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After defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush and ending 12 years of Republican leadership in the White House, President Bill Clinton emphasizes change and renewal in his inaugural address on January 20, 1993.
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On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated inside the parking garage of New York City's World Trade Center, killing six people. The next day, President Bill Clinton reacts to the event in a radio address to the nation.
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Homecoming 2013
This year's Homecoming weekend was choc- full of activities for alumni and students on campus and at Chicago hotspots. After a Leadership Circle reception on Friday evening, the event kicked into gear with a Blind Spot barbecue in ICO's courtyard. Saturday saw a full slate of activities starting with a 50 Year Club breakfast at the Hard Rock Hotel and wrapping up with the class reunion and dinner cruise on the Spirit of Chicago. A highlight of the reception included recognition of the 2013 Alumni Association Award Winners: Alumnus of the Year Award: Mark L. Showron, OD '81 |
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Each ICO student automatically becomes a member of the Illinois College of Optometry Alumni Association upon graduating, joining the largest constituency of alumni of any school or college of optometry in the world and inheriting a strong commitment to excellence in optometric clinical education. With an active network of over 8,000 alumni throughout the world, the Alumni Association fosters current and future alumni relations in support of the mission of the College. There are currently no annual dues to maintain active membership in the Alumni Association.
The Alumni Association is led by the Alumni Council, a group of 12 volunteers (10 alumni and 2 students) who have volunteered to serve the College. Meeting twice per year, and governed by their Alumni Association Constitution and Bylaws and Strategic Plan, the Alumni Council plans and implements programs and services to serve the needs of alumni and future alumni. The Alumni Association also presents awards each year to honor accomplishment and distinguished service in the optometric profession.
Proposed Revisions to the Alumni Association Constitution and Bylaws.
April 5 - 6
Iowa Optometric Association Congress
Enjoy casual fellowship all evening in the Illinois College of Optometry's Alumni Hospitality Suite on Friday, April 5, during the Iowa Congress. Held at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines, this event will feature complimentary food and beverages. Prospective students, current students, alumni, and friends are welcome to attend.
April 5
Practice Opportunities Symposium
This annual campus event features interactive small group discussions between students and alumni and other ODs; networking opportunities with private and corporate ODs; information about specialty practices, externships and residencies; practice management wisdom from experts in the field; information on practice opportunities available following graduation; optometric suppliers showing the latest products and equipment; and great food and beverages.
May 15
ICO Capstone Program
Fourth year students unite at this pre-commencement event featuring graduation rehearsal, award presentations, optometric recruiters and suppliers, cap and gown and yearbook distribution, and, of course, the traditional "around the world" buffet stations and beverages.
May 18
ICO Alumni Council Meeting
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May 18
ICO Commencement
Rockefeller Chapel from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (approximate end time)
June 26-30
AOA - 2013 Optometry's Meeting
Join us during Optometry's Meeting in sunny San Diego. On Friday, June 28, starting at 6:30 p.m., ICO will host an Alumni and Friends Reception. The event will feature complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages. (Check your official program for room location.)
September 19-22
Illinois Optometric Association Convention
Visit us in the exhibit hall at the Westin Chicago Northwest in Itasca, Ill., on Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21 and find out what's new at ICO. We're looking forward to seeing you!
September 26-29
Wisconsin Optometric Association Meeting and Convention
Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.
September 27
ICO Alumni Council Meeting
ICO Campus
September 27-29
ICO's Homecoming
October 23-26
AAO - Academy 2013
Join us during Academy 2013 in Seattle! An ICO Alumni and Friends Reception, hosted by Dr. Arol Augsburger, will be held at the Washington State Convention Center on Friday, Oct. 25 and will feature complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages. (Check your official program for exact time and room location.)
