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Although I have been teaching college for ten years, this term marked the first time that I taught an introductory course in practical theology to both undergraduates and graduate students in the same semester. Many Catholics in the United States do not know about the field of practical theology, identified as it has been since Friedrich Schleiermacher with the training of clergy in the Protestant tradition. But over the last several decades, practical theology not only broke away from an exclusively clerical focus in Protestant theology, it has come increasingly to be adopted into the Catholic theological curriculum (no doubt due in part to the increasingly lay and practice-intensive focus and production of Catholic theology).
Catholic theologians Karl Rahner and David Tracy wrote compellingly about the importance of practical theology as the domain of theology that deals with the creative analyses of the church active in the world. Basically, they argued, it is practical theology that has a particular Vatican II-styled "Gaudium et spes" vocation. Globally there are many Catholic theologians who identify as practical theologians, but the U.S. scene has been slower to give itself as fully to practice as a fundamental category of theological inquiry, with the exception of some strands of liberation theology (despite the focus on praxis, a good deal of liberation theology is an exercise in systematics), feminist theology (the same could be said there as well), and the relatively new field of spirituality. Practical theology makes the theological meaning of practice in church and society its basic material, and involves itself in multiple conversations with students of practice across many fields. Along with pastoral theology on the Protestant scene, practical theology in the Catholic and Protestant scenes are part of the professionally organized "clinical" arenas of theology.
My graduate students at Fordham, in the Graduate School of Religion, quite naturally understand that and how practice matters for Christian life, because most of these students are pastoral professionals who have come back for further academic training. You might be surprised, however, to hear that my undergraduates at Fordham this semester were every bit as passionate about practice. It was just a little different interpretation of practice at stake for them.
For these mostly 20-22 year olds, they want theology to be practical. Without at all undercutting scholarly theological work, indeed -- they correctly intuit -- as a condition of theology in the academy, most of them want to know what theology is for in their lives and in their culture. Few things make me happier in teaching than to work with this desire. Because I share it. I am obsessed with questions of where theology comes from, how it works, and what it does -- in concrete, embodied, political, spiritual terms.
So you will not be surprised to hear that this semester, when I assigned my undergraduates to do theological "field research" about practices, they did it their own way, making the assignment speak to their worlds. I asked them to take the models of making theological sense of practice, and practice-based sense of theology, that we had studied, and go observe practices in their world that interested them. They were to write a report based on their observations, correlated to our course readings. This was my way of helping them develop more deep everyday awareness of practice as a theological experience.
Toward the end of the term, they each stood up for a few minutes to share their topics and findings with the class. Here are the practices that they analyzed theologically: street preaching, swimming, going to sleep, military fraternity exercises, studying theology, leafleting, encountering street musicians, displaying religious symbols in one's car, going to religious education (a 7-year old cohort), making a social justice retreat, taking in music at mass, running, Eucharistic "holy hour," dinner parties, al-anon meetings, wearing religious jewelry, and life on Facebook. Almost to a person, these students performed vivid, creative theological analyses of these practices, based not on speculation but on inductive learning alongside theological theories of practice that guided their denominating of the theological material present in each practice.
Let no one tell you that undergraduates cannot do serious theological work and keep their appointment with their dynamic young lives in the process. This group of twenty Fordham undergraduates raised the bar on the popular discourse about this generation. Let no one say this cohort of young adults is not primed for theological adventure. I hope that over this very holiday break, they are thinking theologically about how they sleep, eat, drive, exercise, pray, sing, and read. And that they are driving their families and friends nuts talking about it.
UPDATE: Please see my responses to comments in the boxes below.
Tom Beaudoin
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Perhaps it is central to all the topics you mentioned. Otherwise the concept of church as community appears to be missing. The real meaning of church is gathering signifying the people together for God. Further how do you relate what is going on with your students to the forthcoming conference at Fordham on the fact that twenty somethings are not staying with the church. Is your group different from the general trend and if they are how will they stay in the church or will they express themselves differently? Do they realize that there is no theology without the gathering, the community , the church? Or do they consider it a purely individual venture.
COMMENT: Bill, thank you for these helpful and important points. Much of practical theology is concerned for the upbuilding of the church and its constitutive practices. Some even argue that practical theology is a theology of crisis because it is when the church faces a crisis of its practices that practical theology has the most to say from, to and for the church, focused as it is on the dynamics and contents of religious/faith/Christian/ecclesial practices. The field of practical theology is frequently -- though far from exclusively -- ecclesially centered and invested.
But as far as I am concerned, the "field" of any domain of theology that I am teaching is only part of the theological content of the course. The student's lives and passions are also part of the curriculum, and in some sense are the most important and enduring curriculum with which we work. As almost anyone knows, you can't make theology part of your life if you don't have a rich, felt sense for your life and the ways it might be or become theological. (Often, this sense remains unthematized in formal theological study.)
And without betraying any confidences and without making any generalizations, for many of my undergraduate students, and perhaps most of them, the "church" is a problematic concept, and has been a problematic experience. In this introductory course, I want them to theologize with and from the practices that command their interest. This makes their theology more "real". Finally, as a theological point, whether we have finally understood the "real meaning" of church is probably best left open for historical as well as eschatological reasons.
Having said that, readings and discussions about theologians who privilege church and tradition in their analyses inevitably run into some (typically thoughtful, warranted) questioning and resistance from my undergraduates. A challenge for me is to have a class in which this disagreement, resistance, or even rejection can be as public and considered as acceptance and affirmation. Where both can happen, with the priority being on good theological reasons advanced.
So, yes, in my experience, undergraduates over the last decade are those who are presumably the plurality being addressed by our upcoming Fordham conference: those who are not on track to fulfill some of their forebears' hopes for "handing on" the Catholicism that it is often imagined will be handed on. On the other hand, they are on track to do something inventive and real for their time -- and will have an even better chance of doing so if theology can see its way to being their allies instead of their judges or antagonists. I will be at that conference and will hope to see many America readers there.
I hope this gives a little context and perspective.... TMB
Thanks for your response. Perhaps I did not word my question properly. Perhaps some examples will illustrate my point. I am thinking more in line with the community based churches in South America where many places have developed community based churches which are quite strong in caring and providing for one another. Even many Protestant churches who are smaller seem to have this stronger community. There are some unofficial Eucharistic communities that are present in many places in the US. Catholic churches, as a rule, are larger and therefore make a solid community much harder to develop. The Catholic church may give some anonymity as most get lost in the numbers. At the same time the community gets lost in the mix. I well understand and mostly agree with the student's problems with the hierarchy. But I am talking about church in its truest sense, which is that close knit community, the Body of Christ. The hierarchy can be a part of it but they are not central as our monarchical officials would have it. So forgetting the monarchical structure, how do your students find that essential Body of Christ, the Church, and/or how do we get them and ourselves there?
