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Ron Paul campaign responds to controversy
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, June 11, 2012
After a weekend of rage amongst Ron Paul supporters over Rand Paul's endorsement of Mitt Romney, the Ron Paul campaign has issued its first quasi-official response to the controversy in the form of a video blog by Jack Hunter which argues that the endorsement is a political move designed to position the Kentucky Senator for a presidential run in 2016.
Although Hunter makes it clear the ideas are his own, the fact that his video blog is featured as the top story on the official Ron Paul 2012 campaign website clearly suggests that the views expressed are a representation of the Ron Paul team, for whom Hunter is a frequent contributor.
Entitled Why Rand Was Right To Endorse Romney, Hunter points out that Rand Paul has always stated that he would endorse the Republican nominee and only did so when Ron Paul conceded.
Hunter explains that as the "liberty candidate with the highest probability of becoming president," Rand Paul was mandated to endorse Romney because if he didn't and Obama won re-election, Rand could be easily dismissed and derided by other Republican candidates during a hypothetical 2016 presidential campaign.
"If Rand had not endorsed Romney in 2012, every single Republican in that race would use his non-endorsement to bash Senator Paul relentlessly," argues Hunter, adding that Paul would be blamed for Obama achieving a second term in office.
Should Rand Paul be victorious in securing the 2016 Republican nomination and go on to become president, "Will anyone care if Rand Paul endorsed Mitt Romney for president in 2012," asks Hunter.
Similarly, Hunter argues that if Mitt Romney won, Rand would have more leverage to become a strong critic and a rallying point for other tea party lawmakers should Romney become a George W. Bush 2.0.
"There is no shame is compromising politically to advance principles, but we can never compromise our principles to simply advance politically," states Hunter, noting that Senator Paul's voting record is consistently pro-liberty.
However, judging by the heated reaction from thousands of Ron Paul supporters, the act of endorsing Romney alone, whose record clearly betrays him to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, already signifies that Rand Paul has compromised his principles.
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Radio host Alex Jones, whose listeners were responsible for the very first tea party groups which rallied around Ron Paul's first presidential campaign back in 2007, said he understood the political argument behind the endorsement but feared the Pauls were making the wrong decision.
"Although I was initially very hurt and angry, I understand politically why this decision was taken. The source of my real anger and disgust is the corrupt political process itself," said Jones.
"People love Ron Paul because he never compromised his principles – it's about principles not politics."
"America needs principles because compromised politics has got us to where we are today."
Pointing out that it was "delusional" to think that Ron Paul was not involved in Rand's decision, Jones believes the move is a miscalculation.
"The Pauls are an ally for liberty in government but their decision to ingratiate themselves with the Republican establishment will backfire in the long run," warned the radio host.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Insanely Dedicated Man Keeps Log of All 6,297 Chinese Restaurants He's Eaten At Since 1955
When it comes to keeping tabs of his Chinese food, David Chan is most definitely not lo mein-tenance.
Chan has kept track of every Chinese restaurant where he's eaten at since 1955. And he's kept more meticulous order than the numbering on a buffet menu by chronicling all 6,297 restaurants in an Excel spreadsheet with notes on each meal.
Chan, 64, isn't some crackpot, either. He's a lawyer and an accountant, who just so happens to have a love of Chinese cuisine. He's recognized as an expert, too, with people seeking him out on Twitter to ask for advice on where to chow down.
Chan grew up during a time when his parents wanted him to be more American and not embrace his ethnic roots as much. His interest in his Chinese heritage didn't bloom until he enrolled at UCLA and really took off after he graduated and made a pact with co-workers to try every Chinese restaurant as it opened. While Chan has more than held up his end of the bargain, it's unclear if the co-workers have followed through on the pledge or if they're like the rest of us and eaten without taking notes for posterity.
Keeping track is part of Chan's personality. He said, "I've always been a collector. I collected stamps, and records."
Now, if he only kept all the fortunes he's amassed from the fortune cookies he's gotten, we're really be interested.


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UMES remembers "Coach" Gilliam
PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (June 12, 2014) -- Roosevelt "Sandy" Gilliam Jr., a former athletic director and coach at Maryland State College (now University of Maryland Eastern Shore), died May 16 at his Lancaster, S.C. home after a lengthy illness. He was 81.
Gilliam was a graduate of Allen University in Columbia, S.C., and earned a Master of Science degree from Indiana University. He got his start in athletics working in Lancaster County and his native Union County in South Carolina, where he quickly became a highly regarded and successful high school coach and administrator.
Gilliam moved up to the collegiate ranks in 1962 to become Maryland State's athletic director, succeeding the legendary Vernon "Skip" McCain. During his six-year tenure in Princess Anne, he also served as head football coach and baseball coach, and assistant basketball coach.
He took over one of the nation's most successful black-college football programs and did not disappoint, compiling a record of 24 wins, 11 losses and two ties. He recruited many of the Hawks' most dominant players of that era, including Billy Thompson, Emerson Boozer and Art Shell, all of whom had successful careers at the professional level.
Gilliam's enduring legacy at Maryland State, however, was on the baseball diamond, where his teams won 211 of 226 games, a remarkable .934 winning percentage. Gilliam left college athletics in 1968 to become a scout for the Denver Broncos of the old American Football League.
Gilliam eventually returned to South Carolina, where he worked in a series of high-profile jobs, including executive assistant to the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services; a 14-year career with the textile firm Springs Industries; and at S.C. State University, where he served as Vice President for Development and Industrial Relations and special presidential assistant for state and community relations. He often was appointed to boards and committees that dealt with pressing higher education issues in South Carolina.
Near the end of his career, South Carolina's legislature singled out Gilliam for commendation with a concurrent resolution in 1988, a year after he was awarded the state's highest honor, the Order of the Palmetto, by former Gov. Dick Riley.
Gilliam was inducted into the UMES Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999 and was similarly honored by his alma mater and by the S.C. Athletic Hall of Fame. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1947 at age 15, and the Boy Scouts of America named him a Distinguished Eagle Scout in 1978 in recognition of his success as an adult.
He last visited UMES in June 2013, where he was reunited with Shell, a student-athlete he recruited from the Charleston, S.C. area and whom he called the cornerstone of his success as a college coach. Three months later, Gilliam and his wife, Betty, attended the 2013 College Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies where Shell was honored.
Gilliam is survived by Betty Davis Gilliam, three children - Patrice, a guidance counselor, Wayne, a dentist, and Francis Roosevelt III, a cardiologist, and four grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Lancaster County Community Center, 500 E. Meeting St., Lancaster, S.C. 29720.


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By By Thierry Dubois | January 18, 2012
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Most ditching events and water impacts would be survived if on the ground. Civil aviation authorities, helicopter makers and equipment manufacturers are struggling to improve the survivability of these accidents, as the number of fatalities due to drowning of conscious occupants is still unacceptable. Improving floatability is a major focus. Just as important, avoiding helicopter capsizing would save many lives.
Emergency breathers can help, but can be challenging to use. Underwater evacuation training helps, too, but only happens once every four years. At December's European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) helicopter ditching workshop in Cologne, Germany, about 65 attendees—a lot of them representing North Sea oil-and-gas offshore operators—heard how difficult it will be to make this safety picture somewhat rosier.
Let's first define what they are dealing with. A ditching event is an emergency landing on water. It is performed so that it enables a "safe and orderly egress" of the occupants. A water impact is uncontrolled or partially controlled. An example is a Sikorsky S-76C+ accident in 2005 near Tallin, Estonia. All 14 passengers and crewmembers drowned (they inhaled water), although there was enough survivable volume after the impact. Statistics show that what is probably the most strictly run helicopter activity, offshore transportation, lags behind in terms of safety. Commercial airlines have 0.9 fatal accidents per million flight hours. Offshore helicopter transportation has 5.7 (2010 numbers).
Why focus on ditching and water impacts? According to a review of world civil water impacts, 98 survivable water impacts happened between 1971 and 1992. They caused 338 fatalities, including 192 caused by drowning. An underwater escape (from a flooded helicopter cabin) too often mismatches breath-hold time.
Shell Aircraft senior aviation advisor Alan Ward insisted his company has "a strong belief in using more modern aircraft." Oil companies wanting to buy safer aircraft is one more incentive for the manufacturers to carry on with their efforts in this direction. First, they may want to have manufacturers better understand ditching dynamics. Russia-based Kazan Helicopter is thus endeavoring to properly model these forces. "This will help determine proper piloting," said Dmitry Nedelko, chief of Kazan's calculation bureau.
