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Repole Stable's Uncle Mo, the strong favorite for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) prior to his surprising loss in the $1 million Wood Memorial (GI), and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Dream Team Racing Stable's Mucho Macho Man, winner of the Risen Star (GII) at Fair Grounds, are settling in at Churchill Downs following separate arrivals on the grounds of the historic track on Monday morning.
The Todd Pletcher-trained Uncle Mo was led off a van by assistant trainer Michael McCarthy shortly before noon as the son of Indian Charlie returned to the scene of his victory in the $2 million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile that capped an unbeaten season and sewed up Eclipse Award honors as champion 2-year-old. He was accompanied on the flight from New York stablemate R Heat Lightning, the E. Paul Robsham Stable's likely favorite in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (GI) following emphatic victories in the Gulfstream Oaks (GII) and Davona Dale (GII) at Florida's Gulfstream Park.
The plane carrying the Pletcher stars arrived some two hours behind schedule because the flight was diverted shortly after takeoff to Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C. because of reported concern over a warning light that flashed on shortly after the H.E. Sutton Forwarding Company plane became airborne.
"Representatives from Tex Sutton had called and said there was a slight hiccup – something mechanical or some sort of a warning light," McCarthy said. "The horses are here, everybody's bedded down and everybody's fine. We'll take it with a grain of salt."
McCarthy said Uncle Mo would gallop over the Churchill Downs surface on Tuesday and two works are planned for the colt before Kentucky Derby 137. Pletcher is expected to be on hand at Churchill Downs on Tuesday.
"The horse is in good order right now," said McCarthy. "We'll go ahead and gallop tomorrow. We've got two and a half weeks."
Uncle Mo joins stablemate Stay Thirsty, Repole Stable's winner of the Gotham, among five Kentucky Derby contenders now on the grounds and those horses will bid to give Pletcher his second consecutive victory in the Kentucky Derby. Pletcher picked up his first Derby victory last year with WinStar Farm's Super Saver.
A win in the Kentucky Oaks by R Heat Lightning would be Pletcher's third, following earlier victories by champion fillies Ashado (2004) and Rags to Riches (2007).
Mucho Man Man arrived at Churchill Downs much earlier following a van ride from Florida's Gulfstream Park. The van carrying the imposing bay son of Macho Uno entered the stable gate around 2:30 a.m.
It is the first stop at Churchill Downs both for the 3-year-old Mucho Macho Man and his 41-year-old trainer, Kathy Ritvo, who is bidding to become the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner. The 41-year-old mother of two is also a heart transplant recipient, and because of the latter experience is doing to her best to enjoy every second of her visit. She arrived Sunday afternoon and took a side trip to Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, then made an early morning stop at Churchill Downs to gaze upon the illuminated Twin Spires against the night sky.
"It was beautiful – I tried to take pictures," said Ritvo. "It was great. For me, it's hard to believe that I'm here (at work) every day. I'm healthy and it was a long road. I think it's amazing. I'm living a dream."
And the preparation of Mucho Macho Man comes very close to meeting that same description. He turned in a strong seven-furlong work at Gulfstream Park on Saturday morning and has trained very well since a third-place finish in the Louisiana Derby (GII) at Fair Grounds after losing a shoe early in the race.
"He's doing super," she said. "He's very consistent. He gives it his all every day. He has a great attitude – just great energy."
Mucho Macho Man has a career record of 2-3-2 in eight races with earnings of $410,643. He has $370,000 in graded stakes earnings and is assured a spot in the 20-horse Kentucky Derby field if all continues to go well.
Arkansas Derby (GI) winner Archarcharch is scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs early Tuesday morning, according to trainer William "Jinks" Fires. The colt will travel overnight by van and Fires said he should arrive at Churchill Downs around 7 a.m. (EDT).
A plane flight from Arkansas on Tuesday morning will bring Arkansas Derby runner-up Nehro and The Factor, the beaten favorite in that race, to Churchill Downs. Other Arkansas Derby runners expected on that flight are third-place finisher Dance City and Sway Away, who finished fourth.
ASMUSSEN STARS WORK – Monday is always a busy work day in the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen and several of his major 3-year-olds were on the track for serious training moves.
Black Rob Stables and Michael Ryan's Silver Medallion, winner of the El Camino Real Derby (GIII) and fourth as the favorite in the Santa Anita Derby (GI), breezed four furlongs in :51.40. The son of Badge of Silver is a possible starter for Saturday's $200,000-added Coolmore Lexington (GII) at Keeneland.
Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton's Astrology, winner of the Iroquois (GIII) at Churchill Downs, worked a half-mile in :50..40. While a Kentucky Derby bid remains possible for Astrology, who ranks 13th among Triple Crown nominees in graded stakes earnings with $281,893, a run by the son of A.P. Indy in either the $200,000-added The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial (GIII) on the April 30 "Opening Night" at Churchill Downs or the $150,000-added Jerome (GII) on April 23 at Aqueduct appears more likely.
Maclean's Music, a dazzling maiden winner for Asmussen at Santa Anita, breezed five furlongs over a fast track in 1:00.80 – a time that tied for the second fastest of 26 works at the distance. Dominus, another candidate for the Derby Trial, worked five furlongs in 1:01, which tied as the sixth-fastest move of the day.
Also on the Monday work tab was owner-trainer Tom McCarthy's 2010 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (GI) winner General Quarters, who breezed four furlongs in :49.80.