2010 Calendar of Events
May 22
ICO Alumni Council Meeting
On campus from 7:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
ICO Commencement
Rockefeller Chapel from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (approx. end time)
June 16 - 20
AOA – 2010 Optometry's Meeting
On Friday, June 18th, join us at the ICO Alumni Reception during the AOA in Orlando, FL. Hosted by Dr. Arol Augsburger, this informal event will be held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center and will include complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages. (Please check your official program for exact room location and time.)
August 27
ICO Alumni Council Meeting
On campus from 7:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
August 27 - 29
ICO's Alumni Weekend - SAVE THE DATE!
Don't miss this exciting weekend of events planned for all ICO alumni! Reconnect with old friends, see what's new at your Alma Mater, and enjoy the many attractions of the Windy City. Reunion years are: 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005. For more information, please contact Connie Scavuzzo, Director of Alumni Development, at 312-949-7080 or
September 16 - 19
Illinois Optometric Association Convention
Visit us in the exhibit hall at the Crown Plaza in Springfield, IL, on Friday, September 17th, and Saturday, September 18th and find out the latest news at ICO. The College will also be co-sponsoring the IOA luncheon on Sunday, September 19th, with welcoming remarks from Dr. Arol Augsburger, ICO's President.
September 23 - 26
Wisconsin Optometric Association Meeting and Convention
Join us at the WOA's Awards Luncheon on Friday, September 24th, at the Marriott Madison West in Middleton, WI. The Illinois College of Optometry is a co-sponsor of the luncheon.
October 13-14
Michigan Optometric Association's Fall Meeting
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November 17 - 20
AAO – Academy 2010
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Welcome ICO alumni and donors!
You are a valued part of ICO and we're here to help you stay connected to ICO news, upcoming alumni events and alumni services, information on how you can support ICO, and continuing education programs.
As a graduate of ICO, you are now a member of one of the most active optometric networks in the world. ICO has an active network of more than 8,000 alumni across the world. Here you can keep up to date and find out more about Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Association, as well as read current and past issues of ICO Matters.
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SO APPARENTLY, Nike went and made this clever little interactive video-thing on their YouTube page. Various hidden "tunnels" show up during the advert, but one in particular is of note: around 1:55 in, you'll see a brief split-second flash of some new Nike sneaker:
If you click the shoe, it turns all pixellated, and loads up...a Sonic 1-based flash game called "Sonic X Vapor". The controls are simple: You're constantly moving forward, spacebar lets Sonic jump/doublejump. Get rings, smash badniks, avoid spikes, etc. etc.--of course, you also get to pick up soccer balls to shoot at a line of Crabmeats for a 10-ring bonus. Also, Sonic's sprite was edited so that he's wearing the same shoes like in the picture above.
VERDICT: It kind of plays like a slightly more complex "Sonic the Sketchhog"; simple, yet surprisingly competent. My only disappointment is that SEGA let Nike use the original Green Hill assets, but used the Sonic 4 intro/Splash Hill music in it instead of, oh, maybe the nice riffs from Generations.


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A new report into search visibility within the travel industry shows that aggregator sites are outspending and outperforming brands in search results.
Stickyeyes' report focuses on the top mainstream online travel and tourism keyword markets with an emphasis on cheap and last minute deals.
The methodology looks at both paid and organic search results, tracking the number of times a brand appears in the SERPs (search volume), as well as the number of times it is clicked (click share).
It analyses the most common generic search terms for several different types of holidays, including flights, hotels, package, city breaks, skiing and coach holidays.
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Think about all of the stacked psiwheel exercises you did. Go through all of your practice logs and make note of all of the positive and negative patterns in your practice habits, yourself, your methods, and your results. If you find deficiencies in some of your abilities, such as your ability to make and program constructs, go correct that while simultaneously working on exercise 10: Triple stacked psiwheel. After you have completed this, you may proceed to the next exercise.
