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Well, there are several of us youngsters (in terms of triathlon career) over on the Shorter Tri thread who have decided we are joining the pirates next year for The Outlaw.
With this in mind we're starting a new thread based on Fink's 30 week training plan. The idea being that we will all train, laugh, cry, crash, swim, bike and run together and somehow make it to the BIG DAY on 1st July.
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join in. Whether you are doing the full distance or part of a relay team. We're also kind of hoping some experienced pirates will join us too cos we're still generally clueless.
So how will it work.... errrr.... not entirely sure yet . I guess one of us (possibly me, cos I'm a bit anal when it comes to plans) will list what we should be doing each Sunday evening for the following week. Then everyone will report back in with how they are doing. How does that sounds?
The 30 week plan starts the 5th December with a rest day . So what do we do until then?
ooo - just had a thought. Meldy suggested (I think, if I understood it right) that one tactic is to factor in for missed weeks (holidays etc) and repeat weeks to catch up so the plan might start earlier than 5 December.
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SD - Welcome And that is a very wise idea... see! We need some experienced folk.
Yeah, I guess most of us will shuffle the days around a bit to fit it in with our diaries.
Hellooooo! It's like running around an empty room!
I thought the long bike was Sat and long run Sunday anyhow? I may have to move a swim to Monday just to fit it all in.
I'm in.
30 weeks from Dec 5th is it eekkk.
Might have to modify it a bit to put loads of swimming in as its my weakest part.
Up till then I am marathon training as I have two "A" races next year. The VLM and outlaws. Building a big base at the moment 40 - 50 miles a week Should hold me in good stead for the Outlaws
Tommyygun2 - Blimey, thats a lot!
I've got a VLM place but deferring to 2013. Also got a Brighton place and not sure what to do about that!
I will be following Fink too. Same as Soupy in that some sessions will be moved about but certainly the aim is to do them all. Think I might be doing my own thing on the swim FF - no way can I swim that far in that time!!!
At the moment I am doing week 1 on a repeat loop, just to try and get into the habit of fitting everything in and geting used to what works when - hopefully by Dec 5th it will all come naturally and I will be on auto pilot with regards to what sessions to do.
Good idea for a thread chilibean!
Never tried to fit a swim into alloted time, just to do it is enough for now.
Soup Dragon I think you may be right there in starting a few weeks earlier, then we can enjoy Xmas and New Year festivities without any worries.
Chilli are you going to post the just finish schedule or the intermediate one, or both?
See that is what i mean Steady....is it better to stick to the programme for the time or keep going till you hit the distances he talks about.
Good luck to everyone following the Fink plan, I used it in 2009 in Germany and got a pb.
I won't be using it next year for the Outlaw but still think it's a great plan.
Good luck all of you. As a DNSer who had to pull out four weeks before IMR, make sure you enjoy the journey. This is supposed to be fun after all. And hills are your friends FWIW, I followed the Intermediate plan having started training the previous year (for Vit). Timing wise I spent more on the bike and less on the run (not high speed work) and should have spent more time trying to get faster on the swim. Remember the book is only a guide so you need to consider your own strengths and weaknesses.
Hello all,
I'm in for the outlaw too and having only done 1 sprint tri so far im feeling more than a little out of my depth!
Anyone have a link to the Fink plan?
I have the first 10 weeks 'base' on my blog, this was slightly adapted to my training needs but you get ageneral idea.
10 weeks base plan
The plan itself is in a published book which is a great read, makes a lot of sense and isn't too sciency.You can find it here at Amazon, or in most good book shops.
I hope to drop into this thread now and again. I have only just got the book (Amazon about £6) but haven't opened it yet.
I want to keep running with my running club 3 times per week, entering races and swimming a couple of times, but the bikework will be my weakest starting point. I will be attempting to work on this over the winter, getting myself up to the longer distances and time in the saddle.
I had the ideal incentive last night when someone at my running club told me that I wouldn't be ready because.......... I haven't been in a tri race before and I haven't spent a couple of years working my way through all the tri distances.
That is just the type of incentive I love.
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5 points/50 yards. 1 point/10 yards after 50. (150 and 30 for QB).
TD are 6 (<10),9 (11-39),12 (40+).
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I got 12 point TD from Leon Washington, who I started on a whim, on his only touch of the game and a 12 point TD from Bernard Berian on his only catch (punt return did not count for me). Picked up and started Seattle's defense who scored.
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Oney Cunningham, a nine-year-old girl, entered into this indenture agreement with Alexander Cunningham to be his apprentice to learn the "art of housekeeping." The Freedmen's Bureau supervised indenture and apprenticeship agreements. Under these contracts, black school-age, orphaned, and destitute children were bound to former owners as laborers.
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All too often students with disabilities, and their parents, are lead by false expectations when transitioning from high school to college. For example:
- As was the case in high school, students with disabilities and their parents may expect accommodation services to be the sole responsibility of the postsecondary institution of which they are attending.
- In addition, students may still expect parents to act as the liaison or "voice" between themselves and the postsecondary institution concerning issues relating to their disabilities and accommodation services.
These two common misconceptions cripple a student's ability to realize that they can become a high potential, self-sufficient, proactive, and responsible individual, which are key qualities that are expected of any student, regardless of a disability, who have advanced to a postsecondary institution. It is important to recognize:
- In order for a student with a disability to overcome these, and other, misconceptions, the student must accept that he/she has a disability, understand and be able to communicate what the impact of that disability is, recognize that an accommodation is needed, and seek those services, on his/her own.
- In effect, the parent of a student with a disability must accept that the parent can no longer be an advocate for that student. The parent's role must shift from that of the "voice" to one of support in helping the student to find his/her own voice.
