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Tickets to Lamezia Terme with FlyDoha will place you squarely between two coastlines in the heart of southern Italy. Located in the Province of Catanzaro within the Calabria region, this city is the result of the merger of three smaller towns in 1968.
Best Things to Do in Lamezia Terme
- Soak your body at the foot of the Reventino Mountains in the sulfurous Baths of Charon, a series therapeutic springs that were once used by the ancients
- Tour the olive and citrus groves, dairy, and vineyard found at Statti Farm, a 300-acre plot of fertile land that produces only the finest homegrown goods
- Keep a lookout for ancient coastal invaders from the Malta Bastion watchtower, which was built in 1550 to thwart Turkish attacks from along the gulf
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Zardes ifts Galaxy past 'Caps
Carson, CA – Gyasi Zardes' second-half tally proved to be the difference on Saturday as the Los Angeles Galaxy came away with a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps at StubHub Center.
The Galaxy entered the match coming off a last-second loss to the Portland Timbers, but rebounded nicely on Saturday and have won three of their last four to climb to up to third place in the crowded Western Conference -- one point ahead of Vancouver.
Vancouver opened the scoring in the 19th minute as Canadian international Russell Teibert launched a long ball across the pitch to a wide-open Camilo, who took a quick touch and slid it under the arm of Los Angeles goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini for his league-leading 13th goal of the season.
But the hosts found an equalizer 10 minutes later when Omar Gonzalez whipped a free kick into the box and it fell to the feet of Jose Villarreal, who tapped it in.
Zardes put the Galaxy in front for good three minutes before the hour mark when he ran down a loose ball on the end line to the left of the goal. He chipped the ball past his defender and beat Vancouver goalkeeper Brad Knighton to the far post.
Vancouver pushed for an equalizer late on, but it never materialized as the club saw its six-match unbeaten streak come to an end.


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Great win (well, not so great in the first quarter). And yet another great game by Pietrus. The world must be coming to its end...
Nice way to start the trip. We cannot fail in these (apparently) easy games.
Game Thread: Warriors @ Atlanta Hawks 2008-03-04
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TMC wrote:NightAngel wrote:Solid win
Solid post
Solid answer to his solid post.
sleandres wrote:Oh and...solid win
Solid post.
sleandres wrote:sfsfsfgiants wrote:sleandres wrote:Oh and...solid win
Solid post.
Hey sf, if you tell me 2 more of my posts are solid, you'll be at 4K
I know that. No offense, but I will not waiste my 4,000th post telling you that you had a solid post.
*EDITED* You are closing in on your 1000th.
Migya has 15,000.
TMC has nearly 13,000.
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Xbay has 4,000.
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I got a ways to go.
TMC has nearly 13,000.
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JayPat has nearly 3,000.
I got a ways to go.
And so was Miggy up until January.
TMC wrote:Hey, congrats on your 4k post, SF3. Solid number.
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Still nothing hey, starting to wonder if they actually exsist!
Anyone got time to write their opinions???
... thanks Davesails7!davesails7 wrote:Since no news on the 2013:
I just picked up a Dyno LTD 17m (closer to the 2013 than the 2012). Only used it once in light gusty conditions, but my initial impression vs. my 2011 Dyno 18m is that it is faster turning, less stable, lower aspect ratio, and better relaunch.
Can't comment on twin tip jumping, there was barely enough wind for the twin tip, so switched to my raceboard.
Less stable might have been because of the gusty wind, Will have to try the two kites back to back to be sure. I fell on a tack and the kite tumbled out of the sky in about 10 knots. From my experience with the 18m, I don't think the 18m would have done that in this situation, so it surprised me. The 18m just seems to hang there in the sky no matter what.
Also flying on the same bar that works perfectly for all my other North kites, had to pull the trim strap most of the way in (4 inches) to stop the kite from oversheeting and backstalling
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Malaysia Airlines says changes route for planes
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines says that in the wake of the shooting down of one of its passenger jets over Ukraine, it has changed the route it planes will take on flights to and from Europe.
The airline said in a statement Friday on its website that all of its European flights "will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route."
The plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed Thursday with 298 people on board Flight 17. American intelligence authorities believe a surface-to-air missile brought the aircraft down but it was not yet clear who fired it.
"The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organization. International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions," the airline said in a statement on its website.
Even though there were no restrictions, Malaysia Airlines may still face questions about why it continued with flight paths over eastern Ukraine — at the heart of a violent rebellion against Kiev — when some airlines decided months ago to change routes to skip around the area.
In Seoul, Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said Asiana had a once-a-week cargo flight that had flown over Ukraine but re-routed the flight in early March amid the worsening situation over the Crimean peninsula.
Korean Air Line also said it had rerouted cargo and passenger flights in early March amid the worsening situation over the Crimean peninsula. A company official, who requested anonymity in line with department rules, said Korean Air Line had had 42 flights — 26 cargo and 16 passenger flights — which flew over Ukraine before.
Likewise, Australia's Qantas stopped flying over Ukraine several months ago and shifted its London-Dubai route 645 kilometers (400 miles) to the south. A spokeswoman declined to explain the change.
The China Civil Aviation Administration said it instructed all domestic airlines to avoid flying over Ukraine. At present, there are a total of 28 round-trip Chinese flights a week that fly over the area.
A statement from Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department said local "airlines do not use air routes that cross Ukrainian airspace."
Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine prior to Thursday's crash, but many carriers, including cash-strapped Malaysia Airlines, had continued to use the route because "it is a shorter route, which means less fuel and therefore less money," said aviation expert Norman Shanks.