COMMENT: Bill, thank you for your clarifying followup. Your question is a profound one, not easily responded to in a blog format, but I will try for some brief thoughts. First, my undergraduates are typically 19-22 years old. (This contrasts strongly with my Fordham graduate students, who are most often in their 40s-60s.) This means that my undergraduate students are usually very much "in process" in terms of faith and practice. A profound experience in the classroom can move someone fairly deeply at that stage of life. That notable openness makes me reluctant to chart too firmly where "they" are or where "they" might end up. That said, and under the presumption that I am speaking only for my own observations and not on behalf of my students, I would say that attempts to make present a credible and experience-able notion of church in the sense that you describe will require: (1) respect for a permanent diversity of desires on the part of students to even be a part of or in relationship to such a church -- some want that, some don't, some aren't sure, some will have their minds changed along the way; this reality should "read back" onto our ecclesiology as "theorized" and as taught to undergraduates; (2) new ways of thinking about participation in the church as it relates to participation in (or at least learning from) other religious traditions, and as it relates to participation in (or at least learning from) "secular" culture and practices. I try to enact these sensitivities in my teaching; only my students can say how far or in what ways these succeed theologically in their lives. I will close with this: as important as a well-constructed syllabus is in meeting my students theologically, equally important is their experience of the feeling of the classroom and the permission both to be deeply challenged and to find and mark their own way. The latter point is something too few academic theologians are trained to consider, much less pedagogically instantiate. I am constantly learning. TMB


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For Walter Wills III, taking care of his neighborhood and the surrounding area is one of his life tasks.
Wills & Wills LP has owned much of the land in the Kirby-Quince corridor for more than 40 years. The area is seeing an influx of medical office and retail users in the past few years, and more are expected with a new Regional Medical Center at Memphis outpatient center in the area.
"I was always taught and believe I was born to be a good steward of the land while here on earth," Wills said. "I have been taking care of this neighborhood all my life, and we want uses that can sustain themselves and benefit the neighborhood because a strong neighborhood is one of the most important things you can have."
Wills & Wills LP is a firm headed by Walter Wills III that handles office, retail and residential real estate in the Kirby Gate area. (Photo: Lance Murphey)
Wills grew up in the Kirby-Quince area of East Memphis in the 1950s and 1960s, and his memories include fox hunting through the area before it was developed and once riding with his father and waiting for a horse and buggy to cross the road.
He bought 178 acres in East Memphis in 1970 from his parents, and he also purchased some other land in the area from relatives. Much of the property was in the flood zone so many improvements have had to be done over the years, including increasing the drainage ditches and other hydraulic engineering.
Last October Wills agreed to sell 49 acres to The MED for $3.4 million. Plans are for a new MED at Kirby Gate outpatient and ambulatory center to be built on the site. Wills had previously turned down offers for twice as much on the property, but he held off until the right deal came along.
"We knew it was a special piece of property, and we didn't want to just put up apartments on it," he said. "We wanted it to be something that contributed to the neighborhood and makes it a better place to live."
Sam Jenkins, consultant and financial adviser who handles debt placement, equity placement and repositioning of properties for Wills, said the facility will be a great addition to the corridor.
"It's really going to have an impact on this area," Jenkins said. "In terms of access and population density, it's a great location."
Retail centers like Wills' Kirby Gate Shopping Center are doing well thanks to 97,000 people living within a three-mile radius. New tenants this year will include Hollywood Feed, and Dunkin' Donuts recently signed a deal that means a freestanding location will be built just north of the shopping center.
The Kirby-Quince area is also already loaded with medical office users like LivingWell by Health Springs, the Reggie White Cardiopulmonary Rehab Center, West Diagnostics, and many others, and the new MED facility is sure to lure even more once it is built.
Late last year Wills closed on a deal that will bring a new Oak Tree 90-bed skilled nursing care facility to the area, and several years ago he sold land to Methodist for a new hospice facility on Quince that opened in June 2011.
"Part of the attraction of having the MED come in is that Wills & Wills' other holdings in the area, both office and retail, stand to benefit," said Jenkins, who worked with First Tennessee Bank for more than 28 years.
To handle his company's leasing activity, Wills works with Newmark Grubb Memphis (formerly Grubb & Ellis), StoneCrest Investments and the Gary Myers Co. Wills is working to fill the last few spots at Kirby Gate East Center on Quince, where new merchant Blues City Thrift opens this week.
He expects nearby residential areas to also benefit from the new development.
"The medical professionals associated with the MED and the many other nearby medical offices are going to want to live close to their work, so that will really help the neighborhoods and the home values here," he said.
Wills still controls more than 40 acres for future development, and he plans to hold much of it for now.
"It is so fulfilling to see this neighborhood grow and flourish with so many families, homes, schools, places of worship, recreation, jobs and services," Wills said. "Everyone gets along and works together with neighborhood associations and neighborhood watches to take care of each other. I hope we continue to grow and perpetuate a better friendly place to live, grow and work for future generations."
Wills & Wills also owns a cluster of office buildings and nine-plus acres for future development on Walnut Grove Road across from Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, and Jenkins feels a single-purpose user could find real value there.
Wills also controls more than 1,500 acres in Tunica, including a farm that grows crops like soybeans and rice, and he plans to hold some of that land for possible retail development once the market turns around.
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Many are surprised, many more experienced priests are, when they see the interest among some younger clergy in the ways in which things were done in the Church in the past. To be precise, some younger priests are very fascinated with the liturgy in Latin. Some prefer to wear cassocks, and not a few like birettas, when for the more senior clergy these vestures went away long ago and for good reasons.
This looking to the past is not a universal trait among younger priests, but it is significantly present in any overall glance across the country.
For a start, it is not a question of breaking Church law. To the contrary, provisions are clearly present allowing Latin in the liturgy, and for that matter, the mind of the Church is that Latin should be appreciated and accommodated. Actually, at least in this country, dioceses everywhere schedule Masses in Latin for worshippers who want them. A quite bona fide community of priests exists to provide the Latin liturgy.
The point, regarding the circumstances discussed here, is that the order of the Mass, put into effect by Pope Paul VI, is ordinary, the custom, what is normally and most often experienced and offered to rank and file Catholics.
The rub is that senior priests at times feel that their junior brothers want to get away from the ordinary and mistrust what senior pastors have struggled so long and so hard to accomplish, to bring people actively to the Church.
To the central issue, looking back, it reveals something, and it would be good if the senior clergy thought about what is being revealed before dismissing it as nostalgia but as nostalgia for things never experienced.
Put these younger priests into the broader context of their generation. Seeing them among their peers, and not necessarily only their peers who chose to be priests, places them in the midst of very many young people who seem to yearn for something in religion that they feel is short-changed in, or altogether absent from, many modern pastoral situations.
To be precise, many youths, and expand youths to include younger adults, have come to conclude that the supernatural is ebbing away from the Catholic consciousness. It is not that the godless culture completely has overtaken Catholic life, but it is making inroads.
Not enough attention is given to cultural conventions that clearly violate Church moral teaching, it would be said in these young circles. Precisely because of their youth, they are facing issues such as cohabitation before marriage, with the sexual license implied, contraception, and the wider need of being able to defend Church beliefs in an environment that is not friendly to religion.
They perceive an unwillingness on the part of priests and bishops to address these pressing matters directly enough, or convincingly enough, and they feel that they are not being armed to combat either the struggles within their own nature or critics of traditional Church teaching.