Operators may want to have their helicopters floating longer. As John Franklin, an EASA safety analysis coordinator, noted, in 26 of 184 accidents (since 1970) that involved ditches, the helicopter sank much too early. This was immediately or during the evacuation.
Sometimes floats did not inflate. Sometimes they inflated, then deflated. So what about emergency floatation system (EFS) crashworthiness? "Statistics indicate improving floatation is the most important factor for better survivability," noted Dave Howson, UK civil aviation authority (CAA) flight operations research manager. Indeed, the major drowning cause is the inability to escape an inverted helicopter.
Surprisingly, computation has shown that a 100-percent increase of EFS design strength translates into a modest crashworthiness improvement. A designer should think of a greater number of floats rather than stronger floats. In simulations, the helicopter stayed afloat in all impacts, providing it had two high-mounted floats—in addition to the usual four floats at the bottom of the airframe. The two upper floats bring redundancy and a side-floatation capability.
Other ways to save lives by improving floatation include, for example, automatic activation. This can be done with immersion switches. However, to automatically activate the EFS, it has to be armed at all times.
This has a cost. "You either have to demonstrate inadvertent deployment does not jeopardize the flight or certify a system, using speed or altitude switches for example, to prevent such inadvertent deployment," Howson explained. As a result, the estimated cost per life saved would be about $380,000. This is considered highly cost effective. "Oil & Gas UK uses a figure around $7 million per life saved," Howson reminded.
For the full story, see the February 2012 issue of Rotor & Wing. More: Helicopter Training News


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I've been a voyeur into a discussion between teachers about how geeks drive girls out of computer science. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject and how teachers, boys, and girls themselves, can all work to help fix this problem. Please leave comments! Are you a guy or girl in the industry? Then what is your experience? Are you a guy or girl who never even thought about computer science? Why?
Disclaimer, for seven years, I taught APCS in small, all-girls, private boarding schools, so all the kids in my classes were girls. I've worked in the industry as a Technical Writer, in Quality Assurance, and currently as a Software Engineer. So there are jobs in the industry for computer scientists (I have a BS and an MS) that don't involve programming constantly in an office alone.
Dear Girls
- Start thinking for yourself.
I know it is hard to take a class that your friends think is stupid or geeky, but trust me, those friends you have in high school will be distant memories, saved in Facebook, in ten years. So where do you want to be in ten years? Bagging groceries in your hometown or having a job you can do in any coffee shop, any where in the world?
- Try everything.
You won't know what you like until you try it. Have you ever tried programming? No? Well then how do you know you don't like it?
- Make a difference.
Okay, okay, Computer Science is overrun with geeky boys. I won't deny it. They are everywhere. But just a couple decades ago, a woman's place was in the home. There were few women in any industry. So look at it this way, Computer Science is your way to help the feminist movement. Do your part!
- Be different!
You remember Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde"? I know the movie is a little old now, but the thing I like about her most is that she sticks out in the crowd and isn't afraid to be herself. She is so confident. Be confident. Do what you want to do. Be you. And don't be afraid to wear pink in a room of black!
- We need you!
How many times have you used an application and something has gone horribly wrong and you blamed yourself? Well, it isn't your fault. Applications should work seamlessly. They shouldn't allow you to feel like you screwed up. Can you do better? Can you make an application so easy that your mother could use it? Do you think about details? Do you notice when pixels aren't aligned properly? Do you think it is important for an application to look sexy and work as advertised? This is why we need you!
Dear Boys
- Ask a girl to try APCS.
Do you know a girl who would be really good at computer science? Have you asked her to try taking a class? She needs some convincing. She needs to know that you have her back if the geeks start picking on her. Ask her. Insist that she try it. She just needs some encouragement.
- Get a makeover
So part of that reason that the girls aren't joining your class is that you might be a geek. Being a geek is cool, but it is even cooler to be a geek who dresses well. Girls like a smart guy who dresses smartly. Find a cool guy to give you some tips. Do something besides play video games. Music, sports, something to make you more well rounded. It will help you get some dates as well!
- Learn about design
Most programmers are just good at programming. Solving a problem. But they don't care about how it looks. How do you feel while you are using an application? Does it make you happy? It is kind of like cars. You can drive a lamborghini or you can drive an old Ford Escort. Both will get you from point A to point B, but which one would you rather be seen driving? The same is true of computers. They should be functional, but should also be beautiful. Form & Function are both important. So learn about design. Learn about human-computer interaction. It will make you a better programmer.
Dear Teachers
- Computer science is not just programming
Although, you must be a programmer to be a computer scientist, a programmer does not have to know much about computer science. Programmers are often good at creating applications and scripts from a small set of (or one) languages. This is like building a house with only a hammer. A good computer scientist understands the concepts behind languages, the difference between language paradigms, why one language might be good to use to solve one kind of problem, and is able to quickly learn a new language when the language they need is not one already in their repertoire. One of my favorite classes in college was the study of different programming languages. To me, it is like learning a new human language without having to speak it. Computer Science is also about learning algorithms and data structures. It is about the application of those concepts in things like artificial intelligence, data mining, or networking. Programming is what you do to reinforce learning the concepts, syntax, and semantics of a language.
- IT is also not Computer Science.
And I have found the IT crowd to be much more sexist than the CS crowd. In college, I was never put down for being a woman. I was pointed out as the only girl in my Operating Systems Fundamentals class, but that just meant that everyone wanted me in their group. Whereas, when I was running a school computer system and called our service provider to get help with a denial of service attack, the guy who was supposed to help me blew me off and said it was just because I had too small an internet pipeline for a boarding school. It didn't seem to help when I explained that it was 2 am. During spring break. I was the only one at school. That is the only time I've gotten so pissed off that I asked for a supervisor, who happened to be a woman. She immediately said, You are having a denial of service attack. And then she helped me configure my switches and made some changes on her end. In six years of being a software engineer, I have never had a sexist encounter.
- You don't need a degree to start being a successful programmer.
Encourage your kids early on to start making shareware programs or iPhone apps. A number of my friends paid for college that way. Some of the most brilliant minds in the industry started as teenagers.
- Teach vocabulary.
Your girls are coming in cold. They have no words to talk about technology. One of the best things I could do was to spend a couple classes talking about how to buy a new computer. What is the difference between a Megabyte and a Gigabyte? What is a harddrive, ROM, RAM, motherboard? What is the difference between Windows, Mac OS, and Linux? What is the history of Unix? They don't know these things. One of the most rewarding moments I had was after Christmas break when one girl came back and said she helped her grandparents buy a computer, another girl had a conversation with a stranger on the plane ride home about computers. Giving girls a vocabulary is one of the best things you can do for them. Boys won't talk to them before they learn some basics, but once my girls learned a little, they came back from break and talked about how much they had learned from the boys they knew, now that they knew how to speak their language.
- Remove consequences.
I know this is a generalization (like everything I've written), but girls think about consequences, boys don't. Every year, I would start class with the same question, "Have you ever opened your home computer and looked inside?"
Every year, the answers were the same. No girl raised her hand. So then I asked a follow-up question. How many of you have watched as a brother, male cousin, father, have opened you home computer and done something to it.
Everyone would raise their hand. They were all curious as to what was inside, but every one of them was afraid of the consequences of doing it on her own. What if it didn't work after she opened it?
So I gave them computers that didn't work, and I had them tear them apart. We talked about all the parts. They saw how everything was connected. And they didn't have to worry about putting them back together because I recycled them.
Then I gave them computers and had them insert RAM and ethernet cards. I told them about electrostatic shock and gave them instructions on how to avoid it. Every computer worked afterwards.
Then we started programming. And I took away consequences there by telling them there was no way they could do something that I wouldn't be able to fix just by erasing the hard drive and reinstalling. So they weren't afraid.
- Form & Function are important!
- Take a class in Human Computer Interaction
Computer Scientists are notoriously good a solving problems, but bad at design. For a good example, look at a couple different websites and think about which ones you like and which ones you just tolerate. What are the differences between MySpace and Facebook? Between WordPress and Blogger? Dell and Apple? Design matters because it is humans that are using computers. Do you stress that in your class? Are the final applications so easy to use that my grandmother could understand how to use it?
- Get a makeover.
Okay, maybe you already are cool, but odds are against it, since you teach APCS. I should know. I'm still not totally stylish, but I try. This is a good time to find a cool, fashionable coworker, or your wife, to take you shopping. A couple well-fitted button-up shirts without stains on them. Pants that are tailored to the proper length and not worn two inches above your belly button, is a good start. High school is still a popularity contest. Become popular.
- Your classroom style is important too!
