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TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama basketball team drew a No.1 seed in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday and will play host to Northeastern on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2.
TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama basketball team drew a No.1 seed in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday and will play host to Northeastern on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2.
"Obviously, we're going to learn quite a bit about Northeastern here over the next 24 hours or so," Alabama coach Anthony Grant said. "We're thankful to have an opportunity to play."
If Alabama beats No. 8 seed Northeastern, it would play the winner of Stanford and Stephen F. Austin in the second round. Other teams in Alabama's bracket include Denver, Ohio, Niagara and No. 2-seeded Maryland.
Other NIT No.1 seeds include Kentucky, Southern Miss and Virginia.
The Crimson Tide finished runner-up in the NIT in 2011, losing in the final to Wichita State, 66-57 at Madison Square Garden. Junior point guard Trevor Releford was subsequently named to the All-NIT team as a freshman.
"I think he's the only guy right now that participated in that tournament two years ago, but our team did go to Madison Square Garden earlier this season and played Oregon State and Villanova in the 2K Classic," Grant said. "So our guys are familiar with that venue. But that's down the road. Right now the focus has got to be on getting prepared for Northeastern."
It remains to be seen whether senior Andrew Steele will be available for the NIT. A foot injury prevented him from playing in the SEC tournament.
"We'll determine that status as we move forward," Grant said.
Northeastern won the Colonial Athletic Association regular season championship and finished runner-up in the CAA tournament.
"The NIT berth extends what has been a special season," Huskies coach Bill Coen said.
Former Hillcrest High player Reggie Spencer is a sophomore for Northeastern.
Alabama and Northeastern have met only once before, an 88-73 Alabama home win in December, 1979.
Alabama reached the SEC tournament semifinals, defeating Tennessee in a quarterfinal before falling to top-seeded Florida on Saturday.
Most NCAA tournament experts believed UA needed a victory over the Gators, at a minimum, to earn a spot in the NCAA tournament.
"We felt like we needed to play our way in, and we weren't fortunate enough to do that. We're thankful to have a chance to participate in the postseason," Grant said.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University has received a $75,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation and become a member of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network, or KEEN program. The KEEN program's goal is to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students at selected private colleges around the country.
"Being a KEEN institution allows us to focus more specifically on entrepreneurial opportunities within engineering and within engineering courses," said Keith Buffinton, dean of engineering. "There is a lot of interest in entrepreneurship at Bucknell and nationwide. The Kern Family Foundation recognizes and wants to promote this strength in engineering."
The grant will help to support travel and guest speakers for Bucknell students interested in learning about an entrepreneurial mindset and what it means to think entrepreneurially as an engineer in the 21st century. It will also support faculty training and course development. As a member of the Kern Family Foundation's KEEN network of more than 20 institutions, Bucknell will be able to exchange ideas with fellow KEEN institutions through conferences and "dense networks" that foster close working relationships among institutions with similar goals.
Engineering success
Bucknell's KEEN program complements a number of efforts to explore the role of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship as part of the undergraduate experience. These efforts include Engineering 100, which requires students to develop teaching aids ("Gizmos") intended for elementary school teachers to help them illustrate basic engineering principles. || See a PodSquad video of Gizmos.
The University also helps students pursue co-curricular and extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities through partnerships including the Bucknell Student Business Plan competition; the student-organized Bucknell Business Leaders; the Small Business Development Center; the Bucknell Business Incubator; the Keystone Innovation Zone; and the Bucknell Innovation Group. || For more about Bucknell's alumni innovators, see the Bucknell Magazine article, Define Entrepreneur.
The College of Engineering has also expanded its resources with the Richard J. Mooney Innovative Design Laboratory, a workspace in which engineering students and faculty can bring their designs and ideas to life. The facility is the gift of Pam Mooney and family in honor of her late husband, Dick Mooney, a member of the Class of 1960.
"Thinking broadly, being passionate, questioning the boundaries of problems - not all of these characteristics are necessarily associated with a traditional engineering education," Buffinton said. "But these are some of the characteristics that we at Bucknell and the College of Engineering believe are essential to an entrepreneurial mindset."
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Although Jeff Sluman is a PGA Tour and Champions Tour veteran and a fair putter in his own right, he learns something every time he plays with Brad Faxon.
"You watch how he looks at everything, his body language, how he looks like he's confident he's going to make it, how he stays in the putt and really doesn't force anything,'' Sluman said. "Every putt looks like it's going on.''
Faxon and Sluman combined for 10 birdies and a one-shot lead in the Champions Tour's Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf on Friday. Faxon had seven birdies as the duo combined for a 10-under 62 in the better-ball team competition at the Club at Savannah Harbor.
"I felt like I rode Secretariat all day,'' Sluman said of playing with Faxon. "''All I kept saying was `Good putt. Great putt. Another one.'''
Champions Tour points leader Bernhard Langer and teammate Tom Lehman were next and will be paired with Faxon and Sluman in Saturday's second round of the 54-hole event.
Eight-time major champion Tom Watson and partner Andy North finished the opening round in a three-way tie for third at 8-under. Craig Stadler and Kirk Triplett also teamed for a 64, along with Tom Kite and Gil Morgan.
Faxon's renowned putting stroke, absent for much of the 2013 season, returned on Savannah Harbor's soft and slow greens. His birdies included four measuring 12 feet or longer with one of his shorter putts, an eight-footer, starting a run of five birdies in the final six holes. That birdie came on No. 13, a 595-yard par-5 that haunted the duo in their first Legends together last April. They failed to birdie that hole in six tries – three each – and ultimately lost the tournament by two strokes.
"I always have this dream I'm going to play 54 holes with Jeff and never help him,'' Faxon said. "We did a good job of getting both balls in play and a lot of holes we had two putts for birdie on.''
While Faxon carried his partner to the top of the leaderboard, Langer and Lehman's 9-under-par 63 was more a joint effort. Langer accounted for five of the nine birdies – two in the first three holes and three more at Nos. 16, 17 and 18 – while Lehman had his birdies in the middle of the round to sustain the momentum.
Langer, coming off his 18th career Champions Tour win last week at the Greater Gwinnett Championship in suburban Atlanta and an impressive three-day run at the Masters the week before. Lehman finished in a tie for second at Gwinnett and opened the 2013 Champions Tour season with back-to-back top-10 finishes.
Langer admitted he gave his partner "more gray hair'' during the ugly middle stretch. Given the "ham and egg'' play – when one struggled, the other picked up his play -Lehman came away encouraged by the low score.
"I don't know if either of us can say we played our very best,'' Lehman said. "It was a good partnership round.''
Since the Legends went to the team format in 2008, Sluman has finished second twice, third once and posted two more top-20s. Langer and Lehman defeated Sluman and Stadler in a playoff at the 2009 Legends while North and Watson edged Sluman and Stadler for the victory in 2008.


