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Amanda was born and raised in Albany, New York. Growing up, she always had a passion for singing and dancing. That passion turned into a love for musical theater, and she became very involved in many local community and regional theaters. Although she is still involved with theater, she's explored different creative outlets. Before joining the Lottery team, she attended Paul Mitchell the School, gaining a license in cosmetology. She then worked as a licensed hair stylist for three years at a top notch salon and spa. She would like to thank her family and friends for all of their love and support and is beyond thrilled to be apart of the draw team helping make people's dreams come true.
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Amanda always wanted to be a professional ballroom dancer specializing in Latin as seen on Dancing with the Stars.
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Meal: Puerto Rican, Mexican, Southwest like Chipotle
Vacation: Caribbean
Movie: My Best Friend's Wedding, Disney movies (Aladdin)…
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Actor: Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep
Musician: Broadway, Pop (Backstreet Boys), Hip hop (Drake), Latin (Marc Anthony).
TV Show: All of Shonda Rhimes shows (Grey's/How to Get/Scandal), Wonder Years, I Love Lucy, Boy Meets World, Law and Order SVU
Earliest Influence: My loving parents
Author: My favorite writer/playwright is Lin Manuel Miranda
Greatest Achievement: Still reaching for the stars
Hobbies: Performing, singing/dancing, kickboxing, hair and makeup
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Quality, Test & Measurement
While test and design-for-testability provide real bottom line value, there is a wide degree of variance in the success with which test and DFT are applied across the industry, particularly in terms of cost-effectiveness. Attendees to this presentation will learn how to use industry benchmark data to improve the value derived from testing and DFT. Participants of the discussion will also explore two subjects that directly impact test strategy: dealing with defects in power-management circuitry, and exposing test features to customers for use at higher levels of integration. Far from being just a pitch for more DFT, this presentation gives guidance on how to select the appropriate level of DFT for the situation and argues that it is quite possible to over-invest in DFT and test application.
Key Take-Aways
- Understand why test and DFT add value to your products and processes
- Discover basic approaches to assessing the value-add of test and DFT
- Learn the latest developments in re-using test features across the entire life-cycle of a product
As leader of AMD's DFT Center of Expertise, Jeff Rearick directs company efforts to enhance the design-for-testability features of AMD's leading edge microprocessors. Rearick also serves as the editor of the IEEE P1687 standard and is a member of the program committee for the International Test Conference. Prior to joining AMD, he spent 22 years at HP and Agilent. Rearick holds a BSEE degree from Purdue University and an MSEE degree from the University of Illinois. He has been granted 20 U.S. patents and has received numerous awards for his technical publications in the field of testing integrated circuits.

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Still deadlocked, despite Sunday night meeting. With three weeks to go before the government can no longer borrow money to meet its obligations, President Obama and Congressional leaders are still without an agreement on how to raise the nation's debt ceiling limit. President Obama proposed a larger $4.2 trillion debt reduction plan. At issue: Republicans say they will not support any plan that features revenue from higher or additional taxes. And the size of the president's plan means it can only be achieved with steep cost-cutting AND tax increases, GOP leaders say. During the 75-minute meeting, there was no specific mention of last week's surprise report that the White House was open to making cuts in programs such as Social Security and Medicare to reach an agreement.
… We built this city. It's not news to us, but many metropolitan areas are slowly realizing that their hip expanding neighborhoods aren't suitable for their aging residents – who are not going anywhere, by the way. "It's shocking how far behind we are, especially when you think about this fact – that if you make something age-friendly, that means it is going to be friendly for people of all ages, not just older adults," said Margaret Neal of Portland State University's Institute on Aging. …
Some health notes: FDA approves tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough combination vaccine for seniors. … People over 60 need to lift weights to maintain muscle mass. … Older women who take vitamin D3 may live longer. From Reuters: "Elderly women who take vitamin D3 supplements may have a small survival advantage over those who don't, a new research review concludes, although they also raise their risk of kidney stones."
… Older adults embrace co-housing. The housing alternative – where residents control the community – "could be coming of age, just as the baby boom generation begins considering its retirement living options."
… Appreciation. A look at the life and legacy of pioneering former first lady Betty Ford.
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BLOOMINGTON – Junior Zach Jackson had the team's lone pin, and the Vandalia wrestlers' only other victory on Saturday came from senior Dayin Godberson during a 58-9 loss to Lena-Winslow at the team state tournament.
A loss in the first-round match was not out of the question, considering Lena-Winslow had five individual state placers, but no one expected a 49-point defeat, which was the worst showing of any team in any class at the tournament.
Included were six Vandalia wrestlers getting pinned in less than two minutes.
PANA – Vandalia's season came to a close after last Friday's loss to Pana in the regional championship game, but this season's regional tournament will be an event the players will always remember.
After getting comeback wins in both the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, the Vandals tried to parlay that momentum into a win against the Panthers, which had beaten Vandalia three times during the regular season.
But once again, Pana proved to be just too good in its 57-43 win.
PANA — Facing a 17-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter made it seem that the Vandalia boys basketball season was all but over.
A 16-0 run, which lasted just 2:09 and was sparked by a seven-point possession 1:30 into the final period, changed the dynamics dramatically last Wednesday against Carlyle, and helped the Vandals tie the game at 49 and eventually win 55-52 in overtime.
GREENVILLE – A rotation switch helped the Vandalia seventh-grade volleyball team score 26 aces during a 25-12, 25-10 win against Litchfield on Monday during the first round of the regional tournament.
