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Aug 24, 2011

USA Earthquake, Aug 24, 2011


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Rare quake delivers disruption, little damage in eastern US
Monsters and Critics.com
By Frank Fuhrig Aug 24, 2011, 6:56 GMT Washington - Anearthquake was felt Tuesday on the north-east coast of the United States from Washington to New York prompting buildings to be evacuated amid scattered reports of minor damage. ...
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Monsters and Critics.com
Quake raises safety concerns as nuclear plant shut
Reuters
... obtained on August 23, 2011. Two nuclear reactors at North Anna plant were shut down on Tuesday after the facility lost power following a strong earthquake that rattled the US East Coast, but company officials said there was no major damage from ...
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Reuters
White House Chandeliers, Federal Workers' Nerves Rattled Amid Rare Quake
Bloomberg
By Nicole Gaouette and Kristin Jensen - Wed Aug 24 12:35:32 GMT 2011 People stand in the street in downtown Washington on Aug. 23, 2011, after office buildings where evacuated following a 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va. ...
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Rare quake jolts eastern US, cracks Washington monument
Montreal Gazette
A detail photograph of the north side of the Washington Monument on the National Mall August 24, 2011 in Washington, DC The Washington Monument will remain indefinitely closed after Tuesday's 5.8 magnitude East Coast earthquake left cracks near the top ...
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Search for hidden damage after East Coast quake
StarNewsOnline.com
Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and ...
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US govt responds online to quake
FutureGov Magazine
By Xinghui Guo | 24 August 2011 In response to the 5.8 magnitude earthquakethat hit Virginia yesterday, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator, Craig Fugate has been using his Twitter account and other internet platforms to advise ...
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Earthquake Aftermath: National Monuments Damaged
ABC News
By KEVIN DOLAK and JESSICA HOPPER (@jesshop23) People who came out on the street after an earthquake look up at a window that cracked during the quake on Market Street in Philadelphia, Tuesday,Aug. 23, 2011. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo) The strongest ...
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Mineral, Va., Earthquake Epicenter Residents Shaken but Safe
ABC News
By COLLEEN CURRY and SUSANNA KIM School board member Brian Huffman walks the halls surveying the damage to Louis County High School after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Mineral, Va., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. (Alexa Welch/Richmond Times-Dispatch/AP Photo) ...
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Shakes and shimmies, but no quake damage reported in Forsyth County
Winston-Salem Journal
Store owner BJ Singh, replaces bottles on shelves Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the epicenter of anearthquake that struck Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquaketo strike the East Coast ...
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Earthquake sends Vermonters to social media
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Many of us actually felt dizzy after,” she said. “It was completely and totally unexpected.” There was no evident damage and the firm's 85 employees went back inside to work after five or 10 minutes. Seventh Generation, a Burlington-based business, ...
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UPDATE 3-US quake damages Washington's National Cathedral | Reuters
Strong East Coast quake highly unusual: scientist. 23 Aug 2011 ... Related News.US quake damages National Cathedral, Ecuador embassy. Tue, Aug 23 2011 ...
www.reuters.com/.../quake-usa-cathedral-idUSN1E77M1Q620...
Earthquake Colorado / New Mexico, USA – Estimated damage : 100000 ...
Earthquake Colorado / New Mexico, USA – Estimated damage : 100000 US$ +Damage pictures. Last update: August 23, 2011 at 11:12 pm by By Armand Vervaeck and ...
earthquake-report.com/.../unusually-strong-earthquake-in-colo...
2011 Virginia earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Date, 17:51:04 UTC, August 23, 2011. Magnitude, 5.8 ... A magnitude 5.8 Mw intraplate earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of Virginia on August 23, 2011, ...It damaged several national monuments in Washington, D.C., and caused an ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
Earthquake damage in Virginia (08-23-2011) - YouTube
Earthquake damage in Virginia (08-23-2011). FederalJacktube6 384 videos ...want to make the Capitol of the united states nuclear radioactive by causing a ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCwn87UX6M
Quake rocks East Coast of US, no major damage - CBS5 - KPHO ...
Updated: Aug. 23,, 2011. SOURCES | LEGAL. Unusual earthquake: Strong tremor... Quake rocks East Coast of US, no major damage. Posted: Aug 23, 2011 11:16 AM ...
www.kpho.com/story/.../earthquake-rocks-washington-area

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SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 14, 2011