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A 53-year-old Beaumont man has been charged with molesting his stepdaughters.
Keith Hickman was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury May 22 for continuing sexual abuse of a child and aggravated sexual assault of a child, both first-degree felonies.
A Nederland man with a long history of drunk driving was sentenced to prison time Monday, April 21.
A Beaumont woman charged with financially exploiting her long-time boyfriend while he was in a coma has plead to a lesser theft charge.
Jefferson County's newest prosecutor was sworn in inside Jefferson County's Criminal District Court Monday, April 14.
Cory Kneeland, a 10-year prosecutor and 2003 Texas Tech University law grad, began his career as a criminal attorney in Hale County, according to a press release from the Jefferson County District Attorney's office.
Soon after, Kneeland was in Hardin County where he presented cases to a grand jury.
A mother charged with intoxication assault and a host of other charges stemming from a May 2013 collision appeared in court Monday, Feb. 10.
A veteran educator in Port Arthur was exonerated Wednesday, March 12, after a jury found her not guilty of injuring a former student.
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Russell Ray Bergeaux, 63, of Groves, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury Aug. 11, 2011, for aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony.
A Humble man charged with murdering his aunt in Port Arthur is set to appear for trial later this month.
Lawrence James Jr., 44, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury May 17, 2012 for murder, a first-degree felony.
It was a late night Tuesday, March 4, for candidates running for county offices after ballots in the Republican and Democratic primaries in Jefferson County had to be recounted, keeping many local politicians up past midnight while voting totals rolled in.
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See examples of many different types of bats and learn why it is important to understand and protect them. Study a bat skeleton, skulls, and preserved specimens of Utah bats!
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Several months back, we received from Children's Mercy Hospital an invitation to create a quilt square for a memorial quilt that will be dedicated at their 2011 Memorial Service. The invitation was set aside for many weeks. It laid on my desk for a while. Then I moved it to Kristen's room. Occasionally, I would get it out to check again on the specifications as I contemplated what to do for Kristen's square.
I really hadn't come up with any ideas that I liked. Then, earlier this month, one of my very dearest friends in this entire world presented me with such a precious gift...and the inspiration I needed. She used photos of Kristen to create the most beautiful little quilt. I know she spent hours and hours working on it, and each stitch was made with love. The moment I saw it, the tears came. Tears of gratitude, tears of remembrance, tears of joy.
This same friend dropped everything to bring Emily and Grace to Kansas City in May 2009 to meet their new baby sister. She took the only photo we have of all five of us together. She was the first person I called when we got the news that Kristen had coded during surgery. She dropped everything again to drive 4 hours to KC just because I
It seems only fitting that this dear friend would be the one who inspired me to create this quilt square for Kristen.
The inspiration gift quilt is pictured below. We've always (lovingly) referred to all our girls as "monkeys" and joked that Kristen had monkey toes because they were so long. The monkey print material was a perfect choice. Thank you, my dear, sweet friend for a gift that does more than provide a physical warmth. It touches the depths of my heart. ♥


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This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organisation's people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions. It harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results.
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Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas military chief, is the latest of a number of Hamas leaders killed by Israel in airstrikes over the past decade.
— July 2002: An Israeli warplane drops a bomb on the home of Salah Shehadeh, the head of the Hamas military wing, killing him and 14 others, including women and children.
— March 2004: An Israeli missile strike kills Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas spiritual leader, near a Gaza City mosque. Yassin, paralyzed in a childhood accident, was among the founders of Hamas founders in 1987, a few days after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising. Hamas is the Palestinian offshoot of the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood.
— April 2004: Israel kills Gaza's Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in a missile strike on his car. Two of Rantisi's bodyguards are also killed.
— January 2009: An Israeli warplane drops a bomb on the home of Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas figure, killing him and 18 others. The attack comes several days after Israel launches a three-week military offensive, against Hamas in Gaza.
— January 2009, an Israeli airstrike during the offensive kills Said Siam, the interior minister in Gaza's Hamas government. A missile hits the home of Siam's brother and also kills two other senior Hamas members.


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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Had a long talk with Charlene Testerman the other day, who lost her husband and life long team driving partner Leonard back in May this year in a freak construction accident at their home. She called me to say "thank you" for the condolence card I'd sent -- whereas it should've really been ME thanking HER for being fortunate enough to get to know them both.
I asked her how she was doing and wasn't surprised a bit by her answer -- while it's been tough not having Leonard by her side, she's back out knocking on doors looking to haul some freight. "It's been five months -- time to get going again," she told me. Good people are STRONG people, I've found, and Charlene's living proof of that maxim.
One of the things that struck me most in our conversation concerned the reaction to Leonard's passing -- from how the funeral home where Charlene had the viewing almost couldn't handle the hundreds of people who came to pay their respcts to the overwhelming amount of mail she'd received from all over the country. She's making a scrapbook from all of it -- along with photos -- about Leonard to give to her grandson, so that one day "he'll know something about his grandfather." I can tell you that "scrapbook" will be several volumes long before she's done with it, knowing how many lives she and Leonard touched over their driving career.
Charlene also had this note of surprise in her voice as we talked, as if she couldn't quite grasp how the two of them had become so well known -- for she and Leonard didn't consider themselves to be "super drivers" or anything like that. How could I explain to her that their goodwill, easy friendship, humility, and out-and-out kindness is something people remember, especially in trucking? That their simple yet profound belief in doing a good job every single time with smiles on their faces and in their hearts earned them coast-to-coast respect?
Charlene seemed worried that she wouldn't be as good a driver without Leonard -- something that couldn't be further from the truth. Any fleet would be foolish not to bring her on board and I said as much -- her decades of professionalism behind the wheel speaks for itself. But in some respects, Charlene's worries about going back on the road by herself are spot on -- I mean, what a comfort it is to know someone is right there, watching your back, when your parked at a dark truckstop overnight in the middle of winter, or stopped along a long empty stretch of highway for a break.
But she's going back out there nonetheless -- facing those fears head on. That tells you, I think, a lot about the kind of person (and driver) Charlene is. My only wish is that we had a lot more like her -- and like Leonard -- out on the road today.


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Carole King Joins Jessie Mueller for 'Beautiful' Performance at Tony Awards 2014! (Video)
The legendary Carole King joins actress Jessie Mueller on stage for a performance at the 2014 Tony Awards on Sunday evening (June 8) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
The performance started off with Jessie singing "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" before the actresses playing The Shirelles continued with the song. The leading lady then began the classic song "I Feel the Earth Move" with Carole and the full cast joining in.
Later in the show, Jessie won the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her work in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
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Unfortunately there aren't any whispers about either happening anytime soon, but I for one would really like to see both a new NBA Jam and NBA Street game on the current generation. While I do love the sim-oriented games, and want to see them continue to strive for more and more realism, I think there's always a place for two-on-two and three-on-three arcade-style basketball games. Beyond appealing to more casual sports gamers, I also feel they provide an entertaining change of pace every now and then for hardcore hoops gamers as well.
I feel the biggest challenge in both of them is to avoid the repetitive play that's plagued many of their predecessors. There are some classic Jam and Street games, but a lot of them come down to repeating the same strategy until the final buzzer, or hitting the target score: push the opponent to steal the ball, score, and repeat. To that end, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition changed things up with its Real AI, though there was still room for improvement there. I also think there would have to be a few different modes in addition to the campaign/tournament mode, like the mini-games that the 2010 reboot of NBA Jam featured, as well as the Remix games and their equivalents in OFE.
NBA Street Homecourt had a few RPG-like elements, with stats building and the ability to recruit players. I think that'd be something that would need to be built upon in a new Street game. While I haven't been a fan of the cutscene-heavy story approach in NBA 2K's MyCAREER these past few years, I wouldn't mind Street messing around with that concept.
For Jam, I'd also want to see more dunks. As much as I liked Jam 2010 and OFE, it felt like the players were always doing the same dunks. That's kind of true of the classic Jam games as well, but there were obviously more limitations there. If a new Jam game was to be made, I'd want to see a huge amount of insane dunks, including some stuff we've never seen in Jam before. Hey, maybe bring in Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon, and get them to do some mo-cap on a seven foot rim!


