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SEBRING - It was a very emotional day for several local softball players as they fought back tears during an award ceremony on last Saturday during the 15th annual Special STARS Softball Classic.
Special STARS recognized two very special athletes who passed away last year by naming an award in their memory. The newest award for the tournament was the Jonny "J.T." Tanner Heart of Gold Award. It was created in memory of Tanner who lost his life during a hit and run accident last year shortly after the softball tourney. Tanner was not only a great softball player in the community who was dedicated to playing with Special STARS but he went beyond the field to establish a friendship with one very special athlete William Dickson. Tanner made Dickson his honorary coach even though he could not play ball any more. They were best friends.
The Heart of Gold Award is presented to an individual who goes beyond the ballfield to reach out to people with disabilities to make them feel loved, appreciated, and above all, respected.
Dickson made a special trip from Hardee County to be at the tournament to present the award, and brought Tanner's widow, Candice Day, and their children, Kelsey Day and Kalea Tanner. The family continued Johnny's legacy by playing on a softball team in the tournament this year. Together they presented the award to Lake Placid's Mary Basso.
Basso was the coach and sponsor of the Coffee News softball team. This was the same team that Dickson and Tanner played on together. She has been a sponsor and coached tournament teams for many years. Basso was there for Dickson during Tanner's funeral and organized her entire softball team to attend Dickson's farewell party when he left Highlands County to move to a different group home in Hardee. She participates in other sports with Special STARS such as track and field and bowling. She also helps with numerous fundraisers to generate dollars for Special STARS.
Last year, Special STARS established the Joe Singha Memorial Rookie of the Year award in memory of Singha, who passed away in February 2013. That award was presented once again to a special athlete who was playing for their first time on a team. They have to demonstrate excellent playing skills, good sportsmanship and overall team spirit. There were four newcomers to the field this year - Gwen Beavers, James Beavers, Jonathan Beavers, Katie Gibson, Butch Riley, James Reed, and Nicole Warner.
The coaches from all six teams cast their ballots and selected Gwen Beavers of Sebring as this year's winner. Beavers played on Dee's Place team. Singha's step-sister, Angie Ruckman, attended the event to present the trophy to Beavers.
"I am so honored to get this award with Joe's name on it. I have known Joe since I was 3 years old," Beavers said. "I remember when I first met Joe. I was on the swing set at school and he came up to me to ask if I needed a push in the swing. I said yes and he pushed me real high."
Another new award was given to the Hardee County Rookie of the Year since this was the first year Hardee offered softball to its athletes. They brought over a team and had several athletes compete in skills. The Rookie of the Year for Hardee was Carey McQuaig.
Other awards presented were given to Donavan Harper of Lampe & Kiefer Hearing Aid Center who won Coach Sportsmanship; Francisco Hernandez of Heacock Insurance Group won Community Partner Sportsmanship; Jack Garnett of Hardee County's Florida Hospital team won Special Athlete Sportsmanship; Tim Ritenour of Dee's Place won Best Coach; Lori Bustamante of McIntyre's Mavericks won Best Community Partner; and Eddie Thomas of Coffee News won Best Special Athlete.
Dee's Place, coached by Tim Ritenour and Stacy Andrews, was the winner of this coed slow-pitch softball tournament. They beat Heacock Insurance Group, coached by Craig Sutliff, in extra innings in the final championship game to take the first place trophy.
In addition to taking home the first place trophy, the entire team from Dee's Place will be heading to watch a Tampa Bay Rays on April 6 as part of their winnings.
Lampe Kiefer Hearing Aid, coached by Harper, played in the consolation bracket against Coffee News, coached by Andy and Mary Basso, for the third place trophy. Lampe & Kiefer finished third. Other teams were Florida Hospital, coached by Sissy Camacho, of Hardee County, and McIntyre's Mavericks, coached by Jaime Bustamante. Raymond and Becky McIntyre sponsored the Mavericks.
All of the coaches were given medals by the special athletes on their teams to show appreciation for their efforts.
There were 16 special athletes from Highlands and Hardee counties learning the fundamentals of playing softball in a skill level. Highlands was known as J & J Angels, sponsored by David and Doris Magowan. Heartland Riders Association sponsored the Hardee athletes. They competed for medals for throwing, fielding, batting and running the bases. Danielle Jordon coached the skill level.
Skill level participants getting first place were Dasan Jordon and Jimmy Phipps of Highlands and Sue Egnoski and T.J. Camacho of Hardee. Second place was won by Patricia Butterfield, Eddie Mae Jones and Connie Sharp, of Hardee and Joe Peacock, Gary Barwick and Sue Randolph of Highlands. Third place winners were Linda Decker and Diane Brown of Hardee and Frances Goff and Perry Bright of Highlands. Sondra Jones, of Hardee, won fourth while Tammie Fennell, of Highlands, won fifth place.
The Home Run Derby was open for men, women, special athletes, teens and children. Winners and their categories were Heather Barnes, women; Derek Aul, men; Gregg Ruggs and Greg Robinson, special athletes; and DaAagnan Sims, children.
South Florida State College was the major All-Star sponsor for the tournament along with Sebring Elks Lodge 1529, Highlands Sertoma Club and Highlands County Board of County Commissioners. George Quell of the Sebring Elks threw out the first pitch of the tournament early in the morning.
During the opening ceremony, the Avon Park High School Air Force Junior ROTC presented the American flag followed by the national anthem sung by Sebring's Nellie Ford.
The Highlands County Board of County Commissioners donated the usage of the fields for the tourney. Umpires who donated their time were Tom Gailwniky, Roseann Kiefer, Nancy Jones, Patti Verrone, Barb Greenwell, Richard Prince and Mary Manning.
Other tournament sponsors included Reflections on Silver Lake, Highlands Independent Bank, Stephenson-Nelson Funeral Home, King Equipment, Jim and Carol Phipps, Beta Sigma Phi and Morris Funeral Chapel.
Overall, the tournament generated approximately $3,500. Proceeds from the tournament went to Special STARS to help pay for the 12 different sports and six recreational activities done throughout the year for more than 400 athletes with physical and mental disabilities in Highlands and Hardee counties.