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The Campus and Facilities
Ohio Northern University is a safe, friendly, beautiful residential campus, situated on nearly 342 acres in the small town of Ada (pop. 5,947) in northwest Ohio. ONU is located within 90 minutes of several major cities: Dayton, Columbus, Toledo and Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Lehr Memorial Building (1915) contains the offices of Human Resources, the Controller and the Registrar on the first floor. The offices of the President, vice president for Academic Affairs, vice president for Financial Affairs, and Institutional Research are on the second floor. On the third floor are the offices of University Advancement, vice president for Advancement, and Communications and Marketing.
Hill Memorial Building (1915) contains classrooms and offices for the Department of History, Politics and Geography, and the Department of Psychology and Sociology.
Dukes Memorial Building (1901-02), Freeman Annex (1995) and Cornetet Addition (2003) contain offices and classrooms for the Department of English, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Center for Teacher Education. The office of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences also is in Dukes Memorial.
James F. Dicke Hall (2003) is the state-of-the-art home of the Dicke College of Business Administration. In addition to high-technology classrooms and break-out rooms, the building houses an entrepreneurship program. The atrium features a 160-foot-long, two-story lobby. The Dicke Forum accommodates formal meetings and events with the latest in communications technology.
The DeBow and Catherine Freed Center for the Performing Arts (1991) consists of a performance center and an educational complex. The performance center features the 550-seat Eleanor Biggs Theatre/Concert Hall, the 120-seat Stambaugh Studio Theatre and state-of-the-art production support facilities. The Albert and Harriet Smith Educational Complex is home to the departments of Communication and Media Studies as well as Theatre Arts. It houses classrooms, faculty offices, a desktop-publishing computer laboratory, and television and radio production facilities, including WONB, the University's 3,000-watt FM radio station.
Presser Hall (1929) includes the 156-seat Snyder Recital Hall; a rehearsal room for band, choir, orchestra and other ensembles; teaching studios; an electronic piano lab; an electronic synthesizer lab; classrooms; choral and instrumental music libraries; and faculty offices. A two-story addition (1998) increased the number of practice rooms and added the Foley Rehearsal Hall as well as additional faculty studio offices.
Taft Memorial Building (1929) houses the Department of Technological Studies and the Kuka Robotics Center of Excellence.
The Tilton Hall of Law (1973) contains classrooms, seminar rooms, moot court rooms, faculty offices and administrative offices. Renovations include installing technology presentation podiums in some classrooms, plasma televisions in the classrooms, and wireless technology throughout the building and library. Learning spaces incorporate current legal technology in a functional modern environment. The Taggart Law Library also is located in this building. The library contains more than 430,000 volumes, is open 113 hours per week, and provides more than 280 seats, individual study carrels, study rooms, special collections and conference rooms. Every seat is wired for electricity and Internet connectivity. A portion of the law library was renovated as the Hanson Reading Room (2008). The law college dedicated its newly renovated Alumni Moot Court Room in 2011; it contains the latest in courtroom technology and provides students with opportunities to hone their advocacy skills in a real-world environment. The court room is used for both classes and moot court competitions with seating for 30 students. In 2012, the library renovated its Rare Book and Special Collections Room. This attractive room has numerous display cases and a museum-quality temperature and humidity-controlled environment to preserve the collection.
The Heterick Memorial Library (1968), the University's main library, provides individual study carrels, study rooms, special collections and a conference room. A third floor was added and extensive remodeling was completed in 2000. In 2005, the Spar/Wintzer Music Media Center opened on the first floor.
McIntosh Center (1959) provides a center for student activities, both social and extracurricular, for the University community and for public organizations. The Information Desk provides a central location for students and campus guests to obtain general assistance. The student dining room, Polar Espresso Coffee Kiosk, and WOW provide meals and snacks for students and the general public. The building includes a centralized mail room, informal main lounge, conference rooms, a general activities room, a formal ballroom, the Bear Cave multi-purpose recreation space, and Klondike's complementing the WOW Wingery and Grill. The University bookstore and offices of the vice president for student affairs are located on the first floor of McIntosh Center. The second floor houses the Polar Careers office. The offices of the student newspaper, The Northern Review, are located on the lower level of the building.
Weber Hall (1956) contains the admissions, international admissions and financial aid offices. A new wing and renovations (2007) provide space for the expanding admissions and financial aid staff plus international admissions.
The Science Complex consists of six buildings. In the center is the Meyer Hall of Science (1970), where classrooms, laboratories, and offices for the departments of Biological and Allied Health Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Physics and Astronomy are located. To the west of the Meyer Hall of Science is the Biggs Engineering Building (1971), where classrooms, laboratories and offices for the departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Education are located. The office of the dean of the College of Engineering is on the second floor. The computer center also is located in the engineering building. A two-story renovation and addition to the science and engineering buildings (1997) provide facilities for instruction, including a lecture hall, classrooms, laboratories, seminar rooms, service areas and offices. To the east of the Meyer Hall of Science is the Robertson-Evans Pharmacy Building (1966), where classrooms, laboratories, and offices for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences are located. The office of the dean is located on the first floor. Pierstorf Addition (1995) includes a pharmacy museum, computer lab and student lounge. Opened in 2006, the Hakes-Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Education Center offers state-of-the-art classroom, laboratory and office spaces for pharmacy students and faculty. Completing the science complex is the Mathile Center for the Natural Sciences (2009), which connects Meyer Hall and the Robertson-Evans Pharmacy Building. This student-centered research and learning facility blends hands-on teaching excellence with advanced technology in a functional modern environment. The building houses the departments of Nursing and Mathematics and Statistics. The Astronomy Research Center (2010) is located just west of Wander baseball field. It has three permanently mounted telescopes, a roll-off roof and high-tech charge-coupled device equipment to connect the telescopes with computers and monitors.
The ONU Sports Center was created in 1991 with the renovation of parts of the King-Horn Convocation and Physical Education Center (1974) and the addition of a field house complex and connecting addition. An addition and renovation also were completed in 1996. The Sports Center accommodates intercollegiate athletics, physical education and recreation activities, as well as commencements, special events and assembly programs. King-Horn's main floor seats 3,200 for basketball and 5,000 for convocations. A six-lane swimming pool, wrestling room, gymnastics room, dance room, two handball courts, elevated jogging track, multipurpose lounge, and offices and classrooms for the Department of Human Performance and Sport Sciences are among the facilities in King-Horn Center. The field house features a 200-meter indoor running track, cross courts for multipurpose use, two weight-training rooms, a fitness laboratory, and modern sports medicine and training areas. Ohio Northern University completed construction of an eight-lane, 400-meter outdoor track in 1991. The track is encircled by mound-style seating with additional bleacher seating for 1,000. ONU also constructed the Green Monster in 1991, a 2.5-mile outdoor jogging/walking path, around the perimeter of campus. The path can be used for biking.
Lehr-Kennedy House (1902), once the retirement home of Ohio Northern's first president, contains the offices of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services and several offices for multicultural student organizations.
Wesley Center Complex (1971) is composed of the English Chapel with seating for 475 plus multi-use areas and a small prayer room for campus ministry, outreach and multi-faith worship, and the Burgett Wing (2002) which houses the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Wilson Art Center and Elzay Gallery (1976) contains classrooms, studios, and the Department of Art and Design. The art gallery is connected to the classroom-studio building by a loggia and is used to display student and faculty exhibitions as well as the work of artists in invited shows. An addition (1995) includes a sculpture studio, ceramics studio, a lounge and a graphic design studio.
The Alumni House, at 115 W. Lima Ave., is located in the former president's house. This updated facility not only provides offices for the Office of Alumni Relations, but also is a place to greet alumni returning to campus.
The Dicke House (2000) is the home of the University's president.
The Deming-Combe boulevard entrance to campus, located at Main Street and College Avenue, was completed in 1996.
Dial-Roberson Stadium (2004) is an outdoor events stadium with training rooms and offices as well as modern facilities for ONU's football fans to enjoy the Polar Bears. A new gate and entrance plaza, the England Gate, named in honor of alumnus Dale "Bud" England Jr., was dedicated in 2012. An Astro-Turf field was added to the stadium and dedicated as Bill Robinson Field in 2013. The lacrosse teams also play their games inside Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Inn at Ohio Northern University (2008) is a full-service, 73-bed hotel offering deluxe guestrooms plus one- and two-room suites, a dining room, and pub. In addition, the hotel has more than 3,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, including a 14-seat executive boardroom.
Baker Commons, named in honor of Dr. Kendall L. Baker, president emeritus, and Mrs. Toby Baker, is located primarily in the southwest quadrant of the campus and includes the Dicke House, Stadium View Apartments, Klondike's Den, Polar Place, Dial-Roberson Stadium, the Remington Walk, Northern Commons and the Affinity Village.
Kerscher Stadium (2014) is the home to the men's and women's soccer programs and the men's and women's lacrosse programs, as well as the men's and women's outdoor track and field teams. The facility features a full track and a field turf infield, a Daktronics scoreboard, and seating for more than 500 fans.

