Two U.S. Army Black Hawk recovers after transporting distinguished visitors to the Greeley Air Port, Dec. 9, 2022, Greeley Air National Guard Station, Greeley, CO. The 233rd Space Group utilizes Mobile Ground Systems, designed to work with the Defense Support Program's early warning satellites to provide survivable missile warning and attack assessment data to NORAD in the event of war.

Photo by Master Sgt. Amanda Geiger

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)

Soft crabs are packed into a box for shipment at Butch Walters' crab shanty in Deal Island, Md., on May 26, 2020. The crabs were destined for markets in New York. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 28, 2014) -- Army researchers are evaluating prototype devices developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, Warrior Web program's goal is to create a soft, lightweight undersuit to help reduce injuries and fatigue, while improving mission performance. DARPA is responsible for the development of new technologies for the U.S. military.

Researchers from Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering spent the past two years developing a biologically inspired smart suit that aims to boost efficiency through a new approach. A series of webbing straps contain a microprocessor and a network of strain sensors.

Read more at www.army.mil/article/135272

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Governor Shapiro is participating in the Public launch of a fundraising campaign to raise money to revitalize and expand the Share Food Program’s main warehouse. JUNE 01, 2023 - PHILADELPHIA, PA

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

Photo series, 'Raising An Giang's Living Standards' -- Photo #7: With his 31 year-old brother Tran Ngoc An, this progressive farmer, Tran Ngoc Diep, 30, (above) operates a six-hectare farm in An Giang's My Thoi village that has been so successful that farmers from kilometers around come to study its methods. The brothers have sold thousands of chickens like these to local farmers, to the provincial government to stock refugee resettlement farms, and to the supervised credit program's borrowers.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presents the World Food Program’s 2011 George McGovern Leadership Award to Howard Buffett, center left; and Bill Gates, center right; as World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran looks on, right; at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

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Maria Theresa monument Maria Theresa monument in Vienna

Maria Theresa Square

The Maria Theresa monument is the most important ruler monument of the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. It is reminiscent of the Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled from 1740 to 1780, and is since 1888 on the Maria Theresa Square on the Vienna ring road (Castle Square - Burgring) between the then Imperial Museums, in 1891 opened the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) and in 1889 opened the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), in front of the background of the Museum Quarter, then the imperial stables. This by Tritons and Najad Fountains accompanied Ensemble monument counts to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.

Historical Background View from the top (2010)

The Empire of Austria in 1859 and 1866 lost Lombardy and Veneto to the new Kingdom of Italy. It was in 1866 forced to resigne after the defeat of the German war, the Prussians had triggered by violation of the rules of the German Confederation from Germany, which in 1871 was constituted as German Empire under a new empire. In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph I. in Compromise with Hungary had to agree to the formal division of the empire into a ruled from Vienna cisleithanian and ruled from Budapest transleithanian half of the Empire, with Hungary increasingly presenting itself not as a part of the empire, but as a largely independent state. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitha

During the World Exhibition 1873 in Vienna an economic crisis had occurred, the "founders' crash - Gründerkrach" that devalued liberalism as the leading political movement and new mass parties, for the time being, the Christian Social Party, and later the Social Democrats, putting forth. In addition, more and more national movements were felt in the multiethnic state. Those centrifugal and the imperial power eroding tendencies one would counteract by patriotic appeals to splendor and glory of the empire. At the since 1858 under construction and in 1865 opened new Vienna ring road around the old town was offered the chance. On the Maria Theresa Square the center facing adjoining Heldenplatz outside the Hofburg in 1860 and 1865 monuments of the two most important generals of the monarchy were built. For the Maria Theresa square, which with the Heldenplatz should form an Imperial Forum, it was a good occasion to erect a monument to the historical mother of the nation. She had by her marriage to Francis Stephen of Lorraine and his election as emperor, the Roman-German Empire brought back to Vienna and the continuation of the dynasty, now as House of Habsburg-Lorraine, secured. She referred to a time when the development of the monarchy was not dependent on any political party nor on national political considerations, but by the wisdom of the rulers. Her reputation and popularity should radiate to the current empire.