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2014 Triathlete Buyer's Guide: Run Computers
- by Jessica Sebor and Aaron Hersh
- Published Apr 28, 2014
- Updated Nov 25, 2014 at 6:09 PM UTC
The 2014 Triathlete Buyer's Guide magazine is out on newsstands now (and check out the digital version), and we're giving you a sneak peek right here. Check out the run computers from the guide below and check back to Triathlete.com for more Buyer's Guide content.
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The draw: Simple and affordable heart rate monitor
This watch is extremely easy to use. Without cracking open the instruction pamphlet you can get started right out of the box. Thanks to the reasonable price and ease of use, this is a great choice for someone who wants to explore heart rate training without making a big investment. However, athletes who wants to track distance or splits in a workout will have to look elsewhere.

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Woman arrested in scuffle over soccer ball at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, accused of swinging at 13-year-old boy in wheelchair
Mikka Shardai Cline, 23, of Waco (right) was arrested last night on a charge of injury to a child.
Dallas police say she was in a scuffle over a soccer ball at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. It involved a wheelchair-bound 13-year-old boy, who had a pre-surgical medical halo screwed into his skull.
The boy's uncle told police he had bought him a soccer ball, and he tried to retrieve it about 6 p.m. from a bush on the hospital grounds at 2200 Welborn Street.
Cline and her sister were also trying to get the ball, according to a police report. The sister told police she had gotten it from the hospital's playground area.
Police say after the boy's uncle handed him the ball, Cline's sister tried to get it from his lap, but was blocked by the boy's uncle.
Police say Cline then tried to grab the ball, swinging her fist twice toward the boy in the wheelchair. It was not clear, according to a police report, whether Cline was swinging at the boy or trying to knock the ball from his lap.
Her first swing missed, police say. But her second swing struck the boy's halo, causing him pain, the police report says.
Police accuse Cline of recklessly disregarding the boy's safety as she swung her fist near him. She is being held in the county jail on $1,500 bail.


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Kevin Grandia | November 19, 2007
By Kevin Grandia • Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:51
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its final report this weekend in Valnecia, Spain. It outlines in simple language, the state of planet now, the effects of human activity on the plant and what we can expect in the future.
This report is the culmination of years of research by thousands of scientists from all over the world. At the meeting in Spain, government's from virtually every nation negotiated the final language of the report. In the past, countries with the most to lose, like China and the United States, have been rightly accused of watering down the language of such reports.
Not so with this final report.
The findings are stark and disturbing and the governments of the world, including the United States, have signed on the dotted line, agreeing that this is the reality of global warming now and in the future.
With such an overwhelming body of scientific evidence, agreed to by the world's governments, anyone or any organization attempting to delay, deny, confuse or get in the way of large-scale action at this point would be at the least embarrassing themselves with such a grand scale of delusion and ignorance and the most would be bordering on a crime against humanity.
Here's a breakdown of some of the regional impacts listed the report (go here for a pdf of the full report) that we can expect from our continued unmitigated burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas that are causing the rapid warming of our planet:
Climate change is expected to magnify regional differences in Europe's natural resources and assets. Negative impacts will include increased risk of inland flash floods, and more frequent coastal flooding and increased erosion (due to storminess and sea-level rise).
Mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism, and extensive species losses (in ome areas up to 60% under high emissions scenarios by 2080).
By 2020, between 75 and 250 million of people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress due to climate change.
By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised. This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition.
Australia and New Zealand
By 2030, water security problems are projected to intensify in southern and eastern Australia and, in New Zealand, in Northland and some eastern regions.
By 2020, significant loss of biodiversity is projected to occur in some ecologically rich sites including the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland Wet Tropics.
Endemic morbidity and mortality due to diarrhoeal disease primarily associated with floods and droughts are expected to rise in East, South and South-East Asia due to projected changes in the hydrological cycle.
By the 2050s, freshwater availability in Central, South, East and South-East Asia, particularly in large river basins, is projected to decrease.
North America
During the course of this century, cities that currently experience heatwaves are expected to be further challenged by n increased number, intensity and duration of heatwaves during the course of the century, with potential for adverse health impacts.
Warming in western mountains is projected to cause decreased snowpack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for over-allocated water resources.
Latin America
There is a risk of significant biodiversity loss through species extinction in many areas of tropical Latin America.
Changes in precipitation patterns and the disappearance of glaciers are projected to significantly affect water availability for human consumption, agriculture and energy generation.
Small Islands
Sea-level rise is expected to exacerbate inundation, storm surge, erosion and other coastal hazards, thus threatening vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities that support the livelihood of island communities.
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Dan replied on Permalink
The governments have signed
The governments have signed the dotted line. The GOVERNMENTS. Holy crap, this MUST be legit.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Then what would it take?
The governments of the world and scientists from around the world agree this is a huge problem caused by human activity and you still think its a hoax? Honestly what more would it take to convince some people? What is Rush Limbaugh and John Stossel started telling you to be worried? Would that change your mind?
Doubt it. For some people there will always be an excuse.
Come on, Kevin . . .
tell us what you REALLY think!
Seriously, it is a sobering document. It should be required reading for everyone on the planet.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
The reality of this has been really hit home with this final report – if people took the time to read it they would see quotes like:
"Atmospheric concentrations of C02 and methane in 2005 exceed by far the natural range over the last 650,000 years." And, "average northern hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the past 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years."
I agree...
It should be required reading.
For example: I went to dinner yesterday with a group of my friends and I was surprised by their lack of knowledge about the whole climate change scenario. I mean…real basic knowledge. Our average age is roughly mid-fifties.
Of course it doesn't help when the local paper puts the final IPCC report story on the back page of the third section! Typical coverage by a paper that used to belong to the Conrad Black empire…
I would like to see a poll done asking the Canadian public just exactly how much they know about AGW…
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
There is research done
I've seen research on this - both national polling and focus group work. The findings have been consistent for a while now and are similar to US findings. People are very aware of climate change, the are worried about the effects, but they are unsure what climate change actually is. Many think it has to do with the hole in the ozone, or heat from factories, cars etc.
If you look at media coverage, reporters have been very good at getting across the realities of climate change, but little, if any reporters take the time to explain what exactly climate change is.
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Kevin said: ". . . anyone or
Kevin said:
"… anyone or any organization attempting to delay, deny, confuse or get in the way of large-scale action at this point would be at the least embarrassing themselves with such a grand scale of delusion and ignorance and the most would be bordering on a crime against humanity."
