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MUNCIE — The Yorktown Tigers were hardly recognizable Saturday afternoon at Ball State's Worthen Arena.
The qualities that made them the top-ranked team in Class 3A all season seemed to vanish, like that heady defense and fundamentally-sound offense. The Tigers just didn't have it in the Class 3A state championship as Providence played almost flawlessly in a 25-20, 25-15, 25-16 sweep.
Yorktown's calling card — from the first official practice back in August all the way through a season in which it lost just 10 sets in 40 matches — was its continuous fight, hence its motto "Fight to the Finish." Yorktown coach Stephanie Bloom never took her foot off the gas, relentlessly pushing her Tigers.
After this loss — in the state championship, keep in mind — Yorktown's Kate Avila remarked how honest Bloom was in the locker room.
"It was tough," said Avila, one of three seniors along with Mimi Arrington and Jade York. "Coach Bloom isn't one of those coaches that's just going to be like, 'Hey, you had a great season.' She was real with us; she told us what we did wrong. It was a tough loss. You can't just show up and expect to win."
Seemingly every time star freshman Kenzie Knuckles swung, Providence got a touch. During one nearly minute-long rally — during which Knuckles, Rhyen Neal and Jade York made spectacular dig after dig look easy — the final free ball landed just long.
That's the kind of day it was.
The Tigers hit .132 compared to .304 from Providence, putting down just 29 kills compared to 49 from Providence.
"Once (Providence) got in a groove, they just played to win," said the brutally-honest Bloom, who is one of only two individuals to have won a state title as a player and coach. "I just didn't see that out of our group."
Then, speaking in a back hallway away from her players, Bloom finally let her guard down.
She was explaining how relentless Providence's attack was, how the Pioneers were always swinging and how sound their defense was. And then how the Tigers struggled blocking and getting them out of system.
But this was one day. It was one match. Yorktown finished the season 38-2 without a player taller than 5-foot-8. Bloom was asked, what was she most proud of about this season?
She paused, caught off guard. It started to hit her that this magical season was over. The goal had been the Tigers' third state championship and second in five years.
Twelve seconds went by, and Bloom fought it, but she couldn't help it. The tears started flowing.
"Sorry," she said, looking away.
By this time, assistant coach Rhonda Murr, who had been standing a few feet away, walked over and put her arm on Bloom's shoulder.
Twenty more seconds of silence.
"We have great kids," she began, trying to compose herself.
"And I would have loved this for them. I think with our (lack of) size, it speaks of the type of players we have, the type of grit that we have. It was disappointing that I don't think people got to see that grit tonight. But man, what a year.
"I'm so proud of them. Across the board, you know. Teachers would say, 'What great kids you have.' And that makes me proud, because there are more important things than a state championship match, and I want them to know that. I think they represent our community very well, so I'm proud of them."
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by Julianne Pepitone @julpepitone November 14, 2012: 2:16 PM ET
Like many initial public offerings, Facebook's May 18 debut included a "lockup" agreement that requires some shareholders from selling for a certain period.
About 800 million Facebook shares were newly available to trade on Wednesday, a phenomenon that typically sends a company's stock lower. But Facebook bucked the trend with a 12% gain.
Wednesday marked the first day that early employees and investors were able to sell about 773 million shares. Another 31 million restricted stock units owned by employees who joined the company prior to 2011 were also newly eligible to trade.
The prospect of so many shares potentially flooding the market tends to send a company's stock lower. But Facebook (FB) shares surged on heavy volume: 170 million shares had changed hands by mid-afternoon.
Like many initial public offerings, Facebook's May 18 debut included a "lockup" agreement that restricts some shareholders from selling for a certain period.
Lockups are designed to prevent the market from being swamped with too many of a company's shares immediately after an IPO. Keeping the amount of shares scarce can help boost a stock's price. But before Wednesday's runup, Facebook shares had lost nearly half their value since they debuted at $38.
But one analyst said Facebook may finally be a good buy.
"I've had numerous clients who are looking to go long Facebook, and the price is a good entry point," said Topeka Capital Markets analyst Victor Anthony. "And now this negative [the lockup expiration] is out of the way."
Anthony said it seems that investors are also less concerned about Facebook's ability to make money off of mobile users. The company reported strong mobile advertising revenue growth in its third-quarter earnings release last month.
"Amidst all the hyperbole, you do have whats a very healthy business," Anthony said.
