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Today I attended Coaster Quest a roller coaster event held by CoasterFusion at Kings Island in Kings Mill Ohio. Around 30 members of Club CoasterFusion meet for a day of roller coasters and fun. With a check in at 8:30 am to grab our cool event T-shirts and custom buttons created for the event. We did a group photo got registered and headed for our morning ERT on Diamondback a B&M hyper coaster. As part of our event we were invited to take part in the parks season pass ride time for an hour before the park opens to the public. It was not very crowded and I was able to get 7 rides on Diamondback including a front seat ride. After our ride time I had a little time to spend so hit the Beast and headed for our group meet and photo under the large tower. The next few hours I spent getting ride credits on Firehawk, Flying Ace and Stunt coaster along with doing lots of photos of most of the roller coasters in the park. At 3:00 pm it was time for the highlight of the day a behind the scene tour of the Beast roller coaster. Normally all you see is the lift hill of this amazing roller coaster as the ride is on 35 acres of wooded land with no views of it except while on the ride. After the tour it was time for dinner which was a buffet of chicken, pulled pork, hot dogs, potato salad and baked beans. During dinner there was a raffle for prizes and a few club announcements. So that was it for the first Club CoasterFusion event at Kings Island. It was a great day at the park with lots of great roller coasters and a beautiful day for photos. Below are photos of just about all the roller coasters at the park and a couple of thrill rides. Look forward to the next event.
Kings Island
Kings Mill, Ohio
August 12th, 2012
Various photos of the Backlot Stunt Coaster.
Coaster Quest
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Various photos of the Vortex roller coaster.
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Various photos of Invertigo roller coaster.
Various photos of The Racer roller coaster.
Various photos of Flight Deck roller coaster.
The soon to be removed Son of Beast roller coaster.
Various photo of the Firehawk roller coaster.
Various photo of Diamondback roller coaster.
Various photo of Windseeker and Woodstock Express roller coaster.
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Chip was born June 10, 1939, in Staples to Leo and Anna (Wiskow) Ringler. He graduated from Motley High School. Chip married Barbara in 1960. He worked in Minneapolis at Minneapolis Moline for 12 years before returning to the Staples area in 1971. Chip then worked at Stearns Rubber for 33 years before retiring in July 2005. Family was the focus of Chip's life. He enjoyed doing remodeling work for his family members, cutting firewood, fixing cars, and most of all camping for many years with his family.
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Date of Stay: May, 2016
This is a clean, very well maintained park with great owners/managers on site. The sites are level gravel and adequate for big rigs. A very nice and convenient place to overnight. We will definitely stay here again.
Date of Stay: May, 2016
This small park only has about 12 spaces and only 4 or 5 of them are 50 amp so if you're in a big rig, you probably should reserve your space early. The spaces are gravel and grass and level. All spaces are pull thru and most of them have shade trees. Be very careful of the overhanging tree limbs on some of the spaces. This park is near the farming community of Texola which is now practically a ghost town. Since I-40 replaced Route 66, the little town shut down. The Windmill restaurant is part of the campground and has excellent food and service. Everything is prepared daily, on site (including those great apricot fried pies) and is worth the stay just to eat there. This is a no frills park on the Oklahoma/Texas line, at Oklahoma I-40 exit # 1, out in the middle of nowhere, but a great overnight stopping spot.
Date of Stay: May, 2016
This is a very clean, well run, very overpriced park. The pull-throughs are gravel and fairly level and can easily accommodate big rigs. The staff was super friendly and helpful. The food in the restaurant was terrible and would have been overpriced even if it were free. I ordered a pulled pork sandwich which I learned was bought frozen, microwaved and served on dry toast. Rancid pork is bad, served on dry toast is terrible. There are other good parks in the area that are more reasonably priced. I will not stay here again, but that is based strictly on the price, not on the condition of the park.
Date of Stay: September, 2015
This is a free rv park on the main highway through Muleshoe that allows visitors to stay for 3 days free. Donations are appreciated. Large level gravel parking spots with 50 amp service, good ota tv and convenient to shops and restaurants make this a great spot to stop and rest awhile. We will definitely stop here again if we are in the area.
Date of Stay: July, 2015
This is a large gravel parking lot that's great for overnight or a few days stay to rest and visit the casinos. Easy on/of the highway and fuel is right near the entrance to the park. There are 2 large casinos within a couple of miles and plenty of shops and restaurants. We will stay here again when in the area.
Date of Stay: July, 2015
Very friendly staff. When it rains (and it does often) the park roads have a lot of mud holes. Wi Fi and TV reception were very poor and often didn't work at all and the service people were out almost every day working on it. The park is very convenient to great fishing and all outdoor activities. Some of the motel guests were very drunk and disorderly with their loud music and racing their ATVs thru the park. Not a place for small children when these people are present. We would definitely look for a different park if in the area again.
Date of Stay: June, 2015
This was a last minute overnight stop. The pull through sites were too narrow for us to put our slides out. The entire park is gravel and a bit dusty. The dumpster was overflowing. The good news is that the staff was very friendly and accommodating. There are also several fast places within walking distance. Our RV is 43 feet with 4 slides and the park just wasn't designed for one our size. I would stop here again if nothing else was available close by.