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IT Challenged By Complexity
Information infrastructures grow incrementally, in fits and starts, to meet individual application needs. Hardware resources--servers, storage and networking requirements--tend to get added in at the end of the planning process. This results in application silos with their own dedicated, isolated resources. Now, to be fair, IT has long attempted to break down theses silos to some extent with shared storage systems (notably, SANs), which allow many applications to share the same physical array, and with server virtualization, which allows multiple applications to share the same physical system and/or CPU.
However, that is not enough. The increased mobility required to migrate virtual machines to a different physical server and storage to different tiers improves efficiency, but is only one of the new challenges. Another is the heterogeneous nature of IT resources--such as servers, storage and operating systems--which complicates the shared management of applications. On top of this is to the need to scale to meet increasing demands, especially with tight IT budgets.
Complexity results in two key problems: unacceptably high costs that are only going to grow worse as demands scale and increased pressure and threat to maintaining mandated service levels (such as high availability). This latter point is not only nice to have, but essential for delivering the continuous availability needed for generating revenues and ensuring customer retention.
[Enterprises store a lot of data that has little business value. David Hill looks at the problem in "The Critical Need For Data Disposal."]
Although it is by no means there yet, a consensus seems to be developing on how to ameliorate this IT complexity. Everyone is talking about a "software-defined" something or other (such as data center, storage, and networking), so software-defined everything seems to be the hot IT topic of note.
But that is not the only approach. Many IT vendors' and customers' focus has turned to data. An application may create data originally. Other applications, such as backup/recovery, are responsible for data protection, and other software tools are used for deriving further value from a secondary use of the data (which is what big data is all about). Focusing on applications seems good at the beginning, but cannot effectively attack complexity alone. Some have suggested the use of data-driven software intelligence to attack complexity as the best or only other alternative. For these people, software provides the intelligence to take the needed actions, and a data focus provides the target on which to take those actions.
That leads us to Sanbolic as an illustration of a software company that is attacking the heart of the IT complexity problem.
How Sanbolic Works
Founded in 2000, Sanbolic has more than 800 customers. But it has been only recently that the software-defined technologies and data focus that are in Sanbolic's wheelhouse have attracted so much attention. Sanbolic is a software-only company, and Melio (currently in release 5) is its mature flagship data management software product. Nominally, Melio has at its core a clustered file system. Having a global namespace from such a file system is a solid asset, but Melio's key value is that it touches and provides services for all servers and storage. That means it provides an overarching management control point for key resources in the information infrastructure. This helps reduce or even eliminate siloed servers and storage, and means that actions can be taken to manage everything as a whole (a prerequisite to the cloud).
Melio 5 is also host-based, a key attribute in the term software-defined. That means the software location is decoupled from the location of the physical hardware that it manages. But data management is really about the non-data path control and use of data throughout its lifecycle.
Melio's goal is to improve scalability and availability of applications. For example, as a subset of its overall data management capabilities, Melio 5 can provide software-defined storage. Software-defined storage is about using host-based software to manage and control multiple, heterogeneous storage arrays for provisioning, virtualization and other services.
But how does such data management software apply to applications? Although applications should no longer be the tail that wags the IT information infrastructure dog, they still maintain a central and absolutely critical function. In fact, the data-defined software lens that Melio employs better meets applications' needs for both scale-out and availability. Plus, Melio's ability to consolidate, cluster and manage physical, virtual and cloud workloads enables more agile, efficient and scalable application deployments.
When applications are siloed, resource utilization is often poor (that is, inefficient), barriers to moving to a more efficient environment exist (even in a server virtualized environment), and adding resources to meet unexpected demand is not easy, so it's definitely not scalable.
Melio's ability to add computing nodes non-disruptively online in a cluster is key to enabling these critical services. Melio 5 also provides volume management and a number of other capabilities to provide high availability to applications and data. In addition to standard approaches, such as RAID, Melio includes some clever confidential approaches that go into the recovery of data.
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The Cool Spring, Virginia, battlefield is one of five that the Civil War Trust is endeavoring to save during a year end campaign that includes an incredible $109 to $1 match! The campaign seeks to preserve 1150 acres of the battlefield where George Crook's Army of West Virginia fought. West Virginia units at the battle included the 1st, 11th, 12th, and 15th West Virginia Infantries, as well as the 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Battery E.
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In a hip hop and R&B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of SAY MY NAME speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. This worldwide documentary takes viewers on a vibrant tour of urban culture and musical movement, from hip hop�s birthplace in the Bronx, to grime on London�s Eastside, to Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and L.A., and points in between.
Featuring interviews and musical performances from a diverse cast of women that includes Remy Ma, Rah Digga, Jean Grae, Erykah Badu, Estelle, as well as newcomers Chocolate Thai, Invincible and Miz Korona, this powerful documentary delves into the amazing personal stories of women balancing professional dreams with the stark realities of poor urban communities, race, sexism, and motherhood. The more than 18 artists featured in SAY MY NAME battle for a place in a society that creates few chances for women. From emerging artists filled with new creativity, to true pioneers like MC Lyte, Roxxanne Shante, and Monie Love, these are women turning adversity into art.
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Qualifying for the Formula One season opener will be completed Sunday after a series of rain delays and darkness prevented the running of second and third sessions Saturday.
A wet first session of qualifying was completed after a half-hour delay, but a succession of delays of Q2 meant it was becoming too dark to hold the remaining sessions.
Both qualifying and race at the Australian Grand Prix begin at 5 p.m. local time to satisfy European television audiences.
Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was fastest in Q1 ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Lotus' Romain Grosjean. Among the six drivers eliminated in the session was Williams driver Pastor Maldonado.
Race stewards had the option of basing the grid on the Q1 times or completing qualifying Sunday, and chose the latter.
Qualifying on Sunday is unusual but not unprecedented, with the grids for both the 2004 and 2010 Japanese Grands Prix decided on race day due to bad weather on the preceding Saturday.
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh was among those urging stewards to base the grid on Q1 times - his drivers Sergio Perez and Jenson Button performed above expectation in the session by setting the fourth- and eighth-fastest times, respectively.
"The stewards can decide the grid based on what has already happened or decide to run Q2 and Q3 tomorrow," Whitmarsh said shortly before stewards announced their decision. "However, it's a very busy program tomorrow and I'm sure some of the historic events won't be pleased if they are moved."
The second session of qualifying will begin at 11 a.m. local time Sunday, making it a long day for teams and drivers with the race set to start six hours later.
"I don't think it compromises the race, if anything it's better because you get a bit of a warm-up," Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton said. "Your body should be more energized and ready for the race so it should be interesting."
The six drivers who were eliminated in Q1 will be able to arrive at the track later. Maldonado qualified 17th, followed by Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez - who was among several drivers who spun off the track in Q1 - Marussia pair Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton, and the two Lotus cars of Giedo van der Garde and Charles Pic.
Australian favorite Mark Webber was fifth in Q1, two places ahead of his Red Bull teammate and triple world champion Sebastian Vettel, with the two separated by Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne was ninth, a place ahead of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton.
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May 2014, Algiers, People's and Democratic Republic of Algeria. It is in partnership with the Institute for Diplomacy and International Relations of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign that UNITAR organized a three-day training workshop on political mediation in Algiers.
As the international scene is teeming with conflicts that are increasingly internal to states, political mediation is felt as the vector of choice to facilitate negotiations with a view to rebuilding peace. Acting effectively in local, regional and international negotiations in times of crisis requires that mediators have a thorough knowledge of the parameters and frictions that draw the context of the crisis. Based on the analysis of case studies, this workshop provided participants with the resources to reflect on the dilemmas, challenges and limits of political mediation while focusing on the application of the theoretical and practical tools acquired.
The first part of this workshop, moderated by Professor Alain Sigg, analyzed several examples of political mediation cases to serve the appreciation of the trends known by the general public and its mechanisms. Focused primarily on the cases of South Africa, Bosnia - Herzegovina and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this first part depicted the ethical dilemmas of political mediation as well as its challenges and limitations. Discussions based on the the views and experiences of participants contributed to approach a holistic approach to mediation. The second part of this workshop, led by Ms. Sandra Coulibaly Leroy, focused on the application of these previously acquired tools. During a simulation exercise, participants were asked to establish an analytical grid of a fictitious conflict; to draw from this analysis a negotiation strategy taking into account the interests of each party and the best alternative to a negotiated agreement as well as to simulate the achievement of this agreement through a role-play between negotiators and mediators.
Participants welcomed the "high level of communication in public and openness in discussions" during this highly interactive workshop. They furthermore exhibited confidence in their ability to use the lessons learned during this seminar in the context of their mandate; an objective that lies at the heart of UNITAR and IDRI partnership.


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Pawel Althamer: Guma, 2008Photo: Jan SmagaPhoto courtesy of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw reveals the first acquisitions, donations and deposits to its future collection. The exhibition, held at the Museum's temporary headquarters, includes works by the leading Polish visual artists and archives crucial for the history of the modern and contemporary art in Poland, as well as a work by a young Czech artist, Katarina eda, a participant of the recent Documenta show in Kassel.
Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Paweł Althamer, Mirosław Bałka, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jarosław Modzelewski, Katarina eda, Wilhelm Sasnal, Marek Sobczyk, Monika Sosnowska, Alina Szapocznikow, Piotr Uklański, Artur Żmijewski and the archives of Eustachy Kossakowski and Grzegorz Kowalski


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The results of Accenture's 2016 UK Financial Services Customer Survey confirm that there has been a widespread deterioration in consumers' levels of trust across multiple industries, from retail and utilities to financial services and technology. Trust takes time to build, is quick to lose, and reputational events in one sector often have repercussions elsewhere.
Supermarkets and other retailers have suffered the most in this respect. As a consequence, financial services providers are now experiencing levels of trust that are almost on a par with the traditionally more-trusted retail sector. Even so, just 29 percent of respondents consider banks to be trustworthy, with the equivalent figure for insurers being even lower (at 20 percent). But there is encouraging news too. People are more satisfied with their own banks and insurers than they were a year ago, and they are also more likely to recommend them to friends and family. Financial services providers still need to work harder to meet their current and prospective customers' needs.
Banks and insurers will be able to promote trust, increase satisfaction and drive customer engagement if they are willing to embrace three imperatives—build tailored propositions, form interconnected ecosystems, and design a frictionless customer journey.


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Depard – Catchy Punk Rock
Teenage rock, california punk pop, you name it. This song has pumping beats and heavy distortion guitar sounds, which will definitely bring you to another level of energy.
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No funny at all. Is all about getting drunk.
I went with a friend of mine I did not like the movie
it is not for children to watch
I really enjoyed it very funny movie
What a piece of junk of movie.
Shame on me for spending money on this garbage. Shame on the actors and people who made this movie. Really terrible.
Pure crap. These actors are not funny.
Epic fail movie.
The movie was disgusting and nothing related to Christmas. The movie was all about drunk women. Sex.
This is not the only site where this movie is getting lower scores.
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More About Birds and Animals...
Here's a good cause and something fun to participate in. The Great Backyard Bird Count is this weekend.
The idea of it is to make several counts of the different species of birds you see in your backyard. Then take the greatest number for each species you saw and report it. For example, if you saw 5 cardinals at 10 a.m. 3 cardinals at 10:30 a.m. and 6 cardinals at 11:00 a.m., you would report 6 cardinals, the greatest of the three counts.
The study is sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. You can read all about it at the Great Backyard Bird Count website. Much information is available there, including helpful photos and descriptions to help identify any species you may not be sure of.
The specific goals of the bird count are listed on the website, but put simply, it helps us know how the birds are doing. And I hope the count will reveal that the birds are doing well.
Dennis is looking forward to doing the counting at our house, and I will probably make some observations too. I am a little concerned that I haven't seen any mourning doves around the feeders this year.
When I took the photo at right, the wind chills were below zero. The birds were picking up fallen seed off the ground instead of congregating at the feeder as they usually do. Some were even huddling on the ground near the wall of the house.
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A year ago today, I blogged about "A Twisted Hackberry" that grows at the Catholic church in Hopkinsville. I also had some comments about some little tin men I had seen at the flea market.


