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Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.
The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.
"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."
"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."
SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.
The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.
"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."
The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.
"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.
I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."
Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.
But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.
On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.
The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.
"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."
Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.
"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."
The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.
Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.
No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."
Article posted at highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/-7252830500074...
Krissy Hopkins, Communications and Education Subcommittee staffer with the Chesapeake Research Consortium at the Chesapeake Bay Program, holds a juvenile blue crab collected in Poplar Harbor near Poplar Island in Talbot County, Md., on May 19, 2009. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.
The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.
Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.
Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.
Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.
The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.
A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.
But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.
The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.
The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.
The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.
But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.
That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.
Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.
Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.
After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!
טקס הפתיחה של תכנית צופים גרעין צבר למען חיילים עולים בודדים באונ' ת"א בנוכחות רעיית ראש הממשלה שרה נתניהו
צילום: חיים צח / לע"מ
photo by Haim Zach / GPO
A visitor gets his fill of hands-on activities by engineering a balloon tower, one of many eye-opening exercises at the Educational Program's Learning Center.
August 20, 2017, San Diego, California, USA-- The San Diego State University women's soccer team opened its home season versus the UC Davis Aggies on the Sports Deck at SDSU. SDSU Head Coach Mike Friesen won his 123rd game as the Aztecs Head Coach, which gives him the most wins in the SDSU women's program's history.
United States Department of Labor Assistant Secretary for the Office of Disability Employment Policy Kathy Martinez addresses the Work Force Recruitment Program’s (WRP) "Your Key To Hiring Student Interns and Employees with Disabilities” event hosted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Jefferson Auditorium, Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Photo by Michael Premo.
Poverty Initiative Poverty Scholars Program Strategic Dialogue, November 2010. Talk with S'bu Zikode.
Girl Scouts of Troops 1051 and 1068, plant native trees, bulrushes and other species in a small ravine at Camp Woodlands in Annapolis, Md., on April 8, 2016. The restoration project, funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and Anne Arundel County's stormwater fee, will keep sediment from washing into Broad Creek and the Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Ukrainian Live Tour — знати, слухати, любити українське наживо.
Соковитий плейлист із добірної музики команда Ukrainian Live збирала в архівах впродовж двох років. Тур “Повернення української класики” — це захоплива розповідь про міфи, час, пристрасті та Галичину. У тринадцятьох містах України в рамках великого концертного туру Ukrainian Live, за підтримки Українського культурного фонду.
З понад 1000 композиторів було обрано 10 митців, які жили і творили музичну культуру на зламі епох. Вони — ніжні та романтичні, трагічні та мрійливі, бурхливі та медитативні — їх твори, об’єднані в унікальну добірку, з акцентом на Час, Пристрасть і Міфи.
Час
Час, помножений на швидкість — це відстань. Міст між минулим і майбутнім.
Сидір Воробкевич — ранній професійний галицький композитор, фортепіанна “Фантазія” якого розпочинає музичну подорож Ukrainian Live Tour. Автодидакт, його постать однозначно знакова для української музичної історії. Лістівські традиції простежуються у творах Воробкевича расподійністю форми та наративністю викладу музичної думки.
Столітній класик українського мистецтва Станіслав Людкевич. Без нього важко уявити Львів ХХ століття. Він переносить у сферу споглядальності, мелодійності та мрій.
Пристрасть
Пришвидшує биття серця, тиск крові граничний.
Пізній романтизм Нестора Нижанківського — згусток емоцій та насичених фарб, від глибокої лірики до потужного драматизму.
Так само пристрасним був Зиновій Лисько. В культурі його закарбували сміливі експерименти з музичною мовою та формою, в найкращих тенденціях нововіденців, Берга та Веберна, та розгалужена ритмічна структура створюють незабутнє відчуття гри з часом та простором.
Міфи
Дві трагічні історії двох галицьких митців.
У концерті прозвучать дві фортепіанні мініатюри Бориса Кудрика — митця з трагічною долею, зламаною тоталітарним режимом. Попри це, Кудрик до останніх днів залишався безмежним оптимістом, його творчість світилася любов’ю до життя. Василь Барвінський пройшов тернистий шлях від ректора львівської консерваторії до полоненого у концтаборах тоталітарного режиму. Його твори спалювали у внутрішньому дворику консерваторії, а зараз увесь світ шукає його загублені рукописи, аби відновити історичну справедливість. Так склалося, що з Борисом Кудриком вони були ув’язнені у сусідніх концтаборах - проте лише Барвінський був реабілітований за життя. Йому вдалося привести назад до України декілька мініатюр Кудрика, а безліч фортепіанних сонат, якими славився композитор були назавжди втрачені.
