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A food jag is when a child will only eat one food item meal after meal. Some other common childhood eating behaviors that can cause alarm in many parents include fear of new foods and refusal to eat what is served.
Refusal to eat; Fear of new foods
At times children's eating habits are a way for them to feel independent. This marks normal development in children.
If the preferred food is nutritious and easy to prepare, continue to offer it along with a variety of other foods at each meal. Your child will usually start eating other foods before long. Many times, serving the meal before your child becomes ravenously hungry will help avoid the situation.
Once a child is focused on one particular food, it's almost impossible to get the little one to accept an alternative food. If your child goes without eating much at one meal, don't worry. Your child will make up for it at another meal or snack. Simply provide nutritious foods at meals and snack times.
Some general recommendations:
Fear of new foods is common in children, and new foods should not be forced on a child. Many exposures are needed before a child will be brave enough to taste a new food. Continuing to offer new foods will help increase the likelihood that your child will eventually taste and maybe even like a new food.
The taste rule -- "You have to at least taste each food on your plate" -- may work on some children. However, if your child is defiant, you may just start an unnecessary war. Children mimic adult behavior, and if another family member will not eat new foods, you cannot expect your child to experiment.
Try not to label your child's eating habits. Food preferences change with time, and just because Sally didn't like carrots the first time she tried them doesn't mean she will not like them later on. It may seem like a waste of food at first, but over the long run a child who accepts a large variety of food makes meal planning and preparation easier.
Refusing to eat what is served can be a power tool for many children. Imagine the chaos when a family is sitting at the table and suddenly young Michael decides he wants something other than what is offered. Mother races to prepare the dish only to have it turned down and something else requested.
Some parents go to great lengths to ensure that food intake is adequate. Healthy children will eat enough if offered a variety of nutritious foods. Your child may eat "like a bird" at one meal and make up for it at another meal or snack.
Providing scheduled meals and snack times is important for children. Kids need a lot of energy, and snacks are essential. However, snacks do not mean treats. Fruits, vegetables, and whole grain products should be at the top of your snack list. Some snack ideas include fruit popsicles, fruit juice, milk, vegetable sticks, fruit wedges, mixed dry cereal, pretzels, melted cheese on a tortilla, or a small sandwich.
As a parent, your role in your child's eating should be fairly simple. Provide a variety of foods at set meal and snack times and allow your child to choose foods based on expressed likes, dislikes, and caloric needs. Forcing, coercing, or rewarding your child with food does not usually make your child eat better, and can cause behavioral problems related to food later on. These problems often linger into adulthood.
Allowing your child to be in control of food intake may seem hard at first, especially if you grew up with rules and rewards. However, it will help promote healthy eating habits for a lifetime.
See also:
Heird WC. The feeding of infants and children. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 42.
Kimmel SR, Ratliff-Schaub K. Growth and development. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 31.
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Labor Day Weekend Fishing...
I had plans to start the weekend off with a friend of mine and head over to Willards Pond again, this time with his canoe. I have already had one that got away here, so I knew they were biting near the shore and was very eager to get out to the more popular spots out on the pond.
Well, my buddies wife got a flat, and for some strange reason she had no idea what to do to replace it (she DID have a spare) anyway, my buddy backs out on me to go rescue his wife... I went home, grabbed my waders and headed out to the pond anyway.
When I got there, there was a whole lot of chop on the pond and the wind was a royal PITA! With clouds hanging dark and heavy overhead, I knew if I didn't start casting here, I wouldn't have any time to get to a hole that was better protected by the wind, so I stuck it out. I grabbed my Hare's Ear Emerger and tossed it to the same rock formation I previously lost a fish on a Yellow Hornberg... Didn't get a nibble at all for about an hour and it was hard casting in that wind. When I was about to give up in frustration, the wind died down and that smell of rain filled the air. I didn't see any lightning, so I figured I would just take advantage of the calm.
I placed the fly just where I wanted it in between two boulders, let it sink down the length of the leader. By the time I started to retreive the fly, it had started raining. It was a light raindrops but a lot of them and broke up the waters surface again. About the 2nd or 3rd retreival I got a big hit, and the fish ran away from his hole in the rocks, I had my drag on real light because of the 6x tippet I was using, so it took a while to get him in. When I did, I saw the heavy, but short 8-9" Small Mouth. Not what I was going for, (hell, I didn't even know smallies were in here) but he was a fun ride to get in. After I released him, the rain stopped. And so did the fish-action. Called it a night about an hour later and went home.
Day 2
On Saturday, it was very sunny, hot and even more windy than the night before, and I didn't get out on the water until about 7:30, so the fish had all gone into hiding by the time I got out there.
I looked for some new fishing spots at a pond near Willards, at Willards itself, along a few streams nearby and then gave up to go home to take care of the "honey do" list.
By 3:00 I was back in the car looking for spots. Since I never had fished the CT on this side of the state, I figured it was worth a try.
Found an old dirt road that went down along the river. At the first turnoff I found, I parked and tossed in a nymph. Not a thing, too many speed boats going by and too much sun to get any fish out of their hiding spots.
I went down the road further until it ended. I found a wi,derness sanctuary which was posted for fishing/hiking ect. and figured I would give it a try.
Well... I think I went up the hiking trail on accident because I kept going up and up and up all the time waiting for it to go back down to a beach or something... nope..
In front of me I heard running water, so I didn't turn back, knowing if I could get down to where the water fall went into the CT, I may actually find some fish feeding on the food it brought down to them. Well, I just about killed myself scaling down to the river from up there in my felt soled waders, and came close to breaking my rod about five times. Knowing I was nuts, when I looked up at what I would have to do to get back to the path, I figured I would get down in the river and wade to this phantom beach I was looking for.
Waded in and didn't see anything. When I sarted to go down stream casting away, I didn't get a bite, nor did I see any beach or clearing. OK, now I was in trouble. Down here with only a pair of waders and about a 60% grade cliff to climb to get up to the path. ARGH!
So I start my Hike up... almost ripping my waders, losing my hat, snapping my rod... and constantly getting my net snagged on a tree or branch or rock or something...
By the time I get out of there, I was so tired I had no interest in doing anything but take a nap. Well, I rest int he car for a while and then head back home. On the way there, I realize I still had not caught a fish and was determined to do so.
I went by a little fishing hole near the Keene Airport where a few kids were drowning worms instead of each other, so I figured I would take advantage of the time and cast a few. Got out the Hornberg and was sight casting to three hungry fish, looked to be either crappies or perch, never got close enough for a good look. When they came in after the fly for the third time, a kid decided to do a cannonball in the same general area as me and, well, spooked the fish away. Nodded my hat to thank him and moved on to a spot closer to my house.
