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Dublin Robotics
Home of FRC Team 1014
Team we are not allowed to have a regular meeting tonight because of the weather. But we can have a meeting with some of the team leaders. The leaders will be contacted by me, Mr. Sansuchat, Grace, Isaac or Jack. Please check your school email.
There are a few important links. The most important is the link to join the team Google Group. This will give you access to all of our team news. This link will take you to our general information page. Here is the link with instructions on how to register with FIRST and complete the online consent to be photographed form. Your parents will need to complete the registration if you are under 18.
Another important link is The Dublin Robotics Boosters web site, which has important links and a booster registration form can be found there. You can find out more information about FIRST Robotics in general at the FIRST web site. Information about the Central Ohio Robotics Initiative is available on the CORI web site.
All meetings will be in Coffman 118 unless otherwise noted here. There will be no team build meeting on Saturday January 12. Instead we will be volunteering to help run the FLL Tournament at Coffman.
Here is our team Facebook group
Here is a link to the ChiefDelphi forums
Our team YouTube channel is here
Our Twitter page is here
Regional Competitions
Miami Valley Regional Mar 6 - Mar 9 at Wright State
Buckeye Regional March 27-30 at Cleveland State (this is the second weekend of spring break)
Field trip form for Miami Valley Regional (March 6-9) and Buckeye Regional (Marc 27-30):
Field trip and medical forms only for Buckeye Regional (Marc 27-30):
Chaperone Responsibilities Form (only needed for parent chaperones)


