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'Merry Wives of Windsor' — The Opera
Tuesday, Apr. 08, 2014
The Department of Music at Utah State University presents the opera The Merry Wives of Windsor Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU's Logan campus.
Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedic opera by Otto Nicolai based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Sir John Falstaff, a confirmed bachelor in love with drink and long past his prime, finds that he is short on funds and connives to tactlessly woo two well-to-do, married women. Falstaff has underestimated Alice Ford and Meg Page. When the two ladies realize that he wrote both of them the exact same love letter, they decide to turn the tables and teach Falstaff a lesson.
"It amazes me that a story written over 400 years ago can still delight audiences today," said Dallas Heaton, associate professor of opera in the Caine College of the Arts. "Full of comic moments and lovable characters that we can still identify with, Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies and has been a staple of the theatrical and operatic repertoire since its premiere."
USU Opera Theatre presents Merry Wives of Windsor by adapting the piece and trading out the standard Elizabethan setting for a more modern time and place. Sir John Falstaff transforms into a former member of a one-hit-wonder boy band who still has an appetite for celebrity lifestyle. The Fords become a successful, professional couple. The Page family struggles to make ends meet as they put their daughter, Anne, through school on their blue-collar income.
"When you set these themes to Nicolai's simultaneously joyful and sincere music, a fantastically enjoyable and memorable evening of theater is created," said Heaton. "By the time the final chords sound, it will be equally evident to the audience why this story has lasted four centuries!"
Tickets for Merry Wives of Windsor are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 faculty and staff and free for USU students with valid ID. For more information and tickets, visit the CCA Box Office in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-797-8022 or see the college's Production Services website.
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FIFA have turned down a request from Didier Drogba to be allowed to leave Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua on loan ahead of the transfer window.
The Ivory Coast striker, who has been linked with a short-term move back to previous club Chelsea, had put in a request to the world governing body only for it to be rejected.
FIFA said in a statement: "We can confirm that the player Didier Drogba submitted a request for authorisation to be registered outside an open registration period for a club on a loan basis. "FIFA has informed him about the relevant regulations... that players may only be registered during one of the two annual registration periods fixed by the relevant association."
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That is tragically horrible accuracy. I was hoping the punchline would have been "to within 1 city block", 50km is comical.
It also has nothing to do with "predict". That implies that they can give a good guess at where users live in the future. But then again, this is slashdot, so perhaps it's just an overeager submitter or editor mangling the real article.
Those who RTFA may know.
That implies that they can give a good guess at where users live in the future.
Given that 78% of people will never move out of the town they were born in, they can probably do that with the same accuracy too.
Yeah, that's barely enough to target a nuke, let alone a cruise missile. The CIA will be highly disappointed.
Using data pulled out of my butt, I can with 100% accuracy predict a users home town within 21Mm.
I can do better than that. With no data at all other than it's a Foursquare user, I can predict a user's home town to within 13 Mm.
Thirteen megametres is roughly the diameter of the Earth and no two points on its surface can be further apart than that.
This study funded by the Foundation for Obvious Studies, and will soon be published in the Journal for Obvious and Tautological Results.
In a follow up study, they'll figure out where you work, too.
The summary has nothing to do with the actual report.
The data gathered includes mayorships, tips, dones and the home city the user entered, all available from their public API. I'd say using the person's entered hometown is a much better predictor of where they live, especially since 99% of the people entered valid geographical data. Not necessarily correct, but valid in that Yahoo! geolocation could resolve it unambiguously (given exceptions like "Springfield" which is a common enough city name that they
I was thinking that maybe 22% of foursquare users use the service only to show off the exotic far flung destinations they've been.
That would be me. I'm not a bar-hopping single guy anymore. The places I go most days just aren't exciting. I'm not going to check in to Target or Advance Auto Parts- I don't have the time for it, it seems like I am giving a "tip of the hat" to a megacompany that I don't care about, and who cares about my mundane errands anyway?
When I travel though, I find that I get bored easily waiting in various lines, and the company blackberry becomes a boredom-killer device.
Public records can accurately predict where you live to within a few meters. So can following you home, and asking your friends. I'd be much more "worried" about those things than Foursquare.
First, I'm not worried in the slightest, since I don't use the useless piece of software.
But knowing where you live isn't the problem. As you say, it's easy to figure out.
No, the problem is suddenly everyone is that guy from that old ADT commercial. They know when you home, and when you not.
And they probably know a guy who can pick most locks with a credit card. Failing that, for a small cut, they can probably get that guy who, in the event of a deadbolt, would just smash the door.
You know who else knows when your house is empty? EVERY NEIGHBOR YOU HAVE. It takes about two days to figure out someone's work schedule.
Also, Foursquare checkins (except for mayorships and tips) can be private (and are by default). Non-story.
If you've got a lock made in the last say, 50 years, and it's installed correctly, you can't open it with a credit card. Take a look at the latch of your exterior door and you'll see it's split into two independently moving parts. When the small part on the back of the latch is depressed -- as it should be when the door is closed -- the large portion of the latch cannot be moved except by turning the handle. This is intended specifically to defeat the slide-from-inside-to-out attack.
That doesn't stop someon
If you've got a window made of glass, I can enter your home in 5 seconds flat.
If you've got a window made of glass, I can enter your home in 5 seconds flat.
My home may not be secure, but at least it's tamper-evident.
At least you'll know someone has taken your TV from the pile of broken glass by the window?
Those records are usually not (yet) that easy to search on an automated wholesale basis. That's a difference.
Following someone home is even more work, highly accurate of course but it requires a lot of manpower to accomplish. Security by obscurity still works quite well.
