100 Back 1:12.75Y 4th; 11-12 200 Free 2:16.27Y 7th; 11-12 200 Free 2:16.27Y 7th; 11-12 50 Back 33.60Y 5th.
Tyler Hilderbrand (10): 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:48.79Y 5th.
Celia Howell (12): 11-12 100 Free 1:07.67Y 6th; 11-12 50 Fly 35.75Y 8th; 11-12 100 Back 2:40.83Y 3rd; 11-12 200 Back 2:40.83Y 3rd.
Sarah Hybl (10): 9-10 200 IM 3:07.34Y 6th; 9-10 50 Free 32.03Y 6th; 10 & Under 100 Fly 1:26.89Y 7th; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:19.77Y 4th; 9-10 100 Free 1:11.25Y 6th; 9-10 50 Fly 35.34Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Back 37.14Y 6th.
Alex Johnson (12): 11-12 50 Back 36.44Y 6th; 11-12 100 IM 1:19.97Y 7th.
Georgia Johnson (11): 11-12 500 Free 6:10.05Y 6th; 11-12 100 Free 1:02.86Y 8th; 11-12 50 Fly 33.90Y 2nd; 11-12 200 Free 2:16.89Y 5th; 11-12 50 Back 33.81Y 7th.
Bridger Johnston (11): 11-12 100 Free 1:05.32Y 3rd; 11-12 50 Fly 36.02Y 7th; 11-12 200 IM 2:48.29Y 8th; 11-12 50 Breast 40.83Y 7th.
Hunter Johnston (8): 8 & Under 50 Back 45.74Y 7th.
Joan Leist (11): 11-12 100 Fly 1:23.49Y 5th.
Erin Lipkin (11): 11-12 100 Free 1:05.89Y 1st; 11-12 200 IM 2:51.25Y 8th; 11-12 200 Free 2:30.26Y 4th; 11-12 100 IM 1:19.04Y 6th;
Aly Lodigiani (12): 11-12 500 Free 5:59.31Y 4th; 11-12 200 Free 2:15.50Y 4th.
Gillian Mansfield (11): 11-12 100 Breast 1:28.01Y 2nd; 11-12 100 IM 1:16.37Y 1st.
Anna Mead (9): 9-10 50 Breast 43.33Y 4th; 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:34.78Y 3rd; 9-10 50 Back 37.70Y 5th.
Makenna Moore (12): 11-12 100 Free 1:07.95Y 8th; 11-12 100 Back 1:21.86Y 8th.
Reilly Moore (10): 10 & Under 100 Fly 1:22.64Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Breast 46.51Y 2nd; 10 & Under 200 Free 2:42.52Y 7th; 9-10 50 Fly 35.71Y 4th.
Adam Morrison (11): 11-12 50 Breast 40.49Y 5th.
Kelly Morrison (8): 8 & Under 25 Free 16.72Y 4th; 8 & Under 100 IM 1:42.97Y 6th.
Patrick Pins (10): 9-10 200 IM 2:45.66Y 1st; 9-10 50 Free 30.21Y 1st; 9-10 100 IM 1:17.66Y 1st; 10 & Under 200 Free 2:32.22Y 1st; 9-10 100 Free 1:08.86Y 3rd; 9-10 50 Fly 38.92Y 1st.
Genevieve Ross (12): 11-12 50 Fly 34.10Y 3rd; 11-12 50 Breast 41.73Y 8th; 11-12 100 Fly 1:24.98Y 8th; 11-12 50 Free 30.38Y 1st.
William Ross (9): 9-10 50 Free 34.66Y 6th.
Mikayla Saar (8): 8 & Under 50 Back 48.45Y 8th.
Rebecca Saar (12): 8 & Under 50 Back 48.45Y 8th.
Martin Schalk (9): 9-10 50 Free 31.86Y 3rd; 9-10 100 IM 1:27.12Y 6th; 9-10 50 Breast 49.23Y 7th; 9-10 100 Free 1:10.77Y 6th; 9-10 50 Back 42.13Y 2nd.
Caitlyn Segrest (10): 9-10 100 Free 1:15.14Y 1st.
Michaela Sizemore (11): 11-12 400 IM 5:10.45Y 1st; 11-12 100 Free 1:01.01Y 1st; 11-12 50 Fly 31.60Y 6th; 11-12 200 IM 2:33.25Y 3rd; 11-12 50 Breast 37.54Y 3rd; 11-12 100 Fly 1:11.51Y 4th; 11-12 100 Breast 1:23.19Y 5th; 11-12 50 Free 28.84Y 8th.