The monument Gypsum model of a draft of the monument Maria Theresa surrounded by the allegories of the cardinal virtues For the execution of the sculptures in 1874 the three sculptors Johannes Benk, Carl Kundmann and Caspar Zumbusch submitted designs. Emperor Franz Joseph I decided for Zumbusch, with his student Anton Brenek around 13 years working on the bronze sculptures, which have a total weight of 44 tons. Carl von Hasenauer designed the architecture of the monument. With the base, the monument covers an area of ​​632 square meters and is 19.36 m high, on top the seated figure of the Empress with 6 m height. Base and chain pedestal consist of Mauthausen granite from Enghagen in Upper Austria, pedestal and base of brown hornblende granite from Petersburg-Jeschitz at Pilsen in the Czech Republic, the columns of serpentinite from Wiesen near Sterzing in South Tyrol. The program's content for the monument came from Alfred von Arneth, director of the Imperial House, Court and State Archives. The monarch herself sits on her throne at the top, in the left hand a scepter and the Pragmatic Sanction, the State and the Constitutional Treaty, her allowing the rule in the Habsburg lands as woman, saluting with the right hand the people. Around the throne on the cornice are sitting as allegorical personifications of the cardinal virtues of justice, strength, gentleness and wisdom four female figures.

At the four sides of the base each is located a circular field with a relief and before that a freestanding statue in thematic context: The consultants of the Archduchess are represented by Wenzel Anton Kaunitz as a statue and Johann Christoph von Bartenstein, Gundakar Thomas Graf Starhemberg and Florimond Claude of Mercy-Argenteau in relief, the background shows the Gloriette in the garden of Schonbrunn Palace. For the administration stand Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz (statue) and Antal Grassalkovich I, Samuel Brukenthal, Paul Joseph of Riegger, Karl Anton von Martini and Joseph von Sonnenfels in a consulting room in the Imperial Palace. For the military stand Joseph Wenzel I (statue) with Franz Moritz von Lacy, Andreas Hadik of Futak and Franz Leopold of Nádasdy in front of the castle in Wiener Neustadt, in which in 1752 the Theresa Military Academy was established. Science and art are represented by the physician Gerard van Swieten (statue), the numismatist Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, the historian György Pray and the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, Joseph Haydn and the as child represented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in front of the Old University. Consultants Management Military Science and Art On the diagonal axes surround equestrian statues of four commanders from the era of Maria Theresa the monument: Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705-1766), Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller (1683-1744), Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790) and Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg and Traun (1677-1748). Leopold Joseph von Daun Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller Gideon Ernst von Laudon Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg and Traun Open base during the renovation (2008).

The monument is being totally renovated since October 2008. In a first step, the base whose granite cladding and the foundation were restored. Under the monument in the course of the work a 600-square-foot brick vault was discovered as a supporting structure that is similar to already known components underneath the equestrian statues on Heroes' Square. In a second step, the stone and metal surfaces are being rehabilitated until probably October 2013.

Reception The monument in 1888 Maria Theresa Square in 1900

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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

A black-necked stilt forages at Deal Island Wildlife Management Area in Somerset County, Md., on May 26, 2020. Stilts are shorebirds with the longest legs in relation to body size of any bird except flamingos. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Spires Runners Post Strong Showing at Nationals

The University of Saint Mary Men’s Cross Country Team and Women's Team runner Ana Gamboa competed this Saturday in the 2013 NAIA Cross Country National Championships at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan. The men’s and women’s race featured 32 of the best teams and over 300 of the best cross country runners in the NAIA.

It turned out to be a very cold morning with the temperature only being in the 20’s for the start of both the men and women’s race.

The Spire men had a very good showing at the team’s first-ever national championship race in the program's three-year history. The team placed 22nd in the country, beating out 10 of the 32 teams that qualified for the NAIA National Championship Meet.