I got up to Swanzey lake at the boat launch (secluded little spot that is shaded by the trees and no wind, also because of the trees)
Ahh, a nice easy place to set up. I tied on my Rascal to see if it would work. Saw a very slow hatch of a white mayfly and knew this would be a good time to try it.
Well, that sucker doesn't need ANY flotant to stay on the water. The dog hair floats all day.
Some bait casters came in when I was set up (two families with kids) They caught a few Horned Pout, a pickeral, and some perch, and they caught my fly line once... DOH!
I eventually caught my little perch that I misstook for a trout rising. (didnt realize they went for top feeding) so I called it a day and went home.
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Wow Stone! You had quite the outings this weekend (memorial day )
Luckily our trips went a little smoother. We were going to do a multi day float trip, but a wedding on Sunday blew that idea. So Saturday we headed to the Arkansas river between Buena Vista and Leadville. Got to the river at 6 and had real good action on #18 elk hair caddis. My wife and I caught 2 Browns and 4 rainbows with more hook ups just couldn't land em. No real size; all 12 to 14 range. By 8 there were so many kayakers that the fishing in that area was done. So moved up stream (north of Granite) and a caddis hatch was in full swing. Once we matched the hatch, caught fish consistently till 10:30, all rainbows in the 12-16in range. We lost count. Took a break and did some dog training. Went a few miles further up stream and found another hatch that started about 2. Got schooled by my wife here. She landed 4 nice fish one rainbow that was 22in. I landed 2 12in rainbows. Hatch died off so we headed home.
Monday we decided for a change and headed to Antero Reservoir for a day of boating with a motor. Didn't get to the res till 10 in the morning, but it didn't seem to matter. It was a day of lakers. Started out with drys, getting the risers but wind put an end to that. Strippin streamers was the key! Caught 20 lakers and 2 rainbows. My wife got her biggest laker this weekend. It was fun coming back to the ramp and having all the folks with spinners and downriggers be jealous cause they had watched us pulling em in all afternoon. Couldn't have asked for a better weekend other than for it not to end.
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Thanks for the info. I'll have to remember this technique in the future. I might try an off-highway version.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to remember this technique in the future. I might try an off-road version.
I tried it the way you described, but it didn't worked. Because the background of the images is always identical, a panorama tool can't stich the images. I take one image of the street without car and photoshoped it, so I could assemble it seamless to a long street without cars. Then I copied the cars from the images on this street. This was easy, because they fit perfekt... I didn't need to mask the cars precisely.
Can you post one of the source images to flickr or somewhere? I know this was taken by pointing the camera at a fixed spot across the road, waiting for a car to come in view than snapping the picture, and assembling the images into a "panorama." I'm really curious what the individual frames looked like before stitching.


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"Dorothy Imagire And Ben Sloat" at Simmons College's Trustman Gallery, 300 the Fenway [fourth floor], Boston | September 2–October 3 | 617.521.2268
Opening at the Boston University Art Gallery on September 5, "ATOMIC AFTERIMAGE: COLD WAR IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY ART" brings together work by 10 artists — among them Bruce Conner, Joy Garnett, and Richard Misrach — who reinterpret images from the era of above-ground nuclear testing (1945–1962). Garnett bases apocalyptic paintings on declassified photographs of nuclear explosions. Conner, in one fine example, uses his skillful way with collage to merge a figure wearing a military jacket with an iconic image of mushroom clouds from the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, reanimating (and giving a psychological dimension) to an image of power and destruction that might not seem as safely far in the past as it used to.
The complex — and currently unraveling — relationship between finance and buildings is the subject of "RED LINES, DEATH VOWS, FORECLOSURES, RISK STRUCTURES: ARCHITECTURES OF FINANCE FROM THE DEPRESSION TO THE SUB-PRIME MELTDOWN," an exhibit by Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) that opens at MIT's Compton Gallery on September 9. Rich, who founded the CUP in 1997, is trained as an architect, and in this project he investigates the history and mechanics of financing the places we call home. During his year-long residence at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (in 2005, well before sketchy financing schemes and lending practices across the country reached the headlines), he undertook a study of the fundamentals of real-estate markets, working with MIT students and volunteers to interview folks like the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, and hanging out with mortgage brokers in bars in Boston. In "Red Lines," he uses video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to reveal the inner workings and nitty-gritty details of how our neighborhoods have been created and manipulated and are on the verge of being destroyed.
How we manage to get along at all in our global neighborhood, what with our various ethnic groups, religious beliefs, cultural memories, and the like, is one of the big questions posed by a new series of exhibits, "In Between: The Cultural DMZ," at Simmons College's Trustman Gallery. The series kicks off on September 2 with "DOROTHY IMAGIRE AND BEN SLOAT," which pairs Sloat's photographs of a series of "lady-shaped" shampoo bottles produced by Avon in the 1970s with Imagire's "Mixed-Race Kimonos" exploring Asian-American female stereotypes.
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Performing arts interest is growing
Being on stage can be an empowering experience that frees you to act in dramatic and expressive ways.
Being a public speaker has also been considered to be one of the most stressful and difficult experiences that a person can endure, often cited as causing a great deal of fear.
How do you respond when you are placed in the public eye?
The school district and the community education programs offer many experiences that allow students to learn how to "do performing arts."
The high school is working on the production of the annual one-act play in preparation for the one-act contest. The 2013 production is "Any Suspicious Activity" by Roger Nieboer under the direction of Gary Hirsch.
There will be a public performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 in the Pequot Lakes High School auditorium before the show goes to sub-sections Jan. 26 and sections Feb. 2. Tickets will be sold at the door for the public performance.
Pequot Lakes fine arts activities include speech. Currently 33 students are practicing for competition in one of the following speech categories: Creative Expression, Discussion, Duo Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Extemporaneous Reading, Extemporaneous Speaking, Great Speeches, Humorous Interpretation, Informative Speaking, Original Oratory, Poetry, Prose and Storytelling.
The speech program is under the direction of Ivanna Buchite, head coach, and Heather Pearson, assistant coach.
Festival of the Arts is a time for visual arts and performing arts work of the elementary, middle level and high school students and community artists to go on display. Check it out from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the high school.
To set up a display as a community artist, contact Dave Guenther at 218-568-9252.
Pequot Lakes Community Theater (PLCT) recently completed auditions for "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." There are 40-plus youth and adult actors working to bring this show on stage in March with the leadership of Kate Davis, director, and Ben Gordon, assistant director.
The story of the ongoing battle between good and evil is an engaging one that will make you glad you took the time to come and see the performance.
