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Moving across to EBS
The introduction of the new 700 Series models and sees a genuine heavy duty challenger from Hino coming on to the Australian truck market, moving across to EBS, with the electronic braking systems now available all of the way across the 700 Series range of trucks.
This brings the brand up to date in terms of braking technology. The combination of EBS with features like stability control and integration with EBS fitted trailers further enhances safety in this model.
Over the last few years Hino have been improving their cabin interior design, as they move away from the very predictable grey Japanese truck interior we have become used to. With the introduction of the new 700, the cabin interior has a quality look and is probably feels more European than Japanese, in terms of first impressions.
The dashboard has been carefully thought out, looks good and is definitely much more modern than some of this truck's direct competitors. However, this is still a Japanese track and it does have those features which reflect the conservative nature of the domestic Japanese truck market, which expects those features which we see in every Japanese truck like the high engine cover, relatively small bunk and clunky handbrake mounted on the engine cover.
The electronic dashboard directly in front of the driver has a neat feature, when the driver is driving normally it has a blue background colour, but when the driver takes more care and is driving more economically, the background turns to green. The display also includes driver reminders to avoid behaviours which are detrimental to the overall fuel consumption. It will tell the driver when they have been over speeding or over revving and a reminder pops up to ask them to take it easy.
Full refresh of the model line-up
The new 700 Series from Hino is the last part of the puzzle for the new look from the Japanese brand. All models now have the new large grille, with clear branding. There is also now stability group control across the range, apart from the twin steer models, but this will be arriving next year. There is also the availability, across the brand, of a comprehensive safety suite, which is one of those features which is becoming more and more important for trucking operators in Australia and around the world.
The introduction of the nine-litre engine into the 700 Series allows Hino to also offer a wider range of wheelbases, to suit various applications, many of which are very different to those needed by the buyers of the larger 13 litre powered trucks. For example, a longer 4.5 metre wheelbase will enable Victorian tipper operators to now meet the bridge formula length requirements in that state, enabling them to run at higher masses.
This latest launch also means that the entire range of Hino models, from the 4.5 tonne 300 to the 70 plus tonne 700 all come with Euro 6 compliant engine.
According to Daniel, the 8×4 model comes in at a tare weight which is in that useful, just over eight tonne, range, which means it may come into consideration by the concrete companies as an agitator. One of the advantages it may have is the fact that it is fitted with a heavier duty Allison transmission, than some of its direct competitors in what remains a very tight market.
At the new 700 Series launch, there was a hint that there may be a model coming onto the Australian market from Hino with a power rating over 500 hp. However, over the years PowerTorque has learned to take these kinds of hints with a pinch of salt.
There is also a hybrid version of the 700 in the pipeline for the Japanese truck market and Hino are indicating it will eventually flow through into the Australian market but unwilling to put a date on any introduction.


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Djibril Cissé to Provide Exclusive Football Predictions on Betiton™
Nowadays, it is possible to bet on almost every sport, and this is no exaggeration on our part. Think of a sport, go to a bookmaker, and we are certain that you will find some markets for it. When it comes to sports predictions, there is one sport out of them all that sits at the top of the pile, and that is football. This fun sport is so popular nowadays that you will not struggle to find a plethora of football predictions for a match that you want to bet on. However, if you are lookin for top-quality predictions, then you should make use of Betiton™'s football predictions, which you can find here. Why are we suggesting this? Well, they are given out by Champions League winner Djibril Cissé.
Djibril Cissé and Betiton™: What's the Story Behind the Partnership?
1 Djibril Cissé and Betiton™: What's the Story Behind the Partnership?
2 A Brief Introduction to Djibril Cissé's Football Career
So, Djibril joined Betiton™, but what was it that made Betiton™ reach out to him in the first place? Why did they opt to form a partnership with Cissé and not some other footballer? Well, when Arnaud Serour, who is the CEO of Betition, set out to find the perfect brand ambassador, he did so with the intention of finding a footballer who would make them stand out from the crowd because this is what every company needs to do in the iGaming world because the competition is so fierce.
Anyone who has seen Cissé play will know that he definitely stood out whenever he stepped onto the playing field. This was not only because of his talent on the ball but also because he was known for having some seriously extraordinary hairstyles. In addition to this, he also sometimes dyed his beard – just in case he was not sticking out enough at the time. As well as searching for someone who would help them stand out, they were also looking for someone who has plenty of determination to succeed at whatever they do and a great character, which are two categories that Cissé certainly fits into.
So, Serour opted to reach out to the former France international and asked him if he would like do them the honour of being the brand ambassador for Betiton™. After he did a bit of research about the company to find out more about those involved, he was happy with what he came across and agreed to work with them. One of the main reasons why he decided to team up with Betiton™ is that he realised that he has plenty in common with Serour; in fact, the two of them hail from the same area of France and also happen to be fans of the exact same team: Olympique de Marseille! It's no wonder, then, that Djibril believes that they can use their determination and strong characters to produce some magic.
A Brief Introduction to Djibril Cissé's Football Career
Before the FIFA World Cup in 2002, not many football fans would have known much about Cissé, although he had been scoring plenty of goals for AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1. Cissé was named in the France squad, and he made three substitute appearances in the group stage – he did not start for France because they had both David Trezeguet and Thierry Henry above him in the pecking order. He played 60 minutes of football in the group stage, but he still managed to impress with his strength, pace and ball control. Unfortunately, France exited the competition at the group stage, but this was not because of the performances of a young Djibril Cissé. Overall, he made 41 appearances for his country and found the back of the net on nine occasions.
Cissé signed for Liverpool in 2004 for a deal that was believed to be around the £14 million mark, but before he could even get his Liverpool career seriously up and running, he suffered a really bad leg break in a game against Blackburn, and was close to losing his leg below the knee. The medics declared that he could be out of action for up to 18 months, but the Frenchman, due to his steely determination, was able to make a much quicker recovery, and he was back out on the field after just six months. His first appearance after his layoff was against Juventus in the Champions League, and he helped Liverpool go on to make it to the final, where they played AC Milan. At half-time, they were 3-0 down, but an amazing recovery after the break saw the match go to extra-time and penalties. Cissé, who came on as a substitute in the 85th minute, scored his penalty and Liverpool won the trophy.
He had more success with Liverpool the following season as he helped them to win the European Super Cup and the FA Cup. In the European Super Cup match which was against CSKA Moscow, Cissé levelled the match to take it to extra-time, and then he scored once more to help his team to the trophy. Then, during the FA Cup final against West Ham, Liverpool found themselves two down, but Cissé pulled one back for them, and the matched ended 3-3 at the end of the 90. It went to penalties and Liverpool won 3-1.
So, while some might argue that Cissé did not live up to all his potential, we feel that he still had a football career that he can be happy with. At the end of the day, there are some great footballers out there who never lifted the Champions League trophy, which is something that Cissé will always have on his record.
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The Longest Night Of The Year
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"Christmas markets closed in Austria and Germany this year." The headline this week went by quickly, but then a pause. . . . And a memory.
