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I can't get no satisfaction ...
Monday, June 04, 2012
A title of a blog scrolling on one of my teams caught my eye and I've thought about it all day. It asked a question: "Are You Ever Satisfied With Anything You Do?"
Yesterday I finished a 5K in a good time for me as compared to my past 5K races BUT I had hoped to finish with a little better time. Guess if my mind lets me focus on the actually accomplished good finish time OR my inability to reach my hoped for goal pace by just seconds???!!!
Last year, I learned from a very good running coach that race time is NOT the most useful measurement of overall progress because there are too many uncontrollable variables that help or hinder. Weather. Unfamiliar terrain. Yesterday I was slowed by the bodies walking in groups in front of me at the starting line. Bodies in front of me on the race route gave me incentive to move faster so I could pass. The adrenalin of a race makes race pace different. Guess if my mind is measuring my progress based on my race finish time???!!!
My instincts want me to add but it was hotter last year, and I didn't have a 14 minute mile pace, and other apologetic and negative statements but I will resist because I am trying to experience the satisfaction.
I keep a log with my race statistics. It allows me to see trends over time. Trends can show progress, or lack of progress. I was never the type of person who ever considered racing. I avoided participation in gym class throughout my long ago high school years! Participating in a race was BIG.
My first race was in 2007. Continued and regular participation in races for over 5 years is BIG. I deserve giving myself a pat on the back and feeling a sense of satisfaction for over 5 years of training for races: both walking faster and learning to run.
I was faster yesterday than I was 5 years ago. I was faster yesterday than I was a year ago on the same race course. I chopped almost 3 minutes off my finish time compared to last year.
I'm feeling satisfied with what I have done.
And I'm feeling satisfied with recognizing that I deserve to feel satisfaction for what I have done.
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I wonder if measuring success in running only in terms of a "faster time" is like only using the scales to measure success in our weight management stories. We can get so hung up on the quantitative measurements that we miss the more intangible rewards. Congratulations in recognizing that your deserve to feel satisfaction for your accomplishments.....that means even more than shaving off those few extra minutes (although that is sure terrific!!!)
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I'm new to the running game (only started in March) and have so far participated in only 2 races. But I am thinking I need to start a journal of some sort so I can track my progress.
I think you should be more than satisfied. You've done great! Again, I am new to running but I also feel like the intangible "how you feel afterwards" is a big part of running and racing. I'm quickly learning not to get upset at myself when I feel like I have a bad run.
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Yes! Awesome job, on both the physical and mental parts!
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Great job! I think it's so important to keep a log or a journal of some sort so we can look back and see how far we've come. Sometimes we don't see the progress because it's gradual, and we feel like we're stuck, but then we can get a great sense of satisfaction from seeing what we have accomplished over time. Keep up the great work!
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YES!!!!!!!! We definitely need to see success and achievement each and every step of the way!!!!! And YES, we definitely need to be satisfied with those successes and achievements, because that's exactly what they are!!!!!!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog and for letting me know about yours. Great, great blog! I voted for it. Sounds like we are learning together.
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Of course you should feel mountains of justifiable pride over this very significant fitness accomplishment. Your final paragraph or two hit is quite nicely - you contrasted yourself not to others on the course, but to your own standard you set for yourself in the past. All the Sparky social accomplishments in the world mean NOTHING compared to your actual success on the race course!
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Great job!!
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You finished the race which is more then the ones who sat at home and didn't race and did you turn around and see all the ones that were behind you?
races all seem to have walkers and joggers the cause a bottle neck. I did our cities 12 race in May its called Bloomsday it a hug race for all types of runners walkers. We have those elite runners who come for the cash prize and that also includes wheel chair racers
next comes those who came prove they do 5 minute miles the groups that run as teams and hey also have to have poof they can run fast. then the go by color and time and off they go the walkers and joggers stagger the times so us slow ones are behind those who can run it s a great event and the back group is just concerned having fun and getting a shirt after crossing the finish line. so i have learned just go and have fun and see if i can improve on my time and it sounds like you did just that. I am not a runner so have not worried about beating any one but my old time form the year before. it just exciting to cross the finish line and know you did your best way to go on finishing the race
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Isn't it amazing we run at all? Great job!
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I am so proud of you!! As much as I walk daily, I still need to rest because I get winded and here you are doing such a fantastic job running!! Congratulations for a job well done.
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Good for you! I don't know why we're so hard on ourselves, but I know I am too. Good for you for looking in that "rear view mirror" of what you've done in the past and can see you're even better now. Way to go.
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And I recognize that you have done a great thing. Deciding to race at all, keeping records, improving. Congratulations for all of it.
You should be a lot more than satisfied. If you had a friend that did everything you did, would you have been disappointed in her? 'Course not!
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My kids have drawn each other's names out of a hat, and later today we'll be going to the Dollar Tree to let them pick out a couple little items for each other (Yes, we ARE that classy).
One way to keep them busy and make some fun is to do home-made wrapping paper together. You can also make fun gift tags – see a how-to HERE.
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This all started with Homesick Texan. No wait, this all started with last year's orangettes, to this day one of the most popular posts on this site. No wait, this all started with a lifelong (can you say that? when you're just 31?) love of grapefruits. My favorite way to eat them is the same exact way my mom showed me, halved in a bowl with each section loosened with a arched, double-serrated grapefruit knife. First, I'd pop all of the sections into my mouth in probably under two minutes flat. But then, then came the "grapefruit soup," I'd call it. Mom would help us scrape all of the residual grapefruit bits into the bowl, then squeeeze every last bit of juice, discard the empty shell of a peel and this, this my friends is the best grapefruit juice you'll ever drink in your life. You must drink it straight from the bowl. I could live on it, and it alone.
Which brings us to the Homesick Texan, who mentioned in December that "everyone knows the juiciest, largest and sweetest ruby red grapefruit comes from the Rio Grande Valley" and it was funny, because I hadn't known that at all. But given the price of the grapefruits we'd been seeing in the stores ($2 a pop), their sorry state (dented but still appallingly shiny with wax) and their flavor (average at best) I was just itching to find out. So, we ordered ourselves a little sampler from South Texas Organics and quite a few days later were presented with exactly what we were promised: the very best ruby red grapefruits, from South Texas.
But the coolest part was their sheen–there wasn't one. Sans wax, pesticides and all the other you-don't-want-to-know-whats they spray on most grapefruits, the peels beckoned me. I remembered how delicious those candied orange rinds were and had to go at it again. Using a Jacques Torres recipe as my guide, I boiled them four times. I candied them for two hours. I let them dry out on racks for another two. I rolled them in sugar. My apartment walls still smell dimly of grapefruit oil, and well, sadly, that might be the only good thing that came out of this experiment, save a few pretty photos.
They are inedibly bitter. I cannot swallow more than a bite. Even half of one and my face looks like one of those babies eating lemon (video removed, such a bummer!), plus or minus a few chin rolls and wrinkles. And I'm so sad about this, because, well, I had some high hopes. I had expected some level of bitterness greater than the oranges, hey, I know these are grapefruits afterall, but I hadn't expected not to be able to get down a single one. And I love bitter things, as does Alex. But these, these didn't work. So, if you have had any luck candying grapefruit peels, tell me your secrets, will you? I await your input with bated breath.
[Jacques Torres' Candied Grapefruit Peel Recipe, for reference]
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University of Arizona Women's Basketball
January 30, 2010
Arizona at Stanford
Arizona Head Coach Niya Butts
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"The story in the first has was that we made shots. We made shots and we didn't do a great job on the boards, but we kind of balanced that out by shooting 57 percent. In the second half, the same kryptonite that's been plaguing us all year long which is our lack of rebounding and we didn't score points in the second half, so there wasn't anything to balance it out. Anytime you get beat on the boards in one column (of the stat sheet) by your entire rebounding effort, that tells the story there. We gave up 26 offensive rebounds to them and we only had 22 total for the game. It's going to be very difficult to win a basketball game that way."
On what it will take to beat Stanford
"It's going to take 40 minutes of solid basketball, it's going to take some mistakes by Stanford, and it's going to take a little prayer. They do pretty well offensively. Defensively, they're not the best team in the country, but they balance it out because they really do a great job on the boards, they're physical with you and they hustle, so it's going to take a team that can play a solid 40 minutes of basketball."
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On defensive strategy
"The strategy was to just have contested shots no matter where they came. If it went inside, we wanted to double it a little bit, but at the same time they shoot the ball so well from the perimeter, it's kind of pick your poison. It was very important for us to play early defense, meaning not to allow their post players to get set up and get deep position, but at the same time making sure we got a hand to the shooters. I think every time that we really went out there and contested hard, they missed the shot. Our problem was we didn't get the rebound. We can not continue to do that."