It isn't just you, it is your classroom. Is it inviting for girls? Is it clean and organized? Inviting? The kind of place where girls want to hang out? If not, get a group of cool girls to redecorate it for you.
- Be involved in the school in other ways.
Coach a sport, lead a club. Do something where the students see that you are human! If you get good exposure, you will meet more kids that you can encourage to join your class.
- Do cool stuff.
One of the things that my kids liked was that we took field trips. Of course those field trips were things like the GE Computer Science Competition. I used it as a practice exam for the APCS exam, so I took my entire class of 10 girls. They were rock stars! Not because they would win, but because they were the only girls there. The girls loved it!
Do stuff in your class that will benefit the school. I can't remember what we did, but in one class, we made an application that I then loaded onto all the computers so that the kids not in APCS could use it and think about joining.
- Take a class in Human Computer Interaction
- Don't think that questions about quilting are going to get the girls interested.
Girls use computers to work or socialize, not usually for games. When I had my girls pick projects, they were often related to something they were doing in another class, or personal to them. For example, one class was really stressing about learning the periodic table in Chemistry, so we wrote an application that would read in a file I constructed, insert the elements into objects or a data structure, use arrays to store each element, and then write searching and sorting algorithms to get information back out. They all used the program to study for their Chemistry tests. Another class was interested in building an address book, which uses the same concepts as the periodic table application.
- Just because there aren't girls in a field is not a good reason to think they just don't want to be there.
These are kids. They don't know they like writing or history, or math, or science until they try it. They may try it and not like it, but they may love it. We are missing many girls in Computer Science solely because they don't know anything about it and aren't trying programming on their own like some of the boys are.
- Teach kids the social part of computer science.
What is the social part of computer science? Well, truth is, in industry, you probably aren't working on an application entirely by yourself. You probably only are responsible for one little piece of the program, but it has to work with everyone else's little piece of the program. So design an application and break it up into a couple pieces. Make each kid responsible for their piece and that it works with everyone else's piece. This is a good end of the year project after the exam. Everyone will be focusing on something different, but they all have to work together to get the whole application to work. They have to explain to other students the objects they are providing, what methods are public, what the inputs and expected output are, and how they can be used. And it is good practice for the guys in your class to learn they aren't working in a bubble either.
- Talk about ethics.
Having interesting debates about what makes downloading music illegal. Ask them how they would like it if they wrote a program and asked for money but no one paid for it and downloaded it from a file sharing site. These kinds of discussions get girls interested in the class.
- Girls need encouragement.
Ask a girl to try the class. You have to do this personally. And if you don't think she will respond to you, find a teacher she will respond positively to, and have them ask her to try it. Girls are much more likely to try something if someone else encourages them to do it. I once sat in a group of female heads (principals) of boarding schools. Each woman talked about how it was that she decided to go after the Head of School job. Out of 8 Heads of School, only one of them admitted that she had wanted the job and pursued it. The other seven all talked about having a friend, coworker, or administrator who encouraged them to apply for the job. And every one of them was more than qualified for the position, but was timid about seeking it without some encouragement.


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Pitching prospect Hellweg has torn elbow ligament
MILWAUKEE -- Right-hander Johnny Hellweg, the Brewers' No. 7 prospect according to MLB.com, was diagnosed Tuesday with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, an injury that often requires Tommy John surgery and a yearlong rehabilitation.
The diagnosis followed an examination in Milwaukee with the Brewers' head physician, Dr. William Raasch. Assistant general manager Gord Ash declined to say whether the exam revealed a fully torn or partially torn ligament.
The club will report more about prognosis after Hellweg's appointment next week with Dr. James Andrews renders a second opinion, Ash said.
Hellweg last pitched Sunday in Omaha, allowing two earned runs on four hits in 3 2/3 innings, with one strikeout and five walks. He felt a pop in his elbow and threw nine more pitches before leaving the game.
"There were no warning signs of any kind," Ash said.
Hellweg joins a growing list of professional pitchers dealing with a serious elbow injury this season, including the Rays' Matt Moore and the Yankees' Ivan Nova most recently. Brandon Beachy, Patrick Corbin, Kris Medlen, Jarrod Parker and Jameson Taillon are among those who have already undergone Tommy John surgery in recent weeks.
"I don't know if I'd call it an epidemic, but it's certainly been an injury of note this season," Ash said. "We had two [Tommy John surgeries in the Minor League system] last year. We're probably on the lower number of clubs in this over the last four or five years."
The Brewers are regarded as one of the clubs on the cutting edge of injury prevention, particularly for pitchers. For the last decade, Raasch has led a biomechanical analysis program at Milwaukee's Froedtert Sports Medicine Center, compiling a database of professional pitchers after taking measurements of their deliveries with eight high-speed cameras and 42 digital markers. They measure the forces applied to a pitcher's body while throwing a baseball, and Raasch and the Brewers use that data to avoid shoulder and elbow injuries.
Brewers medical director Roger Caplinger also launched an organization-wide study in 2011 that charts pitchers' range of motion, looking for red flags that could cause injuries.
The 25-year-old Hellweg came to the Brewers from the Angels along with shortstop Jean Segura and right-hander Ariel Pena in a July 2012 trade for Zack Greinke. He was the Pacific Coast League pitcher of the year in 2013, going 12-5 with a 3.15 ERA, but struggled in a Major League callup.
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This weekend was very exciting for several reasons. First of all we always get really pumped to play the first conference series of the year, and secondly, going to Jacksonville is always one of the best trips, and for obvious reasons.
When we arrived in Jacksonville we were immediately met with warm sunny weather, a welcome change from the finicky Nashville weather we have been experiencing.
I think coming into the weekend we all sort of knew it was going to be a challenge in some ways, but none of us thought the first game against UNF would go the way it did.
We started out the way we should have with a 4-0 lead through the first four innings, but then we sort of fell apart. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but we weren't playing Lipscomb softball.
We are stubborn and feisty. You don't mess with us. We got run ruled and embarrassed that first game, and of course we had to make a point to show them that it was a fluke and wouldn't happen again. That's one of the many reasons I love my team.
We came out with a fire the second game Saturday, and after Paige Neely and Gracey Aguirre hit their back-to-back home runs, we all knew how game two was going to go. As our assistant coach J.J. Dillingham so wonderfully put it, UNF poked the Bison in game one, and you don't want to do that because then you'll get the horns.
Sundays are always hard to wake up for and kind of get going during conference play. It is the third time you are playing the same team in a weekend, and Saturdays are long days. So, Sunday really wasn't any different than normal except for the fact that we basically woke up to gorgeous 70-degree sunshine, but once the game started we didn't take long to get going at all.
Our bats were hot all the way around and our pitcher, Ashley Anderson, was on fire. She only allowed one hit and we won to take the series with a 7-0 shutout of UNF.
Well now everyone's happy. We won the series and now it's time to go home and let real life set in. Except this weekend we had a setback. Unfortunately we would be leaving our sunny paradise to come home to freezing cold snow and ice, and apparently we weren't supposed to do that because our flight home was cancelled.
While in theory it sounds great to be "trapped" in Jacksonville for an extra day, it's actually very stressful for a lot of the girls. I think we and others forget sometimes that we are student athletes, not just athletes, and many of us had assignments or tesst or projects all due Monday or that we needed to work on and couldn't because we were on the road.
That along with players who need to go home for family reasons made the cancellation a bit stressful; however, we of course made the best of it.
Thankfully we made it home around 8 p.m. Monday. We were incredibly blessed to get the flights and arrangements we did to get home. We had to take an afternoon flight out of JAX to Baltimore and then on to Nashville because of the winter storm that hit Nashville Sunday night.
While many of us were completely fine staying in Jacksonville, it was great to get back home. Now we are focusing on playing Ohio on Wednesday and then our next conference series against FGCU this coming weekend at home.
Once we get rested from all of our flights, don't worry we will be ready to go!


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victoria7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 287 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
I need a new logo for our Natural therapies clinic. The logo will be used in all facets of the business including exterior signage,web and labels for clinical prescriptive health and general cosmetic beauty products. The design line should impart a natural yet precise clean feel. The idea of Zen rests in ancient traditions of knowledge, focused mind and intent , spaciousness and pristine purity
Zen Health
As we move our premises for something better we seek a fresh start and look to this design to build our image and sign paraphenalia. We are a group of highly skilled practitioners using Chinese /orientalmedicine( acupuncture,herbal medicine) and massage therapies of varyingsorts. Chinese med/acupuncture ,shiatsu etc are often associated with demographics of women>men, higher socioeconomic status. New clents maybe somewhat nervous or unsure of their first foray as a patient, we would like the logo to be an invitation to something really excellent and viable.