And the "anyone" getting in the way of strong action on AGW is we, the electorate. In spite of protestations that the Canadian public "wants" action on AGW, the truth is much different. We don't want serious action taken, at least not yet.
Until the general public in Canada, via the democratic process, gives true assent to our officials to take action, we will continue onwards with tokenism.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Canadians Do want action
Have you seen a poll in Canada over the last year Paul ? The environment and global warming has been the number one issue of national concern - ahead of health care and the economy.
Here's a recent poll reported in the National Post finding that in an international public opinion study, "Canadians are among the world's leaders in being prepared to accept potential lifestyle changes and higher taxes in order to address climate change."
Link: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=53f1d139-8c47-4f80-85c5-606737d4aeee&k=80543
And these findings are consistent with findings over the last year.
This is one of the big reasons Harper is going nowhere in public opinion polls - he's still tied with the Liberals, despite cutting GST and a lack of opposition. The public is speaking, and Harper will offer tokenism on climate change at his political peril.
Paul S replied on Permalink
Kevin, it is often wise to
Kevin, it is often wise to not put too much credence in a poll. Yes, we all want the government to "do something", as long as that "something" doesn't affect us in any serious manner.
Support for action on AGW by Canadians is widespread; more tellingly, the support is also very shallow. That is why our elected officials have offered up tokenism and we have mostly accepted it.
The UN states we will have to get on a "war footing" to fight AGW. Canadians, however, haven't given our leaders permission to put our country on a war footing. We might in the future, but until we truly give assent, no political party in Canada will be able to place us on this "war footing" which the IPPC advocates.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Credence in a poll
I agree that you can't put much credence in a single poll, that's why I stated that this particular one is consistent with all the other polls we've been tracking in Canada - over time with multiple polls there is a very clear trend, and it is reflected well in the polling I provided above.
I would have agreed that the support was shallow a year ago, but that is simply not the case today. Again, its the number 1 issue in Canada, above health care, economy/jobs and crime for over a year now.
I really hope you're not advising politicians because your assumptions about Canadians just aren't reflected in the research.
Paul S replied on Permalink
Kevin, polls can give the
Kevin, polls can give the illusion of demand for drastic action; that is one reason I am often wary of polls. That polls show AGW is the number 1 issue only means that there is widespread awareness about global warming. But one should not automatically assume this concern truly means Canadians as a whole are seriously willing to make the changes to combat AGW.
I still believe that any politician of any political party in Canada who attempted to pass legislation mandating Kyoto-type reductions in C02 would soon be out of power. Most Canadians may agree to strict reductions in C02 emissions in the future, just not in the present. I think this is the reality at the grassroots level.
Mike Kaulbars replied on Permalink
IPCC Report
Actually I'd have to say your reading of the report is still way too optimistic. The IPCC is still a political beast and you have to do some connecting of dots as you read their synthesis.
For eg. in the early stages North America can expect a 5-20% increase in agricultural productivity except in areas where there is high water stress.
So where is North America experiencing high water stress and over using reserves? The prairies from Texas to the tree line, California, Florida, and the SE.
Translation, we will experience increased agricultural production everywhere except where we actually carry on the overwhelming majority of our agricultural production; a not insignificant exception.
As well the report is already outdated. For eg according to the IEA release last Weds http://www.iea.org/ global temp will probably rise by 3C by 2030 (and no reason not to believe them). That is outside of the range of any of the IPCC models, and indeed only the 2 worst case (A2 & A1FI) scenarios predict that rise by 2100. So yeah, the situation is actually much grimer.


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The adventures of "I Can't Believe It's Not Tarzan" continue. Now with more Tarzan!
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"I Can't Believe It's Not Tarzan" was too long a title for this book, but for one hundred pennies, you can check out the origin of young Lord Greystoke.
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For those who have never read a "John Carter of Mars" story before, some of "Warlord of Mars" will be rather surprising.
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Jackson Hebert is a heck of an artist, and you get what you'd expect from a Sonja story: metal bikinis, action, intrigue.
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Kumba first-half profit falls 16% as iron-ore prices slump
The Anglo American unit which had enjoyed sky-high iron ore prices in the past now faces a decline in profits as the metal price drops.
The Anglo American unit which had enjoyed sky-high iron ore prices in the past now faces a decline in profits as the metal price drops.
Rio Tinto's Namibian miners are said to be dying of cancers after extracting uranium ore for the British and US military in the 1970s.
Around 200 NUM members have marched to the Mining Indaba in Cape Town to protest against the ill-treatment of Rio Tinto miners in other countries.
Godfrey Marawanyika, Kevin Crowley
A Bill, which must first gain parliamentary approval before being signed into law, has proposed levies on mining companies.
Miner Rio Tinto has suspended coal exports from Mozambique's north-west Tete province after threats by the opposition party Renamo, says an official.
Rio Tinto will keep its diamond businesses after failing to find a buyer and deciding not to pursue an initial public offering of the unit.
The mooted merger between commodities trader Glencore and mining company Xstrata is likely to face few regulatory hurdles in South Africa.
Botswana, the world's largest diamond producer by value, is now doing with its diamond mining industry what SA failed to achieve for a century.
The taking of shares from foreign company by the Zimbabwean government could have a positive effect for Robert Mugabe where votes are concerned.
BHP Billiton tightening the screws on its local business associates.
The ANC is pondering a windfall tax as a less risky way to maximise benefits from minerals, writes Kevin Davie.
Zimbabwe is due to probe firms to establish their level of compliance with a law that forces them to sell at least 51% of shares to Zimbabwe locals.
Demand for iron ore, copper and aluminium will double in the next 15 to 20 years, driven by the Brics economies, says Rio Tinto's chief executive.
Rio Tinto and Anglo American have said they plan to sell their stakes in Palabora Mining, SA's only refined copper producer.
Zimbabwe's Parliament has declared that Mugabe-backed regulations seeking to nationalise foreign companies are "unconstitutional ... and absurd".
Resources group Rio Tinto has said that it extended its $4-billion offer for Riversdale by another two weeks.
Resources group Rio Tinto said on Friday that it would seek to delist Riversdale following the end of its takeover bid.
Zimbabwe is considering legislation to force miners to fund development in local communities, a state-owned newspaper said on Tuesday.
