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In Group A, the United States took the top honors thanks to an exciting 3-2 shootout win over Russia, as T. J. Oshie starred with four goals on six attempts, making him an instant star in the United States. The US benefitted from a disallowed goal due to the net being dislodged slightly, negating what would have been a game winner for the Russians.
Russia dropped points in not only their game against the US, but also by having to go all the way to another shootout against the Slovaks. The Russians finished with 6 points in the standings with a win, and overtime win and an overtime loss.
Thanks to their surprising win over the Slovaks, Olympic debutants Slovenia finished third in Group A with three points, trailed by Slovakia who finished a disappointing last with a single point from their shootout loss to Russia and a pair of defeats.
Group B went down to the final game of the round, as Canada prevailed in overtime against Finland 2-1. The Canadians finished with 8 points from two wins over Norway and Austria and their overtime win against the Finns.
Group B with his overtime game winner
By splitting the points with Canada in their final game, Finland ended with 7 points, which earned them a bye into the Quarterfinals as the highest seed after the three group winners. Austria defeated winless Norway 3-1 in today's first game to claim the third spot in the group with three points.
Play in Group C concluded yesterday with Sweden beating Latvia 5-3 to become the only team in the competition to win all three of it's games in regulation for the maximum 9 points.
Switzerland solidified their place as a team to be reckoned with by finishing second ahead of the Czech Republic, who they defeated 1-0. In fact, all three Swiss games ended with 1-0 scores, as they got a late game winner against Latvia in their opening game and kept it close in their game with Sweden, but were unable to get an equalizer. Jonas Hiller had both of Switzerland's shutout victories and the Swiss allowed just one goal in their three games, but need to find their offense soon.
While the Czechs were able to defeat Latvia in regulation to claim the full three points, they would be the only points they would manage as they came in third. Latvia went winless, narrowly missing out on making it to overtime against Switzerland in their opener.
With the Preliminary Round now completed, all 12 teams have been ranked based on their results to date, with group winners Sweden, the United States and Canada talking the top three seeds in that order, with Finland claiming the fourth thanks to the extra point they earned by reaching overtime against Canada in the final game of the round.
The remaining eight teams will now enter the Qualification Playoffs on Tuesday, February 18th as the single elimination games begin.
In the upper bracket, #5 Russia will face #12 Norway, with the winner advancing to play #4 Finland.
In the lower bracket, Switzerland was ranked 6th due to an inferior goal differential compared to Russia and will face #11 Latvia in what could very well be yet another 1-0 game for the Swiss. #3 Canada awaits the winner of their matchup.
The Czech Republic drew the #7 spot when the tie breakers were applied to themselves, Slovenia and Austria, who each completed the first round with a single win, and they will now have to face a difficult challenge in their rivals #10 Slovakia, who seem to have found their game by taking Russia to overtime scoreless. The team that survives will face a rested #2 United States.
Back in the upper bracket, #8 Slovenia is paired with #9 Austria in a very winnable game for the lowest ranked team entering the tournament. The Slovenians are ranked 17th in the IIHF World Rankings, and certainly could have had a much worse draw in the Qualification Playoffs, having avoided the likes of Russia and Switzerland. The victor's reward is a date with the undefeated, #1 ranked Swedes, but who are now without captain Henrik Zetterberg for the remainder of the tournament.
The knockout games begin on Tuesday at 3 AM Eastern on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), with the second match at 7:30 AM on the USA Network followed by a pair of games at 12 noon, one on NBCSN and the other on MSNBC. This is a somewhat unfortunate schedule, as in 2010 in Vancouver, the schedule was set with four consecutive games, rather than two being played at the same time. With a little luck, fans will be able to watch the game of their choice without learning the result of the other game before having a chance to watch a recording of it, as we were able to do with this morning's pair of games.
Looking ahead to the Quarterfinals on Wednesday, there are four more games on tap, making for eight over the course of two days. The winners of Wednesday's games will be guaranteed of a chance to play for a medal, but first need to get through Friday's semifinals to find out which one.


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I first used my Explore to cut out the coordinating SVG outlines and then stamped the images. I used Prismacolor Markers to colour them in. I love all the different sizes of stars that come in the set! Perfect for stamping all over my journaling cards! I used the sentiments to stamp over different areas of my pages, even masking off some of the stamps to get parts of the words.
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I had a really great day at work yesterday. It flew by so fast, we did 25 minutes of yoga and we had the breeze flowing through the studio through open doors. I may not have been enjoying the weather outside but at least I got to feel the beautiful warm air at work. Hopefully today will be more of the same, it'll make a 10 hour day go much faster!
I have my food all ready to bring with me today. I still have to make my smoothie so I'm going to apologize in advance but I did use a recycled photo. I know it is frowned upon but it will literally be the same thing and I think that a recycled pic is better than no pic! So let's check it out!


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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
BOTH ducks are laying! Yay!
These eggs are weird! Very smooth/polished, compared to chicken eggs. Also, unlike the chickens who just drop an egg in the nest box, our ducky gals make a little nest in the straw and lay their eggs in the same spot. Haven't tried them yet, but planning on it this weekend before heading out to our tree stands.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
A drive in the woods
Got home and set up my new deer stand. Very cool. If I don't get a deer, may have a chance at a bear (lots of big bruin poopy piles around the property) or a coyote (got me a new predator call at Cabela's this weekend!)
Buck season starts next Saturday. Yay!
Friday, September 21, 2012
First whole duck egg!
Don't know whether Crusty or Olga laid this egg. Gonna have to see if some ducks lay green eggs and others don't. Pretty exciting, though!
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Still alive!
I really am still alive. There's just too much going on to find time to blog. Pigs went to butcher, turkeys too. We'll cull the young roosters here in a few weeks, and Dunder will be butchered as well and replaced by one of his offspring. Darkwing and Launchpad are gone... We gave the two drakes to our neighbor's brother, who has a pond. We drove by to look, and they were happily swimming around with his other ducks. Currently working to get the old house ready to go on the market. I'm at this moment covered in paint, taking a break from kitchen painting. The next few weeks will be spent working at the old house, along with a full time job and farm chores at home. Gotta get this last coat on and head home to check on the 5 new chicks (3 ameraucana and 2 speckled sussex). We saw them at the feed store and, well, we're suckers.
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Last heard, Kapil Sharma was dating an Indian lady. Now SpotboyE.com can tell you that there is a Firang in his life. No, the host of The Kapil Sharma Show has not gone the Salman Khan way. Firang is his next film.
The star comedian will produce and star in Firang, his second Bollywood outing.
Kapil had made his debut last year with Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon, opposite four actresses Elli Avram, Manjari Phadnis, Simran Kaur Mundi and Sai Lokur.
This time around, he will only have one leading lady, Ishita Dutta.
The actress, who is the younger sister of former Miss India and actress Tanushree Dutta, played Ajay Devgn's daughter in the film Drishyam.
The film which will possibly be a collaboration between Kapil and Sony (the channel which airs The Kapil Sharma Show), will be directed by Rajiv Dhingra.
Rajiv, who is a childhood friend of Kapil's, had helmed the Punjabi film, Love Punjab, earlier.
Firang will kick off on November 25 in Punjab and the action will later move to Rajasthan.
But how will Kapil juggle the shoots with his comedy show?
A source tells us that Kapil and his cast and crew are working to create a bank of episodes so that he can make time for the film.
"Kapil has promised that he will come back to shoot the show in December if and when the need arises," adds the source.
The film will be a period comedy.
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Today truly is the most wonderful day in the year. AlthoughI am not necessarily saying that Andy Williams should suck my pink steel, forthis reason anyway, I do prefer today over the day that the silver-backed daddybear with the velvet fetish comes down my chimney.*
Today is Christmas cookie baking day!
Picture it. Denver. 1998. A tradition begins when a smallgroup of lifelong friends decide to get together in Frank's recently remodeledkitchen to bake cookies. One moveacross country, one kid, husbands, countless hairstyles, and jean sizes we'restill gathering to bake cookies.
During the passing of time I have gone from swimming in 34 size jeans, to squeezinginto 38, then back to 34's I still look forward to today every year.
*So much for this blog post being a warm holiday greeting.


