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Increasing U.S.-grown rice consumption by Americans is a primary goal of the USA Rice Federation's (USA Rice) domestic promotion program. I'm pleased to share this update, which covers just a few ongoing domestic promotion activities.
National Rice Month
National Rice Month (September) is fast approaching. This year's overall theme is "America's going with the grain," which helps convey the popularity of rice to consumers. NRM collateral materials and advertising for retail and foodservice will feature "Rice, you'll love what it does for you!" The message is that retailers and foodservice operators will benefit from the promotion of rice through greater profitability, higher sales and increased traffic.
Our ad campaign began the first week of June with placements in leading supermarket trade magazines, and continues through August. The ads encourage participation in NRM, while raising awareness for the entire rice category. This cost-effectively reaches important decision makers.
Each year, USA Rice establishes cooperative promotional programs with three of the nation's leading retailers. We leverage promotional funds provided by requiring retailers to advertise their branded and private label rice products during September and feature rice in off-shelf displays in the majority of their stores. H-E-B Grocery, one of the nation's largest retailers with $9 billion in annual sales and more than 290 stores in Texas and Louisiana, and a small number in Mexico, is partnering with USA Rice for the third year in a row. The chain plans 30 scheduled ads for a combined circulation of 102 million and 2,380 rice displays for 295 stores. (More than 6,000 retail stores set NRM displays in 2001.) Consumers will be able to sample rice recipes at 600 in-store demonstrations.
In addition, numerous USA Rice members throughout the rice-growing states are involved in grassroots efforts to promote rice in their communities. This educates consumers about the many benefits of rice while increasing awareness of the importance of rice to our local economies. Comprehensive planning kits were distributed in June.
School Foodservice/Youth Promotions
USA Rice staffed a display booth at the Louisiana School Food Service Association Conference in mid-June. Nearly 1,000 school foodservice personnel attended. Visitors received rice foodservice recipes and bilingual rice preparation charts. They were also encouraged to enter our "Kid's Favorite" recipe contest, which solicits kid-pleasing recipes featuring rice for future distribution to school foodservice professionals.
High school juniors and seniors whose families are directly associated with the rice industry in the states of Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas, are encouraged to enter the National Rice Month Scholarship Contest. Students compete by running a promotion which celebrates National Rice Month in their community, with rice as the central theme. Twelve cash prizes are awarded based on creativity, impact, promotion of rice and National Rice Month, and demonstration of the importance of the rice industry to the local area.
The annual Miss Arkansas Rice contest, jointly sponsored by the Arkansas Rice Council and USA Rice Council, has a 40-year tradition of encouraging rice promotion among youth and publicizing the importance of the state's rice industry.
Consumer Education Awards
This spring USA Rice captured top honors for corporate consumer education and communication materials from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. With 4,000 members in 36 countries and all 50 states, the IACP is the largest organization of food experts in the world. We submitted posters, recipe brochures and other materials designed to educate consumers about U.S.-grown rice.
USA Rice's "Risotto: Causing a Stir" press kit was recently selected as an outstanding example of business communications in the Bronze Quill Awards contest, sponsored by the International Association of Business Communicators.
2002 USA Rice Outlook Conference
The 2002 USA Rice Outlook Conference, to be held Dec. 8-10 in Little Rock, Ark., is a great opportunity to visit with growers and others from all the rice-growing states, and learn about issues affecting the industry.
Joe Mencer, a Lake Village, Ark., rice producer, is a member of the USA Rice Federation's Domestic Promotion Committee. He is also president of the Arkansas Rice Council.


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While Commander Martin is one of the leading authorities on the Constitution , Dr. James Bradford and retired Navy Reserve Rear Admiral Joseph Callo are noted experts on John Paul Jones, who was memorialized by President Theodore Roosevelt and other dignitaries at the U.S. Naval Academy 100 years ago. Dr. Bradford marks the centennial of that event with an article about what a present-day Roosevelt might say about Jones and his life's lessons, and Admiral Callo recounts the naval hero's service in the Russian Navy and how he fared in battle against the Turks. Admiral Callo's biography of Jones, John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior [4] , is due out in March from the Naval Institute Press.
Another noteworthy Naval Institute Press release is Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal [5] , by World War II naval aviation expert John Lundstrom. The book is scheduled to be released in May, but you can get an early look by reading the excerpt in this issue about the tension-filled morning of 7 May 1942 that climaxed with the sinking of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho .
Finally, this issue marks the arrival on the Naval History staff of Senior Designer Kelly Erlinger and the return of former Editor-in-Chief Fred Shultz. Fred left the Naval Institute in March 2005, and after trying his hand at editing less engaging material, he's back home. Most of his work time is now devoted to the Naval Institute's Proceedings , but he'll be helping with Naval History as time allows. Besides Fred's sharp editing skills, his sage advice will greatly help me ensure that Naval History maintains and exceeds the high standard of quality he helped establish.
When I came aboard Naval History nearly three years ago, one of my first goals was annually to feature a package of articles about a specific type of U.S. Navy ship. The first effort, in February 2006, featured destroyers, and a year ago, it was battleships.
This year's package is about the least visible U.S. warships—submarines. Because of a pair of articles in our story bank, the choice seemed natural. In late 2006, Paul Stillwell brought us an exclusive: an article based on unpublished recollections and recently declassified documents about what was likely the Vietnam War's only U.S. nuclear submarine combat patrol. "The Sculpin's Lost Mission" was written by two retired Navy officers who participated in the patrol: Admiral Charles R. Larson and Captain Clinton Wright. Paul assisted them by paring the original 7,000-word manuscript to 4,500 words.
World War II submarine veteran Captain Charles Rush, U.S. Navy (Retired), meanwhile, visited the Naval Institute and discussed story ideas with Senior Editor Fred Schultz. The captain later submitted "One-Boat Wolfpack," about a daring late-1942 USS Thresher patrol in which he participated.
The package's third element, "From One-Man Submersible to High-Tech Behemoth," started small, as a two-page graphic, but grew into an engaging seven-page pictoral history of submarines. Sub expert Norman Polmar wrote the informative captions and provided most of the images, and Design Director Kelly Erlinger created the eye-grabbing layout.
Our final submarine component also came courtesy of Paul Stillwell: his "Looking Back" column about the USS Dolphin , the last of the U.S. Navy's diesel boats. To read more about these fascinating subs and their Sailors, check out Paul's latest book, Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats [6] (Naval Institute Press, 2007).
An unfortunate reality for magazine authors is that after their articles are accepted for publication they often must wait a long time for them to appear in print. Further frustration can come when tentatively scheduled articles are bumped to later issues.