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The Parent is the advocate
The Student must self advocate
"Otherwise Qualified" for Public Education is simply being of the appropriate age to attend elementary through high school and having a disability
"Otherwise Qualified" in college means a student must meet all entrance and academic requirements
School is responsible for providing physical or other therapy or personal care while in school
Student is responsible for personal services such as personal care and/or medical and other related requirements/needs
School responsible for providing assessment of disability
Student responsible for self-identification and for obtaining documentation of disability at student's expense
School required to design special academic programs (IEP or 504 Plan)
School required to provide accommodations for equal access to regular academic program
Teachers are expected to learn all they can about a student's disability
Professors only need to know the accommodation the student is requesting
Everybody knows about a student's placement for special education
Students have a right to choose when and who to disclose or not to disclose a disability to
Absolute Entitlement to F.A.P.E. (Free & Appropriate Education). Required by I.D.E.A & 504
Civil Right to Equal Access to Education after meeting Eligibility Requirements. Required by 504 & the ADA as Amended
Considering these key differences, in order for students with disabilities to make a successful transition from high school to college, students must first assume ownership of the following responsibilities:
- Meet University qualifications and maintain the essential technical, academic, and institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, and activities
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The Columbus Dispatch - February 21, 2013 02:41 PM
Crew head coach Robert Warzycha will have a full deck of cards to work with for a pair of games this weekend.
How he chooses to deal them, however, remains a secret. Saturday night, the Crew will face Montreal in the championship game of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic in Kissimmee, Fla. Seventeen hours after that game kicks off, the Crew will face the University of North Carolina in the Kirk Urso Memorial Match.
With every signed, available player on the roster healthy, Warzycha said he will use two different lineups for the matches but did not want to classify one as the starters and another as the reserves.
"Some guys are going to play in the first game Saturday, and the guys who are not going to participate will play in Carolina," Warzycha said in a telephone interview this morning. "I'm not saying that's the first team or the second team. I'm not going to classify the first team or the second team at this moment. We don't have a first and a second team. We just have guys that sometimes don't play for the first team yet."
After playing last Saturday, the Crew has had a week away from game action. With the MLS opener nine days away, Warzycha said he has treated the week as he would a normal week of game preparation.
Defender Chad Marshall, who left the team's Orlando City SC match last Saturday after taking a blow to the head, has not missed any practice this week, Warzycha said.
"He's doing fine," the coach said. "He's practiced every day. He cut his lip. We just didn't want to risk anything. He was more upset about that than anything else."
Midfielder Bernardo Anor could also see his first game action since suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament last summer.
The games will be the final chances for the unsigned players still in camp to earn a roster spot. Warzycha said the Crew will make final cuts "probably at the end of this week going into next week.
"We've got a pretty good idea of who we want to keep."
And although playing games on consecutive days is not idea, Warzycha said the situation transcends tired legs and logistics.
"We would not add a game that was not important, but this (Urso) game is very important and it's not only about winning," he said.


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I think the Chinese government periodically blocks some news groups and blog hosts.Chinese tea wrote:I can not log onto the website you recommended to me. I donot know why.
That is very exciting that you have such great learning opportunities. I don't think we have that kind of training in the USA.Chinese tea wrote:Recently, i am focusing on learning more about Puer tea, and Puer, Oolong tea ceremony ... Later, I will go to learn how to be a tea taster after I abtain tea ceremony performer certificate.
Salsero wrote:I have never been to China. My favorite yancha at the moment is probably Da Hong Pao. I have had several Shui Xian teas, but even the best does not seem to me as good as most Da Hong Pao. I generally prefer less roasting rather than more, especially in aged teas but also in recent yancha. I also like Rou Gui, the lighter teas from further south in Fujian, like Tie Quan Yin and Se Zhong, as well as the oolongs from Taiwan. I have been drinking quite a bit of Japanese green tea lately, but I also love the Chinese greens.
It must be wonderful to travel in Yunnan province and the Wuyi area. I have seen photos. bearsbearsbears of this forum has traveled quite a bit in China, specifically going to learn about tea. You might want to send him a PM (Personal Message) in case he hasn't seen this thread.
At the moment I am enjoying a year 2005 Menghai 7562 ripe/cooked/shu puerh from a brick. It's good but it takes 2 or 3 rinses to get the "swamp" smell out of it. You might enjoy Hop_Goblin's blog about puerh at http://ancientteahorseroad.blogspot.com/ . He is the guy who posted just above.
Does GZ stand for Guangzhou?
Salsero wrote: You might enjoy Hop_Goblin's blog about puerh at http://ancientteahorseroad.blogspot.com/ . He is the guy who posted just above.
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I do hope you'll find the time to contribute your thoughts and opinions here. There's so much about Chinese tea I've still to learn, it would be wonderful t have the chance to share your experiences.Salsero wrote: You might enjoy Hop_Goblin's blog about puerh at http://ancientteahorseroad.blogspot.com/ . He is the guy who posted just above.
What a great blog!!! I've really enjoyed reading this. Thank you!
It seem to me that the common way in USA and UK to prepare the puerh tea is gong fu method. Generally I use 4 grams to 8 grams of tea with 100 to 150 ml of water to prepare puerh for myself alone. I use either a little Yixing style teapot:Chinese tea wrote:In what way you prepare Puer tea, using Kongfu method or others? I would like to hear how you prepare Puer tea for yourself to enjoy.
I will not be attending either of these events but they sound like terrific opportunities to learn and to have a little fun with tea and people.Chinese tea wrote:There is Chinese Famous Tea Expo in April in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. and there is an international tea expo in Shanghai in May. Do you like to come and see the geniune part of other chinese tea? I will go to take part in these expos then.


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Career capsules of selected members of the 1950 Columbus Red Birds (with 1950 statistics for players in parentheses):
- Rollie Hemsley, manager: Born in Syracuse, Ohio, he played 1,593 major-league games and caught for Cleveland from 1938 to '41. He was an all-star for the American League five times. After getting fired from the Cardinals organization after the 1950 season, he managed six other minor-league teams and also was a coach for Philadelphia and Washington.
- Harvey Haddix, pitcher (18-6, 2.70 ERA): Born in Medway, Ohio, just outside of Springfield. A three-time all-star, he went 136-113 with a 3.63 ERA in 453 major-league appearances. Best known for pitching 12 perfect innings on May 26, 1959, against Milwaukee — only to lose the perfect game, no-hitter and shutout in the 13th inning as the Pirates lost 1-0. Died in 1994 in Springfield.