Separately, Facebook announced a new social jobs search app Wednesday, a move that could put Facebook in more direct competition with LinkedIn (LNKD) and Monster Worldwide (MWW) -- and potentially give Facebook another lucrative source of revenue.
Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia echoed the idea that stronger fundamentals contributed to Facebook's rise.
"Previously parts of the business were less clear, so insiders sold the stock," Bhatia said. "Now you have the company putting up a good quarter. And you have some saying, it looks like this is turning around."
Bhatia also noted that when everyone expects the stock to go one way -- in Facebook's case, down on an expiration day -- "sometimes, the exact opposite happens."
Facebook shares did fall on its previous, smaller lockup expirations. The company employs a somewhat unusual staggered system, with a total of five lockups. Wednesday is the third expiration in the series, and marks the biggest potential stock dump by far.
The first came in August, when early investors were able to sell more than 270 million shares. The stock promptly fell 6%. It was later revealed that some of those sellers were Peter Thiel, the company's first big investor, and co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.
Related: How four companies took over the Internet
The second expiration was just two weeks ago, when many of Facebook's rank-and-file employees got their first chance to make their paper wealth liquid. Most of what was sold were Facebook's restricted stock units, which become trade-able shares only after a liquidity event like an IPO. A total of 234 million RSUs were converted to stock and then available to trade on October 31, and then stock fell .
Two more lockups remain, but they're much smaller: On December 14, about 156 million shares will be set free, and on May 18 (the one-year anniversary of the IPO) another 47 million shares will hit the market as the final lockup expires.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial : remembering the year, the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 became law. The memorial's official adherence date is August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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By Cheryl Wetzstein
In countries like India, Thailand and Nepal, authorities have become so alarmed by "womb-for-rent" scandals that they have cracked down on commercial surrogacy businesses. But in the U.S., state legislative efforts seem aimed at permitting the practice, not banning it.
But, as one opposition group asks, "Is surrogacy a beautiful, loving act, or does it simply degrade pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product? Can we find a middle ground? Should we even look for one?"
Currently, New York and the District are among a handful of U.S. jurisdictions that ban commercial surrogacy, and lawmakers in both places are seeking to overturn the bans.
"Compared to the 50 states, District law is among the most restrictive with regard to surrogacy agreements, which is out of step with our commitment as a city to equality and family," Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen said in January when the city council unanimously introduced the Collaborative Reproduction Amendment Act of 2015.
"I believe surrogacy should be an option for District residents who wish to have children," Mr. Allen said, noting that the bill reflected input from pro-gay liberal groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, Family Equality Council and National Center for Lesbian Rights.
In New York state leaders are waiting to hear from a prominent task force, which might recommend that the state's 1992 ban on commercial surrogacy be dropped.
New York lawmakers, like openly gay state Sen. Brad Hoylman — himself a father thanks to surrogacy — are ready to act, having already introduced bills to permit surrogacy agreements and commercial gestational carriers, as women are sometimes called.
In response, Jennifer Lahl, a nationally known opponent of surrogacy, has testified against the District bill and is also urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo not to undo his own father's ban on commercial surrogacy.
The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, established by late Gov. Mario Cuomo, issued a report in 1988 that said commercial gestational surrogacy "could not be distinguished from the sale of children and that it placed children at significant risk of harm," Ms. Lahl, president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBCN), wrote to the current governor in November.
"Our question to Gov. Andrew Cuomo is 'What's changed?'" she recently told The Washington Times.
"Nothing has changed: It's still not in the best interests of women and children to enter into commercial surrogacy contract arrangements," said Ms. Lahl, who contends she knows of two cases where women carrying triplets are fighting legal pressure to abort one of the fetuses.


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How is persecution like Ebola?
Bruce Einhorn said he's "disgusted" by the atrocities committed in the Middle East against Christians — and with what he sees as a lack of willingness among believers in the West to address the crisis.
Persecution and the Church
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• What is persecution?
"As a Jewish American, I can stick up for Christians. Why can't other Christians?" said Einhorn, founding director of the Pepperdine University School of Law Asylum Clinic. The Malibu, Calif., university is associated with Churches of Christ.
Einhorn worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and was the principal draftsperson of the Refugee Relief Act of 1980. He served as a federal immigration judge for 17 years and was among the first to grant asylum to Middle Eastern converts to Christianity, Muslims persecuted by other Muslim groups and victims of honor killings.
Though his work helps thousands of persecuted believers who reach the U.S., untold numbers never make it, he said.