With that in mind, this issue's Writer Patience Awards go to Commander Tyrone Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired); Dr. Harold D. Langley; and Abbott Sparks. Commander Martin's article, "A Gentlemanly Munity," about a blemish on the USS Constitution 's stellar record, was accepted way back in 1999 but figuratively fell through a crack in our story bank. Accepted more recently, in 2004, Dr. Langley's story about Charles Oscar Paullin, "Remembering a Forgotten Naval Historian," was scheduled for publication only to be postponed several times.
Finally, Abbott Sparks' remembrance of his longtime friend Joe Artman's service as a World War II frogman, "Water Ballet Off Iwo Jima," was due to run in last February's issue but was shelved a year. This article illuminates an aspect of Iwo Jima often overlooked: the key reconnaissance conducted by brave Underwater Demolition Team Sailors two days before the Marines went ashore. I hope you enjoy it, as well as this issue's other offerings.

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We received our first tribute yesterday (read below). Hopefully, Addie Bjornsen's story about her son's nanny who became much more than a caregiver will inspire others to send one in. Let's celebrate those women who are providing us with support and encouragement!
My mother passed away in 2007. In July of 2011, my son Oliver was born and it would've meant the world to her to have a grandchild.
When I went back to work after maternity leave, we started looking for childcare at the very last minute. My husband is Chinese and I am of Danish/German descent, and we wanted to find a daycare in which Mandarin was spoken. We ended up finding the most wonderful woman in the North Beach area who loves our son as though he's her own.
They go to the park, and she takes him to story time at the library every Thursday. He has a very great life at her home daycare. She is very limited in her English speaking, but we've been able to make things work. She's absolutely wonderful.
The day after Christmas 2012, my husband decided he didn't want to be married anymore. Of course this was life-shattering and I could barely hold it together, let alone be a good mom to my son who was 17 months old at the time. I told the babysitter what was going on and she is probably the only reason I was able to pull it together and make it through the first weekend. We went shopping together, she had me to her house for dinners and lunches, we went to Bay Area Discovery Museum.
She is constantly checking on me to make sure I am happy and will say the sweetest things in the English she can speak like, "Weekends, Mommy shopping, Mommy trips, Mommy friends, no thinking. Hold the Oliver. Play the Oliver. No thinking." And you know what? I understand completely. Stay busy and don't sit around feeling sorry for yourself. She takes care of me now. If I'm sick, she's there to help me with my son. She cooks up concoctions of Chinese medicine for me.
We spend time together as friends now, not just as her as the babysitter. I genuinely love her and she is my mother figure.
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11.15.2006 -- The most honoured film about the Iraq war is opening at theaters across the United States this month.
The documentary "Iraq in Fragments" by independent film-maker James Longley won best director, cinematography and editing when it opened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Since then, it has won awards at festivals in Chicago, Cleveland, Thessalonica, and at the Human Rights Watch film festival in New York.
What sets "Iraq in Fragments" apart from the mass of other journalism on Iraq is that it does not confront the issue of the war directly. U.S. soldiers are on the periphery of the film, as are Iraqi politicians, Ba'athist insurgents and al Qaeda terrorists.
Instead, viewers are treated to a view inside Iraqi culture and daily life under occupation. It is cinematographically beautiful, taking viewers into places as diverse as schools, barber shops, auto shops, mosques, markets and train stations.
In production notes to the film, Longley writes about entering Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
"I could film whatever I wanted as long as I could stay alive," he writes, with no government minders or stringent visa requirements. "My guess was that I would have about a year before either a new authoritarian government would be put in power or Iraq would descend into civil war and become too dangerous to work in. I needed to make my film while it was still possible."
A full disclosure is in order. This reporter lived with Longley in Iraq for months at a time during his two years of filming, and sometimes wondered what kind of film he would come up with. Day after day, your reporter went after the breaking news and Longley would trundle off to film the same people: a child labourer on Baghdad's auto row, a leader of one of the Shi'ite Sadr movement in Southern Iraq, and a small farming family in Iraqi Kurdistan.
That's not to say the film doesn't have implications for U.S. policy in Iraq -- especially in its intimate portrayal of the movement of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which has battled with the U.S. military on and off for the last two years.
Like President George W. Bush, the new speaker-designate of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, has made "disarming the militias" a major part of her Iraq policy.
"The militias exist in Iraq because of a power vacuum because there is no effective central government," Longley told IPS. "There is no effective central government because the United States presence in the country is splitting the country politically and there is no way to form a national government while the United States is there."
In his film, Longley focuses in on the Sadr movement in the southern Iraqi city of Nasseriya, and in particular the local leader Sheik Aws al-Kafajji.
"They would suck away our wealth and control our minds and after that they accuse us of being terrorists. Where is the money they are squandering? And where are the food supplies?" the sheik preaches to a massive outdoor congregation.
"They blame the security situation! But by God you see all these trucks coming from everywhere all carrying supplies for the Americans carrying weapons for the security forces... What a shame that some still believe the occupying power has Iraqi interests at heart."
Like the rest of "Iraq in Fragments", Longley's portrayal of the Sadr movement is intimate and fair. When the U.S. military appoints a local government, Sheik Aws tries to organise representative elections to promote democracy and self-determination. He also sends out patrols of his Mehdi militia to beat up local businesspeople for allegedly selling alcohol, and brings them back to the Sadr office.
"Saddam uprooted my family -- now I'm alone! How can I be bound again? Even God cannot accept it," one of the Sadr movement's prisoners says blindfolded.
A woman in a black abaya waits outside for her husband. "I just want to visit with him a little," she pleads with a guard. "You're framing people."
"We're living through challenging times in this city," Sheik Aws concedes later. "Either we will live or die. We want to close every door of depravity opened by America. And we are sure that America is preparing our punishment."
The film's final chapter is set in Kurdish Northern Iraq, far away from the violence that characterises much of the occupation. Children go to school without much difficulty, even if they still live with little electricity.
There, the smoke rising like a pillar in the air comes not from war, but through the burning of agricultural waste.
"It is written in Qu'ran that if we stay alive we will see any place touched by sunlight will be governed by Islam," says an elderly farmer in Kureton outside Arbil. He hopes that as with the Jews and Israel, the Kurds will eventually have an independent state of their own.
"They say that the Kurds are blasphemers," he says. "That they brought the Americans to Iraq. But if there is religion left it is among the Kurds."
"Iraq in Fragments" is a film that could not be made today. The security situation throughout the country has deteriorated to such an extent that it is no longer possible to follow regular people with a camera in tow. Virtually every foreign journalist in Iraq left in Iraq is embedded with the U.S. military.
The glimpse of Iraq you see in Longley's film is not one you'll see on the nightly news, which is what makes it so important.
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Emersum Oyster Stout is available on draft throughout March at all three Jax Fish House locations, in Boulder, Denver and in Ft. Collins, as well as in the Odell Brewing Co. taproom in Ft. Collins.