The PLCT has provided 60-plus community theater productions for the local area since 1983. The community theater is a major part of the Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts (GLAPA) programming. GLAPA offers high quality, affordable arts programming for the greater Brainerd lakes area.
Technical theater, taught by CJ Anderson, provides a chance to learn how to operate the sound system, lights and rigging of the Pequot Lakes theater. Trained technical workers are used to conduct the theater productions and other school performances.
The spring high school play provides an opportunity for high school students to perform and provide tech support for a production.
Summer programming options: Young Performers Day Camp has been offered for two years. The experience has given students an opportunity to perform in a variety show setting led by Susan Mathison-Young.
Summer Drama Camp, Prairie Fire Children's Theater in Pine River and the Fisherman's Theater in Crosslake are other community based performing arts programs that enrich our community, too.
If acting or speaking in front of the public is not your cup of tea, perhaps you are ready to support the folks on stage or up front by attending one or more of the fine arts experiences and cheering on the efforts of the thespians, speech makers and techies.
(Julie Despot is director of Pequot Lakes Community Education.)


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The Masters in Finance programs offer you an integrated finance education that covers the most diverse and up to date information on the finance industry and functional area.
The mission of each one of the research units at IE is to produce a pragmatic and innovative line of research whereby the resultant knowledge can be immediately applied to all areas of activity at IE.
We promote applied research to the needs of the business world in our chairs, projects and centers of excellence.
The present study is part of a series of research papers on Family Firms elaborated by IE in collaboration with Banca March, and its focus is the analysis of Corporate Governance in such companies. The recent economic crisis has generated an intesnse debate as to what are the best practices in Corporate Governance, and public family firms should not be extent of this debate.
Past papers on this series analyzed the distinctive features of family firms and explained the presence of a "family premium" in the European stock markets, all the while it alerted of some of the risks associated with family control of firms. The current report stems out of the conviction that some of these risks could be mitigated by improving Corporate Governance structures of public family firms.
The principal author of the study is Cristina Cruz, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Area at IE, professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Firms, and recognized researcher on this topic.
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IE Business School shapes leaders who promote innovation and change in organisations, equipping directors with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth and social wellbeing.
Since its inception, IE Business School has embraced the entrepreneurial spirit as a core value, and is now an international reference in the field of entrepreneurship.
The School's International Centre for Entrepreneurial Management serves as a hub for all activities related to the field, both academic and corporate.
The mission of the Human Resources Centre at IE is to provide support for HR directors and specialists that enable them to update their professional skills.
The main objective is to provide a platform for the generation and exchange of knowledge in different areas of human resources, with particular emphasis on emerging issues that may have a marked impact on management capacities in the near future. Activity in the Centre focuses on three main areas:
Knowledge creation 1. Development of applied research projects. 2. Preparation of reference and benchmarking reports. 3. Participation in national and international research forums.
Knowledge dissemination: 1. Organization of conferences and seminars for HR directors and managers. 2. Participation in debates on issues of interest to professionals in the sector.
Generation of Networks: 1. Organisation and management of interest groups and communities to examine specialized aspects of human resources. 2. Generation of an information point on the web that serves as a hub for up-to-the-minute sources and issues for human resource professionals.
Activities carried out by the Centre include: The IE Human Resource Benchmarking Club, Observatory on Internal Communication and Identity, E&E HR Awards for Innovation in HR, Organization of Seminars and Conferences and Applied Research
The Diversity in Global Management Centre at IE was created in September 2002.
The Centre's mission is to promote the diversity management of gender, culture, personality and age as a competitive advantage in the corporate world, through reflection, creation of knowledge and the dissemination of know-how.
The Centre's main aims are:
1. To foster a greater understanding of the demand for and needs of corporate diversity, by analyzing the improvement in bottom line results and effectiveness of inclusion policies.
2. To improve diversity in the corporate world by promoting management training programs for minority groups both in western and developing countries, thus promoting the integration of women into the economic fabric.
The mission of the IE Centre for Negotiation and Mediation is the task of training corporate management professionals in skills and techniques for negotiation and mediation.
Furthermore, the Centre aims to analyse and investigate the processes of negotiation in order to undertake the design and application of content, methods and its own tools to serve as a basis for its training work. Said training activities will spread over the following working lines:
1. The teaching of Masters Programmes and advanced post-graduate courses given at IE.
2. The development of Executive Education. Throughout the year the Centre holds a range of workshops and courses that are open to any professionals who want to learn the Techniques and the Negotiation Method in order to apply them in their work.
3. In-company training courses tailored to the client and whose duration varies depending on the training needs required.
4. Online training courses complemented by continual contact with teaching staff through email, forums and open discussions.
5. Collaboration in, and the undertaking of, a range of activities, conferences and forums related to Negotiation.
6. Debates and publications on the Foro Negocia platform, designed to generate knowledge regarding the nature, limits and purpose of negotiation.
7.- Publication of results from the varying research lines carried out at the Centre.
8.- The carrying out and translation of various practical case studies to be used in the different programmes. Studies and cinematographic analysis of related films dealing with dispute management and negotiation.
The creation of the Innovation of the Public Sector Chair by PwC and IE is the direct result of the awareness that the participation of private firms in the public sector will foster growth and enhance levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
The Centre's mission is to serve as a catalyst for this process. The challenges facing the public sector are the following:
1. The need for greater specialization among its professionals.
2. Continuous training as a key element of progress.
3. The redesign and improvement of processes: application of methodologies focused on efficiency and effectiveness.
4. The incorporation of private operators in public services and companies through outsourcing of both management and funding.
5. The chief objectives of the Innovation of the Public Sector Centre are centered on: Providing professionals who work in both the private sector and the public sector with the training they need to undertake increasingly competitive projects with greater impact.
To provide a reference in Spain for solutions required by public and private sector companies who embark on joint projects.
The Innovation of the Public Sector Centre aims to achieve these objectives through the following lines of work:
1. Research applied to the management and funding of the public sector from a legal-administrative and economic-financial perspective.
2. Postgraduate teaching and 3. Consulting services for institutions, firms, NGOs and other organizations in the public and private sector.
Centre for Financial Sector PwC-IE is a unique institution in Spain, independent of credit institutions, which analyses the challenges facing the Spanish and international financial sector. It investigates and establishes itself as a benchmark for strategic aspects related to innovation in the sector, and remains active in the debate on the newest topics in regulation and supervision, which all contribute in prioritising the changes that the industry must undertake in an increasingly competitive market.
The institution promotes the organization of meetings and the publication of research to achieve an efficient and competitive financial system. The analysis of international trends, the regulatory framework, innovation and the changing environment, are the main focus of its activity.