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If you missed East Dane & Shopbop's Spring sale or you're looking to get a head start on your summer wardrobe then you're in luck because today they've kicked off their Friends and Family big sale event! Details and favorite picks below.
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text: Chocolate Puma in Dubai Dutch producers Zki and Dobre took over at Sanctuary this weekend By Time Out Dubai staff 31 July 2010 1,100 of Dubai's 'beautiful people' poured through the doors at Sanctuary last Thursday to catch a one-off set from Dutch duo Chocolate Puma. The energetic house started late at 12.45am, but the boys held the decks right through until the end of the night with a good number of new tracks thrown in. A break in the music gave way to gold-clad Nu Rave dancers and a percussionist whacking out some crazy rhythms. This excited the crowd even further, and several ravers tried to get up on the stage and join in on the action. Andrew Wagstaff Ola Koltun Naty Karina Alejandro Miriam Terchova Julie Hasam Zailyn Gunnion Emily Aleena DJ Chocolate Puma Sanah Sabharwal Amir Mohsena and Nagin Faza Courtney Decker and Cecelia Lind Natalie Yokoyshiva Iryna Lechenco Olga Radkevich Ameya and Shakti Gupta Nani and Mari Brown DJ Chocolate Puma Kati Satchini and Mendi Mlekpour Follow Us [[banner]]


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Danske Markets predicts 0% ECB rate and $/€ at 130
Danske Markets, part of Danske Bank, said in a note that the bond market pressure yesterday on debt issued by AAA rated countries such as France, Austria and the Netherlands suggested Europe's financial crisis could run for some time, and likely would lead the ECB to introduce a de facto zero rate policy come January.
"In our view the crisis has now escalated to a new dangerous level, as bond yields from triple-A countries like France, Austria, the Netherlands, Finland and Austria also rose dramatically yesterday. The market is now pricing that e.g. France and Austria will lose their top-rating. French and Austrian 10y yields are now more than twice as high as the German equivalent, trading with a spread of 194bp and 184bp to Germany, respectively," Danske Markets wrote.
It added: "Spanish bonds are now in the danger zone for a haircut from LCH clearnet. It was new margin requirements from LCH that initially pushed Italian bonds above 7% last week."
Spain goes to the polls this coming weekend, with Reuters reporting that anger over the country's economic situation looks set to put the centre-right People's Party in power with a mandate to cut government spending. Recent opinion polls put the party, led by Mariano Rajoy, on a 17 point lead over the Socialist party – suggesting the biggest margin win for a right-of-centre party since the 1970s, when democracy returned to Spain following the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Danske Market's prediction of future ECB rate policy is the result of new data pointing to a contraction in the eurozone economy.
Danske Markets writes: "The sharp drop in eurozone industrial production in September reported on Monday and weak PMIs reported last week indicate that expansion was already slowing dramatically going into Q4, As a consequence of the weak growth outlook we changed our interest rate forecast yesterday. We now expect the ECB to cut rates in both December and January, which will for the first time ever bring the refi-rate below 1%. We are now basically calling for zero rates in the eurozone as the important deposit rate is expected to be lowered to just 0.25%. The weak growth outlook and de facto zero rates are also expected to weigh on the euro, and we have lowered our €/$ forecast to 1.30 on a 3M horizon."
"Before the Swiss National Bank introduced the 1.20 minimum target in €/CHF the franc would have strengthened significantly on a day like yesterday. However, growing speculation that the SNB might lift the target as early as December kept €/CHF well supported close to the 1.24-level. Hence, it leaves the market with JPY as the only true safe-haven currency. In that respect the Bank of Japan did little to mitigate the safe-haven flows at today.s monetary policy meeting. As expected the policy board kept its zero rate policy unchanged and cut its economic assessment due to global slowdown fears. However, it did not introduce new measures to fight the appreciating yen. We forecast that BoJ will have to accept $/JPY sliding to a record low 74 over the next six months."


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But more importantly, today is a VERY special day... 11 years ago today Quinn Alexander Burroughs came into this crazy world! I bet he came in with all the style and wiggles as he still has today!
Happy Birthday Quinny! :)
Hope it was a great day!
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I wanted an electric lawn mower because I just didn"t want to deal with the loud gas type with tune-ups, oil changes etc. I can handle the cord, and have outlets in strategic locations in my 100'x100' property. This thing has great power and is smooth. I love not pulling a cord, just pushing a button. Much quieter than the gas ones. All it has to do is last one month and it pays for itself (as compared to a landscaper cost). It's so smooth my wife now cuts it while I'm at work (she is 5'2" and 120lbs, a small woman), she enjoys it so much that we have to make deals so I can use it once in a while. Well worth it.
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After having everything shoved to my sewing studio over the holidays to make room for LOTS of family on Christmas Eve, I needed to sort through all my fabrics! As I did, I got the urge to simply sew 5 inch squares together from 4 of the 6 charm packs I found that had originally been bought by "Quilt In A Day" a few years (?) ago!
No rules, no certain pattern, just sew charms!
Loving it and the hum of my machine working makes me very happy!
I am glad I had the foresight to buy matching border fabric, so this will be done quickly, and I still have enough fabric to make a donation baby quilt, or a baby quilt for someone!


text: T.J. Samson Community Hospital Glasgow Hospital Found Guilty in Child Birth Negligence Case By WKU Public Radio News • Nov 26, 2014 T.J. Samson Following a week-long trial, a Barren County jury took just over an hour to find T. J. Samson Hospital guilty of negligence Tuesday night. The hospital was ordered to pay $18.3 million to the family of a baby born with severe brain injuries at the hospital in 2011. The doctor handling the birth of Tristan Hamilton was cleared of all charges. The Glasgow Daily Times reports the baby was born with a form of cerebral palsy as well as other health issues. The jurors agreed T. J. Samason failed in its duty to properly care for Tristan and his mother Brittney Hamilton. T.J. Samson Hospital Cutting Jobs By WKU Public Radio News • Apr 17, 2014 T.J. Samson T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow announced Wednesday that it will cut between 39 and 49 employees from all departments beginning immediately. The hospital released the news at a news conference in Glasgow. The Bowling Green Daily News reports interim CEO Henry Royse said the difficult decisions were based on a costly roll out of an inadequate financial software program and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. Besides the staff layoffs, senior management and salaried physicians will have their pay cut by 10% and employees making more than $10 an hour will see reductions of 2% to 6% beginning in September. Despite the decisions that the hospital was faced with, the administration claims to be still encouraged by the hospital's future. The cuts won't impact the quality or access to care "that drives nearly 1,200 employees of T.J. Samson every day," according to a news release. This latest news comes after the non-profit hospital offered employees early retirement last year. At least two dozen people, including then CEO Bill Kindred, accepted that offer. TJ Samson Sued over Changes Made to Articles of Incorporation By WKU Public Radio News • Jun 7, 2013 T.J. Samson A lawsuit filed against TJ Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow seeks to seat a new board of trustees at the hospital. The Bowling Green Daily-News reports the suit was filed Thursday in Barren Circuit Court by Warren County attorney Alan Simpson. The suit claims that the original agreement incorporating the hospital in 1926 called for a board of trustees to be elected by those who had contributed more than $25 to the establishment of the hospital. Those suing say a change to the articles of incorporation in 1968 disenfranchised those original shareholders. An attorney for TJ Samson says the lawsuit is baseless and without merit, adding that the way the governing board is selected has never before been challenged. A group of Barren County citizens has mobilized to challenge recent changes at the hospital, including a 2011 decision that only one corporate member, TJ Regional Health, would act and vote through its board of directors. The lawsuit says the for-profit TJ Health Partners was later formed and is thought to be a subsidiary of TJ Regional Health. Many local doctors' practices have recently been purchased by the Health Partners, a growing trend nationally as the health care environment undergoes fast changes.