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Stella Sampras enters her seventh season as the head coach of the UCLA women's tennis program with a career record of 96-58 (.623). Sampras became only the third head coach in UCLA women's tennis history when she was named the successor to longtime head coach Bill Zaima, who announced his retirement effective the end of the 1995-96 season.
In her first six seasons at UCLA, Sampras guided the Bruins to five top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including three top-5 showings (1997, 2000 and 2002). In addition, UCLA has reached the NCAA Quarterfinals twice in the last three years (2000 and 2002). Under her tutelage, the Bruins have finished in the top-10 nationally, five out of six years. In 2000, Sampras was named the ITA West Region Coach of the Year.
A 1991 graduate of UCLA with a degree in Psychology, Sampras enjoyed a successful four-year career as a Bruin player from 1987-91 and competed on the pro circuit for a season prior to joining Zaima's staff. An NCAA Doubles Champion as a freshman in 1988 with Allyson Cooper, Sampras was also the NCAA doubles runner-up as a senior in 1991 with Kimberly Po. A four-time All-American, Sampras was only the second player in UCLA history to obtain this status. She also won the 1989 and '91 Pac-10 doubles championship and the 1990 Rolex Regional doubles title. Sampras completed her UCLA career ranked No. 3 nationally in doubles and No. 42 in singles. Team accomplishments were most important to Sampras, who helped lead the Bruins to four straight NCAA Top-3 finishes.
As a professional, Sampras' highest international singles ranking was No. 250, and her best in doubles was No. 130. Her professional highlights include competing in both singles and doubles at the U.S. Open and Lipton Championships. She advanced to the U.S. Open second round in doubles and also competed in doubles at Wimbledon. She also won three satellite tournament titles and competed in Team Tennis for the Wichita Advantage in 1992.
Born in Potomac, Md., Sampras moved to the Los Angeles area as a child and graduated from Palos Verdes High School. A top-three player in Southern California and among the top-10 in the country as a junior, Sampras claimed the CIF doubles title as a freshman and the singles title as a senior in 1987. She capped her high school career by being named her school's Athlete of the Year.
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Manchego Gougères
Makes 32 small Manchego gougères.
- 1 c. water
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
- Cayenne pepper, to taste
- 1 c. flour
- 4 large eggs
- 8 oz. El Cortijo® Manchego cheese, finely grated
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1 large egg yolk
Preheat oven to 400° F. In a saucepan, combine water, butter, kosher salt and cayenne pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Stir in flour with a wooden spoon, stirring quickly until dough pulls away from the sides of the pan and forms a ball.
Remove pan from heat and let it cool at least five minutes. Whisk eggs together and add into dough, stirring vigorously with wooden spoon to incorporate. Add in all but 3 tablespoons of Manchego cheese and black pepper.
Once dough is combined, place it in a pastry bag and pipe 1 to 2 tablespoon rounds on parchment-lined baking sheets 2" apart. Beat egg yolk together with one tablespoon of water. Using a pastry brush, brush lightly over the top of the dough. Sprinkle remaining Manchego cheese over brushed dough.
Bake for 25 minutes, until rounds are golden brown and dry in center. Gougères should sound hollow when tapped. Turn oven off and crack the door. Allow gougères to cool slightly in warm oven.
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"American Idol" 2014 returns to FOX on May 7 as the top four contestants sing two songs apiece for America's votes and a shot at making the finals. A May 7 TV Line article spilled the song spoiler beans just 12 hours before the live broadcast. So which talented aspiring vocalist is singing what during the week's "Break-ups/Make-ups" themed live show?
On the schedule for Vegas betting favorite Jena Irene Asciutto, who enters the week favored to win season 13 with 2/3 odds according to data posted to Sports Bovada on May 7, are two tunes that were previously covered by "Idol" alums. Included are the Elvis Presley classic "I Can't Help Falling in Love" and Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker." The latter seems a logical choice for Jena, who rocked out to Heart's "Barracuda" during the top six show and has a penchant for electronic music and apparently, 1980s-style rock.
Rocker Caleb Johnson, who holds 3/2 odds of winning "AI," is also slated to perform two older-school tunes in Paul McCartney's 1970 hit "Maybe I'm Amazed" and the Bon Jovi mega hit "You Give Love a Bad Name." TV Line's Michael Ausiello worried over Johnson's picks, calling them potentially "disastrous" in light of the lack of current tunes and in memory of Blake Lewis' take on "You Give Love a Bad Name," which he termed "one of the greatest Idol moments of all time."
With 5/1 odds of victory, Alex Preston is the only contestant who plans to sing songs that haven't been performed during a previous season of the show. Included on his set list are Coldplay's "Yellow" and "Too Close" by Alex Clare. Both choices could work well with his artistic, creative style.
Finally, holding competition long shot status with 15/1 odds is Jessica Meuse. The hopeful, who is consistently criticized by judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, and Harry Connick, Jr. for failing to emote effectively during her performances, is scheduled to sing Lady Gaga's "You and I" and "Since U Been Gone" by "Idol" season one winner Kelly Clarkson.
The four contestants will also sing one additional song each. The names of those songs had not been released as of press time.
The "American Idol" 2014 top four performance show airs May 7 on FOX. The week's results show will follow on May 8.
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He rolls up outside my house in Tremont riding a 1970s-style scuffed-up bicycle. He's a tad winded. The 50-year-old guy just pedaled here from Toledo.
He calls himself America's Cheapest Man. He passed on a rental car or a bus, as well as a hotel room. He asked to stay on my couch for a couple days, finding me on a couch-surfing Web site for travelers who prefer to stay with locals.
He wrote The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches, published by Random House, and he's out promoting it. He's calling it his "Local Cheapskate Makes Good Tour," as he grew up in Northwest Ohio and his wife was born in Lakewood.
Despite what you might expect, the book is not about how to save pennies that add up to dollars that add up to an early retirement. He's not peddling a get-rich-quick scheme. The "Riches" in his title doesn't really refer to money: "Maybe you don't need to be rich to be happy. Maybe you'll be happier if you're not rich."
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Jack Boone began his coaching career at East Carolina in 1948 as head coach of the East Carolina baseball team and as an assistant football coach.
Boone's baseball teams compiled a 38-23-2 record in three seasons for a .623 winning percentage. In 1952, he took over as the head football coach and held that position until 1961. He compiled a record of 49-45-5 and led the Pirates to their first bowl game appearance in 1952 and again in 1953.
In 1953, Boone was named as the Coach-of-the-Year in the North State Conference after his team finished 8-2. Even after 1961, Boone continued his association with ECU and worked as an assistant coach under former player Ed Emory in the 1980s.
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Useful Botanical References for the Rocky Mountain Region and Adjacent Areas
The following list contains books and other references relevant to the flora of the Rocky Mountain Region, including works of a more general nature that are nonetheless useful for the region. This list is not exhaustive. Technical floras are not included.
Select a category from the list at left.
Allergenic Plants
Jelks, M. 1986. Allergy Plants That Cause Sneezing and Wheezing. Published Privately.
Jelks, M. 1986. Allergy Plants That Cause Sneezing and Wheezing. Published Privately.
Lewis, W. H., P. Vinay, & V. E. Zenger. 1983. Airborne and Allergenic Pollen of North America. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Aquatic Plants
