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It is that time again already and the first leg of the 2009 edition of the AMSOIL / Street Rodder Road Tour is off to a great start. The Coker Tour started Saturday May 9 with a car show and charity auction at the Chattanooga , Tennessee headquarters of Coker Tire. It was a great day and almost $2000 was raised for the Victory Junction Gang Camp. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me back up a few weeks and fill in some details about this year's 1952 Chevy 2 door hardtop.
Work was completed on the Chevy at Woody's Hot Rodz in Bright, Indiana the middle of April. It went to the photo studio in Detroit where ace automotive photographer Randy Lorentzen spent two days capturing the beauty of this year's Road Tour car. You can check out the complete feature in an upcoming issue of Street Rodder. As most of you know, our Road Tour cars have to more than just a pretty face. With a summer long cruise that will cover over 15,000 miles, our rides have to be very road worthy. With this in mind, the next stop after the photo studio for the Tour Chevy was NHRA's National Trails Raceway just outside of Columbus, Ohio. A day was spent at the track putting the Chevy through it's paces with timed runs on a slalom course, a skid pad test and some 0 – 60 and 60 – 0 acceleration and braking tests. These results will be compared to the results of the tests that were done on the Chevy before the Art Morrison chassis was installed and before the Smeding motor was dropped under the hood. The comparison will also be in an upcoming issue and the results are pretty amazing.
From the track day at National Trails, I took the Chevy home to Youngstown to get the final preparations completed for the summer long journey. Ace pinstriper Guy Shively put some very cool lines on the hood, trunk and dash that fit the overall look of the Chevy perfectly. The goodie bags were loaded in the big trunk along with my luggage and the 2009 AMSOIL / Street Rodder Road Tour was underway.
The first stop on the way to Tennessee was at Woody's near Cincinnati. The folks at the shop wanted to go over things one more time before the long summer on the road. Everything was in order and I made it to Knoxville by dark. The car ran great. It sure is quite a difference from the open roadsters that I had spent so many miles driving around the country. I pulled into Coker Tire headquarters at noon on Friday. Some of the Road Tourians were already in town. Each year more and more folks are repeat participants on the Tours and of the cars signed up for the Coker Tour, 75% of the people registered had been on previous Tours.
Saturday started off with a little rain but the skies cleared by noon and there was a nice turnout of vehicles and spectators. The silent auction went very well thanks to the generosity of many companies who donated parts and accessories for the auction and also the many folks who bid on the items. Almost $2000 was raised for the Victory Junction Gang Camp on Saturday afternoon. The highest bid went to a Chip Foose autographed Classic Automobilia 75 th Anniversary '34 Classic Hot Rod. We will deliver the funds to the Camp in person on Tuesday.
Sunday morning we all headed to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park for a drive through that beautiful area on our way to Knoxville. Monday morning we will visit Lokar Performance Products and Bobby Alloway's Hot Rod Shop. It is then a 5 hour drive to Charlotte where we will visit Fatman Fabrication and get a look at a private collection of muscle cars.
It is going to be a great week on the Coker Tire Tour as we make our way to our final destination of Cruisin' Ocean City this coming weekend. Check back here for all the updates on our travels. Check out our Road Tour schedule and call the Road Tour Hotline at 1-800-664-1362 for the latest detail. We hope you can join us on a Tour this summer.


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So beautiful, Meg! I agree, the bird and the house are my favorite, too, especially the sketch-like quilting. Great job getting it done in time for the challenge!ReplyDelete
I love what you did with the background. Its like a drawing! Good job.ReplyDelete
Your quilt is really beautiful1 Great work!ReplyDelete
I love it, Meg! It's so cute. I love the embroidery on the grass... perfect touch. I need to check out that single fold binding tutorial.ReplyDelete
LOVE it! Thanks for sharing it!ReplyDelete
Soooo beautiful , it is a lovely chicky mini quilt!ReplyDelete
Have a nice day
This is so cute! I love the little bird on top :)ReplyDelete
Your quilts/crafts are so fantastic! It's so nice to find other quilters all around the world!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Ulla (from Finland)
I love your spin on this quilt! The fabric you chose for the roof makes the whole panel pop nicely. Sorry about those 1/2" seams :).ReplyDelete
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In July 2012, a group of experts and statespersons established by the United Nations Development Program—the Global Commission on HIV and the Law—released the report HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights, and Health. Their report examines where and how human rights abuses occur and how new law, court decisions, and better legal enforcement can address the epidemic.
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Confessions of a Recruiting Director
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Confessions of a Recruiting Director DescriptionA college grad has specific questions when trying to land the first job after school. How are just a few candidates chosen from a stack of hundreds of resumes? What exactly do recruiters want to hear in an interview? What are the common job-hunting mistakes students make time and time again? Confessions of a Recruiting Director gives the inside scoop on the entire hiring process- from a top recruiting director who's seen and heard it all-and delivers a specific, step-by-step approach to beating the odds.
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Fr. Frank Pavone is the first recipient of the A.D. King Advancing the
Culture of Life Award for his work on behalf of equal rights for all, born
and unborn. Fr. Pavone received the honor January 14, 2009, at Atlanta's
King Center Auditorium as part of an evening celebrating the life of the
late civil rights pioneer Rev. A.D. King, brother of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. and father of Dr. Alveda King. The awards ceremony also featured the
premier showing of the documentary, "A.D. King: Behold the Dream – Brother
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Below is a press release sent out about this award:
December 17, 2008
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Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, will be honored with the A.D. King Advancing the Culture of Life Award next month during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Week in Atlanta. The presentation will take place during a January 14th program honoring Rev. A.D. Williams King entitled, "Brother to the Dreamer, the Half that's Never Been Told."
"This is a great, great honor to be given an award named for one of the pioneers for equal rights in our nation, Rev. A.D. King," said Fr. Pavone. "The struggle to which Rev. King devoted his life, equal rights under the law, continues today, as we strive to return protection to the most vulnerable among us, the children in the womb."
The night of Fr. Pavone's award will also feature the premiere of a new documentary on the life of Rev. A.D. King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s younger brother and fellow civil rights leader, entitled "A.D. King, the Half that's Never Been Told." Giving the keynote address that evening will be longtime civil rights champion Rev. Dr. Otis Moss.
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vineyard, land on which cultivation of the grape—known as viticulture—takes place. As many as 40 varieties of grape, Vitis vinifera, are known. The few that grow wild are generally not used; all domesticated varieties require careful cultivation to produce good fruit. While the primary purpose of vineyards throughout history has been the production of grapes for wine, many vines, largely in the New World, are cultivated for eating grapes, grape juice, and dried grapes, or raisins.
Viticulture depends on such factors as sunlight, soil, moisture, wind, and pest and disease control. The best wines result from warm, dry conditions. Grape vines can be transplanted from established vineyards, or propagated from cuttings of new growth with two or three buds. Two thirds of the grape vines in the United States grow in California, mostly in the San Francisco Bay area, supplying the bulk of the grapes for the expansion of the American wine industry since 1950. Washington and New York rank next among the 13 grape-growing states.
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A public information meeting on the East "O" Street construction project is set for 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7 in the cafeteria of Eastridge Elementary School, 6245 "L" Street.
