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Talk about full service. A haircut at Bennie's Back Alley Barbershop in Scottsdale is $16, a shoeshine $3.50, a shave $16 and marriage vows $75 to $100.
Weddings joined the list of services Bennie Guerra offers earlier this month when another barber's daughter and her fiance made getting hitched a hair-raising experience.
At around 3:30 p.m. on March 10, Lydia Sakiestewa and her fiance, Charles Crawford, walked into the shop after work and asked to be married. Sakiestewa's father, Abel, had been a barber at Bennie's for four months after selling his shop in Scottsdale. He and Guerra have owned shops in Scottsdale since the mid-1960s.
Although Abel is an ordained minister in the nondenominational Fourth World Ministry, he hadn't officiated marriage vows before. His 35-year-old daughter and Crawford, 46, thought they'd surprise the Navajo and Hopi tribe member with their unusual request.
"We considered going to Vegas for an Elvis wedding," Lydia said, "but we wanted something fun and spontaneous."
Lydia, who had never been married, said the couple wanted Abel to know how important he was to them. It was her fiance's second marriage. They didn't give him advance notice for fear he'd tell his wife, Lynda, who'd call other relatives. The couple wanted the ceremony to be as small as possible, Lydia said.
That raised some Cain with Abel's wife. "I was a little upset at first but I'm glad they did it," Lynda said. "They had to pick me up off the floor. I thought it was an early April Fools' joke."
Abel was on an ice cream break with Guerra in the back of the shop when the couple walked in.
"I wasn't too surprised that they wanted to get married, but it was like 'Right now?' " Abel said. "They really caught me off guard."
Brett Rickley, 21, a student at Arizona State University who stopped in for a haircut before work, was also surprised. He was eating a Popsicle and sitting in a chair waiting to be trimmed when the couple asked him to join Guerra as their witnesses.
"It was pretty funny," said Rickley, who was a first-time customer at Bennie's. "It was something I never expected. I was laughing and enjoying it all. Actually, it was pretty emotional and pretty touching."
Rickley, who said he'd return to the shop, is certain Abel shed a few tears during the ceremony.
"I was prepared to do it," Abel said. "They had the papers. There was nothing unusual about their service other than it was at a barbershop."
Crawford, who dated his wife for three years, had no problem with the site.
"We definitely dropped his jaw," he said. "It all turned out great. I love her and wanted to marry her, no matter where or when.
"A barbershop may not be the most appropriate place to get married in some people's minds, but it's our lives."
The Crawfords will have a ceremony for family and friends on June 3 with Abel officiating. Abel said he has married one couple — not in the shop — since his daughter's nuptials and would do it again.
"If they come in here wanting to be married, they will be," he said.


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This is a good thing. My weight has been up and down, up and down, since the first part of November. One goal was to get to 190 by my birthday, January 4th. Today I was at 191.8 so I'm getting closer. I don't understand why I so often sabotage my weight efforts but I'm back on task.
It is quite cold today and the roads haven't been cleared very well so there is lots of concelations outstate. It snowed some yesterday. I'm so glad I don't have to go anywhere today. Anything I need I can find in the skyway. My bones hurt from the cold yesterday and all I did was go from buildings to Baileys car. I don't know if Dawn will be coming today or not.
Success must be attractive. My team I'm a co-leader of is the Minnesota Vikings and there have been a number of new members. Some were new to SparkPeople too which is very successful. The Spark coming out probably attracted some new members.
I had a band adjustment today and again they decided no fill. I just love it when they all rave about how great I look and how well I've done. But get a little frustrated when they say no fill and I'm able to eat, eat, eat. They ask if I have any chocolate, milk products, or shakes and when I say yes that's my problem they say. I saw the nurse parctioner because last time I'd waited so long they had me see her. Then when I go back through the hall I see my surgeon and he's all excited, how am I doing etc. He wants me to see him not anyone else and to set the appointment early two months out because of what happened. He cares about me and wants to keep track of me. I'm probably the oldest he's banded. He always seems so excited to see me but he's probably just excited all the time. I admit I didn't push as hard as I might have because I'd seen a blog about having an unfill and that sounded nasty. I mean what happened from being too full.
Boot camp started Sunday and that's the day I went to the Vikings game. Dawn picked me up at 9:40 and brought me back about 4:30 so it was a short day to do things. Plus I got dressed at 5am because I was afraid if I fell asleep I might not wake up again. I actually never got back to sleep because I was so excited and got up at 7:30 and that's way early for me so I was sleepy tired. Then being out in the freezing cold and going up and down steps wore me out physically. So I wasn't really able to get into Boot camp although I'd checked the video on Saturday. I'm also trying to get the Spark book read and follow it's guide.
I've so touched by all the Birthday wishes I've received from my SparkFriends and of course my fantastic family. I am truly blessed.
Morgan bit me during the night. I think I might have kicked her first. She doesn't usually bite unless agravated. I was sleeping so she probably was too.
Gail said Rachel is coming over to swim so I bet Isaac will be here too. We are all going to take part in the St Paul Winter Carnival going to a SparkPeople rally.

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I'm a Christian, journalist, animal-lover, and outdoor enthusiasts. I'm getting married to my best friend and the love of my life this fall, 2009. I am so blessed to be loved by him!
I have two dogs, a cat, and two horses, and I love them deeply. I enjoy spending time outside with my animals. I love to be active and enjoy snowboarding, running, hiking, sport shooting, and horseback riding. I am happiest outdoors, and love to be camping, boating, sitting by the river, floating out in the pool, or rocking on the porch with a book. I love to read, write, quilt, shop!, and garden.
I'm really looking forward to moving in with my soon-to-be husband so I can begin my vegetable and flower garden, and set up my chicken coop. I love cooking with home-grown organics.
