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Starizona is pleased to announce a new, low-profile motor for our popular MicroTouch Autofocuser. The MicroTouch works with any Feathertouch Focuser from Starlight Instruments. This new motor is designed to fit any of the Feathertouch SCT MicroFocusers* or any 2" Feathertouch Crayford focuser.
* Will not fit the Feathertouch SCT MicroFocuser for the original C14 due to the reversible collar. It will work with Edge HD C14s.
The design is especially useful with Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes and the Feathertouch SCT MicroFocuser. The SCT MicroFocuser is a retrofit accessory that gives a smooth, 10:1 fine focus for the primary mirror of any SCT. The previous MicroTouch focus motor was in line with the axis of the focuser, which made it protrude out farther from the back of the telescope, potentially interfering with a camera or other accessories.
The new low-profile MicroTouch motor gives an extra inch of clearance by moving the motor off-axis. The motor housing can be clamped down in any orientation; it is shown sticking down in the image below, which puts the motor cable plug straight down as well.
Approximate Focuser + Motor Length from Telescope Rear Cell
The new low-profile motor retains the precision of the previous motor, including the 300 steps per turn of the fine-focus knob (3000 steps per turn of the coarse focus knob). Any previous MicroTouch controller can be upgraded to the new low-profile motor, and all new MicroTouch units for use with SCT MicroFocusers come standard with the low-profile motor.
** When imaging at f/10 with an SCT and moving the primary mirror with the SCT MicroFocuser, the effect of changing the Cassegrain mirror spacing results in a 6.5-micron step size, the same step size as with a Feathertouch Crayford focuser. However, when imaging with HyperStar at f/2, where the depth of focus is most critical, the 0.26-micron step size is realized.
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|Once again, Julie and I are posting tandem cookbook reviews and giveaways. Today, I'm super excited to write about Jennifer Katzinger's brand new Gluten-Free & Vegan Bread--Artisanal Recipes to Make at Home published by Sasquatch Books.
Julie prodded me to give this new book a chance, so I took it home and read it cover to cover. I was immediately drawn into the introduction where Katzinger announces her new and significantly updated approach and philosophy to xgfx bread baking.
- The addition of xantham gum (to help hold the bread together and to keep them from being too crumbly).
- The addition of starch (to lighten loaves so they're not too dense or brick-like).
- More affordable sugar (none of these recipes require cups and cups of maple syrup).
- The use of a very innovative technique to achieve xgfx dough rise.
- The long baking times.
- Soaked chia to add moisture and binding.
- Super interesting bread varieties (yeasted, wild starters, flatbreads, batter and quick breads) along with very appealing grain pairings.
Every bread I've made has been delicious and varied from the one before it, although I've only tried a variety of the quick breads and yeasted varieties. Also, a few of the recipes fall into the author's previous style and call for no starch or gum, and again I had a few issues with those, but when I adapted the recipes a bit with some gum, they worked great for me.
The first two breads I made with Julie at her house, and we opted for sandwich style loaves.
|Cinnamon Walnut Loaf and Sweet Vee.
|Soft Millet Sandwich Bread.
|Zucchini Bread.
I swooned over the thought of baking Raspberry Rooibos Tea Bread for months, and when I got to it, it was a beautiful, tasty bread, but it crumbled like mad and broke into giant pieces when I tried to turn it out of the pan (again it contained no gum or starch and only teff flour).
I noticed the banana bread was very similar to the rooibos bread, so I decided to try to adapt it. I added 3/4 teaspoon xantham gum and subbed in 1/2 cup of superfine brown rice flour for the same amount of teff, and it came out beautifully.
|Modified banana bread with chocolate chips.
|Kalamata Olive Bread
Kalamata Olive Bread--shared with permission from Sasquatch Books
Makes 1 Medium Loaf
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F and place a water bath on the bottom rack of the oven floor. Lightly grease a sheet pan or line with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the brown rice flour, tapioca flour, garbanzo bean flour, millet flour, almond meal, flax meal, salt, and xantham gum. Add the olives and gently mix.