Jax's Boulder location, 928 Pearl St., will host an oyster-eating contest on March 18 and a four-course dinner featuring Emersum oysters and Emersum Oyster Stout on March 21. Visit oystermonth.com for details.
A portion of proceeds from the sale of Emersum Oysters goes to the Barcat Foundation, which helps promote sustainable oyster fishing. Additionally, 10 cents from every oyster shucked during oyster month is donated to a local nonprofit.
Oysters and stout beer are a classic pairing with roots in 18th-century English pubs, where both were plentiful commodities.
But a stout brewed with oysters? Now that's just weird. I prefer shellfish with my beer, thank you, not in it.
So it was with understandable apprehension that I cracked open a sample of Emersum Oyster Stout, a collaborative project between Odell Brewing Co. and Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar. A small-batch beer brewed with 25 pounds of fresh oysters, shells and all, I expected it to smell strongly of the sea, like a briny brew that had been plucked from the depths by some beer-hunting explorer.
I was greeted instead by the sweet smell of chocolate malts and roasted barley, with maybe a hint of brine lurking in the shadows (or was that my imagination?). I took a hesitant sip and was pleasantly surprised.
This isn't some sort of liquefied oyster essence. It's a straightforward stout that's meant to showcase and contrast the delicate flavor components of the oysters, much like the alpha acids found in beer compliment an oyster's fatty proteins when consumed together.
Despite its thick, chestnut-brown appearance, the beer has a light and silky mouth feel with flavors of dry chocolate, toasted malt and a slight salty minerality on the finish.
I enjoyed a pint of Emersum Oyster Stout on its own, and I'd gladly belly up to the bar and pair it with a platter of freshly shucked oysters on the half shell.
Jax representatives approached Odell about brewing a batch of oyster beer to celebrate Oyster Month at Jax, which lasts through March; as well as to mark the opening of a new Jax location in Fort Collins; and as a unique way to debut Emersum Oysters, a proprietary variety of oyster farmed exclusively for Jax by Rappahannock River Oysters.
Emersum oysters (say it slowly, as in "'Em er sum good oysters") are "sweet and creamy, and not overly salty," says Jax Executive Manager Adam Reed. "They're meaty and buttery like a Kumamoto, but not too big."
But would the oyster do well in a beer? There was only one way to find out.
"My first thought was, 'fish and beer? That sounds strange,'" says brewer Brent Cordle, who manages the pilot system at Odell. "But (Boston-based) Harpoon Brewery makes an oyster stout, and a couple of other breweries make one as well. You really don't know until you try it."
After conducting some research and making sure that it was safe to brew a beer with oysters, Cordle put together a malt-based recipe with low hop bitterness that would let the oysters shine through.
"We didn't want it to taste like pungent oysters," he says. "We were going for a more subtle approach that would pick up some of that salty brininess that oysters have."
Last January, the Jax team met with Odell brewers to brew a pilot of batch of Emersum Oyster Stout. They added 25 pounds of oysters in all, including shucked oysters in the mash, shells and all, and another addition of whole oysters during the boil.
Reed took things a step further and tried some of the oyster meat after it had been through the mash.
"They had definitely released their oyster flavor by then," he says. "They were pretty much flavorless."
The beer, on the other hand, strikes just the right balance.
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Interesting you mention that as I've known a couple and you're spot-on. Saw first-hand that Finns perhaps looked on them as sort of, I don't know, traitors, for having dared work abroad and become citizens of the world with a more open view of things - something which really should be encouraged imo. I've only half-experienced it (doctors refused to use English with me, police refused to use English, TE-office refuse to use English, all because I am now a Finnish citizen... and with at least one of them I have the legal right to an interpreter, but it just never seems to be worth the mental effort to fight this idiocy).Rosamunda wrote:I remember when I first arrived in Finland there were quite a few 'Returning Finns' at my sons' school. Things weren't particularly easy for them. In a way, it's harder to be a Returning Finn than an immigrant (you're not an immigrant, but you're not quite Finnish either). As a Finn, you are expected to know how things work. With my UK passport I can still get away with mumbling in Finglish when I go to the maistraatti or the bank, or the doctors etc but I would not feel comfortable doing that with a Finnish passport. I wonder if there is much resentment of Returning Finns among the Finnish population. Certainly in Budapest (I lived there for a couple of years) the Hungarians who returned in the late 90s were not greeted with open arms.
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I expect this to be a thing for me in moving to the UK too. Worse as I've never lived there. Not sure when it will be, but I do know that I can't stay here interminably, it's simply becoming too much and I'm tired of the sheer effort. Very few Finns will shed a tear once I finally run out of steam of course Hey ho just another taxpayer taking their money out of Finland eh?


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Murray, Ky. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team fell to Murray State on Saturday night, 69-48, thanks to a late 27-8 Racer run.
TSU's 48 points were its lowest in an OVC game since scoring 44 in a loss to Austin Peay on Feb. 12, 2007.
Kellen Thornton and Patrick Miller paced the Tigers (14-11, 8-4 OVC) with 12 points apiece and Robert Covington added 11.
Covington also tallied 12 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season and his first since Dec. 16.
Murray State (18-5, 9-2 OVC) won the tip and immediately scored the game's opening hoop. Covington responded with a three, but the Racers went on 7-0 run to make the score 9-3 in favor of the home side.
M.J. Rhett ended the Murray State stretch with a layup at the 16:02 mark, but the sophomore forward went down with a shoulder injury on TSU's next defensive possession.
The Racers capitalized off of the lack of depth down low with 14 first half points in the paint compared to just four for TSU.
Isaiah Canaan led Murray State to a 12 point lead over the next eight minutes en route to scoring seven first half points.
The Tigers chipped away at the lead and even got it down to six when Miller hit a triple, but Murray State would go into halftime leading by nine, 32-23.
Miller led all scorers in the first period with nine points on 3-of-6 shooting. However, the Tigers shot just 23 percent (7-of-31) during the opening frame while the Racers made 12-of-25 (48 percent).
TSU came out much hotter shooting the basketball in the second half and eventually cut the Racer lead to four when Thornton hit a jumper at the 14:55 mark.
The Tigers kept fighting and a tip slam by Thornton and an old-fashioned three-point play by Miller on consecutive possessions put Murray State ahead, 42-40.
After Miller's free throw at the 12:59 mark, TSU would score just eight more points for the remainder of the game. Meanwhile, the Racers rattled off 27 points to walk away with a 69-48 victory.
TSU was 7-of-13 to start the second half, but made just 3-of-15 during the game's final 13 minutes. The Tigers ended the game shooting 28.8 percent (17-of-59) which is their lowest total in an OVC contest this season.
TSU beat the Racers 42-35 on the boards, but Big Blue committed 19 turnovers.
Tennessee State will look to rebound on Thursday when the squad comes home to play Belmont. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. and it will be a "White-Out" and fans are encouraged to wear white.