I've been fortunate to travel with my family and dream of traveling more. I love all kinds of food and am always up for trying something new. I LOVE to cook for people, especially my family. I am passionate about my family and friends and nurturing and growing those precious relationships.
I usually stick to recipes, but as I gain experience, I've been venturing out on my own, and coming up with my own creations!
I can't wait to go to Hawaii and try all the regional cuisine in September!
I love Asian foods: sushi, Thai curries and noodles, Vietnamese noodle dishes, Chinese dim sum, etc!
Fresh FRUIT! Especially mangoes, bananas, oranges, and peaches.
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Good ole Texan bbq and chili (no beans!).
Enchiladas. Fish tacos. Gorditas.
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Southern California authorities believe that two girls who vanished during a weekend sleepover are runaways.
Authorities used bloodhounds to hunt for 12-year-old Raylyn Bolt and 14-year-old Diana Tourdot, who are believed to have last been at Diana's home around midnight Saturday.
Riverside police Sgt. David Amador says people have reported seeing the two girls alone together Sunday afternoon near a city plaza and police believe they ran away from home.
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.- Four Hmong Christians, who organized and led weekly worship services in a house church in Vietnam's remote province of Ha Giang, have been sentenced to terms of 26 to 36 months for the vague offense of "disturbing public order."
The sentences were given in late March 2004, however the Center for Religious Freedom was only able to retrieve this information recently. The four men are now being held under harsh conditions of imprisonment.
Ly Chin Sang, 60, a Christian since 1991, was sentenced to three years. His son, Ly Sin Quang, 28, has also been a Christian since 1991. The length of his sentence is not indicated.
Vang Chin Sang, 56, a Christian since 1999, was sentenced to three years, and Vang My Ly, 24, has been a Christian since 1991 and was sentenced to 26 months.
The men were arrested in November and December of 2003. The accusations include holding meetings of 50 or 60 people over six consecutive Sundays.
All of the men are married with children still at home in Ha Giang province, which has been hit by an intensified anti-Christian campaign by the Vietnamese government.
The Center for Religious Freedom obtained three letters, written in March, by Hmong Christians, which give an account of the officials' confiscation of Vietnamese Bibles, an electronic keyboard, numerous personal effects, and money. The authors describe being threatened with fines unless they agree to abandon Christianity.
The center reported last month that the Vietnamese military had used drug injections in Lai Chau province to pressure Hmong Christians to sign statements recanting their faith.
Due to international pressure, Vietnamese authorities have recently begun to avoid referring to Christianity when making charges against believers, using the term "illegal religion" instead. The government recognizes as legitimate only Christians who were believers before the 1954 communist revolution.
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Cabin at Blueberry Ridge Farm
Wonderful getaway, with walking trails, wildlife and excellent bird watching opportunities. The house sleeps six and includes a fully equipped kitchen.
CITY: Hardin
Center For American Archeology
Located in Kampsville, the Center for American Archeology Museum is housed in the historic Kamp Store, offering a variety of exhibits focusing on the 10,000 year pre-history of the lower Illinois River Valley, the archeological history of Illinois and the history of the Kamp Store. Guided tours of the facility and excavation sites are available for groups of ten or more.
CITY: Kampsville
llinois River Wine Trail
Located two hours south of Chicagoland, this central Illinois wine trail features wineries dotted along the Illinois River Road Scenic Byway.
CITY: Pittsfield
Sprague's Kinderhook Lodge
Sprague's Kinderhook lodge is perfect for hunting parties, business meetings, or retreats. Home-cooked meals along with large meeting rooms, nestled in the heart of hunting and recreational opportunities in Pike County.
CITY: Barry
Hopewell Winery
Hopewell Winery opened its doors in 2007 in Pike County. The winery sits on an acre yard and has a banquet hall. Hosting corporate events, weddings, and other private events. At Hopewell Winery, we boast wine, draft beer and bottled beer and make sure to try our Candy Bar Chocolate Wine. Open weekends and located a half mile outside of Summer Hill, IL on Hwy 54 near Pittsfield, IL.
CITY: Rockport
Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area
With nearly 1,100 of its 1,380 acres primarily composed of oak and hickory stands, this area offers exceptional habitat for deer and squirrel, and is a good hunting area as well. In the winter, sight-seers ofter spot bald eagles along the Illinois River.
CITY: Griggsville
Bluffdale Vacation Farm
Bluffdale is an Illinois farm vacation dude ranch and bed & breakfast. Parent Magazine's "Top 10 Family Resorts in North America." Our family has been welcoming guests to our historic Illinois farm near Eldred, Illinois since 1963. Recreation activities include horseback riding, boating, fishing, swimming, hayrides, bonfires, sing-alongs and more. Bluffdale is famous for its generous home cooked meals with home baked bread, rolls and pies. Our luxury cabins, featuring a fireplace and hot tub, are ideal for romantic getaway weekend or honeymoon bed & breakfast lodging. Spring brings a wide variety of wildflowers and morel mushrooms. In fall the bluffs make a colorful drive and eagle watch from Alton to Bluffdale along the Great River Road, a National Scenic Byway. Check our website for rates and availability.
CITY: Eldred
Hammitt's Lakeview Cottages
Two-bedroom cottages with kitchens, living rooms, bath and shower, AC, TV, and microwave.
CITY: Pittsfield
Abe Lincoln's Talking House Driving Tour
Tune your vehicle's radio to 1650 AM or 1620 AM and listen to the history behind 14 homes in Pittsfield that have a connection to Abe Lincoln. Front yard signs also explain each home's historical significance.