Correll, D. & H. B. Correll. 1975. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States. Stanford Univ. Press
DiTomaso, J. M. & E. A. Healy. (See Weeds)
Fassett, N. C. 1940. A Manual of Aquatic Plants. McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Hitchkiss, N. 1972. Common Marsh, Underwater, and Floating-Leaved Plants of the United States and Canada. Dover Publictions, Inc.
Matsumura, Y. & H. D. Harrington. 1955. The True Aquatic Vascular Plants of Colorado. Colorado Agric. Exp.
Muenscher, W. C. 1944. Aquatic Plants of the United States. Cornell Univ. Press.
Weldon, L. W., R. D. Blackburn, & D. S. Harrison. 1969. Common Aquatic Weeds. Agricultural Handbook 352. Agricultural Research Service. USDA.
Cultivated Plants
Bailey, L. H. 1947. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 3 vols. Macmillan Co.
Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of Cultivated Plants Most Commonly Grown in the Continental United States and Canada. Macmillan Co.
Dorn, J. & R. Dorn. 2007. Growing Native Plants of the Rocky Mountain Area. Published by the authors.
Graf, A. B. 1982. Exotica Series 4 International: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants from Tropical and Near-tropical Regions. Roehrs Co. Publ.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. MacMillan Publ. Co., Inc.
Kelly, G. W. 1967. Rocky Mountain Horticulture. 3rd ed. Pruett Publ. Co.
Edible Plants
Cheatham, S., M. C. Johnston, & L. Marshall. 1995. The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern United States, the Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico. Useful Wild Plants, Inc.
Densmore, F. 1974. How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts. Dover Publ.
Dept of the Army. 2003. The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Lyons Press.
Derig, B. & M. Fuller. 2001. Wild Berries of the West. Mountain Press Publ.
Dunmire, W. W. & G. D. Tierney. 1997. Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners. Museum of New Mexico Press.
Harrington, H.D. 1967. Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains. Univ. New Mexico Press.
Hart, J. 1976. Montana – Native Plants and Early Peoples. Montana Historical Society.
Kershaw, L. 2000. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies. Lone Pine Publ.
Kindscher, K. 1987. Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. Univ. Press of Kansas.
Kirk, D. R. 1970. Wild Edible Plants of the Western United States. Naturegraph Publ.
Lust, J. B. 1974. The Herb Book. Bantam Books
Medsger, O. P. 1939. Edbile Wild Plants. Macmillan Co.
Seebeck, C. B. 1998. Best-Tasting Wild Plants of Colorado and the Rockies. Westcliffe Publ.
Tillford, G. L. 1997. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West. Mountain Press Publ.
Tull, D. 1978. A Practical Guide to Edible & Useful Plants: Including Recipies, Helpful Plants, Natural Dyes & Textile Fibers. Texas Monthly Press.
Willard, T., B. Andrusek, & J. McCormick. 2001. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and Neighbouring Territories. Wild Rose College of Natural Healing.
Medicinal Plants
Cheatham, S., M. C. Johnston, & L. Marshall. (See Edible Plants)
Densmore, F. (See Edible Plants)
Dunmire, W. W. & G. D. Tierney. (See Edible Plants)
Hutchens, A. R. 1973. Indian Herbalogy of North America. Merco.
Kershaw, L. (See Edible Plants)
Kindscher, K. 1992. Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. Univ. Press of Kansas.
Krochmal, A. & C. Krochmal. 1984. A Field Guide to Medical Plants. The New York Times Book Co.
Lewis, W. H. & M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis. 1977. Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man's Health. John Wiley & Sons.
Moore, M. 1989. Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West. Museum of New Mexico Press.
Moore, M. 2003. Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West. Museum of New Mexico Press.
Tillford, G. L. (See Edible Plants)
Tull, D. (See Edible Plants)
Willard, T., B. Andrusek, & J. McCormick. (See Edible Plants)
Poisonous Plants
Burrows, G. E. & R. J. Tyrl. 2001. Toxic Plants of North America. Iowa State Univ. Press.
Frohne, D. & H. J. Pfander. 1984. A Colour Atlas of Poisonous Plants: A Handbook for Pharmacists, Doctors, Toxicologists, and Biologists. Wolfe Publishing Ltd., London.
Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous Plants of the United States and Canada. Prentice-Hall, Inc
Kingsbury, J. M. 1965. Deadly Harvest: A Guide to Common Poisonous Plants. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants. Amer. Medical Assoc.
Muenscher, W. C. 1951. Poisonous Plants of the United States. Macmillan Co.
Range Plants
Hermann, F. J. 1966. Notes on Western Range Forbs. Agric. Handbook 293. Forest Service. U. S. Dept. Agric.
Stubbendieck, J., S. L. Hatch, & K. J. Hirsch. 1986. North American Range Plants. 3rd ed. Univ. of Nebraska Press.
Davis, L. W. 1993. Weed Seeds of the Great Plains: A Handbook for Identification. Univ. Press of Kansas, Agric. Exp. Station.
DiTomaso, J. M. & E. A. Healy. 2003. Aquatic and Riparian Weeds of the West. Univ. of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources.
DiTomaso, J. M. & E. A. Healy. 2007. Weeds of California and Other Western States. 2 vols. Univ. of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Lorenzi, H. J. & L. S. Jeffery. 1987. Weeds of the United States and their Control. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1971. Common Weeds of the United States. Dover.
Muenscher, W. C. 1962. Weeds. 2nd ed. Macmillan Co.
Royer, F. & R. Dickinson. 1999. Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada. Lone Pine Publ. & Univ. of Alberta Press.
Sheley, R. L. & J. K. Petroff. 1999. Biology and Management of Noxious Rangeland Weeds. Oregan State Univ. Press.
Weldon, L. W., R. D. Blackburn, D. S. Harrison. (See Aquatics)
Whitson, T. D., L. C. Burrill, S. A. Dewey, D. W. Cudney, B. E. Nelson, R. D. Lee, and R. Parker. 1991. Weeds of the West. Pioneer of Jackson Hole.
Zimdahl, R. L. 1998. Weeds of Colorado: A Comprehensive Guide to Indentification. Colorado State Univ. Cooperative Extension.
Beidleman, L. H., R. G. Beidleman, & B. E. Willard. 2000. Plants of Rocky Mountain National Park. Falcon Publ., Inc.
Craighead, J. J., F. C. Craighead, & R. J. Davis. 1963. A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers. Houghton Mifflin.
Duft, J. D. & R. K. Moseley. 1989. Alpine Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains. Mountain Press Publ. Co.
Huggins, J. L. 2004. Wild at Heart: A Natural History Guide. WHO Press.
Kershaw, L., A. MacKinnon & J. Pojar. 1998. Plants of the Rocky Mountains. Lone Pine Publ.
Larson, G. E. & J. R. Johnson. 2007. Plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains. 2nd ed. South Dakota State Univ., Agricultural Experiment Station.
Nelson, R. A. 1992. Handbook of Rocky Mountain Plants. 4th ed. revised by R. L. Williams. Roberts Rinehart Publ.
Nold, R. 2003. Columbines: Aquilegia, Paraquilegia, and Semiaquilegia. Timber Press.
Nold, R. 1999. Penstemons. Timber Press.
Paulson, A. 1989. The National Wildflower Research Center's Wildflower Handbook. Texas Monthly.
Phillips, H. W. 2003 Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Yellowstone and Grand Teton Nationa Parks. Falcon Publ. Inc.
Rickett, H. W. 1966-1975. Wild Flowers of the United States. 6 vols. McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Robertson, L. 1999. Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers in the Southern Rocky Mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park. Falcon Publ., Inc.
Shaw, R. J. 1976. Field Guide to the Vascular Plants of Grand Teton National Park and Teton County, Wyoming. Utah State Univ. Press.
Shaw, R. J. 1981. Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Wheelwright Press, Ltd.
Spellenberg, R. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers. Alfred A. Knopf.
States, J. & D. States. 2004. Wildflowers of Wyoming. Mountain Press Publ.
Wildlife Edibles
Martin, A. C., H. S. Zim, and A. L. Nelson. 1951. American Wildlife & Plants: A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits.
Woody Plants
Carter, J. L. 1988. Trees and Shrubs of Colorado. Johnson Books.
Elias, T. S. 1980. Trees of North America: Field Guide and Natural History. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Farrar, J. L. 1995. Trees of the Northern United States and Canada. Iowa State Univ. Press.
Little, E. L., Jr. 1971-1978. Atlas of United States Trees. 5 vols. U. S. Dept. Agric., Misc. Publ.
Sargent, C. S. 1922. Manual of the Trees of North America. 2 vols. Houghton Mifflin Co. (Dover ed.)