Regarding liturgy, they feel that any sense of the transcendent God has been lost in the effort, albeit well-intentioned, in many parishes to make the Mass a collective event of worship. In their mind, too many parish Masses are opportunities for people to come together but not to go to God with their innermost thoughts, hopes and fears.
As far as being prepared for modern moral questions, I lean to think that they have a point, these young people, who very much want to be Catholics and to live according to the Catholic moral code. For example, not that long ago, I cannot recall the message of the Gospel that weekend, but I used the occasion of Sunday Mass to preach about cohabitation before marriage. I cited Church moral teaching. Then I gave some statistics, gathered by the sociology department of a major nondenominational university, to make the point that cohabitation can be damaging and even very damaging.
After the Masses, I did not think I ever would get away from people in the vestibule as they were leaving Mass. To the last one of them, they complimented me on my homily. They wanted the direction of the Church in dealing with a style of life so very commonplace in this society.
When it comes to the liturgy, I do not unhesitantingly agree with young people who yearn for older models of worship. More senior adults I can understand. They actually saw the Latin liturgy, and they found in it enormous spiritual refreshment, as did, after all, our ancestors for dozens of centuries and saints whose devotion we extol yet today.
The younger generation, however, never had this experience. To be blunt, they never saw the Latin liturgy when haste or dreariness or puzzlement was the predominant factor.
Pastors young and old deal with two issues these days. With respect to the liturgy, the world quite simply is very flashy. People always have loved the beautiful, the colorful and the symmetrical. People today live in a culture, with all its technology and breadth of communications, that is awash in the visual.
Obviously bothered, and perplexed, by the drift away from Mass on the part of an increasing number of persons who identify themselves as Catholics, pastors earnestly try to make their parish liturgies appealing. We all must face it. One person's meat is another's poison. Not everybody finds the setting of every liturgy uplifting or even tolerable.
I have seen a lot in my time, being present at liturgies in very many places, and with many groups of varying tastes and circumstances. I consider myself a reasonable person. All this having been said, I have attended Mass more than a few times in places here and there when, only by calling forth from my soul the most basic faith in the Eucharist, can I satisfy myself about where I have been and what I have seen.
Interestingly, the Liturgical Movement that actually began quite early in the 20th century, and was mightily propelled by Pope Pius XII — incidentally, before taking final hold in the rubrics in the decrees of the Second Vatican Council — had at its root the pastoral, apostolic wish to bring people to love the Mass and to pray the Mass.
Why? Being very blunt, but truthful, the old liturgy was not everyone's cup of tea when it prevailed everywhere in the Roman Church. Church leaders, beginning at the top, thought that the liturgy then the norm in the Church fell short of being all that it should, or could, be. The stress upon Gregorian chant, for example, that came forward just over a century past hardly was an endorsement of what was then prevailing in the vast majority, the overwhelming, majority of parishes all across the Western world. (For that matter, at no time in history have priests and bishops universally and everyday hit the mark on the head when it came to proclaiming the Moral Law.)
So, this pastoral impulse to bring people to the pews at Mass has been around for a long, long time.
Are these junior priests who are fascinated with ways and things once thought to have gone away ever in conflict with their senior peers, beginning with their pastors and bishops? They probably are.
Mea culpa! I remember the days after my ordination. I knew so much more than my pastor knew. I knew more than the bishop knew. Now the junior priests know more than I know. They may in certain cases, but not in everything. Experience is a superb teacher.
Call it generational. Call it inevitable.
It very much helps, however, to realize that seniors and juniors stand on common ground when it comes to priests and the forms in which they lead the worship of God's people or teach to the people the ways of the Gospel.
The common ground is this: "Thy kingdom come!"
God willing, this one underlying desire will inspire cooperation and respect, expressed in looking hard at realities and in learning, perhaps from each other, among all priests about what evangelization and worship should be. TP
Msgr. Campion is editor of The Priest and associate publisher of Our Sunday Visitor. He is a former president of the Catholic Press Association and the Vatican's ecclesiastical adviser for the International Catholic Union of the Press.
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In the letter sent to the Empire State Consumer Project and the Food and Water Watch, the authority said they would be collecting all relevant information before evaluating the best course of action.
The latest statement comes just a few months after the agency publically denounced the results of arsenic tests on apple juice conducted on US TV show, the Dr Oz Show.
At the time, the agency insisted that it had "every confidence in the safety of apple juice," despite the publicity surrounding the potential hazards associated with arsenic in apple juice.
The FDA has since announced that it is "seriously considering setting guidance or other level for inorganic arsenic in apple juice and are collecting all relevant information to evaluate and determine an appropriate level."
The letter added that "in the event we find a contaminant in a food that poses a health hazard, such that the food is deemed to be adulterated, we can and intend to take appropriate enforcement action."
FDA guidelines dictate that apple juice containing over 23 parts per billionth (ppb) of inorganic arsenic represents a potential health risk.
Results found by the Empire State Consumer Group and the Dr Oz Show were above this limit.
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The latest notification on the presence of arsenic in apple juice follows concern from the two groups, following tests by the Empire State Consumer Project.
The consumer group conducted several tests for the presence of arsenic in samples of Motts' brand apple juice, which is made using Chinese apple juice concentrate.
One of the samples was found to have a total arsenic level of 55ppb – significantly higher than the FDA's current level of concern of inorganic arsenic of 23ppb.
These results mirrored others from tests conducted on the Dr Oz Show – results the FDA dismissed.
During an episode of the Dr Oz Show, broadcast in September, tests conducted on apple juice samples showed results as high as 36 parts per billion (ppb) of total arsenic.
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In a reply to the Dr Oz Show, the FDA suggested that the tests completed on the show were for total arsenic - not inorganic arsenic and were therefore inaccurate.
The response, sent in September 2011, said: "The FDA believes that it would be irresponsible and misleading for the Dr Oz Show to suggest that apple juice contains unsafe amounts of arsenic based solely on tests for total arsenic."
After learning of the results, FDA investigators approached Nestle/Gerber for analysis samples of Nestle Infant Nutrition from the same batch used by the show.
The agency collected arsenic results ranging between 2 and 6ppb total arsenic – a figure Nestle/Gerber agreed with following its own testing.
Organic arsenic is essentially harmless, but the inorganic kind can be harmful at high and long-term levels of exposure.
The FDA has been tracking total arsenic contamination in apple and other juices for around six years, since foreign producers – particularly from China – started gaining an increasing share of the juice market.


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For the folks who live on Imperial Ave. life has not been easy.
Anthony Sowell's house has been an eyesore and what he did to 11 women inside was unthinkable. Fridays' verdict brings them comfort...
"We've been at peace here for a while now we are just done," said Doniesha Jacobs, Tonya's granddaughter.
They want the onlookers to go away but they understand this is not over for the victims' families.
"And who was he to be judge and jury but the grim reaper got his. Guilty," said Doniesha Jacobs, Tonya's granddaughter.
Doniesha Jacobs lost her grandmother Tonya Carmicheal. The guilty verdict gives her closure.
"It feels good, it feels real good," said Doniesha Jacobs, Tonya's granddaughter.
Inside the courtroom emotions were raw.
"It was really a sigh of relief it was a lot of emotions," said a family member.