З 15 вересня до 26 жовтня, у 13 містах України, за маршрутом - Львів, Тернопіль, Хмельницький, Вінниця, Житомир, Рівне, Київ, Чернігів, Харків, Кривий Ріг, Дніпро, Кропивницький та Одеса.
Команда Ukrainian Live ретельно працює над тим, щоб класичною музикою могли насолодитись якомога більше людей, щоб українці пізнали та цінували своє національне культурне надбання.
ЗА ПІДТРИМКИ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО КУЛЬТУРНОГО ФОНДУ
Музиканти:
Микола Гав’юк, Адріан Боднар – скрипка
Богдана Неділько, Сергій Коров’яцький – віолончель
Дмитро Микитин – фортепіано
Директор проекту: Тарас Демко
Артистичний директор: Іван Остапович
Менеджер: Дмитро Микитин
Програма:
С. Воробкевич – Фантазія для фортепіано
С. Людкевич – "Голосіння" для скрипки і фортепіано
В. Безкоровайний – "Спомин з гір", "Пісня без слів", "Вечірні мрії" (для фортепіано)
Н. Нижанківський – Тріо
З. Лисько – Соната для фортепіано
С. Людкевич – Тріо "Ноктюрн" (Мале тріо)
Б. Кудрик – Вальс для фортепіано
Л. Мазепа – Елегійний ескіз (Тріо)
Б. Кудрик – Гумореска для фортепіано
В. Барвінський – Соната для віолончелі та фортепіано
Р. Сімович – Фантазія для фортепіано
А. Кос-Анатольський – Романс з балету "Хустка Довбуша" для скрипки і фортепіано
В. Барвінський – Колискова (Тріо)
Організатор:
Громадська організація «Колеґіум Музікум»
Співорганізатор:
Львівський будинок органної та камерної музики (Львівський органний зал)
За підтримки:
УКРАЇНСЬКОГО КУЛЬТУРНОГО ФОНДУ
ЛЬВІВ - 15 ВЕРЕСНЯ, 19 00 - Львівський органний зал
ТЕРНОПІЛЬ - 17 ВЕРЕСНЯ, 18:30 - Тернопільська обласна філармонія
ХМЕЛЬНИЦЬКИЙ - 19 ВЕРЕСНЯ, 18:30 - Хмельницька обласна філармонія
ВІННИЦЯ - 23 вересня, 18:30 - Вінницька обласна філармонія
РІВНЕ - 24 ВЕРЕСНЯ, 18:30 - Органний зал Рівненської обласної філармонії
ЖИТОМИР - 26 ВЕРЕСНЯ, 18:30 - Житомирська обласна філармонія ім. С. Ріхтера
КИЇВ - 15 ЖОВТНЯ, 20:00 - НМАУ ім. П. Чайковського, Малий зал
ЧЕРНІГІВ - 16 ЖОВТНЯ, 17:00 - Чернігівський філармонійний центр
ХАРКІВ - 18 жовтня, 16:00 – Харківський національний театр опери і балету ХНАТОБ «Схід-Опера», малий зал
ДНІПРО - 20 ЖОВТНЯ, 18:30 - Дніпропетровська обласна філармонія
КРИВИЙ РІГ - 23 жовтня, 15:00 – Криворізьке державне музичне училище
КРОПИВНИЦЬКИЙ - 25 ЖОВТНЯ, 19:00 - Кіровоградська обласна філармонія
ОДЕСА - 26 ЖОВТНЯ, 17:00 - Urban Music Hall
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Ukrainian Live Tour — know, listen and love Ukrainian live.
A rich play list of selected music the Ukrainian Live team had been gathering through archives for two years. The "Return of Ukrainian Classical Music" tour is an exciting tale about myths, time, passion, and Galicia. In thirteen cities of Ukraine, in the framework of the Ukrainian Live grand concert tour with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
10 artists who lived and created musical culture at the break of eras were chosen from over 1,000 composers. Their creations are tender and romantic, tragic and wistful, wild and meditative and they are combined into a unique selection with emphasis on Time, Passion and Myths.
Time
Time multiplied by speed is distance. A bridge between past and present.