Is this the new Facebook? A brief summary would be nice in the
I do believe it's a box, with inverted walls which close in on you forever. The more you try to escape, the more they close in. That's how the machine always knows where you are...
Foursquare [lmgtfy.com] is a mobile app that has a database of interesting and sometimes not interesting landmarks. When your at a location in it's database, you can check in and you are awarded points for doing so. If you have the most check-ins at a place out of anybody over some period (two months I think), you become the Mayor of that location and you get extra points for this.
Sometimes they have promo offers for certain check ins. e.g. check in at Burger King and there might be 10% off your next meal.
Aaargh, the apostrophes, they burn.
"With an accuracy of 50km"
That's not particularly accurate at all - for me, that encompasses parts of seven counties and parts of two major cities (neither of which I live in). In of the metropolitan area of one of the major cities (Seattle), there's probably two or three dozen towns of notably size...
Yeah uh, how is this impressive? I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't figure out generally where someone lived in from Foursquare, considering for most people, most of their check-ins will be in the city/town in which they live. I mean seriously, 50 km accuracy? My mid-sized (400,000 population) city is around 40 km north to south, and is the only logical place where someone would live in this area (no other significant settlements for at least 100 km in any direction), so that's obvious. And in more rural areas there'd be 50km at least between towns here (Australia), so again it makes it bleedingly obvious where someone would live. In "dense rural" areas common in Europe and North America where there's lots of separate small towns close together this might be a bit more impressive, but still...
I clicked on the link expecting a method whereby they got it down to a particular neighbourhood/a couple of km accuracy.
As an example, checking my own Foursquare profile, out of my total checkins:
- 1 is in Hong Kong
- 2 are in Macau
- 2 are in France
- 3 are in Canada
- 7 are in the UK
- 14 are in Singapore
- 33 are in the United States
- 152 are in Australia (home)
So the home country should be fairly obvious from that. And then of the 152 Australia checkins, 68 are in my home city, which is substantially more than any other single city or town. And that's only looking at checked-in places without considering how OFTEN I check into them. If you look at those figures it becomes even more apparent: the places with the most check-ins are my work and the local airport.
Too many people here saying it's obvious and trivial.
Saying it is easy does not make it so. Academic research is often about finding precise quantitative methods to realize intuitive goals by thus explaining and formalizing the original intuition.
Newton "explained that objects fall to the ground": easy? No, because he actually used quantitative models and knew how and to what accuracy he could compute predictions.
Same for this paper.
How about we just do IP geolocation of the top two IP addresses each user logs into ANY given service on the web with. Odds are one is "home" and the other is "work"... 50km is pretty damn large for Foursquare, there has been geolocation research which has gotten it down to within a city block or so.
"Write witty paper about it"
I would imagine that you could get a better than 50km margin if you started building more complex rules. If you checked into a hotel during the same week as all of your other checkins in that city, then it is probably a vacation destination (bonus points for checking in at the airport too). If you regularly check into a restaurant on tuesdays at 8PM, then maybe it i
I, for one, am highly impressed that they only managed 78% with a 50 km margin of error.
That must have taken a real effort to be so inaccurate.
So Foursquare built-in a google name-search function?
Oh wait, no, this would resolve a person's home with much HIGHER reliability and detail.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein


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Hottest CoolestAugust 11th, 2007 , by admin
You may remember from previous summer blogs, that my sister and her family live in Europe and come home to visit every summer. This year my 8th grade niece has spent several days with us. We have had so much fun with her.
One day my son, daughter, and I took her to a water park called Schlitterbahn. It is advertised as the "hottest, coolest time in Texas." There are more double meanings in that advertising campaign than I want to explain in this blog, but suffice it to say that the rides are "hot" and we had a "cool" time.
One of the best things about Schiltterbahn is that they allow you to bring your own food into the park. Most amusement parks forbid outside food because they want to increase their profit by forcing you to buy their food. Rarely does an amusement park serve anything that a Type O can eat. So I'm stuck with eating avoids or trying to sneak in contraband food.
For our day at Schlitterbahn, I packed turkey sandwiches, fresh plums, and raw nuts. My "sandwiches" were turkey, mozzarella, and ghee rolled in a sushi nori paper. My niece thought the seaweed was a little weird. I made the sandwiches for the rest of the group out of pita pockets. I've used pitas a lot this summer. Though wheat is neutral for my Type As, I don't like to give them big fluffy rolls that dominate the rest of the food. Pitas are thin and cracker like. Since my Type O son wants an occasional sandwich, I feel a little better about the thin pita than two full slices of bread. In addition, I can stuff quite a few veggies in them along with the turkey. The nuts were in place of chips.
There was an interesting irony. As we explored the park, I kept getting whiffs of delicious meat cooking. It turns out they serve barbeque, which makes a Type O's mouth water. Here is an amusement park that offers two good choices - serve the customers something beside junk food, and allow them to bring their own food from home.


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03-12-04 - It's a murder that goes back to 1995. Seventeen-years-old at the time, Anzel Jones murdered his neighbor, Sherry Kay Jones, and then sexually assaulted his victim's 76-year-old mother. He left both to die as he set the house on fire.
Jones was convicted of these crimes in 1996 and has sat on death row for the past seven years. But now his date with death has been stayed thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, since Jones was a juvenile offender at the time of the crime. Paris police say it is one of the most brutal crimes they have ever seen. Anzel Jones was set to die on April 29th but his appeals put that execution on hold.
