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If ever a team gave its all and came up a tad short, Glen Burnie sure did over the last 10 days. Its season and a coaching career ended last night but not before the Gophers and Terry Bogle earned the admiration of many.
Boo Diggs scored 13 of his team-high 27 points in the final period to go with nine second-half rebounds (game-high total of 11) and three blocks as Annapolis eliminated Glen Burnie, 78-71, in the first round of the Class 4A East Region playoffs.
It was the Gophers' fourth loss in their last five games with everyone of them going to the wire and two settled in overtime, including Wednesday's 87-84 county championship loss to Broadneck.
The Panthers (18-5), who shot 45 percent from the floor (26-for-58) and 76 percent (22-for-29) at the line, including 16 of 19 in the final period, will play host to Northern of Calvert County, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the quarterfinals.
"Glen Burnie didn't quit, made us play to the last second," said Annapolis coach John Brady. "Our talent and character showed at the end, but I have mixed feelings about coaching and winning against Terry in his last game."
"I'm really proud of this bunch," said Bogle, who announced his retirement after 28 seasons earlier this week. "I've never had a group of kids who made me feel any prouder.
"They met every challenge, adversity and made me feel really good about the last 28 years. This is a special moment because of a special group of kids."
Coming off a 12-11 season, 17 wins (17-7) was not a realistic
expectation, but Bogle's team knew no other way but to play hard.
Last night, the Gophers fell behind by 13 (30-17) midway through the second period with the Panthers; Ryan Dacey doing most of the damage, hitting three of his game-high four three-pointers and scoring 12 of his 20 points.
In typical Gopher fashion, the home team came speeding back with a 12-2 run that featured eight of the points by Desmond Dailey (game-high 29 points, five rebounds) and Annapolis took a 32-29 lead to the break.
Dailey owned the third period, scoring 10 more points, the final two from the line to tie the game at 52 with 56 seconds left.
Brian Barber's only field goal of the second half came with 22 seconds left and sent the Panthers into the final eight minutes with a 54-52 lead.
The 6-foot-7 Diggs took over the game, scoring three field goals, going 7-for-7 at the line and blocking two shots.
"It was time to step it up and I was pumped up," said Diggs, who got his fourth foul with 4:11 remaining as Damon Flamer (14 points, four rebounds) sank two to tie the game at 62.
After an Annapolis turnover, Diggs finished a nifty transition basket that gave the Panthers the lead for good at 64-62 with 3:40 to go.
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To understand whether or not an organization is dysfunctional, you only need to answer one question: Which is more important, the meeting or the person who chairs the meeting? The answer to this question says a lot about an organization.
We all strive to build organizations that will one day become self-sufficient, but what does it mean to be truly self-sufficient regarding how an organization operates? What kind of organizations are truly self-sufficient? "Self-sufficiency (also called self-containment) is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is, therefore, a type of personal or collective autonomy" (Self-sufficiency, 2016).
To be autonomous is to be self-governing. "An autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input" (Autonomous car, 2016). This suggests that to be autonomous is to be capable of performing independently of any other object or subject. This further suggests that an autonomous group is one that can perform independently of any member of the group.
So, if the person chairing the meeting is more important than the meeting, your organization is not autonomous; it is not capable of performing independently of the person who chairs the meeting and is, therefore, dysfunctional.
This is just one way to identify dysfunctional elements within an organization. There are others. If you know of any, post in the comments section below.
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NBA players are going vegan for performance
When I was young and still athletic enough not to have confronted the fact that I'd never play competetive sports beyond high school, the trend for high-level basketball players was to bulk up. Larry Johnson from UNLV and later the Charlotte Hornets was the prototype:
The dress adds ten pounds. But he was still a big guy. The thought was that huge guys could just push around and get to the basket. It fit the style of play in the NBA at the time: isolate one player with the ball and let him go one-on-one, then fight like crazy for the rebound.
But now that the style of play has become much more collaborative, with passing and quick cuts valued over banging, players are trying to slim down.
Some are even calling it "skinny ball."
How are they slimming down? For many, it's by giving up meat and dairy.
"[Kyrie's] had great energy all year," Boston coach Brad Stevens says of Irving. "The nutrition side is huge."
The only other player with more clutch points than Irving this season? That would be Damian Lillard, who—you don't say!—went vegan this offseason, too, dropping almost 10 pounds in the process.
"I wanted to eat cleaner," Lillard told The Oregonian this offseason. "Also I want to play lighter this year and be easier on my joints and feet. I'm getting older, you know what I mean?"
Irving and Lillard aren't the only ones. Wilson Chandler, Al Jefferson, Garrett Temple, Enes Kanter, JaVale McGee and Jahlil Okafor have all made the switch to a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past year or so. For the uninitiated, vegans don't eat animals or animal-derived products like eggs or milk. A vegetarian can order the omelette with cheese; a vegan goes for the oatmeal with soy milk.
The rise of plant-based diets in the NBA follows a worldwide uptick in meat-free meals. According to research firm GlobalData's report, 6 percent of U.S. consumers identify as vegan, up from just 1 percent in 2014. In the United Kingdom, veganism rose by 350 percent from 2006 to 2016, largely from the country's younger demographics.
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An anesthesiology professor told me once in medical school that if doctors allowed the kind of pain women feel in childbirth in any other medical procedure, they'd be sued. That statement reduces the delivery of a child to something simpler than what it really is. But, the idea that women achieve some special womanhood status for having put themselves through an unnecessarily painful delivery is absurd, and Rebecca Schuman does a great job exposing that absurdity:
It was all right, though — my books had a plan. That plan involved laboring at home until the baby crowned. If, said my books, I had to bend the truth to my obstetrician, Dr. Holtzbrink, about when my water broke so that I could stay home longer, so be it. It was better than risking a hundred totally unnecessary interventions, all of which would beget other interventions, and culminate in the worst possible nightmare. No, not a birth complication, worse: a Cesarean. An alarming number of the narratives in the midwifery books were cautionary tales from hospitals, full of pushy MDs and C-sections that resulted in not having really given birth.


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On this fourth Sunday of Advent, as we look back at Jesus first coming and continue to long for his second coming we'll be looking at the fourth phrase from John 1:14, "the glory of the one and only Son."
What does it mean to be the one and only? Certainly, it means to be unique, to be like no other and to be one of a kind. We see this in the story of his birth, through his life, death and resurrection. We also see this in the way that Jesus relates to his heavenly Father, in such a way as no one else could.
Jesus is truly the one and only of the Father and because he is we celebrate his birth and worship him with our lives. Not just in this Advent and Christmas time, but in every place and every part of our lives. What will that look like for you?