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Nemesis Rodimus wrote:Anyone seen the Universe Legends pack or Warriors From Three Worlds mulitpacks yet? I don's have many Mini-Cons - need more. I have Scattorshot, but it'd be worth it to pick up Repugnus and Ransack GTS. I'll look at the Walgreens if I can, but I've only seen ROTF and leftover Animated stuff here. Also, I'd like to find Legends Rodimus and Legends Bumblebee. A Deluxe Hot Shot or Smokescreen would be nice too. Also, I've never seen Ultra Predacon Bruticus around here. Oh, and our Target never had the Legends 5-packs or Dirge, Roadbuster, Springer, Ratbat two-packs. And I only saw Universe Vector Prime once, and I couldn't get him. I'd really like to have him.
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LOST Cybertronian wrote:Found 1ea. Kup and Scourge at Wal-mart on west Kellogg. Bought both but they are starting to show up.
soundwave85 wrote:has any of the rts or generations showed up at any of the t.j. max in Wichita.
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Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg was a landscape painter and an internationally renowned stage designer. In 1781 he invented the Eidophusikon, a mechanical panorama that simulated dramatic scenes such as shipwrecks and thunder storms. The Eidophusikon combined minutely detailed, three dimensional sets with a range of optical tricks and sound effects. The result might be seen as an early form of cinema, transporting audiences into exotic and breathtaking environments. The fact that shipwrecks were being recreated in this way gives an impression of the kind of sensationalism and wonder excited by these kinds of catastrophes.
This description of the Eidophusikon is taken from 'Wine and Walnuts', by Ephraim Hardcastle. The book consists of a series of anecdotal sketches, illustrating London life in the 18th century.


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Kelsey Wiese won the 100-yard backstroke to become the first women's conference champion in swimming for King University.
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – Junior Kelsey Weise (Gallatin, Tenn.) became the first women's conference champion in swimming with a victory in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 59.33 seconds at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships on Saturday. Wiese also finished second in the 100-yard freestyle on Friday with a time of 54.19 seconds in the final, just 0.12 seconds behind the winner. Wiese added another second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle on Saturday with a time of 24.65 seconds.
The women's 200-yard freestyle relay team of Wiese, senior Michelle Donihe (Chattanooga, Tenn.), freshman Rachel Fuller (North Augusta, S.C.), and senior Kelsey Copeland (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) finished seventh with a time of 1:44.37. Fuller finished sixth in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:21.80 in the final.
In the men's 200-yard freestyle relay, freshman Christian Knobloch (Auburn, Wash.), sophomore Jacob Morales (Wailuku, Hawaii), junior Alek Nochowicz (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.), and junior Taylor Horton (Conyers, Ga.) placed eighth with a clip of 1:31.25.
Freshman Sami Norman (Roanoke, Va.) finished eighth in the women's 200-yard IM with a time of 2:19.36 in the final. Norman also had an eighth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke (2:16.01) and a ninth-place finish in the 400-yard IM (4:55.77). Freshman Reynold Thibideau (Titusville, Fla.) placed 10th in the men's 200-yard IM (2:04.81) and 11th in the 100-yard backstroke (56.41 seconds).
In the women's 400-yard freestyle relay, Norman, Fuller, Copeland, and Wiese placed seventh with a time of 3:48.96. On the men's side in the 400-yard freestyle relay, Knobloch, freshman Quenton Lyons (Louisville, Ky.), Horton, and Nochowicz finished eighth with a clip of 3:23.46.
In the women's 500-yard freestyle, Fuller placed 14th (5:33.56) and teammate Jade Schroeder (Titusville, Fla.) finished 15th (5:33.96).
The women's 800-yard freestyle relay team of Norman, Donihe, senior Malorie McBride (Nashville, Tenn.), and Schroeder placed eighth with a time of 8:33.05. On the men's side in the same event, Knobloch, Morales, Nochowicz, and Lyons also finished eighth with a clip of 7:34.91.
Thibideau, Lyons, Horton, and Morales finished eighth in the men's 200-yard medley relay with a 1:45.73 clip. The foursome of Norman, sophomore Sarah Hennies (Scholfield Barracks, Hawaii), Fuller, and Wiese finished 10th in the women's 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:58.02.
As a team, the Lady Tornado finished sixth of 14 teams with 244 points. The men placed ninth of 12 teams with 136 points. Notre Dame College won the women's team title, and Wheeling Jesuit University took the men's title.
The ASC Championships was the final event for Tornado Swimming & Diving for the season.


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Inquiry Question
Reading 1: Daily Life at Montpelier
Margaret Bayard Smith, a friend and admirer of the Madisons, made several trips to Montpelier from her home in Washington, D.C. One visit was recorded in this letter:
August 4th [1809], Montpelier, Wednesd. even.
Mary Cutts, Dolley Madison's niece, lived at Montpelier for a time in her youth after Madison's retirement in 1817. Her memoir of her life there contains detailed descriptions of daily life:
[Mr. Madison's] house was the resort of the distinguished men of the time; foreigners, tourists, artists and writers failed not to visit himself and Mr. Jefferson....
Mrs. Madison soon fell in with the Country customs. Barbecues were then at their height of popularity. To see the sumptuous board spread under the forest oaks, the growth of centuries, animals roasted whole, everything that a luxurious country could produce, wines, and the well filled punch bowl, to say nothing of the invigorating mountain air, was enough to fill the heart...with joy!... At these feasts the woods were alive with guests, carriages, horses, servants and children--for all went--often more than an hundred guests. All happy at the prospect of a meeting, which was a scene of pleasure and hilarity. The laugh with hearty good will, the jest, after the crops, "farmer's topics" and politics had been discussed. If not too late, these meetings were terminated by a dance.2
Congressman George Ticknor described his impressions in a letter written during his December 1824 trip to Montpelier with congressman and famous orator Daniel Webster:
We were received with a good deal of dignity and much cordiality, by Mr. and Mrs. Madison, in the portico, and immediately placed at ease....
We breakfasted at nine, dined about four, drank tea at seven, and went to bed at ten; that is, we went to our rooms, where we were furnished with everything we wanted, and where Mrs. Madison sent us a nice supper every night and a nice luncheon every forenoon. From ten o'clock in the morning till three we rode, walked, or remained in our rooms, Mr. and Mrs. Madison being then occupied. The table is very amble [ample] and elegant; and somewhat luxurious; it is evidently a serious item in the account of Mr. M's happiness, and it seems to be this habit to pass about an hour, after the cloth is removed, with a variety of wines of no mean quality.3
After first visiting Monticello (Jefferson's Virginia plantation home), Margaret Bayard Smith brought her family along when she made another of her visits to Montpelier in August of 1828. The party was caught in a sudden rainstorm and became disoriented in the heavily wooded countryside:
Having lost ourselves in the mountain road which leads thro' a wild woody track of ground, and wandering for some time in Mr. Madison's domain, which seemed interminable, we at last reached his hospitable mansion....We drove to the door. Mr. M. met us in the Portico and gave us a cordial welcome. In the Hall Mrs. Madison received me with open arms and that overflowing kindness and affection which seems part of her nature. We were first conducted into the Drawing room, which opens on the back Portico and thus commands a view through the whole house, which is surrounded with an extensive lawn, as green as spring; the lawn is enclosed with fine trees, chiefly forest, but interspersed with weeping willows and other ornamental trees, all of the most luxuriant growth and vivid verdure. It was a beautiful scene! The drawing-room walls are covered with pictures, some very fine, from the ancient master, but most of them portraits of most distinguished men....The mantelpiece, tables in each corner and in fact wherever one could be fixed, were filled with busts, and groups of figures in plaster, so that this apartment had more than the appearance of a museum of the arts than of a drawing room. It was a charming room, giving activity to the mind, by the historic and classic ideas that it awakened.4
Questions for Reading 1
1. Who were some of the people who visited Montpelier? Why did they come? How did they describe Montpelier's main house and natural surroundings? the Madisons? daily life?
2. What kinds of activities did the Madisons provide for their guests?
3. Do the accounts allow you to visualize the house and the grounds of Montpelier? Which account is most helpful?
4. Why would historians consider these documents important?
1Gaillard Hunt, ed., The First Forty Years of Washington Society: Portrayed by the Family Letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906), 81-82.


