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Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association coaches have presented all-conference honors to Hope basketball players.
L-R: Colton Overway, Nate Snuggerud
Two senior players who didn't go far from their hometowns to contribute to the success of the Hope College men's basketball program have been named to the all-conference teams of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
Foward Nate Snuggerud of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS) has been named to the All-MIAA first team for a second year while guard Colton Overway of Holland (West Ottawa HS) has received second team recognition.
Two of the co-captains of this year's team, they ranked first and second. A four-year letterwinner, Snuggerud led the team in scoring and rebounding as both a junior and senior and finished his career on the Hope alltime scoring honor roll in 13th place with 1,366 points. He ranked sixth alltime in field goal shooting (.562). Overway was Hope's playmaker. In addition to scoring in double figures, he was among the MIAA leaders in assists until he suffered a broken foot with three weeks left in the season. A three-year letterwinner, he ended sixth on the Hope alltime list for assists per game.
L-R: Liz Ellis, Courtney Kust, Brittany Berry
Three Hope players who keyed Hope's run to an MIAA co-championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament are being honored by conference coaches. Senior guard Liz Ellis (Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids HS) has been named the Defensive Player of the Year for a third consecutive season. She and senior forward Courtney Kust (Cincinnati, Ohio/Cincinnati Hills Christian HS) are repeat All-MIAA first team honorees while sophomore guard Brittany Berry (Grand Rapids/GR Catholic Central HS) has been named to the second team.
Ellis anchored a Hope defense that broke a 34-year-old MIAA record by holding conference opponents to 41.2 points a game. She is the first player in MIAA history to be named Defensive Player of the Year three times. Kust led the team in scoring for the second year in-a-row while Berry's three-point shooting accuracy was among the best in all of NCAA Division III.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara senior outfielder Joey Epperson was named to the College Sports Madness All-American First Team, it was announced on Monday, becoming just the second Gaucho in program history to take home First Team honors.
Listed as a utility player on the 12-man First Team, he was joined on the list by Big West rivals Andrew Morales of UC Irvine and Mark Mathias of Cal Poly. Epperson is the first UCSB player to receive All-American honors since 2001 (James Garcia, P) and joins Scott Cerny (1986, 2B) as the only other Gaucho to receive a First Team All-America nod. Epperson is the seventh Gaucho in program history to be named an All-American.
The Lafayette, Calif. native ended the season with the top on-base percentage (.483) in the Big West while also ranking in the top-five conference-wide in batting average (.376, second), runs (45, second), hits (74, third), and slugging percentage (.508, fourth).
"Joey had a great year with the bat for us, so this honor is well-deserved," said UCSB head coach Andrew Checketts. "It's a great way to cap off the collegiate career of an exemplary student-athlete."
Epperson, who is also a member of the 30-man Golden Spikes Award Watch List, was arguably the top batter in the nation for the first half of the season, leading the nation in batting average at various junctures and hitting over .450 all the way through mid-April while also maintaining a 24-game hit streak that didn't come to an end until Mar. 22.
Splitting time between the leadoff and No. 3 positions in the lineup, he paced the Gauchos with 22 multi-hit games. In the 41 games that he recorded a hit, the Gauchos went 30-11 (compared to 5-6 when he did not).
Epperson was named the Big West Field Player of the Week for the second time of his career on Mar. 3 after leading UCSB to a perfect 4-0 week, including a midweek win over defending national champion UCLA and a three-game sweep of Princeton, by hitting .588 with eight runs scored and four RBIs to go along with five stolen bases in as many attempts.
Other signature moments included a walk-off single against Cal State Fullerton on Apr. 12 and a 4-5 performance with four RBIs and three runs scored against Wagner on Mar. 23.
As a team, the Gauchos went 34-17-1 this season with a program-record 22-5-1 mark in non-conference games. It was the first time since 1991-92 that UCSB had 30 wins in consecutive seasons.
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By now, you should already be familiar with the many benefits of blogging for freelancers. But, are some types of posts better than others for attracting clients?
I think so.
Below are five types of posts that seem better than others for either attracting prospects or turning prospects into clients.
1. Case Studies
In a case study blog post, you describe a specific project you completed for a client, what the goals were, what strategies you implemented, what results you got, and how your readers can do the same for their business.
This type of blog post is almost directly promotional of your services. It demonstrates that you know what you're doing and that you get concrete results for your clients.
When publishing a case study, remember to change the client details to protect your client's privacy. And so as not to be overly promotional, identify the take-away lessons for your readers.
2. How-To or Tutorial
In this blog post, you show your readers how to do something, step by step. This type of blog post lends itself very well to a video blog, particularly to demonstrate a particular software or other visible process.
Your readers may decide to skip the trouble and hire you instead.
3. Review of Products/Services
Reviews tend to be traffic magnets. Web savvy individuals almost always Google reviews of a product or service before they decide to buy it. Your review will be particularly weighty if you don't stand to make monetary gains from it (that is, you're not an affiliate or owner of the product/service).
To write a good review, make sure to include:
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- A photo, illustration or even video depiction of the product/service
- Your thoughts on a product/service
- Who can benefit from it
- How your readers can make the most of it, if they buy it
- Alternatives to the product/service
4. Special Offers
This type of a blog post is particularly useful when you're having a "slow season" (a term I prefer over "famine"). This is probably the most promotional type of blog you could publish, because you're calling out for clients.
Your offer could include free consultation, a limited-time discount, or a special bonus (such as a free report, design, or other digital product relevant to your service) for every client who avails of a particular service.
5. Opinion Pieces on Upcoming Trends
Like the case study post, the opinion post has the potential to showcase your expertise and give you authority status in your field. However, this will happen only if you write the post properly. To do so, you have to keep abreast of developments in your industry, provide a unique insight, and possibly provoke an in-depth discussion.
Although an opinion post entails plenty of preparation and thought, it's definitely worth the effort.