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Maggie the GulliblebyYDB95©
She had the house -- Mom's house -- to herself for the weekend, thank heavens. And she hadn't been shy about telling him so as they were leaving the movie. "Come on over?" she'd asked in the demurest tone she could muster.
"Are you sure?" he'd asked.
"I just invited you, didn't I?" Did she need to remind him it was their fifth date already? Or how lucky he was that she adored shy guys so much? Just how long did he expect her to wait?
"I'd love to. If you're sure."
She was sure, all right. And she was absolutely certain now that he sat on the couch in the candlelit living room, sipping chardonnay and admiring her as she fiddled with the stereo. "I just love the glow from the radio, don't you?" he asked. "So romantic."
She stepped back for a look at that glow as the soft jazz purred out of the speakers. It wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the howling winter winds outside, but that only made her feel cozier. "Yes, I guess it is, in a masculine sort of way," she said. Turning to him, she picked up her own wine glass from the cocktail table and drank in his appreciative gaze. He still hadn't even tried to make a move on her.
"Romantic in a masculine way?" he repeated. "Is there such a thing?"
"You'd be surprised at what some guys find romantic," she said between sips of wine. She swayed gently to the beat of the music, enjoying the feel of her skirt swishing around her tights-clad legs and hoping he enjoyed the sight of it. "It usually involves something stereotypically masculine, like a stereo. Of course..." she let out a gentle laugh. "This is my mother's stereo, isn't it?"
He joined in on the laughter. "Beautiful."
"Me or the stereo?!"
"What am I going to do with you?!" She set her wine glass down and held out her arms. "Come here. Dance with me."
Her heart was flying as he joined her in the center of the room and enfolded her in his arms. As they swayed gently around the rug, she gazed up into his eyes and made up her mind, if he didn't at least try to kiss her first, she would give up. To her immense relief, he did lean in. Her lips met his most eagerly, and soon the dancing was forgotten in favor of a passionate, still embrace that lasted well into the next song on the radio. He rubbed her back affectionately throughout, but never once reached for anywhere more daring. For the moment she followed that lead.
When he came up for air at last, he looked to his right at the guest bedroom, where she'd turned the bedside lamp on. "I take it I'll be sleeping there."
"We will, I hope!" she quipped with a gentle laugh.
He replied with a nervous laugh of his own. "Oh, I'd love that, if you really want to."
"Of course I really want to! Why do you think I invited you here!"
"I was hoping it was for that," he said. "I just didn't want to assume."
She pulled away from him, still grinning. "You are so adorable! But please, give it a rest and just tell me if you want to make love already! I want to, if you do!"
His face curled into the shyest smile she'd ever seen, and he struggled to maintain eye contact. "I do," he said. "More than you can imagine!"
"Good answer!" She opened her arms to him again. "Shall we?"
He nodded but looked terribly uncertain. "Sorry, it always takes me a bit to get used to..."
"To what?"
"To letting a woman see me naked. I know that sounds silly, but..."
"No!" She gave him a gentle hug and then stepped back. "A lot of people are shy the first time. I used to be the same way, you know."
"Used to be?"
She nodded. "There are some things you don't know about me yet." Two things in particular, and she was sorely tempted to tell him one of them right now. But he would learn it soon enough anyway if they were going to be together. So she decided to show him rather than tell him. "I can undress first. Would that make it more comfortable for you?"
"That sounds really hot!" He couldn't hide his delight.
She laughed and nodded her agreement. "Sit down and finish your wine, then, and I will."
She was already unzipping her skirt by the time he was settled on the couch again. As soon as it was on the floor, she peeled her tights down over her hips and pushed them down after it, but kept her panties on for the moment. After pulling her tights off both feet, she straightened up and saw him gazing contentedly at her. Perfect. "How do I compare with the stereo now?"
"What stereo?"
"Good answer!" She pulled her top and camisole off as one, and waved them around playfully a couple of times before tossing them at him. He caught them, but didn't take his eyes off her. Standing tall and proud with her legs spread a bit, she reached back and slowly, teasingly unhooked her bra. After sliding it off her shoulders, she tossed it on a chair behind her and then rubbed her newly-bared breasts with both hands.
"Do you do that every night when you take it off?"
"Usually," she said. "Feels great." She could hardly wait for him to do it for her. But she wasn't quite done. Unabashed and unashamed, she slid both palms down her hips into her panties. She didn't break her gaze at him, but she wasn't surprised when his eyes headed south as she pushed her panties down. Stretching out her arms as if in a victory celebration, she beamed at him and hoped he'd get back up and hold her. Now that she was nude, she wasn't embarrassed, but she was cold!
She wasn't disappointed; he did get up. "So beautiful," he whispered, enfolding her nude body in his arms. "Feels so unfair, though!"
"Then let's get you out of your clothes already!" She couldn't help noticing that he still hadn't touched her breasts or pussy, though he clearly loved the sight of them. She welcomed his admiring looks, but they made her hungry for more. So she begin tearing his clothes off, much faster than she had removed her own.
It all started with Suzanne.
Maggie didn't realize that at the time, but it would all make perfect sense to her when she pieced it all together later on. Of course it started with Suzanne. She would remember the incident well enough, even if she wouldn't appreciate its significance at the time. Suzanne's greatest hits were rather hard to forget, after all.
Appropriately enough, it happened at the beginning of her shift one day back in the dead of winter, shortly after she'd arrived back in town. She stepped into the changing room to find Suzanne already there, with her skirt already on but not her blouse yet. "Aie!" Suzanne shrieked when she saw her, and quickly crossed her arms over her small breasts.
"It's only me, Suzanne," Maggie said, hiding her annoyance as she kicked off her sneakers and opened her locker. She had to admit to herself that she didn't care to see any more of Suzanne's pasty body than she really needed to either.
"I don't know you very well yet, Maggie," Suzanne said, forcing Maggie to put every bit of resolve she had into tamping down a smile. A month or so into her job, the others still had no idea -- and keeping it that way was even harder than Maggie had expected. But she'd done it so far. "The other girls have known me all my life, and I don't like them seeing me naked either."
"Naked? You're are wearing everything but your blouse, aren't you?" reminded Maggie, who had herself stripped down to her bra by then. She also unbuttoned her jeans and pushed them down, and took her time stowing her clothes in the locker with no sign of discomfort. She noted without surprise that Suzanne had no qualms about looking at Maggie in her underwear. But Maggie got a kick out of that as always.
"That's true, but...I just don't like being checked out, okay?" Suzanne said. By now she did have her blouse on, and set about lacing up the silly uniform shoes that reminded Maggie of ballet slippers. "As a woman, I've had to live with a lot of people looking at me like a piece of meat, which is why I'm a feminist."
"Do you think I haven't been through that too?" Maggie asked her. "Or that I'm not a feminist?"
"I told you, I don't know you," Suzanne said. "Not like the others do. We've all lived here all our lives. You just moved here a month or two ago, wasn't it?"
"Yes," Maggie said, buttoning up her own ruffly blouse. Once again it was all she could do to keep from spilling the beans about who she was, about the whole story, about how much she remembered about them all including Suzanne. But the time wasn't right, and it certainly wasn't worth wasting on only Suzanne.
"Then you wouldn't understand. I'm sorry, Maggie, but you just wouldn't."
"If you say so, Suzanne," Maggie said. Figuring there was no sense in beating that horse any further, she asked, "So how was your weekend in Philly?"
"Oh, lovely!" Suzanne said, turning off the passive-aggressiveness as easily as ever. Having finished lacing her shoes, she was now openly watching Maggie get dressed without a trace of irony. "Every time I go visit my parents, I feel like moving in with them, actually. They're so lucky they got to move out there, I wish I could've grown up there instead of here. You wouldn't understand, Maggie, but this town is death to grow up in. They always say I'm welcome, you know, and Mom and I could make dinner for Dad just like when I was a girl...oh, those were the days! I miss taking care of him! But Dad said I ought to stick with this job, so it was back on the bus this morning. Oh!" Suzanne burst into laughter. "Want to hear something funny?"
"Sure," Maggie said, buttoning up her skirt.
"On the bus back, a man got on in Atlantic City and tried to buy a ticket using fake money. Two-dollar bills!" Suzanne dissolved into peals of laughter. "Can you believe he thought that would work?"
"Fake two-dollar bills?" Maggie asked. "I'm not too surprised he thought he could get away with that. Most people probably don't know what real ones look like anymore."
"But Maggie, two-dollar bills! There's no such thing as a real one!"
"Yes there is." Maggie struggled not to laugh.
"No there's not!"
"Yes! People don't use them very often, but they're real! They have Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back."
Suzanne's face hardened into the look she always had when she was frustrated, like a child pretending to be a heavyweight boxer. "Well, the bus driver said they were fake, anyway. The man had to exchange them for tens with another passenger who believed him. A woman, of course. Women always end up getting cheated, which is why I'm a feminist."
"You do see funny things on buses," Maggie said. Turning her attention back to lacing her shoes, she continued. "When I was on the bus down from Boston, when I moved here? When we were stopped in Hartford, a guy got on the bus and asked if anyone had change for a hundred dollar bill, but he didn't actually hold one up or anything. An older man in the first seat opened his wallet and pulled out a twenty, and he said 'Sorry, all I have is a twenty.' The first guy said 'That'll do!' and grabbed it and ran off. A few minutes later the older man turned back to us and said, 'You know, I don't think he's coming back!'"
Suzanne burst into laughter, and Maggie joined her. Whatever she thought of Suzanne, it felt good to laugh just before heading out into the restaurant in their silly colonial attire for the busy dinner shift, which they both now did. Maggie loved the opulent restaurant and didn't even really dislike her uniform. But it was a stern reminder that she was stuck back in this town she'd escaped the summer after seventh grade, and which she'd never wanted to see again, and that she wouldn't be getting out until she'd saved up some money, and that the others just might figure out who she was before that could happen. So it always felt good to start each shift on a cheerful note.
Maggie and Suzanne were still laughing at her story when they got out to the as-yet deserted dining room, where Linda, Sarah, and Richanda were busy setting the tables. "What's tickling you two?" Richanda asked.
"Well, Maggie here fell for an awful trick on the bus, apparently!" Suzanne squealed.
"What?" Maggie asked. "It wasn't --"
"Gave some guy your real phone number, Maggie?" Linda asked. "Don't you know you have to have a fake at the ready?"
"No!" Maggie and Suzanne said in unison. Before Maggie could even think of how to explain what had really happened, Suzanne plowed ahead in the too-loud voice Maggie remembered so well from the bad old days. "A man asked her for change for a hundred, she pulled out a twenty, and he took it and ran without changing it!"
"It wasn't me!" Maggie protested. But none of the others heard her, as they were laughing too loud.
"Never trust a stranger on a bus, Maggie!" Sarah chided.
"I didn't!" Maggie said.
"Not anymore anyway, huh?" Richanda said. "Live and learn."
"But-" All at once Maggie felt ten years old again, but she didn't care in the heat of the moment.
"Maggie, it's okay!" Linda said in the same smarmy drawl she'd used back on the playground, the same tone Maggie recalled her using on Maggie while she was crying over the latest round of bullying, reminding her that Mommy wasn't here. "We all do something stupid once in a while!"
Maggie shook her head and sighed. She remembered all too well what trying to set the record straight with these girls had always gotten her back in the day, and the last thing she wanted to do was remind them of that. Even letting them believe she'd been that stupid was preferable, she conceded, and without another word she was off to the kitchen for the briefing on the evening's specials.
At least Pam and Tom weren't on duty that night. Pam wouldn't have shut up about it all evening. Tom would never have joined in on the teasing, Maggie knew that, but she didn't need him witnessing it either. On the other hand, the girls were mostly a lot nicer when he was around, so maybe there wouldn't have even been any teasing.
There also wouldn't have been any open sniping among them as to which one was going to get him in bed. But in his absence, there was plenty of that as usual. Sarah began it this time. "I think Tom might come by to flirt with me tonight, you know. Don't you see the way he always looks at me when I turn around to greet guests and my skirt billows out?" She twirled around to demonstrate.
"He does that with all of us!" Linda countered with a haughty laugh. "It's my jokes he laughs at, though."
"You laugh at them first, every time!" Richanda said. "You've always done that, ever since grade school. He's just laughing along to be polite." Silently Maggie agreed -- for once -- with Richanda; Linda had indeed always done that.
"I think it's me he wants, actually," Suzanne declared, oblivious as usual to the others rolling their eyes and shaking their heads behind her back. "And I'm not happy about it. It's sexual harassment, and if he doesn't back off, I'll report him."
"Report him for what, Suzanne?" Sarah demanded. "Has he ever touched you? I've never even seen him shake your hand!"
"No, he hasn't touched me, but..."
"Asked you out?" Richanda asked. "That would be a problem, you know, if he did it while you were both working." The others all nodded their heads, passing over in silence the fact that it was a 'problem' they all wanted to have.
"Not yet," Suzanne said.
"And we won't even ask if he's made any rude jokes," Maggie added. None of the women had ever heard him say anything the least bit ungentlemanly on the job.
"But...he's too friendly, you know?" Suzanne looked around at all the others, searching in vain for agreement. "He's charming! You know what men want when they're like that! That's why I'm a feminist."
"Some men are charming by nature, Suzanne," Linda said gently.
"Really?!" Suzanne's eyes opened wide. The others -- including Maggie -- exchanged bemused looks. They all knew Suzanne well enough to know she wasn't joking; the question was entirely in earnest. Just like that time in the fourth grade when she had replied with that very same "Really?!" when Mrs. Harvey had explained that any number times zero was zero.
"Really," Richanda said. "And Suzanne, unless he actually does something inappropriate, you really need to watch your mouth. A false accusation could get you in a lot of trouble."
"Besides, you've always been very friendly with him, too," Sarah said. "If you think he has a crush on you, maybe you should be more careful about letting him believe you might be interested, don't you think?"
Suzanne picked up a stack of menus and walked off in silence to set them on her assigned tables. But Maggie spotted a sly grin on her face before she did.
The first dinner guests arrived shortly afterward, and Maggie turned her attention to them. Though she couldn't be sure if Suzanne had lied or simply gotten the story wrong -- she was dumb enough for the latter to be possible -- Maggie assumed the whole thing would be forgotten once the dinner rush hit.
But she was wrong. It was that very evening that Linda started calling her "Maggie the Gullible" behind her back. By the end of their shift, she'd passed the name on to Richanda and Sarah, who were smart enough to keep it from Suzanne at least.
"This rain ought to wash away the last of the dirty snow at least," she said, standing naked in the window at dawn. "Can't wait for spring!"
"Yeah, me too," he mumbled as he rolled over and opened his eyes. When he saw where she was, he sat up with a start. "Hey! Aren't you afraid someone will see you?"
She turned to him with a fearless grin, and made no effort to cover up. "Nope," she said. "Besides, it is the second floor."
"But anyone who looks up from the sidewalk at the right angle..."
"Will see a woman who isn't ashamed to be who she is," she finished for him. Turning at last to come back to bed, she pulled the sheets back and lay down beside him, and placed his willing hand on her breast just the way she liked it. "I spent far too long being told I ought to hate my body when I was younger. This is all part of me reclaiming my self-respect. I enjoy showing people I'm proud of who and what I am. That's all." As she looked down to appreciate his stroking on her breast, she added, "And I love what you can do to it, too!"
"You're sweet," he said. "Shall we wake up with a bang?"
"You don't really think I was going to let you out of this bed without that, do you?" she teased, and with that she pushed him onto his back and straddled his chest, spreading her pussy wide open in easy reach. She felt anticipatory tickles within it as he moved his free hand between her thighs. "Ooohhhh!" she squealed as his fingers grazed her lips just right. "You're really good at that!"
"Thanks for letting me practice so much," he said, grinning up at her as she wriggled about appreciatively, rubbing his chest. With his free hand he resumed teasing her breasts.
She closed her eyes and, leaning over to further encourage the breast play, she began rocking eagerly on his hand. The sensation was divine and she was soon moaning hard and loud, thanking her lucky stars that her mother always left for work early. He'd improved a lot since that fun but awkward first evening just a couple of weeks before, and his shyness about exploring her pussy with his fingers was wonderfully gone, as he now reminded her with a perfect come-hither stroke inside that made her scream in joy. "Yes! Dothatagain!" And he did, a bit faster this time, and again and again until she felt her first orgasm wash over her. "Ohhhhhh, thank you," she murmured as he slowed his stroking and finally pulled his finger out. She lost no time in taking his cock in her right hand and sliding him effortlessly in. "Your turn," she whispered huskily.