Rio Tinto has offered $3,9-billion to buy Australian-listed coal miner Riversdale in an agreed deal.


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If you haven't seen video of Kyle Harrison's workouts, check this out. The best part is that he's real – He's a normal dude (except superman athletic…), and he's open and honest about his lifting regimen.
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We've always been fans of Gio Gonzalez here, but after seeing Gio Gonzalez's girlfriend Berenice Lea Moures, it appears there's something extra we've been missing.
Gio Gonzale's girlfriend Berenice Moures is bilingual in French and English (which immediately confused us as we thought she was Hispanic). She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2009 with a double major in Economics and French Language & Literature. It appears her econ degree has paid off as she now holds a high ranking position with a company helping set global economic positions.
It's unclear how long Gio and Berenice have been together, as we last heard whispers of Gio dating Angela Rypien during the Nationals 2012 run towards the postseason. There is plenty of photographic evidence of Berenice attending Nationals games this season, both home and away. This is one we'll definitely be keeping an eye on, and Gio should do what he can to hold on to.
For a long time, Alex Morgan, Hope Solo and Adriana Lima have been at the top of our highest rated WAG poll. I think we have a new contender for this title, and Ms. Moures may vault herself into the top tier. Let's vote it up, folks… 10 in my book.


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First off, let's get something straight here. I am not an Allen Iverson fan despite the fact I rooted for him pretty hard during his Georgetown days (being a huge Alonzo Mourning fan, and all).
The thing is, he got drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers, the team I live closest to, but the city I could never ever root for.
So I immediately broke my allegiance with AI and criticized his game every chance I got.
"He's too much of a ball hog."
"There's absolutely no way somebody so inefficient could lead their team to a championship as the alpha dog."
"He's not a great playmaker and only gets assists because he always has the ball in his hands."
"Despite all of those steals, he is not a good defender at all."
I've said all of those things, and wouldn't hesitate to say they are all still true to this day.
Regardless, I'm not only supportive of the Miami Heat signing AI, I'm probably the only person in the world who thinks they should offer him TWO YEARS.
To me, it doesn't make any sense to offer a one year deal. That's basically saying, "We want to try you out, but we really don't think it'll work in the end."
You see, if it does work, they're going to have to pay so much more to keep him than what we could get that second year for right now.
Riley needs to have faith that this decision will really help the team, or he shouldn't be making it at all. If he's only doing it to make Wade happy, then its only going to backfire and make him angrier if it doesn't work.
So the question remains, "Could Iverson thrive in Miami?"
His track record goes something like this: Great times and miserable times in Philly, pretty good times in Denver, and a horrid experience in Detroit.
In my opinion, the teams that failed with AI didn't have the right components around him. In Philly and Detroit, he didn't have players who took initiative. They were system guys who were better at finishing plays with wide open shots, rather than playmakers who aggressively went after their points.
When you are playing next to an Iverson (or Dwyane Wade for that matter), you have to take advantage of your opportunities because they can be sporadic. I watched AI's teammates be shy with the ball for years and never understood why they would put those kind of players around him.
And it's why I never understood why people say "There's only one ball" and "There aren't enough shots for everyone". To me, it makes sense to pair "ball hogging" players together since they can score off of broken plays (which will occur more frequently), rather than needing to be set up.
So I'm picturing a Miami team with Wade, Iverson (whether he's starting or not), and Michael Beasley as their go-to guys offensively, and I think it works out marvelously.
Obviously, the offense is going to be based on isolations and little ball movement, which really isn't much different than last year, actually.
The year the Heat won, the Mavericks (who many still claim was the better team) were dead last (or very close to it) in team assists, but their offense was really good.
The thing is Wade, AI, and Beasley are better than Terry, Howard, and Dirk.
Wade's still going to handle the majority of the playmaking, but he won't have the burden of doing it every play like he did last year.
There'll still be plenty of times when Iverson takes control of the offense (most importantly, when Wade's on the bench). But he'll do it a lot with Wade on the court, too.
In those situations, I see Wade doing what he did so successfully with Team USA: roaming the baseline and staying near the corners.
What that does is allow Wade to take his physical and mental breathers while still on the court, still attracting the defense's attention, and opening up things so Iverson and Beasley can do their thing more easily.
And let's not forget about Wade's off the ball instincts that really were lost on offense last year. He has great anticipation for finding open spots when playing off a good ball handler and he's great on the offensive glass when defenses aren't keyed in on him at all times.
So I have a positive outlook when it comes to bringing Allen Iverson to the Miami Heat and I don't want that to be lost when we really try to put a championship contender together in 2010.
Offer AI $3M (against the cap) this year and $5M in 2010 and see if he goes for it. If he does, and he and the team play as well as I think they could, we'd have a very enticing team for other free agents to join.
I mean, if Wade, AI, and Beasley are having a bunch of fun together, don't you think LeBron might want to get in on that action?


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Harrah's Cherokee Casino will stick with expansion
Published: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 8:25 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 12:01 p.m.
CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) -- Harrah's Cherokee Casino plans to continue with a $650 million expansion to double its gambling floor space by 2012 even though the gambling business is taking a hit in the economic downturn.
Harrah's Cherokee is one of western North Carolina's largest employers with 1,800 workers. The Eastern Band of Cherokees pays Harrah's to run its casino.
Vice president of marketing Leeann Bridges-McHattie told the Asheville Citizen-Times that Harrah's Cherokee has had fewer customers and flat revenues this year. She said the company has no plans to reduce work hours but is watching its expenses closely.
She said the expansion will continue because the casino would find itself behind otherwise.
Harrah's Cherokee suffered a setback last week when the Tribal Council voted to delay a vote on a referendum that would allow alcohol sales at the casino and hotel only. Alcohol sales are prohibited on the Cherokee Indian Reservation.
The council tabled the discussion for 30 days.
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March 13th, 2008
reworked the main page.
December 6th, 2007
I added an amazing video of Paul in a Viva Variety sketch to multimedia, as well as a page for videos of a live Wigfield performance (more of those to come). I found the full audio interview from the Marc Maron Show that hadn't been found before. I also added a different interview with Paul from Majority Report talking about the Duke Cunningham auction, all in audio. Updated Career page.
August 24th, 2007
Added a new gallery of amazing Exit 57 photographs. I have been doing updates since the last notated one, but I failed to add it here, including the upcoming and current projects bar below and some other items on the career page.