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Gifted by the Yozis with the corrupted Lawgiver Exaltations, the Infernals represent a new and terrible threat to the world and its Exalted defenders. Offered unimaginable power by the fallen architects of Creation to right their greatest failure, the Chosen of the Yozis operate with one shared goal, to transform Creation into Hell. Will the Infernal Exalted su... [click here for more]
Merchant princes and trader kings, masters of jade and emperor thieves; salesmen born with the trick of selling fire to the gods; genius tacticians and profiteers, hailed by the Fair Folk for their treachery; the Guild is the greatest roll of mortal merchants the world has ever known. For seven centuries the Guild has dealt in coins, chains, spells, and souls, confounding even the might of the ... [click here for more]
The world of Exalted has been reflected in the minds and stories of players across the world for over a decade. Now the mirror shatters, and White Wolf presents a collection of unique new visions of Exalted, shards of imagination to take your games through alternate realities, twisted histories, new genres, and even to the stars. In addition to re-imaginings of... [click here for more]
Bestowed with all the hopes of Hell, the Green Sun Princes are the newly anointed champions of the Yozis. Already the Princes begin to come into their own, demonstrating a wide array of terrible powers, some not glimpsed in Creation since the Primordial War... and some never seen before at all. But with all the might of a stolen Solar Exaltation at their fingertips, what need have the Infernals... [click here for more]
The fifth of five books dedicated to the supernatural locales of the Exalted setting, this supplement focuses on Malfeas, Hell of the Exalted world. Prison to the Yozis and their demon spawn, Malfeas is a twisted place formed from the very flesh of the defeated leader of the Primordials and containing the remainder of his vanquished cohorts.
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Karl August Aerttinger (German, 1803-1876)
Invasion of Persia by the Russians, n.d.
Invasion of Persia by the Russians, n.d.
Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection
The Munich painter Karl August Aerttinger was born in 1803. Little is known of his early training before he moved to Augsburg to study with the painter Klemens Zimmermann. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Munich, where he attended the art academy. He concluded his training with a stay in Paris in 1830–31.
After he was called to Vienna in 1846, Aerttinger painted portraits of the imperial family. During his travels in Hungary and Poland, which began in 1848, Aerttinger gained an introduction to the Russian general Paskievich. He traveled with the general's army for five years and completed many battle scenes recording Russian triumphs. In 1854, the artist returned to Germany, where he seems to have renounced battle scenes in favor of landscapes and genre subjects, which he continued to produce until his death.
This painting, dating from Aerttinger's period with General Paskievich, records a scene from an earlier battle in the RussoPersian war of 1825-28, likely the battle of Kirovabad or Ganja. Led by Paskievich, in 1826 the Russian army defeated Persia as an aspiring power and undermined British power in the East. In addition to the accurate depiction of the Russian leader and his troops, the painting explores the exotic costumes and culture of the defeated Persians.


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Since we moved into this neighborhood a few years ago, we've been under an teensy bit of pressure during the Christmas season. We learned that our neighbors like to put up lights. A lot of lights. Like the kind that can be seen from a Russian satellite orbiting the earth.
There's a little problem with this. Um…unlike the rest of the neighbors, we sort of really don't like to put up lights. I know. I know. Bah humbug but my husband and I don't find pleasure in standing out in sub zero temperatures with a pile of Christmas lights and a bunch of knotted up extension cords trying to figure out the "best" way to decorate our yard. I personally find sitting in front of the TV watching Seinfeld reruns with a gallon of wine in one hand and a vat of Christmas cookie dough in the other way more enjoyable. I also don't like when people spend countless hours decorating their yards with lights, plastic angels, and inflatable Santas – then neglect to clean it all up until the following June when the snow finally melts.
Anyway, just to give you a better picture of how our street looks — when one of our friends found out where our new house was located she said excitedly, "Oh…you live on the street that puts up all of those Christmas lights every year! You must be out there for days decorating! Which house is yours?" When we explained that ours was the dark, haunted-looking house at the end of the road she said, "Wow. That's your house? When I took my kids down your street and saw that house, I told them a bunch of pagans must live there."