It was December 18, 1988. I had a free afternoon on a business trip to Austria that had brought me to Salzburg, so I naturally gravitated towards the Kristkindlmarkt at the Domplatz. It was heavenly…row upon row of Wurstl stands, hot cider, Gluehwein, music, and, of course, lots of beer.
At the end of one row, near the cathedral, a local duo was singing. Not just singing, but singing American folk music! I hung around for a few minutes — out of nostalgia as much as anything else, since I'd sung on the street all over the world. I support the genre and those who play it.
These two folkies pleased the heart in a special way, because they looked to be father and son.
Then they started singing Puff the Magic Dragon — a far cry from the repertoire of the Salzburger Festspiele, but heartwarming all the same. Suddenly I heard a voice — a beautiful voice — behind me, picking up just the right harmony. I look around as a girl came alongside me, singing as she headed for the Wurstl stand.
"You oughta sign up," I said, and she laughed. "Yeah, they're pretty good, aren't they?"
We got a hot chocolate and she told me about her school in Pennsylvania. Since a small Catholic college like hers couldn't handle its own semester-abroad program, the students who wanted to go that route hitchhiked onto one from Syracuse University. She was heading home in a couple of days, she told me, after a wonderful term in England.
She was quite a musician, and we discovered that we'd attended the same concert in Vienna the weekend before — I in in the very expensive seat provided by my host, she in the Stehplatze, the "standing room" reserved for students. I realized that my seat had been some twenty feet from her, and probably cost fifty times as much.
Her boyfriend went to Notre Dame, and sang in the Glee Club — a good match for their own future duo, I thought. She told me about her home on a small farm near school (where her parents both taught). She was sightseeing in Salzburg, so we walked together a few blocks to my next meeting. Her name was Elyse, "not Elise," she said. "My mother changed the spelling when she heard a nurse in the hospital calling me 'Elsie'."
Laughs all around. She scribbled her address in my pocket calendar, and we parted.
My next stop was Paris. I had to catch a flight home myself. Gen. Vernon Walters, our ambassador to the UN at the time, had offered me his apartment on the Champs-Élysées for a couple of nights, an offer I was delighted to accept. And on December 21, I boarded Air France, heading for Washington.
"Call Home, Call Home"
It was a long flight. A few of the passengers worked for the government like me. When we landed at Dulles, we got off as a group, hoping that would speed things up in Customs. But when we finally got there, officials waved us through quickly. "Call home, call home," one said, moving us along. His voice was . . . kind of grave.
So I called mom from the first unoccupied pay phone I could find. She still lived in Indiana. She answered and burst into tears. She didn't know much more than I did — that a plane had gone down that day shortly after taking off from somewhere in Europe for the States. And she knew was that I was flying back from Europe sometime before Christmas, but that was all mom needed to know. Moms are like that.
A foreign policy friend picked me up at Dulles and, during dinner, he filled me in. Pan Am Flight 103 had been blown up by terrorists somewhere over Scotland. Everyone on board had died.
By the time I got home, I've been up for 24 hours so it was only the next morning that I heard about it on the morning news.
"25,000 fans who crowded the Carrier Dome for the game against Western Michigan last night paused for a moment of silence in memory of the 35 Syracuse students who died yesterday in the crash of Pan Am 103."
I shouted at the TV set. "Paused??" "PAUSED??"
It started to sink in. Still on European time, I got in early at the Foreign Relations Committee and called the State Department. I got through to the area officer and bluntly asked, did he have a flight log?
"Was Elyse on the flight?"
He didn't want to tell me.
"I handle European affairs for the Committee."
"Yes, she was on the flight. The family has been informed."
When I saw Sen. Helms later that morning, I asked his advice. What should I do? After all, he had been on KAL 008 when its sister flight, KAL 007 had been shot down, allegedly over Russia, in 1983. Both flights had made a fuel stop in Alaska, and there, in the lounge, Helms had befriended an Australian family from Flight 007. A grandfather at heart, he had played a little game to amuse their young child until their flight boarded, and that story had somehow made the news.
Months later, he got a letter from that child's grandparents in Australia, thanking him for being such a good friend in their family's last hours.
"Senator, I just saw their daughter three days ago," I remember saying, "should I call them? I don't want to make them feel bad." I actually said that. Jet lag.
"Son," he said, "they're never going to feel worse than they do now. You call 'em."
I did. I spoke with Elyse's dad for quite a while. He thanked me for calling and promised to let me know when funeral arrangements were made.
The Stranger Who Called
Three weeks later I was driving through the hills of central Pennsylvania trying to find the campus. The old, cavernous hall reminded me of Notre Dame's Administration Building. It was late evening by then. The line was long, and I was last.
A familiar face appeared — a former colleague from Illinois who now taught at the college. I hadn't seen for him for ten years, and he naturally wondered what had brought me there. I recounted how Elyse and I had met in Salzburg, and he exclaimed, "Oh — you must be the stranger who called."
Yes, I was. After Elyse died, countless friends had expressed their condolences to Elyse's family.
Apparently all of them heard how happy she was, how much she had enjoyed Vienna and Salzburg, how she was even singing songs in the Domplatz. "You see," her family told them, "there was this stranger who called."
My Illinois friend told me how Elyse's mother had been so strong. And as I drew near the family, I could tell that she was strong indeed. She had also been through a very long and lonely day.
Finally there was only one mourner left in line — me. I introduced myself.
"What did she look like," she said.
"She was beautiful, and she was so happy to be coming home," I told her.
She threw her arms around me and cried, and cried, and cried.
Prayers For A Blessed Christmas
Let us pray that we may someday call Heaven home.


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Strong female leads, once more
Director/writer/actor Brit Marling wrote a recent NYT op-ed declaring how fed up she is with strong female characters. (hat tip to The Mary Sue). Specifically that as an female actor, her choices were protagonist's lover, protagonist's parent or female butt-kicker. While that widened the options some, it didn't widen them much, and the strong female template was extremely limited: "I became aware of the narrow specificity of the characters' strengths — physical prowess, linear ambition, focused rationality. Masculine modalities of power … a man but in the body of a woman I still want to see naked." And that by emphasizing masculine traits, they make it difficult "for us to imagine femininity itself — empathy, vulnerability, listening — as strong."
I agree with Marling that it's good to have a wide range of female protagonists. And that empathy and compassion should be acknowledged as strengths. But arguing that they are essentially feminine, or implying that a real female character has to have them, and that rationality, ambition and physical prowess are "masculine" — there we part company.
Certainly rationality is often coded as masculine, empathy and vulnerability as feminine. But I know women who are physicists, IT geeks, chemists, doctors, nurses and accountants all of which call for a lot of rationality. Showing women onscreen with "focused rationality" doesn't read to me as "male in a woman's body" it means getting away from stereotype and portraying what some women are like. Ditto for physical prowess and ambition; I've known women with those traits too. Marling feels that when she was ambitious as an investment banker and cared little for who got hurt by her financial movies, she "buried my feminine intelligence alive in order to survive."