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I heard some talk along these lines today:
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This sounds all kinds of fishy, but I can't seem to find a good source to refute it properly.How does sugar skew the body's vitamin and mineral balance?
The refinement of sugar canes strips them of around 40 vital nutrients, leaving the white sugar with nothing else than empty calories. In our intestinal system, the white sugar is broken down into fructose (that is passed on to the liver) and glucose (that is absorbed quickly in the bloodstream). Glucose is used to produce the energy molecule, ATP. This requires a number of enzyme processes that depend on B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals. However, as white sugar is refined, the body must collect vitamins and minerals from other parts of the body. In this connection, our bones serve as the primary "mineral bank". Consuming sugar, in other words, is like making constant cash withdrawals, and unless we make sure to replace what we take out from our account, we risk going bankrupt, figuratively speaking.
Sugar, soft beverages, and the acid-base balance
If we consume too much sugar, it weakens our bones. Moreover, sugar leads to an acid build-up in the bloodstream, which requires a tightly regulated pH value. Base-forming minerals like calcium and magnesium are dispatched in the blood and subsequently discharged with the urine. Our bones lose calcium, magnesium, and other minerals on that account, and the problem is made worse by consuming soft beverages that contain phosphorus, which belongs to the group of acid-forming minerals.
I mean, if nothing else, glucose is surely found in many foods that are a poor source of calcium, is it not? Ergo, consuming any such natural foods ought to be just as calcium-depleting as white sugar, right?
That the body's pH can somehow be swung from "basic" to "acidic" is of course unquestionably hooey, but I confess that I am not so well-read as to discount the possibility that calcium is expended in the natural course of maintaining said pH.


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JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- It was delightful Thursday morning aboard the Cornucopia Majesty. My luggage finally arrived, the sun was shining, the infernal wind subsided, it was a balmy 21 degrees and the Denver Broncos were noticeably loose after Wednesday's full-pads practice.
Peyton Manning was especially jovial. Linebackers Nate Irving and Danny Trevathan were clowning on each other in front of the assembled media. The coaches were insightful in their sit-down sessions with reporters.
I enjoyed my chat with defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, formerly the head coach of the Jaguars.
Much like Carolina Panthers coach Riverboat Ron Rivera, Del Rio became known for aggressive fourth-down gambles that belied his reputation as a buttoned-up, conservative defensive mind.
Both coaches have dismissed the old-school coach's concept of "playing it by the book."
"I think the book has changed," Del Rio told Around The League. "The old book, you would always punt. I can't speak for Ron. I know in our situation, looking at the probability tables, it gave our team the best chance to win -- win those situations and win the game."
Del Rio emphasized that his priority was putting his team in the best position to win regardless of the second-guessing from media and fans used to seeing a more formulaic approach.
"The hard part is before it becomes accepted or popular or something celebrated is that as a coach, you're getting ripped for it," Del Rio explained, "even though the probability tables show that clearly it's the smart thing to do. It wasn't part of the old book."
Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano could learn a thing or two from those probability tables.
Del Rio made it clear this week that he wants another shot at a head-coaching gig. After hearing him hold forth on a variety of topics Thursday, I hope he gets the opportunity in 2015.
Live from New York, it's "The Around The League Podcast!"


text: Meeting Spaces Saint Michael's campus has a wide range of meeting facilities to fit your group's size and budget. McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall Capacity up to 337 Tiered, upholstered theater seating in an acoustically-rich theater environment ideal for lectures or performance. Classrooms Capacity 12 - 108 Many come with TV/VCR/DVD and LCD projectors, smartboards, and touchpad controls, or can be outfitted similarly. (Our Information Technology department also maintains a section of our website that lists classroom technology at Saint Michael's.) Hall of Fame Room Capacity up to 40 Located in the Ross Sports Center. Vermont Room Capacity up to 60 Located in the Alliot Student Center and equipped with ceiling-mounted LCD projector. Farrell Room Capacity up to 52 An elegant meeting space, complete with mountain views. International Commons Capacity up to 80 Features a full kitchen. Ideal for banquets, rehearsal dinners or awards ceremonies. Can be divided into smaller rooms for breakout sessions. Green Mountain Dining Room Capacity up to 535 Ideal for larger banquets. Featuring catering by Sodexho. Ross Sports Center Ideal for major speakers, festivals or expositions. Standing capacity up to 2500. Seated capacity up to 3000. Outdoor Events Tents or canopies can be arranged for sports tournaments and other outdoor events. Recreational amenities such as tennis courts and our pool may also be available for rent.


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The latest news & events from the Sharda University
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SANTA ANA (CNS) – Rail service from Los Angeles and Orange County into the San Diego area will be suspended today and Sunday because of construction work.
Amtrak and Metrolink trains will not come south into San Diego County today or Sunday because of work at the Santa Margarita Bridge in Camp Pendleton, the NCTD reported.
Local commuter service in San Diego County will operate only between Oceanside and downtown San Diego.
Regular service will be restored Monday morning.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The No. 16 Georgia College golf team finished day two with a 301 team score in the South/Southeast Regionals at Savannah Quarters Country Club on the 7,016-yard par-72 course. Senior Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) shot a five-under par second day field-best 67 to lead the Bobcats to 14th after two rounds.
After not finishing in the scoring in day one for Georgia College, Fox not only had the best second-day score but moved up more than any other golfer in the individual standings. The senior went from tied-92nd to tied 24th overall for a two-day total of four-over par 148.
The Bobcats were one stroke off yesterday's score. Georgia College recorded a 300 team score on the first day and followed up with a 301 today. Joining Fox in today's team scoring was senior Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) with a five-over par 77, freshman Conner Albright (Macon, Ga.) with a six-over par 78, and sophomore David Sullivan (Woodstock, Ga.) with a seven-over par 79. Freshman Nicolas Falkinhoff (Buenos Aires, Argentina) finished with an 11-over par 83 and not in the team scoring.
Monte is now tied-48th overall with an eight-over par 152, while Sullivan and Albright are both tied-54th overall with a nine-over par 153 score. Falkinhoff is tied-86th overall with a 15-over par 159.
Nova Southeastern University leads the field after two days with six-over 582 followed by Barry University with an eight-over 584. Three teams are tied for third with a nine-over 585 that include USC Aiken, Lynn University and Florida Institute of Technology.
Armstrong Atlantic State University is sixth with 13-over 589, followed by University of North Alabama with a 14-over 590. St. Leo University has a 17-over 593 in eighth place followed by Clayton State University and University of West Florida with a 21-over 597.
Florida Southern College and Erskine College are tied for 11th with a 22-over 598, followed by 13th place Flagler College with a 23-over 599. The Bobcats are next at 14th.
The Bobcats are set to tee off at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday for day three. Georgia College must finish in the top-seven to advance to the Nationals.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Ideally, Lynn Unruh would spend all day, every day in her home studio, turning clay into creative castles, fairy houses, or toad abodes. As it is, she is grateful for just a few hours here and there to spend crafting, time stolen away from running errands and taking care of the guest house she and husband Charlie operate near the north shore of Marion Reservoir.
"I love gardening too," Unruh said. "But I needed some garden art to fill the weak spots. I started making toad houses, then moved into fairy houses, and eventually castles."
Unruh said the idea for a garden castle she currently has on display at Gallery 101 in Marion came from looking at pictures of Russian architecture.
"I wanted it to look more garden-like though, so I added the curly cues on top," she said.
Unruh said she made over 20 garden/fairy castles, and sells many of her ceramic clay pieces at art shows or on etsy.com.
"I've sold over 161 pieces that way," she said. "But most of them were much simpler toad houses or bird feeders."
Also on display at Gallery 101 is a pagoda-style bird feeder made from green-painted clay slabs. The inspiration for that piece came from Unruh's childhood memories, growing up in a military family stationed in Okinawa.
"My dad was in the Air Force there, and I fell in love with the people and the culture," she said. "I often make pieces reflecting on those influential years of my life."
Unruh came to Marion as a college student, visiting a friend at Tabor College in Hillsboro.
"I knew this is where I wanted to come to raise my children," she said.
Unruh and her husband have three grown daughters now, and own and operate a vacation/rental home, called NorthShore Guesthouse on their farm.
"The guesthouse is pretty much out of sight of the farmhouse, but it works great along with my work at the studio," Unruh said. "I am here if the guests need me, and if they want privacy, they can have that too."
Unruh said she enjoys making fancy breakfasts for guesthouse visitors and often carries over frittatas, omelets, homemade bread, and a large fruit salad in a picnic basket.
Sometimes guests request a tour of the couple's large garden and the studio. Unruh said she keeps her kiln in the barn, but displays many handmade clay items in her home or studio.
"It seems like every year we get busier and busier," she said. "We are very busy during hunting season as our guests can hunt the adjoining public hunting ground. There are lots of big deer, pheasants, quail and turkeys around."
Mostly, Unruh prefers to spend her time creating clay castles however.
"I go through two or three 50-pound boxes of clay every couple of months," Unruh said. "The etsy.com site keeps me very busy trying to fill orders."
Unruh said she has sold her creations at local art shows in the past, but was keeping her focus this year on standing orders and display pieces at Gallery 101.


