Michigan Interscholastic Horsemanship Association Region Ten V - Adrian, MI

Michigan Interscholastic Horsemanship Association

Region 10 Equestrian competition

Adrian, MI - Lenawee County Fair and Event Grounds
September 8, 2013

Thanksgiving

Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Lincoln Home National Historic Site I - Springfield, IL

Books read in 2013

Between Here and April, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl 
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Eade
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Drowning House, Elizabeth Black
Killing Kennedy, Bill O'Reilly
Argo, Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond, Jane Maas
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Jay Margolis 
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, Mike Campbell
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Stephen Rebello
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Top of the Morning, Brian Stelter
A Private Disgrace: Lizze Borden by Daylight, Victoria Lincoln
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, Charles Graeber
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, Lily Koppel
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Christian Wolmar
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli 
Wreck of the Wabash, Laurie C. Dickens  
Hidden History of Detroit, Amy Elliott Bragg
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Kate: The Biography, Marcia Moody
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young
This Town, Mark Leibovich
City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts
The Princess Diana Conspiracy, Alan Power  
The Shadow King; The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Jo Marchant
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, Stephen Manes
Reclaiming Parkland, Jame DiEugenio
Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels, Jill Jonnes 
JFK Has Been Shot, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Lesley Downer
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, James McCommons
End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Swanson

Currently Reading: The Men Who Loved Trains, Rush Loving

NCAA DI Cross Country Championships

Aaron P. Bernstein

The NCAA Division I Cross Country National Championships took place Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course.

Associated Press/Darron Cummings

Edward Cheserek, a freshman from Oregon, lead the way for the men winning the 10K individual title in 29:41.1. Texas Tech senior Kennedy Kithuka was second in 29:59.1. Following in third place was Harvard senior Maksim Korolev in 29:59.5. 

Associated Press/Darron Cummings

Winning the men's team title was Colorado with 149 points. Finishing in second was Northern Arizona with 169 points, Oklahoma State was third (230), fourth was BYU (267) and fifth was Oregon (274).

As a team, Michigan, placed 21st. The Wolverines highest finisher was Mason Ferlic in 22nd in 30:32.8.

Associated Press/Darron Cummings

The women's 6K race was won by Dartmouth senior Abbey D'Agostino in 20:00.3. Emma Bates of Boise State was national runner-up with a time of 20:03.9 and early race leader Kate Avery from Iona was third in 20:05.4.

Providence won the women's team title with 141 points. Arizona was second with 197 points. Butler was third (200), Michigan finished fourth (215) and Georgetown rounded out the top five with 226 points.

Michigan freshman Erin Finn finished 30th in 20:40.3. Finn was the top overall freshman. Shannon Osika placed 56th (20:56.6), Taylor Manett was 57th (20:56.6), Brook handler crossed 64th (21:03.4) and Anna Pasternak was 105th in 21:20.6.

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Michigan State Fair I - Novi, MI

city.ballet

aol.com

I love watching anything about ballet. Breaking Pointe ended their second season a few months ago. Now there is another series that I'm watching is city.ballet.

city.ballet is a behind-the-scenes docudrama about the New York City Ballet. The show is produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. The episodes are five to eight minutes long. I wish they were longer, but even though they are short, they are very good.

From the city.ballet About page: "Imagine a city unto itself- a place where 16 year olds are professionals, 18 year olds are revered and many 30 year olds are retirees. Imagine a world so insular that nearly every one of these virtuosos has trained together in an academy since childhood, their lives forever intertwined by work, play, competition, friendship and love. Imagine a world in which the bottom line standard is to be, simply, the best on the planet, and where each night, an empty stage, in front of thousands, beckons with a challenge. This enclave has a name- New York City Ballet- and you are invited into this world, one that has never opened up to the outside before. A documentary series brought to you by Sarah Jessica Parker Pretty Matches Productions and the Emmy award winning Zero Point Zero Production for Aol On Originals."

Below is Episode 1 of city.ballet.

Books read in 2013

Between Here and April, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
The Making of a Royal Romance, Katie Nicholl 
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Eade
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Drowning House, Elizabeth Black
Killing Kennedy, Bill O'Reilly
Argo, Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond, Jane Maas
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Jay Margolis 
Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, Mike Campbell
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Stephen Rebello
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff
Top of the Morning, Brian Stelter
A Private Disgrace: Lizze Borden by Daylight, Victoria Lincoln
Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
Waiting to be Heard, Amanda Knox
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, Scott Thorson & Alex Thorleifson
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, Charles Graeber
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, Lily Koppel
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Christian Wolmar
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli 
Wreck of the Wabash, Laurie C. Dickens  
Hidden History of Detroit, Amy Elliott Bragg
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Kate: The Biography, Marcia Moody
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Gordon Young
This Town, Mark Leibovich
City of Scoundrels, Gary Krist
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts
The Princess Diana Conspiracy, Alan Power  
The Shadow King; The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, Jo Marchant
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, Stephen Manes
Reclaiming Parkland, Jame DiEugenio
Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels, Jill Jonnes 
JFK Has Been Shot, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D
Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Lesley Downer
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, James McCommons

Currently Reading: End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James Swanson