Female characters being just men with boobs is a criticism I've heard back since the 1970s (it may go back further). It's one you can find on both the right and the left. There are right-wingers who believe female action heroes just aren't realistic; I've read feminist critiques to the same effect (no real woman would ever choose violence to resolve a problem!). The logic frequently comes across just as much mired in stereotype as the kind of writing of women Marling critiques. I know women who practice a variety of martial arts, and women have been boxing since the 1700s, but these examples often don't sway anyone. I've seen arguments lthat women who watch strippers/are ambitious in business/like physical combat are, as Marling says, burying their real femininity and adopting male standards. If they could find their true authentic selves, they wouldn't do any of that stuff. Which effectively eliminates all counter-examples: they're women trying to be men instead of women QED.
And the empathic woman can become a stereotype or a plot device: the nurturer who puts the hero back together, the one who shows compassion and mercy when the man wants to be ruthless. Though it's clear that's not the kind of role Marling wants to see more of.
I don't really have a brilliant conclusion to take from all this. All we can do is write the characters, get female beta-readers (assuming "we" in this context is non-female), improve based on feedback and keep trying to do better.
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Author: Cook, Philip J.
1. Cook, Philip J.
Hutchinson, Rebecca
Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation
NBER Working Paper No. 12472 Issued in August 2006; Working Papers Series, SAN06-05, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham NC, March 2006.
Also: http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/research/papers/SAN06-05.pdf
Publisher: Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); College Enrollment; High School Dropouts; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Smoking (see Cigarette Use)
This paper presents an exploratory analysis using NLSY97 data of the relationship between the likelihood of school continuation and the choices of whether to smoke or drink. We demonstrate that in the United States as of the late 1990s, smoking in 11th-grade was a uniquely powerful predictor of whether the student finished high school, and if so whether the student matriculated in a four-year college. For economists the likely explanation for this empirical link would be based on interpersonal differences in time preference, but that account is called in question by our second finding--that drinking does not predict school continuation. We speculate that the demand for tobacco by high school students is influenced by the signal conveyed by smoking (of being offtrack in school), one that is especially powerful for high-aptitude students. To further develop this view, we present estimates of the likelihood of smoking as a function of school commitment and other, more traditional variables. There are no direct implications from this analysis for whether smoking is in some sense a cause of school dropout. We offer some speculations on this matter in the conclusion... (Abstract by the author.)
Cook, Philip J. and Rebecca Hutchinson. "Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation." NBER Working Paper No. 12472 Issued in August 2006; Working Papers Series, SAN06-05, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham NC, March 2006.
Moore, Michael J.
Drinking and Schooling
Journal of Health Economics 12,4 (December 1993): 411-430.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016762969390003W
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; College Education; College Graduates; Endogeneity; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Schooling; Taxes
This study employs the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to explore the effect of youthful drinking on the likelihood of college matriculation and graduation. The study finds that students who drink heavily in high school are less likely than their peers to eventually graduate from college. But the proper interpretation of the result is not clear, since high school drinking decisions are strongly influenced by aspirations for higher education. This endogeneity problem is circumvented by estimating "reduced-form" equations that relate state beer taxes and minimum drinking age to the likelihood of obtaining a college degree. The results indicate that other things equal, students who spend their high school years in states with relatively high taxes and minimum age are more likely to graduate from college.
Cook, Philip J. and Michael J. Moore. "Drinking and Schooling." Journal of Health Economics 12,4 (December 1993): 411-430.
Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns
In: Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis. J. Gruber, ed. Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: pp. 375-437
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Substance Use; Taxes
Provides evidence on the influence of the minimum purchase age and the beer excise task on youthful drinking, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 1982-85 and 1988-89. The authors find that the estimated effects of excise taxes are sensitive to specification, and they argue that increasing these taxes would reduce the prevalence of binge drinking. The authors present some descriptive statistics on how much American adolescents drink and how their use of alcohol compared with that of their counterparts in other countries. They then analyze the 25-yr trend in drinking and binging prevalence by high school seniors in the US. The similarity between this teen-drinking time profile and the time profile of adult per capita alcohol consumption suggests that the drinking decisions of teens are influence by adult drinking behavior. The authors then discuss the determinants of drinking by young adults, influencing the influence of the alcohol excise tax on alcohol abuse. Results on the persistence of youthful drinking are described with findings that suggest that alcohol availability at age 14 influences the likelihood of binging as an adult. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved.)
Cook, Philip J. and Michael J. Moore. "Environment and Persistence in Youthful Drinking Patterns" In: Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis. J. Gruber, ed. Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: pp. 375-437
Peters, Bethany Lynn
The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus
NBER Working Paper No. 11902, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.
Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w11902.pdf
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Endogeneity; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Human Capital; Labor Market Demographics; Morbidity; Occupational Choice; Training, On-the-Job; Wages
Drinkers earn more than non-drinkers, even after controlling for human capital and local labor market conditions. Several mechanisms by which drinking could increase productivity have been proposed but are unconfirmed; the more obvious mechanisms predict the opposite, that drinking can impair productivity. In this paper we reproduce the positive association between drinking and earnings, using data for adults age 27-34 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). Since drinking is endogenous in this relationship, we then estimate a reduced-form equation, with alcohol prices (proxied by a new index of excise taxes) replacing the drinking variables. We find strong evidence that the prevalence of full-time work increases with alcohol prices -- suggesting that a reduction in drinking increases the labor supply. We also demonstrate some evidence of a positive association between alcohol prices and the earnings of full-time workers. We conclude that most likely the positive association between drinking and earnings is the result of the fact that ethanol is a normal commodity, the consumption of which increases with income, rather than an elixer that enhances productivity.
Cook, Philip J. and Bethany Lynn Peters. "The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus." NBER Working Paper No. 11902, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.
5. Moore, Michael J.
Cook, Philip J.
Habit and Heterogeneity in the Youthful Demand for Alcohol
NBER Working Paper No. 5152, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 1995.
Also: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w5152
Keyword(s): Addiction; Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Heterogeneity
Observed patterns of youthful drinking indicate substantial persistence. This paper analyzes how much of that persistence reflects the actual development of a habit, and how much is due to unobserved aspects of the individual and the environment. The role of restrictions on alcohol availability, both in the current period and in adolescence, is also explored. We find that much of the observed persistence represents habit formation, and not unobserved characteristics. Consequently, restrictions on availability, particularly at an early age, alter subsequent patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse. This paper is available in PDF (1408 K) format: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W5152.pdf
Moore, Michael J. and Philip J. Cook. "Habit and Heterogeneity in the Youthful Demand for Alcohol." NBER Working Paper No. 5152, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 1995.


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A Reality Show Crew Was Arrested Smuggling a Fake Bomb Into an Airport
Kevin Fitzpatrick Published: January 19, 2018
A bomb scare at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey turned out not to be terrorism, but pure stupidity. Reports claim at least seven members of a reality show TV crew were arrested on Thursday for filming an attempt to smuggle a fake bomb through TSA checkpoints.
Representatives for the Transportation Security Administration told CBS New York that the seven individuals attempted to covertly film the incident, which involved parts of a vacuum cleaner made to look like an explosive device. The TSA detected the suspicious item at their checkpoint, after which the perpetrators claimed to be members of a TV crew. As the New York Daily News reports, the crew belonged to CNBC reality show Staten Island Hustle and sought to "record the mass panic they presumed would ensue from the discovery of the item" (via EW).