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Cool Stuff
Light Up Your Shop
You need all the light you can get in your garage or shop so you can see everything that's on and in your project Mopar. But are the lights that are in there now enough to do the job on this project, or any other future projects you may work on in the future?
The Eastwood Company's rechargeable 120-LED worklight (seen here inside the Pilot House cab of a '50 Dodge pickup project) is just what you and your garage/shop need.
It features surface-mount LEDs, which produce 1,250 lumens and are up to two times brighter than conventional LEDs.
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A Note From Scott
Nearly seven years ago, I began writing for Mopar Muscle, and was immediately astounded by the variety and quality of the cars you folks were building (and your passion for them), which we bring you each month in these pages, and online.
Now, I've been reassigned within Source Interlink Media, and this issue of Mopar Muscle is the last one that I'll be writing for.
Thanks are in order to Randy Bolig, who's been among the best editors-in-chief I've ever worked with anywhere; to my fellow Boilermaker Dave Young, for his tech knowledge and help (especially with the mods that we made for my daily-driven BADCOP, videos of which are on the Mopar Muscle website); and to publisher Rob Fisher, for his leadership.
I'd also like to give a big shout-out to the hundreds of Mopar owners and builders who I've chatted with about their prized rides over the years, as well as the advertisers whose products and services you've used—and continue to use—in the creation and restoration of the eye-grabbing Mopars that you'll see at shows, cruises and events everywhere.
Thanks for the ride…we'll see each other again!
May 18, Riverside, CA: 14th Annual "Mopars in May at CSDR," presented by the Inland Mopars Car Club at the California School for the Deaf (3044 Horace Street, Riverside, CA 92506). Swap and Vendor gates open 7-10 a.m., show car registration 10 a.m.-noon ($20 pre-registration per show car, $25 day of show), 20 x 20 swap spaces $35/space ($45 day of show), Free spectator admission, free parking. Food vendors, exhibits, crafters, handmade items by deaf artists, plus an all-day opportunity drawing. More info: Call Ken at (714) 993-5257 or (714) 300-5132, or Mike at (909) 981-0477 or (951) 212-0817.
May 23-25, Valdosta, GA: If you haven't made plans to attend the Mopar Muscle All-Mopar Southern Nationals at the South Georgia Motorsports Park on Memorial Day weekend (May 23-25, 2014), you better hurry up. For those of you in the Southeast portion of the U.S. that haven't yet heard, Mopar Muscle is the title sponsor of the All-Mopar Southern Nationals and it's the largest multiple-event venue in the Southeast for Mopar fans. There will be three days for racing, a two-day car show, and swap meet. You can also keep up to date by checking out our website (www.moparmuscle.com), our Facebook page, or the South Georgia Motorsports Park website (www.racesgmp.com).
May 31-June 1, Farmington, MN: 30th Anniversary Midwest Mopars In The Park, presented by Midwest Mopars at the Dakota County Fairgrounds (4008 220th Street West, Farmington, MN 55024). Info: Call (952) 884-9804 or (952) 447-4701, or log on to www.midwestmopars.com. (For on-fairgrounds trailer and RV camping info, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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OCEAN CITY- Stephen Decatur's 8th Annual War on the Shore wrestling tournament gets underway next week at the Ocean City Convention Center for the first time with some of the top high school programs in the mid-Atlantic area converging on the resort for the two-day event.
The War on the Shore tournament, which features some of the best high school wrestling programs from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and even Pennsylvania, has been moved to the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City this year after being held at host Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin for the first seven years of the event.
A total of 27 teams from four states make up what tournament director Todd Martinek calls the "toughest field ever," with 41 nationally ranked teams including two in the top 30 in number-9 St. Marks's and number-30 Smyrna.
Because of the size and popularity of the annual tournament, the event was moved to Ocean City for the first time this year. Martinek said the Convention Center provides over 40,000 square-feet of space for the event, which will feature eight mats in almost constant use over the two days.
"The convention center was only made available to us through some hard work by the town of Ocean City and the tourism department the support of our administration and the sponsorship of the U.S. Marine Corps," said Martinek.
The two-day tournament gets underway next Friday and will continue practically around the clock until next Saturday, when team and individual champions will be crowned. For host Decatur, the annual tournament often serves as a barometer for the season for the Seahawks, which have used success at War on the Shore as a launching pad for a string of several successful seasons.


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Actress Katherine Heigl and her husband Josh Kelly only had four weeks to prepare for the arrival of their second child.
The couple became parents again earlier this year after adopting a newborn baby girl from the U.S. named Adalaide, a sister for their daughter Naleigh, four, who was born in South Korea and was taken in by the stars when she was just nine months old.
But the "Knocked Up" beauty admits she was caught by surprise at how swift the approval process was, and they only had days to design her nursery.
She tells TV host Jay Leno, "(It) was fascinating because we started the adoption process again and we thought we were gonna adopt internationally. It's a pretty long process. It can take years. And then we started exploring because we had heard that Korea had gotten very hard to adopt from, and China had a very, very long waiting list… And so we started exploring the idea of domestic adoption – just exploring – and then my lawyer called and said, 'There's a birth mother and she's due in four weeks and she's all yours if you want her.'"
Heigl was delighted at the news, but confesses her singer partner was a little more apprehensive.
She explains, "He thought it was gonna be a few years, and that we were gonna end up with more of like a nine-month-old or 10-month-old, and he looked at me and said, 'You're telling me in a month we're gonna have a newborn?'
"And I said, 'Yes. It's perfect timing, don't you think? Look, we're both here, we're not working. This is great. We can spend time with her.' And it has been beautifully serendipitous and graceful, because we've gotten to spend all this wonderful time with her."