Don't wait until a slow season to publish these client-getting posts. Schedule them into your blog editorial calendar regularly. Of course, you don't want to do them too often. Intersperse them with purely informational posts.
What Did I Miss?
If you blog, which of these posts have you been writing and with what results? Or are there other types of client attracting blog posts I missed? Do share!
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Horsemen's parting thoughts collected on the final morning of the 75th anniversary Del Mar meeting:
Richard Mandella, Hall of Fame trainer -- "I can't believe the meet is over. Seems like we just unpacked. The older I get the faster it goes by. I love it here and it's a shame we don't get to stay longer.
Leandro Mora, trainer – "It's one of the best meetings we have. We came in happy and we're leaving happy. Thanks to (Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner) I'll Have Another we're still smiling and he's brought us plenty of luck—all the way to 2013.
Dr. Rick Arthur, CHRB equine medical director – "I think it has been a very successful meeting. The trainers are happy with the track, which is unusual for any racetrack. I think overall it has gone quite well. People are happy, field sizes are up and I think it's very encouraging not just for Del Mar but for the Southern California thoroughbred circuit.
"There's never a perfect meeting (regarding horse breakdowns), but I think it's better than it was before the (Polytrack) surface was put down in 2007. I think they're getting much more experience at managing the track."
Larry Zap, broadcaster/handicapper -- "Larger fields than we're used to and high quality racing. And (Joe) Talamo on the turf is what I'm thinking about right now. It's been Bejarano's meet, but we haven't seen anybody take to a surface like he has here. It used to be (Fernado) Toro on the turf, now it's Talamo on the turf."
Dan Ward, assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. "It was good. The track was good. Not as many injuries as in the past. We started off slowly but won four stakes and finished well. You can never complain coming down here."
John Sadler, trainer. "It was a disappointing meet for me. We didn't finish strong. I thought the track was inconsistent and that's why you had so many carryovers. But it's fun to be here."
Jack Carava, trainer – "It was a great meet. Successful, obviously, for the handle and stuff like that. Field size was up and that was something we haven't had for a long time. Having trouble getting horses in because there were too many entries as opposed to not enough was very different.
"I thought Rich (Tedesco, track superintendant) did a good job with the track, kept the injuries down to a minimum and I thought it was a good meet all the way around.
"I didn't have a ton of expectations for my stable coming in, but won four and had a ton of thirds. So they were mostly hitting the board anyway. Probably a little bit better than I expected, so I'm fairly pleased."
Paddy Gallagher , trainer – "For the meeting in general I think it was healthy. For racing and for the horses, it was healthy."
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's father, Bill Baffert, Sr., -- affectionately known as "The Chief" -- passed away Monday morning at his home in Nogales, Ariz. He was 88. No cause was given, but Baffert had remarked in recent weeks that his father was in declining health.
"Lost my first hero and mentor today. There's a new cowboy in Heaven. R.I.P. Chief. I miss you already," Baffert posted on his Twitter account around 9:30 Monday morning.
Baffert was at his Los Angeles area home on Wednesday morning and expected to remain there through the day. Assistant Jim Barnes was in the Barn FF office at Del Mar. Barnes will handle the saddling and other duties concerning the nine horses the stable has entered today, among them Rolling Fog in the $300,000, Grade I Del Mar Futurity.
"The mood (aound the stable) has been OK," Barnes said. " It's sad. We all loved The Chief, he was a character, but we have to go on."
A victory by Rolling Fog would be the 11th Futurity win for Baffert, far and away the most by any trainer. D. Wayne Lukas is second with three Futurity victories.
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert takes a 19-18 lead over Peter Miller atop the standings entering the Closing Day card.
Baffert has nine horses entered over six races, Miller six horses in five races.
The best chances for the two trainers, according to morning line set by Del Mar Thoroughbred Club oddsmaker Russ Hudak are:
Baffert – Da Ruler (1st, 9-5 favorite), Pink Lollipops (3rd, 3-1), Power Broker (5th, 4-1),
Miller – My Slew (2nd, 9-2), Reneesgotzip (3rd, 5-2 favorite), Comma to the Top (6th, 7-2), Half Dome Dude (7th, 3-1 favorite).
Corey Nakatani, excused from mounts late in the Monday program due to tendinitis in his shoulder, will not ride his eight scheduled mounts Wednesday, agent Brian Beach reported. Nakatani worked two horses Wednesday morning and came off the second one having re-aggravated what Beach described as an inflammation in the area of an old injury.
Nakatani will rest for the next several days and will miss a stakes mount over the weekend at Fairplex Park in Pomona. He is expected to return to riding on September 15 at Belmont Park in New York where he has a mount in the Garden City Stakes.
Rafael Bejarano is a lock for a second riding title, to go with one in 2008, given his 10-win lead (51-41) over Joe Talamo. But Bejarano is no longer the sure thing he once appeared to be the meet leader for stakes wins or to set the single-season record in the category.
Bejarano has gone 0-for-6 in stakes since winning last Saturday's Del Mar Debutante to tie the record of 12 established by Laffit Pincay, Jr., in 1976 and matched by Chris McCarron (1995), Gary Stevens (1997) and Corey Nakatani (1998). Talamo, meanwhile, has won eight of 16 stakes races in the last 11 racing days and lifted his total to 11.
The head-to-head matchups in the four stakes events on the closing day card:
C.E.R.F. Stakes, 3rd race: Bejarano, Pink Lollipops, 3-1; Talamo, Candrea, 6-1.
Oak Tree Juvenile Turf, 5th race: Bejarano, Power Broker, 4-1; Talamo, Dry Summer, 6-1.
Pirate's Bounty, 6th race: Bejarano, Sinai, 6-1; Talamo, Sequoia Warrior, 6-1.
Del Mar Futurity, 8th race: Bejarano, Rolling Fog, 6-1; Talamo, Gabriel Charles, 6-1.
Trainer Barry Abrams saddled three horses on Monday to end what was a very successful meeting for him and his stable. Especially considering that Abrams attended only one day of racing at Del Mar in 2011 while recovering from a second surgery for throat cancer.