Said a representative for Endemol Shine North America, who oversees Staten Island Hustle:
We are looking into the details of what happened as a matter of priority and are in contact with relevant authorities on the ground. While this process is ongoing we are unable to comment further but in the meantime, we sincerely apologize for any disruption caused.
Another representative told The BBC that crew members could face penalties of $13,000 for each security violation. Stay tuned for additional details as they emerge.
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Source: A Reality Show Crew Was Arrested Smuggling a Fake Bomb Into an Airport
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ALT's "Beauty and the Beast" is among many event options this week.
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Hockey, football, dance — plus visits from singing candlesticks and crazy Texas rednecks: Here's your roundup of arts, activities and events through March 30.
Cultural Conversations: Micah and Seth Hanbury will speak about native reptiles and snake safety at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Wildcat Bluff Nature Center, 2301 N. Soncy Road. The event is free with admission of $4 for adults and $3 for seniors and children. Call 806-352-6007.
Greater Tuna: Co-creator Jason Williams will direct this revival of the popular Texas comedy, coming to town as part of Civic Amarillo's Broadway Spotlight Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Amarillo Civic Center Complex Auditorium, 401 S. Buchanan St. Tickets are $20 to $60, plus fees. Call 806-378-3096. And check out my interview with Williams and one of his three cast members.
Amarillo Bulls: The Bulls will face the Odessa Jackalopes at 7:05 p.m Friday and Saturday in the Civic Center Coliseum. Tickets are $13 to $23, or $9 for children. Call 806-242-1122.
Amarillo Symphony: The Symphony will debut a new work by Chris Rogerson, its composer in residence, as well as perform Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and other classics. (Here's my preview.) Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Buchanan St. Tickets are $31 to $55, plus fees. Call 806-376-8782 or 806-378-3096.
Beauty & The Beast: Now that you've seen the movie, Amarillo Little Theatre Academy wants you to be their guest for the stage version of the Disney classic. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and March 31 and April 1, plus 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and April 1 and 2 in the ALT Mainstage, 2019 Civic Circle. Limited seats are available for the opening weekend, with more availability on the second weekend. Tickets are $18 for ages 12 and older, and $15 for ages 11 and younger. Call 806-355-9991. (Here's my preview of the fun.)
Cerulean Gallery's An Eye Full: Regional artists experiment with color in this new exhibition (here's my preview). It opens with a 6 p.m. Friday reception at the gallery, 814 S. Taylor St., and hangs through May 3. Call 806-576-0063.
Yellow Rose Bully Showdown V dog show: See some of Amarillo's best bulldogs at this American Bully Kennel Club-sanctioned show, which runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in the Civic Center South Exhibit Hall. Admission is free. Call 806-517-8900.
Dreamland Cemetery walking tour: Learn about the Canyon cemetery's history, architecture and monuments in this new tour. (Here's my preview for more information.) Self-led tours run from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the cemetery, 26500 U.S Highway 87. Admission is free. Call 806-651-2244.
Amarillo Venom vs. Wichita Force: The indoor football squad faces off with its Kansas rivals at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Civic Center Coliseum. Tickets are $10 to $40, plus fees. Call 806-350-7277.
Fresh Start Community Center: The new venue will have a grand-opening celebration at 7 p.m. Saturday at 612 N. Polk St. Call 806-626-8866.
Russian Music Festival: Bass Nikita Storojev will perform in recital during the first Russian Music Festival at West Texas A&M University. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Mary Moody Northen Recital Hall. Admission is free. Call 806-651-2844.
Dwellings: Southern Light Gallery on the Amarillo College campus will feature the works of photographer Libby Rowe in this new exhibition, hanging Monday through May 5 on the first floor of the Ware Student Commons building on AC's Washington Street campus. Call 806-345-5654.
Brain Candy Live: Adam Savage (Mythbusters) teams with YouTube star Michael Stevens for this interactive theatrical experience described as "a cross between TED Talks and the Blue Man Group." The show begins at 7:30 p.m. March 30 in the Civic Center Auditorium. Tickets are $32 to $122, plus fees. Call 806-378-3096.
Portraits of Dance: WT's dance department will work with in-house and guest choreographers for a performance incorporating several styles of dance, plus live music, in performances at 7:30 p.m. March 30 to April 1 and 2:30 p.m. April 2 in the Happy State Bank Studio Theatre. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and students. Call 806-651-2804.
Other ongoing exhibitions include Nacidos Charro: Born Charro at American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum, 2601 E. Interstate 40 (here's my preview); The Great War and the Panhandle-Plains Region and A Picture from Home: Snapshots of the Great War on the Plains at PPHM (here's my preview); and Little Builders, Brain Teasers 2 and Strange Matter at Don Harrington Discovery Center, 1200 Streit Drive (here's my preview).
Chip Chandler is a digital content producer for Panhandle PBS. He can be contacted at Chip.Chandler@actx.edu, at @chipchandler1 on Twitter and on Facebook.
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The Top Five: Breaking down the Martinsville playoff race
Five thoughts after Sunday's Round 3 opener at Martinsville…
1. What if….
I recently invented a special machine that allows me to travel between parallel universes and watch NASCAR races in two different dimensions. I just arrived back from the alternate universe where Joey Logano elected to race cleanly and NOT move Martin Truex Jr. for the win at Martinsville.
If you're wondering how that decision went over with everyone, I brought the postrace transcript from Logano's runner-up press conference from the parallel universe. Here it is.
REPORTER 1: "Joey, it looked like you had a chance to move Martin out of the way on that last lap and backed out of it. What was going through your mind there, knowing that may have cost you a chance to reach Homestead?"
LOGANO: "Look, I love winning. But clean driving is everything to me. If I can't have the respect of my competitors, I don't want to be doing this. Martin raced me fair and square, so I wanted to do the same in return."
REPORTER 2: "That's great, but what do you say to your fans and team after passing up a guaranteed shot to make the final four?"
LOGANO: "Martin is a classy guy. We attend each other's charity events and he's always so nice when my wife and I see him in the motorhome lot. I know we'll be friends for years to come. It's just not worth it to ruin that relationship. Heck, we're supposed to go out on the lake together this week!"
REPORTER 3: "Joey, it looks like Twitter is lighting up with fans who say you must not want a championship badly enough if that's how you race. How do you answer critics who say you get paid millions of dollars to do whatever it takes to win?"
LOGANO: "Have you ever been loudly booed by a crowd? Have you ever had a driver's significant other tweet something negative about you? I mean, geez. Those things hurt. I don't want any part of that. I would rather be a good guy and keep my reputation intact than do anything to make people think I'm a dirty driver."
(TWO MONTHS LATER)
SPONSOR: "Joey, we like you a lot, but we're paying $20 million a year for our car to win races and championships. We're going to be moving on."
LOGANO: "Aw, OK. I hope we can still be friends!"
2. Respect for Truex
Is it possible to agree with Logano's last-lap move and still empathize with the obvious anger felt by Truex and Cole Pearn?
Truex had an incredible drive on Sunday. He had his qualifying time thrown out and started in the back, only to make it through the field — at Martinsville, no less! — and contend in the top five almost the entire day.