CITY: Pittsfield
Country Fixins
Country Fixins Primitive Craft & Antique Mall is located in the heart of the deer capital of the US, as the county hosts thousands of enthusiasts year round. Over 40 dealers included, offering a wide variety of vintage, home decor, jewelry, and one-of-a-kind specialty foods for sale.
CITY: Pittsfield
James J. Eldred House Historic Site
Visit the James J. Eldred House, completed in 1861, and step back in time to view one of the most elegant residential structures in the region and an important surviving example of Greek Revival architecture. The home had fallen into disrepair over the years, but with the creation of The Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Association, the Eldred House has come back to life and is being painstakingly restored. The home is open for tours during the annual Greene County Days celebration.
CITY: Eldred
Collver Family Winery
Family-owned winery that features unique wines, great food, and hilarious dinner theater productions.
CITY: Barry
Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park at Pine Lakes
A beautiful 105-acre campground, with a 45-acre stocked lake. Enjoy free fishing, beach swimming, hiking, boat rentals, hayrides and more. Cottages and cabins are also available.
CITY: Pittsfield
Harpole's Heartland Lodge
Located in the beautiful rolling hills overlooking the Mississippi River. Hay rack ride and bonfire activites are included in lodge rates as well as 2 meals a day per person.
CITY: Nebo
Pine Lakes Resort
2 bedroom, 1 bath cottages are set along our beautiful 45 acre lake. Enjoy free fishing (no license required), beach swimming, hiking, boat rentals, golf cart rentals, hayrides, playgrounds, planned activites, and more.
CITY: Pittsfield
4 The Sport
Accomodations year-round, can sleep 8 with kitchen.
CITY: Nebo
Horn Valley Whitetail Lodge
Rural setting, enjoyable for hunters visiting Pike County.
CITY: Barry
Sue Cox Guesthouse
Guest house in a quiet, comfortable, rural setting. Two bedrooms sleep 4 comfortably. House furnished with all new items.
CITY: Pittsfield
Heartland Lodge
The only Orvis endorsed lodge in the state provides excellent hunting or relaxing getaways in the hils of Pike County. Enjoy ATV rentals, hiking trails, horseback riding, and outstanding home cooked meals daily.
CITY: Nebo
Baytown Guest House
This guest house sleeps six and includes a full kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, washer/dryer, central AC, TV, and the deck overlooks the bay of Mississippi River. Two night minimum charge.
CITY: Mozier
Thomas Benton Gray House Bed and Breakfast
Two-story, post Victorian home built in 1886 near New Salem by Mr. Gray as his family residence. It is a historic Illinois Centennial Farm rich in family history and tradition.
CITY: New Salem
Old Florence Hotel Guest House & Camping
Built in 1850 and retored in 2003, this three story brick building overlooks the Illinois river.
CITY: Pittsfield
Bert's Westside Flat
Located in a scenic rural setting, these accomodations in Pittsfield, are the perfects starting point to explore Western Illinois.
CITY: Pittsfield
The William Watson Hotel
Located on the square in Pittsfield, this newly renovated historic hotel features 14 rooms which include 5 suites. Built in 1833 for William Watson, the first probate judge in Pike County. Located within walking distance of shopping, dining and the historical court house.
CITY: Pittsfield


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- Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
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Belo Horizonte (Portuguese pronunciation: [bɛloɾiˈzõtʃi]) is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. Belo Horizonte (or "Beagá", as it is also familiarly known from the sound of its initials "BH" in Portuguese) has a population of almost 3 million, reaching over 5.4 million in the official Metropolitan Area.
The first settlements in the region occurred in the early 1700s, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s, in order to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais. At the present day, the city is well known for the contrast between contemporary and classical buildings, being in fact the location of many modern Brazilian architectural icons, most notably the Pampulha Complex. In planning it, Brazilian engineers Aarão Reis and Francisco Bicalho found their inspiration in the town plan of Washington D.C.
In the area surrounding Belo Horizonte there are several parks. The "Parque das Mangabeiras", located six kilometres south east from the city centre in the hills of the Serra do Curral, affords a view over the city. It has an area of 2.35 million m2, of which 900 000 m2 is native forest. The "Mata do Jambeiro" nature reserve extends over 912 hectares, with vegetation typical of the Atlantic forest. More than one hundred species of birds inhabit the reserve, as well as ten different species of mammals.
Belo Horizonte is a leading cultural center, with more than nine universities, a historical museum, numerous libraries, and sports stadiums. The city is built on several hills and completely surrounded by mountains. The constant rising and falling of the streets sometimes makes navigation a bit tricky, but the wide avenues lined with trees are always easy guidelines. The Confins International Airport connects Belo Horizonte with many Brazilian cities and also operates international flights.
Belo Horizonte is the distribution and processing center of a rich agricultural and mining region and the nucleus of a burgeoning industrial complex. Production is centred on steel, steel products, automobiles, and textiles. Gold, manganese, and gem stones mined in the surrounding region are processed in the city. Belo Horizonte is home to the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
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Belo Horizonte's climate can be classified as Tropical of altitude, with yearly average temperature between 9°C (48.2°F) and 35°C (95°F). The Köppen climate classification of the region is tropical savanna climate, (Tropical on high altitudes, humid/warm summer and a dry/cool winter). As a city located in the southern Hemisphere, Belo Horizonte's spring starts in September, its summer in December, its autumn in March, and its winter in June. Belo Horizonte is located about 300 km (186 mi) distant from the sea.
Even though inter-seasonal differences are not as pronounced as they are in temperate places, and many people believe that, as in much of Brazil, there are just two seasons (a hot and humid one from October to March, and a colder and drier one from April to September), there is a contrast between spring and summer, and between fall and winter.