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On a more technical side the Brilliant Gallery module will be ditched in favour of the Image Upload module, giving authorised users the opportunity to upload images. If you are interested you can take a look at all modules used: [url=http://www.lgdb.org/colophon]Colophon[/url].


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The Canes (5-4, 4-2 ACC) are playing in Charlottesville this afternoon and taking on a 3-6, 1-4 Virginia team minus four starters: WR Rashawn Scott (suspended indefinitely), LB Eddie Johnson (didn't make the trip), S Deon Bush (stinger) and LB Denzel Perryman (ankle).
Kickoff is set for noon and the game can be seen on ABC.
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I last played EQ from release until just after the release of Lost Dungeons of Norrath and I've decided to give it a spin again as I have some free time and missed the game. I have a level 57 Shadowknight on Firiona Vie that has Defiant gear on my chest, arms and legs. I've picked up a couple other items for cheap in the Bazaar (my how my rings and ear slot items were outdated). My 2h weapon is a Fabled Dark Reaver 47 dam 42 dly, I also have a 25dly 25 dam one hander and shield (that's not great but not bad). Until I get back into the swing of things and get a bit of better gear (and get the gear augmented), I'm probably going solo. HPs unbuffed are 5K AC is 1500.
I have a few questions:
1) What are some good zones to hit up solo that drop decent stuff (need money) and aren't typically overcamped. I tried Crypt of Nadox and it was fine, but I had to go in aways and ended up having to FD my way out of there after a bad pull. The entrance seems to be always camped. I know the current hotzone is Plane of Disease, but that's a terrible zone. I'd prefer something either A) I haven't seen since I quit before it was implemented or B) something not a Plane. Old school zones would be fine (I was thinking Howling Stones or Grieg's End, but I'm not sure the drops there would be worthwhile these days) and I prefer indoors.
2) Tank, Healer or DPS Mercenary. I've tried Tank and Healer. Having a pet Cleric is nice, but there's no damage output from them, so I think a Tank and me offtanking/DPSing (as poor as it is) is probably a better option. I toyed with getting a melee or spell DPS merc just to see how it would work, but I'd rather not eat dirt to find out if someone with experience would let me know.
3) Should I try to get to 60 or work on AA's first? Or put like 30 percent experience to AAs?
4) Does anyone do LDoN or something similar or is everything outdoor grouping these days?
5) Does the game run slightly poorly for anyone else? I've got a quad core, 8 gb ram, HD7700 graphics and pretty much everything else runs fine, but EQ seems to chug occasionally
Thanks in advance, and if anyone knows of any good levelling/non-raid guilds on FV that might be recruiting, please let me know!
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they are about $5.00.
i used an all cap font in red printed off my home printer.
I used a large round hole punch to cut it out.
the paper around the words.
i added a "contains:" list.
here is what was included in this one:
diaper rash cream
goggles (home depot, about $2.50)
face mask (home depot, about $2.00 for 1)
clothes pin for your nose
tongs for diaper disposal
hand sanitizer (travel size)
baby wash (travel size)
wash cloth
baby food
baby sockies
wipes (travel size)
tylenol...for daddy
get creative and personalize it for the guy you are giving it to.
pop the lid back on and its good to go!
just a few more weeks to go...
and you will be knee deep in diaper doody.
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Here a new layout I was experimenting with.....
And include huge pic/icon of "Kmeleon in action" (screen with huge Kmeleon head) like they do it:
It will remove "dulness" of the page.
I think the font is just a little small.
Perhaps we could give up 40% of the light grey border on either side and get a larger font.
If the green banner at the top were just a little taller, then the "Home/News" could be right under "you have control" and there might be room on the menu line for "Screenshots" and "Extensions". Remember we might gain 40% of the border on that side also.
Could the "Forum" heading contain items like "Index" for the whole forum and the individual forums like "Announcements", "General", etc. These could popdown like "Documentation", and "Screenshots" do under "Resources". This should not be hard coded. It should somehow be linked to the forum in case we add another catagory.
I have a little problem with the color of the dropdowns. I cannot see the black characters on the red background easily. That could just be my tired old eyes.
#KmMenu li:hover { background-color:#3CB371; /*background-color:#960C10; */ } #KmMenu ul.popupmenu { position:absolute; background:#3CB371; /*background:#960C10; */ -moz-border-radius:0 0 3px 3px; -webkit-border-radius:0 0 3px 3px; }
#KmMenu { position:absolute; bottom:-1px; text-align:left; color:white; font-size:1.2em; /*margin-left:245px; */ margin-left:245px; }
Even the white does not do well with the dark red background. If using white instead of black, to which color would you change when selected or maybe that is hover. Site uses white now. Both white and black show up well on medium sea green color.
This the language menu in medium sea green. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/Tryout%282b%29.jpg
/* -- Links that have been visited are DeepPink -- */ a:visited { color: DeepPink !important; }As you might guess, it does not do well with reds.
I have found that I get a different color for the top line of the menu on the English page depending on whether Javascript is running or not. And it only took me four days to find that difference was Javascript and not my changes to km.css Can anyone explain why Javascript makes a difference in color?
// backgroundColor:'#960C10', // $('#KmMenu li').css('backgroundColor'), backgroundColor:'#3CB371', // $('#KmMenu li').css('backgroundColor'),The menu becomes readable with this change and the four changes in km.css file.


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House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ) today led a hearing to examine the compliance of federal agencies with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) and the efforts of the Office of Advocacy at SBA to hold agencies accountable.
Signed into law in 1980, the RFA requires agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small businesses, and, if significant, consider alternatives that are less burdensome. But unfortunately, federal agencies often use loopholes to avoid compliance with the statute. The federal government publishes between 3,000 and 4,000 new regulations every year, many of which impact small businesses that are disproportionately burdened by regulatory requirements in comparison to their larger counterparts.