Sydir Vorobkevych is an early professional Galician composer. His "Fantasy" for the piano begins the musical journey of the Ukrainian Live Tour. Being a self-taught man, he is uniquely significant for Ukrainian musical history. Traditions of Liszt can be traced in the works by Vorobkevych with a rhapsodic form and a narrative expression of the musical thought.
Stanyslav Lyudkevych is a centennial classic of Ukrainian art. It's hard to imagine the XX century Lviv without him. He brings us into the realm of observance, melody and dreams.
Passion
The heart is quickening its pace and blood pressure is up to the limit.
Late romanticism of Nestor Nyzhankivsky is a cluster of emotions and rich colors, from deep lyrics to powerful drama.
Zynoviy Lysko was just as passionate. His work is a part of our culture and he is remembered for bold experiments with musical language and form in the best trends of the newcomers Berg and Webern and the ramified rhythmic structure, which when combined create an unforgettable feeling of playing with time and space.
Myths
Two tragic stories of two artists from Galicia.
At the concert you will hear two miniatures for the piano written by Borys Kudryk, an artist with a tragic fate destroyed by the totalitarian regime. Despite all of that, Kudryk remained an optimist till his last days and his work shines with love for life. Vasyl Barvinskyi went through a thorny path from being the Head of the Lviv Academy of Music to a prisoner in the concentration camps of the totalitarian regime. His works were burnt in the inner yard of the Academy and now the whole world is searching for his lost manuscripts to restore historic justice. It so happened that both he and Borys Kudryk were imprisoned in neighboring camps. However, only Barvinskyi got exonerated while still being alive. He managed to bring several miniatures by Kudryk back to Ukraine, but numerous piano sonatas the composer was so famous for were lost forever.
From September 15 till October 26, in 13 cities of Ukraine with the following route — Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsya, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi and Odesa.
The Ukrainian Live team puts in a lot of effort so that classical music can be enjoyed by as many people as possible and so that Ukrainian know and value their national cultural heritage.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE UKRAINIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION
Musicians:
Mykola Haviuk, Andrian Bodnar — violin
Bohdana Nedilko, Serhiy Korovianskyi — cello
Dmytro Mykytyn — piano
Project director: Taras Demko
Art director: Ivan Ostapovych
Manager: Dmytro Mykytyn
Program:
S. Vorobkevych — Fantasy for the piano
S. Lyudkevych — "Keening" for violin and piano
V. Bezkrovnyi — "Memory from the Mountains", "A song without Words", "Evening Dreams" (for piano)
N. Nyzhankivskyi — Trio
Z. Lysko — Sonata for piano
S. Lyudkevych — Trio "Nocturne" (small trio)
B. Kudryk — Waltz for piano
L. Mazepa — Elegiac sketch (Trio)
B. Kudryk — Humoresque for piano
V. Barvinskyi — Sonata for violoncello and piano
R. Simovych — Fantasy for piano
A. Kos-Anatolskyi — Romantic song from the "Khustka Dovbusha" ballet for violin and piano
V. Barvinskyi — Lullaby (Trio)
LVIV — SEPTEMBER 15, 7 P.M. — Lviv Organ Hall
TERNOPIL — SEPTEMBER 17, 6:30 P.M. — Ternopil Regional Philharmonic
KHMELNYTSKYI — SEPTEMBER 19, 6:30 P.M. — Khmelnytskyi Regional Philharmonic
VINNYTSYA — SEPTEMBER 23, 6:30 P.M. — Vinnytsya Regional Philharmonic
RIVNE — SEPTEMBER 24, 6:30 P.M. — Rivne Regional Philharmonic Organ Hall
ZHYTOMYR — SEPTEMBER 26, 6:30 P.M. — Richter Regional Philharmonic in Zhytomyr
KYIV — OCTOBER 15, 8 P.M. — P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Small Hall
CHERNIHIV — OCTOBER 16, 5 P.M. — Chernihiv Regional Philharmonic
KHARKIV — OCTOBER 18, 5 P.M. — Kharkov National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre "East Opera", Small Hall
DNIPRO — OCTOBER 20, 6:30 P.M. — Dnipro Regional Philharmonic
KRYVYI RIH — OCTOBER 23, 3 P.M. — Kryvyi Rih Academy of Music
KROPYVNYTSKYI — OCTOBER 25, 7 P.M. — Kirovohrad Regional Philharmonic
ODESA — OCTOBER 26, 5 P.M. — Urban Music Hall
Host:
NGO"Collegium Musicum"
Co-host:
Lviv House of Organ and Chamber Music (Lviv Organ Hall)
With the support of:
THE UKRAINIAN CULTURAL
FOUNDATION
The U.S. Department of Transportation green roof, completed in 2007, is seen on Sept. 22, 2008. It covers 68,000 square feet in drought-resistant succulents and retains one million gallons of stormwater annually. (Photo by Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A blocked extra point by Matthew Tamburri and a 4th down sack by Curtis Jerzerick sealed Army West Point Sprint Football’s victory over Navy 24-23 in a thriller at Shea Stadium on Halloween Oct. 31.