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Beaumont/Port Arthur
The Beaumont Fire Department and members of the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) will trade in their fire hoses and jackets for serving aprons at the Tip-A-Firefighter fundraising event, held at the LongHorn Steakhouse, at 5920 Eastex Freeway in Beaumont on Thursday, June 9, from 6–9 p.m.
The Lamar State College-Orange Foundation has set Saturday, April 23, as the date for its fifth annual "Boot Scootin' at the Brown Estate" fundraiser. The evening will begin at 7 p.m. with a "social hour" and barbeque dinner that will be followed by dancing to the music of the Twangsters Union band. Guests will be seated under tents so that they can enjoy the springtime ambience and beauty of the Brown Estate grounds.
Friends and family of a Port Neches Middle School student who shattered his pelvis when he fell 30 feet on Nov. 23 are holding a barbecue benefit to raise funds for his medical treatment.
Nearly 500 diners enjoyed a "Fiesta Breakfast" from Casa Olé in Beaumont on Tuesday, Oct.
The Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Foundation kicked off their annual fundraiser, La Soirée, in grand style at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Garrett Peel on the evening of September 24, 2015.
A Dunk a Cop and Link Sale Fundraiser will be held at the Market Basket on Highway 105 in Beaumont from noon until 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 25, 2015. The event is being hosted by the Injury Prevention Coalition of Southeast Texas, local law enforcement agencies, the Texas Department of Transportation, and Zummo Meat Company to support our local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.).
The Beaumont Public Schools Foundation (BPSF), Inc. is holding their 21st Annual Fiesta Breakfast on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Crazy Jose's located at 6420 Phelan Blvd. in Beaumont starting at 7 a.m. and ending at 9 a.m. The minimum donation for a ticket to attend is $20, and that will go toward educational grants for Beaumont Independent School District staff and students.
Stable-Spirit is having a Flapjack Fundraiser on Saturday, May 4, from 8 to 10 a.m. at Applebee's Neighborhood Grill, 4375 Dowlen Road in Beaumont. Tickets are $5 for all the pancakes you can eat and a beverage.
Samaritan Counseling Services held its second annual "Shoot Benefiting the Children" clay shoot event at 1-in-100 Gun Club in Lumberton on Saturday, Feb. 9. According to Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas Executive Director Tracy Williams, 36 shooters participated in the event, which earned close to $7,000 for children services for the center. About 30 volunteers also showed up at the event from various local organizations.
Aaron and Summer Conn of Vidor were killed in what Orange County Sheriff's deputies deemed a "double homicide" Friday, Nov. 23. The young couple left behind three children. Aaron Conn's uncle Gary Rivette and aunt Sherry Dupuis are putting together a fundraiser to benefit Aaron and Summer's three sons – Tyler, 13; Trenton, 10; and Tanner, 6.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Chris Wondolowski had all the chances. Alvaro Saborio had all the goals.
Saborio scored twice in the final 20 minutes and Real Salt Lake kept Wondolowski, the league's reigning MVP, off the scoreboard to beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 Sunday night at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Saborio broke things open in the 71st minute by outracing two San Jose defenders to reach a looping lead pass from Joao Plata. The 17-goal scorer from 2012 then fired home from 17 yards with a strong right foot to the near post, cleanly beating helpless San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch.
RSL got their insurance goal when Kyle Beckerman -- making his 300th career MLS appearance -- found Saborio too loosely marked in the Quakes' box. The Costa Rican international swiveled nicely at 11 yards to tuck a left-footed shot inside the far post.
OPTA Chalkboard: SJ generate chances, but RSL find the finishing touch
It was a measure of revenge for the visitors, who lost all three matches to San Jose last year, including 3-1 and 5-0 road defeats in which they saw red a combined three times. RSL are now 3-0 in opening-weekend matches at Buck Shaw, having also won here to begin the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
The loss snapped San Jose's 18-match regular-season unbeaten streak at Buck Shaw, which dated to Aug. 13, 2011. It was also the first time San Jose went scoreless in a regular-season contest since a 0-0 in the heat at FC Dallas on July 7, a stretch of 15 games.
Wondolowski finished with seven shots, but could not open his 2013 account after tying Roy Lassiter's single-season MLS scoring record last year with 27 goals. The only shot he put on goal crashed off the crossbar, with help from fingertip push from RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando, who posted his 100th career MLS clean sheet.
The outcome was a marked departure from the first half, when the Quakes dominated play but couldn't come up with the goal they needed to take control.
San Jose nearly got on the board from three of their first four set pieces of the season, each time targeting Wondolowski. But the MVP's back-post header slid wide in the third minute, his full volley was blocked by Tony Beltran in the 14th and his half-volley a minute later bounced off the ground and, with Rimando's assistance, into the crossbar.
Wondolowski turned distributor in the 21st minute, one-timing a long pass from Ty Harden into the path of Mike Fucito, who had dummied smartly on the original ball. Though untouched by Rimando, Fucito's angled shot from 8 yards was pulled wide of the far post.
RSL flashed danger in the 24th when Luis Gil, set free by Robbie Findley, pulled the ball back after driving down the left wing and forced a punch save by San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch from 12 yards.
Wondolowski had one more first-half chance, scuffing a volley off Sam Cronin's looping ball in the 35th minute.
San Jose built a jury-rigged front line without injured forwards Alan Gordon and Steven Lenhart, pairing Wondolowski and new acquisition Fucito. Harden, picked up in the Re-Entry Draft, stepped in at right back after Dan Gargan -- another newcomer -- was held out with a strained quadriceps.
Real Salt Lake came to Northern California with a lineup depleted by injury as well. Playmaking maestro Javier Morales was unavailable, replaced by just-signed former Quake midfielder Khari Stephenson. With defenders Nat Borchers and Chris Wingert hurt and Jamison Olave traded over the winter, holdover right back Beltran anchored a line with Kenny Mansally, Kwame Watson-Siriboe and Chris Schuler.
San Jose next host New York on March 10. Real Salt Lake travel to D.C. United on March 9.


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Last week I recommended books for you to read about bullying. Today it's your kids' turn. Here are eight picture books that can start discussions and provoke questions. More than that, reading stories like these might just give your child new ways of dealing with bullying, if it should happen.
(*Book descriptions courtesy of publishers or Amazon.)
Lyla finds a great friend in Jamie on her first day of school, but when Lyla makes the cheerleading squad and a clique of popular girls invites her to join them, Jamie is left behind. Lyla knows bullying when she sees it, though, and when she sees the girls viciously teasing classmates on Facebook, including Jamie, she is smart enough to get out. But no one dumps these girls, and now they're out for revenge.
Hooway for Wodney Wat
His real name was Rodney Rat, but he couldn t pronounce his r s. To make matters worse, he was a rodent. A wodent.
When Camilla Capybara joins Wodney s class and announces that she is bigger, meaner, and smarter than all the other rodents, everyone is afraid especially Wodney. Read along with Wodney as he surprises himself and his classmates by single-handedly saving the whole class from the big bad bully r s or no r s.
Pinduli's mama has always told her that she's the most beautiful hyena ever. But Dog, Lion, and Zebra don't think so. Why else would they make her feel so rotten about her big ears, her fuzzy mane, and her wiggly stripes? Poor Pinduli just wants to disappear--and she tries everything she can think of to make that happen. Yet nothing goes her way. Nothing, that is, until a case of mistaken identity lets her show the creatures of the African savanna how a few tiny words--bad or good--can create something enormous.
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun
Lucy is one of a kind and Ralph loves to point that out. Lucy's defining moment comes when Ralph truly needs help. Because she knows what she stands for, Lucy has the courage to make a good choice. This charming story empowers children to always do the right thing and be proud of themselves, even when they are faced with someone as challenging as Ralph.
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Molly Lou Melon may be tiny, clumsy, buck-toothed, and with a voice "like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor," but she doesn't mind. Her grandmother has utmost confidence in her, and tells her at every turn to believe in herself. "Sing out clear and strong and the world will cry tears of joy," Grandma says. But Molly Lou's self-assurance is put to the test when she moves to a new town, away from her friends and beloved grandmother. During her first week of school, Ronald Durkin taunts Molly Lou Melon in the dull-witted but sharp-edged manner of career bullies, calling her "shrimpo" and "bucky-toothed beaver." Our heroine barely flinches as she systematically sets out to prove herself, and Ronald Durkin ends up feeling pretty foolish.
The Juice Box Bully
Have you ever seen a bully in action and done nothing about it? The kids at Pete's new school get involved, instead of being bystanders. When Pete begins to behave badly, his classmates teach him about "The Promise". Will Pete decide to shed his bullying habits and make "The Promise"?
Weird!, Dare!, Tough!
These three books tell the story of an ongoing case of bullying from three third graders' perspectives. Luisa describes being targeted by bullying in Weird! Jayla shares her experience as a bystander to bullying in Dare! And in Tough!, Sam speaks from the point of view of someone initiating bullying. Kids will easily relate to Luisa, Jayla, and Sam, as each girl has her own unique experience, eventually learning how to face her challenges with the help of friends, peers, and caring adults.
You're Mean, Lily Jean
Carly always played with her big sister, Sandy. They played dragons adn knights. They played explorers and pirates. They played mountain climbers and astronauts. Then Lily Jean moved in next door. Carly and Sandy are happy to have a new friend join their games. But Lily Jean changes everything. She decides they'll play house and orders Carly to be the baby. When they play king and queen, she tells Carly to bark--King Lily Jean demands a royal dog! Tired of being bossed around, Carly comes up with a way to teach Lily a lesson. With Sandy's help, can she turn a bully into a friend?
Have you used picture books with kids to learn about bullying? Which are your favorites? Comment here.


