PREDICTION: Girl Wins Spelling Bee, Ellis Island, Iowa Mumps
Here's a funny Sign about Spelling Bees:
The shares of the "God Corporation" get divided evenly amongst all the "Employees" on the Planet like Captain Ivar did when he passed away.
I was sitting in the Library with Mark McGehee playing Chess. Mike Ellis and "his gang" of friends stopped by and Mike Ellis came to gloat.
MIKE ELLIS: I bet it really makes you mad that I won
I didn't say anything and just continued focusing on the Chess Game I was playing against Mark
Mark McGehee, who's taller than Mike, finally got pissed and stood up and got in Mike's face telling him to go away. They almost got into a fight. After Mike went away, Mark was complaining, "God, his breath stinks.
Girl Wins Spelling Bee After 41 Rounds
BILLINGS, Mont. (April 4) - After 41 rounds and 4 1/2 hours, Anna Rose Wright won the Treasure State Spelling Bee Saturday. "I have never seen a bee go this long,'' said round judge Lynn Schwanke of Missoula, a previous state bee director for more than 20 years. "It was really remarkable.''
David Grubbs, Billings Gazette/AP
Tim Best, seated, came in second to Anna Rose Wright, in a four-and-a-half hour spelling bee in Billings, Montana. Anna Rose won a trip to the National Spelling Bee in May.
Anna Rose, 13, and Tim Best, 12, of Joliet battled head-to-head for 25 rounds after the remaining 63 contestants fell out of the competition.
Anna Rose, a home-schooler competing in her fourth bee, won an all-expenses paid trip for two to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in late May, a $100 savings bond and a dictionary.
She correctly spelled "mumpsimus,'' - a person who persists in a mistaken expression or belief - and then clinched the victory by spelling "galenical,'' - a medicinal preparation made mostly of herbs or vegetable matter.
The contest, which seesawed between Anna Rose and Tim, requires the winner to correctly spell two words after their challenger misses a word. Twice, Anna Rose corrected the pronunciation of words.
Beginning with the 29th round, the contest moved into words not included on the word list given to all contestants to study.
Anna Rose said she had been studying spelling words since last summer, a couple hours most days, using word lists used at the national spelling bee, an online dictionary and tapes that include word pronunciations.
04/04/06 12:06 EDT
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Mumps Epidemic Sweeps Across Iowa
By MELANIE S. WELTE, AP
The paramyxovirus is part the microbe family that causes the mumps. Iowa reports more than 240 confirmed or possible mumps cases since mid-January.
DES MOINES, Iowa (April 1) - A mumps epidemic is sweeping across Iowa in the nation's biggest outbreak in at least 17 years, baffling health officials and worrying parents.
As of Thursday, 245 confirmed, probable or suspected cases of mumps had been reported to the Iowa Department of Public Health since mid-January.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is the nation's only outbreak, which the CDC defines as five or more cases in a concentrated area.
"We are calling this an epidemic," said Iowa state epidemiologist Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, explaining that mumps has spread to more than one-third of the state and does not appear to be confined to certain age groups or other sectors of the population.
Quinlisk said Iowa has had about five cases of mumps a year in recent years, and this is its first large outbreak in nearly 20 years.
"We're trying to figure out why is it happening, why is it happening in Iowa and why is it happening right now. We don't know," she said.
CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said the federal agency has no answers yet. But Quinlisk said one theory is that the infection was brought over from England - perhaps by a college student - because the strain seen in Iowa has been identified by the CDC as the same one that has caused tens of thousands of cases of the mumps in a major outbreak in Britain over the past two years.
"It may have been a college student, since we did see the first activities on college campuses, but we can't prove that," Quinlisk said. The Public Health Department said 23 percent of the 245 reported patients are in college.
The CDC said it is the nation's biggest epidemic of mumps since 269 cases were reported in Douglas County, Kan., from October 1988 to April 1989.
Mumps is a viral infection of the salivary glands. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and swelling of the glands close to the jaw. It can cause serious complications, including meningitis, damage to the testicles and deafness.
A mumps vaccine was introduced in 1967. Iowa law requires schoolchildren to be vaccinated against measles and rubella, and the mumps vaccine is included in the same shot. The state's last major outbreak was in 1987, when 476 people were infected.
Of the 245 patients this year, at least 66 percent had the recommended two-shot vaccination, while 14 percent had received one dose, the Public Health Department said.
"The vaccine is working," Quinlisk said. "The vaccine certainly was made to cover this particular strain, because it's a fairly common strain of mumps." Quinlisk said the vaccine overall is considered about 95 percent effective.
Quinlisk said the mumps outbreak started in eastern Iowa and is spreading statewide and possibly into the neighboring states of Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska. Those states may have one or two cases, she said.
When 11-year-old Will Hean of Davenport starting feeling sick in mid-January, his family thought he had a bad case of the flu. But his face and throat swelled and his temperature climbed to 103. His parents took him to the doctor, and he was diagnosed to their surprise with full-blown mumps.