The Spires first runner to finish was senior Brooks Ballou, who placed 83rd with a time of 25:44.82.

Coach David Dominguez had this to say about Brooks and his last collegiate cross country race for the University of Saint Mary: “You could not ask for a better teammate and a harder working athlete. Brooks is one of those special athletes that you are always sad to see graduate. I look forward to seeing the success he will have during the 2014 outdoor track season.”

The Spires had several other outstanding performances on Saturday. The second runner to come in was junior Garret Colglazier, who was 106th with a time of 25:56.98. The third USM runner was Junior Josh Whittaker, who placed 167th with a time of 26:25.94. The Spires' 4th runner -- who had an outstanding day even after being sick for several weeks -- was Aaron Potter, who placed 177th and posted a personal best time of 26:30.78. The Spires fifth runner in was Jacob Sherman, who placed 238th with a personal course best time of 27:12.8. To round out the Saint Mary seven, Russell Brown placed 263rd with a time of 27:33.90, and Ricardo Cortez placed 291st with a time of 28:17.74.

The lone USM Women's Cross Country runner racing at the national championship event was Ana Gamboa. Ana is the first female National Qualifier in USM history. Ana placed 104th out of 321 runners with a time of 19:13.31.

Head Coach Dominguez said “Ana ran a great race; she came out here and gave it her all. She represented the University of Saint Mary very well.”

The next race for the University of Saint Mary distance runners will be 2013 NAIA Qualifier Half Marathon held in Winfield, KS on Dec 6th.

For more on Cross Country at the University of Saint Mary visit www.gospires.com

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The Chesapeake Executive Council holds its annual meeting at Historic Mount Vernon, Va., on May 12, 2009. Participating in the meeting were Virginia Governor and Executive Council Chairman Timothy M. Kaine, Lisa Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Jay Jensen, Deputy Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mayor Adrian Fenty, District of Columbia, Delegate John Cosgrove, Chairman, Chesapeake Bay Commission, John Hanger, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Collin O’Mara, Secretary, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Bill Brannon, Deputy Director, West Virginia Water & Waste Management, and Navis Bermudez, Associate Director of Federal Policy, Office of the Governor, New York. (Photo by Michael Land/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Third Thursday Wine Walk in Downtown Baker City Oregon

Enjoying beautiful evening for Third Thursday in historic downtown Baker City, Oregon.

The monthly Third Thursday Wine Walk is one of numerous events hosted by the Baker City Main Street Program, Baker City Downtown giving customers an opportunity to visit and explore downtown after hours.

Visitors to downtown will find numerous art galleries throughout Baker City’s historic downtown including the Crossroads Carnegie Art center in the restored Carnegie Library building as well as multiple restaurants and a variety of gourmet and artisan food and spirits.

For more information about Third Thursday Wine Walk or other downtown Baker City events visit the Baker City Main Street Program's website at www.bakercitydowntown.com

For more information about other community events in Baker County visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com

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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

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!

College of Liberal Arts Dean Lee Cohen meets with students participating in the Chinese Flagship Program's Capstone next year. Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications

The original signers of the "Comprehensive Conservation & Management Plan for the Delaware Estuary" use tap water to toast the completion of the Delaware Estuary Program’s planning phase in 1996. From left to right, they include previous Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, then-Delaware Governor Tom Carper, and past EPA administrators W. Michael McCabe and Jean Fox.

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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)

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The TopSail Youth Program’s original vessel. She is a 70-foot wooden topsail schooner designed by Howard Chappelle and built in 1938 by William Robinson.

Originally built in Ipswich, Massachusetts (launched in 1939) as a private yacht, Swift of Ipswich is a reduced-scale replica of Swift, an American privateer (a state-sanctioned pirate ship that attacks enemy shipping) from the Revolutionary War, which was captured by the Royal Navy, transported to Britain, and deconstructed.

The drawings produced from the original Swift have been used as the basis for several tall ship designs, mostly due to their completeness in an era which produced few detailed drawings (most ship designs having been scale models which have not survived intact).

