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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey will participate in an F-16 ride along with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on July 23, in Cheyenne, Wyo.
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How ya doing? have you got your paypal email address so I can pay you?do you still have my name & address? cheers mate jason
Of cause mate! It's been sat in my brochures cupboard for the last couple of years, it isn't going anywhere
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If you know a little about musical theatre, you know that the opening number makes or breaks the popularity of a play. It sets the tone, introduces the theme, and hopefully brings you into the world the playwright wants to create.
The cast of Village Theatre's production of Fiddler on the Roof nails the powerful opening number "Traditions," which is also one of my favorite opening songs for a musical.
The rest of the play mostly holds up the bargain it makes with the audience during that first moving number, and the night I saw it with my niece the cast got a standing ovation from the completely full house.
Having seen Chaim Topol, who played the lead role of Tevye in the 1971 movie, in his last touring production of Fiddler, and knowing there are a lot of local actors in this 27-person cast, I went into the Village Theatre show with great hopes and a little trepidation, but I really liked Eric Polani Jensen in the lead role.
Jensen has a rich voice that did justice to the musical numbers penned by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and I am ever in awe of how amazingly witty the old Poppa of four daughters' lines were crafted by playwright Joseph Stein. You can't help but love the character--and by extension, Jensen--as he struggles with the changes of the times for the Jewish community in 1905 Anatevka, Russia.
I have to also admit a little hometown pride seeing veteran Spokane Civic Theatre actress Bobbi Kotula as Tevye's wife, Golde. Another familiar face from Civic Theatre productions, John Lutyens, now a graduate of Western Washington University, plays Mendel, the rabbi's son.
Overall, with a mix of local actors and equity actors, the production is worth seeing, and there is some memorably great dance numbers (see the production photo of the perfectly executed bottle dance in the wedding scene in the photos).
It's a great holiday show to see with the family. Tickets and showtimes can be found at the Village Theatre Website here.


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Now I am on Symbicort, Flovent, Spiriva, Fluticasone, 35 mg prednisone, albuterol (nebulizer and rescue). The onset and severity was so sudden and acute that it is almost surreal.
I will have questions about Xolair but for now the questions are around my workplace since that seems to be the only thing that has changed in my life. They have conducted CO, CO2, and mold tests at my office. All results have been negative. There are other people getting sick but their's seems to be manifested in sinus headache, watery eyes etc. My reaction about 3 weeks ago sent me to the Emergency Room and required an overnight stay in the hospital.
They are willing to test for other things but they and I don't know what that could be. Does anyone have any guidance and/or resource which might give a clue as to what I've been exposed to? The doctors can't do allergy skin tests on me because they are ineffective with people taking oral steroids. But blood tests showed that I am NOT allergic to the standard pollen and molds yet my IGE test score was 979 (normal is less than 100). I'm told that is an indication that I've had an acute reaction to something I've inhaled but they don't know what.
As far as Xolair goes - once a person starts on it, if they get better, can a person stop taking it at some point?
I'm really in a quandary as to what my next steps should be and would appreciate any insight anyone can offer. Thanks.
I am sorry for your health issues. Unfortunately I relate all too well. I developed severe asthma after starting a new job in May 2007. In June 2008 they started remodeling that sent my asthma and health into a downward spiral. In Octoer of 2013 I was finally diagnosed with mold illness (not an allergy) and have started treatment and shown improvement.
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Please take the first step and make sure your work environment is safe. Good luck.
Thanks so much for getting back to me. As you can imagine my situation has gotten very desperate. They have run additional mold tests but I suspect they are for the typical molds. If the results still come back negative, I will suggest these additional tests although I don't know if they will agree to do them.
Dr. Shoemaker does phone consultations but does not see patients in his office anymore. I had phone consults with him and he recommended testing and treatment that my family doctor ordered and prescribed.
I may be coming off a little to forward but if I can keep someone from suffering the way I did, then I will be forward.
Good luck and feel better.
Not forward at all. I'm grasping at straws at this point and trying my best to get through this. I have an appointment with the Lung Center at Temple Hospital and hoping that they come up with something to help me. I'm pretty desperate at this point. Thanks for your compassion. I'm sure you can relate to what I'm going through.
Until a couple of days ago, Xolair didn't seem like an option because of the cost - $1200/month, and that's with coverage from my medical insurance. But a couple of days ago, my doctor told me that I may be able to get it free of charge. I'm waiting to hear back from the Dr. and hopefully get started on it. I've heard good things about Xolair.
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Actually, I like the extension, it encourages other potential FAs to see the Twins as a place that will take a chance on a guy and reward him nicely based on his performance. Plus, for a guy like Burton, he now has a tradeable contract to a contender looking for value at deadline time. Win-Win. Good move on the part of Terry.
GM's are supposed to get this kind of thing done. Nothing special. Administrative. Walt Jocketty didn't have this kind of comeback, healthy performance to consider. Just because Terry Ryan does what should be done doesn't make him a sage or special in my mind. The return he accomplished (didn't accomplish) for Span when Rizzo had been after him for a couple years shows me way more about his acumen. He is "supposed" to make deals like he did for Revere. So yes, I for one am still calling for his head, but thankful he didn't mess the last trade up.
And by completely hosing the Phillies front office, Ryan merely did what he was supposed to do? Worley for Revere straight up is a fair trade. I'm amazed that Ryan managed to get them to throw May into the deal. Revere is around a 2.5 WAR player in two seasons. Worley is around a 2.5 WAR player in 1 1/3rd seasons. Both have similar service time. A player-for-player swap would have been fair given the circumstances.
If you have what somebody wants, you make the rules of the deal.
This from a few days ago..... "i just don't get the mentality of trading a major league good centerfielder with a great value contract for someone who may never make it to the bigs at all. span should have been traded for a proven pitcher, and one that can help now, not "maybe" in a few years. what a waste of trading chip. and still no pitching for the twins 2013 season. ……..apparently some teams were lining up for a proven centerfielder, eh? so the twins are the ones that give it away? what's the difference? the teams that always are building for the future, are always building for the future. rarely does that envisioned future arrive. personally, i never like a deal that is a proven for a best guess. best guesses litter the minor league rosters. and that is what this is. span is not a guess. i just don't like it. not at all. and oakland already got the nat's best young arms last year."
So to briefly extend here....... I think a first round pick, groomed and now a proven MLB player with a great contract and entering the prime of his years, is worth more than a first round pick that is not proven, but a hope. I feel Ryan left a card not played, and should have gotten another player in this deal. I think he acted too fast, (who else was trying to acquire Meyer? ... compared to who else was interested in Span?) and he should have and could have gotten more, as he did with Revere. Perhaps it was Ryan who wanted the hope more than Rizzo wanted the proven. I don't think so from how long Rizzo has been trying to acquire Span, but I don't know. You don't know. I think the Phillies wanted Revere, and made it very attractive as Atlanta was reported to be in the hunt again, too...........
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The velocity for Burton is unchanged from before his injury. Jockety could have had Burton in his pen.He chose not to bring him back. Nobody on this board with a straight face will ever concede that the coaching here made Burton a better pitcher .In terms of the numbers on the paycheck Burton is giving up free agency time at a discount even if he can't quite maintain the same numbers. Others say because of age he might be worth less. At 35 Dotel was still earning 6 million to be a setup guy. Ryan made an assessment that Burton's numbers wouldn't slide too much. Time will tell if it was a smart move.