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Vigilante Gamer and I are trying to boost interest in the most challenging way to play, First Person mode. We will be switching our Aussie convicts Attack Force server to first person mode for this event. Hope to see you all there!
Hi all, Vigilante Gamer and I are doing a special event next Friday, starting at 2000. The attached video explains it all, but I wanted to make sure you all of you in this community knew about it as well. The Aussie Convicts Attack Force #1 will be going first person for the night, and will most likely be packed to the brim! So get in early! This is a private shard server (6 servers with the lads from Blue Waffle Attack Force across Australia, USA and the UK), so, you will need to get on early and get your character geared and up in the northwest area to have a chance.
To claim the bounty, you need to be the first person to tweet @vigilantegamer with a code that will be written onto a piece of paper located on his player. We may also have a mystery sponsor who is adding a bonus $50 if certain "conditions" are met! It will be up to you whether you just go for the straight $50 or go all in for the jackpot! More information on these conditions will be sent our shortly. Just killing him isn't enough to claim the bounty, you must also loot his body for the codeword AND tweet it out to claim the bounty. So, you will need to be watching your back as well!
There is approximately a 2hr timeline for this event, if no one claims it, we will carry it over to another night.
Now, these servers are located in Melbourne Australia, so if you are based ijn the EU/UK, be aware that you will have terrible ping for this.
So, I hope to see you all next Friday from 8pm AEST (10pm in NZ) and look forward to some intense FIRST PERSON PVP action!
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MP: Chouhan, Scindia lead roadshows in final push before Maihar bypoll
Political parties vying for the Maihar assembly seat, a part of Satna Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh, brought out their big guns on the final day of campaigning on Thursday.bhopal Updated: Feb 12, 2016 15:12 IST
Political parties vying for the Maihar assembly seat, a part of Satna Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh, brought out their big guns on the final day of campaigning on Thursday.
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan continued his third consecutive day campaigning for former Congress legislator, now Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, Narayan Tripathi and touted various development works undertaken by the government in the area.
Strategically, the BJP will be looking to bring in its fold a substantial part of the about 20,000 schedule caste voters, with minister of state for general administration Lal Singh Arya camping in the town for almost a week.
Also, on Thursday, a delegation of the SC community met the chief minister seeking his intervention to ensure supply of water in the area.
For Congress, the Maihar bypoll, slated for February 13, is a prestige issue as it won the seat in 2013 despite the BJP getting over two-thirds majority in the state assembly. Looking to consolidate backward-class votes in the Brahmin-dominated area, the Congress has fielded Manish Patel, formally a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia too was in Maihar for a roadshow that culminated in a public meeting at Vishnu Sagar.
Referring to Tripathi's defection to the BJP at the meeting, the Guna MP said the people of Maihar will have to decide whether this "betrayal" was acceptable. He said if the people do not vote for the Congress, such betrayals would continue.
Scindia also fired a salvo at the CM saying the government only made announcements but no development was visible on the ground.
After Thursday, both Tripathi and Patel plan to conduct a door-to-door outreach campaign.
Among other campaigners in Maihar on the final day were several BSP leaders from Uttar Pradesh who were there to support party candidate Ram Lakhan Singh.
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Rhode Island Spring Festival
Welcome to the Rhode Island Spring Festival and Easter Parade at the West Warwick Civic Center (Thomas Lamb Field House), 100 Factory St., West Warwick, RI on Saturday, April 13 from 12-4 p.m. Shop for Easter, Mother's Day and Spring! Join the fun Easter Family Parade with the Easter Bunny. Kids can dress up and participate in the Little Miss and Little Mr. Spring Festival Rhode Island pageant (ages 2 and under, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-9). Each child will receive an Easter basket. Connect with local small businesses in the community, find a real estate or travel agent. Interested in showcasing your business here? Sign up with payment and application by January 15, 2019 and get an 8x8 space for only $60 or a 12x12 for only $100! Please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Register your little cuties for the Little Miss Spring Festival and Little Mr. Spring Festival on Saturday, April 13! It's the first ever Little Miss and Little Mr. Rhode Island Spring Festival!! Dress your little cuties up and enter them in this fun pageant. Each child will receive an Easter Basket! A special gift and sash for the winners in each age group. It's all part of the Rhode Island Spring Festival being held on Saturday, April 13 at the West Warwick Civic Center. The show is from 12 noon til 4 p.m. There will be an Easter Family Parade with the Easter Bunny at 12:30 p.m. as well (free!) and the Pageant is from 1-2 p.m. You must arrive by 1 p.m. to be in the pageant. Age groups are 2 and under, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-9. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/little-miss-little-mr-ri-spring-festival-2019-tickets-53354090521
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Young Living Essential Oils
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An orthodontic problem caused by having too many teeth with insufficient space to accommodate them.
Excessive over-bite; closed bite. This can lead to excessive wear on the edges of the lower teeth, and may also cause clicking in the jaw.
Excessive under-bite; this problem may be related to a discrepancy in the jaw size. This could be a small upper jaw, or a large lower jaw. Sometimes, there may be a pseudo-under bite which should be dealt with as soon as it is noticed.
A malocclusion in which the teeth do not close or come together in your mouth. This predominantly happens in the anterior portion of the mouth.
A malocclusion where some of your upper teeth are inside of your lower teeth when you bite down. It is important to know if there are any breathing difficulties, since it may be associated with a narrow upper jaw.
Impaction of maxillary and mandibular canines is a frequently encountered clinical problem, the treatment of which usually requires an interdisciplinary approach. Surgical exposure of the impacted tooth and orthodontic mechanisms may be applied to align it. It seems worthwhile to focus on the means of early diagnosis and interception of this clinical situation.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Police Harrasment
Please all look at this video and once again tell me the Police are not harassing Tommy. It has come to the point where we can not trust the Police to tell the truth What is more important is that we see on Social Media what is happening to High Profile Anti establishment figures but what about other people who are arrested can we be sure they have not been fitted up and I am not talking about the few criminals, yobs, drunks etc the Police do catch, I mean the people who have a different Non Violent opinion to the Establishment view. The Police, Judges and MP's are losing the confidence of the people they supposed to represent and protect TIME TO WAKE UP
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Sleep for Fat Loss!
Sleep loss affects weight loss ~ when you're sleep deprived your body makes more Ghrelin-the hormone that says GO and eat more, and your body makes less Leptin-the hormone that says STOP, and tells your body it's full. Your body also makes more cortisol when you're tired, which can increase your appetite and then turns the food you do eat more rapidly into fat (particularly that stubborn tummy fat!). And did you know that sometimes you can actually burn more calories while sleeping than just lying in bed?
During REM sleep your brain is more active than any other stage. In fact in some cases it is MORE active than when you are awake. This activity requires fuel for thought called glucose - the basic building block of most foods. Your body goes through various stages of sleep throughout the night with the REM periods getting longer throughout the night. You actually get more REM sleep in the very early morning hours but you need to go through the first few sleep cycles to get to this longer stage of REM sleep.
When you only get 6 hours of sleep or less you lose the benefit of the longer REM periods. So shoot for between 7-9 hours of sleep per night. Sleeping more than 9 hours every night can be just as bad as sleep deprivation and may be an indicator of something more serious like anemia or hypothryoidism.
Bottom line….choose organic food and supplements as often as you can, drink plenty of water, exercise at least 4-5 times a week, and get a good night's sleep!