- In a separate large mixing bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer), dissolve the yeast in the room temperature water. Add the canola oil and Sucanat. Just as the yeast begins to foam and feed on the Sucanat, about 3 minutes, add the combined dry ingredients with the olives. Mix thoroughly but just until the dough holds together. This will take just a few moments. You can do this by hand with a strong arm and a sturdy spoon, or with your stand mixer and the paddle attachment pulsed on low speed.
- On a work surface generously dusted with brown rice flour, turn out the dough ad gently form into a batard shape. Place on the prepared pan and score with one line that runs the length of the batard, just off center. bake for 15 minutes. Decrease the temperature to 425 degrees F and bake for 1 hour. Decrease the temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for another 45 minutes, until golden brown and crusty. (Total baking time will be 2 hours).
❤ If I was gonna be reborn a cookbook, this is what I'd want to be. I love its size, lovely colorful cover, end flaps, heavy silky paper and it's organization and design.
❤ Each page contains a single recipe and there are gorgeous photographs throughout.
❤ Each recipe tells you how much of each flour and starch you need. No commercial mixes are called for anywhere in the book and Laurie doesn't make readers mix up a flour/starch combo to use (and thus store) for the cookbook.
❤ The breads are yummy enough for gluten-eaters.
❤ A few of the recipes call for a small amount of date sugar or Sucanat, which I found easy to sub with good ol' unbleached granulated sugar.
Onto the FREE STUFF! This giveaway is open to US and Canadian addresses. To win your own copy of this book, simply post a comment to this review by midnight Pacific time on Wednesday, November 14th 2012 (please make sure to leave some sort of way I can get in touch with you), and I'll draw a random winner.
Don't forget, you can enter Julie's giveaway, too!
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- Title: Gluten-Free & Vegan Bread: Artisanal Recipes to Make at Home.
- Author: Jennifer Katzinger
- Blog/Website: None
- Publisher: Sasquatch Books
- Photos: Color photographs throughout
- Focus: xgfx and soy-free bread recipes
- 5 Recipes to Intrigue: Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, Apricot Kuchen, Potato Rosemary Bread, Focaccia con Gusto and Orange Chocolate Bread
- XGFXness: All recipes are vegan, soy and gluten-free, and most recipes are also nut-free. The most common flours required are: sorghum, millet, quinoa, teff, arrowroot, tapioca and almond.


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Anyone Can Dance
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Produced by Dance Vision 2005. Approximately 47 minutes.
Beginning Level 1) Basic 2) Promenade Turning Left 3) Single Corté
4) Double Corté, Demonstration of Steps 1-4
Intermediate Level1) Right Side Fan 2) Open Fan 3) Promenade Turning Right
4) Running Step, Demonstration of Steps 1-4
- Donald Johnson & Kasia Kozak
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Customer Reviews
- San Marcos, CA 5 Stars
Fabulous, easy to learn dance instruction! Recommended!
- Ottawa, Canada 5 Stars
Highly recommended! I bought the Johnson/Kozak Cha Cha, Waltz, Tango, FoxTrot, EC Swing and Jitterbug DVDs from DanceVision after finding a couple of them in our local library. I'm very happy with my purchase. I also bought a Ron Montez Beginner/Intermediate American Rumba DVD since there was no American Rumba DVD offered by Johnson/Kozak. The Montez DVD is more smooth and professionally presented and there is a lot of material on the DVD; (it also costs twice as much). But for a beginner I think the Johnson/Kozak DVDs are much better. Watching them makes you want to get up and dance! That does not happen with the Montez DVD; it is so smooth that all the life has been squeezed out. The Montez DVDs may be better for more advanced dancers, but the Johnson/Kozak DVDs have a raw and honest energy to them that is invaluable for beginners. I should add that Mr. Johnson believes the man should not try to force the lady to dance what he wants, but simply offer her a clear and definite invitation to dance the pattern he has chosen. Ms. Kozak instructs for the all the moves of the lady in their DVDs; (Ms. Montez does not speak in the Montez DVD). Ms. Kozak adds a lot to the value of the Johnson/Kozak DVDs. The practice music for their Jitterbug DVD could have been written with Ms. Kozak in mind: "She has a cat-like quality that no one can erase. And when you see her on the floor you know she's in her place."