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John 1:14
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Leaving Neverland 'LIES' blasted by man who REPLACED Wade Robson in Michael Jackson's life
Supporters of Michael Jackson are fighting back at the accusations made in the controversial HBO documentary. Whatever anyone's belief on the veracity of the terrible claims made by Robson and James Safechuck, it is undeniable that there was no opportunity given for any kind of defence. Furthermore, family members and industry figures have also pointed out that the documentary omitted facts about the two men which might cast doubt or undermine their testimonies. Barnes was another of Michael's long-term companions and has angrily denounced the film, which also implied he had been a victim of the alleged abuse, too.
Barnes posted a message online: "Not only do we have to deal with these lies, but we've also got to deal with people perpetuating these lies. The fact that they fail to do the small amount of research it takes to prove these are lies, by choice or not, makes it even worse."
His testimonies are part of a study by UK journalist and author of a biography on Michael Jackson, Making Michael, Mike Smallcombe. He told Express Online: "Whether you believe Michael Jackson's two accusers or not, there's no denying the Leaving Neverland film is incredibly one-sided.
"Not a single person other than Wade Robson, James Safechuck and their families is interviewed, while the Michael Jackson Estate was not even given a right of reply to the claims. This violates all norms and ethics in filmmaking and journalism.
"More crucially, director Dan Reed decided not to include a whole host of other important information about the accusers' past and their behaviour. Why? Because it might have discredited Robson and Safechuck."
"During one scene of the documentary, Wade Robson's mother explains that she got very upset with Jackson when he told her that he would not be taking Robson on the Dangerous World Tour. Mrs Robson added that she was especially upset because Jackson had taken another boy and his family on the tour.
"Footage of the boy, Brett Barnes, and Jackson on the Dangerous World Tour was then shown. Robson then said that was when he realised he had been 'replaced'. Any reasonable viewer would interpret that to mean that Jackson was also sexually abusing Barnes on the tour.
"After Robson first went on television in May 2013 to talk about his alleged abuse, Barnes said, 'I wish people would realise, in your last moments on this earth, all the money in the world will be of no comfort. My clear conscience will.'"
"In the documentary, a brief written denial from Barnes features on the screen. Barnes is said to be considering suing HBO, alleging that Leaving Neverland insinuates he was abused by Jackson. He was also not consulted about his inclusion in the film.
"Journalism is about seeking the truth. But Reed made no attempts to scrutinise and investigate whether the pair's allegations are indeed true, he just took them at face value and recorded them.
"Jackson estate attorney Howard Weitzman said that Reed 'refused to devote even one minute of a 240-minute film to any of the mountainous evidence showing that Robson and Safechuck are lying.'
"If these accusations had come to court while Jackson was alive, he would have been able to offer a defence. But as he's dead, he can't present any sort of mitigating evidence. So that's where the documentary maker comes in, to provide balance.
"Of course, people who allege abuse deserve to be heard. But as Jackson is dead, the defence his Estate might have put forward deserves to be heard too."
Mike Smallcombe is a UK journalist and author of a biography on Michael Jackson, Making Michael.


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1 can (250g) chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup all natural creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 medium ripe banana
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
50g vegan chocolate (70% coaco), coarsely chopped
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and spray 8×8 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a food processor, add all ingredients except chocolate chips and process until batter is smooth. Fold in 1/2 of the chopped chocolate.
3. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan then sprinkle the rest of the chopped chocolate on top.
4. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean and edges are a tiny bit brown. The batter may look underdone, but you don't want them to dry out!
5. Cool pan for 10 minutes on wire rack.
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|Holy Family
Simeon also blessed the parents. And he and another worshipper, Anna, announced the good news to templegoers.
Then, home in Nazareth, Jesus grew strong and wise.
His family was a vital factor in growing up.
More than two millennia later, Pope Francis placed the recent Synod on the Family under the care of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.
The pope saw this conference on family as a journey, with presentations imbued with faith, pastoral care, wisdom and courage. And he described a Church that "must have its doors wide open" especially to welcome the needy and the penitent. The Holy Father concluded: "Brothers and sisters, now we have one year to discern and find concrete solutions to so many challenges that families face today."
In the meantime, Pope Francis invites families to spend time together, to listen and support one another, to share experiences, to affirm the good in one another.
He urges families to develop "a healthy sense of leisure." Yes, set aside time to do things together, to communicate. Sundays should be for family.
Care for nature. As a family, talk about recycling, energy use, etc.
Think positively about ourselves and other people. Live a life with as few regrets as possible.
Some may remember the popular lecturer Leo Buscaglia, who authored such books as "Living, Loving and Learning" and "Born for Love."
One of his students wrote a poem with a compelling message: you only live once; our everyday life is not a dress rehearsal; it's the "real thing"; and the poem concludes with a regret: a plea to do good now, don't regret not doing it.
The student's poem, titled Things you didn't do, goes like this:
Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and scratched it –
I thought you'd "kill" me, but you didn't.
And the time I nagged you to take me to the beach, and you said it would rain and it did.
I thought you'd say, "I told you so," but you didn't.
And the time I spilled pie all over the brand new strawberry rug.
I thought you'd yell at me, but you didn't.
There were lots of things you didn't do. You put up with me and you loved me.
There were lots of things I wanted to thank you for when you returned from Vietnam.
But you never did return!!!
A compelling message: don't live a life of regrets. Do good now, not later.
Jesus, and Mary, and Joseph, lived life saying yes to God, a life together as a family, a holy family, a life with few regrets.
May God grace us:
with faith in God as He did with Abraham and Sarah,
with the virtues in Paul's letter to the Colossians,
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If you want to ease your stage fright, take a few deep breaths and imagine the audience in their underwear. But if that doesn't work, here's another trick to try -- go invisible.
That's right. Neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden gave people the illusion that their entire bodies had disappeared -- which in turn dramatically reduced their social anxiety.
Smoke and mirrors. For the study, the researchers fitted 125 men and women with virtual reality headsets. In the headsets, the participants were shown live video from a pair of cameras pointed at the floor -- so that when they looked down, they saw empty space where their bodies should have been.
Then, the researchers jabbed the participants with a big paintbrush, while poking corresponding spots in the empty space on which the cameras were trained at the same time (see photo above) -- giving the that the participants were invisible.
"Within less than a minute, the majority of the participants started to transfer the sensation of touch to the portion of empty space where they saw the paintbrush move and experienced an invisible body in that position," Arvid Guterstam, a PhD student at the Institute and the study's lead author, said in a written statement.