Well, hardly.
But as things go, after that comment I found myself cracking under the pressure and added a couple of (tasteful) lit trees on either side of our front door. Then last year, I painstakingly decorated a small bush with one of those light nets you basically just unfold and carelessly fling over your landscaping. This year I added a few lights to another puny bush (or maybe it's a dried up weed, I'm not sure. I only know it's big enough to hold a string of lights) but I'm still was nowhere near the "festive-quotient" the neighbors have designated for our street.
"You need to get Floyd down from the garage rafters," I told Ron one Saturday morning. Floyd was the life sized (if you're 4 years old) plastic snowman we'd purchased about 15 years ago at a home improvement store. Floyd had been stashed away high in our garage behind boxes and containers since we'd moved into the house.
Ron pulled the ladder out, climbed up near the ceiling, and retrieved Floyd. I immediately went to work, wiping the webs and dirt off of his overly-jolly face and placed him "at attention" outside near the corner of our garage. I was pretty pumped about how incredibly festive he made the small area near the sidewalk look.
The next day I when I went outside to my car, I noticed Floyd was gone.
"What the…?" I looked around panicked, scanning the driveway for his whereabouts. I headed toward the front yard where I found him face down under a large pine tree. ""Ohhhhh….The wind must have blown Floyd under the tree." I pulled him out from under the pine, carefully brought him over to the house, and lovingly plugged him back in. "Poor guy," I said, admiring him for a moment before I got into my car and drove away.
A few days later, same thing. I went outside and Floyd was nowhere to be seen. I frantically checked the driveway, front yard, and even crawled under the pine tree. No Floyd.
I ran around one side of the house, then the other. It was then that I spotted Floyd. Weird. How he got as far away as he did was disturbingly strange. This time, he had come loose, rolled all the way around the house, across the yard, and toward the woods that border our back yard.
A bit miffed this time, I carted Floyd across our yard, back to his spot in front of the garage, and plugged him in for the third time. As a safety measure, I moved him closer to the house hoping that he'd be somewhat shielded from the wind.
A few mornings later, Ron went out to start his truck but immediately came back inside. "Diane, you need to come here and look at this." Even though I was still adorned in my Old Mother Hubbard-style pajamas, I followed Ron out to the driveway where he simply stopped and pointed. "He's really starting to bug me." Floyd was, once again loose, but this time he was lodged under Ron's truck. Of course, he was still wearing that smug smile. "He's a jerk," Ron said. "He's doing this to us on purpose now."
I personally was sick of the guy, myself. Why weren't other people's Christmas decorations blowing defiantly around their yards? Why were we the only family on the street that owned a snowman with an attitude? I am ashamed to admit it, but part of me was actually really beginning to despise him.
After some discussion about accountability and consequences, Ron pried Floyd out from under his truck and dragged him into the garage. We had given Floyd a chance to shine and he blew it. I hope he enjoys spending the rest of the holiday season staring at the dark corner in the back of our garage….unless of course, he somehow manages to get loose and pulls another stunt.
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I know what this may look like at first glance, but I swear…it's not what you think.
I was making my "famous" Hearty Chicken Wild Rice Soup (really, one of the only things I can actually cook) and had a bit of a mishap. I was transferring the white sauce required for the soup to a larger pot and…kinda missed.
No worries! The moment the dog heard my bloodcurdling profanity, she knew it was the cue to run into the kitchen to see what delicious goodies I had splattered on the floor. Fortunately, unlike the rest of the crew around here, she's not picky and actually loves the stuff I cook up.
And will you look at that? Moments later, the floor is virtually spotless. You could almost eat off of it, it's so clean and shiney (and sanitary)! I'm actually thinking about squirting gravy on all of my windows to see if she'll lap those clean, too.