Caroline Storen (11): 11-12 100 Breast 1:29.83Y 4th.
Kayla Surles (11): 11-12 200 Breast 3:12.80Y 2nd.
Natalie Szenas (9): 9-10 100 IM 1:28.15Y 1st; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:32.73Y 4th; 9-10 50 Fly 39.50Y 1st; 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:42.42Y 3rd.
Hannah Tse (8): 8 & Under 50 Fly 46.35Y 6th; 8 & Under 25 Breast 25.78Y 8th; 8 & Under 50 Back 47.50Y 6th.
Madilyn Walker (12): 11-12 50 Fly 30.40Y 2nd; 11-12 200 IM 2:27.87Y 1st; 11-12 50 Breast 40.31Y 4th; 11-12 100 Back 1:10.55Y 4th.
Shay Walker (10): 10 & Under 100 Fly 1:23.39Y 4th; 10 & Under 100 Back 1:15.46Y 1st; 10 & Under 200 Free 2:28.78Y 1st.
Stephen Wallach Jr (11): 11-12 500 Free 6:27.37Y 1st; 11-12 100 Free 1:07.45Y 6th; 11-12 200 Breast 3:01.77Y 2nd; 11-12 50 Breast 39.42Y 4th; 11-12 200 Free 2:26.88Y 6th; 11-12 100 IM 1:18.46Y 5th.
Ashley Wang (8): 8 & Under 100 Free 1:14.55Y 2nd; 8 & Under 50 Free 33.61Y 1st; 8 & Under 25 Fly 17.04Y 1st; 8 & Under 50 Breast 46.70Y 2nd.
Helen Wang (10): 9-10 200 IM 2:51.00Y 3rd; 9-10 500 Free 6:51.63Y 2nd; 9-10 100 Free 1:09.10Y 2nd; 9-10 50 Fly 34.71Y 1st; 10 & Under 100 Breast 1:34.15Y 2nd.
Makayla Williams (8): 8 & Under 25 Free 17.09Y 5th; 8 & Under 50 Fly 44.98Y 3rd; 8 & Under 100 IM 1:36.61Y 2nd; 8 & Under 50 Back 48.27Y 7th; 8 & Under 100 Free 1:22.33Y 3rd; 8 & Under 50 Free 36.64Y 6th; 8 & Under 25 Fly 19.00Y 2nd; 8 & Under 25 Back 20.93Y 6th.
Fiona Williamson (8): 8 & Under 50 Fly 47.43Y 8th; 8 & Under 100 IM 1:43.87Y 7th; 10 & Under 200 Free 3:07.96Y 8th; 8 & Under 25 Back 21.84Y 7th.
Allison Yablonski (11): 11-12 100 Free 1:07.31Y 5th; 11-12 200 Free 2:32.61Y 8th; 11-12 50 Free 31.24Y 6th.
LOCAL GYMNASTICS
EXCALIBUR CUP Stafford Royals gymnasts competed at the meet on Feb. 15?17 hosted by Excalibur Gymnastics at the Virginia Beach Convention Center:
LEVEL 4
Kaitlyn Lawson (ChA): Floor 8.950 5th
Nora Peters (JrB): Vault 9.100 5th, Uneven Bars 9.350 3rd, Balance Beam 8.725 4th, All-Around 35.525 6th Gianni Morgan (JrB): Vault 9.150 4th
Kaelan Beggan (SrA): Vault 9.150 5th
Alexis Lingerman (SrB): Vault 9.150 3rd
LEVEL 5 (Team: 11th out of 23):
Mackenzie Fox (ChB): Uneven Bars 9.30 3rd, Balance Beam 9.225 5th
Breana Spain (JrA): Vault 9.15 3rd, Uneven Bars 9.525 1st, Balance Beam 9.40 3rd, All-Around 37.075 2nd
Emily Grooms (JrA): Uneven Bars 9.40 4th, Balance Beam 9.40 5th, Floor 9.20 5th, All-Around 36.725 5th
Lizzie Cole (JrB): Vault 8.70 6th, Uneven Bars 9.35 3rd
Jamie Macecevic (SrA): Vault 9.05 4th
LEVEL 6
Madison Klump (JrA): Uneven Bars 8.90 2nd
