Just wanted to wish everyone a great month of April!!!!

Congratulations to the U.S. women's hockey team!


United States beats Canada for gold at women's hockey worlds.

Alex Carpenter dashed Canada's hopes of reclaiming women's world hockey championship gold on home ice.

The daughter of former NHL player Bobby Carpenter scored the overtime winner for the United States in a 1-0 win over the host country Monday in Kamloops, B.C.

The U.S. went undefeated in the tournament en route to a third straight world title. Coached by former NHL defenceman Ken Klee, the Americans outscored their opponents 23-2 in the tournament.

Canada and the U.S. have met in every final of the 17 women's world championship. Canada won the first eight, but momentum has swung south of the border with their archrivals taking seven of the last nine.

... Russia downed Finland 1-0 in shootout for the bronze medal.

... Sweden finished fifth, the Czech Republic sixth and Olympic bronze medallist Switzerland seventh in the tournament. Japan was relegated to the 'B' world championships with Germany earning promotion to Plymouth.

The rivalry between the two countries brings attention to women's sports and women athletes, and is good for the quality of the play.

Now watch out for Canadian women in soccer at the Rio games. :)

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Captain Meghan Duggan, since 2013

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Pumeza Matshikiza
 

lmaooo (I'm childish, I know) :)
 

Law School Renamed for Antonin Scalia Briefly Abbreviated "ASS Law"

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Viola Gregg Liuzzo
 

Viola Gregg Liuzzo

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Remembering my boy Marco. 1995-1997

He chose me when he was 7 weeks, the big lumbering goober jumped on top of all of his siblings to reach me.

Wanted him to be trained for personal protection, so off he went to boot camp at 4 months. They kept him for 6 weeks, I could visit to observe him but had to remain hidden as to not to be a distraction. That was difficult, but I got it.

They also had to train me on how to handle him. My goodness, he could do just about anything on command.

He grew to just shy of 125 lbs, yes a big boy.

So, we were ready to go on our work/adventures outside of the country. Marco made going through checkpoints with men in jackboots and automatic weapons, a breeze. They were too busy admiring Marco, they failed on more than one occasion to ask me for my papers.

He was just a year and a half when his behavior changed from a confident boy to a paranoid and jumpy boy. Noticed his hair was falling out in large clumps and he had a sore that refused to heal. The local vet took some blood and the results came a week later.

Marco had a very rare leukemia, it was going to be fast with no cure.

I could not breathe naturally the rest of the day, it was forced. He knew, he knew I knew. We were inseparable for a few days. I took him on all of his favorite places, and he ate all of his favorite foods.

The last walk was to the vet. His kind eyes told me he was going to be okay.

Thinking about you today Marco and every day.

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Marian Wright Edelman
 

some people call it art....I call it Jolly Green Giant sports equipment.