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sabine01

Posted with Fred's Permission: -- For those of you who have recently have gotten to know me, you wouldn't know that I underwent treatment for a brain tumor in 2004. Every year since treatment, I (along with various friends) have participated in the Race for Hope , a race sponsored by the Brain Tumor...

sabine01

Hello, All! The deadline is soon approaching for nominations for the Benjamin Cooper Award and the Benjamin Cooper Young Ambassador Award. I'll be accepting nominations by email at southard at pace-nsc dot org until the end of the month (March 31st). Looking forward to seeing your nominations. Best,...

sabine01

It's probably just me (and a bit of this is intensified by having read for DIIers at a HS tournament), but what was up with all the Mike Sorice meta? To me, Once or Twice is fine... More is a bit much. Is there a cult I don't know about (and is it a cargo cult? :wink: ) A little more seriously... Ho...

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I agree with much of what's been said; the 16th-century Italian composers bonus wasn't too hard in general, I thought, but for a novice tournament...perhaps. We had some serious complaints from our sports player, who answered "Royal Rumble" for Battle Royale and was very upset about it. I...

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You would have better luck in terms of traffic going in and out of BWI, as we did for TIT. Of course, you'd need to rent a car, but the flights to BWI are quite cheap on AirTran. If you have any questions about car rental and travel in and out of BWI I can email you with the details of what we did....

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Locally in the Charleston area, the big QUEST competition at Trident Technical College is coming up March 8. The tournament involves almost every middle and high school in a three-county area, and goes by subject area. I am in the sophomore Social Studies area, and you have to take a subject area t...

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DaGeneral wrote:For those having issues with downloading the set, try this link.

Just as a headsup: Link provided is the one to the HSQB forums... Is there something else I'm missing?

sabine01

username: sabine01

(yep. keeping things consistent...)

sabine01

Thanks to Penn and Matt for putting on a well-run tournament, although I will say that having a tournament where you need card access to enter should be avoided in the future if it's possible (I don't know if there was another place the tournament could have been held). Perhaps this is showing my f...

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He was definitely one of the people I hoped to emulate in my formative years.... for the very reasons Charlie described in the original post. Very sorry to hear, especially because I hadn't seen him in quite a while. I remember Al being very personable, as well as being a very skilled moderator. Fro...

sabine01

Now, I fully realize the members of the D team who had flaked are a partial cause of this, but one quibble: With three "house" (for lack of a better description) teams with only 1-2 players on them, and two Maryland teams having to subdivide in order to round out the field... I just wonder...

sabine01

There are some inaccuracies in the stats - for instance, against Maryland B, I was 10/0 and Hannah was 4/0, and not vice-versa. My papers with the accurate stats for us are in my car right now, but I can send you corrections later if you'd like to fix the stats. I'm sure other people have other cor...

sabine01

MLWGS-Gir wrote:Is Heath Ledger awesome? He died this afternoon from what was probably a drug overdose. He probably would have been awesome eventually...

My jaw virtually dropped to the floor when I heard at work... Really unexpected...

Gone too soon... Gone too soon.

sabine01

4th team confirmed. Sorry for the bother...

sabine01

Lapego1 wrote:Maryland (4)

Last I checked, we were sending only three teams, but will doublecheck with Mike...

Best,
Tricia

sabine01

Definitely a chop-suey buzz... (after hearing song lyrics which I thought sounded vaguely like American Idiot to my tired mind)

(wrong) "American Idiot, Green Day"
(right) "Styx"

sabine01

(Mostly from: http://www.pace-nsc.org/cooper.html). Letters of nomination are now being accepted for the 2008 Benjamin Cooper Memorial Quiz Bowl Ambassador Award and the Young Ambassador Award, to be presented at the National Scholastics Championship. Letters of nomination are being accepted through...

sabine01

leftsaidfred wrote:
sabine01 wrote:The cake is a lie!

if spiderman's cake is a lie i don't even want to live any more

Crap... I now have LeeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live" stuck in my head. (Darn that stream-of-consciousness!)

sabine01

The cake is a lie!

sabine01

FWIW: Ike Turner has passed away.

sabine01

For those interested, my photos from the NSC are now posted to Flickr.

(Unless there's a way I can upload photos to Facebook en masse, a Facebook appearance of these will come a bit more gradually.)

Congratulations to all participating teams this weekend!

~T~

sabine01

BuzzerZen wrote:None taken, of course. I'm just bemused. :-)

Definitely do see the irony in that matchup though... *lol* Just making sure...

sabine01

Hm, my name is printed as "Eric" in the PACE history thing on page 12 of the program. I also had no idea I was a "young crusader"...didn't think Jews were allowed to crusade. Oy! *smiles* Historically, "Young Ambassador" and "Young Crusader" have been used in...

sabine01

Matt Weiner wrote:
BobGHHS wrote:I think we're planning on hosting our trash tournament on October 6, btw.
But...you're a high school?

I wonder why the question...
Didn't Raleigh Charter host a trash tourney within the past year or so?

sabine01

DumbJaques wrote:EDIT: Also, I nominate myself for tool of the year.