Karrie Stuchell (SrA): Vault 9.050 4th, Uneven Bars 8.45 3rd
Lauren Shaner (SrA): Vault 8.950 6th
Leah Morgan (SrB): Uneven Bars 8.35 4th, Floor 8.30 5th, All-Around 32.725 6th
Rachel Hunter (SrB): Balance Beam 8.60 6th
Kayla Rice (SrB): Vault 9.275 1st, Uneven Bars 8.70 1st
LEVEL 7
Brianna Arre (ChB): Vault 8.85 4th, Uneven Bars 8.20 6th, Balance Beam 9.275 6th, All=Around 35.325 6th
Katherine Pontarelli (SrB): Vault 9.000 5th, Balance Beam 9.025 5th, Floor 9.150 3rd
Faith Kelley (SrB): Uneven Bars 8.10 4th, All-Around 34.050 6th (tie)
LEVEL 8
Abigail Whitehead (Ch): Uneven Bars 9.50 1st, All-Around 35.850 4th
Brooke Hensen (SrB): Vault 8.775 4th, Floor 9.150 2nd, All-Around 33.675 5th
Aaliyah Kerr (SrB): Vault 9.275 1st, Uneven Bars 9.50 1st, Balance Beam 9.40 1st, Floor 9.350 1st, All-Around 37.525 1st
VIRGINIA ALL-STARS ? INTERMEDIATE
Ayzjah Mercer (Ch): Balance Beam 8.200 6th (tie), Floor 9.000 2nd
Brooke Keyes (Jr): Balance Beam 8.675 6th
Rachel Reisenfeld (SrA): Uneven Bars 8.900 2nd (tie), Balance Beam 8.925 2nd, All-Around 34.100 6th
VIRGINIA ALL-STARS ? ADVANCED
Anna Jordan (Jr): Uneven Bars 9.100 2nd, Balance Beam 8.925 6th, All-Around 35.925 5th
Hailey Roman (Jr): Balance Beam 9.225 3rd, Floor 9.200 5th, All-Around 35.825 6th
Alysia Gray (Sr): Uneven Bars 9.150 5th, Balance Beam 9.000 5th, Floor 9.100 6th; All-Around 36.175 6th
Caroline Posillico (Sr): Floor 9.175 5th
Sabrina Surles (Sr): Uneven Bars 9.250 4th
HAMPTON VA SPORTS FESTIVAL Gymnasts from Paragon Training Center competed in the meet, hosted by Gymnastics, Inc., in Hampton on Feb. 16.
ALL STAR NOVICE
Kailey Carreno (6-7): Vault 7.95, 6th; Bars 8.45, 6th; AA 32.525, 6th
Emily Stoltenberg (6-7): Beam 8.35, 6th; Floor 8.2, 5th
Samantha Potts (8 Jr): Vault 9.525, 2nd; Bars 9.05, 4th; Beam 9.5, 1st; Floor 9.5, 1st; AA 37.575, 1st
Madison Harris-Bowman (8 Jr): Vault 9.575, 1st; Bars 9.425, 1st; Beam 9.15, 5th; Floor 9.15, 4th; AA 37.3, 2nd
Lacey Wilson (8 Jr): Bars 9.05, 5th; Floor 9.0, 6th
Makenna Simpson (8 Sr): Bars 8.45, 6th; Floor 9.1, 3rd
Martha Stitt (9): Vault 8.7, 6th; Bars 9.3, 2nd; Floor 8.65, 5th; AA 35.725, 5th
Kayla Horn (9): Bars 8.6, 5th
Lauren Bartyczak (10): Vault 9.45, 1st; Bars 9.475, 1st; AA 36.5, 3rd
Bella Stofka (10): Floor 8.9, 6th
ALL STAR INTERMEDIATE
Paige McElrath (7-9): Vault 7.75, 3rd; Bars 8.05, 4th; Beam 8.4, 4th; Floor 8.65, 4th; AA 32.85, 4th
Cameron Lyons (10): Vault 8.2, tied 5th; Bars 8.4, 4th; Floor 8.95, 2nd; AA 33.95, 6th
Isabella Cranshaw (11): Vault 8.6, tied 3rd, Floor 9.4, tied 2nd