To confirm that the illusion had worked, the researchers replaced the virtual paintbrush with a knife -- and found that the participants got sweaty, which suggested they actually felt threatened.
Stage fright cure? In the study's next phase, the researchers made participants stand in front of a "stern-looking crowd" while measuring their heart rates, and asked them how stressed they felt. Half of the participants perceived themselves as having an invisible body in their headsets, and half were shown a mannequin body in their headsets.
What happened? The "invisible" people had lower heart rates and reported feeling less anxious in comparison to the embodied people.
"Having an invisible body seems to have a stress-reducing effect when experiencing socially challenging situations," Guterstam told Live Science.
See no evil... In the future, the researchers plan to use brain imaging to study what's happening when this illusion occurs, and to see whether it affects a person's moral compass -- which may be important as the military develops "invisibility cloaks" for soldiers, The Washington Post reported.
After all, in 360 B.C., Plato raised the ethical question over whether humans are innately just, or act morally as a means to an end. In the philosopher's thought experiment in The Republic, a shepherd named Gyges finds a ring that turns him invisible. Soon after, Gyges sneaks into his kingdom's royal palace, seduces the queen and finally murders the king. Thus, Plato concluded:
"No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a God among men."


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Combining Yoga and Massage.
At whatever point I feel worn out, worried and disappointed at work, I need to go for a massage. It has helped me de-stress and influence me to feel loose.Read more about yoga and massage at Thai Massage training Thailand Chiang Mai . After a decent massage, I am ready to rest soundly during the evening and afterward to feel restored the next morning. Exercise has been connected with getting more fit. Most people have been active since they were small but as we grow older, we lose a lot of our stamina. Acquiring an exercise center participation permit has been the norm for many people, but one gets bored very quickly. Most people go for something a bit different like yoga which has proven to be highly effective.
Yoga and massage have great advantages. Massage benefits incorporate extending and unwinding. Yoga, then again, fabricates perseverance and quality. The advantages of yoga and massage enable you to oversee and adapt to stressful situations. There is an expansion in the prevalence of Thai massage, as well. This antiquated practice mixes yoga stretching, contemplation, pressure point massage and rhythmic massage profoundly established in the Buddhist practice.Read more about yoga and massage at Yoga Chiang Mai Thailand. Most people who try getting a massage for the first time don't know what to anticipate, but the encounter is excellent.
In Thai yoga massage, you are the passive collector of the valuable treatment. It utilizes techniques for yoga and unwinding massage. This massage is regularly done where the beneficiary is completely dressed and resting on a mat that is laid down. In yoga and massage, stretching is for the most part done as treatment. It is additionally done in Thai yoga massage. It focuses on the strained muscles in the body and solid joints. Yoga and massage additionally focus on the body, psyche, and soul. Yoga techniques have an all-encompassing way to deal with life and the prosperity of the person. You receive great benefits once you undergo the procedure in a very effective manner. Massage enhances body blood flow and invigorates the body simply like yoga.
Due to its exceptionally clear advantages, corporate massage is additionally set up in numerous workplaces. Officials, administrators, and chiefs in the corporate world tend to be the most focused on people. Corporate massage projects can incorporate these two physical advantages. Yoga and massage are very simple to establish. Some organizations assist in making this open to the working and non-working people. It is a great procedure to release tension form your body in a very effective manner.Read more from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Of_Yoga_and_Massage.
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Director of rugby Gert Smal confirmed on Monday that the 28-year-old was brought in on a four-month deal to bolster their centre stocks for the duration of the Super Rugby campaign.
'Having lost Damian de Allende, Juan de Jongh and Huw Jones to injury this year we needed some experience in midfield and I am sure that Shaun will have a positive impact here in his time with us,' said Smal.
Treeby earned 50 Super Rugby caps for the Highlanders and was part of their title-winning squad in 2015.
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For Wang Haizhen from Hebei Province the road to becoming a super model has not been easy, but at the 1999 China New Silk Road Super Women Modeling Contest, she finally had her day. She stood out among the thousands of contestants and snatched the crown. Later, at the 1999 World Super Model Contest in Paris, she became the only model from Asia to enter the top ten, and she won the title of World Super Model.
Wang is now a star and has a contract to model for the France Metropolitan Agency. The head of the agency praises her. "Wang Haizhen is the model of vogue in the new century," she says. Zhang Zhaoda, a well-known fashion designer in China, also speaks highly of Wang, saying she is excellent and competitive in modeling.
Haizhen means "pearls in the sea," and the name is apt for this charming model. Wang has now become the most popular model in China, and many trendsetters and photographers like to work with her. She is the shining star at many fashion shows, and her picture appears on the covers of many magazines. She has modeled at fashion shows of many world-famous brands, including CD, Accord, Jean-Paul Gaultier, AgnesB, Leonard, and Torrent.
Wang is now studying interior design in her spare time and dreams of becoming a professional designer. Her family supports every choice she has made and enjoys her success. But Wang never loses her calm in spite of so much success. She does not wear fancy clothes in daily life, so people can hardly recognize her as a super model shining on the T-shaped stage.


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Max Dunlap supporters maintain innocence after 2 convictions in Don Bolles murder
June 2, 2016, marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. Video by Thomas Hawthorne/azcentral.com
Editor's note: June 2, 2016, marks 40 years since Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was fatally injured in a car bombing. This story about the murder originally published May 28, 2006. Max Dunlap died in July 2009 in a Tucson prison.
If you stay behind bars long enough, the other prisoners are likely to start calling you "Pops." That's the case with Max Dunlap, who turned 76 last May, marking a year not much different from the past 13 years he has spent inside his cell at the Arizona State Prison Complex at Lewis.
"Pops," as he's known to fellow prisoners, is serving a life sentence for his role in the murder of Don Bolles, an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic who was killed when a bomb exploded under his car on June 2, 1976. Dunlap is the only person implicated in the Bolles' murder who is still serving time in prison, although he insists to this day that he shouldn't be there at all.
He is backed by his family, a longtime Phoenix tax attorney and even the Center for Wrongful convictions at Northwestern University, all of whom are still trying to prove his innocence.
The odds are against them. Although Dunlap is a model prisoner — his warden Barry McMaken says, "He keeps to himself and is polite with the staff," — he's been denied parole three times, and it's rare that a convicted murder gets a second shot at a trial. In fact, Dunlap already had his second shot.
This is not the first time Dunlap has served time for the Bolles' murder. He was first convicted of murder in 1977 along with Chandler plumber James Robison, but the two were released in 1980 when their convictions were overturned. Robison was believed to have helped construct the bomb that killed Bolles.