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I have a draft of the script for this episode, and it reveals a surprising fact: a "character-based subtheme" that was intended to be showcased here was dropped along the way. This involved Scrooge's imperiousness. Specifically, Scrooge was supposed to throw his weight around on several occasions during the episode, pissing off Launchpad and Donald (among others) in the process, only to see the error of his ways and ultimately apologize to LP and Don for getting "just a wee bit bossy." Basically, it was the same approach that was taken later in "Aqua Ducks", only with somewhat less irritatingly crude execution (nowhere does Scrooge call LP and Don "morons" during "Condor," for example). Scrooge's apology was ultimately deleted, but signs of the abandoned theme pop up throughout the episode. Think of Donald snapping "You're as bossy as [Joaquin Slolee] is!" when Scrooge orders him to go help Launchpad find and fix the Golden Condor, or Scrooge telling the stubborn Slolee that "we're both used to gettin' our own way." In at least one instance, a line of Scrooge's was softened to reflect the shift. When he leaves the unhappy Nephews behind with Mrs. Beakley, instead of telling them "I have to do what's best," Scrooge originally was supposed to say, "I'm in charge, and you have to obey me." And you thought HD&L were acting like brats BEFORE... I can only imagine how the boys would have taken this. Even the milder line earned a trio (sextet?) of cold shoulders.
Gyro's brief bow-in is just as successful. I recall that Hal Smith's vocal interpretation of the character (which, it should be recalled, took a little time to be firmed up during the first few episodes that were actually produced) seemed absolutely spot-on to me during the two-hour "Golden Suns," and it still does. The somewhat phlegmatic Gyro of the Barks stories certainly worked in context; more often than not, those brief tales were extended vignettes on the trials and tribulations of creation, with Barks perhaps working out some of his own feelings on the subject as he composed them. The animated Gyro (at least, once production had gotten well underway and Smith's earlier vocal querulousness had been ditched) is, well, animated: chipper, optimistic, "glad to be of service" (when he's not undergoing the occasional soul-searching, that is). Coming on the heels of the earlier characterizations of the Beagle Boys and Glomgold, which departed somewhat from what I had expected, this appearance by Gyro really was like watching the comic book come to life.
Kit Cloudkicker in "Plunder and Lightning, Part One," this is the Disney Afternoon introduction sequence that has stuck to people's memories like glue. I realize that LP's role in Darkwing Duck was rather different than it is in DuckTales, but the contrast between this bang-up debut scene and LP's first encounter with DW in "Darkly Dawns the Duck" is, quite frankly, jarring.
one adventure long before this, Gyro appears to be more familiar with LP than Scrooge is here. Gyro, for example, immediately knows that LP is the pilot who's crashing the plane, while Scrooge merely says that "This guy's in big trouble." Seeing as how Gyro and "test pilot" Launchpad co-starred in a couple of gag stories by William Van Horn in the late 80s, perhaps the duo's partnership was more extensive than the series hinted...
So, it's off to the Andes we go -- and I'm not sure that some of the material we got in the episode didn't represent something of an indirect call-out to Barks' "Lost in the Andes" (FOUR COLOR #223, April 1949). The aerial shot of Joaquin Slolee's temple doesn't look all that different from the splash panel in which the Ducks first glimpse the layout of Plain Awful, especially when you consider the viewing angle:
Return to Plain Awful," the Awfultonians are quite good at slavishly "following trends." Slolee's natives have simply followed the same trend for an inordinate period of time... though, in the end, they do prove capable of escaping the vicious cycle.
Too Much of a Gold Thing." How convenient... and how strange that, after El Capitan stole the treasure and sailed away, the partners went to all the trouble of making the map and tearing it in two, as opposed to simply going back to the Valley for more treasure. "Gold fever" didn't stop them the first time, so why should it keep them from returning?
Donald's final line of dialogue in the episode seems like the conclusion of an extremely long shaggy-dog story. Thankfully, it's bracketed by some arresting, dramatic visuals: Scrooge and Donald's dignified parting, Scrooge's wind-buffeted drop into the sea, and the last shot of Scrooge and his little raft drifting away to a new destination. The final visual actually had more impact in the full-length version of "Golden Suns" than in the two-hour version, since it served the former as a literal cliffhanger but was merely a bridge to "another commercial" in the latter.
(GeoX) It's pretty clear that the nature of [Donald] the animated character is pretty unavoidably determined by his voice--the show may center on Barks' characters, but this is most definitely not Barks' Donald, for better or worse (or, really, neutral, since as I said, I don't think anything could really have been done about it).
It's also difficult to describe this Donald as the animated-shorts Donald. He has several spasms of temper, one of which can hardly be faulted (how would YOU react if YOU were roughly picked up by a giant condor?), but I'd say he behaves himself reasonably well. The clumsiness is somewhat irritating, and the sudden camera fetish seems like one of those one-note contrivances that is slapped onto a character for the purposes of gags and plot contrivances. I'm inclined to agree with you that it's hard to imagine a scenario in which the Barks (or even the Rosa) version of Donald could be successfully brought to the screen. Pairing Launchpad with Donald more often, however, would have served both characters and the series well, allowing the writers to play on the very real differences between them.
(Greg) Mrs. Beakly in a sad way is a political hot potato in that she had the character to work well; but her stereotypical mannerisms got in the way of success in getting over.... The reason most critics didn't automatically condemned Grammi Gummi, Princess Calla and Sunni Gummi is because they were in a time period where you would expect extreme sexism. However; Ducktales basically takes place in the 1980's time period (as least the elements were in place for it) where sexism wasn't really going to fly anymore and Miss Beakly was considered too behind the times. However; the problem with Beakly was not her stereotypical mannerisms or role (since she chose that role and wore it on her sleeve as we will see; and also Duckworth is basically doing the same thing so Scrooge is a equal employer on that level at least.); it was because she was ultra fussy.
"Stereotypical mannerisms" and even "fussiness" don't necessarily doom a female character to archaic status; it's what the creators do with the character within those limitations that makes the difference. Just look at Mary Poppins. The episode "Jungle Duck" hinted at one possible way of giving Mrs. B. more meaningful roles: gradually reveal various aspects of her "mysterious past" and give her chances to display hitherto-unseen skills (in light of the story we're discussing here, you might call the latter the "getting back the clothes" skills).
(Greg) As for Joaquin; he was actually fine until they got to the climax and he turned heel which would have been fine in itself if he didn't look like such a weak ass in the end with his sobbing like a baby.
Well, he had just lost his "total power" over the natives and screwed up 400 years' worth of family tradition. How else should he be expected to behave?
Next: Episode 27, "Treasure of the Golden Suns, Part Four: Cold Duck."


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NCAA Division III Golf Championships
Prarie View and Hawthorns Golf & Country Club
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Farmingdale, N.Y. - After the first round of the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships, Farmingdale State sophomore Andrew Schwartz (Commack, N.Y./Commack) is tied for 9th place individually out of 180 participating golfers in Division III. Schwartz shot a 74 at Hawthorns Golf & Country Club today, leading his team with a 2-over par performance.
The team is currently in 31st place and they have one more round as a team tomorrow. The Top 23 teams will make the cut after tomorrow and the Top 5 individuals from the 12 teams that do not make the cut will stay to compete as an individual.
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A first date goes from unpredictable to kinky to horribly wrong while testing the bond of three friends in Gabrielle Brown's comedy "Dead Body Friendship." Nerdy comic-book and sci-fi fan Ben (Tim Walczak) lets his buddy Franklin (Brandon Lopez) set him up on a date with sexy, pill-popping Angelica (Kimberly Bonny). Ben and Angelica are about to get hot and heavy with peanut butter in his bedroom -- but she dies before the sticky situation can ensue. Ben panics and calls his pals Franklin and Farrah (Madison Graham) for help -- but his chain-smoking landlady (Stefanie Lebowitz, with Busch beer cans as curlers in her hair) has seen too much.