Sarah Fleming (11): Bars 9.025, 1st; Floor 8.65, 6th; AA 34.6, 5th
Ashley Pelligrino (12): Vault 8.525, 4th; Bars 9.05, 1st; Beam 8.1, 5th; Floor 9.2, 2nd; AA 34.875, 3rd
Jocelyn Conroe (13): Vault 8.9, 3rd; Bars 9.125, 2nd; Beam 8.55, 3rd; Floor 9.25, 1st; AA 35.825, 2nd
Masey Low (13): Vault 9, 2nd; Bars 9.275, 1st; Beam 9.05, 2nd; Floor 9.15, 3rd; AA 36.475, 1st
Sydney Nickens (14+): Vault 9.1, 1st; Bars 9.65, 1st; Beam 8.9, tied 3rd; Floor 9.2, 2nd; AA 36.85, 1st
Brittany Krohmer (14+): Vault 9, 2nd; Bars 9.075, 4th; Beam 8.525, 5th; Floor 9.15, tied 3rd; AA 35.75, 4th
Kaitlin McClullen (14+): Bars 8.65, 5th; Beam 8.45, 6th; Floor 9.15, tied 3rd; AA34.2, 6th
Arianna Ponce (14+): Vault 8.75, 3rd; Bars 9.1, 3rd; Beam 9.05, 2nd; Floor 9, 5th; AA 35.9, 3rd
Diana Chavez (14+): Vault 8.2, 5th
EXCALIBUR CUP Gymnasts from Paragon Training Center competed in the meet, hosted by Excalibur Gymnastics, in Virginia Beach, on Feb. 15?17.
LEVEL 4 (teamd 1st)
Lauren Moss (Child A): Vault 8.875, 5th; Bars 9.3, tied 3rd; Beam 8.75, 3rd; Floor 9.1, 3rd; AA 36.025, 3rd
Aubrey Nagy (Child B): Vault 9.25, 1st; Beam 8.95, 6th; AA 36.1, 6th
Camille Trotta (Child B): Bars 9.5, 2nd
Hannah Grau (Child B): Vault 9.2, tied 2nd
Deana Harris (Jr A): Vault 9.05, 6th; Bars 9.625, 2nd; Floor 9.4, 1st; AA 36.8, 2nd
Violet Fanara (Jr A): Vault 9.275, 1st; Bars 9.85, 1st; Floor 9.15, tied 5th; AA 36.425, 5th
Gabby Henning (Jr A): Vault 9.1, 4th; Bars 9.55, tied 4th
Kayleigh DiMattio (Jr A): Beam 9.1, 1st
Sophia Housand (Jr B): Bars 9.9, 1st; Beam 9.325, 2nd; Floor 9.5, tied 1st; AA 37.525, tied 1st
Kourtnie White (Jr B): Vault 9.4, 1st; Bars 9.75, 2nd; Beam 9.25, 3rd; AA 37.45, 3rd
Mailee Roberts (Jr B): Vault 9.225, 3rd; Bars 9.5, 4th; Floor 9.1, 6th; AA 36.825, 4th
Rachel Turman (Sr A): Vault 9.45, 1st; Bars 9.925, 1st; Beam 9.125, 2nd; Floor 9.35, tied 2nd; AA 37.85, 1st
Sara Miranda (Sr A): Vault 9.225, tied 4th; Bars 9.75, 2nd; Beam 9.1, tied 3rd; Floor, 9.45, 1st; AA 37.525, 2nd
Meghan Broyan (Sr A): Bars 9.65, 3rd; Beam 9.1, tied 3rd; Floor 9.35, tied 2nd; AA 37.225, 3rd
Samantha Tollefson (Sr A): Vault 9.275, 2nd; Beam 8.9, 6th; Floor 9.175, 6th; AA 36.35, 5th
Mia Allison (Sr A): Vault 9.15, 6th; Bars 9.2, tied 6th; AA 36.125, 6th
Maya Moffett (Sr A): Vault 9.225, tied 4th
Mazie Rudloff (Sr B): Vault 9.325, 1st; Bars 9.5, tied 4th; Beam 8.925, 6th; Floor 9.3, 2nd; AA 37.05, 2nd
Aurelia Manzanedo (Sr B): Vault 9.15, 5th; Bars 9.65, 1st; Beam 9.1, 3rd; Floor 9.6, 1st; AA 36.9, 4th
LEVEL 5 (teamd 2nd)