June 25th, 2007
Added several new fan photos.
June 7th, 2007
Added a FAQ to the etc. page. Added a really interesting older interview from the Daily Northwestern newspaper to interviews. General site maintenance. A lot of updates coming soon!
April 23rd, 2007
Added buttons and banners people can use to link to my site in links.
April14th, 2007
Added two new fan photos
April 13th, 2007
Added screencaps gallery for the Tad at the Eagle Festival segment. Added the video as well & two fan photos!
April 1st, 2007
Added a funny late 2003 article to interviews Paul wrote for Nest Magazine called Revelations.
March 26th, 2007
Added a new screecap gallery of a Wigfield Live Performance. Added audio of the same performance to multimedia
March 14th, 2007
Added 13 wonderful videos from the Sundance Photoshoot to multimedia.
February 21st, 2007
Updated the Exit 57 video page. Added Candy film a sweet success for co-writer to interviews.
February 9th, 2007
Added some great new articles, courtesy of nivcharayahel. How do you choose your projects?, What would prompt you to bump an extra up to a speaking role?, 'Strangers with Candy' finds funding with Explod-O-Pop plug, 10 Director's to Watch Amy Sedaris Wigs Out, Everyone loves a Cheerleader. 'Candy' helmer all
in for 'Mr. Burnout'
February 6th, 2007
Re-worked the images and multimedia sections with new graphics and better layout. Added an email form to make it easier for people to email me (let me know what you think of the latest updates!). Added a writing address for Paul in etc.
Added new audio file of Second City sketch, Welcome to Chicago to audio. Added new images to Wigfield, Random, Straight Talk galleries. Added new main graphic & spruced up main page :)
January 29th,2007
Updated fanphotos with pictures of Paul's performance at the UCB theatre. Updated the "etc" page.
January 26th, 2007
Re-did the navigation bar and added a Strangers With Candy section. Thanks to LexisNexis I found a bunch of great "new" interviews, including a wonderful one with Stephen Colbert, Now This Is a Superhighway. Don't miss the very funny Thank You Notes or the collection of Second City tidbits. And this great interview about the editing process for the Stranger movie: Sweet Post on Strangers with CandyOthers: Amy Sedaris Gets Up in Your Grill, She's Quite the Character, Paul Dinello- Vital Stats, Changing the Wallpaper in the Kitchen, Flipping Their 'Wigfield', Amy, Paul and Stephen Get Wiggy, New book and play "Wigfield", Sedaris and pals bring 'Wigfield' from page to stage, 'Exit' to Nowhere
January 16th, 2007
Added new images to the fan photos section. Several big updates coming soon!
January 10th, 2007
Re-did the header graphics for the major sections of the site. Added new icons and a wallpaper to images.
December 29th, 2006
Added to interviews: Baca Raton News, Mtv news, Town Without Pity, Whacked, Candy was Dandy, Lessons in Laughing
December 28th, 2006
Added AFI Q&A session with Paul and Amy Sedaris to the audio section. Added "Strangers Talk Among Us " to interviews
December 27th, 2006
Downloadable version of Premiere interview in multimedia. Creative Screenwriting Magazine Q&A audio interview added to multimedia. "Betrayal" song from SWC movie added to audio.
December 22nd, 2006
Added an amazing article I had never seen before to the Interviews section, Getting Pitchy. Added Atomic Car, Super Conductor & Apakah Lampu music from the SWC movie to the audio section.
December 21st, 2006
Big update! Added downloadable video of the three Colbert County segments of The Colbert Report, business meals & emergency evacuation. Also added downloadable video of Strangers at Sundance, Stella, Friday With Strangers, Getting Deep Inside Jerri to the multimedia video section. Added some new streaming videos and reuploaded those that have been deleted: Clickflicks interview, Down & Dirty with Strangers, Late Late Show, The Colbert Report clips: Emergency Evacuation, Business Meals, At the Auction, Not Gay, Colbert County segment 1-3, Current TV. Added Majority Report with Paul as guest to audio downloads
December 11th, 2006
Added a link to an excerpt from Shock Asylum in the multimedia section. Added Geoffrey's quotes from the Strangers With Candy movie to the SWC pictures menu.
December 10th, 2006
Added Deleted Scenes from the Strangers With Candy movie to the images section. Updated the Deleted Scenes images in the SWC series section with better quality caps.
December 9th, 2006
Added the "etc" page to the SWC pictures section with Geoffrey's quotes and animated gifs.
December 2nd, 2006
Colbert County segment part 3 screencaps up in images. 2 new cupcakes added. Parts 2 & 3 of the segment added to multimedia. How to be Popular streaming video added to multimedia, Strangers at Sundance added to multimedia.
December 1st, 2006
Colbert County segment part 2 screencaps up in images.
November 29th, 2006
Colbert County segment part 1 screencaps up in images. Downloadable and streaming video added to multimedia.
November 27th, 2006
Added new icons & wallpaper in images.
November 21st, 2006
Added more icons & wallpaper in images. Added more fan photos.
November 19th, 2006
Updated the SWC Premieres & Random picture galleries with new pictures. Updated the fan photos section with several new pictures. Re-did the graphics in the Images section.
November 15th, 2006
Deleted Scenes added to the SWC screencap archive. A new Exit 57 screencap gallery has been added with caps of every episode Paul appears in. High-res photo gallery added with wonderful, large pictures in images. Photoshoot gallery added in images.
November 10th, 2006
A new comprehensive Exit 57
video page has been added to the multimedia section with pop-up streaming videos of each sketch Paul appears in. Updated graphics in images, added Sundance premiere gallery
November 8th, 2006
For now, a new streaming clip of "Not Gay" is available
in multimedia. A downloadable clip is also available now too.
November 4th, 2006
Updated the Strangers With Candy screencaps page with all the DVD extras, added Newfest gallery in images
November 3rd, 2006
A new gallery added to images of Paul at the I Like You party with Amy Sedaris. New icons added. Screencaps from SWC: "To Love Honor & Pretend" added. Chuck & Geoffrey's "research trip" caps added, "The Trip Back" updated.
November 2nd, 2006
I finally have access again to dreamweaver so I can finally get the updates I have planned done. I added an icons page to the images section with my icons, which will be updated soon (having some html issues). I added the best video ever to the multimedia section (Paul & Stephen Colbert playing at Stella, go watch now!)