The coldest month is generally July, with a lowest recorded temperature of -4.1°C (24.62F). The hottest month is usually January, with a highest recorded temperature of 35.4°C (95.7°F).
There can be problems related with low air humidity during August. The 852 m (2795 ft) elevation of Belo Horizonte helps a little in cooling the city, suppressing high maximum air temperatures experienced in nearby cities at lower altitudes.
Belo Horizonte's climate is mild throughout the year. Temperatures vary between 11°C (51.8°F) and 31°C (87.8°F), the average being 20°C (68°F). Winter is dry, and summer is rainy.
There are many notable Brazilian artistic groups which have their origins in Belo Horizonte. Grupo Corpo, which is perhaps the most famous contemporary dance group in the country, was created in the city in 1975, travel internationally and are acclaimed throughout the world. Giramundo is an important group, specialized in performing puppet shows. They maintain the museum of the puppets they created since their foundation in 1970, first launched a complete album in 1981, and has released 11 works since that year.
Another innovative artistic group is Uakti. They create their own musical instruments using materials like PVC, wood, metals and glass. The origin of their name is based in a myth by the Tukano Indians, and reflects the indigenous feeling present in their works. Many important rock groups were founded in Belo Horizonte, being among them Jota Quest, Pato Fu, Skank, 14 Bis, Sepultura and Tianastácia.
Clube da Esquina is a musical movement that originated in the mid 1960s, and since that time their members have been considered influent in Minas Gerais culture and have important artists such as Tavinho Moura, Wagner Tiso, Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Flávio Venturini, Toninho Horta, Márcio Borges, Fernando Brant and 14 Bis, among others.
Every two years, the city realizes the FIT BH, The International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte, which attracts artists from all over Brazil and many parts of the world. In 2006, there was an extreme sports event in Belo Horizonte with a slogan that became very popular in Belo Horizonte: "Eu amo BH radicalmente", or "I love Belo Horizonte radically."
The regional food and the "Cachaça", international drink from the State of Minas Gerais are the most top rated of this city.
Belo Horizonte has a number of museums, among them: Mineiro Museum, Abílio Barreto Historic Museum, Arts and Workmanship Museum, Natural History Museum and the UFMG Botanic Gardens, Telephone Museum, Pampulha Art Museum, Mineralogy Museum Prof. Taylor Gramke, UFMG Conservatory, Giramundo Museum.
Comida di Buteco
In January and February, a specialist jury selects 31 bars which, in the months of April and May, compete to see which one makes the best appetizers.
International Theater Festival
With the merger of two projects that would happen separately in 1994, one stage based, organized by the Francisco Nunes Theater, and the other street based, idealized by Grupo Galpão, came FIT-BH Palco & Rua. Produced every two years, under responsibility from the Belo Horizonte City Hall, through the Municipal Culture Office and the Association Movimento Teatro de Grupo of Minas Gerais, in the program there are street and stage shows, and also seminars, workshops, courses, talks, etc.
FID – Circulando BH
Between March and April, is the new performance program from FID aiming the wide dissemination of contemporary dance in the city of Belo Horizonte. It's the program that makes feasible presentations of groups from Belo Horizonte in their hometown. For this project the priority invitations went to the shows created by groups and choreographers living in the city of Belo Horizonte: Raquel Pires, Meia Ponta Dance Company, Camaleão Dance Group, Idéia de Dança, Cia SeraQue?, Gabriela Christófaro, Mário Nascimento Dance Company, Dudude Herrmann and Palácio das Artes Dance Company. The purpose is to take shows and other activities such as workshops, talks and video screenings to the less privileged regions of the city regarding access to cultural assets.
Tourism and recreation
Belo Horizonte has several significant cultural landmarks, many of them situated in the Pampulha district, where there are notable examples of Brazilian contemporary architecture. These include one of the largest soccer stadiums in the world, the Mineirão stadium, and the São Francisco de Assis Church, widely known as Igreja da Pampulha, designed by Brazilian Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer. In Pampulha there is also the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais campus, whose buildings themselves are important contributions to the city's architecture. Other notable Pampulha buildings include the Mesbla and Niemeyer buildings, in addition to the headquarters of corporations such as Usiminas, Seculus, and Telemig Celular.
In downtown Belo Horizonte, are located the neo-Gothic Boa Viagem Cathedral, the church of São José, the Praça da Estação (Station Square), which is an old train station that now is also the Museum of Arts and Workmanship, the Municipal Park, the famous Sete de Setembro Square, where an Obelisk built in 1922 marks the one hundred years of Brazilian independence from Portugal.
Near downtown, in the Lourdes neighborhood, the Lourdes Basilica is located, which is an example of Gothic Revival style. The Nossa Senhora de Fátima Church, in Santo Agostinho neighborhood, is situated in Carlos Chagas Square. Both churches are referred to as the Assembléia Church and the Assembléia Square due to their proximity to the state's legislative assembly.
Next to downtown is the famous Savassi region, known for fine restaurants and as a center of cultural events as well as the best of the city's nightlife. Many landmarks are located there, such as the Praça da Liberdade (Liberty Plaza), and its surrounding buildings, including the Executive Offices of the governor called the Palace of Liberty (Palácio da Liberdade), the first building to be finished during the city's planned development in the late 1890s. Last but not least is the "Rua do Amendoim" (Peanut Street), an example of a gravity hill, where parked automobiles appear to roll uphill, defying gravity. Whether this is an illusion or a magnetic phenomenon is left to the visitor to decide. Though most of the effect seems to have disappeared due to housing development in the area, many people still believe that the street is magic.