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Jonathan L. Green, Artistic Director of Sideshow Theatre Company, fell in love with the play The Golden Dragon the first time he heard it. Unfortunately, it had been scooped up by The Studio Theatre in D.C. in 2011. So instead, Mr. Green was presented with Idomeneus, another play by Roland Shimmelpfennig, one of the most produced playwrights in Europe. That production won a Best Ensemble Jeff Award for the Sideshow Theatre Company, so everything seemed to work out well all the way around.
Now the Sideshow finally got a hold of The Golden Dragon and is presenting that play's Chicago premiere, currently running through February 23, 2014. But that is not the only premiere involved--The Golden Dragon is Sideshow's first production as a resident company at Victory Gardens' Richard Christiansen Theatre. Chay Yew, VG Artistic Director, chose to provide four companies (Sideshow Theatre Company, Bailiwick Chicago, Rasaka Theatre Company, and Teatro Vista) with a physical home so they could nurture their audience bases, develop their respective boards, and fully realize the next phases of their own strategic plans.
Sideshow Artistic Director Jonathan L. Green observes, "It sometimes seems that with so many new companies around the city, Chicago audiences want to see who will exist in 2-3 years, so they wait to see what a company will do in that time." This move to Victory Gardens will definitely help Sideshow grow its audience base with a consistent location. "Come to a Sideshow production as adventure explorers and take the ride with us because that's what we're here to do. We want an audience to feel taken care of and willing to take the risk with us."
Always up for adventure, Sideshow also produces the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLLAW) for its 18th bout on Saturday, March 8. The event benefits Sideshow Theatre Company and other local charities. Even their gala is an adventure! On Saturday, May 17, Sideshow's third annual gala celebrates the 114th birthday celebration of the company's long-lost relative, Phineas Charlington "Chucky" Buckford-Westington. The gala also lives up to the Sideshow mission – Familiar Stories – Unorthodox Methods – Perpetually Curious.
Don't miss the final weekend of The Golden Dragon – Curtain times: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 3:00 pm at 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue. Tickets available at www.victorygardens.org or by calling (773) 871-3000.


