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A Name Unknown (Bethany House, July 2017)
She's out to steal his name. Will he steal her heart instead?
Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they are no longer pickpockets—now they focus on high value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. Rosemary's challenge of a lifetime comes when she's assigned to determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany. How does one steal a family's history, their very name?
Rumors swirl around Peter Holstein. Awkward and solitary, but with access to the king, many fear his influence. But Peter can't help his German last name and wants to prove his loyalty to the crown—so he can go back to anonymously writing a series of popular adventure novels. When Rosemary arrives on his doorstop pretending to be a well- credentialed historian, Peter believes she's the right person to help him dig through his family's past.
Anger and danger continue to mount, though, and both realize they're in a race against time to discover the truth—about Peter's past and about the undeniable attraction kindling between them.
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{More About Roseanna M. White}Roseanna M. White pens her novels beneath her Betsy Ross flag, with her Jane Austen action figure watching over her. When not writing fiction, she's homeschooling her two children, editing and designing, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of over a dozen historical novels and novellas, ranging from biblical fiction to American-set romances to her British series. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to make their way into her novels . . . to offset her real life, which is blessedly boring. She passes said boring life with her husband and kids in the beautiful eastern mountains of West Virginia.
My Thoughts:
This was quite a captivating novel, so much so that I found myself dreaming about this book with closed captions. I believe this is the first book of Ms. White's that I have read, and I know it won't be my last.
I loved how Peter felt the need to care for Rosemary and how the friendship between them developed into more. While romance is present in this story, there is a lot of intrigue and mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
I really enjoyed this book. So, brew up a cup of tea and enjoy this wonderful book.
I enjoyed it so much that I made a quote meme that will be a book rating for me on my blog.
I received this book from the publisher, compliments of Litfuse Publicity in exchange for my honest opinion, I was not paid for it.


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Live at Mercury Lounge: Matthew Hemerlein
Even if you haven't heard Matthew's music, there's something to grasp onto from just looking at him. No shoes necessary, perfectly on-point blue jeans, a sleep-ready henley, a haircut that's more Men's Vogue than musician and a handle on an instrument most typically used in folksy-throwback bands on Mercury Lounge's stage. Multidimensional in the finest of senses, it's tough to figure out what this guy's all about on the surface. And, as one of the kindest people we've ever met and deepest artists we've ever worked with, his music has a particular uncommonness that keeps us coming back for more.
Which, if your extend of knowledge about him still brims at the photos above, should change now. Now-now. Now-now-now-now-now. There are few people in this world who can master a spot-on Ginuwine cover or write a song called "Luminescent Braid" that's actually a chunk of musical poetry, and I'm confident in saying that Matthew might be the only name in that sliver between circles in the venn diagram of aforementioned skills. We're told he'll be bringing his weekly Washington D.C.-based Family Hemerlein showcases our way this year, and you can bet your butts we'll be urging the lot of you to come along with us. He may be far away for now, but soon, he'll be ours once again.


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Three years ago, I had an idea for a spy novel. One that had a cold-as-ice female assassin, and more action in it than three other thrillers combined.
The problem was I didn't have time to write it. I was too busy with other projects, and couldn't devote the attention to the project that it needed.
Then last year I had an epiphany. Instead of writing it on my own, I could do a rough outline, find a collaborator, and we could both write the book.
I hunted around for the perfect partner for a while before approaching my friend, Ann Voss Peterson. Ann knew how much I was earning with ebooks (hell, everyone knows how much I'm earning with ebooks), and after plying her with liquor she agreed to co-write FLEE.
If all goes well, it will be released as an ebook and a print book at the end of March. Here's the Carl Graves cover (click on it to make it larger and read the back jacket copy.)
The cover image is taken from a pivotal scene in the novel. Set in Chicago, the hero is chased to the iconic Hancock Building and gets into a firefight in the Signature Room on the 95th floor. Windows are blown out, and she falls.
The tagline is, "If the adrenaline doesn't kill you, she will."
I'm extremely happy with how the book is going so far. It's like James Bond on steroids, loaded with firefights, sex, violence, double-crosses, narrow escapes, and faster pacing than any other book ever written. No bullshit.
Ann and I are doing a 50/50 split on all royalties, and if the book sells modestly there will be more to come.
While writing FLEE, I began to pester Ann to get a short story up on Kindle, and...
Well, I'll let her tell it.
Ann: Wild Night Is Calling started as a slightly strange thriller short story I wrote last year. I mentioned it to Joe, and he had the crazy idea of writing a companion piece to it and self-publishing them together. And since he's Joe Konrath, he kept after me until I agreed. And I have to say, I love the result. Here's the ultra-brief synopsis:
Late at night.
Two teenage girls are picked up by two boys, who invite them back to their place to party. But an innocent mistake turns the party into a nightmare, where nothing is what it seems...
Wild Night is a 5000 word short available for 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and coming soon to other ereaders.
The ebook also contains the first few pages of FLEE, which is going to be released in March or April, depending on how fast Joe can write.
Joe: I can write pretty fast, but I'm taking my time with FLEE. It's special. I haven't felt this way about a story since I wrote Whiskey Sour back in 2002. I really dig the main character, the set-up, and the ridiculous amount of energy this book has.
Ann: FLEE is very high-octane. It's the kind of story that should be made into a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie, if her star vehicles were this good. Seriously, the story is non-stop action and conflict layered upon conflict.
Joe sprang this idea on me as we were carpooling to Bouchercon. Neither of us had time to work on it until recently, but it's been a blast to write. I've always had a bit of a tendency to write dark and action-heavy romantic suspense, something I've tried to control in my Harlequins. In FLEE, I've been able to let loose.
Joe: We should talk about your writing background. And by "we" I mean "you."
Ann: I got my start writing and publishing books at the age of six. They had very marketable construction paper covers and featured hooky premises like saving my best friend from being eaten by goblins. But even with that background, I turned my back on genre fiction in college and became a literary snob, like any good English major. I read the classics and wrote short stories about characters with deep, absorbing problems that they couldn't quite identify. I earned A's, and although I didn't yet understand how to weave a compelling story, I did learn a lot about word craft and how to use criticism to improve my work.
After earning my Bachelor's degree, I turned down graduate school in favor of living life. I tended bar, traveled around the country as a horse show groom and started my own window washing business. It wasn't until my husband the DJ began a feature on his morning radio show called "Romance Novel Theater," that I considered reading a romance (I didn't realize Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters wrote romance). And when I discovered there were romance novels that featured suspense storylines, I knew I'd found what I wanted to write.