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GETTYSBURG, PA – The York College golf squad finished tied for fourth at Thursday's Gettysburg Fall Golf Invitational at The Links of Gettysburg Golf Club in Gettysburg, PA. The Spartans shot a team total of 327 to tie with Stevenson University in the 11 team field. Gettysburg won the tournament with a team score of 313 while Messiah placed second followed by Dickinson.
The Spartans were led by freshman Kevin Long as he carded a five-over-par 77. Long finished tied for fourth, his highest finish of the year. Junior Adam Burkhart was the next Spartan finisher as he tied for 12th with his eight-over-par 80.
Freshman Ryan Feeney shot an 84 to finish tied for 27th in the 60-player field. Junior Adam Dupler was the final Spartan finisher as he shot an 86 to finish tied for 35th.
The Green and White closes out the 2010 fall campaign on Tuesday when they travel to the Messiah College Invitational.


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Sherry had been a model daughter, beautiful beyond words and sweet as can be. All our friends were envious of our close relationship, we seemed to be like sisters and best friends rather than mother and daughter. We spent endless nights sitting on her bed laughing and exchanging secrets…Until she met Bob… Bob was 4 years older than her and I knew he was trouble from the start… Up until her senior year she had a 3.9 grade average, and was headed for a scholarship to a local university. The summer before her senior year she had met and fell in love with Bob and her grades the first semester dropped a whole point…
Lucky for me it didn't take long for him to show his true colors and Sherry broke it off…However is was going to take some hard work to bring up her grades, she had really fallen behind! I suggested we hire a tutor from the local university to help her bring her grades back up…she agreed that would probably be helpful.
I called the university and got 4 names from there list interviewed three of them. One girl, and two were young men, and I have to admit my reasons for my choice. He was 26, and working on his masters program and an absolute hunk… I was sure Sherry would do well with him.
He was to see Sherry three days a week for eight weeks and I was sure that would get her back on track. By the end of the second week the three of us had developed quite a comfortable relationship and I could tell Sherry was doing well with the program.
On the other hand I was becoming exceedingly more excited about his visits… I kept telling myself to behave this young man was 9 years younger than me and still in school.
I had been single for 8 years and had no real prospects of my own and I was not looking to find another mate, my first marriage and ended in a nasty divorce, and I wanted to get Sherry through school before I started a new relationship. But I couldn't keep my eyes off him and I noticed he seemed to have more that a casual interest in me. I still looked sexy and could have passed for 25 and I took great pride in my appearance and always dressed just a little bit more sexy when he came around.
On the third week of the program, Sherry had a school function that would keep her from making her appointment with him and I had told Sherry I would call him and cancel. It slipped my mind and the night of her absence…when I heard the knock on the door and realized my mistake and I was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say. I knew he had driven 30 miles to get there and I hated to admit that I had been so absentminded. When I answered the door, I didn't quite know what to say. My mind was spinning so I made up a story to cover my mistake telling him that my sister had a sick child and Sherry had to help out baby-sitting while she took the other to the hospital. I ask him if he had eaten and offered to pay him for his time… He admitted he was hungry and came in while I prepared us something to eat. While I was in the kitchen I thought I heard him talking to someone so I walked in the room to my surprise there stood Sherry. She had forgotten her overnight bag and stopped home to get it. She was just saying "didn't Mom call you? She said she would take care of it I had this planned a week ago" " Why no! I guess it must have slipped her mind!" I just stood there frozen in my spot…knowing by now he knew I had lied to cover the fact that I had forgotten to call him and cancel the session.
Sherry grabbed her bag and headed out the door and I stood there feeling like a naughty school girl just caught in a lie. " Well June " Steve replied "Just what was that all about?"
" I am sorry…I should have told you the truth. Will you forgive me?" I said with a little pout.
"Hummm….I am not sure…maybe you need some tutoring of your own…learning to admit your mistakes and tell the truth. Let me think about it."
I went back into the kitchen to finish preparing dinner. My thoughts were wondering to what he must think of me at this point, I really felt foolish. I call him for dinner and we sat down and ate, talking and laughing about some of the fun times the three of us had, had during the last few weeks, and I was sure he had forgotten all about my lie. After dinner he offered to help clean up and I accepted his offer hoping to keep him for as long as possible…I had not had this much fun in years.
I offered him a beer and poured myself and glass of wine and we sat in the kitchen chatting away. There came a lull in the conversation, and he suddenly looked at me and said "Well, June about that lesson." He had caught me completely off guard and I said 'what lesson is that?"
"Remember…the one about telling the truth and admitting your mistakes? And since you are paying me for tonight I think I should do my job and teach…and I think a sound spanking is in order" I couldn't believe my ears…surely he must be kidding!
"You wouldn't dare" I replied hoping I was right. Just then I realized I was beginning to feel quite warm…not sure if it was the wine or his threat!
"Oh…but you are wrong June that is exactly what I plan to do" The devilish look in his eye told me he was planning to carry out his threat. I jumped to my feet hoping to escape, but he grabbed my arm and I really had no chance…This could not be happening…His grip was like iron and I could feel the warm rush of embarrassment come over me as he pull me over his Knee.
"Steve! Don't you dare, let me go this instant." I was older than him and I tried to use my mother voice to keep him from administering such a childish punishment, but I could tell it was not going to work.
"So June do you have anything to say for yourself before I start?"
"NO! I hate you" I replied.
"Goodness you are a little snotty…well that will get you ten more whacks!" Just then he started to whack my bottom and I thought this isn't that bad I can get though this…it really didn't hurt that much. I cursed myself for wearing that short skirt. Suddenly the whacks got a lot harder and really started to sting. "Ouch! Hey stop it now" I replied.
"Oh, so you think a spanking is not supposed to hurt huh…well when I teach my students learn their lessons and I can tell from the tone in your voice you have not learned a thing!"
"You need a much firmer hand." He pulled up my skirt to expose my panty clad behind…which I have to admit was very round and firm and I was glad of that. I started to struggle, really getting scarred now, but it was hopeless…he was very strong and in perfect shape, which was why I had chosen him in the first place. WHAT A BODY! I was wearing red silk panties and they didn't offer any protection for my now stinging ass. He started to smack my bottom again and I thought the spanking would never end. He must have given me 100 whacks and I begged for him to stop.
" What have you learned?" he asked "I will never lie again!" He gave me a few more whacks and let me go…Asking me if I need any more lessons…I said I would not need another.
He left soon after that leaving me with my wet panties and a stinging behind. Every time he showed up I got wet the minute he entered the house……


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This year we are all getting into the resolution spirit:
Samantha resolves to enjoy the cold weather, she hates the heat...
Jaxon resolves to practice his angry face, although he never uses it when he is angry -- it makes him laugh!
I resolve to make something from a book or magazine I already own each month. I buy them and then they languish on the shelf (or in the magazine rack). No more! Here's the first for January:
My sister got me Amy Butler's new book for Christmas. This is my first begin-and-finish of 2011.
Fabric is Michael Miller's Gray Prom (and dumb dot), lined in curtains from Jaxon's nursery. The prom fabric was made for me! Perfect! Look at this young lady spiking the punch:
Too cute! This is designed by Shawn Wallace. She's my favorite and behind most of Michael Miller's novelty fabric.
The bag went together quickly -- I just wish I would have used heavier interfacing for more form.
Those are our resolutions! Oh, and Charlie? He resolves *not* to be on my blog!
-- Post From My iPad