Date of Stay: June, 2015
Clean, well maintained, large pullthru's, pet friendly and casino on site if you do that sort of thing. The sites were all paved, not very level, but nothing that my levelers couldn't handle. Way better than staying in Reno. We stayed here going to and from Sacramento and would definitely stay here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2015
We stayed here only one night, but the service and accommodations were great. Clean, quiet and well maintained. The staff was very courteous and knowledgeable. I would definitely stay here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2014
I've stayed at this park before and had a pleasant experience. The park now appears to be going through some hard times. The pool was drained (probably because of drought) and the general appearance was a little unkempt and maintenance a little lacking. One of the campers said that the owners were very ill and the park was being run by an inexperienced relative. It shows. There is also a railroad crossing very near and the trains run all night. If you don't like train horns, this might be a little annoying. Overall, still not a bad place to spend a night.
Date of Stay: June, 2014
This park has 2 names. Raton Pass Camp and Cafe and Cedar Rails. The website show 2 different parks. Cedar Rails on bottom and Raton Pass on top. If you go to the top park, Raton Pass, the lady from the Cedar Rails office will chew you out for not stopping there first. My view was of a sheer rocky bluff 50 feet off my front bumper and I-25 out my side window. Water usage is limited, as is sewer and wi-fi. There is no cable tv service. Their rules are very clear as to the amount of these items that you can use per day. (don't bathe the kids) Sharp turns make access by big rigs not fun. I will definitely not stay again.
Date of Stay: June, 2012
We stayed here in a motor home pulling a trailer. The site was plenty long but very tight to maneuver out of due to a fence directly in front. The street corners were also very tight. The entrance from the street has 2 dips that will make a big rig drag bottom. Be very careful. There is a nearby feed lot that will run you inside when the wind is from the west. The pads were dirt and level, the staff was friendly and helpful. It had just rained when we were here, so the dog runs were mud holes. The sewer hook ups are at the very rear of the sites, so bring an extra long sewer hose. Wi-Fi and cable were adequate. We will not stay here again due to the strong possibility of damage caused by the entrance area. It appears that the majority of the people in the park live here full time.
Date of Stay: September, 2011
On check in, the clerk spent several minutes pushing the restaurant. We tried it. Bad mistake. Overpriced, overcooked, served on a paper plate. On the plus side, service was excellent. We were told our site was a 90 ft site. We barely fit with a 40 ft motorhome and a toad. Toad rear bumper in road, RV front bumper in road. No sewer dump at site, but told that there was a community dump on the exit road. No Wi-Fi, in spite of being assured there was. Very poor TV selections, unless you like 1970's re-runs. It rained briefly. The gravel sites turned to mud sites. This place makes Wal Mart parking lots look like 5 star accommodations.
Date of Stay: August, 2011
Very friendly folks. Campground right on Rio Grand River that is stocked by the park. Excellent fishing. Large meadow for dog walking or exercise. Plenty of group activities organized by full time activities director. Most of the campers here have been here before and keep returning. We will definitely be back.
Date of Stay: July, 2011
Packed in like sardines and the staff (work campers) were very unfriendly. I would dry camp beside the road before staying here again.


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Elizabeth Moran's mother Cary grew up in a haunted house in Memphis. That's how the story goes, anyway. Every night she and her siblings would hear footsteps slowly climb the stairs from the basement to the second-floor bedrooms. Usually, they'd stop outside her brother's room, then turn and head back downstairs.
Even now, Moran's family believes that old house, which it subsequently sold, is still haunted. Elizabeth Moran never heard those footsteps for herself, but the ghost has been such a big part of her life that she's exploring the history of this mythical creature and its relationship to her family in a project called Record of Cherry Road. The name refers to the street on which the house sits and to a series of notes Moran's mother wrote about the footsteps.
"My mom says it was scary when they fist moved in, but eventually they nicknamed him Casper and he became a member of the family who just was always there," Moran says.
Photographing ghosts is hard, so Moran has approached the story in a round-about way. Her uncle, whose room seemed to be the ghost's preferred destination, has since retirement taken up paranormal investigation; Moran follows him as he goes about his work using tools like light beams and audio recorders to ferret out ghosts. The family who now lives in the house on Cherry Road say they, too, have heard the footsteps and are more than happy to join the investigation.
They've also dived into the county archive to learn more about the house and who's lived there before. That's been slow going, but Moran and her uncle have learned the structure was once a farmhouse and the property part of a tobacco plantation. That explains the well in the basement, where they think most of the paranormal activity seems to start.
Moran realizes all of this might sound silly. But she isn't concerned. She's less interested in proving the house is haunted and more about having the exploratory experience herself. "I'm agnostic, but I hope that something happens to me to convince me that there are ghosts," she says. "I really want to be convinced."
This is also less about the ghost than her family's life with it. Casper, regardless of whether he's real, is a part of the family's history and lore. In that way, Record of Cherry Road has become something of a sociological study of her family over time. "It's about the house, but it's also about the handing down of stories in our family through generations," she says. "This is absolutely what ties our family together."
There's a second part to the story as well. The names "Cary" and "George" are common in Moran's family. Her name is Elizabeth Cary, her mother and grandmother are named Cary, and her great-grandmother was Elizabeth Cary. Her great-grandfather was George, as is her uncle and his son. These names have created strong bonds across the generations, even with those relatives long since dead.