Then, after 10 years of freedom, the case was re-opened, and Dunlap once again found himself on trial for murder. He was convicted for the second time in April of 1993 and sentenced to life in prison. Robison was also re-tried, but the jury found him innocent.
So Max Dunlap went to prison again. But he refused to give up, appealing and appealing again. The last appeal, which even his supporters viewed as his final shot at freedom, reached the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco before it was turned down in November of 2005.
Barbara Dunlap was devastated.
She said it breaks her heart to see her husband with his hair long turned gray, his teeth rotting and his feet swollen, a side effect of diabetes.
She worries that her husband, who she describes as a "simplistic carpenter," might die in jail, that he might never again walk through the doors of their central Phoenix home, into the living room that she has left unchanged since his arrest 13 years ago.
"I'm really put out now that we're getting old," she said. "Max says, 'I hope we have 20 years left.' "I hope we have 10."
She thinks longingly of the days before her family ever heard the name "Don Bolles," to the days when the Dunlaps led the good life.
The early years
Dunlap's childhood was, by all accounts a happy one. His father sold life insurance and, according to Barbara, his mother was "a proper little southern lady." His family owned a lot of land surrounding their home — the same home in which he would later raise his family.
His sister, Marilyn, said she remembers those early days with her brother as entirely carefree. "It was a beautiful childhood. Not many people have that treasure," she said. "We ran barefoot and free and we were never afraid. Mom and Dad were great parents."
At North High School, Dunlap was both an athlete and a politician. He lettered all four years in both basketball and track, was elected president of the student body and Homecoming king and became active in the school's agriculture club. Of all his many activities and interests, it was the last one that would ultimately shape Dunlap's future.
And of all the relationships he formed, one in particular would prove to be most influential. In high school, in between basketball practices, student government meetings and classes, Dunlap forged a friendship with influential landowner Kemper Marley.
The meaning of this friendship depends on whom you ask. Years later, prosecutors in Dunlap's trials would try to establish a father-son relationship between the two, a relationship so strong, they argued, that Marley could get Dunlap to do things he ordinarily wouldn't do. Marley, they said, was a powerful landowner with racing and liquor distribution connections who was upset with Bolles because of stories Bolles had written.
Dunlap turned down requests for a jailhouse interview, but his wife contends that her husband's relationship with Kemper began as merely a mentor/tutor relationship and years later, when Dunlap was an adult, grew into a simple friendship.
"Kemper wasn't like his father," she said. "Max wanted to farm, so one of his teachers told him to call Kemper because he had land and maybe Max could farm on some."
Shirley Ryman, who attended North with Dunlap remembers him as the golden-boy he was, not the gray-haired prisoner he would become.
"He was a beautiful young man," she said. "He was one of the leaders in the school — a big man on campus. We knew nothing of his negative side." Keith Sprinkle, another former North High classmate, has similarly glowing memories. "He was popular and there was never any question of his honesty and integrity," he said. "I used to see him around town occasionally (after graduation), and when he got into trouble I was surprised. You just have a sense about a person. He was friendly and he wasn't stuck up. I never thought he would be guilty of murder, and to this day, (I) sort of doubt he's guilty."
A happy life
It was this popular North High athlete with whom Barbara fell in love. The two met on a blind date at a bowling alley the year after Dunlap graduated from high school. Barbara said she already knew him by reputation from watching him play basketball for North.
"God he was a cute little character," she said, blushing a little. "I was proud to be with him. I still am.
He was the type of guy who said the right thing. He had good manners. He got along with people well." Although they were both apprehensive about the blind date, the pair hit it off and two years later they were married. They started a family that eventually grew to include seven children, including one set of twins, and a whole host of pets.
Max, true to his farming aspirations, bought a small tractor that he soon traded in for a big tractor and later a whole fleet of tractors when he started MA Dunlap Construction, a land development business. As his business grew, Max bought and began to develop land on the Colorado River, partly with the help of his childhood mentor Marley. Barbara said these were some of the happiest years of their lives.
She recalled one Thanksgiving when her oldest daughter, Carrie, finally convinced Dunlap to buy the family a horse — something all of the children desperately wanted.
"Carrie gave the blessing that year and she ended it by saying, 'And please bless Dad, even though he won't buy us a horse,'" Barbara said. "Later that night Max said to me, 'I might be out of my mind, but I'm thinking of buying them a horse.' So we got them a couple and started going to horse shows every weekend."
Like the tractors, those first horses turned into several and soon the family was breeding their own. A trophy case in the living room of the Dunlap home holds the awards they won during those happy times, including several for "Best in Show."
The family interest in horses brought the Dunlaps even closer to the Marleys. The families developed a social relationship in addition to the working relationship Dunlap and Marley already had. Barbara said they went to the races together and one year, Marley took the whole family to the Kentucky Derby.
"If we hadn't shown horses, we wouldn't have been so close (to Kemper)," said Mike Dunlap, one of Dunlap's sons. "My Dad loved him, but it wasn't a father-son kind of love. It was just that if he (Dunlap) had a problem or a question about something, he had someone to ask."
Indeed, Dunlap went to Marley for help many times over the years — for loans to buy more land or advice on horse racing. Between the horse races, land development, family vacations and sporting events, Barbara said she and her husband settled comfortably into the rhythm of family life.
"We were just parents. We went to everything our kids did," she said. "The whole family was very outgoing. The kids were all sports minded, we were happy, got along fine and were all very busy. Isn't that normal?"
The arrest
Any sense of normalcy ended on a Sunday morning in January 1977, the day Max Dunlap was arrested in connection with the murder of Don Bolles. Barbara said police surrounded her house with guns drawn as they took Dunlap away.
"There was no need for that except it made the Sunday edition" of the newspaper, she said. "They could have called Max and he would have met them." Barbara said the family went into shock after his arrest but never expected that Dunlap would actually be convicted.
"We'd never even heard of this guy (Bolles)," she said. "We were innocent and we knew we were innocent."
Phoenix police and the state attorney general disagreed. And indeed, the evidence against Dunlap was strong. Among the facts of the case: On June 2, 1976, Bolles an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic who had written a series of reputation-damaging articles on Kemper Marley's involvement in land fraud, got a call from a source asking for a meeting at the Hotel Clarendon in downtown Phoenix. The source never showed, and when Bolles returned to his car a bomb went off, destroying the car and landing Bolles in the hospital where he died 11 days later. Evidence quickly led to Dunlap.