SCIEF is Europe´s leading center for Islamic Economics and Finance. The center was launched in 2009 with the mission to be a hub for research, teaching, applying and promoting Islamic economics and finance within Spanish and international businesses, governments and future leaders.
The center leverages from the experience of its partners: Islamic Economics Institute - King Abdulaziz University and IE Business School and Chair for Ethics and Financial Norms (CEFN) – University of Paris 1, Sorbonne.
The activities range from developing course material, leadership through producing publications, conducting executive training on contemporary issues and raising awareness through our think tank series on Islamic finance and the future of alternative financing in business.
The IE Center for European Studies is a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. It completes the recognition of IE University as a distinguished institution in the generation of knowledge of European Integration in Spain, after having offered various Jean Monnet European Modules and having created a Jean Monnet Chair.
The aim of the IE Center for European Studies is to become a reference in studies in and teaching of the European Integration thanks to the professors of recognized prestige forming part of it.
The IE Center for European Studieswill consist of three types of main activities: Conferences and public debates, Research and Teaching.
Conferences and public debates: The center intends to organize multi-disciplinary academic conferences and seminars aimed at academics and experts on European studies as well as debates open to the public through its alumni network.
Research: The center will promote research as well as popularization of research papers written by its members. In particular, it will have a series of Working Papers which will include studies on European Integration from the perspective of different fields. This Working Paper series will, in turn, incorporate the series of Working Papers sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair of the Instituto de Empresa.
Teaching: The center will promote "European modules" as compulsory or optional courses in each Master's as well as Bachelor degree programs in IE University. In addition, the center intends also to offer "European programs" for foreign students as well as summer school courses in Madrid and Segovia.
In December 2008, the Corporate Governance Center was created by Bankinter, Iberdrola, IE Business School and PWC. This joint initiative highlights these corporations' interests and concerns about everything related to best practices for Corporate Governance such as continuous and sustainable improvement, interests of the different stakeholders and markets, transparency, Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Reputation.
The Center for Corporate Governance aims to become an forum to facititate the exchange of ideas & opinions, analysis & research, and teaching & disclosure featuring topics concerning Corporate Governance, Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Reputation. It will try to indentify ideas and new trends coming up at the international environment, as well as to find answers for queries that arise.
The center pays special attention to the origins of economic and financial crises, current and past, and it specifically tries to find out whether or not these origins are related to Corporate Governance…
ENTER (the Analysis Centre for the Information Society and Telecommunications) aims to contribute to the development of society in general and the technology sector in particular through the generation and diffusion of reports, the benchmarking of other markets, the analysis of best practices and the identification of new opportunities for the development of the sector.
"ENTER's proposal for value focuses on its independent, multi-discipline and international spirit, as well as on the guarantee and know-how of the persons backing the initiative," sources at the Centre point out. This center finished in 2010
The Eco-Intelligent Management Center (CEM) at IE is an international research and training centre whose mission is to help the business community shape the Next Industrial Revolution.
The basis of the eco-intelligent focus lies in an in-depth approach to design and commerce that incorporates concern for prosperity, social equity and eco-intelligence.
The CEM is the European and international nexus for the study of business management challenges faced by companies that are implementing eco-intelligent strategies. This center finished on 2009.
The objective of the Finance Research Center (FRC) is to produce and disseminate high quality research output in the area of financial economics.
Following IE Business School's philosophy, the center has a multidisciplinary approach, including full-time professors and research fellows across different disciplines (strategy, control, economics and finance) and schools with a common and broad interest in financial economics research topics.
Among its activities, the FRC conducts new research across a wide variety of financial topics; promotes high profile conferences and workshops for academics, practitioners and regulators and contributes to the diffusion of cutting-edge knowledge in financial economics for the academic community and society as a whole. The current director of the Center is Juan-Pedro Gómez.
We invite you to explore the profiles and research output of the Center members and keep yourself posted on our upcoming events.


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In the comfort of my London home, far from the dangers of crime reporting in Mumbai, the news flash on television seemed unreal. Senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey had been killed, pumped full of five bullets in broad daylight. I thought things like this only happened in Bollywood flicks, and that crime reporters in Mumbai never had any reason to jump at shadows. Alas, I was wrong.


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Murder of Crows flies to Surrey stage
It's barely been two months since she retired, so there hasn't been much opportunity for Heather Harris's fears of becoming bored or lonely to come to fruition.
Add to that the fact that the inexperienced actress is playing a lead role in a stage production this month, and Harris's life couldn't be further from tedious.
Harris is playing the part of Jennie Woodson in Surrey Little Theatre's (SLT) current comedy/drama A Murder of Crows. And other than doing some behind-the-scenes theatrical studies in university decades ago, subsequent recreational theatre programming with kids, and more recently, engaging adults with special needs in imagination and improvisation exercises, this will be her very first time taking centre stage.
"I never had to learn a lot of lines or work in a more structured atmosphere with experienced actors," the Surrey resident says. "This is my first time doing that.
"I've always been kind of animated... so probably that part of me needs an outlet," she laughs.
Harris had often thought of getting involved with theatre over the years, but her schedule simply didn't allow it.
But after prodding her teenage granddaughter, who's involved in theatre, for pointers, she boldly headed for the SLT auditions in January. The worst that could happen, she thought, is that she'd gain a little experience – and very likely meet some nice people.
"I was just excited," Harris recalls, adding she wasn't scared at all and set no expectations. "I didn't expect to walk in and get a part, never mind the lead."
But that's just what happened and beginning this week, she finds herself in the spotlight – and thoroughly enjoying it.
Murder of Crows, written by Ed Graczyk, is set in the small town of Wallace, Ohio and takes place over a short period of about a day-and-a-half. Jennie and Harley Woodson are longtime residents of Wallace, a once-thriving farming community that has turned into a toxic waste dump. The couple find themselves forced to move from their comfortable home – all they've ever known – to a trailer on their estranged son's property in Pennsylvania.
The play features a small, six-person cast, which includes Steven Burridge as Jennie's husband, Harley.
Harris says her relationship with her on-stage husband has helped with her rather quick plunge into theatre.
"He's very experienced compared to me," she says. "He's easy to be on stage with – he just relaxes into the role and becomes that person. It makes it so much easier."
She says that security has extended to her character Jennie's relationship with Harley while they're dealing with such trying circumstances.
"It's admirable. These people have been married for 57 years."
Producer Brigitte Seib has high praise for the scripted couple, saying their chemistry is very believable.
"They look like they've been married for years," Seib says.