For Alemeda Hunter's family the grief is unbearable, the verdict helps with this.
"That my sister can rest in peace along with all the other ladies," said Alemeda's sister.
For all the ladies who died at the hands of Anthony Sowell justice was served. Now the folks on Imperial Avenue want justice too.
"I want them to tear it down but someone will get a hold of it first," said Fred Barber.
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This is a story about a story Jeff and I wrote together and have sold to John Klima at Electric Velocipede. This story became proof that though Jeff is the multiple-award-winning-author-of-blah-blah-blah, if he writes something with me, it will still get rejected by everybody. Even Klima didn't want to take it, until Jeff challenged him to a mudwrestling duel unless he published it.
And so we begin to see glimmers of The Real Ford. I, though, had seen these glimmers earlier.
Here's how the collaboration came about... Once upon a time, Jeff decided to quit smoking, and during this time, he had some very weird dreams that he wrote up and posted on a bathroom wall. I happened to be in that bathroom and read the dreams there, and thought they would be good material for some of Jeff's stories. I innocently -- innocently, I say! -- asked him what he was doing with the dreams. "What do you think I should do with them?" he asked. "Write a story," I said. "About what?" he said. "How about blah-blah-blah." He thought for a little bit, then said, "That's a good idea. Why don't you write it, and I'll fix all the stuff you screw up."
This was not what I had predicted would happen. I'd thought Ford would write his own story. They were his dreams, after all, not mine. (As I said, I went into this innocently. And I never lie.)
But being a loyal Ford fan, I decided to see what would happen. So I wrote the story, sent it to Jeff, and he sent it on to a short-story packager (a low-rent version of a book packager), and they sent it back to him, and he rewrote everything, taking out many of my best lines and leaving in a few sentences I really should never have written in the first place, then sent it back to me and said, "I think it's done. Send it out. Make sure my name's first, because I'm the famous one, remember. If it doesn't sell, it's your fault."
Yes, for all those stories of how friendly and generous Jeff Ford is, you only discover his true self when you write a story with him. There's a reason The Girl in the Glass is about con men. In reality, he's as manipulative, conniving, and self-centered as anyone this side of Dick Cheney. (And to think I once took him fishing at the secret lake of the tofu fish! How naive I was, how gullible!)
So that's a story of our miserable story. I know that with all the stories about Ford out there it's hard to separate the truth from the fiction, but as the Grand Reverend of Bananas preaches: "The truth lies beneath the peel."


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Nature "The White Lions" Deprived of protective coloring on Africa's grasslands, the rare white lions born there seldom live to maturity. In South Africa's Kruger National Park, two white sister cubs seem to be beating the odds as cameras follow their family group consisting of their mother, aunt and the aunt's cubs. The two adult females must be extra vigilant and wily to raise their offspring without a male to protect them.G
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NOVA "Hunt for the Supertwister" A NOVA camera team chases storms across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the multi-pronged efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to improve the forecasting of twisters - one that uses supercomputers to model virtual tornadoes, another that sends out storm-chasers to gather live data from real storms.G
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Secrets of the Dead "Airmen and the Headhunters" Dayak tribesmen of Borneo, known for taking the heads of their enemies, rescue a U.S. bomber crew, shot down over the Japanese-occupied island during World War II. The tribe feeds and protects the crewmen, then leads them to the base of a British special ops officer and Australian commandos. The program features interviews with a surviving crew member, Dayak tribespeople, and Japanese and Australian veterans.G
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Life In Cold Blood "Dragons of the Dry" From iguanas emerging from a tropical swamp to a face-to-face encounter with a monitor lizard in the Australian desert, David Attenborough traces lizards' colonization of the Earth. The first step was the evolution of hard-shelled eggs, and he searches out examples around the world of how lizards protect their eggs and young. Part 3 of 5G
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I found a plot list for Amble East Cemetery during my visit to the Northumberland Archives this week. So far I have tied in 13 of the names on the list to my tree and expect to tie in a lot more. Surnames are Crackett, Henderson, Smith, Stavers,Turner and Webb, but Murray and Robinson are also represented in the middle names. I already knew about 9 of the 13 from my trip there a couple of years ago to photograph headstones. The other 4 have given me new information. I have published a list of family members on my Amble East Cemetery page.
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Last week in the Herald-Dispatch, you may have seen an advertisement about a promotion locally to benefit the Sleepy Eye Area Food Shelf.
Last week in the Herald-Dispatch, you may have seen an advertisement about a promotion locally to benefit the Sleepy Eye Area Food Shelf.
Hope and Faith Floral in Sleepy Eye, New Ulm and Madelia, is working with a national promotion. The promotion is simple, 2 + 10 = 12. But for some families, it means a whole lot more.
Hope and Faith is observing "Caring Rose Week" Nov. 10-17. Two canned goods and $10 (the cost of the roses) purchases a dozen roses. All the food donated goes to the Sleepy Eye Area Food Shelf.
Lisa Visher, owner of Hope and Faith Floral, said they are excited to do this each year, and even more excited to bring this wonderful program to the community of Sleepy Eye. The promotion is not a profit-maker for Hope and Faith, but the food shelf collection is always good. Lisa also said it is a way to make a positive impact on the communities that have been so very good to them; Madelia, New Ulm and now Sleepy Eye.
The time is now, before the rush of the holidays, to ensure that the needy are in our thoughts. Plus, who doesn't like to have fresh flowers in their home? A two dollar cash donation is allowed in lieu of a food donation. Make your food donation nonperishable food only.
Thought for the week: Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty. – Mother Teresa.


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ATLANTA (AP) — Two firefighters sustained minor injuries while battling a blaze that sent thick smoke into a terminal at Atlanta's airport, authorities said.
The early Tuesday blaze involved an escalator in Concourse T, filling the area with heavy smoke, Atlanta Fire Rescue spokeswoman Janet Ward told The Associated Press.
Passengers were re-routed to other concourses at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport.
Ward said two firefighters were hurt when they slipped in water. They were not hospitalized, authorities said, and there were no reports of any other injuries.
Crews responded to calls reporting smoke in the area around 5:20 a.m., airport spokesman Reese McCranie said. The fire involved an escalator that connects the concourse to a lower level where passengers board The Plane Train, which connects the terminals, McCranie said.
By 7 a.m., all gates were operational and all flight operations were normal, McCranie said.
"The train is running to other concourses, it's just not stopping at Concourse T," he said.
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So what did you all think of the first show of 2005? Here is the card just as a reminder:
The Ballard Brothers & Ronin vs. Excalibur, Supa Badd & Top Gun Talwar
Tony Stradlin vs. Colt Cabana
B-Boy vs. The Human Tornado
Scorpio Sky & Quicksilver vs. Havana Pitbulls (Ricky Reyes & Rocky Romero
American Dragon vs. Chris Hero
PWG Tag Titles: Scott Lost & Chris Bosh (c) vs. Phoenix Star & Zokre
PWG Title: Super Dragon (c) vs. Homicide
I liked the American Dragon vs. Chris Hero match and thought the Tag Title Match was fun but was a little gutted that Human Tornado got injured in his match. The main event was sooooo disappointing I was expecting a lot more from them. Anyone else enjoy the show?