- Hope, IN 5 Stars
I purchased the Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, and Cha-Cha DVDs in this series. All of them are good instruction for a very beginer dancer.
I have been dancing for over 20 years. Unfortunately, I didn't advance my dance over those years. I think the Tango is the best of this series.
The instruction in all the DVDs is clear. Both dancers have very good to excellent form. I have some other DVDs in other dances, and the quality of dance is just bad. That takes away from my ability to learn.
The Tango DVD has a good selection of variations. They are what I see on the social dance floor. Clearly, instructed and shown. In none of the DVDs do I see the instructors try and prove their competancy. That is good for a basic beginer DVD. Some DVDs I have try and get to slick.
I was extermely happy with this one. These are the first DanceVision DVDs I purches and watched. I bought one of the Salsa DVDs, today. I hope it is just as good.
- London, United Kindom 5 Stars
I think all DVD of Dolnald & Kazak are the best for beginers, step by step with clearly explaination
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How often has this happened to you? You prepare a well-thought-out financial plan focused on your client's expressed needs and goals. The client thanks you and takes it home. But whenever you ask about implementing it, he's "not quite ready yet."
It's impossible to read minds, but an understanding of how people's brains work can help you better serve clients. "Advisors who are able to get people to think more deeply and accurately will be valued by their clients," David Rock, author of the 2009 business bestseller "Your Brain at Work," told us. "And getting them to think about the brain—or having a conversation about brain functioning—is a relatively safe way of increasing metacognition around difficult decisions." In other words, encouraging clients to think about their thinking can help them make healthier choices.
To explore this timely issue, we asked Rock and other authorities at the crossroads of neuroscience and psychology to share their views of what goes on in the brain when people make up their minds. In a follow-up article next month, we'll discuss concrete ways you can use this information to aid clients (and yourself) in making wiser decisions.
Exploring the Brain
New tools like PET scans and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) are giving neuroscientists an unprecedented view of how brains work: how we take in information, process it and shape our behavior in response to it.
One of the fundamental discoveries in this burgeoning field is that our "neuroplastic" brain continually rewires itself as a result of what we learn. In fact, there is increasing evidence that staying mentally active and forging new neural connections can improve general health and longevity. People of all ages are practicing mindfulness and physical fitness techniques that mobilize the brain-body connection to promote health, integration and a sense of well-being.
Research and therapeutic practice both point to the role of emotions in organizing the brain. When clients get in touch with their feelings and learn how to frame their thoughts and reactions in a healthy way (with the assistance of a therapy professional, if needed), they gradually create new neural connections that make it possible to bypass their old emotional reactions to painful experiences and make healthier decisions in the future.
Although advisors aren't therapists, if you understand this new knowledge about how we function, you can keep your clients from being hijacked by knee-jerk emotional reactions and make better financial choices. It all begins with the basic understanding that people have not one brain but two.
Two Ways to Think
Early research with brain-damaged patients suggested that our brains' two hemispheres had different specializations. The "right brain," which controls the left side of the body, was thought to be responsible for creativity, artistic ability and deep insights, as well as processing intuition and emotions and empathizing with the emotions of others. The "left brain," which controls the right side of the body, was seen as specializing in logic and analytical thinking.
Although this simplified view of the brain has passed into popular lore, it's not really accurate. Tasks are not bilaterally segregated; in fact, some parts of the brain can fill in when others are damaged. It's more true to say, as Daniel Kahneman posited in his 2011 bestseller, "Thinking Fast and Slow," that people have two thought systems: a fast, instinctive and emotional brain (which he calls System 1), and a slower, more deliberative and more logical brain (System 2).