With assistant Richard Baltas, who has since gone out on his own, in charge, Abrams' stable won only three races in 2011, the highlight being Burns' victory in the La Jolla Handicap which snapped a 27-race losing streak, while recording 19 second or third-place finishes.
Abrams won 10 races in 2012, fifth on the trainers' list entering closing day.
"Actually, 10 wins was my goal and I reached it," Abrams said. "Eleven or 12 would have been nice, but what are you going to do? It's been a good meeting."
It's been a little over a year since Quindici Man competed in both the Wickerr Stakes and Pacific Classic at Del Mar. An injury, discovered after a fourth as the favorite in the Ralph M. Hinds Stakes at Fairplex Park on September 25, 2011 shelved the 6-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Came Home.
And while trainer Craig Lewis doesn't have great expectations for a stable favorite, he's glad to see the earner of over $515,816 back for Wednesday's $85,000 Pirate's Bounty sprint.
"He's a mile-and-a-quarter horse in a six-furlong race, but he's ready and we just need to get him started again," Lewis said recently. "We tried to get him started in several other spots but none of them worked out. And in this business when the best scenario isn't an option you have to go to Plan B or Plan C."
Mensa Heat (3-1), trained by Leandro Mora and ridden by Edwin Maldonado, is the morning line favorite in a field of 11 for the Pirate's Bounty. Quindici Man is one of the three longest prices at 20-1.
"He's as tough as they come," Lewis said. "He doesn't have as much talent as some horses, but he has a lot of heart and a mind that you can't give them. He wants to be a racehorse, which is more than half the battle."
CLOSERS – Notable works of the last two days: Tuesday – Amazombie, 4 furlongs, :50.80; All Star Heart, 6 furlongs, 1:12.60. Wednesday – Interaction 4 furlongs, :47.80, Mizdirection, 4 furlongs, :48.00; Suggestive Boy, 4 furlongs, :49.00 … Thanks to the media for its excellent coverage all season long and thanks to anyone who read to this point in the Stable Notes at any time during the meeting.
Trakus Facts of the day for Monday, September 3
High Test closed from last in a full field in Monday's eighth race, finishing third beaten 3.25 lengths. With a final quarter in 23.14 seconds, and a final eighth in 11.60 seconds, both the fastest fractions in the field for those sectionals, High Test recorded the fastest final two furlongs of the meet for races at six furlongs, and the third-fastest final furlong of the Del Mar stand.
Gervinho recorded the fastest final furlong in a 5.5-furlong race this meet when winning the fifth race. Home in 11.28 seconds, the son of Unusual Heat rallied stoutly outside of U'narack to record the top time of the meet, which previously had come from Mechaya's win on August 10th.


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Detroit Lions defensive end Ronnell Lewis had his arraignment on three misdemeanor charges continued until July during a court appearance on Wednesday.
A bar fight in April left Lewis and the person he allegedly punched both charged with disturbing the peace, public intoxication and interference with an official process.
According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Lewis' attorney, Jana Ford, foresees a "favorable resolution" for her client in the case.
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It was only a matter of time that a computer geek installed a computer into their vehicle. Use to only see law-enforcement and a few company vehicles with them.
The secret to the proper carputer is very easy. Everyone that has installed one was very close to a flawless system. People don't seem to grasp that you will run into problems and the one system you build isn't going to be the only one. I myself built three systems and still had some trouble. In this guide you will learn the right and wrong ways of building a carputer.
80% of carputers fail because people want massive large amounts of storage space that they will never need. You do not need more then 20GBs of space total and even that is way too much. The ideal storage is just enough for a Operating System, FrontEnd, GPS and maybe OBD-II software.
10% is from faulty wiring. People never think enough about the wiring. It can be a bad ground, wrong power type or the cable is just too long and you loose resistance.
The remaining 10% is cooling. I've seen people toss their system under the seat and expect things to run smooth. Dirt can easily get in from shoes and the carpet can choke the system.
Lets talk about Storage. As I said before you don't need a whopping huge storage device. Last thing you even need in a car is a hard drive spinning 7,200 RPMs or higher. Vibrations will kill a hard drive. Think you're safe with a laptop hard drive? Better think twice. The best solution is Solidstate or SSD. I know it sounds expensive but you can whip something up for the price of a typical hard drive. The only moving parts you want in your system is a fan or two and your optical drive.
SSD has been around for a long time but recently has made headway for chips that hold more data. To build your own SSD you have a few options. If you plan to use a UNIX based operating system such as Linux or MacOS X you can do wonders with a USB hub and a handful of USB jump drives. Linux and OSX offer a software based RAID system that works with almost any storage application. So a USB hub and four 1GB jump drives and build a simple RAID array you can have a single partition of 4GB that is plenty for a slimed down OS and a front end.
If your a Windows fanboy you can use CompactFlash and a IDE or SATA adapter. Most motherboards have a built in RAID system so you can load up your controllers with 4GB compact flash cards and build a RAID array.
Now for music and videos you can use your MP3 player for that so you have them on the go or use a jumpdrive to store your music and videos. It is that simple.
Now SSD runs faster then a typical hard drive so the boot time will decrease some but if you want faster boot times check out LinuxBIOS project if you're planning to use Linux. For Windows you could go the BartsPE route or even the Windows XP Embedded system. Since the dawn of OSx86 a lot of headway has been made to slim down the OS and if used in the right hands you could have a groovy little setup in no time.