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HONOLULU (AP) — A tropical storm that rolled through Hawaii Monday and early Tuesday dissipated, leaving little damage and no reports of deaths or major injuries.
Flossie was classified as a tropical storm but then weakened into a depression Monday afternoon. Weather officials said Tuesday that it no longer has any real organization or well-defined center.
Flash flood watches were still in effect on Oahu and Kauai in the western part of the state, but by midmorning in downtown Honolulu, skies were gray with streaks of blue and scattered rain.
Utility crews were working to restore power to parts of Maui, where about 500 households scattered across the island were still without electricity. Fire poles and electrical lines came down, cutting power to some customers from Waiehu to Nahiku, Maui Electric officials said.
Maui Electric spokeswoman Kaui Awai-Dickson said power was expected to be restored later Tuesday for a majority of customers.
The outages caused disruptions in water service in Haiku, where wells were not running, Maui County officials said.
Earlier Monday night, lightning strikes knocked out power to the entire island of Molokai for less than an hour, while the Big Island and Maui saw separate outages affecting about 6,500 customers, utility officials said. Another outage affected 4,000 customers on Maui, but most were restored early Tuesday morning.
Awai-Dickson said the outages were caused by lightning strikes to electrical equipment and fallen trees.
Carolyn Sluyter, spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Transportation, said Kahului Airport had a brief power outage that caused a couple flight delays, but airports statewide remained open.
She said airlines were working to reschedule flights that had been canceled in and out of the state during the storm.
Shelly Kunishige, spokeswoman for Hawaii State Civil Defense, said the agency did not receive any reports of major damage except to an emergency siren on Maui that was knocked over.
Kunishige said the siren was already scheduled for regular maintenance, including retrofitting.
"It was basically knocked over," she said.
Haleakala National Park, the widely popular volcano destination on Maui, reopened Tuesday morning with officials cautioning that visitors might be delayed on trails and roads as crews cleared small tree branches and rocks.
Many state parks also reopened, though some parks in remote areas of the Big Island, Maui and Kauai stayed closed because of debris, flooded roads and other reasons.
Maui County officials said there were two reports of buildings being hit by lightning, but neither caused injuries or a fire. One strike at a home in Kahului bore a 10-inch hole through the roof and the back of the two-story house, causing $1,000 in damage.
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I am having trouble with Ovid'sArs Amatoria lines 5-6 and 15-16. We just finished Wheelock's in class (over the course of 2.5-3 quarters), and are assigning ourselves "real Latin." So, for this week we chose Ars Amatoria Liber I 1-262 and Metamorphoses 1-252. The Metamorphoses is fine - perhaps due to its style, but I really have little problem sorting it out. The Ars Amatoria, on the other hand...So:
curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis,
Tiphys in Haemonia puppe magister erat: (5-6)
"Which, translated roughly, I believe means: "Automedon was apt [skilled] with the chariot reigns [of Achilles], [and] Tiphys in Haemonia was [a] master of [to] the deck [of the Argo]."
What I don't understand is what "lentisque" is doing here. I believe "lentus, -a, -um" means something like "clinging, slow, sluggish, tough, lazy." This doesn't seem like the kind of adjective to apply to a chariot of Achilles.
quas Hector sensurus erat, poscente magistro
verberibus iussas praebuit ille manus.
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, even though I "get the gist." So the hand is Achilles', and Hector is about to know (feel, experience, etc.) it. What doesn't make sense is the case of the words "quas," "ille," "manus," and "iussus." If "manus" is plural, then "quas" would go with it - to "The hands that Hector, about to know [them]." But then "ille" wouldn't go with anything, except maybe "Hector." Also: "ververibus" and "iussas" - perhaps "that, having been ordered...for flogging [beating]."


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Dunn's 2 HRs, 5 RBIs lead White Sox over Twins
Dunn's 2 HRs, 5 RBIs lead White Sox over Twins
May. 15, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Last in the American League in hitting and scoring, the Chicago White Sox started to find some offense this week in Minnesota.
Adam Dunn's big bat has been a key part of that.
Dunn homered twice, doubled and drove in five runs, powering the White Sox past the Twins 9-4 on Wednesday.
The nine runs are a season high.
"Pitching obviously wins you games, but as far as the energy level and things like that, if the team is hitting, then the energy level will be up," Dunn said, adding: "Hopefully it carries over and this is the start of something good."
Dunn hit a pair of two-run shots for his 35th career multihomer game. He's hit three home runs in the past two games and has nine this year.
Dayan Viciedo also went deep for the second straight day, helping Dylan Axelrod (1-3) pick up his first victory this season. Dunn would've had four homers in the series if Twins center fielder Aaron Hicks hadn't made a leaping catch over the wall.
"He's a guy you're excited to see up. When he gets hot, it's fun to watch," Axelrod said.
Mike Pelfrey (3-4) was hit hard yet again, failing to record an out in the fifth inning. Dunn was the last batter he faced, delivering an RBI double that put the White Sox ahead 4-2.
The 33-year-old slugger hit both of his homers with two outs, in the third off a changeup from Pelfrey in an eight-pitch at-bat and in the eighth off Josh Roenicke.
"He's a strong young man and you throw the ball up there, he's going to get you," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Dunn is 8 for 28 with seven walks and two homers in his career against Pelfrey.
"I obviously didn't pitch in as effectively as I should have. He made me pay for it," Pelfrey said.
Dunn finished 3 for 4 with a walk and still has the third-worst batting average in the majors, at .156, for players with the minimum amount of at-bats.
But the White Sox didn't sign him to a $56 million contract to hit singles, and the 6-foot-6, 285-pound first baseman can still drive a ball deep with the best of them.
"He's been working hard all year to do what he does, and finally it looks like he's found something right. That's good because he helps everyone," said teammate Alex Rios, who scored three runs on a 3-for-4 afternoon.
Nine of Dunn's 20 hits this season are home runs. After leading the majors with 222 strikeouts last year, Dunn has fanned 48 times in 2013, another 200-plus pace. Houston's Chris Carter has 60 strikeouts, tops in either league.
For the White Sox, batting .236 with 136 runs in 38 games, both last in the AL, this resurgence couldn't have come soon enough. Dunn was pleased more by where the balls he hit, to center field and left, went than how hard he hit them.
"I've had a couple of those pitches in a couple of these previous games that I rolled over and hit to second base," Dunn said.
Rios has at least one hit in his past 10 games and is batting .390 during the streak.
"That's why he's batting third. He does a lot of good things," manager Robin Ventura said.
Axelrod finished 5 1-3 innings, allowing nine hits, three runs and one walk while fighting through a leg cramp in the sixth.
The right-hander struck out four, including Ryan Doumit and Oswaldo Arcia in consecutive at-bats in the fifth after Josh Willingham was hit by a pitch and Justin Morneau singled to start the inning.
Jamey Carroll and Joe Mauer each had three hits, and Morneau added a pair of singles on his 32nd birthday. Eduardo Escobar homered off Axelrod, Willingham drove in two runs and Carroll added an RBI single against reliever Matt Lindstrom.
Mauer's 14-game hitting streak is his longest in four years and the third-longest of his career. Morneau has at least one hit in his past 11 games, batting .422 in that span.
Pelfrey's hold on a spot in the rotation has been slipping. The right-hander, barely one year removed from Tommy John surgery, saw his ERA spike to 6.57, the third-highest in the majors among those with a qualified number of innings.
Opponents are batting .339 against him, also the third-highest in the majors. Pelfrey allowed eight hits, five runs and two walks while striking out three.
NOTES: Twins RHP Vance Worley's ERA (7.15) and batting average against (.379) are still worse than Pelfrey's. ... The White Sox sent 2B Gordon Beckham (broken left wrist) and INF Angel Sanchez (back injury) on minor league rehab assignments. ... Rios is a .372 career hitter at Target Field. His 42 hits here are behind only Miguel Cabrera for the most among Twins opponents. ... The Twins start a three-game series against the Red Sox on Friday, with Worley facing Clay Buchholz, who is unbeaten in six decisions this season. ... The White Sox begin a four-game road series against the Angels on Thursday. LHP Jose Quintana (2-1, 3.72 ERA) will pitch against RHP Jerome Williams (2-1, 3.06) of the Angels.