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Just when you think you've seen it all, you step off of your treadmill at the gym and two rows behind you spot some guy going at it full throttle on the elliptical machine wearing a black leather jacket zipped up to the neck!! What the hell?! Now I've never seen anyone having a workout in leather except for Bono in concert who is always sweating up a storm in his leather jacket and pants. But he's a rock star! Maybe this guy is a Bono-wanna-be but come on, who wears a leather jacket to work out on an elliptical machine?
When I walked back to my treadmill to wipe it down after my workout, I noticed that the woman next to me was walking barefoot on the treadmill with her shoes neatly lined up next to the machine. Again, what is going on today?! I can see not wearing shoes if you are swimming or in a yoga class, but no shoes on a treadmill is rather odd. And yes, I have read the accounts of the new craze of running barefoot outside which supposedly helps prevent foot injuries. Ouch! I'll stick to my sneakers both indoors and out thank you. But what is worse? Going barefoot on a nasty treadmill or wearing Crocs or flip flops while lifting weights? I've witnessed both at my gym. Hopefully flip-flop wearers have a good grip and don't drop anything on a naked toe.
Since I'm being so judgmental today about what constitutes proper gym attire, I'll just continue on with some of the odd workout wear choices I've noticed recently. As always, there are the gals in full make-up, dosed with perfume in their expensive coordinated workout outfits. At least they are wearing shoes, albeit costly ones. At the pool a couple of times a year some poor man who is not training for a triathlon will don a Speedo. Cringe! Then there are those folks (men and women alike) who should just not be wearing lycra.
I always love the old men who wear their running shorts mid-thigh with their white tube socks pulled up to their knees. Occasionally (usually during a college break) you'll get some young and incredibly shapely girl clad only in her sports bra and lycra running shorts. She's usually paired with her beefy college boyfriend who keeps the gawkers at bay. Sometimes you can spot "youth" wearing their knit black skull caps and very loosely fitting shorts with their music cranked up louder than the already cranked up music blaring on the gym loudspeakers.
One of my all-time favorites is an impressively well-endowed woman in her 30s who runs sans sports bra on the treadmill. She rolls up her tank top, tucks it up under her breasts so everyone is in full view of not only her flopping chest but her roll of stomach spilling out over the top of her shorts. Not a pretty sight, but I see her dressed like that every time so she must be quite comfortable with herself. Maybe that's what it comes down to. What is your comfort level? Everyone's is different but some people certainly are more out there than others. But I guess it doesn't matter what you wear, as long as you are working up a sweat.
Now most members of my fitness club do adhere to the unwritten proper dress code, including myself. But I do have to admit that I'm one of those skinny girls clad in a running top and shorts who is frantically lifting weights to add some muscle weight to my slight frame. Yes, I've set myself up for this one so fire away . . .
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"Hey, Mom. We found a chair and it's a recliner…and it's really fuzzy. And it was free. And we thought we could use it when we wanted to play Airsoft…or if we need to chill somewhere. It's a good chair. So, yeah…call me back when you get this."
That was the voicemail message Noah left on my phone one afternoon when Ron and I were out running errands. "Eww…." I said to Ron after relaying Noah's message to him." I wonder where they found that chair. They better not have brought it home.' I didn't call Noah back and assumed that if I didn't give him permission to bring the chair home, it would end up at a friend's house instead.
A short time later, we pulled into our driveway and to our delight, we found a stunning, green chair (circa 1974) parked in the second stall of our garage. Noah and his friends were nowhere in sight.
We got out of the car to inspect it. "Gross," Ron said as we both stood gazing at it. The fabric was seasick green-colored synthetic fuzz probably made from a combination of polyester, nylon, and melted plastic. The piping along the front cushion had worn down to its pallid grayish innards, there was a hole in the back where a button used to be, and the handle that operated the reclining mechanism was hanging precariously by a thread. Taped to the front of the chair was a piece of paper with the word "FREE" scrawled across it in bold Sharpie lettering. As I sized the thing up, I could only imagine how many cans of Billy Beer, Cheetos, and episodes of "All in the Family" this chair had seen in its lifetime.