Now for the electrical portion. My hobbies are Cars and Computers. I know the ins and outs of typical automotive electrical systems and a lot about computers so read closely. When selecting your power supply for the carputer you can go with a DC-DC power supply that takes the 12volts from a car battery and converts it to 5 and 3 volts. It also lowers the amps for 12volt leads. Some power supplies come with a built in shutdown circuit that tells the carputer to shut down properly when you turn off the ignition rather then just total power shutdown. You want to use a nice gauge primary wire for wiring up your power supply, nothing too heavy duty like a car amp but 14 gauge is a nice gauge to use. The whole vehicle is grounded so you can attach the ground to a bare metal spot inside the car. As for the power you want to be close to the battery but it's not going to happen unless you put the carputer inside the dash. The remote connection is for ignition power, so when you turn the ignition to Accessory and such it closes a circuit for a 12volt lead. If you want you can use a toggle switch and use a constant 12volt lead so you don't always have to power up the carputer.
If you want to cheap out and use a desktop power supply you will want to invest into a power inverter. Power inverters come with then small gauge wires that are great for temp use but if you're going to power a computer with it everyday you want to upgrade those wires to 4 or 8 gauge. If you use the OEM 14 gauge wires that came with it too long you can kill the inverter and create a fire hazard. Also do not use extension cables at all when you use a power inverter. If your power cable doesn't reach then buy a longer power cable. Longer power cables will be thicker due to heavier gauge wire and thicker sleeving.
Another thing to think about is the video cable. You can use extensions if needed but if you go too long then you will loose resistance and end up with a blurry/fuzzy picture. USB can be picky, a lot of cheap USB hardware will use a thin gauge cable so after three foot it losses resistance. Even if the cable looks thick it can still have a very thin gauge wire and have a lot of sleeving.
A few people have tried using extremely long ribbon cable for drives and face data loss. Standard computer ribbon cable has no insulation or protection from electromagnetic interference. 18inches is the maximum length. Some people have taken to time and used CAT5 cable and created their own cables. SATA cables have a maximum of one meter so keep that in mind.
People come up with wacky things like putting a case on the floor or live in a hot humid climate and toss it into the trunk. The floor and trunk are the worse locations for a PC. Lets use a car amp for a example on this. A car amp casing is a huge heatsink. When you open up the amp you will see all transistors and such that create heat are mounted to the casing with thermal compound. A PC is only cooling the CPU, GPU, north/south bridges and sometimes RAM. Not to mention the car amp is completely sealed but a PC has vents and intake/exhaust ports for fans. The ideal room temperature for a computer is 70*F. We all know that isn't going to happen with a PC. When you build a carputer don't use your typical indoor home preferences like making the system quiet. You want some high rated wind tunneling sound CFM fans. If you have the guts you can install the carputer inside the dash and reroute a A/C vent to the carputer. Or if you know about A/Cs you could route a A/C line to the CPU and do some vapor cooling
. But really turn that glove box into a enclosure, you will be happy in the end. If you own a SUV then putting it in the back works just as well. A friend of mine had a nice setup in his Honda Passport, the system was in the car jack storage box.
If you want to use the floor then build a amp mat. The pros uses this for sound competitions. It's a plate that is a inch or so bigger then the case and uses a one inch stand off. So if the case is 8x10 then use a 9x11 or 10x12 inch plate. This way the bottom of the case will stay cool. Also be sure you and your passengers wipe their feet before you ride out.
My future system
Not sure on the CPU and motherboard but there will be SSD, wireless, bluetooth, touch screen and GPS. The system will run Linux, I have been tinkering with Coreboot (LinuxBIOS) and seems like a killer idea for a carputer. As for the frontend I have been playing with flash and thinking about building my own frontend from scratch. My iPhone will be used as a storage for music, video and will use it for internet access. So far the GPS software is kinda weak for Linux so I might have to use WINE to run the GPS software. I would like for the system to be small enough to fit inside the single din slot in the dash. Maybe the best route for me is to look at some embedded boards.
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June 2010 Millennium Cooking Class
How's this for an outrageous dessert! A vegan dessert "burger" of Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies, filled with Avocado-Coconut ice cream with sliced nectarines in a Rose Geranium syrup. Two versions of cookies - one cake-like, one crispy:
Both totally rocked!
Yes, another fab Sunday Vegan Cooking Class at Millennium taught by Millennium's Executive Chef Eric Tucker. We had a great menu today utilizing the best of seasonal produce: stone fruit, corn, zucchini, and avocado.
Cooking classes at Millennium are serious hands-on, jump- in cooking classes. You're busy the whole time, you're learning new techniques, new combinations, new ingredients. I have to say, I was in awe of my classmates today. They were all serious, knowledgeable cooks with good instincts and generous with technique tips. Now I know the easy way to peel ginger is to scrape off the skin with a spoon! The camaraderie of working with others on the recipes makes the classes a very cool experience.
We made dessert first, 'cos it involved baking and freezing. For lunch, we made an incredible summer vegetable salad of julienned diakon, carrots, cucumber and sea kelp noodles. We added mint, Thai basil, and cilantro and a new-to-me salty succulent , Agretti. The amazing dressing was made of blended pluots, ginger, chile, agave nectar, rice vinegar, grape seed oil and salt. We also made a Vadouvan Oil, a French curry spiced oil, that was incredible! We topped the salad with toasted peanuts spiced with coriander, chili, sugar and salt. I could eat this salad every day:
After lunch, we focused on corn griddle cakes (two versions: one baked, one pan fried) with Heirloom bean salad with grilled Nopales (Cactus) and spicy tomato-chile salsa. The beans were amazing - Rancho Gordo Indian woman and vallarta beans, cooked with clove-studded onion and epazote:
We also had two versions of a pumpkin seed pesto. The corn griddle cakes included roasted corn, corn and AP flours, and had some serious cumin flavor and incorporated soy yogurt for a buttermilk effect:
Then two versions of amazing porcini mushroom pot pie - the crust made tender with palm shortening, the filling an amazing blend of leek, carrot and celery mirepoix with porcini (and other) mushrooms, English peas, red wine or sherry, vegetable stock, nutritional yeast, cashew cream, nutmeg and fresh herbs. To die for:
Thanks, as always, to Eric, Ann, and Thomas for creating another fabulous Sunday Cooking Class at Millennium. Also thanks to my classmates for making this another entertaining, friendly, and educative class.