Soon after completion, Swift of Ipswich was sold to actor James Cagney and transported to Newport Beach, where she served as his private yacht and appeared in numerous Hollywood films.

After being sold by Cagney in 1958, the Swift was used for various purposes, such as harbor tours, before being acquired by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute in 1991.

After the delivery of the twin brigantines Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson, Swift went into semi-retirement while fundraising proceeded to begin an extensive rebuilding, necessary after over 65 years of wear, tear, and exposure to salt water.

Once work began, workers discovered that many more repairs would be needed. Structural and design changes were required to comply with updated Coast Guard regulations.Work now progresses on the reconstruction. The ship is now in the water at LA Maritime Institute’s yard near at the south end of (the former) Ports O’ Call Village, where the remaining work will be done in the institute’s Building G workshop on site. (Sourced from Wikipedia, Daily Breeze, Grunion Gazette, LA Maritime Institute, Square Rigger, random lengths news).

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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)

2022 Legacy of Adam Hebert, Festivals Acadiens et Creoles Legacy Series, Feed and Seed, Lafayette, Dec. 1: The program's first song was Adam Hebert's "Madeleine" sung by Blake Miller.

EXTERIOR VIEWS OF MED HOMES WITH LANDSCAPING.

THE MAJOR GOAL OF THE MED RESEARCH PROJECT, CONCEIVED IN 1975 BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY, WAS TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A TYPICAL HOME BY AT LEAST 50 PERCENT WHILE MAINTAINING, OR EVEN IMPROVING, THE OCCUPANT FAMILY'S STANDARDS OF LIVING AND COMFORT. THE PROJECT USED AVAILABLE ENERGY-SAVING BUILDING TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS, AS WELL AS ADVANCED HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND A SOLAR/NATURAL GAS ENERGY SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING. MED DESIGNERS HOPED TO EN- COURAGE THE AMERICAN BUILDING INDUSTRY TO ADOPT THE PROJECT'S ENERGY-SAVING FEATURES. RESULTS: ENERGY CONSUMPTION WAS REDUCED BY MORE THAN 50 PERCENT IN THE PROGRAM'S TWO RESEARCH HOUSES, BUT THE TOTAL COST WAS TOO GREAT FOR PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION. A SUBSEQUENT PROJECT, MED-II, PROVED THAT SOME MED-I FEATURES COULD BE USED COST EFFECTIVELY.

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Horticulture Program's Gravel Garden Project - August 7-8, 2019

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.

Women Build

Miami Habitat is holding its seventh Women Build through December 3, 2011, in Liberty City. More than 200 women will come together to volunteer to build a home for partner family Tiara Armstrong and her five year old daughter Jamaria, just in time for the holidays. “My family was very happy and we cried tears of joy when we found out that I was accepted to the program,” said Armstrong. “Owning my own home will be a blessing!”

Women Build is a Habitat for Humanity International program underwritten by Lowe’s which brings together women from all walks of life to address the housing crisis facing millions worldwide. Since the program’s inception in 1998, Women Build volunteers have constructed more than 1,800 houses, including six in Miami-Dade County.

Miami Habitat’s Women Build is in line with its ongoing Liberty City Shine campaign, which aims to build or rehab 90 homes in Liberty City in the coming year. Women Build recruits, educates and inspires women to build decent and affordable homes for low-income families in their communities. Many women come to the Women Build site without previous construction experience and find their inner Rosie the Riveter as they learn new skills and make a positive impact in the community. Their leadership and service are changing lives.

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...

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.

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., (Oct. 18, 2009) – Adding to the Atlas rocket program’s accomplished five decade legacy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V successfully launched the U.S. Air Force’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 (DMSP F18) mission from Space Launch Complex-3 here at 9:12 a.m. PDT, today. The DMSP F18 spacecraft was built for the Air Force by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif.