Note: With his 11 points, Covington passed Monti Davis for eighth place on TSU's all-time scoring list. The senior now has 1,604 career points.
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So it's perhaps not surprising that a pension fund is taking the lead in calling on Citigroup to make some radical changes. The Wall Street Journal says that a large asset management firm, acting on behalf of the Afscme Employees Pension Plan and other shareholders (including an order of nuns), has asked Citi's board to consider breaking up the company. Other observers have floated the idea of dismantling the bank, of course– including Citi's former CEO Sanford "Sandy" Weill–but this is reported to be the first formal demand from shareholders. Afscme's stake in Citi is fairly small, but the huge union of public-sector employees and health-care workers has a reputation for shareholder activism. Marketplace's David Weidner explains why everyone wants to break up Citi, except Citi.


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LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down a 20-week abortion ban in Arizona, a development that opponents of Arkansas' new abortion restrictions said was encouraging even though it is not binding on federal courts here.
LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down a 20-week abortion ban in Arizona, a development that opponents of Arkansas' new abortion restrictions said was encouraging even though it is not binding on federal courts here.
Supporters of Arkansas' abortion laws said they were not discouraged because the Arizona law differs from the Arkansas statutes adopted in 2013.
The Arkansas Legislature approved a measure banning most abortions at 12 weeks and another banning most abortions at 20 weeks. Gov. Mike Beebe vetoed both bills, saying they were unconstitutional, but lawmakers overturned both vetoes in bipartisan votes.
The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights have filed a lawsuit challenging the 12-week abortion ban, which has not taken effect because of a preliminary injunction issued in the case.
The 20-week ban has not been challenged in court and is in effect, though the ACLU has said it will challenge that law if it becomes the basis for denying anyone an abortion. Most abortions are performed earlier than 20 weeks into a pregnancy.
ACLU attorney Bettina Brownstein said Monday the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to reconsider the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling striking down Arizona's 20-week abortion ban is a good sign for the ACLU's cause. The 9th Circuit said the law ran afoul of case law establishing that states cannot ban abortions before a fetus becomes able to live outside the womb, which generally occurs about 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
"It's really good, but it's not binding on Arkansas. But it is persuasive, I would say," Brownstein said.
Federal court rulings in Arkansas are appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
Arkansas' 20-week ban asserts that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks of gestation and that its purpose is to protect a fetus from pain. Its sponsor, Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, said Monday that the Arizona law is broader.
"The law in Arizona, while it does include (preventing) pain as a compelling interest of the state, that is not a significant piece of the law, whereas that is the focus of the Arkansas legislation," he said.
Mayberry said the Arkansas law was based on model legislation by the Washington-based organization National Right to Life. That organization said in a statement Monday that 10 states have passed laws based on its model and that those laws differ greatly from the Arizona law that was struck down.
"Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to let that decision stand has no impact on these laws protecting from abortion unborn children who can feel pain," the organization said.


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Professor Rockcastle is known for his architectural creativity and expertise. In 1981, he co-founded the architectural firm of Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle, LTD in Minneapolis, MN. The most recent of his many lauded accomplishments is the new University of Minnesota Regis Center for Art. The 155,000-square-foot, $41.5 million building is one of the most advanced art education and creative studio facilities in the nation. His unique approach to the adaptive re-use of existing and historic structures is another focus of his professional and academic reputation having designed the conversion of over half a million square feet of some twelve separate buildings into new, award-winning arts and residential projects.
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Curious George "Monkey Hoedown/Curious George Clowns Around" Monkey Hoedown - The Man with the Yellow Hat can't wait to join the Uptown Bluegrass Band for a good old-fashioned country hoedown. When George accidentally ruins the Man's guitar while trying to clean it, George and Allie decide to make a new guitar! With a shoestring, rubber band, fishing wire, and yoyo, George creates the world's first monkey birdhouse bandolin! Curious George Clowns Around - George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are excited to visit the Clown College for Pepe El Loco's Big Show. While the Man tries to find a parking spot, George is mistaken for a messenger clown and is tasked with picking up parts for a top-secret gadget for Pepe. D
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Wild Kratts "Rattlesnake Crystal" After the Tortuga crash lands in the Sonoran Desert, Koki discovers that the Tellurium crystals have run out of power and they need a new supply. Martin and Chris volunteer to go out in the desert to find this important source of energy and discover more than they were expecting!. D
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Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "Nosing Around/The Last Straw" The Big Wide World has an unpleasant new smell. Peep and Chirp discover that a drinking straw has many uses. Pocoyo: Table for Fun - When Pocoyo and Elly play restaurant, a very hungry Pato becomes their unwitting guest. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Gorillas in the Nest/Tale of a Dragon" Gorillas in the Nest - Sally and Nick have made a sleepover tent on the floor. But it's not very comfortable. The Cat's friend Gordon the Gorilla knows how to make a comfortable bed. D
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Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina and the Dragon Dance/Angelina's Opera" Angelina and the Dragon Dance - Viki wants to perform a dragon dance with her partners for a school assignment. Her friends, however, have another idea and are too busy to listen to her. When Viki finally gets the chance to show them the celebratory dance from San Fran-cheese-co, her friends become inspired to perform the best dragon dance ever! Angelina's Opera - It's time for Chipping Cheddar's annual Cheese Day celebration and Angelina's class gets to present the cheese-related history to the whole town. D
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Bob the Builder "Compromise & Competition" Scrambler's Best Idea - The machines wonder whose idea will win the school playtime build competition. Scrambler is sure his tree house idea is the best! When the winner is announced, Roley's Timber Trail, Scrambler can't believe it! He decides to build his tree house on his own! Scrambler sneaks off to search for the perfect tree for his tree house, and comes across the materials for the Timber Trail. Surely no one will notice if he takes just a little? Scrambler tries to build his tree house but it's much harder than he thought. D
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Barney & Friends "For The Fun of It and Starlight, Star Bright" For the Fun of It: After BJ sees Terry play basketball, he wants to learn the teenager's fancy moves. He's trying so hard, but just can't seem to do it! More importantly, he's not even having fun anymore. After some advice from Barney and Terry, BJ decides to do his best and have fun! Educational theme: Practice, perseverance. D
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Wishbone "Dances with Dogs" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, Lee Natonabah, an Oakdale storyteller, teaches Joe the value of growing up with stories that connect with the past. D
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Idaho Reports 2014 Co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz are joined weekly by political analysts Betsy Russell and Jim Weatherby along with other news professionals, to help provide a firsthand account of the week's events at the Idaho Legislature.G