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It's World Breastfeeding Week – More Hospitals Have Been Added to the Baby-Friendly List, and a Word on Judgment
It's World Breastfeeding Week, and Women's eNews has a piece up about new additions to the list of Baby-Friendly Hospitals, facilities which meet 10 criteria demonstrating a commitment to improve institutional breastfeeding policy, training and practices. The criteria are 10 breastfeeding-focused steps outlined by UNICEF/WHO, including helping mothers initiate breastfeeding, allowing "rooming in," and other practices. The complete list of 83 qualifying U.S. facilities is available from the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
Now, whenever this particular week rolls around, there are inevitably a flood of posts on breastfeeding, especially about how women who can't or won't breastfeed experience harsh judgment from others. With so many cultural and workplace barriers in place that discourage breastfeeding or make it nearly impossible, I don't think it's that useful to judge individual women for their choices – much better to spend that energy on workplaces that don't provide adequate breaks or accessible space for pumping, our general lack of parental leave (as compared to other nations), and corporate a-holes who ask women customers to leave businesses or go to bathrooms to breastfeed. Much better to encourage states that haven't to pass and enforce laws that exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws and explicitly allow women to breastfeed anywhere women are otherwise allowed to be.
Furthermore, people who see a parent feeding with a bottle and automatically jump to the formula conclusion and then make judgy faces offend my sense of logic. That parent could be adoptive. They could be feeding pumped breastmilk out of a bottle. They could be HIV positive and attempting to reduce transmission risk. They could be the non-biological mom in a lesbian couple. They could be cancer survivors who have had a double mastectomy. There are any number of reasons why the bottle feeding you see could be happening that have nothing to do with "Oh, she's just too stupid/selfish/lazy to know what's best and choose breastfeeding." Even if you are going to be judgmental about formula-feeding, you can't actually know what's happening or why just by seeing a bottle.
Given the barriers listed above, and the logical failures of seeing a bottle and making potentially erroneous assumptions, making women miserable on a one-woman-at-a-time basis is not a very effective or logical strategy for increasing breastfeeding rates. Additionally, as Lauredhel outlines in a post responding to those who think that society has "gone too far" in supporting breastfeeding, the judging and problems go both ways. Which makes me think a lot of this is not actually about the real barriers and choices, or the actual medical evidence, but about something else that causes each side to feel put upon, no matter their choice.
I think breastfeeding is great. I think it would be awesome if every woman who wanted to breastfeed had the resources and support to do so, as often and wherever and for as long as she wanted or needed to. I think it would be awesome if I didn't hear at least every other month about somebody's lactation consultant being unhelpful at best. I think it would be awesome if people on both sides of the choice didn't try to reinterpret evidence to suit their choices, to suggest that there are no real benefits of breastfeeding or that formula is super-toxin that will kill your baby dead (yes, I'm exaggerating for effect). I don't need to hear every individual woman justify her choices – I need to see our society shift in a way that allows women to make those choices freely in an educated way in a supportive environment.
[For more information on breastfeeding, see this bunch of links from OBOS, and this website from the National Women's Health Information Center.]
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"I don't need to hear every individual woman justify her choices – I need to see our society shift in a way that allows women to make those choices freely in an educated way in a supportive environment."
Lovely post. Based on my personal experiences criticism, especially from other women, seems to pervade every nook and cranny of an adult woman's life: to get married or not, to change her maiden name or not, to have children or not, to stay at home or work full-time, etc. I, too, would like to see the judgment shift to supporting access to information and a woman's right to be free to make her own choices.
August 5, 2009 3:50 pm
Great post, Rachel! I must admit that when I first started bottle feeding my son breast milk in public, I almost wanted to shout to people "it's breast milk! Don't judge me!" After a while, I stopped caring what other people did or didn't think of me.
I didn't even realize that it was World Breastfeeding Week when I wrote my post on the subject yesterday. I just happened to have a baby who finally took more than a 30-minute nap which allowed me to collect my thoughts on the subject. It's something I've been wanting to write for some time. What a funny coincidence.
August 5, 2009 8:17 pm
I've always been a huge breastfeeding/natural birth advocate. Neither happened the way I wanted them to. The one thing I learned from my experiences of being unable to conceive my son, birth him, or feed him "naturally", was that the women who were supposed to be the most ardent supporters of other women, were the first to disparage me for my "choices." Of course, I didn't choose any of my experiences, but the lazy/selfish/stupid labels still came into play. I had such terrible experiences with lactation consultants and cruel "breastfeeding advocates", that despite all the education I have about breast being best, the idea of trying, failing, and being harangued for being a terrible mother, when I am already vulnerable and overwrought, is enough to make me consider never attempting again.


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You know those gun-buyback programs where police purchase weapons in order to destroy them? This week, a North Carolina law goes into effect that blocks police from destroying confiscated or unclaimed firearms.
In the polarized post-Sandy Hook political era -- with some liberal states tightening gun laws while conservative legislatures have moved aggressively to loosen restrictions -- North Carolina's gun-destruction policy is among the most unusual policies to take effect.
The so-called "save the gun" law, at the urging of the National Rifle Assn., breezed through votes by North Carolina's Republican-controlled Legislature in the spring as the state moved to strengthen gun rights. In October, concealed-carry owners will also be allowed to take guns into bars and restaurants (as long as they don't drink), or leave their guns in their vehicles while at schools and universities.
The new law (full text here) requires that law-enforcement agencies donate, keep or sell confiscated guns to licensed gun dealers, provided the weapons aren't damaged or missing serial numbers. In such cases, guns may be destroyed.


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I just want to tell you that you're all wonderful and I'm really thankful for each and every one of you!
Thanks for comment and visit me day by day.
This blog has grow very fast, I'll try and keep it updated more often from now on.
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200 is an even number.
200 has 2 representations as a sum of 2 squares: 200 = 2^2+14^2 = 10^2+10^2
200 has the representation 200 = 2^8-56.
200 divides 49^2-1.


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The California Gay Rights Brigade is chapping my ass. A gay marriage ban passed there so now we have to have national protests. Here's my question: where the fuck was California's outrage when marriage bans passed in 29 other states?
Every time I'm in California people ask, "Oh, so when are you moving here?" Seriously, people I've just met. Comments about the state of gay affairs here are met with "you should know better" looks. People cannot even wrap their brains around why a gay person might live in Detroit.
So now gay California, which hasn't had a real gay rights fight in twenty years, gets a little taste of what we deal with more frequently here in the flyover states and we're supposed to put down our knitting and march, since it's NOW an issue of national importance?
OK, fine, whatever it takes, I realize California is a bellweather state for gay rights. But I just wanted to point that out. California, maybe you could be a little less smug in the future.
There is a Very Important Gay Rights Protest coming up this week! All around the country people are gathering to "Join the Impact." Their website says:
"Tuesday night was a bitter-sweet celebration. We came together to witness the first black man who will become our president, yet watched in sadness as Florida, Arizona, Arkansas, and California all voted down equal rights for all citizens.This is not a four-state issue. This is an issue of equality across America. Stand up and make your voice heard."
The protest will be this Saturday at 1:30pm in downtown Detroit in front of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. I suspect there will be a good turnout, and all bitterness aside, right now "the iron is hot" and we need to push hard to capitalize on the momentum and outrage that the passing of Proposition 8 in California hath wrought.
And this extends to straight folks too. We really need your support and your voice. It's not enough to silently support marriage equality. You need to let people know that the way things are now is not right, and that you support change.
Now get to steppin'!
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri is offering $343,000 in tax credits in hopes of enticing private donors to help finance a new livestock arena at the Missouri State Fair that the government can't afford to build on its own.
The Missouri Development Finance Board approved the tax credits Tuesday, marking just the second time in the 25-year history of its tax credit program that credits will go to a state project.
It's also just the second tax credit project the agency approved this year.
Missouri's expansive system of tax credits has come under scrutiny as tax revenue has declined and the state has been forced to lay off employees and cut aid to public schools and colleges. The state has foregone $1.1 billion in taxes in the past two years because of credits given for development projects or social causes. The loss amounts to more than 7 percent of state revenues.
The Legislature passed a law last year limiting tax credits approved by the finance board to $10 million per year, and Gov. Jay Nixon built on that by slowing down the issuing of tax credits this year.
The governor appoints most of the members of the tax credit board, which has the authority to award credits equal to 50 percent of the private contributions given for projects. In the case of the State Fair, the board will issue up to $343,000 in tax credits in exchange for $686,000 in donations to the project.
The new arena will cost an estimated $726,000 and be connected to the existing livestock coliseum, which was built more than 100 years ago. The new facility is intended primarily to provide a place with a roof -- it will not be enclosed with walls -- for contest participants to prepare their horses and cattle without getting them wet and muddy.
State Fair Director Mark Wolfe said the fairgrounds in Sedalia lost some equine events it used to host when the fair was not in session because it lacks a covered practice arena.
"The state has not funded much in the way of capital improvements in the past few years because of the budget situation, which is understandable," Wolfe said.
Fair officials hope the tax credits will help the nonprofit fundraising organization that supports the fair generate contributions from agricultural industry groups. The goal is to complete the fundraising in three years and build the new arena in 2013 or 2014, Wolfe said.
The only other state project to be financed through the tax credit program was the Department of Conservation's Discovery Center in Kansas City, which received $800,000 in tax credits in March 1999.
The board waived its normal two-presentation requirement for applicants in order to approve the State Fair project under its 2010 allotment of tax credits, which went largely unused. The only other project the board approved this year was the relocation of a history museum in Springfield.
"Contributions, and interest in them, has been way down," said the board's executive director, Robert Miserez. "We're attributing a lot of that to the economy. It's hard to raise money -- even for tax credits."
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Police say there was an unusual number of break-ins in Kennewick over the weekend.
There were at least nine burglaries between Friday and Sunday, said Sgt. Ken Lattin.
Five burglaries were reported at businesses and another four happened at houses or storage units.
Police are not sure if the burglaries are connected.
Skimpy's Coffee, Pavement Surface Control and the Kennewick Eagles Club were a few of the businesses targeted, Lattin said.
Windows were broken at two houses on West Second Avenue and South Palouse Street. Items including a TV, a computer, jewelry and an iPod were taken.
There is surveillance video of two suspects at the Eagles Club and footage of a male suspect at a business on the 2400 block of West Kennewick Avenue, Lattin said.
Anyone with information on the burglaries is asked to contact Tri-Cities Crime Stoppers confidentially at 586-8477, 800-222-8477 or go to www.tricitiescrimestoppers.com.