"I'm definitely haunted, in a good way, by these women that have come before me," Moran says. "My relatives who shared the same name seem to continue to live through generation and generation."
The story has struck a chord with others interested in ghosts. Moran says she's been in touch with noted ghost hunter William Wilkens who often provides photos taken by people who believe they've captured a ghost on film. She uses her expertise in photography to tell these folks whether they're simply seeing their camera flash reflected back at them or whether they might actually have something.
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Anna in the Swing States: Colorado's Swinging Suburbs and Untapped Latino Voters
At the start of this summer, Mitt Romney was cutting into President Barack Obama's lead in the key swing state of Colorado, even as the president's advantage with Latino voters here was expanding. With the unemployment rate stuck above eight percent and immigration reform newly prominent on the president's priority list, we're asking Colorado's swing suburban voters if they're souring on the president they helped elect, and whether Latino voters here have been convinced enough by Obama's recent moves to make up that difference.
Colorado's swelling suburbs and the growing numbers of Latino voters are most often cited as the drivers behind recent Democratic gains in the western state. Latino voters made up just 13 percent of the electorate in 2008, but they proved decisive by overwhelming favoring Obama while white voters almost evenly split. Suburban voters were pivotal for another reason: their massive share of the vote in Colorado. They cast more than half of all votes here four years ago, and after supporting George W. Bush in 2004, they swung ten points to give Obama a slight edge over John McCain. Obama won Colorado by nine points in 2008, the first time a Democrat had a presidential race won here since 1992.
This year, Colorado is in many ways the lynchpin in the Obama campaign's strategy to remake the electoral map. As Obama campaign manager Jim Messina laid out last year, if the president repeats that win in Colorado, and captures Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico and the states John Kerry won in 2004, Obama wins another term. This western strategy diminishes the importance of Ohio and Florida, even though those perennial battlegrounds are much bigger electoral prizes compared to Colorado's relatively modest nine electoral votes.
The Colorado electorate is largely broken up in thirds among Democrats, Republicans, and independents. Since 2008, the ranks of the unaffiliated, independent voters have grown in Colorado, and Democrats and Republicans now make up a slightly smaller percentage of registered voters in Colorado than they did four years ago. Much of the registration gains for Democrats and independents has happened in congressional districts with urban areas, contributing to the Democrats' recent success there.
But it doesn't all come down to demographics. Even Republicans admit that state Democrats have outdone the GOP in fundraising and organization to solidify their advantages in local and statewide races. Outside Democratic groups outspent those supporting Republicans in 2010, a Denver Post analysis found. So while Republicans had all the momentum nationally in 2010, the GOP wasn't able to take a U.S. Senate seat from Democrats in Colorado. Democrats won the governor's office and held on to control of the state Senate. Republicans narrowly control the state House of Representatives.
Colorado's Swinging Suburbs
The influx of new residents and growing populations in the suburban Denver Counties, and Arapahoe and Larimer Counties – along with Jefferson — proved pivotal for Democrats in 2008 when they backed Obama after Bush won them four years earlier.
Arapahoe County, which is southeast of Denver and includes the suburban cities of Centennial, Aurora, and Littleton, owes much of its recent population growth to new Latino and African American residents. Politically, Democrats made double-digit gains from 2002 to 2008, which Colorado State University political scientists Robert Duffy and Kyle Saunders connect directly back to the Democratic Party's organization efforts alongside demographic diversification. Democrats now outnumber Republicans in the county by 6,000. This, in a county that was represented by conservative Republican Tom Tancredo in Congress for ten years in the 2000s.
Further north along the Wyoming border, the suburban voters in Larimer County backed Obama in 2008 but narrowly split in the 2010 midterms. Voters in this county, which is home to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, gave the Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Michael Bennett a 1.5 percent edge, but Republican Congressional challenger Cory Gardner beat incumbent Democrat Betsy Markey in the county by 35 votes. In both cases, as Larimer County went, so went the election. Of course, turnout was very different in the midterm than the presidential election; the winning Republican Congressional candidate in 2010 got fewer votes than the losing Republican in 2008. Independent, unaffiliated voters have the registration edge over both Republicans and Democrats here.
In both of these counties, the winning presidential candidate would do well to target women voters, said Katy Atkinson, a longtime Republican consultant in Colorado. "Elections in this state are decided by women living in suburban Denver counties," she said. "Those are really the deciding votes, and those people are generally Republican, but not reliably Republican. If they see a Republican candidate or a Democrat candidate as being extremist, they will go the other direction. Every time."
Latino Voters Lean Democratic, but Turnout Question Looms
President Obama has widened his advantage among Colorado's Latino voters this spring. A June poll from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling,taken just as the president was rolling out his policy limiting deportations for young illegal immigrants, showed Obama with a 27-point lead over Romney, up from a 15-point margin in April.
That advantage could be key, because in this fast-growing state, the Hispanic population has increased at a faster rate than the white population, and Republican-leaning white working class voters have declined in its share of the electorate. Four out of five Latino voters in Colorado lean Democratic, according to the research firm Latino Decisions. Colorado does not keep data on the ethnicity of registered voters, but eligible Latino voters make up a large share in in both swing counties and in reliably Democratic counties where Obama ran up his margins.