Ryan wasn't going to get a good young starter with upside for Span. Denard, while a quite good player, has all sorts of health issues surrounding him and while he's pretty cheap, he's not pre-arbitration cheap over the next three seasons. Ryan had over six months to work out a trade for Span and he sat on it until the right moment when Rizzo looked to be panicking after the Braves snatched Upton off the market. Ryan couldn't have done much better for Span than he did and he absolutely gouged the Phillies front office in the Revere deal.
So we have one good trade and one very good/outstanding trade. Yet Ryan is somehow failing to do his job. Ridiculous expectations much?
And next time you quote the Holy Grail that is Dave Cameron, read this article about the Figgins signing first. ROFLCOPTER. That's all I have to say about that.
Great article about Figgins, really turned out to be a versatile asset to the Mariners.
I have my own opinion of this ........ and just used the particular article as an example of an article, and not a comment. I wish I had not included it, because it is clouding what I am saying, and is insignificant in that regard. I am not putting stock in anything except my own opinion here and could care less what Cameron thinks (but I did read it, like many others I read, and didn't really mean to have anyone perceive I was putting "stock" in it); I think Ryan could have done better on the Span deal, and I do have high expectations, call them ridiculous if you like, for the GM of my favorite team - always. I do expect The GM to make good deals like the Revere - Worley/Mays deal, and do it consistently. I have no idea what ROFLCOPTER means, but if it is text speak...... beware of the site police. The only "Holy Grail" I identify with is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I am happy for you that you are satisfied with the Span trade. I really wish I could be. I hope "The Hope" pans out, as we all do. Even if it does, I think the deal demanded more return.
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I'd hate to watch sports with that attitude. How do you not hate every single inning of the game with expectations that completely unreasonable? And why watch at all? Masochism?
And the Phillies didn't give up a young starter with upside. They gave up a slightly battered young starter that projects as a #3, tops. Is that what you wanted? A mediocre pitcher with little or no upside?
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In the context of this site, one must occasionally refer to the TD credo at the upper left corner of this page:
Independent. In-depth. Irreverent. Individuals.
Sabrematricians are very, very sure of themselves and it makes for good business in raising your hits to your webblog.
To paraphrase Bierce, what's the point of writing if you can't make someone mad?
The problem I have is with the guys like Keith Law who think they have broken the code to the secret of baseball success and then only come up with results like this:
$1 Bet Yield for MLB Pundits (2009-2011 Preseason Predictions)
Pundit 2009 2010 2011 Cumulative 2012 WS Pick Jim Caple (ESPN) $.056 $4.43 $0.15 $1.71 LA Angels Jayson Stark (ESPN) $2.01 $0.45 $0.76 $1.07 Detroit Peter Pascarelli (ESPN) $1.89 $0.55 $0.61 $1.02 Detroit Pedro Gomez (ESPN) $1.35 $1.34 $0.15 $0.95 LA Angels Buster Olney (ESPN) $2.01 $0.45 $0.27 $.091 Tampa Bay Joe Lemire (SI) $1.62 $0.45 $0.42 $0.83 Texas Ted Keith (SI) $1.22 $0.82 $0.42 $0.82 Yankees Favorites $1.65 $0.17 $0.40 $0.74 Philadelphia Ben Reiter (SI) $0.82 $0.78 $0.51 $0.70 Texas Albert Chen (SI) $0.00 $1.39 $0.58 $0.66 Texas Eric Karabell (ESPN) $1.51 $0.17 $0.15 $0.61 Philadelphia Tom Verducci (ESPN) $1.04 $0.45 $0.15 $0.55 LA Angels Keith Law (ESPN) $0.27 $0.78 $0.42 $0.49 Texas Orel Hershiser (ESPN) $0.82 $0.17 $0.42 $0.47 Tampa Bay Jerry Crasnick (ESPN) $0.82 $0.17 $0.15 $0.38 Texas Pundit Average $0.82
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If ANYONE could predict who was going to win the World Series year in and year out, they certainly wouldn't be working for an MLB team or ESPN, they would be sitting pretty winning millions every year gambling.
Just because "pundits" have a tough time predicting who will win it all (when the baseball playoffs by and large are a HUGE crap shoot as most people acknowledge) doesn't mean their analysis of players and prospects is "bunk".
These guys get paid the big bucks because they have:
1. A great track record
2. A great understanding of the game.
So pardon me if I(and 99% of people) take Keith Law's thoughts a little more seriously then someone who simply states "Terry Ryan sucks" on a message board.
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TOPEKA (MCT) — Could the Shockers beat the Jayhawks on the hardwood?
Fans would find out each year under a bill Wichita Republican Sen. Michael O'Donnell plans to introduce this week.
The proposal requires the University of Kansas Jayhawks to play the Wichita State University Shockers in men's and women's basketball each year or lose millions in state funding. O'Donnell said he hasn't worked out all the details yet, but he said the proposal would likely call for alternating games between Wichita and Lawrence every other year.
"I think it would really benefit Wichita," he said. "It would benefit our economy. I could see thousands of people coming out. I think this is a win-win. We should be proud in Kansas of our basketball teams."
KU Coach Bill Self indicated the idea is a long-shot during a chat on ESPN last week. "...you schedule to benefit your own school, not to benefit others," he told ESPN. "You have to benefit your own school. I want to play games that benefit us, and, from a financial standpoint, it's hard to play games away from Allen Fieldhouse since that's our main source of budget every year."
Wichita Democratic Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau said a match up with KU would pack the house. She said she supports O'Donnell's idea. "It's going to generate so much excitement," she said. House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, said it would be great for both schools to have a KU-WSU match up every year. "But this is clearly an area where legislators shouldn't be meddling," he said. "We need to let the universities decide these issues on their own, without any kind of legislative intrusion."
Larry Rankin, WSU's assistant athletics director for media relations, said that WSU Athletics Director Eric Sexton wouldn't have any comment until he reads the bill.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director at KU, said the same. The Jayhawks men's team plays other Kansas teams besides Kansas State University, which is in the Big 12 Conference as well, in exhibition games early in the season. KU beat Emporia State 88-54 in October and it beat Washburn 62-50 in November this year. Historically, the Jayhawks men's team has had the upper hand over the Shockers, with a 12-2 winning record, including a 103-54 stomping in Lawrence in 1993 when the two teams last met. The teams last met in Wichita in 1992 — KU won that 81-51.
WSU and KU women's teams last played in 2011 during the National Invitation Tournament when the Jawkawks won 79-58. WSU beat Kansas 84-58 in their most recent regular season game in 2002.
Jason Watkins, a former legislator who is now a lobbyist for the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce, said he introduced a bill several years ago that would have required WSU to play KU in all major sports. He said he filed the bill at the request of a parent of a WSU volleyball player who said WSU's team couldn't qualify for a NCAA tournament because its strength of schedule wasn't strong enough. Watkins said his bill never got a hearing, and he said that prior attempts hadn't worked either. He suggested the Jayhawks may see some risk in playing the Shockers, particularly in men's basketball.
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No. 8-seeded Kentucky stunned No. 2-seeded Michigan in the Elite Eight and shut down Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky and the Badgers offense in the Final Four. But Shabazz Napier and DeAndre Daniels of Connecticut were dominating against top-seeded Florida in their own match up and helped the Huskies muscle past the Gators to elevate to the National Championship. So, it's finally here—who can take it all?