I soon discovered that writing romance wasn't easy, especially without having read much of it. So I read like crazy and wrote three complete romantic suspense manuscripts before I felt I had anything good enough to submit. I sold the third manuscript to Harlequin's Intrigue line, and it was published in 2000. My 25th book for Harlequin will be released in November. Many have won awards, including the Daphne du Maurier award for series romantic suspense, and I have around 3 million books in print all over the world. My most recent release hit number one on the Borders Bestsellers List for series romance.
Joe: JA's First Rule of Collaboration is: Try to team up with someone who sells more books than you do. 3 million certainly qualifies.
I'll confess that I'm pretty geeked about FLEE, and I have a feeling readers will like it. I pride myself on writing fast-paced books, but this one makes much of my earlier stuff look tame. FLEE starts pretty quick, then keeps picking up speed for 300 pages.
Until FLEE comes out, I encourage romance readers to check out Ann's books, and thriller readers to check out Wild Night Is Calling. If you were ever a fan of the old TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, you'll see immediately what Ann and I were trying to do with Wild Night.
Anyone who buys a copy of Wild Night is Calling will get a free copy of FLEE for free, in the ereader format of their choice. Just email me at joekonrath(at)comcast(dot)net with the header FREE FLEE. To prove you bought Wild Night, write the last line of the story in your email.
If you can follow those easy instructions, I'll send you a free copy of FLEE a week before it goes on sale. You'll be the envy of all your friends, and get to brag that you're super-special buddies with two bestselling authors.
And if anyone has questions about what it's like to work for a giant publisher like Harlequin, or why Ann is beginning to self-publish ebooks, please post them for her in the comments section.
Some questions might include:
Is writing series romance lucrative?
What's it like working with Konrath?
Do you think ebooks are the future?
Are you selling any of those construction paper books on your website?
Come to think of it, I'd like to know the answers to these myself...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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text: The Power of Sport. For every Special Olympics athlete, there are many more waiting for their chance.Download Program Fact SheetSpecial Olympics is founded on the belief that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy, and benefit from participation in individual and team sports. These must be adapted only as necessary to meet the needs of those with mental and physical limitations. Special Olympics believe that consistent training is indispensable to the development of an individual's sports skills. In addition, competition among those of equal abilities is the most appropriate means of testing these skills, measuring progress, and providing incentives for personal growth.


text: Click to view Ghostbusters: The Video Game looks fantastic. Each time we've walked past the multiple kiosks showcasing the game at Comic-Con this year, we think "Must remember to play that at some point." What Sierra clearly understands, though, is how to appeal to Ghostbusters fans. Shorten the pants, expose some cleavage, then fill out the skimpy Ghostbuster uniform with women who look pretty for a living. We'll take one of whatever they're selling.


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Are Sales of Kim Kardashian's Vogue Cover Trumping Beyonce's?
Anna Wintour took some serious blowback and heat for relenting and giving Kim Kardashian a Vogue cover, something that fashion's intelligentsia thought would never, like, ever, happen. Is the editor-in-chief and helmet-haired doyenne of the fashion bible laughing all the way to the bank due to her decision? Is Kim's cover outselling that of Beyonce?
Kimmy's fiance Kanye West was seen as the architect of this cover, since he has a footing in the high fashion world with his clothing range, and he also appears on it, in a wedding-style image. The cover subject choice related to Kim seemed to signal a changing of the cultural guard for the mag, which doesn't traffic in lowest common denominator reality TV, no matter how beautiful a show's star, like Kim, may be.
The New York Post reports the cover is forecasting to sell 300,000 to 400,000 copies, according to media sources and bean counters. That would put the issue on the level of best-selling issues that have featured the flawless queen -- the aforementioned Bey -- and the FLOTUS aka Michelle Obama.
Bey was on the March 2013 cover, which shifted 355,000 copies. Mrs. O's April 2013 cover sold just south of 300,000 copies.
Will Kimye's cover sail just "North" of those figures and hit nearly 400,000? Well, Vogue doesn't release sales figures so it's TBD.
Still, that'd be a victory for Wintour, since the decision to give Kim a cover was really controversial. Off topic, but Victoria Beckham, a legit fashion designer who is at the forefront of the industry and is beyond respected by her peers, hasn't even gotten a Vogue cover, and it's deserved and long overdue for her... so here's to hoping.
The huge sales tally would also be somewhat of a triumph for Kim, who always seems to be in Queen Bey's shadow. Rumor has it that Bey doesn't plan to attend the Kimye nuptials, either. But we do hope Blue Ivy and North West become mini besties! Their dads watch the throne; they can watch the crib.
We think the James Franco x Seth Rogen parody cover was what helped push the Kimye cover to terrific sales, though.


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Gear Up for Health Ins. Employer Mandate
Next year is a big year for the health insurance reform law enacted three years ago, but it's this year that you might want to start thinking about what, if anything, you'll need to do to get ready.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care act of 2010–what often gets referred to as Obamacare—includes an employer responsibility provison that might have an impact on you if you oversee a state or local association or brokerage.
This employer mandate, as it's called, requires any employer with more than 50 full-time equivalent employees to provide health insurance for its employees. Right off the bat this would appear to rule out many if not most state and local associations of REALTORS®, because few associations have more than 50 employees. Same thing with brokerages, because many of them, while they might have 50 or more sales associates, don't have quite that many employees. (Independent contractors aren't counted as employees under the law.)
If you meet the eligibility threshold, you have to make insurance available to your employees and contribute to the cost of that coverage. Failure to do so means your employees have to get their own insurance (in one of the new "individual exchanges" that are being set up under the law), and you would be on the hook for penalties for the failure to provide affordable coverage.
The law does make a tax break available to small employers if you pick up employees' insurance costs, and for employees who have to get their own insurance, some tax help is available there, too.
Even if you don't meet the mandate's employee threshold, it might make sense from a business standpoint to provide insurance, and depending on a number of factors, you might be able to provide relatively affordable coverage to your employees, especially when you factor in the tax break available to very small businesses.
There are other major aspects to the law that kick in next year, so you might consider meeting with an insurance broker or business adviser this year not only to understand what requirements you face but also what makes the most sense for you from a business standpoint.
In the 6-minute video above, Marcia Salkin, NARs managing director for legislative policy, and Robert Hay, associate director of policy for the American Society of Association Executives, talk about the employer mandate that kicks in next year and put other aspects of the law into a helpful context for you as you decide how the law affects your operations.
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Chris Lewington has set his sights on becoming Colchester United's new first-choice goalkeeper.
And the shot-stopper says he will do everything in his power to begin the season in Joe Dunne's starting line-up.
Lewington will battle it out with Sam Walker to be the U's number one keeper, after joining them from Dagenham and Redbridge.