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Sticking point for TiVo
TIVO will go on sale in New Zealand in the first week of November, despite loose ends over the inclusion of Prime and TV3.
The hi-tech personal video recorder will let viewers watch Freeview's free-to-air service, FreeviewHD, and download programmes and access services over the internet.
Sky Television removed one hindrance this week, agreeing to broadcast Prime on Freeview. That means TiVo will be able to receive all the major free-to-air channels.
But Sky TV and fellow broadcaster MediaWorks could still stymie TiVo's appeal by refusing permission for Prime, TV3 and C4 programming information to be listed in TiVo's electronic programming guide (EPG).
TiVo will let viewers select and record programmes that are listed in the EPG.
Sky chief executive John Fellet said Sky had agreed to provide Prime's listings to Freeview for its EPG, but there was no similar deal with TiVo's Australian and New Zealand rights holder, Hybrid Television Services.
Hybrid chief executive Robbee Minicola said Prime's inclusion on Freeview was "fantastic".
Negotiations with MediaWorks and Sky TV over the EPG data were confidential. It would be "really sad" if their programmes were not listed, she said.
"I don't see any reason why Prime would not want to be in our EPG. If people don't know what's on Prime, they are not going to watch it . . . There is no 'war'. Let the best service, for the right home, win."
Some internet-enabled services, likely to include downloadable films, would be available at TiVo's launch, Ms Minicola said.
Hybrid was still negotiating with retailers over TiVo's distribution, and with internet providers.
Television New Zealand bought a one-third stake in Hybrid for A$8 million (NZ$9.8m) in March.
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This kit is a bit goofy and geeky, but a whole lot of fun to wear - Glowy goggles!
As of October 12th, 2015 this product now ships with an Adafruit Trinket with a micro-USB plug.
Wearable technology at (what many consider) the most geeky - electronic eyeware! It's a fun little kit, using a pair of 16 element NeoPixel rings in a set of goggles, powered by a Trinket to generate multicolored eye effects. Complete with a LiPo battery and charger, you'll be ready to go with this kit.
You'll find the assembly instructions at the Kaleidoscope Eyes tutorial. You require your own USB Micro B cable to program the Trinket
Please note! They're look great from the outside, but when actually wearing them... it's a little difficult. Best used as "on the top of your head" decoration!


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On January 5 next year, Sneaker Con are headed for their very first stop in Atlanta Georgia. Sponsored by adidas, the event venue will be packed with peeps looking to buy, sell and trade their coveted kicks. Check here for a recap of Sneaker Con's recent Charlotte event, and click here for advanced tickets.
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2220 Campbellton Rd SW?Atlanta, GA 30311
Event Date: January 5th, 2013 (Saturday) | Noon – 7 pm EST


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A group of history enthusiasts in Tainan has been interviewing hundreds of overseas Taiwanese in a bid to preserve the city's old US military officers' club, once a part of the Shueijiaoshe (水交社) military dependents' village.
Since 1950, the building — currently the Tainan Senior Citizens Center — has taken on a variety of roles, including serving as a barracks for US soldiers and housing the Tainan American School, the Tainan American Club and the headquarters of Air Asia.
Hsieh Yin-ching (解吟情), spokesperson for the American Military and Civilian Personnel in Tainan Research Association, has over the past five years been collecting information about the building's history.
Hsieh, who has interviewed more than 150 people, said it is regretful that the building's history has nearly been forgotten.
She said the biggest challenge to tracking down information and materials is that most of the people who used the building have long since left the nation — most returned to the US.
The base was responsible for the repair of all US military aircraft in the region, which was carried out by Air Asia, making it the largest aircraft service center in East Asia, Hsieh said.
Air Asia was created as the service unit for Air America, a dummy corporation used by the CIA to conduct covert operations. After a number of sales and transfers, Taiwan Aerospace Corp acquired Air Asia in 1994.
From 1958 to 1962, the US Air Force's 868th Tactical Missile Squadron was stationed at the base. Armed with MGM-1 Matador cruise missiles, the unit provided US Taiwan Defense Command a quick-strike nuclear deterrent.
At a time when Taiwan's existence was under threat, it was the presence of the US that held the enemy at bay, Hsieh said, adding: "This is an undeniable fact."
It is rare for the history of a base in Taiwan to span from the Japanese colonial era, through the US military presence, to Chinese National Party (KMT) control, Hsieh said, adding that the government should do what it can to preserve the story of the officers' club for future generations.


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Job Information
The Hertz Corporation Manager Workforce Analytics in Estero, Florida
General Responsibilities
The Hertz Human Resources team has an opening for a Manager Workforce Analytics based at our World Headquarters in Estero, FL.
The primary mission of the Manager Workforce Analytics is to provide HR and Business functions with critical decision support tools and analytics that provide accurate and timely information about HR impact on business results. This role serves as a point of contact for business-driven HR KPIs. The incumbent translatesHertz business priorities into relevant measurements through a mix of short- and long-term HR KPIs, and conducts descriptive, predictive as well as prescriptive analytics for major global HR programs and initiatives. The incumbent quantifies opportunities to improve internal effectiveness and external competitiveness and evaluates impact of specific HR strategies and initiatives on business results.
Mandatory Requirements
Responsible to provide global measurement methods that quantifythe return on Hertz's HR investments of global HR programs on financial results.
Provides hand-on support for 'ad-hoc' and scheduled requests for all people related KPIs.
Manages integration and use of business analytics on headcount, organizational performance metrics, and other key performance indicators.
Ensures that HR metrics are relevant for business decision making based on global templates and standard analytics guidelines for global consistency.
Proactively provides a consolidated view of global HR trends, demographics, and other data through easy to understand and action-oriented reports.
Creates and manages predictive models and integration of global talent development model output, as appropriate, and establishes metrics to assess their effectiveness.
Designs and implements analytics processes that show correlation between HR investments and financial results following EVA principles.
Supports the implementation of HR metrics to measure the HR performance against business priorities and financial results.
Uses data to identify people trends, patterns, issues and opportunities that impact both the business and HR. Gathers and analyses data to identify root causes of issues and trends.
Drives HR reporting and analytics visualization through tableau and tableau server
Drives internal collaboration, knowledge sharing and program coordination across all other HR functions for improving employee productivity and organizational effectiveness, and to achieve alignment across Hertz for global HR KPIs.
Educates analytical resources and the HR community on the features, functions, and benefits of HR analytics.
Works in cooperation with Finance to ensure HR metrics are aligned and integrated with key Finance indicators to drive financial growth.
Provides expertise on global HR metrics and acts as a key support regarding the implementation of HR BI solutions.
Preferred Requirements
Educational Background and Experience:
Master's degree or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Organizational Psychology or a quantitative discipline plus a minimum of 3-5 years of work experience.
Experience in analyzing large data sets using statistical software, such as SAS, R, Python and SPSS, to discover new business insights
Excel and PowerPoint a must
SQL Programming experience desired, tableau proficiency including tableau server a must
Prior experience with building models, analyzing unstructured data
Prior academic and work experience in statistics, with exposure to data structures and data visualization (tableau)
Understanding of organization development and organization effectiveness concepts
Ability and eagerness to be intimately involved with the businesses and contribute to business success.
Ability to diagnose organizational problems and to build effective relationships with line managers.
Ability to convince in situations without formal authority and to push back when appropriate.
Ability to work efficiently in a global business culture and in an international matrix organization.
Can work on a conceptual level and is also able to be pragmatic and results-oriented and do hands-on change activities.
Fluency in English is a must. Knowledge of Spanish and/or German is an advantage.
Able and willing to travel.
Good understanding of the industry, the fundamental business principles and its business drivers.
Business process analysis, analytics principles and predictive analytics
Expertise in data visualization tools, tableau proficiency is a must as well as analytical software
Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills.
Demonstrates resourcefulness, maturity, good analytical skills
Fundamentals of project management
At ease managing and effectively operating within a matrix organization
Passionate about customer service
Strategic Business Focus
Make sound recommendations
Courageous leadership
Build relationships
Drive for results
Manage execution
EEO Statement
Hertz is a Drug-Free Workplace. All employment is contingent on successful completion of drug and background screening.
Hertz is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status or domestic partnership status, disability, protected veteran status or military status, genetic information, or any other category protected under applicable law. Hertz is committed to taking affirmative steps to promote the employment and advancement of minorities, women, persons with disabilities and protected veterans.
Job ID 174129
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Category Human Resources
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Ok, well they moved the books at Jeel Al Jadeed (that I mentioned in a previous post) , so if you are looking for them, they could be in the "basement." I doubt that they are completely gone, Allahu ilm.
But in their place on the first floor (or ground floor) were dozens and dozens of educational wall posters (with images, but of course you can remedy that, insha Allah).
They are a really thin plastic, but at 50 riyals (25 CENTS!!!!) you can't pass that up if you are homeschooling. They have Arabic alphabet charts, but the bulk of the stuff is in English, alphabet, hundred charts, vocabulary charts, addition, multiplication charts, I mean lots….. You could probably cover a small room wall to wall with them as many as they had, ok maybe not that much, but you get the picture…..
(we're talking the location on the diary close to jamiah qadeem (old Sana'a University).
So if you are coming to Yemen and worrying about homeschooling, do bring textbooks and such but don't panic too much, insha Allah, you can find lots of supplies at places like Jeel Al Jadeed and there are other bookstores here. It will take creativity, but I think between what is here and of course the INTERNET, and of course, by Allah, homeschooling is do-able here.
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Hong Kong (PRWEB) March 15, 2009
An online programme leading to the award of a Master of Laws in Chinese Business Law by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) is available for global enrollment. Holders of a Master's degree recognized by the University may complete the programme within 12 months.
Commencing in April this year, the programme is the first of its kind presented in English. It was designed to cater for the needs of business professionals engaged in Chinese-foreign joint ventures, and managers and proprietors of non-government organizations as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.
The programme covers a broad range of topics, such as Chinese civil law, contract law, intellectual property protection law and financial law, providing students with fundamental knowledge of the legal frameworks underpinning commercial operations within and outside China. It emphasizes practical applications of Chinese business law from cross-border and comparative perspectives. A large number of case studies will be used for discussion to help students better understand the actual business environment in mainland China.
Without the limitations of geographical boundaries, the programme capitalises on the flexibility of e-learning and is particularly suitable for people on the move and who want to learn at their own pace. There will be online course materials, synchronized presentations/tutorials, video-taped seminars, an e-library and reference resources from the University's online learning platform. Students can also attend real-time online lectures and take part in discussion forums and video-conferencing to share their learning experiences, enjoying the people interaction typical of face-to-face study.
The OUHK launched the Chinese version of the programme in 2007 and started to offer the English version last year. "We now have over 120 students studying the programme and among them, about one-fourth are non-local students mainly from mainland China, Taiwan, Canada, USA and Europe," said Dr Chung Siu-leung, Associate Professor of the University's Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration. "A group of high-profile executives like CEOs, managing directors, general managers and proprietors have enrolled in the programme. We have received very positive comments from students and they also found the programme contents useful to their jobs," he added.
Presented by the University's Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, the programme has been supported by senior members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Gallant Y. T. Ho & Co., Solicitors & Notaries. It has also been recognized by the Law Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants for inclusion in the Society's Continuous Professional Development Scheme (CPD Scheme).
Applicants with a recognized Bachelor's degree in law, business administration or related fields or equivalent academic qualifications are required to obtain 60 credits from the compulsory and elective courses. Holders of a recognized Master's degree in related fields are only required to obtain 40 credits from the compulsory courses. The total tuition fee ranges from HK$53,000 (US$6,800) to HK$79,500 (US$10,200).
Students may also obtain 20 credits from the required courses to get the Postgraduate Certificate in Chinese Business Law before they proceed to complete the Master programme. They may also study for a single course for areas which they are particularly interested in.
The programme is now open for application. Details of the programme are available at http://eCentre.ouhk.edu.hk. Enquiries can be made on (852) 2768 6940 or (852) 2768 6960, by fax to (852) 2714 7274 or by email at eCentre(at)ouhk.edu.hk.