To make a difference for the persecuted church, Einhorn said, Christians in the U.S. must be willing to fight injustice in the nations where it occurs.
"It's like Ebola," he said, noting the virus that has claimed thousands of lives in West Africa. Though the U.S. can treat those who have the virus, to end the epidemic "you have to control the disease over there."
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Join us for an evening of solo jazz piano performance with pianist Don Militello. The concert will feature a mix of original music and jazz standards. Don will also be talking about the art of jazz improvisation. A reception will immediately follow the event.
Don has performed extensively with the Glen Miller Band and has made stage appearances with Etta Jones, George Benson and Dizzy Gillespie.


Q. What are the key numbers around the NAC Orchestra's 50th Anniversary European Tour (May 10 to 26)?
A. Nine concerts, 50 education activities, seven cities, 70 musicians and five Canadian soloists performing the music of six Canadian composers.
A. I'm like a "chief coordinating officer" on everything from budget and travel to programming, booking concerts, education events, and publicity. If it's not under my direct control, I'm ensuring the tour team is in sync.
Q. Sounds like a huge job.
A. It is, but a huge reward is watching our NAC Orchestra perform in some of the world's best concert halls.
A. My to-do list. I call it Hydra – check one thing off, two grow in its place. The trick is to focus on things you can control.
Q. How many tours have you organized?
A. This is my fourth major tour. After this, I will have travelled 70,000 km with the NAC Orchestra.
Q. What's the biggest surprise you've faced on tour?
A. On the morning we were leaving for the 2014 UK Tour, our connecting flight in Frankfurt was cancelled. I had to scramble to reroute 100 people. After hours of calls to Air Canada, we managed to get out that same evening. No pressure!


As you can see, in Jurassic World, things look a little different from previous films. A more futuristic tone is evident as well as a fully functioning resort. All that means really is more food for the Dinosaurs once they break free.
Be sure to visit Nathan's official site to view more of his artwork as well!
Thanks to JP Fan Christian Nickel via JW.org for the find!
Fan responses to First Concept Art for Jurassic World Reveals Futuristic Visitor Centre!
You can see the Pterosaurs flying in the first pic, very cool!
They seem A little (Way) over the top for JP.
What proof do you have that these are concept art pieces for Jurassic World?
The gallery (http://www.nathanschroeder.net/gal30index.shtml) that contains these pieces is labelled: "These are odds and ends that are left over from many different shows that were never made. For legal reasons, I will not identify the artwork, but most of them are recognizable."
There's nothing that identifies them as being related to Jurassic World at all - so how can you justify claiming that they are?
OMG this looks very cool , i hope the movie will be good!!
Guys - there is NO EVIDENCE THESE ARE RELATED TO JURASSIC WORLD!!!
WOW!!!!! I want to live in it!
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This is truly futuristic. Oh, wait! Not all the references are direct ones, I didnt feel like wasting any more time dissecting this nonsense.
This concept art looks absolutely horrible!
Why the heck would you even bother setting Jurassic World on Nublar if you're going to just redesign EVERYTHING?! And they're not even good designs. They look like a futuristic mash-up of various architectural designs from around the world (as Ritalapollera clearly points out). I'm no architect, but even I recognized a few of the inspirations.
I hope the Avan Garde line and futuristic cene don t over do it the classic micro ship 90s essential era!!!
Ok the aspect of this images remenber me WipeOut games....but at same time love them because they remenber me modern theme parks. This images are very clean and i love the concept "smell of fresh paint" meaning new adventure try to recover and reach the old entusiasm about a distant Park in tropical Island.I feel adrenalin about this point!!!
I whis to see the dark side from Isla Nublar.....the dark places that the capitalism can not hide!!! and I feel very happy to see this Island again!!!!


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Deze chronologische lijst van personen uit Faenza bevat mensen die in deze Italiaanse stad zijn geboren.