Another important landmark is Praça do Papa (Plaza of the Pope), located at a high point just south of the downtown area, with its spectacular view of the entire city. It is named for the July 1, 1980 visit by John Paul II, who held a youth mass there. Afterwards, he stood and remarked over the sea of youthful faces, "Que Belo Horizonte!" or "What a beautiful horizon!" The nearby Parque das Mangabeiras (Mangabeiras Park) boasts extensive wildlife, with an area so huge it has its own internal bus service. It is not uncommon for tourists to see monkeys and other animals, and a few people have even managed to get lost inside its woods.
As in the rest of Brazil, football is the most popular sport among locals. Belo Horizonte has two of the most successful teams in the country, and the city also has one of the biggest football stadiums in the world, the Mineirão, opened in 1965. The older Independência Stadium hosted a legendary victory of the United States World Cup Team 1950 in a 1-0 triumph over England. See England v United States (1950) and[23] Atlético Mineiro, which is also called by its nickname and mascot "Galo" (rooster) . Yet, one of the oldest football clubs in the city and was founded in 1908. Atlético Mineiro was the first Brazilian champion, in 1971, and has also won two CONMEBOL Cups (nowadays called Copa Sudamericana) and 39 State Championships. In spite of so much tradition, the team has suffered through very difficult times recently and was relegated to the Brazilian Série B. However, the club won the championship in 2006 and is back to Série A in 2007.
Cruzeiro was founded in 1921 by the members of the local Italian community. Cruzeiro has been one of Brazil´s most victorius clubs in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning 4 National Cups, 1 National League, 2 Copa Libertadores, and 2 Supercopa Libertadores, and is also the winner of Taça Brasil in 1966 and 34 State Championships including Supercampeonato Mineiro in 2002. The city is also home to América Mineiro, which has its own playing field, the Independência Stadium. It was a major team in Brazil decades ago, but passed three years striving to leave Brazilian League Série C. Things came worse at the beginning of 2007. The team was relegated to the Módulo II of Campeonato Mineiro and didn't even qualify for playing the Série C, being completely out of Campeonato Brasileiro.
Besides football, Belo Horizonte has one of the largest attendances at volleyball matches in the whole country. Crowds usually go to Mineirinho in order to watch either the Brazil national volleyball team or Minas Tênis Clube matches. Minas Tênis Clube is a sport association with various modalities. Besides Mineirinho, the clubs also plays on its own ground, the modern Vivo Arena. Both its male and female volleyball teams have already won the Brazilian Superleague of Volleyball titles. Belo Horizonte is one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for which Brazil is the host nation.
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My grandson and I want to know if the water cycle happens with the mini ocean.
How do the inhabitants in an earth biosphere get water?
Published July 18, 2014
If you build it, scientists and the public will come. That's the hope researchers are holding on to as they work to revive a defunct artificial ocean in the middle of the Arizona desert.
The ocean belongs to Biosphere 2, the glass-walled structure near Tucson, Arizona, made famous by human experiments in the 1990s. Eight people sealed themselves inside the facility designed as a self-sustaining version of Earth. The two-year mission was supposed to approximate how people would have to live and work on a space colony. (Related: "1994: People Migrate to Biosphere 2.")
Biosphere 2's original 676,000-gallon (2,555,894-liter) ocean was designed as a coral reef reminiscent of the Caribbean. But over the years, most of the coral died and a series of Biosphere 2 owners have considered draining the miniature sea entirely. Then the University of Arizona in Tucson took over the site in 2007, the latest in a line of efforts aimed at reviving the facility. After years of watching the ocean lie dormant, marine biologist Rafe Sagarin decided to turn it into a research and education tool.
He is in the process of raising funds, figuring out which animals he wants to populate this scaled-down version of the Gulf of California, and planning the life-support systems all those organisms will need. Sagarin doesn't see this new ocean as a self-sustaining system like the original coral reef was designed to be.
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The actual Gulf of California is intimately connected to the Sonoran desert around Biosphere 2, says the University of Arizona marine biologist. And Sagarin wanted to build a "regionally appropriate" habitat that would showcase the world right outside the glass-enclosed facility.
This "mini ocean" is about 60 feet (18.2 meters) wide by 100 feet (30.5 meters) long and ranges from a shallow rocky shore to about 21 feet deep (6.4 meters)—more than enough room for starfish, sea urchins, small reef fish, and bottom-dwelling sharks like the horn shark.
"We do have a deep and relatively open water section of the ocean," says Sagarin, so open-water fish—although nothing as large as a bluefin tuna—and sea turtles could also be possible tenants.
Charles Baxter, a retired marine science professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, would love to see Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) in the new ocean replica. These aggressive, curious squid grow to about four feet (1.2 meters) long as adults and live quite comfortably in the Gulf of California, says Baxter, who consulted on the formation of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which opened in 1984. (See "Jumbo Squid Flash, Flail in First Ever Squid-cam Video.")
"[The Humboldt squid] is your equivalent of the great white shark that can bring throngs of people and create a really exciting kind of visitor experience," he says. The Monterey Bay Aquarium periodically displays great white sharks in its Outer Bay exhibit.
The educational and public outreach opportunities have already started being realized. A new "ocean gallery" allows visitors a peek inside Biosphere 2's marine realm via viewing windows, and exhibits present the ecology and history of the Gulf of California.
However, Sagarin also sees his burgeoning ocean as a controlled laboratory for researchers and engineers. "I think it's a really good technology test bed," he says, especially for companies that have marine equipment they want to put through their paces, like remotely operated vehicles.
"You have the complexity of natural environments, strange topography, living things, a natural lighting environment, but it has all the control of a laboratory," Sagarin explains. "[So the equipment] is not going to get destroyed in a wave or a storm."
It will be years before Sagarin can get this ocean replica up and running, but he remains undaunted. "[This project] is a little out there, but I'm always invigorated by the fact that Biosphere is where big ideas actually get made," Sagarin says. "I just love that kind of audacity."