Kaylie Sutton (Child A): Vault 8.95, 4th; Bars 9.9, 1st; Beam 8.95, tied 5th; Floor 9.45, 2nd; AA 37.25, tied 1st
Peyton Van Dyk (Child A): Vault 8.85, 5th; Bars 9.45, 3rd; Beam 9.35, 1st; Floor 9.6, 1st; AA 37.25, tied 1st
Anneliese Koenig (Child A): Vault 9.1, 1st; Bars 9.4, 4th; Beam 8.95, tied 5th; Floor 9.425, 3rd; AA 36.875, 3rd
Rayla Buckner (Child A): Vault 8.5, tied 6th; Bars 9.25, 5th; Beam 9.0, 4th; Floor 9.325, 4th; AA 36.075, 4th
Zoe Gayle (Child A): Floor 9.075, 6th
Madelyn Miller (Child B): Vault 8.8, tied 4th; Bars 9.35, 1st; Beam 9.075, 3rd; Floor 9.2, tied 4th; AA 36.425, 2nd
Alley Arnold (Junior A): Vault 9.0, tied 4th; Bars 9.775, 1st; Floor 9.375, 1st; AA 36.95, 2nd
Trinity Luxeder (Junior A): Vault 9.1, tied 1st; Bars 9.55, 2nd; Beam 8.925, 6th; Floor 9.3, 4th; AA 36.875, 3rd
Paige Lingo (Junior A): Bars 9.2, 5th
Zayda Rodriguez (Junior B): Vault 9.225, 3rd; Bars 9.725, tied 1st; Beam 8.925, 6th; Floor 9.3, tied 5th; AA 37.175, 2nd
Chloe Bullock (Junior B): Vault 9.2, 4th; Bars 9.3 4th; Beam 9.15, 4th; AA 36.775, 3rd
Angela Potts (Junior B): Bars 9.725, tied 1st; Beam 9.0, 5th; AA 36.725, 4th
Harmony Derrick (Senior A): Vault 8.875, 2nd; Bars 9.275, 2nd; Beam 8.75, tied 5th; Floor 9.375, tied 1st; AA 36.275, 2nd
Kayleigh Turner (Senior A): Vault 8.55, tied 4th; Bars 9.25, tied 3rd; Beam 9.175, 1st; AA 35.825, 3rd
Ashley Young (Senior B): Vault 9.0, 2nd; Bars 9.475, 1st; Beam 8.9, 4th; Floor 9.5, 2nd; AA 36.875, 1st
Shelby Lam (Senior B): Vault 9.1, 1st; Bars 9.4, tied 2nd; Beam 9.0, 3rd; Floor 9.125, 4th; AA 36.625, 2nd
Kailey Schoolfield (Senior B): Bars 9.4, tied 2nd; Beam 9.15, tied 1st; Floor 9.275, 3rd; AA 36.125, 3rd
Makala Purifoy (Senior B): Vault 8.825, 3rd; Bars 9.15, 4th; Beam 8.85, 5th; AA 35.150, 4th
Erin Davenport (Senior B): Vault 8.65, 4th; Bars 8.55, tied 5th; Floor 8.8, 5th; AA 34.45, 6th
LEVEL 6 (teamd 4th)
Carly Baker (Jr A): Vault 9.175, 6th; Bars 9.325, 2nd; Beam 8.95, 1st; AA 36.15, 2nd
Kameryn Daniels (Jr A): Vault 9.25, 4th; Bars 9.35, 1st; Beam 8.9, tied 2nd; Floor 9.175, 1st; AA 36.675, 1st
Mia Hall (Jr B): Bars 9.15, 2nd; AA 34.625, 6th
Haylee Randall (Jr B): Vault 9.15, 2nd; Beam 8.55, 5th
Abigail Taber (Jr B): Vault 9.3, 1st; Bars 9.0, 3rd; Beam 8.5, tied 6th; Floor 8.875, 3rd; AA 35.675, 2nd
Annabelle Parker (Sr B): Vault 9.275, 4th; Beam 8.825, 3rd; AA 35.2, tied 4th
McKenna Whitesell (Sr B): Vault 9.375, 2nd; Bars 9.1, 2nd; Beam 9.0, 1st; Floor 9.35, 1st; AA 36.825, 1st
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8?9 girls: 1. Brooklyn Duncan; 2. Isabella Richards; 3. Amber McComber.