Molly Kern opened the game as the No. 1 server for the Jr. Lady Vandals for the first time this season, and she quickly went to work, earning aces on six of the first nine points of the game to put Vandalia ahead, 9-0.
Eight Jr. Vandals qualified for this weekend's Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation sectional tournament in Highland.
All of the wrestlers who placed at least fourth in their age group (9 and older) at the Herrin Regional last Saturday qualified. Six wrestlers younger than 9 also placed in the top two for Vandalia.
The Vandalia sixth-grade boys basketball team enjoyed a winning season this year, posting a 12-5 record, including a first-place finish at the Vandalia Tournament.
Nathan Casey, who won the free-throw shooting contest at the Brownstown Tournament by making 21-of-25 shots, paced the team in scoring, with 9.5 points per game.
At that tournament, the Jr. Vandals lost to Altamont Luthern in the first round, but beat the hosts, 36-24, to place third.
South Central's strong second half ends with 12-point loss in regional semifinals
The South Central boys basketball team had a strong second half, but its season came to a close last Wednesday during the regional semifinals, where it was defeated by Altamont, 50-38.
The game was knotted at 12 after the first period, but the Indians used a 25-13 run over the middle two quarters to take a 37-25 lead into the final stretch.
Many athletes that spent their high school years in Fayette County have moved on to play for college or professional teams. Below are athletes who played in the past two weeks.
Vandalia Community High School will be the host of a sectional boys basketball tournament this week, with the first game to be played on Tuesday.
The schedule is as follows, and the champion of the tournament advances to the Carbondale Super-Sectional.
Tuesday, Feb. 28 — Pittsfield vs. Pana, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 29 — Breese Central vs. Marquette Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 2 — Winner of game 1 vs. Winner of game 2, 7:30 p.m.
There will not be any pre-sale tickets for Wednesday night's Red Hill sectional game featuring St. Elmo and Woodlawn. All $5 tickets will have to be purchased at the door.
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October 29, 2006
Twenty years old
Percheron Horse
Cass County, Missouri, USA
his wonderful Percheron of ours is named Flanders, and he is the horse of the century. We found Flanders about six years ago, living in a dirt lot with fifteen mules! We had been looking for a buggy horse or mule, and when we went to the farm where we thought we would buy a mule, there, shinning above all the mules, was this glorious Percheron! He was heads taller than the tallest mule, and my heart literally skipped a beat when I saw him. He is 18 1/2 hand tall, Amish-trained to pull a buggy, and the sweetest, most gentle giant you could ever meet. We have learned more from him than he has learned from us! We think he is around 20 years old now, and sweeter every year.
We live on a farm in Missouri, and we have two quarter horse mares and a Belgian mare, and Flanders is definitely the herd stud! He runs any stray animals out of the pasture, and he protects his mares with all his heart. We have entered Flanders and our buggy in parades, and we used him as a "wedding horse" for our farrier when he got married. (This picture shows Flanders dressed for the wedding!) And he still loves mules! When we are in the local parade, the only other animal he ever nickers at or talks to is a mule! He is a hoot.
I tell my husband if a person is truly lucky, they will have a horse like Flanders just once in their life. We have been that lucky.
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Tuesday night's Paonia Town Council meeting drew a much larger crowd than usual, with a full house of residents gathered to voice their opinions on how the town should deal with Amendment 64, the Colorado measure that legalizes commercial marijuana activity.
This fall voters across Colorado will decide how recreational marijuana should be taxed.
In a narrow 2010 vote, Paonia residents approved a measure to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. This year, the question is whether to allow commercial marijuana sales in town. But after a decision by the Paonia Town Council yesterday evening (Tuesday July 9), that issue won't be on a ballot this year.
The Paonia Town Council on Tuesday evening voted to approve a "No Action" plan regarding Amendment 64, the Colorado constitutional measure that legalizes commercial marijuana activity in the state.
Local farmer Jere Lowe thinks he has a better framework for regulating recreational marijuana than anything the Colorado Legislature has come up with. In fact, he wrote his own alternative plan, and emailed it to state legislators and the governor last week.
Yesterday Delta County Commissioners passed an ordinance banning commercial marijuana enterprises in the unincorporated areas of the county. Amendment 64, which legalizes recreational marijuana in Colorado, allows counties to opt out of some provisions. A small group attended the commissioners' regular meeting to discuss the issue. KVNF's Marty Durlin reported on the story.
Delta County Commissioners took a step back from a proposed ordinance curtailing Amendment 64 Tuesday after a group of concerned business owners and marijuana activists complained.
Marty Durlin reports that six people spoke to commissioners at their regular meeting Tuesday, asking them to rethink their effort to ban commercial marijuana establishments in Delta County. Comments ranged from a defense of marijuana as a valuable agricultural crop to a plea to at least drop part of the proposed ordinance that would designate soil and fertilizer as "marijuana accessories."
It's now legal to smoke marijuana in Colorado. Governor John Hickenlooper certified the election results of amendment 64 on Monday, which allows people over age 21 to grow and smoke small amounts of pot. And as Bente Birkeland reports, the Governor also signed an executive order creating a marijuana task force to help state lawmakers craft new regulations.
Governor John Hickenlooper still has roughly a month to certify the results of the November election. And when he does, it'll be legal for Coloradans over 21 to smoke recreational marijuana. For the moment, most businesses are taking a wait and see approach. The state's ski resorts are one industry that doesn't expect its policies to change any time soon. Bente Birkeland has more from the state capitol.
It's now legal in Colorado for people over the age of 21 to smoke marijuana recreationally. Voters passed amendment 64 making Colorado the first state in the country, along with Washington State, to legalize pot. Bente Birkeland has more from Denver.