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LeBron James led a title-saving charge, and now his crown will be on the line one more time in game seven.
James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 on Tuesday night to extend the NBA Finals as far as they can go and keep their repeat chances alive.
Losing his headband but keeping his cool while playing the entire second half and overtime, James finished with 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, making the go-ahead basket with 1:43 remaining in the extra period.
Tim Duncan scored 30 points for the Spurs, his most in an NBA Finals game since game one in 2003, but was shut out after the third quarter. He added 17 rebounds.
Game seven will be here Thursday, the NBA's first do-or-die game to determine its champion since the Lakers beat the Celtics in 2010.
The Spurs looked headed to a fifth title in five chances when they built a 13-point lead with under 4 minutes left in the third quarter, then grabbed a five-point edge late in regulation after blowing the lead.
But James hit a three-pointer before Ray Allen tied it with another with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation.
James was just three of 12 after three quarters, the Heat trailing by 10 and frustration apparent among the players and panic setting in among the fans.
Nothing to worry. Not with James playing like this.
He finished 11 of 26, even making a steal after his basket had given Miami a 101-100 edge in the OT.
Before that, he was 12 minutes from hearing the familiar criticisms about not being able to get it done, from having to watch a team celebrate on his home floor again.
Then he changed the game and erased that story.
The Heat, who haven't lost consecutive games since Jan. 8 and 10, had too much defense and way too much James for the Spurs in the final 17 minutes. They are trying to become fourth team to win the final two games at home since the NBA went to the 2-3-2 format for the finals in 1985.
James came in averaging 31.5 points in elimination games, highest in NBA history, according to a stat provided through the NBA by the Elias Sports Bureau.
This wasn't quite the 45-point performance in Game 6 of last year's Eastern Conference finals in Boston, but given the higher stakes may go down as more important — if the Heat follow it with another victory Thursday.
The Heat were in the same place as they were in 2011 at the end of their Big Three's first season together, coming home from Texas facing a 3-2 deficit in the finals.
This is a different team. And oh, what a different James.
They said they welcomed this challenge, a chance to show they how much mentally tougher they were than the team the Dallas Mavericks easily handled in Game 6 that night.
James made sure they did, looking nothing like the player who was so bad in the fourth quarters during that series.
He was simply unstoppable down the stretch of this one.
Kawhi Leonard had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs. Tony Parker had 19 points and eight assists, but shot just 6 of 23 from the field.
The Spurs had one final chance down 103-100, but Chris Bosh blocked Danny Green's 3-pointer from the corner as time expired.
Bosh had said Green wouldn't get open the way he has all series — and he didn't.


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Forget about the results. Forget about the seven runs that Roy Halladay allowed, about the 11 baserunners, about the two home runs. The troubling thing about Halladay's rough outing against the Tigers today was the way he looked: bad. He struggled with his location throughout his 2 2/3 innings. His sinker was up in the zone. His slow stuff was wild. He walked four batters and hit another with a pitch. Virtually every ball that he allowed into play was hit hard, including a grand slam by Ramon Santiago that paved the way for Halladay's departure after 69 pitches. As Jeremy Horst trotted in from the bullpen, Halladay and pitching coach Rich Dubee had a long conversation on the mound. You can bet that Halladay did not want to leave.
Scouts had Halladay's velocity sitting in the 86-88 mile per hour range, which is right around the level it was at in his last Grapefruit League outing five days ago. The thing about Halladay is that he usually looks sharp in spring. His four walks today gave him six on the spring, tying a career high for Grapefruit League play. He has only allowed more than four walks in a Grapefruit League season once.
We are three weeks out from Halladay's probable 2013 debut. The Phillies are reaching a juncture when they have some justification for concern.


text: Conservation: Story Story Posted 08-09-2013 Youth Frogging A young frog hunter displays his catch at MDC's Discover Nature Youth Frog Gigging Clinic held July 8 at the August A. Busch Conservation Area in St. Charles. Courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. By: Missouri Department of Conservation St. Charles, Mo. — Florida orange growers could never imagine the cause for which the fruits of their labors were being sacrificed on a warm July evening in St. Charles County — to teach kids how to spear frogs. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) held a Discover Nature Youth Frog Gigging Clinic July 8 at the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area. A total of 16 boys and girls participated, ranging in ages from 11-15. They gigged a total 74 frogs and every kid who took part managed to bag at least one. "The clinic was a huge success," proclaimed Lincoln County Conservation Agent Kevin Eulinger. "Everyone gigged frogs and had a great time doing it." Eulinger organized the event with the assistance of fellow conservation agents from around MDC's St. Louis region. "Many of the St. Louis Region agents and I have a personal interest in frog gigging," Eulinger said, "and I wanted to share our interest with young kids, who probably would not get the opportunity to learn how to frog gig anywhere else." The clinic was free and began with classroom instruction covering Missouri Wildlife Code regulations governing frog hunting, as well as how to positively identify the creatures. Next, the kids were given an introduction on frog gigging gear and techniques. In order to hone their skills, each kid had a chance to "gig" oranges outside for practice until they perfected their technique. Leaving a grassy field smelling of freshly-squeezed orange juice, they next watched a demonstration on how to properly skin out a frog and prepare it for cooking. The kids were then treated to a light dinner courtesy of the Muddy Waters Chapter of Whitetails Unlimited, which included a sampling of fried frog legs, before they set out on the conservation area at sunset to gig their own. The young frog giggers split into five groups—each guided by MDC conservation agents, staff and volunteers—and dispersed into the night, bound for several lakes on the Busch Area. They were accompanied by their parents and guardians, and were equipped with headlamps, gigs and bags supplied by the clinic. A group of 16 youths, ages 11-15, poses with their frog gigging gear before setting out on a frog hunt on July 8 during a Discover Nature Youth Frog Gigging Clinic held at MDC's August A. Busch Conservation Area in St. Charles. Courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. For a few hours the beams of flashlights and headlamps pierced the darkness of the wildlife area to the careful sloshing sounds of first-time frog hunters as they waded along the lake banks. Now and again, the waters were broken by plunging gigs that were often lifted up with a bullfrog on their tips. "The most memorable part was the excitement the kids showed after they gigged their first frog," said Eulinger. "Another cool part was seeing the parents getting excited about helping their kids catch and clean frogs." A number of the young frog hunters were able to get their limit of eight frogs. The guides helped all the kids clean the frogs at the end of the event and they got to take home their harvested frogs. "I hope this experience helped the kids discover what a really cool part of nature frog gigging is, and will stimulate them to go on their own in the future," said Eulinger. Sponsors of the clinic included the Cuivre River Wildlife Management Association, Whitetails Unlimited, the American Rod and Gun Club, and Bass Pro Shops. Frogging season opened officially in Missouri on June 30, and runs until Oct. 31. Both bullfrogs and green frogs are legal game. The daily limit is eight frogs, with a total possession limit of 16. They may be taken with either a valid hunting or fishing permit by a variety of methods. More details about frog hunting can be found at http://mdc.mo.gov/fishing/regulations/non-game-species/frogs. Share This Story Next From Story Australia May Take in African Rhinos to Prevent Extinction Related Adventure : Posted 02-14-2013 Youth Spring Turkey Hunt in Kansas View Shooting : Posted 01-17-2010 11-year-old Durangoan World Champion Shooter View Comments Categories News Stories Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Everything Deer with Jeremy Flinn Behind the Badge with Carlos Gomez EagleCam Africam Conservation Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started