Lewington said: "Sam has got the shirt at the moment and it's up to me to come in and try and make it mine."
For the full story and all of the latest Colchester United news, see Friday's Daily Gazette.


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What you'll need:
IKEA lack side table
1 15×15 lego duplo base plate
rubber cement or other strong glue
white sticker paper
paper cutter or scissors
lego duplo blocks – I bought 2 sets from the 1st Cars movie and used blocks we had
IKEA mammut chair – optional
1. clean the top of your IKEA lack side table
2. put rubber cement or other strong glue on the bottom of your lego base plate and glue this to the centre of your table. Allow to dry.
3. using your white sticker paper and your paper cutter, cut street lines and corners out – you'll need 4 corners and 16 lines
4. place these stickers all around the perimeter of your table evenly, 4 corners and 4 stickers on each side
5. add your lego duplo blocks and have fun!


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Photos may show ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle before death, police say
LANCASTER, Texas – A cellphone seized from the home of an Iraq War veteran accused of killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend may contain pictures of him with the victims before their deaths at a Texas shooting range, according to police documents released Thursday.
The phone, a box of 9 mm ammunition, drug paraphernalia and a blue-jean jacket were seized from Eddie Ray Routh's home after he was arrested and allegedly confessed to shooting "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield, according to a Lancaster Police Department search warrant affidavit, inventory sheet and other documents.
Police in the Dallas suburb also have obtained search warrants for the cellphone's pictures, text messages and recently called or missed phone numbers.
Routh, 25, is charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder. He remains jailed in Erath County on $3 million bond.
A public memorial service for Kyle, 38, reputed to be the deadliest sniper in American military history, was set for Monday at Cowboys Stadium near Dallas. A funeral service for Littlefield, 35, was set for Friday in Midlothian.
Police believe that after the two men were shot Saturday afternoon at Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose, Routh used the phone to call his sister before driving Kyle's truck to her house. Routh told his sister and brother-in-law that the men "were out shooting target practice and he couldn't trust them so he killed them before they could kill him," according to a police search warrant affidavit. Routh later was arrested near his house in Lancaster.
Routh's attorney, R. Shay Isham, has said he will ask for a court-appointed psychiatrist to determine if Routh is competent to stand trial.
His other court-appointed attorney, J. Warren St. John, said Routh was released from the Dallas Veterans Affairs hospital against his family's wishes just two days before the shootings.
In September, Routh had been transported to a psychiatric hospital after he threatened to kill himself and his family, and he later told officers that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, Lancaster police records show.


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Monday, October 09, 2006
Daf Yomi - Sukkah 37 - Foresight and Prophecy
Posted by ben at 10/09/2006 03:56:00 PM
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- Liorah-Lleucu said...
- Mon Oct 16, 02:19:00 AM 2006
- Liorah-Lleucu said...
I found this at shemayisrael:
The Maharsh"a explains the words "upon noting his beauty his evil inclination took a hold of him and was ready to make him sin to the extent that he would lose his share in the world to come" in a homiletic manner. The evil inclination used his beauty as a tool to make him sin. This can be the intention of the words "Tzofeh rosho latzadik um'va'keish lahamiso" (T'hilim 37:32). The evil inclination is the "rosho." He peers at the righteousness, the beauty of the tzadik, telling the tzadik to be quite pleased with himself and his righteous actions, to rest on his laurels, and through this he attempts to bring him to his death, to a spiritual downfall.
Maybe Rabbi Akiva was "peering" at Rabban Gamliel in the same manner that the yetzer hara was peering at the tzadik in the above quote - to cause his downfall. Just a thought. Akiva was a rabbi and Gamliel was a rabban. Rabban is a more prestigious title than rabbi, yes?
- Mon Oct 16, 02:50:00 AM 2006
- ben said...
very novel. I would have to ask someone greater than me if one can suggest such an interpretation.
- Mon Oct 16, 08:30:00 AM 2006


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On The Nest
Wow! What a crazy couple weeks. We have absolutely been covered in floor eggs. It seems like it may be easing up a little finally. You don't know what a relief it is to see hens on the nest. After a couple weeks of walking the floor constantly picking up eggs maybe we are seeing some change. The majority of the floor eggs we are getting now seem to be the smaller "commercial eggs" instead of the "hatching eggs" we desire. That usually means a hen that has just started laying. We get a bonus based on hatching eggs sent to the hatchery. Our hatching eggs have to weigh atleast 52 grams. The thought behind walking the floor is the hen will find somewhere safer to lay her egg next time if she sees someone move it. I've got my fingers crossed that this will work and we'll have very few eggs in the floor in just a couple more weeks. The chickenhouses are taking all my time now. The lights are on for 15 hours every day now. Soon it will be 16 hours a day and then finally 17 hours a day. That doesn't leave much time for anything else.
We got the 7010 back from the dealer with it's new tie rod mount installed. It appears they have redesigned the mount to be much sturdier. I'm just wondering if the other side shouldn't be changed. I was glad to see it back! Just in time for this last little cold snap. It has been in the 40′s and raining for several days now. It's much nicer to put out hay for the cows in that nasty weather when you've got the cab. I'm already spoiled by the heat. I don't like the air conditioning as much as I like the heat. I must just be cold blooded. As soon as summer gets here I'll probably spend just as much time on the 6000 as I do the 7010.
We finally got the land we cleared last fall run over a couple times with the disc and sewn with grass seed. Now let's all keep our fingers crossed that it comes up and gets enough rain to grow this summer. I'm hoping this is the last cold snap. This morning there was a heavy frost on my windshield at 5 am. That would not have been good for a young stand of grass. Hopefully everyone had their plants covered here. I haven't got anything to cover for the first time in years. If I can find the time that will change. I'm hoping for sunny weather to dry out the dirt so I can till a garden spot. Several people have come by wanting gardens tilled, I just have not had the time to do it. I'm chomping at the bit to get the tiller on the 7010 with it's low low range. It should do a really nice job.
My uncle Ralph sent us several hundred white pine trees. Somehow I have got to find the time to get them planted. I want to use them as a buffer between the log house and the chickenhouse. Well as always I'm getting nothing done sitting here so I better go. Be sure to check out the pics I've added.


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Two of the most successful public/private partnerships for agriculture are the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Program.
MAP, formerly the Market Promotion Program, was authorized as the Targeted Export Assistance Program in 1985 and was intended to compensate U.S. exporters for markets lost to unfair foreign competition. Since its inception, the program has broadened in scope and is now targeted at developing foreign markets for U.S. exports.
The FMD program uses funds from USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation to create, expand and maintain long-term export markets for U.S. agricultural products and was first established under the authority of Public Law 480 in 1955. The FMD was re-authorized by Title VII of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978.