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National Championship Matchup: #8 Kentucky Vs. #7 Connecticut
|A legend in his own right, Wildcats coach John Calipari boasts an impressive and enviable resume in his time at Kentucky. Since 2009, Calipari has taken his team to the Final Four twice. He's also been named National Coach of the Year three times in his career. Calipari is a players-first coach and his teams, especially when young, rally around him like no one else. These players may be less experienced, but Calipari is a master of wielding young talent.
|It's only Kevin Ollie's second season as the new UConn head coach, but already he's got the Huskies all the way to the Elite Eight. The Huskies are rallying around their new coach in a big way this post-season and throughout the tournament, with no one expecting Ollie to have had this amount of success so soon, including toppling a top-seeded Florida team to make it to a national championship.
|The Harrison twins—Andrew and Aaron—only combined for 17 points, but Aaron was the one who hit the three-pointer with only five seconds left to win the game for the Wildcats, much like he had in the previous game against Michigan. Julius Randle, a phenom in the regular season, scored 16 points and guard James Young added a valiant effort with 17 points of his own for the Wildcats against Wisconsin. Dakari Johnson was quiet, but scored in the double digits, proving that all of Kentucky's starters can be a deep threat to win the championship.
|Guard Shabazz Napier will once again be the player to watch in this final matchup against Kentucky, with 17.8 points per game in the regular season, he's already averaging over 20 ppg so far this tournament and takes control of a stacked offense with each new battle. It was another player, once again, who took command of the UConn offense for the second game in a row in forward DeAndre Daniels, who had 20 points and a double-double. Guards Ryan Boatright and Niels Giffey scored in the double digits, as well, in the Huskies' Final Four win over Florida and should be watched in this championship to step up, as well.
|Kentucky is one of the best rebounding teams in the country with 41.3 boards per game (5th in the nation). They also rank 9th with 6.2 blocks per game and their big men are capable of some stellar moves. The Wildcats have also been good at minimizing turnovers, which has given them a distinct edge up to this point in the Big Dance. Kentucky's players are more athletic than Connecticut's, and James Young gives UK a secret weapon in the backcourt. The Huskies have a potent offense, but the Wildcats have proven over and over in this tournament that they can slow down even the biggest and best, including Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky, whom they held to only eight points in the Final Four.
|The Huskies had no easy task in putting a stop to the top Florida offense, but they managed to handle the Gators fairly easily despite a few hiccups early in the first few minutes. UConn only allowed 63.7 points per game in the regular season, and was eight overall in the nation in blocks. Connecticut's defense made all the difference in the second half against Florida, cutting short any sense of momentum that the Gators could muster and keeping them without any scoring opportunities and making a number of steals late in the game.
|Kentucky has a lot of freshman to boast on their starting squad, and they came through in the win against Louisville in the Sweet 16, with all of the Wildcats five freshman starters combining for 68 of the Wildcats' 74 points. But the Wildcats proved with backup forwards Alex Poythress and Marcus Lee that their subs can play when needed when they added 12 points off the bench against the Badgers. Poythress also added seven rebounds in the effort.
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|Connecticut got two huge performances from key bench players in their early round matchup with Villanova, including double digit scoring performances from guards Terrence Samuel and Lasan Kromah – so we know the talent is there. Lately, though, UConn doesn't often have to rely on their bench with star Shabazz Napier hauling in 20+ points per night alongside the same from DeAndre Daniels, and nearly all of their starters scoring in the double digits. Of UConn's bench players, Samuel can be the most consistent to be counted on for help when needed.
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Nancy Lowry
New Castle News
The Neshannock teachers are working without a contract and they want the community to know it.
For the past two months, members of the Neshannock Township Education Association — most dressed in red — attended school board meetings to draw attention to the teachers' plight and urge action by the board. They also distributed fliers outlining teacher contributions to the community.
Three teachers — Heather Eagleton, Kathy Kalpich and David Antognoli — urged board members to work with the teachers "to find a compromise."
Prior to the meeting, Ed Frye, who is on the 13-member negotiating committee, said the talks have been going on for 17 months, the last four with a state-appointed mediator, but no agreement has been reached.
The district's last contract with its 87 teachers expired July 1.
"We're asking for a fair contract," he said, noting the teachers continue to go to work every day and do their job, including putting in the extra time that is often required.
"Our two biggest unresolved issues are the ones that most negotiations have problems with — wages and benefits."
The board members did not comment on the teachers' remarks or the negotiations at the meeting.
The board also:
•Heard from Public Financial Management adviser Greg McLanahan, who outlined the district's plan to take advantage of low-interest rates and refinance the 2008 building construction bonds. They will be sold in an Internet auction May 6, he said. The transaction is expected to save the district $1.3 million to $1.4 million over the remaining life of the bonds.
•Extended the contract with Jameson Rehabilitation Center for services of an athletic trainer. The district will pay $26,250 per year for a two-year contract.
•Approved the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV operating budget for the 2013-14 school year. The district's contribution is $21,337.
•Agreed to sponsor Camp Invention for children entering grades one through six. The camp will be June 24 to 28, offered at no cost to the district. Participating students will pay $125 to attend.
•Approved a family leave for Melissa Nugent from March 7 to May 31 and through Nov. 4.
•Hired Kathleen Smulick as a substitute bus monitor.
•Recognized swimmer Ian Buckner who placed second in the WPIAL 100-meter butterfly and fourth in the WPIAL 100-meter freestyle. Buckner represents Neshannock but competes with the West Allegheny swim team. He will compete in a state meet next week at Bucknell University.
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Updated Feb 20, 2013 - 6:11 pm
Phoenix Suns: Season killers?
Originally published: Feb 20, 2013 - 12:17 pm
"Time for season's obituary?"
The loss dropped Portland to 25-29 on the season. The team has lost six straight games and is currently 3.5 games out of the Western Conference's final playoff spot. Yet while the loss stings, the reaction to it says more about the perception of the team that beat them.
Apparently no one should be losing to the Phoenix Suns.
Very ouch.
There was a stretch in the 2000s where it seemed like any team the Arizona Cardinals beat would go on to fire its coach. It was almost as if a loss to the team -- to that team -- was a sign things had completely fallen apart.
Looks like a new Valley team may have taken the baton.
At 18-36, the Suns have the worst record in the Western Conference and fifth-worst mark in the NBA. They've fired their coach, made numerous lineup changes and been involved in more than their fair share of trade rumors.
Most of which, by the way, have the Suns simply pawning off useful players in exchange for draft picks and expiring contracts. It's not about a bad team getting better; it's about a real bad team getting worse.
Congratulations, Suns, for you have become a national punch line.
You're also a polarizing issue for your fans.
On one hand, a win like the one Tuesday in Portland was excellent. Phoenix had not won there since 2008, and the performances received from players like Goran Dragic, Luis Scola and even Wesley Johnson were encouraging. But, on the other hand, the win negatively affects the Suns' draft position and helped the L.A. Lakers inch a little closer to a playoff spot.
And in case you forgot, a Lakers lottery pick would belong to the Suns, so yeah, if a win can ever actually be a loss, this one may have been it.
So where does that leave the Suns?
Well, you can't get mad at players and coaches for winning games. Players need to play hard and coaches need to coach to the best of their abilities. Their respective jobs are to win games, and it would be unfair to ask anything else of them.
But management, on the other hand, can make moves strictly with an eye towards the future. If that means keeping things as they are, that's fine. There is some young talent on the roster that could be a part of Phoenix's next playoff team. And if that means dumping veterans in exchange for picks or cap space, so be it. It's all about next year and beyond, not trying to salvage this season.
Because this season has been dead for a while, and no one likes a zombie.