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Cyprus/Nigeria: Nigerian who fears stoning can stay in Cyprus
A pregnant Nigerian student was released from custody and given temporary stay in Cyprus on Wednesday after she applied for asylum, fearing death by stoning in her homeland for having a child out of wedlock.
The Mail and Guardian report that under normal circumstances, the Nigerian would be deported, but the fact she might face the death penalty back home has made the Cypriot authorities think again.
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Say farewell to the water tower and current Howard L. Brown Public Safety Building at 1100 SW Smith St. in downtown Blue Springs.
The $22 million remodeling and renovation project of the public safety building will break ground on March 27, and it includes the removal of the water tower.
As a result, many municipal operations and services will either be temporarily relocated or closed as construction of the new pubilc safety building is expected to last until the summer of 2015.
"Due to the expansion and renovation construction project, many city functions will be temporarily moved," said Blue Springs Mayor Carson Ross in a press release. "This allows us to reduce the overall cost of the project and reduce the construction process."
"One of our highest project priorities was that police and city services not be impacted as a result of the construction schedule," said Blue Springs City Administrator Eric Johnson in a press release. "It is no easy task to vacate an entire city building and maintain essential city functions."
City services that will be temporarily moving and/or closing:
• Portions of Southwest Smith Street and Southwest 11th Street in downtown Blue Springs will be closed on March 27 and 28 during the water tower removal.
• Blue Springs Police services, such as police administration, the Community & Youth Outreach Unit, staff services and operations bureau staff, will be moving to their temporary location this week at the Paul Consiglio Education Center, at 1504 NW Jefferson St. in Blue Springs. Other police department staff will be relocated to City Hall offices, 903 W. Main St., and the GE Building, 321 AA Highway. To locate specific police services, residents are asked to call the police non-emergency phone number at 816-228-0151.
• Municipal Court, Court Clerk and Records Unit will be closed on March 24 and reopen at the Municipal Annex Building, 1304 W. Main St., on March 27.
• City Council, Planning Commission and other public meetings will move to the Municipal Annex as well. The first City Council meeting at the temporary location will be on April 14, and the first Planning Commission meeting on April 14. The meetings will not be televised on the City Government Access Channel (channel 7 on cable provider Comcast or channel 99 on AT&T U-Verse), but audio recordings of the meetings will be available on the city's website, www.bluespringsgov.com
• The KCATA Blue Springs Express 170 bus stop at downtown Blue Springs will no longer be available beginning March 26. Commuters are asked to use alternative stops, such as White Oak Plaza, North Ridge Park and Woods Chapel Road Park & Ride locations. For more information, visit the website, www.kcata.org.
• On May 1, the Blue Springs Farmers Market will be relocated at the First Baptist Church of Blue Springs' parking lot, at 1405 W. Main St.
As previously reported, the Howard L. Brown Public Safety Building will be converted into a three level facility with 72,000 square feet of space. Additional parking lots will be provided at the Smith and 11th Street intersection as well. Funding for this expansion and renovation project was made possible when Blue Springs voters passed a 1/2 cent sales tax increase dedicated to public safety in April 2011. The new public safety building will feature a more customer service-oriented design, according to the city.
In November 2013, representatives from McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie, Inc. and Treanor Architects – the firms that designed the new Howard L. Brown Public Safety Building – said the downtown water tower no longer serves any function because it has "no pressure and storage capacity."


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Growing a Greener World "Growing Hydroponically; No Dirt Required" Space challenged or not, growing hydroponically (without soil) offers lots of advantages, from fewer pest and diseases to being able to grow your own, no matter where you live.or work. We show a brand new system using shipping containers to grow restaurant quality produce hydroponically, drop in on a New York city dweller creating hydroponic window gardens and go shopping to show you what it takes to start your own system, even on very little money. D
4:30 am
Wild Kratts "Creature Power Challenge" After getting caught in the middle of a tussle between a grumpy rhino and an outraged elephant, Martin and Chris decide to have a contest to decide what's stronger - elephant or rhino powers. D
5:00 am
Chefs A' Field: Culinary Adventures That Begin On The Farm "Chef Suzanne Goin-Lucques/A.O.C.: Los Angeles, Ca" L.A.'s hottest chef joins farmer Phil McGrath, grower of the best fruit and vegetables in California, to harvest organic strawberries, tomatoes, squash and beans. D
5:30 am
Christina Cooks "Probiotics and You" Pro-bi-what? Probiotics are the good bacteria that aid in food digestion. In this show, Christina makes Briased Fennel, Leeks and Eggplant, and Fried Rice with Pineapple, to help us digest. D
6:00 am
Wild Nevada "Blue Mass Scenic Area" Alvin McLane joins Dave & Chris once again for a journey through White Pine County from Ely to the scenic Blue Mass area. This trip take us on the historic Lincoln Highway over Shellbourne Pass to Antelope Valley to the Tunnel Canyon Pictograph site and the remains of Tippet, Nevada. The crew then heads south into the Kern Mountains and the wonderful Blue Mass Scenic area. D
6:30 am
In The Americas with David Yetman "Chiloe and Chilotes: Proud Islanders of Chile" Yetman is on Chiloe, the second largest island of South America, where the residents, known as Chilotes, consider themselves a people apart, and demonstrate for him their traditions of food, towns and society that extend back before the arrival of Europeans.G
7:00 am
The Woodwright's Shop "Field Gate Hinges" Master blacksmith Peter Ross turns his hammer to forging iron hinges for our oak field gate. We'll see how to shape and weld wrought iron for straps and pintles to make our gate swing true. D
7:30 am
Woodsmith Shop "Router Jigs & Accessories" A router is one of the hardest working tools in the Woodsmith Shop. The Woodsmith editors share some of their favorite jigs and accessories that will make your router work faster, safer, and more accurately.G
8:00 am
The Victory Garden "Hot: Create A Garden That Beats The Heat" In Los Angeles, host Jamie Durie learns about the cycad, an ancient plant that thrives in a hot climate. The Stone guys heat up the garden with a firepit and wood-burning oven.G
8:30 am
For Your Home "Vicki's Kitchen Makeover" Beautiful Italian Carrara marble inspires Vicki to treat her kitchen to a makeover that lightens the whole space. Decorative painter Bob Nulf gives a fresh face to the cabinets. D
9:00 am
Martha's Sewing Room "Serger Piping" Lined bag with serger piping; Sew Quick, Sew Easy boy's baby bonnet by serger; Lace diamond windows Antique Technique; Heirloom Quilting segment on quilting with endless (continuous) embroidery. Guests: Kathy McMakin, Nina McVeigh. D
9:30 am
Best of the Joy of Painting "River's Peace" Grab your brushes and join Bob Ross as he paints a gorgeous river gently flowing under protective branches of lovely trees. D
10:00 am
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Asia Express" Joanne embraces teaching traditional recipes and then showing new ways to use them. She and her student Reggie make mayonnaise and create an Asian inspired meal of tuna burgers with wasabi mayonnaise and Thai cabbage and grapefruit slaw, leaving Reggie wondering if he will ever buy mayonnaise again. Recipes: Grilled Yellowtail Tuna Burgers with Wasabi Mayonnaise and Thai Cabbage and Grapefruit Slaw. D
10:30 am
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Beef Roulade & Grilled Bread with Tomatoes" Joanne gives student Del a technique-intensive lesson on how to prepare beef rolled around vegetables, then shows him a special tool from Italy which they use to make grilled bread with ripe tomatoes and olive oil. Recipes: (1) BEEF ROULADE WITH ROASTED FENNEL AND SWEET PEPPERS, (2) GRILLED BREAD WITH RIPE TOMATOES AND OLIVE OIL. Student: Clodel "Del" Gosuico - Programmer. D
11:00 am
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: II" This episode is the second segment of the four-part review and covers the time Raquel spent in Argentina.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: III" This episode is the third segment of the four-part review of the series and features highlights from Raquel's trip to Puerto Rico.G
12:00 pm
Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers, The "Workshop 1. What Is Art?" The Learner Teams and students explore the nature of theatre, music, dance, and visual art as they consider their own definitions for each art form. They watch an excerpt from Quidam, a surrealistic performance piece that combines the four art forms in unusual ways, and begin to explore connections between fantasy and reality. D
1:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Kepler to Einstein" From Kepler's laws and the theory of tides, to Einstein's general theory of relativity, into black holes, and beyond. D
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Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Harmony of the Spheres" A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries. D
2:00 pm
Discovering Psychology "Judgment and Decision Making" Analyzes the decision making process and human intuition through interviews with leading authorities who reveal how and why people make good and bad decisions.G
2:30 pm
Discovering Psychology "Motivation and Emotion" Reviews what researchers are discovering about why people act and feel as they do, from the exhilaration of love to the agony of failure.G
3:00 pm
Curiosity Quest "Bike Making" Join Joel on this sporty quest as he learns how BMX Bikes are made with Fit Bikes. Put your math skills to use for this intricate journey through the bike making world. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Saving and Investing for Your Future" You'll learn along with the Biz Kids about the powerful potential of starting a savings plan early in life. You'll also discover various savings and investing options available to young people. As always, you'll meet individuals who are successful at saving and at their businesses. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "Prankster Holiday" Other than Marcus, The Electric Company has left town for the 4th of July. Manny and Danny could not be happier - with everyone gone, they can pull the ultimate prank. They plan to launch a giant wordball balloon that reads, "The Electric Company doesn't like you. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Jimaya Jam" Hacker has discovered an army of awesome creatures he can use to rule cyberspace, but they are carved in stone on the walls of the Pyramid of Jimaya. To bring the animals to life, he must steal the Sphere of Being, a magical orb closely guarded by three ghosts (Hacker's worst nightmare). How can he distract them so he can steal the Sphere? Opportunity knocks when he tricks Jules, recently hired as tour guide, into pushing the wrong button and falling, along with the kids and Creech, into an underground arena from which there is no escape! Confronted by the Jam Master, the guardian of the pyramid, and the Pyramid's three ghosts, the kids are told they can go free if they can overcome the ghosts in a game of Jimaya Jam. D
5:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Game Day" Venison Steaks In Sweet-Sour Sauce; Skillet Duck With Red Oak Salad; Sauteed Rabbit With Morels And Pearl Onions. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Mediterranean Specials" Test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making the ultimate Beef Kebabs. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of Greek yogurt. And finally, test cook Bryan Roof uncovers the test kitchen's secrets to perfect Greek Spinach and Feta Pie. D
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Cuisine Culture "Guy Savoy, Las Vegas" Three-Star Michelin Chef Guy Savoy shows us that class, elegance and the best foods in the world can be found in Las Vegas. Guy whisks us away to the Nevada desert where we visit a hydroponic farm. With local ingredients we recreate three of his signature plates in his famed restaurant: an appetizer of Colors of Caviar as well as the main course, Bar en Ecailles Grilles aux Epices Douces: Crispy Sea Bass with Delicate Herbs. D
6:30 pm
Pati's Mexican Table "A French Twist On Mexico" A tasty look at the way French cuisine has historically influenced modern Mexican cooking, and simple techniques any American cook can manage with impressive results. Snapper in a Poblano Chile Sauce; Blissful Corn Torte; Cajeta Crepes with Toasted Pecans. D
7:00 pm
The Woodwright's Shop "Field Gate Hinges" Master blacksmith Peter Ross turns his hammer to forging iron hinges for our oak field gate. We'll see how to shape and weld wrought iron for straps and pintles to make our gate swing true. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of West Ireland: Dingle, Galway, and the Aran Islands" Rick experiences Ireland in the extreme on its west coast in Gaeltachts, where people speak Gaelic and the rugged villages have changed little over the generations.G
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Cruising The Rhine" The Rhine is one of the world's great rivers. It starts in the Swiss Alps and flows for 865 miles through six European countries ending up in the Netherlands and the North Sea. It connects to dozens of other rivers and canals forming a vast inland waterway. D
8:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Game Day" Venison Steaks In Sweet-Sour Sauce; Skillet Duck With Red Oak Salad; Sauteed Rabbit With Morels And Pearl Onions. D
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Mediterranean Specials" Test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making the ultimate Beef Kebabs. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of Greek yogurt. And finally, test cook Bryan Roof uncovers the test kitchen's secrets to perfect Greek Spinach and Feta Pie. D
9:30 pm
Burt Wolf: What We Eat "Milk's Leap Toward Immortality: The Story of Cheese" Columbus brought the first cows to the Western hemisphere. Burt traces the history of cheese making in the Americas.G
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Passport to Sardinia" The island of Sardinia is one of Joanne's favorite places. She created a menu to take her student Di there, fregola with clams and tomatoes and a yellow and green bean salad with cherry tomatoes and basil. Recipes: Roasted Olives with Orange, Bay and Fennel, Fregola, Clams and Tomatoes, and Yellow and Green Bean Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of West Ireland: Dingle, Galway, and the Aran Islands" Rick experiences Ireland in the extreme on its west coast in Gaeltachts, where people speak Gaelic and the rugged villages have changed little over the generations.G
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Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature In High School, The "Workshop 1. Reader Response: Pat Mora and James Welch" In Part I, Alfredo Lujan and his students at the Monte del Sol school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, explore My Own True Name, Pat Mora. D