- Larry Miggins, outfielder (.280, 18 HR, 92 RBI): Played 43 major-league games with St. Louis. Later published a book, The Secret of Power Hitting, and developed a product that assists in identifying the "sweet spot" on a baseball bat. Inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Rocky Nelson, outfielder-first baseman (.418, 7 HR, 40 RBI): Played just 48 games for Columbus before getting called up to St. Louis. Played 620 major-league games and hit 31 home runs. He was born in Portsmouth and later won three International League MVP awards. Member of both the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Ohio Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Solly Hemus, second baseman (.297, 6 HR, 49 RBI): Played in 961 major-league games and had a career batting average of .273. Tied teammate Stan Musial for the league lead in runs scored with 105 in 1952. Later was player-manager for St. Louis (1958-1961) and compiled a record of 190-192.
- Mo Mozzali, first baseman (.307, 4 HR, 47 RBI): Played 12 years in the minors and later managed in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. Coached in the major leagues for the Cardinals in 1977 and 1978.
- Harry "The Hat" Walker, outfielder (.278, 3 HR, 14 RBI): Played in 807 major-league games and batted .296 for his career. Hit .363 in 1947 to win the National League batting title. Managed in the majors for nine years, compiling a record of 630-604. Brother (Fred "Dixie" Walker), father (Ewart "Dixie" Walker) and uncle (Ernie Walker) all played in the major leagues.
- Bill Sarni, catcher (.280, 3 HR, 47 RBI): Led American Association catchers with a .989 fielding percentage. Played in 1951 with the Cardinals but was sent back down to Columbus in 1952 and '53 before having a solid year in St. Louis in 1954 (.300, 9 HR, 70 RBI). Career ended when he suffered a heart attack at age 29.
- Roy Hughes, infielder (.250, 1 HR, 13 RBI): Was 39 years old in 1950 and his professional career was winding down. Born in Cincinnati, he played in 763 major-league games. He played in 152 games with Cleveland in 1936 and batted .295 with 20 stolen bases.
- Ben Steiner, second baseman (.244, 0 HR, 17 RBI): Played in 82 major-league games from 1945-47. In 1945, he hit his first major-league home run on opening day -- a feat no other Boston player did again until Brandon Moss this season.
- Cot Deal, pitcher (10-14, 4.61 ERA): Went 3-4 in 45 major-league appearances, 43 as a reliever. In 1949, he started and completed a 4-3, 20-inning win against Louisville. Spent 48 years in professional baseball as a player, coach and manager. He was a coach on the 1978 Columbus Clippers.
- Luis "The Yo-Yo Kid" Arroyo, pitcher: Went 40-32 with 44 saves in the majors with St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and the New York Yankees. On the famous 1961 Yankees, he went 15-5 with 29 saves and a 2.19 ERA. He was an all-star in 1955 and 1961.
- Frank "Strick" Shofner, third baseman (.241, 10 HR, 54 RBI): Played in five major-league games with the Boston Red Sox.
- Kurt Krieger, pitcher (17-5, 3.50 ERA): Born in Austria, Krieger pitched in three major-league games and didn't record a decision.
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IRON MOUNTAIN – The high temperature recorded on Tuesday was 94 degrees, but that wasn't the hottest day on record for that date in history, according to the National Weather Service in Marquette.
The Ford Airport in Kingsford and the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Wastewater Treatment Plant in Breitung Township each reported a high of 94 degrees on Tuesday.
The high temperature today is expected to hit 91 or 92 degrees.
The last five days have been above normal for the U.P., weather officials confirmed. Thursday's high temperature is expected to be 85 degrees.
A hazardous weather outlook has been issued for western and central Upper Michigan.
Scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and become most numerous inland from Lake Superior and continue tonight.
Damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain is expected with the storms.
A cold front with heavy rain storms will move in Thursday night.
From Thursday into Friday afternoon and evening, the torrential rain could lead to flash flooding, the Weather Service said.
Friday's high temperature is expected to be 83 degrees, Saturday's high is forecasted at 72 degrees and Sunday's high temperature could be 73 degrees.
The low temperature on Saturday night is forecasted at 57 degrees and 47 degrees on Sunday night.
The Iron Mountain-Kingsford Wastewater Treatment Plant in Breitung Township recorded a high temperature of 100 degrees on July 16, Weather Service officials said, but neither the Weather Service nor officials at the Wastewater Treatment Plant were able to determine the year the record was set.
Elsewhere, Wisconsin emergency management and health officials are urging residents to take precautions in the face of hot, humid weather in the next few days.
The Department of Health Services says last year 27 people died in Wisconsin as a result of heat-related issues. This year, one heat-related death in Wisconsin has been reported and that was last month in Juneau County.
State officials urge neighbors to check on elderly residents, especially those without air conditioning. People without air conditioning are urged to stay with friends or family members who have it or seek out like senior centers, malls and libraries.
The heat and humidity can be hard on anyone who works or spends a great amount of time outdoors, but it can also be tough on milk-producing cows.
Dr. Marcia Endres, from the University of Minnesota-Extension, says the higher temperatures can reduce a cow's milk production by 10 to 15 percent – or up to two gallons a day.
Endres said it takes a few days for a milk-producing cow to show symptoms of heat stress, but the effects can last much longer.
The University of Minnesota is researching ways to warn dairy farmers that a cow is beginning to experience heat stress. One experiment implants a thermometer in a cow's stomach to send an email or text alert to the farmer before heat stress has a chance to escalate.
In Detroit, the National Weather Service has issued heat advisories for much of Lower Michigan as high temperatures from the eastern U.S. make their way west.
Heat indices in southeastern, western and parts of northern Lower Michigan are expected to approach, and in some cases exceed, 100 degrees on Tuesday and into Wednesday.
Those indices aren't the actual temperatures, but represent how hot it feels outside, taking humidity into account.