8?9 boys: 1. Dawson McKoy; 2. Deshawn Henderson; 3. Andrew Goodman.
10?11 girls: 1. Morgan Dugan; 2. Lorelei Griffis; 3. Sierra Barbee.
10?11 boys: 1. Trevor Franklin; 2. Nevan Moran; 3. Ayden Jessee.
12?13 girls: 1. Amiah Mitchell.
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14?17 boys: 1. C, J. Kannan; 2. Cullen Johnson; 3. Tyler Rohrman.
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Feb. 25, 2013 ? "People have often thought there's no upper bound for wind power -- that it's one of the most scalable power sources," says Harvard applied physicist David Keith. After all, gusts and breezes don't seem likely to "run out" on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry.
Yet the latest research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling, published February 25 in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests that the generating capacity of large-scale wind farms has been overestimated.
Each wind turbine creates behind it a "wind shadow" in which the air has been slowed down by drag on the turbine's blades. The ideal wind farm strikes a balance, packing as many turbines onto the land as possible, while also spacing them enough to reduce the impact of these wind shadows. But as wind farms grow larger, they start to interact, and the regional-scale wind patterns matter more.
Keith's research has shown that the generating capacity of very large wind power installations (larger than 100 square kilometers) may peak at between 0.5 and 1 watts per square meter. Previous estimates, which ignored the turbines' slowing effect on the wind, had put that figure at between 2 and 7 watts per square meter.
In short, we may not have access to as much wind power as scientists thought.
An internationally renowned expert on climate science and technology policy, Keith holds appointments as Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and as Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Coauthor Amanda S. Adams was formerly a postdoctoral fellow with Keith and is now assistant professor of geography and Earth sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
"One of the inherent challenges of wind energy is that as soon as you start to develop wind farms and harvest the resource, you change the resource, making it difficult to assess what's really available," says Adams.
But having a truly accurate estimate matters, of course, in the pursuit of carbon-neutral energy sources. Solar, wind, and hydro power, for example, could all play roles in fulfilling energy needs that are currently met by coal or oil.
"If wind power's going to make a contribution to global energy requirements that's serious, 10 or 20 percent or more, then it really has to contribute on the scale of terawatts in the next half-century or less," says Keith.
If we were to cover the entire Earth with wind farms, he notes, "the system could potentially generate enormous amounts of power, well in excess of 100 terawatts, but at that point my guess, based on our climate modeling, is that the effect of that on global winds, and therefore on climate, would be severe -- perhaps bigger than the impact of doubling CO2."
"Our findings don't mean that we shouldn't pursue wind power -- wind is much better for the environment than conventional coal -- but these geophysical limits may be meaningful if we really want to scale wind power up to supply a third, let's say, of our primary energy," Keith adds.
And the climatic effect of turbine drag is not the only constraint; geography and economics matter too.
"It's clear the theoretical upper limit to wind power is huge, if you don't care about the impacts of covering the whole world with wind turbines," says Keith. "What's not clear -- and this is a topic for future research -- is what the practical limit to wind power would be if you consider all of the real-world constraints. You'd have to assume that wind turbines need to be located relatively close to where people actually live and where there's a fairly constant wind supply, and that they have to deal with environmental constraints. You can't just put them everywhere."
"The real punch line," he adds, "is that if you can't get much more than half a watt out, and you accept that you can't put them everywhere, then you may start to reach a limit that matters."
In order to stabilize Earth's climate, Keith estimates, the world will need to identify sources for several tens of terawatts of carbon-free power within a human lifetime. In the meantime, policymakers must also decide how to allocate resources to develop new technologies to harness that energy.
In doing so, Keith says, "It's worth asking about the scalability of each potential energy source -- whether it can supply, say, 3 terawatts, which would be 10 percent of our global energy need, or whether it's more like 0.3 terawatts and 1 percent."
"Wind power is in a middle ground," he says. "It is still one of the most scalable renewables, but our research suggests that we will need to pay attention to its limits and climatic impacts if we try to scale it beyond a few terawatts."