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While Biosphere is definitely cool looking from the outside, inside it's a dump. It was stifling and smelled weird. I live up the road and would not visit again, even if my out of town visitors begged me.
Doubt this will break Biosphere 2's perfect record of Fail
Maybe they can get Pauley Shore to help get it going!
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@Swiftright Right I do not agree with this assessment at all. There have been problems; however, there is still so much valuable data being generated that the University of Arizona extended its original 3 year funding commitment to 10 years. The original two year Mission 1 experiment went largely as planned, including devising solutions for problems as they arose - which was, after all, the entire point of the experiment; to improve our knowledge of aspects of the Earth's biosphere that needed such a large, and largely self-contained, environment to function as a test bed.
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The closed registry system is so nineteenth/twentieth century. This is what the dogs need now.
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Posted in dog breeding, dog health, tagged boxer, Brussels Griffon, corgi, irish wolfhound on September 20, 2014 | 6 Comments »
The closed registry system is so nineteenth/twentieth century. This is what the dogs need now.
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Posted in dog breeding, dog health, tagged dog breeding, dog registries, pekingese on May 12, 2014 | 18 Comments »
A pekingese with a profile like this:
Anyone who can say that dog shows are solely about selecting for improvements within breeding stock clearly needs to have their heads examined.
And even if we accept that some breeds do have functional standards, it is the same piece of paper that says the sleek German short-haired pointer is of breeding quality that also says the same about the deformed pekingese.
Why would anyone who breeds functional dogs want anything to do with an organization that rewards pekingeses, bulldogs, and pugs?
This is why I think multibreed registries really don't have much of a place in the future of dogs.
And if breeders of functional breeds had half a brain, they would walk out of these registries that celebrate deformity en masse.
What good is to say that you breed dogs to functional standard when in the ring next to you there are all these dogs struggling to breathe and cool themselves?
These dogs defame dog breeding as a respectable activity. They are not worth defending in the least.
Posted in dog breeds, dog health, dogs, tagged pug, pugs on April 30, 2014 | 17 Comments »
I am often amazed at what people think they are doing with dogs.
No one has demonstrated to me what is essentially an article of faith or at least a current mantra of the AKC-apologist set:
That breeding to a breed standard means that the dog is healthy.
And from what I've seen in the actual scientific literature, it's actually something that is probably not true.
At least not always true:
Now, if you're breeding a vizsla to its breed standard, you're really not producing any exaggerations that might cause the dog to be unhealthy.
But the same logic that produces the athletic and svelte vizsla– that is healthy because it is bred to a written standard– simply cannot apply to a dog like a pug.
A vizsla is a gundog. It was developed in Hungary as an HPR, and it actually prospered quite well during the communist years as it was the Hungarian equivalent of the German forester's drahthaar.
Vizslas, like many continental gundog breeds, were only recently allowed to be sold to people who were not hunters. Thus, through most of the history of this breed, it was always a performance dog that was bred to a performance standard that also was as much about the dog's behavior and aptitude as its conformation.
You cannot say that about pugs.
Or a lot of other breeds.
What use does a pug have?
Well, it's a pet dog. A pet dog doesn't have to bred to any sort of performance standard like a vizsla would be.
And this is precisely where things start to go off the rails.
In the case of a vizsla, a written standard has to have some basis in the real world.
In the case of the pug, it can be as convoluted as the human imagination will take it.
And that's the big problem with saying that breeding to a breed standard makes a dog healthy.
To breed a dog with as many health problems as pugs have that call all be traced to its various exaggerations in morphology is perhaps the most stupid thing we've ever done to dogs.
It's also unusually counterproductive.
The claim is that modern show dog breeders are selecting for the healthiest dogs ever, but this claim doesn't even pass the giggle test when you start looking at dogs like pugs.
There are lots of claims that pugs have ancient Chinese origins, and although I will admit they do have some ancestry from dogs imported from China, most of their development actually happened in the West, first in the Dutch Republic and then in the UK.
And it's in those countries that breed took on its current form.
In the early nineteenth centur, this is what an English pug looked like:
It's still a brachycephalic dog. And yes, it has cropped ears.
But it still has a relatively normal dog body.
And in 200 years of "breed improvement," we've produced a dog like the modern pug, which has too many health problems to elucidate in a single blog post. Almost every single one of these problems can be traced to its phenotype, which has been the result of human ignorance mixing in with human caprice and vanity.
The story of the pug is the story of everything that is wrong with dogs in the West.
It's a tragedy masquerading as virtue.
Breeding to the standard has done nothing good for the pug.
And these people ought to be ashamed of themselves.
But they aren't.
They twist it all around to blaming it on puppy mills and the mass production industry.
But that's nothing more than an obfuscation.
If the public were fully informed of the problems that come from breeding a dog with a muzzle like a pug's, I don't think the breed would have one tenth of the popularity it now has.
At the very least, there would be demands to change the standard or maybe bring in new blood to make a more healthily conformed dogs.
Of course, the bastards lambaste the puggles, which are not terrible idea. However, the entire puggle concept has been based upon a puppy mill economic model, so at least right now, it's a bit doomed to failure.
But that doesn't mean the concept is wrong. It just means that puggle and pug cross-breeding for health would have to take more human approach.
Because that's one thing the modern pug fancy doesn't have going for it– they really don't care about how much suffering they cause the dogs.
They delude themselves into thinking that if they just win ribbons, they are being ethical
Instead, they are breeding dogs that have obvious problems. These problems are obvious to anyone but a pug breeder, of course.
They've bought into the cult.
And there is no reasoning with them.