I added a link to a gabbly chatroom so there is a place to express your Paul-related self (although feel free to discuss other things if you simply must.) Come and chat!!
October 3rd, 2006
Well I already had to cave to popular demand and switch to having
underlined links so it is easier to see.
I added an "about"
section. I had
some people tell me that I should include information about myself, so
I did. It also contains information about the website.
Added more fan photos and the Wigfield, Tumbling, Premieres, Newfest,
random & more galleries in Images.
Now every picture I have of Paul is officially up and ready to be
October 1st, 2006
Grand opening! Everything is new. Please take a look around and let me
know what you think! New updates will be coming in very frequently
since I don't have all the content completely finished yet or all the
kinks worked out. If you encounter any huge problems, don't hesitate to let
me know!
I am always looking for
suggestions in terms of content and if you have any links to
interviews, pictures, anything that I have missed, please send it my way! When including attachments
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Designing Winning Robots Requires Passion for Learning Outside the Classroom
5.18.12 | Team Antipodes, a robotics team from Pacifica, Calif., has had a busy year. As sought-after speakers, they've explained to Google engineers, school board members, and anyone else who would listen why every kid should have a chance to learn robotics.
As competitors, they've won awards at a number of robotics qualifying tournaments, including at the Northern California regionals, culminating in a trip last month to St. Louis for the 2012 FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship. There they beat 128 teams from around the world for the PTC Robot Design Award (read the play-by-play).
Team members Violet Replicon, Kjersti Chippindale and Emma Filar, juniors at Terra Nova High School, estimate they've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours designing, building and programming their robots – all outside of school.
"I feel that I have learned more skills for the real world from robotics than school projects," Replicon told me via email.
"I have put formulas to use and have seen real world situations for math, which you do not normally see in school," she added. "I have also learned how the design process works, how long and tedious that process is, which is something I feel is really important."
I learned about Team Antipodes the way many of their fans do—watching them in action. The group participated in last year's East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland, where they demonstrated how well their robot Rubi could balance on a teeter-totter-like bridge, impressing my 5-year-old and his friend.
The team developed its reputation for innovative robotics design on the competition circuit. They've traveled as far as Istanbul and Tasmania, where they collaborated with other young women on winning projects and developed ongoing friendships.
If you're not familiar with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), you should know that the New Hampshire-based nonprofit has been inspiring kids to pursue STEM fields for 20 years. More than 26,000 teams from across the globe participate in all levels of FIRST programs each year, which are open to those in grades K through 12.
At the world championships last month 12,000 students from 32 countries competed in three levels of FIRST, which drew serious star power, including will.i.am.
In the FIRST Tech Challenge, the program that Antipodes competed in this year, competitions are based on a sports model. Teams of up to 10 high school students design, build and program their own robots to compete in challenges such as upending a plastic crate, placing a racquetball in it, and lifting it above the floor.
Robots are built using a re-usable, modular robotics platform. Each team receives a kit comprised of gears, motors, sensors, microprocessors, Bluetooth communications, and CAD software—but no instructions. They are, however, required to work with mentors.
"It's not just about robots," FIRST founder Dean Kamen said at the competition kickoff last year. "It's about building self-confidence, respect and important relationships with people who invent new technologies to make a better future."
The teams that take part in the FIRST program are powerful examples of "connected learning," a new model some educational researchers are using to examine learning that takes place outside the classroom and is based on student's interests.
Anthropologist Mimi Ito calls it learning that is "socially connected and interest driven." It's pursing "expertise around something you care deeply about," she said recently, "and you're supported by friends and institutions who share and recognize this common passion or purpose."
"Robotics, above all, has taught me that I can never be truly proud of something I didn't put my heart and soul into," Chippindale said. "I'm just glad the judges recognized our hard work, too."
The girls say they wish they could pursue robotics as part of their school curriculum, both because it would help them reduce their workload (they pulled many late nights splitting time between programming their robot and completing school assignments), and because they like assignments that involve hands-on experiences.
"I think that the hands-on style of learning that robotics provides is much more lasting, and exciting, than the math and science we learn in class," said Replicon, an aspiring astrophysicist who is considering studying computer science in college. "I love outer space," she wrote in her email.
Team Antipodes is, of course, unusual in that it's an all-girls team. Girls are still underrepresented in robotics, as they are in other STEM activities (see this report [pdf] from the American Association of University Women). And the pressure to conform to gender stereotypes can make it very difficult for girls to express interests in fields typically associated with boys (just ask Maya's mom, or the SPARK team that challenged Lego for building salon- and party-themed kits).
Team Antipodes has been down this road enough that its members sound a little tired of being asked about it. The lack of women mentors in the field has not been a problem for them, they said, and they place value in mentoring younger students. The main point they want to drive home, said Chippindale, is: "We are girls and we have a blast doing robotics."
I don't see gender when I look at successful and innovative people, I see their inventions and their ideas.
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"I think at competitions it gets down to the robots, no matter who made them," Chippindale said, "so we don't think of ourselves as any different from other teams. I don't see gender when I look at successful and innovative people, I see their inventions and their ideas."
The FIRST program places an emphasis on collaboration and mentoring and encourages participants to share their ideas and build off each other's work. Last year, Team Antipodes presented at the Northern California FTC kickoff on essential power tools for aspiring robot makers, hoping to save other teams time and money during their first robot build—an experience Team Antipodes recalls on its website. Browse their site and you'll soon realize the sophisticated understanding of systems, engineering, and technology these teams need to compete.
This spring, Replicon taught an after-school robotics class at her grade school, Ocean Shore Elementary. At each class session she taught younger students to work with a new type of sensor and/or programming function.
And last fall, as part of the Bay Area Science Festival, the team modified a robot to create a Mars Rover Simulator that supported their local library's One Book One Community selection: "Packing for Mars," by Mary Roach. They then invited kids to drive the simulator at the library, and partnered with a local astronomy educator to give the kids a few lessons.
"The girls love letting kids drive their robot and getting the word out about robotics, and especially that girls can do it, too," Ken Filar, Team Antipodes coach (and team member Emma Filar's dad) said in an email.
Instead of competing in the next academic year, the girls have decided to retire in their prime and spend their senior year of high school recruiting new members so the program doesn't die out when they graduate. They are also interested in pushing for district-wide robotics programs for secondary and elementary levels.