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service recently commissioned IHS Global Insight, a private economic and financial firm, to analyze the effects of the two programs. The results showed the various and positive ways MAP and FMD help U.S. farmers and agricultural industries through increased exports, reducing spending by the federal government in the form of farm payments.
Increased exports help support jobs, not only in local communities but also in complementary industries such as milling, packaging, equipment manufacturing and sales, and transportation.
Using econometric models for bulk commodities and high-value products, Global Insight isolated the unique long-term trade impacts of market development programs. Its findings showed that the multi-year impact of the increase in market development expenditures from 2002 to 2009 by both industry and government equaled $35 in agricultural export gains for each dollar invested.
While both high-value and bulk export categories see benefits well beyond the original year of the investment, high-value agricultural products see returns for more than seven years, and bulk commodities see returns for about three years. USA Rice promotes rice both as a bulk commodity (rough rice exports to Mexico, Central America and South America, and Turkey) and as a high-value product (milled rice to the rest of the world).
In addition, the total gain for the U.S. economy from increased agricultural market development activity is estimated at an average of $1.1 billion annually from 2002 through 2009. So these programs not only help the specific commodities, but also the U.S. economy as a whole, keeping and creating jobs in the rural economy and beyond.
The programs were shown to help increase the U.S. share of the agricultural export market, which rose from 18.6 percent in 2002 to 19.9 percent in 2009, while the value of the exports rose from $90.5 billion to $96.1 billion. Technical assistance and trade servicing (including trade policy support, which USA Rice frequently utilizes) accounted for 60 percent of USDA's market development programs, while consumer promotions accounted for only 20 percent. This is an approximate representation of USA Rice's international promotion activities funded by these programs.
In developed countries especially, reaching consumers is an expensive proposition, so the limited funds are usually more effectively invested in servicing trade and concentrating promotional efforts on the foodservice industry (hotels, restaurants and institutional users).
The USDA funding is designed to supplement, not supplant, the industry's international activities. Industry contributions, when added to the current $234.5 million in government funding, bring the total level of market development program funding to more than $570 million per year.
USA Rice exceeds this industry contribution by a significant amount — with the rice industry contributing in cash or in-kind more than $4 for each dollar received from USDA. USA Rice receives approximately $5.2 million in funding from these programs, while the rice industry's contribution totals more than $20 million.
Those who would advocate cutting these programs as a federal budget reduction measure should heed the authors' findings, which showed that a 50 percent decrease ($280 million less) in government and industry spending in these market development programs would result in:
• U.S. share of rest-of-world imports declining by $8.9 billion from 2009 to 2018.
• Farm cash receipts falling by an annual average of $5.92 billion (1.8 percent) and net cash income decreasing $2 billion (2.6 percent) from 2012 to 2018.
• The resulting reduced income and overall farm activity would cause farm assets to decline in value by $44 billion between 2012 and 2018 and government farm income support payments to increase by $60 million annually due to lower commodity prices.
As an added benefit to the government, the authors estimate that government spending for domestic supports (loan deficiency payments and countercyclical payments) fall about 30 cents for every $1 spent on MAP and FMD. The report concludes that the overall loss in economic benefits would be approximately 13.5 times greater than the savings taxpayers would see from not funding the programs and about 5.7 times greater than the combined cost reduction to taxpayers and cooperators.
This analysis clearly shows the benefit of these programs: MAP and FMD programs provide an important marketing tool to help U.S. rice farmers compete in a competitive global economy.


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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: Here Come The (Mystery) Brides...
5 comments:
- Cheryl Palmer said...
Absolutely beautiful wedding photos! I hope you can find out who they are of!
- July 1, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- NJBuckeye said...
I would be interested in any tips for Mass. sources. We had planned to spend the week here, and have had such miserable experiences that we gave up and are heading home today. I have never been so frustrated.
The NICEST people were at the state library, where they were unable to retrieve the things they did have that were relent because the Special Collections area was closed due to budget cuts. Then there was the Wooster Historical Museum... I was in tears at the State Archives. I have a vision issue and simply wished to print the materials I needed from that TERRIBLE microfilm. I explained that I couldn't read it, and merely wanted to print it. Only one printer was in use, so it wasn't as though there was a line... I was told I had to read it before I printed it. Gee, if I could read it, I wouldn't have wanted to print it all. We phoned places that never returned our calls... MISERABLE.
- July 15, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
NJBuckeye, I'm so sorry you had a bad experience with your MA research. Take a look at my Worcester and MA links. Maybe they will be helpful to you. The Worcester City Clerk has some great info on line as does the Mass Archives. The Family Search Pilot has some MA records (marriage and death) online. I'll try to do a blog post sometime in the next couple of months outlining the sources I have found helpful. Good luck...
- July 16, 2010 at 12:40 AM
- Iwona Kozlowka said...
Dear Cynthia!
You have a great blog, thanks to you fund out from where exactly (hoboken)the M.S.Pilsudski was goingon a tripto gdynia, Poland.
I come from Gdynia(one of the places you are reaserching is Zdynia, probably you know already that it is mistake and you should change it to Gdynia ---sometimes in older times they were writing it with a script where upper case G looks like upper case Z----) but i live currently in Brooklyn, New York, I am an immigrant but only 17 years old,means I came to USA in 1996. Your blog is great and I admire you for dedicating so much time to prepare it so nicely, especially I liked the memories from the M.S.Pilsudski because lately I was reading polish book which mentioned the trip to America from Gdynia -my beloved city -with GAL shipping lines. I was wondering where the ship was actually stoping, was it Brooklyn(very close where I live now)or Manhattan piers, finally after 2 hours of researching, I got on Google our blog with the exact answer. Thank you, it helped me very much to know how such trip looked back then. I am so proud of you that you care so much about your ancestors and your polish origin. The only coincidence is that my mother's friend from Poland emigrated to America to Worcester! MA in 1972 on M.S. Stefan Batory and she lives there till now. I remember she send us her weding picture from the church in your city (I do not know if it was our Lady of Czestochowa church but am going to ask her. I did not know that they had such big polonia in your city.In comparison to the pictures you have attached in blog she sent us beautiful colorful picture and us living in grey communistic Gdynia back in 1980-ties this picture was showing us also the greatness of America. Who knew that I am going to research it in 30 years. I am going to send her link as soon as I am going to finish this comment. Good luck with your blog and research. Iwona
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- September 1, 2013 at 10:46 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Hi Iwona,
Thank you for reading my blog, and thank you for taking the time to leave a comment! I'm sorry it has taken a bit for me to respond. I've been away from my blog and my research for a bit.