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The Central Connecticut women's lacrosse team earned an 8-7 victory over Mount St. Mary's in its Northeast Conference opener on Friday afternoon. The Blue Devils (4-6, 1-0 NEC) were led offensively by sophomore Elyse Malecki's hat-trick and a pair of goals from senior Amanda Toke and sophomore Falynn McCartney.
The Blue Devils dominated the early minutes of both halves, building a 4-0 advantage in the first period and then a 7-3 lead in the second half.
On the opposite side, the Mountaineers (1-9, 0-1 NEC) made late runs in both periods, which set up a dramatic final minute of play.
After the Mountaineers cut the Blue Devil lead to 8-7 with 43 seconds remaining, the CCSU defense made a final stand to prevent the Mountaineers from tying the game. The Blue Devil defense forced Bridget McGann's final shot high and then pressured the Mountaineers into a turnover, which sealed the victory.
"This victory was the result of a great team effort," head coach Laura Campbell said after the game. "Everyone supported each other and had each other's backs all over the field. On top of that our leaders came up with big plays when we need them on offense, defense and in transition."
Offensively, the Blue Devils jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first half with goals by senior Meaghan McCurry, McCartney and a pair by Malecki.
CCSU's first goal came with 28:19 left in the half as Malecki scored off a pass from freshman Marissa Soto. McCurry followed with an unassisted goal with 18:44 on the clock and five minutes later McCartney added an unassisted goal. With 12:07 left in the period Malecki scored her second of the game to give the Blue Devils a 4-0 lead.
Mount followed CCSU's early run with three goals late in the period. The Mountaineers scored with 10:57, 9:58 and 7:37 left on the clock, with two of the three goals in the half coming on free position shots by McGann.
The Blue Devils scored just 16 seconds into the second half as Soto controlled the opening draw, which quickly lead to senior Claire Healy finding Toke for a goal.
CCSU scored again in the opening minute of the second half as McCartney scooped up a ground ball and scored an unassisted goal off of a Mount turnover.
Toke's second goal of the game, and Healy's second assist, came with 19:02 left to play as the Blue Devils increased their lead to 7-3.
Another free position goal by the Mount cut the CCSU lead to 7-4, but Malecki put the Blue Devils back up by four goals with 6:51 remaining. Malecki's goal was her third of the game and also proved to be the game winner. Soto was credited with the assist on the play.
Defensively, the Blue Devils were led by junior goalkeeper Morgan Tullar who recorded five saves and matched her season-low by limiting the Mountaineers to seven goals. Tullar also had three ground balls in the contest.
Senior Cierra Ward also had a strong game with four caused turnovers and a ground ball. Freshman Courtney McPartland and senior Ashley Olhausen each recorded two ground balls and a caused turnover.
In addition to scoring two goals, Toke was credited with a team-high five caused turnovers and matched Tullar with a team-high three ground balls. She currently leads the Blue Devils with 21 goals and 30 points on the season.
Malecki's hat-trick give her three games with three or more goals this season, including seven goals in her last two contests. She is currently second on the team with 17 goals this season.
As a team the Blue Devils picked up 18 ground balls and caused 13 turnovers.
McCartney, Soto and sophomore Madison Hughes each shared a team-high with two draw controls in the contest.
With the victory the Blue Devils have now won their NEC opener in three straight seasons.
It is also the program's first ever win against Mount St. Mary's.
The Blue Devils will continue NEC action on Sunday at Wagner. That contest is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. start on Staten Island and can be seen live on NECFrontRow.com.


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To be honest, this is one of the things I missed from my i-MiEV. It came with a keychain remote that would allow you to charge and pre-heat/pre-cool the vehicle.
LeftieBiker wrote:baustin wrote:LeftieBiker wrote:
So perhaps you shouldn't be lecturing those who have to traverse ice, snow and frigid temps to go out to the car...?
Having had to traverse ice, snow, and endure frigid temps a good part of my life makes me qualified to lecture on it.
Maybe you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
Maybe when you're old, and have poor circulation, including Renaud's (sp?) syndrome, you'll appreciate the difference between a frigid cabin (and steering wheel) slowly warming up, and one that's tolerable the moment you get in. You also fail to consider the distance to walk to some drivers' cars. No, you're just making a sloppy, callous argument.
LeftieBiker wrote:The Prius and Leaf fobs both work up to 40' away, depending on line of sight. That's enough to activate it from a store window if away from home, or at least in time to get it partially warm as you arrive. I would be able to use my fob from my front window, and with the worthless 2G modem in my car, that would be a huge advantage. It would be far easier for others to step a couple of feet outside and use the fob, instead of walking to the car and back. In any case, I'm done arguing this. You're just wasting my time.


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Mobile Java: The Next Generation
When you compare the lifecycle of Java ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) applications to Android applications, differences stand out.
Figure 2 is the lifecycle for a MIDP application (a "MIDlet"). A typical mobile phone then might have a black-and-white 96×54 pixel screen, with 128 KB of RAM and 256 KB of nonvolatile memory. In such a constrained platform, only one MIDlet executes at a time. A MIDlet spends most of its lifecycle shuttling between two states
active, where it does work, and
paused, where the phone switches the MIDlet out so that it can handle a call. However, a MIDlet isn't completely inactive while in the
paused state. It can use timers to schedule work, and create background threads to execute tasks that don't require the UI.
One problem when writing a MIDlet is that its
startApp() method is called every time the phone returns it to the
active state. This complicates the MIDlet's design because you often place the initialization code in the
startApp() method. The reason for locating code there (rather than in the MIDlet's constructor) is that the specification requires that if an error occurs in the constructor's code, the stack throws a fatal exception. This behavior rules out the possibility of recovering gracefully or displaying messages that could tell users what went wrong. Many MIDlet applications therefore set a Boolean flag so that for subsequent calls of
startApp(), the initialization code is bypassed. Another complication is that there's no set mechanism to preserve the state of a complex MIDlet when it is paused. You must save the values of key variables into its RMS yourself when
pauseApp() is invoked, then restore these values when the MIDlet becomes
Figure 3 is the lifecycle of an Android application, termed an "Activity." The diagram reflects the more powerful capabilities of the hardware platform. Nowadays, high-end phones often have 1 GB of RAM and up to 16 GB of Flash memory. They have larger color screens (240×320, which are now more common), along with faster processors and features like cameras and GPS. The extra states in an Activity's lifecycle not only address some limitations in the MIDP specification, but also enable support for the concurrent execution of Activities.
An Activity's lifecycle starts with a call to
onCreate(), which handles set-up chores and static global initializations. The
onStart() method begins the Activity's visible lifetime, where it presents its UI window on-screen. Invoking
onResume() has the Activity begin interactions with users. The application is in the foreground and active state. If another application must come to the foreground, Android calls the
onFreeze() method to save the Activity's state. To this end, Android provides support methods that let you easily store and retrieve various data elements in objects called "Bundles." After you save the Activity's context,
onPause() is called. The Activity stops any animations, commits its variables to persistent storage, and enters the paused state. At this point, the other Activity's UI window can come to the foreground and interact with users.
What happens to the Activity next depends on several things. If the foreground application only partially obscures the screen, the Activity hovers in the paused state, as users might bring it back to the foreground at any moment. If the foreground application's window completely covers the screen,
onStop() is called and the Activity enters the stopped state. This state is similar to the paused state, except that for low-memory situations, Android might dispose of its window. If the Activity returns to the foreground later, calls to
onRestart() and
onStart() restore the window and UI. In very low memory situations, Android might kill the Activity to release memory. If users select the Activity again, it must be completely restarted and its context restored from saved Bundles. As Figure 3 illustrates, the additional methods and states let the Activity cleanly resume execution whether it's been paused, stopped, or destroyed.