Posted in dog health, tagged dog health, Neapolitan mastiff on April 13, 2014 | 4 Comments »
I'm so sorry that this dog has now gone, but I've never seen a Neapolitan mastiff with such extreme (and very uncomfortable and unhealthy conformation).
It's sad when dogs die. They ought to live to be in their forties!
However, we have a moral responsibility to breed dogs that have a good quality of life. Dogs with eyes that hang open, very loose connective tissue, bacteria and yeast-filled skin folds, and flews that never stop dripping really can't be said to be living a good quality of life.
This dogs eyes were so severe that it was completely blind.
This is the kind of dog that is being produced through breeding according to its breed standard. This dog likely wouldn't have won any prizes at a dog show, but its siblings might have.
This is one of those dogs where "pet quality" actually meant "vet quality."
Posted in dog breeding, dog health, tagged closed registries, inbreeding, Inbreeding in Dogs on April 10, 2014 | 20 Comments »
Let's clear the air a bit.
When a dog breed is put into a closed registry system, it has been decided to create a population of animals that has a population genetics structure that resembles that of an endangered species. There is plenty of evidence that many very popular breeds have terrible genetic structures. In a 2008 paper in the journal Genetics, Calboli et al. performed an analysis of ten dog breeds in the UK, using Kennel Club pedigrees to determine effective population size. Effective population size tells you how big the population would be if a random number of individuals were put together that would have the same amount of genetic diversity as the population in question. The general rule for conservation genetics is that anything under 100 individuals is of critical concern.
The results went as follows:
Akita – 45 (effective population).
Boxer – 45
Bulldog – 48
Chow Chow – 50
Rough Collie – 33
Golden Retriever – 67
Greyhound – 17
German Shepherd – 76
Labrador – 114
English Springer Spaniel – 72
Shocking, eh?
Every one of these breeds is a closed registry breed.
All but one have very real problems with genetic diversity. Only the Labrador retriever is out of the crisis zone– and just barely.
If you read the paper, the golden retriever, which doesn't look as bad, has the worst problems with popular sire effects in its population. Only 5% of the male dogs in the UK population are sires, and for a popular breed, this is a recipe for disaster.
This is because even though these dog breeds have a genetic structure resembling that of an endangered species, they are not bred the way conservationists would breed endangered species.
With endangered species, the goal is to conserve as much genetic diversity as possible. The Chinese spend countless hours working to maintain what genetic diversity can be spared in giant pandas. Giant pandas, which are actually a primitive bear with no living close relatives left, have no populations for which there can be outcrosses.
You can't say that about golden retrievers, which would be greatly served with occasional outcrosses to their somewhat more genetically diverse smooth-coated cousins. The differences between Labrador and golden retrievers aren't that extreme. Both are derived from the same root stock. Both breeds share ancestors in documented pedigrees, and there was a famous cross between a yellow Labrador (Haylers Defender) to the Haulstone line of golden retrievers in the 1920's.
Not ancient history at all!
If we had a dog culture that was based upon reason and science, this would be a no-brainer.
However, this is not the dog culture we have.
The dog culture we have does two things that utterly gum up the works when it comes to sound population management principles:
1. Closed registries as dogma.
2. Competitive dog breeding.
The former is what creates the genetically compromised population. The latter is what exacerbates it.
Could you imagine the madness that it would be to breed giant pandas based upon a conformation standard?
But that's exactly what is happening in the world of dogs, and as I've noted before, it's not just dog shows that are causing this problem. Breeding choices that are based solely on trial performance do the exact same job.
Each generation of dogs that is bred under these conditions loses genes. Some of these genes might be pretty nice to have– like the gene that Dalmatians had for producing urine with normal levels of uric acid. This was actually lost to the entire population of Dalmatians before a pointer was crossed in to reintroduce it.
And it took decades and decades of fighting the closed registry dogma to get these Dalmatians into the breed. Even though they were very, very distantly derived from that pointer that was crossed in, the breed vanguards would not allow in the "mongrels."
Until it became impossible to say no.
Every single breed in a closed registry system that is being bred with under these principles is at risk for winding up like the Dalmatian. What's even more frightening is that as these breeds become more and more related through both popular sire problems and "line-breeding," it becomes impossible to control for genetic load. Dog breeders operate under the delusion that you can just select away from any disease just like you'd select away from poor conformation, which is why they go ape over every genetic test for a disease that comes down the pike.
It's not that these genetic tests aren't useful. It's that they do give dog breeders a crutch to hold onto. You can't talk about a better way to manage genetic load– i.e., let in new blood and selectively breed for better gene conservation– because everyone is awaiting the next genetic test to come along.
The problem is that the greater dog fancy is a culture that worships genetic plunder. Most of the effects of such pillage are not known while the pillaging is happening. During that time, a breeder might become rewarded with top winning dogs that may or may not have long lives.
But it is the next generations that the problems with gene loss and reduced genetic diversity start to become apparent. By then the breeder or breeders who plundered the genes may not even be around anymore.
But they have stolen from the next generation of dog owners and breeders.
It's that next generation who will have to pay the vet bills and watch their dogs die agonizing deaths.
And all because we have contrived up endangered species that we call dog breeds and then bred them in ways that make absolutely no sense.
No one wants to talk about this genetic plunder.
And no one wants to talk about the simple fact that this concept of closed registry breed is really a very new concept. A breed is not a species. And although there are breed differences, when we start talking about breeds that are closely related, the differences become somewhat trivial.
And it is at this point the dog world becomes a dogma– a type of religion.
Breed becomes a faith-based assertion, and the dogs suffer because reason is not the operating force behind the management of their populations.
Dogma is.
Dogma is not good for dogs.
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One of the great shibboleths in the dog world is that there is a creature known as the "responsible breeder."