A Nobel Prize winner in 2002 for research into the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and happiness, Kahneman found that because the more cautious and analytical System 2 is lazy and tires easily, we often accept the quick and dirty assessments of the intuitive and largely unconscious System 1. "Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of this book," he said in "Thinking Fast and Slow."
Earlier, Wall Street Journal writer Jason Zweig drew a distinction between reflective and reflexive thinking in 2007's "Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Make You Rich," one of the first books about the neuroscience of investing.
In Zweig's view, "reflexive" thinking specializes in identifying and recognizing danger as well as rewards such as food, sex or money. This instinctive and emotional part of the brain often overpowers our "reflective" system, which is designed to ponder before making decisions.
Clearly, we need to change the conversation from "left" and "right" brains to "rational" and "emotional" brains. Most neuroscientists, psychologists and neuroeconomists agree.
'Money Is Never Just About Money'
Either by nature or training, many financial professionals are rational-mind-dominant, at home with facts and figures. The minority who are emotional-mind-dominant typically enjoy helping people and tend to be more relationship-centered.
It's important for advisors to take their own process dominance into account in guiding clients toward a decision. If you make the mistake of relying solely on rational arguments, you're "missing what's actually going on with people," said Portland, Ore.-based marriage and family therapist Bonnie Badenoch, Ph.D., who specializes in relational neuroscience.
"Money is never just about money," she pointed out. "It always involves a complex relationship about what money means. Even though both hemispheres of the brain fire with most experiences, we do have two modes of relating to the world. In one mode, we're dealing more with the emotional complexities around money. So before looking at clients' more rational goals, it's crucial to involve them in a conversation that engages this emotional mode."
We asked Badenoch, the author of "Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide for Interpersonal Neurobiology," what would be different about this conversation. "It's more about what we feel in our bodies when we think about money and the future," she said. "Body sensations are the gateway to our emotional world. What we're most apt to do about money is powerfully influenced by these emotions, both below the level of conscious awareness and as they inform what we believe to be our rational thoughts."
The Wisdom of the Unconscious
Rock, who is executive director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, noted that we are nowhere near rational in making decisions. In fact, our capacity for logical thinking is woefully limited. "We have the rational resources of a $2 calculator," he pointed out. "We start to fall apart adding up four digits in our head."
The rest of our brain—the emotional, unconscious part—is more like a supercomputer. But because the mechanism for how we make decisions is hidden behind a curtain, we think we are rational. In reality, Rock said, we are entirely irrational and don't know it.
Decisions made by our emotional brain may be triggered by a dip in the market, a hot tip from a friend or a buried memory. But are those choices always bad? Many students of brain science don't think so.
"How many times have you gone against a gut feeling and ended up making a poor decision?" asked Dave Jetson, a mental health counselor who works with financial planner Rick Kahler in Rapid City, S.D.
We like to believe that our conscious, rational mind controls the decision-making process, but Jetson suggested that the unconscious brain is far more dominant in decision-making. "Research shows that our conscious mind—our thoughts and memories—are involved in only 1% to 9% of every decision," he said. "The rest is unconscious."
Our emotions' powerful effect on decision-making takes place at this unconscious level, which means we are largely unaware of it and may have unknowingly suppressed those emotions. "Every culture I've worked with, except for non-Westernized Aborigines in Australia, teaches people to hide their feelings," said Jetson, author of the soon-to-be-published "Finding Emotional Freedom: Access the Truth Your Brain Already Knows." "When I'm feeling sad or scared, unconsciously I know I'm not supposed to feel that, so I get angry, act out, indulge in my addictions as a way to distract myself from my true feelings."
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If advisors or clients doubt the power of the unconscious, he asks them to explain what they're physically feeling at that moment. Why is their foot shaking? Why are their arms crossed? "What your body is saying is important," he argues. "If you can learn to connect with the true feelings associated with what your body is saying, you become more congruent, and you can make better decisions."