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CASSELBERRY, Fla. - A school bus carrying 25 students crashed into a power pole in Casselberry on Tuesday morning, dropping live wires over the vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
No injuries were reported in the crash, which happened around 7:45 a.m. near Red Bug Elementary School, according to Paula Thompson of the Seminole County Fire Department.
"Everyone aboard the bus was able to exit safely via the rear emergency door," Thompson said. The cause of the crash is not known, but troopers said another vehicle was involved in the wreck.
Roads are closed in both directions in the area.
A picture shows the front of the yellow bus smashed into the base of the pole, with wires tilted above the bus.
Power company vehicles are at the crash site, with workers assessing the situation.


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|The Horse Race charts the presidential election campaign using two measures: the Iowa Electronic Markets, and our own index of pundit opinion. The Iowa Electronic Markets are a project of the University of Iowa College of Business administration. They are real markets, with shares that pay out after the election. We follow Iowa's Winner-Takes-All market, which will pay $1 for each share in the winner. (Thus WTA share prices reflect the market's judgment, at any moment, of the chance of a candidate winning.) The Iowa folks' thesis is that markets are better prognosticators than the pundits. You be the judge. For more information, or to invest, visit the Iowa Electronic Markets site.
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|Clinton: 87.4, 1.1 from yesterday Dole: 12.7, unchanged from yesterday
|Clinton: 92, 1 from last week Dole: 8, 1 from last week Perot: off the pie chart
The shift in the CNN numbers prompted wishful conservatives such as Glassman (who had just lectured against trusting polls that showed Dole far behind) to hail the CNN numbers as evidence of a Dole comeback. On the other hand, cynics such as Charles Krauthammer and Carl Rowan inferred that the poll must be wrong because Dole was a basket case and couldn't possibly be gaining support. The cynics were largely vindicated the next day, when new CNN numbers pushed the margin back up to 14 points. Wise old hands such as Jack Germond and Bob Novak ignored the fluctuating margin and noted that Dole's percentage of the vote remains steadily below 40. Even Republican mouthpieces couldn't feign confidence. Dole's convention keynote speaker, Rep. Susan Molinari, had to be corrected during a chat show for talking about November "when Clinton gets re-elected."
Israel: The mayhem and massacre in Israel didn't even lead the big-league chat shows. Pundits agreed that as long as Clinton labors visibly to bring Netanyahu and Arafat together to resolve their differences, he can't lose (since he won't take the blame for their failure) and Dole can't win (since he must support the president). The only problem was that Clinton's efforts to stop the bloodshed will cut into his debate-preparation time.
Debates: Pundits had great sport with the image of Dole holed up in his Florida condo, cramming for the Oct. 6 face-off instead of campaigning or even going outside to speak to reporters. Still, contrarian arguments dominated the week: Clinton is prone to defensiveness and quibbling about details; Dole can contrast his own plain-spokenness with Clinton's slickness; the press, desperate for a close race, will bend over backward to portray Dole as the winner; and expectations of Dole's performance are so low that he'll automatically surpass them. Self-hating pundits predicted that lopsided polls and scant election coverage by bored reporters would discourage voters from even watching the debates.
The L-word: Pundits who mistook Dole's spike in the CNN poll for a comeback credited it to his theme of the week--denouncing Clinton as a devout "liberal." Most right-leaners had trouble swallowing this line however, having spent the last two months portraying Clinton as a conservative in order to spin his re-election as a mandate for their ideas. Skeptics pointed out that Dole was contradicting his prior argument that Clinton has no convictions. Contempt for Dole's hurling of the L-word accompanied contempt for Clinton's repudiation of it.
The economy: Analysts deemed Clinton the obvious beneficiary of new data showing a rise in median family income and a decline in poverty, as well as of the Federal Reserve's decision not to raise interest rates. Pundits theorized that favorable economic data have now reached a "critical mass" that is finally persuading voters that the country is on the right track, and that they are better off than they were four years ago. Conservative commentators groused that the rising economic tide isn't lifting middle-class wages. Liberals chuckled that they used to resort to the same futile complaint when the GOP held the White House. Everyone agreed that the Fed will raise interest rates after the election.
Congress: As takeover hysteria wanes, the Democrats' congressional stock is sinking in the Iowa market. The price of a single-share wager on Democratic control of the House slid from 40 to 28 cents, while an equivalent wager in the Senate tumbled from 23 to 14 cents. Meanwhile, the pundits derided congressional Republicans for caving in to liberal demands in the session's final days. Favorite examples included spending billions extra on education, softening immigration reforms, and passing Ted Kennedy's health-insurance bill. (George Will and others suggested that GOP candidates could still raise the specter of "Chairman Kennedy" to scare Republican voters into turning out at the polls.) Shamelessly recycled cliché of the week: "In like lions, out like lambs." Pundits who had called the Republicans suckers for shutting down the government a year ago called them wimps for refusing to do so this year.
Gingrich: Even conservatives agreed that the House Ethics Committee's decision to expand its investigation of Newt was "very serious" and "ominous." The pundits predicted that it would help Democrats focus the election on the unpopular speaker. Half-cynics reasoned that voters can't comprehend the financial allegations against Gingrich, but could easily comprehend the charge that Gingrich lied to the committee. Total cynics replied that Clinton's cakewalk to re-election proves that voters can't comprehend lying, either. Chat shows percolated with speculation as to when and how Gingrich would be ousted. The consensus was that he would probably keep his seat in November but would face a challenge to his leadership if the GOP lost the House; and if the GOP kept the House, the ethics probe would probably bring him down. "He's a goner," said Al Hunt. Liberals waxed sentimental as they chiseled his epitaph. "You can see him in his office there, with his empire in ruins, the flames licking around his feet," mused Evan Thomas. Right-leaners were less romantic, arguing that Gingrich had outlived his usefulness to the GOP and was being destroyed the same way he had destroyed former Speaker Jim Wright.
--William Saletan
Iowa Electronic Market: Congressional Control Gain is a share that pays $1 if the Republicans increase their number of seats. Hold pays $1 if they stay the same or lose seats but retain majority control. Lose pays $1 if the Republicans lose their majority. The IEM site has graphs tracking price changes over time for the House and the Senate. The latest prices as of 10/4/96:
|Senate Gain: 30.3, 0.7 from yesterday Senate Hold: 58.1, 0.8 from yesterday Senate Lose: 12.2, 0.2 from yesterday
House Gain: 18.4, 0.1 from yesterday House Hold: 55.9, 1 from yesterday House Lose: 26.9, 0.1 from yesterday
Congressional Pundits' Index: as of 9/30/96
|Senate Gain: 22, 2 from last week Senate Hold: 65, 7 from last week Senate Lose: 13, 9 from last week
House Gain: 5, 1 from last week House Hold: 72, 3 from last week House Lose: 23, 4 from last week