 Domenico Paganelli (1545-1624), architect
 Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), wiskundige, natuurkundige en uitvinder
 Giovanni Carlo Boschi (1715–1788), kardinaal
 Antonio Tamburini (1800–1876), operazanger
 Giuseppe Gallignani (1851–1923), componist
 Bruno Bandini (1889-1969), dirigent
 Pietro Nenni (1891-1980), politicus
 Ercole Gallegati (1911-1990), worstelaar
 Giacomo Neri (1916-2010), voetballer
 Vito Ortelli (1921-2017), wielrenner
 Franco Gualdrini (1923-2010), bisschop
 Antonio Paolo Albonetti (1942), wielrenner
 Aurelio Samorì (1946), componist
 Davide Cassani (1961), wielrenner
 Roberto Conti (1964), wielrenner
 Fabiano Fontanelli (1965), wielrenner
 Raffaella Reggi (1965), tennisster
 Fabio Babini (1969), autocoureur
 Massimo Rivola (1971), motorsportbestuurder
 Gianpaolo Mondini (1972), wielrenner
 Andrea Gaudenzi (1973), tennisser
 Laura Pausini (1974), zangeres
 Eddy Serri (1974), wielrenner
 Yader Zoli (1975), mountainbiker
 Riccardo Chiarini (1984), wielrenner
 Filippo Savini (1985), wielrenner
 Alberto Contoli (1987), wielrenner

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All-Star Lindor cherishing return to Indians after injuries
By The Wildcard
CLEVELAND (AP) — Francisco Lindor missed all the little moments. The big ones, too.
"Every pitch. Every out. Every celebration after every win," the Cleveland Indians' All-Star shortstop said. "It was everything equally."
Sidelined for the season's first 18 games, Lindor was activated from the injured list Saturday before a doubleheader against the Atlanta Braves. Lindor had been out since spraining his left ankle while running the bases near the end of spring training as he was rehabbing a right calf sprain.
For the 25-year-old, the time away from his teammates and a season's subtle moments was difficult.
"Missing the flights. Missing getting to a hotel, getting your room key and figuring out what you're going to eat," he said. "I missed that. I miss my teammates. I miss the game. I miss the things within the game. It's an honor. It's a privilege to be healthy. It's a blessing, and I ain't taking it for granted. I used to take health for granted. Not no more."
Lindor did not play in Cleveland's 8-4 win in the opener, but he was back in his familiar spot at shortstop and batting leadoff in the second game.
After receiving a loud ovation when he came to the plate in the first inning, Lindor fouled off two pitches before striking out against Atlanta right-hander Touki Toussaint in his first at-bat of 2019.
The Indians went 11-7 without Lindor, but his presence makes them a better team in every area.
"He's one of the best players in the game," manager Terry Francona said. "He's a difference maker everywhere: clubhouse, dugout, on the bases, at short, in the batter's box."
Francona wants to ease Lindor back and intends to use him as the designated hitter occasionally. Lindor will play Sunday night and the Indians are off Monday, giving him a chance to recover and the team to assess the next stages of his return.
"The biggest thing is common sense," Francona said. "It's not like he can't play three out of four, four out of five. It's just we'll pick a spot and we'll DH him at times. It's not just for his ankle, but it's his whole body. We want him to be able to help us. We don't want to run him into the ground. So, we'll try to use common sense."
In Lindor's absence, the leadoff spot has been manned by center fielder Leonys Martin. Lindor said it doesn't matter where Francona puts him.
"We have a different team from last year," said Lindor, his hair newly braided after being dyed blue. "Where he needs me, I'm going to hit. If he needs me second, I'll hit second. If he needs me third, I'll hit third. If he needs me last, and hopefully he don't need me last, but I will hit last. Wherever he needs me, I'm going to be there and I'm going to be Francisco Lindor. I'm going to be the same player regardless of where I'm hitting."
Lindor will wear a brace on his ankle, but said he won't be limited at the plate or in the field. He may not be fully healed, but he's good enough.
"We'll see how I feel on a daily basis, but I feel like I'm in a good spot," he said. "I feel like I'm ready to play in a big league game and not take any out off. If I make any errors, it's not because of my ankle. It will never be because of my ankle, it will be because of me. I'm going to go out there as hard as I can. I'll be better, trust me."
To make roster space, the Indians designated veteran slugger Hanley Ramirez for assignment.
The Indians signed Ramirez during the offseason to help offset the loss of power following the departures of Michael Brantley, Edwin Encarnacion and Yonder Alonso. The 35-year-old was batting .184 (9 of 49) with two homers and eight RBIs.
"We talked to Hanley yesterday and he was about as professional as you could be," Francona said. "And I wanted to make sure people understood this was a baseball decision. Hanley was a model citizen for us. Because I know he wants to keep playing and I hope he does because he handled himself so well."
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The secrets that Ireland teaches we carry within us
Cahir O'Doherty
The flowers of Donegal
They couldn't keep me out of the fields. By mid-May the flowers were out in Donegal and the trees had a new set of summer leaves, turning the land outside my home into the greatest adventure playground ever built.