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Anyway, when Paula came yesterday, she presented me with "a new" "toy and trinket jar"... filled with "stuff"... farm animals, a plastic ring... ect ( I cant tell you everything because it should always be a "mystery" right?) lol I was SO touched! It's my new tradition for my nieces and nephews, when they come over. I know have a JAR of my own! Thank you Paula!
Tenna Sprenger-No Day like Today
Trisha Ladouceur-A Moment in Time
Michelle Van Etten-Musings of a Fower Girl
Lauren Nwachukwu-Everything Altered
I cant wait to work with this group of talented girls! Congrats to all!
Oh... I wanted to share this with you also. My cousin Paula who I was talking about above, made this last time our group got together at her house. She just didn't have it totally finished. She brought it with her yesterday to show us the finished piece. It turned out so cool.
Taylor Vanbruggen-Taylored Expressions
Ana Wohlfahrt-Ink A Stamp
Lynn Nercurio-Stamperosity
Monika Davis-M.A.D. Stamper
Mary Jo Albright-Beauty Lies Within
Jami Sibley-More is More
Sherrie Siemens-Card Creme
Stephanie Hargis-Steph's Stampin' Stuff


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When seven people simply disappear in a small rural town, Fringe division is there to investigate. However, Olivia is still recovering from her crash, and is discovering new side effects of her trip to another dimension. Because of this, she is not at her best and almost shoots Peter in the head because of poor judgment. Broyles has taken notice of this and has warned the team to keep their eyes on her. As for the disappearances, the investigation leads the team to the home of a retired scientist, Hughes, who seems to know more than he is telling us. Unfortunately he kills himself before he can reveal anything about the case, but not before agent Jessup learns of his wife and kid dying twenty years ago in childbirth. After exhuming the bodies they discover that the kid has buried down and out of his casket, and is now what is attacking these people. This child has become this way because Hughes altered him in the womb to allow him to survive the doomed pregnancy due to a condition his wife had. After a violent showdown, the team emerges victorious, and Olivia seeks help from an unlikely source.
And where is the Observer. Well I have to say that he is really being a bad sport about where to find him in this episode, it took me about three tries to find him, and then I only found him by accident. In the wide shot of Hughes house just before Jessup finds the bible, you can see the very small outline of our friend looking at the house about the middle of the shot and then far to the right. I have added a red box around the Observer because, as I have already said, he a pain to find.


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(guardianlv.com - Feb. 27) The former Ambassador of Panama to the Organization of American States (OAS), Guillermo Cochez, said Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez suffered brain death and had died four days later.(from "Hugo Chavez Dead?" at guardianlv.com)
According to statements given to international news channel NTN24, "the president suffered brain death since December 31 and has been disconnected from the machines that kept him alive for four days."
On whether Venezuela is prepared for the worst news, the journalist said: "Not at all. People who can read the political news can be but most people do not, hence the opposition says that the people want to be told what happened to his Commander President, some say he has died, I have learned that on December 30 was the first death, brain death."
It requested through his Twitter account the Venezuelan government to file a proof that Chávez is being kept alive. "They've been cheating on Venezuela and the world," he wrote.
"The infighting in Venezuela, the Cuban government pressure, are situations that have not allowed the news of his death be released," said the reporter.
"Chávez was taken to Venezuela because the Cubans did not want to give the disconnect there and have kept him from returning to Venezuela in that state. They would not have been able to teach Evo Morales and Ollanta Humala or Cristina Fernández," he explained.
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Hugo Chávez Is Still Dead
Corrupt Prog dictators are often kept alive by feuding underlings, overlords
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A small penis is something that many men have to live with, and it can lead to a number of other serious conditions, such as depression and low self-esteem.
The question is, would these men be happier if they had a bigger penis? And ultimately, does size really matter?
Feeling comfortable
We would argue that it's not necessarily the size that matters. What's really important is being comfortable in your own skin, which for some men just isn't possible as they're too self-conscious about the size of their penis.
As humans, we can't help but constantly compare ourselves against other people and measure ourselves by these benchmarks. For many men, finding out they're on the small side of the penis scale is something they will struggle with for the rest of their life. It's this comparison that leads to low self-esteem and sometimes more serious depression.
Sexual inadequacy
This problem can quickly spiral out of control and begin to invade every part of a man's life, not least of all his romantic life and ability to form meaningful relationships. The problem associated with a small penis can soon become even worse when coupled with feelings of sexual inadequacy and the inability to please their sexual partners. Of course, penis size is not always directly linked to sexual gratification, but it can be easy to think this way when you have low self-esteem.
Does penis size effect happiness?
So, for many people, it is true. Penis size can have a direct effect on happiness and other positive emotional feelings, such as confidence. Not everyone with a small penis will feel this way, and we would never go as far as to suggest that a bigger penis will definitely make someone happier. However, it's a superficial thing that can make a huge difference to a man's sense of self-worth, providing that it is the root of the insecurity, of course.
But why should this be a problem?
We live in the 21st century where these things can be safely rectified. For more information on penoplasty surgery or non-surgical penis enlargement procedures,


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A couple weeks ago, I was in Bishkek-Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on the way back from Afghanistan, reveling in easy, plentiful internet access. I pored over the Hennepin County Jail Roster like it was the most entertaining site on the internet, clicking on the names of North Minneapolis residents to learn about their criminal charges.
That was when I learned about Christina Maria Elias, age 21, who was charged with prostitution and listed a Penn Ave. N. home address.
Today I learned Elias pleaded guilty on April 3 to two separate counts of engaging in prostitution with a person over 18 in a public place. For this, Elias was sentenced to 2 years probation.
On the jailhouse roster, Elias reported her address as 3230 Penn Ave. N.
And that's when things got interesting...
The owner of that property is listed as "TLC Hardon LLC" on the city's property website.
That's right. TLC Hardon.
"TLC" is a common abbreviation for "Tender Loving Care." And a "hardon" is, well, it's a hardon. An erect penis. Duh.
So here we have a prostitute (now convicted, and I was watching for that) whose home address is owned by "TLC Hardon, LLC."
Very interesting.
I went to the website of the Minnesota Secretary of State to see what I might discover about this LLC. Turns out there is a "Hard On Tackle LLC," and there are a number of businesses with "TLC" in the title.
There is, however, no "TLC Hardon, LLC." (CORRECTION, APRIL 7. Unknown why the name did not come up when I searched the website, and therefore the following statement is based on a false assumption)
Which means it's either an out-of-state LLC or the city's property information website contains spurious information. I'd bet on the second one.