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Hi everyone, it's Will here, I hope you're well!
Liz Earle will be launching a Today's Special Value offer at QVC on Sunday 20th May, there will also be a chance to order ahead of this time on qvcuk.com so look out for the early bird link on my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.
I caught up with skincare expert, Sarah Carr, to preview the collection – take a look at my video below for the grand reveal and let me know about your Liz Earle favourites in the comments section.
See you soon,
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text: October 01, 2016 THE MAGIC MOVEMENT : LINKED NOT RANKED"We got our blood pumping and positive vibes flowing with The Class by Taryn Toomey. The room was alive as we danced, squatted, and yelled, unleashing all of the tension and stress from our bodies. This allowed us to feel truly connected to the movement."Read More


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I am so sorry but I need to cancel class tonight, as I am not feeling great. Nothing serious, but just a creeping fatigue that is my red flag to let me know that I am overdoing it and need to rest.
Listen to your body when it whispers, so you don't have to hear it when it screams.
Soooo, I am going to practice "Letting Go" and not feel the need to do everything. Learning to listen to my body was a difficult one for me, as I used to always push though fatigue and try to do it all. Between being supermom, PTA Volunteer of the year (or tried to be), running a photography business, and never saying no, my body no longer sent me red flags—it completely shut down seven years ago. After ignoring the red flags, I had no choice but to take a back seat to four months of room spinning vertigo and another eighth months of debilitating fatigue. As a result, I have learned to listen these signals and take care of myself.
SO! That being said, please notice when you are getting red flags for your own body….make sure to listen and give yourself permission to rest and rejuvenate.
I will look forward to seeing you all next Monday!


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In honor of this week's #Travel Tuesday , I decided to highlight one of the most AHH-MAZING cruise shore excursions I have taken to date: The Extreme Canopy Adventure in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I purchased this excursion during my 2006 Mexican Riviera cruise on the Carnival Pride. The experience is also offered on Norwegian Cruise Line under the same name, although the actual vendor (Vallarta Adventures) calls the excursion the "Outdoor Adventure".
Let me start with a disclaimer: Despite my love for travel, I am not overly adventurous (read: scaredy-cat). I didn't ride my first roller coaster until I was 16 (and now I love them), and the thought of bungee-jumping or skydiving makes me tremble to this day. I've had a habit of doing things conventionally, a tendency I am slowly trying to break.
I'm saying that to say, booking this particular excursion was a big deal for me. I was on a family cruise with three other family members, and when I pitched the idea of a "Canopy Adventure" to them, they looked at me like I had just slapped them all in the mouth. Open-handed. So I knew I was on my own.
I found myself, alone, at the Shore Excursion desk on the Pride getting ready to book the Canopy Adventure for $89.99. Reviewing the excursion brochure and speaking with the employee behind the desk, I realized that I could upgrade to the EXTREME Canopy Adventure for $50 more. The word EXTREME scared me, but I was already about to be flying through the rainforest on zip lines, so why not?
That decision to upgrade was one of the best I've ever made.
The morning of the excursion I was nervous. I followed instructions and packed an extra pair of clothes for after the tour. I kissed my family good-bye (I think; they may have been at breakfast) and headed to the pier where I met the tour group. I was the only person who was alone. (cue sad violin music)
We set off from the pier in the fastest boat I've ever ridden, bouncing over waves for 20 minutes until we arrived to our destination. My knuckles were white after that boat ride, but it was exhilarating!
Once we arrived to dry land, we all jumped in Unimogs and rode 15 minutes up the mountain to the tour site. We had to use grips on the roof to stabilize ourselves – bumpy roads and no seat belts! That was a very UNIQUE transportation experience, to say the least.
We arrived to the "base camp", as I'll call it, where we were debriefed on everything we needed to know to survive the next three hours: how to use the zip lines, BRAKING (some people should've recieved extra time with this step), the logistics of riding a mule and how NOT to get kicked. (I should've received extra time with this step).
Yes, mules. I didn't mention this part. After our Unimog ride, we then rode mules further up the mountain until we had to dismount them to hike to the first zip line. The only four-legged animal I'd ever ridden to that point was a carousel horse, so this was a BRAND new experience. Rule #1 that the staff members gave during our briefing was "do NOT walk behind the mule – they kick". Rule #1. So the first thing I did? Walked behind the mule. Various Vallarta Adventures employees started fussing at me and I quickly realized my mistake. My bad. My mule showed mercy to me and did not kick me, so I think it was a successful day in all.
We dismounted our mule and continued the trek up the mountain. It was a tallll mountain, and I'm pretty sure we lost one or two companions along the way – this was a pretty strenuous and tiring hike. But once we got there…wow. The view was incredible. We were up high. Naturally, I couldn't take my camera on this adventure so my personal photos from this adventure are quite limited.
Anyway, the first zip line was…intimidating. Long. High. I did not go first. But once I stepped off of that ledge? Wooooooooooooooooooooooooow. The whoosh of wind in my ears, the feeling of flying, the view: it was all incredible. And the excitement of knowing that we had 13 more zip lines to tackle. This experience was just GREAT.
One by one, we flew across zip lines, crossed a rope bridge and even rappelled down a waterfall. Things I'd NEVER thought I'd do, I was doing. And having a blast! The tour guides were complete professionals. One woman didn't retain her braking instructions and flew right into one of the guides at full speed. Like it was nothing, he popped his dislocated shoulder back into place and kept it moving. O_O. (This must happen a lot. )
At the end of it all, we changed out of our soaking wet clothes, had a snack and reviewed the photos snapped by the professional photographers along the way. We jumped back in the Unimog, back to the speedboat, and re-boarded the ship.
…Where I collapsed into a heap of nap.
I shared all of this because I wanted to show how much FUN you can have by simply stepping out of your comfort zone and trying something new. This excursion positively affected my perception of Puerto Vallarta and not knowing if/when I'll ever return, I'm thankful to have this memory to retain for the rest of my life.
It's easy to go into sticker shock at times when pricing the cost of the shore excursions on your cruise sailing, but if you take the experience into account, it's more than worth it. Those $139 are gone, but 6 years later I'm still talking about this excursion. That means something.