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 30, 2002) - East Tennessee State women's basketball team didn't show many signs of rust coming off a 12-day break from action. On Monday night the Buccaneers closed out 2002 on a positive note with an 84-77 victory over UNC Asheville at Memorial Center.
"I was very pleased with how we started the game," said ETSU head coach Karen Kemp. "But we have to learn to put people away when we get a lead and not let them back in the game."
ETSU enjoyed its largest lead with 12:49 to play in the second half when junior Lauren Trantham (Asheville, N.C.) scored a layup off a steal and assist by forward Jessica Lonon (Sylvania, Ga.) to give the Lady Bucs a 15-point advantage.
The Bulldogs never backed down, however, and rallied back to take their first lead of the game, 68-67, with 6:41 to play off a three-point basket by senior Gillian Murray (Raleigh, N.C.). But ETSU's offensive balance proved to be too much for UNCA at the Buccaneers boasted six players who scored double figures.
Trantham led the Buccaneers with a season-high 19 points, followed by sophomore center Tiffani Mayes (Sumter, S.C.), who had scored 16 points before fouling out with 3:16 remaining in the contest. Lonon and senior guard Samantha Copeland (Evansville, Tenn.) added 12 and 11 points, respectively, while junior Kiya Verdell (Hartwell, Ga.) and freshman Adrienne Walker (Augusta, Ga.) scored 10 points each.
"It was very encouraging to see our offense be that balanced," said Kemp. "But we have to stop giving up easy baskets on the defensive end. After the Coastal (Carolina) game, we felt we needed to work on our defense, but I give credit to UNC Asheville. They have a new coach [Betsy Blose], and she has done a tremendous job getting everything out of her players."
Monday's victory was the second straight victory for the Lady Bucs at Memorial Center this season as ETSU remained undefeated at home. The Lady Bucs will open up the new year when they host defending Southern Conference champion Chattanooga on Thursday, Jan. 2 at Memorial Center. Tip-off is set for 5:15 p.m. Afterwards, the Buccaneer men will play host to Juniata at 7:30 p.m.


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J2807 Tow Figures Announced for 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra 1500
Most Towing Figures Slightly Lower Than 2014, 12,000-Pound Max
After Toyota claiming compliance with the SAE J2807 towing standards for more than three years, all the domestic fullsize truck brands essentially stood in a circle staring at each other saying "you first" for adoption of the J2807 standards, claiming that they would follow suit once crosstown rivals reported according to the standard. General Motors is now officially the first company to follow Toyota's lead in reporting according to the J2807 protocol for the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500.
For many common models, it's resulting in a 400-pound decrease in maximum towing capacity, with an example being a two-wheel-drive double cab model with the 5.3L V-8 and 3.08 axle going from a rating of 6,900 pounds to 6,500 pounds. A double-cab four-wheel-drive with the 5.3L V-8 and 3.42 axle goes from 9,600 pounds to 9,200 pounds.
Even after adoption of the revised standards, 12 configurations of the Sierra and Silverado have a towing capacity of more than 10,000 pounds. The highest-rated 5.3L model is the double cab two-wheel-drive model with the 6' 6" box and 3.73 axle at 11,200 pounds, and the highest-rated 6.2L model is the double cab two-wheel-drive with the 3.42 axle with a towing capacity of 12,000 pounds.
The highest-rated crew cab models are two-wheel-drive models with the 5' 8" box, with the 5.3L/3.73 model rated at 11,100 pounds and the 6.2L/3.42 model at 12,000 pounds of towing capacity. The highest-rated four-wheel-drive models are the double-cab 6' 6" models, with the 5.3L rated at 11,000 pounds and the 6.2L rated at 11,900. The highest-rated crew cab four-wheel-drive models are the 5' 8" box, with 10,900 pounds for the 5.3L and 11,800 for the 6.2L. All of the models with the highest-rated towing capacity are equipped with the Max Trailering Package.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cogswell College, one of the world's leading regionally-accredited institutions offering a unique curriculum that fuses digital arts, engineering and entrepreneurship, is holding an Open House on Saturday, January 11, 2014, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at its Sunnyvale campus. Visitors are invited to experience firsthand what makes Cogswell a premier digital arts institution. Examples of the school's project-based learning classes will be presented during the event including samples of work from its MediaWorks Studio and Project X.
The San Jose Mercury News recently lauded Cogswell as "...one of the pre-eminent schools in video game design and digital cinema." Cogswell student animation films have won dozens of festival awards, audio students have won the MTV/ACT award for music videos and computer engineering students have worked with a top mobile carrier on an exciting new project.
The Open House will provide an opportunity to tour Cogswell's dynamic campus and learn more about its animation, game design, audio production and digital arts engineering bachelor degree programs. Attendees will be able to visit with some of the school's outstanding students, watch award-winning computer-animated short films, talk to an admissions representative and get answers to financial aid questions.
Campus tours run from 10:00 to 11:00AM. The Dragonhearts, the college's rock band, will perform at 10:30AM. Visitors can watch award-winning, student-created short animations following the tours at 11:00AM. Families are welcome and encouraged to come enjoy the music as they explore the many exciting opportunities offered by Cogswell's distinct mixture of academic programs. Applications for the Summer and Fall Terms are open now.
WHAT: Cogswell College Open House
WHEN: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 10AM to 1PM
WHERE: Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Family and friends welcome. Please RSVP so we can provide adequate attention to your visit.
Scholarships and Financial Aid available for qualified students. To RSVP go here: http://www.cogswell.edu/prospective/rsvp-open-house.php
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Located in Sunnyvale, California, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Cogswell College is a WASC accredited four-year institution of higher education with a curriculum that fuses art, engineering and entrepreneurship (http://www.cogswell.edu/index.php). As one of the Bay Area's premier colleges, its novel academic approach offers an integrated model that emulates the industry environment—a collaborative, project-based, learning experience that uses multidisciplinary teams to take projects from concept through the delivery pipeline.
Cogswell College alumni credentials include Modern Warfare 3, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Gears of War 3 and blockbuster films including Life of Pi, Madagascar, and The Avengers. Student-created films have garnered scores of national awards (http://www.cogswell.edu/student-work/worlds-apart.php). Cogswell alumni have gone on to careers with Activision, DreamWorks, Disney, Electronic Arts, Pixar and Microsoft Game Studio as well as starting their own creative ventures.
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Sympathy for the Devil reveals what the 1994 Wood Royal Commission into police corruption wasn't told. The depth, nature and extent of the corruption revealed in the NSW police force by the Wood Royal Commission was astounding and appalling. Much of what was learned came from police officers who 'rolled over'. One of the first was Trevor Haken, who now lives in hiding, afraid for his life. But Sympathy for the Devil goes beyond his evidence to the Commission. It is a startling and revealing expose of a system that was supposed to uphold the truth and protect its citizens, but instead fell into chaos and corruption at its very heart.
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The hamburger has long been considered America's unofficial food, and since its founding by two Americans in London more than 40 years ago, Hard Rock Café has served as a burger ambassador - bringing its "Legendary" selection of delectable American burgers to 57 countries around the world.