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When Microsoft tapped Satya Nadella as its third chief executive, the technology giant turned to a longtime engineering executive and company insider. He takes over at a critical time, as Microsoft grapples with both strategic and cultural challenges. In his first interview as CEO, Nadella, just weeks into his job, talks about leadership lessons from his predecessors, his management style and fostering innovation.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
The most important one I learned from Steve happened two or three annual reviews ago. I sat down with him, and I remember asking him: "What do you think? How am I doing?" Then he said: "Look, you will know it, I will know it, and it will be in the air. So you don't have to ask me, 'How am I doing?' At your level, it's going to be fairly implicit."
I went on to ask him, "How do I compare to the people who had my role before me?" And Steve said: "Who cares? The context is so different. The only thing that matters to me is what you do with the cards you've been dealt now. I want you to stay focused on that, versus trying to do this comparative benchmark." The lesson was that you have to stay grounded, and to be brutally honest with yourself on where you stand.
And what about Bill Gates?
Bill is the most analytically rigorous person. He's always very well prepared, and in the first five seconds of a meeting he'll find some logical flaw in something I've shown him. I'll wonder, how can it be that I pour in all this energy and still I didn't see something? In the beginning, I used to say, "I'm really intimidated by him." But he's actually quite grounded. You can push back on him. He'll argue with you vigorously for a couple of minutes, and then he'll be the first person to say, "Oh, you're right." Both Bill and Steve share this. They pressure-test you. They test your conviction.
There's a lot of curiousity around what kind of role Bill is going to play with you.
The outside world looks at it and says, "Whoa, this is some new thing." But we've worked closely for about nine years now. So I'm very comfortable with this, and I asked for a real allocation of his time. He is in fact making some pretty hard trade-offs to say, "OK, I'll put more energy into this." And one of the fantastic things that only Bill can do inside this campus is to get everybody energized to bring their A-game. It's just a gift.
What were some early leadership lessons for you?
I played on my school's cricket team, and there was one incident that just was very stunning to me. I was a bowler – like a pitcher in baseball – and I was throwing very ordinary stuff one day. So the captain took over from me and got the team a breakthrough, and then he let me take over again.
I never asked him why he did that, but my impression is that he knew he would destroy my confidence if he didn't put me back in. And I went on to take a lot more wickets after that. It was a subtle, important leadership lesson about when to intervene and when to build the confidence of the team. I think that is perhaps the No. 1 thing that leaders have to do: to bolster the confidence of the people you're leading.
Tell me about your management approach in your new role.
The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it? A lot of people on the team were my peers, and I worked for some of them in the past. The framing for me is all about getting people to commit and engage in an authentic way, and for us to feel that energy as a team.
I'm not evaluating them on what they say individually. None of them would be on this team if they didn't have some fantastic attributes. I'm only evaluating us collectively as a team. Are we able to authentically communicate, and are we able to build on each person's capabilities to the benefit of our organization?
Your company has acknowledged that it needs to create much more of a unified " one Microsoft" culture. How are you going to do that?
One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity. What is it that we want to get done? Are we aligned in order to be able to get it done? And are we pursuing that with intensity? That's really the job.
Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula. So the question is: How do we take the intellectual capital of 130,000 people and innovate where none of the category definitions of the past will matter? Any organizational structure you have today is irrelevant because no competition or innovation is going to respect those boundaries. Everything now is going to have to be much more compressed in terms of both cycle times and response times.
So how do you create that self-organizing capability to drive innovation and be focused? And the high-tech business is perhaps one of the toughest ones, because something can be a real failure until it's not. It's just an absolute dud until it's a hit. So you have to be able to sense those early indicators of success, and the leadership has to really lean in and not let things die on the vine. When you have a $70 billion business, something that's $1 million can feel irrelevant. But that $1 million business might be the most relevant thing we are doing.
To me, that is perhaps the big culture change – recognizing innovation and fostering its growth. It's not going to come because of an org chart or the organizational boundaries. Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.
How do you hire?
I do a kind of 360 review. I will ask the individual to tell me what their manager would say about them, what their peers would say about them, what their direct reports would say about them, and in some cases what their customers or partners may say about them. That particular line of questioning leads into fantastic threads, and I've found that to be a great one for understanding their self-awareness.
I also ask: What are you most proud of? Tell me where you feel you've set some standard, and you look back on it and say, "Wow, I really did that." And then, what's the thing that you regret the most, where you felt like you didn't do your best work? How do you reflect on it?
Those two lines of questioning help me a lot in terms of being able to figure people out. I fundamentally believe that if you are not self-aware, you're not learning. And if you're not learning, you're not going to do useful things in the future.
What might somebody say in a meeting that, to you, sounds like nails on a chalkboard?
One of the things that drives me crazy is anyone who comes in from the outside and says, "This is how we used to do it." Or if somebody who's been here for a while says, "This is how we do it." Both of them are such dangerous traps. The question is: How do you take all of that valuable experience and apply it to the current context and raise standards?
Any final big-picture thoughts on how you're going to approach your new role?
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future. In our case, given 39 years of success, it's more about reinvention. We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings. There are very few examples of even 100-year-old companies. For us to be a 100-year-old company where people find deep meaning at work, that's the quest.


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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Spring Hill
I'm posting this from my mom's hospital room. She's been here since Sunday. Thankfully it wasn't anything super serious, just waiting for a bunch of tests now. We're hopeful she'll be home for Thanksgiving.
Friday, November 20, 2009
I always wanted one of these.
This was in a friend of mine's basement when they bought their house. I said, "man, look at that thing!". He asked me if I wanted it and I said, "heck yeah". I hung it on my wood shed for now. I'm workin' on it makin' it's way in the house.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Twilight Riverfront
I don't think I've ever posted this shot before. The Charleston Camera Club had a showing at the Art Emporium in Charleston and this is the photo I chose to display. I made this photo in the spring of '06. I waited and waited for the perfect evening and I also had to wait for Chase to fix one of the lights on the bank. I have won a couple contests with this shot and was fortunate enough to sell it at the Art Emporium. It's pretty cool that this shot has made me several hundred bucks for just a little bit of work. The print I sold was 36" x 11". Click for a better view.
Cyndi Lauper
My new favorite song. My wife and I have liked Cyndi Lauper since we were kids. This is her on The Late Show with David Letterman Monday night. Crank it up!!!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Copperhead Ridge
A couple shots from my run/walk/hike in the woods this morning. The cliff photo is a 5 shot panorama. Click the pic for a better view.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Big trouble...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday Morning
Friday, November 6, 2009
I just couldn't...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Full Moon
Taken hand held tonight with a Canon 30D and a Canon 300mm image stabilized lens. ISO 640, f/8, and 1/640th of a second.
Copperhead Ridge
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Study Abroad Programme Kingston University London
I absolutely loved my year spent in London! It is the perfect location to travel Europe from, and be entertained with when you spend time at home. Kingston University turned out to be a great... Rhona McShevon
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Submitted by Rhona McShevon - Chico Sonoma State University | July 14, 2014
I absolutely loved my year spent in London! It is the perfect location to travel Europe from, and be entertained with when you spend time at home. Kingston University turned out to be a great place for me to adjust to the city life without having to worry about safety or the bustle of Central London. I wish the administration had been more effective in helping study abroad students with classes and councelling, but the school exceeded my expectations anyway. The International Office did a fine job of planning trips for visiting students to places like Oxford and Stonehenge. There was also a Leavers Boat Party on the Thames which was one of my favorite events! One of the best things about Kingston University is their Student Government and Activities program. There was over 100 societies and clubs to join, weekly events, and social gatherings that I felt very connected with the student body and the community. I would highly recommend joining the Volunteer Society, Wine Society, and one athletic club at least. Kingston is located 25 minutes (via train) from Central London so the travel in cost $17 for a day pass. I found the day passes to be worth the money because they work on all modes of transport inside the Capital. The education system is different in England, with students spending much less time in class and with no homework or midterms, but with a large amount of independent study. Final exams proved to be challenging to study for because of the sheer amount of topics covered throughout the year, but I found all of my exams to be quite straightforward and only mildly challenging. The Business School (and department) at Kingston is AWESOME!! I truely enjoyed attending 3 of my 4 classes and would love to keep in touch with at least two of my lecturers. As for support, there were many resources for students to call upon that really helped me maintain academic growth and overcome educational cultural gaps. I would highly recommend the Kingston University International Program to anyone who wants to be academically challenged, find personal growth, and meet people from around the world!


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Recently, we went to a wedding of a friend of Wes'. He saw many friends that he hadn't seen in years. Through their multiple conversations, one question came up often, "what do you do?". It was a question related to occupation to which he would reply, "I'm an engineer".
This question got me thinking. "What do you do?" is a question that is looking to get at "Who are you?". There was a time in my life, when the answer to "What do you do?" defined me as a person. I'm a marketing professional, would neatly define the whole package that I am. But now with age, I realize we as people are not so easily summed up with just our occupation. This became especially clear to me when I decided to quit my job and stay at home with the girls.
The real answer to the question, is not just "I'm a marketing consultant" even though I do love my job and am thankful for the flexibility that it provides. The answer is more than that. It is child of God, wife, church goer, mother, aunt, sister, daughter, niece, neighbor, friend, co-worker, and the list goes on. In addition to those things, I could be described as happy, sad, beautiful, insecure, organized, disorganized, fun, dull, funny, and maybe not-so-funny after all. To Wes, I think he would say, loyal, loving, kind, doesn't take crap, nagging, and annoying.
So the real answer to "who are you?" is Melissa. I am a uniquely made person who was formed through God, family, genetics and life experiences. This Melissa person is made up of so many contradictory things and just when I think I have it all together, something happens that tells me that I don't. During those times, is when I rely on others and God to help me through.
So, the question "what do you do?" goes beyond just what you do as to who you are. It is knowing you are a whole person and not just the sum of parts and to be OK with that.


text: I just bought a Stingray a little over a month ago, and love it to death.(who wouldn't?) Anyway, when you register your bass with Ernie Ball, they send you a free set of slinkys, and they did. So, my question is: Which strings do you think sound best on a 'Ray. I've tried a lot of different brands,(on my other basses) but, I wanted to hear from some Stingray owners before I put the slinkys on. BTW, 'Rays come from the factory with slinkys, don't they? If possible, tell why you like the stings you recommend. Thanks a lot. Mike J.