With the win, the Black Knights (7-0, 7-0 CSFL) cap off their 17th perfect season and 34th Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) title.
The seniors from the Class of 2016 who were honored before today’s game have the best four-year record of any class in the program’s 58-year history at 27-1 and won three CSFL Championships. Those seniors are kicker Warren Kay, punter Mark Dabeck, defensive linemen Jared Sturgell, Curtis Gardner and Philip Choi, wide receivers Justin Hall, Othie Freeny, Kevin O’Brien and Tucker Van Dyke, defensive backs Jack Barnett, Alfred McQuirter and Shaq Tolbert, linebacker Ryan Gallagher, and offensive linemen Gerald McDonough, Nolan Jones, Cale Brown, Darius Javan and Kenny McClain.
Sophomore running back Marqus Burrell led all rushers with 121 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries for the Black Knights while freshman quarterback Brady Miller completed 11 of 18 for 100 yards and two touchdowns. Van Dyke and Kevin O’Brien led the team in receiving with Van Dyke hauling in four passes for 20 yards while O’Brien gain 45 yards receiving.
On the defensive side of the ball, Tamburri had a game-high 15 tackles and came up with the biggest stop of the season blocking Navy’s (5-2, 4-2 CSFL) potential game-tying extra point with 3:29 left in the game. Fellow Sophomore Tanner Andrews recorded two interceptions, bringing his season-total to six. Sophomore Nathan Lopez and Tolbert also recorded interceptions for Army. Jerzerick’s game-ending sack was the only one for the Black Knights, who came into the Star Game leading the CSFL in that category with 40 and had the league-leader in Choi who had 11.5 in the first six games.
Photos by Eric S. Bartelt/Pointer View (USMA PAO)
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Maria Forry and her father George Hurst, owner of Oregon Dairy Farm in Lititz, Pa., pose in one of their fields on May 2, 2015. Oregon Dairy Farm, which composts food waste and cow manure, utilizes cover crops, and powers the entire farm with a methane digester, was named as a 2015 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award winner. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.
The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.
"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."
"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."
SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.
The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.
"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."
The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.
"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.
I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."
Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.
But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.
On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.
The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.
"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."
Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.
"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."
The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.
Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.
No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."
Article posted at highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/-7252830500074...
As part of the NYC DOT’s Urban Art Program’s Asphalt Art Activation initiative, NY Cares and the DOT Bike Share Program present “Lovely to See You” by Brooklyn-based artist Emily Caisip at the Franklin Street Bike Share station. On the first day of the two day installation, the DOT Bike Share staff primed the site with a vibrant blue color. On the second day, NY Cares volunteers assisted in the implementation of the colorful red leaf design. The leaf pattern was inspired by leaves that are strewn about on many of our New York City streets. The placement of the leaves was spontaneous, while creating a sense of order and pattern at the same time. This project was the first for the Asphalt Art Activation initiative, which activates asphalt with murals around bike share stations throughout the city.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Projects
Lovely to See You by Emily Caisip
Presented with NY Cares and the DOT Bike Share Program
Asphalt on Franklin Street between West Broadway and Varick Street, Manhattan
Vancouver Coastal Health is working to reduce the use of Tobacco in all communities. This display was set up at at the the post-parade Sunset Beach Pride Festival.
Vancouver Coastal Health supports LGBT2SQ communities across our service area.
We show our support not only by expressing our pride, but also by offering a number of health services designed to meet the specific needs of LGBT2SQ community members. Visit our website to find out more.
Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report host Kathy Hopkins were invited to come out to cover The Actors Fund's 2015 Looking Ahead Awards at Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood.