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The work of CRHP has been recognized by the WHO and UNICEF, and has been introduced to 178 countries across the world. Annually, CRHP provides services that directly impact half a million people in the state of Maharashtra. Since the opening of the Training Center in 1994, over 22,000 local and 2,700 international representatives from NGOs, governments and healthcare professionals have been trained in the CRHP approach. At the core of this comprehensive community-based approach is its embrace of equity for all, utilizing healthcare as a means to break the cycle of poverty.


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'Navigator' Helps ER Patients Who Don't Need Emergency Care
Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines.
Wendy Shindler, a nurse, works in the waiting room of New York City's Montefiore Medical Center's emergency department, where she identifies patients waiting for services who don't actually need emergency room-level care. The program is an intervention aimed at improving care at the busy Bronx hospital while reducing costs.
"The ER was admitting everybody, and they weren't getting paid — Medicare wasn't paying them for everything," Shindler tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "And they said, we have to figure out a way to help the community so they can stay out of the hospital." So, Shindler, who had ER and case management experience, became the hospital's patient navigator.
Not everyone was on board with the change at first. "The doctors in the emergency room, they were concerned because they thought they needed to admit everybody," says Shindler. Obviously, there's a liability concern when a patient with chest pains is referred to a cardiologist the next day, instead of being admitted.
"What I did was, I gave them feedback from the cardiologist the next day," says Shindler, "and said, 'Listen, the patients did go and they're getting good care and they're doing OK in the community.'" And, she points out, the patients were happier, too.
After about a year and a half, the doctors came around. "I still remember when they said to me, 'Wendy, you're part of the team. You made it. We see what you can do for us.'"
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UPDATE: Brothers Take Helm At George's
Posted: April 8, 2013
HARRISONBURG — George's Inc. has new — but familiar — leadership at the top.
The Springdale, Ark.-based poultry company announced Monday that brothers Carl and Charles George were named co-chief executive officers and presidents, effective last Friday. Both previously served as senior vice presidents.
George's has operations in the Shenandoah Valley, with facilities in Harrisonburg and Edinburg, and many of the region's poultry farmers have contracts with George's.
Carl and Charles George take the place of their father, Gary George, who will continue to serve as the company's chairman.


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In 2001, her senior year, Riley was the star of the Irish women's basketball national championship team. Since then, she has played for the Miami Sol, Detroit Shock, San Antonio Silver Stars and Chicago Sky. In 2004, she won the gold medal in the Athens Summer Olympic Games as a member of the U.S. women's basketball team. She currently plays for the Atlanta Dream.
Riley's humanitarian efforts are focused on the U.N. Foundation's anti-malaria initiative, Nothing But Nets, which began in 2006. This grassroots campaign raises money to purchase $10 protective nets and works to raise awareness about the malaria crisis in Africa. The campaign has distributed about 24,000 nets. Riley also supports No Kid Hungry and Inspire Transformation, which address healthy youth development.
Riley's talk is free and open to the public. It will take place at 7:00 pm in the Eck Visitor Center Auditorium. The presentation is part of the series Discussions on Development hosted by the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, which is part of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. The Institute promotes the interdisciplinary study of international human development with a combination of research, teaching and community engagement.
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Guitarist, Liam Moroney said it best in describing the band: "We may be playing songs for kids, but we write and record them so that we would love listening to them. If you write a good song, it doesn't matter who its supposed to be for, anyone can enjoy it"
Chris & Jessie Apple started The Little Rockers Band in 2008. Both have worked extensively in their fields until teaming up in 2007 to write music for kids and their parents that mixes their unique styles. Jessie is a little bit Broadway and Chris is a little bit Rock & Roll. Rounding out the band are Liam and Billy. Together, they write songs that mix a strong sense of melody with jangly, funky rock rhythms. The four personalities are about as different as you could get, but somehow, their tastes combine to create some terrific tunes.
The music is an eclectic mix of styles from the 50's to the 80's and everything in between. The songs are written with a cool kid's perspective and are produced in a contemporary style for parents. They take their music seriously, even though they're all pretty silly. There you have it.
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Timor-Leste - Around Dili (Chapter)
This chapter contains the East of Dili, West of Dili and South of Dili chapters from Lonely Planet's Timor-Leste (East Timor) guidebook.
You can get lost for a week or more exploring the lands and seas east of Dili; Portuguese forts and beautiful coast are more than enough reason to head west; while heading south is the easiest way to get a quick change of scenery and weather.
- immerse yourself in absolute paradise at Tutuala Beach and Jaco Island
- maps
- take a dip in the soothing Marobo hot springs
- transport
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Released: Jan 01st, 1986
Running Time: 87
Director: Bruce Seven
Company: Western Visuals
Cast: Erica Boyer, Heather Wayne, Tom Byron, Rick Savage, Jessica Wylde, Tiffany Blake, Buckston O?Toole, Marc Wallace
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Feature
Lots of lesbian sex dominates Teacher's Pet, a very typical but very hot video feature. Heather Wayne chooses a finishing school over getting a job, and finds that this house of learning is dominated by Erica Boyer and Sharon Mitchell. Dominated is the key word here, as Heather is thrown into a leather-laden world of varied sex, all of which she enjoys immensely.
But, oh those lesbians! In one scene, Jessica Wylde does the 'ol balls up the rear trick using Erica Boyer's tush. When one student is caught smoking, she gets whipped into submission by Sharon Mitchell and Boyer, and pays the piper by taking on two silver dildos in a double penetration.
Plenty more sex scenes are laced throughout this quick moving feature, and lots of it really sizzles. A leather demo/dance turns into a pretty good orgy scene at the end, as Bruce Seven catches four consecutive out-of-body male orgasms.
Of course, that old standby, the technical flaw, prevent Teacher's Pet from garnering more than AAA. In this case, you can hear someone say "action" before Heather Wayne enters her bed for some masturbation and at least one actor is caught looking at the director for instructions. The lack of editing aside, Teacher's Pet will make fans of Heather, Sharon and Erica very happy.