Some communities are providing cooling centers such as libraries to allow residents to beat the heat during the dangerous afternoon hours.
The Education Achievement Authority has canceled classes at its 15 schools in Detroit through the remainder of the week. And Grand Rapids Community College said Tuesday that it closed its Ford Fieldhouse through Wednesday because of the heat.


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Watching TD18 with some concerns for the Northeast. Several models, including GFS AND Euro, bring this storm up the Eastern Seaboard. How strong and what type of storm remains to be seen. Several scenerios are possible. With a negative tilt to the jet expected to be in place, it is quite possible that the storm could ride the jet and make landfall in Southern New England.
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Nvidia Corp. on Wednesday displayed the first photo of its next-generation flagship graphics card based on the Fermi-GF100 (also known as NV60, G300, GT300) graphics processing unit (GPU). The graphics board seems to be complete antipode to the prototype/dummy board the company demonstrated two months ago.
The first image of the next-generation Nvidia GeForce graphics card shows a working board rendering the already well-known Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 benchmark. The photo was published in Nvidia's blog on Facebook, thus, may be considered as the first official picture of the Fermi-GF100 graphics card. It is noteworthy that the first relatively public demonstration of Nvidia's DirectX 11 GPU happens over five months later than the arch-rival ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, showcased its Radeon HD 5800 chip in action at Computex Taipei 2009 in early June.
The new adapter itself is very long – over 27 centimeters (GeForce GTX 285 – 26.7cm, Radeon HD 4870 – 24.13cm, Radeon HD 5870 – 28.2cm) – and it features 8-pin + 6-pin PCIe power connectors, which implies that the GeForce Fermi-GF100 is rather power hungry, something not exactly surprising considering the fact that the GPU consists of over three billion of transistors. Earlier this year Nvidia demonstrated what it called "a prototype" of its Fermi graphics card, which seems to be short and featured only two 6-pin power connectors. Later on it was revealed that during the demo Nvidia only used a dummy non-working sample.
A good news is that Unigine Heaven benchmark does not seem to produce major artifacts with the current version of Nvidia's drivers for the new breed of graphics cards. Unfortunately, the fact that a benchmark can be rendered on a graphics card does not give any clue regarding actual performance of the GPU that powers that card.
The flagship Fermi graphics processor will feature 512 stream processing engines (which are organized as 16 streaming multi-processors with 32 cores in each) that support a type of multi-threading technology to maximize utilization of cores. Each stream processor has a fully pipelined integer arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and floating point unit (FPU). The top-of-the-range chip contains 3 billion of transistors, features 384-bit memory GDDR5 memory controller with ECC and features rather unprecedented 768KB unified level-two cache as well as rather complex cache hierarchy in general. Naturally, the Fermi family is compatible with DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.x and OpenCL 1.x application programming interfaces (APIs). The new chips will be made using 40nm process technology at TSMC.
Chief executive of Nvidia said it would ramp up production of Fermi-GF100 graphics processor in Q1 of its fiscal 2011. Nvidia's first quarter of fiscal year 2011 begins on the 26th of January and ends on the 26th of April, 2010.


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Here's two songs I recorded whilst I was attending college. Both songs should be well known to any Beatle fan. "Twenty Flight Rock" and a, um, free-form version of the Traveling Wilburys' "Congratulations". And yes, that's me singing lead vocals.
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- Retirees and their spouses over the age of 65 at the time of retirement must enroll in Medicare Part A and B. The University provides a Medicare Supplement and a Major Medical Plan, in which the University and the retiree share the cost of the plan. A Medicare Risk HMO is also available at no cost to the retiree.
- Retirees and their spouses over the age of 65 will also be eligible to receive a reimbursement in the amount of 100% of the premium paid for their Medicare Part B insurance. Proof of enrollment in Medicare Part B is required to initiate this payment.
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Documentation and description of endangered languages
It is generally accepted that half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on Earth are likely to cease being spoken within this century. The Department of Linguistics at SOAS is an internationally recognised centre for research and teaching on endangered languages across the world. Its MA programme in Language Documentation and Description was established by the Endangered Languages Academic Programme, which ran at SOAS from 2003 to 2015 as part of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. This MA aims to train new generations of linguists to document and support endangered languages. Staff and students are working on issues in documentation and description of threatened languages in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Siberia, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The Department houses the Endangered Language Documentation Programme, which provides grants for language documentation and awards approximately £1 million a year in research grants to high-quality projects. The Endangered Languages Archive in the SOAS Library was hosted in the Linguistics Department from 2005 to 2015. It is an innovative, comprehensive digital archive which acts as a major international resource for scholars, communities and other interested people.


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Biglari Eager To Be Seated at Cracker Barrel
The Biglari Holding (BH) -Cracker Barrel (CBRL) soap opera continues to smolder. Biglari Holdings has amassed nearly a 20% stake in Cracker Barrel, and, unhappy with the direction of the specialty restaurant chain, has attempted to obtain seats on the board of directors. Cracker Barrel rejected these overtures and the relationship between the two companies may be getting worse.
While Cracker Barrel's recently-adopted poison pill limits Biglari Holdings from increasing its stake beyond 20%, the situation has taken an interesting turn. Last week, Cracker Barrel management fired off a letter to Biglari Holdings CEO, Sardar Biglari, offering to buy back the 4.7 million-plus shares the company currently owns, at the market price, which equates to about $310 million. Cracker Barrel said that the offer was more than fair given that such a large a stake would be sold at a discount if unwound slowly. The company also pointed out that Biglari Holdings has already seen some $70 million in unrealized gains in its stake, suggesting that it's time to lock in those gains for BH shareholders.
It took all of one day for Biglari to respond with a resounding "no," insisting that Biglari Holdings plans to remain a long-term owner of Cracker Barrel. Sardar Biglari turned the tables, suggesting that since Cracker Barrel believes it has the financial resources to repurchase such a large stake, it should consider making a tender offer for 20% of the company, or issue a one-time $300 million special dividend to shareholders. Zing!