About two weeks later, the Heans' daughter, Kate, 21, came down with the mumps , too.
Both children had gotten the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR. So had their other son, 13-year-old Jimmy, who did not get the mumps.
"He had all the shots and everything. You don't think you're going to get the mumps after you've been inoculated," said Will's father, Wayne Hean.
04-01-06 03:48 EST
Updated: 07:32 AM EST
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- Queen Bee: I said 4/1/2006 that I'm the Queen Bee
- Billings, Mont.:
- Billing/S = Billing Superman(S)
- I said 1/7/2006 that Davis is Mont owes me money
- The Planet named a City after Davis to show how much money he's borrowed rendering me broke
- Billing/S = Billing Superman(S)
- Anna Rose Wright:
- Initials ARW = IR(AR) Final(W)
- A(NN)A = Gemini(AA/II) with Valentine(NN/2x14). I said Davis is born 2/14 so you see a stubborn Davis streak
- Wright = W/Right = Final(W) Correct(Right(
- Initials ARW = IR(AR) Final(W)
- "I have never seen a bee go this long,'' said round judge Lynn Schwanke of Missoula:
- That's referring to me as a Queen Bee
- I've been running off of out of pocket finances and completely broke
- I've had the SHITTY job of managing the Planet on practically ZERO profit margin
- L-y/NN = Bad(L/Non-7) Male(Y) Valentine(NN/2x14). It's a Davis Tag
- That's referring to me as a Queen Bee
- Tim Best:
- I said 4/3/2006 about the Kryptos
- The 5th Line Down said "TIM"
- Best = B/ES-T = Gemini(B/2) Northwest(ES/Non-SE/NW) Female(T/20/XX)
- I said 3/28/2006 that I'm the real James Bond. "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon sings "Baby You're the Best"
- Wendy Iwaszuk born 2/13 (Aquarius) was dating Jason Best in high school :o)
- I said 4/3/2006 about the Kryptos
- ...battled head-to-head for 25 rounds after the remaining 63 contestants fell out of the competition:
- 25 = Jesus Christ
- 63 = 1963 VW Bug = Herbie. I said 4/3/2006 that I'm the real Herbie
- 25 = Jesus Christ
- 41 Rounds: My mom is born in '41
- She correctly spelled "mumpsimus,'' - a person who persists in a mistaken expression or belief:
- There was a News Article 4/1/2006 how MUMPS spread to Iowa
- I said I'm I o' WA (I of Washington)
- Mumps/Imus = Mumps (Don) Imus who was going up against Howard Stern. I mentioned about Howard Stern's S-IR/I u S Satellite broadcast running parallel to the Electromagnetic Field that beams a direct Satellite Link to all the Subconscious Minds of Living Things on the Planet
- (Don) Imus = (Mumps) Imus when Leo Female(D) = 5/29(M/13/Rhode Island) in Union with(U) Military Police(MP)
- I said I'm I o' WA (I of Washington)
- Beginning with the 29th round, the contest moved into words not included on the word list given to all contestants to study:
- 29 = Gemini(2/) God(I/9
- I'm born 5/29 = Sun(5/Leo) Gemini(2) God(I/9)
- 29 = Gemini(2/) God(I/9
- Twice, Anna Rose corrected the pronunciation of words: That would be me, Rod, as the Fe-Male correctly people who don't even have some of the Interpretations like the Kryptos correct
- MA/rk MA/gdamit won
- MA MA = Gemini Ma
- I said I'm the Fe-Male V-IR/G-IN Ma/R-y
- MA MA = Gemini Ma
- I misspelled the word "Harrow"
- H/Arrow = Superman(H) Arrow
- HA-RR/O-W = Gemini(HA/81=9x9=IxI/II) Rod Rodillon(RR) Sun(O) Final(W)
- H-ARR/O-W = Superman(H) IRR(ARR) Sun(O) Final(W)
I put an extra R spelling it Har(R)row adding an extra "R" in RR
- H/Arrow = Superman(H) Arrow
- For my 8th Grade Spelling Bee, I was ready to compete but I got SICK:
- Mrs. Currier, my 8th Grade English Teacher, had the Classroom Spelling Bee on the ONE DAY that I was sick all year.
- I was so pissed because I'd been WAITING this time around
- S-I/CK = Superman(S) God(I) Clark Kent(CK)
- Mike Ellis won: Initials M.E. = Mother Earth
- Ellis = Elllis Island where the Statue of Liberty is from
- Mrs. Currier, my 8th Grade English Teacher, had the Classroom Spelling Bee on the ONE DAY that I was sick all year.
The shares of the "God Corporation" get divided evenly amongst all the "Employees" on the Planet like Captain Ivar did when he passed away.
I was sitting in the Library with Mark McGehee playing Chess. Mike Ellis and "his gang" of friends stopped by and Mike Ellis came to gloat.