Adam Green, Web Content Editor - ArizonaSports.com
- An open letter to Eric Bledsoe
- Suns relationship with Bledsoe described as headed towards ruined
- The Pulse: Fans say Suns need to negotiate smaller contract with Eric Bledsoe
- Report: Phoenix Suns' P.J. Tucker arrested in Scottsdale in May for extreme DUI
- ESPN Insider: Goran Dragic is a max-contract candidate after next season
- Chris Sheridan - Tuesday July 22Chris Sheridan weighs in on if Kevin Love will join LeBron in Cleveland.
- Ryan McDonough, Phoenix Suns general manager - Monday July 21General manager Ryan McDonough talks about the Phoenix Suns' offseason plans.
- Isaiah Thomas, Phoenix Suns point guard - Monday July 21Isaiah Thomas talks about his skill set and what he brings to the franchise.
- Marc Spears, Yahoo NBA writer - Friday July 18Yahoo NBA writer Marc Spears says the Warriors are backing out from a Kevin Love trade.
- Paul Coro, AZCentral Sports Suns beat writer - Thursday July 17AZCentral Sports Suns beat writer Paul Coro talks about the continuing free agency of Eric Bledsoe.


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2013-2014 (Freshman)
Played in 25 games with 12 games started … Tallied seven hits, including a two-hit game at Belmont May 1 … Notched her first collegiate RBI at Southern Miss March 15 and added her second at Belmont May 1 … Finished with three doubles and two walks.
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Won the 2010 and 2012 TSSAA State Championships ... Runner-up in 2011 TSSAA State Championship ... Went 25-4 with a 0.82 ERA and 214 strikeouts in 33 games in 2012 ...81-14 all-time in high school with a career ERA of 0.87 ... Hit .437 with 14 doubles and 36 RBI in 2012 … Four time All-State selection … Named 2013 Hitter of the Year and 2012 Pitcher of the Year …. Selected First Team All-West Tennessee five years … Member of the National Honor Society …. All-A Honor Roll 2012 and 2013 … Received Richard Fite Award.
Born March 2, 1995 in Jackson, Tenn … Only child of Ken and Laura Riddell … Best vacation was with her best friend Ally McFarland to the Cayman Islands … If she could eat anything it would be her mom's spaghetti … Favorite movie is A Walk to Remember … Gossip Girls is her favorite TV show … Pitched in four state championship games, winning two … Enjoys swimming and going to the movies … Claims Spiderman is her favorite superhero … Jennie Fitch is her favorite sports figure … Admires her father, uncle Marvin Forsythe and Grandpa William Giles … The huge campus and getting to meet new people is why she enjoys being a Blue Raider … Commitment on and off the field and the emphasis on improving are what impresses her about the MT coaching staff … Majoring in Athletic Training and wishes to become a Physical Therapist for the St. Louis Cardinals.


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Happy Reopening, Statue of Liberty!
- By Mark Byrnes
- CityLab
- July 5, 2013
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The Statue of Liberty reopened Thursday, its grounds fully restored after $59 million worth of damage, caused by Superstorm Sandy, led to broken railings, docks, and paving stones, as well as damaged sewage pumps and electrical systems.
Visitors will be able to arrive via ferry boats once again to tour the landmark, and a ceremony today for its reopening will include secretary of the interior Sally Jewell, New Jersey senator Robert Menendez, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Before its actual opening in 1886, it took a whole lot more than 8 months to get the statue ready for the public.
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There are just a few things you can count on in this world: The sun will rise in the east; nobody will ever sing better than Ray Charles and somebody will try to make a martyr out of that piece of camel dung that killed 13 innocent men and women at Fort Hood, Texas.
The tragedy at Fort Hood last week is almost beyond comprehension. Other than the 9/11 attack or maybe the Oklahoma City bombing, I can't think of a tragedy in my lifetime that just takes your breath away.
Members of AIG's financial-products unit should take heart. Yes, Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg is coming down on them with the awesome power of his czardom, dictating that their pay not exceed $200,000 a year. In Wall Street terms, this is so draconian, they might as well be forced to earn whatever they can get by begging on street corners and finding leftover change in pay phones.
My friend Sam Griffin, the retired publisher of the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight, recently shared a letter written to him in 1942 by his father, Capt. Marvin Griffin, later to be governor of Georgia, as he and his men, members of the Georgia National Guard's 101st Coast Artillery/Anti-Aircraft Battalion, were preparing to embark for Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
There was a time when I believed that the best way to curtail the impact of money flowing into our political system was to monitor it. Make sure that campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures were reported quickly and accurately, I reasoned, and journalists and the American public could determine for themselves what they could tolerate.
Washington is debating how tough legislation should be to reduce carbon emissions and slow global warming. Doomsayers are predicting the 21st-century rise in carbon dioxide will bring heating of the earth, flooding of coastal cities, increases in hurricane strength and frequency, proliferation of tropical diseases, extinction of species and more.
Republicans needn't trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, President Barack Obama will be running against George W. Bush.
I am not going to tell you how old he is because he might not want you to know. So, I will just tell you that on his birthday next week, the last number will have a "zero" behind it and he was born just as Dwight Eisenhower was going out of office and John F. Kennedy was coming in. You can figure out the rest.
While I often quote our founding fathers for their wisdom in creating our Constitution with its almost divine qualities, there is one glaring issue that they overlooked. They should have required a balanced budget or at the very least limited debt except in time of war.
News last week that Brewton-Parker College is closing its Liberty County campus was disappointing,
If only the laws of the universe didn't make it impossible to conjure something out of nothing. In a magical world free of such encumbrances, Democrats would be spared the bother of hiding the inevitable costs of ObamaCare.
The Yarbrough Multinational Media and Pest Control Co. is pleased to announce the results of the first survey by its new subsidiary, Round or Square, Inc., one of the nation's leading opinion research firms located in a pool hall in Greater Garfield, Ga.
Do you have a story to tell about life in Liberty County years ago? Perhaps you know someone who has lived here for ages and remembers when Fort Stewart was not here. There are a few citizens in Liberty County who can recall that era, but time is running out. We must get their stories while we can.
I had a chance recently to talk with a physician who had strong ideas about health-care reform. I'm not going to tell you who it was because I didn't tell him I was doing a story and, really, I hadn't planned on it.
President Barack Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. That's an indictment, not a compliment. Rather than living up to the honor, it should be Obama's mission to show he's thoroughly unworthy of it.
In the week leading up to Independence Day, several news stories prompted us to contemplate what freedom means in 2014.
"I have gotten bad news and am much the worse for it.
Their histories, accurate and complete, are lost to time and buried with them and those who knew them. I wish I knew more because their stories would read like a page-turning novel.
I've always heard and read that it's a good idea to involve children in meal-preparation efforts, because they're more likely to eat dishes that they helped cook. That makes sense.
Q: The sassiness that I have heard so much about from my friends started a few months ago with my 5-year-old daughter.
Politically speaking, perhaps the biggest news story this election cycle is the historic loss of U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary election.
As Americans hop in their cars this summer, gasoline prices are at a six-year high. Thanks to surging demand and continued turmoil in Iraq, gas is quickly approaching $4 per gallon.
Editor, I saw an item in Friday's paper informing me about the fireworks at 9:30 p.m. at Cottrell Field on Fort Stewart. Having been raised here, I already knew that, but was surprised to see they were shooting off their fireworks at 9:30 p.m., instead of closer to July 5, if you catch my drift. As I reflected on years gone by, my blood began to boil.
Ogeechee Riverkeeper Day is Saturday over at Loves Seafood. That's a good thing.