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Holy Mother of God.
3420 horsepower, 24 cylinders and 12 blowers.
It's gotta be a plumbers nightmare but DAYUM, is it cool!
Any old diesel mechanics out there would be able to tell you it was a Detroit just by listening to it blindfolded. They have a very distinct sound, especially when they are first started, before the idle smooths out.
Being a two stroke motor, they have damn good throttle response too.
I would pay money to see that thing in a truck that goes down the road.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Serious Motor Porn
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Please join me in congratulating four New Mexico Artists for their inclusion in the SAQA exhibition Wild Fabrications. Pieces from Holly Altman, Nora Bebee, Jennifer Day and Judith Roderick were selected by juror Geoffrey Gorman. Wild Fabrications will celebrate a world of animals both real and fantastical. Contributing artists were asked to let their imaginations run wild, push their limits and create interesting and unusual interpretations of animals using unexpected or unconventional materials and embellishment. It will be very exciting to see their interpretation of the theme. Wild fabrications will premiere at the International Quilt Festival in Houston October 2015.
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Hello Crafty Friends! Thanks for joining us on this hop! We are so extremely excited and over the moon to bring you the very first "Flavor of the Month" Card Kit. This is a very unique kit unlike no other out on the crafting market today. Inserted below is a document which has all the details of how this kit is laid out, cost, and what it includes. I know that as a crafter or person who loves card kits you will absolutely love this kit, the contents, and the value you get in each kit!
Scrapping for Less presents our BRAND NEW, EXCLUSIVE TO US, "FLAVOR OF THE MONTH" CARD CLUB KIT!
This card club kit is like no other on the market! We want to bring you fun, fresh, quality ingredients from the best brands that we all love, give you a sampling from multiple companies, give you the ingredients to create 4 distinct cards, and do so at an affordable rate. With that desire in mind we bring you a kit that within it contains 4 collections, you read that right, 4 collections! You will be able to decide based on the level of kit you choose whether to keep it simple or go all out, the choice is yours.
What will be in the kit? Each month you will receive a box with all of your ingredients specially wrapped and protected inside. Now for the delicious details:
You will receive 4 different collections of 6x6 paper, a stamp to accompany each collection, and 8 pieces of 8.5x11 cardstock…4 colors that coordinate with all of the collections, 4 white pieces of paper, and 4 A2 size envelopes.
An example of what this will look like: (keep in mind the brands will change each month but the kind of ingredients will remain the same)
Collection 1: Doodlebug Design 6 sheets of 6x6 paper plus a stamp from jillibean soup
Collection 2: Lawn Fawn 6 sheets of 6x6 paper plus a stamp from Deep Red
Collection 3: Echo Park 6 sheets of 6x6 paper plus a stamp from Stampendous
Collection 4: Pebbles 6 sheets of 6x6 paper plus a stamp from Prickly Pear
AND 8 pieces of 8.5x11 card stock 4 in white and 4 different colors that will go with the collections PLUS 4 A2 size envelopes.
Subscription: $20 per month Month to Month: $25
In this kit you will receive everything in the Single Scoop Sundae plus an embellishment package to accompany each collection!
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In this kit you will receive everything in the Single Scoop & Double Dip Sundae plus a word die that coordinates with the kit.
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In this kit you will receive everything in the Single, Double Dip, and Deluxe Sundaes plus an ink cube, stencil, and a sentiment stamp.
Subscription: $35 Month to Month $40
There will be a wide variety of items that coordinate with the kit you can choose from to purchase individually each month.
Inspiration: With each card kit you will receive an ingredients list of what is inside and a sketch sheet to follow if you choose. We will also have a monthly blog hop so you can see what the Design Team came up with from the same ingredients and sketches! NOTE: if you would like to save a copy of the PDF to your computer or your own device go to scrappingforless.com and you will be able to download it.
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How much is shipping? $6.50 Priority Mail
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What forms of payment do you accept? We accept PayPal and all major credit cards.
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How will the kit be shipped? We are shipping Priority Mail via the United States Post Office
Should you have any additional questions or concerns please contact us at email@example.com please allow 48 hours for response. Thank you and we hope you thoroughly enjoy this kit!
Hi Guys!
I know we are sending a LOT of info your way but hang in there it WILL be worth it I promise! So excited to share my four cards that I made using the sketches and the ingredients from the Single Scoop Sundae kit.
You can purchase the various kits through the "Flavor of the Month" page on Scrapping for Less…the tab for the page is listed on the top bar. It isn't linked here because the big reveal was today. You can purchase month to month or subscribe for 3 months and save even more off this great valued kit.
Hop along with us and see what inspiration the Design Team has to share. Each team member was assigned a level of the card kit to create with to give you the picture of just how much you could do with this kit.
Scrapping for Less Blog: All the information and even a Rafflecopter to win one piece of this kit.
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The Swift Current Broncos removed their fingerprints from one of the most dubious distinctions in the CHL.
The Portland Winterhawks pulled off a 3-2 upset of the Spokane Chiefs tonight to cap their season on a winning note. Unfortunately for the Hawks, the three goals was not enough to surpass the Broncos season goal total of 135 back in the 2004/05 season. The Hawks set the new benchmark with a 132 this season.
Speaking of goals, the Broncos will close off the year leading the WHL in the amount of 20+ goal scorers with seven in total. Matt Tassone fell one shy at 19 or it could have been eight. It's quite the feat considering the Broncos had only one player in the club last year, Jeremy Schenderling.
All seven players are forwards... Dale Wiese, Erik Felde, Keegan Dansereau, Levi Nelson, Geordie Wudrick, Zack Smith and David Stieler.
Brandon finished the year with six players with 20 plus goals, Kootenay had five, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Calgary had four, Moose Jaw had three, Regina two. One of Regina's 20 goal scorers was Logan Pyett - the only defenseman in the East to reach that mark.


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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Okay not your usual blog post...
I'm going to hell, I'm sure...and this probably does not belong on my business blog, but I just had to post it. It was morning, all sleepy and peaceful, lighting moody and serene, blankets curved just so. Capturing a quiet moment. I won't mention his name and he never reads my blog...
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Oh good ass! haha now if this was a guy taking photo's of a naked chick you'd get in so much trouble- naughty girl, I like your style :D
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Hahahaha! Oh Sharon, I love the tag, too!
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Ricardo Tosto, Ricardo Tosto, Ricardo Tosto – Where Have I Heard the Name?
Ricardo Tosto is a Brazilian legal guru. Yet, he's so much more. He's also a great business partner and all-around good friend to have.
Listen to Ricardo Tosto's advice on income, taxes, contracts and more, just below – all from an expert's legal perspective:
Deferring one's income through exchanges and install agreements was a million-dollar question that launched many Americans' tax careers. Many were real estate investors, and nobody could tell them how much tax they would owe at year-end upon selling properties by using some of the most complex structures read about in books or learned through investment conferences and what Ricardo Tosto knows.
As the recent housing bubble burst, less taxpayers sold their investment properties for gain. This year, tides turned, and many clients consider selling investment properties for a profit. As housing markets further strengthen, this trend will expand. Capital gain taxes are at a low. If you considered selling real estate or your business, you may spread this earned income by using any installment agreement or by deferring it with any section 1031 exchange, especially if you consider the total tax picture and read full article.
If you made $300,000 from the sale of your property, you will pay $60,000 from capital gains. If you also gain $150,000 per year, this will elevate your adjusted gross income to push you into a top tax bracket as you then pay 39.8 percent on all wage income. For any single taxpayer, this adds up to $17,000 or more in additional taxes for the year of sale, without noting any potential AMT issues. However, if you spread it out to receive payments on the sale at $50,000 per year, you'll remain in the same tax bracket while the only tax generated sits at $10,000 per year in capital gains and his Linkedin.
A way to create tax benefits involves modifying your sales agreement to schedule any extra payments from the buyer after you fully close the tax year. These may be recorded as second mortgages, or they may even be secured by other properties that the buyer owns and Ricardo Tosto's lacrosse camp.