Our business is personal and friendly.We also create herbal products that are designed from the medical annals of imperial doctors.
We have a tag line that we use from time to time.
effective natural therapies
- Open to the developing design process here.
- Colors we commonly use are greens, sage ,white, blacks half tones , however open to other color schemes.
- clean, grounded, precise, friendly, natural,"organic" styles
- try out non capital and rounded letter styles also
- translates well to grey scale and b/w
- smart and inviting.
- No "papyrus" font
- Overt buddhist/meditator images
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Francesco Ragazzi-San Siro Stadium Sky Lounge Stadium Hospitality
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Interview with Francesco Ragazzi : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Francesco Ragazzi : The main idea behind this project was to create a new concept of hospitality spaces inside San Siro Stadium. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Francesco Ragazzi : The main focus of this work was to create new business areas of the stadium in order to increase the annual turn over of the clients. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Francesco Ragazzi : The success of this project has already increased the interest of the customers. The clients have decided to start the next stage of the project, the construction of other skylounge in San Siro stadium. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Francesco Ragazzi : The designing process has taken nearly one year. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Francesco Ragazzi : This project was commissioned by a client. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Francesco Ragazzi : The target customer of this project are the sponsors of the clients that should enjoy the events in a very special and comfortable location during the match day and the external guests who want to rent these spaces for their private events/meetings during the rest of the week. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Francesco Ragazzi : When I am working on a new concept design I always develop the ideas on a sketch book. After the first concept I develop the ideas with different graphic softwares with the support of the team of my studio Ragazzi and Partners. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Francesco Ragazzi : I have developed this project with Giancarlo Ragazzi and the team of our studio Ragazzi and Partners. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Francesco Ragazzi : I was informed about this competition by ADI (Associazione del Disegno Industriale), as I am a member. .
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I'm from pink bubblegum carpet and bunk beds with boy's names carved inside the oak– living on the West side.
I'm from generations of Sicilians where big mamas stirred homemade spaghetti sauce with basil and garlic and rolled out potato gnocchi.
I'm from orange Kool-Aid, peanut butter sandwiches, and running thru sprinklers in Aunt Carol's yard on hot summer days.
I'm from frosty Minnesota winters creating snow angels with my sister, Kay.
I'm from Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Non-Denominational churches where I finally figured out it doesn't matter a damn. I loved Jesus no matter where I sat.
I'm from Madonna's: Like a Virgin, Lucky Star, and Papa Don't Preach.
I'm from putting on black eyeliner & deep red lipstick on Piedmont Avenue with Sue before we drank cheap beer all night at the Pit.
I'm from big sprayed hair, Marlboro cigarettes, and a bit of hash… sweating on plastic seats– French kissing in Mike's Corvette.
I'm from Mother Goddess who listened to Pasty Cline and baked warm chocolate chip cookies for us after school.
I'm from Jong, Sexton, Oliver & Plath.
(My all time fav. book)
I'm from poetry, metaphor, vowels, and symbolism.
I'm from sexy pole dancer to green eggs & ham.
I'm from single in the city to a married with kids.
I'm from Cruise Ships, London, Liverpool, Miami, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Nassau, & Cozumel living without inhibition.
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I'm from mourning, lamenting, weeping, and drinking too much Merlot.
I'm from resurrecting & rising after monsters and murders.
I'm from darkness.
I'm from light.
I'm from dying while still living.
I've from the salt of Margaritas mingled with the salt of tears.
But mostly,
I'm from Love.
It overflows into my soul like waterfalls. It gushes. It surges. It drowns me.
The love is enough for 5 lifetimes….
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Scenario Learning Expands into Workplace Safety with the Launch of SafePersonnel
Cincinnati, Ohio (PRWEB) March 05, 2014
Over the past decade, Scenario Learning has helped thousands of school districts, colleges and insurance partners reduce losses while increasing safety with the SafeSchools and SafeColleges product lines. Now, through the launch of the SafePersonnel suite, the leading developer of safety and compliance solutions is helping non-academic organizations create safer workplaces.
U.S. workplace statistics reveal that nearly 2 million workers are victims of workplace violence each year, one in four women reports workplace harassment and up to one-third of employees experience workplace bullying.
Providing a safe and hazard-free workplace is not just an employer's responsibility, it is often the law. Workplace safety encompasses a variety of topics, including environmental hazards such as asbestos awareness or hazard communications; illegal employment practices such as discrimination or sexual harassment; and human resource concerns such as workplace bullying and violence prevention. Employers who don't protect workers may incur OSHA fines, workers' comp claims or costly lawsuits – all of which are detrimental to any organization.
The SafePersonnel suite can help employers provide safer workplaces and has been customized for municipalities, non-profits, businesses and other non-academic organizations. The suite includes solutions for staff training and compliance management, safety incident reporting and tracking, and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and chemical inventory management.
"We developed the SafePersonnel product line because of the terrific success that our education customers have had with SafeSchools and SafeColleges," said Scenario Learning CEO Brian Taylor. "Many of our customers, who have implemented the programs well, have reduced losses by more than 50 percent, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, all while increasing safety. We want to deliver these same benefits to other organizations as well."
Long-time Scenario Learning partners, Keenan, the largest privately held insurance brokerage/consulting firm in California, and the Special Districts Association of Oregon (SDAO) have already implemented the SafePersonnel Staff Training and Compliance Management System for their municipality clients.
The SafePersonnel Staff Training System includes a comprehensive library of expert-authored courses on workplace safety topics. The system allows managers to easily assign training, and automatically tracks training completions in real-time. Employees say they like the flexibility that online training provides, allowing them to complete training from any web-enabled device.
For more information, visit the SafePersonnel website or call Brian Leukering, SafePersonnel Program Manager at 800.434.0154.
About Scenario Learning
Scenario Learning develops award-winning safety and compliance solutions that help create safer schools and workplaces. The company's web-based product portfolio includes solutions for staff training, bullying/incident reporting and tracking, accident tracking, and SDS management for the education and business markets. Known best for its market-leading SafeSchools suite of K-12 products, Scenario Learning partners with thousands of school districts, colleges, insurance providers and businesses around the world. For more information, visit http://www.scenariolearning.com.
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Upward Bound Students Participate in Inspiration Day
Kent State University's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and its Upward Bound Programs participated in Inspiration Day on Saturday, Nov. 3. Planned by Kent State's Intercollegiate Athletics Department, Inspiration Day included events and activities for Upward Bound students and their families at numerous buildings across campus.
"The Upward Bound Programs of Kent State University assist high school students in developing the academic skills and motivation needed to successfully complete high school and to enter college upon graduation," said Bonnie Richardson, Kent State's program director of Upward Bound Classic and PREP Academy.
In the programs, students receive educational, cultural and social experiences to help them prepare and succeed in their future college careers.
Upward Bound high school students and their families came to Kent State for various Inspiration Day activities, including post-secondary, dual enrollment options and college partner's presentations. Students also were treated to lunch and activities at the Kent State Field House and later helped form a tunnel as the Kent State Golden Flashes football team took to the field at Dix Stadium for the game against the University of Akron.
"It's wonderful to have our students engaging with academics as well as socially enjoying the Inspiration Day event," Richardson said.
Students engaged in activities designed by Upward Bound campus partners, including the College of Business Administration (CLASSIC Upward Bound Students), the College of Public Health (Upward Bound Public Health Students), as well as the College of Architecture and Environmental Design and the Department of Biology (Upward Bound Math/Science Bio-Scholars).


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Portsmouth -- In April, two celebrated journalists take the stage at The Music Hall Loft for the popular Writers in the Loft series… First is award-winning journalist Blaine Harden with his New York Times bestseller ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Get in the know with what Foreign Policy calls "one of the 21 books that will matter in 2012."
Next batter up is Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaugnessy with a behind-the-scenes look at the Red Sox and Terry Francona in FRANCONA: The Red Sox Years. Published earlier this month, the book and its revelations have made headlines across all sports medias. Both writers' events start at 7pm; tickets include the author presentation, moderated Q+A, beverage, book, and a book signing reception. Tickets go on sale to Music Hall members on Saturday, February 2, and on sale to the public on Saturday, February 16.
And this just in: Also visiting Writers in the Loft in April is Paul Muldoon. The poet visits as part of the Music Hall's Portsmouth Singer-Songwriter Festival to read from his vibrant new collection of poems, THE WORD ON THE STREET: Rock Lyrics. This Portsmouth Singer-Songwriter Festival runs from April 17-21, bringing to town 23 singer-songwriters, legends, stars, and up-and-comers. Other performers include John Prine, Aimee Mann, Sharon Van Etten, Dirty Projectors…the list goes on! Passes go on sale to members 2/2 and on sale to the public on 2/16.