"Great…what are we going to do with it?" I asked my husband. "It's disgusting."
"He's going to bring it back to where he found it," Ron responded matter-of-factly.
When we went inside of the house, Noah was sitting at the kitchen counter eating a snack. "What are you planning to do with that chair in the garage?" I asked him point blank.
Noah paused long enough to look up from his Ramen and said, "Me and Jake and Eric are going to take it into the woods and shoot it. You know…with our Airsoft guns. It's cool."
"You need to take it back where you found it," Ron told Noah. "We can't have that thing sitting around here."
"I don't even remember what house we got it from, Dad," Noah said.
Noah explained that they had discovered the discarded recliner at the edge of some yard off the county road and they were so pumped when they saw it, they didn't pay attention to where they were when they began hauling it home. Now none of Noah's friends were around to help him lug it anywhere, anyway. And the clincher was that even if Ron did load the chair into our truck to help Noah get rid of it, our observant teenager didn't have a clue where it needed to go. What if they ended up chucking it in front of the wrong house? Try explaining why you're dumping a giant pile of green trash on someone's yard to the cops.
So, while we tried to figure out a cheap way to get rid of it, the chair sat in the garage. For weeks it sat. Then weeks turned into months. We walked around it. We parked next to it. We moved it across the floor a few times. We stored things like toolboxes or huge bags of water softener salt on it. Finally when Ron got tired of constantly maneuvering the thing around the garage, he pulled it out onto the driveway.
"You still need to get rid of that thing, " he reminded Noah again and again.
Noah's chair-hauling posse had been gone for months. The chair never made it to the woods, and to my knowledge no one ever shot it. Now outside, the green albatross endured snow, sleet, rain, and acorn showers. And yup…Greenie was displayed front and center outside our house on the driveway. We were quickly turning in the classiest family in the neighborhood but unfortunately, no one was jealous enough to sneak up and steal the chair.
I know you're wondering. Why didn't we just throw the thing out? Well, that would mean a painstaking call to our waste management service and a hefty fee to have it hauled away. I wasn't ready to fork out money to have trash hauled away that wasn't ours to being with. So, we just left it there, hoping that it would eventually turn to compost and blow away. But since it was made from some super secret 1970's indelible material, it didn't. The chair had pretty much become a lawn ornament and sadly, it had gotten to the point where I barely even noticed anymore.
A few weeks before Stella's graduation party Ron had finally had enough of the nasty recliner and handed Noah a crowbar, saw, and sledgehammer and said, "Go chop the chair up."
Noah was ecstatic about this idea and quickly ran to the driveway and set to work. After an hour or so of sawing, hammering, and prying, the chair had been broken down into bite-sized pieces that were easily dropped into our trashcan. The next day, Walters Refuse finally hauled ol' Greenie away. And the best thing about it was that we didn't have to pay anything extra to have it done.
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Good morning all and see there have been problems during the night and early this morning. Cam seems Ok, don't think it is a re-run of anything and managed to get the blog up but as yet no update. 2 fish again yesterday so Laddie continues to do a wonderful job and there are some great pics on the Wildlife Village blog of them both. Looks a bit windy but at the moment dry. Thanks to Sandra and Lynette for captures.
Nice to see you back Robert the Bruce and although windy it looks dry. Nice capture of Lady.
Thanks margobird, nice to see you too :-)
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Hi where is everybody today , I hope Sandra is ok. Lady got a huge huge fish in for dinner tonight, not nice weather at Lowes today but not as bad as poor EJ and Odin.
NiteOwl I hope you are also okay, strange silence here.
Hi All - sorry I've been MIA for days. Too much to do and nopt enough time to do it in. I've been checking in before bedtime though most nights so thanks to all for the posts, updates and wonderful photos.
I'm glad to hear she had a good meal earlier. All quiet there now, very little wind, Lady looks asleep, flat on the nest.