Maryland's top prep sports: football for boys, soccer for girls
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Football remains the most popular sport for boys nationwide and in Maryland. For girls, track and field is the most popular sport across the country with soccer most popular in Maryland, according to the annual NFHS High School Athletics Participation ...
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CMU faculty, administrators debate work stoppage's effect on athletics
The Morning Sun
“Right now, football is in practice. Soccer is playing. Volleyball is playing. Athletes are on campus,” Ross said. “We have to get back to class. It could have an adverse effect on our ability to play intercollegiate sports. ...
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UK to Live Stream Women's Soccer Home Matches
UKAthletics
University of Kentucky women's soccer home games will now be available to the Big Blue Nation worldwide via live streaming, the UK athletics department announced. Beginning with the 2011 home opener against Eastern Kentucky, all women's home matches ...
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UKAthletics
CVAC All-Academics announced for winter
Plattsburgh Press Republican
... Senior Play, Key Club Secretary of Key Club, Secretary of Student Council, Athletic Association officer, soccer, track and field. Michael Phelan, hockey- Art Club, honor roll, Adopt-A-Highway, community sports volunteer, hockey, football, golf. ...
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Glide teachers approve agreement, sports begin as scheduled
NRToday.com
Without the agreement between the teachers union and the district, which will save the school district $22000, practices for football, volleyball and soccer would have been postponed. The cut in coaching salaries will preserve middle school sports. ...
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Sports shorts
Foster's Daily Democrat
27 (10 am to 12 pm). ROCHESTER — The RYSA fall recreational soccer program will hold sign-ups for ages U6 to U10 on Aug. 23-26 from 6-8 pm at the Roger Allen Park soccer fields. ROCHESTER — The Spaulding Football Jamboree will take place Aug. ...
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Hill Previews MRH Fall Sports at Meeting
Patch.com
"I look forward to a great athletic year," he said. In addition to introducing the coaches for four sportsteams—cheerleaders, football, soccer and volleyball—Hill talked about procedures for student athletes. If an athlete falls below a C grade ...
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Jemicy Upper School Getting New Athletic Field
Patch.com
The athletic field will be built on the remaining 10 acres, which are currently being farmed and are where the school has held cross country sports events. The future field will be used for two sports – boy's lacrosse and soccer – depending on the ...
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The Crimson Triumphant
Harvard Magazine
With the wind chill at minus 10, the football and men's soccer teams clinch Ivy League titles within hours of each other in New Haven. The unbeaten soccer team holds Yale's defending champions to a 0-0, double-overtime draw, and the gridders top the ...
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Charleroi Hall has glorious '11 hall of fame class
Monessen Valley Independent
If that isn't enough, also going in are Class of '82 multi-sport stars Tim Cunningham and Jimmy Edwards, 1978 grad Robbie Uhlman and soccer star Nicole Bosley Bednarski, a 1996 graduate. "This is a great class," said Charleroi athletic director Bill ...
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State adds a third division in girls soccer
Wooster Daily Record
By CHRISTY JOHNSON When the Ohio High School Athletic Association held its first girls soccertournament in 1985, there was one division. As the sport has grown, so has the need to expand the tournament format. In 1995, a second division was added, ...
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Deadline is Tuesday for YHS to name soccer coaches
Reno Gazette Journal
While official practice for fall athletic teams began Monday, the Yerington High School boys and girls soccer teams took the field without a head coach, and athletic director Daron Wildermuth says if coaches aren't found by next Tuesday, ...
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Castellano Welcomes Parsells and Temple to Athletic Training Staff for 2011-12
Stevens Institute of Technology
Parsells is a registered Athletic Trainer in three states and has also been a member of the NationalAthletic Trainers Association (NATA) since 2008. He is a native of Bridgewater, NJ His primarysports at Stevens will be women's soccer, ...
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Fall sports struggle at Niagara Falls
Niagara Gazette
Volleyball and soccer are programs that especially struggle in the fall, and boys volleyball coach Karyn Rolling said it's difficult to find students for her team with athletes flocking to sports such asfootball. “Fall is a very tough season to get ...
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SF International High School hopes to make noise in its first season
San Francisco Examiner
For those who follow San Francisco high school sports, a school with “International” in its name is not a foreign idea at all, but the newest athletic program in The City may embody the essence of the word the best. In just its third year of existence ...
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San Francisco Examiner
Argos' fall sports start next week
Pensacola News Journal
She was recently appointed on the NCAA presidents' committee for Division II, a group that helps shape the future of NCAA athletics at that level. Next week, the UWF men's and women's soccerteams, the cross country teams and the volleyball team all ...
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Sports Briefs
Daily Herald
Herriman football game was incorrect. All four touchdowns were scored by Cole Payne. LOGAN -- Utah State senior forward Shantel Flanary, who prepped at Lone Peak High, was named the WesternAthletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. ...
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Sports capsule
Napa Valley Register
There will be two breakout sessions if there is more than one sport of interest. You can arrive early and check out the campus and sports facilities and meet some of the school's Athletic Leadership students, who will serve as ambassadors for the ...
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Adidas launches barefoot shoe
Forbes
The company, which has long relied on its strength as a soccer and lifestyle brand, has put a bigger push behind other sports that are big in the US as well. In basketball, for example, it's expanded its products in recent years and signed Chicago ...
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Tiny tot sports at WAC
Casper Journal
Tiny Tot Sports, an introduction into sports for boys and girls ages 2 to 4 years old, is available at the Wyoming Athletic Club. Each week a new sport will be presented such as soccer, T-ball andfootball. Parents may choose one session or all three. ...