It's nice to meet someone from Gdynia! You might be interested to know that someone is writing a book, in Polish, about the Pilsudski. I am also researching another town called Zdynia in the southern part of Poland. My husband's Ukrainian grandmother came from Zdynia.
It was interesting to hear that your mother's friend moved to Worcester. You are correct--Our Lady of Czestochowa is the Polish church in Worcester. The city still has a large and vibrant Polish population!
I am glad you found my blog and that you found the answers you were looking for regarding the Pilsudski.
Thanks again for your comment!
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Set Up Secure FTP
As popular as FTP is FTP communication is not secure, all communication is plain text and can be easily captured. Despite this serious weakness, few do anything to secure it. There are simple ways to correct this with VSFTPD.
SSL/TLS With FTP
FTPS is also known as FTPS Secure or FTP-SSL. What FTPS does is add the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to the normal FTP on the same port 21. It is easy to confuse FTPS on port 21 with SFTP which is actually SSH on port 22.
Add these settings to your /etc/vsftpd.conf file and you will have an anonymous ftp server that will allow anyone to download files from /var/ftp but they cannot upload. It will also protect all of your users as they must ftp into their home accounts using ssl.
rsa_cert_file=/ etc/vsftpd.pem
You do not need to create the self-signed certificate as they are already created by the vsftpd server as you can see listed. Notice that ssl is enabled only for local logins, users who have accounts on the machine. The connection will still be on port 21. Once you have the server set up you will need a client that is ftps compatible.
Create Self-Signed Certificate
You can create a self-signed certificate with this command which will create a certificate for 1 year and the pem file is then saved in the /etc/directory. Note that you will need to change the /etc/vsftpd.conf file to enter the path of this file. You will be asked several questions which will identify your organization.
# openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/vsftpd.pem -out /etc/vsftpd.pem
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
writing new private key to '/etc/vsftpd.pem'
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:MT
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Trout Creek
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Example LTD
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:example.com
Email Address []:firstname.lastname@example.com
Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf and comment out the rsa certificate and private key files that are there by default and add these lines which show the path to your self-signed certificate.
Restart the ftp server.
service vsftpd restart
Using a FTP Client that is SSL/TLS Compatible
The popular Linux ftp client gFTP will not connect using SSL when you are using self-signed certificates, you would have to purchase a real certificate for your business. Another Linux alternative is to use ftp-ssl. This is a command line version of ftp and actually will replace ftp with this client. It functions that same as ftp. It will attempt to connect using ssl, if it is not enabled it will drop back to regular ftp. The Filezilla version for Linux continued to crash when the connection was made, so it is not a reliable option.
When you connect you will be asked to accept the self-signed certificate, either which you made or the default for vsftp.
Accept the certificate and you have encrypted FTP on port 21.
If you have users connecting with FileZilla for Windows, which is reliable, you will need to make these changes so they can log in with SSL. Note the port is still 21 but the Servertype is now FTP over SSL.
February 19, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Definitely agree with what you stated. Your explanation was certainly the easiest to understand. I tell you, I usually get irked when folks discuss issues that they plainly do not know about. You managed to hit the nail right on the head and explained out everything without complication. Maybe, people can take a signal. Will likely be back to get more. Thanks


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We got an e-mail this morning from our buddy Peter:
Clay Regazzoni was killed in a motorway accident near Parma, Italy, today. Sad, sad, was one of the major moustaches of the early 70'ies, where he was with British Racing Motors and then later twice with the Ferrari team ( 1970-1972 and 1974-1976), together with later 1975 World Champion Niki Lauda. Clay Regazzoni was severely injured at Long Beach 1980, and was paralyzed hip-down. I will miss him.
One of our first F1 remembrances was watching Regazzoni battle Emerson Fittipaldi during the season of our kindergarten year. Fittipaldi ultimately prevailed, but only by a few hard-earned points. Despite his paralysis, Regazzoni continued to race, though non-competitively, using adapted cars. The above video was from an onboard camera, as Regazzoni raced the Ensign-Ford entrant at South Africa's Kyalami Track. Click through for his part in the Acura NSX star turn.
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PTR takes a couple more slugs
There appears to be more downside to the slowdown at PTR Industries than laid-off employees and trimmed management paychecks.
The company recently paid Horry County part of payments it had missed for work done at its building at Cool Springs Business Park near Aynor. PTR also has been sued by Cayce Co. of Florence for $18,275 it says it is owed for heating and air conditioning work done at PTR's manufacturing plant.
John McNamara, vice president of PTR, said he couldn't comment. He said that PTR CEO Josh Fiorini, who would be the one to address the issues, was out of the state and unreachable before Monday afternoon.
Brad Lofton, CEO of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp., said he's not worried about PTR's future.
He said company officials have said they plan to introduce new gun lines that will help the company have its best year ever in 2015. Lofton said sales have been strong for the company's recently-introduced South Carolina commemorative rifle.
Lofton said PTR was behind a month or two in payments to Horry County that it financed for things on the company's building not included in its original contract. The company is getting three years of free rent on the original contract.
He said the payments to the county are $7,000 to $8,000 a month.
"(PTR officials) have convinced the county and me they're doing fine," Lofton said.
Fiorini said last week the recent layoffs of eight employees and a 10 percent cut in management pay were due to a nationwide economic slowdown in the first two quarters of this year that hit the firearms industry hard.
CNN reported that firearms background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation fell to 1.66 million in January from 2.5 million in January 2013.
Fiorini said last week that suppliers still have inventory of some firearms because of the high demand for weapons last year, and that they are not ordering new stock until the current inventory is trimmed down.
PTR isn't the only gun manufacturer to be caught by the slowdown.
Sig Sauer, a Westfield, Mass., firearms manufacturer, has laid off 85 employees since March 31, according to a report by WWLP, a Massachusetts television station. The company had 600 on its payroll last year. That number was reduced to 375 with the latest layoffs.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
When last I spoke of my adventure to Seattle, I mentioned a little thrifty shopping I think. I thought I might show off my treasures from that trip along with some other treasures that have recently come into the little green cottage.
That beautiful old mirror in the photo was from my trip to Seattle. It runs the width of my mantle and is quite heavy. It was a crazy steal for $4 and a special treat from my friend Tif. The blue bottle is from the Engineer as a thoughtful replacement to a similar bottle that was broken some time ago. Good man!
Also from Seattle, a couple of vintage crochet lacy bits. All freshly laundered and looking so pretty.
From another thrifty outing a little bit of 'vintage spring' in the form of sheets. The yellow ones keep whispering "curtains" to me.
This next treasure was a sweet gift from the very kind and also amazingly talented Jess of Teddy Bear's Wednesday.