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I am a huge fan of pasta, so I'm really excited to share this recipe. Not only does this creamy pasta alfredo taste totally yummy and satisfying, the major bonus here is you don't feel weighed down after you eat this. Instead, you feel full, but refreshed and uplifted.
How often can you say that after eating a huge bowl of conventional pasta? I didn't think so 🙂 So, because of that, this will be a slightly different experience, and it's worth it. The bed of greens on the bottom is a great addition and it really balances out the garlicky sauce.
The only tools you need to make this are a vegetable peeler and a blender, and you're all good to go! It's super quick and easy to make. I like to make a ton of this (double the recipe if need be) and make sure I bring leftovers to work. Everyone comments how great this smells (and I don't even heat it up!) Also, meals like this really helps to avoid the drag feeling after lunch hour.
So get yourself ready. It will only take you about 10 minutes to make!
- 3/4 cup soaked (3-4 hours) and drained raw cashews
- 2 T lemon Juice
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 1/4 t sea salt
- 1/2 t onion powder
- dash of white pepper
- 1 t olive oil
- dash of nutmeg
- 1 T tahini
- 1 T nutritional yeast
- 1/2 cup of water
- 6 organic zucchini peeled with a vegetable peeler in long strips to make fettuccine style noodles
- cherry tomato halves to garnish
- 2 cups of fresh organic spinach
- sprinkle of black pepper to garnish
- Peel your zucchinis with a vegetable peeler to make long strips like fettuccine. You start from one end and peel all the way down to the other end in one long stroke.
- Blend cashews, water, lemon juice, garlic, onion powder, nutritional yeast, salt, white pepper, nutmeg, tahini, and olive oil in a high-speed blender until smooth and creamy. If you need to, add a little more water to blend.
- In a separate bowl, pour sauce over zucchini noodles and fully incorporate. Let the sauce marinate on the noodles for 15 minutes before serving.
- Make a bed of fresh spinach leaves on each plate.
- Layer the pasta on top of the bed of spinach.
- Garnish with cherry tomatoes and black pepper.
- For a warm dish, place plate in dehydrator for 30 minutes at 130 degrees.
- Enjoy!
Nutritional benefits of the ingredients:
Zucchinis are loaded with vitamin C, manganese, luetin, and zeaxanthin. Vitamin C assists in strengthening the nerve communication and blood vessels. Manganese is helpful in building collegan and healthy bone tissue. Zeaxathin and luetin provides protection for your eyes. (1)
Garlic is a major powerhouse of vitamins, minerals, and active components. Garlic contains manganese, vitamin B6, vitamin c, selenium, and fiber. (2) Raw garlic has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antiviral properties. Garlic is also great for cancer prevention and cardiovascular health (3).
Thank you Jody Rodent for the recipe inspiration of this meal. I changed and added some things to suit my taste buds, but her recipe is what got me to give this a shot.
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Sources for this article include:
(1) www.livestrong.com
(2) authoritynutrition.com
(3) www.whfoods.com
Inspired by: mylivingnutrition.com


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The 50 best college football programs over 150 years
In honor of college football's 150th anniversary, our metrics rank CFB's elite across every division, from the obvious contenders like Alabama and Notre Dame to small-school powers like Mount Union and Wittenberg.
Jenna Laine ESPN Staff Writer
I'm told that rookie Justin Watson has made the Bucs' 53-man roster. Watson had two touchdown catches this preseason. So as expected, he and Freddie Martino get the fifth and sixth receiver spots.
Jenna Laine ESPN Staff Writer
Bucs wide receiver Justin Watson did a nice job using his hands to shed cornerback Carlton Davis on this play — not an easy task because Davis is very physical with his hands. Watson's greatest challenge at this next level will be the rise in competition from Ivy League to the pros. He'll put in the work though. Penn head coach Ray Priore told me that Watson was such a workhorse at Penn, that he attended every special teams meeting last year, despite not taking a single snap on special teams. Coaches from other sports at Penn wished Priore could clone him.
Vaughn McClure ESPN Staff Writer
Falcons bringing in Penn QB Alek Torgersen as an undrafted rookie. Matt Simms was practice squad QB last year.
Alabama seeks historic 15-0 season
Alabama hopes to join Yale (1889 and 1894) and Penn (1897) as the only schools to go 15-0 or better in major college football history.
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Police body cameras could clarify and complicate
The body camera Chad Wilderdyke wears on duty each day is, in essence, as much a part of his Clay County sheriff's deputy uniform as his gun, radio and stun gun.
"It's an invaluable tool. I love having the video," said Wilderdyke, a sergeant and a field supervisor. "I would not want to work without one."
Wearing the body camera has allowed him to refute allegations, he said.
"It has exonerated me," the officer said. "Wearing it has never gotten me into trouble."
Wilderdyke is one of hundreds of local law enforcement officers equipped with body cameras. President Barack Obama now wants to increase that number. He's asked Congress to help pay for 50,000 more body cameras for local police and law enforcement.
The president made the push after nationwide and sometimes violent protests over a grand jury's decision late last month not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old.
A host of civil rights organizations have demanded that every officer wear a body camera even as some warn technology promises no easy fix for confrontations between civilians and police.
"Body cameras are not the be-all, end-all solution to the issues we are facing as a country right now," said Kansas City Mayor Sly James. "Effective policing comes down to trust between law enforcement and the people that they serve.… Cameras are simply used as a tool to gather information and evidence. How we use that information and evidence is the true test."
Many local law enforcement officials who equip patrol vehicles with dashboard-mounted cameras said they gladly welcome federal dollars to help pay for the body cameras.
But use of the technology could yield unintended consequences.
Could, for instance, footage from the cameras violate the privacy of the people who come in contact with police, often at the most vulnerable moments of their lives? Would witnesses be reluctant to share information with cops if they saw them as videographers? How easy will it be to train officers about, for instance, when to record? Might changing technology complicate the use of the tiny recording devices?
"I am all for cameras," said Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forté. "It is something that has … been needed for years, but we just need to make sure we are not just overreacting without doing our homework first."
Obama is proposing a three-year, $263 million spending package that includes money for the cameras, with state and local governments picking up about half the cost.
Numerous Kansas City area police and law enforcement agencies already equip their patrol and field officers with body cameras. Others are weighing their options. Wichita police announced last week that the department will outfit all of its patrol officers with body cameras by the end of 2015.
Greg Dyer with Digital Ally, a Lenexa-based manufacturer of body cameras, said the demand has rapidly increased in recent years, long before the Ferguson shooting.
"The future of law enforcement is a body camera for every officer, just like a handgun or any other tools that they use," Dyer said.
The camera Wilderdyke wears easily fastens to his shirt and looks like a chunk of dark chocolate. It's attached by a wire to a battery pack. Each is about the size of a deck of playing cards. Wilderdyke keeps the battery in his chest pocket.
"If I am responding to a situation where I come up on a fight in progress, I turn my emergency equipment on," Wilderdyke said. "I don't have to worry about reaching down and turning my body camera on. It is already turned on."
Bad guys and cops would likely behave better, he said, knowing that they are being recorded.
Yet body cameras raise concerns about privacy. For example, would it be appropriate for an officer to record an interview with a victim who had been sexually assaulted or when an officer responds to an incident involving allegations of domestic violence?
It also remains unclear what happens if a resident requests a video copy of police footage recorded inside a neighbor's home, Forté said.
As long as police departments have clear policies on how and when they will be used, the public and police officers are better off with these police cameras, said Doug Bonney, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas. Video, after all, isn't subject to the frailty of memory or bias the way witness recollections can be.
But there also are concerns that witnesses may be less likely to talk with officers if their conversations are being recorded.
"There are so many things that could backfire on you for trying to do the right thing," Forté said. "It is a dangerous piece of equipment to have without having strict policies prior to implementation."
Engaging the public and making people aware of the department's policy on the use of body cameras would be essential, he said.
Another challenge for many departments would be the need to expand video storage, maintain the equipment and respond to records requests, said Liberty Police Chief James Simpson. He said departments also would need to factor in repair and replacement costs.
"There is a lot more devil in the details than what everybody thinks," Simpson said, "than just slapping on a camera and start recording everything."
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KINGSTON, N.Y. – Kingston Stockade FC announced on Thursday that Nick Hoffay, who has been working with the club since its first season in 2016, has been named Director of Scouting. In the role, Hoffay will be responsible for finding top talent to play for the club, interacting with players, coaches, and administrators, as well as assisting the coaching staff's preparation for opponents.
"Nick has been integral to all our recruiting and scouting efforts in the first three years of this club's history," said Stockade FC Technical Director Dan Hoffay. "His hard work has brought hundreds of talented players into our tryouts, and provided great information for our coaches about potential additions to the team."
Since the club formed prior to the 2016 NPSL season, Nick Hoffay has been working with Stockade FC Chairman Dennis Crowley, his brother Dan Hoffay, and coaches to form the team. He has communicated regularly with local players, college coaches, and local high schools and clubs to find the best talent in the Hudson Valley. His role has also included various team operations responsibilities.
"I look forward to working closely with our new staff and college coaches in the area as we build a competitive team both for next season and years to come," said Hoffay.
Born and raised in Highland, Hoffay graduated from Highland High School and SUNY Dutchess, and was a club coach, board member, and club player representative for Highland United Soccer from 2014-2017. He is the treasurer of the Hudson Valley branch of the American Outlaws, a United States National Team supporters group. He currently works for the New York State Bridge Authority.
Kingston Stockade FC competes in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth division of American soccer, and has achieved unprecedented success in just three full seasons, winning a conference championship in 2017 and competing in the U.S. Open Cup in 2018. The club is committed to helping improve and develop lower-division soccer in the United States, through an open-source and accessible approach.