It's difficult to say where this situation is headed next, but there's little doubt in my mind that Biglari will continue in his quest for seats on Cracker Barrel's board.
Meanwhile, the fundamentals of Biglari Holdings continue to look interesting. With a $472 million market cap, the company owns $310 million worth of Cracker Barrel, around 500 locations of fast-food chain Steak 'n Shake , small restaurant chain Western Sizzlin , a 12.75% stake in CCA Industries (CAW) , 9.48% of Unico American (UNAM) , and other assets. Each share of Biglari Holdings theoretically represents ownership of 3.85 shares of Cracker Barrel, worth $256.
I've been a Cracker Barrel fan for a long time, both as a consumer, and as an investor. I believe it is one of the more interesting restaurant concepts, and its 44-year history demonstrates staying power among seemingly ever-changing consumer tastes. From an asset perspective, the company is real-estate rich, owning 409 locations. While I've owned the name outright in the past, I now get exposure through owning Biglari Holdings.


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Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has done scores of deals over
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is different from all the earlier deals because it ties Isis to Biogen in a
long-term relationship for an entire therapeutic area: neurology.
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While ARM and Advanced Micro Devices consider to offer their low-power micro-architectures for servers, Intel Corp. sharply denies any possibilities to position its low-power Atom processors for server systems. It is understandable that Atom cannot offer decent performance in modern server applications, but its low power may still be a benefit for at least certain devices.
There are companies, who offer server-class systems featuring Intel Atom central processing units (CPUs), but Intel does not have any intentions to officially push Atom micro-architecture, which is largely based on the original Pentium design, onto the market of servers. The company does not see Atom competitive on the mass server market and does not want to spend resources onto promotion of its low-power design on the server market.
"We are not opposed to an Atom based server, but we just don't see broad adoption of the Atom as a server chip," said Kirk Skaugen, Intel's vice president and general manager of its data center group, reports IDG News Service.
ARM, a leading developer of low-power microprocessor technologies that power the vast majority of mobile phones, has said numerous times that eventually its designs would power servers with minimal power consumption. Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors, also said in the recent weeks that it would test its Bobcat architecture aimed at devices with low consumption of energy in servers.
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Mike Watt's tenure in Minutemen was enough to render him a rock icon; following that group with a second classic unit, fIREHOSE, further cemented his legend. Now he's bringing his current trio, The Missingmen, on the road to perform his third rock opera.
"Hyphenated-Man," released in 2010, comprises 30 quick portraits of characters such as "Bird-In-The-Helmet-Man," "Confused-Parts-Man" and "Blowing-It-Out-Both-Ends-Man." Each track is a jolting, bass-driven blast likely to be greedily gobbled by Minutemen fans. It can't match the urgency of "Double Nickels on the Dime," and it breaches the goofiness threshold at times ("Fyingpan-Man": guilty), but on balance "Hyphenated-Man" proves Watt's genius has not run dry nearly three decades later.
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Splits, spares and strikes: Third time's the charm for Mahaffey
Just in case he ever got another chance, Vic Mahaffey was bound and determined to not let a perfect 300 game get away from him again.
And he didn't, rolling his first 12-strike game last week to finish his Tuesday Night Mixed League session at Superior Lanes.
At age 58, Mahaffey would only be a senior in the eyes of the AARP and the pro bowling and golf tours. But it's still not a typical age to reach the zenith of your bowling career, especially with the challenge of only having one eye – his left eye, not right eye as I reported a few months ago – due to a childhood accident.
But a commitment to fitness he undertook about a year ago has reaped benefits on the lanes, Mahaffey reports.
"I have a lot better stamina, not to mention losing 20 or 25 pounds," he told me.
Mahaffey bowled his second of two career 299s on Feb. 1 in another league at Superior, following up his first bowled in 2010, again at Superior.
Two months ago, the stubborn pin that remained standing on his last ball was a 10-pin; three years ago it was a 6-pin.
"I was a little nervous, but I was determined I was going to get the 300 once I got to the last ball," Mahaffey said. "I've been there before and I wasn't going to blow this one.
"I told myself in the seventh frame, 'I can do this.' I didn't hear anybody or anything in the 10th frame.
"Boy, it sure felt good," he said about the relief he felt after all 10 pins fell on the final shot.
Tuesday league secretary and Marquette County association president Hope Virch reported "Vic doesn't ever get emotional. But that was the most excited I've ever seen him. Ever!"
Mahaffey actually finished the night with the final 18 strikes in a row as he opened with 163 and 236 for 699.
"I couldn't carry the 10-pin in the first game, so I kept moving and moving," he said about making adjustments on the approach and with his target line. "I finally got in around the 12-board (in from the right gutter), got the right angle and stayed there. I just had to make sure to keep my speed up."
The ball he used, a 15-pound Brunswick Monster Bruiser reactive resin, came out of mothballs recently.
"It was an old ball I had up in the attic for a year or two. I just got it back out a couple weeks ago," he said. "I tried it during a seniors (afternoon) session and one of the guys, Dominic Ori, said I should keep using it in league."
Now for three weeks worth of Mining Journal Bowlers of the Week as the season is starting to wind down:
I'll work back to three weeks ago first, since we had something unique happen then – Dennis Ombrello beating out Dennis Ombrello for men's honors. He not only shot 123 pins over his 192 average with 699 in the Tuesday Night Mixed at Superior, but also 112 over his 188 mean with 676 and a 235 high game in the Friday 800 Mixed, again at Superior.
For the women, Linde Marquess blew away anything by anyone named Dennis in the Tuesday Night Mixed, shooting 154 pins over her 128 average with 538 and a 205 high. Next came Bev Bennett at plus-124 over her 124 average with 496 and a 208 high in the Wednesday Superior Iron Range Credit Union loop at Country.
Two weeks ago came the heavy hitters for the men, as Brian McRae shot 184 pins over his 157 average with 655 and a 264 high game in the Wednesday Industrial at Superior, while Jeremy Forbes was 176 ahead of his 151 mean with 629 and a 235 high in the Wednesday SIRCU.