It's the type of dedication they're used to applying to building robots from scratch—only this time around, they're counting on others to build the future.
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Rhode Island Housing officially launched HomeCompare, a free mobile app available for the iPhone. The app helps users streamline their home buying process by providing a central location where all home search information can live.
The announcement was at the RIBA Home Show. HomeCompare is currently available for download free of charge from the App Store.
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On a Small Business Server 2011 installation a whole number of w3wp.exe processes appear to be using a disproportional lot of memory. The SBS out-of-the-box installations comes with a total of 7 sites and 20 ASP.NET application pools (Sharepoint, Exchange, WSUS and SBS-specific stuff like Remote Web Workplace).
The resulting dozen of w3wp.exe processes tends to consume more than 4 GB of the server's memory over time with the peak application pool being the one belonging to WSUS with around 800 GB in the working set. Manually recycling the application pools through the IIS MMC helps temporarily reduce the memory usage (the w3wp.exe processes shrink back to 10 MB, some of them regrowing quickly), but obviously is not something an admin wants to do all day. I was unable to find any recommendations on automatic recycling of the SBS-preinstalled application pools, so I am somewhat reluctant to "just do it" on production systems.
My research on the net on how to limit this only threw up a number of posts stating that w3wp memory consumption would not hurt but benefit performance as memory would be "freed when needed by other applications". The trouble is that it does not work out:
- for one, an SBS is a multi-role server, one of the roles (the major one) being CIFS network storage which immensely benefits from filesystem caching which again relies on memory being "free" as in "not used by other processes in any way" – ASP.NET application pools which are hardly ever seeing users and eating memory are counterproductive
- another thing is that I still have to see substantial decrease of the w3wp instances memory consumption upon memory shortage – what I see is a minor decrease by significantly less than 100 mb and excessive swapping instead – again hurting performance
I hardly ever administer IIS or ASP.NET apps, so any ideas on how to effectively trim the memory requirements for the application pools are welcome.
Welcome to the wonderful world of SBS. Recommended requirements for RAM = 10GB… and it REQUIRES a minimum of 8gb. (according to Microsoft.) for a good reason. It's not a fine-tuned well-oiled machine… it's very sloppy, bloated, and has everything under the sun bundled together. The more RAM you can throw at that box… the better. Unfortunately, you're limited to 32gb max. Which imho… is silly.
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Definition of meridional in English:
1Of or in the south; southern: the meridional leg of the journey
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- The presence of ice sheets, together with the development of sea ice in the polar oceans, also resulted in an increase in meridional (north - south) temperature gradients.
- Most European pre-Quaternary localities are positioned in a restricted latitudinal band, requiring dense and well-dated temporal and spatial records for meridional patterns to be detected.
1.1Relating to or characteristic of the inhabitants of southern Europe, especially the South of France: she was meridional in temperament
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- However, the zweite Frühstück (second breakfast) eaten in various German-speaking regions is an important northerly counterpart of this meridional institution.
2Relating to a meridian: the meridional line of demarcation
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- In the pre-equatorial zone, cells were densely packed, whereas in the equatorial zone, the cells were arranged in the form of distinct meridional rows.
- The axial intensity distribution was calculated by integrating the region from 0.013 nm - 1 on either side of the meridional axis of the x-ray pattern.
- Between the regions contacting leaf primordia, the peripheral zone cells are curved predominantly in the meridional direction.
2.1 Meteorology (Of winds and air flow) aligned with lines of longitude: the spinning of a planet on its axis deflects the meridional winds sideways
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- The first, known as the meridional flow pattern, circulates between the sun's equator and its poles over a period of 17 to 22 years and acts like a conveyor belt of sunspots.
- This juxtaposition of high-pressure and low-pressure systems in similar latitudes causes much more meridional airflow than is normally experienced in similar latitudes in the southern hemisphere.
- The timing of deglaciation shows a close correspondence to increased meridional overturning of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation and attendant warming of the North Atlantic Ocean immediately after the last glacial maximum.
A native or inhabitant of southern Europe, especially the south of France.
Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin meridionalis, formed irregularly from Latin meridies 'midday, south'.
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her mother is frantic about her safety a frantic attempt to break free
panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky, beside oneself, at one's wits' end, berserk, distraught, overwrought, worked up, agitated, distressed;
frenzied, wild, frenetic, fraught, fevered, feverish, hysterical, mad, crazed, out of control, uncontrolled, unhinged, out of one's mind, maniacal, demented, desperate
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Like this, apparently, thought there appears to be some controversy about whether silver is a variant of the much-vaunted-in-my-house chocolate Lab.
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Documentarians Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza—the latter a former journalist himself—are profoundly alarmed by the decline of the American newspaper and its significance for the future of democracy. In the postliteracy era, as cable news runs 24/7 and the blogosphere continues to explode, newspapers have lost advertising revenue, ravaged their editorial staffs, and shifted priorities. The world of All the President's Men—in which journalists not only spoke truth to power but were actually heeded—is now as bygone as the New York Mirror.
In Stop the Presses—an exhaustive and compelling report on the failing health of newspapers—it is everyone from the editors of the Boston Globe and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to a workaday New Orleans reporter who covered Hurricane Katrina to a former Dallas Morning News staffer, now a strip-club bartender, who issues the dire prognosis. Attempts to save the endangered institution, we learn, include public subsidies, nonprofit ownership, and radically altered approaches to coverage. Will anything succeed? That has yet to be determined, as we face what one editor calls "an uncertain future—a critical and terrifying period." Providing further context are interviews with press luminaries from Ben Bradlee to Dave Barry, as well as clips from the classic likes of His Girl Friday and Inherit the Wind.
For now, cartoon characters mock the irrelevancy of print on The Simpsons, worried journalists grapple with "transition," and a University of Florida freshman named Ebben Bell tells us how, on Sunday mornings, he occasionally reads the paper with his parents. Otherwise, he goes straight to the blogs on the Internet—where, in his words, "facts can sometimes be what you want them to be."