"Small businesses are expected to adapt to be successful," said Chairman Schweikert. "Why can't the rules Washington levies against them do the same? The RFA and the demands it makes on agencies to consider regulatory impacts on small businesses have been on the books since the Carter Administration. The world has changed a lot since then, as have small businesses. I hope this Administration will join our Committee to strengthen the process of how we monitor the impact of new regulations and fix old, broken ones."
Last Congress, the House Small Business Committee passed the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011 (H.R. 527). The bill would close loopholes used by agencies to avoid compliance with the RFA, require a better assessment of the impacts that regulations will have on small businesses, force agencies to perform better periodic review of rules, and grant the Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the Small Business Administration greater powers for enforcement of the RFA.
During the first three years of the Obama Administration, 106 "major" regulations -- those with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more -- were issued. In comparison, during the first three years of the previous Administration, 28 major regulations were issued. With the explosion in regulatory output during the current Administration, it is imperative that small businesses have a voice in a strong Office of Advocacy and a strong RFA. The Small Business Committee will build on today's hearing over the course of this Congress to ensure that it does.
Notable Witness Quotes:
Carl Harris, Vice President and General Manager of Carl Harris Co., Inc in Wichita, Kansas said, "Congress, in crafting the RFA, clearly intended for all covered federal agencies to carefully consider the proportional impacts of federal regulations on small businesses. Unfortunately, all too often federal agencies view RFA compliance as either a technicality of the federal rulemaking process or, worse yet, as unnecessary. In an effort to ensure that regulations are crafted in accordance with the Congressional intent of the RFA, I urge Congress to seek out ways to improve agency compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act."
Marc Freedman, Executive Director of Labor Law Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC said, "The Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act exist to help agencies improve their rulemakings, not to impede them. If agencies welcomed the input of small businesses as a source of real world understanding these regulations would likely be more narrowly tailored without sacrificing the agency mission or regulatory objective. In the interest of transparency, OSHA should conduct more small business panel reviews and other agencies should look for more direct ways to develop the input of small businesses consistent with Section 609 (a)."
Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D, Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, DC said, "We have learned through our experience with the RFA that regulations are more effective when small firms are part of the rulemaking process. The result of enhanced agency cooperation with the Office of Advocacy and improved agency compliance with the RFA benefits small businesses, the regulatory environment, and the overall economy."
Source: http://smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=323887


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I've heard the perennially excellent question "What light through yonder window breaks?" on countless occasions. I have never heard it spoken by Juliet and never while sucking on an orange. Me, not her.
But Juliet is a girl with questions who always deserved more to say. And those succulent fruit were on sale at the Globe Theatre when William Shakespeare's young lovers first made their appearance. So there is a historic relationship. Anyway, oranges handed out by the cast are not the only light refreshment on offer at director Sean Graney's charming little show, which explores that famous Shakespearean tragedy of teenage amour in no more than 80 minutes. The evening begins with the audience ushered in to a little romantic cave filled with miniature lights and carved by the Hypocrites from the basement of the Chopin Theatre. Therein, one is served tea at long picnic tables that oblige you, for a few moments at least, to strike up a conversation with your fellow theatergoers.
Thence you are led by the actors into a little canvaslike structure — rather like a teenage girl's tented hideaway erected inside her bedroom, circa 1979, and filled with shag carpeting, a lava lamp and a hot-pink record player that can spin "Morning Has Broken" when the moment so demands. The song stylings of Phil Collins are on offer too, deftly timed to moments like the one where the nurse opines that all love ends in tragedy.
Audience members scrunch up on a long, circular bench as four actors do the play. By play, I mean a combination of the actual "Romeo and Juliet" text (the good bits) coupled with parts of Felice Romani's libretto for "I Capuleti e I Montecchi," coupled with various bits of modern language like "whoa!" or "I didn't follow that." The entire show is done on that shag carpet, stage combat and all, with various interesting double castings, including the combination of Tybalt and Juliet, both played with sensual zest by Lindsey Gavel, or the Nurse and Paris, both by Tien Doman.
Graney has no interest in fetishistic adherence to the original text — so purists be warned — but this piece ends up being rather more than a humorous deconstruction. There are some potent connections that emerge between Gavel and Walter Briggs, who plays Romeo as a kind of honest Midwesterner of limited intelligence. The outer frame of the show is kept deliberately vague — I think it could emerge with a little more definition — but one advantage of that is you are able to spin your own explanations in your head as you watch these four young people jumping around on the carpet. It feels to me rather like Juliet is mounting her own show, starring herself, and combining her traditional lovelorn role as an object of desire (who would want to give that up?) only with more post-feminist action and self-definition. It's notable that Graney begins his take with the line "Juliet, where are you?" spoken by the nurse but sounding like the cry of a mother who can't find her teenage daughter. Certainly, the women dominate the show, with Briggs' Romeo affecting a constant air of sincere confusion, while Zeke Sulkes makes genial trouble as a variety of the play's big personalities, only to be vanquished by the stellar tag-team of Gavel and Doman.
One is not bored here for a second — if you have a young person studying this play, you should take 'em to this and expand their mind on how a great story can inspire artists across the years — and there are a lot of clever staging ideas, such as the moment when that tea we've all been drinking takes on a different role, or when a single blade, hung in the air, stands in for a body, or when Paris, played by a woman, starts prattling on about how disobedience and the feminine do not belong together. He looks quite the fool.