This mission marked the 600th launch of an Atlas vehicle, carrying on a proud tradition that began with the first Atlas A rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., in 1957. For the Atlas V, today’s success was the 18th for the program, with a 100 percent mission success rate. The inaugural launch for the latest Atlas V configuration occurred from CCAFS on Aug. 21, 2002.

"This is a proud moment in the 52 year history of the Atlas program and for United Launch Alliance,” said Mark Wilkins, ULA vice president, Atlas Product Line. “First, I want to thank our Air Force customer for trusting ULA to launch this important mission. I’d also like to recognize all the men and women who have served on the Atlas team since 1957. Their determination, dedication and attention to detail have made this significant milestone possible. Combining our Atlas and Delta launch vehicle program’s more than 100 years of experience gives ULA the most experienced space launch team in the world.”

During the program’s history, 315 launches have taken place from CCAFS with 285 missions, including today’s launch, launching from Vandenberg. While the Atlas program has launched numerous important missions, it may be most famous for launching Mercury astronauts John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra and Gordon Cooper during the early days of human space flight. Atlas has also launched several Moon and planetary missions including the recent Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission on June 18.

This mission, designated AV-017, was launched aboard an Atlas V 401 configuration using the Common Core Booster powered by the RD-180 engine. The 17 previous Atlas V launches included three missions each for the Air Force, NASA, and NRO along with eight for commercial customers.

ULA's next launch, currently scheduled for Nov. 14, is the Atlas V IntelSat-14 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at CCAFS.

Spires Runners Post Strong Showing at Nationals

The University of Saint Mary Men’s Cross Country Team and Women's Team runner Ana Gamboa competed this Saturday in the 2013 NAIA Cross Country National Championships at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan. The men’s and women’s race featured 32 of the best teams and over 300 of the best cross country runners in the NAIA.

It turned out to be a very cold morning with the temperature only being in the 20’s for the start of both the men and women’s race.

The Spire men had a very good showing at the team’s first-ever national championship race in the program's three-year history. The team placed 22nd in the country, beating out 10 of the 32 teams that qualified for the NAIA National Championship Meet.

The Spires first runner to finish was senior Brooks Ballou, who placed 83rd with a time of 25:44.82.

Coach David Dominguez had this to say about Brooks and his last collegiate cross country race for the University of Saint Mary: “You could not ask for a better teammate and a harder working athlete. Brooks is one of those special athletes that you are always sad to see graduate. I look forward to seeing the success he will have during the 2014 outdoor track season.”

The Spires had several other outstanding performances on Saturday. The second runner to come in was junior Garret Colglazier, who was 106th with a time of 25:56.98. The third USM runner was Junior Josh Whittaker, who placed 167th with a time of 26:25.94. The Spires' 4th runner -- who had an outstanding day even after being sick for several weeks -- was Aaron Potter, who placed 177th and posted a personal best time of 26:30.78. The Spires fifth runner in was Jacob Sherman, who placed 238th with a personal course best time of 27:12.8. To round out the Saint Mary seven, Russell Brown placed 263rd with a time of 27:33.90, and Ricardo Cortez placed 291st with a time of 28:17.74.

The lone USM Women's Cross Country runner racing at the national championship event was Ana Gamboa. Ana is the first female National Qualifier in USM history. Ana placed 104th out of 321 runners with a time of 19:13.31.

Head Coach Dominguez said “Ana ran a great race; she came out here and gave it her all. She represented the University of Saint Mary very well.”

The next race for the University of Saint Mary distance runners will be 2013 NAIA Qualifier Half Marathon held in Winfield, KS on Dec 6th.