According to George Weisz, a special investigator for the attorney general the second time Dunlap was convicted, the case against Dunlap hinged on two important things: the testimony of a local, small-time criminal named John Harvey Adamson and a mysterious money exchange between Dunlap, Adamson and Phoenix attorney Neal Roberts a few days after the murder.
The first clue that led authorities to Adamson came from Bolles himself when he said, "John Adamson set me. They finally got me … the Mafia … Emprise" as he was being placed on a stretcher.
Adamson was arrested quickly and, as part of a plea bargain, told a story that implicated both Dunlap and Chandler plumber James Robison in masterminding the murder. Adamson's story had Dunlap hiring him to kill three people, including then-Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt.
"All of a sudden Don Bolles became more important and had to be done right away," Weisz said. "So Adamson went ahead and did it."
As damning as Adamson's story was, it was another piece of evidence that ultimately put Dunlap away: On June 10 around 6 a.m., a stranger showed up at the Dunlap residence asking to speak to Dunlap. The stranger handed Dunlap a sack filled with $100 bills, amounting to $25,000, and told him Roberts wanted the money changed into small bills and delivered to attorney Tom C. Foster by that afternoon. Dunlap took the money to his bank, changed it into small bills and delivered it to Foster's office that afternoon, where he found Adamson waiting to accept the money, presumably to help him escape the Valley to cool off after the murder.
Weisz said the fact that Dunlap followed orders so unquestioningly speaks to his guilt.
"Wouldn't you call Neal Roberts and say, 'This guy just showed up with 25 grand. What the hell is going on?' '' he said. "He (Dunlap) never did that."
But Dunlap's supporters see things differently. According to Phoenix tax attorney David Frazer, a friend who has spent the past 25 years fighting to clear Dunlap's name, the odd circumstances surrounding the exchange of funds are proof that Dunlap was framed. Frazer said that a few days after the murder, Roberts asked Dunlap for money to help Adamson.
"Max said no. He didn't have $25,000 to spare, and furthermore, he wasn't going to do it," Frazer said. "So right away, Max was someone who wasn't a friend of Neal Roberts."
Frazer said the only reason Dunlap delivered the money was because he had such a long relationship with Roberts — the two had gone to North High School together and had had a working relationship for many years.
"You have to understand Max. He wasn't going to put up $25,000 for Adamson's defense, but he didn't think this money was going to Adamson — he thought it was going to Tom Foster," Frazer said. "Max has admitted it was the dumbest thing he ever did. But you know the way people did business back then? On a hand shake. He'd done business with Neal Roberts; he didn't dislike Neal Roberts. So that's what took place. That was the connection. There was no connection between Max and the actual murder."
The jury at Dunlap's first trial disagreed. The evidence of the monetary handoff to Adamson, coupled with Adamson's testimony against Dunlap and Robison, convinced jurors that both men were guilty of murder. In January of 1978 Dunlap and Robison were sentenced to death for the murder of Bolles.
Getting out
Frazer said that everyone who knew Dunlap was shocked by the conviction. It was during that time he organized and became chairperson of the Max Dunlap Defense Committee.
"After the trial took place I got involved personally in trying to reverse what had taken place," he said. Before the conviction "I was convinced he would be acquitted. We probably had six or seven people on the committee and we hired a criminal investigator."
In spite of Frazer's efforts, it looked like Dunlap's death sentence was going to stick. Still, he went through the appeals process, and two years later, in 1980, the Arizona Supreme Court ordered re-trials for both Robison and Dunlap. But this time, Adamson refused to testify and without their key witness, prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to re-convict either man. In June 1980, after nearly three years in prison, Dunlap found himself a free man.
His wife said the couple tried to go back to living normal lives, although the possibility of a re-trial always hung over their heads.
"We lost everything at that first trial," she said. "We were just trying to get our lives back."
But that proved difficult. According to Frazer, Dunlap had a hard time doing much of anything because of the stigma attached to his name.
"He got out and he wanted to do what he was best at — (moving land) out on the Colorado River," Frazer said. "He couldn't get approval on that land from any state official. You have to have approval to go ahead with various stages of what you're doing and he couldn't get one thing done, not one thing in 10 years, because he was Max Dunlap. They cut him off from even making a living."
Stalling Dunlap's land development wasn't the only thing state officials were interested in. They didn't have enough evidence to convict him without Adamson's testimony, but according to Weisz, who had become a special investigator for the attorney general's office, the state always kept one eye on Dunlap.
Weisz had a special interest in the case. He was a student at the University of Arizona when Bolles was killed, working on his master's thesis on organized crime in the state. Soon after the murder he was contacted by the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization and asked to help with a special project to honor Bolles' memory and continue his work.
Initially working as a researcher in the investigation, Weisz soon became intimately familiar with the case, sometimes even sleeping with his research files. In 1990, the year Weisz became special investigator, he decided to gather new evidence against Dunlap and try to get the case re-tried.
Caught again
During that year, Weisz gathered significant new evidence on Dunlap. He discovered that starting from almost the moment he and Robison were arrested, Dunlap made a series of payments through his lawyers to Robison's girlfriend at the time.
"He was paying off Jim Robison's girlfriend secretly and doing it through attorneys in cash," Weisz said. "Why is he doing that?"
That led him to dig deeper into the relationship between Dunlap and Robison – especially because Dunlap claimed many times at the first trial that he'd never met Robison before.
Court documents show a series of payments, both in cash and material goods, going from Dunlap to Robison during and after the time of their incarceration. In addition to the cash payments made to Robison's girlfriend, Dunlap provided Robison with goods, including rotary power tools, a craftsman belt, sanders, a quartz watch, a razor, a television, a tennis racket, coffee filters, Christmas lights, a pocket watch, food and clothing
Weisz said he thinks the gifts were Dunlap's way of bribing Robison and his girlfriend, Betty Gleason, not to testify against him.
Frazer doesn't argue that the gifts were made, but he insists Dunlap was only trying to help out someone in a similarly awful situation.
"Max is a very friendly guy, and he has great empathy for people that aren't doing as well as he," Frazer said. "Robison was a plumber – he was cut off from any money and didn't have any savings. So in prison, if Robison wanted tools for the woodworking shop, Max would say, 'I'll see if I can get that for you.'"
Frazer said Weisz used the gifts as an excuse to trap Dunlap because there wasn't any real evidence.
"Supposedly this was to be keeping Robison quiet. What he was supposed to be keeping quiet about is a great mystery," he said. "Robison is in prison for murder. Dunlap is in prison for murder. What more could Robison be keeping quiet about? The answer is nothing. He did this because he's a kind-hearted guy."