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Q weighs in with his five best 5 Best Oregon State Beavers Football Players currently playing on Sunday's in the NFL. Steven Jackson, Chad Ochocinqo, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Andy Levitre, and Nick Barnett make the grade. Could Sean Mannion make this list one day?
My 5 Best Oregon State Football Players in the NFL
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Hi, I don't even know where to begin..
I am in need of some major help and encouragement. I have a six week old daughter. She was delivered via C-section. During recovery they had given me a nipple shield almost immediately. I just took her off the shield a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure we have a good latch, there is some room for improvement though. Where I need help is, my supply and getting her on a schedule. She also has been supplementing with formula as well due to weight gain issues. she was losing weight and not gaining. I did have mastitis the second week of her being here. It seems like after that my supply on that side has been compromised. I feed her for 20 minutes on each side, where she has never really "pulled" herself off when finished because she would be latched on all day if possible. Afterwards she acts hungry still, so that's where the supplementing comes in. I don't want to supplement anymore. I want to make enough for her. I want her satisfied with just my milk alone. I have tried everything. Mothers milk herbs, pumping after nursing, and feeding on her demand. Nothing seems to be working. Is there anything else I can do??? I can only do so much because I have a 2 year old as well, and he acquires attention too.


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Any information about these families appreciated,
McMeekan family from Springston - Canterbury New Zealand,and arrivals of John McCormick,Mary Healey from England,Ireland prior to 1875.
McCORMICK-looking for my g-grandfather JOHN McCORMICK
Married MARY HEALEY 1875 - Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand, 2 children Jane 1876 , John Thomas 1885. Would like to fill this gap in McCORMICK Tree.
Looking for information of MCMEEKAN FAMILY from IRELAND
Robert & Eliza Jane came out to NZ in 1850's landed at Lyttelton & moved out to Sprngston area in 1860.
Any information of Drummond Anderson Mcmeekan /Lily Lena Rapley and family would be appreciated.
looking for ELWYN McDONALD, married LEONARD RICHARD MCMEEKAN in Christchurch NZ abt 1934
They lived in Shirley & Dallington,Christchurch.
Leonard known as 'Richard' had a Butcher Shop in Shirley. They had 6 children, 3 Boys & 3 girls.
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An open-and-closed case
A reader named Roy sent me an e-mail recently. He had a question — not for himself but for a friend. And, heaven help me, I really believe it was for a friend.
Here's what Roy wrote: "Dear June, I have a friend who is bothered by the difference between the use of 'open' and 'opened' when a person has left the room.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) � Michael Jackson's doctor, who refused to testify at his trial, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the singer lied to him about his medical history and never revealed he had an addiction problem.
"I would hate to put blame on Michael as an individual," Dr. Conrad Murray told the "Today" show in the interview done days before the doctor's conviction.
"I only wish maybe in our dealings with each other he would have been more forthcoming and honest.to tell me these things about himself," he said.
Interviewer Savannah Guthrie asked: "Do you think he lied to you?"
"Definitely," Murray said.
"About what?" she asked.
"Certainly he was deceptive by not showing me his whole medical history, doctors he was seeing, treatments that he might have been receiving." Murray answered.
"Did you really not know he had an addiction problem?" Guthrie asked.
"Absolutely not," said Murray. "Did not have a clue."
Murray was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter for supplying the insomnia-plagued Jackson with the powerful operating-room anesthetic propofol to help him sleep as he rehearsed for his big comeback.
During the interview, Murray was shown video of bottles of medications from other physicians arrayed on Jackson's bedside table, suggesting Murray's suspicions should have been raised.
"I cannot prevent Michael from seeing other doctors for whatever reason," the doctor said.
"You must have realized the reason he hired you was to give him this drug, propofol," Guthrie said.
"No, not at all," Murray replied. "I met Michael with propofol. This was not something I introduced to Michael."
Experts testified at Murray's trial that propofol should not have been administered in Jackson's home, but the doctor disagreed.
Murray revealed Jackson was under the influence of propofol during a recording found on the doctor's cell phone. Murray said the recording, in which the heavily drugged Jackson talked in a slurred voice about his goal of building a major children's hospital, was made by accident.
Murray, 58, described Jackson as "a desperate man, desperate" during his final hours.
Asked by Guthrie how it felt to be blamed for Jackson's death, he said, "I loved Michael too. I'm as much of a fan as any of the others. To be blamed for his death has not been an easy thing."
"Are you the cause of Michael Jackson's death?" Guthrie asked.
"No, I am not," Murray said.
The interview with the Houston cardiologist was being aired Thursday and Friday. Other excerpts were released Wednesday.
Under questioning by Guthrie, Murray said it was not necessary for him to monitor Jackson in the hours before he died because he had given the pop star only a small dose of propofol. The doctor said that was the reason he didn't mention to arriving paramedics that Jackson had been given the drug.
Guthrie asked, "Well, you told them about the other drugs, but you didn't tell them about propofol?"
"Because it had no effect," Murray said. "It was not an issue."
The coroner, however, found that Jackson, 50, died of acute propofol intoxication complicated by other sedatives.
During the trial, Murray's defense tried to show that Jackson gave himself an extra dose of propofol while Murray was out of the room, but prosecution experts said there was no evidence to support what one witness called the crazy theory.
Asked by Guthrie if he became distracted that morning by phone calls, emailing and text messages, Murray said, "No I was not."
"When I looked at a man who was all night deprived of sleep, who was desperate for sleep and finally is getting some sleep, am I gonna sit over him, sit around him, tug on his feet, do anything unusual to wake him up? No," Murray said.
"You walked out of the room to talk on the phone?" Guthrie asked.
"Absolutely, I wanted him to rest," Murray replied.
Other doctors testified at Murray's trial that leaving a patient alone after administering an anesthetic was an egregious deviation from the standard of care expected of a physician.
In one exchange during the interview, Murray suggested that if he had known Jackson had a problem with addiction to medications he might have acted differently. Experts, however, testified that Murray should have researched Jackson's medical history before he undertook his treatment for insomnia.
On the day Jackson died, June 25, 2009, Murray said he believed he had weaned the singer from propofol, the drug Jackson called his "milk."
But when Jackson could not sleep, Murray told "Today," he gave the entertainer a very small dose of propofol.
In retrospect, he said he probably should have walked away when Jackson asked for propofol. But he said he would have been abandoning a friend.
Meanwhile, the disclosure that MSNBC will air a documentary about Murray brought outrage Wednesday from the executors of Jackson's estate, who said Murray is getting a prime-time platform to smear Jackson's reputation without fear of cross-examination.
The executors, John Branch and John McClain, demanded the program entitled "Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship" be cancelled. The network said it had no comment.
Murray is being held in Los Angeles County Jail awaiting sentencing Nov. 29 and could face up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.