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A July 4 wedding is being planned by Abbie K. Druschel of Lyndora and Devin Pruitt of Williamston, N.C.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Roger and Ruth Druschel of Lyndora. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Randy and Michelle Pruitt of Columbus, Ind.
The future bride is a 2010 graduate of Butler High School.
She is studying health care supply chain management at Duquesne University.
Her fiance graduated in 2010 from Columbus East High School and in 2013 from Professional Golfers Career College.
He is the assistant golf professional at Scotch Hall Preserve in Merryhill, N.C.


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Allison waved as the van pulled away, knowing the horse wouldn't see the gesture, let alone understand it. Once the van turned into the street she turned and walked back to Barn 9. In a week either Brooke or Brian would call from the farm that Sonatina has arrived, and she'll rest easier.
Sonatina finished dead last in the Tempted Stakes, and Old Man Frank decided right there and then that the two year old filly was simply not mentally mature enough to continue into the winter season. She was, admittedly, a high strung brat and had completely melted down before her last race. Now she'll spend all of winter off at the farm, keeping Allison's two yearling fillies Santeria and Lady Ironsides company.
The first two stalls on her left were empty, reserved for her two geldings Bucking Tiger and Twiterpated. Bucking Tiger was at Belmont Park but Twiterpated was coming for the Aqueduct races. She marveled at the five year old's constitution; he had not been home since July and yet finished a strong second in his most recent race, a sprint at Belmont last Saturday. A few more races, she thought, and he'll go home for at least two months. He deserved it.
First Taken stuck his head over the stall door as she approached the first occupied stall. The tall bay colt snorted and nodded in her direction; she smiled and sidled over, rubbed his nose. The bald face bowed down and nuzzled her arm. He was a sweet horse, but about is immature as Sonatina; he was Old Man Frank's Rubik's Cube.
The stall next to First Taken was empty; it was filled with fresh bedding for Easy Memories, a gelding she won at a local racing auction. He had a good pedigree and, being three, a bright future.
Glory's Jewel neighed. Allison rolled her eyes. The filly always demanded attention; she walked over to the next stall to stare up at the horse. Glory's Jewel was a mountain of a mare, standing at 17.3 hands, but so far she's been an absolute dud on the track. Old Man Frank did tell her the filly had taken to her new equipment - a figure 8 - and her next race, a dirt allowance this weekend, seemed to fit her. Hopefully, Allison thought, hopefully she won't screw it up this time.
Across the barn from Glory's Jewel was an empty stall, recently mucked. It belonged to Sonatina while she was at the Aqueduct racetrack. Then a horse snorted impatiently two stalls to her left.
Leave A Note was her pride and joy. Soon after she got into the racing business she saw him training at Aqueduct for his debut, a twelve furlong dirt claimer. Although he finished a dismal fifth she won him, and he's done nothing but reward her since, that is until recently. He had begun to tail off but she believed it was because she and Old Man Frank rushed him too much, and he hated the turf. The ten furlong allowance this weekend was the perfect spot for his return to the winner's circle.
The glossy bay colt snorted again as she approached. He arched his neck and danced in place, fairly jumping out of his skin. As soon as he spotted her Leave A Note stretched his neck out over the stall door and stuck his nose into her armpit.
"Hey, get out of there," she said as she pushed him back. "If you must know I did take a shower this morning."
The colt shook his head. She laughed and stroked the thin stripe on his face. He took to the caress but his ears were pricked and his tail swished back and forth constantly. He wanted out.
Something poke her waist and Allison frowned. "If that's a whip I'm tossing you out of the barn."
Someone laughed. "It's a carrot. See?" Leave A Note's regular jockey, Sam, stuck the bright orange vegetable in front of her. The bay colt yanked his head back, startled, but a millisecond later leaned over and tried to snatch it out of his hand. Sam quickly pulled his hand back, said, "After your workout, boy. You haven't earned it yet."
"You keep teasing him he's going to dump you out there," Allison said. "He's smarter than that."
"Which is why you're going to keep it safe until we get back," Sam replied, holding it out to her. She rolled her eyes and took it.
Leave A Note rubbed his muzzle into her hair.
* * *
Glory's Jewel was the first one out. Being a large horse she needed all the exercise she can get to keep the fat off. Old Man Frank was in Manhattan visiting family; he handed Allison Thursday workout schedule the night before and warned that if she or Sam strayed from it he was going to chew them out.
"I'm your boss, Old Man, remember?" she said as he got into the taxi.
"And I'm in charge of your horses," he retorted. "You want to win, right?"
Initiate eye roll.
First Taken headed out to the track while Glory's Jewel had a bath, and she called Old Man Frank's assistant Terry at Belmont for Bucking Tiger's schedule. In the meantime she kept an eye on Leave A Note, who was prancing in place. Once in a while he hollered to no one and everyone, demanding he be taken to the track.
"Hush, boy," she snapped the fifth time he did so, and he responded by sticking his muzzle in her hair.
First Taken came back looking quite placid. Melody, Old Man Frank's favorite exercise rider, could only shrug when Allison asked her about the workout.
"He just went along like nobody's business," Melody confessed as she got off and the towering colt was led away. "He doesn't like to rush, likes to take his own time."
Old Man Frank's Rubik's Cube neighed as if to emphasize Melody's point.
Leave A Note was finally led out of his stall. He snorted and pawed at the ground outside the barn while being tacked up, and began prancing in place once Allison and Sam appeared.
"He likes you," Allison said as she held the reins. Isaac, Leave A Note's groom, gave Sam a boost, and Allison led the two out to the track. Other horses were galloping by, and Leave A Note watched them intently, tense, ready to take off after them. Sam quickly wrapped the reins around his hands, knowing quite well that the colt wouldn't hesitate to dump him in hopes of overtaking the other horses.
Allison was quite proud of her colt. After some dismal efforts, he was really coming around. That, and he had gotten over being shipped from Belmont. Leave A Note hated shipping.
Sam then leaned over to her and she quickly said, "If you kiss me I'm kicking you out of the barn for sure."
The jockey grinned, and plucked hay out of her hair. "He left you a gift."
She sighed and rolled her eyes as horse and rider headed out for a gallop.
* * *
Twiterpated and Easy Memories arrived later that day. She supervised the unloading, the unwrapping of shipping bandages, and the walks around the backside to stretch their legs out. She then decided to jog them a slow mile on the track, and see how they went.
Melody soon returned with Twiterpated and a wrinkled nose. Allison saw, however, and didn't ask for an explanation. She sincerely hoped his refusal to run was because he was tired from riding in the van, but knew that his long campaign was beginning to wear him out. If he continued being lackluster in subsequent training sessions he was going home.
Easy Memories headed out to the track next, with Sam aboard. The young gelding had won his last race, a grass sprint for claimers, and she suggested that Sam give him a go and see how he moves. As the chestnut galloped slowly around the dogs she watched from the clocker's corner with Old Man Frank's precious old binoculars. She honestly didn't trust horses who were testy about whips, but as Old Man Frank said the horses were in charge and if a horse didn't like the whip he wasn't going to run if he got smacked in the rump with one.
Horse and rider jogged out to the main track towards the back. She headed down to meet them, and grabbed the reins as Easy Memories strode by.