Court records show that the gifts continued until 1986 – six years after Dunlap was released from prison, while Robison was still serving time on another charge unrelated to Bolles' murder.
And the record of gifts exchanged wasn't the only evidence Weisz dug up. He managed to get a search warrant to wiretap both the Dunlap household and the home of Robison's new girlfriend, Diane Fodor. The tap turned up new connections between Robison and the Dunlaps.
In July 1990 Weisz and his team searched Fodor's house. Soon after police left, Fodor called Barbara Dunlap to let her know the police might be on their way, the wiretaps showed. According to Weisz, Barbara Dunlap had Fodor read her everything listed in the search warrant. When she got off the phone, Barbara and her husband discussed which records needed to be destroyed, something the police overheard, thanks to a carefully planted bug in the house. According to court documents, the Dunlaps "burned documents after being advised by Diane Fodor of the details of a search warrant filed that day at her house."
With the wiretap evidence and Betty Gleason's sworn deposition about the gifts and money she had accepted on Robison's behalf, Weisz was confident that he was building a strong case. Then in 1990, Adamson agreed to testify again. Weisz had what he needed to go back to court.
This time Dunlap and Robison were granted separate trials. Dunlap was tried first in 1993 and again found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Robison was found not guilty a few months later, although he was immediately re-arrested by the FBI for attempting to make a hit on Adamson's life from prison.
For the second time in 10 years, Dunlap was going to jail for the murder of Don Bolles.
Life sentence
Barbara Dunlap said the family was once again sent reeling.
"We just got our lives back and he had to go again," she said. "We just never thought they'd find him guilty." But according to the jury, he was, so Barbara and her seven children had to learn to live with the reality of their father's incarceration.
"I told the kids, 'Talk about it!' We've talked openly about it," she said. "That's how you get your message out."
Although he rarely gets to see them, Barbara said Dunlap remains close to his children and they all support and believe in their father.
Frazer has continued his work to free Dunlap, although the prospects for release grow dimmer as each appeal is denied. In 1999 he convinced the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University to take on the case. The center focuses on cases in which the main evidence consists of testimony from another criminal. Frazer said this "snitch system" has put many innocent people, Dunlap among them, wrongfully behind bars.
The center sponsored a forum on the effects of false testimony in cases like that of Dunlap's at Arizona State University's law school in 2002, but Frazer said the group hasn't been very active in the case since. As for Barbara Dunlap, she has learned to live with disappointment.
She never re-married. She said the thought has never crossed her mind. Every Saturday, she drives out to the prison. She has to dress carefully; prison regulations are strict: no denim, no orange, no brown, no visible collar bones -- the list goes on. But still, she does her best to look nice for her husband. And she says the two of them are still very much in love.
"We got bawled out yesterday for sitting too close," she said.
Dunlap is allowed 10 people on his visitors' list. That's the sum total of the people who are ever allowed to come see him. After Barbara and his lawyer, there's just barely enough space for his children on the list. He hasn't met all of his grandkids.
"If I lined up all the kids and grandkids in front of him, I'm not sure he'd recognize them," Barbara said.
She jokes that he's never met her dog, McNalley, a Mother's Day present from her kids.
"He's never seen McNalley. I told him, 'You better be worried. He sleeps with his head on your pillow,'" she said.
Barbara said prison life is lonely for her husband — that he's friendly with other prisoners but isn't especially close to anyone.
His warden, Barry McMackin, called Dunlap a model prisoner. "He keeps to himself," he said.
A few years ago, three other inmates attacked Dunlap with rocks in the prison yard; Dunlap required 44 stitches. Ever since, Barbara said, his balance has been off. His diabetes flares up often and his feet are swollen from the disease. He hasn't had his eyes checked in 10 years.
In short, Dunlap is getting old. And with the denial of his appeal at the federal district court, he's also pretty much out of options.
Both Frazer and Barbara Dunlap blame Weisz for the fact that Dunlap will probably die in jail.
Weisz said he has a hard time feeling sympathy for "pops" because he's certain Dunlap is guilty.
"All we want is the truth," he said. "There's been a lot of things thrown at us as far as we're trying to railroad Max Dunlap, that we're going after the wrong guys. Why? I don't get paid more for getting the wrong person."


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Design Spotlight: Nicole Rodriguez
Our Design Spotlight falls today Nicole Rodriguez of Images of His Love, an artist who joined GCU in April 2014. Great photos!
One of my all time favorite flowers is the tulip. I love the tulip on this card not only because of the bright and bold colors, but also because it isn't your typical tulip image. It is unique and so much more beautiful because of it. When I look at the image it brings a smile to my face and to my heart. I created this card with my daughter in mind. She is so bright and beautiful. Also, when she brings a smile to my face and heart. I hope she and my son both know it is okay to not always be typical or fit in. I want them to celebrate their uniqueness.
I am a nature and animal photographer. I love taking pictures! I have grown up in Central Florida and even though it is hot most of the year it is a great place to live and grow up. I am married to a wonderful man whom I have been with since high school. I have been blessed with two amazing children and 6 pets. Our 6 pets are a white lab, 1 cinnamon green cheek conure, 2 gouldian finches, and 3 lovebirds. When I am out in nature taking pictures I feel so peaceful and am so excited to be in that moment. It is wonderful to watch butterflies flit from flower to flower, a fawn running after his/her mom, the sun setting and the moon rising. I think of my images as reminders in nature of God's love for us. This is why I named my business Images of His Love by Nicole Rodriguez and it warms my heart each time I capture these little reminders in a photo. I am so grateful to be able to share these images with everyone!
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Welcome Nicole! What a beautiful card; I love your store, your store name and all your lovely, soft images. It's a pleasure to "meet" you via the Design Spotlight; look forward to seeing more cards 🙂
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Welcome and thank you for sharing your lovely photos, which you've done an excellent job transforming into greeting cards, on GCU!


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Luke 19:11 – 27
As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. He summoned ten of his slaves, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, 'Do business with these until I come back.' But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to rule over us.' When he returned, having received royal power, he ordered these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be summoned so that he might find out what they had gained by trading. The first came forward and said, 'Lord, your pound has made ten more pounds.' He said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.' Then the second came, saying, 'Lord, your pound has made five pounds.' He said to him, 'And you, rule over five cities.' Then the other came, saying, 'Lord, here is your pound. I wrapped it up in a piece of cloth, for I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.' He said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.' He said to the bystanders, 'Take the pound from him and give it to the one who has ten pounds.' (And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten pounds!') 'I tell you, to all those who have, more will be given; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.'"