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Yesterday D.C. Councilman David Catania had an editorial in the Washington Post refuting the column by Donald Graham which celebrated the academic advancement being made by students enrolled in D.C. public schools. Now don't get me wrong, I too have written about the huge gap between black and white students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress Test, but these results do not show, as the chairman of the council's education committee asserts, that the schools are not getting better. Let's take a look at the numbers.
For DCPS, fourth grade black math scores went from 212 in 2009 to 218 in 2013. For students qualifying for free or reduced lunch these results went from 210 to 217 for the same subject and years. In eighth grade math grades for black students have risen to 253 from 244 and for kids in poverty the score has gone from 243 in 2009 to 251 last year.
In regard to reading in the traditional schools fourth grade black students did show a slight decline from 2009 to 2013. These findings went from 195 to 192 and for low income kids the result essentially stayed the same at 193 in 2009 versus 192 in 2013. For eighth graders, however, the patten of improvement returned. For reading blacks saw their scores go up to 237 from 235 and for low income students the results went from 232 in 2009 to 237 in 2013.
The rise made by those attending charter schools was even more impressive. For fourth grade math between 2009 and 2013 black students results went to 225 from 215. For the same years poor students improved from 213 to 225. In eighth grade black student scored 254 in 2009 compared to 269 in 2013. For those in poverty the measure went from 252 to 266.
In reading black fourth graders made 204 in 2009 and 197 in 2009. Low income student scores went form 195 to 201. In eighth grade black student results were 243 in 2009 compared to 250 in 2013. Low income scores climbed to 247 from 243.
In all, as the former owner of the Washington Post pointed out, things are looking up. The positive change has occurred because of the explosive growth of charter schools that generated competition for school children. The loss of students in the regular schools directly led to the Mayor taking over DCPS and appointing Michelle Rhee as Chancellor who was has now been succeeded by Kaya Henderson. The CityBridge Foundation has been supporting these reforms throughout.
Mr. Catania's main contribution to all of this has been to belittle the work of Ms. Henderson and to reinsert the Council into running the traditional schools. In light of all the advancement that has been made, it is time for him to get out of the way.


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Archie, Jughead, Veronica and Betty. To most Americans those names personify an era of pop culture where teenagers hung out at soda shops and poured money into jukeboxes. As nostalgic as that can be, everyone has to grow up sometime. That's what the series "Life with Archie" attempted to do in their modern alternate universe take of Archie's life as an adult. Today, the adult Archie breathed his last breath as he died supporting a friend just like he's done for more than 70 years.
That's right. Publisher Archie Comics has killed off Archie Andrews their titular character. In issue #36, Archie intercepts a bullet intended for his gay friend Senator Kevin Keller during his campaign for stricter gun control. Since its initial conception in 2010, "Life with Archie" has dealt with more serious human and political issues than Archie's teenage comic strip. During the series, Archie and his friends has dealt with coping with cancer, financial struggles, and of course death.
As strong proponents of political issues in comics, Archie Comics has continually attacked social issues that other publishers have shied away from.
The comic has received praise from various organizations for tackling these issues in the comic medium. Matt Kane of The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation had this to say of Archie.
In recent years, 'Life with Archie' has become one of the most unique books on the shelves by using its characters to address real world issues — from marriage equality to gun control — in a smart but accessible way
With his heroic sacrifice concluded, Archie's adult life ends. Fans however can look forward every month to following Archie and his love conundrums in his teenage books.


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One dead, one injured in early morning shooting in Denton
Published: Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:56 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:56 a.m.
One person is confirmed dead and another wounded after Denton Police responded to a report of gunshots Saturday morning.
Denton Police Chief Mark Hicks said officers responded to a call shortly after midnight at 140 Carroll Ave. When they arrived on the scene, the officers located a white male on the front porch of the residence with a gunshot wound. Upon entering the dwelling, they discovered a white female also with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
The male victim was transported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where his condition is unknown. Denton Police are not releasing the name of the victims until family members have been notified.
The shooting is still under investigation.
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Among this partisan crowd, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's GOP running mate, is the odds-on favorite after Romney fared better than President Obama in last week's debate.
Organizers will be offering prizes for correctly guessing the number of gaffes that Biden makes during the debate, according to James Sanford, chairman of the HCYR, who predicts there will be many.
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Reuters: Maintaining Vatican Residency Will Give Pope Immunity
As soon as the news broke last week that Pope Benedict XVI would become the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to step down from the papacy, many people (myself included) wondered if the reason he gave for resigning — his advanced age — was the whole story. I wrote that the abruptness of the pope's exit seemed odd and speculated that perhaps he was either close to death or leaving swiftly to avoid some kind of scandal.
Shortly afterwards rumors began to circulate that Benedict XVI will meet this week with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to "beg for imunity" from prosecution in connection with child sex abuse cases, in response to a "supposed note" sent to the Vatican by an "undisclosed European government" threatening to issue a warrant for the pope's arrest. The allegations spread like wildfire on social media, but I decided against posting them or writing about them because no respected mainstream news outlets were reporting the story and the whole business about "undisclosed European goverments" and "supposed notes" didn't pass the smell test. I put the story on the rumor/conspiracy theory pile due to a lack of credible sources.
As it turns out, though, these rumors may have at least a grain of truth in them. Reuters posted a story that appeared to confirm a portion of last week's gossip — not the begging and not a phantom note from an as-yet-unknown European government, but that minimizing Benedict's potential exposure to criminal charges surrounding his handling of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandals may indeed be one of the reasons he and church officials decided the soon-to-be-former pope would live out his remaining years on Vatican soil:
Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.
"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn't have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else," said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity. . .
"(If he lived anywhere else) then we might have those crazies who are filing lawsuits, or some magistrate might arrest him like other (former) heads of state have been for alleged acts while he was head of state," one source said.
Another official said: "While this was not the main consideration, it certainly is a corollary, a natural result."
But Benedict won't have to spend the rest of his life holed up behind Vatican walls either. Reuters reports that under the provisions of the Lateran Pacts of 1929 — the treaty between the Holy See and Mussolini's Italy that recognized Vatican City as a sovereign state — Benedict will be immune from prosecution even if he travels across the international border into Italy as a Vatican citizen.