Latinos make up 19 percent of the eligible voters in Weld County, which is just east of Larimer County along the Wyoming border. Republicans outnumber Democrats by 20,000 voters here, and they backed McCain in 2008 and Republican Congressional candidate Cory Gardner in 2010.
In contrast, in Pueblo County, where Latinos make up 36 percent of the eligible voters, Obama won the county and Democrats have a 20,000 edge in registration. The Obama campaign is maintain that margin in Pueblo this year. Compared to four years ago, the campaign's organizing "is probably the same," said Tom Duran, the head of the Colorado chapter of the League of United Latin American Citiziens (LULAC), which is launching its own registration drive. "The enthusiasm is just probably not as strong as it was as Obama first ran." Duran said there has been palpable disenchantment with the Obama administration over high deportation rates, but Duran said that's begun to soften after the administration's executive order to block deportation for certain young illegal immigration.
Duran said he hasn't noticed any local activity yet from the Romney campaign, which is consistent with the two campaign's contrasting local footprints. The Obama campaign has nineteen Colorado field offices, including one in Pueblo, while the Romney campaign has four, which are located in the the major swing suburban counties and the traditionally Republican Colorado Springs.
Still, the share of Latino voters in Colorado is smaller than in other western states like Nevada and New Mexico, so they may not have the numbers to tip the election if Romney makes significant among other voting blocs. Hispanic voter participation still lags in Colorado, with a much larger population than the population that votes. They make up about 20 percent of the population, but just 12 percent of Colorado's eligible voting population — that is citizens over 18. And some are worrying that a down economy and lukewarm feelings about the Obama presidency could cement this lingering participation gap.
Four years ago, enthusiasm about Obama drew new Latino voters to the polls nationwide. Twenty-eight reported voting for president for the first time, up from 24 percent in 2004.


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Posted on 04/13/2011 8:56:09 AM PDT by MintyHippo1980
Before we return to our regularly-scheduled blog posts (poor Sam...bringing up the rear as usual!), I would like to invite you to join me in yet another celebration! This could become habit-forming! Did you bring cake?
Perhaps you will recall from my very first post that I have been struggling recently with a little problem. Maybe this will ring a bell:
Oh, yeah...it's all coming back to you now, isn't it? Broken foot! (Not the best move I ever made.)
I've had plenty of time in the last nine weeks to keep a running list of all the things that sort of stink about hobbling around on crutches. It's a pretty impressive list. But near the top is having people ask me what I did...and not having a good story to tell them.
Here are a few I tried out just for giggles: Who knew sky-diving could be so much fun?! Totally worth it! Down-hill skiing...you pay your money and you take your chances! He needed a good kick in the pants! What kind of person carries a concrete wallet in his back pocket?! Some people even offered me good suggestions like "Oh, did you slip on the ice?"
I wish.
Do you have any idea how humiliating it is to have to look people in the eye and tell them the truth when the truth is that my foot fell asleep while I sat for too long with my legs crossed? You'd think I would have mastered walking across the kitchen floor by now. I spend an awful lot of time in there! I've even had the same kitchen for 6 1/2 years, which is some sort of record for me! I ought to be able to navigate it with a reliable degree of safety.
But nine weeks, one surgery, and many, many muttered complaints later, I finally get to rejoice at a reunion I have been looking forward to with nearly-breathless anticipation: The reunion of my left shoe to my left foot.
As some would say, it's a terrible picture, but an excellent likeness. Who cares?! Big, dumb boot off...shoe on...crutches gone! Yeee-haw!
Now, to really celebrate this occasion in the manner it deserves, what I should be doing tonight is dancing or roller skating...or down-hill skiing! (Or how about that cake you promised?) However, it is a disappointing reality that, well, my foot sort of aches at having been invited to be a load-bearing structure again. And it's a bit swollen. And it doesn't quite work right yet.
Despite the seeming evidence to the contrary, this is not a list of grievances. Really. Almost not at all.
In fact, several weeks ago, when struggling with the earliest days of my new sedentary lifestyle, God convicted me that, if I played nice, this could be a time of great spiritual refreshment. Did I play nice? Mostly. Did the Lord have some things to show me while I was more still than usual? Definitely!
Don't worry...I'm not going to turn this post into a sermon or a master's dissertation. But He did show me one thing in such vivid color that I can't, in good conscience, NOT share it.
Serving in ministry as we do, we have seen all too often how one false moral move can bring grave and lasting consequences to the lives of God's people. Over and over again, we have learned of a potentially dangerous sin problem in the life of a brother or sister; and on those occasions when have had to confront them (which is just what we hope others would do for us if the corrective boot were on the other foot), the results are usually similar. Every time we try to reach out to a struggling Believer with loving concern, we are met with denial. They virtually always refuse to admit that there is a problem.
Finally, after months of deception, they usually realized the gravity of the disaster with which they have been flirting...and they turn their backs on that sin. But unfortunately, all too often, their very private errors still end up becoming very public, and they find themselves reaping the whirlwind.
So one day, I was going through the ordeal of showering and getting dressed on crutches, wearing a big heavy boot, on a slippery bathroom floor, and one such situation involving a dear friend came to mind...and I suddenly saw the parallel in our situations.
