In the largest field in the history of Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, the spellers ranged in age from 8 to 15 years old, but 80% were between 12 and 14. This year has already held one shocker. The 2009 second place finisher, Tim Ruiter, was eliminated in round four. He had been considered the favorite to win the 2010 competition.
The 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held from June 2, 2010 to June 4, 2010 at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington D.C. A total of 274 spellers participated in the competition, 110 for the first time. The youngest contestant was 8-year-old Vanya Shivashankar, the sister of 2009 winner Kavya Shivashankar.
At the beginning of the Friday night championship finals, the following ten spellers remained:
Laura Newcombe, 11, a Toronto, Canada 7th grader. She tied for 17th place in 2009 at the age of 10. She missed confiserie and tied for 5th place.
Adrian Gunawan, 14, an Arlington Heights, Illinois 8th grader. He missed terribilita and tied for 2nd place.
Lanson Tang, 14, a Potomac, Maryland 8th grader. He missed leishmanic and tied for 5th place.
Elizabeth Platz, 13, a Shelbina, Missouri 8th grader. She missed rhytidome and tied for 2nd place.
Shantanu Srivatsa, 13, a West Fargo, North Dakota 8th grader. He missed ochidore and tied for 2nd place.
Joanna Ye, 13, a Carlisle, Pennsylvania 7th grader. She missed on tailleur and tied for 5th place.
Julianna Canabal-Rodriguez, 13, a Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 7th grader. She missed gyokero and tied for 9th place.
Aditya Chemudupaty, 13, a Pearland, Texas 8th grader. He tied for 12th place in 2009. He missed on engysseismology and tied for 9th place.
Andrew Grose, 13, a Sheboygan, Wisconsin 8th grader. He missed aguinaldo and tied for 5th place.
Anamika Veeramani, 14, a North Royalton, Ohio 8th grader. She tied for 5th place in 2009. She spelled juvia correctly and to win the competition she correctly spelled stromuhr.
Juvia definition: a Brazilian name for the lofty tree which produces Brazil nuts. Stromuhr definition: a rheometer designed to measure the amount and speed of blood flow through an artery.
Anamika aspires to become a cardiovascular surgeon, an author and a screenwriter. She has played the violin for six years and is a member of her school orchestra. She is the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee 2010 winner. Besides a trophy and bragging rights, she won a cash prize of $30,000, a $2,500 savings bond, and $2,700 in reference books from Encyclopedia Britannica.
According to Robert Rinke, the oil spill that BP has caused has driven away tourism. Rinke said that nearly 2,500 people depend on rental income from hotels, condominiums and homes and because it is the beginning of rental season, a drop in bookings would cause immense damage to the local economy.
Stores, restaurants, and other businesses would collapse without the much-needed money that comes from tourism rentals in Pensacola, Rinke told Shultz.
Rinke, however, said that in a public meeting, there were suggestions made of relief concerts that would in turn attract tourism and bring back some of the business to the rental industry.
The concerts, Rinke said, would be funded by BP and would bring headlining artists to some of the local arenas. BP has not yet responded to the request, however, said Rinke.
Winds expected to shift and ease in the next few days could buy some time for weather-beaten crews battling to bottle up and burn off a massive slick of rust-colored crude before it fouls fragile marshes and sugary beaches across four Gulf Coast states.
But that brief reprieve could soon send a nasty ripple effect toward South Florida — pushing outlying plumes of polluted surface water and patches of tar balls into the Gulf of Mexico’s powerful loop current. That would propel the mess across the mangrove islands, seagrass beds and coral reefs of the Florida Keys, then up toward Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and beyond.
Oceanographers tracking the BP oil slick — still expanding from an uncapped well belching an estimated 210,000 gallons a day — said Monday that questions about the loop’s impact have increasingly turned from if to when.
Satellite images suggest the loop, which moves seasonally, is creeping north, spinning off small whirls of current that University of Miami oceanographer Nick Shay said may already have drawn in the slick’s leading, and lightest, edge.
Robert Weisberg, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida, who updates daily tracking models, pinpoints the loop still about 30 miles south of the slick.
But, he stressed, “The immediacy of the collision of these two features is real. Will it happen in a day, two days, three days, a week, two weeks? I don’t know. I’m not willing to say that yet.”
For now, the focus of Florida’s top political, environmental and emergency managers remains firmly on the Gulf Coast.
Gov. Charlie Crist Monday extended his state of emergency order to 13 more counties, bringing the total to 19, as the spreading oil slick threatened Florida’s coast.
Richard Dunn
Actor Richard Dunn, best known for playing a bizarre Charlie Rose-like version of himself on the Adult Swim show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! has passed away. Dunn appeared on the show as “Pep Pep” between 2007 and 2010. The actor also had parts in The Wedding Singer, Weeds, Parks and Recreation, and the music video for P. Diddy’s song “Bad Boy for Life.”
Tim Heidecker, one of the show’s creators, notified fans about the loss of actor with a tweet. According to Brooklyn Vegan, Dunn died after suffering from a stroke at 7:14 a.m.
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