The research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Android got a late start compared to Apple's iOS in the worldwide smartphone battle, but it eventually grew to accomplish a larger worldwide market share, and it did so largely on the back of a single champion: Samsung. Samsung's Galaxy line has become to Android what the iPhone is to iOS, despite hardware and software coming from completely distinct companies. But Google very specifically didn't sign up to be a one horse kind of cowboy, and as such it makes sense for the search giant to be somewhat fearful of Samsung's growing influence, as the WSJ reports.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/C0ACXvA0pR0/
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It began as a seemingly awkward Jack Nicholson introduction of the very long list on nominees, but the Best Picture denouement?at a very long Oscars ceremony on Sunday turned into a surprise appearance by Michelle Obama, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C.?where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie?to introduce and announce the winner,?Argo.?
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Feb. 26, 2013 ? An international team led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has documented a 78 percent decline in the number of nests of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) at the turtle's last stronghold in the Pacific Ocean.
The study, published online Feb. 26 in the Ecological Society of America's scientific online journal Ecosphere, reveals leatherback nests at Jamursba Medi Beach in Papua Barat, Indonesia -- which accounts for 75 percent of the total leatherback nesting in the western Pacific -- have fallen from a peak of 14,455 in 1984 to a low of 1,532 in 2011. Less than 500 leatherbacks now nest at this site annually.
Thane Wibbels, Ph.D., a professor of reproductive biology at UAB and member of a research team that includes scientists from State University of Papua (UNIPA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Indonesia, says the largest marine turtle in the world could soon vanish.
"If the decline continues, within 20 years it will be difficult if not impossible for the leatherback to avoid extinction," said Wibbels, who has studied marine turtles since 1980. "That means the number of turtles would be so low that the species could not make a comeback.
"The leatherback is one of the most intriguing animals in nature, and we are watching it head towards extinction in front of our eyes," added Wibbels.
Leatherback turtles can grow to six feet long and weigh as much as 2,000 pounds. They are able to dive to depths of nearly 4,000 feet and can make trans-Pacific migrations from Indonesia to the U.S. Pacific coast and back again.
While it is hard to imagine that a turtle so large and so durable can be on the verge of extinction, Ricardo Tapilatu, the research team's lead scientist who is a Ph.D. student and Fulbright Scholar in the UAB Department of Biology, points to the leatherback's trans-Pacific migration, where they face the prevalent danger of being caught and killed in fisheries.
"They can migrate more than 7,000 miles and travel through the territory of at least 20 countries, so this is a complex international problem," Tapilatu said. "It is extremely difficult to comprehensively enforce fishing regulations throughout the Pacific."
The team, along with paper co-author Peter Dutton, Ph.D., discovered thousands of nests laid during the boreal winter just a few kilometers away from the known nesting sites, but their excitement was short-lived.
"We were optimistic for this population when year round nesting was discovered in Wermon Beach, but we now have found out that nesting on that beach appears to be declining at a similar rate as Jamursba Medi," said Dutton, head of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center's Marine Turtle Genetics Program.
The study has used year-round surveys of leatherback turtle nesting areas since 2005, and it is the most extensive research on the species to date. The team identified four major problems facing leatherback turtles: nesting beach predators, such as pigs and dogs that were introduced to the island and eat the turtle eggs; rising sand temperatures that can kill the eggs or prevent the production of male hatchlings; the danger of being caught by fisheries during migrations; and harvesting of adults and eggs for food by islanders.
Tapilatu, a native of western Papua, Indonesia, has studied leatherback turtles and worked on their conservation since 2004. His efforts have been recognized by NOAA, and he will head the leatherback conservation program in Indonesia once he earns his doctorate from UAB and returns to Papua.
He has worked to educate locals and limit the harvesting of adults and eggs. His primary focus today is protecting the nesting females, eggs and hatchlings. A leatherback lays up to 10 nests each season, more than any other turtle species. Tapilatu is designing ways to optimize egg survival and hatchling production by limiting their exposure to predators and heat through an extensive beach management program.
"If we relocate the nests from the warmest portion of the beach to our egg hatcheries, and build shades for nests in other warm areas, then we will increase hatching success to 80 percent or more," said Tapilatu.
"The international effort has attempted to develop a science-based nesting beach management plan by evaluating and addressing the factors that affect hatching success such as high sand temperatures, erosion, feral pig predation and relocating nests to maximize hatchling output," said Manjula Tiwari, a researcher at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif.
Wibbels, who is also the Ph.D. advisor for Tapilatu, says that optimizing hatchling production is a key component to leatherback survival, especially considering the limited number of hatchlings who survive to adulthood.