Unconscious attempts to hide the emotional truth create all the problems in financial decision-making, Jetson believes. When a client agrees to a wonderful financial plan but then puts none of it into effect, he explained, "[their] head is saying, 'Yes, I can do this,' but [their] unconscious is saying, 'I have some fear and some history triggering that fear, so I can't take action.' If you help clients connect with this fear, they can move forward and take action."
Why Stressed Clients Can't Think Straight
To neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, fear and stress are the big obstacles to making smarter decisions. Hanson, the author of "Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom," believes advisors need to appreciate that the brain inside their clients' heads is the product of 600 million years of nervous system evolution.
"The same ancient neural and hormonal systems that evolved to help our ancestors escape from charging lions are locked and loaded and fully operational in us today when we feel at all stressed, irritated, frustrated, worried or inadequate," he explained.
There's one big problem: In the wild, most episodes of stress end quickly, one way or another. Hanson said, "Our bodies are designed to manage brief bursts of stress, followed by long periods of recovery with no stress at all. But today, we experience continuous mild to moderate stress with no chance for recovery, which is very bad for long-term physical and mental health."
Stress is also bad for learning, according to Paul Greenberg, Ph.D., a psychology professor at San Diego's Brandman University.
"When clients are stressed, it affects their ability to hear what you're saying," he told us. After a few minutes of feeling stressed, the body starts releasing cortisol. This knocks the prefrontal cortex (our higher brain decision-maker) offline, interfering with our ability to learn, remember and make rational decisions. "In some stressful situations, you may go completely blank," Greenberg said.
Bear in mind that this refers to excessive stress. As we've seen, it's impossible to make decisions without some degree of emotion. In fact, Greenberg explained, decision-making and emotions are physically linked in the brain: "Some networks in the limbic system are devoted to processing emotion, while corresponding regions in the cortex integrate emotional information with what we know about the world. So the body and emotions provide cues and clues to decisions that we want to make. If you never had gut feelings about anything, it would be hard to make certain decisions."
Therefore, Greenberg said, the idea that emotion is the enemy of reason is incorrect. "When you're in a highly emotional state, clearly there are certain decisions you don't want to make. But the research of Antonio and Hanna Damasio shows that without emotional information, you may actually be highly impaired in making a decision." When brain damage interferes with the linkage between emotion and decision-making, people have greater difficulty in making up their minds.
Are We Born to Be Biased?
"Most of our judgments and actions are appropriate most of the time," Daniel Kahneman wrote in "Thinking Fast and Slow." But our fast, intuitive System 1 often jumps to conclusions or takes shortcuts that the more rational System 2 doesn't question. This can lead to biases such as framing, anchoring and an inclination toward optimism that prompts us to underestimate risks.
Many of these biases play a part in financial decision-making. David Rock suggested that loss aversion, minimizing uncertainty, and emotional reactions to specific investments are among the most common. He pointed out, "These three groups of biases steer people toward minimizing danger even when there isn't any; to make choices based on a feeling of certainty, even when there isn't any; and to like an idea or not, even when there isn't any actual data."
It's helpful for advisors to know they're dealing with clients who think they're rational but aren't, and who have biases they are not aware of. When you recognize unconscious bias in a client's viewpoint, you can help by bringing it into the open. As Rock concluded, "An advisor who is interested in clients' authentic well-being should have conversations that challenge their biases without causing offense."
How Much Should You Teach Clients?
Should advisors educate clients about the brain to help them make better decisions? Or should they simply use this knowledge to better understand a client's decision-making process?
"I absolutely believe that advisors should share this knowledge with clients," Paul Greenberg said. "Every day we come closer to an operator's manual for the brain, so it is very important to share the most relevant information people can use to improve their lives."
"When clients know something about how their brain works, they become more confident in their decision-making," said Linda Graham, MFT, a San Francisco psychotherapist, consultant and trainer whose book, "Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being," will be published in April.