Lopez, as sex-crazed Franklin, has the funniest lines in the show and is a cross between Vinny Guadaguino and "The Situation," two of the party-hearty guys onMTV's "Jersey Shore."
The kudos aren't for him alone, though: All five actors were new to Fringe Festival this year and all had excellent delivery and used the apartment's props with ease.
"Dead Body Friendship" is a Fringe comedy to die for.
60 minutes, Blue Venue, $8, Orlando Fringe Festival official page.
• Saturday 19 May; at 4:20pm in the Blue
• Sunday 20 May; at 10:45pm in the Blue
• Thursday 24 May; at 8:30pm in the Blue
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Other Liver Disorders
Other Liver Disorders
What are autoimmune liver disorders?
An autoimmune disorder is any reaction or attack of a person's immune system against its own organs and tissues. In the liver, the immune system can destroy liver cells and damage bile ducts. Chronic active hepatitis can be caused by an autoimmune disorder.
In autoimmune hepatitis, the body's own immune system destroys the cells of the liver. It may be classified as type 1 or type 2. Type 3 is no longer considered its own type. Type 1 (classic) is the most common form. It may happen at any age, but usually affects young women more than men. Also, other autoimmune disorders can be associated with type 1, such as thyroiditis, Grave disease, and ulcerative colitis. Type 2 autoimmune hepatitis generally affects girls between the ages of 2 and 14, but happens in adults, too.
What are metabolic liver disorders?
Two main metabolic disorders affect the liver:
Hemochromatosis (also called iron overload disease). This disease is characterized by the absorption of too much iron from food. Instead of secreting the excess iron, the iron is stored throughout the body, including the liver and pancreas. The excess iron can damage these organs. Hemochromatosis is a hereditary disease that can lead to liver disease, liver failure, liver cancer, heart disease, arthritis, darkening of the skin, and diabetes.
Wilson disease. This disease is characterized by the retention of too much copper in the liver. Instead of releasing the copper into the bile, the liver retains the copper. Eventually, the damaged liver releases copper into the bloodstream. This hereditary disease can cause damage to the kidneys, brain, and eyes, and can lead to severe brain damage, liver failure, and death.
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Diagnosis and Management of Autoimmune Hepatitis. Manns M. Hepatology. 2010;51(6):s1-s31., HLA DRB1 Alleles Discriminate the Manifestation of Autoimmune Hepatitis as Type 1 or Type 2 in North Indian Population. Kaur N. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Russian official says that the country's ambassador to Turkey has died after being shot by a gunman in Ankara.
NTV television, citing police sources, said the gunman was killed in a police operation inside an exhibition hall where the attack occurred.
The ambassador, Andrei Karlov, was several minutes into a speech at the embassy-sponsored exhibition in the capital, Ankara, when a man wearing a suit and tie shouted "Allahu Akbar" and fired at least eight shots, according to an AP photographer in the audience. The attacker also said some words in Russian and smashed several of the photos hung for the exhibition.
He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, where he was later pronounced dead.
The violence comes one day after protesters took to the streets over Russia's military intervention in Syria.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a televised statement that the ministry would soon comment on "the attack on the Russian ambassador in Turkey"
Photos from the scene show people lying on the floor as someone with a gun walks through the gallery.
Video was captured by people attending the event, showing the shooting.
Andrei Karlov was 62 and he joined the diplomatic service in 1976. He served as Russia's ambassador to Pyongyang in 2001-2006, and later worked as the chief of the Foreign Ministry's consular department. He had served as the ambassador to Turkey since 2013.
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Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Adapted from MU Office for Financial Success Finance Tip of the Week blog by Graham McCaulley, Assistant Extension Professor & State Specialist, Personal Financial Planning, University of Missouri Extension
For many students this time of year marks graduation and, for some, graduation prompts thinking about student loans. Those graduating high school may be anticipating the disbursements of their first student loans in a few months to cover new tuition expenses. While those graduating college may be expecting the end of student loan deferment and the beginning of repayment in the coming months. No matter where one is on the continuum of student loan debt, it is always important to think about the long term realities of student loans, including repayment options. This article outlines one possible option for students who may go into careers in public service jobs.
What's a public service job?
The definition of what is considered a public service job is fairly broad. Any employment with a federal, state or local government agency, entity or organization or a non-profit organization that has been designated as tax-exempt by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The type or nature of employment with the organization does not matter for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) purposes. Additionally, the type of services that these public service organizations provide does not matter for PSLF purposes. Some private, non-profit employers that are not tax exempt can even be considered qualifying employment for the PSLF program, provided the employer provides certain public services (e.g., public health, safety, etc).
What types of loans are eligible?
Loans are either:
- Federal — Made and/or regulated by the government, including Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL), and Federal Perkins Loans; or
- Private — Made by a bank/private lender and generally carry higher fees and interest rates than federal loans. (For more information, see Avoiding deceptive student loans.)
Private loans are not eligible for loan forgiveness programs, and not all federal loans are either. Visit the Federal Student Aid website for a list of debt cancellation/forgiveness programs and which types of federal loan types are eligible for each program.
Regarding the PSLF program, only direct loans are eligible (i.e., loans you received under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program). Federal Family Education loans and Perkins loans are not eligible, however, they do become eligible if you consolidate them into a direct consolidation loan.
What do I have to do to get my debt forgiven?
- Work full-time. At least an annual average of 30
hours per week. For purposes of the full-time requirement, your
qualifying employment at a not-for-profit organization does
not include time spent participating in religious instruction,
worship services or any form of proselytizing. If you are a
teacher or other employee of a public service organization under
contract for at least eight out of 12 months, you meet the full-time
standard if you work an average of at least 30 hours per week
during the contractual period and receive credit by your employer
for a full year's worth of employment. If you have multiple
eligible jobs, you must work a combined average of at least
30 hours per week.
- Make 120 on-time, full, monthly loan payments. Basically,
you have to put in 10 years of full, on-time payments before
you can be eligible for the remainder of your loans to be forgiven.
On-time payments are those that are received by your Direct
Loan servicer no later than 15 days after the scheduled payment
due date. Full payments are payments on your Direct Loan in
an amount that equals or exceeds the amount you are required
to pay each month under your Direct Loan repayment schedule.
- Be paying back your loan through a qualifying repayment plan. You cannot necessarily choose a repayment plan that will greatly lengthen your repayment period so that you are eligible for most of your loans to be forgiven. For example, 30-year extended repayment plans are not eligible for the PSLF program. However, the income-based repayment (IBR) plan and the income-contingent repayment (ICR) plan are eligible. The 10-year Standard Repayment Plan is also eligible, however, after meeting the PSLF requirement of 120 consecutive payments, there would be no debt left to forgive!
Deciding whether or not the PSLF program is right for you depends on many factors, mainly how much student loan debt you have and how much money you will make during the first 10 years of your public service career. The more debt you have and the less you will make, the more attractive an option the PSLF may be for you (as payments tied to your income will be less when you make less money). Alternately, if you make a high income you may very well have paid off or be close to paying off your student loans by the time you get to the end of the 10 year requirement under the PSLF.