For the ladies, Nicole Briggs shot 96 pins over her 158 average with 570 and a 224 high in the Friday Nite Mixed at Country, while Virch was 94 over her 191 average with 667 and a 234 high in the Friday 800.
Last week, Keith Bradybaugh bombed 182 over his 188 average with 746 and a 267 high in the Tuesday Miller Genuine Draft Major at Country, while Jordon Skytta shot 131 over his 108 average with 455 and a 185 high in the Friday Nite Mixed.
For the women, Virginia Wilson shot 82 over her 145 average with 517 in the Tuesday Night Mixed, while Amber Buckmaster was 77 over her lofty 210 average with 707 in the Wednesday Industrial.
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Hardware news tagged Piledriver
Thursday, August 21, 2014
AMD to Lower Prices of A-Series APUs for Back-to-School Season.
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New Prices of AMD A-Series APUs Revealed
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
AMD to Cut Prices on FX-9000, Other FX Processors: New Prices Revealed.
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AMD to Make FX Chips More Affordable, Discontinue Low-End Models
AMD Readies FX-8370, FX-8370E Microprocessors.
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AMD Preps Two New "Mainstream" FX Chips
Saturday, June 21, 2014
AMD Preps a New FX-Series Microprocessor with Bundled Liquid Cooling.
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AMD Readies a Response to Intel's Devil's Canyon
Saturday, May 10, 2014
AMD to Introduce New High-Performance Micro-Architecture in 2015 – Report.
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The Future Of AMD's High-Performance Chips Starts to Look Brighter
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
AMD Launches First Two Opteron "Warsaw" Processors.
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AMD Introduces New Energy-Efficient Server Chips
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University Chapel — Dr. Jenny Sue Flannagan
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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Join us for our summer chapel series "So Great a Salvation", as we hear testimonies from the lives of fellow Regent faculty and staff. The University Chapel welcomes faculty, staff and students for a weekly gathering that proclaims Jesus is first on our campus. It will typically include one hour of prayer, worship music, testimony and inspirational speaking.
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How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard. (Heb. 2:3) ESV
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble. (Psalm 107:2) ESV
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Legionella pneumophila
Legionella pneumophila is a thin, ærobic, pleomorphic, flagellated, non-spore forming, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Legionella.[1][2] L. pneumophila is the primary human pathogenic bacterium in this group and is the causative agent of legionellosis or Legionnaires' disease.
L. pneumophila is an acid-fast, non-sporulating, and morphologically a non-capsulated, rod-like bacterium, often characterized as being a coccobacillus. Ærobic and unable to hydrolyse gelatin or produce urease, it is also non-fermentative. L. pneumophila is neither pigmented nor does it autofluoresce. It is oxidase- and catalase-positive, and produces beta-lactamase. L. pneumophila has a colony morphology that is gray-white with a textured, cut-glass appearance; it also requires cysteine and iron to thrive.
Cell membrane structure
While L. pneumophila is categorized as a Gram-negative organism, it stains poorly due to its unique lipopolysaccharide-content in the outer leaflet of the outer cell membrane.[3] The bases for the somatic antigen specificity of this organism is located on the side-chains of its cell wall. The chemical composition of these side chains both with respect to components, as well as arrangement of the different sugars, determines the nature of the somatic or O-antigen determinants, which are important means of serologically classifying many Gram-negative bacteria. At least 35 different serovars of L. pneumophila have been described, as well as several other species being subdivided into a number of serovars.
Sera have been used both for slide agglutination studies as well as for direct detection of bacteria in tissues using fluorescent-labelled antibody. Specific antibody in patients can be determined by the indirect fluorescent antibody test. ELISA and microagglutination tests have also been successfully applied.
L. pneumophila is a facultative intracellular bacterium that can invade and replicate inside amoebae in the environment. Ameoba can thus serve as a reservoir for L. pneumophila, as well as provide protection from environmental stresses, such as chlorination.[4]
Frequency of occurrence
In the USA about 30 infections with L. pneumophila appear per 100.000 residents per year. The infections peak within the summer months. Within endemic regions, about 4% to 5% of pneumonia are caused by L. pneumophila. [5]
In humans, L. pneumophila invades and replicates in macrophages. The internalization of the bacteria can be enhanced by the presence of antibody and complement, but is not absolutely required. A pseudopod coils around the bacterium in this unique form of phagocytosis. Once internalized, the bacteria surround themselves in a membrane-bound vacuole that does not fuse with lysosomes that would otherwise degrade the bacteria. In this protected compartment, the bacteria multiply. The bacteria use a Type IVB secretion system known as Icm/Dot to inject effector proteins into the host. These effectors are involved in increasing the bacteria's ability to survive inside the host cell. Survival is enhanced by these effector proteins (Ank proteins) because they interfere with fusion of the Legionella-containing vacuole with the host's degradation endosomes.[6]
The determination and publication of the complete genome sequences of three clinical L. pneumophila isolates in 2004 paved the way for the understanding of the molecular biology of L. pneumophila in particular and Legionella in general. In depth comparative genome analysis using DNA arrays to study the gene content of 180 Legionella strains revealed the high genome plasticity and frequent horizontal gene transfer. Further insight in the L. pneumophila life cycle was gained by investigating the gene expression profile of L. pneumophila in Acanthamoeba castellanii, its natural host. L. pneumophila exhibits a biphasic life cycle and defines transmissive and replicative traits according to gene expression profiles.[2]
Macrolides (azithromycin) or fluoroquinolones (moxifloxacin) are the standard treatment for Legionella pneumonia in humans.