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CNY coaches know preventing heat illness in young athletes is no game
Syracuse.com (blog)
Fall sports teams like football and soccer are starting their seasons now, when the weather can still be hot and steamy. Recently released government data states that more than 3000 children and teens younger than 20 in the United States received ...
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Syracuse.com (blog)
Belshaw, Wenger Collect More Preseason Honors
GoDuke.com
DURHAM, NC-One week after being named to the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List, the tandem of juniors James Belshaw and Andrew Wenger added another preseason honor, being named to the Soccer America Preseason All-America squad. ...
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It's a Bronze in Field Hockey at Junior Olympics
Patch.com
Playing soccer with the Green Hornets she had her first taste of athletics on the local fields and didn't fall in love with the sport. By the next fall, she found her true athletic calling – field hockey. Since second grade Maeve has moved up through ...
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Fitch Field Hockey: Success Story Before It Starts
Patch.com
Kolnaski hails from an athletic family. Her husband, Ed, has coached scholastic soccer, fooball, hockey and tennis. Ed's sister is Paulla (Kolnaski) Solar, the Hall of Fame Stonington girls' basetball coach who started the SHS field hockey program. ...
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Wellington Christian diving program is no more, girls soccer may be added
Palm Beach Post (blog)
Wellington Christian, which last year enrolled 111 students in grades 9-12 and graduated a senior class of 19, offers 10 varsity sports. Winters said the school is considering adding girls soccer to replace girls diving.
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Janesville School District Considers Cutting Athletics
WISC Madison
Some students said that cutting sports isn't a good option. "Without soccer, I think I'd be on the wrong track to life," said Peter Cooney, co-captain of the Janesville Craig soccer team. "I'd probably be out drinking, smoking. ...
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Ciarrocca gets going at Stuart Country Day School
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
“I just implemented, for the K-5 level, mini-clinics to be held throughout the year (insoccer, basketball and tennis). We're excited about that. We'll see our kids play.” Stuart is also expanding its athletics program, which currently includes field ...
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The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
2011 fall athletics season begins Sept. 2
Hamilton College News
Football opens its season at home against Tufts on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 1 pm Men's and women's soccer and field hockey host Amherst College on Saturday, and the trio takes on Wesleyan University on Sunday. Crew hosts the Bridge to Bridge Head Race on ...
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Hamilton College News
Another solution for D1 sports
Durham Herald Sun
Third, many of the football, basketball, baseball, and soccer players, in particular, have aspirations of moving on to professional sports after (or instead of) completing college. In essence, we serve as a no-cost farm system for these professional ...
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Shorter Mens Soccer Looks to Erasae Doubts
Coosa Valley News
The Shorter University men's soccer program still has something to prove. A regular season Southern States Athletic Conference championship in 2008 followed by two straight seasons of double-digit wins and trips to the SSAC Tournament semifinals should ...
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UMBC signs head men's soccer coach Pete Caringi through 2015-16 academic year
Potomac Soccer Wire
UMBC head men's soccer coach Pete Caringi, Jr. has signed a four-year contract extension that runs through the 2015-16 academic year, Director of Athletics Dr. Charles Brown announced today. The Retriever mentor enters his 21st season as bench boss in ...
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RazorRewards program introduced for students
Today's THV
The student access pass allows admission to all University of Arkansas athletic events. Three points will be allotted for attending home events for gymnastics, soccer, softball, volleyball and women's basketball. Two points will be awarded for ...
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Reuters sports schedule at 1400 GMT on Tuesday, Aug 23
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
(RUGBY-SAFRICA/, expect by 1900, by Ken Borland) DAEGU, South Korea - A new, slimmed-down competition schedule will have triple champion Usain Bolt running fewer races when he defends his sprint titles at the world athletics championships that begin in ...
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Athletics vs. Education: The struggles of a father (Community Voices)
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
That’' the perfect way to describe how I feel after my daughter's first day of soccerpractice. I mean, I was excited -- perhaps a little too excited. As a former athlete and avid sports fan I was proud almost to the point of tears when I saw my ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Clinton's move to CSC takes effect
Utica Observer Dispatch
The move includes all sports except football, ice hockey, and indoor track and field, which are governed by Section III. Clinton's place in the new CSC alignment is set through the winter season. The boys and girls soccer teams will play in CSC II with ...
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Sign-Ups Completed for Pay-for-Play Junior School Sports
Patch.com
“We are posting good numbers the first year back as a pay to participate program,” said Tom Haralampoudis, chairman of the Madison Junior School Athletic Sports Association, a non-profit formed earlier this year to administer the Junior Dodgers program ...
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Poll: Who Will Win the PTC's Metro Division
By George M. Thomas
We need the assistance of fall sports coaches and athletic directors in getting the information to us each night. We take scores by phone at 330-996-3800, by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com and by fax at 330-996-3629. Another service is available for football and soccer coaches, too. It is called Scorefeeder.com and it is a local company that takes the info online and submits it to us in a format we can use to publish it. Athletes of week ...
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Men's Soccer Selected Second in Northeast-10 Preseason Poll - SNHU
The Southern New Hampshire University men's soccer team has been voted to finish second in the Northeast-10 preseason coaches' poll released on Tuesday. Franklin Pierce University is the coaches choice to repeat as NE-10 regular season ...
SNHU Athletic News

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