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To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Wendy Davis Accused of Flip Flopping on Abortion; New Study Says Women-Owned Businesses Do Better in Some Areas; Jane Pauley on Reinventing Yourself. PANELISTS: Former President and CEO of the Women's Campaign Fund Sam Bennett, Heritage Foundation's Jennifer Marshall, Danielle Moodie-Mills of the Center for American Progress, Political Strategist, Rina Shah. D
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McLaughlin Group TOPICS: BONJOUR, PRESIDENT HOLLANDE!; RAND PAUL'S WRIT. PANELISTS: Pat Buchanan, Author and Columnist; Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast; Mort Zuckerman, US New & World Report; Guy Taylor, The Washington Times. D
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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "The Bird House" Roger creates a painting of a small bird house using acrylics. Sarah visits the studio of artist Rolf Holmquist in Eastern North Carolina who creates fanciful and artistic birdhouses from recycled and found items. D
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Sewing with Nancy "Sew Speedy Lone Star Quilts" It's about time.for a speedy version of the Lone Star quilt design. The Lone Star Quilt pattern is noted for its beauty, striking design, and hmmm, difficulty to stitch. D
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Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting "Baby Owls at Play" This bar quilt features 4-patches set on point in a classic blue and yellow combination with a pop of orange. Judy Hansen and Mary Fons demonstrate how slightly over-sizing your blocks can create more accurate trimmed blocks when piecing. They also share a tip for using a walking foot while piecing. D
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Hometime "Creekside Home Light & Glass" Discover new ways to use light and glass in new homes and remodeling. D
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Woodsmith Shop "Planter Box & Outdoor Bench" The editors of Woodsmith magazine cover the best ways to build and protect a planter box and an outdoor bench. D
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This Old House "Arlington Italianate Project 2014/Arlington Heights" Arborist Matt Foti does some selective tree pruning, while Richard revisits the benefits of using PEX instead of copper for the water supply lines. Norm tours an 1872 Stick Style home in the neighborhood, and Tom shows Kevin how to convert a former doorjamb into a cased opening. D
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Ask This Old House "Fitting A Mattress Up A Narrow Staircase/Repairing a Light-Switch in Seattle" Tom helps a homeowner fit a box spring mattress up a narrow staircase. Kevin and an electrician repair a light switch in Seattle. Richard shows many options for filtering drinking water. D
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Growing a Greener World "Common Ground Fair (Unity, ME)" We visit a long-running New England fair that celebrates organic farming & rural living to see what information can be utilized by the home gardener. D
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Dialogue "Miss Representation" Filmmaker Jennifer Seibel Newsom talks with host Marcia Franklin about making the documentary, Miss Representation, which explores how inaccurate portrayals of women by the media are connected to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.G
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In The Americas with David Yetman "Fiesta in the Yucatan: Maya Traditions" Yetman visits the ancient Maya city of Tizimin in the Yucatan peninsula where pilgrims arrive annually on January 6 to celebrate Epiphany. The Festival of the Day of the Kings combines pre-Columbian and modern themes, all of them gilded with the touch of the Mayas.G
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PBS NewsHour Weekend In just 30 years, Mexico has become one of the fattest countries in the world. With obesity levels rivaling the US, Mexico has launched a rigorous public health campaign - and has begun experimenting with taxes on sugary drinks and high-calorie snack foods. This Sunday, correspondent Martin Fletcher investigates how well that strategy is working - and what lessons US policymakers may learn from their Mexican counterparts. D
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British Antiques Roadshow "Hampton Court Castle 1" Fiona Bruce and the team head for Hampton Court Castle, near Leominster, where the treasures include an important record of the days of early photography, an exquisitely decorated and moving book painted by an invalid in Victorian days, and a grandad's collection of jade turns out to be more valuable than previously thought.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Summit Idaho" Cameras capture four groups of mountain climbers who reach the summits of four Idaho mountain peaks - Vienna Peak in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Gilmore Peak in the Lemhi Mountain Range, He Devil in the Seven Devils Mountains, and Scotchman Peak in Scotchman Peaks of the Panhandle. The steep assents in winter and summer culminate in magnificent views of four different Idaho terrains.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Mustangs of Oregon" More wild horses now live in captivity than roam free on the open range.G
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Masterpiece Classic "Downton Abbey (S4 E6)" When Robert and Thomas make a sudden trip, everyone's life becomes more complicated. Mary and Blake come together over pigs. An unwelcome visitor appears. Part 6 of 8G
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Masterpiece Classic "Downton Abbey (S4 E7)" Robert and Thomas return from America. Bates disappears for a day. Edith prepares to go abroad. Suitors flock to Mary and Rose makes her move. Part 7 of 8G
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Murder on the Home Front When young women are found murdered amid the chaos of the London Blitz of World War II, brilliant Home Office pathologist Dr. Lennox Collins embarks on his first murder case with his newly recruited assistant Molly Cooper. They soon clash with the police over who the main suspect is and employ groundbreaking forensic techniques to save a seemingly innocent man from the gallows.G
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New Chilling Tales "Yellow Wallpaper" The second tale is from the 19th century story THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Actress Jane Merrow stars as a woman confined to an old nursery in a dilapidated Victorian home to help calm her nerves after a breakdown. However, the opposite happens. Idaho's Stitch Marker also appears in these shorts that Merrow produced in Idaho. Part 2 of 2G


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Oswego's founder, Edward Austin Sheldon purchased eight acres of lakeshore land for Shady Shore in 1856, paying a total of $2,000. "It was my ideal site for a home," he writes in his autobiography.
In fact the site gave him so much pleasure, he wrote, "I have sometimes thought the day I took my axe and went into the woods for the purpose of laying out my drive was about the happiest one of my whole life."
Sheldon describes the house as being "somewhat peculiar in its structure. I put up a light frame and embedded it in concrete.
"This made a very warm and durable house. It was built in the fall of '57. The next spring we moved into our new quarters. Here we were destined to live until removed by death."
From 1919 to the beginning of the 1930s, the house was only used for storage.
Upon moving in, President Ralph Swetman had the stone porch put on and changed the rooflines, adding a second story in the back. He removed the gingerbread trim of the home whose look had not changed since it was built in 1857.
Shortly after World War II, Swetman became ill and moved to Florida. To help with expenses and to provide company for his wife and daughters, he opened up the home for married veterans and their families.
Since Swetman, every college president has lived in Shady Shore and made their own mark on its décor.
The Stanleys pulled up rugs and refinished the hardwood floors, freshened the home with new paint and renovated bathrooms to accommodate the needs of a family with two young daughters.
All work was done with campus personnel, and the Stanleys walked around campus and picked out furniture that was not being used. The furniture shop then reupholstered all the pieces, including 14 dining room chairs from the set that once stood in the Kingsford Mansion and were purchased by the college in the 1930s.


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One of three wives living with Osama bin Laden told Pakistani interrogators she had been staying in the al-Qaida chief's hideout for six years, and could be a key source of information about how he avoided capture for so long, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.