"Only one hatchling out of 1,000 makes it to adulthood, so taking out an adult makes a significant difference on the population," Wibbels said. "It is essentially the same as killing 1,000 hatchlings."
The research team believes that beach management will help to decrease the annual decline in the number of leatherback nests, but protection of the leatherbacks in waters throughout the Pacific is a prerequisite for their survival and recovery. Despite their prediction for leatherback extinction, the scientists are hopeful this species could begin rebounding over the next 20 years if effective management strategies are implemented.
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) ? After picking up two fouls that she considered silly, Brittney Griner waited for her chance to make an impact again. Once she was back in the game, the reigning national player of the year made her presence felt all over the floor.
Immediately after returning, Griner blocked a shot. Then she got a pair of rebounds, hit two jumpers, made the pass to set up teammate Kimetria Hayden's 3-pointer and suddenly top-ranked Baylor was right back in control and on its way to an 86-64 win at Oklahoma on Monday night.
"I sat out most of the first half, so I knew I had to come in in the second half and start off strong and attacking and just doing something to give my team a spark," Griner said.
Griner ended up with 15 points, tied her season-high with 15 rebounds, blocked seven shots and distributed five assists despite sitting out the last 11? minutes of the first half with two fouls.
She returned and hit the first two baskets in a 10-0 run that pushed the Lady Bears' lead out to 47-30, and Baylor (27-1, 16-0 Big 12) led by at least 12 the rest of the way. Oklahoma (19-9, 9-7) cut a 16-point deficit down to four while Griner was out.
"We didn't panic," coach Kim Mulkey said. "We shouldn't panic. We have too much experience on that floor, and we're just trying to finish this thing off the right way."
Griner moved past Connecticut's Maya Moore into fourth in career scoring in women's basketball. Only Jackie Stiles of Missouri State, Patricia Hoskins of Mississippi Valley State and Lorri Bauman of Drake have more than Griner's 3,045 points.
Aaryn Ellenberg had 19 points to lead Oklahoma. Morgan Hook had 15 points and nine turnovers. The Sooners' two post players, Nicole Griffin and Joanna McFarland, combined to go 4 for 23 from the field.
Campbell had a pair of baskets during a string of eight straight Oklahoma points that got the deficit down to 57-45 midway through the second half, but Griner stopped the surge with a turnaround jumper in the lane. She also had a layup to start an 8-0 response by the Bears that restored the lead to 69-48.
The Sooners shot just 33 percent, and 32 percent from 3-point range, while getting outscored 54-16 in the paint. It was Oklahoma's fourth loss in the past five games.
"You've got to be able to make a few more shots than that against a team like Baylor, where you can't get to the rim. You've got to make some 3s," coach Sherri Coale said. "We had some good looks that we missed. We missed some layups that were pretty good looks, too.
"But that's what all that speed and athleticism can do to you."
Oklahoma has lost all 16 games it has played against teams ranked No. 1.
Destiny Williams chipped in 16 points and Odyssey Sims had 13 points and six assists for Baylor.
The Lady Bears stumbled with six turnovers in the first 5 minutes, then cleaned up their act to put together a 13-0 run that included a 3-pointer, a fast-break layup and a jumper from the left block by Jordan Madden for a 19-4 edge with 13:25 to go in the first half. But Griner picked up her second foul about 2 minutes later, and Mulkey put her on the bench for the rest of the half.
Griner fouled out for just the second time in her college career in the first meeting between the teams this season, even though the Bears were already firmly in control by then, and Mulkey took no chances putting her back in.
About 30 seconds after Griner's second foul, frontcourt partner Brooklyn Pope was called for charging for the second time and also came out.
"I never felt the sense that I needed to put Griner back in," Mulkey said. "I felt like we were just going to need to weather the storm, and it allowed some other players to gain some valuable experience on the road,"
Baylor didn't make a basket for the first 5 minutes after Griner exited, and Oklahoma took advantage of seldom-used substitutes Kristina Higgins and Sune Agbuke to go on a 14-2 run to get the deficit down to 24-20. Even then, Mulkey didn't make a move to bring Griner back in, and instead it was freshman Alexis Prince that scored eight points over the final 4 minutes of the half to keep the Bears in front 37-30 at halftime.
"It's always frustrating when you have to sit on the bench and you can't help the team out. But when they cut it to four, I didn't get too revved up because I know my team," Griner said. "I know that they'll respond."
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