Truex fought his way toward the front, then patiently and cleanly worked Logano for the lead until making what seemed to be the winning pass.
Had Truex won, that would have been one of the highlights of his career: First short track win, a win-and-in ticket to Homestead, high stakes with his team getting ready to shut down and people loudly saying he's the most vulnerable of the Big Three drivers to miss the final four.
Instead…Logano ran into him. And now making Homestead is no sure thing.
Frustrating! Super, super frustrating! Who wouldn't be angry about that?
I still don't blame Logano for making the move, but it's completely understandable why Truex and his fans would be upset about it. When looking back in a couple weeks, that one moment could very well be the difference between competing for a championship and missing out altogether.
That said, as mad as he may be now, I see no scenario under which Truex retaliates. He's just not that kind of driver. Even if he doesn't make Homestead, Truex isn't going to go out and ruin Logano's championship race with a crash. He might race Logano hard, but Truex won't pull a Matt Kenseth. No way.
3. What's the code?
I'm not a driver, so this is just one interpretation of what's OK on the last lap in NASCAR and what isn't.
— If you can move someone out of the way and do it without ruining their day — i.e. without wrecking them or costing them more than a few positions — then it's not only acceptable in NASCAR, but expected. And even encouraged by series officials.
— If you have a chance to door someone for a side-by-side finish, it's a coin toss as to whether the other driver and the general fan base will think it's an acceptable move. This often depends on the person initiating the contact.
— If you accidentally wreck the person while trying to move them (like Denny Hamlin on Chase Elliott), that is considered off-limits and there will be repercussions from both the other driver and fans.
— If you crash the person in a reckless-but-unintentional way (not necessarily on purpose, but understanding there will be full contact like Noah Gragson on Todd Gilliland), people may view it the same way as a blatant takeout.
— If you completely crash someone on purpose in order to win, that's viewed as a dirty move that takes no talent and the fallout might stain your reputation for years.
Logano's move on Truex — like any bump-and-run at a short track — is about the least offensive way to physically move someone and falls into the first category. That's the type of move that can only happen in stock car racing and is a hallmark of what makes NASCAR fun. You're not going to get that in Formula One, let's put it that way.
4. Stuff that doesn't matter
Over the last four weeks, I've taken a step back from NASCAR as I got off the road for the birth of my daughter. Though I've tried to follow the news as much as possible, there's no doubt having a newborn at home makes it difficult to be as immersed in the NASCAR bubble as the weeks when I'm on the road at races.
And I've got to tell you: Looking at the big picture, it's a bit alarming how the NASCAR world seems to get caught up in minor, tiny crap that doesn't really matter and actually detracts from the sport.
One example is the race day morning inspection where qualifying times get thrown out. Here I am as a TV viewer who woke up excited to spend my Sunday watching some short-track racin' across the country. I opened my Twitter app, and what was the big storyline of the day? Drivers getting their qualifying times disallowed, starting at the back for unapproved adjustments, crew members getting ejected, etc.
Seriously? This is what we're talking about on playoff race day morning?? For a short track where aero doesn't even really matter???
Officiating things that way certainly seems excessive. And yes, I know all about the reasons why they do it; I'm explaining the big-picture view of why it seems silly.
Another example was the race a couple weeks ago at Talladega. My wife was in the hospital that day and I was unable to pay much attention to the race, though we had it on in the background on mute.
When I tried catching up with what happened, the big controversy was apparently about whether NASCAR should have made the caution one lap shorter and whether officials should have thrown a yellow for a wreck on the last lap instead of having it finish under green.
Look, I completely understand why those are significant debates for those in the NASCAR industry and fans who are super passionate about the sport. But can you imagine how all this looks to casual fans or people who might want to give NASCAR a chance?
Headlines like Drivers criticize NASCAR for running them out of fuel with long caution! and Fans angry NASCAR chose drama over safety on last lap! just seem like such minor things from afar. As does Defending champion will start at the back today for failing laser scan on first try!
I'm not suggesting I have the solution to all this, because I don't. And I'm not criticizing the media, certainly; when I get back at Texas next week, I'll be all-in with the bubble once again.
But if these are the storylines, NASCAR has some real work to do. It cannot afford to be stuck on the minutiae, because there aren't enough people left who care that much. Simplify things, focus on what really makes people want to spend their time on the sport (great racing and interesting driver storylines) and everyone will be much better off.
5. What's next?
Logano taking a guaranteed spot at Homestead means at least one of the Big Three is going to have to point their way into the final four. After Martinsville, Truex and Kevin Harvick are tied for the last two spots, 25 points above the cutline.
I think both will be OK, as will Kyle Busch. Harvick is probably going to win Texas, Phoenix or both; Busch might win one of those as well. That means Truex, with a pair of top-five finishes, should be just fine.
Aric Almirola, Chase Elliott, Clint Bowyer and Kurt Busch are already facing big points deficits after just one week. Are any of them going to win a race in this round? I actually think it's more likely a non-playoff type like a Denny Hamlin or a Brad Keselowski will win, which would open up an addition points position for a Big Three member.
So as it turns out, perhaps all of the Big Three will make it to Homestead after all — just maybe not exactly how we expected.
The Top Five: Breaking down the New Hampshire race
Five thoughts after Sunday's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway…
1. Beauty in bumping
A well-executed bump-and-run is NASCAR's most magnificent work of art, full of intricacies and accepted by nearly everyone as a fair way to settle a race.
In one move, it sums up everything people love about stock car racing: Contact, close racing and aggression — but without any wrecked vehicles as a result.
Kevin Harvick's bump-and-run to win Sunday night at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was absolute perfection, providing a textbook example that can be used for years to come.
Even the driver on the receiving end — Kyle Busch — calmly said the move was just fine with him.
"It was just a bump," Busch said. "It wasn't a big deal. He didn't wreck me or anything like that. He did it early enough, but he did it way harder to push me out of the groove three lanes. It just takes you so long to recover here, there was just no possible way I could get back to him. I was in the way, so no harm, no foul."
Busch's only quibble? He wished Harvick would have raced him cleaner first before making contact. Busch said if the roles were reversed, he would have tried using lapped cars for a few more laps before deciding to play bumper cars.
"When you're slower, you kind of expect it," Busch said. "But you also think a guy is going to race you fair and pass you clean first. I don't think he ever tried to pass me clean once he got there."
But that's exactly what Harvick anticipated Busch would be thinking, which is why the Stewart-Haas Racing driver decided to make the move at the first available opportunity.
"I needed to do it when he wasn't expecting it," Harvick said. "The more opportunities to get in his wheelhouse, his thought process, the less chance you have. He's that good.
"If you wait until two or three to go, the entries are going to get shallower, he's going to start grinding on the brakes a little bit harder. He's going to put himself in a position not to get hit. He's going to go on defense, start to really get aggressive, too.
"I wanted to do it earlier just to try to catch him off guard."
There's a fine line to executing the move — it means moving the other driver up the track enough to make a pass while escaping into the lead — "get away from him far enough because you know they're going to be mad," Harvick said — and all without causing a wreck.
Harvick did exactly that. And though it opens the door for Busch to do the same thing in the same situation, Harvick had no regrets about the decision.