There are many repayment options for student loans. A good first step would be to use the Federal Student Aid repayment calculator to see what all your options may be. You can find additional information and tips in the Student Loans section of the MU Office for Financial Success website. Again, whether you are just starting to take out loans or have been paying them back for years, it is always good to consider your repayment options and realities. Even though the PSLF program may help some (and does encourage public service jobs), you will still end up paying back a substantial amount of the debt you take out, so never take out more loans than you need.
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The University of Florida will unveil three statues outside of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at halftime of the the Orange & Blue Debut presented by Scotts, on Saturday, featuring the school's three Heisman winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996) and Tim Tebow (2007).
The life-sized statues will be installed on the west side of the stadium near the skybox entrance, and the unveiling will be shown on Florida's scoreboards inside the stadium. At halftime, a brief video introduction will be played followed by the live unveiling of the statues. All three honorees will have a level of participation in the event.
The statues weigh a between 1,700-2,000 pounds combined and were sculpted by Sandy Proctor. They were provided to the University of Florida through private donations.
Florida is one of eight schools in the nation with at least three Heisman trophy winners and one of two with at least three quarterbacks who have won the college football's most prestigious award.
Heisman Statue Unveiling:
Presentation at halftime of the Orange and Blue Debut presented by Scotts
· Video introduction
· Live video of unveiling of statues on the west side of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
· Remarks from Florida's three Heisman trophy winners, Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow
· A presentation with gifts to the artist, architects and donors


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Numerous healthy, vaccinated and sterilized cats need permanent loving homes. SOS MIOW is holding adoptions clinics every Sunday at our shelter located at 1269 Rte. Harwood in Vaudreuil-Dorion (off Highway #20). For a look at our rescues, please visit our site at [url]www.sosmiow.com[/url]. Adoption an abandonned cat or kitten .... save a life - make a friend!
I am going to start listing these cats on my site, in an effort to get them homes. Having them stacked in small cages for months is NOT acceptable.
If anyone is looking for a cat, please check out these ones. They are truly desperate!!
I have seen them
I didn't realize that they stayed in these cages 24/7!? I naively thought that they were brought from the fosters' homes for the clinics and put into these cages.
Lucky, did you know that they are not against declawing and offer to have it done during neutering if so desired by the adopter?
I think my decision is made: Sugar, the white polydactyl, has severe conjunctivitis and I am going to bring her home.
Number out of service
I just tried calling about Sugar and the number is not in service. Is it a 450 area code maybe?
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I've just been informed that the number has been changed.
It's (514) 453-6891
So happy to hear you're taking that little sweetie!!!!
ETA: the cat with the eye problems is not Sugar, it's this one::(
"Poor little Daisy has had a very rough time of it. She was rescued, sick and pregnant, last Fall and gave birth to 3 little ones (See Scamp, Scooter & Sheba). Little Daisy was very weak and thin, and required antibiotics and hydration treatments for a number of weeks. She nursed her kittens as best she could, all the while coping with her own delicate condition. Daisy also has ulcerated eyes (we don't know how much vision she actually has). With her babies now weaned, Daisy will be spayed and vaccinated and ready to finally learn what it is to be a pet. Daisy will need a kind home with someone who can give her lots of TLC."
I'll take both if I can
Sugar definitely had eye problems too. I held her for quite a while a month ago when I was looking for a poly to help me deal with Holly's death. I liked her but decided to wait as I was going to Michigan the next day for a week. She definitely needs FIV/FeLv testing abnd vet care before being introduced to my brood. Daisy sounds almost blind and that environment must be hell on her. Maybe they can work out a deal for me if I take two. I wish I could save them all. Some of the cages are small. Daisy also needs vet care and testing and to be spayed.
Sos Miow
Our cats are not kept in cages 24/7. We have volunteers who go daily to clean, feed, socialize, brush and take care of the cats, as well as let them out of the cages for a couple of hours to play and sit in the windows. We are also planning to build a new shelter with a lot more room, with proper containment units, and a 'playroom' where the cats can be out of their cages for extended periods.
We are overloaded because the place where we are located keeps bringing us more and more cats (strays, abandonned, dumped by irresponsible owners). We do not have foster homes and do the best we can with the resources we have.
Most of our cats are much better off in the centre than the alternative .... on the street, hungry, scared, cold. If you check our website, you will see that we have asked for foster homes and volunteers.
Most of our cats are adopted within a month of being rescued (we hold newbies for one week for observation, then they are vaccinated and the following week, sterilized). We work with 2 local vets; both of whom have been to our shelter on a regular basis and support what we try to do. One of our vets has a key to the shelter and stops by at least once a week to check on the cats.
Occasionally, such as now, we have some cats who have been with us too long and have not been adopted for whatever reason. Anyone who has a suggestion as to what to do, please let me know! I have asked Debbie for help in placing 4 of them.
Since August 2004, we have rescued over 130 cats/kittens. Of these, we have lost less than 10 to disease (kittens to panleuk), and have had 2 returns. We now have 24 cats at the shelter and a waiting list of others who are in dire need (living outside). If you do the math, you will see that we have had 94 successful adoptions since we started. Please see the section "Success Stories" on our website for testimonials.
Those rescues that have been operating for years must have gone through trial and error, triumphs and tears, throughout the initial stages of getting organized. SOS MIOW is experiencing severe growing pains and we need your support.
Rather than judge - why not help us? We are all in this for the same reason are we not?
On a side note: Re Sugar and her conjunctavitus - it has been treated and is all cleared up. Re Diasy (with the ulcerated eyes), we have had an enquiry about her from a lady who has a 3-legged cat. Re declawing - we do not support it; but if an adoptor is going to have it done anyway, we would rather it be done at the same time as sterilization (young cats only). We are not so naive that we don't know that people will get it done even if they promise not to.
If anyone has any questions or comments, please direct them to me personally. Nasty speculation will only hurt the cats.
Thank you.
Re declawing. You are I think the first rescue org I know that has that attitude. Most have a contract that requires people not to declaw. I realize that some people break the contract but even reputable breeders can reclaim a cat if the contract is breeched a cat declawed. I appluad you for helping cats but please educate your clientelle about declawing and do not be so cavalier about it. It is illegal in most industrial countries, not accepted by groups like Cat Fancy or 99.9% of rescue groups so why not join the majority? <g> Personally, I cannot imagine allowing a cat to go to a home where s/he will be declawed. And I am not alone. Many people who adopt cats will not adopt from you given that policy. Most rescues have seen so many declawed cats brought in for behavious issues post declawing that they well know its adverse effects. How long have you been in operation???
I do not mean to be critical and appreciate your work but I do think you need to rethink this policy!!
(We are overloaded because the place where we are located keeps bringing us more and more cats (strays, abandonned, dumped by irresponsible owners). We do not have foster homes and do the best we can with the resources we have.)
You have to know when to put your foot down and can't blame others for it for having to many cats when you allow them to keep bring them, it's not hard to say No.
Of the 110 or so cats we have adopted out, we have arranged for perhaps 4 declawings to be done at the time of sterilization. We do not support it in any way, and will recommend nail clipping or scratch boards as an alternative. However, in the cases where we have arranged it to be done at the time of sterilization, we determined that the kitten was (a) definitely going to a super home, (b) that the sterilization/declawing was done through a specific vet who has an excellent pain management procedure (keeps the cat at the clinic for 3 days after surgery), and (c) the adoptor pays the vet directly and at full price for the declawing.
I know that some adoptors may not admit to their intentions of having it done and will subject the cat to 2 separate operations if we don't allow the cat to be declawed at the time of sterilization. They may also look for a 'cheap' deal whereby the procedure is not done properly and the cat suffers needlessly.