The Looking Ahead Awards, which raises funds and awareness for The Actors Fund’s Looking Ahead Program, shines the spotlight on performers who inspire the world by living the program’s core values of growth, education, leadership and community service
Special Presenters: “The Fosters” creators/executive producers Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige; nine-time Emmy Award winner Carl Reiner; and actor/host Alfonso Ribeiro (“America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”)
Honored:
Actor and recording artist Corbin Bleu (“Dancing With The Stars,” “High School Musical”) presented the Judy and Hilary Swank Award for parenting to his parents, Martha Callari Reivers and David Reivers
Tatyana Ali (“The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”) with The Looking Ahead Award for Education
Mario Lopez (“Extra,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “Saved By The Bell”) with The Looking Ahead Award for Community Service
Rose Marie (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”) with The Shirley Temple Award
Hayden Byerly, Noah Centineo, David Lambert, Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez (ABC Family’s “The Fosters”) with The Looking Ahead Award for Social Awareness
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Delaware U.S. Senator from Delaware Chris Coons’ aide Blaise Sheridan (white shirt) helps build an outside wall at the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program’s 50,000th home in Bridgeville, DE on Jun. 8, 2015. Volunteers from Congressional staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development (RD), and local lenders helped the Tony Tilsen family frame their new house in Bridgeville, DE on Jun. 8, 2015. The volunteer effort helped take two weeks off the expected construction time, and was part of June’s National Housing Month celebrations. The Tilsens are building their house with the help of other local Self-Help participants and the assistance and supervision of the Milford Housing Development Corporation, a non-profit. USDA photo by Steve Thompson.
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Penn Theatre Arts Program
Spring 2016 Mainstage Production
April 7–10, 2016
@ Penn Museum
'The Eumenides' is the third play in Aeschylus’ great masterpiece, the tragic trilogy 'The Oresteia,' written more than 2,500 years ago. In response to the pleadings of his sister Electra and at the command of the god Apollo, Orestes has murdered his mother, Clytemnestra, who was wife and murderer of his father Agamemnon. As a consequence, Orestes finds himself tormented by the terrible Furies, hideous ancient goddesses of the underworld divinely charged with punishing blood murders. Guests follow the actors through Penn Museum’s third floor galleries.
Directed by Marcia Ferguson and featuring original music by composer Patrick Lamborn, this production is performed in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Theatre Arts Program’s Artistic Resident for 2016, Sebastienne Mundheim/White Box Theatre, who created the production design, with additional support from the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Arts fund.
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The Economic Opportunities Program’s Job Quality Fellowship aims to support and strengthen the work of leaders dedicated to expanding access to and availability of better quality jobs in our economy. At the beginning of October, EOP convened the 16 members of the fellowship’s inaugural cohort on the Aspen Meadows campus in Aspen, Colorado. The first of several meetings to take place over the next year, fellows discussed, debated, and collaborated on a host of crucial issues related to quality job access and availability. These are photos taken from that event.
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Photo by Michael Premo.
Poverty Initiative Poverty Scholars Program Strategic Dialogue, November 2010. Talk with S'bu Zikode.
An eastern ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) is caught and released in Harford County, Md., on May 29, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Wildland Firefighters on Rappel capable crews, come from all over the nation each spring to train at the National Helicopter Rappel Program’s Rappel Academy at Salmon AirBase, in Salmon, Idaho.
Wildland fire aircraft play a critical role in supporting firefighters on wildland fires. Helicopters also deliver aerial crews called Heli-Rappellers to wildland fires. These are specially trained firefighters that rappel from helicopters in order to effectively and quickly respond to fires in remote terrain.
Heli-Rappellers may land near a wildfire but if there is no landing zone close by they can utilize their skills to rappel from the hoovering helicopter. Once on the ground, crews build firelines using hand tools, chainsaws, and other firefighting tools. Forest Service photo by Charity Parks.
Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.
The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.
"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."
"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."
SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.
The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.
"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."
The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.
"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.
I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."
Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.
But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.
On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.
The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.
"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."
Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.
"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."
The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.
Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.
No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."
Article posted at highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/-7252830500074...
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GEOSTATIONARY WEATHER SATELLITES: Launch Date Nears, but Remaining Schedule Risks Need to be Addressed
S.C. Army National Guard Soldiers and fire department/EMS rescuers with the S.C. Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) program, S.C. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (SC-TF1), arrive to Table Rock, S.C., and initiate pre-mission operations during their first, 2018, quarterly rescue training event Table Rock, Pickens County, Jan. 17, 2018. The three-day training event includes both day and night operations, with focus on land and water-based rescue, along with incorporating a variety of additional challenges for crews and rescuers, such as extraction of survivors from mountain-wooded areas and other “constricted” scenarios. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine)
Students participating in EOP FreshStart 2012.