Classmate Beth, a professional chef, has three posts related to this class at her blog The Smug Chef with really gorgeous photos and beautifully stylized dishes. Check them out!
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Never mind that it took more than 20 years to give the celebrity critter its due, because out here in Dino Land, things tend to move s-l-o-w-l-y.
And let's be honest — when you've been waiting a million centuries to be identified, what's another couple of decades, really?
Last year, Reidus hilli officially earned its stripes as a new species of coelacanth, quite the feat for a fish whose path to reality began as a Fort Worth fossil the size of a Girl Scout cookie.
For those who spend their time rebuilding prehistory's narrative, the find was — as earth science professor Louis Jacobs of Southern Methodist University puts it — "tremendously fascinating."
"Every place in the world is unique, so every place is a single piece of a puzzle that fits into the whole story of the world," Jacobs said.
"Our piece is here. This coelacanth provides a piece of our puzzle that we didn't have before of what life was like and what was here."
The area known as the Albian Duck Creek Formation stretches over southwest Tarrant County, a one-time marine environment rich in Cretaceous-era fossils between 90 million and 100 million years old, any present company excluded.
Before it was largely developed, a plucky amateur geologist could regularly turn up evidence of ancient sea life, especially after rains that would free clay earth from its moorings.
Around 1990, Fort Worth design artist Robert Reid and a fossil-hunting friend were trolling the soggy wash, seeing what they could find. Typically that would be bits of turtle, shark vertebrae or ammonites, spiral-shelled cephalopods that once filled the seas.
The piece of rock that caught Reid's eye was small, barely a couple of inches in length.
"I could tell it was some kind of bone material," he said. "I didn't know it was fish."
He could just as easily have left it behind. Instead, he packed it into a Baggie, took it home and washed it off.
And thus the fragment eventually ended up in Reid's geology cabinet, a millennia-old fossil stored in a cushioned box alongside dozens of other millennia-old fossils stored in cushioned boxes.
And there it would sit for years.
Long assumed extinct
The coelacanth is so old that for a long time people figured it was dead.
The prevailing wisdom was that the pokey, homely coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-canth) had been extinct for about 70 million years. Then, in the 1930s, a fishing boat off the eastern coast of southern Africa came along and rocked the paleontological world.
An African museum curator heard from a local sea fisherman who'd found a nasty-looking creature he'd never seen before. The curator took a look at the nasty-looking thing and didn't recognize it either, so she sent off a photo to a colleague in England, who was incredulous.
No. It couldn't be.
Oh, but it was.
Loosely speaking, the find was like coming across an orphaned child in the desert and knowing she was related to an old line of Aztec kings but having no idea how. In other words, large gaps in the record remained between the ancient and the contemporary.
Impressively, however, the discovery of an actual living coelacanth signaled one of the world's longest animal lineages, going back about 400 million years. Oh, so you've traced your heritage back to 13th-century Scotland? The coelacanth scoffs at your little family tree.
"I can't think of any other group of vertebrates that go back that far," said SMU paleontologist John Graf.
He officially identified the fish in an article paper called "A new Early Cretaceous coelacanth from Texas," published last summer in the journal Historical Biology.
Before you dismiss the coelacanth as just another fish, think about this: Its bony fins were a first step toward the development of actual limbs, making it more closely tied to land vertebrates — for instance, you — than its fellow finned kin.
"They are more closely related to us," Graf said, "than the goldfish in your apartment."
Extensive collection
Reid, who runs a design studio in Azle, is no slouch when it comes to collecting fossils.
Both a starfish (Betelgeusia reidi) and a crab (Xanthosia reidi) have been named after him, and his finds have run into the thousands over a 30-year span, many donated to researchers at schools like SMU and Kent State University.
Others populate his Fort Worth home, stuffed into a flat-file cabinet or poised along shelves. A 2½-foot ammonite — or at least the solid cast formed by the limestone sediment that settled inside its long-gone shell — sits next to the fireplace.
"I've got a little fish drawer," Reid said in cardigan and corduroys, pulling the cabinet open to reveal the prehistoric cornucopia within.
"This head goes with this guy. … That's a whole mummified fish right there. … That's a turtle rib. My son found that."
Every once in a while, SMU's Lou Jacobs, now an advisory board member of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, would drop by to see what goodies Reid had unearthed. About seven years ago, Jacobs took a closer look at the coelacanth fragment and realized its potential significance.
It was the lower part of a fish jaw. The plate formation along its surface seemed to indicate a coelacanth.
Jacobs spirited the fragment away to the school's earth sciences department, where it became known as SMU 76592.
Back at SMU
A hundred million years ago, this point on the globe was buried under ocean, with incredible sights since lost to the ages.
Now it's SMU's earth sciences building, where John Graf walks hallways of doors dotted with dinosaur humor and world maps indicating where researchers have been on digs.
These things take time, he said, noting the years that passed between the coelacanth's discovery and eventual identification.
The specimen had to be identified, then classified as either part of a known family or, in this case, indicative of something entirely new.
"People are doing as thorough a job as they can," Graf said.
Reid's find, he explained, helped clear up confusion wrought by previous studies. "We were able to tie together these coelacanths that wanted to jump between different families," Graf said.
This was a brand-new family of coelacanths. Graf called it Reidus hilli, partly in Reid's honor. At about 100 million years old, it's the most recent coelacanth ever found in Texas — besting the previous mark by more than half — and the first-ever from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Aside from reports of the coelacanth's extinction being greatly exaggerated, as Twain might have said, that's part of the fish's ongoing mystery.
"We knew they were here 250 million years ago," Jacobs said. "Now we get one from 100 million years ago, with nothing in between.
"They were known elsewhere until about 70 million years ago, and then they disappear until modern times. This is an intriguing fish with a very special history."
Meanwhile, the site where Reid found the fossil has been completely overhauled, now submerged under a luxury housing community called Mira Vista.
Check out the view, it means.