An amazing red work blanket. My photo does not come close to doing it justice. It is so gorgeous! Her stitching is beautifully done and I can't believe I am now the owner of this heirloom piece. Thank you Jess!
The last treasure I will share with you is neither vintage, thrifted, nor handmade... though it will assist me in hand making. It is something I have wanted for a long while and finally screwed up the courage to purchase. Ta Da!
Aww Snap! That's right folks, I bought myself a professional snap setter HOORAY! Many thanks are owed to the kind Sara of Willow and Moo for giving me some sound advice on this purchase, thank you! And yes, I suddenly have the urge to 'besnap' (besnapping is much like bedazzling only with snaps) everything!
Right, well thank you for letting me share my treasures with you. Do you have any new treasures?
Have a grand weekend all!
15 comments:
- yardage girl said...
Nice finds, and I love the thought of you besnapping everything! Have a great weekend!
- October 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- greenrabbitdesigns said...
The red work blanket is gorgeous, all those lovely little animals.
What a bargain with the mirror too!
- October 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Sherri B. said...
So many new treasures! That mirror was a 'big' find for a small price and gifted by Tif is a real bonus. I am surprised PG didn't grab those yellow sheets (isn't she into yellow now?) for her own. I have never seen a snap machine before, won't that make it a breeze for those projects!
Have a great weekend, after seeing all of these goodies, I'm off to find some of my own. xo
- October 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- Itchin' Stitchin' said...
Love all your new treasures. I did get some new to me vintage paper items but ... I sold them all :)
- October 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Flaming Nora said...
Phwoar! a proper snapper. Jealous Moi? Say it isn't so!
- October 7, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Jennie said...
Oh my goodness - I love everything!!
I wonder what you are going to 'snap'!x
- October 7, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- willow and moo said...
Watch out Alex! I'm good at helping people spend money. LOL I don't use my snap press all that often, but I love having it. I have some projects planned for it soon. Have you see this? http://stynaundkarlson.blogspot.com/2011/08/madchen-glucklich-machen.html So cute! I think I'm going to make up some for Moo's friends for small holiday presents.
Good thing I don't live near you. I might be offering to take that mirror off of your hands. I think it would look nice in my house! ;)
- October 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Vic said...
Sara made me an awesome wrist cuff for Punk's last birthday that is snap-a-licious, a snap press is also on my looooooooooooooooong list of "wants" (...but probably do not "needs" hehe).
So glad Jess's work of art is in good hands! She's THE CUTENESS, that one.
- October 7, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Ted and Agnes said...
a mighty fine hoard of thrifty finds there, esp like the lacey bits & good on the engineer how thoughtful Rxx
- October 7, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- teddybearswednesday said...
I think the snap machine pressy thing is the grooviest thing I've ever seen. Can't wait to see you get snapping.
and major blush, you are the sweetest and i'm so happy the redwork went to someone special like you xo
- October 8, 2011 at 4:57 AM
- harmony and rosie said...
Very acceptable treasures .. that contraption looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. I love stuff like that.
- October 8, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- m.e (Cathie) said...
lovely lovely treasures, especially Jess's gift, she is a sweet one that one.
sending you sunshine & smiles Miss Lola Nova.
p.s you know I would have no idea how to even use a snap thingy..
- October 8, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Erin said...
My ABSOLUTE fave are the yellow floral prints. So retro, so bright, so cheery. Makes me happy to just look at them!
- October 8, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- june at noon said...
Fabulous finds! And I'm pretty certain I have the cousins, if not the twins, of those sheets sitting in my fabric basket right now. I found them for a quarter at a yard sale this Summer, and I was thinking curtains, too. :)
- October 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM
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Great thrifty finds!
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Reach had some really good things in it. I liked the integration of sprint, I thought that was something that could be regarded as a natural armor progression. With that said, that should have been the end of it IMO. IMO, TRUE skill games are everyone starting out the same and seeing who does it better. No offense Sundown, I know you like Reach tons, but, I hope you understand the validity of my point. That is also why I enjoyed swat and the pro lists on Reach. Limited armor abilities, level playing field. It wasn't a bad concept .... for COD. That's not a bash, I enjoy COD tons, but, let's make the games unique.
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Israel last week unveiled at the UN a unique new filtration system that will finally allow people in Africa and South America to access clean drinking water.
The presentation of the new system came during the Israeli delegation's celebration of Israel's 65th Independence Day at UN headquarters in New York City. Under the banner of "65 Years of Israeli Innovation," the event was attended by ambassadors from around the world, UN officials, journalists and leaders of the Jewish community in New York.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor told those gathered, "In just six decades, Israel has moved from harvesting apples to designing Apple computers; from planting trees in the desert to putting companies on the NASDAQ stock exchange. We are one of the only countries in the world that puts electric cars on the road, launches satellites into space, and wins Nobel Prizes for its scientists."
"After 65 years, Israel," Prosor continued, "has patented the perfect recipe for success: if you want stability, empower your people. If you want sustainability, engage every member of society. And if you want prosperity, invest in your greatest natural resources – your human resources."
At the height of the event, Prosor unveiled the innovative water technology known as "Woosh," developed by the Israeli company Odis.
For over a decade already Odis has been providing drinking water systems to UN forces deployed in parts of the world without adequate water infrastructure.
The Woosh will enable Odis to get more water to more of those who need it most. "This machine is the first-of its-kind," explained Prosor. "It can connect to the main water supply of any city — regardless of how toxic it is — and provide purified drinking water to anyone on the street."
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The Cleveland Browns have won three straight games since they "gave up on the season."
With backup quarterback Brandon Weeden taking over for an injured Brian Hoyer, the Browns earned their third straight win with a 37-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night. For the time being, the Browns hold a half game lead over the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals for first place in the AFC North.
Weeden completed 13 of 24 passes for 197 yards and a touchdown in relief of Hoyer and T.J. Ward sealed the win for the Browns with an interception of Bills' backup Jeff Tuel returned for a touchdown in the closing minutes.
The Browns lost Hoyer in the first quarter to a knee injury that head coach Rob Chudzinski fears includes torn knee ligaments. Bills starter EJ Manuel went down midway through the third quarter. Both injuries happened on scrambles by the quarterbacks.
Hoyer had his legs bend awkwardly underneath him while being tackled by Bills' linebacker Kiko Alonso. Manuel had spun away from pressure from the Browns defense and run for 14 yards and a first down on a 3rd and 8 play. Manuel didn't slide and was hit by Tashaun Gipson on his way out-of-bounds directly on his right knee. Tuel managed to finish off the Bills drive as Fred Jackson scored on a 1-yard touchdown to give the Bills a 24-17 lead. It would be the last points of the night for Buffalo.