Each year EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience to help students bridge the gap between High School and University. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community.
Photo Credit: Eduardo Zamora & Leslie De Leon Tzic | CSUN EOP Creative - 2012
In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.
The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.
Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.
Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.
Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.
The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.
A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.
But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.
The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.
The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.
The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.
But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.
That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.
Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.
Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.
After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!
A corn field in Warsaw, Virginia. Chris Lawrence, not pictured, an agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, lead an interactive presentation at a Chesapeake Bay Program Principals' Staff Committe event at Midway Farms in Richmond County, Va., on June 18, 2008. Lawrence demonstrated conservation tillage systems and soil quality improvement practices, and how they can address water quality goals through federal, state and local conservation programs. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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20170515GraduationCap GaryRobinson
What is your best memory of WSSU?
My best memory at WSSU would have to be my entire freshmen year, from the mentorship of people like Keenan Easter and Vanity Oakes to the advice and guidance from Advisors like Chelii Broussard and Angela Blue, my freshmen year was a testament that dreams do come true. I was blessed with the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people during that academic school year. My freshmen year taught me how to embrace my culture and to love and love freely.
What do you love about WSSU?
The thing I love about WSSU more than anything is the Spirit. Unlike many other HBCUs there’s a certain respect that is given when you are a student at WSSU. From our football and basketball games to the cheerleaders and the band, WSSU has Spirit and even though it might not be apparent in the students from time to time, the spirit of WSSU is always present and will always remain.
What do you plan on doing after you graduate?
Post Graduation, I plan to become an English Teacher, I also plan to continue my education and receive my Masters in Educational Leadership
How has WSSU prepared you for the future?
WSSU has prepared me for the future in so many ways, from the failures to the daily successes, everything that has happened to me here at WSSU has prepared me to Depart to Serve.
How has WSSU made a difference in your life?
WSSU has made a difference in my life in several ways. WSSU has taught me how to be an educated black man and how to act and respond as one. WSSU has changed my view on life and has given me the tools to live life and live life with no boundaries. WSSU has taught me to take the road least traveled and that has made all the difference since.
South Carolina National Guard Soldiers, and fire department/EMS rescuers with the S.C. Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) program, S.C. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (SC-TF1), perform hoist-training operations during the preliminary phases of “Patriot South Exercise 2017” (Patriot South 17), a joint training-exercise focused on natural disaster-response and preparedness, Gulfport and Port Bienville Industrial Complex (PBIC), Mississippi, Jan. 29, 2017. Patriot South 17 is taking place at multiple locations across Mississippi, from January 23 through February 7, 2017, and it offers the National Guard and its local and federal partners a realistic-training opportunity to test response capabilities, procedures, and readiness through a simulated earthquake and Tsunami scenario “hitting the coastal areas of the state.” Specifically, in preparation for future operations, South Carolina’s Headquarters and Headquarters and (-) Company A 2-151st Security and Support Aviation Battalion, 59th Aviation Troop Command, deployed both its current HART-capable platforms, the UH-60L Black Hawk utility helicopter and its LUH-72A Lakota light utility helicopter--the latter being a recent addition to the HART program for South Carolina. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine/Released)
Penn Theatre Arts Fall 2015 Mainstage Production
Directed by Dr. James F. Schlatter.
The Theatre Arts Program’s fall production, BURY THE DEAD, written by Irwin Shaw in 1936, is set “in the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night.” The scene is an unnamed battlefield somewhere in the world that also serves as the gravesite for six dead American soldiers. About to be interred, the six young soldiers stand up in their shared grave and plead not to be buried. This crisis is the focus of Shaw’s harrowing and deeply moving and provocative play, directed by Theatre Arts faculty member, Dr. James F. Schlatter, Can a war ever end if the dead won’t be buried? The play will be performed by an ensemble company.
Performances:
November 18–21, 7:00pm
@ Annenberg Center Live, Bruce Montgomery Theatre
theatre.sas.upenn.edu/events/fall-mainstage-production-bu...
provost.upenn.edu/initiatives/arts/stories/2015/11/16/the...
Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.
The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.
"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."
"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."
SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.
The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.
"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."
The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.
"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.
I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."
Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.
But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.
On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.
The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.
"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."
Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.
"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."
The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.
Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.
No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."
Article posted at highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/-7252830500074...
First Lady Chirlane McCray visits the VA Recreational Art Therapy Program’s Brooklyn Campus on Thursday to learn about the program, tour "Portraits of a Veteran" – a series of veteran portrait photos taken by other vets – and meet the program’s participants and staff members. VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, New York. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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MARINE COPRS AIR STATION FUTENMA, Okinawa, Japan – Sgt. Henry A. Harris volunteered at the Single Marine Program’s 3rd annual haunted house on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Oct. 24-26. Volunteers spent over 200 hours transforming the MCAS Futenma chow hall into a haunted house which was open to locals and service members from sunset until midnight. The SMP sponsored the haunted house to provide a Halloween experience to service members and their families like they would have in the United States. Annis is from Corfu, New York, and is a communication chief with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Thor J. Larson/Released)
Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp prepare to go inner tubing down a river June 24, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp participate in a team-building exercise June 25, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
Partners came together in mid-June to plant fifty threatened swamp pink plants at a western North Carolina bog managed by the North Carolina Plant Conservation Program. The fifty plants were raised in captivity by the Atlanta Botanical Garden from seed collected at the site. Raising the seeds in captivity reduces plant mortality, while using seeds originally harvested from this site helps conserve any unique genetic characteristics that may occur in the plants found at this bog. Staff from the Atlanta Botanical Garden, N.C. Plant Conservation Program, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helped with the planting.
Swamp pink has been on the federal threatened and endangered species list as threatened since 1988. It’s sporadically found in wetlands from New Jersey to Georgia.
Photo credit: G. Peeples/USFWS
Partners came together in mid-June to plant fifty threatened swamp pink plants at a western North Carolina bog managed by the North Carolina Plant Conservation Program. The fifty plants were raised in captivity by the Atlanta Botanical Garden from seed collected at the site. Raising the seeds in captivity reduces plant mortality, while using seeds originally harvested from this site helps conserve any unique genetic characteristics that may occur in the plants found at this bog. Staff from the Atlanta Botanical Garden, N.C. Plant Conservation Program, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helped with the planting.
Swamp pink has been on the federal threatened and endangered species list as threatened since 1988. It’s sporadically found in wetlands from New Jersey to Georgia.
Photo credit: G. Peeples/USFWS
An employee of the Milford Housing Development Corporation shares some safety tips with volunteers working on the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program’s 50,000th home in Bridgeville, DE on Jun. 8, 2015. Volunteers from Congressional staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development (RD), and local lenders gathered to help the Tony Tilsen family frame their new house. The volunteer effort helped take two weeks off the Tilsens expected construction time and was part of June’s National Housing Month celebrations. The Tilsens are building their house with the help of other local Self-Help participants and the assistance and supervision of the Milford Housing Development Corporation, a non-profit. USDA photo by Steve Thompson.
Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.
The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.
"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."
"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."
SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.
The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.
"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."
The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.
"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.
I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."
Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.
But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.
On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.
The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.
"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."
Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.
"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."
The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.
Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.
No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."
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The annual fall canoe paddle with Professor of Biological Sciences David White offers students an opportunity to wade through some of the most beautiful swamps and bayous just a short distance from New Orleans in southeastern Louisiana.
The trips start in the late afternoon and last into the evening and night offers a great twilight experience to see firsthand our cypress trees, swamp, marsh plants, and wildlife. Participants see see alligators, wading birds, ducks, and spectacular scenes of Spanish-moss covered trees. With lights after dark participants shine for night-stalking wildlife.
Dr. White studies plant community and population ecology in wetland ecosystems. Recent research has focused on study of the establishment and spread of the marsh reed, Phragmites australis, within the Mississippi River Delta and the community structure of tropical forests in the Yucatan Peninsula. Dr. White is also involved in a long term research project (going on 25 yrs) on marsh plant biomass within the Delta.
EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience at CSUN to help students bridge the gap between High School and University. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community.
Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp participate in a team-building exercise June 25, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
Girl Scouts of Troops 1051 and 1068, plant native trees, bulrushes and other species in a small ravine at Camp Woodlands in Annapolis, Md., on April 8, 2016. The restoration project, funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and Anne Arundel County's stormwater fee, will keep sediment from washing into Broad Creek and the Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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