Editor, The special purpose local option sales tax is another example of Liberty County spending taxpayers' money before it is even collected, making the taxpayers liable for county expenditures.
With the July 22 runoff elections fast approaching, I called Junior E. Lee, general manager of the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company in Greater Garfield, Georgia, to get his thoughts on the various races and to see who he thinks will make it to the finals of the November general election and who will be eliminated this round.
My toddler has a late bedtime. I may even be playing it fast and loose with the term "bedtime." My husband and I try to get our 2-year-old to bed by 9 p.m., but really, what time she actually goes to sleep is anybody's guess.
My grandmother - Daddy's mother - sometimes was called "crazy" by others who didn't quite understand her eccentric ways. Of course, in the South, we are proud of such a label because it means that we are interesting and worthy of being the center of coffee-and-cake conversation.


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Located in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center on Transylvania University's campus, the Morlan Gallery serves the campus, local, and regional communities with six to seven provocative exhibitions each year. The exhibition calendar, in keeping with the academic year, begins in September and runs through graduation at the end of May.
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Exhibitions feature contemporary art and the gallery regularly draws works directly from local, regional, national, and international artists. The Morlan Gallery has presented major exhibitions of Appalachian folk art, Chinese art, and contemporary African art, and it has instigated experimental installation, performance, and video pieces. In addition, the gallery has organized comprehensive exhibitions of paintings, drawings, photographs, and bronze and ceramic sculptures.
Notable recent exhibitions include: Unplaced: New Work by Deana Rennick. A one-woman video and sculptural installation, Unplaced was exhibited in Spring 2006. Rennick was a yearlong Kenan visiting artist at Transylvania University and was named one of Sculpture Magazine's 2005 Contemporary Sculpture Award winners. In 2005 the Morlan Gallery hosted Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life, a dynamic show of regional artists exhibited in Morlan as well as nine satellite gallery locations in downtown Lexington. In conjunction with this show, nationally known art critic and Thresholds curator, Eleanor Heartney visited campus as a guest speaker. Colour Me/Discolour Me: Work by Berni Searle was exhibited in the Morlan Gallery in 2004 and was recognized by the Lexington Herald-Leader as one of Lexington's best exhibitions for that year. Searle, an internationally recognized artist from Cape Town, South Africa, was also a visiting artist at Transylvania.
As part of the college program at Transylvania, Morlan Gallery exhibitions serve the curricula in the arts and humanities. The gallery serves the local college community, and just as importantly, draws a large audience from the entire Bluegrass Region. As a cultural center in the community, the gallery offers guided tours and lectures to school groups, civic clubs, and senior citizens organizations.
Free parking is plentiful and always available. Gallery hours are weekdays noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. The Morlan Gallery participates in the Lexington Gallery Hop, a cooperative effort among for-profit galleries, not-for-profit arts groups, and private artists' studios. Over thirty sites are free and open to the public from 5 - 8 p.m. on the third Fridays in September, November, February, April, and June.


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Welcome to Advanced Compliance Technologies!
The main goal of Advanced Compliance Technologies, PLLC is to educate, train, and assist doctors of chiropractic in correct coding, documentation, and the use of technology in their offices. Healthcare is changing, and doctors of chiropractic are facing greater scrutiny of their coding, billing, and documentation. Profiling is here to stay, along with post-payment audits. A mandatory compliance program will be required for all chiropractic offices nationwide very shortly. Who is going to keep your office up to date with all the new requirements of Medicare and other third party payers? We will.
Many offices are not billing, coding, or documenting correctly, which is costing them money due to lack of information and training. Who is going to teach your insurance staff and you on correct coding and documentation? We will.


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UC Food Blog
Where is food grown in your community?
With demand for food supplies increasing, it's becoming more important for all of us to recognize exactly where (and what) fresh food is being grown around us.
Lend a helping hand
On May 8, 2014, we need your help populating our California food map. Get outside, be a scientist, and tell us where food is grown in your community. Do you grow your own? Do you live in the heart of the Central Valley and regularly drive past acres and acres of farms? Or, does your neighbor or school have a garden?
Participating takes 5 minutes. All you have to do is go online to beascientist.ucanr.edu, and add a dot on our map marking a spot where you know there's a garden or a farm.
Together, we'll be able to have a much better understanding of our food systems in California. When we recognize where our food comes from, we tend to become healthier and more mindful eaters.
On May 8, 2014, get out there and be a scientist. Tell us where food is grown in your community. Your answers will help build a healthier future for your community, and for the state.
Join the fun
- Participate on May 8 by visiting beascientist.ucanr.edu.
- Are you a teacher? Educator? Parent? Youth group leader? Download our lesson plans and activities from our food activity box.
- Pledge a tweet or Facebook status. Join our Thunderclap campaign and donate a tweet or a Facebook status to #BeAScientist on May 8.
- Join the online conversation by following #BeAScientist on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
- Learn more about this project by reading our Fact Sheet.
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Lemons are the zucchini of winter - take 2
It's early spring, and that means one thing: I am once again drowning in lemons. This year with our tree well established, we had a bumper crop. Even as an espalier, our tree produces more lemons than we can use. And as anyone with a lemon tree knows - it's almost impossible to give away lemons. Lemons are the zucchini of winter.
With a pantry full of marmalade, a batch of salted lemons preserving, and all of the copper gleaming, I was looking for a new way to use my harvest. A neighbor told me she distributed all of her lemons by having a lemoncello making contest with her friends. Lemoncello, the Italian lemon liqueur, is gaining popularity outside of Italy. It uses a lot of lemons and is easy to make.
The basic recipe for lemoncello is the same. Lemon zest, alcohol, simple syrup, and time. While recipes vary little, proportion and procedures are highly guarded secrets of the cognosenti.
Purists insist on using a base of grain alcohol; it imparts no flavor of its own to the lemoncello letting the lemons shine through. Where grain alcohol is unavailable, a high quality vodka can stand in. I chose a hand crafted corn based vodka, distilled 6 times, because corn seemed the closest to grain alcohol and it had a relatively high proof.
For my first try, I am halving the basic recipe. The first step was to zest the lemons. A lot of lemons.
A microplane is a must-have tool as you want pure zest with no pith.
Add the liquor to the lemon zest. Put it a cool, dark place. Wait. 45 days.
See you mid-May for the next step.
P.S. After the original mixing of the lemon zest and the vodka, and on an apéritif roll, we decided to make vin de pêche using the recipe from Chez Panisse Fruit. The large glass jar photographed above was re-purposed for the vin de pêche, and the vodka and the zest were moved into the empty vodka bottle. This is probably a better solution as there is less air surface in the container.
An energetic musical reinforces nutrition education
"The kids are really retaining the information because it is brought to life," said Shawna Rogers, UCCE nutrition program coordinator. She and her colleagues take a four-foot doll to schools and peel open the chest to reveal plush toys representing all the organs. "Each time we go into the classroom, we focus on one organ and how they can keep that organ healthy."
The dolls and nutrition curriculum are provided to teachers so they can be used to teach the children throughout the year.
The classroom series culminates with a lively stage play in which the organs come to life (see the video below). The OrganWise Guys curriculum is being tested at Olmos and Rowell elementary schools in Fresno with 688 students and 27 teachers as a possible supplement to traditional UC CalFresh curriculum, which was developed to extend nutrition education to recipients of CalFresh benefits (formerly called food stamps).
"OrganWise Guys curriculum pairs really nicely with the evidence-based curriculum that UC has put together," said Shelby MacNab, UCCE nutrition program manager. "We teach about nutrition and healthy foods, and then we can show the students how that leads to a healthy body."