Weeden connected with Josh Gordon for a 37-yard touchdown to even the game at 24-all late in the third quarter. Billy Cundiff converted a pair of field goals to give Cleveland a 30-24 lead. The Bills had a chance to drive for the winning touchdown but Ward intercepted Tuel on a pass for Robert Woods to add to the lead and cement the victory for the Browns.
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You can watch the whole thing here (legally you crybabies).
I've seen that one before.
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Witt's attorney in her successful federal court challenge to her dismissal under DADT, Jim Lobsenz, presided over the ceremony. The couple was the first to get their marriage license at the Spokane County Courthouse just before 8:30 a.m. on December 6.
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Meet Eric Etheridge, author and photographer of the recently published book Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders and Miller Green, a 1961 Freedom Rider, on Tuesday, February 24, 6:30 pm, at the Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S Rose St.
Late in 1960, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawed segregation in terminals used by interstate bus and rail services. On May 4, 1961, thirteen people traveled south on the first Freedom to test the compliance of Southern bus stations with the ruling. This, and subsequent rides, encountered increasingly violent resistance.
Though there were Freedom Rides across the South, Jackson, Mississippi, soon became the campaign's primary focus. More than 300 Riders were arrested there and quickly convicted of breach of peace. Author and photographer Eric Etheridge came across the mug shots of all 328 Freedom Riders in 2004.
Etheridge was "immediately captivated by [their] faces … The police camera had caught something special … The resulting portraits were compelling and intense." He decided to publish the mug shots and, where possible, include new photos and stories of the Riders in his new book, Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders.
Miller Green, a high-school senior in 1961 and one of the Freedom Riders who inspired the book, will speak in Kalamazoo with Etheridge. About Green and other Riders, a Newsweek review revealed some of them "…remain in awe of the courage of their former selves." In the article, Miller Green is quoted: "'It came down to a bunch of teenagers … who knew what the consequences could be… Yet we carried that [weight] on our shoulders.'"
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The legacy of the rides "could not have been more poetic," says Robert Singleton, who connects those events to the election of Barack Obama as president. Obama was born in August 1961, Singleton notes, just when the riders were languishing in Mississippi jails and prisons, trying to "break the back of segregation for all people, but especially for the children. We put ourselves in harm's way for a child, at the very time he came into this world, who would become our first black president."
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Amazon Announces It's Leaving Texas In Tax Dispute; Governor Blames Comptroller, Says He'll Fix
from the politics-is-about-power deptYou may recall late last year that the state of Texas sent Amazon a tax bill for $269 million. The issue, as always, is the question of whether or not Amazon has to collect sales tax. Technically, e-commerce companies have always said they don't have to collect sales tax in states where they have no physical presence. Of course, Amazon actually has a giant distribution facility in Texas, and also bought Woot (based in Texas) last summer. It's still tried to avoid the tax issue by claiming those are subsidiaries, not Amazon.com itself.
Apparently, that strategy wasn't working, so last week Amazon announced that it was leaving Texas over the issue, making sure to announce that it had planned to hire 1,000 additional workers at the facility. Hearing a major employer leaving the state is generally a pretty bad thing for state politicians and Governor Rick Perry realized that, because it took all of one day for him to throw the state comptroller under the bus and claim that the whole thing was a mistake by the comptroller:
"That is a problem and I would suggest to you that we need to look at that decision that our comptroller made," he said. "The comptroller made that decision independently. I would tell you from my perspective that's not the decision I would have made."In fact, Perry publicly began to explain why Amazon shouldn't have to pay sales tax on items shipped in Texas:
"You couldn't go in and buy anything out of that store, and that, historically, has been the way we defined whether you pay taxes or not -- if you had a storefront. This obviously didn't have a store front. It was specifically there to manage products that need to be shipped out."Perry then asked the state legislature to make sure that it crafts some new rules that keep Amazon from leaving. Looks like Amazon just successfully called Texas' bluff.


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A guy from Greater Manchester, Barry Thew, wore a horrible T shirt right after two police constables, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, were killed. The T shirt said "one less pig perfect justice." Nasty.
He was sentenced to four months in jail today. He "admitted a public order offence."
A police spokesman said Thew, of Worsley Street, Radcliffe, had been arrested after being seen wearing the T-shirt in Radcliffe town centre "just hours" after the constables died in a gun and grenade attack in Mottram on 18 September.
Mr Williams said: "While officers on the ground were just learning of and trying to come to terms with the devastating news that two colleagues had been killed, Thew thought nothing of going out in public with a shirt daubed with appalling handwritten comments on."
That's very very unkind and unfeeling and rude. Barry Thew shouldn't be like that. But – being unkind isn't a crime. All his friends should give him a good talking-to, but he shouldn't be convicted of a crime or sent to jail.
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Robin Roberts returns to 'GMA'
The 'GMA' anchor starts her first show back after her medical leave battling a rare form of cancer.
The recovering anchor gets an all-star reception, five months to the day since her bone-marrow transplant.
Five months after a bone-marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder, Robin Roberts resumed duties as co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday morning, saying "I have been waiting 174 days to say this: 'Good Morning America.' "
Roberts' return was billed as a very special edition of GMA, and it included a welcome back message from President Obama and wife Michelle, whom Roberts is scheduled to interview in the next few days: "Good morning America and welcome back Robin," Obama said.
"Robin," Michelle Obama added, "we just want you to know that the whole Obama family — we've been thinking about you and praying for you and rooting for you every step of the way."
Leading the on-set welcome-back party was co-anchor George Stephanopoulos, who greeted her with, "Hello Robin. The froggy slippers are off and she's back in Times Square five months to the day from her bone-marrow transplant. Her doctors giving her the thumbs-up, she's been getting into fighting shape, all of Team Robin here and across the country give a big welcome right now."
Other guests on set and via video ranged from Roberts' siblings, Sally-Ann and Dorothy, to former secretary of state Hilary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Kobe Bryant.
Roberts, looking fit, seemed thrilled to be back.
"I keep pinching myself and I realize this is real. This is actually happening, and I don't have my froggy slippers on, or do I?" she joked. "Faith, family and friends have brought me to this moment and I am so full of gratitude. There are so many people I want to thank throughout the morning, my doctors and nurses and family and colleagues and people who have sat in this chair and those who have blazed the trail before me.
"As my mother said, we all have something and everyone's story has purpose and meaning and value and I share this morning, this day of celebration with everyone."
The words on Roberts' multicolored prayer bracelet — "light, love, power, presence" — were a connecting theme through the morning, and her recovery journey was a highlight of the broadcast. Her fight to regain her health with the help of a yoga instructor and her transplant team had been documented and filmed over the past five months.