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Malaguti Ciak Master 125 2007
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|General information
|Malaguti Ciak Master 125
|61.9 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
|Engine and transmission
|124.00 ccm (7.57 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Single cylinder
|9.00 Nm (0.9 kgf-m or 6.6 ft.lbs) @ 6000 RPM
|Bore x stroke:
|52.4 x 57.8 mm (2.1 x 2.3 inches)
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|Single Overhead Cams (SOHC)
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final drive:
|Automatic centrifugal dry clutch
|Electric & kick
|Physical measures
|Dry weight:
|117.0 kg (257.9 pounds)
|Seat height:
|770 mm (30.3 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|1,380 mm (54.3 inches)
|Overall length:
|2,020 mm (79.5 inches)
|Overall width:
|725 mm (28.5 inches)
|Overall height:
|1,200 mm (47.2 inches)
|Chassis and dimensions
|Frame type:
|Tubular steel frame split at the footboard level
|Front suspension:
|Telescopic hydraulic fork
|Rear suspension:
|Swinging engine and 2 hydraulic shock absorbers
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|Front brakes:
|Single disc
|Front brakes diameter:
|230 mm (9.1 inches)
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|Expanding brake (drum brake)
|Rear brakes diameter:
|130 mm (5.1 inches)
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|Catalyst exhaust system
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Quotes (What Was Said) Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around Everything That Rises Must Converge? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said, "True culture is in the mind, the mind."
Julian's mother
Saint Sebastian
Q. Who said, "If you know who you are you can go anywhere."
Julian's mother
Carver's mother
The woman with protruding teeth
Q. Who said, "He don't take nobody's pennies!"
The well-dressed black man
Carver's mom
Q. Who said, "I come on one the other day and they were thick as fleas—up front and all through."
The woman with protruding teeth
Carver's mother
The woman with the red-and-white canvas shoes
The vet
Q. Who said, "Quit yo' foolishness … before I knock the living Jesus out of you!"
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Well, what is a mayhaw? If you're not a wildlife buff, you wouldn't have a lamb's idea what a mayhaw is, technically speaking. They taste putrid, but darn it, those little things make for some good jelly. And I ain't kidding about it.
I came across this particular jelly when a neighbor brought some back from her trip across Texas. Said it was good 'pikin' since these bottles don't come often. Most of the folks don't have an idea how to make jelly, much more mayhaw jelly. Well, what in tarnation is a mayhaw?


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When Prince William was ready to propose to his future bride Kate Middleton, it was his brother, Prince Harry, who suggested the perfect engagement ring to use - their mother's stunning 18 carat sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Now, add the best man to your commemoration of the Wedding of the Century with this Prince Harry Doll, available exclusively from The Ashton-Drake Galleries. Dressed in his striking Blues and Royals uniform, this 17-inch tall lifelike portrait of Prince Harry is fully poseable to serve as the perfect best man to your Prince William Doll and Princess Catherine Royal Elegance Bride Doll display! This authentic likeness of the handsome prince is handcrafted of fine bisque porcelain and meticulously hand-painted for exquisite realism. His dashing navy blue coat with embellished red cuffs features a golden collar, shining golden buttons, medals and additional regalia. Dark-colored slacks, shiny shoes and military cap add drama and authenticity to the ensemble. Strong demand is anticipated for this Prince Harry poseable doll, so don't wait. Order now!. Price: $149.99
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Day 19: Read More in order to Earn More
Just how many of you really sit down in front of the TV and watch for hours? Just how many of you really read something that interests you, and maybe just read because you just want to? When was the last time you really curled up on the couch or on your bed just to read? Well, I can tell you mine.
Ako (I) – as you guys know love to read. That is why if there is nothing else for me to do, if it is cold and dreary or if it is rainy outside, it is so easy for me to open up a book and squeeze my nose in between the pages. I can easily get lost with the book that I am reading.
Here is a little trivia: the average American spends six hours watching TV and if by the time a person reaches the age of 60 and still keeps on the same habit of being a couch potato, he would have wasted 15 years of his life, right in front of the boobtube! Sad, but it's true.
I hear it from Danny almost everyday how people complain as soon as their cable is out of service. It's like life and death to some people when their TV signal gets a little fuzzy! People rely heavily on TV and other electronic devices.
So, here is the thing:
In most cases, the love of reading is correlated to early exposure to literacy. Children by nature are drawn to reading or looking at illustrations of the book. We've heard it from reading specialists and early childhood educators the value of reading books to our children. We've read it from studies and research the impact of language acquisition and the development of age-appropriate vocabulary through the power of reading. We've seen it and known it, that once a child learns the purpose and love for independent reading, they will soon crave for more.
Now, why did I say that if you read more, you will earn more? It is because people who have more knowledge on a specific topic has a lot more advantage that those people who don't. It is surprisingly easy how to increase your knowledge and then substantially increase your level of success.
Here are some things that you can do to apply this principle:
- Start by eliminating one hour of television everyday and use that time to read anything.
- Take some materials to read while using the bathroom.
- Commuting eats up a lot of our time. The average commute of a regular worker is an hour everyday. Use this time to listen to audio books. There are plenty of audio books out there that may interest you. I have started doing this practice lately and it amazes me how much information I can learn while driving in the car, everyday!
- Study the lives of successful people. If you would like to be successful in a particular field, read the biographies of the people who have done it successfully and follow the path they've already created. Learn from their mistakes.
- Learn to read faster by reading more. Imagine just how many books you can read if you read faster. By increasing your knowledge on your field of expertise, you are increasing your marketability and sooner your own profitability.
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It is fall and the Barred Owls are back. Raking leaves in my backyard I heard a hoot and dropped the rake, grabbed my camera and went into the trails behind my house. So hard to spot, but then I saw it, high up in the Garry Oaks. As I was peering through my lens, getting a fix on it, it flew and I followed capturing it in flight.
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ROCHESTER — Members of the business community are invited to the monthly Round Table discussion taking place this morning at 7:30 in the council chambers at the City Hall.
The informal discussion, facilitated by Economic Development Specialist Mary Ellen Humphrey, will seek input and suggestions from business owners and managers on what the city can do to help local businesses thrive.
The monthly collaborative dialogues cover a wide range of issues, from how to improve the city's image to ways to attract visitors to our community. Discussions at past Round Table meetings have covered a variety of topics, including ideas about how to invigorate business activity downtown. Creating hot spots for wireless access has been suggested, as well as sidewalk attractiveness, providing welcome packets at City Hall, and compiling a list or brochure of Rochester's cultural treasures to share with everyone.
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