"We're affectionately calling this 'male month' here at the Music Hall," said Executive Producer Patricia Lynch. "We're so thrilled to welcome these three authors, all remarkable men and writers — two top-of-their-field journalists and a Pulitzer-prize winning poet. Everything from sports world intrigue to foreign affairs high drama to rock n' roll poetry is coming through our doors in April!"
Tickets and Signed Books
Tickets to Writers in the Loft: Blaine Harden are $29 ($26 for members of The Music Hall and NH Public Radio). Tickets to Writers in the Loft: Dan Shaughnessy are $42 (members $39). Tickets to Writers in the Loft/Portsmouth Singer-Songwriter Festival: Paul Muldoon are $37 (members $34).
Writers in the Loft: Blaine Harden
Thursday April 4, 2013 7pm Loft
Book: ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Ticket package: $29 (members $26) Includes reserved seat, book ($15, paperback), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet
In ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14, journalist Blaine Harden tells the shocking story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only known person born in a North Korean no-exit camp to have escaped and survived. International #1 and New York Times bestseller, and named a "must read" by the LA Times! The book was an international #1 and New York Times bestseller, named a "must read" by the LA Times, and chosen by The Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Slate and Library Journal as one of the year's best books. It was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment and featured in editorials from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Boston Globe.
Blaine Harden is an author and award-winning journalist who reports for PBS Frontline and contributes to The Economist.
"riveting…a harrowing tale of endurance and courage"—CNN
Writers in the Loft: Dan Shaughnessy
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7pm Loft
Book: FRANCONA: The Red Sox Years
Ticket package: $42 (members $39) Includes reserved seat, book ($28, hardcover), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet
In FRANCONA: THE RED SOX YEARS, Award-winning Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy tells the thrilling, inside story of legendary manager Terry Francona, who led the Boston Red Sox to fame. Join us at the Loft on this exciting night for Sox fans—or anyone interested in the art of leadership amidst great victories and challenges.
Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and associate editor for the Boston Globe, as well as the author of the books At Fenway and The Curse of the Bambino.
"It's not often that baseball aficionados and gossip gluttons can plunk down on a shared portion of outfield grass with the same book for an afternoon of readerly delight, but Francona can bridge those kinds of differences…"
–The Boston Globe
Portsmouth Singer-Songwriter Festival and
Writers in the Loft: Paul Muldoon
Wednesday, April 17 – 7pm
Book: THE WORD ON THE STREET: Rock Lyrics
Ticket package: $37 (members $34). Includes reserved seat, book ($23, hardcover), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, professor and occasional rock guitarist has been described as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War." But Muldoon also has a passion for rock and roll, collaborating with the late, legendary songwriter Warren Zevon. In his new collection, The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, he offers little or no distinction between poetry and rock songs, finding common ground between W.B. Yeats, Buddy Holly, T.S. Eliot and Bruce Springsteen.
"The most sophisticated and original poet of his generation."
–The New York Review of Books
"(His) poetry is quite stunning. Such a broad scope of work, deft and light of touch."
–Pete Townshend
Access to Muldoon's event is also available through purchase of a Festival Pass (see details below).
Singer-Songwriter Festival Gold Pass: $270 (EARLY BIRD to members 2/2, to public 2/16: $225)
5 Day Festival Pass includes:
Preferred seating & tickets to all concerts and events
Exclusive access to all parties
Exclusive pre-show access to lobbies
Singer-Songwriter Festival Silver Pass: $235 (EARLY BIRD to members 2/2, to public 2/16: $199)
3 Day Festival Pass includes:
Preferred seating & tickets to all concerts and events Friday-Sunday
Exclusive access to all parties
Singer-Songwriter Festival Bronze Pass: $165 (EARLY BIRD: $150)
2 Day Festival Pass includes:
Preferred seating and tickets to all concerts and events Saturday & Sunday
Access to Festival Bash at Martingale Wharf
All Writers in the Loft tickets include a reserved seat, book, bar beverage, author presentation, Q&A, and book signing meet-and-greet. Event tickets and vouchers can be purchased at The Music Hall box office in the Historic Theater, 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth or over the phone at 603-436-2400.
Writer in the Loft Series Sponsor: Citizens Bank
Singer-Songwriter Festival Sponsor: Martingale Wharf
Singer-Songwriter Festival Media Partner: 92.5 The River
About Writers in the Loft
Writers in the Loft is akin to The Music Hall's anchor author series, Writers on a New England Stage, featuring well-known authors but in a smaller, more intimate space. It is produced by The Music Hall with Series Sponsor Citizens Bank and Companion Bookstore RiverRun in Portsmouth. The series brings audiences today's top authors, and the best of fiction and nonfiction. Previous writers in the series include Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Egan, Stephen Greenblatt, Chris Bohjalian, Henry Louis Gates, Adam Gopnik and Susan Cain.
About The Music Hall
The Music Hall is a performing arts center featuring curated entertainment from around the world in two theaters in its downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire campus - one, a landmark 1878 Victorian theater, the other the intimate Music Hall Loft around the corner, recently named "best performing arts venue" by Yankee Magazine and the recipient of the NH AIA award for design excellence. Acclaimed signature series bring top authors and artists to both stages, while HD broadcasts and independent film fill both screens. A radio show broadcast on NH Public Radio originates here. This dynamic arts center urges patrons to Explore + Learn via master classes, post film panel discussions, and matinees for children. An anchor cultural organization in this historic working seaport, The Music Hall is one of downtown Portsmouth's biggest employers and largest contributors to the regional economy: The Music Hall and its patrons contribute $7 million annually to the local economy through show and visitor related spending. Innovative in its outlook, the organization is community oriented and committed to making the Seacoast flourish. The Music Hall is 501c3 nonprofit managed by a professional staff with the assistance of a volunteer board. Though global in the scope of its artists and programs, The Music Hall operates independently with the support of 3,000 members, 300 business supporters and 40 community partners. Welcoming more than 100,000 patrons (including 20,000 children) each year from the tri-state area and beyond, The Music Hall is the region's center for the performing arts, literature and education…easy to get to, impossible to forget. www.themusichall.org
They're coming, they're coming to The Loft
Portsmouth -- In April, two celebrated journalists take the stage at The Music Hall Loft for the popular Writers in the Loft series… First is award-winning journalist Blaine Harden with his New York Times bestseller ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Get in the know with what Foreign Policy calls "one of the 21 books that will matter in 2012."


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Slick Watts - All Day [Unsigned Hype]
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Hellloooo Super Mario. Looks like Mario Chalmers ate himself a mushroom. Not one of those stupid poison mushroom that always annoyed the hell out of me or those shrooms that totally trip you out. I mean the one's that give you that growth spurt. He's totally taller out there on the court this year. Actually that might be because of the mushroom I ate. Anywhooo, Chalmers has really been impressive (7.4/3/6.6/2/0.4 with 1 3PM per game) as a bargain PG early in the season and looks to have found his niche in the ridiculous Miami offense. His niche? Pass the ball to all the ridiculously good teammate and hit the open 3 if it's there. I think I could have figured that one out. Seriously though, I am absolutely buying him as a top 100 player. He won't give you a ton of points, but the other stats will be there (including money steals). Think of him as a bizarro Rajon Rondo and a really cheap pg if you're lacking assists and steals.
O.J. Mayo – Every year I seem to get sucked into buying Hellmann's, and here I am again. Why don't I just go with Miracle Whip? Or stay away from the additional calories in general? Because I have no will power, that's why. It will be different this time I promise myself. Mayo is locked into the SG role for the Mavs. Is he going to continue shooting 60% from 3? No, but he's got the pedigree (3rd overall pick in 2008) and I think he makes the leap this year at the ripe age of 25.
Anthony Davis – Labeled as a franchise player, Davis came out with a bang in his first game (21/7/0/1/1) and then literally came out with a bang in his second game (concussion). This injury may be the only time to grab him on the cheapy cheap. Plus Davis is making that brow a trendy style. Rejoice Lily Collins and formerly ugly chick from 9th grade!
Russell Westbrook – The Bodie doppleganger (spit) was potentially a top 5 pick in your draft. Westbrook has already nosedived this season and is the central blame for the Thunder's (spit) two losses. If any owner (spit) is worried, make sure you get this dude. He's a top 10 player (spit). SERIOUSLY STOP SPITTING… (spit)
Rudy Gay – Gay ain't making too many owners happy these days with his 37% shooting from the floor and 10% from behind the arc. In case you were wondering, his career numbers are 45.5% FG and 34.5% from 3. I'd bet this hibernating grizzly wake up and goes on a tear sooner rather than later.