As with many of Graney's creations, this one is gently self-aware, with the characters knowing they are in a drama and suggesting, on occasion, that they are doing this or that "because it is the next thing you do in a play." I'm all for a light touch, and the inclusion of the audience works beautifully here, but some of those moments have the whiff of unnecessary insecurity, and they pull you from the intensity of the grand passion of loss, of which Gavel and Briggs have considerable beginnings but not the full execution. If the contrast was sharpened between this conception, which truly is a delight, and the horrors and ecstasy of the actual play, then this show really would be something.
In program notes Graney observes that the actors were charged with designing the set by themselves. That would lead one to expect a couple of benches in a black void. But these performers create an entire fanciful world, a visual sculpture, really, that interacts with these clippings of the greatest love story ever told in an entertaining and enlightening way. It is a fine choice for a date: You will gain an intimate connection with your companion, should you have one. And if not? Well, "I can feel it, coming in the air tonight, oh Lord."
When: Through July 1
Where: Chopin Theater, 1543 W. Division St.
Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Tickets: $36 at 773-989-7352 and the-hypocrites.com


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This fundraising event for the Reds Community Fund takes place during Redsfest. The Texas Hold 'Em Event caps off the annual Redsfest.
Do you like to play bingo and win prizes? If so, the Reds Community Fund has the perfect event for you this year at Redsfest!
The annual Redlegs Run features a 10K, 5K and special events for kids around the ballpark. All proceeds benefit the Reds Community Fund.
Have you ever wished you could catch a ball in the outfield or receive baseball advice from the Reds coaching staff?
Family Catch is your chance to take the field at Great American Ball Park to play catch with your family and friends.
Be a part of a fun girls night out featuring cocktails, dinner, a chance to learn from Reds coaches and more.
Support the Reds Community Fund by purchasing your "Split the Pot" ticket at every Reds home game.
Hosted by Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman, this annual event benefits the Reds Community Fund.
Give your kids the baseball or softball experience of their lives! Reds Camps feature pro instruction, free Reds tickets and more.
Please join us to raise money for the baseball and softball-themed outreach programs of the Reds Community Fund.
Thank you for considering the RCF as a recipient of your charitable dollars. Your gift can be unrestricted, or earmark dollars for one of our five primary programs.Learn More »
What is the Reds Community Fund
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The Reds Urban Youth Academy (RUYA) is an urban baseball and softball training academy.
The Reds Rookie Success League (RRSL), a free, coed, character-building summer baseball program throughout Reds Country.
This initiative is a funding mechanism for underserved youth baseball and softball organizations.
Reds Community Fund Field Renovation program has underwritten improvements to area youth baseball fields throughout Reds Country.
The Coldwell Banker West Shell Match program is designed to bring youth baseball teams from the suburbs and the inner city together in the spirit of diversity, interaction and friendly competition.
Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) has been giving kids the chance to play baseball for more than two decades.


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by Kevin McCoy, Maria Ly, Kevin McCoy, Jason Jacobs and Bob Goodman
Tools like Nike Plus and FitBit, apps like Lose It, Run Keeper, and Skimble, and communities like Daily Burn and Spark People are helping to change everyday workouts from a solitary to a social pursuit. The magic of these devices, tools, and communities enables people to track their fitness, undertake fitness programs, track and share their progress overtime, and learn from peers and professionals. This panel will look at where it's all headed and what it means for everyday interactive experiences. Conversation will include the provocative question: can the Internet make you fit?
United States United States, Austin
9th–13th March 2012


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12:52 pm - 06/20/2012
SM-YG Heats Up Summer with Super Junior & 2NE1's Simultaneous Comeback Next Month
Two biggest rivaling agencies SM and YG are about to have a showdown this coming summer.
SM Entertainment and YG Entertainment both have been in tight competition, and are about to get down again as they present their big name idol groups around the same time. Super Junior and 2NE1 are said to be returning on stage mid-July.
A source tells, "The simultaneous comeback of these two star groups from SM and YG is sure to have a ripple effect in the industry!" He adds, "The result of the competition is surly the talk of the town as the confrontation should present an interesting outcome. All other agencies are already adjusting their schedules to avoid this period for their comebacks. This clash is the most anticipated event in the industry today."
The top two idol groups of Super Junior and 2NE1 facing each other will surely heat up the summer indeed.
For me, SM will obviously win, of course, but let's see about that.


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Spoleto Festival USA went into its 2013 programming with a few questions.
Would the TD Arena be an adequate stop-gap alternative to the Gaillard Auditorium under renovation?
Would late changes — the loss of Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn and the addition of Anjelique Kidjo and Johnnyswim — attract or confuse audiences?
Would the weather hold out?
The festival closed last week with clear skies at Middleton Place and about 1,750 ticket holders there to see the Red Stick Ramblers. Not bad, said Paula Edwards, director of marketing and public relations.
Box office receipts were a reported $2.8 million, about what was projected, and 63,000 ticket holders took in 160 shows. Patrons traveled from 19 countries and 48 states to attend festival performances, an increase from past seasons.
The first week of the festival was characterized by consistently fair weather and especially strong ticket sales, according to General Director Nigel Redden. The second week was wetter.
The festival, and the city-run Piccolo Spoleto Festival, are a potent economic force. A 2002 University of South Carolina study showed a total economic impact of $68 million. About $33 million went to labor earnings. When the University of South Carolina revisited the study in 2008, the total economic impact had increased to $85 million.
Those dollars flow through the city's economy because of direct festival-related spending (on tickets and merchandise) and because of indirect spending (on meals, hotel rooms, art purchases, seasonal job creation and even parking tickets).
