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LYNCHBURG, VA --

The sky is the limit at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center, as students and the community help collect canned food items for the victims of the recent tornadoes.

General Manager, Drew Sherwood, is coordinating the efforts with the organization Gleaning for the World.

"I know personally and the rest of the community feels the same way, we hope they would help us if we were in need. so we want to continue helping them out as much as possible, says Sherwood.

The group is in six different states, helping victims get the most important necessity: food. The Reverend Ron Davidson is in daily contact with the volunteers on the ground, who describe the devastation as shocking.

"If you can think of an area the size of Alta Vista, Buena Vista, places that size, there were probably four or five of those communities that were wiped off the map by tornados, says Rev. Davidson.

Davidson says food drives like the one at the Snowflex center has a huge impact on their efforts.

"Having canned food in particular non perishable food is what we are going to need for a long time for them, says Davidson.

A little help and food goes a long way says Davidson; sharing a story about a family whose house no longer exists.

"We were able to deliver stuffed animals to the two and five year old children. And then we got food and thing in and were the only one that had come by to see he was okay. So the need is tremendous and is going to be for a long period of time, says Davidson.

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March13,2012 The nationally ranked West Liberty mens basketball team is looking for another win tonight in the regional Atlantic championship game. The game will be televised by the students at West Liberty University.

West Liberty University operates its own cable television station on a Wheeling area cable channel that reaches more than 100,000 homes. The institution produces ninety percent of their own content including more than 40 televised games per yearmost of which also air on a assortment of various media television outlets.

Reid Amos, who has led the WV Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Radio Network since 2003, also recently served as executive producer and the play-by-play caller for the televised WVIAC basketball championship finals. That 4-day tournament in Charleston was picked up by Pittsburghs ROOT SPORTS, available in more than 99 percent of cable homes in West Virginia.

We covered at least one game each day for our own station, Amos says. We were delivering it live via some new IP technology which were very confident are going to revolutionize the way live television gets deliveredit already is in some ways.

"Then on Saturday when we worked with ROOTS SPORTS-Pittsburgh, we delivered to ROOTS SPORTS live via satellite. It was the first experience for our students to work with a satellite truck delivering a live show. We had ten students who made up the majority of our crew. It was a neat, neat experience for everybody that was involved.

The students showed up in their brand new 24 and a half foot long studio production truck known as Bella and recorded their home-team mens basketball team the Hilltoppers win the WVIAC tournament 93-90, in overtime, against the Charleston Golden Eagles.

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West Liberty to televise men’s basketball division-II championship

When Libertys named popped on the screen during the NCAA womens tournament selection show Monday night, the team, which was gathered on the club level of the schools football press tower, let out a cheer.

Flames coach Carey Green, however, was a little taken aback by where the tournament committee had placed his team. Liberty will open tournament play on Sunday in South Bend, Ind., as a No. 16 seed against the top seed in the Raleigh Region, homestanding Notre Dame. Tipoff is at 2:30 p.m. and the game will be televised by ESPN2.

The Fighting Irish went 30-3 during the regular season, losing only to undefeated No. 1 Baylor, NCAA team West Virginia and No. 3 Connecticut, a team the Irish beat twice in the regular season. Liberty, which won the Big South tournament title on Sunday in High Point, N.C., hasnt been seeded 16th since going undefeated in the regular season in 1998. Libertys reward that season was a trip to Tennessee.

It was a little bit of sticker shock, Green said. I thought the team deserved a little bit of a higher seed than that. It was a slap in the face.

Liberty (24-8) won 18 of its final 19 games, including two victories against High Point on its home floor. But the similarity between the 2011-12 team and the 1997-98 version of the Flames is strength of schedule. Liberty won just five non-conference games this season, with only two coming against Division I opponents.

Both of those opponents were weak. Liberty won at UNC Greensboro, which went 4-25 and finished dead last in the Southern Conference, and the Flames beat Lipscomb, which went 6-23 and tied for last in the Atlantic Sun, on a neutral floor.

But Green has an argument. Liberty is ranked No. 95 in the RPI, and Samford (No. 103), Tennessee-Martin (No. 104) and Navy (No. 188) all earned No. 15 seeds. The tournament committee did some shifting to keep lower seeds closer to home. Navy will make the short trip to College Park to face Maryland, while Samford will make a 200-mile trip from Birmingham, Ala., to Nashville, Tenn., to face Duke.

Hampton, which is No. 63 in the RPI, ahead of 12 tournament teams, was dropped to a No. 16 so it could play Fresno Region No. 1 seed Stanford in nearby Norfolk.

It is what it is, Green said. Its a dream, though, a great opportunity for us. Were playing our best basketball of the year at this point in time. Well be prepared.

The Flames will face a significant challenge in the Irish, who advanced to last years national title game before falling to Texas A&M. Notre Dame has won at home by some incredibly lopsided margins this season, including wins over Indiana State (99-34), Hartford (98-43), Marquette (95-42), Purdue (66-38), Central Florida (90-38), Longwood (92-26) and Pittsburgh (120-44).

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Liberty draws Notre Dame in NCAA first round

New York Citys Statue of Liberty steals the hearts of millions upon their visit to Ellis Island. But now one woman claims to have actually fallen in love with statue, according to the Huffington Post.

Amanda Whittaker, a27-year-old British woman wholikes to be referred to as Amanda Liberty, suffers from a rare condition called objectum sexuality, which causes her to feel emotionally and sometimes sexually toward inanimate objects.

She first realized her unusual attraction when she had a love affair at 13 with a drum kit her parents gave her.

Whittaker has visited her lover in NY four times and said on This Morning, a British daytime talk show, that she just wants to be able to sit next to Lady Liberty, put her arm around her and watch the sunset together.

She also has a Statue of Liberty, or asshecalls her Libby,shrine in her bedroom. Ive got my own statues at home that I can connect with, she said, but its obviously not the same as being in New York.

Of course, the big question for the talk show hosts was whether or not there was a sexual attraction, to which Whittaker responded that there was, but it was only a small part.

A lot of the part is how she makes me feel and what shes done for me she makes me feel really good, she said.

After trying to be with a man for two years, Whittaker said that she had to follow her heart and her heart led to Lady Liberty.

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