We will not allow declawing of any adult cat, under any circumstances (adults are always sterilized prior to being put up for adoption, so there is never an issue).
I hope we can put this subject to rest.
Saying "NO"
[QUOTE=Shannon83](We are overloaded because the place where we are located keeps bringing us more and more cats (strays, abandonned, dumped by irresponsible owners). We do not have foster homes and do the best we can with the resources we have.)
You have to know when to put your foot down and can't blame others for it for having to many cats when you allow them to keep bring them, it's not hard to say No.[/QUOTE]
It is very hard to say "NO" when you are face-to-face with a poor little cat who reaches out from the trap and meows at you. I am able to say "NO" over the phone, but not when I see the desperation in their little eyes. It is for this reason that I am asking for help in placing some of our cats. Due to where we are located, we get to see many of the homeless cats and kittens that are picked up - they are not just a statistic. And once you have made eye contact .....
You can't get help from others if you don't do the same back, I.E. others who shell remain nameless have ask you post things and past them around but you've said no or if they want to come to your adoption days with there cats they don't get to keep all of there adoption fee only get to keep what it cost you to have shots down and sterilized.
Helping Others
Shannon - What in the world are you talking about? If you are talking about Mr. Latreille's cats, he insisted on donating the adoption fee to us and has since sent us other donations. We took 2 of his cats and placed them both in loving homes (Ti-Gris and Griselle - see our website under Success Stories).
Re passing things around - every newsletter I get, I pass onto all of my contacts. However, most of my contacts are already on the main mailing lists of other groups.
If I remember correctly, you are the one who tried to link our name to Second Chance as well as some outfit called Centre Canine de GL (selling cats to labs). Now what are you trying to imply?
Now there is a person who can back me up on what I said but she got lot going on right now and there for I'm leaving her out of this.
as for trying to link your name to Second chance, I did no such thing and that you did on your own. remember the pictures you wanted to see and told me they look nothing like anne's farm as you put it. as for Centre Canine de GL I've never heard of the place.
Does your shelter have policies and procedures in place regarding day to day operations? Maybe you should implement a moratorium on taking more cats in until you have the resources to properly look after them.
It is no excuse to say that it is hard to say no. Every "No-Kill" ends up facing this reality at some point.
If there is a personal disagreement here, I would prefer the parties take it to email or PM. Thanks!
As for declawing kittens (!), yes I agree no one can be 100% sure that someone won't declaw 2, 3 or even 5 years down the road, but our contract expressly forbids the declawing of any cat or kitten, and signing a legal document is one way to make people think twice about this.
Yes, they may go elsewhere to get a kitten to declaw it, but it won't be on our conscience.
Declawing is a cruelty done for convenience. Our cats have suffered enough through the acts of humans, and we want to ensure their suffering is at an end with us.
Saying "NO"
Hi Katze,
Our shelter is located at a local Animal Control Centre and when they pick up stray cats, they conveniently leave the healthy/adoptable ones in the cages where we can see them as we pass by to our little shelter. If we don't take them in, they go straight to the SPCA. Our volunteers know this and bring the cats into our shelter pleading their case. Yes, we have the option to say NO, but in effect it means that the cats will be taken to the SPCA. I have tried to tell the volunteers that we can't save them all, but as I mentioned in previous posts - "when you look into their eyes ......".
[QUOTE=Katze]Does your shelter have policies and procedures in place regarding day to day operations? Maybe you should implement a moratorium on taking more cats in until you have the resources to properly look after them.
It is no excuse to say that it is hard to say no. Every "No-Kill" ends up facing this reality at some point.[/QUOTE]
I understand Janet, its very hard to turn away an animal when the "owners" are saying, if you don't take my cat, I'm going to through it over the fence to your dogs! "If you don't take my cat, I'm going leave it on the street" I have heard much worst than this as well. Its much easier to tell someone to say NO! but unless YOU are in that situation and hearing this, I doubt you would say NO as well. Unless you work or volunteer at a shelter, you have no idea how cruel and heartless people can be. Any shelter can get over crowded temporarly, long as the animals are well taken care of, socialized, a vet comes in regularly to check on the health of the animals, and the workers and volunteers are doing everything possible to get the animals adopted. I don't see what the problem is. If you are doing all this SOS Mieow, which I read in your posts that you are, I think you are doing a great job to help the animals.
Our Shelter
Thank you for you kinds words, Poodle. You are one of the few who understands what it's like to be on the front lines. Yes, we are overloaded and that is why I have asked Lucky Rescue and others for help. I am not asking to be judged or criticized. And yes, we have cats in cages - we have no other alternative, given the lack of resources. However, we do our best to socialize with our rescues, look after their needs, keep them healthy, have them vaccinated and sterilized, and get them adopted as quickly as we can to good homes.
Please understand, I'm not trying to be argumentative, but there is something I really don't understand.
[QUOTE]We will not allow declawing of any adult cat, under any circumstances (adults are always sterilized prior to being put up for adoption, so there is never an issue).[/QUOTE]
If you can prevent people from declawing adult cats, then why not kittens? Why do you give kittens to people who you know positively will declaw them, and in fact you aid them to do this? Why don't you tell these people to elsewhere and find kittens to declaw?
Declawing kittens is even more outrageous than declawing adult cats, who may have had years of furniture clawing habits behind them.(Not that I agree with declawing them either)
Kittens can be easily trained to use scratch posts, so this pediatric amputation is being done just as a preventative, before the kittens have even done anything at all??
The issue of declawing has only come up a few times. Once we have determined that the kitten is going to a good home, IF and only IF the person asks about declawing, we will discuss the matter and suggest scratch posts, training, etc. If they are adamant and I feel that they will perhaps go elsewhere for the declawing, I would rather they have it done at the same time as we arrange for the sterilization, through one of our vets who has an excellent pain management program and keeps the kitten for 3 days following surgery. We cover the sterilization and the adoptor deals directly with the vet for the declawing procedure. I would rather that this be done than a second surgery sometime down the road through a vet who may butcher the poor thing.
If I refuse to adopt to the person, I can be sure that they WILL find a cat elsewhere and have it declawed in whatever manner. Unfortunately with today's leather and microfiber sofas and chairs, a lot of people don't want their furniture ruined by a cat's claws.
In any case, it has only happened a couple of times and only with kittens who have yet to be sterilized, and I can report that the kitties are doing well and are happy in their new homes.
Perhaps we are a little more relaxed in our criteria because of the situation we are in (being housed in the Animal Control Centre). We are not dealing with only a few select cats at any given time, but usually 15-20 cats at a time, with more waiting at the door every day. We also do not have foster homes, so the need to get our kitties adopted out quickly is more urgent than if they were safely ensconsed in a household environment.
At the moment, we seem to have an overload of cats at the shelter and have asked for everyone's help in finding suitable homes. Just tonight, I have had to turn down 5 callers who have 'cute little kitties' in their yards that they have been feeding and now want to be picked up. On top of that, the Animal Control People picked up a few new strays that will stay at the pound for 3 days and then go to the SPCA.
If there are groups out there that really want to help, you can put your name in at the Animal Control Centre to take the strays that we can't take (due to lack of space) and foster them, socialize them, etc. We can't save them all. PM me and I will give you their number.
By the way, OSCAR was adopted today and the adoptor also took COTON on a trial basis. Thank you, Lucky, for posting our cats on your site.