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Kielbasa and Cabbage
It's that time of the year when you're starting to run out of variety in the garden. This week I harvested the last of the items before I start to get ready for fall. I got five heads of red cabbage and about half a bucket of carrots. The carrots I'm planning on freezing, but what can I do with red cabbage? This is where one of my favorite kitchen gadgets comes into play. I love my electric pressure cooker!
- Cabbage (Red or White)
- Kielbasa
- Carrots*
- Onion*
- Celery*
- Salt
- Pepper
- Dried Garlic
*optional ingredients
- Cut up the kielbasa into slices. Brown in the electric pressure cooker. (Most have a "sear" setting.)
- Add cabbage and other ingredients until full. I use the heat of the freshly browned kielbasa to help wilt down the cabbage. Also, don't be afraid to fill it past the "max fill" line. It's amazing how much the cabbage will wilt.
- Add seasonings. I prefer a ton of pepper, some salt, and a pinch of dried garlic.
- Cook for 10 minutes at 10 psi. (Most electric cookers have a manual setting.) Then release the pressure using the pressure release knob.


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On May 8th, Judy was the featured speaker in the Inspiring Women In STEM Forum for her talk "Go Ahead... Brag!" This forum is organized by Delaware Bio, Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, and the Technology Forum of Delaware, and sponsored by Ashland Water Technologies.
A successful STEM career is not only about doing great science – it is also about convincing and sharing with others why it is important and why we are the ones capable of doing it!
One way women can become successful STEM leaders is through bragging. But bragging gets a bad rap. Shouldn't we be modest and let the work speak for itself or let others brag about us? NO - bragging is not the problem, being comfortable doing it is the challenge.


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I am really excited to share with you a tutorial I made for Minerva Crafts. Their website is really great with loads of great tutorials to try. I created a tote bag with appliqued letters and you can too following the instructions on their site. It is a really simple make and you can customize … Continue reading Applique Tote Bag Tutorial
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How To: Make a new ironing board cover
Today I have a really quick post for a really quick make. In fact I did everything from cutting the fabric to the photo shoot all within 2 hours! I decided it was time my ironing board got a makeover. Whilst visiting Ikea last week I discovered their great fabric range and just had to … Continue reading How To: Make a new ironing board cover
KCBW6 Day 6: Polls Apart
Only 2 days left of KCBW6. I hope everyone is still having loads of fun! Today is the day when you get to have your say rather than just listen to me rambling on and on! I want to know what makes you want to read this blog? What do you want to see more … Continue reading KCBW6 Day 6: Polls Apart
embroidery floss necklace
It definitely feels like spring is here and all the flowers that are popping up everywhere make me want to brighten up my wardrobe. My winter wardrobe is often quite dark incorporating jewel tones such as the blue of my geometric cowl or the red of my delphine skirt, but spring calls for bright blues … Continue reading embroidery floss necklace
African Flower Keyring
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Front post double crochet (fpdc) and back post double crochet (bpdc)
After sharing with you my geometric crochet cowl I thought it might be quite nice to include a tutorial on how to do front- and back- post double crochets (abbreviated to fpdc/bpdc in patterns). These stitches are great ones for adding texture to crochet projects and can add a lot of depth to the finished … Continue reading Front post double crochet (fpdc) and back post double crochet (bpdc)


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Wakehurst manager Paul Muir is relishing the opportunity for his side to pit their wits against higher-ranked opposition this week.
The Ballymena men travel to Championship One neighbours Ballyclare Comrades in the opening round of the JBE League Cup tonight (Tuesday. 7.45pm).
"We're looking forward to facing Ballyclare," Muir told Times Sport.
"We won't be expected to win but I want us to approach every game we play wanting to win.
"It's a relatively local draw for us and it might also give me the opportunity to have a look at a few players who maybe haven't featured so far but that's not to say it is any lesser a panel because I believe we have good quality throughout the squad.
"There is always the incentive at this stage of the competition of getting through a round a maybe drawing one of the Premiership teams but for now, the focus is solely on Ballyclare," added Muir, who will be without defender Karl Steele after he was sent off in the midweek 3-2 Championship Two defeat by Queen's University.
It leaves Wakehurst still searching for their first competitive victory of the season after drawing their opening game at Portstewart.
"One point from our first two games isn't where I thought we would be at this stage but we have to keep progressing and learn from our mistakes," says Muir.
"I don't think we have done ourselves justice in a footballing sense, in that we haven't taken control of games in the way we were doing in pre-season, although the opposition now will be more physical.
"Having said that, I cannot fault the effort the players have put in over the opening weeks and we have scored the first goal in every game we have played so far.
"We also have a number of players to come back in, George Young, Owen Gregg, Conor Gregg, Conor Ross and Gavin Gilmore - all guys who were at the club last season - so that will strengthen the squad," added Muir.
Andy Laughlin gave Wakehurst an early lead which they looked to be taking into the interval before the students hit a double whammy' of two goals - both from set-pieces virtually on the stroke of half-time.
Queen's added a third before Steele was sent off for a second bookable offence, after he had been adjudged to have brought down an opponent, having been cautioned for a handball offence in the first period.
Tiarnan Rafferty continued his impressive start to life at Irish League level when he curled home a free kick - his third goal in two games - but Wakehurst couldn't fashion an equaliser, with Jordon Foster unable to convert from point-blank range in the closing stages.
Wakehurst: Cairns, R Young, Steele, Millar, McCartney, McCaughern, McClelland, Laughlin, Montgomery, Larkin, Rafferty. Subs: Maybin, Price, Morgan, Armstrong, Foster.