In its first confirmation of bin Laden's death, al-Qaida warned of retaliation in an Internet statement, saying Americans' "happiness will turn to sadness."
Bin Laden's wife, identified as Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, said she never left the upper floors of the house the entire time she was there.
She and bin Laden's other two wives are being interrogated in Pakistan after they were taken into custody following Monday's American raid on bin Laden's compound in the town of Abbottabad. Pakistani authorities are also holding eight or nine children who were found there after the U.S. commandos left.
Given shifting and incomplete accounts from U.S. officials about what happened during the raid, testimony from bin Laden's wives may be significant in unveiling details about the operation.
Their accounts will also help show how bin Laden spent his time and managed to stay hidden, living in a large house close to a military academy in a garrison town, a two-and-a-half hours' drive from the capital, Islamabad.
A Pakistani official said CIA officers had not been given access to the women in custody. Already-tense military and intelligence relations between the United States and Pakistan have been further strained after the helicopter-borne raid, which many Pakistanis see as a violation of their country's sovereignty.
The proximity of bin Laden's hideout to the military garrison and the Pakistani capital also has raised suspicions in Washington that bin Laden may have been protected by Pakistani security forces while on the run.
Risking more tensions, missiles fired from a U.S. drone killed 15 people, including foreign militants, in North Waziristan, an al-Qaida and Taliban hotspot close to Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said. Such attacks were routine last year, but their frequency has dropped this year amid opposition by the Pakistan security establishment.
Pakistan's army — a key U.S. ally in the Afghanistan war — on Thursday threatened to review cooperation with Washington if it stages anymore attacks like the one that killed bin Laden.
The Pakistani intelligence official did not say Friday whether the Yemeni wife has said that bin Laden was also living there since 2006. "We are still getting information from them," he said.
Another security official said the wife was shot in the leg during the operation, and did not witness her husband being killed. He also said one of bin Laden's eldest daughters had said she witnessed the Americans killing her father.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give their names to the media.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's intelligence agency has concluded that bin Laden was "cash strapped" in his final days and al-Qaida had split into two factions, with the larger one controlled by the group's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, according to a briefing given by a senior officer in the agency.
The officer spoke to a small group of Pakistani reporters late Thursday and his comments were confirmed for The Associated Press by a top military officer who was present at the briefing.
The officer, who asked that his name not be used because of the sensitivity of the meeting, didn't provide details or elaborate how his agency made the conclusions about bin Laden's financial situation or the split with his deputy, al-Zawahri. The al-Qaida chief apparently had lived without any guards at the Abbottabad compound or loyalists nearby to take up arms in his defense.
The image of Pakistan's intelligence agency has been battered at home and abroad in the wake of the raid that killed bin Laden. Portraying him as isolated and weak could be aimed at trying to create an impression that a failure to spot him was not so important.
Documents taken from the house by American commandos showed that bin Laden was planning to hit America, however, including a plan for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The confiscated materials reveal the rail attack was planned as of February 2010.
Late Thursday, two Pakistani officials cited bin Laden's wives and children as saying he and his associates had not offered any "significant resistance" when the American commandos entered the compound, in part because the assailants had thrown "stun bombs" that disorientated them.
One official said Pakistani authorities found an AK-47 and a pistol in the house belonging to those in the house, with evidence that one bullet had been fired from the rifle.
"That was the level of resistance" they put up, said the official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
His account is roughly consistent with the most recent one given by U.S. officials, who now say one of the five people, killed in the raid was armed and fired any shots, a striking departure from the intense and prolonged firefight described earlier by the White House and others in the administration.
U.S. officials say four men were killed alongside bin Laden, including one of his sons.
Reflecting the anger in Pakistan, hundreds of members of radical Islamic parties protested Friday in several Pakistan cities against the American raid and in favor of bin Laden. Many of the people chanted "Osama is alive" and blasted the U.S. for violating the country's sovereignty.
The largest rally took place in the town of Khuchlak in southwestern Baluchistan province, where about 500 people attended.
"America is celebrating Osama bin Laden's killing, but it will be a temporary celebration," said Abdullah Sittar Chishti, a member of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party who attended the rally in Khuchlak. "After the martyrdom of Osama, billions, trillions of Osamas will be born."


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Lincoln City Libraries is hosting a roundtable discussion on politics at noon on Wednesday, October 10 at the Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 So. 14th Street. The discussion is part of Campaign Connection 2012: Voter Voices, an NET News election-year project. The Lancaster County Election Commission also will register voters at the library from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The roundtable featuring a panel of eight community members will be hosted by Bill Kelly of NET News. After the discussion, the public is invited to record their thoughts or questions as part of the Voter Voices project. NET has been gathering comments at libraries and other locations throughout the state to share with the candidates and on television, radio, the Internet and social media.
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CHICAGO (May 2, 2013) – The ETSU baseball team wraps up its five-game road swing this weekend as the Bucs head to the Windy City for a non-conference series at Illinois-Chicago. The three-game series gets underway Friday night at 7:05 p.m. (Eastern) from Les Miller Stadium.
ETSU (25-19) has split its first two games on this trip as the Blue and Gold rallied for a 7-6 win at Appalachian State on Tuesday night, but suffered a 10-6 setback to Tennessee Tech Wednesday in Cookeville.
Friday – 7:05 p.m. – Game No. 45
RHP Kerry Doane (9-1, 2.27) vs. RHP Tomas Michelson (5-3, 2.61)
Saturday – 3:05 p.m. – Game No. 46
LHP Josh Jacques (1-4, 4.54) vs. RHP Ian Lewandowski (4-3, 2.59)
Sunday – 1:05 p.m. – Game No. 47
RHP Logan Rice (5-1, 2.33) vs. RHP Mike McKinley (2-2, 3.29)
- The Bucs belted three home runs off Tennessee Tech pitchers, but it wasn't enough offense to propel their way to a victory as the Golden Eagles defeated ETSU, 10-6, Wednesday night at Bush Stadium.
- Senior Andrew Green (Powell, Tenn.) and junior Dylan Tritsch (Boca Raton, Fla.) provided the Blue and Gold with two-run home runs and senior Derek Niesman (Wellington, Fla.) hit a solo shot in the eighth, but Tennessee Tech also registered three round-trippers on the night, while using a two-run second and four-run third to guide its way to a four-run victory. Green's homer gave the Bucs a 2-0 lead in the top of the first and Tritsch's blast pulled ETSU within four runs of Tennessee Tech in the seventh.
- ETSU's offense totaled 14 hits as Tritsch led the way at the plate with three hits, while Green, Niesman, Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.), and Andrew Lasure (Stanford, Ky.) provided the Bucs with two hits each on the night.