Judging by enthusiasm, The OrganWise Guys is a rousing success. A more formal evaluation will be conducted by surveying the children's parents, said Kristen Stenger, UCCE nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor for Fresno County.
"We will ask parents if the kids have mentioned the OrganWise Guys at home or if they have told them what they learned at school about the body, health and nutrition," Stenger said.
Once the full educational model has been developed with the OrganWise Guys curriculum, it will be offered to additional school sites.
Ornamental landscape date palm: An overlooked urban fruit tree
One fruit, though, is not on the radar of foodies and foragers. Yet it's crunchy, sweet, flavorful, often seedless, and very common in Southern California landscapes. It's the fruit of the date palm, rarely thought of as a food source in our urban environment, more frequently viewed as a nuisance because dates fall off trees, where they create litter that must be cleaned up.
Unfortunately, coastal Southern California lacks the high sustained heat and aridity for proper fruit maturation and curing to produce traditional soft-ripe dates of good eating quality. The dates that fall from the trees have been unattractive to gather for sale and consumption, processes that could help to resolve the fruit litter problem in the landscape.
However, some varieties of dates can be eaten at a less than a mature state, traditionally called "khalal." Fruit in the khalal stage have attained their maximum size, are typically yellow or red, have a sweet flavor, and are crunchy, somewhat like an apple. Several date varieties, like 'Barhee,' are sometimes sold and eaten in the khalal stage. Fortunately, from a food standpoint (or unfortunately if you are a landscape manager), date fruits do mature to the khalal stage in coastal Southern California because high sustained heat and aridity are not required to attain this stage of development.
While 'Barhee' is not too common as a landscape subject, another variety, 'Zahidi,' is common and typically produces abundant fruits in coastal Southern California. These golden yellow fruits are conspicuous and showy in the khalal stage, are typically on the palm for several months from late fall to spring, and are really good to eat. Also, in many cases, these fruits are seedless! (Note to horticulture geeks: date palms are dioecious - separate male and female trees - and because nearly all edible date palms in the landscape are female, their flowers were pollinated by other species of landscape Phoenix. The resulting hybrid fruits are seedless, or pollination is not required for fruit to set and develop - parthenocarpy.)
Urban foragers looking for their next food adventure, or even a potential enterprise, might want to consider taking advantage of this otherwise nuisance and unwanted fruit. Khalal fruit can be gathered from the ground and cleaned. But it is best to collect them off the palm. Cutting an inflorescence (entire fruit stalk) and lowering it carefully to the ground would be ideal.
Khalal-stage fruits of the date variety 'Zahidi' are really good to eat: crunchy, sweet, and flavorful. Also, they are seedless (D. R. Hodel).
Choosing healthy foods might be easier than you think
Doctors say we'll live longer if we exercise and eat right. Okay, but what does that mean, exactly? You hear so much about super foods and super diets that knowing how to "eat right" can be super confusing.
"This isn't about starving yourself or biting off more than you can chew at the gym," Applegate says. "It's about making good-for-your-body decisions, rather than punishing you with cutting calories and tough-to-do workouts."
Applegate teaches nutrition at UC Davis, including a wildly popular online and in-person nutrition course that attracts several thousand students each year. She's a triathlete, a sports nutrition columnist for Runner's World, an author of several sports nutrition books, director of sports nutrition for Intercollegiate Athletics at UC Davis, and a consultant for Olympic athletes.
In short, she knows her stuff. And when it comes to healthy eating, she says, don't over-think it.
"Eating well isn't about being perfect, but about finding out what food has to offer, and striking a balance between your needs, personal preferences, culture and family experience," she says.
That philosophy is central to her healthy eating and exercise challenge, which you can pick up at any Nugget Market or download from its website here. Applegate's shopping list includes a wide variety of tasty foods — a bounty of fresh vegetables, various meats and poultry, fish, eggs, grains, dairy, chocolate and much more. What's not to like?
- Eat breakfast. A solid morning meal sets the stage for a good day of healthy eating.
- Eat some protein at every meal to manage weight and support your exercise.
- Whole grains like brown rice, quinoa and whole wheat are your friends (unless you cannot tolerate gluten. If so, stick with brown rice and other non-wheat products).
- Aim for at least 2½ cups of veggies and 2 to 3 pieces of fruit each day.
- Include healthy fats from fish, nuts and seeds. Use olive, canola or avocado oils.
- Aim for 2 to 3 servings of calcium-rich foods like dairy or soymilk. Each day, eat a probiotic such as yogurt or kefir for digestive and immune support.
As for fitness, the plan provides a do-at-home circuit of strength training exercises, such as planks, push-ups, squats and leg lifts. Her general rules are:
- Switch things up. You'll build stronger muscles when you try different types of exercises.
- Aim for 30 to 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity five to seven days a week. Anything that boosts your heart rate counts — fast walking, jogging, bike riding, swimming, dancing, basketball, you name it. If you can't find time for 30 minutes straight, 10 minutes here and there will do the trick.
- Include three to five do-at-home strength-building sessions that help shape and tone major muscle groups while building core strength.
Adjusting to healthy eating and routine exercise takes time, Applegate says, so don't be too hard on yourself.
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By Brenda L. Holmes
Area businesses came together this week to help distribute school supplies collected through the United Way's annual Backpack Attack to all Hendricks County schools.
In the last few months, the Backpack Attack collected 17,250 school supplies in boxes across the county. They collected 15,000 in 2011. All of the supplies were then taken to the Vincennes University Logistic Center in Plainfield where they were sorted and re-packaged to be distributed to the schools.
James Dolan, director of logistics at the local VU center, helped to coordinate the service learning project.
"This allowed our students to learn how to do a kit project," Dolan said. "That is basically what happened today. We had a bunch of raw materials and we put them together to be shipped out."
He said the project helped his students learn even more about the logistics business.
"We teach them about warehouse distribution," he said. "That's one of the skills we teach here."
Dolan is no stranger to the Backpack Attack. This is his first year to be involved in the project in Hendricks County, but he had worked on it in Marion County for the eight previous years.
"I worked with Backpack while at my previous employer — UPS," he said.
Christy McIntyre-Craig is the volunteer engagement coordinator and Youth as Resources coordinator for the United Way of Central Indiana. She helped coordinate the collections and worked with VU and the other volunteers.
"This was the first time the logistics center was involved with Backpack," McIntyre-Craig said. "And it's been wonderful. They are a great asset to our community."
Representatives from Duke Energy, Hendricks Power Cooperative, and Vectren helped with the project by distributing the supplies to Hendricks County schools.
"The trucks from the power companies just came here and filled up their trucks," McIntyre-Craig said.
Mary Geisting from the Plainfield Community School Corporation volunteered at the event and even brought speakers to inspire the other volunteers.
"We are seeing more and more need," Geisting said. "People you would never expect are asking for help. These are people that have donated in the past — now they need the help."
She said the school supplies help students to come into class on a level playing field.
"It helps with their self esteem," she said. "These supplies will help them be a part of the group — to feel normal."
Geisting said it helps the schools to have these donated supplies on hand as students go back to class.
"Each school has a room where the supplies will be kept," McIntrye-Graid said. "Then when they need them, they are there."
And this project could not have been possible without volunteers from the community who donated and helped to sort the supplies.
Wendy Fowler is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Hendricks County. She and nine of her classmates met at the logistics center Tuesday to volunteer their time.
Jane Pfaffenberger has been helping to sort school supplies for several years with Backpack Attack. She brought the youngest volunteer of the day to participate — her grandson, Sam Richman.