"He still finished second, right?" Harvick said.
2. The Huge Three
NASCAR fans hate storylines that are overhyped, so there are likely some out there who can't stand to hear one more word about the "Big Three."
But as much as Harvick, Busch and Martin Truex Jr.'s dominance has been discussed, this is the rarely hyped NASCAR story that might actually be underplayed.
Seriously, this is almost surreal at this point in the season. There have been 20 races this season, and three drivers have combined to win 15 of them. Fifteen! WHAT!? There are only 16 races left in the whole year! How many more are they going to get? That's amazing.
Another crazy stat: The Big Three have 88 playoff points — not counting the points Harvick had taken away with a penalty — while the entire rest of the field only has 45 combined.
How is this even possible? Two of these drivers have teammates (and the Joe Gibbs Racing drivers are basically Truex's teammates), and yet it's still only three cars winning all the races. And they just keep doing it, even in races that seemed headed for a different outcome like Sunday.
Wild!
3. Almost Almirola
Aric Almirola appeared more bummed and upset about failing to win at New Hampshire than he did after being wrecked out of the lead at the Daytona 500 in February.
How's that possible? Well, Daytona was just the start of Almirola's rebirth as a driver, the first race with a team that could finally make him a regular winner. There seemed to be much more to come.
But now — in late July, the 20th race of the season — coming close and failing to win stings worse.
"Everybody keeps talking about the Big Three, but I feel like we were stomping them pretty good today," he said. "That's why they are so good — they execute all race long. Unfortunately, we didn't today."
Almirola had the fastest car in New Hampshire — even Harvick said so — but "lost control of the race" on the final pit stop. His pit crew had a slower stop than Kyle Busch's team, which put Almirola at Busch's mercy for the restart. Then Busch went at the soonest possible moment, which caught Almirola off guard and left him spinning the tires as a result.
He ended up finishing third and initially seemed devastated. But Almirola said there's more to come from his team.
"We're peaking," he said. "As the 10 team, we're peaking at the right time. You've seen the speed we had at Chicago (when he almost won) and we're putting things together. … We're starting to get what we need out of the race cars."
4. Teammate blues
Speaking of Almirola, Clint Bowyer was gutted after hesitation to get off the track with a broken car potentially cost his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate a victory.
"It just sucks," Bowyer said. "I hate that for my teammate (Almirola). He was dominating the race."
With Almirola leading the race and Harvick running second, Bowyer was called into the pits to serve a one-lap penalty for pitting outside the box. Upon returning to the track, Bowyer radioed to the team and said something broke on his car.
At that point in the race, there was going to be no salvaging the day — Bowyer was already two laps down due to the penalty and broken part. As such, the No. 14 team should have brought Bowyer into the pits immediately.
What was the purpose in staying out? Bowyer is already secured in the playoffs this season with two wins and points mean little for him.
But for whatever reason, Bowyer was kept on the track. By the time the team finally decided to make the call, it was too late.
"I was trying to nurse it around," Bowyer said. "Something in the left rear was broke and…Brett (Griffin, his spotter) told me, 'We're having trouble, let's just get off the track,' and I was kind of thinking the same thing. Literally, as he was saying that and I'm thinking it, something broke on the right side and away it went. That sucks. I hate it for him."
Bowyer has been involved on the wrong end of a team orders situation before, but surely this wouldn't have been viewed in the same category. Calling a car in for repairs — or to the garage — while a teammate is leading under green would be a perfectly acceptable move in future situations.
5. Points picture
The battle for the non-win playoff spots grew less dramatic this week after the three Hendrick bubble drivers all had top-11 days while Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finished five laps down in 30th place.
Jimmie Johnson (14th in the playoff standings) and Chase Elliott (15th) now have whopping 97- and 95-point leads over Stenhouse for the final playoff spot.
Alex Bowman, who finished 11th, is up by 28 points over Stenhouse.
The next-closest drivers to pointing their way into the playoffs? After Stenhouse, Paul Menard is 29 points behind Bowman and Ryan Newman is way back (-74 points). Everyone else behind Newman (like Daniel Suarez, William Byron and Jamie McMurray) pretty much have to win at this point with only six races until the playoffs.
The most likely wild card possibility could be if AJ Allmendinger (25th in points) wins in two weeks at Watkins Glen and moves the cutoff line up to Elliott's position.
But that could generate even less drama heading into the final regular season races, because Bowman is 67 points behind Elliott.


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Stakeholders Criticize Ban on Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs
Most programs won't see a significant financial impact, but see the move as a step backward for public health
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January 24, 2012 -- Syringe exchange programs are unlikely to suffer major financial impact as a result of a Congressional vote in December that halted federal funding.
"It's actually going to have minimal impact," said Kathy Oliver, executive director of Outside In, which has been operating a needle exchange since 1989. "It's a giant step backward in terms of public policy."
Many exchange sites already relied on other sources of revenue because the ban on federal funding had only been lifted in 2009 after being in effect for 21 years.
Outside In will lose about $6,000 in federal funding – a tiny fraction of its $190,000 budget for the exchange. Its support comes from the state, county and the city.
"In Portland, we're fortunate that Multnomah County and government providers have supported needle exchanges for years," said Michael Kaplan, executive director of the Cascade AIDS Project. "Of course, those resources are getting tighter and tighter."
He called the decision to re-enact the ban "ideologically stupidity" that flies in the face of decades of research about the effect of syringe exchanges on public health. "It's an opportunity lost."
According to the North American Syringe Exchange Network, Oregon has seven needle exchange programs. NASEN, which is based in Tacoma, has been running an exchange program since 1988 – making it the oldest in the country.
Outside In might have been the first; Oliver tried to open its exchange around the same time – but the organization's insurer balked and it took her a year to find another insurer willing to cover the program.
"It was definitely in response to HIV, which at that time was a death sentence," said Oliver who'd met two young women both of whom were pregnant and seeking prenatal care at Outside In's clinic. Both women had HIV, possibly acquired through intravenous drug use – a habit they were both trying to kick.
After learning about syringe exchanges in The Netherlands, Oliver decided to try the idea to help addicts and keep the public safe.
Supporters see syringe exchanges both as a bridge to drug treatment and medical care. Since starting the program, Outside In has referred 457 clients to treatment programs and 229 to medical care.
HIV infection rates increased by 5.9 percent per year in cities without needle exchange programs and decreased by 5.8 percent per year in cities with such programs, according to a study published in The Lancet.
Data released jointly by the Center for Disease Control and the Oregon Department of Human Services said 21.4 percent of people infected with HIV in Oregon occurred among those who had either used or had a sexual partner who used intravenous drugs.
Needle exchanges are also an ounce of prevention. The advent of anti-retroviral drugs has dramatically increased the life expectancy of people diagnosed with HIV – but increased the cost of treatment for HIV patients.
If the syringe exchange can prevent two HIV infections a year, it more than pays for itself, according to Kelly Anderson, development and communications director at Outside In.
Some researchers estimate the lifetime cost of care for HIV patients at more than $600,000.