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(UPI) — The Dye family of New Jersey had their Easter egg hunt interrupted Sunday when a skydiver fell out of the sky in a fatal accident in Washington Township.
The diver, 49-year-old Arkady Shenker, jumped out of a plane operated by Freefall Adventures Skydiving School. He was wearing a special "wing suit" that may not have worked correctly. According to the school's website, their divers jump from 13,500 feet.
The Dyes were having their annual hunt when they saw the skydiver having problems.
"I saw the jumpers. Then I noticed one, and he kind of looked like he was conscious. He was just spinning," Annie Marie Dye told 6ABC.
Shenker fell into a nearby backyard, where witnesses say he appeared to be breathing though unconscious. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
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End PHP processes
On Linux® hosting accounts, you can view and end certain types of connections to your account. You can use this to manage runaway scripts or get your account's PHP initialization file to take effect.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the cPanel account you want to use, click Manage.
- Click cPanel Admin.
- In the Software section, click PHP Processes.
- Select the processes you want to manage, and then click Kill Processes.
Note: If you don't see any processes here, it means that none are running for you to kill.
Ending a process kills all current connections to the process. Any users connected to the process will have to reconnect.


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Though Viewsonic is a company better known for its displays, it has been known to dabble in the PC market in the past with, for instance, its NextVision M1200 ($2,000 street, ) in 2003. These days, the company is looking to be a more serious contender in the desktop PC arena, with the rollout of its compact Viewsonic VOT120 PC Mini ($349 list), among others unveiled earlier last September and at CES. The VT120 is a nettop (low power consumption desktop) PC designed for business, and it's one of the smallest desktops I've ever reviewed.
The VOT120 is a roughly 5.2 x 1.5 x 4.5 inches (HWD) metal box, making it much smaller than the Apple Mac mini (Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz) ($599 list, ) or even the Zonbu Desktop Mini ($99 direct, ) we looked at back in 2007. You can hide the VOT120 anywhere, but it's really designed to sit on your desk or be bolted to the back of your LCD monitor with the included VESA mount. Most business class displays and many HDTVs have a VESA standard "mounting interface" on the back so you can put the display on a wall or on an articulated arm bolted to your desk. The VOT120's VESA mount uses the same space to attach the PC on the back of your monitor. The end result is like having an all-in-one desktop PC, where the "guts" of the PC are easily replaceable. This makes it easy for both frequent upgraders and IT folks who need to swap out components quickly.
The VOT120's black metal chassis is compact, but it has a lot going on outside: There are four USB ports and an eSATA port. The Blue LED showing Wi-Fi activity can be annoying if it's in your line of sight, but thankfully the VOT120 is easy to hide. There's a DVI port for connecting monitors—I would have liked a HDMI port, but the systems simple Intel GMA 950 graphics couldn't handle HD content anyway. The VOT120 is a drop-in solution, there's no internal expandability to speak of, and you shouldn't expect any in a nettop system like this one. Audio in/out, the power button, LEDs for power/hard drive, an Ethernet port, and a Kensington lock port round out the VOT120's exterior features.
The VOT120 comes with a 160GB notebook-class hard drive and 2GB of memory, a notable addition since early compact nettops came with only 1GB. The 2GB is adequate for office work and the types of tasks you'd expect in a business setting (database entry/searching, clerical tasks, research on the web, QuickBooks). Likewise 160GB is more than enough for a low to mid-ranking office worker who won't need to store large files like raw videos.
The VOT120 is quiet; the only way to hear noise from the hard drive and the internal fan is to hold the unit up to your ear. The VOT120 doesn't come with a keyboard or mouse, which is a drawback. I'd recommend using a wireless keyboard with a USB plug-in receiver to minimize the wiring, but it will work with a wired USB keyboard and mouse, too.
The VOT120 is an energy-saving PC; we only measured a 16W draw for the system (using the P3 International Kill-a-Watt meter) while the VOT120 was running CineBench R10 tests. Contrast this with the power-saving Apple Mac mini, which uses 34W on the same task. Sure, the Mac mini can do so much more work, but 16W is sure impressive if you just need a Web browsing or word-processing PC. The VOT120 doesn't get our GreenTech Approved rating, because it lacks certifications like EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) and Viewsonic doesn't have a take-back/recycling program for the system.
Befitting a business-oriented system, there is a distinct lack of bloatware on the system. Bloatware are all those unneeded trialware programs and other detritus that clogs up your desktop and start menu. The only "extra" software on the VOT120 is the 90-day trial of Trend Micro Internet Security, which is moderately useful. I'd rather see a truly useful 1-year version, but it's a god thing that the VOT120's hard drive is mostly clear.
If you only need the VOT120 for simpler tasks like running Office, using business software, and researching the web, then the performance should be adequate. Unfortunately, because the system is running Windows XP and has integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics, we could only run CineBench R10 on the VOT120. The other benchmark tests require stronger graphics, a Vista/Windows 7 operating system, or both. In any case, the VOT120's CineBench R10 score of 849 is par for the course for single-core Atom-powered desktops. If you have more demanding users, like those who need dual-core processors for graphics apps or utilities, then steer them clear of the VOT120.
That said, the VOT120 was able to view multimedia files like SD-quality YouTube videos, and the system was able to playback audio in the background while working on an Office app in the foreground. Keep it simple, and the VOT120 user will be fine.
Compared with other nettops, the VOT120 shows some shortcomings: The more multimedia-oriented Polywell Giada ION-100 ($450 Street, ) has better performance, but then the Giada ION-100 is a lot more expensive at $449. The Acer Veriton VN260G-U2802 ($399 list, ) is a more direct competitor, since it's also a nettop for business users. The Veriton comes with HDMI, but it's physically larger, comes with bloatware, and only has 1GB of RAM. Our current Editors' Choice nettop, the more-expensive Lenovo C300 (3012-2DU) ($549 list, ) is a better choice overall, since it has a dual-core Atom processor and built-in screen giving you a one-box solution to finding a cheap desktop for home or for work. The VOT120 has the ability to use any monitor you have lying around, plus the price discounts (should you buy several at once) are sure to make it a valid choice for the cost-savings at your business.