Anderson Varejao – Career #'s: 7.4/7.2/1.0/0.9/0.7 with 52.1 FG% and 61 FT% in 25 MPG. Current #'s: 14/15/3/1/0.8 while shooting 65.8% FG and 85.7 from the line in 35 MPG. Look for some major regression in the %'s and the rebounds to normalize around 10. However if your league gets points for hair, then move him up to the buy section.
Andrei Kirilenko – I love AK47. Not only because I play Call of Duty obsessively, but also because the player is extremely roto friendly. I think he'll be fine in the short term, but once Kevin Love comes back I think we'll see a dip in his numbers. He's top 25 right now, but I think top 75 is more like it.
Mo Williams – Let me clarify this one. I'm not buying his current level of production (top 15), I WOULD buy that he will be a top 60 player. Finally healthy and cemented as the top PG on the roster (Randy Foye, Jamaal Tinsley, Earl Watson, and Alec Burks… 'nuff said) he will be dishing it out to all the talented big men on the team while drilling 3's. If you can sell him as a top 15 player, do it.
Jamal Crawford – Oh Jamal. Every single year he goes on ridiculous tears that make his owner cling to him for dear life. Don't do it. Don't get sucked in. He's like that smoking hot chick that you will fall in love immediately with but then realize she's f*cking crazy. Whoops, she's preggers and now you're screwed. The good news is that Jamal Crawford can't get pregnant. The more relevant news is that you could drop him without feeling like a prick. Trust me. Trade him to your friends, let them deal with him. Also, he's 32 years old. He'll need plastic surgery soon.
Mike Dunleavy – Another 32 year old. You know what they say in the NBA these days…32 is the new 25! Yeah I made that up. The dude is old. He always gets injured. ALWAYS. He's played more than 70 games only twice in the past 8 years (OK, last year is a bit of a cop out). BTW, he's shooting 80% from 3 which is 9% better than what he's shooting from the free throw line. Ride the hot streak if you want, but I'd look to sell him for a more established (and younger) player.


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I tawt I taw a puddy tat
Hats off to Merstham fan Gary Lomas who sent in this photo of an Alton Town fan at yesterdays FA Cup match. This chap, lets call him Mr Legend, takes a 4foot Sylvester the Cat to every match. He sits him the basket of his bike, and jolly well rides him to every game. Clearly, this is a craze that could well sweep the nation.
If you've seen anything better than this at a football match, then feel free to comment below.


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Chocolate Coconut Nests with Jelly Bean Eggs Recipe
These nests are a homemade version of the Russell Stover candy, and a fun Easter treat.
- If making white chocolate version: before adding coconut add a dash of green food coloring until desired shade of green is achieved.
- Tip: if making all three versions, start with white chocolate first, then move on to milk chocolate, then move on to dark chocolate. This will allow you to use the same bowl for all three flavors.
About the Author: Yvonne Ruperti is a food writer, recipe developer, former bakery owner, and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide To Easy Artisan Bread. You can also watch her culinary stylings on the America's Test Kitchen television show. She presently lives in Singapore and is currently at work constructing her new blog, http://shophousecook.com/ .
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- Yield:makes 6 2-inch pieces
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 4 ounces finely chopped milk chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate, or white chocolate
- 2/3 cup unsweetened dessicated coconut
- Dash green food coloring, optional (see note)
- 18-24 small jellybeans
Line baking sheet or large plate with parchment paper. In heatproof bowl over pan of barely simmering water, melt half of chocolate, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in remaining chocolate until chocolate is completely melted and smooth.
Stir in coconut until completely combined. Drop rounded tablespoons of mixture onto prepared pan, keeping shape as round as possible, and spacing 2 inches apart. Using back of 1/2 teaspoon, gently press into center of each mound to create a slight crater. Gently press 3 or 4 jellybeans into center and chill until set, about 15 minutes.
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BEIJING – Senior military officials of the United States and Japan confirmed on Thursday that the two countries were discussing the option of adding another X-band early-warning radar at the island nation's northern Shariki base to contain missile threats.
Though the US State Department promptly denied that the missile defense hardware is targeted against China, yet considering the US' persistently deliberate exaggeration of "China's military threat," the denial is at best a poor lie.
With intensive joint military drills and insidious arms deployment, the US moves to expand military presence in the Asia-Pacific are detrimental to regional peace and stability.
Right at the moment, when Tokyo is wrestling with Beijing over China's Diaoyu Islands and a number of other territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific are still boiling, Washington's military build-up in the area would further fuel the already flaring antagonism.
It has become a tradition for the United States to identify an "enemy country". With the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, a rising China has appeared to be the next choice.
By driving wedges between China and its neighboring countries, the United States intends to undermine the conditions that could favor China's development, so as to keep its self-claimed leadership in the region unrivaled.
Washington is playing a double game by diplomatically welcoming China's rise on the world stage on one hand, and covertly curbing the latter's development on the other.
Beijing has been explicit in its commitment to peaceful development and insists on bilateral talks to solve territorial disputes with its neighbors. A peaceful neighborhood is in China's own interests.
The US politicians have to understand that the biggest enemy their country faces is not China's rise, which is inevitable. It is Washington's inability to co-exist and cooperate with an emerging power.
Washington should revise its false-hearted China policy, and keep good faith with the "stay-neutral" stance toward the regional territorial disputes.
If the United States allows its Cold-War thoughts unchecked, there is a real danger that those disputes could spiral out of control and the whole region be sucked into military confrontation


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Marszał Zuzanna
Classical Ballet / Dancer
A graduate of the Gdańsk Ballet High School (year 2010).
A participant of numerous dance workshops and competitions in Poland, e.g. Wojciech Wiesiołłowski 14th and 15th Polish Ballet Competition and the International Chorographical Competition in Bytom (Poland) (2009 – 2nd place, 2010 – special mention).
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A Globalarmist's 'Surreal Scientific Blunder' Noted in UK Paper; US Media Doesn't Care
Earlier today, Christopher Booker at the UK Telegraph noted a "surreal scientific blunder," followed by an attempted cover-up, that should cause everyone to question the source's past and future credibility.
The source of the shoddy work is NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the outfit run by world champion globalarmist James Hansen. Hansen has in the past stated that "heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be 'tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.'"
What Booker reports causes one to wonder what the appropriate punishment should be for committing drop-dead obvious errors and integrity-lacking follow-up.
Part of the punishment is surely the Telegraph's delicious headline, followed by Booker's criticism (bolds are mine):
The world has never seen such freezing heat
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.
This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month …..
So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs – run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph – GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic – in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.
A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others.
…. whether, on the basis of such evidence, it is wise for the world's governments to embark on some of the most costly economic measures ever proposed, to remedy a problem which may actually not exist, is a question which should give us all pause for thought.
No kidding. It's also reasonable to ask why taxpayers or anyone else should be funding Hansen's horrible handiwork.
McIntyre at Climate Audit reported the errors, with What's Up With That also noting, on Monday, November 10. GISS's blunder, and attempted back-and-fill, were both clear by Thursday. Yet a Google News search at 11 AM on "Hansen October" (quotes not used) for November 9-16 shows that the larger center-right blogs have picked up on the story, but that here has been no apparent traditional media interest. A similar New York Times search came up empty.
Thus, Mr. Hansen will more than likely be able to continue to spout off in front of congressional committees about the planet's impending doom from global warming — even as evidence continues to mount that the earth is cooling.
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CME Group's Trading Challenge is a complimentary four-week electronic trading competition where teams of undergraduate and graduate students can trade a variety of CME Group products from multiple asset classes in a simulated trading environment on a real-time professional trading platform provided by CQG.
Top ranking students will be eligible for cash prizes and exclusive CME Group experiences.
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Click here to see our website about Bounty Hunter: Rise Up and Run
I have this game that helps students with the concept of slope. I can't count the times in my career where I have reminded students the slope is rise over run. I have tried to help them make the connection between rise over run with the change in y over the change in x with the slope formula. My methods include lecture, worksheets, activities, projects, and finally games.
This is what the paper prototype looks like and what students have been using in my classroom to play Bounty Hunter:
Bounty Hunter: Rise Up and Run, is the first game that I created that wasn't quiz-based. In other words the game is not where a students gets to do something if he answers a question correctly. Bounty Hunter was just the beginning for me. I have created more and some I have shared here on this blog. Games such as Domain Rangers, Conic Capture, Polynomial Pirates, A River Runs Through It, Tornado Inequality, Snakes on a Coordinate Plane, etc. But I've run into a few problems with sharing these games:
1) It's time consuming for other teachers to recreate my games in their classroom.