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CAMDEN, N.J. – A barnburner in the varsity lightweight eight event brought an end to three days of racing for the Y150's at the 109th IRA Regatta, with the Yale varsity eight being crowned national champions. The Bulldogs won their heat early in the morning and came back some four hours later to cross the finish line first ahead of Harvard to claim the national title. It was a photo finish as a margin of 0.02 seconds came out in Yale's favor, giving the Bulldog varsity a gold medal to go with their bronze from the Eastern Sprints three weeks ago. The win marked the Bulldogs' first national title since 2005 and fifth under the tenure of head coach Andy Card.
The Yale varsity eight raced in the second of two varsity lightweight heats Saturday morning. Last year this race was a seven-boat straight-to-final event, but with eight crews entered this year the field was divided up into two heats. The Bulldogs won theirs with a time of 5:52.049, a full second ahead of Dartmouth (5:53.044) who had robbed Yale of a silver medal at Sprints by 0.1 seconds just three weeks ago. The win sent Yale to the grand final at 11:45 a.m., and with Harvard (5:48.253), Princeton (5:49.477) and Cornell (5:50.645) all posting faster times in the first heat it was sure to be a great race.
A clean start in the lightweight eight grand final showed Yale out front by a couple of feet, with Harvard pulling up next to the Bulldogs after the first 10 strokes. Princeton quickly separated themselves from the pack, as did Dartmouth and only about a seat separated these top four crews into the 500-meter mark. At 700 meters in Dartmouth had made a move to get the lead, with Yale and Harvard right behind and another three seats back to Princeton and Cornell. Dartmouth continued to come on strong through the middle thousand but Yale stayed in the fight, ultimately getting the lead after Dartmouth began to fade with 500 meters to go. Heading into the final stretch it was Yale and Harvard neck and neck, Dartmouth close behind and open water back to Cornell. Dartmouth continued to fade as Yale sprinted to the line with what looked to be a one-seat lead on Harvard. At the finish line it appeared to be advantage Yale, but neither the Bulldogs nor the Crimson threw their hands up in celebration. After regatta officials consulted video of the finish Yale was declared the winner and national champions, by a margin of just 0.02 seconds.
Yale's lineup consisted of captain Andrew Hakanson (stroke), Colin Corcoran (seven), David Walker (six), Thomas Swartz (five), William Zeng (four), Greg Hausheer (three), Brendan Harrington (two), Trey Chandler (bow), and Emma McBurney (coxswain).
Varsity Lightweight Eight Grand Final
1. Yale 5:39.904
2. Harvard 5:39.926
3. Dartmouth 5:41.860
4. Cornell 5:46.308
5. Princeton 5:49.247
6. Columbia 5:53.338
Earlier in the morning the Bulldogs finished fourth in the inaugural grand final of the lightweight four event with a time of 6:37.113. Yale held off fifth-place Navy (6:38.419) but were just out of reach of third-place Cornell (6:32.851) and the medal dock. Harvard won the event in 6:28.562. Yale's crew was Christopher Mayerfeld (stroke), Patrick O'Keefe (three), Matthew Bridgwater (two), Samuel Cooley (bow), and Ilana Usiskin (coxswain).
In the grand final of the open four event Yale finished sixth. Yale's time of 6:43.502 makes the Elis faster than three heavyweight boats in a nine-boat field. The University of Washington won the event. Yale's crew consisted of Michael Buttrick (stroke), Chad Bailey (three), Joseph Hanlon (two), Drew Lawson (bow), and Wendy Lin (coxswain).
Full results can be found here.
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Facts & Figures
President: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1996)
Prime Minister: Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson (2013)
Land area: 38,707 sq mi (100,251 sq km); total area: 39,768 sq mi (103,000 sq km)1
Population (2014 est.): 317,351 (growth rate: 0.65%); birth rate: 13.09/1000; infant mortality rate: 3.15/1000; life expectancy: 81.22
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Reykjavik, 206,000
Monetary unit: Icelandic króna
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Iceland, an island about the size of Kentucky, lies in the north Atlantic Ocean east of Greenland and just touches the Arctic Circle. It is one of the most volcanic regions in the world. More than 13% is covered by snowfields and glaciers, and most of the people live in the 7% of the island that is made up of fertile coastland. The Gulf Stream keeps Iceland's climate milder than one would expect from an island near the Arctic Circle.
Constitutional republic.
The earliest inhabitants of Iceland were Irish hermits, who left the island upon the arrival of the pagan Norse people in the late 9th century. A constitution drawn up c. 930 created a form of democracy and provided for an Althing, the world's oldest practicing legislative assembly. The island's early history was preserved in the Icelandic sagas of the 13th century.
In 1262–1264, Iceland came under Norwegian rule and passed to ultimate Danish control through the unification of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (the Kalmar Union) in 1397.
In 1874, Icelanders obtained their own constitution, and in 1918, Denmark recognized Iceland, via the Act of Union, as a separate state with unlimited sovereignty. It remained, however, nominally under the Danish monarchy.
During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, British, then American, troops occupied Iceland and used it for a strategic air base. While officially neutral, Iceland cooperated with the Allies throughout the conflict. On June 17, 1944, after a popular referendum, the Althing proclaimed Iceland an independent republic.
Iceland Hit Hard by Financial Crisis
The country joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 and subsequently received an American air force base in 1951. In 1970, it was admitted to the European Free Trade Association. Iceland unilaterally extended its territorial fishing limit from 3 to 200 nautical miles in 1972, precipitating a dispute with the UK known as the "cod wars," which ended in 1976 when the UK recognized the new limits. In 1980, the Icelanders elected a woman to the office of the presidency, the first elected female chief of state (i.e., president as distinct from prime minister) in the world. After the recession of the early 1990s, Iceland's economy rebounded.
At the International Whaling Commission meeting in July 2001, Iceland refused to agree to the continuation of the moratorium on commercial whaling that had been in effect since 1986. In 2003, after a 14-year lull, the country began hunting whales for scientific research.
In May 2003, David Oddsson was reelected, making him the longest-serving prime minister in Europe. In 2004, in a prearranged agreement made between the two parties of the coalition government, Oddsson and Foreign Minister Halldór Ásgrímsson switched positions. In June 2006 Ásgrímsson resigned as prime minister after his party did badly in local elections. Economic troubles were cited as the main reason for the Progressive Party's poor showing. Geir Haarde, leader of Iceland's largest political party, the Independence Party, became prime minister and announced the implementation of more fiscally conservative measures.
On October 9, 2008, amidst international stock market turmoil, the Icelandic stock exchange suspended trading and the government decided to nationalize three major banks. In November 2008, the IMF extended a $2 billion rescue package to Iceland to help its battered currency and stock market. Despite the aid, the financial crisis continued into 2009, prompting demonstrations against the government. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned on January 26, 2009, causing the collapse of Iceland's government. On February 1, 2009, Johanna Sigurdardottir was sworn in as the new prime minister, becoming Iceland's first female prime minister and the modern world's first openly gay head of government. In April parliamentary elections, Sigurdardottir's center-left coalition won 34 out of 63 seats.
In a March 2010 referendum, voters in a landslide rejected the government's proposal to reimburse Britain and the Netherlands for $5 billion in losses incurred in the collapse of Landsbanki in 2008.
Ash Plume Wreaks Havoc on Air Travel
In late March 2010, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted. The event produced minimal seismic activity, but an explosion on April 14 resulted in a volcanic ash plume in the atmosphere over northern and central Europe. Air travel in the region was halted for several days, causing the cancellation of several thousand flights and disrupting the travel plans of millions of people.
In a bit of an anticlimax, the former Icelandic prime minister, Geir Haarde, was acquitted of charges of negligence stemming from the 2008 financial crisis. He was found guilty of not holding enough cabinet meetings, but the verdict carried no sentence.
The June 2012 presidential election saw the reelection of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson with 52.8% of the vote. The other candidates included Thóra Arnórsdóttir and Ari Trausti Gudmundsson who polled 33.2% and 8.6% respectively. Turnout was 69.2%.
Iceland not Enthusiastic About Joining the EU
In April 2013's legislative elections, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson's center-right Progressive party and the Independence party made significant inroads against the incumbent Social Democrats. As the new prime minister of the new coalition government, Gunnlaugsson announced a suspension of EU membership talks, and called for a referendum to gauge public opinion on future EU membership.
See also Encyclopedia: Iceland .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Iceland
Statistics Iceland http://www.hagstofa.is/template40.asp?PageID=261 .


