Before I left the Outer Banks, I shot some promo images for Intriguesportscap.com.  Intrigue uses a computer program called “Stella” that points to the disparities between the current betting line and the projected spread.  In scanning 30 years of data “Stella” has shown that the betting line is sometimes absolutely wrong.  Some favored teams should be underdogs. Those are the games Stella scans for and selects.  On any weekend Intrigue has produced as few as two and as many as twelve selections on NCAA and NFL games.  These may be the first in a series of images.

Stop Hunger Now conducted a food packaging event in Hamlet at Richmond Community College on August 17th, 2009.  Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Congressman Larry Kissell, and former Congresswoman Eva Clayton participated with RCC students to assemble food packages as a way of promoting United We Serve.

Above and Below: Food packages are loaded onto tables awaiting the volunteers.

Above: RCC students don hair nets before work in the assembly lines.
Above: Mickey Horner with Stop Hunger Now gives instructions as how to assemble the packages.
Above: Congressman Larry Kissell greets former Congresswoman Eva Clayton before getting to work.

Above: Congressman Larry Kissell at work with RCC students creating food packages.
Aboce: Former Congresswoman Eva Clayton at work.
Above: Ray Buchanan with Stop Hunger Now escorts Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the assembly lines where they will join the students.
Above: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at work with students.  Here you can see a more overall image of the work being done.
Above: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at work with students.
Above: Ray Buchanan with Stop Hunger Now thanks Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for their participation.
Above: After the food packaging, the Secretaries along with Congressman Kissell were escorted to the Cole Center to hold the Rural Tour town hall meeting created by President Barack Obama. Upwards of 10,000 food packages were assembled during the event.