Will support that nomination. Not that that support's worth much.

sabine01

Awesome, now no one will ever know what happened! Please ignore the 10 or so posts directly referencing or actually quoting the statements. Also, please make all subsequent posts in newspeak. FYI: 10 is not three-four mentions (including mine). Tom asked him edit it out as well (Mind you -- after b...

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8:08 Eastern. True to my word. I have reposted this without the last statement.

quantumfootball wrote: I'd just like to say that I thought that Garfield Heights had deserved a title for a long time, and I'm finally glad they got one.

sabine01

quantumfootball : I would highly recommend taking a good hard look at rule 8 in the guidelines which reads: 8) The rule on calling people out on behavior at high school tournaments is: don't do it before talking to your coach, don't do it before talking to the TD, don't do it before attempting to re...

sabine01

Just a reminder that Tricia will be compiling information to write the official citations for Julie and Evan. Please email her with any information that you believe may help with this process. To hopefully ward off any confusion about where correspondence should go: I can be contacted at southard (...

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence proudly announces the 2007 recipients of the Benjamin Cooper Awards. The Academic Ambassador Award: Julie Gittings of State College Area HS For her years of mentoring players of HS quizbowl and being an ambassador to the game. The Young Ambassador ...

sabine01

Now that you've said that, Germany will win Euro 2008 and Bayern Munich will win the Champions' League next year. Good God. Anyone but Bayern. (Bayer Leverkusen is the team my host family and program director's family got me hooked onto, and it's with them I stay... Let's face it -- 1 FC Koeln is.....

sabine01

Heading to Maryland to start MLS studies. (but for those of you who know me, this isn't a huge surprise...)

Not sure how my work-study-life balance will be, but if I'm able to (without driving myself nuts), I will join MAQT.

~T~

sabine01

Mod note: It will not get archived until a month after the last post after the date of the event has passed.

This doesn't mean people should go start bumping up the thread incessantly, though...

~Tricia

sabine01

My personal computer is down for repairs. I'll mainly have access at work (and sometimes in other locations...) The process of trying to swap CPU fans/heat sinks is currently slow-going... Thank you to my fellow mods who have picked up a little of the slack... I'll try to catch up as best as I can w...

sabine01

If the time works out (I don't know how exactly how work and class timing will work out), I certainly will join MAQT this Fall.

I've already sent my intent form to CLIS...

With Grad Schools, your mileage may vary as far as timing.

sabine01

A musical from the *wonderful* class of 1980: "Can't Stop the Music"

New Quote: "Oh my God, what a horrible photograph. My first wanted poster and I look just awful. "

sabine01

I've heard that the Police weren't quite so good live... I'm wondering if Sting's voice range has gotten lower over the years... "Put out your red light" in that Grammy performance is certainly lower than on album. They've also been known to change things around in live performances too, t...

sabine01

Rothlover wrote:Seriously, can you go wrong with a good shwarma or a kafta kebab? I'll take you to olympic pita if you are ever by nyc.

Closest thing you're ever gonna get to a dÃ¶ner kebab 'round here...

*misses those things*

~T~

sabine01

If both of these quotes fit, wonderful. If they don't, please let me know if so I can choose one. Yes, no, maybe. I don't know. Can you repeat the question? ~ They Might Be Giants, "Boss of Me" I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted! And could someone please bring me somethi...

sabine01

Tom -

Per my above post, GW's team is not a Div. 2... it will be a Div. 1 (Undergrad)...

~Tricia

[etc: thanks]

sabine01

Tom - I just found out two of the team members playing this weekend (we didn't know our exact configuration until this week), actually played in the ICT last year. Will need to change the division of GW's team from DII to DI-UGrad. Feel free to give me a ring if you have any questions. Still one buz...

sabine01

Bruce wrote:Bear down.

Awww... what a cute little killer... :-p

(Seriously, the bear cub *is* cute...)

sabine01

Calling out the bears in their evil lairs... ;)

~T~

sabine01

Bears Only if I get to call them soulless, godless, rampaging killing machines, a la Stephen Colbert. :-p (Really... I have no interest in this year's Superbowl save for the commercials, and I can't see them anyway, since I'll be working.) Hey... can a possible offshoot be "best super bowl com...

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Tom -

GW: One team, likely DII, but will confirm with Alex.

One buzzer. One reader (myself).

Now that I have U2's "One" stuck in my head....

Best,
Tricia

sabine01

Shawn...

1) Aye -- VHSL gets as much billing here as any of the other HS tourneys.

2)Suggestions/Discussion are probably better off in the HS discussion forum.

~ Tricia

sabine01

Congratulations! :)

~T~

sabine01

Byko wrote:His last words were believed to be, "Wow! I don't feel good!"

"I feel Bad!" ~ Weird Al's "Living with a Hernia"

sabine01

Posted on behalf of Mr. Barry:

--

124 teams competed today at Brookwood High School in Snellville, GA.

Dorman (Spartanburg, SC) defeated MLK (Nashville, TN) 295-200 to win the championship. Indian Springs (AL) and Parkview (Lilburn, GA) were semifinalists.

sabine01

OK, I admit this'll be an unusual title change, but hopefully every little bit will help. Good luck finding that 24th, Alex.

Regards,
Tricia

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