Both of us made a very simple, very foolish mistake. It was the decision of a single moment in time, really. And if we could, we would both go back and do it over differently, because that one false move has had painful, lasting consequences that have ended up affecting those around us as well.
Obviously, my fracture wasn't a sin issue. (It was more of a stupid issue.) But it hurt! And surgery was no picnic! (Someone please remind me that I just can't do sedation with a nerve block! Doesn't work for me! Knock me out!)
During my tenure on crutches, things around the house (a LOT of things around the house) have fallen apart, despite the fact that my children have had to step up to the plate and do a ton of stuff they aren't really licensed to do. And my poor husband has had a cripple for a wife. Plus, I suffered some nerve damage when I twisted my foot, so I'm going to have ongoing problems with sensation and function for...well, maybe a year. All because I stepped wrong on a foot that was asleep. (A piece of that cake might help make me feel better right about now!)
The dear friend who came to mind while I was getting dressed that morning has, admittedly, made a bed for herself that she is now finding incredibly uncomfortable to lie in. Her marriage may never fully recover; her children have been made aware of some of her behavior; her relationships with other family members and friends have been damaged--perhaps beyond repair. All from one wrong step.
It has been a graphic reminder to me of how important it is to give careful thought to the paths for my feet (Proverbs 4:26). Just like I didn't get up out of my chair with the intention of twisting my foot and ending up in the emergency room, no one wakes up one morning, pulls out her to-do list, and writes "ruin as many lives as possible with one really foolish choice."
See, I'd like to think that I could never find myself in the spiritual ER...that I love the Lord too much to disobey Him to such a dangerous extent...that I'm smarter than all that. But 1 Corinthians 10:12 says, "So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!" No one is immune. Least of all me.
And so, with a pretty good limp still going, I have faced the truth of my own fallibility. I have seen the greatest potential enemy of the future God has planned for me...and she looks a lot like me! So I have reminded myself anew the words of Jeremiah 6:16...
This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it..."
I think, brought to it's finest point, all I really needed to know about this facet of the Christian life I learned singing songs in Sunday school. It's about as simple as "Be careful, little feet, where you go." If I will ask where the good way is, He loves to tell me! If I go where He leads, He will guide my steps. If I go my own way, I shouldn't be surprised to find myself hurting.
For the Father up above is looking down with love, so be careful, little feet, where you go!
Blessings! Missy
The LORD makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
Psalm 27:23-24
Yes broken feet at not fun but at least I had a better story.I feel down the last 3 steps into the basement when I broke mine in 2008.
Yes broken feet at not fun but at least I had a better story.I fell down the last 3 steps into the basement when I broke mine in 2008.
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Reno, Nev. -
The University of Nevada track and field team will be opening the indoor season at the Jackson Invite hosted by Boise State University this Friday in Nampa, Idaho. Joining the Pack from the Mountain West will be Boise State and Utah State.
MW Championships:
Last year's Wolf Pack team finished third behind San Diego State and New Mexico at the Mountain West Indoor Championships, and fifth at the Mountain West outdoor championships.
This week last season:
Last season the Pack opened up at the Jackson Open in December of 2012, nearly a full month earlier than their late January opening meet of this season. This weekend last year the team was in its third meet of the year, competing at the UW Invitational in Seattle, Wash.
Key returners:
Tanisha Hawkins ran a personal best 7.51 in the 60-meter dash, and finished in 5th place behind three of her teammates at last season's MW Indoor Championships. She ran the second fastest 200-meter dash in school history with a time of 24:24, and also competed on the school record setting 4X400-meter relay team that finished with a time of 3:44.51 capping off the team's great performances at the indoor championships.
Kashae Knox finished fourth in the 60-meter dash at the indoor championships last season with a time of 7.55. She holds the fourth fastest 60-meter dash time in school history and the eighth fastest 200-meter dash, with a time of 24.93.
Christina Smith clocked in with the second fastest 400-meter dash time in school history of 56.52 in the finals of the indoor championships finishing seventh overall. She was also the third runner on the school record setting 4X400-meter relay team that finished with a time of 3:44.51.
Samantha Diaz captured two top four finishes at the MW Indoor Championships in 2013 by finishing in third place in the mile with a time of 4:46.63, and fourth in the 3000-meter run with a time 9:42.50. Her 3000-meter time was faster than the previous MW record, and the second fastest time in Nevada school history. She also holds the second fastest mile time in school history at 4:42.46 and the eighth fastest 800-meter dash time of 2:13.33.
Kerri Simmons returns to the shot put ring this season after finishing third in the event at the indoor championships last season. Her personal best throw of 49'3" is second in school history. She was also the outdoor champion in the shot put last season, and qualified to compete at the NCAA Preliminary Championships.
Nicole Wadden recorded the fifth best pentathlon total as a freshman last season. She finished fourth at the indoor championships by peaking at the perfect time setting personal bests in three events.
Coach Twiggs, head coach, "There is so much excitement for the first meet. We want to start the season off with a bang. Our goal is to go out and have a cohesive meet. We want to execute and set ourselves up for the Mountain West Championships in six weeks."
Coach Elias, distance, "We have been training really well, and I am excited to see what they can do. I expect them to compete tough. My goal for each one of them is to race well."
Coach Williamson, multi/jumps, "We are very excited to get our first competition under our belt. We have a lot of new faces in the field event group, but some very talented kids that we expect big things out of as the season progresses."