For more on Cross Country at the University of Saint Mary visit www.gospires.com

Nat Vivian, 10, explores Beaverdam Creek in Salisbury, Md., on Sept. 25, 2010. (Photo by Margaret Enloe/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Antietam National Battlefield is seen in Sharpsburg, Md., on Nov. 5, 2017. The battle of Antietam was one of five Civil War battlefields that in the 1890s came under the administration of the War Department as a park. Almost a century later, the prospect of encroaching development led to a series of public-private partnerships that today extend preservation beyond the battlefield to the surrounding viewscape. Those efforts allow visitors to maintain a strong sense of what Antietam felt like on September 17, 1862, when well over 100,000 soldiers fought at relatively close range in a stalemate that gave President Lincoln enough of a Union victory to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Cal Cooksey receives Youth Hunting Program’s Landowner of the Year award

At its July meeting in Orlando, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) presented Cal Cooksey of Sawdust with the Landowner of the Year award for his generous support of the FWC’s Youth Hunting Program of Florida. This program provides safe, educational, mentored hunts for 12- to 17-year-olds to increase the number of youths involved in hunting and conservation.

Cooksey owns land in Gadsden County that he opens up so those new to hunting can experience the tradition through the Youth Hunting Program of Florida.

“I first got turned on to the Youth Hunting Program by John Fuller with the Future of Hunting in Florida,” Cooksey said. “I saw an opportunity to be able to share with people what I’ve had all my life.”

For the past couple years, the cattle rancher and professional auctioneer has hosted fall youth hunts on his family property. During these hunts, 50 youth have learned about wildlife and safe, responsible hunting and had the chance to harvest their first dove or deer. Cooksey even recruits neighboring landowners to participate in the program.

“I encourage them to host a youth hunt just once,” Cooksey said. “Then they’ll see how rewarding and satisfying it is, and they’ll want to do it every year.”

Cooksey said he feels the future of the program hinges on finding new ways to attract youth to the outdoors and keeping them engaged. He said he gets a lot of satisfaction from the program, seeing young people get excited about hunting and learning about conservation. He admits his proudest moment was when his entire family embraced the program and helped run the hunts and do the cooking.

“Mr. Cooksey shows his passion and dedication to the program by annually planting dove fields for the youth hunts on his property. He strives to provide a memorable experience to those attending and is always trying to find ways to get more individuals involved in the program,” said Jonathan Roberts, Youth Hunting Program of Florida coordinator. “Families like the Cookseys who open their properties and homes to provide outdoors opportunities to youth are the reason why our hunting tradition will continue on.”

To find out how to become a volunteer landowner or to learn more about the Youth Hunting Program of Florida, go to MyFWC.com/YHPF.

FWC photo by Avery Bristol

After more than a decade of conducting operations overseas, the Army Reserve is bringing its unique capabilities home to benefit communities across America.

Localities across the nation are tapping into these skills through the DoD Innovative Readiness Training program. First authorized in 1993, IRT allows reserve component units to hone their wartime readiness through hands-on training while simultaneously providing quality services to communities throughout the U.S.

As the military’s premier force provider of organized capabilities, the Army Reserve is ideally suited to conduct these missions, said Col. Rhonda Smillie, the 88th Regional Support Command legislative liaison.

“The Army Reserve is composed almost entirely of combat support and combat service support units,” said Smillie. “Those same enabling capabilities used in operations overseas are exactly what many communities within our own country could greatly benefit from.”

Those activities include providing support such as medical and dental care, water purification, veterinary services and engineering projects.

The Army Reserve’s most recent mission took place on Fort Belknap, a geographically isolated Indian Reservation in north-central Montana. There, 33 Soldiers from subordinate units of the West Medical Area Readiness Support Group augmented the Indian Health Services Hospital.

Named Operation Walking Shield, the mission began July 21 and concluded Aug. 1. The Army Reserve staff consisted of eight different medical specialties to include lab technicians, dentists, physicians, critical care nurses, behavioral health specialists, optometry technicians and podiatrists.

The augmentation of these Army Reserve medical personnel greatly enhanced the Fort Belknap Hospital’s own medical staff of seven, enabling the clinic to nearly double the care it provides to the more than 5,000 members of the surrounding Tribes. By conclusion of the exercise, the Army Reserve Soldiers treated more than 900 patients.

Nona Longknife, credentialing coordinator for the Fort Belknap Hospital, said the addition of these medical practitioners enables the hospital staff to augment and enhance normal operations with much needed services. According to Longknife, the Army Reserve Soldiers bring specialized skills not available at the clinic. This affords some Tribal members their only opportunity to receive much needed expanded care.