"I started with Crayons and pencils," Richman, 9, said. "And this isn't my first year. I did this two years ago."
Richman is an Avon resident. He helped out on the last day of his summer vacation.
"He's heading back to school tomorrow (Aug. 1)," Pfaffenberger said. "Doing this really makes you feel good. The people who do this every year are very dedicated."
Pfaffenberger was a school nurse for 10 years and has a daughter who teaches in the Indianapolis Public School system.
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A dog that was feared dead after falling from his owner's boat into Lake Washington on Saturday is back at home.
Gary Stevens took Sinbad with him to enjoy the water on the hot day. The lake was full of boaters because of Seafair, and Stevens said waves were crashing over the bow of the boat as he passed the SR 520 floating bridge and headed out toward the middle of the lake.
"(Sinbad) was on the back and when I looked back he was gone, nowhere to be found," said Stevens.
Stevens searched for two hours, trying to find Sinbad - or his body.
"I was thinking with all that is going on this is the worst thing that could have happened, period. I'm trying to figure out how I am going to tell the kids as this will kill them. I can't believe how stupid I had to be to let this happen," he said.
But Stevens could not find his best friend. He contacted the police, and the King County Sheriff's Office posted a tweet about the missing dog.
German Shepherd missing on Lake Wa.Jumped out of owners boat near east sideof 520 bridge just south of bridge. Get word out.— Cindi West (@kingcosoPIO) August 4, 2012
At about the same time, Cindy Springer and her family were on their boat, returning from watching the Blue Angels, when under the SR 520 east high rise, her husband Larry spotted a dog paddling desperately in the water.
"He yelled to our son Adam, who was driving the boat. Adam grabbed a life jacket and jumped in to rescue the poor, frantic dog," Cindy said.
"Luckily Adam is a big guy and a cross trainer, because the dog was a big black Shepherd that must have weighed 90 pounds," she said.
Cindy and Larry took the dog to the Homeward Pet Adoption Center in Woodinville, where they found that the dog was chipped.
The vet who chipped the dog was contacted and he was able to give Homeward the pet's name – Sinbad.
Adam and his friend Zak joked that because Sinbad is such a good swimmer, he should be called "Phelps," Cindy said.
Sinbad and his owner were reunited, and Stevens said next time he'll put a life vest on the dog.
"I never thought I'd put a life vest on a 100-pound German Shepherd but life vest, yeah, for sure," he said.


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I have witnessed many things as a newspaper reporter.
I once flew to Hatteras on a helicopter after Hurricane Irene ravaged the Outer Banks and washed away Highway 12. I twice flew on President Bill Clintons press plane. On one of those trips, I covered the opening of the George Bush library at Texas A&M University and got to see Clinton and three former presidents standing on a stage together.
And a few weekends ago, I witnessed something else I wont soon forget. I was writing a profile for Sundays paper about culinary historian Michael Twitty, who recently did a talk, cooking demonstration and helped put on a fundraising dinner at Historic Stagville, a former plantation in northern Durham County.
Twitty had recently undergone genetic testing to learn where his ancestors came from in Africa. He wanted to learn the results while he was at Horton Grove, a collection of slaves quarters at Stagville, which at one time had 900 slaves and 30,000 acres.
I still get goosebumps thinking about watching Twitty react to the news that his mothers ancestors were the Mende people of Sierra Leone and his fathers ancestors were the Akan people of Ghana. It was not just watching Twitty reclaim an identify and his family history. It was the sacred setting. As one older gentleman said to me earlier in the day: Lots of rich white mens houses are still standing. The homes of slaves, not so much.
This event was the first I had ever heard of Stagville. I didnt know that one of the largest plantations in the pre-Civil War South was a 30-minute drive away, let alone that these buildings built by and for slaves have survived more than 150 years.
Im delighted to know that there are plans to repeat and expand the event that happened earlier this month. The event was the idea of Jerome Bias, a historic interpreter at Old Salem and a member of the sites board of directors.
Bias said the idea was in reaction to the killing of Trayvon Martin. The narrative that Bias heard after Martins death was that African-Americans were lazy and victims. As a historical interpreter, thats a mythology about slaves that he constantly combats. In fact, it contributes to why few minorities visit such museums and historic sites.
Who wants to go out to a place where their people were victims? Bias said.
Bias works to dispel those myths about slavery. He talked at length during the recent Stagville event about how not all slaves were field hands but many were master carpenters, brick masons and worked on construction crews that built homes and other buildings throughout the North Carolina Piedmont.
Many of the descendants of the slaves who lived at Horton Grove now live in Durham, Rougemont, Roxboro and Bahama. Bias explained that he wanted to see more of them out at the site. He figured one way to do that might be through food, so he invited Twitty to lead a demonstration on how slaves would have cooked communally at Horton Grove. There was fried chicken but also pork roast, potatoes and green beans, corn mush and peach cobbler.
What we ate Saturday was not what is typically seen as soul food, Bias said. I wanted people to see that and to celebrate that.
Bias hopes to expand the event next year to not only celebrate food but also African-American textile traditions and health with a trail run on the property.
If you cant wait until next year to check out Stagville, they have a talk and some tours at Horton Grove next month.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Police arrested a 16-year-old Traverse City girl on an operating while intoxicated charge after observing her drive erratically on Garfield Avenue.
The traffic stop was made Sunday at 2:40 a.m. A preliminary breath test found her blood-alcohol content to be .12 percent and she was arrested by Traverse City Police.
Capt. Brian Heffner said it was unusual to find a juvenile to have such a high blood-alcohol level and driving. He said the jail booking area had to be cleared of adult inmates while she was given a second Breathalyzer. Federal law prohibits officers from exposing juveniles in custody to adult inmates.
All three of the juvenile's passengers — a male, 19, and two females, 18 and 19 — had also been drinking and registered .137, .192 and .04 blood alcohol contents. Heffner said they were driven home by a parent after being issued minor in possession citations.
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By ASHLEIGH LIVINGSTON
---- — PLATTSBURGH — High winds that blew through the North Country Sunday afternoon left hundreds of area residents without power and Phil Hunter without much of his roof.
Hunter told the Press-Republican he was inside his mobile home at 2 Old Orchard St. in Morrisonville when a powerful gust tore the tin roof off of his establishment.
"All of a sudden, I heard this roar, and I could feel the trailer shaking," Hunter said.
Before coming to rest nearly 150 feet from his home, according to Hunter, the roof tugged at surrounding power lines, causing a power pole to fall over onto the roof of his neighbor's trailer, located at 10 Old Orchard St.
No one was injured in the incident, he said, and damage to his neighbor's trailer was minimal. Emergency workers turned off power to the homes, and residents were unable to stay there.
Hunter said he hoped to get a generator to heat his trailer and wanted to patch up the roof so he could occupy the space again as soon as possible.
In addition, several power lines and trees were reportedly knocked down by the strong winds in Clinton and Franklin counties, though few in Essex County.
Director of Clinton County Emergency Services Eric Day said Sunday afternoon that county dispatchers had received 15 to 20 calls regarding downed trees and power lines.
At about 2 p.m., NYSEG was reporting that 897 of its customers in Clinton County, 38 in Franklin County and 22 in Essex County were without power.
And According to the National Grid, another 285 people were powerless in its coverage area south of Malone, 24 near Saranac Lake and 40 near Black Brook.
In addition, the Associated Press reported that more then 16,000 residents of western and central New York lost power as a result of the winter winds.