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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Writing distractions by Terry Burns
I've gotten enough of the negative campaigning by both political parties, name-calling, half truths, inuenndos and outright lies. I said something about it online, and then wrote a personal blog on it on my website. I want the character assassination to stop and for them to get down to talking about issues . . . how they are going to fix this country.One lady agreed with me, then went on to say that Republicans should wear white hoods so we would know them for what they are. Oh yeah, she got what I was saying.
But my purpose here is not to get political on a literary site. The point I am leading up to is all this has me very distracted. At the Oregon Christian Writer's Conference we were talking about writing time, and one of the biggest thieves of this time is distractions.
I've heard it all of my writing life. "When the kids grow up and move out I'll have time to write."
"When I retire I'll have plenty of time to write."
"When I finish doing (insert big project here) I'll have lots of time to write."
There is never time to write. We don't have it now, and we aren't going to magically have it down the road when some big life change event happens. Life expands to fill available time. Writing time has to be carved out of whatever we are doing at the time and jealously protected. That can be difficult if those in our life haven't "gotten it" yet and aren't helping us to do it. If we aren't getting that support at home we have to take steps to get those closest to us to see that we are serious about our writing, that it isn't just our newest hobby.
I've been lucky. The two people closest to me in my life 'got it.' Mom was the one that really pushed me to write in the first place and was my biggest supporter. I'm so happy she got to see me achieve some measure of success at it before she passed away. My wife, Saundra, is the strongest supporter a man could want. Both of them not only would help me carve out the writing time, but would get on me if I wasn't doing it.
These days writing has to a large extent given way to working as an agent, spending my time trying to get the work of my clients out instead of writing myself. I still get to write some but for the most part my focus has changed. But I still have to work to carve out the time for it because life is still there, still expanding to fill my time, and distractions are still rampant, like social networking . . . and political campaigns.
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- Linda Glaz said...
Oh, yes. And with a home office, you have to really treat it as if you were working off site. Because the phone rings with a friend's "urgent" request and the spouse stop by to talk about his day when yours is really just starting in earnest. Distractions are the biggest pac mans. They munch away at work time.
- August 23, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Amanda Stephan said...
I admit it. I've wondered if my writing time will grow when our children graduate. You've taken me to task, and I am duly reprimanded. AS well as encouraged. Thank you for the call to action. My plan of action? Going to set aside time for it and guard it jealously!
- August 23, 2012 at 10:20 AM
- sally apokedak said...
Great post. I'm so distracted all the time. I'm always feeling like I'm behind these days. I think I need to carve back on some of my volunteer stuff.
Either that or my blog reading. :)
- August 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM
- Davalyn Spencer said...
Waiting for time to write is like waiting for enough money to afford having a baby.
I once heard a writer's workshop speaker declare that Frank Peretti (a personal friend of his) spent one hour a night writing This Present Darkness.
It can be done - we just have to c hip away at it. Thanks for the encouraging blog.
"Life expands to fill available time." What a great quote. Just like a woman's purse. No matter how big or small, it's always full.
And I'd almost be tempted to vote for anyone who ran non-bashing ads.
- August 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- Jennifer said...
This is so true! I thought last year when we "retired" from farming and I turned to writing full-time, it would be a breeze to find time to write. Not so. I have to still work hard to carve out time...
- August 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- Author Jennifer Hudson Taylor said...
Terry, I love this post as I can identify with so much of what you said. I've been through family deaths, moves, family members fighting cancer, stress from my job, but I can honestly say that through it all the most difficult time I've had in struggling to write has been this summer with the return of my daughter's epilepsy. The challenge is great, but I keep trying to put one foot in front of the other. I know I can't give up.
- August 23, 2012 at 7:53 PM


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- Premier League
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France coach Laurent Blanc refused to answer questions on his future after Les Bleus were eliminated from Euro 2012 at the quarter-final stage by Spain on Saturday night.
Blanc, 46, is coming to the end of his current contract with the national team and has been heavily tipped to return to club management having been unable to thrash out a new deal with the French Football Federation.
Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan have been linked with a swoop for the former Bordeaux boss, but Blanc was tight-lipped on his future in the wake of France's European Championship exit.
"We have just been kicked out of the tournament, the disappointment is there for all to see among coaching staff and players alike," Blanc said.
"We will have to draw up an assessment of this Euro [Championship], an analysis in the next few days. There shall be positives and negatives, and we will see what happens afterwards."
Despite suffering defeat in the last eight, Blanc has earned widespread acclaim for transforming a France side in disarray after the 2010 World Cup into a competitive international outfit again.
However, speculation about dressing-room in-fighting has resurfaced during the tournament, notably in the aftermath of the group stage defeat to Sweden.
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Bogdan Roscic heads up Sony Classical
By Jen Wilson, Billboard
Bogdan Roscic has been appointed president, Sony Music Classical by Sony CEO Rolf Scmidt-Holtz. Effective April 6, the newly created role gives Roscic responsibility for all of Sony's Classical operations. He will report directly to Schmidt-Holtz. Sony could not confirm where he will be based at this stage, however it is expected to be in Europe.
"Classical music not only remains a vital part of our company's DNA but also this is a business we are determined to grow and promote again," said Mr. Schmidt-Holtz. "While genres like classical remain under tremendous pressure in the marketplace, we believe it has enduring appeal with consumers and we plan to harness it with a renewed commitment to strong leadership, a rich catalog and a world-class roster."
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Last weekend Colorado's own Red Rocks Amphitheater hosted the dynamic duo of jamgrass pioneers Leftover Salmon and New York rockers moe. What was supposed to be a night of ugly weather turned out to be clear and pleasant, back dropped by a magnificent full moon.
With the ideal setting in place, fans first welcomed the return of hometown favorites Leftover Salmon. The band has embarked on a short reunion tour since going on an extended hiatus back in 2004. The interim saw most of the members performing with other groups and artists with some moderate success, yet nothing as prevalent as the Salmon collective.
These purveyors of "polyethnic cajun slamgrass" came out to prove that they haven't missed a step since disbanding almost four years ago. They treated the crowd with familiar Salmon tunes such as "Zombie Jamboree", "Ants in My Pants", the southern-fried "Mama Boulet", and the ska-rock infused "Better".
Two hours later the band wrapped up their extraordinary set with their signature jam tune, "Ask the Fish". The audience was ecstatic, and they seemed positively delighted to hear these Colorado heroes perform live again. It was evident that the band members still enjoy playing with each other, and even if this reunion becomes short-lived it was clear fans loved seeing the Salmon swim again.
The buzz generated by Leftover Salmon's performance carried into moe.'s headlining set. The group began with a bold and blazing rendition of the concert staple, "Plane Crash". Later in the show, the band brought out LOS member Drew Emmitt and his mandolin to perform on a long, jam-heavy version of "32 Things".
Other highlights of the set included some older, seldom played originals like "Dr. Graffenburg" and "Long Island Girls Rule". The song "Wind It Up", a gem off of their critically praised album The Conch, concluded the evening's impressive performance.
A resounding ovation lent way to a brilliant encore featuring a boisterous cover of the Steely Dan classic "Reelin' in the Years", capped off by moe.'s own "Stranger Than Fiction".
The whole evening was a perfect blend of twangy jamgrass and East coast rock. Music fans can only hope that Leftover Salmon will continue to perform together beyond 2007, and that moe. forges ahead into the next decade with the same grit and dynamism they have shown over their lengthy summer tour.