Therapist Bonnie Badenoch added, "It can be helpful for clients to understand how early memories stored in the amygdala shape feelings and behavior. For example, if parents have a lot of fear about money, this anxiety will be communicated to a young child. When the subject of money comes up later in life, these early memories are triggered, and the person is no longer in a position to make rational decisions." Exploring these emotions can help a planner and client establish a relationship of trust and understanding that leads to more appropriate goals.
We think the most important takeaway is that with a better understanding of how the brain works, people can check in with their state of mind before making any financial decisions. "If the client is feeling empathized with and understood by the advisor, that in and of itself is calming to the brain," Badenoch said. "This allows clients to be guided by the advisor rather than to resist, and at the same time frees their brains to make decisions based more on the present than on their past experiences and memories about money."
Greenberg agreed: "The number one thing to keep in mind is to reduce the stress on the client and the advisor both. When you take your brain into a stressful zone, you start to lose some of your cognitive capacity. To foster clear thinking, the goal is to help clients maintain a positive outcome for their goals and the financial planning process."
10 Lessons From Brain Science
There's much more information about the brain than could possibly be touched on in this short series. We expect new research to affect investment advisors' practices in powerful and subtle ways.
[Click here for more resources on neuroscience and brain behavior.]
After hearing what the experts we interviewed had to say, we drew the following conclusions:
- Our difficulty in making the best and healthiest choices for ourselves is in large part a result of the way our brain is wired. Yet over the last 20 years, research has shown not only that our brain can rewire itself as a result of experience, but that we can train it to think differently.
- Although we think our rational brain is in charge, our emotional brain is more involved in decision-making than we realize.
- Advisors—especially those whose thinking is dominated by their rational mind—need to be aware that a client's intuitive emotional mind is even more important in decision-making.
- Our rational, conscious brain is relatively slow and limited (we like David Rock's analogy of a $2 calculator). Unbeknownst to us, it often adopts the more impulsive decisions of our unconscious emotional brain.
- When the unconscious brain drives decisions, people who are not aware of this fact can make not-so-smart choices. However, it's not desirable or even possible to eliminate emotion from the decision-making process.
- People's unconscious feelings may result in observable body language that shows they are "of two minds."
- Biases such as loss aversion spring from past experiences or memories that are often unconscious. When they distort a client's decision-making, they need to be examined on a conscious level to rid them of their power.
- Stress is the enemy of clear thinking. In therapeutic terms, it can reduce us to our most primitive survival mode, which is frequently dysfunctional.
- Clients who are educated about their thought processes are less likely to make snap decisions.
- The challenge for an advisor is to bring clients' rational (conscious) and emotional (unconscious) minds into alignment. So it's vital to recognize their feelings, concerns and fears and create a zone of safety for them.
The better you understand the brain, the more choices of attitude and action you and your clients will have. On a personal level, we believe this understanding will inspire more gentleness and compassion toward yourself and your clients, co-workers and loved ones. In the process, you will enhance their sense of well-being, and your own.
In the second part of this series in Investment Advisor, we'll discuss specific ways you can use your understanding of your clients' two brains to help them make better decisions.


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Seriously, I'm just waiting for the day some kid jumps out of a plane and picks his school by skydiving into a target on the ground that has the school of his choice's logo. Can you imagine his ability to fake people out by seemingly landing on one square and then running over to his actual choice or whatever? Come on…. Someone's going to do it, you and I both know it.
With that in mind we here at Crystal Ball Run wanted to look back at the Top 5 All-Time National Signing Day Announcements and amazingly this wasn't an easy list to come up with because there were so many memorable moments to pick from.
1) Isaiah Crowell – Live animal announcement w/ mini-UGA
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The puppy was cute and all, but ya… I guess you've gotta make yourself a household name somehow in this era of complete self-promotion and thanks to this moment Crowell's name won't soon be forgotten.