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Make the directory containing the HelloWorldmessageJNDI application your current directory, using one of the following commands (depending on the platform you're using):
On Solaris:
cd /usr/demo/imq/helloworld/helloworldmessagejndi
On Linux:
cd /opt/sun/mq/examples/helloworld/helloworldmessagejndi
On Windows:
cd IMQ_HOME\\demo\\helloworld\\helloworldmessagejndi
You should find the file HelloWorldMessageJNDI.class present. (If you make changes to the application, you must recompile it using the procedure for compiling a client application given in the Message Queue Developer's Guide for Java Clients.)
Set the CLASSPATH variable to include the current directory containing the file HelloWorldMessageJNDI.class, as well as the following .jar files that are included in the Message Queue product:
See the Message Queue Developer's Guide for Java Clients for information on setting the CLASSPATH variable.
The file jndi.jar is bundled with JDK 1.4. You need not add this file to your CLASSPATH unless you are using an earlier version of the JDK.
Run the HelloWorldMessageJNDI application by executing one of the following commands (depending on the platform you're using):
On Solaris or Linux:
% java HelloWorldMessageJNDI file:///tmp
On Windows:
java HelloWorldMessageJNDI
If the application runs successfully, you should see the output shown in Example 2–1.


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Apple Working On A Two Button Mouse
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In an interesting twist, it appears that Apple is now working on a two buttoned wireless optical mouse. AppleInsider is reporting that because of Apple's slow-but-sure market share increase, it is now essential to provide a two button mouse for those who are used to them. Many a Windows user has made the claim that a one buttoned mouse just doesn't cut it in the world of computing. The thing is, this is going to be an add-on product, probably retailing at $69 USD. For that price, users can purchase an alternative wireless optical mouse for their Mac - but who am I kidding? Mac users will snatch these up in droves.
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New Nokia Slider Cell Phone?
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I loved the 8860 back when it was released. The slider phone was thin, sexy and attracted a lot of attention. However, the reception was really bad. At least I looked good trying to make a call, right? Looks like Nokia could be releasing another one of those sexy phones with the appearance of some pictures on a Chinese forum site. The phone appears to be a successor of the Nokia 8910 and does not appear to include a camera. Hopefully, a press release will be made in the not so distant future by Nokia to announce the launch and details of this phone.
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Plustech's Walking Forest Machine
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What looks to be something from a comic book is actually a forest machine. Created by Plustech Oy, this spiderbot is able to distribute its weight over its six "legs" in order to work with more stability and with minimum impact on its terrain. The machine is even able to walk over obstacles and adapt to the forest floor. It is able to walk forward, backward, sideways, diagonally, turn in place, step over obstacles, and adjust the stepping height as well as the clearance height all via a user friendly interface – joysticks. Have your friends bring a few for a live action Mech Assault deathmatch.
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In an effort to teach teens the effects of alcohol and drugs, Teesside in the United Kingdom is handing out a doll that simulates a baby that is addicted to these substances. The dolls weigh just 3.5 pounds, giving indication to the size of a bay with feotal alcohol syndrome. The normal baby dolls given to teens to care for weigh four pounds more than these dolls. The dolls simulate drug withdrawals, and cannot be turned off - but hey, that is what the bottom dresser drawer is for, right?
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Meet Clocky. Cute little bugger, eh? This device is simple an alarm clock that aims to wake you up, allowing you one press of the snooze button. You see, when Clocky's alarm goes off, and you hit snooze, it rolls off of the surface it is sitting on and finds a hiding spot. The direction that is travels is completely random. This means that when the alarm goes off again, you are going to have to get up to find Clocky in order to turn off the alarm.
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TiVo Hooks Up With Comcast
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Call it a partnership, call it smart, or call it what you will. If you are TiVo, you are calling this a miracle. After getting dumped by DirecTV, TiVo has finally found another outlet it can use to make its way into the homes of millions of Americans - and this is a biggie. TiVo and Comcast have come to an agreement that will see TiVo hardware made available to the majority of Comcast service areas, including jointly developed TiVo solutions (HD TiVo for cable, I guarantee it). The companies expect to start rolling all this out in mid-to-late 2006. You just know that everyone over at TiVo are breathing many signs of relief.
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Philosophical Toilet Paper
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This toilet paper definitely solves the problem of having something interesting to read while you are in the restroom. Tokyo-based Sanseido Book Stores are selling these rolls of toilet paper which have been inscribed with a summary of the philosophy book Architectural Body. The rolls are 30 meters long, and cost about 350 yen. You can find them at about 30 bookstores in Japan. If they can branch out and start putting comics on these things, I am so there.
DVD Release List: 3/15/05
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This week's DVD release list is incredible! Topping the list is the animated comedy to please old and young alike - The Incredibles. The first animated movie from Pixar to receive a PG rating tells the story of a super hero family trying to live their lives as a normal family from suburbia. Watch as the family finds themselves on yet another adventure in a DVD you'll be sure to love. Be sure to also check out Alfie where Jude Law plays the part of a womanizing cad who gets his just desserts.
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Alfie ~ Paramount Pictures
Miss Congeniality: Deluxe Edition ~ Warner Home Video
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AT&T Tests WiMax In Jersey
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AT&T will be testing the High-Speed wireless technology known as WiMax. This standard promises higher speeds with a much longer distance over current wireless standards. WiMax would replace current data lines which are currently employed by businesses as early as 2006 if the technology works out. The first test will be in May in Middletown, New Jersey. We have to keep an eye on this feat – hopefully we can see higher speeds and lower cost in a future not so far away.