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Sometime last year, Spiritualized frontman, Jason Pierce, found himself in the UK equivalent of the E.R, the Accident & Emergency ward, undergoing treatment for double-pneumonia. It would be tempting to conclude that this brush with mortality inspired Pierce's latest album's worth of death-haunted sonic swells, Songs in A &… READ MORE >
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…farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
…you learn the hard way that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
…you discover that in July, it takes only 1 finger to drive your car.
…hot water now comes out of both taps.
All of those are true because someone's uncle checked them on Snopes. Really. Some guy told my friend that and somebody said he was honest.
When summer hits it is always nice to be able to retreat from the heat. This summer's escape was to Southern California to take a little sea cruise and hang out with some dear friends. And while I acknowledge that it was refreshing to drop thirty degrees from the Texas temp it was more refreshing to be with friends who are grace-misters. Yep, our friends Ed and Judy Underwood are like those giant misters you see at ballgames and amusement parks except they spray out acceptance, love and grace.
The time with them brought back memories of a song from Big Daddy Weave. The song is titled Fields of Grace and I love the imagery of the lyrics.
There's a place that I love to run and play
There's a place that I sing new songs of praise
Dancin' with my Father God in fields of grace
Being with fellow believers who love you as you are and not for what they want you to be feels like running in a field of grace. Telling trusted friends everything that is true about you and being loved even more is running in a field of grace. Sharing impossible dreams without fear of ridicule is running in a field of grace. Feeling the freedom to be exactly who you are all of the time is running in a field of grace.
There's a place where religion finally dies
There's a place that I lose my selfish pride
Maybe that is why the time with our friends is so special. It is about Jesus and not about agenda. It is about relationship and not about religion. It is about giving and not about getting. It is about community and not about control. Those are the things that make you want to dance and run through the fields of grace.
I love my Father, my Father loves me
I dance for my Father, my Father sings over me
And nothing can take that away from me
I am sure I will soon crash from this spiritual high. I know that life and broken washing machines (currently waiting for the repair guy) and other mundane hassles will try to steal my joy. But I hope I remember the joy of running through the fields of grace with our friends. The Message puts a little different twist on the familiar words of Jesus from the tenth chapter of John.
My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them real and eternal life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief. No one could ever get them away from him. (John 10, The Message)
So that is my focus this day. Life happens but I know this to be true. I love my Father, my Father loves me. No one can take that away from me because it is promised in God's Word. And even in this Texas heat I can worship and run through fields of grace. Even after someone emails me to tell me sternly that those statements above are not confirmed on Snopes.com.
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It seems the California Clasico has received a full revival on Thursday night, as longtime rivals San Jose and Los Angeles dropped their gloves and had an old-fashioned brawl, exchanging early and late blows in a 2-2 draw before at the Home Depot Center.
Landon Donovan's 90th-minute goal pulled the Galaxy even moments before what would have been the club's first home loss of the year.
LA made some changes to their starting lineup. Gregg Berhalter and Chris Birchall were on the bench to start the match. Berhalter had started every game since returning from injury on April 24 while Birchall had started every game except for the season opener against New England.
The changes were felt almost immediately. Barely 90 seconds into the match, Jason Hernandez lifted a ball over the top of the Galaxy defense and found Cornell Glen inside the area. Glen ripped a shot on goal but Donovan Ricketts dove and parried the ball away. The ball fell to Leonardo, who held off Chris Wondolowski. The Brazilian center back slid and tried to clear the ball, but left it on a platter for Convey, who buried it in the back of the net.
The goal was the fastest for both teams this season – San Jose had not scored an earlier goal in 2010 while the Galaxy had not given up a goal that early. It was also the first time the Galaxy had fallen behind at home this year.
Chasing the game at home for the first time this season, the Galaxy nearly atoned for their early mistake with a brief flurry around the 20th minute, but neither Juninho nor Edson Buddle could find the target.
In the 59th minute, though, the underside of the crossbar was kind to the Galaxy. Donovan got the ball near the top of the penalty area and slipped the ball to Todd Dunivant. With Gordon and Buddle near the six-yard box, Dunivant centered the ball and Buddle re-directed it on goal. The ball caromed off the crossbar but bounced across the goal line.
The goal was Buddle's league-leading 12th of the season and also his eighth career goal against the Quakes.
In the 72nd minute, though, San Jose pulled ahead once more. Convey swung a corner kick to the front of the goal and Ike Opara muscled his way to the ball. He knocked a shot on goal, but Ricketts made a diving save. Former Galaxy midfielder Brandon McDonald, however, was on the goal line and knocked the ball into an empty net.
Right on the brink of death, though, Donovan pulled the Galaxy even. Tristan Bowen ripped a shot on goal and Quakes 'keeper Jon Busch could only knock it down in front of him. Buddle tried to hit the rebound on goal but it fell to Donovan, who only had to push it across the line for the equalizer.
Scoring Summary:
SJ -- Bobby Convey 1 (unassisted)
LA -- Edson Buddle 12 (Todd Dunivant 1, Landon Donovan 11) 59
SJ -- Brandon McDonald 1 (unassisted) 72
LA -- Landon Donovan 3 (unassisted) 90
Misconduct Summary:
SJ -- Bobby Burling (caution;
Reckless Tackle) 53
LA -- Landon Donovan (caution; Handball) 70
LA -- Sean Franklin (caution; Reckless Tackle) 89
LA -- Juninho (caution; Reckless Tackle) 93+
San Jose Earthquakes --
Jon Busch, Jason Hernandez, Bobby Burling, Ike Opara, Ramiro Corrales,
Joey Gjertsen (Arturo Alvarez 53), Brandon McDonald, Sam Cronin, Bobby
Convey, Chris Wondolowski (Scott Sealy 67), Cornell Glen (Ryan Johnson
Substitutes Not Used: Javier Robles, Steven Beitashour, Brad Ring, Joe Cannon.
Los Angeles Galaxy --
Donovan Ricketts, Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, Leonardo, Todd Dunivant
(Eddie Lewis 77), Landon Donovan, Dema Kovalenko (Tristan Bowen 60),
Juninho, Michael Stephens, Edson Buddle, Alan Gordon (Jovan Kirovski
Substitutes Not Used: Gregg Berhalter, Chris Birchall, A.J. DeLaGarza, Josh Saunders.
Referee: Jair Marrufo
Referee's Assistants: George Gansner; Jeff Hosking
4th Official: Yader Reyes
Weather: Clear and 64 degrees
Attendance: 17,712


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An outstanding addition to the Golden Eagle backfield, Zack figures to play a prominent role in 2010...a bigger back in his position, he can run over defenders...great speed and strength...has used his time well in the weight room and increased his strength as a Golden Eagle...excellent receiver...solid player who knows the game well.
AT TECH (In 2009): Zack played in eight games
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PERSONAL: The son of Kelly and Regina Ziegler...birthdate is April 29, 1991...full name is Zachary Emanual Zeigler...majoring in business...spent a week on the Tech campus in June, 2008, as an American Legion Boys' State participant.