The TD Arena proved to be an acceptable, even good, venue for several productions, including pop concerts by Kidjo and J.D. McPherson and the dance presentations by Companie Kafig and Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia. Some patrons were noticeably confused or irritated in their attempts to find their seats, and the acoustics were not ideal for large-scale classical music concerts, but the festival labored to create a decent alternative performance space and largely succeeded.
The arena will be used again next year. The Gaillard renovation is expected to be completed in the spring of 2015.
The substitutions appeared to have mixed results. Critics writing for The Post and Courier did not think Johnnyswim warranted headliner status, and Kidjo, despite her energetic and well-received performance, sang to a half-full house.
Especially popular this time was the chamber music series at the Dock Street Theatre, coordinated by Geoff Nuttall. It has long been a centerpiece of the festival, thanks to Charles Wadsworth's inimitable style and the broad selection of repertoire. Under Nuttall, the programming has become more adventurous, often featuring works by living composers, but audiences have responded enthusiastically, and ticket sales reflect the series success, Edwards said.
Spoleto Festival, a year-round nonprofit operation based in Charleston whose fiscal year starts Sept. 1, has an annual operating budget of nearly $7 million. It generates income from ticket and product sales, donations, grants and interest from its multi-million-dollar endowment. Earned income was projected to be $3.8 million this year, a little more than half of the total budget, Redden said.
Since producer Nunnally Kersh left the festival in 2012, Redden and jazz producer Michael Grofsorean, with help from associate producer Angela Yen, have expanded their programming responsibilities. Opera, dance and theater productions mostly are secured by Redden; pop, Americana and international musicians are mostly booked by Grofsorean.
The 2014 festival already is mostly programmed, and the Spoleto staff is looking ahead to 2015 and beyond, when the new Gaillard center will be open for business, Edwards said. The hall, which will seat about 1,700, will be ideal for the festival's orchestra concerts, operas and large dance productions.
The Piccolo Spoleto Festival, organized by the city's Office of Cultural Affairs, produces portions of the festival directly (especially classical music offerings), but largely relies on existing arts organizations that apply to participate and present their own plays, concerts, visual art exhibits and more. Piccolo centralizes ticketing and receives 20 percent of sales (performers get the rest). The funds collected by the city are used to pay artist fees and other festival expenses.
Ellen Dressler Moryl, director emerita of the Office of Cultural Affairs, produced her last full festival this year. Dance, which was in short supply, hopefully will make a comeback in 2014, she said. Moryl will continue to organize the Spotlight Concert Series and remain available to her successor, Scott Watson, and his staff should they want to mine her 35 years of collected institutional knowledge, she said.
Otherwise, she will devote herself to her 84-year-old husband, artist and composer Richard Moryl, and continue to advocate for a healthy and flourishing arts community in Charleston.
Reach Adam Parker at 937-5902. Follow him at www.facebook.com/aparkerwriter.


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Joe's post referencing Dickens: Echoes of Collapses Past: Obama's Coming Dickens Tale reminded me of this from October 11th of last year.
It is a place of the Victorian despair of a Dickens novel, a place of concordant plenty and deprivation, of the illogic of an Alice in Wonderland landscape, where up is down, good is evil and the laws of physics don't apply. This is the political world where there are no objective truths and where new "realities" are created and discarded as easily as free sandwiches disappear in Zuccotti Park.
By the way, the collectivist beneficiaries of free stuff at #Occupy[iwantfreestuff] in Zuccotti Hippie Central are miffed that non-demonstrators are taking their free stuff:
Meanwhile, the protesters are starting to notice folks taking advantage of the demonstration by grabbing some of the free food and clothes that have been made available in Zuccotti Park.
"The tourists take all the food, and the hipsters take all the clothes," said one demonstrator.
I thought that everything was supposed to be for everybody in this collectivist paradise? What, no peace, love and harmony? No bombs or dead cops? No rioting and wanton destruction?
Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn and the rest of the 60's just called and they want their demonstration back – you amateurs are embarrassing them.
But I digress…
It is time to take a step back from the micro view of the #Occupy[yournamehere] protests and draw some macro conclusions about how this individual event is being woven into the tapestry of Marxist hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that is supported by the Obama administration and Democrats in Washington.
President "Wink and a Nod" has given is tacit approval to the protests. The Worker's World Party has expressed "solidarity". The usual suspects of the aggrieved parties, Al Sharpton, Dick Gregory and Jesse Jackson have opined. "Notables", like actors/musicians Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Russell Simmons and Kanye West (who shows up at the park in gold chains and a $365 Givenchy shirt – you can't make this crap up, it basically writes itself) have signed on. Big Leftist Media is providing PR. The DNC has signed on, along with various politicians – Charlie Rangel and Nancy Pelosi among them.
To preface my points, I submit this, a quote of F.A. Hayek from The Road to Serfdom (pp 158-159):
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
If one is left to rational and unbiased observation to deduce the "meta" theme of the #Occupy[yournamehere] protests, the sum total of their grievances would seem to be resolved by the very forced equality of which Hayek speaks, this dictatorship of the proletariat. Isn't that really the basis of their "demands"?
This is also the central theme of the Obama Administration to the expressed ideas of:
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
[and to add to those oldies but goodies, Obama said in his presser yesterday (11/14/2012) that: "A modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs…They'll still be wealthy."]
As much as the Democrats and the "progressives" claimed that these quotes of Obama were taken out of context at the time, the three years of his presidency have proven their clear, concise and bone chilling accuracy and honesty. The "progressive" movement screeches with anger when the parallels are drawn between socialism, Marxism and communism. They are defiant in their disagreement that they can be any of these things, that they are "Americans!" just like you and me.