[QUOTE]By the way, OSCAR was adopted today and the adoptor also took COTON on a trial basis[/QUOTE]
That's excellent news! Were they adopted from my site? If so, the adopter can get 30 days free vet care.
Your cats got a huge number of views since I listed them yesterday so I hope more will be adopted.
Oscar & Coton
Yes, I believe the adoptor found them through PetFinder and also checked out our site as well. She sent me an application last night and came today with her little boy to see the cats. She stayed over an hour before she made her decision.
She has adopted Oscar and has taken Coton on a trial basis. Coton is the Maine Coon who does not defend himself when other cats pick on him. The adoptor has 2 other cats at home and wants to be sure that Coton fits in nicely (she assures me that her other 2 cats are very friendly with others).
I will be speaking to her tomorrow to see how things are going.
Thanks again for your help!
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Ryan Tietjens needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Kombi Coffee
We are an exciting start-up Australian premium espresso mobile coffee van franchise about to change the image of the mobile coffee experience throughout Australia.
Out point of difference it 3 fold, we serve our own unique blend of premium coffee, (espresso bar style) - you have never experienced anything like it before.. We are bringing back hand-crafted brewed coffee & we operate out of the legendary VW Kombi Vans (the old ones).
We have a unique franchise system, and are ready to launch into the Australian market - all that is missing is a logo!
Our target market is people that appreciate premium espresso, we have all experienced the rubbish being served out of cash-and-run vans for too long and want to change this image.
We want our brand to represent quality coffee as this has been out focus.
This is your chance to really have fun and show us how creative you can be.
The key message we want to incorporate into our brand is 'premium' espresso and also focus on the VW Kombi van itself. It has a distinct look that could be incorporated into the design, i.e the front of it (lines and headlights)
We are open to anything and everything, however we like clean and CLEVER brands.
When we mean clean, it must be detailed as everything we have done from the vans, to the coffee blends has been highly detailed.
It needs to look professional but casual - You could incorporate themes or colours form the 1960's, but keep it modern.
As you can see we are open to anything! - have fun!
Logos we like (have attached a couple)
Apple http://www.apple.com
Allpress Espresso http://www.allpressespresso.com/au/
Keeping with the look of the new VW logo could work well, i.e the round clean lines.
Have fun creating!
Remember this logo will form our corporate branding, be used on the Vans themselves, cups, logo for our own premium bean blends and all marketing material. - Everything is ready to roll out - just need a logo!
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Futures slid as the Port Reading plant ran at full rates for the first time since Hurricane Sandy's Oct. 29 landfall. Oil sank 2.8 percent after Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said a cease-fire would be agreed to today. U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in Israel today to participate in the peace talks.
"The expectation is a diplomatic breakthrough will be achieved," said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates LLC in Houston.
Gasoline for December delivery fell 4.2 cents, or 1.5 percent, to settle at $2.7125 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the largest decline since Nov. 7.
Mursi said that what he termed Israeli aggression against the territory will end today, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported.
Futures settled yesterday at the highest level this month amid concern that Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip might spread unrest in the Middle East, disrupting oil supplies.
"It looks like the cease fire is imminent and we're selling off on that news," said Fred Rigolini, vice president of Paramount Options Inc. in New York. "Yesterday, there was a little anxiety that if this persisted it could bleed into other countries."
Gasoline Supplies
The Energy Department will probably report tomorrow that gasoline supplies rose 1 million barrels last week, according to the median estimate of 11 analysts in a survey by Bloomberg.
East Coast stockpiles fell to a four-year low in the week ended Nov. 9 as Sandy disrupted production and distribution. Imports recovered after hitting the lowest level since December 1999 in the prior week. MasterCard Inc.'s SpendingPulse report showed demand at the pump in the seven days ended Nov. 9 slid to the lowest since March.
"Hess Port Reading coming back is bringing us down a bit and gasoline supplies are going to build a little bit as we see the imports go back up and on weak demand," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.
December-delivery heating oil fell 3.59 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $3.0392 a gallon on the exchange, after settling yesterday at the highest level since Oct. 30. The department will probably report that supplies of distillates, including heating oil and diesel, declined 1 million barrels, according to the survey.
Amuay Refinery
Futures pared declines after the El Universal newspaper in Caracas reported that Petroleos de Venezuela SA shut a 62,000 barrel-a-day flexicoker at the Amuay refinery, the largest plant in Venezuela.
The premium of heating oil over crude, or the crack spread, based on January contracts, widened $1.06 to $41.28 a barrel, while the gasoline crack spread gained 69 cents to $26.16 a barrel.
The 645,000-barrel-a-day refinery has been running at reduced rates since an Aug. 25 explosion killed more than 40 people.
"Amuay is down again, they're having issues with the flexicoker," Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions LLC in Houston, said by phone. "People are waiting to see whether it's going to come back online or not come online."
The average nationwide cost for regular gasoline slipped 0.4 cent to $3.412 a gallon, AAA said today on its website. That's the lowest price since July 16. The pump price reached a 2012 high of $3.936 on April 4.
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Hi all,
We all know that the cosine of pi/2 is 0 because it is the x coordinate of the point on the unit circle when we move counter clockwise from 0 degree to pi/2. How do you prove that cos of pi/2 equals zero using the law of cosine which is adjacent divided by hypothenuse. I figure since I was able to use the law of sine, law of cosine, and similar triangle to find coordinates of other points on the unit circle, I'd be able to prove that cosine of 90 degree or pi/2 equals to zero as well. However it doesn't look like it is possible. Please reply if you can show how this can be done, thanks.
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hi Curio,
Welcome to the forum.
The adjacent/hypotenuse definition only applies to right angled triangles. So strictly speaking you cannot, by that definition, have another angle that is also 90 ... because it wouldn't be a triangle would it.
But you can make a triangle with angles 90, 89, 1 and the cosine of 89 is pretty close to zero as the adjacent is very small.
Similarly 90, 89.9, 0.1 has a cosine that is even closer to zero.
And 90, 89.99, 0.01 is closer still.
Carry on like that and you can see that cosine A tends to zero as A tends to 90.
But you have revealed why a more general definition is needed; one that is the same as the A/H definition for angles between 0 and 90 (exclusive), but also carries on with angles of 90 or over, or even 0 and less. The rotating point definition does exactly that.
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Hi, thanks for replying. You mentioned that the definition of cosine, adjacent divided by hypothenuse, can only be used on right triangles. When we are at pi/2 on the unit circle, the x and the y axis form a right triangle and we have an angle that is pi/2 or 90 degree between the x and the y axis. We should be able to divide the length of the side adjacent to 90 degree which is the x axis starting from the point (0,0) to the point (1,0), by the hypothenuse of that triangle . I would include an image to explain what I have just said but I don't see the upload option.
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hi Curio
I've made you a diagram. (You'll get image posting rights when you've been a member for a while. It's an anti-spammer measure.)
As the point rotates the triangle changes shape. At 90 degrees, the adjacent disappears altogther and the opposite is 1. So you can think of this as showing A/H = zero and O/H = 1 if you like, but there's no triangle because you haven't got three sides.
Have a look at
About 1/4 of the way down the page is a similar diagram with a 'drag me' point. The triangle degenerates to a line at 90.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trig- … ircle.html
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My Life | Our Honeymoon in Italy | Rome, Tuscany, Cinque Terre & Florence
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Do yourself a big favor and read this before you begin your driving adventure in Italy. Drove w Meg for a week and got a citation in Italian a full year later for traveling through a restricted zone...Beaucoup Euro!!