Evening everyone: Lady snoozing (I should arrange to have this typed automatically every night).
Laddie flies in; Lady is still asleep - oh she says - he's here already? Geez. Better stir myself - and off she goes. Laddie has a pre-egg-sitting flap and settles down for the duration.
Day cam is on
Laddie still on nest but looking very alert as if he's watching something; maybe wondering where Lady got too.
Well, nothing going on; Lady still out and about so I'm heading off to bed. Take care everyone.
My thanks as always...
As Annette observed laddie very fidgety, Now we know why,
He needed a quick 'Off the nest', but back in minutes.
Copyright Scottish Wildlife Trust
p.s. not sure if in the time of (photobucketing above) we have had a change over(7.40a.m.)
Morning all. Lady on the nest at 10am, it is looking very windy there, but at least it is not raining.
Got to go and carry on with my HW now, bbl.
Blustery and overcast at LotL. Lady on the nest.


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Sports Illustrated concluded its five-part series of its 10-month investigation into the rise of the Cowboys' football program by profiling former players who left feeling hurt, used and abandoned.
The last installment was published online Monday.
Previously, SI's series uncovered illicit payments, widespread academic fraud, a negligent drug policy and a double standard of treatment based on performance.
In the final installment, the magazine focused on what it considers the disregard Oklahoma State showed for players after their services were no longer needed.
Former Oklahoma State wide receiver Artrell Woods waits tables part-time and lives with his mother and her foster children. He told SI that he drinks too much alcohol, smokes too much marijuana and hangs with the wrong people. He thought he left those things behind when he went to Oklahoma State in 2006. Since leaving college, he is in constant pain from a back injury he got while playing for the Cowboys but does not have health insurance.
Others like Woods are in and out of prison, homeless, addicted to drugs, unemployed, and at least two have tried to kill themselves.
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A former Oklahoma State assistant coach who worked under head coach Mike Gundy said, "They're basically being used. Once they're no longer of any use, they're gone."
Between 2002 -- former coach Les Miles' first full recruiting class at Oklahoma State -- and 2010, 43.5 percent of the players enrolled at the school left before using their five years of eligibility. Miles currently coaches LSU.
Oklahoma State disputes the number because it does not include players whose careers ended for medical reasons.
Kevin White was part of the Cowboys' 2005 recruiting class that saw 36.4 percent of its members leave the program early. The running back appeared in 10 games as a freshman after he made the move to linebacker. An introvert, White said Gundy made fun of him and picked on him in team meetings. "You talk just as much as my four-year-old son," White said Gundy told him, "and that's not a lot." White also said an athletics staff member suggested that he see a therapist, who determined there was nothing wrong.
A year later, White was kicked off the team after he was a passenger in a car that got pulled over by police and searched. Everyone in the car was charged with marijuana possession except White, and the school reportedly had a history of overlooking drug charges.
Gundy would not comment to SI.
About two years later, White considered enrolling at West Texas A&M and needed a transcript from Oklahoma State. He said he was told that he owed hundreds of dollars for miscellaneous charges, including a sofa he had allegedly stolen from his dormitory.
"I got on a bus," White said. "How am I going to take a couch on a bus?"
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White works at a company owned by his uncle installing industrial battery systems at server farms and other places.
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After attempting suicide, Cruz said he became addicted to cocaine. He later enrolled at Division II Northeastern State in Tahlequah, Okla., and got sober. He currently teaches and coaches at a high school near Dallas.
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Wright has been in and out of prison since leaving Oklahoma State, mainly for alcohol-related offenses. He lives with his parents in Sweeny, Texas, and said he regularly attends substance-abuse meetings.
Herschel Sims, who came from an abusive home, signed as a running back with Oklahoma State in 2011. Coaches sold him on the family atmosphere the school provided but never asked him why he went from foster home to foster home growing up or searched into his background.
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