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The Air Adventures of Jimmie AllenSaturday, November 17th, 2012
Sarah Wilson, a former employee of AOPA and a modern-day barnstormer, has resurrected a kids flying club tied to a radio adventure show called "The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen." The sponsor was the Richfield Oil Company, sponsor of air races and a beacon airway from California to Canada. The oil company used a now-rare 1929 Model 4E Stearman for publicity tours connected to the radio show. Actors Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple were members. Wilson's dream is to use the successful 1930s flying club, and that same Model 4E , also known as the Richfield Junior Speedmail (restored at Jim Kimball Enterprises) to attract kids and build support for general aviation. Jimmie was generally in trouble worldwide, with bad guys trying to sabotage his airplane and worse (gasp!). There's a link to a sample of the old radio show at the top of this link. By 1937 the show was in decline and fewer kids were heading to Skelly gas stations to request their Jimmie Allen wings, so the actors involved moved to another boy hero, Captain Midnight. By the time the show reached television in 1954, Captain Midnight was an adult chugging his sponsor's Ovaltine chocolate drink inside his Secret Club headquarters.


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I decided the best way to celebrate making it a year was with a cake...a chocolate cake in fact because that's my favorite. I'm just so proud (if I can say that without sounding conceded-cuz I don't roll like that) that I made it through and continued to blog through moving 3000 miles, finding a new home, having a now one year old, and learning with how to deal with criticism. There were times where it would have been easy to justify to myself to quit, but you guys made me want to keep going and now I can't imagine my life without all of you in it. So have a piece of chocolate cake with me...I decorated it for all of us lovelies. I used fireworks as my cake decor inspiration because having this blog is a blast. Sorry, I couldn't help it!
|I just used straws & stuck them into the Styrofoam ball.
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When the gymnastics competition in Beijing starts on August 9, don't look for anyone to bring back memories of Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10. Or even a 9.5.
Now top scores run in the 16s and - rarely - low 17s.
In 2006, the International Gymnastics Federation began using a new scoring system. A gymnast's total score is now a combination of two parts - one for the difficulty of the routine and one for how well the routine is executed. Rather than being limited to a maximum score of 10, new scores are open-ended.
At the 2007 World Championships, winning scores ranged from 15.250 to 16.350 for the women on four apparatuses, and 16.150 to 16.700 for the men on six.
FIG looked at revamping the scoring system after scoring irregularities at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. In the high bar, defending gold medalist Aleksei Nemov failed to medal after performing what many argued was a flawless routine with six release moves. His biggest error was a step on his landing. He was originally given a score of 9.725, but two judges revised their scores after the crowd protested loudly. His new score was 9.762, which put him in fifth.
Paul Hamm performed a less difficult routine - he did only three release moves - and also made a small step on landing, but his score of 9.812 put him in second.
The new scoring system definitively rewards more difficult routines.
Here are the basics of how it works: The total score is the sum of a difficulty score - referred to by the gymnasts as the A-panel score - and an execution score - called the B-panel score.
Difficulty score (A-panel score): The difficulty score is determined by two judges who total values for the 10 most difficult skills in a routine, including the dismount. Each skill has a pre-determined value depending on its difficulty. The judges determine the difficulty score during an athlete's performance, not beforehand, in case a skill is performed in such a way that it does not meet the technical requirements for that skill.
Under the old scoring system, the difficulty of a routine was called the start value with a maximum of 10 points. Under the new system, the difficulty score includes points for connecting difficult skills and points for required elements. By separating it from the overall score, gymnasts and spectators can more readily see how routines differ from gymnast to gymnast.
At the Olympic Trials, top difficulty scores for the men ranged from 6.600 to 7.000 in the vault; for the women, 6.900 on the balance beam to an astonishing 7.700 in uneven bars.
Execution score (B-panel score): The execution score begins at 10, and six judges make deductions for errors in technique, execution, and artistry. A small error nets a 0.1-point deduction, while a fall is an automatic 0.8-point deduction. Previously, a fall led to 0.5 points off the final score.
Under the old scoring system, judges started at zero and added deductions, then subtracted this amount from the start value.
Scores around 9.5 to 9.6 are common in the finals, and the perfect 10 is far more elusive.
Total score: Add the difficulty score (e.g, 6.600) to the execution score (e.g., 9.500), and the final score in this example is 16.100.
As a comparison between the old scoring system and new, USA Gymnastics uses Carly Patterson's balance beam routine from the overall competition at the 2004 Olympics. Her score of 9.725 won both the balance beam portion and helped pull her into first in the all-around event.
Under the new scoring system, her routine would have earned her a 6.4 for difficulty and a 9.3 for execution, or 15.7 total points.
Most gymnasts say that the new scoring system has had a significant effect on their sport. Look at Patterson's derived score versus Shawn Johnson's winning balance beam score at Olympic Trials in June. On the second day of competition, Johnson's routine received 6.9 points for difficulty (A-panel score) and her execution (B-panel) score was 9.350, giving her an overall score of 16.250.
Were Patterson still competing, she would have to increase the difficulty of her routine to remain competitive.
"It's pushing everyone to do even harder skills and try more things," says Chellsie Memmel, the 2005 all-around world champion who has competed under both scoring systems.
Nastia Liukin's uneven bar routine is a good example of the escalation in difficulty. She won the uneven bar title at the 2005 World Championships after performing one release move and one Ono spin (a one-handed spin from a vertical handstand).
"(It was) half my routine that I do now, and it was hard then!" she says.
Now her routine contains two Ono spins - one with another half turn and a Healy (a release move from a handstand). Those three skills are connected to a release move. If performed correctly, this uneven bar routine scores a difficulty value of 7.700 - one of the highest in the world.
The new scoring system "brings out the most difficult things in gymnastics," she says. "I would never have thought I'd be doing a bar routine like this if it weren't for this code."
Her father-slash-coach Valery Liukin adds, "it separates the boys from the men and the girls from the real gymnasts." Competing for the Soviet Union, Valery won one gold and three silver medals in men's gymnastics at 1988 Olympics.
"There are a lot of beautiful routines (in gymnastics), and they could be even or close to even," says Liukin, referring to the old scoring system. "Now you can see the difference. If your routine is difficult, it will put you up far from the rest of the world."
Not everyone is a fan of the new scoring system though. Ron Brant, the men's national team coordinator, says it has made the sport confusing for spectators, especially in the team combined competition in men's gymnastics. For a reason that Brant can't even explain, rings and vault net higher scores than pommel horse and high bar, making scores unequal until the final rotation.