- Green extended his hit streak to nine straight games and Freeman pushed his streak to seven consecutive games with a hit on Wednesday night. The Powell, Tenn. native is hitting .351 (13-37) with five doubles, one triple, one home run, eight runs scored, and seven RBI during this run, and Freeman is 13-for-29 (.448) with three doubles, two home runs, and nine RBI in his last seven contests. Green is also 5-for-6 in stolen base opportunities in his last seven games, and is only five swipes shy of breaking ETSU's all-time stolen base record.
- UIC has dropped six of its last eight games and enters weekend play with a record of 20-22.
- The Flames split a pair of midweek games as UIC defeated Rockford College, 11-1, on Tuesday night, but suffered a tough 7-5 loss to Northern Illinois Wednesday.
- Sophomore outfielder/catcher Tyler Detmer leads the team with a .309 batting average (47-152) and has also produced a team-leading 11 doubles. Meanwhile, red-shirt senior infielder Alex Grunenwald and red-shirt junior infielder Ryan Boss have combined to hit 13 of UIC's 16 home runs. Grunenwald leads the club with seven homers and Boss has left the yard six times in 2013. On the mound, freshman right-hander Ian Lewandowski leads the team with a 2.59 ERA (17 ER/59.0 IP), while sophomore righty Tomas Michelson leads the team in wins (5), innings pitched (72.1) and strikeouts (53).
- As a team, UIC leads the Horizon League with 60 stolen bases and have been hit by a pitch 65 times, which also marks a league high. The Flames are also tied for the league-lead in wins, while their 4.34 ERA (177 ER/367.0 IP) and .268 (384-1432) opponents' batting average against rank second in the conference.
- This weekend marks the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
- Overall, ETSU is 4-0 all-time against current Horizon League foes. The Bucs defeated Valparaiso 21-15 back in 2001, while sweeping Youngstown State in 2006.
- Live stats will be available for all three games this weekend via StatBroadcast by visiting ETSUBucs.com. Fans can access live stats on their computers, mobile devices or tablets.
- Live updates will also be posted on Twitter by following @ETSUAthletics and @ETSU_Baseball.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
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We are a recently launched Health and Wellness company. We currently provide customers with a dietary supplement combination for weight-loss and improved immune levels. We are currently working on a fitness program, confidence creator program, meal planning program, as well as testing other effective all natural supplements to offer our customers. We are looking for an eye-catching design and layout that will captivate customers while still providing them with easy navigation. We intend on filling our site with a ton of free health and wellness information, including audios and videos. We recently launched this business in July, and have experienced extremely rapid growth in 2 months. We will not hesitate to come back to you for future projects if a quality design is delivered.
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-The large image at the top left of the page. The rotating image feature is also very nice but is not entirely necessary for our site.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 3 Bulldogs won their first regatta of the year with an impressive win at the Hood Trophy Intersectional on Saturday and Sunday at Tufts in Medford, Mass. The Bulldogs also competed at a number of other events across New England, all of which were hampered by a lack of wind and heavy rain.
The highlight of the Bulldog's weekend was the win at the 24-team Hood Trophy. After finishing in third place in 2007 at the event, the Bulldogs proved that the Mystic Lake venue is well suited to the team, despite competing in the light air and shifty breeze that is not commonly found at the Bulldog's McNay Family Sailing Center venue. The win at the event is the highest finish by the Bulldogs in more than a decade at the event. The light wind and rain hampered racing, though. On Saturday, three races in A Division and two races in B Division were sailed. On Sunday, a single race in B Division was sailed. The three races in each division is the minimum number of races that need to be sailed for the event to count as a regatta. Most college regattas aim to have 18 races completed in each division.
The team finished with 13 points. The next closest competitor was Salve Regina with 31 points. The defending champions from Tufts placed fourth with 40 points.
In A Division, junior captain Thomas Barrows and sophomore Blair Belling won A Division with an astounding four-point total over three races. The duo won the first two races of the event and went on to finish second in the final race. This consistency is very impressive considering the strong, 24-team fleet and shifty nature of the wind that makes consistency very tough to accomplish.
In B Division, freshman skipper Joseph Morris and junior crew Michael Hession won with 9 points. The duo placed second two times and finished in fifth in the other race.
While the shortness of the event did not allow much time for improvement and testing of different techniques, the Bulldogs still felt that it was a good learning experience.
"We learned a lot of boat handling in the Larks from Thomas on Saturday," Morris said. "Larks are a nice boat to try sailing in as they are quite fun. We worked on our ability to stay calm and this helped as huge gains were to be made on the last two legs of the race. This was my first big regatta and it was great to win B Division, something I was not expecting going in to the event. This will give me confidence that I can sail with the top sailors in college and shows that we can win major intersectionals."
The Bulldogs also travelled to the 11th Chris Loder Trophy hosted by New Hampshire. The team of freshmen Cameron Cullman and sophomore Elizabeth Brim in A Division and senior Caleb Dorfman and freshmen Alexandra Kerr in B Division were met by heavy rain, fog, and a two-knot breeze that quickly died on Saturday. The sailors returned on Sunday to similar conditions. The wind never filled in, preventing a single race from being started at the event.
Light air and rain also met the Bulldogs at the Team Race Series One event hosted by Boston College in 420s. The team of senior Emmet Smith, sophomore Andrew Kurzrok, and freshmen Rob Struckett, Genoa Warner, Jared Shenson, and Alison James placed sixth with a 2-5 record in team racing competition. The team beat the squads from Harvard and McGill. The sailors returned for the Invite event the next day to no wind and rain, resulting in no races being sailed.
The Bulldogs are next in competition on Saturday and Sunday at the Danmark Trophy at Coast Guard and the Smith Trophy at MIT. The Bulldogs will also be hosting the Southern Series Three event at the McNay Family Sailing Center. The skipper's meeting will take place at 9:30 a.m.
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I liked the solution because it was funny when Nessie kissed Eddie. I liked the illustrations they were fun to look at. My favorite character is Nessie because she is pretty.
I would recommend this book to kids who are in the second grade and above. I think that my sister Callie, who is in the seventh grade, would even like it because she likes mysteries. I think that Callie would especially like the part when Nessie kissed Eddie because it's funny!


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BRISTOL — For Barbara "Bobbie" Kennedy, quilting is about making art or creating gifts for family or charity work, not about making money. The 88-year-old Bristol resident has been quilting for more than half a century, but she said she has never sold a quilt. So much time and effort have to go into making one, she says she couldn't put a price to them.
"You take a raw material and you make something out of it," Kennedy recently told a visitor who came to see a dozen quilts. "It's work, but it's also enjoyable. They kind of become a part of you."
In addition to the price of materials, quilting costs a large amount of time. A smaller quilt only a couple feet on either side meant for a wall hanging could take a few weeks to produce, but for a full-sized bed quilt, Kennedy toils for two to three months depending on how complex a piece she has planned and how much time she can devote to it.