2) It's expensive for other teachers to recreate my games in their classrooms (for some games).
3) It's difficult to explain all the rules for some of my games.
4) It's difficult to teach a room full of students how to play a board game.
5) I'm running out of storage room for all of my games, and you might be as well if you're making them too.
6) I (we) lose a lot of class time going over rules before even getting to the actual learning part of the game.
That's quite a few hurdles to overcome. But I can think of one way to scale them; make the games digital.
I was hopeful back in 2011 when a small computer gaming company wanted to write an SBIG grant to make a digital version of Bounty Hunter. For whatever reason, that grant was never meant to be and I was back to square one. I started looking around for a programmer to take on my game and I was told that I would need the likes of $30,000 to make that happen. Things did not look good for me.
Then in 2013 the local community college was awarded a grant to match up their computer programming and art students with teachers to program their games. This is when my luck started to change. Out of the three teams that were formed, my team is the only one that created a working version of the game. And by team, I mean one person, the other members of the team were "let go".
Through this process I found a programmer that I trust and jumped at the chance to continue working with him. We have decided to start our own business to share these games online. Time and funds are a little low right now, so we will be asking for help to get this endeavor started through sites like Kickstarter.
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Friday, December 26, 2014
Family Game with No Name
Warning --> This post will be off topic. No math education stuff here. I comfort myself with the realization that since it's Christmas you are all at home with your families and not with your students, so you will want a game to play with your families and not your students.
I wanted a game that would create a sense of togetherness, especially with my sons (ages 4 and 9). Those two are spending the break fighting and playing video games so far. I want them to work together and spend time with the rest of us.
Ages: 4+
Number of Players: 4
108 cards. I used 27 large index cards, cut into quarters.
3 color pencils (red, green, and blue)
4 rubber bands
Container. I used an old granola container.
Something to keep score. I used bottle caps, but anything will do; coins, pretzels, buttons, etc)
I wanted a game that would create a sense of togetherness, especially with my sons (ages 4 and 9). Those two are spending the break fighting and playing video games so far. I want them to work together and spend time with the rest of us.
Who Can Play:
Ages: 4+
Number of Players: 4
108 cards. I used 27 large index cards, cut into quarters.
3 color pencils (red, green, and blue)
4 rubber bands
Container. I used an old granola container.
Something to keep score. I used bottle caps, but anything will do; coins, pretzels, buttons, etc)
The Cards:
Each player will play with their own deck of cards.
On the cards, draw the following:
1 red triangle
2 red triangles
3 red triangles
1 red circle
2 red circles
3 red circles
1 red square
2 red squares
3 red squares
Create the same shapes and quantities with two other colors, I used green and blue, for a total of 27 cards.
This makes one set of cards. You will need to do this three more times.
On each set of cards, I wrote our family members' names. On my 27 cards I wrote "Nora" on the back. This way if decks get mixed up, you can easily sort them. I thought about color index cards, but it may be distracting with the different color pencil shapes.
Game Play:
Create teams of two. Teammates sit across from each other.
Each player shuffles his deck and places it face down in front of himself. Take the top three cards from the deck and hold in your hand so no one else can see your cards.
The youngest player goes first.
Player 1 places one card in the middle of the table.
Player 2 places a card in the middle of the table like this.
The third player looks at the card his teammate played and tries to match as many things as he can with the cards in his hand. Cards can match by color, shape, and/or number of objects. He selects one of his cards and places that in the middle of the table.
The fourth player does the same thing, trying to match his teammate, player 2.
Each team counts how many categories they matched. Players 1 and 3 matched the shape only (circle), so they get one point, or in this case bottle cap. Players 2 and 4 matched the color (red) and the number (two objects), so they get two points (bottle caps).
Each player takes back his card and places it on a discard pile and picks a new card off their face down pile to have three in their hand again.
Player two starts the next round.
Game play continues in this manner until the end.
The End:
Game play can end when you run out of bottle caps or when all players use their 27 cards.
Score can be kept with tally marks instead of bottle caps, but with my youngest son I think the visual scorekeeping was best.
The team with the most points/bottle caps, wins.
Some Game Play Photos for you to Enjoy:
Friday, December 12, 2014
Polynomial Pirates Game - Operations with Monomials
The Need:I created the game Polynomial Pirates because I realized there was a need for students to focus on the difference with certain polynomial operations. For instance, students were confusing (x+x) with (x*x). I could 'reason' with them until I was blue in the face and nothing changed. Then I realized that I needed to come up with a game.
The Story:
You are one of four pirate captains searching for a sunken treasure. Not only are you competing against the other pirates to get to the treasure before they do, you will need to defeat the fire-breathing treasure-guarding sea monster first. Battling other pirates and surviving the open seas will prove to be too difficult for the weak of heart; only the strongest will be victorious.
The Materials:
You will need 8 dice with these 6 monomials written on them; x, 2x, 3x, y, 2y, 3y.
A plate will be helpful because the players will roll the dice then pass them to the next player.
Frugal Options: Put stickers on dice you already own.
At least 2 sets of polyhedral 7 set dice will be needed. These will be needed when your pirates either battle each other or the sea monster.
Frugal Option: Use a random number generator.
Players use two forms of currency; coins and gems. Pirates use these to buy and upgrade the cannons and shields for their ships.
Frugal Option: Print out paper coins and gems. Or use pennies and buttons or whatever you have lying around.
You will also need something to represent the treasure chest. I was fortunate enough to find this lying around my house.
Frugal Option: Print a paper 2-D treasure chest.
Here are the pawns that I use. They are stickers placed on bottle caps.
Frugal Option: Use any ol' pawns you have lying around from other games. Or even different color bottle caps.
(Seriously, why is this sideways? It's right-side-up in iPhoto.)
To keep track of how many cannons and shields and their respective levels, players will need the cannon/shield cards and 6 paperclips per player. I glued the player cards to large index cards. On the front are the shield and cannon indicators. On the back of the index cards are the rewards for winning.
In this game the game cards make up the board. When you add, subtract, multiply for divide any two of the 6 monomials used in this game (x, 2x, 3x, y, 2y, 3y) there are 52 unique outcomes if I did my math correctly. I bought a deck of pirate cards, printed my cards on sticker paper, and then stuck them to the playing cards.
Frugal Option: print the cards and glue to index cards.
(Again, not sure why this is sideways)
Game Play:
Set up your "game board" like this. It's a 5 by 5 array with the middle card missing.
Place the treasure chest in that middle spot.
Each player starts their pawn in a corner.
Each player is given a player card, 5 coins, and 5 gems to start the game.
Suppose that the monkey is the first player. He will roll all 8 dice on to the plate. Looking at the cards adjacent to him, he can either move to xy or 3xy. The monkey can use two or more dice to create any adjacent statement.
The monkey decides to use 2y, y, 3x, and 2x to create xy. (2y - y)*(3x-2x) = xy
The monkey moves to that card and does what it says. In this case it reads, "Buy a cannon 4 coins, or collect 2 coins, or collect 2 gems". Once he is finished with his turn, he passes the plate to the next player.
*Once a player moves his pawn and uses a card, that card is put on the bottom of the card pile and the top card is put in that spot.
In order for players to battle each other they need to be on the same space. The person who was on the space first is the defender, the player who lands on the space second is the attacker.
In this case the pirate girl is the defender and uses her shields and the monkey is the attacker and uses his cannons. At this point in the game the pirate girls has 2 shields; one level 8 shield and one level 6 shield. So, she uses an 8-sided die and a 6 sided die, rolls both, and adds them together. Her total is 4. The monkey has two cannons; one level 8 cannon and one level 4. So he uses an 8-sided die and a 4-sided die and adds those together. His sum is 7.
The monkey won 7 to 4 and wins by 3.
Turn a player card over to see his reward. Since he won by 3 he can take a combination of 2 gems or coins from the pirate girl. Since the pirate girl lost she teleports back to her starting corner while the monkey can stay on that spot. The pirate girl may not collect what is on that corner card.
If there is a tie, the defender is the winner. He would collect nothing but the other player would need to go back to his starting corner.
If the losing player in a battle does not have enough coins or gems to pay out, they are required to lose levels with their shields and/or cannons to equal the number of coins/gems they were to pay out. If things are dire enough, they may lose cannons and shields.
Winning the Game:
In order to win the game, the sea monster must be defeated. The sea monster is a level 20 fire-breather, meaning he uses a 20-sided die.