Wish someone had told me first!
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also, our favorite restaurant in the free world, including our extensive international travels is in Florence. D' il latini is located near Piazza Santa Trinita via del Palchetti The glow from inside the restaurant seems to draw locals and tourists from the piazza. Ham hocks hanging from the ceiling and Chianti is pulled from the shelves on the wall. The menu is not in writing, but flows off the waiters tongue like a song. Creative and delicious. You may be seated at a long table with a combination of locals and tourists speaking several different languages.. but the universal language is found in the wine and food. We have recommended this family restaurant over the years and many have enjoyed it so much they rerouted their itineraries for an encore before returning stateside. If you have a chance have dinner here. Il latini has been on Frommers "worth the extra bucks" for 30 years!! It is a truly memorable dining experienceReplyDelete
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D wrote:I agree with Dewey, quit the lessons after learning to control the kite and body drag in the water.
I had a bad experience learning at Alameda Kite and Wind Surf. My first water lesson ended up with me under the bay bridge self-rescuing, using a Cabrihna recon that did not deploy because the wind was "too light." I was winding up the lines fighting a powered kite, getting tangled in the lines, right next to the bridge tower, in a big flood.
A tugboat pulls up and tells us to get out of the construction zone ... the new bay bridge construction zone!
I cannot imagine a more inappropriate place to learn kiteboarding!
First time on your own, grab your board and practice water starts. You'll get plenty of practice body dragging back to your board. For me at least, body dragging was a no-brainer.
Be safe, wear a helmet, etc.
I'm surprised that this happened! From everything I've seen and heard, their instruction program is top notch. I can only imagine that this was a fluke incident which may have been created by a spot of less than stellar judgement on where to instruct. Hopefully, this won't happen again and sorry to hear it happened to you. I can imagine it wasn't the most productive learning session.


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Table of Contents:
Part One: Real Foods Make Naturally Healthy Cuisine
The Meaning of Eating
Kitchen Medicine: Carbs, Proteins, Fats
Optimal Nutrient Daily Intake: Vitamins
Optimal Nutrient Daily Intake: Minerals
Setting Up Your Real Food Pantry
Changes Made Easy
You Know You Need to Make Changes When ....
Tools of the Trade
Real Food Substitutions
Real Food Glossary
Part Two: Real Foods for Real Life
Help for the Challenged HomeMaker:
Convenience Foods
Bodacious Breakfasts
Magnificent Midday Meals
Super Suppers
Crockpot Meals
Working Smarter Not Harder Batch Cooking
Pizza Pizzaz
Homemade Pasta
Surviving Summertime
Heritage Recipes
HomeMade Gift-Giving
Putting By for Emergencies
Part Three: Its a Keeper Recipes
Vegetarian Main Dishes
Fish Main Dishes
Chicken Main Dishes
Beef Main Dishes
Part Four: The Hospitable Home Nourishing the Body of Christ
The Hospitable Home
Opening Doors to New Relationships
Being Hospitable When Life is Challenging
Celebrating the Lords Day
Feeding the Body, His Bride
Part Five: Real Weight Loss
Real Weight Loss
Real Food - Real Light
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I realized this was exactly what is happening with our website and Naturally Healthy business. We are renewing, filling up again, reviving a work begun twenty years ago come the first of January 2009. Around the Parker home, we are pretty excited about this.
Our web presence has been fairly static since December 2002. Oh, weve added a few things and deleted a few things, but for the most part, on the web, weve looked the same. Yet so much has changed in our family and business during these last 6 years.
Simon, our miracle baby and seventh child, was born Dec. 22, 2002 after a very difficult pregnancy where partial placental abruptions were occurring up until two days prior to his birth, despite plenty of rest and optimal food intake and supplementation. The prayers of Gods people and His mercy toward us were sufficient to sustain him. Despite a rough start of newborn time, he rallied and is such a delight to our family (who really needs to quit calling him bebe now he is six!).
A blood clotting disorder, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, with periodic elevated anticardiolipin antibodies as well, was discovered, which provided some explanation for the difficult pregnancy/abruption issue with Simon, as well as our nine miscarriages. The perinatal pathologist, Carolyn Salafia, M.D. of www.earlypath.com, who examined Simons placenta was able to point us to checking on this disorder, as well as making the suggestion I could have cardiac issues impacting the blood supply of oxygen and nutrients to my body.
Mommy Diagnostics was revised and expanded by more than 100 pages and released in September of 2004.
I became battery-operated in 2005, after months of testing and three cardiac ablations in effort to correct what had become a quite symptomatic tachycardia problem resistant to treatment with herbs, lifestyle altering, and pharmaceuticals (the problem was due to a wiring issue I was born with that did not become symptomatic until my teens, managed with herbs until um age(?) made it more significant. My pacemaker now serves in the place of my atrioventricular (AV) node, and Ive suddenly become more thankful than ever for batteries.
We purchased SLC Birth & Parenting Supplies in September 2004 from Leslie Parrish (now Leslie Nabong), who was readying to leave to serve in the Philippines at the YWAM Project Life in Olongapo see http://www.ywamconnect.com/sites/nabong and http://www.projectlifephilippines.org/. We renamed the business Naturally Healthy Birth & Beyond and served midwives and their clients until April of 2007 when we sold the Birth & Beyond portion of the business. It was such a pleasure to serve and the Lord increased the business four-fold during this time, but we reached a point where decisions had to be made as to where our business focus needed to be. Since education and product development had been our prior focus, we chose to continue that path.
Prior to the sale of the business, we had the blessing of procuring the supplies for, packing and shipping 400 birth kits for community birth attendants being trained in Madagascar, purchased by ADRA in combination with USAID. What a joy that time was for us, even if I did end up with a staple in my forehead due to standing up on top one of the shipping crates and placing my head in direct line of the office ceiling fan whoops!
The Naturally Healthy Woman and Naturally Healthy Pregnancy books were revised and expanded each by at least 100 pages and released in December 2007 and March 2008 respectively.
Vickilynn Haycraft, of www.realfoodliving.com , and I are expectantly awaiting the final design to send Naturally Healthy Cuisine: Real Food for Real Families to print for release in February or March 2008.
And, finally, our herbal study course, has been restructured for us to be able to offer a beginners Family Herbalist course; a Certified Family Herbalist course for those desiring personalized progress review sessions and Shonda-instruction; a more in-depth Community Herbalist course for those wishing to minister in their communities, with an option to do additional reading and show teaching skills proficiency to certify as Certified Womens Health Educators and Certified Family Health Educators, and a Clinical Herbalist course for those wishing to have a career practice as a professional herbalist.
So much has happened in the past few years, yet our focus remains unchanged: to provide health education, specifically in the areas of herbal and food medicine, to develop products to support health, and to promote personal responsibility in ones own, or ones own familys, healthcare.
And Keith is right (and hes very glad to have me say that in writing!). We are re-freshing Naturally Healthy, and we are grateful for the opportunity to serve you and your families.
Blessings and peace,
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Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte didn't practice on Wednesday.
However, head coach Marc Trestman doesn't view it as much of a concern for his availability this Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.
According to Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com, Trestman is confident Forte will be available this week.
"I feel pretty good that he'll start getting some work tomorrow. We'll see where he is at, but I'm going in optimistic," Trestman said.
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Despite a raw 45-degree temperature, the Waynesboro Maiden soccer team heated things up on the field with a 10-0 drubbing of the Biglerville Canners in a non-conference contest Monday afternoon with rain falling throughout.