"How is he?" she asked.
"Too early to tell," Sam said. "He rides easy, though. I'm sure you and Frank will make something out of him."
"I hope so, too," she said and pulled a face. "Compared to First Taken and Glory, that is."
Sam laughed. "I'm sure they'll come around. It's their first year racing. You watch - Glory's Jewel will get in the money this Saturday."
"I know," she sighed. "I just hope Leave A Note doesn't bomb his race."
"Oh he won't," the jockey said confidently. "He's too much horse for that."
Last Edit: November 07, 2008, 10:16:53 am by Shirozora
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Leave A Note was not a happy camper. Several times he approached people passing by his stall with an open mouth and pinned ears. When he nearly took off Isaac's ear, Allison told the groom to snap a lead shank onto his halter and take him out for a long walk.
Glory's Jewel, however, was rather content. After watching Isaac try to teach the bay colt some manners as they walked out to the backside, she walked over to the mare's stall and watched Glory's Jewel push around the bedding with her nose. The race yesterday hadn't taken too much out of her, and Allison hoped it was the confidence booster the filly needed to do even better the next time out. Now it was only a matter of how much longer she wanted to go.
"Are you going to win next time?" she asked quite seriously. Glory's Jewel raised her head and blew air out of her nostrils before turning around to slurp up water from her bucket.
Easy Memories and Twiterpated were both scheduled to run next weekend, so Old Man Frank, who was at Belmont checking on Bucking Tiger, ordered light exercises for them. Melody took the two geldings out to the track one by one - Sam was riding another trainer's horses today - and galloped them an easy five furlongs. The chesnut Easy Memories was fairly bristling with energy, but Twiterpated was being ornery again and that had Allison worried. She already made arrangements for him to ship home on Sunday, so she hoped he wouldn't screw it up this coming Saturday. His last time out was a very good effort, and he hadn't ripped off his rider's pants yet.
First Taken was taken out for a light gallop, too, but he was so eager to run that he nearly pulled Melody off his back. The colt came back heaving from his efforts, and Melody's face was quite red.
"Nearly yanked your arms off, huh?" Allison said as Manny, their other groom, came to lead First Taken away.
"Why don't you try getting on his back?" the exercise rider grumbled, rubbing her arm.
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She was absolutely
Twiterpated was clearly not ready to go home for the year yet. Perhaps, Old Man Frank said, he needed seven furlongs. The bay gelding sat in third until the last half furlong, where he rallied for second and finished out strong. He cooled out very nicely after the race, and was now resting contently in his stall.
Easy Memories made it two in a row by wiring the field in his race, a seven furlong turf sprint. Old Man Frank thought blinkers would help him focus after he spooked during one of his training sessions earlier in the week, and the gelding fairly flew over the fast Aqueduct turf course. The cherry on the top? The gelding cost only $5,500. Allison had started shouting and jumping when she realized he wasn't slowing down, that with every furlong he was pulling away even further, and she nearly dropped Old Man Frank's binoculars when he crossed the finish line forty-eight and a quarter lengths in front.
She snuck a carrot into his dinner.
Ideal Ransom arrived this morning. Frank and Melody were with her as the four year old filly was unloaded from the van. The grey was mild-mannered, and a small neat package.
"She's quite lovely," Melody remarked as Isaac, her new groom, led her in a circle to stretch out her legs.
"Perhaps," Old Man Frank said. "She toes out a little...she'll make a nice allowance mare. Maybe she'll earn back that claiming money."
"There's nothing wrong with finishing second," Allison said. "Nothing to be ashamed at all. If a horse brings back a check, I'll be happy."
"Just what I wanted to hear," Old Man Frank said. He gestured to Isaac and walked toward Barn 9. "How else are we going to pay for everything?"
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Leave A Note was breaking down the stall again. Finishing a good fourth in the stakes race on Wednesday seemed to be a morale booster.
Twiterpated was asleep on his feet. The poor boy, he made his exhaustion clear by running dead last all throughout the race on Saturday. The van would be here any minute now to take him to the airport.
Glory's Jewel was alert. The towering filly tried to follow everyone who passed by her stall, but pinned her ears back when a horse walked by.
Easy Memories was out on a jog around the main track. He was on the muscle, ready to roll.
First Taken pawed at his bedding. The tall colt took his first victory in stride, although he got nervous the very first time he was led to the winner's circle.
Ideal Ransom was slurping up water from the bucket. Nobody had any explanation for her inexplicably bad finish, and could only hope she'll do better next time around. She may be going home fora few weeks to prepare for a winter campaign.
By phone they learned that Bucking Tiger was still a bit sore from his last race, which had Old Man Frank worried to no end.
Newcomer Class Above was lying in the bedding, sound asleep. He would be taken out tomorrow for a jog around the main track so Old Man Frank can see how he moves. As a two-time stakes winner he was obviously a good addition to the stable.
Allison was going home, too. She wanted to see the yearlings before the Foal Auction.
Last Edit: December 08, 2008, 09:34:46 am by Shirozora
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A few more hours and she'll be standing on the Churchill Down grounds for the first time as an owner and not as a spectator. Allison wiggled in her seat as the plane hit turbulence and peeked outside the window. The sun was rising.
Eighteen Karat. She found his name in the program, called up Old Man Frank, put in a claim on him, got him, and watched him grow into a serious stakes horse. A What's It Worth son. She never dreamed she'd own one, especially now that the great stallion had been retired. But here he was, a glossy bay colt that would carry her colors in the post parade for the 2013 Kentucky Derby.
He was immature, a little gawky, and they turned him out after running him in a stakes race late last year. He finished terribly and Old Man Frank promptly had him shipped to the farm. The colt broke his maiden in his first race back, six furlongs on the turf. After that it was a seesaw. Sometimes he was brilliant, other times he finished nowhere. But once he showed he could handle stakes competition, once he grew to his full height of 17 towering hands, Old Man Frank sent him to the wolf's den, and Eighteen Karat made good on his golden pedigree by wiring the Grade I Santa Anita Derby, the stable's second Grade I victory.
He was already at Churchill Downs, jogging around the track. Old Man Frank was up in Woodbine to oversee Eleanor Rigby's next stakes race. A lease from the venerable Stillwater Farms the chestnut daughter of Government Secret and top broodmare Lady O'War had earned blacktype earlier in the year. In her first race off a nice, well deserved layoff she wired the field in a turf sprint and now she was in her second stakes race of her career. Hopefully she'll do even better.
The wet weather had been wreaking havoc on the rest of the stable. They'd exercise fine, and then spin their wheels out in the afternoon. The two year olds were especially painful to handle; Lady Ironsides was already back at the barn after she threw a fit in the post parade of her first race and then finished at the back of the pack. Her jockey remarked that she hated the going and she needed to get bigger, but the little gray simply wasn't growing. The others were shooting up like weeds, though. Raise A Cheer was 16.2 hands high, the tallest of the youngsters. He was running in Del Mar this weekend. Maybe he'll do better than the others.
Love Triangle was up in Arlington, trying to nab a fourth stakes victory while Leave A Note and Class Above made the rare trip up to the New York circuit. Allison had doubts about Class Above, but Leave A Note could still run with the best, so why not?