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Bauchi (WorldStage Newsonline)-- The family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari in Sakwa village of Zaki Government Area of Bauchi State, and by his wife, Rukaiyya has delivered what can be described as a strange baby girl who has no arms and legs.
But, the father of the baby named Fatima said the family is grateful to God for giving them the child, describing her as a wonderful and beautiful baby.
Ahmadu said Fatima who was born at home in Sandigalua village in Zaki Local Government on January 13, 2012, and the mother were healthy.
The couple however appealed to government and well-meaning individuals to come to their aid in order to care for the child.
He said "this is a gift from God, but it won't be easy for us to raise Fatima because without legs and hands, she needs special care and attention. We feel sorry for her, but with the assistance from government and individual, I know that she will live a good life," Ahmadu appealed.
In a special appeal, Chairman of the disabled in Sakwa, Abdullahi Gindi, who is a blind man, said it is the duty of society is to ensure that Fatima is not discriminated against as a result of her condition.
"She needs to be assisted. We are grateful that she was born a healthy child. She sulks normal and so we need to protect her. But her parents are poor that is why we are calling for assistance so that Fatima would live."


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What do the Cleveland Indians do with a problem like Carlos Santana?
The patient Santana is on pace to have a truly strange offensive season. He has just 24 hits in 46 games for a paltry .146 batting average, yet he is actually walking more than ever before in his career. His on-base percentage is .303, nearly 60 points below a career average, but given his lack of hits could be much, much worse.
Manager Terry Francona's hands are tied. He has already begun moving Santana further down in the batting order. He has just 10 extra-base hits through 46 games and he's knocked in 13 (Michael Bourn at the top of the lineup has 11 and he's played in 19 fewer games).
It may have something to do with his defensive change in 2014. Last year, Santana worked in 83 games as catcher, 28 as a first baseman and appeared in 47 as the designated hitter.
In the off-season, Santana honed his infield chops and has spend more than half hits games at third base, splitting the rest of his time at catcher and designated hitter.
Results are mixed, though not encouraging. He's made five errors thus far and just two American League third baseman have more (although, each has played at least 54 more innings there in 2014 than Santana). His fielding percentage is among the worst in the league.
It's hard to speculate whether the defensive change has muddled Santana's hitting focus and spurred a long slump. Either way, it may come to a point where Lonnie Chisenhall, the team's preeminent designated hitter, will get pushed back to his usual third base.
If Santana puts in more time behind the plate, that may allow Yan Gomes to grab some plate appearances as the designated hitter. He has 38 hits in 137 at bats this year, with 15 extra-base hits to his credit to go along with 10 walks.


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Does anyone ever need an excuse to eat pie? Nobody we should be friends with, is my mantra. But, in an effort at inclusivity, here is a handy dandy excuse-finder, should you need a little convincing:
- Because it is not Friday yet.
- Because you probably woke up before you wanted to, and went to a job that even if you love, is still by definition something you wouldn't do for free. Pie is an excellent consolation prize.
- Because yesterday felt like spring and everyone's 3-month bad mood instantly evaporated. Today you needed a hat and gloves again. And a slice of pie, warmed just enough that a scoop of vanilla ice cream trickles over it.
- Because you're probably never going to win that Maine Inn in time for lobster and blueberries season with an essay. (Although we are all rooting for you. And blueberry pie.)
- Because if you're in the Northeast, fresh fruit pies are still months off, which means you get to make pies with chocolate and gooey caramel instead.


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Jay-Z and Beyonce divorce rumors are heating up and several media sources are reporting that the looming separation between Hollywood's power couple is due to the rapper's love affair with Rihanna. According to a July 28 Hollywood Life report, it seems the now infamous elevator fight between Jay-Z and Solange Knowles earlier this year was indeed over Rihanna.
Page Six claims that an insider revealed that the rapper planned to meet Rihanna later that night, which didn't sit too well with Queen Bey's sister. "Solange was like, 'Enough is enough — you must be [screwing] Rihanna,'" a source told Page Six. "To many people who know them, they know it's not out of the realm of possibility."
A source close to both Jay-Z and Beyonce reportedly told the site that the rapper's infidelity was the cause for which Solange Knowles physically assaulted him at the after party of the 2014 MET Gala.
Via Page Six....The source says, it's not whether they'll split, but how they'll split — adding that the only time Jay and Beyoncé are really together is on stage. They're allegedly traveling with marriage counselors, but Jay — as he's always done — spends much of his time on the phone, tending to business. "His phone's constantly ringing," says the source, "Jay trying to make deal after deal."
Perhaps aware of the rumors, Beyoncé made sure to upload a picture on her Instagram that shows her and Rihanna posing together after the Met Gala. However, recent photos revealed that the "IV" tattooed on her ring finger, which represents she and her husband's birth dates as well as their wedding date, is no longer there.
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John and Linda McCormick are making a success of Thunder Valley Speedway the old-fashioned way-they work at it. Before they bought it in 2000, what may be the most remote oval track in the nation had gone through five promoters in the previous four years, says John.
"The last promoter just padlocked the gate and walked away," he says. "Linda and I were determined that wasn't going to happen to us." The track was run down and suffering from a combination of abuse and neglect.
Thunder Valley is in Mosca, Colorado. Chances are you've never heard of it. How remote is Thunder Valley? The nearest oval is 150 miles away in any direction, and getting to any of them requires towing over at least one mountain pass.
Built in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, with the 14,000-foot Mt. Blanca dominating the horizon, the track sits at 7,600 feet elevation, making it the highest circuit in the nation, John says.
"It also gives us about the shortest racing season in the country," adds John. "We begin late and end early, and in the summer we have lots of competition from fairs and rodeos. This is real cowboy country, and the horse is pretty much king here." But horsepower ranks close behind.
On a good race night, Thunder Valley will draw 80 cars, some teams towing 270 miles round-trip just to compete on the 3/8-mile clay oval. It also draws about 850 spectators. That's not a huge number by many promoters' standards, but it is about 10 percent of the local population.
The track features a weekly program made up of Modifieds, Hobby Stocks, Mini Stocks, Super Stocks, and Stock Trucks. It also hosts the Rocky Mountain Dwarf Cars and Outlaw Mini Sprints touring shows. Its Modified program is aligned with the United Midwest Promoters Association, so visiting Modified drivers know they can unload at Thunder Valley and be legal to run.
Because the track is so remote and doesn't have an affiliation with NASCAR, ASA, or any other large sanctioning organization, few of the drivers feel that success at the oval will launch them on a career in the big leagues. "This is racing the way it began," says John. "We're out here to have fun and put on a good show. There's really not a lot of pressure to do anything other than to try to win the track championship."
And then there's the fun factor. The track keeps close links to its farming-culture fan base. Its version of soft walls are 1,000-pound bales of straw. Once a year it hosts a shootout for old, single-axle potato trucks. Another feature is putting local clergy behind the wheel for the "faster pastor" shootout. Heaven help the slow guy.
"We've made a huge effort at making the track more than just a track," John says. "We are trying to make it a community center where families feel comfortable coming to spend an evening with us. There's not an awful lot to do in the area, so we try to fill the need for wholesome entertainment."
According to Larry Garner, they've succeeded. During the week, Garner works for the Bureau of Land Management as a mechanic/fabricator/welder/fixer. On nights and weekends, he becomes "Animal" and is a former track champion in a car he works on in the shop behind his house. There are two versions of how he came to be named "Animal," and neither, he says, is fit for print.
"The McCormicks have done a wonderful job here," says Garner. "It is the nicest small-town track I've ever been at."
McCormick runs a successful produce brokerage, selling the local crop to food processors and chain stores. For entertainment, he raced a Modified at Thunder Valley and realized from firsthand experience what needed to be done to attract more cars and more fans. "But I never realized how much work it could be," he jokes. "I mean, you only race one night a week, right?"
"It became a real dilemma," he says. "It began as a hobby, a way to do something away from work, and now it is becoming more like a full-time job."
The first thing they did was get rid of portable toilets and a rickety concession stand, and build restrooms and a restaurant-style, 40x60-foot covered eating area for customers. Then they built new grandstands.
They pared the race-day payroll by taking on more of the jobs themselves and making the track operation a family affair. And this year McCormick gave up driving his Modified to run the track. "I still miss that," he says. "But there are only so many hours in the day, and something had to go."
Then he hired Ed Davis-known by the nickname "Doctor Dirt"-to look at the track surface. Davis decided it needed new clay. "The track had a pretty bad reputation," says McCormick. "Folks who raced here didn't think it raced well."
About half the clay had to be hauled in from 90 miles away. "It was expensive," he says, "but it was the right thing to do."
At a small track, sometimes it is difficult to convince everyone you are doing the right thing, says Garner. "One of the biggest problems with racing in a small town is that everyone knows one another and everyone in the pits figures everyone else is getting a special deal," he says.
"But John really does a great job at treating everyone fairly," Garner adds. "And he doesn't try to pay all the bills with entry fees. He's a class act who isn't interested only in the bottom line, and really tries to treat the racers fairly."
And about those hay bales? "You don't want to get near them," says Garner. "They are like magnets. Once you touch one, it doesn't want to let you go. I know that for a fact."
Thunder Valley Speedway, 719/852-4727, www.thundervalleyspeedway.com.