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Palmetto Animal League will host an ambitious rabies and vaccination clinic from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. April 15 at the Bluffton Police Department at the rear of Buckwalter Place near Publix. The clinic will offer rabies shots for $6, distemper combo shots at $15 and microchipping for $20 per pet.
All cats must be in a carrier and all dogs must be on a leash or in a carrier.
Vaccinations will be available for the first 500 animals. Cash, checks and credit cards are accepted. The event will be held rain or shine. The goal is to get 500 Lowcountry animals up to date on their vaccinations.
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Penitent's belt, Europe, 1401-1700
The metal teeth attached to this leather belt are worn around the thigh as a type of penance. Penance in the form of prayers is carried out by some Christians in the hope of being forgiven for their sins. Christian belief during 1501-1800 taught that illness and disease were the result of sin. Penance was carried out by fasting and, in some cases, by inflicting physical harm on one's self. At the time of the Black Death – and during later outbreaks of plague – groups of fanatical penitents would travel from town to town, beating themselves, wearing such spiked devices and flagellating their skin. These deeds were presented as acts of repentance for the world's sins – the penitents believed God was punishing these sins by means of the plague.
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Whether they are students, new parents, or friends with demanding jobs, you probably have a few loved ones who would appreciate the gift of healthy, homemade, energy-dense snacks that are easy to eat on the go. From a helpful step-by-step guide to making classic granola bars to a no-added-sugar, grain-free Larabar lookalike, these 6 recipes will have you well on your way to a big batch of high-energy snacks for gifting — or for keeping on hand to fuel you through the season ahead.
Freezing will extend the shelf life of these bars, so after cutting them into portions and wrapping them individually in wax paper or parchment paper (optional), pack them into a freezer-safe container with a label. They'll be easy to grab on the go, and a whole lot fresher and tastier than their shelf-stable store-bought counterparts.
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Following the 14-part China adoption series, Gretchen Belsie provides occasional updates on how 7-year-old Madeleine Bao Yi is adapting to the US and her new family – Monitor business editor Laurent Belsie, Gretchen, and their first Chinese adopted daughter, 10-year-old Grace.
It's funny how a four-year trail of tedious bureaucratic paperwork – which often feels like it's going nowhere except in a circle – can nonetheless pave the way to startling life changes that ultimately make you forget all the bother that preceded the glory. As adopting parents, we know the endpoint we're aiming for, and we wait and crane our necks to see if we're getting any closer to the much-anticipated crossroads. But for a child, like Madeline Bao Yi, who had no idea her life was about to be totally redirected, there wasn't the same anticipation.
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When she got to the looking glass, she went through it like Alice – and immediately started having a blast.
After the two-week bonding time in China, we headed home to Boston – but not to settle into the daily routine of family life. No, we decided to go on a family reunion-style vacation, and headed to Quebec to introduce our new daughter to family members of mine from the East Coast.
A mere 48 hours after getting home – a 57-hour journey with numerous delays and re-routings – we loaded the car, mimed to Bao Yi to buckle up, and proceeded to drive 10 hours to a rustic lakeside camp an hour north of Ottawa.
With the language barrier still firmly in place, and her general lack of US geography, we couldn't find adequate words to explain to Bao Yi where we were going – or why. Of course, Grace kept talking earnestly about Canada, but to a little girl from Shenzhen City, what did that mean?
The terrain in rural Quebec was so unlike anything Bao Yi had ever seen; she seemed busy looking out the window at cows and large rolls of hay in the fields. The tiny town of Gracefield – the last point of "urban civilization" before heading into the woods – offers such services as a taxidermy shop, an improbable travel agency boasting trips to exotic locales, and a dollar store. As we crossed the antiquated one-lane trestle bridge over the river, the level of excitement in the back seat picked up.
Family members swarmed to see the newest Belsie, and then served up a welcome dinner of stick-to-your-ribs fare. Bao Yi hovered near Laurent but was not shy about digging in to spare ribs and scalloped potatoes.
Dragon melon – the Chinese staple similar to watermelon but with fuchsia rind and Dalmation dog-inspired fruit pulp – was, quite literally, now a world away.
The transition from vacation in China to vacation in Canada was one squiggly line of continuous fun. If there was adventure to be had, Bao Yi was right in the thick of it, chattering away in Chinese without a care in the world. She was in the lake as often as possible, floating around on her beloved neon-pink ring, or learning to swim. She even took up kayaking, determined to figure things out on her own. Turning around, a necessary skill? Not really. Bao Yi just kept on going until someone hauled her back.
Another tradition – the family Fourth of July parade past the boathouse – Bao Yi accepted at face value. Didn't most people don berets and sunglasses and pretend to play dented instruments collected over the years from antique shops and general junk stores?
Grace's role in this year's parade was to be a junior miss beauty pageant winner, waving primly from the wheelbarrow pushed by Uncle John. I had fashioned a tiara out of aluminum foil for her, and she had the wave down pretty well. Once Bao Yi saw that shiny crown, she would not rest until she had her own. Hers lasted far beyond the three-minute parade. She wore that thing day in and day out like Jughead from the old Archie comic strip, pleased as punch with the look.
Underneath the frivolity and carefree fun, significant changes were happening. Bao Yi was setting down roots in our family. She began to bond with me, showing more open signs of trust and affection. Laurent was still leagues ahead of me on that score, but it felt good to be appreciated as a mama and to be thanked for the little things that mamas do.
We also saw indications of who Bao Yi is: an adventure seeker, an I'll-try-anything-once kind of girl. That's quite a contrast to Grace's more cautious and neat approach to life's opportunities. Together they helped each other share new perspectives. In the process, we all grew much closer as a family unit, and we'd only been at it for a month.
I only have one lurking apprehension: What will happen when we get home and she figures out that Laurent goes to work every day?