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Apple's Lack Of Support On The Dim Mac mini Issue
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Gear Live reader Token has had the same Mac mini problem that many have complained about. When using the VGA adapter, his display is very dim - when using a DVI connector instead, everything looks fine. He sent us this account of his order trying to get support from Apple:
I just wanted to make you and your readers aware that a bunch of people are having trouble with the new Mac mini myself included. The problem is that VGA output is very dark. White is fairly gray. Colors that I know to be vibrant are dim. Playing with the color settings doesn't help either. I am having this issue with my stock 1.25 ghz Mac Mini. I am using this with an emachines 17" VGA LCD display. I also have it on a iogear miniview III USB KVM with VGA. I figure that maybe it was losing something going through the KVM, so I plugged the monitor directly into my Mac Mini. No luck. I also have a 12 inch powerbook g4 1.33 ghz. Using the same display through the same iogear KVM, the picture is as bright and clear just as you would expect. The same goes for my PC running Windows XP and that might be the most frustrating thing of all. This is also true for the G4 400 AGP that the mini was intended to replace. Just for another data point, I also tried this with my roommates dual g4 450 and his iBook g3 900 mhz. The problem is limited to the Mac Mini.
I called Apple support, and spoke to 2 different people. I went through the motions to get my issue on file. Nothing they told me or asked me to do helped in the slightest. They told me to go my local Apple Store and have them take a look.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Dusty Thursday: David Nicholson 1843 (circa 1955)
This was an old Stitzel-Weller brand bottled for the Peter Hauptmann Co. in St. Louis that I haven't been able to find too much about. I'm hoping some of our bourbon experts can shed some light on it in the comments. This one is a 1955 bottling. The brand is now a sourced bourbon owned by Luxco.
David Nicholson 1843, BIB, 100 Proof
The nose has honey, floral notes and some citrus. The palate is rich with vanilla bean, butterscotch and some oak. The finish returns to some of the floral notes.
This is actually far better than I expected it would be with some real complexity. I've had a number of Stitzel-Weller bottom shelfers that weren't great. This is really good stuff and more akin to some of the better Old Fitzgeralds I've had.
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David Nicholson is still being bottled AFAIK. At least it was quite recently. Originally made under contract by Old Fitzgerald (Stitzel-Weller), it was basically Old Fitzgerald as a 7-year old instead of five. Or, another way to look at it is that it was Old Weller Antique at 100 proof instead of 107. Either way, it was delicious bourbon, available only in a relatively small region, and your 1955 version would have been some of the best bourbon ever produced. I have some from the 1990s that was United Distillers' S/W product, and I'd guess that Heaven Hill is still fulfilling orders for them from Bernheim, which would not be as good as yours, but better than current Old Fitz. For those who enjoy today's Old Fitz, this would be a brand worth seeking out. I think it's available from the usual internet marketers; the last bottle I bought was from internetwines.com
- May 30, 2013 at 3:52 PM
- sku said...
Thanks EllenJ, that's very helpful info.
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Cotton and cash grains producers attending the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show will have an opportunity to hear leading commodity analysts present market outlooks for the coming year.
"Our Ag Update sessions will give growers a chance to get the latest opinions on markets before the season gets under way," says Tim Price, executive vice president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, which sponsors the event to be held March 4-5 at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, Tenn.
The show is co-sponsored by Delta Farm Press, and more than 15,000 people attend.
Among those who will present crop market analyses are:
Friday morning:
Woods Eastland, president and chief executive officer of Staplcotn, the Greenwood, Miss., cotton marketing cooperative.
J. Michael Hathorne, vice president and coordinator of economic analysis for Informa Economics, Memphis, who will discuss rice and wheat.
William Dunavant, chief executive officer of Dunavant Enterprises.
Saturday morning session:
Richard Brock, president of Brock Associates, a widely known farm marketing advisory firm, and publisher of The Brock Report. He will present the outlook for soybeans and corn.
Additionally, the Saturday morning session will include a speaker on the outlook for alternative bio-based energy, including biodiesel and ethanol.
The show, which is the 53rd annual event by the ginner organization, will not only give growers a firsthand look at new ag products and technologies, it will also offer the latest information on what's sure to be 2005's hottest topic: soybean rust.
"We're planning a special seminar on the topic, led by the nation's number one authority on the disease," says Price. "Monte Miles, USDA Agricultural Research plant physiologist at the University of Illinois, will lead a reaction panel, which will have participants ranging from growers and input providers through end users."
The seminar will be held Saturday afternoon, March 5, and will be co-sponsored by a number of Mid-South organizations, including the Agricultural Council of Arkansas, the Delta Council, state soybean associations, state soybean promotion boards, and others.
"We feel the Ag Update programs and the soybean rust seminar will offer a forum for issues of key importance to farmers this year," Price says.
More than 15,000 people attend the annual event, to be held at the downtown Cook Convention Center.
"Since our event comes just before the start of the new season, this seminar will offer soybean growers an opportunity to get the latest information on this disease for use in making key crop management decisions," Price says.
"While soybean rust is new to the U.S., researchers have been working on it for at least five years, and Dr. Miles has a wealth of information that can help growers to take a proactive stance in dealing with it."
This year's show is shaping up to be another sellout for the 200,000 square foot convention center.
More than 400 exhibits are expected, Price says, running the gamut from the latest equipment, to seed, chemicals, and services.
"We're excited by the tremendous response from our long-time exhibitors," Price says, "and we're also seeing a significant increase in interest from new exhibitors. It's going to be a very diverse show spanning all the major Mid-South crops."
Exhibitors from more than 40 states and two foreign countries are already signed up.
"While we're proud of the cotton and ginning heritage of the show, it has evolved over the years into a stage for exhibitors representing all of our crops. We believe it is the premier indoor farm show in the South for cotton and cash grains."
There is no admission for the show.
"Memphis is a fun place for the entire family to spend a weekend," Price says, "and we hope everyone will mark their calendars and plan to come and be a part of this year's big show."
Coinciding with the show is the annual meeting of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association and its member associations from Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas-Missouri, and a number of ginner events are held during the week of the show.