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Jig Journal: Shop-made Mortise Jig
You don't need fancy tools or a special machine to create a traditional joint.
By Glen D. Huey
Pages: 78-79
From the December 2008 Issue #173
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Reproduction furniture is my main focus in woodworking, so I think one of the most important construction joints is a mortise-and-tenon joint – and not simply the use of a stub tenon, but a full-blown tenon that ranges between 1″ and 1 1/4″ in length depending on the project and if there's adequate depth in the material.
Due to the number of these joints I make, I have a dedicated mortising machine. But if you need to create a mortise and tenon and you don't have a dedicated machine to use, whip up this simple jig from a few scraps of wood and use a plunge router, a properly sized guide bushing and an upcut-spiral router bit. (You can use a straight router bit, but an upcut bit lifts waste material out of the mortise, so it makes a cleaner cut.)
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Evgeny Morozov has written a really smart essay about gadgets that want to be really smart — on your behalf:
In 2010, Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette told an Australian news program that his company "is really an engineering company, with all these computer scientists that see the world as a completely broken place." Just last week in Singapore, he restated Google's notion that the world is a "broken" place whose problems, from traffic jams to inconvenient shopping experiences to excessive energy use, can be solved by technology. The futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal, a favorite of the TED crowd, also likes to talk about how "reality is broken" but can be fixed by making the real world more like a videogame, with points for doing good. From smart cars to smart glasses, "smart" is Silicon Valley's shorthand for transforming present-day social reality and the hapless souls who inhabit it.
But there is reason to worry about this approaching revolution. As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. Smart forks inform us that we are eating too fast. Smart toothbrushes urge us to spend more time brushing our teeth. Smart sensors in our cars can tell if we drive too fast or brake too suddenly.
These devices can give us useful feedback, but they can also share everything they know about our habits with institutions whose interests are not identical with our own. Insurance companies already offer significant discounts to drivers who agree to install smart sensors in order to monitor their driving habits. How long will it be before customers can't get auto insurance without surrendering to such surveillance? And how long will it be before the self-tracking of our health (weight, diet, steps taken in a day) graduates from being a recreational novelty to a virtual requirement?
Morozov encourages us to distinguish between devices that are "good smart," which "leave us in complete control of the situation and seek to enhance our decision-making by providing more information," and those that are "bad smart," which "make certain choices and behaviors impossible." But even if we can clearly keep that distinction in mind, how much choice will we have about which kind of smart to allow into our lives?


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My Highlights from Collective 2
Jim Walrod
Jonathan Nesci designs furniture with a clean, minimalist aesthetic. "I am informed by the work that has preceded me and aim to add a building block in the continually changing landscape of product and process," he says. The founder of HALE, an industrial design company based in the American Midwest, Nesci produces (usually matte-finished) monochrome pieces in industrial materials like concrete and metal. He derives his simple forms—as in the pieces from his "The New" series—from the observation of banal everyday designs; for "Nine "Variations" he created a line of polished aluminum shelves, chairs, and tables from elemental geometric shapes. Nesci's Library Bookcase, a minimalist, partitioned wall shelf, won Wallpaper's annual design award.
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Jonathan Nesci Takes Us Behind the Scenes of His Custom-Designed Italian Exhibition at Design Miami/
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im working right now the first time with VideoTextures in Blender.
I have right now a little problem, I know that my webcam is a Video4Linux2 Device - is it possible that it can work with the actual Blender Version?
I saw this post -> http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic. ... hlight=v4l and I thought - maybe there is already a solution for this? (Because the post is from 2008).
This is the Code that i use - is there something wrong?
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import GameLogic as G
import VideoTexture as VT
def init_world():
cont = G.getCurrentController()
obj = cont.owner
matID = VT.materialID(obj, 'MAvideo')
G.video = VT.Texture(obj, matID)
S1 = G.expandPath("/dev/video0")
video_source = VT.VideoFFmpeg(S1, 1, 25.0, 320, 240)
video_source.repeat = -1
video_source.scale = True
#video_source.flip = False
#video_source.deinterlace = True
G.video.source = video_source
#sound = cont.actuators["a_sound"]
#G.sound = sound
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By Michael Pineda
Rita Morris, former Wilson utility billing clerk, was sentenced to 30 days in the Carter County Detention Center on two counts of embezzlement Wednesday afternoon. Morris' sentence in full was five years deferred with 30 days in county jail.
Rather than make Morris serve her sentence immediately, District Court Judge Dennis Morris declared the sentence should begin at 8 a.m., Feb. 18. The allotted time will allow Rita Morris time to make arrangements for her children. Morris will also pay a fine of $1,000 with payments of $50 a month and restitution in the amount of $7,500 with payments of $100 a month.
Assistant District Attorney James Gilyard asked for a sentence of four years with all but four months suspended, district attorney supervision and 100 hours of community service in addition to fines and restitution.
"We requested a stiffer sentence, but we respect the court's decision," Gilyard said.
According to a state audit, Morris drew two checks on the city's general fund payable to "Morris" and cashed them at a local bank. The checks were written in the amount of $2,900 and $4,600. Morris acknowledged she "forged and cashed" the two checks in a written statement to the Wilson Police Department.
Wilson Mayor Frank Schaaf said he was disappointed in the sentence but was ready to move forward.
"I'm glad there is closure and the city can move on," he said.
Morris to serve month in jail
By Michael Pineda


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Believe it or not, I actually did find your joke quite funny, actually. Because female spiders eat the males, hence where black widows get their name. I don't know how you couldn't have figured that one out.
Snakes ARE lower than humans.
Well, maybe not an anaconda that's eaten a baby hippo and if I was laying beside it....
Why exactly are snakes lower than humans to be exact? What exactly did they do? Unless you are actually following religion, I don't see that lizards or snakes are anything more than animals. Doesn't really matter if an animal has fur or scales, you can still be friends with that animal. I have made friends with lizards and turtles before. I've even made friends with some of the insects, birds, and mice. I don't have a discriminating gene in animals, and believe all animals deserves a chance (although I wouldn't go near a predator that would eat me unless I was in a safe place, that is just being an idiot).


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Alexander Skarsgard: Joan's on Third!
Alexander Skarsgard crosses his legs and reviews some paper work while lunching with a mystery male in West Hollywood on Monday afternoon (January 11).
The 33-year-old True Blood actor was seen waiting for his food at Joan's on Third restaurant with table setting #61.
Alex is expected to attend this Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. True Blood is up for "Best Television Series – Drama" against Dexter, House, In Treatment and Mad Men.
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Well..it is Monday..getting back into the swing of things.
Ted Lilly on the bump today taking on Brian Mohler. Talk about an unfair advantage…how in the world is the Astros lineup not shifted to get Oswalt in this series? Anyways…we will be here chatting the game. Congrats again to Carlos Zambrano for the no-no.
Magic number is at 7.