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Next Saturday, June 15th, the Rockaway Rugby Club will host their 26th Annual Rockaway Rugby 7's Tournament at Fort Tilden. The tournament will have 4 divisions and a youth clinic; 32 Team - Men's Open, 8 Team Social (old boys, 30 and up), 8 Team College (23 and younger), 8 Team Women's Open, Youth Clinic (12 to 17 year old) and also the NYC All-star 7's Team selections for the Empire State Games will be held this day.
Practice for the Rockaway Rugby teams and Empire State Team is scheduled at Fort Tilden 7pm on Tuesday June 11th and Thursday June 13th of next week.
Balls Out! Rugby will supply you with all your needed rugby equipment. A youth rugby clinic will begin at 2pm (ages 12-17 years old). Bob Johnson, Kermit Egan and others will instruct the new generation of rugby players. The Post-Tournament Party/Awards Presentation at the clubhouse will have live music; Wine with Sue; 9:00pm and a D.J. So, come celebrate 26 years of great 7's competition.........More details next week.


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Philippine troops pulled out of Iraq yesterday after the Government gave in to militants holding a Filipino hostage, straining its alliance with Washington. There was no word on kidnapped truck driver Angelo de la Cruz, last seen in a video shown by Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera on Thursday in which he said he would be coming home.
The head of the contingent, Brigadier-General Jovito Palparan, arrived in Manila early yesterday on a commercial flight from Kuwait ahead of 44 troops due to return this week.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's decision to withdraw has drawn criticism from the United States, Australia and other allies, who have said it sets a bad precedent for giving in to hostage-takers.
The withdrawal meets a deadline of July 20 - a month before the Philippine team's mandate ran out - set by militants who abducted Mr de la Cruz and had threatened to behead him.
"Before the end of the day, all members of the Philippine Humanitarian Contingent will be out of Iraq," Foreign Secretary Delia Albert said in a statement.
She said 34 troops began the journey out of Iraq yesterday, joining 10 who were already in Kuwait preparing to fly to Manila later this week. The 10 had been due to arrive in Manila yesterday but did not board their scheduled morning flight.
Six troops out of the 51-strong contingent are unaccounted for, but could have been drafted into the Baghdad Philippine embassy's security staff.
"I am happy to be back," Brigadier-General Palparan told reporters at Manila international airport. "Our troops back there are all OK."
Nearly two weeks after Mr de la Cruz was abducted while driving fuel into Iraq from Saudi Arabia, relatives in his village of Buenavista north of Manila were optimistic he would be home soon.
"We just hope that the Iraqi militants will keep their promise of releasing Angelo since the humanitarian contingent have already pulled out," said Beth, one of his sisters.
In the latest video tape, the 46-year-old father of eight wore a polo shirt and looked in good health. In previous tapes he sat in front of gunmen and was dressed in an orange jumpsuit similar to those worn by other foreign hostages, some of them later beheaded.
His family and friends have prepared a warm welcome, tying yellow ribbons around the village. A local construction firm is building the impoverished family a new house.


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Harvest Green Salad Recipe
I get rave reviews with this autumn salad. Guests say that it fills them up without weighing them down. Preparing the beets, sweet potatoes and salad dressing a day early allows me more time with guests. -Beth Royals of Richmond, Virginia
- 3 whole medium fresh beets
- 1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat balsamic vinaigrette
- 2 tablespoons jellied cranberry sauce
- 1 package (5 ounces) spring mix salad greens
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 4 ounces crumbled Gorgonzola cheese
- 1. Wash beets; trim stem and leave root intact. Wrap beets in aluminum foil. Place on a baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 1 hour or until tender. Remove foil and cool.
- 2. In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the sweet potato and water. Cover and microwave on high for 4-5 minutes or until tender. Cool.
- 3. In a blender, combine vinaigrette and cranberry sauce; cover and process until smooth. Peel beets and cut into slices.
- 4. On six salad plates, arrange the greens, beets and sweet potatoes. Sprinkle with cranberries and cheese. Drizzle with dressing. Yield: 6 servings.
Recipe Note
Editor's Note: Use plastic gloves when peeling beets to avoid stains. This recipe was tested in a 1,100-watt microwave.
Nutritional Facts
1-1/8 cups: 187 calories, 9g fat (4g saturated fat), 17mg cholesterol, 438mg sodium, 23g carbohydrate (14g sugars, 3g fiber), 6g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 fat, 1/2 fruit.
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Catherine the Great flaunts art in Edinburgh show
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Empress Catherine the Great demonstrates her powerful and enduring cultural influence over Russia in a new art exhibit at Scotland's National Museum that opened on Friday.
The Edinburgh museum's show in collaboration with the Hermitage museum is overflowing with incredibly rich and rare pieces related to the 18th century Russian ruler, including a freshly restored giant coronation portrait of Catherine that has not been on public display since the Russian revolution in 1917.
The exhibition falls on the 250th anniversary of the coup d'etat in which Catherine's unloved husband Tsar Peter II was killed and she started her 30-year reign as empress and sole ruler of a rapidly rising Russia. It runs through the Edinburgh festival season to October 21.
"Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress" is the third major exhibition the Scottish museum has put on in close conjunction the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, which has provided a treasure trove of over 600 artefacts from its own collection.