RC Bee Stables had a few steeplechasers now, although she mainly claimed them for their pedigrees. She was slowly but surely building up a broodmare band so that she could start racing her own homebreds. Can't hurt to also sell a few at auction, right?
Yesterday Sam called to let her know that Eighteen Karat nearly took a chunk of his arm. The bay was on his toes, ready to roll on the biggest stage of his life. Could he do it?
She sighed, leaned back in her seat, and closed her eyes, dreamed of the deafening roar of the crowd as the horses turned for home.
Eighteen Karat
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July 28, 2009, 07:08:44 am »
Del Mar is lovely this time of the year, when you ignore the oft cloudy early mornings and the humidity. Allison is often left feeling uncomfortably sticky, but what's a little sacrifice when watching your horses gallop?
She studies the latest email from Brooke on her Blackberry; her five new purchases have settled nicely at the farm, and who knew their resident lease is such a grouch?
Hormones nearly took a chunk out of Brian's arm this morning
is the wry comment on Icy Honor, who's in foal to Rahy.
Her racing division - it's a division now, not a mere stable - is scattered all over the country, making it hard for her to keep up with all 35 horses at all times. She feels guilty about it, but it happens when one cannot resist the call of a claim or auction. Old Man Frank just shakes his head and gives her this
when she calls him up, sheepish but enthusiastic about the latest acquirement for RC Bee Stables.
It's not like their horses are all bad. Some are still finding their way, some are only 2, and one is driving them all up the wall - no wonder Cause to Celebrate cost a mere 1K - but she is the proud owner of 5 individual stakes winners - 4, once you take out the Stillwater lease Eleanor Rigby - and three of them are former claimers so the percentage isn't bad. It could be worse, it could be better, but they're going at a good clip so she can't complain.
There goes Eighteen Karat and Diamond Prospector, two of their stars. They make an odd pair - Eighteen Karat is monstrous and loves routing while Diamond Prospector is of average height and a stakes-winning sprinter - but they have good minds and plenty of courage, and tend to look like they're egging each other on. Allison once commented on the idea of breeding them to each other once they retire - she wants to see what happens when Mr. Prospector shows up 3x2 in the resultant foal - but everyone else shot her idea down; Old Man Frank snapped about counting her eggs before they hatch and Terry was horrified at the inbreeding.
Leave A Note and Remembrance have become training partners, too. Two reliable stakes performing 5 year olds, willingly galloping along with necks arched, black manes and tails flowing freely in the salty air. She adores them - Leave A Note was her first claim and stakes winner, and she had been watching Remembrance for months before finally getting him through a private sales. Thanks to Melody's suggestions during workouts, he'd been outfitted with a shadow roll and wraps, and he's improved by leaps and bounds.
Eighteen Karat, Diamond Prospector, Leave A Note, and Remembrance are coming off the track now, so she heads down to the barn to check on them and listen to comments from their riders and Old Man Frank. In a few days Karat will be shipping up to Woodbine while Diamond will go home for a short break. Note and Remembrance are staying behind for the Pacific Classic, which Allison hopes Note will nail again. Later, Allison will fly to Saratoga to look on Class Above, the incredibly versatile 5 year old sprinter who may be making a name for himself on the grass. She'll be checking on Terry and the Arlington legion first, and give Red Light District a victory carrot for her victory a few days ago. Many of her 2 year olds have gathered at the Illinois track as well, including her darling Lady Ironsides.
And maybe this time Cause to Celebrate will give her a cause to celebrate by hurdling to victory at the Saratoga steeplechase racecourse for the first time this year.
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March 02, 2013, 06:50:02 am »
Reviving another old thread of mine and revitalizing it by turning it into a mini-blog rather than an full-on RP. Not sure if it'll make for interesting reading but it'll help me keep my thoughts straight as I continue reorganizing how I run my stable.
So I have a tendency to hoard my horses, including the money sinks. Of course it took last year's disaster where these money sinks took all of my money and left me with no way to enter more races or ship the horses home to finally change that. I'm just glad I was on the winning team in the Color Wars. I could express my relief in a series of expletives, xD
When this year began I cut a lot of horses via auction and retirement to either the pasture or the broodmare band. Racing stable currently consists of 35 horses, which is a far more manageable size than what I had last year (until the new 2YOs graduate from the training track to the main stable, including a veritable slew of homebreds). I prefer small racing stables anyway since I like to give each horse individualized care.
put together a spreadsheet to mark each horse's progress, including equipment preference, surface preference, distance preference, and record/earnings in the first two months. The results? I'm pretty optimistic about this year. I know we're only two months into this season and a lot can change but I'm really happy with the runners I have. In fact, some of the runners have convinced me to send another mare to Tiznow; he has a pretty poor sire record here but I currently have three runners by him and they're all winners. I gotta take another chance on him.
One runner I have a lot of hope for is my Nightfight filly
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Wrt the RC Bee homebreds:
Our first crop of five turned three this New Year's Day. They consist of
The Time Lord
(Tiznow--What's Honor, by What's Debatable, and arguably the best bred of the bunch when you look at the damside),
(No Duplicate--Glory's Jewel),
U.R. A Shinin Star
(I'm A Classic--Party For One, by Lonesome Glory),
Rahy On The Rocks
(Rahy--Icy Honor), and
A.P. Impala
(A.P. Indy--Chicks Are Better).
Of the five, three are winners - The Time Lord, Quorra, and A.P. Impala - and two are multiple winners - The Time Lord and Quorra. Still working out the kinks on the other two, including swapping equipment, surfaces, and distances, but I do hope to hit 100% winners from starters with this group.
... I'm just now realizing that Time Lord is the lone colt in my first crop of homebreds. Huh.
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What a December!
I don't know why it's happening, but this has been a crazy month for new caches. I have already approved more than 130 new cache listings in Iowa during December, in addition to a number that have been archived, plus lots of contact with geocachers about one thing or another. Maybe it's because we haven't had much snow yet combined with the annual Christmas surge of new GPS units in the hands of newbies. Whatevever the reason, there's been no let up during the past few weeks. I hope you're enjoying new cache finds in your area.
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His Hawks return their entire starting lineup and nearly the entire roster from a team that was two games short of a third-straight trip to the Class 1A State Tournament a year ago.
Because of that, Lynnville-Sully might be the preseason favorite to win the South Iowa Cedar League conference, and one has to like its chances of getting back to state with having one of the most veteran lineups around.
"That makes things exciting for this year," Harthoorn said. "We're real optimistic about what we can accomplish."
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"At the same time, we know we have to do all the little things right so we can have that same success," he said. "We've talked about, for each guy, to think about an individual dream and a team dream for this season and what they can do on a daily basis to make those dreams come true.
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Fellow senior Brady Van Wyk and junior Darin Hofer also return to the starting lineup after earning all-conference honorable mention last year. Van Wyk (6-3) was fourth on the team in scoring at 7.7 ppg, second in assists (41), adding 33 steals and 134 rebounds. Hofer was the team's third-best scorer at 10.2 ppg and was its best three-point shooter — making 39.8 percent of them last year. Of his 86 made field goals, 49 were from beyond the arc. He also led the team in blocks with 29.
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