“During this time of year we have more patients coming in for check-ups and physicals for stuff like sports, schools and Head Start,” said Longknife. “We also don’t have some medical specialists here like podiatrists, so many of our patients, especially our elderly, are able to get much needed care that would otherwise be unavailable.”

Capt. Mathew Plouffe, commander of the 4225th U.S. Army Hospital, said this was their third year conducting this mission and the benefits for everyone have been undeniable.

“Our Soldiers get real-world training,” said Plouffe. “Our EMTs are going on EMT runs, they’re driving the ambulance, they are picking up patients and bringing them back to the emergency room – our nurses are getting real world nursing experience, our podiatrist is treating feet – our dental techs are doing cleanings and assisting dentists who are treating real dental issues – our behavioral health specialists are working out in the field and in the clinic. This is real world training!”

In addition, Plouffe said being able to help an underserved community has been great for moral.

“Everybody is working as a team,” said Plouffe. “It certainly builds moral and cohesion being able to have an impact on a community. We are taking care of Americans. Missions like these are our only opportunity to really do that.”

Montana Senator John Walsh visited the training at Fort Belknap for himself on July 27.

According to Walsh, the unique skills the Army Reserve brings are invaluable in addressing serious community needs within our own country.

"Innovative Readiness Training missions are a win-win for the community and for the military,” said Walsh. “Operation Walking Shield at Fort Belknap is a great example of the program’s success because personnel are able to hone medical skills while helping a community in need of those services.”

Missions like these are also a great way to build relationships between communities and the Soldiers who want to make a difference, noted Walsh.

“Service members are especially important in helping communities because they are exceptionally motivated to make a difference,” said Walsh.

Smillie, who facilitated Walsh’s visit and invited all members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, said it is vital that the public and elected officials understand how Army Reserve IRT missions can benefit our communities.

“The Army Reserve is all about specialized capabilities. In addition to doctors and medical professionals, we have engineers, attorneys, transportation specialists,” said Smillie. “All these skills that enable our forces can also easily be transferred to the civilian sector and benefit our communities.”

This may be best illustrated by the example of Pfc. Johnna Snell who has paired her military occupation with her civilian career while simultaneously bettering her own community.

A member of the Crow Nation of Montana, Snell is an automated logistical technician assigned to the 4225th U.S. Army Hospital. She used her military training to qualify for her current civilian position as a supply technician for the Crow Agency Indian Health Services Hospital.

Snell said the combination of her background, military occupation, civilian occupation and current mission have all complimented each other greatly.

“I am proud to be a part of a unit that can actually help a Native American community through this program,” said Snell. “I’m also proud that I can do this for the Native people and bring this knowledge to other reservations.”

Snell has participated in Operation Walking Shield for the past three years. This year Snell served as the mission’s cultural liaison, charged with coordinating between the Tribes and the unit. According to Snell, the need for assistance is vast and the people greatly appreciate it.

“There is a need here and they struggle to find the services,” said Snell. “Every year we come back and they are excited to see us. The most rewarding thing is helping people in need.”

The value added to the Fort Belknap community is considerable in many aspects, said Longknife.

“Everybody understands that we get cut back, so we try to use everything the best we can,” said Longknife. “The services they provide let us saves for other things and prevents us from having to send an elder 200 miles away for the right care. Elders can’t travel like that all the time - it’s too hard on them.

“80,000 dollars is what I would have to pay for just three doctors to work two weeks,” continued Longknife. “With 80,000 dollars we could send one of our elders to a really good heart doctor, or have a child’s cleft pallet fixed, or have a child’s teeth fixed.”

Beyond benefitting from services the Army Reserve provides, knowing that someone cares and will help them impacts the community deeply, said Longknife.

“Our people have great appreciation for what is done here,” said Longknife. “Appreciation that the Army Reserve thinks that much of our people to take that two weeks that they could spend anywhere in the United States to do their Reserve time, and they choose to come here – and it fills the hearts of the people to think and know that somebody does care.”