Ladies and gentlemen, they are not like you and me. They are fools.
They are openly campaigning for a collectivist state, one where they think that they will have the "power" – again, the dictatorship of the proletariat (a Marxist concept). They decry the control of "Big Everything" (corporations, Pharma, Insurance, Healthcare), yet they seek the contradictory ends of ceding control to Big Government while attempting to achieve it via anarchy.
These proto-communists claim democracy because in their general assemblies, they vote. I have news for these useful idiots; there are votes in communist regimes as well. There were elections in the old Soviet Union but somehow, the same government officials always won.
Democracy does not equal freedom. Tyranny can be placed on a ballot. Totalitarianism can be instituted with a majority vote.
In direct agreement with Hayek's observation, there is always "an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order" – that power being vested in some government function.
It is at this point that freedom and truth die.
These "progressives", anarchists and proto-communists are willingly rushing headlong to their doom. I would not mind as I have a libertarian streak in me and their choice is their choice, but they are taking the country along with them.
Nancy Pelosi was once referred to as "the most powerful woman" in Washington. Even with the electoral defeat that they Democrats suffered in the House in 2010, she still is quite powerful in shaping the "progressive" agenda. She also offers the most current illustration of the logical conundrum that the #O[ynh] crowd faces as they struggle to find a footing and legitimacy, a least enough to be defined as a "movement".
Pelosi has offered her support for the #O[ynh] protests:
"I support the message to the establishment, whether it's Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen," said Pelosi in an exclusive interview with ABC News "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour. "We cannot continue in a way this is not relevant to their lives."
Yet as a member of the Democrat Politburo, Pelosi enriches herself via her husband in the very type of corporatist, crony capitalism, back room deal that the #O[ynh] groups are protesting:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped become ambassador to Hungary, records show.
But a government watchdog said that even if it was not legally required, Mrs. Pelosi should have voluntarily disclosed the Russell Ranch investment earlier, at least by the time she was helping Mrs. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis become an ambassador in November 2009. Mrs. Pelosi promised upon her election as House speaker in 2007 to lead "the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history."
This is the kind of logical inconsistency that must be tolerated today in order to be a modern "progressive", a "man/woman of the people" as it were. This is the sort of pretzel logic that must be internalized to be part of this ideology.
Referring once again to Hayek's book and a chapter titled "Why the Worst Get on Top":
Since it is the supreme leader who alone determines the ends, his instruments must have no moral convictions of their own. They must, above all, be unreservedly committed to the person of the leader; but next to this the most important thing is that they should be completely unprincipled and literally capable of everything. They must have no ideals of their own which they want to realize; no ideas about right or wrong which might interfere with the intentions of the leader.
There is thus in the positions of power little to attract those who hold moral beliefs of the kind which in the past have guided the European peoples, little which could compensate for the distastefulness of many of the particular tasks, and little opportunity to gratify any more idealistic desires, to recompense for the undeniable risk, the sacrifice of most of the pleasures of private life and of personal independence which the posts of great responsibility involve.
The only tastes which are satisfied are the taste for power as such and the pleasure of being obeyed and of being part of a well-functioning and immensely powerful machine to which everything else must give way.
Former Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev remarked in a speech in Yugoslavia,
"I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you,"
This, of course a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism", paraphrased from Marx's Communist Manifesto:
"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable".
To those that seek to wrest the power in society from businesses (enterprises that can be destroyed if they do not follow social and moral rules) and vest it in a permanent government that, once entrenched, cannot be easily corrected, you would do well to heed Hayek's admonition and understand the mechanisms of "revolution" espoused by Khrushchev and chronicled by Marx.
Our Republic IS messy but…there is no better system of self correction than the governmental constraints imposed by a strong and limiting constitution in conjunction with with free elections in a representative Republic.
There is no better system than America.
This is NOT a "velvet revolution". The undertones are far more dire and the consequences far more deadly. I actually pity the #O[ynh] folks and the other fellow travelers of Obama's America. Our educational system has so desensitized them to the degree that they are nothing but clueless dupes, sheep being led to slaughter while singing "Kumbaya" and hugging each other in congratulation for their "egalitarianism" and "fairness"
"The only tastes which are satisfied are the taste for power as such and the pleasure of being obeyed and of being part of a well-functioning and immensely powerful machine to which everything else must give way."
Welcome to Obama's America.
Will the lilting melody of "We Shall Overcome" still be sweet upon the ears of the #O[ynh]ers even as their new "progressive" masters slit their throats?
Not if I have anything to say about it…
Bob Belvedere is every bit as pissed off about this as I am.
The Lonely Conservative has more…


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2006 Track and Field
HCAC Championships at Defiance College
Bluffton women place third at HCAC Championships
By Molly Burnell, sports information assistant
May 1, 2006
DEFIANCE, Ohio - The Bluffton men's and women's track and field teams competed at the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships in Defiance on April 29, 2006. The women finished third out of six teams, while the men placed sixth of seven.
Senior Rita Muether (Celina/Celina) had a huge day for the Beavers as she set two new Bluffton records in the 200 meters and the 400 meters. Muether won the 400 with a time of 59.07 seconds and placed second in the 200 (25.80 seconds). She was also a member of the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams which both placed third. The 4x100 team consisted of Muether, Jennifer Lehman (Berne, Ind./South Adams), Ashley Smith (Delta/Delta) and Chantel Mangrum (Jackson, Tenn./Jackson Christian). Muether, Mangrum, Smith and Kirstie Dravenstott (Smithville/Smithville) were all members of the 4x400 relay team. Freshman Karyn Davis (Liberty Center/Liberty Center) took home first place in the shot put competition with a throw of 36 feet, 2.25 inches. The women had an outstanding showing at the conference championships as nearly every member of the team scored points in the meet.