WAYNESBORO —Despite a raw 45-degree temperature, the Waynesboro Maiden soccer team heated things up on the field with a 10-0 drubbing of the Biglerville Canners in a non-conference contest Monday afternoon with rain falling throughout.
Alysha McCleaf powered Waynesboro (11-3) with three goals to raise her total to 20 for the season.
Jade Swope collected two goals to up her total to 15 and she came close to scoring a handful of times by slamming shots off the crossbar, post and had a rising shot caught high by Canner goalkeeper Rebecca Martin.
Waynesboro also received goals from Kaitie Clawson, Sarah Churchman, Kennedy Chandler, Sam Nichols and Mallory Patterson.
Assists went to Patterson with two, Churchman, McCleaf and Lauren Wagaman.
Still, it was a bit of a sluggish first half for the Maidens, according to coach Brian Fisher.
"I thought the first half was a little inconsistent," he said. " The second half we came out and had three quick goals. That was awesome.
"We challenged them to step up and dominate the other team like we should have in the first half. We have a problem putting teams away. Today was probably the first time we did that all year. I was happy to see that."
The Maidens dominated play from the start of the game and had the Canners, who started six ninth-graders, backed into the defensive end of the field for long stretches.
The only thing that seemed to slow the Maidens was an inordinate number of offside calls — at least seven in the first half.
But the Maidens applied continued pressure with the work of McCleaf, Swope, Patterson, Chandler, Clawson and Churchman leading the way.
McCleaf netted the first goal after 7:23 as she gathered in a pass from Patterson and hit a 12-yard shot that hit the right post and spun into the net.
At 18:55, McCleaf picked up her second score as she received a pass from Clawson on the right and placed the ball into the net near the right post.
Clawson closed out the scoring in the first half in the closing 43 seconds. Churchman sent the ball in from the left and it got past the Biglerville keeper, finding Clawson just a couple of feet from the cage. She tapped it home for a 3-0 lead.
Waynesboro keeper Nicole Kreimer wasn't very busy, but had a couple of nice plays in the opening half.
First, she leaped high to knock away a shot by Biglerville's Olivia Moore and then pounced on the ball just ahead of the Canner charge.
Near the end of the half, Kreimer fell on the ball while squeezed by Canners Moore and Karina Padilla near the edge of the penalty box.
Waynesboro poured it on in the second half with seven goals, three of them in less than three minutes.
The barrage started at 7:07 with a hit by Swope off a Churchman free kick. The ball hit the ground among a cluster of players close to the cage and Swope connected.
At 8:11, Churchman punched in a short shot into the lower left corner.
McCleaf then scored at 9:35 on a 12-yarder as she received a pass from Patterson to give Waynesboro a 6-0 advantage.
Chandler claimed her goal at 19:19 and Nichols, who moved up from the back, sailed a long shot into the upper left corner at 25:00 that upped the Maiden lead to 8-0.
The scoring concluded with a nice outside shot into the upper portion of the net by Swope at 32:12 and Patterson, with 3:15 left, on a kind of reverse hit from 18 yards that got over the goalie and into the right corner.
"Everyone contributed," Fisher noted. "We got to see different people in different positions. It was a fun win. We got the opportunity to rest some people today because we have four games this week."
Waynesboro outshot Biglerville 29-3 and had a 4-1 advantage in corner kicks.
Martin had 19 goalie saves and 25 stops for the Canners, while Maiden keepers Kreimer and Taylor Welty had three and five, and none and three, respectively.
Waynesboro goes on the road to play James Buchanan today as part of a boys-girls varsity showdown. The junior varsity teams will play in Waynesboro on Wednesday.


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The Obama administration today sounded the alarms over rising marijuana use among the nation's youth, saying that softening attitudes about the perceived risk are responsible for the increase.
Sixty percent of 12th-graders do not view regular marijuana use as harmful, and more than 12 percent of eighth-graders said they had used the drug in the last year, according to an annual survey released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"These increases in marijuana use over the past few years are a serious setback in our nation's efforts to raise a healthy generation of young people," said Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama's drug czar
Among 12th-graders, 6.5 percent said they smoked pot every day. Nearly 23 percent of seniors said they smoked marijuana in the previous month, and more than 36 percent said they had smoked it in the past year. Among 10th graders, 4 percent said they used marijuana daily, with 18 percent reporting past month use, and 29.8 percent said they had used it in the previous year.
Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the survey had a couple of bright spots: Alcohol and tobacco use are down.
But she expressed concern that marijuana use among school-aged children could hinder their brain development.
"We should be extremely concerned that 12 percent of 13- to 14-year-olds are using marijuana," Volkow said. "The children whose experimentation leads to regular use are setting themselves up for declines in IQ and diminished ability for success in life."
Kerlikowske, the former Seattle police chief, said schools have done a poor job on dealing with drug education.
And he described plans to sell marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington state next year as "a large social experiment" that he said will be difficult to implement. He said kids who live in states with medical marijuana laws already are finding it easier to obtain the drug.
The Obama administration has sent mixed signals on marijuana use this year.
In August, the Justice Department said it would not block Colorado and Washington state from opening retail pot stores next year, so long as the states do a good job of policing themselves.
But Kerlikowske has been a consistent critic of marijuana use, This summer Obama nominated him to take the job of U.S. customs commissioner, but Kerlikowske will remain in the job of drug czar until the Senate decides whether to confirm him for the new post.


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Saturday, April 04, 2009
How To Grow Your Own Tea
If you're going to make a serious commitment to growing tea with the intention of one day harvesting and drinking it, there are a few things to consider. First and foremost is that harvest day - assuming everything goes well - is not likely to arrive for a few years.
The other important point to consider is location, location, location or perhaps more specifically - climate, climate, climate. Tea is being grown on a modest scale in North America, most notably at the Charleston Tea Plantation in South Carolina, but tea plants thrive better in some climates than others. According to many tea seed and plant suppliers, the best climate zones for tea planting are parts of 6 and 7, 8 and 9.
If you'd like to take a crack at growing tea plants from seed, look here and here for supplies. For a complete kit that includes tea (and coffee) seeds and growing supplies, look here. If you'd prefer to get the jump on growing tea from seeds, order tea plants here.
For some more pointers on growing your own tea plants, refer to the Hawaii Tea Society, whose members have been growing tea on the islands for a number of years. For more on Lindsey "Vee" Goodwin's experiments with growing tea, start with her posts at the VeeTea blog, here and here.
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- VeeTea said...
I transplanted two of my three plants after moving from NYC to Charlotte, NC. (The first one is still sick from the move and will have to wait to be replanted.) We'll see how they do in new soil!
- Pat Canella said...
I'm actually looking into this myself. I want to do it in summer, have to see how long it will take to really grow, climate probably is terrible too haha, oh well.
- Dr.Q said...
these boys are doing it in Washington:http://www.sakumamarketstand.com/
- Logos Academy Inc said...
We grow green tea in our family tea nursery in Florida. www.greenteaplants.com We are leaving for China in the fall to search out heirloom varieties and if you would like tea seeds or plants please let us know.
- Steff said...
Hi, I'm wondering if you can help me? I live in USDA Hardiness Zone 8, Sunset Gardening Zone 14, however, my garden is 2,000 feet higher as I live in the mountains within these zones. We get occasionally low temperatures (a couple of days below 32º, but as we're located on a knoll, I could plant for any type of sun exposure. I'd love to grow tea, is it possible where I'm located?
Thanks so much!