In Clinton County, trees were said to have fallen in the road near 348 Wood Falls Road in Altona, 28 Daytona Boulevard in Plattsburgh and North Star Road near Hemmingford Road in Mooers.
Power lines were also reported to have fallen in the roadway near 31 Stratton Hill Road in West Chazy.
Day said utilities crews were working to restore power in areas where it had been lost. He did not expect any long-term outages.
A portion of Cornelia Street in Plattsburgh was also closed Sunday afternoon amid concerns that the high winds might cause materials to come loose from a nearby construction site.
The street was blocked between Beekman Street and Draper Avenue beginning at about 1 p.m. while University Police monitored the site where SUNY Plattsburgh's new academic building is being erected.
There were conflicting reports about whether a piece of scaffolding actually fell from the building, located at the corner of Draper Avenue and Cornelia Street.
According to University Police, the road was only expected to be closed temporarily and no injuries were reported.
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Brown Shipley enters race for Jupiter wealth arm
by Danielle Levy on Jan 23, 2014 at 10:22
Jupiter's management team has invited final bids for its wealth management division by the end of January as Brown Shipley emerges as a contender for the business, Wealth Manager understands.
Negotiations over the potential sale of Jupiter's wealth management arm are gathering pace, with a deal expected within a few months. Brown Shipley has emerged as a potential buyer, a move that would bolster the private bank's investment management operation in London.
Brown Shipley, backed by Qatari firm Precision Capital, previously competed for Deutsche's regional network and the bulk of the former Tilney business. However, it was beaten by Bestinvest owner Permira, which is now in final stage deal talks, as previously revealed by Wealth Manager.
Last June, Brown Shipley executive director Robert Smoker highlighted London as a key growth area for the firm, with a one-year asset growth target of £100 million.
Rathbones, Quilter Cheviot and Towry have also been highlighted as potential bidders by the Sunday Times, which named investment bank Evercore as responsible for a strategic review of Jupiter's business.
The Private Client & Charities division, headed by Andrew Clark (pictured), managed £2.26 billion at year-end. A source close to the situation estimates around one third of the assets are currently run on an advisory or execution-only basis on behalf of Jupiter's staff, alongside their friends and family.
This could weigh on the potential valuation of the business, the source anticipated, due to concerns about how sticky these assets could ultimately prove after the sale.
Numis analyst David McCann values the business at between £27-34 million (excluding balance sheet capital). He takes the view that a parent with a wealth management focus could be more successful at growing its assets.
Jupiter's private client business has been running since 1985. In 2008, the firm signalled its intention to grow the unit by hiring two separate wealth management teams from Singer & Friedlander and Bestinvest, which doubled its private client manager headcount. Maarten SlendeBroek will replace Jupiter's Edward Bonham Carter as chief executive in March.
Jupiter and Brown Shipley declined to comment.
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Champions 2BR/BA Condo: Call for GREAT Deals in August! in Branson
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Thousand Hills Golf Resort
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You've found the perfect place!
Branson Vacation Rentals is offering this 2BR/BA condo right in Branson, less than 1/4 mile to the strip! You can run out to a show, do some shopping or hit the golf course and be back in a minute or two.
Comfortable bedrooms for all: Two full bedrooms and a double sleeper in the living area sleep 6. We've put pillowtop mattresses and high thread count linens everywhere and plenty of extra pillows so you'll all get a perfect nights sleep! The master bedroom has a king size bed, the second bedroom a queen. A pack n play is availalbe for the little ones too. Each bedroom has a tv, dresser and nightstand.
Spacious bathrooms: The master bedroom has a double vanity and a step in double sized shower with glass doors. The second bathroom off the living area has a whirlpool tub. Soft, thick towels are ready for you.
Fully equipped kitchen: The full kitchen has full size appliances, fully equipped with all the small appliances and tools you need for any meal, such as: toaster, coffee maker, crock pot, table service and more.
Great Gathering Spaces: The comfortable main level living area with TV is open to the kitchen and dining. There is also a great view out the doors to the covered patio. There is table seating for 4 in the dining room, as well as breakfast bar seating for 3. The outdoor dining area has table seating for 4 also.
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Sarah Mauzey 417-832-9991
condo rental amenities
Perfect Central Location: Great location in the heart of Branson. You can be most anywhere in town within a couple minutes. Lakes are 10 minutes away. Shows, amusement parks, dining and entertainment are rght next door!
Entertainment: High speed internet & Wi-Fi included. Games, books, dvd's and toys for the little ones as well.
Resort Amenities: Thousand Hills Resort boasts a championship golf course where many celebrities gold, right in the heart of Branson, MO. There is a playground, onsite tennis courts and a swimming pool.
activities and attractions in Branson Missouri
The Branson area offers something for every interest and age.
City Life: Over a hundred live shows and theatre, ample unique dining choices, museums like the Titanic, activities such as go carts, great shopping at the Landing, outlet malls or with craftsmen. Amusement parks offer coaster rides and water rides.
Outdoors: Enthusiasts enjoy many activities such as: biking, hiking, spelunking, bird watching, zip lining through tree canopies, horseback riding and that's just a start of the many fun adventures waiting for you. There are many championship golf courses with beautiful views and full clubhouse services.
Lakes: No fewer than three area lakes with full service marinas and equipment rentals provide everything you could need for fun on the water. Boating, fishing, jet skis, swimming and even parasailing and more.
vacation rental rates
We run specials alot, please email for shorter stays and last minute discounts.
Jan 1st - Mar 7th 2 night min, 4th night FREE
79/night Sun-Th, 79/night Fri-Sat
March 8th - May 21st 3 night min, 5th night FREE
79/night Sun-Th, 99/night Fri-Sat
May 22nd - Aug10th 3 night min, 5th night FREE
130/night Sun-Th, 160/night Fri-Sat
Aug 11th - Jan 3rd 3 night min, 5th night FREE
99/night Sun-Th, 125/night Fri-Sat
Thanksgiving week 5 night min, 7th night FREE
Christmas/New Years weeks 3 night min, 5th night FREE
124/night Sun-Th, 149/night Fri/Sat
- Recognized holidays not listed above are additional $50 charge per night, this applies to the week/end of the holiday.
- Recognized holidays: Labor Day, Presidents Day, Valentine's Day.
- Free night offers not available during holidays.
- Some holidays have longer minimum stays.
- No check ins or check outs on holidays.
Payment/Fees/General Policies
- $60 cleaning/linen fee.
- Taxes are 11.6% of rental amount.
- There is a credit card required for your damage waiver.
- 50% of fees are due at booking to hold your dates, balance at 3 weeks prior to stay.
- We take checks, money orders, MC, Visa and AmEx.
- Check in 4pm. Check out 11am.
- No smoking.
- Rates are subject to change without notice
Pet Friendly / Allergen Free
- No pets at this location.
Cancellation Policies
- Up to 60 days in advance of your dates, there is $100 relisting fee.
- Between 59 days and 3 weeks, you forfeit first installment; within 3 weeks, forfeit full rental amount, unless we rebook and are able to consider further refunds.
- If you are concerned, we recommend trip insurance.
Sarah Mauzey 417-832-9991
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Top things to do in Branson
- Golf
- Live Music, Theatre
- Fishing, Boating & Lakes
- Dining & Shopping
- Amusement parks
Top things to do on a budget
- Fish hatchery
- Outlet Shopping
- Hiking near Table Rock
- Swimming
- Scenic drives
Top things to do with a family
- Silver Dollar City
- White Water Waterpark
- Ziplines
- Fish Hatchery
- Festivals
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