Also cast are Brad Hammerstron and Robyn Bradley, who play the couple's son and daughter, respectively, while Pat Braun is lifelong friend Velma and Grant Vlahovic is Luther "Digger" Briggs, the town's gravedigger who also owns the local garage.
The show is directed by Abbotsford's Lynne Karey-McKenna, who has directed several Langley Players Club productions, and had an award-winning supporting role in SLT's Brooklyn Boys in 2009.
While A Murder of Crows will inspire a lot of laughs, neither Seib nor Harris are willing to call it a straight-up comedy.
"There is some darkness," Seib says. "You know how comedy comes out of reality?"
After all, at the root, the story is about people living through a tragedy of sorts – one that's been a long time coming, but which has come to a head.
"It's a serious subject," admits Harris, pointing to the couple's being uprooted and their struggle with unwelcome change.
"Jennie has a line that says 'All I ever wanted is what I have' and it's true. It's true for everybody, but I think the older we get, that's exactly what we want."
While the play's environmental issues are topical, both Harris and Seib believe the other universal themes of family, aging, relationships and loyalty will resonate with theatre-goers.
"I think this is a play that the audience can get carried along with ... the emotional ups and downs," says Harris.
A Murder of Crows opened last night (April 7) and runs Thursdays through Saturdays until May 7 at Surrey Little Theatre, 7027 184 St. Evening shows are at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on April 17 and May 1. Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling 604-576-8451 or by emailing email@example.com


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Post what you think about the future of Star Wars Original Trilogy Vehicle Toy Possibilities.
The oldest Star Wars movie, ANH, has the highest demand for new vehicles by our polls.
It worked out so there were 9 vehicles from each OT movie polled for. 7/9 (hehe, Seven-Of-Nine) won for ANH.
The Winners are:
Princess Leia's Tantive IV Rebel Blockade Runner [14-11]
Lars Family Landspeeder [10-6]
Dash Rendar's Outrider (resculpt) [9-6]
Imperial Landing Craft [14-3]
Big Jawa Sandcrawler [20-4]
Darth Vader's TIE Fighter (resculpt) [10-3]
Luke's Landspeeder (resculpt) [14-5]
The losers were:
Luke's T-16 Skyhopper re-release [6-10]
R2-D2's Escape Pod [6-7]
I think sooner than later, Luke's Landspeeder will see some kind of release. Vader's TIE will take several years perhaps. The $24 one is on shelves everywhere this year.
The other vehicles are more exotic, even though the Lars Landspeeder is relatively low cost compared to some of the huge vehicles we voted for.
I have strong doubts about Dash Rendar's Outrider (the least chances of anything here).
The 3 larger ships would all be a lot of fun! The Blockade Runner has the best chance for its iconic stature and its possibilities for a big scene yet, in Clone Wars.
The two that lost would not likely sell very well in my opinion. For novelty appeal, maybe the escape pod.
Empire Strikes Back had 5/9 new vehicles demanded.
The Winners are:
Bespin Twin Pod Cloud Car [26-3] ***
Hoth's Echo Base Rebel Personnel Carrier [16-0]
Imperial Probot Droid With Delivery Pod Shuttle [16-0]
Hoth's Echo Base Rebel Laser Ice Drill [10-4]
Rebel Medical Frigate [8-7]
The losers were:
Imperial Star Destroyer [9-10]
Rebel Transport [9-10]
TIE Bomber [5-10]
Hoth AT-ST [10-11] ***
*** Hasbro has confirmed they will actually be producing these vehicles, not at all due to the results from our poll.
The AT-ST Hoth version is a low-cost issue for them, and the Twin Pod Cloud Car was already a commonly known high-demand-vehicle.
I think a Star Destroyer has a better chance than most of the more boring stuff on this list, though it lost our poll. The vote was close and I know people want this. I just hope they make it big enough - USS Flag style.
The Probot's landing pod vehicle again might work as a novelty item.
The Rebel Transport might see some support for nostalgia's sake. (I'd buy it myself, though I've picked up the vintage one.)
Return of the Jedi had 4/9 new vehicles demanded.
The Winners are:
Jabba The Hutt's Sailbarge [26-2]
Endor Forrest Speeder Bikes [15-1]
Tatooine Skiff [9-5]
Y-Wing Fighter [11-2]
The losers were:
Mon Calamari Star Cruiser [2-13]
Imperial Shuttle [5-11]
Coruscant Taxi [7-11]
Coruscant Air Bus [2-7]
TIE Interceptor (resculpt) [6-10]
From our ROTJ list, I can see the following:
Hasbro would probably go for
updated Speederbikes
resculpted Tatooine Skiff
new sculpt for OT Y-wing fighter
updated TIE Interceptor (or re-release in several years)
Jabba's Sailbarge is a great contender for the large vehicle assortment ($150 plus). It is the most demanded by collectors, and if Hondo Ohnaka or Cad Bane would visit Jabba The Hutt in the Clone Wars series for some major sequence (perhaps with Boba Fett) I can see it getting the support it needs from a kid-audience to make this happen.
Each OT movie (since the Kenner days) had it's largest vehicle: the Falcon, the AT-AT, and the Imperial Shuttle.
In the large vehicle assortment for the OT, two of these vehicles have now been updated. Unless Hasbro turns back to ANH with the Sandcrawler or the Rebel Blockade Runner, I can really see ROTJ getting a large vehicle. Our audience here turned the Imperial Shuttle down - even for re-release. If that ship were to see another issue (which it eventually should anyway, IMO) it wouldn't need an update. The vehicle was really nicely done since 1984. The Sailbarge is such a natural direction for Hasbro to take. We supported it overwhelmingly here.
So there's surely less than 10 more OT vehicles we might see being offered in the collection (that are all-new, or sort-of).
Maybe 2-3 per year, over the next 5 years (until 2015) with some re-releases (like the BMF, BAT-AT, B-X-Wing, B-TIE, A-Wing, and B-Wing, thrown in there to keep it going).
The Sailbarge, a Star Destroyer, the Blockade Runner, or a Big Jawa Sandcrawler would be the most exciting for me. I'm not in the market for everything.
How about you? What do you think?


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Idea Box Submissions
Topic: Student Parking
Idea: I have been noticing quite frequently that faculty and staff have been parking in the student parking lots. I understand that there is no sign that says "Student Parking Only", but it is very irritating when I'm walking across campus to get back to my car in the pouring rain and I see one of my professors just jump into their car that is parked right across from where they teach. If I can't park in their lot that says "Faculty and Staff Parking Only", what makes it okay that they can take one of our parking spots? On days that I can't find a spot and I see many other students struggling to get to class on time and there are open spaces in the Faculty parking lots, it drives me insane!!