The exhibit emphasizes Catherine's role in enhancing the legacy of Peter the Great, whose rule from 1682 to 1725 brought Russia into the European family.
Asked the value of the display, Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky told Reuters it ran into "many millions of pounds".
It brings together an extraordinary range, including paintings, documents, jeweler and porcelain, Catherine's hunting weapons, fabrics and furniture and even a highly ornate and gilded winter sleigh the empress used.
Born into minor German nobility in 1729, by the time of her death in 1796 "Russia had become a true world power, with expanded borders, reformed church and state, hugely developed military and industrial capabilities and a glittering court that was the envy of Europe," the Edinburgh museum notes said. Continued...


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Mike Perry was recommended by a cousin of mine to do some repair/remodeling work to my mothers mobile home. My 70 year old mother was in a nursing home in a rehab program after being discharged from the hospital. Her home needed alot of work. Mike had done some remodeling & installed some windows for my cousin and my aunt for a reasonable price. He had attended the same church with their family for several years.
He met me at my mother's home on Sep. 28, 2013. He gave me a price of $3200 to take out the rotten wood floors, replace them with 3/4 inch PLYWOOD, and replace the insulation. $1800 of this was for the materials & the rest was for labor. He said he would need the $1800 for the wood and insulation up front. I was leary about giving him the money up front but my family members assured me that he was very trustworthy. This was a MAJOR mistake on my part.
Needless to say I met him in the parking lot of a Lowes. He gave me a contractors invoice with his company name and his address, showing the work to be done and materials. It had the date and he signed it showing I had given him the money for the materials. I still had things that needed to be removed from her home before he could start. This was on Oct 7, 2013.
I had everything moved out by Oct. 11, 2013. He was to start the work the following week. I really didnt keep up with the dates and times he was working there, at first.
They got 1 room's floors cut out on the first day. Mike wasnt there but instead 2 young men that were his helpers did the work. The neighbors said the workers took more breaks than worked. Mike told me repeatedly that he would get the job completed by my mother's expected discharge date of Oct 31, 2013.
As time went on I realized he wasn't showing up when he said. I had neighbors watching. I started to go by before I went to work. Sometimes he would show up and neighbors said he left within 10 minutes of when i left to go to work.
When I called him out on this he became rude and tried to talk over me saying not to worry he would get it done! Oct 31st came and went. I guess it was lucky my mom didn't get discharged by then.
He did cut out the floors in all the bedrooms and the hall, but not the kichen or bathrooms. The "wood" he used was not the 3/4 inch plywood that cost about $35 for a 4 x 8 sheet but instead a type of pressboard that costs about $20 a sheet. He completed laying the pressboard in the living room but did not install the roll out insulation between the joists like he had originally stated. He said he was going to use a different type of insulation called foam board that would be nailed to the bottom of the trailer. He had a few sheets of the pressboard that he used that he left at the trailer,but it wasnt enough to finish the job. He also installed the new front door but never filled in the gaps or replaced the trim.
He got to where he wouldnt answer my phone calls or my texts. I finally got in touch with his wife. She met me at Home Depot & purchased what she SAID would be enough pressboard to finish the job.
I was really DUMB. In the meantime he said he would install linoleum flooring, a hot water tank, new bathroom vanity,new toilet, new front door, repair celings, coat roof, fix plumbing as needed, & install new kitchen sink base with a countertop for another $2000 but would need this money up front. This part was actually before he stopped showing up or returning my calls regarding the floor issue.
Anyway, he got a small bathroon vanity, toilet & tank, a standard door (not for a mobile home) and he broUght these items to my moms home. I priced these items at Lowes & Home Depot. They total about $300.
I finally told his wife (never could get him on phone or text) that I was going to have to get someone to finish the work because my mother was about to be discharged.
I learned a a HARD lesson at my mothers (last of her savings) expense.
I am in the process of taking Mike Perry to court but in the meantime, my mother has to move in with no linoleum & I had to use my own $ to hire someone to finish the other NECESSARY repairs as I dont have enough to pay for the rest of the repairs at this time.
He did about a third of the floor job & replaced front door but never replaced trim around it or put any insulation. I gave him $3700 cash. I figure he owes me around $2000.
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Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra must have taken heart from a full house for the first of its Splendour of Vienna concerts. Beethoven's Choral Symphony was doubtlessly responsible for ticket sales, but there was a delicious irony in relatively obscure works by Schoenberg and Wolf playing to a capacity audience.
Christopher Bloom's expressive baritone caught intimations of mortality in Wolf's Denk Es, o Seele and revealed the dark night of the soul in Wo find' ich Trost, despite a few glosses on twisting chromatic lines.
Throughout, Eckehard Stier fired his musicians with his enthusiasm, especially in the diabolic Der Feuerreiter, featuring Auckland Choral.
Wolf himself described this gothic tale as hair-raising stuff, and little was held back, even if a mite more body in some of the men's fortissimo offerings would have been welcome.
The spirit of Mahler pervaded the ghostly fanfares and march of Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw. While the orchestra responded eagerly to the Schoenberg challenge, the men's chorus was tested, proving most assured when trombone doubled their line.