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The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Cumberland Community Improvement District and Glover Park. These and other landmarks and areas in the county may not exist the way residents know them today if not for John Williams, according to former Gov. Roy Barnes.
"If you ride through Cobb County, it is hard to not look upon something that John Williams had a hand in," Barnes told the MDJ Monday just hours after Williams' unexpected death. He was 75.
The longtime developer's passing was announced by Preferred Apartment Communities, which Williams co-founded and served as its chairman and chief executive officer. He previously founded Post Properties in 1970, and when he resigned as its chairman in 2003, it had approximately 30,000 apartment units, according to a news release from Preferred Apartment Communities. Post Properties went on to be purchased in 2016 by Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. for about $3.9 billion.
Over the course of his career, Williams directed and coordinated the development, construction and management of more than $15 billion in real estate developments, with more than a third of that focused on multifamily housing, according to Preferred Apartment Communities.
"When you write the history of Cobb from the mid-1970s to today, I think he stands out as one of the true transformational giants. He changed the multi-family industry, not just in Atlanta but really kind of led the direction of transforming multi-family, upscale apartment homes as opposed to kind of the way multifamily was seen before the rise of Post," said Roger Tutterow, economics professor at Kennesaw State University and director of its Econometric Center. "We don't talk about it a lot now, but a lot of the growth in Cobb in the 1980s and 90s were young professionals moving into Cobb and moving into apartment homes that Post Properties built. You can see it both in the commercial and residential side of the real estate market."
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson's career in the same industry led him to meet Williams decades ago.
"He and I started kind of together at the same time — I was opening some houses for Southern Company, Georgia Power Company, when he was working for them back in the late 1960s, and we got to know each other as friends then. He started Post Properties, and I went into Northside Realty, and as the two companies grew, we got to be better and better friends," Isakson said.
One of Williams' contributions to the industry, Isakson said, was changing the way people thought of apartments.
"His goal was to make people look at apartments as if they were their homes, not just a temporary place to stay. And he went to Holland and became the largest importer of Holland bulbs in the United States and started planting the tulips around all his apartment complexes — that's why the logo for his company, Post Properties, at that time was a tulip," Isakson said. "When I got out of college and rented an apartment ... mud, gravel and nothing else (around it) — now they've got shrubs and flowers, because everyone wants them to make them look aesthetically good outside.
"That's just the kind of guy John was — he didn't settle for halfway, he went all the way," he added.
Isakson cited Williams' hand in making a Marietta landmark visually pleasing as just one of his countless contributions to the county. He, along and former Marietta Mayor Bill Dunaway and former Cobb Commissioner Butch Thompson, said among the things Williams will be remembered for is his contribution to the renovation of Marietta Square's Glover Park in the early 1980s.
"Things like that people didn't see. People looked at John like he was another one of those get-rich developers, and that was not true. He was a quality-type developer," Thompson said. "He was generous with his money that he had made, and he was a workaholic, for sure."
Dunaway said Williams donated $500,000, which saved the park after the county had been ready to pave over it and turn it into a parking lot.
In an October email sent to the former mayor, Williams recalled that then-commission Chairman Ernest Barrett and other commissioners felt the Square "was ill-maintained and had far too many birds and was a hangout for undesirables.
"I indicated that having a Square like Glover Park was unusual and an incredibly favorable asset," Williams wrote, adding that he was challenged by the incoming chairman of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce to come back with a plan for renovating the park.
He did, but also seeded the effort with his personal half-million-dollar donation, Williams wrote in his 2017 email to Thompson, with other donors following. Williams' efforts on the Square led to his selection as the 1985 Cobb County Citizen of the Year, which was presented by the Marietta Daily Journal.
His company at the time, Post Properties, would go on to landscape and maintain the park until Post went public in 1993, Williams added — an expenditure that cost about $80,000 a year.
Ron Ransom, who served as Marietta's Parks and Recreation director for nearly two decades from 1975 through the early 1990s, said that all told, Williams' full donation likely totaled close to $1 million in in-kind and actual money spent, but all began with a pledge of just $50,000 made while Ransom's department was wrapping up an event on the Square.
"Mr. Williams called me aside to talk about Glover Park. He said, 'This park could be a showplace and how would you like $50,000 to do some upgrades?' He said it would be an anonymous gift," Ransom recalled, adding that he was summoned to the city manager's office the next Monday, where Williams presented a full set of plans for the new park.
"Fearing for my life," Ransom quipped, "I said, 'It looks great but there's no playground.' Mr. Williams said he envisioned the park as a place for adults. I stuck my neck out further and said, 'It is well-used by mothers who shop on the Square and let their kids play on that old playground equipment.' John said to let him think about it, and the next week he came up with the replica of the General."
Young visitors to Glover Park can still play on the imitation locomotive today.
Cobb's county seat wasn't the only city that saw its downtown beautified with the help of Williams.
"John Williams behind the scenes was very instrumental on giving us advice," recalled Max Bacon, who has served as Smyrna's mayor since 1985. "Another area that he was familiar with was up in Virginia that did sort of a similar thing that we did in downtown Smyrna where (the city) purchased a majority of the property and built the city hall, and then everybody wanted to be in the downtown again. We actually flew up to Virginia, I guess in 1980-something, and went to this town and looked at it, came back the same day, and then from there, we decided what we were going to build."
When Smyrna's downtown area was finally redeveloped, Bacon said, Williams' Post Properties provided landscaping around the fountain and community center for "five or 10 years," Bacon said.
"He was the kind of guy that if he was going to build in your city and invest in your city, he was going to return 10 times what he was getting out of it, and he was always a part of our city," Bacon said.
Former Cobb Chairman Earl Smith, who serves on the board of the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority, said one of the late developer's biggest contributions to Cobb — and the Atlanta region at large — was his service as the authority's first chairman.
The authority today owns and operates the Cobb Galleria Centre, which opened in 1994 and today hosts some of Cobb's biggest annual events, and the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, which recently marked 10 years of operation.
Bacon says that out of his estimated 28 years of service on the authority, which continues today, Williams had likely served as chairman for 15 years.
"He's the one that got everything going, cranked up," Bacon said. "Smyrna may have been OK even if John wasn't there, and the Galleria would've probably been there if John hadn't been on it, but it would have been a different Galleria and it may have taken a bit longer. Because I know he was a (Georgia Tech) Yellow Jacket, but he was a bulldog on stuff, and once he got after something, he didn't stop until it was done. And I give him all the credit for the work in Smyrna and the Galleria, because that was truly his aggressiveness and he kept pushing, pushing, pushing, and look at it today."
According to Karen Caro, marketing manager for the Cobb Galleria Centre, Williams donated $10 million to CEPAC's development, and its 2,800-seat main theater was named "The John A. Williams Theatre" in his honor. He later donated an additional $2 million for naming of the ballroom in honor of banker Kessel Stelling. There was no donation for the naming of the Galleria's "John A. Williams Ballroom," one of the largest such rooms in the south.
The Galleria and CEPAC created 1,550 jobs and generated approximately $161 million in overall economic impact for Cobb County and the state of Georgia in 2017, according to a recent economic impact study. The authority also owns SunTrust Park, which opened as the home of the Atlanta Braves in 2017.
Williams also served on the board of directors for the Atlanta Falcons, of which he was a minority owner.
Beyond his involvement with the authority that oversees the Cumberland attractions, Williams would go on to make several marks in that portion of the county, among them the creation of what would become the Cumberland Community Improvement District.
Tad Leithead, the CID's former chairman now serving as its interim executive director, said the genesis of the organization stemmed from a trip to Dallas Williams took with several Cobb leaders, during which they learned of "business improvement districts."
"That group made the decision that there needed to be a mechanism like the BIDs for Georgia," Leithead said, adding that Williams returned and worked with Isakson and Barnes — then a state representative and state senator, respectively — to draft a statewide constitutional amendment to allow CIDs in Georgia. It passed in 1984, with the formation of the state's first CID, then called the Cobb County Community Improvement District, beginning the next year. It was officially established May 1, 1988.
Nearly a decade later, it changed its name to the Cumberland CID following the formation of the Town Center CID in the mid-1990s.
"It speaks volumes about John, because you go on (these trips) and you see what other cities are doing, and you go back to business as usual. That wasn't his style," Leithead said. "He saw things there that he thought were worthwhile and could benefit particularly Cobb County, and he made it happen. ... He would just decide that this was something that needed to be done, and he had the relationships and the connections and literally the power to make it happen, and people listened to him."
Despite his name being attached to several high-dollar ventures in recent decades, Williams came from humble beginnings, according to Barnes, who has known him for close to 50 years.
"John was not born to wealth — he grew up in southwest Atlanta, worked as a co-op student because he couldn't afford to pay the tuition to go to Georgia Tech, and he'd work for Georgia Power one quarter and went to school one quarter," Barnes said. "He is completely and totally a self-made man."
Williams would go on to earn a bachelor's in industrial management from the institution, and would later be honored in the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management Hall of Fame, as well as Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business Hall of Fame.
In addition to being a close personal friend, Barnes said he represented Williams in legal matters both personal and business.
"I knew him when he didn't even have an office, and we would meet at the IHOP on Roswell Road to have breakfast, and we'd clear off the table and I'd have my legal pad and pull it out and find out what I was going to do. I represented John for many years," Barnes said. "He's just one of the finest men I ever knew."
Williams is survived by his wife Nancy; son Jay and daughter in-law Mary; daughter Sarah Brook and soon-to-be son-in-law Paul Austin; son Parker; and grandsons Jack and Harrison, according to his obituary posted online by H.M. Patterson & Son-Arlington Chapel in Sandy Springs, which is handling arrangements.
His memorial service will be 2 p.m. Monday, April 23, at Peachtree Presbyterian Church, 3434 Roswell Road NW, Atlanta. It will be streamed live at peachtreechurch.org.
Prior to the memorial service, the family will have gathered for a private entombment at Arlington Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Piedmont Heart Institute or a charity of choice.


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Founded: 1749
Status: Nothing significant remains
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañón was the third of three missions built on the San Gabriel river, then known as the San Xavier. The others were Mission San Francisco Xavier de Horcasitas and Mission San Ildefonso.
Drought and disease plagued the San Xavier missions, which were abandoned in 1755 after one of the padres was murdered by a soldier from the nearby presidio.
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria was re-established in 1762 in the upper Nueces Canyon at the behest of Lipan Apache leaders. By 1766, the mission consisted of an adobe structure and several huts. Fields had been cleared but were poorly cultivated.
The relocated mission came under pressure from Comanche raids, and support from the local Apaches dwindled. It was abandoned in 1767.
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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañon
Established by the Franciscan missionaries in 1749 with the hope of civilizing and Christianizing the Coco, Mayey, Orcoquiza, KaranKawa, and other tribes of Indians. The martyrdom of Padre Jose Ganzabal and the circumstances connected therewith caused the departure of the Indians and the friars and the removal of the mission to the San Marcos River in 1755. Reestablished in 1762 on the Sabinal River for the conversions of the Lipan Apaches with the same name ofMission Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañon.
Erected by the State of Texas (1936)


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APPASSIONATA VIOLA & HARP DUO features Jeff Cowan, viola; and Jill Wiebe, harp. Jeff Cowen has been performing professionally for the past 30 years. He currently serves as principal violist in the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Tulsa Opera and Tulsa Ballet. Harpist Jill Wiebe has enjoyed a freelance career that has taken her around the world. She currently performs with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Tulsa Opera and Tulsa Ballet.
The July 21st reception is provided by the Payne County Historical Society.
The Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History's Cool Classics Summer Concert Series is FREE and hits the stage every Friday night at 7:30 starting on July 7th and running through July 28th. Lasting approximately one hour, the concerts are followed by a reception. There is wine and punch, and with the auditorium's capacity of 200 being pushed for all four performances, it is wise to arrive early for the first-come, first-serve seating.