Our sister club to the North, Cascade Cairn Terrier Club, is planning two summer events (Aug 4-5) of interest to Cairn folk of the Northwest:

1. Performance Day, August 4 - Training and practice for a variety of performance events. Performance Day flyer.

2. Fun in the Sun, August 5 - A day of activity and fun for Cairns and their people. Fun in the Sun Day flyer.

Both events are in Kent, Washington. See flyers for details.

Uploading Newsletters

These instructions assume you have a PDF ready to go, and that you are logged in to the Columbia site. Note: change to 1. upload without placement, 2. copy/paste/edit link text.

Go to http://www.crctc.org/post/comments/newsletter-archive/ Click the edit icon at the end of the article. This will open up the publish/edit page for that article.

Click the file upload icon

Browse to the newsletter PDF, open/select it, and click Upload.

As soon as you see the File Uploaded status message in green, do not click either of the 'Place File' buttons but instead, click the Close Window link at the bottom.

You will need to edit the text after the <a href...> tag and just before the closing </a> tag to name the issue of the newsletter you are uploading. Study the existing text to match the pattern. Be sure to insert a space between the closing /> of the img src image tag and the opening <a href of the link tag.

Click the Preview button and make sure that the article looks about right.

The styling won't match the site, but the line breaks and text should be correct. If it isn't, edit the markup in the article body until it's right.

At the top of the edit page, click the Date tab and then click Today at the bottom. This will reset the dateline on the article to indicate that it has recently been updated with a new issue of the newsletter.

Click Update to republish the page with the new link to the latest newsletter. Go to http://www.crctc.org/post/comments/newsletter-archive/ and admire your work!

The Cairn Terrier breed standard envisioned as a text cloud.

A visualization technique often seen on the Web is the tag cloud where the frequency that a tag or keyword is used is represented by the size of the word in the visualization. The logic as applied to texts is that important or relevant words are probably used more frequently than less important words, with allowances for the logistics of grammar and general usage. For example, a speech might be visualized to see what themes are frequently referenced. The preceding image is a tag cloud style visualization applied to the fifty most-used words in the Cairn Terrier breed standard (USA).

A few photos have been added to the Gallery.

Thank you to all who supported our first A-Match. We were pleased to have a total of 31 entries across obedience (12), junior showmanship (3), and conformation (16). Thank you for entering! Thanks also to our judges Jim Read and Joyce Whall, our catalog advertisers, and to a hard-working, well-organized event committee.

Mark your Cairn calendar! CRCTC will be having it’s first sanctioned A/OA Match on March 25, 2007 at Hockinson Middle School in Brush Prairie Washington. Conformation judge Joyce Whall (SeaJay). Obedience judge Jim Read.  There will be a catalog and full-page ads are available.

• Premium List and Entry
• Catalog Advertising Form (.doc)

In addition to being a learning experience for our club, we hope to make it a fun experience for Cairn exhibitors and friends, with a 50’s theme. Hope to see you “At the Hop!”

Update: Photos.