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The text message received from Matt Torra Thursday morning was written with a sense of surprise.
"Who would have thought Bateman and I on the same team. The Durham Bulls," is what the text message said.
The Bateman in question is Joe Bateman, who has returned to Durham to join a Bulls' pitching staff that Torra is a member of.
"Two kids from the same high school team pitching on the same [minor league] team -- that's crazy," Pittsfield High baseball coach Bob Moynihan said. "That's just unbelievable."
Torra was traded to the Tampa Bay organization from the Arizona Diamondbacks, and was put into the starting rotation at Durham. He is still seeking his first win. Bateman, who spent the last two years with Durham, was released by Class AA Midland (Texas League) on Tuesday and signed with the Rays on Wednesday. Tampa Bay assigned him back in Durham.
"It was a complete surprise" to see Bateman in the Bulls' clubhouse in Rochester, N.Y., Torra recalled. "We hadn't touched base yet.
"I was starting so I came to the field later. I show up and he's in the locker room. It was pretty cool to see him and now to play with another Pittsfield guy, it doesn't happen too often."
Read more of Howard Herman's Pittsfield High School graduates are members of the Durham Bulls pitching staff from the Berkshire Eagle.


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Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon on the witness stand in a whistleblower trial
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon is on the witness stand right now for a civil whistleblower case.
The former Director of Jail Compliance is suing Wayne County, alleging Napoleon fired her after she blew the whistle on one of his top commanders.
Back in 2012, Renee Newell reported to her boss that Chief Heard had improperly hired a woman named Tiffany Burgess to work in the jail. Newell told her superiors that Heard was violating the rules by using money from the jail commissary to pay her $45,000 salary. Newell says she had also been told Burgess was Heard's niece. The county denies that, but 7 Action News obtained this email that shows Burgess calling the jail chief "Uncle Jerry."
During opening statements today, County lawyers said Newell is not a whistleblower. "This is not a person who's being transparent," said attorney Jim Surowiec. The county maintains that they fired Newell because she broke several rules when her half-brother was locked up in the jail.
Stay with 7 Action News for updates on this case as testimony continues.


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GOLDEN, Colo. – Colorado School of Mines men's soccer players Nic Amedo, Chris Bostic and Trevor Braun were all named National Soccer Coaches Association of America College Scholar All-West Region as announced by the NSCAA.
Bostic and Braun were both named to the First Team while Amedo was a Second Team selection.
Bostic, a senior defender from Erie, Colo. (Peak to Peak H.S.), is a Mechanical Engineer major with a 3.86 cumulative grade point average. The 2010 RMAC Men's Soccer Academic Player of the Year, Bostic also earned ESPN Third Team Academic All-American honors. Bostic started all 21 matches in 2010 and was named Daktronics Second Team All-Central Region.
Braun, a senior defender from Litchfield Park, Ariz. (Millennium H.S.), earned First Team Academic All-RMAC honors for the second consecutive season. A Chemical Engineering major with a 3.77 cumulative grade point average, Braun earned ESPN Academic All-District honors in 2010. A NSCAA Second Team All-Region pick, Braun scored one goal and started in 16 matches in which he played this season.
Bostic and Braun helped anchor a CSM defense that ranked first in the RMAC in goals allowed (14), goals against average (0.65) and shutouts (12). Among DII teams, Mines ranks fourth in shutout percentage (0.57) and eighth in goals against average.
Amedo, a senior midfielder / defender from Corvallis, Ore. (Corvallis H.S.), is a Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.62 cumulative grade point average. Amedo appeared in 20 matches last season making one start and scoring one goal. Amedo earned Academic All-RMAC honors three consecutive seasons and was named to the Second Team the past two seasons.
The ninth-ranked Orediggers finished the 2010 season with an overall record of 17-2-2. Mines made its second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament, third in program history, and won its first-ever NCAA Tournament game against Regis University (5-1). CSM also claimed both the RMAC regular-season and tournament titles.