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If you've played the King of Sweden game, you know you can drive the wheels right off that little car. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo will make you feel like a king, and hopefully keep its wheels on.
Lordy pistols, show you all a big ol' honkin' pair of thanks for the mammaries and even a cheap but nice Ferrari can't peel your eyeballs away. Despite that, a possibly gay 57% of you were down with the brown and sent Ferrari the Pooh on its way with a Nice Price victory. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Today we have a car at a fraction of that Ferrari's price, half the number of that Ferrari's cylinders, and with not a Weber in sight!
Volvos. It used to be that only tweedy college professors and Birkenstock-wearing Earth mothers - all hairy armpits and tie-dyed hemp muumuus - drove them. Then one day, young, urban professionals, or "Yuppies" to coin a phrase, anointed the brand as Rey de Burguesía. Suddenly Volvos were seen carting home cases of Evian and Chardonnay to be consumed along with stone-ground crackers and organic brie. Upon those crackers, these new Volvo owners applied a spread made from the livers of force-fed geese, probably because the texture of this gritty paste reminded them of their kindergarten days. It was the halcyon era for the car maker, and they hoped it would never end.
Many kings are usurped however, and eventually the Yuppies moved on to "Sport Utilities" and pilates. Volvo tried to stay in with the popular crowd, jacking up their wagons as was the fashion of the moment, and wrapping them in aggressive plastic cladding. But it wasn't enough. In the end, the yuppies died out, and the people that replaced them - poor urban scroungers, or "Pussies," couldn't afford Volvos and eventually the whole company was sold to the Chinese.
But way before that, the Volvo folks in Sweden got a chance to drive a Lincoln MKIV, and in an inexorable decision to create a carfor kings they declared Yumpin' yiminy, we gotta' build us one a doze! Hence was created today's subject -the Volvo 262C Bertone Coupe. Unlike the later 780 Bertone Coupe, which was designed as well as built by Carrozzeria Bertone, the 262C was penned in Sweden. It was due to Volvo's inability to add a low-production model to their lines that they brought the Italian design house in to do the assembly. Only the roof and interior differ from the standard two-door body, and the vinyl-clad roof on this silver '78 does provide it with the same visual opulence typically reserved for Lincoln's massive schooners. Under that chopped roof is a quartet of leather-clad thrones fit for King Gustaf himself and three members of his royal entourage. If there's one thing the Italians know how to do best it's political unity, but they also know how to stitch-up a right luxurious interior, and here Bertone chose to coat almost everything in either elm veneer or a broad layer of supple cow hide. And while the juxtaposition of swarthy Italian on the inside, cool Scandinavian on the outside, all capped by a faux American luxo-barge roof may send you into xenophobic spams of jingoism, Volvo seems to pull it all together in the unique 262C.
Also pulling the 262C is the B27 2,664-cc PRV V6. Well, pushing it actually, as the Volvo's a rear-driver. The SOHC V6 is an odd duck of an engine, having a 90° angle between the banks - like a V8 - rather than the more common 60°. That resulted in another nod to an American luxo-brand- as just like the old Buick V6s the early PRVs had uneven ignition timing.
Well, uneven or not, the fuel-injected SOHC six, as applied to this Volvo, put out 140-bhp. That's absorbed by the standard Aisin-Warner 3-speed autobox that then converts those ponies into forward momentum. That's not a lot of hutzpah for the ton and a half coupe, but then the 262C is built for comfort, not speed.
But what about that $7,500 asking price? Is that built for you speeding to your bank for a withdrawal? Or, would you be more comfortable letting this king's conveyance pass you by?
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I have some books that has been on my to be reviewed list a long time. Instead on living with a bad conscience I decided to make a few short reviews to give you an idea about them. Hera are the first four.
Palimpsest by Catherynne M Valente (Bantam Spectra 2009)
This is a great book or so people keeps telling me but I never got into it. I tried and I tried time and again but we never hit it off. The prose is beautiful but the story is way to diffuse for my liking. I guess I just like a story clearly told.
Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor 2009)
A beautiful story of friendship set in a different future world after some kind of disaster where society returned to simpler times under a religious dictatorship. It has great characters and a great story. I always liked rebels and the narration is charming. This novel really deserves a full review.
Vishnu at the Cat Circus (Cyberbad Days) by Ian McDonald (Pyr/Gollancz 2009) – a novella
A boy's story from a genetic wonder to the discard pile and the wisdom taught. The setting is future India on the verge of Singularity. Oscar nominated and well worth it. Every page is full of ideas. I really liked the story.
Ashes and Stars (Omega Point Trilogy book 1) by George Zebrowski (Ace 1977)
Father and son wake up 300 years after a terrible war bent on revenge. They have a marvelous ship at their disposal and start to wreak havoc. But things are not as they seems and the son has his own ideas. Rather flat characters and story made me not read more.


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Americans Borrow More, but Slow the Pace
Credit card debt rose by a slight $1.8 billion in May, after having surged in April.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers increased their borrowing at a slower pace in May compared to the prior month.
The Federal Reserve says that overall credit rose by $19.6 billion in May, down from a gain of $26.1 billion in April. The relatively modest increase should help to feed slow but steady economic growth, because consumers rely on debt to pay tuition, buy cars and shop.
Total outstanding consumer debt is now approaching $3.2 trillion.
Auto and student loans drove much of the gains in May. They increased by a combined $17.8 billion. That marks a year-over-year rise of 9.3%.
Credit card debt rose by a slight $1.8 billion in May, after having surged in April. The increase in credit card debt over the past year has been 2.5%.


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August 19, 2011
Attendees at this weekend's Kansas City Aviation Expo and Air Show can see the U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt — also known as the "Warthog" — in action. A Kansas University and Olathe North High School graduate, U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe "Rifle" Shetterly, is one of the pilots on the A-10 demonstration team.
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Johnson County native to pilot war plane at this weekend's air show
A Johnson County native and Kansas University graduate will be at the helm of a high-powered plane during the headline act of this weekend's Kansas City Aviation Expo and Air Show.
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