2. Kevin Jones – The PSU switcheroo
This one is a spin off of the old hat dance people used to do, but it also had some big time ramifications because of where Kevin Jones was from – Pennsylvania – and more specifically, Penn State country inside of Pennsylvania. So, what did he do?
Well, Jones showed up with a Penn State jersey, didn't say a word (letting the crowd assume he was announcing PSU) and then ripped it off saying he would not be attending Penn State, but would be attending Virginia Tech. Jones made the right choice for him as he went on to have one heck of a career as a Hokie. He ran for 3,475 yards in his three seasons at Va Tech and became a consensus All-American as well as a 1st round NFL draft pick.
To this day this announcement sticks in the craw of Nittany Lions fans.
3. Eric Dickerson – SMU over Texas A&M
Is there a single signing that's had a bigger impact on the two schools recruiting the kid? Dickerson chose SMU and it was a big time surprise for the early 1980's to say the least. However, hindsight shows us that perhaps Texas A&M was better off without Dickerson as along with Craig James and a few other players their recruitment and "benefits" became the focal point of the NCAA investigation and as they say…. The rest is history.
SMU got a VERY GOOD player in Dickerson and I'm sure aTm would've loved to have him in the fold, however, would they have also loved the death penalty that would've come with it? 'Cause that's what type of recruitment it would've taken for the Aggies to beat out the Mustangs. How different would these two programs be today if the shoe were on the other foot?
Just think about it and let it sink in.
4. Dre Kirkpatrick – Calling out Julio Jones
Think all the way back to the 2008 recruiting class… now was there a more memorable moment than Dre Kirkpatrick's signing? I highly doubt it. After all he said Texas had no "swagger" and then in the interview following his choice of Alabama he called out Julio freaking Jones – who was already a star collegiate player.
5. Alabama – Fax Lady
I know, what the hell is a school doing on this list? Well, over the past 5 or 6 seasons it's become popular for schools to post a "fax cam" on their websites to show signed national letters of intent being received at the school. Of course the SEC and 'Bama had to one up just the simple webcam setup as they decided in 2010 to post up some, well… shapely coed's in mini-skirts as their "fax ladies."
Needless to say, it didn't go over well with the folks that didn't think of it first and the SEC office even received a few complaints that it was an "unfair advantage" to entice kids with scantily clad coed's on their fax webcam. So, ya, now 'Bama isn't using this practice, but there hasn't been a shortage of faked versions of this popping up around the state, that's for sure.
*BONUS: Landon Collins – Ticks off Mom by choosing 'Bama
While this one didn't happen on national signing day (hence why it didn't make the list), it's way, WAY to good to not put on a list like this. The reaction to Collins' selection of his school by his mother is simply priceless:
We're sure to see our share of memorable announcements as ESPNU is planning 10 full hours of national signing day coverage and will be at 13 schools with countless announcements being made live on television. If they are like anything on this particular list then we should all be entertained.


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2. References. Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 139, July 21, 2004, pp. 43716-43719; Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(5)(A)]; 20 CFR 656; Executive Orders 12866 and 13132; Regulatory Flexibility Act [5 U.S.C.605(b)]; Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995; Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996; Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 17.203
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CHIMNEY ROCK — Grady the Groundhog, Chimney Rock's live animal ambassador, will make his annual prediction at the Park when he awakens from his winter slumber on Saturday, Feb. 2.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the public is invited to an educational program and shadow sighting in the Meadows, followed by kids' crafts and family guided hikes. If Grady sees his shadow, we can expect six more weeks of winter weather ahead — but if not, then spring should be around the corner! Cast your vote on whether he'll see his shadow at chimneyrockpark.com.
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Many audiophiles, myself included, can't afford speakers costing $20,000 or more, amplifiers costing $10,000 or more, or CD players and preamplifiers costing $5000 and more, not to mention expensive cables, power cords, and room treatments. In this article, I will discuss how you can get audiophile sound for much less—under $10,000 for a whole system. You may say that that is still a lot of money, and it is, but many people spend more for just one component.
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