To attack the monster, a player must be adjacent to the monster. Please note that players may attack the monster individually. In the photo below, the players have teamed up to attack the monster.
Attacking the monster is different from players attacking each other.
To attack the monster, the player will roll their cannon dice and find their sum., then roll the monster's 20-sided dice. If the player has a higher sum than the monster, he wins the game and the treasure. However, if he does not have a higher sum there is a second part to this. Then the player rolls his shield dice and the monster rolls his 20-sided die again. If the monster has a higher number, the player must forfeit the corresponding loot and return to his starting corner. If the player successfully defends himself, he only moves to his starting corner.
Cooperative play: Attacking the monster is the same. Each pirate would roll their cannon/shield dice and add them all together. The only difference would be the amount of loot lost is paid by each player attacking.
Other Stuff:
Players can trade in coins and gems for half the amount. For instance; a player can trade in 2 gems for 1 coin or 2 coins for 1 gem.
Players may form alliances and freely give loot to other players.
Next Steps:
I am in the process of creating pre- and post-tests in order to determine if the game is even worth it. Stayed tuned for that information.
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The Budget chairman says his plan would save trillions. Are his numbers credible?
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released his 2012 budget Tuesday. credit: Tim Shaffer/Reuters
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's 2012 budget is estimated to cost $6.2 trillion less over 10 years than President Obama's plan, with an initial deficit of $950 billion next year that decreases, along with government debt, over time.
But some of the savings in Ryan's budget will be difficult to realize and others are ambiguous; further, it is not clear if his economic or revenue assumptions are credible.
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Ryan's sweeping reductions in government and the social safety net -- accompanied by philosophical justifications for a shrunken public sector and dire warnings of America's debt-fueled decline -- stands in stark contrast to Obama's plan for sustainable investment and promises to make the chairman's budget a key pivot point in the 2012 elections.
Ryan's budget matches Obama's in terms of national security spending, but would chop $923 billion from discretionary spending over the next decade to move toward 2008 level spending, beginning with a $72 billion cut next year -- an ambitious goal, as Republicans are currently stymied trying to craft a deal to cut around $33 billion from current spending this year.
A plan to move Medicaid to block grants, which has already provoked pushback from Democrats who worry the policy will result in restrictions in eligibility, not cost-saving reforms, is estimated to save $735 billion from the president's proposal - a huge change largely affecting the poor and the handicapped. A plan to shift Medicare to a defined-contribution voucher plan would save $389 billion relative to the president's budget. This, too, is opposed by Democrats and faced with skepticism by seniors groups, including the AARP.
As expected, the budget did not touch the Social Security program, which is solvent through 2037, except, like Obama, to lay out basic principles for reform.
One of Ryan's largest areas of savings -- $1.4 trillion -- comes from repealing the president's health care plan, a move that the Congressional Budget Office has insisted as recently as January would add $230 billion to the deficit over 10 years. It is not clear where the much larger savings Ryan's plan envisions would be drawn from.
Ryan's plan also contains $1.8 trillion in cuts from mandatory spending unrelated to health care and Social Security; while the budget did not offer specifics, these savings could come from cuts in unemployment funding, food stamps and agricultural subsidies, but they are also one of the most challenging areas to cut.
On the revenue side, Ryan embraces a tax reform plan laid out by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp that would lower both the top corporate and individual tax rates to 25 percent by closing loopholes. Some tax experts are skeptical this can be done in a revenue neutral way, but even so Ryan's plan includes initial placeholders for higher revenue than the president's budget provided.
If those numbers are in fact lower than estimated, it could dramatically change Ryan's deficit projections, a problem that plagued an alternate budget he offered last year.
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Mixing a 96 mph fastball with a sharp-breaking slider against a free-swinging lineup, Jackson needed only 101 pitches to throw his first complete game since his no-hitter at Tampa Bay on June 25, 2010, when he threw 149 pitches while pitching for the Diamondacks.
Pitching before several scouts that included representatives from the Cardinals, Brewers and Red Sox, Jackson earned 18 outs on grounders and needed only two strikeouts.
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Re: Witherspoon Cemetery (Black)
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Thanks Vera.
It is so strange, as I search for Will, Nancy, and Shep, I keep comming across this Rose Witherspoon that you have found. I am wondering if this is the family. Even though Shep is not in the household, maybe he was not borne yet, or may be he is older. I have this funny feeling that this Rose Witherspoon may be my great grandfather's mother, but I have to have proof, and I do not have it since Shep is not in the household. I am sure he had more sisters and brothers, but since all the Older ones are deceased, there is no one else left that may have known the answer. No one in my family no anything about Shep except he was my great grandfather's brother. Since they remembered him, tells me that he may have been Will Witherspoon's younger brother. My mother remembers him and she is in her 70's. She remembers calling him Uncle Shep, but she does not no anything about him except he was my great grandfather's brother.
Thanks for the information.
I will mention this lady Rose Witherspoon that you have found to the older ones that is still living to see if anyone has heard of a Rose Witherspoon.
Thanks again,
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USA TODAY Releases Consolidated Media Report
By: Press Release | Alliance for Audited Media
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (Jan. 30, 2013) — The Alliance for Audited Media has released a Consolidated Media Report for USA TODAY. The CMR is a custom report that shows a newspaper's audience across print and digital channels with transparent, audited data. USA TODAY, which ranked second in the list of U.S. newspapers by average circulation in September 2012, is the largest newspaper to release a CMR.
USA TODAY, which is owned by Gannett Co. , Inc., redesigned its suite of Web, tablet, mobile and print products in the fall of 2012. The CMR reflects the look of the new brand and describes data from each of these channels. Six-month averages from April through September 2012 include:
· Circulation of 1.7 million print and digital editions
· A combined website reach of 32.2 million unique visitors and 594 million page views
· 2 million unique tablet devices and 6.5 million unique smartphone devices
The report also includes customized features such as charts that detail mobile page views on tablets and smartphones, a list of advertising sales contacts and descriptions of USA TODAY's audience.
"It was important for us to have a way to show our total reach including all of our various digital platforms. The CMR gives us that and we think our advertising partners will find this information very valuable," said Larry Kramer, president and publisher of USA TODAY.
"Audited cross-media data is highly valuable," said AAM President and Managing Director Mike Lavery. "The CMR helps media buyers look at brands as a whole and make decisions based on reliable data audited by AAM. With the release of its first CMR, we applaud USA TODAY for showing that it stands for accountability and transparency."
USA TODAY joins the growing number of newspaper, magazine and business publications that report cross-media brand channels via the CMR. With more than 100 AAM members releasing CMRs, this brand-focused report is laying the groundwork for future AAM reporting.
A joint publisher/buyer AAM task force is developing recommendations for the next phase of the CMR. The group aims to create comparable formats, integrate the data into AAM's database, and set standards for more frequent reporting.
"This type of transparency builds a lot of confidence and understanding in the various product offerings," said Christopher Cope, founder/president and CEO of ACGMedia and chairman of the AAM Newspaper Buyers' Advisory Committee. "CMR participation shows how a newspaper's multimedia products present value to the market for advertisers. It's an important tool that publishers should take advantage of."
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The Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) is a nonprofit organization that connects North America's leading media companies, advertisers and ad agencies. Founded in 1914 as the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the AAM is the preeminent source of cross-media verification and information services, providing standards, audit services and data critical to the advertising industry. The organization independently verifies print and digital circulation, mobile apps, website analytics, social media, technology platforms and audience information for newspapers, magazines and digital media companies in the U.S. and Canada. In November 2012, the AAM joined forces with Certified Audit of Circulations. To learn more about the Alliance for Audited Media, visit the AAM website.


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GCH CH Claircreek's Impression de Matisse
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Considering the rain drenched show grounds at today's Scottsdale Dog Fanciers Association show in that Arizona town, one should not be surprised that the Portuguese Water Dog, GCH CH Claircreek's Impression de Matisse, was judge Betty-Anne Stenmark's Best In Show. Her RBIS was the regal looking Borzoi, GCH CH Majenkir Bookstor Vintage Glamour.
GCH CH Majenkir Bookstor Vintage Glamour
Joining them on the soggy grounds were the Golden Retriever, GCH CH Rush Hill's Murder Mystery JH, the Smooth Fox Terrier, GCH CH Absolutely Talk Of The Town, the Havanese, GCH CH Oeste's Stealing The Starlight, the Standard Poodle, GCH CH Del Zarzoso Salvame From Afterglow, and the Old English Sheepdog, GCH CH Bugaboo's Picture Perfect. Matisse's 20th BIS of the year is this weekend's biggest pay day with almost 2400 dogs entered.