"When you go through something like this you can be either fearful or fearless and I chose to be the latter," Roberts is seen saying in film clips of her recovery process. (ABC will air a 20/20 special on her recovery process, Friday at 10 ET/PT.)
Roberts' physicians, Sergio Giralt and Gail Roboz, were interviewed on GMA by Stephanopoulos, who asked how they knew Roberts was ready to come back to work.
"Today is a dress rehearsal, it's her first show, and we'll see how she feels tomorrow," Giralt said, adding that he would assess her condition after the show.
Roberts said she'll be "listening" to her body as well, making sure that she recognizes what it tries to tell her about how she feels as her recovery moves forward. "Part of the reason I have been able to recover as I have, so well," she said, is because she was in relatively good health before her diagnosis.
Asked by Stephanapoulous about the next milestones in Roberts' recovery, Roboz said, "Time passing is a good thing. As the weeks and months go by and feel more normal and there are no medications and there are fewer blood tests and fewer appointments, things start feeling better, but we are going to be on your case. I've said it before, I don't care who the interview is with, if you're not well enough to go, you're not going."
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Mixtape: YONAS – The TransitionJuly 6th, 2012 by Siegz | Album/Mixtape/EP Review, Hip-Hop/Rap |
NYC lyricist YONAS has finally dropped his long awaited follow up to "The Proven Theory". This mixtape entitled "The Transition" is stylistically remarkably different from his previous works. Finding inspiration in both Electro and Top 40 music, YONAS has taken it upon himself to define his role and delineate from the misconception that he's a Christian rapper.
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Story appears in June 30, 2009, Tomahawk Leader:
By Tom Colstad
Tomahawk Leader Sports Editor
Heading into the first year of competing in the brand new Great Northern Conference (GNC), Tomahawk High School faced the daunting task of holding its own in athletic competition against six other conference schools (Merrill, Antigo, Lakeland, Medford, Mosinee and Northland Pines), all larger than itself. Many skeptics thought that Tomahawk would wither against teams from schools with twice its enrollment.
The GNC sponsored 16 varsity sports during the course of the 2008-09 season, including football, volleyball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country, girls' swimming, boys' soccer, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, boys' hockey, wrestling, girls' soccer, baseball, softball, boys' golf, boys' track and girls' track. I assigned point values for the different placements in the final standings for each sport to determine what should be the overall GNC sports champions for the 2008-09 school year. The last-place team got one point, while the first-place squad was awarded seven points. Exceptions to this procedure were sports where all GNC schools weren't represented. For those sports, the first-place team received four, five or six points, depending on the number of teams competing in that sport.
The league's two smallest schools by enrollment, Tomahawk and Northland Pines, and Medford each had 14 different varsity sports teams, so received zero points in the two sports they didn't have. Antigo and Mosinee had 15 sports teams, while Merrill and Lakeland had full complements of 16 each.
Results of the first year all-sports total points were: Merrill, first, 72 points; Antigo, second, 68; Lakeland, third, 66; Tomahawk and Mosinee, tied for fourth, 60; Medford, sixth, 43; and Northland Pines, 28.
Merrill won three conference titles (volleyball, baseball and boys' track), as did Tomahawk (boys' and girls' cross country and girls' track), Mosinee (wrestling, golf and softball) and Lakeland (football, girls' swimming and boys' hockey). Antigo (boys' basketball and girls' basketball) and Northland Pines (boys' soccer and girls' soccer) won two GNC crowns apiece, while Medford was shut out.
Merrill has since been informed by the WIAA that the Blue Jays will be moved back into the Wisconsin Valley Conference, and Rhinelander will replace them in the Great Northern Conference beginning in fall 2010.
Hatchet athletes achieved many great things and fared well in the tough GNC. Sharpened by stiff competition in conference action, the Hatchets won a WIAA state team championship (boys' cross country) and three WIAA individual state titles in wrestling (Nick Hagar, Zach Zehner and Rudy Chagoya).
There's an old saying that holds true in this situation… What's important isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but rather the size of the fight in the dog.
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Last week's champion @brittanynj1212 (left) is a model who calls herself a "Professional Southern Influence," and is a promotional model for
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Bob Allen—A Ktrk Legendby Representative Ted Poe
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Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I'm honored to recognize a
Houston legend, Bob Allen who recently signed off from the sports desk
at KTRK Channel 13 after nearly forty years. Bob's last broadcast was
Thursday, January 17th after the Houston Texans' closed their electric
2012 season. The timing of his exit was no coincidence; he had high
hopes of a Super bowl for the Texans just like the rest of us. Bob has
brought sports into our homes for decades. His outstanding career at
KTRK may have come to an end but for many of us Houston sports will
always be synonymous with Bob Allen.
KRTK hired Bob as a weekend sportscaster all the way back in 1974, but his passion for sports and the news began long before that. Legend has it that when he was just ten years old, Bob took off on his bike from his West University house to the KTRK studios just to get a peek at the newsroom. In those days Guy Savage was the sportscaster. Young Bob was shown the exit that day, but little did they know that this bright eyed young boy would be the future face of sports in Houston.
After Bob joined KTRK it took just six months for him to be named sports director. And the rest is history. Bob has been in our living rooms through some of the greatest sports moments of the last half century; the Rockets championships in the '90s and the Love Ya blue oilers in the 70s just to name a few. I spent many nights after supper watching his sports casts after the Oilers and Astros games with my son Kurt. Bob has told the story of sports to generations of Houstonians. He has interviewed some of the greatest sports legends, including Nolan Ryan, Stan ``the Man'' Musial and George Foreman. Bob even tested out his acting skills with roles in the ABC TV movie Murder at the World Series in 1977, and another sports mystery thriller, Night Game, in '89. He played a sportscaster and an announcer for the Houston Astros, of course.
Bob has also given back to the Houston community in other ways through his charitable work with the Special Olympics and the Sunshine Kids, which helps children struggling with cancer. His commitment to service earned him recognition from the Special Olympics, who awarded him the Spirit of Special Olympics award.
Bob's departure from KTRK marks the end of an era for Houston but it also marks a new beginning for Bob. He dedicated forty years to a fantastic career in sports broadcasting. Now that this chapter is over, he's looking forward to pursuing new projects. He insists that he is resigning, not retiring. He won't stop, that's just the kind of guy he is. When asked about his future he said ``I'll probably end up being busier than I was at 13.'' I don't doubt that one bit. He plans to start a media company that includes public speaking engagements and radio, and he will write a book about working on TV with some of the world's greatest athletes. Bob is a credit to the broadcasting profession and a credit to Texas. We will miss him in our homes but wish him well on his next adventure. Congratulations, Bob, on a fantastic career. And that's just the way it is.