Response: We are working on a plan to further designate parking on campus. This plan would restrict parking in the manner you suggest. In other words, there would be restricted parking for students only. We would hope to implement this new parking system beginning with the fall semester in 2012.
Update: New parking procedures have been implemented beginning in the Fall 2012 semester. Please visit the Parking Procedures website for more information.
Topic: online and/or night courses
Idea: As a person who works full time, I strongly believe more night courses or more online courses should be available to students. (either one or the other - I'm sympathetic to the difficulty of expanding both.) According to what I've heard on campus, the college administration is averse to offering more online courses because they feel RIC would become a sort-of "University of Phoenix". If this really is the attitude of the administration, they may (and most likely WILL) find RIC left in the dust as higher education of the future moves towards digital learning.
Response: Your submission to the Idea Box was forwarded to me, and I really need to respond. Thank you for your question. It is totally untrue that RIC's administration is averse to online courses! On the contrary, my office [Academic Affairs] has invested heavily in online learning since I started three years ago. I sponsored three (now coming up on five) summer workshops for faculty to learn how to teach online; I pressed for the establishment of a Committee on Online Learning, which was formed this past spring; and I established a position in the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning for a person to help faculty in the methods of teaching online. I also made sure we developed a naming system for courses that are partially or fully online, and you can now search for courses by mode of delivery in the Class Search function in RIConnect. As a result of all of this effort, RIC has 31 online courses this summer (starting from zero two years ago), and another 38 scheduled so far this fall.
However, we have much more work to do. The college has not yet developed a whole program that is online, and that is something I hope to accomplish in one of the schools this year.
I do agree that quality has to be the first consideration, because the benefits of online learning, such as convenience, mean nothing if the learning experience is not good. However, the college's progress has been made with quality in mind, and the Committee on Online Learning is dealing with that very question -- what policies or procedures we need to have to ensure quality.
You also asked about evening classes. Our busiest class time is actually in the evening, but one thing we are going to do is identify those programs that can be taken entirely in the evening. Most of our graduate programs can be done that way, but the undergraduate programs have not yet developed along those lines.
I hope this puts to rest the notion that RIC is averse to online learning. My argument has always been that it's essential. Society is moving increasingly online, and our students need to know how to communicate, learn, work, and be professionals and citizens in the online world. To ignore that part of their education would be a travesty.
Topic: Energy/Cost Savings
Idea: Locate or install an "off" switch for the lights in Alger Hall. The lights in the hallways are on all day, every day, and no one knows how to turn them off. Lots of extra energy and bulb replacement costs.
Response: We are pleased to report that we have completed our review of the hallway lighting issue in Alger and implemented a solution. The hallway lights are now automatically controlled through our computerized building management system. When the system turns the lights off at night, a low-level of lighting will remain on for security purposes. Building occupants are still required to turn off the lights in the classroom and office areas. The development and implementation of this solution was done primarily with in-house facilities and operations staff .
Topic: Access to Technology
Idea: At least one Mac in each lab should have standard Mac software so people who use Macs can go to the lab and view their documents and power point presentation. The standard software that is missing is called "iwork" which is the basic word processing program. Without this software students can not view their documents or power points or convert their power point presentations to PC versions that are already available on the lab macs to look for font and other structural problems. The lab gives the illusion that it has Macs that function but in reality they don't function as Macs. It is unreasonable that the lab Macs have been filled up with the software "iplay" which is for playing games and gutted of the software that is for student work. I have gone to the lab with a powerpoint that needed to be viewed and had to drive 45 minutes home to check it because this standard Mac software is not available in the lab. Although PC software is available for purchase to use on student's Macs, without enough money for additional memory a student cannot do this on campus. Also, any student with a disability will have Mac memory already allocated to additional software and will be unable to install this PC software. It is unreasonable to ask the student to have this PC software installed on their Mac when there are Macs available on campus that could take care of this conversion problem. Unfortunately, the Macs on campus can not function as Macs without this basic software. This is not a matter of cost for the college; the older Mac software is available through Mac sites online for free.
Response: After speaking with the director of User Support Services (USS), she indicated that USS will put one copy of iWork in each walk-in lab and at the Help Center in Gaige so students can view and translate iWork files. This should be done by the end of the month. The director also indicated that this will be the latest version of iWork (iWork 09) which is available from Apple, so students will need to be sure to save in iWork 08 format if they have the 08 version on their home Mac.
Topic: Spring Break
Idea: I was wondering why does RIC and other state colleges have different weeks for Spring Break. In my situation, I'm a full time student and I work full-time. I do not have a lot of time to spend with family. My sisters go to URI, giving us different spring breaks and taking away the opporunity to spend quality family time. Why can't they be the same week?
Response: Thank you for your question. Nationally, the "spring break season" for colleges and universities generally occurs at different weeks during the month of March. Much of this is determined by the academic calendar of the respective institutions, i.e., when classes begin, when classes end, the length of the semester, etc. Rhode Island College has 14 weeks of classes. Our spring break comes after the conclusion of the seventh week, with seven instructional weeks to follow the break. At URI, there are 13 weeks of classes. Their spring break comes after the conclusion of the eighth week, with five instructional weeks to follow the break.
From a web site that tracks such data (http://studenttravel.about.com/od/springbrea1/f/when_spring_bre.htm), here is the approximate breakdown on the number of students on spring break during each of the weeks of the "spring break season":
- March 1-5, 2010 -- 230,738
- March 8-12, 2010 -- 1,771,159
- March 15-19, 2010 -- 2,176,460
- March 22-26, 2010 -- 637,745
- March 29-April 2, 2010 -- 516,588
As you can see, RIC is in step with the majority of the colleges and universities nationwide.
Topic: Parking
Idea: Where the new lot is should have been a parking garage. This way you can charge a fee each semester and have additional revenue coming in for years to come.
Response: Thank you for your idea to establish a parking garage.
In response to student complaints about parking at the beginning of the Fall 2009 semester, the RIC administration identified the quickest and most inexpensive way to add parking spaces. As a result of our responsiveness, there were 22 additional spaces before Thanksgiving and 48 more additional spaces when school resumed in January.
A parking garage would have not only cost more money, but it would have also taken much more time. The following steps would be necessary to construct a parking garage:
(1) Estimate the cost of a parking garage. This is usually about 10x the cost per space as a ground level parking space.
(2) Obtain board approval to charge students a fee to park to secure funding for the parking garage.
(3) Issue an RFP for design of the related site and infrastructure development including drainage.
(4) Approve designs, secure permits, and issue an RFP for the construction of the parking garage.
