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Potomac Almanac
Award Winners
Unbroken Links - Winston Churchill High School's golf team, with five consecutive state championships, becomes one of the
Maryland's most successful varsity sports programs of all time.
First Place, Sports Feature, 2007
The Joy of '06 - Local underdog squad wins Maryland's varsity boys
basketball championship.
First Place, Sports Story, 2006
Pulling No Punches - Walt Whitman High School's Youth Summit
deals frankly with often uncomfortable issues affecting the lives of high school students.
Co-written with Ken Millstone.
Second Place, Public Service, 2006
War on the Roses - Local volunteers battle invasive plant species
through The Nature Conservancy's 'Weed Warriors' program. Co-written with Ken Millstone.
First Place, Environment, 2005
Lifetime of Memories - Following a 5-17 season, Walt Whitman High
School's varsity girls basketball team improves to 21-5 and reaches regional championship. Co-written
with Ken Moore.
Second Place, Sports Story, 2005
Copperhead Bites Dangerous, Not Deadly - After 4-year-old girl is bitten by a copperhead snake
in a local park, experts discuss copperheads and the danger they pose.
Second Place, Nature/Science, 2002
-- Above-mentioned awards are all from Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association, Category E
(Non-dailies, 10,000-20,000 circulation)
INeedCoffee
Coffee Meth Myth? - Hotel coffee-makers being used to make crystal meth -- urban myth, or
cause for concern?
Infant Coffee: 6 Tips for Coffee-Drinking Parents - Babies change everything. What do they
change for coffee-drinking parents?
Chicken John: Coffee Achiever - San Francisco mayoral candidate Chicken John Rinaldi
wants people to take a good look at his Cafe Racer, a pickup truck that
can run on coffee grounds.
Vietnam: Silent Global Coffee Power - How Vietnam quickly and quietly became the world's
second-biggest coffee exporter.
Bill Clinton: Coffee Achiever - A farewell to President Clinton and the coffee he drank.
Franz Kafka: Coffee Achiever? - Of course Franz Kafka drank coffee...or did he? Your
assumptions may not be true.
Candy, Flowers... and Coffee? - A Valentine's Day look at caffeinated love lives,
coffee for the hopeless romantics, and decaf romance.
Henry Thoreau: (Anti?) Coffee Achiever - Henry Thoreau came to Walden Pond to live
deliberately -- he had no plans on drinking coffee.
Frank Zappa: Coffee Achiever - Coffee was the lifeblood of Frank Zappa, the genre-busting
musician, philosopher, social critic, and Tipper Gore's worst nightmare.
The Villanovan
Cats Win NIT Championship, 80-73 -
Unbridled optimism for the Steve Lappas Era as Villanova wins the 1994 NIT Tournament.
Perretta Tradition Continues -
The life and times of longtime Villanova women's basketball coach Harry Perretta.
Technical Writing/Documentation
EarthLink/OneMain.com
The following are two examples of the technical documentation I completed for "BOSS,"
the customer care system of the beloved-but-departed OneMain.com. Written permission
has been given by Chuck Duffield, who oversaw the transition from OneMain to EarthLink,
to include these documents in my portfolio.
BOSS Documentation (in Adobe PDF format)
3.0 Add Account
3.5 Activate Network
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