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) intern Sky Wildcat hammers a nail on the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program’s 50,000th home in Bridgeville, DE on Jun. 8, 2015. Volunteers from Congressional staff, USDA 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.

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 rescue training aboard an UH-60L Black Hawk utility helicopter during “Patriot South 2017 Exercise” (Patriot South 17), a joint training-exercise focused on natural disaster-response and preparedness, Gulfport and Port Bienville Industrial Complex (PBIC), Mississippi, Jan. 31, 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.” 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)

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), conduct training-rescue operations during their first, 2018, quarterly rescue-training event Table Rock, Pickens County, Jan. 18, 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)

Forest floor and tree canopy are seen on the property of Nick Carter, a retired Maryland biologist, in Greensboro, Md., on May 13, 2014. For roughly 50 years, Carter has owned 33 acres of land featuring forest and wetlands on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (Photo by Jenna Valente/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp ride a zip line through the forest 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)

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...

Bare spots on the golf course are where trees used to be, because when sizeable military aircraft land here for airshows or when in transit in need of fuel or rest, they will come here where over time trees were planted closer and closer to the taxiways and closer to hitting wingtips; the trees were also habitats where birds could roost and nest right next to flying jets; this is a problem for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services (WS) Airport Wildlife Hazard Management Program's local Wildlife Biologist Michael Pacheco whose Integrated Wildlife Damage Management (IWDM) called for the collaboration of the golf course managers, 12th Flying Training Wing Safety Office, Civil Engineering Squadron, and Air Field Management to remove the problematic trees, at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) - Randolph, Texas, on April 23, 2020.

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USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

Fawzia Kheir

1. Major: Interdisciplinary Studies

2. Where Am I from? New Jersey (Ethnicity: Egyptian/Turkish)

3. What is your best memory of WSSU? The best memory I had at WSSU was becoming one the best mid-distance runner that Coach Turner had coached. I knew I had to just believe in her program and it will get me to my destination. That destination currently held me to 3 school records, CIAA Champion ( XC, Indoor, and Outdoor), All-Region, and the best of all memories was becoming a 2016 NCAA DII Outdoor qualifier for the 800 meters. I was selected to compete at the highest collegiate level anyone can ever ask for. Can you believe I have accomplished so much within just three months under her training? Words until today can never be explained how much my coach really impacted my life. She made me realize that nothing was never impossible if I put my mind to it and work hard, because hard work and having faith was the one thing I had held on so tight. I never found anyone that realized the potential and talent I had until I had met her at WSSU. So for that, I thank the university for having her part of the school because she saved my career.

4. What do you love about WSSU? I love this school because not only does it challenge students mentally, but giving a chance to those who are willing to try and succeed. I really love the fact being a student-athlete our coaches and academic advisers are always on top of there game when it comes to grades. They are always looking out for us and to make sure we on the right track of graduating.

5. What do you plan on doing after you graduate? I plan to go after my dream and that is to run for my country " EGYPT" and to be part of the next Olympic Games 2020.

6. How has WSSU prepared you for the future? It has prepared me mentally because WSSU challenged me a lot. Whether it was in class or on the track, i was always challenged to see where my potential can take me; and for that I grew into a strong independent young wom

Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp ride a zip line through the forest 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)

Red raspberries grow vertically on suspended vines at the Horticulture Program's Learning Garden at Gwinnett Technical College, in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015. Gwinnett Technical College Horticulture Program's Learning Garden in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015.

Gwinnett Technical College Horticulture Program's Learning Garden in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015. The field allows students to demonstrate a variety growing techniques. All the plants are edible produce and allows culinary students to learn the value of farm fresh produce resulting in future Farm to Table practices that emphasize the partnership between the two programs. Horticulture students will plan and schedule plantings to meet the needs of upcoming menus. Culinary students will harvest the produce they will prepare that day. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

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)

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

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

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