Jesus tells a parable within a parable – in the first, a nobleman goes away to be crowned king, to gain power. It would not be uncommon in Roman colonies for one to go to Rome seeking the crown of a kingdom. When Jesus was yet a baby this actually happened, when King Herod the Great died, his son Archelaus went to Rome seeking to become his successor. A delegation of 50 Jews went to Rome to protest. Archelaus was not granted succession to his father's throne, but the kingdom was divided among him and his brothers; Archelaus ruled only over Judea, and was later ousted for a Roman governor. What happened to those who went to Rome to prevent his being crowned? It is quite likely that they were killed.
But even if he does refer to history, what is Jesus saying here? First of all, Luke tells us in the first sentence that Jesus is now near Jerusalem and those following him are expecting him to establish his kingdom when they reach the city. But Jesus, in the parable, is saying "Not yet." He will go away for a time, perhaps a long time, before he returns with a crown. And there will be those who object and refuse his kingship, and things will not go well for them when he does return.
The second parable woven together with that first is similar to the parable of the talents told by Matthew. We are more familiar with the "talents" of Matthew than with the "pounds" of Luke. In this parable, the nobleman who goes away entrusting to ten servants ten pounds, with which they are to trade into a profit. One might say this is their "Shark Tank"; each one receives enough to make an investment and a profit for the investor. On the king's return those who invested wisely and made a large profit are given control over cities, but the one who buried the investment and did not at least make interest is punished – his pound is taken away. The story closes, "To those who have much will be given, and from those who have little even that will be taken away." This refers not to material goods, but to faith. The servant with the one talent did not have enough faith to invest the one, but lived in fear, burying what he had.
Jesus was going away, for a long time. Some day he will yet return to culminate his kingdom; but, his disciples must live into the Kingdom in his absence. They, we, cannot simply bury our little faith until his return – that is a sure way for it to wither and die. Disciples are charged with spreading the Word, the Good News of Jesus to all the world, multiplying it a hundred-fold. That remains our job as disciples today – we still wait the return of our King. We are not given the richness of faith, of life in his kingdom, so that we can use it for ourselves, bury it in our garden. We are given faith so that it can multiply, and spread the Kingdom.


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This city considered the following agenda items at the January 3, 2018, Houston Council Meeting. The agenda items include a purchase of a wastewater clarifier trailer and two contracts for rehabilitating water wells and waterlines.
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When Ally asked if I'd like to support him in another big running challenge, this time fundraising for Macmillan, I didn't hesitate in saying yes. The date was set for Friday 4th May, and it saw Pauline and I leave Dunfermline after work Wednesday evening, spending the night with Donna in Inverness before heading to Portree to meet the rest of the support team at 12.00 noon Thursday, we loaded our stuff into the van and then travelled up to Uig for the ferry to Lochmaddy, it seemed a very long drive before we got another ferry to Barra and drive to Vatersay, Ally was going to be running back! A tough and long challenge with the logistics of having to catch ferries as well as having to cope with running 120 miles and whatever the weather threw at him as well.
Ally had a good team behind him, I was confident we'd do whatever was needed to get him back to Portree.
Douglas - the grown-up, responsible adult in charge, keeping us all safe with the ability to spot and prevent accidents or mishaps from happening.
Graham - Massage Therapist/Sports Nutritionist in charge of keeping Ally upright, breathing, fuelled and moving forward.
Hugh - Project Manager, in charge of media, photography, filming and all things geekery.
Iain - Driver of the pick-up, leading the way and helping Hugh with the filming being promoted to best boy, dolly grip or whatever you call the poor sod that holds up the big fluffy microphone until their arms ache.
Andy, Pauline and myself - the support runners, taking turns pacing Ally, in charge of nothing much but hopefully our banter would keep him going.
There were loads of folk in the Vatersay Hall to greet Ally when we arrived, he gave a wee talk about the run and presented medals to children for their achievements in recent races. We were generously given the use of the Hall for the night and after the meeting finished we were shown where the light switch was and told just to close the door on the way out when we left in the morning. We scattered ourselves around finding a cosy wee corner to lay out camping mattresses and sleeping bags, I slept as well as could be expected the night before a big adventure, Hugh on the other hand hadn't pick such a great spot to sleep, where he laid out his sleeping bag had a motion sensitive light switch so every time he turn over through the night the light came on!
6.30am Friday morning, we were off! It was dull, misty and a little drizzly but not cold, and we were to have a tail wind, not the worst weather for running, we decided that Andy, Pauline and myself would run the first section of around 13 miles from Vatersay to the ferry point at Ardmhor, Barra with Ally, it's easy to set off too quickly at the start and heading off mob handed it would help keep the early pace nice and steady and lovely for a few of Barra's runners to get up early and join us for the first section.
|photo from Ally K's 10 Island Challenge
On the ferry the team took the chance for a coffee before arriving in Eriskay where we were met by more runners ready to join Ally.
We settled into the routine as we steady made progress through the ten islands, Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, Grimsay, North Uist, Berneray, Harris and Skye. This was my first visit to the Western Isles and although I wasn't in tourist mode and would have loved to see more, I still got to catch a glimpse of the wide open rugged beauty of the islands and beautiful beaches, even though the weather wasn't the best, I loved the colour of the sea, a warm turquoise colour of old copper, quite different to the cold slate grey on a dreich day at home on the Fife coast.
As we worked our way up the islands it was lovely to see the community come out and support Ally, a highlight and a great boost for him, the children from Daliburgh Primary School left their classrooms to line the pavement and high five Ally and cheer him on as he went by. The Dark Island Hotel wouldn't take any money from us when we stopped for a quick bite, cars would stop and donate money for the charity.
My next run with Ally of nearly twelve miles was from South Uist to Benbecula, we'd just shared a fish supper, it was lovely and tasty, I wondered if it would give me grief but it was fine, the pace was nice and steady, mixing up walking with running, Ally had been on the go for nearly ten hours now, he was still moving well but was starting to feel wee bits of tightness creeping in. Ian came over and introduced himself, he lives locally and he'd been following the tracker to find us and waited on the road for us to appear and came along for a few miles, it was great for Ally to get a new face to chat to.