MIKE ELLIS: I bet it really makes you mad that I won
I didn't say anything and just continued focusing on the Chess Game I was playing against Mark
Mark McGehee, who's taller than Mike, finally got pissed and stood up and got in Mike's face telling him to go away. They almost got into a fight. After Mike went away, Mark was complaining, "God, his breath stinks.
Girl Wins Spelling Bee After 41 Rounds
BILLINGS, Mont. (April 4) - After 41 rounds and 4 1/2 hours, Anna Rose Wright won the Treasure State Spelling Bee Saturday. "I have never seen a bee go this long,'' said round judge Lynn Schwanke of Missoula, a previous state bee director for more than 20 years. "It was really remarkable.''
David Grubbs, Billings Gazette/AP
Tim Best, seated, came in second to Anna Rose Wright, in a four-and-a-half hour spelling bee in Billings, Montana. Anna Rose won a trip to the National Spelling Bee in May.
Anna Rose, 13, and Tim Best, 12, of Joliet battled head-to-head for 25 rounds after the remaining 63 contestants fell out of the competition.
Anna Rose, a home-schooler competing in her fourth bee, won an all-expenses paid trip for two to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in late May, a $100 savings bond and a dictionary.
She correctly spelled "mumpsimus,'' - a person who persists in a mistaken expression or belief - and then clinched the victory by spelling "galenical,'' - a medicinal preparation made mostly of herbs or vegetable matter.
The contest, which seesawed between Anna Rose and Tim, requires the winner to correctly spell two words after their challenger misses a word. Twice, Anna Rose corrected the pronunciation of words.
Beginning with the 29th round, the contest moved into words not included on the word list given to all contestants to study.
Anna Rose said she had been studying spelling words since last summer, a couple hours most days, using word lists used at the national spelling bee, an online dictionary and tapes that include word pronunciations.
04/04/06 12:06 EDT
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Mumps Epidemic Sweeps Across Iowa
By MELANIE S. WELTE, AP
The paramyxovirus is part the microbe family that causes the mumps. Iowa reports more than 240 confirmed or possible mumps cases since mid-January.
DES MOINES, Iowa (April 1) - A mumps epidemic is sweeping across Iowa in the nation's biggest outbreak in at least 17 years, baffling health officials and worrying parents.
As of Thursday, 245 confirmed, probable or suspected cases of mumps had been reported to the Iowa Department of Public Health since mid-January.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is the nation's only outbreak, which the CDC defines as five or more cases in a concentrated area.
"We are calling this an epidemic," said Iowa state epidemiologist Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, explaining that mumps has spread to more than one-third of the state and does not appear to be confined to certain age groups or other sectors of the population.
Quinlisk said Iowa has had about five cases of mumps a year in recent years, and this is its first large outbreak in nearly 20 years.
"We're trying to figure out why is it happening, why is it happening in Iowa and why is it happening right now. We don't know," she said.
CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said the federal agency has no answers yet. But Quinlisk said one theory is that the infection was brought over from England - perhaps by a college student - because the strain seen in Iowa has been identified by the CDC as the same one that has caused tens of thousands of cases of the mumps in a major outbreak in Britain over the past two years.
"It may have been a college student, since we did see the first activities on college campuses, but we can't prove that," Quinlisk said. The Public Health Department said 23 percent of the 245 reported patients are in college.
The CDC said it is the nation's biggest epidemic of mumps since 269 cases were reported in Douglas County, Kan., from October 1988 to April 1989.
Mumps is a viral infection of the salivary glands. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and swelling of the glands close to the jaw. It can cause serious complications, including meningitis, damage to the testicles and deafness.
A mumps vaccine was introduced in 1967. Iowa law requires schoolchildren to be vaccinated against measles and rubella, and the mumps vaccine is included in the same shot. The state's last major outbreak was in 1987, when 476 people were infected.
Of the 245 patients this year, at least 66 percent had the recommended two-shot vaccination, while 14 percent had received one dose, the Public Health Department said.
"The vaccine is working," Quinlisk said. "The vaccine certainly was made to cover this particular strain, because it's a fairly common strain of mumps." Quinlisk said the vaccine overall is considered about 95 percent effective.
Quinlisk said the mumps outbreak started in eastern Iowa and is spreading statewide and possibly into the neighboring states of Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska. Those states may have one or two cases, she said.
When 11-year-old Will Hean of Davenport starting feeling sick in mid-January, his family thought he had a bad case of the flu. But his face and throat swelled and his temperature climbed to 103. His parents took him to the doctor, and he was diagnosed to their surprise with full-blown mumps.
About two weeks later, the Heans' daughter, Kate, 21, came down with the mumps , too.
Both children had gotten the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR. So had their other son, 13-year-old Jimmy, who did not get the mumps.
"He had all the shots and everything. You don't think you're going to get the mumps after you've been inoculated," said Will's father, Wayne Hean.
04-01-06 03:48 EST
Updated: 07:32 AM EST
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