I could hardly wait to be out in it. Each morning I was out of bed and through the kitchen and into the fields within 15 minutes. I would barely offer a word before leaving. It was as if I was being pulled by some irresistible force.
My home was built on the edge of a wide lough. Called Loch Súilí, from the Irish meaning lake of shadows, it was home to sea birds, swans, dolphins and migratory geese, and it hummed with a demonic energy that pulled you toward it like a homing bird.
Every few minutes the light changed, which meant the lough changed, which is how it got its name. Shadows fell and lifted from minute to minute, clouds bigger than cathedrals sailed by.
You could watch the rain showers fall on the far peninsula and have enough time to get home before they reached you.
Up on the sand breakers, when the wind was up, you could be blown off your feet by the sudden gusts that carried sea air with a hint of salt in them. Seagulls would whirl or dive overhead, and the morning would open before me like a canvas sail.
Sometimes I'd bring a friend; sometimes I'd spend the day with my Scottish terrier. I'd stay out until I was famished and I wouldn't return until I was called. I was in search of something then, life probably.
People have lived by that wide lough for millennia. Early Iron Age fortifications dating back as far as 7000 B.C. mean that children were playing along its banks when Cleopatra was a child.
I was just the latest wide-eyed buachaill with shells in my pocket kicking around the hollow pools filled with barnacles and sea life when the tide was out.
There's a feeling you get when you see a salmon leap on its way up river. That brilliant flash of silver breaking the surface that makes your heart skip too.
That's why I was out and about in that landscape, because anything could happen -- from the magnificent whooshing sound of swans in flight to the high lonesome calls of seabirds as dusk fell.
This was my childhood. I didn't realize it at the time but I was being instructed.
That landscape was opening my heart and my head. I took it all in. I wandered through it wide eyed with my internal camera always on. Because the heady opulence of that landscape contrasted so sharply with the familiar privations of a certain kind of Irish childhood, I rarely wanted to go home.
It fascinated me, that contrast. Outside was teeming with possibility, but inside the rhythms of our home life were so predictable that that you could set your watch by our daily observances.
Morning was toast and marmalade and cereal and tea and cigarettes for the adults. Lunch was one of the Irish staples served with potatoes and two sides. Tea was served at four o'clock with the solemnity of a Buddhist call to prayer. Conversation didn't really happen between us, because a light had gone out of our home with my mother's early passing, and it never really rekindled.
Fourteen miles away in Derry they were shooting each other. The nightly news was a recitation of atrocities, couched in language that had become numb though the repetition of too much horror.
How, I often wondered, could a people who lived in such an epic landscape, a place of such utter grandeur, have found themselves imprisoned by so much deadening tedium?
How could you reconcile the inexpressible mystery of that otherworldly landscape with the stifling domestic arrangements of so many Irish homes?
Who were we really? I mean, what kind of people were we that we could live in one place and behave as though we lived in another? And when did the disconnect happen between where we lived and how we expressed ourselves?
As a boy I felt as though I'd be given a map, a key and a compass to a world that no one could see, or had stopped seeing. Not everyone knew how to get there, I discovered, so I'd look for the ones with its weird light in their eyes.
Ireland, once you come to know it, slowly makes its home inside you. If you carry it there the wisest thing you'll ever do is let it speak.
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The senior national team, the Black Stars commenced preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), qualifier against Kenya, with 16 out of 20 players in camp, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mr. Dan Kwaku Yeboah, spokesperson for the Ghana Liaison team, said the technical team would join them later.
The players in camp were; Lawrence Ati Zigi, Richard Ofori (Goalkeepers), Defenders: Opare, Rashid Sumaila, Daniel Amartey, Andy Yiadom and Nicholas Opoku.
The rest were; Midfielders; Afriyie Acquah, Isaac Sackey, Edwin Gyasi, Frank Acheampong, Nana Ampomah, with Raphael Dwamena, Thomas Partey, Majeed Waris and William Owusu as strikers.
"Kwadwo Asamoah, Christian Atsu, Harrison Afful and Ebenezer Ofori expected today," Mr Yeboah added.
Coach Kwasi Appiah led technical team of the Black Stars,arrived in Ethiopia on Monday and are scheduled to commence preparations for the qualifier on Tuesday evening.
According to him the team's training schedule was Tuesday, 15:30 and Wednesday, 10:00am and 15:30pm before Thursday, 9:00.
The team would fly to Kenya on Thursday, September 6, for the match two days later.


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