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Yaha virus variant heats up
The W32/Yaha.M variant, which appeared just before Christmas, has proved contagious, infecting thousands of computers worldwide
By James Pearce | January 2, 2003 -- 07:45 GMT (23:45 PST) | Topic: Tech Industry
A new virus, which is believed to be a variant of the Yaha virus, has proven contagious and is infecting thousands of computers worldwide. Email management firm MessageLabs said the virus, which appears to originate in the Middle East, may try to launch a denial of service attack against a Pakistani government Web site. On Tuesday the Web site, infopak.gov.pk, was unavailable.
The virus, dubbed W32/Yaha.M, has seen its numbers explode with over 7,000 being stopped by MessageLabs on Monday. So far more than 21,000 copies of the virus have been detected by the copmany. The first copy of the virus to be detected was contained in an email from Kuwait, and the most copies now being stopped are coming from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UK.
In response to the increase in occurrence, Symantec (which has dubbed the worm W32.Yaha.K@mm)has raised the threat from a Category 2 to a Category 3. The code can generate various different emails using its own email engine, said MessageLabs, and the "From" fields in the emails are forged. The worm arrives in the form of a .exe or .scr attachment to an e-mail with a variety of subjects and messages, and contains it's own e-mail client to mail itself out, forging the from address. MessageLabs said it may also attempt to close down a number of firewalls and antivirus programs.
ZDNet UK's Matt Loney contributed to this report
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Hope you're all well! Stopping through to share a thought about the difference in thinking you're prepared for publishing and actually being prepared.
So let's begin with me. I have in my "finished" pile one historical mg, one contemporary mg, one historical romance, one biography and five children's books–all searching for publishing homes. Pretty impressive, huh?
The problem is, I've never perfected a pitch for a single one of them. Like many writers, I write then move on. I approach my ideas creatively (as I should), but once I'm finished with the creative part, I don't do anything to perfect–or even kickstart–the business or marketing part.
I didn't really notice this "character flaw" until this week, when WriteOnCon announced its "Luck O'The Irish Pitch Fest." This Pitch Fest is an open window that allows any writer with a project that falls within the sponsor's specified genre to actually get their work in front of an agent.
Needless to say, I was thrilled to find out about this event, and knew just what I wanted to submit: A historical mg (set in 1943 in the deep south) that I've been polishing lately.
Where should I begin? Which scene should I focus on? How in the world could I describe a 149-page, 94,000 word book in just 200 words? It seemed impossible…and that's the point. If it seems impossible, it means you haven't perfected your pitch.
The Pitch deadline is today (Wednesday, March 13, 2013) at 8:00PM EST, so I may still give it a shot, but whether I decide to pitch or not, today's goal is to alert all you writers out there to practice that pitch and be ready, because you never know when the window of opportunity will open for you.


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For the activity we did "Speed Friend-shipping" (based on the famous Speed Dating).... Each sister got two minutes to ask questions of her partner. They could be her own questions or I had buckets of questions all over the tables that they could pull from (we also had bowls of chocolate all over the tables as well). I came up with a big list of questions... if you want them email me (CajunFrancks@aol.com) and I'll email them to you. When the timer went off after the two minutes was up I yelled "Change Partners".... everybody stayed in the same seats and it was the other partners turn to ask the questions. After two minutes I yelled "Change Seats". The women on the right hand side of the table would move down a seat... women on the left stayed in the same seat the whole activity. And then we would start all over again. We played for 40 min and didn't get through everyone.... but it was SO fun to learn about the women I got to talk with. Everybody participated really well (I was worried it was going to be too far out there for some of the sisters)... but they had a great attitude and everyone got involved and had a really good time!
After the activity we went back in to the RS room (cozier than the gym) and had a special guest speaker from another ward. Her daughter is my good friend and I've heard her speak before and she's just so much fun and I knew she would be perfect for our topic. We had her talk for about 15-20 and the topic that I asked her to speak on was Self Worth, the Love of the Savior for each one of us as an individual and how each one of us is so needed with our individual talents and divine gifts. The speaker was PERFECT!! She did such a great job!!! And it was EXACTLY what the sisters in our ward needed.
After the speaker we went back in to the gym for a big chocolate buffet... i was worried we weren't going to have enough food and we ended up with way too much! haha.... I'm having a hard time figuring out what amounts work for this ward. Everything was homemade and sooooooo good!!! Chocolate Mousse, Truffles, Chocolate Cheesecake, Chocolate PB Bars, Raspberry Truffles, Chocolate Punch bowl cake (toffee, pudding, whip cream, etc). And then we had milk and a big glass jar of water.
I'm soooooooooo happy it turned out so well. I stressed out a lot about this one and glad that the women had such a great time.
If you have any questions let me know.
Haha... this is too funny! I'd like to thank our Jewish friends for this catchy little tune during this wonderful Christmas season.
Oh how I love thee Conan!
1. Girls Camp this year was held at Lake of the Arbuckles in Chickasaw National Park in Southern Oklahoma... it was beyond beautiful. The days were sooooo hot but we had an awesome breeze right off the lake.... so beautiful.
2. We went hiking up rivers... so fun...I love hiking up rivers.
3. We also hiked to Buffalo Springs which is a natural springs where the buffalo's came to water every spring.
4. We jumped of waterfalls at Little Niagara. The water was soooo cold but it was sooooo fun. And even though I'm scared of heights and even more scared of heights and water I did jump off several times.
5. I did the meals. You'd be surprised (and hopefully impressed) at my "cooking over the fire" skills.
6. The view from my tent every morning. Amazing.
7. We went swimming in the base of another waterfall (Turner Falls)... water much warmer this time.... while half were swimming the other half went horse back riding (hence the jeans in the waterfall pictures)... but I didn't go riding so I don't have pictures of that.
9. We went swimming in a natural water hole called the Blue Hole Pools... there was a slide built in to the rocks that had the funnest drop off... another dare devil moment that I feel proud of myself. There also had a fun diving board and we had diving contests. This place was sooooooooooooooooooooo fun. The water was warm, the slide beyond fun...we could have spent another whole day here... hours and hours fun.
10. I had the girls have banana boats (bananas, chocolate chips and marshmallows) for breakfast our last morning. I'm a fun leader like that. I sent an extra apple in their lunch to compensate.
11. We did star gazing... the girls were very creative in what they saw... they were so fun to listen to... the stars were so bright and it was a nice way to end the day... just laying and talking in the dark.
In addition to lots of fun we had lots of spiritual experiences too... we communed with nature a lot... every day we all went off by ourselves on the banks of the lake and did scripture reading, praying and meditating... it was good for the soul to be able to take a few minutes every day to reflect on all the blessings that we've been given... and where better than in nature, one of God's greatest creations.
This year of camp goes in to my top three best camps ever. Lots and lots and lots of work... but 16 years of girls camp and this turned out to be one of my very favorites.
Its bittersweet to look at these pictures now and know that I don't get to be with these girls anymore... I love them and girls camp so much. It's been a wonderful four years with them.
It's here. Ready or not.
If the stars align the collecting, gathering and packing could go very quickly and smoothly this afternoon... if they don't then its going to be a loooooong night. I'm praying for the first... won't be surprised if its the second.