(5) Construct the parking garage.
Topic: Parking for Faculty and Staff
Idea: It would be a better place to work if there were parking spaces for Faculty and Staff. The security team should be issuing tickets to offenders in Lots D & E and the 4 spaces outside the Art Center. Parking for Faculty and Staff is a struggle everyday. I've yet to see any yellow tickets issued on car windshields. Students are parking in spaces meant for faculty and staff. The students are seen driving around looking for (our) spaces, get out of their car and walk to class, or even seen sleeping in cars to secure a space all day. I'm talking about parking before the 2:30pm allowed time. They're not there for a performance at Roberts Hall, in my opinion. The 2 week grace period is over. There are always lots of parking spaces for students to park in Lot A. Seems like a lack of respect for faculty and staff. Just voicing my opinion and I speak for others who are equally frustrated at the situation.
Response: To ease student parking, we expanded parking lot B in the fall and created parking lot Y over intercession. According to recent student complaints, that is not enough.
Although we cannot be sure that all unregistered vehicles belong to students, the Administration is aware of the tight parking situation on campus. We ask guests to park in lot A and sometimes, they chose to park in lots D & E instead. I know with certainty that this is frequently the case because I watch as people come from and go to events in Roberts Hall from my office window. Yes, unmarked vehicles could be students, but they also could be HBS parents, applicants, alumni, and others who participate in events on campus. This is our dilemma with enforcement. An option commonly used on other campuses would be to require all vehicles to register, a function for which we do not currently have staff. While the Budget Review Committee (BRC) dismissed the option to establish a Parking auxiliary and charge to register vehicles on campus, that option has resurfaced with budget cuts. The idea is that proceeds would fund the creation and maintenance of parking related initiatives.
In addition to the BRC option, we are looking at more ways to add safe parking to campus for the future. As you probably know, this year RIC is undergoing a master planning project to determine and prioritize campus needs. Along with traffic circulation, parking needs will be a part of those discussions.
Topic: Driving Directions
Idea: Make driving directions on our website more accessible to customers.
Response: Your suggestion is a good one. We will take a look at our website and see where it makes sense to add more links to the driving directions. These areas will include those that have a target audience geared toward prospective students, parents, and visitors. We are constantly striving to make our website more "customer-friendly" and always welcome feedback about ways to make it better.
Topic: Parking
Idea: More parking - it's so hard to find a spot
Response: The Administration is aware of the tight parking situation on campus. We expanded parking lot B in the fall and created parking lot Y over intercession. We are looking at more ways to add safe parking to campus for the future. As you probably know, this year RIC is undergoing a master planning project to determine and prioritize campus needs. Along with traffic circulation, parking needs will be a part of those discussions.
Topic: Yoga
Idea: Hello, I was dismayed this semester to see that there was no yoga class offered at the rec center. During my stressful fall semester, that class was something I looked forward to every week. Mental health on college campuses is a serious issue and little things like a weekly yoga class can be something that will keep a student sane!
Response: Every semester yoga is included as part of the recreation center programming. The instructor from the fall semester was scheduled to conduct a program during the spring semester but unfortunately contacted rec center staff a week before the scheduled start to notify them that she could not do the program. Since that point an instructor has been sought but to date no one has been able to do the regularly scheduled slot. We are continuing to recruit an instructor and in order to make the program work for this semester may have to change times but we are confident the program will be offered being in the next couple of weeks.
Topic: Hours to study on campus
Idea: Allow students from different disciplines 24 hour access for places to study within their departments or schools(ie nursing) and only make accessible by using ID registered to major. Other wise keep the library open alot longer. Many students have to go to PC or Brown and it is an inconvenience..
Response: Thanks for your inquiry regarding 24-hour student access to study areas. It is always good to hear from students! Below my signature is a copy of your original submission.
Maintenance of 24-hour access in academic buildings other than the library is difficult from a security point of view, so I asked our Library Director Dr. Hedi BenAicha to respond. Here is what he said:
"The library has extended hours until midnight, during the three weeks inclusive of the exam period (Sunday to Thursday open until midnight and Friday until 5:00 pm). Of course the library is also open on Saturday from 11:00 to 5:00.
The library also posts signs during the academic year to inform students that they can reserve study rooms until midnight at the Student Union from Monday to Friday.
I have received similar requests from some students to keep the library open longer or provide 24 hours access. I investigated many scenarios and the most promising was the use of the Reinhardt room. However, even that was impossible because of the lack of access to a restroom."
That is not the end of the story. RIC is developing a new strategic plan which will set the goals for our campus for the next five years. A major element of this plan will be to reach populations of students who are non-traditional in their work lives, hours of study, and phases of life, and so there are some objectives in the draft plan that address your question. Specifically:
Make courses available at non-traditional times (e.g., nights, Saturdays) to accommodate undergraduate, graduate and continuing education student needs.
Make support offices accessible by reviewing open hours in relation to student, staff and faculty schedules and determine best use of time/open hours (bookstore, records, etc.).
Determine best practices at aspirational peer institutions regarding food service, bookstore, Recreation Center, student union, centers (Unity, Women's, etc.) and adopt them at RIC.
So I expect that we will be making some changes in the next couple of years that will help students gain access to study locations for much longer hours.
Topic: Master Plan Charrette
Idea: I believe that Saratoga & Associates in partnership with the college should provide digital images of their charrettes that could be distributed via facstaff so that all members of the campus community have a chance to study the potential solutions and provide digital feedback. In this digital age I am surprised that this was not an option as I have learned that many of my peers institutions went with a digital only solution that was responded to 2-1 over hardcopy viewings at a central location on campus.
Response: Great suggestion! We discussed this at the community charrette tonight and concluded that the Idea Box established by President Carriuolo would meet the need for a communication portal, rather than establishing another. Many pictures were taken at the charrette and will be shared. Data gathered over intercession for space analysis, at interviews last week, and at the charrette this week will be used to produce potential solutions that can be posted to receive electronic feedback from the community. This work will continue through the summer.
Topic: New Degree Program
Idea: Health care is a career with many aspects. I've noticed that at RIC there is a minor in Gerentology. Would there be an opportunity for the college to expand that program and develop it into a Health Care Policy/Management degree program? The only programs that I am aware of in Rhode Island are at New England Tech where a person needs an Associates in Allied Health to enter into that program or the other option is at Providence College; they offer a Health Care Policy Management program but it is a full time day prgram and cannot be earned either part time or int he evening.