Stuart Devenie's narration, straying a little from Schoenberg's meticulous directions, was effectively dramatic. This is a major work, more topical than ever with the Auschwitz YouTube debacle, and unlikely to be heard here for some decades. It was played twice at its 1947 Albuquerque premiere - perhaps Auckland would have appreciated the same.
After interval, Stier shaped the sprawling first movement of Beethoven's Choral Symphony with the formal clarity of a musical Walter Gropius, in the ultimate reconciliation of rhetoric and poetry.
There was a rightness and an inevitability in the shifting moods of the second movement, while the great Adagio molto e cantabile scored with its gently insistent lyricism.
The Finale, from striding cellos and basses to final blaze of glory, was memorable, despite the almost unavoidable choral strain. Bloom was authoritative in his opening invocation and all four soloists, headed by the silken-voiced Aivale Cole, impressed.
The ultimate triumph belonged to Stier, cutting to the very heart of Beethoven's symphonic journey, navigating seamlessly from sauntering Turkish march through Richard Greager's rousing tenor solo to the composer in full fugal flight.
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Cowell, Frank (1985) Limits to redistribution: a commentary. In: Neilson, G. W. and Enderby, J. E., (eds.) Water and Aqueous Solutions: Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Symposium of the Colston Research Society, Held in the University. Proceedings of the Colston Symposium,37(37). A. Hilger, Bristol, UK. ISBN 0852745761
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 2)     Include the whole family: Studies show that many families are eating together less due to the past-paced society that we live in. However, leaving children to develop a taste for unhealthy snacks such as potato chips, soda and fast food. If time permits, include older children and younger children in the meal prep process and allow them to have a say in what they'd like to eat for dinner3)     Don't be an "Old-Fashioned†Parent: Some of remember a time when our parents use to tell us to "eat everything on the plate, or else.†According to modern day nutritionists, encouraging children to eat everything on their plates has contributed to high rates of obesity in the United States. If a child says "that's too much,†listen to them and only feed them what they can eat.Â
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6)     Make Yummy Snacks at Home:Pre-packaged bars, cookies, dried fruit can increase a child's intake of sugar, preservatives and sodium. Expand your child's view of snacking by offering healthier, yet still tasty, options. As a "DIY†project, dehydrate apple, mango and banana slices with an Excalibur food dehydrator. Dehydrating food at home with kids will create a fun environment and also allow you to swap out those pre-packaged snacks for healthier alternatives.
7)     Lead by Example: Kids usually grow up eating what their parents eat. Become extra excited about the foods you are eating. Say words like "wow, this is so yummy!†and they will want a taste.


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For a trade-only event, the Mercedes Australian Fashion Week gets a lot of general media coverage and it's not hard to understand why, with frocks, sex, Paris Hilton and Chopper Reid on its official schedule.
Fashion's loud-mouthed lad, Wayne Cooper, provided the sex last night: "My show's 'Hardcore Deluxe'," he crowed.
"It's super-dark, undercover; it's about empowering women in latex."
It was also about empowering Cooper's highly successful international labels, with the much-publicised appearance of Paris Hilton among the po-faced beauties on his catwalk.
The stringy blonde wasn't the top shock of MAFW's first day, though. That title went to Chopper Reid, appearing for Melbourne label Vicious Threads in the final show. Several hundred local industry representatives got the awful joke - that selling fashion has come to this - but to overseas retailers and media, he was just another rougher-than-usual nut in Vicious denims.
Earlier, more respectable fashion shows relied on Aussie model Mink and supermodel Alyssa Sutherland - all legs and long blonde hair and fresh from shoots with Italian Vogue, US Elle and Ralph Lauren - to spice up their winter 2004 collections.
Sydney designer Justine Taylor took the first show slot with her meticulously draped and finely tailored separates. In the next, a group show, 1950s bombshell frocks by Camilla & Marc were a highlight, with layered polka-dot skirts gathered onto halterneck bodices.
The Azzollini label showed tiny skirts and slithery frocks in thin jersey and silk, often with knife-sharp assymetric hemlines.
Although MAFW has been harshly criticised by industry pundits about its timing, quality and relevance as a worthy international fashion event, its first day was a comparative triumph. Even in "The Source", the industry exhibition running in conjunction with the shows until Thursday, exhibitors such as West Australian designer Camille Fox, reported brisk business. "We had four overseas buyers come for a look before we'd even been here an hour," she said.
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My cat Michelle died from getting hit by a car so i think.... as my fiance was backing up he felt a bump and heardMichel
My cat Michelle died from getting hit by a car so i think.... as my fiance was backing up he felt a bump and heardMichelle scream. Michelle was a 17 year old dwarf orange tabby.we saw michelle running and lifting her left leg up there was no bleeding or any other injuies other than her left back leg she was kicking up. She ran to her favorite spot and her left leg was kicking still and it looked like she was gasping for air, she then put her leg down and she continued to gasp for air ( what felt like forever but it was only 2 min or less) what i want to know is did she did from her leg being hit, is it common for only the back left leg to get hit, is it possible she died from internal bleeding and why was there no bllod even after she died.
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I am so sorry for your loss and trauma. Without a necropsy, it's impossible to tell exactly why she died. The car may have crushed her insides and caused internal bleeding. Again, our sympathies to you and your fiance.
Izadore (Izzie) answered on 10/19/12. Helpful? / 0