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Lost in Dreams: The Journey Home
What if tommorrow you woke up in another world? what would you do to get home?
Sometimes monsters are real. Sometimes they reach out of the shadows and snatch people away and sometimes they are the people and things you see everyday. Snatched away from everything you know and everything that was familiar into an alien world filled with hellish creatures.
Lost in Dreams is a game where the characters are pulled into the fairie realms and must survive the worst kinds of hell in order to get back to reality. Jumping from nightmare realm to nightmare realm, never really knowing if they will ever make it home and when they do, will their old lives still be there like they left them?
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The next morning at breakfast Mr. Bennet informs his wife and daughters that they are to receive a visitor for dinner that very night. It is his cousin, Mr. Collins, who stands to inherit Longbourn upon Mr. Bennet's death because there are no male heirs. Mrs. Bennet is shaken by the prospect of having such an unwelcome visitor in the house, but his letter is so humble and peaceable that they have no choice but to accept the fact that he will come, and stay with them a fortnight. The girls find their cousin to be overly formal to the point of ridiculous, but he is so courteous and admiring that Mrs. Bennet is soon won over by him.
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"Momentum, for the sake of Momentum"*
I see the moss being ripped from the stones of my brain, the soil in reluctant acquiescence to the bounty and strength of my own internal, intellectual Spring. Ideas, thoughts, dreams all begin to roll, to gain momentum where once they were still and cozy in their bed.
I underestimated the energy that this small writer's workshop would provide toward my own self-education. I suddenly have a strong desire to methodize my work, to keep hours, to create a studio space and altar for writing, to submit rough drafts, t,o attend book readings, to read and read and read. Even the people I want to read has changed drastically. While I still have a great reverence for the literature of the great past, I have a new hunger to read these names I am encountering in the class. It all started with Cheryl Strayed, but from there I have been devouring the brilliant poetry of Brenda Shaughnessy, the writing wisdom of Natalie Goldberg, the rhetoric of Jessica Valenti, the lyrical non-fiction of Lidia Yuknavich.
It's as if I just learned to read and I am hungry for more and more words. A world has opened itself before my eyes and I am jumping into it. Authors I never cared to know about, books that seemed too easy, too modern.
I am asking myself all kinds of questions, really hard questions...but I am also finally empowered enough to feel as though I can actually answer them for myself. To define myself as writer based on MY principles and preferences and definition of success, and not what I assume it should be. I hear this voice saying,"I can do this!" whereas I used to hear it question, "Wait, can I do this?". I have to tell you, it's impossibly thrilling!
|Forsythia from Mom's
|Even more Forsythia!
|Forsythia in sunlight
|Standing under the canopy of a very old cherry
|Cherry Blossoms line our streets
|I love the contrast of old to new growth
|Driveways lined with Camilla flowers
|Weeping Cherries are one of my very favorites
|What a great house
In other movement, Spring has certainly sprung in Seattle. In an effort to exercise more (and to get Bowie out of the house), the baby and I have been walking all around our lovely neighborhood on what I call 'noticing' walks. I probably look crazy, since I am carrying Bowie on my back and people must think I am actually talking to myself, but I speak to her of all the trees and plants and birds that I happen to know. We touch them and smell them and take photos of them.
In even more movement, I have decided to make Kombucha! The first batch is brewing as we speak, so I am hoping beginner's luck will smile upon me.
And last, but never least, Bowie has also gained momentum in a few areas. She cut her second tooth, has tried (and loved) rice cakes, is on the brink of crawling, and has decided to grow hair in the style of 80s punk rock. I am proud.
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A $2 million University of Illinois art program that has educated only a few dozen students in the last four years is under review after the resignation of its champion, former Chancellor Richard Herman.
Supporters say the unique program, based at the Phillips Collection modern art museum in Washington, gives students from art-starved central Illinois an opportunity to take classes and get internship experience surrounded by the works of Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe.
But the program, known as Illinois at the Phillips, has fallen short of enrollment goals, with about 45 U. of I. undergraduate and graduate students having participated. Herman paid for the program primarily through a general campus fund he controlled, instead of through the College of Fine and Applied Arts, with the idea that it would become self-supporting through private giving and tuition revenue from Washington residents who can also take the classes. That hasn't happened.


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Friday, July 27, 2007
Mitt Romney Is A World Class Idiot
One of the excuses that Mitt Romney is using to back out of the YouTube debate for Republicans is all the sexual predators on the internet.
"YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000," he said, mistaking the debate co-sponsor for the social network MySpace, which has recently done a purge of sex offenders from its rolls.
Ummm, and who owns MySpace? Oh, that would be Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News. Republicans are terrified of questions from the public. The media is so cowered by the GOP that they know if they ask tough questions, they won't get invited to the cocktail party in Georgetown the next week-end.
People like Giuliani are terrified that a YouTube questioner will ask something such as "Why does a thrice married (once to his cousin) cross dressing, abortion loving, gun grabbing, homosexual tolerating, east coast mayor deserve our vote.
I doubt Britt Hume would ask him that question on Faux News.
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So last week I went to the doctor and he said that Braydon was measuring small. They did a sonogram and everything looked fine, the reason for him measuring small was that he has already dropped. Soooo...I kind of freaked out because we had NOTHING done in the nursery yet! That day we went home and got started in the nursery! I am very proud of how the nursery turned out...so I figured I give you a picture walk to see how it all came together!!! Each of my boys had an adorable nursery, but I never attempted stripes before now...and I love em'!!!
Mason and I started with the first coat of primer. He was so excited and such a BIG help!!
The primer was finished, but we had to do a second coat after this! Brian wanted me to use an older gallon of primer that we had left over from a paint job we did several months ago. Of course that wasn't enough, so we opened the new gallon...and WALLA...we had two different shades of primer on the wall...hence the blotchy look!!!
Brian was so proud that he was being such a big help!!! He really stepped up and did most all of the painting and he made me relax and not worry about what was going on in the nursery! This is one of the reasons I love him with all of my heart!!!
Friday night, Ryan and Shana Kriechbaum came over to help us with the stripes! THANK GOODNESS for Ryan and his mathematical talents! He did all the math and the measuring for the lines! I couldn't decide how I wanted to lines to look and I kept changing my mind...with Shana's help! Ryan was extremely patient and reworked the numbers each time we changed our minds!!!! Thanks friends!
As soon as the boys got the stripes taped off, Shana and I got started painting! We made sure to paint the 1st coat extremely thick so that we didn't have to go over it again...it was close to 11pm on Friday and we were all exhausted!
ME...looking quite rough...but doing some touch ups after we already took the tape off!!!
I was so anxious to start getting everything out and organized...I had to see how the comforter looked with the wall!!! Also, for the record, this furniture in this room is the furniture I had when I was a baby! It was used for my younger sister, two of my cousins, Mason and Canon and now Braydon!! They just don't make furniture the same as they used to!!!
Mason was posing because he said that he LOVES his baby's room!!!
Getting all the crib stuff out...and I couldn't decide where I wanted to put ANYTHING!!!
Okay, so an hour later...the mess was obviously bigger, but I just decided to dive in!! I was having a blast doing it too!!! Even though I was doing it by myself...this is when Brian said he was OUT!!!
The finished product - Braydon's bed!!!
The picture wall - with no pictures in the frame!!
The bed in centered on the stripe wall!!! I also chose to take the poles off...I like it better like this!