|photo from Ally K's 10 Island Challenge
|Vatersay and Barra
|South Uist to Benbecula
|Lochmaddy to Berneray
|Uig to Portree
From late evening I suggested Andy, Pauline and I overlap our shifts so he had two of us with him from now on, hopefully the chat of two might help. Keeping going through the night when your body craves sleep is always the toughest part, in the dark, blowing a hoolie, rain coming and going and nothing to look at except the tail-lights of the pick-up and the circle of light from a head-torch. It was going to be a long night. (A tough shift for the drivers too!) I started my next run at 1.00am at Lochmaddy going to Berneray, after taking a break in the middle Ally seemed to lose momentum and struggled to get moving again, Andy and I kept pulling away, every time I looked over my shoulder Ally had dropped back a lot further than I'd expected. Donna came out the van and joined us, Ally had been using poles at times to help take the strain from his injured knee but now he was just holding them out in front and in my mind, they were of no use whatsoever. Time for a bit of tough love, "Ally, you're not moving efficiently, those poles aren't helping, you're just holding them, get rid of them for now, swing your arms, your legs will follow!" Donna took the poles and was laughing trying to coordinate her arms and legs with them. There wasn't any real urgency to reach Berneray, the ferry to Leverburgh wasn't until 7.15am but the sooner we got there the soon we could all have a wee rest and you can call me selfish if you like but after the break, even though I was wearing plenty layers and full body waterproofs, I was freezing cold, and I needed to pee, no way was I baring my bahooky at the side of the road with no shelter in this weather! I wasn't for dawdling!
Roddy, Ally's friend living in Berneray welcomed us into his home around 4.30am, Katie had a huge pot of homemade soup and oatcakes ready for us and big mugs of tea. An accordion appeared and probably for the first and last time in my life would I sit in a kitchen at nearly 5.00am in the morning supping scotch broth while being entertained by a man who's been on the hoof for nearly twenty-four hours!
|photo from ally K's 10 Island Challenge
The ferry was busy, there was an athletics meeting and local clubs were competing, it was great to see so many kids would be participating and I smiled to see they wanted to be photographed with our local hero.
|photos of North Uist AC and South Eriskay and Vatersay AC from Ally K's 10 Island Challenge
After they'd gone by Douglas and I went on into Tarbert and dropped a treadmill off at the Calmac office before getting the vehicles in the queue to board the final ferry. Andy got the job to carry it up the gangplank. There were two reasons for Ally to use the treadmill, it would raise awareness and funds for Macmillan and just keeping the legs moving helped prevent them seizing solid which at this late stage in the game is a possibility, I think he covered five miles just keeping ticking over!
I got myself ready to run again, Andy and I were going all the way from Uig into Portree, Becki and Ryan had come up and were doing a relay with their son Orrin as the baton all the way in, Kay joined us for the run out of Uig.
Pipers were playing to greet Ally off the boat, there were hugs and handshakes waiting for him . Back on home soil, just the glory leg to do, the sun was shining, no more boats to catch, nothing could stop him now… woooof! He was off, flipping hell, I cannae keep up, this might be embarrassing, I had to work hard not to drop off the pace he was setting! Once up the hill, he settled down and there was no point fighting the strong head wind we were facing, there was warmth in the sun and I had to take off two of the long sleeved tops I'd put on, I had prepared for a bit of a slog! Hugh had given me a hand-held camera to try and get some footage on the move, I'm just used to my own wee point, click and delete hundreds with a few odd lucky snaps, hopefully I managed to get something he could use.
Running into the wind was a hard battle, Ryan and I were pretty rubbish at being a windbreak, Andy was a bit better but Ally was still having to work against it. Lucky really that the strongest headwind we faced was on the final section. Pauline rejoined us and took charge of the pace, mixing walking with the running, working the efforts depending on the hills.
The clouds rolled in and with them rain, it was coming at us so hard I thought it might have had hail-stones in it too, it was stinging the side of my face. My rain jacket was in the van with Douglas and he'd gone on ahead, I was only wearing a light wind-proof, so it wasn't long until I was soaked through and shivering. (I should've known better not to part with my rain jacket running with Ally on Skye but the sun had been shining when we left Uig!) There was a lot of support out on the road for Ally, Becki helped Ally on with his Macmillan vest as Portree came closer.
Despite the weather, Ally was moving well, he was ahead of schedule, Pauline was still a sergeant major with the pace but Ally was in great spirits and clear-minded, he knew how he wanted to finish and we went with his plan. Douglas was parked at the Cattle pens for the last stop, brilliant, I dived in the van and hauled off my sopping wet tops, grabbed a thick thermal and pulled it over my head, "Pauline help!" My hands were so cold and wet I couldn't get them in the sleeves, she manhandled me into my dry top, I managed a fleece and my jacket myself, what a difference, within minutes I didn't feel hypothermic. I jumped out the van, in my haste I nearly smashed my face on the wing mirror, lucky dodge around it and I was back in position as outrider. The vehicles had gone on into the Square, the plan was for Ally to finish on his own, Pauline was going to tail him from a distance just for peace of mind, so at the Co-op Andy and I pushed on and made our way into the Square I smiled when I saw the Police van sitting with blue lights ready to escort Ally into the finish, the Pipe Band were playing and the crowd were waiting.
Ally ran into the Square with his Lion Rampant flying above his head. My hands stung from clapping, my throat sore from shouting and the lump of emotion and pride.
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Idea: Rule for "public void" method signatures
I don't remember in which book I read this, but the book created a wrapper class for MenuItem that when calling a setter it would return the class itself. So I started thinking: Would it be a bad practice if every time I created a class I would replace a public void with a public MyClass? In other words, use this as a general rule. Why don't we see?
So, let's pretend we want to create an Abstract Data Type called (hmmmm...) AbstractDataType. This class will have a string, an int, a boolean and a double class attributes. So the class would look something like this:
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private int anInt = 0;
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private String aString = "";
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private double aDouble = 0.0;
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aString = string;
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public AbstractDataType setAnInt(int anInt) {
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public AbstractDataType setABoolean(boolean boolean1) {
aBoolean = boolean1;
return this;
public AbstractDataType setADouble(double double1) {
aDouble = double1;
return this;
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AbstractDataType adt = new AbstractDataType();
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AbstractDataType adt = new AbstractDataType();
At first glance it looks quite convenient for a number of reasons but I believe that somewhere there's a performance issue. I am not sure. I would like your ideas and comments on this.


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Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005; 3:59 PM
Revelers at the Freedom Ball in Union Station celebrate the inauguration of George W. Bush while
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
DOE's distinguished scientist program
The U.S. Dept. of Energy will announce a new interagency program to bring "distinguished scientists" from academia to Washington for up to two years to provide the agency with critical scientific input on both technical and policy issues. Steve Chalk, Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at DOE, briefly mentioned the program to us this morning at the opening session of the DOE Geothermal Peer Review in DC and said it should be announced publicly within a few weeks.
This seems to be an outgrowth of the DOE's growing use of 'distinguished' outside consultants, reviewers, and advisors.
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