Tents, coolers and Ice chest to still collect and pack. Food is purchased. We did a major Sam's Club run this morning in addition to the all day shopping marathon we did Friday at Walmart... I still have another trip to Walmart this afternoon and possibly a second trip this night to pick up the things I forgot with at the afternoon run.
My baby has an ear infection (and a trip to the doctor this morning!)... My sister was going to fly in to watch him but then at the last minute we all decided it was better for her to be with my little brother who leaves on his mission next week. So plan B a dear sweet friend offered to watch him during the day... ear infection and all.
And so I'm off early in the morning to the Oklahoma wilderness... wish me luck!
To my Mormon peeps (and anybody else who wants to) check out this post about the Famous Mormon First ward... too funny!
P.S. Be sure to read the comments too!
Thus an idea was born.... we talked about doing Christmas in July... and then the concept began to change a bit and turned in to Patriotic Caroling in July.
So last night we gathered some Patriotic Songs and God Bless America flag stickers to put on the residents... we sang our hearts out and I thought it was a fabulous evening.
We had little wheel chair residents follow us down the halls... so we eventually decided to stop in each hall and sing a couple of songs to each hall of residents before moving to the next hall... instead of just singing as we walked.... worked much better.
It was a wonderful evening and I was proud of our girls... they had great attitudes (they always do!) and sang loud and proud. The best part of was when several residents thanked us for coming and told us how much they enjoyed it.... warm fuzzies.
So if you're looking for a good youth or family activity to do in July I definitely suggest Patriotic Caroling!
This weekend was our yearly Stake Youth Conference... and while I love love love Youth Conference and have been to many many YC's in my day I was dreading this one a little bit... dreading might be too strong of a word... I was not entirely looking forward to YC... not because of the event itself but because it was going to take my whole weekend. Starting Friday afternoon and going through Sunday at 1am when we got home. I'm very protective of my weekend's... it's the only time the whole week that I have a chance to get anything done. I work full time plus some and Friday's evenings are my unwind time and Saturday's are my get-it-done day. So to give up a Friday evening and ALLLL day Saturday is hard for me... ... but I went, and had a good time and came away blessed for serving and enriched for participating.
a huge sleepover in a big empty house with all our girls and the two women that I work with (who I adore beyond all adoration)... we live too far away to go home late Friday night and come back by 7am Saturday morning so they found host homes for us.
Work crew- we spent Saturday driving around picking up debris and trees from last weeks storm and taking it to the dump... it was a huge undertaking and I know the local residents were appreciative... other projects included painting houses, laying sod and planting flowers for military families.
It's good to for me to get outside my comfort zone... I'm shy in new situations so for me to interact with people I don't know is hard for me... but I did it and I'm the better for it. Plus it always makes me so appreciative of how much I've been blessed with... there were many down-on-their-luck folks that we served this weekend and I'm SOO grateful for the blessing of the Gospel and my membership in this Church. It gives me direction and purpose in life.
Being with these kids. They are absolutely amazing. We had several leaders from other wards tell us what great, hardworking kids we have. We know... some of the best I've ever met.
Square dancing, bon fires, devotionals, testimony meeting, dances, dump loads, new people and service projects... it was a good weekend indeed.
Last night for our combined activity we had the opportunity to clean a little family cemetery that had been neglected for years... the dates on the headstones are from the late 1800's and early early 1900's... the cemetery used to be in a little town but in 1908 the town was destroyed by a tornado and the town was never rebuilt.
The cemetery was overgrown and there was lots of poison ivy and lots of thorns but everybody jumped right in, worked hard and didn't complain... and had a good time... they are such great kids!! I'm continually impressed with them... at the end of the evening we were blessed with an incredible sunset.
Last night was our monthly church dance with this kids(us as chaperone's) and the cool costumes that I was planning and plotting for a month just didn't happen for us.... so the last minute default was our Lava Lava's and Lei's from Hawaii... we might not have the coolest costumes but we were probably the most comfortable.
I love the Halloween Dance!! It's always so fun to see what everybody dresses up as! My favorites were a guy that came as a kissing booth and another guy who came as a bright idea and somehow rigged a light bulb on top of his head that would turn on and off... good times!
I just have to say that in my 13ish years of going to Girls Camp this was one of my favorite years... the year we went River Rafting in W. VA is probably number one but this was a good second... we had so much fun! We had such a good group of girls... we went to a cool location... and it was just our ward so it was small group and we didn't have to stay on a rigid schedule... the girls worked hard in the morning doing their "chores" and then certification and then the rest of the afternoon we played... lots of time Kayaking and Canoing, Swimming in the Lake, reading, crafts, hiking, playing games... just tons and tons of fun... and it went by way too fast!!
One afternoon our YW's President surprised us with a "Party Barge"... she rented this huge 20-man Pontoon boat and took us boating on the Lake for several hours... we would boat and then we would stop and let our anchor down and swim for awhile and then we would get back on and explore more of the lake... we had so much fun!!! I even dived off the boat which is huge for me since I'm scared of dark, murky water but I wore a life jacket and had a ton of fun jumping.
Hiking... a wee bit overgrown since we marked out our hiking trail in March... lots of poision Ivy and ants but the girls were good sports... and besides not all of camp can be cush right?
Nights around the campfire... singing campsongs and roasting Marshmellows..
Craft time... I was in charge of it this year and the girls seemed to like the stuff we made... I always love seeing their free spirits and creativity... its a good reminder to me that art should be enjoyable and fun and not always worried that it has to be perfect.
Such a great year!!! Can't wait for next year!!


Alfred Grenfell Haigh was born at Leighton Banastre, Parkgate, Cheshire. He was the son of Reginald Haigh a cotton broker and Flora Grenfell. He was educated at Ellery Boarding School in Liscard, Cheshire and later attended the Rossall Art School near Blackpool, where he won prizes for drawing. Haigh then continued to study art in Paris.
At the age of around 30 he started to paint professionally and moved to Newmarket. He was a skilled horseman and used his knowledge to paint portraits of horses. His reputation grew and he received many private commissions to paint racehorses from patrons including Lord Rosebery, The Duke of Beaufort , the Duke of Portland and the Aga Khan. He painted portraits of some of the famous racehorses of the day including The Petrarch, Bahram, Manna and Airborne. He also painted a number of polo ponies, hunters and dog portraits. Haigh later moved to Cleevestones, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire where he continued to paint, receiving commissions from the Cotswold racing and hunting fraternity. He died in Banbury on 12 October 1963, aged 93. Haigh is considered one of the finest horse portraitists of the 20th century.
Examples of his work can be found at the Leeds Museum, Munnings Museum, National Heritage for Horseracing & Sporting Art and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.


One of the most beautiful homes in Eskaton. So many upgrades. Hardwood floors, plantation shutters, upgraded granite, upgraded cabinets and appliances. Extra built-ins in the garage plus epoxy floors and sink. This home feels so much more spacious than the sq. footage. This home sits on a corner that has beautiful rot iron fencing. Space for pots, BBQ,table and chairs. Must see to take it all in.
Listing courtesy of Windermere Granite Bay Realtors. Selling Office: Coldwell Banker Sun Ridge Real Estate.