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Both these players say they want to stay in North London and fight for there place BUT Arsenal are shelling out 45 mill on Laccazette 50 on Lemar another 50 on Van Dijk so its obvious that the supporters are going to want to see their new signings so unless they are really unlucky with injuries and it does happen (look at Ayew) Walcott and Giroud are not even gonna get a game. Both of them want to play for their country, and I dont think Its going to be at Arsenal. So when these 2 see that they aint gonna get the chance to play for their country and it gets to the end of August and they still aint played, that when the frustration will creep in and these 2 will become available for 55mill Arsenal don't need them and Wenger will be looking to recoup some of their money back for Lemar and Co. Its a dodgy tatic Giroud and Walcott have both said they want to stay in London, kids about to start school if we got them then I'd say that was a good bit of Business but very risky. Will Giroud go to Everton at that stage of the window, and if they pay out for Siggusson I think they will be all spun out as they have really spent a shed load of doe this season, I think it it will all go down to the last day of the transfer window and it will be all about holding our nerve
Betty Swollox
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 12:14
so basically you want two players that don't want to play for us?
Dicks is the man
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 13:02
everton want benteke. so giroud wont,be going there imo.
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 13:49
Being outspent by nearly all Prem Clubs I'm not sure what to think, hold on, Steve Bull is still playing for Salisbury, do you think there may be a chance?
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 15:11
First thing I thought. What are we, some sort of second hand junk shop where players turn up after no-one else wants them? Tell you what Giroud and little Theo, why don't you both stay in North London.
Betty Swollox
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 16:05
Exactly, I'll even get them some sandpaper pants to polish the bench with!
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 16:26
players dont want to come thats there choice no problem...but instead of hanging about wondering maybe we can do something before the window shuts to change there minds we need to go ahead with other so called targets and get them in now and settled because we do start with 3 away games....manure lukaku and all could it get any harder? then saints and geordies we need points from those games and if we are going to rely on those two injury hit strikers of ours we will be in big trouble early doors and in all honesty does anyone expect them both to make 3 games in a row?
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 16:50
this is going to be a long hard season ahead if we don't get the recruitment right and the longer this drags on the more I worry that we will panic buy and pay way over the odds as per ayew last season.
Burkie 1
Wed, 12/07/2017 - 13:04
I think it obvious by now the Driscol brothers have a spending cap or limit ,they seem to be constantly looking for that special transfer Lanzini ,Payet and the likes .
The premier league seems to be two different divisions these days
The top six or so with the exemption of Leicester appear to be unreachable, the reason ? Obviously they have limitless funds to buy any player they want ,it would also appear clubs with a spending cap of say 25 -30 million can look forward to a constant battle to avoid relegation and maybe qualify for the UEFA cup and do well in our two domestic cups ,
Burkie 1
Wed, 12/07/2017 - 18:50
do we really bother with either of them:)


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I think we have all had moments where we experience a terrible laps in judgement. Luckily mine never involve anything of any real consequence. Nothing like moving y entire 401 K over to pets.com or anything.
No my lapses in judgement tend to revolve around cards, in particular cards of guys I think are poised to be the next big thing.
Here is the first in a series of cards that I just look at and shake my head.
So it was 2009 and Kottaras was playing for the Red Sox as Jason Varitek's back up. JV went down with an injury so I thought to myself. "Varitek is done so this kid is the obvious heir to the Red Sox backstop throne." I checked on ebay and his rookie autos were just a few bucks. So I ran out and bought one!
I honestly thought it was a no brainer. I mean how could the BoSox new catcher not set the card world on fire?
Well he hurt his back soon after and it was over.
I wish the story ended there.
In 2010 and 2011 George had a few stops in the bigs and put up decent numbers. I was hooked again. I saw a lot of two of his auto rookies on ebay for a few bucks and I bit.
I now have three rookie autos of the Greek wonderkind.
If he ever does break out I am sitting on a gold mine!


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Women's Basketball: Can We Just Start Over?
The ladies now are in sole possession of the Big 10 basement, after losing AT HOME to 10th place Indiana. The announced crowd was 670! Illinois, to its credit, is not last in attendance, just 10th!
This is a blog dedicated to informing folks about University of Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther and how he has screwed up Fighting Illini athletics. This is especially true regarding football during his tenure. If you live in East Central Illinois and you blindly believe Ron Guenther is the greatest thing to happen to Fighting Illini athletics, don't read this blog! If you care about the Fighting Illini and want to see a winning athletics program, welcome!


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Thank you so much friends for letting me capture such wonderful moments with such a great family!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Elizabeth, Dylan and Brody 2
And here are the cuties in color! We had such a fun time exploring this trail, from the great path, to airplanes flying over head to a grassy meadow, every spot was a new little adventure.
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Elizabeth, Dylan and Brody
I was able to spend some precious time with some adorable friends of mine. Miss Elizabeth is a wonderful big sister to her twin brothers Dylan and Brody. We had a fun photo shoot and more color pics will follow this blog but I just loved these black and white close ups. Such a sweet family.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
365 (Give or Take a Few)
Last year I decided to join a group of photographers and participate in a 365 project. And while I wasn't able to actually take a picture a day for an entire year, the project did help me find beauty all around me. It really is amazing how many wonderful things you can photograph if you just stop and look for them. Some of these were taken steps away from my office door, others were taken at 11:30pm as I desperately looked around my home for something creative to shoot before the clock struck 12 and others were strategic, calculated and time consuming. They were all fun and resulted in a great exercise and some great shots.
First for those shot around the office. Go figure, the fair came into town and set up right next door, then their was a beautiful Iris blooming right outside and finally some weeds.
First for those shot around the office. Go figure, the fair came into town and set up right next door, then their was a beautiful Iris blooming right outside and finally some weeds.
My 11:30pm shots consisted of grains of salt that I had spilt on our table and the frosting of a cupcake I would be taking to a party the next morning
And Finally my calculated and some times very time consuming shots are of some pretty amazing flowers at the Getty, a sunset coming through some plants, water drops, candles and a little fly who took forever to land.
A special thank you to my brother for reminding me about the project! I hope you have enjoyed some of my favorites.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Yosemite: The Water
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Yosemite: The Trees
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Los Colores
Ok one more post from my Mexico trip. I just couldn't stand the thought of not sharing the colors. I love the colors of Mexico!
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Los Niños
Anyone who knows me knows that I have multiple favorites. These are just a few of my favorite friends I was able to make while in Mexico. One of the things our team did was put on a VBS for the local children. We had about 100 kids visit us every day and they were all so super cute!
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
La Playa
I had an amazing opportunity to spend some time in Mexico this past week, and though my favorite thing about Mexico will always be the people (that will be my next post), the beaches are becoming something I am looking forward to more and more. It's just beautiful and you get the whole beach to yourself! Perfect for photography.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Pure Joy
Some times I smile when I don't want to...it's something adults have to learn to do. But babies, they smile only when they are happy. Their smiles flow straight from the joy in their little hearts. It's what makes children photography so wonderful and let's face it, a little stressful. I'll be putting more pictures of this session up, but for now I wanted to show you the joy that sprang out of little Noah when we put him on this wooly rug. It was wonderful and had us all smiling. I hope it makes you smile too!
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Arizona Wildcats offensive tackle Fabbians Ebbele and defensive back Jourdon Grandon, suspended for almost all of spring practice, are on pace to return to return to the team in the fall, coach Rich Rodriguez said Tuesday.
"They still have some things to do within the program," Rodriguez told TucsonCitizen.com.
Ebbele and Grandon, along with two other Arizona football players and a former ex-Wildcat, were involved in a brawl at an off-campus party in early March.
Ebbele and Grandon were facing criminal assault and trespassing charges, although those won't be pursued.
Rodriguez said from the start that he wanted to let the legal system play out before making a decision on the players' futures.
Ebbele is a returning starter at right tackle. Grandon started four games last season and likely figures somewhere in the rotation in Arizona's five-man secondary. But each is behind the curve as the Wildcats learned new schemes on each side of the ball this spring.
"That's a big question for us — how quickly will they be able to pick up things in fall practice," Rodriguez said. "Those 15 spring practices are invaluable, especially when you're teaching new systems."
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Rodriguez wants to return to the Phoenix area next spring to hold another scrimmage, making it a bigger event next time.
The Wildcats held their first scrimmage of the spring at Glendale Community College on a Saturday afternoon.
"I loved going up there in the spring," Rodriguez said.
"I think we'll plan to do that every spring, having a scrimmage and then some alumni functions. There is a lot of interest in our program up there, and if we can bring our program to them, so to speak, even better."
Rodriguez said he envisions possibly holding a scrimmage in the Valley on a Friday night.
"Maybe a lot of people could come out after work," he said. "We had a nice crowd this year. I think we could have had a great crowd if I gave them a little more warning. Next time, we'll give a few months' warning."
About 1,000 showed up for the scrimmage at Glendale Community College.
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Rodriguez will have to keep an eye on next week's major league baseball draft after one of his top recruits — defensive end Dylan Cozens — led the state of Arizona with 19 home runs.
Cozens, a left-handed slugger, hit a walk-off home run to lead Scottsdale Chaparral to the Division I state championship over Phoenix Brophy Prep.
"I think there is always that possibility," Rodriguez said of Cozens being lured to professional baseball by being a high draft pick. "I've dealt with this before."
Most notably, Pat White was a fourth-round pick in the 2004 baseball draft after signing with West Virginia to play quarterback for Rodriguez. White went on to become of the great players in school history.
Cozens (6-5, 235) signed with the Cats over Boise State and Washington after playing football for only one season.
As for Cozens considering his baseball possibilities, "If it comes to that point, then we'll present the facts to him as to what his options would be," Rodriguez said. "Selfishly, we want him to play football, but we'll see how that goes."