Every one of her quilts is different. It's hard to say whether Kennedy has any favorite quilts, but some have turned out more memorable than others, like a red and white quilt with simple pictures of 19th-century women stitched into each square.
"I'm especially fond of this one," she said. "I just like the little ladies. They're so pretty."
Quilting is only one of the octogenarian's creative outlets. She also knits, usually spinning her own yarn.
Kennedy doesn't know exactly how long she has been quilting, spinning wool and knitting or how many quilts she has made. "I've always sewed a lot," she said. Kennedy taught home economics in Bristol, Middlebury and Jeffersonville high schools in addition to raising a family.
MIDDLEBURY — Concerned Addison County residents voiced their fears about plans for a Staples office supply store in The Centre shopping plaza at a Middlebury Design Review Board (DRB) hearing Monday evening. A few at the hearing supported it, but most feared its impact on the neighborhood and on the Middlebury area in general.
Middlebury resident Paula Israel, who runs the Main Street store Wild Mountain Thyme, argued that whatever effect a Staples store might have economically, it would hurt the local small-town atmosphere.
"We live here for a reason, and I don't think that reason is … so that we have great shopping," Israel said.
Others among the about 40 people who attended the hearing supported the plan.
"If we don't address the opportunity to create sales viability in Middlebury, you lose shoppers," said John Tenny, arguing that a Staples would help the Middlebury area. Tenny is a Middlebury selectman, but at the meeting he emphasized that he was speaking only as a private citizen and the owner of Mill Bridge Construction.
The DRB scheduled the hearing so representatives of the developers could address concerns about the plan's impact on Court Street traffic, the economic impact, and how well the proposal conforms with Middlebury's town plan. Other concerns were raised as well, but the DRB said they were outside the scope of the hearing and another hearing will be scheduled for a later date.
The plan for a 14,600-foot Staples store next to the Hannaford supermarket is being pitched by Buffalo, N.Y.-based Myron Hunt Inc. Hunt, an alumnus of Middlebury College, owns The Centre. Tenny has worked for Hunt as a consultant in the past, according to Middlebury town planner Fred Dunnington. There was no representative of the Staples Corp. at the meeting.
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — In the three weeks since Middlebury College freshman Nicholas Garza disappeared, search and rescue teams have overturned each inch of the college campus, finding nothing. The Middlebury Police Department has interviewed more than 100 people, but still their timeline for the night the 19-year-old went missing, Feb. 5, ends with an unanswered phone call at 11:06 p.m.
Just this week, Middlebury police called in a Texas nonprofit search and rescue squad called Equu-search to scour the snow-covered grounds once again.
All the while, a woman named Anne Schulze has been closely following the case from her home in New Hampshire. The dearth of leads looks a lot like something she's seen before: Her sister, Lynne, vanished from the Middlebury campus 37 years ago.
She was never found.
"Since my family and Lynne's friends found out about Nick's disappearance, we have been hoping and praying along with the Middlebury community and Nick's family that he be found safe and soon," she said in a telephone interview.
Later this week Anne Schulze plans to meet with Middlebury Police officer Vegar Boe, who is handling the disappearances of both Garza and Lynne Schulze, to discuss her sister's still open case. She also hopes to offer her time to speak with Garza's parents.
Boe is the sixth investigator to work on the Lynne Schulze case since she went missing on the way to a final exam in 1971. According to Schulze, Boe has shown a renewed interest in that case since Garza disappeared earlier this month.
The two cases are completely unrelated, Schulze acknowledged, but she couldn't help but hear an echo of her sister's disappearance when she first found out about Garza's.
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…beginning with my most popular project… my linen and burlap vintage French typewriter pillow! I love this one, too! It is based on a graphic that I found on an online French magazine. It was even featured in Stylelist Home as their Craft of the Day! As in all of my projects, the free downloadable graphic is included in the post.
Coming in at number two were my sweater pillows with a burlap rose tutorial. These easy-to-make pillows are a cozy addition to your home for the fall and winter months and the burlap rose adds a little bit of fun texture!
My easy sweater pumpkins were number three! They were not only easy but also fun and inexpensive to make! As always, there is a detailed tutorial on the link.
I was excited to see this year's burlap and plaid Christmas wreath with pinecone roses come in at number four! If I had known how easy those pinecone roses are to make, I would have been adding them to everything a long time ago!
This one was fun and almost free! My burlap découpage deer was number five and I suspect it is because everyone has some of those gold foil deer that I used as a base stashed in their attic! The burlap gives them texture and an updated look!
I actually created my easy duct tape pumpkins for the grandchildren. They were super simple and are almost indestructible and very light weight for little hands!
At number seven were my vintage French script fruit…a free and fun way to update that plastic fruit that you have lying around! And if you know me, you know I love adding a frenchy touch whenever I can!
My vintage French no-sew tea towels also have a frenchy touch with a French phrase added to a fabulous graphic from the Graphics Fairy that I tweaked a bit. I just added it to inexpensive flour sack towels for a great vintage look!
I really loved this one…my linen and burlap vintage French pumpkin pillow…so I was happy to see it on the top ten at number eight. I love it because I can pull it out in early September and use it all the way to Thanksgiving!
Finally, my Ballard inspired French bunny pillow was another favorite, rounding out my top ten. As always the graphic is included as a free downloadable so that you can do the project, too! I love this little guy since not only is he appropriate in the spring and summer, he really can fit into my decor all year long!
And there you have them…the projects that you liked the best in 2012! I had so much fun making them and I hope that you tried some of them, too! I try to make all of my projects fun, easy and inexpensive with the occasional frenchy touch that I love so much. And…I hope to be able to bring you more of the same in 2013…so keep coming back to see what I have planned for future projects! And…thanks so much for following along with me in 2012!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed a little peek at my most popular projects for 2012! Please visit these wonderful bloggers and their beautiful blogs to see what they are up to and to find a list of this week's participants!
Under the Table and Dreaming for the Sunday Showcase Party
Thrifty Decor Chick for Before and After Monday
Boogieboard Cottage for Masterpiece Monday
Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday
The Stories of A2Z for Tutorials and Tips Tuesday
Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
A Stroll thru Life for Tabletop Tuesday
Cedar Hill Ranch for Cowgirl Up! on Tuesdays
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia for Tuesday's Treasures
Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesdays
DIY by Design for Winter Blues Wednesday
Southern Hospitality for the Top Projects of 2012 Party
The Shabby Creek Cottage for Transformation Thursdays
No Minimalist Here for the Open House Party on Thursdays
Stone Gable for Tutorials, Tips and Tidbits on Thursdays
My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday
French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday
At the Picket Fence for Inspiration Friday
Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday
The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday
Craftberry Bush for Happy Hour on Friday
Funky Junk Interiors for Saturday Nite Special
See you next time! A la prochaine!