Response: We are working on those very things! In our quest to find more alternatives for intended nursing majors, the Dean of Arts and Sciences is working with the Sociology Department to expand the Gerontology Minor and Certificate into a full-blown major. Also, the Schools of Nursing and Management are collaborating on a new degree program in Health Care Management. We expect these programs to be approved this year and up and running in fall 2010.
Topic: Community
Idea: There needs to be more positive interaction between the professors and students here at RIC. The students do not feel that their professors are approachable for career advice and the professors have no time to get to know their students or some do not care. Maybe departments could host coffee hours for students and faculty to interact and to network. There needs to be more cooperation between departments. They are here to benefit the students after all. Teaching is a reciprocal process. It should be a lifetime one as well. There need to be more initiatives in this area for the non-traditional learners returning to an environment where they can use their experience and be respected for it. Thank you.
Response: In terms of student/faculty interaction, data from the National Survey of Student Engagement show that student-faculty interactions have been rated at an increasing high level over the last three administrations of the survey (2005, 2007, 2009) by the freshmen and seniors who took the survey. These results are comparable to our peer-group institutions. Overall, students recognize that our faculty are very committed to their success and welfare. However, given the faculty's heavy teaching and advising loads, we want to increase the quality of these interactions through expanded undergraduate-research opportunities and through a larger complement of faculty doing advising, thereby reducing the advising loads and allowing more time for interaction. Through department chairs' workshops, which are new as of last year, departments are hearing more about other departments' approach to managing their large student populations. Finally, the college's draft strategic plan for 2015 contains an explicit set of steps for improving our reach and services to nontraditional students in a variety of ways.


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Competition was fierce at the 135th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, in New York City. Millions of people tuned in to watch the two-day, televised event to find out who would win Best-in-Show.
The Westminster Dog Show is the oldest and best-known canine contest in the United States. It has taken place in New York City every year since 1877. This year, nearly 2,600 dogs representing 170 breeds entered the competition at Madison Square Garden.
America's New Top Dog
Hickory's full name is Foxcliffe Hickory Wind. The 85-pound Scottish deerhound, who loves to chase deer and rabbits, comes from a big farm in Virginia. "She's not used to lights, camera and noise," says her handler, Angela Lloyd. But Hickory wasn't intimidated by the big-city competition at the Garden.
Hickory's final round of competition on the famed green carpet included a Scottish deerhound, a Pekingese, a Portuguese water dog, a Chinese shar-pei, a smooth fox terrier, a bearded collie and a black cocker spaniel. Hickory became the first of her breed to win the title of America's Top Dog. The 5-year-old dog de-thrones last year's winner, a 4-year-old Scottish terrier named Sadie.
"I think Hickory could feel my lead that I was excited and went with it," said Lloyd. For Loyd, who won a different prize once at Westminster in 1998, it was a dream come true. "People who own, breed, show dogs dream of this day," she said.
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i appreciate the courtesy you show folks constantly in your posts on rtf. you say yesir and thank you maam to dr.ed, miss sylvia, the caire's and many others throughout the year. you are always first to congratulate others on their dogs performance in trials. i enjoy your admiration and dedication to the great dogs you know and train with, like ali, tia etc. i like that you always state your appreciation for danny farmer and your pros at vinewood by noting the positive impact they have on you, your dog and the sport. i like the way you work hard and play hard. that bowl of christmas dinner gumbo you posted the picture of looked fabulous. in all respects you seem to be a young man that a mother and father "raised right"!
if i am one of the folks who "floored you" i am here to say i am sorry.
but let's face it, your love of your team(which i also appreciate btw) and your seething envy of "the gumps" have caused you to post things in this thread that seriously bring your status as a football prognosticatior into doubt.
i wish you well in the upcoming trial season and i wish the lsu tigers well in their work going into recruiting and the upcoming signing day.
john mccallie
Regarding Oregon, I personally hate that style of football, I much prefer the smashmouth style of LSU, Alabama and Stanford. I also like the more pro style that USC played under Pete Carrol, so it frustrates me to no end when I see it working so well. If Oregon had played in the NC bowl, that would have been on of the few times I rooted for an eastern team against a Pac 12 team. I still think they would have put up a much better showing than ND did, and that Stanford (even though they lost to ND), would have given Alabama a game.
I too like Stanford and if I was a highly recruited kid coming out of High School, that would be my choice. They would have played a better game than ND, but I think Bama was just too much team for anyone to upset.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
The game monday night proved that with ND playing like they have played all year wasn't near good enough to of played with Alabama on their "A" game.
Get over it, look to next year and tell us why ole Mett siah will be the leading QB in the nation and give us a breakdown of why LSU will be the best team in Americana/the land/world-- or maybe just only the best team in there state next year...
I love trash talking & really enjoy it when somebody else is good @ it in return. For the most part, I get along well with Alabama fans. Honestly it's the pompous a$$hats who think that they are god's gift to CFB & everything else that really get me. Do NOT get me wrong, LSU has their share of dbags & we have almost got into it with them before because of their lack of respect towards opposing fans.
All that said, I can't wait for College Baseball. LSU is suppose to be good. Hopefully the Jeckyll & Hyde phenomenon of a year ago is over with.
Thanks for the well wishes. Good luck to you as well.
On a serious note. McCarron did break Peytons previous record of TD-INT ratio.. Ended the season with 30TD'S-3ints. Not to bad right there.


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Family: Accipitridae, Hawks and Eagles view all from this family
Description ADULT LIGHT MORPH Has mostly dark brown upperparts with rufous patch on side of neck; white patch in front of eye, and throat and underparts are clean white. In flight, white body, underwing coverts, and pale primary bases contrast with black primary tips and trailing edge to wing, and dark-barred secondaries and tertials. ADULT DARK MORPH Looks uniformly dark brown when perched. In flight from below, dark body and wing coverts (and black primary tips and trailing edge) contrast with pale primary bases and barred gray secondaries and tertials. JUVENILE LIGHT MORPH Similar to adult but upperparts are paler and underwing shows less distinct dark trailing edge. JUVENILE DARK MORPH Similar to adult but body and underwing coverts are barred.
Dimensions Length: 13-14" (33-36 cm); Wngspn: 35" (89 cm)
Habitat Common in Central and South America, with small resident population in Florida, rare sightings in southern Texas; favors grassland with scattered trees.
Observation Tips Visit the Everglades.
Range Florida
Voice Utters shrill screams.
Discussion Occurs as light and dark morphs. Could be confused with Broad-winged juveniles, which also occur as two color morphs. Note Short-tailed's dark secondaries and tertials seen from below (Broad-winged's are pale in both morphs) and, at rest, wingtips that reach tip of tail (wingtips are shorter than tail in Broad-winged). Given morph variation, sexes are similar.