Each person has a definition about what one is, but for many years, the biggest defining point was the adherence to blood purity cult. Usually this would be mixed in with all the delusions of preservation, as well as the delusion of improvement.*
The unfortunate thing is none of these things have much to do with the real world.
In the real world, crossbreeding isn't evil. It's innovation.
Take this nice post by Suzanne Phillips over at the Hoof &Paw blog.
In her part of Oregon, it's not unusual for someone to breed this:
This dog is a German short-haired pointer/Labrador retriever cross. It's basically a purposely-bred cross that mixes the ruggedly versatile German HPR wit the always popular, hard driving Labrador. Suzanne mentions that when a friend of hers bred such a cross people drove from hundreds of miles to pick up one.
Such is the reputation of this cross.
She mentions another variant of the cross in the post as well. This time the retriever in question is a Chesapeake, but she has been bred to a German shorthair.
It's hard for anyone in that old way of thinking to say that these were not well-bred animals.
Chesapeakes, Labs, and German shorthairs are all very useful animals. Not a single one of them was created through maintaining closed registries until very recently.
And even now, many people who want a useful dog don't pay much attention to the old blood purity rules.
That's because these blood purity rules are way outside of the average person's experience with dogs. Almost no one owns a dog that is very tightly bred, and virtually everyone in the public would be repulsed by the idea.
Many people talk about the reason why the American Kennel Club is in such terrible financial straight. Animal rights activist get the blame. The puppy mill paper mills get their share, too.
But I think the real problem is that the American Kennel Club, though it is headquartered in the United States and always has been, is really a foreign institution.
Its values were imported from Great Britain at the height of its imperialist glory. As strange as it sounds today, most Americans were very anti-British during most the nineteenth century. Britain had burned down our capital. It allowed the Confederacy to have the delusion that it was on the side of their rebellion. It was also a major competitor in the Northwest. Plus, tons of Americans were Irish famine refugees.
As America grew wealthier, wealthy and upper middle class Americans began to emulate the British Empire. Some of the first retriever trials in America were held on Long Island. Labradors were the breed of choice, and they were run almost exactly as they were in the mother country.
Meanwhile, American market duck hunters were blasting away with punt guns and heavy shotguns at vast flocks waterfowl. Their hardy "Chesapeake duck dogs," water spaniels, and retrieving setters were earning their money. The backwoods market hunters were treeing grouse and turkeys with curs and feists. And very few of these people gave a rat's behind about the pedigree of the dog.
In fact, most Americans didn't care for this nonsense at all. The most common dog in much of the country was the generalist farm collie, usually called "a shepherd," which did some light herding work and hunted everything it was asked to.
None of these dog were maintained within a concept of a "fancy." There might be shows for foxhounds, coonhounds, and beagles, but every single dog in those shows was also a performance hound. And none of these dogs was kept in a true closed registry, and even now, pack hounds are still crossed on a routine basis.
But they are outside the AKC, and they are also outside the UKC.
Americans bred dogs to perform. In the early days of settlement, vast numbers of dogs couldn't be imported from Europe. Our dog culture became based upon what can survive and what could do multiple tasks well.
The British dog culture was about specialization and arbitrarily classifying things based upon color and coat and size.
It became well-established among "learned circles" that American dogs, like our livestock, were in desperate need of improvement. From the 1870's onward, there has been attempt to bring America the glories of canine improvement through closed registry breeding.
And it's been a colossal failure.
It came closest to success in the middle to late part of the twentieth century, when the burgeoning middle class that had grown up out of the Second World War began to own purebred dogs as status symbol. It's at this time that my own family got their first AKC dog, a registered rough collie named "Cam." Cam produced more than a few litters of collie-foxhounds, which were then quite in demand in West Virginia as varmint dogs.
I've noticed that when most laypeople watch dog shows, they only want their favorite breeds to win. They want to see the golden retriever go BIS at Westminster. They don't care about the rare breeds. They are curiosities, novelties to be looked as if one were looking artifacts in a museum.
And that may be too charitable for some breeds.
I'm sure the untrained eye sees many of the really exaggerated dogs as creatures best belong in a freak show.
And of course, one really can't argue with them.
Many progressive people rightly complain about how Americans have never adopted certain European ideals, but the notion of a national kennel registry to tell us how to breed dogs is one I'm glad we've never fully accepted.
So long as a dog fancy remains this insular, very foreign, and reactionary clique, the American people are going to ignore what these people say.
And buy gun dogs like these.
And doodles.
And Texas heelers.
After all, this culture produces good dogs.
And the dog fancy continues to produce freaks– many of which are unhealthy and very hard to care for.
This is how market economies work. There is failure, and there is success. The dog fancy has been a failure in the United States– and our dogs stand a much better chance because of it.
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- 0Jan 1, '13 by 053108The company I worked for does rehire however since it was a staffing agency they probably can't hire me since I was an aid and I will be graduating in May of this year. I was thinking maybe that is why they put ineligible for rehire?? Also, you have to be a nurse for 2 years before you can work for them so I wouldn't be able to go back to them. When I was contacted, I was told I was ineligible for rehire by the whole company, not just the staffing agency. So, I have contacted HR. I am waiting until after the first for a reply and if I don't get one, I will go talk to them in person. I have contacted by email and voicemail since they are out of office.
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Throw the ultimate DJ dance party
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To throw the ultimate DJ dance Party at Club Rubb, select the phone and go all the way to the bottom to "Throw Party". When your guests arrive, in about thirty seconds, one of the Sims will say something. After that, choose the DJ Booth and "Spin". Then the Sim who said something before will say, "Club Rubb is Da Booommmmbbbbbb!". It will confirm that the goal is complete.
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