Scores for rings and vault are generally in the mid to high 16s - even 17s - for the top gymnasts and high 15s to low 16s in pommel horse and high bar.
"After the first rotation, anybody who did vault will be winning even if they fell," Brant explains. "You have to wait for everybody to go through vault before the scores start to even."
In the final round of the team competition, the spectators can get excited for the team in the lead. But if that team is performing on pommel horse in the last rotation, their lead may be elusive. The team on vault or rings might take over the lead, even if they make big mistakes.
"(Using) the 10.0, it was perfect because you were going head to head," adds Brant.
Brant does concede that the new scoring system has made gymnastics more interesting for athletes and coaches because strategy comes into play. Should a gymnast perform a very difficult routine at the expense of the execution (B-panel) score?
"Do you do a lot of difficulty, which is what China is trying to do right now," explains Brant. "Or are you trying to maximize the B panel?"
At the Olympics, the top athletes will maximize both. With the world's top gymnasts likely scoring 17.000 or higher on some of the apparatuses.
You still can look for that perfect 10 in the execution (B) score, says Valery Liukin. "There still is a perfect 10," he says. "That's what we work toward. It's just a lot harder to get now."
Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.


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A Coshocton County mother could do little but watch her house burn on Tuesday morning, with her 10-year-old trapped inside.
"It's so bad. I can't get to him. I tried. I can't get to him," she cried during a 10-minute 911 call as flames engulfed her home at 31153 Perry Township Rd. 370 just before 7 a.m.
The fire claimed the life of 10-year-old James M. Thompson, who was found in the house by Walhonding Valley firefighters.
The child died from asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation according to Coshocton County Coroner Robert Gwinn.
The mother, who said her daughter was at school at the time of the fire, said she could see her son's second-story bedroom window but couldn't reach it and couldn't get him to respond.
Additional fire units from Frazeysburg, Three Rivers and Bladensburg helped fight the fire. The Walhonding Valley Fire Department, the Coshocton County sheriff's office and the state fire marshal's office are investigating the cause of the fire.
The sheriff's office said there were no working smoke detectors in the home, located in western Coshocton County near the Knox County line.


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Explore the effect of combining enlargements.
What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you
enlarge them?
Photocopiers can reduce from A3 to A4 without distorting the image.
Explore the relationships between different paper sizes that make
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A collection of short Stage 3 and 4 problems on enlargements and scale factors.


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Branson headliners, NBC 'Sing Off' finalists to perform at Norway Fine Arts Center
NORWAY – Branson, Mo. headliners "The Cat's Pajamas" will be performing at Norway High School on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Norway Fine Arts Center as part of their sixth annual Music in Schools Tour.
Tickets can be purchased at the door the evening of the concert. Prices are $7 for students, and $14 for adults.
This annual tour brings choral clinics and evening concerts to communities across the nation to raise money for music education programs.
The Cat's Pajamas perform pop classics ranging from the '50s and '60s all the way up to today in their innovative a cappella style.
In past years The Cat's Pajamas have raised more than $50,000 for music programs and 2013 is set to be the biggest tour to date benefiting 20 Wisconsin and Michigan communities.
The Cat's Pajamas goal is to inspire students, generate increased interest in music, and encourage all youths and teens to get involved in the arts and continue their involvement throughout life by working with them during the day and then presenting a world-class show open to the entire community in the evening.
Two members of The Cat's Pajamas are music educators certified in choral and general music who conduct in school workshops to educate students on vocal music, singing techniques, and life as a professional musician.
The evening performance will bring the community together with a portion of profits going directly to the Norway music program. The "Knight Moves" Vocal Jazz Choir under the direction of Dawn Kranz will perform a selection with the Cat's Pajamas at the concert.
The Cat's Pajamas recently received national acclaim on NBC's hit show "The Sing Off," and" The Oprah Show." However, the group spends the majority of each year performing full time in Branson at The Andy Williams Moon River Theatre.
To learn more, visit www.vocalmeow.com and see what audiences from around the world are saying about The Cat's Pajamas.


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Commerce deals ENMU shutout loss
October 20, 2007
Freedom New Mexico
COMMERCE, Texas — Senior forward Bailey Geels scored a goal and had an assist Friday and Texas A&M-Commerce limited Eastern New Mexico University to two shots on goal, blanking the Zias 2-0 in a Lone Star Conference women's soccer matchup.
Gaels was credited with an assist on teammate Meagan Lasley's goal midway through the first half, then added an insurance goal on a header off a pass from sophomore forward Lacy Alexander with just over 15 1/2 minutes to go.
Commerce (8-8, 4-3 LSC), which snapped a three-match losing streak, stayed ahead of the Zias (9-7, 3-5) in the tightly bunched middle of the conference standings. The top six finishers in the 11-team conference advance to the LSC tournament in early November.
Sophomore goalkeeper Jennifer Alvarado had to make just two saves in registering her fourth shutout of the season. Meantime, ENMU senior keeper Stephanie Sanchez earned nine saves.
The Zias face another team they're competing with for a postseason berth in Texas Woman's on Sunday in Denton, Texas. They close out the regular season a week from Sunday against Midwestern State at the ENMU pitch.


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Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.2
Lexile® Measure: 670L
Guided Reading: T
- Animal Stories
- Dogs
- Lost and Found
- Friends and Friendship
- Survival
About This Book
Discover the remarkable kinship between a girl and her dog, told through their alternating perspectives!
On their way home from winning an Agility Championship, Abby and her Shetland sheepdog, Tam, are in a tragic accident. Tam's cage is thrown from the truck and gets swept away in a creek. Unable to find Tam, Abby and her family return to their home at the opposite end of the Blue Ridge Mountains, nearly 400 miles away. As the months go by, Abby's dreams and visions tell her that Tam is still alive, and she's determined to find him. Meanwhile, Tam faces one danger after another to get back to his beloved owner.
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