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Harry Rawcliffe Danson was my uncle on my mother's side of the family from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. In these photograph I think there is an Errol Flynn look about him!
He was one of the many saved by the small ships at Dunkirk in June 1940, as British troops were evacuated from France, following the German invasion. He arrived back back home in teh north of England many days later in the uniform in which he entered the sea to be rescued.
Unlike my father, he never talked about his wartime experiences, but seeing commemoration services or documentaries on TV could bring tears to his eyes, so the memories remained very strong.
Harry later served in North Africa.
He lived to the age of 89 remaining active to the end of his life - a keen gardener and ballroom dancer - and he retained his good looks!
Military Monday is a daily prompt from http://www.geneabloggers.com/, used by many bloggers to help them tell stories of their ancestors.
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Not much has been happen in the world of Specials but I did notice this one from Paddy Power!
There's a Video Hall Of Fame that's been going for a couple of years.
Twelve titles appear to be nominated by the public and from a short list six are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The list and odds for this year are as follows
Donkey Kong 2/9
Pokemon Red and Green 2/9
Final Fantasy VII 4/11
Tomb Raider 4/9
Microsoft Windows Solitaire 10/11
Mortal Kombat 6/4
Street Fighter II 17/10
Resident Evil 21/10
Halo: Combat Evolved 3/1
Portal 4/1
Wii Sports 4/1
Myst 5/1
Interestingly enough, Pokemon has been nominated for the last two years and Street Fighter and Tomb Raider were nominated last year. All three never made it.
Two years ago the six inducted were
Pac Man
Super Mario Bros
World of Warcraft
Last year the six inducted were
The Legend of Zelda
The Oregon Trail
The Sims
Sonic The HeadgeHog
Space Invaders
Grand Theft Auto III
As you can see from the twelve inducted so far, most of them are well known titles that transend popular culture.
With that in mind, you can see why Donkey Kong and Pokemn are such a short price.
What other games could make it?
Tomb Raider, thanks partly to the films of Angelina Joile, is a popular shout. Mortal Kombat generated a lot of tabloid headlines for its graffic violence while Halo is thought of as one of the best games ever.
Final Fantasy has a rick history and you could argue that Resdient Evil made zombies scary way before The Walking Dead.
Solitaire has been played by most people with a computer and Wii Sports can at least be praised for trying to evole computer games by making them more phyiscal.
Portal and Myst might not be as well know as the others but their on the list through merit.
One title I'm drawn to is Street Fighter. Maybe I'm a bit biased as it's a game that takes me back to my misspent youth but it's a title whose importance you can't ignore.
Not only did it's format inspire the likes of Mortal Kombat but it's sited as being the game that kick started the arcade machine boom of the 1990s.
Okay, it might also be responsible for the terrible Jean Claude Van Damme movie but you can't have it all!
Street Fighter II to be inducted in the Video Game Hall Of Fame
Video Game Hall Of Fame
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What name you mention that name I play only these games and like to playing these games it is a really good game:
Tomb Raider
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter II
Resident Evil
Super Mario Bros
Sonic The HeadgeHog
The Walking Dead
Tomb Raider
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Seems like the inductees have been announced and they were Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Halo...and Street Fighter 2.
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Get a recap of Tuesday's high school sports action as the Honeoye and H-AC girls volleyball teams each win their semifinal match to set up a showdown in the Class D finals.
Class D semifinals
No. 4 Honeoye 3, No. 1 Hammondsport 1
The fourth-seeded Honeoye girls volleyball team knocked off No. 1 Hammondsport 25-15, 15-25, 25-14, 25-18 on Tuesday to advance to the Class D finals on Friday night. Abbey Allison compiled four kills, three aces and three blocks to lead the Bulldogs. Julia Barnard added 20 digs and 13 kills while Hailey Cornish contributed 30 assists, 13 digs and three aces. Tanessa Whitney finished with eight kills and six aces to pace Hammondsport (17-1). Lori Gordon had 11 kills while Sydney Sprague added five kills and four blocks. Honeoye (11-6) will face Finger Lakes League rival H-AC in the finals on Friday at 6 p.m. at Canandaigua.
No. 2 H-AC 3, No. 3 Genesee Valley 1
The H-AC girls volleyball team earned a 25-11, 25-14, 25-19 victory over No. 3 Genesee Valley on Tuesday, setting up a meeting with league rival Honeoye in the Class D finals on Friday night. Carolyn Dubnik posted 14 kills, eight digs and five aces to power the Wolves. Alyssa Broberg added 22 assists, four digs and one ace while Madeline Truman tacked on 11 digs, six aces and one kill. H-AC improves to 15-5.
Class A semifinals
No. 1 Pittsford Sutherland 3, No. 3 Victor 0
The Pittsford Sutherland girls volleyball team earned a trip to the Class A finals with a 25-15, 25-16, 25-12 sweep of Victor on Tuesday. Luisa Schirmer accumulated 17 kills, nine digs and three aces to power the Knights. Taylor Kells made six kills, six aces, two digs and one blocks, Andrea Allen contributed 35 assists, three digs and one ace, Santita Ebangwese had eight kills and three blocks, Sarah Blowers provided six digs and two aces, Lauren McManus made five kills and one block, Aliah Bowllan had 18 digs, Lauren Blowers made one kill and one dig and Meagan Bothner had five digs. Pittsford Sutherland will face No. 3 Irondequoit in the finals on Friday at 6 p.m. at Gates Chili High School.
No. 3 Irondequoit 3, No. 15 Eastridge 0
No stats reported. Irondequoit wins match 25-9, 25-11, 25-11, will face No. 1 Pittsford Sutherland in the finals on Friday at 6 p.m. at Gates Chili High School.
Class B semifinals
No. 4 Batavia 3, No. 8 Pal-Mac 1
No stats reported. Batavia takes match 25-21, 23-25, 25-10, 26-24, will face No. 3 HF-L in the finals on Friday at 8 p.m. at Canandaigua.
Class AA semifinals
No. 2 Churchville-Chili 2, No. 3 Spencerport 0
The third-seeded Churchville-Chili boys soccer team advanced to the Class AA finals with a win against No. 3 Spencerport on Tuesday. Tashko Strembenis broke a scoreless tie in the 74th minute to put the Saints up 1-0. Lukas Fernandes tacked on the insurance goal in the 77th minute. Churchville-Chili (17-1-1) will face No. 1 Fairport in the finals on Friday. The Saints are ranked No. 7 in the state in Class AA, Fairport is ranked No. 3.
Class D1 semifinals
No. 5 H-AC 1, No. 1 Arkport 0
The H-AC boys soccer team knocked off top-seeded Arkport on Tuesday, moving the Wolves into the Class D1 finals on Friday night. Gabe Sanchez netted the lone goal of the match late in the second half to lift H-AC (8-8-1) to the win. Arkport, ranked No. 13 in the state in Class D in the most recent poll, ends the season at 14-2-1.
Class D2 semifinals
No. 1 Webster Christian 6, No. 4 Scio 1
The top-seeded Webster Christian boys soccer team advanced to the Class D2 finals with a 6-1 victory over Scio. Giovanni Coraggioso scored one goal and dished out three assists to lead Webster Christian (17-1-0). Josh Whitmire added two goals and one assist, Nathaniel O'Dell had one goal and two assists and James Painton and Nick O'Dell each scored one goal. Webster Christian will face the winner of No. 2 Whitesville/No. 3 Houghton on Friday at a time and place to be determined. Scio finishes the season at 11-5-2.
Class B semifinals
No. 7 Greece Odyssey 1, No. 3 Bath-Haverling 0 OT
The Greece Odyssey girls soccer team continued its run for a sectional title with a 1-0 overtime win over Bath-Haverling in the Class B semifinals on Tuesday. Savannah Tyo scored two minutes into the second overtime off a pass from Caitlin Owens to lift the Leopards. Vanessa Dornelus recorded five saves to earn the shutout between the pipes. Brittany Orlowski made eight saves for Bath-Haverling (13-5-0). Greece Odyssey (9-8-2) will face No. 4 Hornell in the finals on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at HF-L.
Class CCC semifinals
No. 4 Byron-Bergen 1, No. 1 Gananda 0
The Byron-Bergen girls soccer team knocked off No. 1 Gananda on Tuesday to advance to the Class CCC finals. Kelsey Maurer scored off an assist from Samantha Morgante one minute into the second half to lift Byron-Bergen to the win. Kristen Bailey recorded six saves to earn the shutout in goal. Sara MacDougall made four saves for Gananda (13-2-3).
Class CC semifinals
No. 1 Kendall 1, No. 4 Marion 0 OT
The Kendall girls soccer team earned a spot in the Class CC finals with a 1-0 overtime win against Marion on Tuesday. Nicole Browe scored with one minute left in the second overtime period to lift Kendall to the victory, beating the keeper off an assist from Taylor ReQua. Jorden Ammerman made five saves to secure the shutout in goal. Kendall (15-1-2) will face No. 2 Cal-Mum in the finals on Friday at 6 p.m. Marion finishes the season at 11-5-2.
No. 2 Cal-Mum 3, No. 3 Bishop Kearney 0
The Cal-Mum girls soccer team advanced to the Class B finals with a 3-0 shutout of Bishop Kearney. Jessica Garland scored one goal and added one assist to lead Cal-Mum. Claudia Haut and Maddie Shoemaker each tacked on a goal while Abby Webster and Rachel Hume both provided one assist. Cal-Mum (13-2-3) will face in Byron-Bergen in the finals. Bishop Kearney finishes the season at 13-3-2.


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