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LONGTIME OCCIDENTAL ATHLETICS AND WOMEN’S LAX SUPPORTER DIES AT 83

November 30th, 2011

based adhesive manufacturer into a Fortune 500 company during his 21 years at the helm.

The success he enjoyed as a leader and innovator in business, extended to his charitable work as well.

Miller was known for his generosity and was quick to share his good fortune, particularly with the Tigers.

In 2010, Miller made a significant donation to Occidental athletics that helped start the school’s varsity women’s lacrosse program, giving countless women the opportunity to play the sport on the West Coast.

Since winning two games in it’s inaugural season, the team has made two Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s postseason tournaments, had nine players named to the All-Conference team (four that were underclassmen or playing the sport for the first time) and last year had its best finish with six wins, including milestone victories on the road and against national competition.

“The Miller’s passion for lacrosse has been impressive, as well as their desire to afford competitive and character-building opportunities to women through sports,” Occidental lacrosse coach Michele Uhlfelder.

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Quality outdoor toys are essential for your children

November 28th, 2011

Toys of good quality will give you years of pleasure to all your children. A childs trike, scooter, climbing frames or trampoline can be used for play and exercise. They can be played for many years, and the joy on the face of a child, when he or she receives a new outdoor toy, is invaluable.

Tree houses are perfect toys for your child. Homemade lairs are great, but every kid would like to play a readymade castle. This is a special place in his own game with all his friends and toys and favorite heroes.

If your space is limited and you have to match toys in a small garden area, you can buy dual purpose playhouses. The houses are of different sizes and materials and can act as both a playhouse and a playground. With working windows and doors on playgrounds kids can use slides, ladders and climbing ropes, so they will exercise without mentioning this. Shapes and colors are appealing to both girls and boys.

All children like the Pirates of the Caribbean, if you add some pirate costumes, treasure chests, toy swords your kid will do the rest. Read more…

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Glynn Selected to Manage Twins AAA Team

November 28th, 2011

  Mankato, Minn. — The Minnesota Twins have announced that former Minnesota State baseball and basketball stand-out Gene Glynn has been selected to manage the Rochester (N.Y.) Red Wings.

Rochester is the AAA-affiliate of the Twins and is a member of the International League.

Glynn, who was a baseball infielder and a guard on the men’s basketball team during his time at MSU from 1975-79, signed as a free agent with Montreal after graduating from college. Inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991, Glynn spent seven seasons as a player in the Expos organization.  He started his professional coaching career in 1986 and went on to serve on the major league coaching staffs of the Expos, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco and Colorado. A native of Waseca, Minn., Glynn has spent the last five years scouting for Tampa Bay. 

Glynn’s son, Geno, played baseball for the Mavericks for two seasons (2008 and 2009) and was selected by Tampa Bay in the 43rd round of the 2009 MLB Draft.

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Normal Park Zoning Debate Continues

November 24th, 2011

A discussion about whether to expand the Normal Park school zone again turned into much more at Thursday night’s Hamilton County school board meeting.It brought up old issues from the Hill City debate and new ones since the board decided to let that area attend Normal Park Museum Magnet School. It ended with an emotional presentation from the school’s principal and board member Rhonda Thurman walking out during the meeting.A mother-to-be asked the Hamilton County school board to include 1 Northshore into the Normal Park school zone after Chip Baker proposed it. Baker says it’s only fair because the board agreed to let Hill City students into the magnet school zone at the November 3 meeting. Other board members wanted more information, but Rhonda Thurman wanted to forget the topic altogether.”I am ready to move on,” Thurman told the board. “There are other kids just as important as the ones at Normal Park and the surrounding areas.”But the issue isn’t over. To illustrate the point that the school will soon become overcrowded, Normal Park Principal Jill Levine showed the board real estate listings in Hill City.

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Trips Through Phoenix, Paris and Reality

November 23rd, 2011

After months—years, even—of anticipation, graduation has come and gone. The four days of ceremonies, receptions and endless photo sessions with family members have ended, and I am now an alumnus of Georgetown University. The comfort of college life is over and has been replaced by nostalgia and guarded optimism.

Within hours of my graduation, I was already transitioning into an unknown life of fluidity and homelessness. My on-campus housing ended two weeks before I could move in to my summer sublease. This was problematic. Conveniently, I had two trips planned that would provide some semblance of a home. I still had logistical hurdles to overcome, however. I packed up my belongings into several boxes and distributed them among friends who kindly agreed to hold on to them while I traveled.

My first trip was a quick 36-hour visit to Phoenix for my sister’s high school graduation. I arrived late on a Monday night and left Wednesday morning. I would have liked to see my own high school friends, but the timing was simply not amenable to such arrangements. (I wa

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Why We Overeat — An Excerpt from “Neurogastronomy”

November 22nd, 2011

Why do we stuff ourselves at Thanksgiving? The following is an excerpt from Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, by Gordon Shepherd. In the excerpt Shepherd begins by looking at fast food and then looks at some of the neurological reasons for why we overeat at Thanksgiving and other times of the year.

[F]ast food contains a variety of food types and flavors. This is called the supermarket, smorgasbord, or buffet effect. This idea actually originated with a blind French scientist named Jacque Le Magnen in Paris, who became a legend in research on feeding. In the 1950s he began detailed studies of laboratory rats fed different kinds of diets. He found that on daily lab chow they showed little weight gain, but if he offered them chow with different flavors they quickly began to gain weight. This effect was rediscovered in 1981 by Barbara Rolls and her colleagues at Oxford, who called it sensory-specific satiety, meaning that with one flavor the animal quickly becomes full and bored with eating more, whereas a new flavor stimulates renewed eating.

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