The Bluffton men claimed first and second place in the 400 meter dash as senior Colby Bright (Galion/Galion) won the event in a photo finish with junior Shandon North (Galion/Galion). Bright finished the 400 meters with a time of 49.14 seconds while North was only nine hundredths of a second behind. Bright and North, along with Johnny Ichrist (Toledo/Whitmer) and Dan Rosebrock (Napoleon/Napoleon) were members of the 4x400 relay team which placed second. Senior Dan Rosebrock took second place in the 800 meter run (1:58.56) while sophomore Rex Brown (Wauseon/Pettisville) placed third in the javelin throw (169-01) and took home fourth place in the discus (130-07).


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Here is my revision. Of course another person might have different ideas to mine but I hope this is helpful to you. :)
Local Public Transport
The purpose of this report is to describe the forms of public transport available in my area and also suggest how they could be improved.
There are not many kinds of public transport locally as I live in a little town close to the mountains. There are buses which carry some workers and students every day and a railway which is by far the fastest transport in my area.
The service on the buses and trains is not excellent. In fact I see a lot of disorganisation and the timetables are not always followed. Regarding cleanliness, the majority of citizens consider the trains to be quite messy and filthy, besides which fares are going up.
Nevertheless, our public transport has lower accident rates than the use of private cars. Indeed they prevent many deaths and injuries every year. Moreover, the use of trains reduces the emission of C02 and eases traffic jams.
To sum up, I would suggest greater use of public transport to save the environment.
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New Mexico can move ahead with establishing a state-run health insurance exchange under legislation signed into law Thursday by Gov. Susana Martinez.
The new law takes effect immediately, and one of the next steps is the appointment of a 13-member governing board for the exchange.
The exchange is to serve as a marketplace for the uninsured to buy medical coverage. One of the early decisions for the board likely will be selecting a contractor to establish a computer system, which will allow individuals and small businesses to shop online for health care plans offered by private insurers.
Uninsured individuals and families can receive federal subsidies to reduce the amount they pay for insurance. Small businesses can be eligible for a tax credit to help provide medical coverage for workers.
Under a federal health care overhaul, states had the option of establishing their own exchange, leaving it to the federal government or forming a state-federal partnership.
New Mexico faces a tight deadline —under federal law — to have the exchange ready to enroll the uninsured starting in October and be fully operating in January.
It's estimated that about 200,000 New Mexicans may be able to buy health insurance through the exchange by 2020. Nearly a fifth of the state's population lack insurance — one of the highest uninsured rates in the country — but some of those will be able to obtain medical services through a planned expansion of Medicaid, which is financed jointly by the state and federal government.
"As I said during my State of the State address, I didn't support Obamacare, but it is the law of the land. My job is to implement this law in a way that best serves New Mexicans," Martinez said in a statement.
The Martinez administration previously had taken steps to establish an exchange through an existing organization — the New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance, which is a nonprofit public corporation established in 1994 to provide access to insurance for small businesses and some individuals.
However, work on the exchange was put on hold during the recent legislative session and because of the threat of a possible lawsuit challenging whether the governor could unilaterally create the new insurance marketplace. Attorney General Gary King contended that the Legislature had to change state law for the alliance to be able carry out federally managed duties of an insurance exchange.
Martinez and legislators eventually reached an agreement on legislation to create the framework for an exchange. One initial dispute was over the board's power, and whether it should be able to regulate what health insurance plans are offered to consumers. Federal law spells out minimum requirements for health coverage, and it will be up to the state insurance superintendent's office to determine whether plans meet qualifying standards.
"This may not be a perfect solution, but it is a start that helps keep New Mexico on the path toward the creation of a unique solution for New Mexicans," said Sen. Benny Shendo Jr., D-Jemez Pueblo, a sponsor of the measure.
Under the law, the governor will name six board members, including the secretary of the Human Services Department, and legislative leaders will appoint six members. The state superintendent of insurance also is on the board but will vote only to break ties. The board must include two insurance industry representatives as well as a health care provider and consumer advocate.
The exchange and its board will be subject to New Mexico's open government laws, including those requiring meetings to be open to the public and providing public access to records.


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HALIFAX — While threats in Israel were on the minds of Atlantic Jewish Canadians, revitalizing small Jewish communities generated the most discussion at the 18th biennial convention of the Atlantic Jewish Council.
The weekend event, held Nov. 23 to 25, brought community leaders from across the region to Halifax for informational, educational and celebratory events.
In his presidential address, newly elected AJC head Michael Argand of Halifax stressed the need for more young people to be involved in regional and local activities.
"I promise you that in two years, you will all feel part of the community," the 60-something businessman told younger attendees. "We can recapture that 25-45-year-old age group to a sense of Jewish involvement. But you must volunteer yourselves to be part of this growth."
Argand was elected for a two-year term, succeeding Shulamith Medjuck, also of Halifax. Chosen to the executive were Haligonians Howard Conter as first vice-president, Howard Budovitch as second vice-president, Nana Shteinberg as treasurer, and Marilyn Kaufman, who hails from Fredericton, as secretary.
In a Sunday discussion group, a score of under-40 participants talked about creating non-synagogue based social and Jewish cultural events to draw in that demographic.
It was suggested that the community should find a "volunteer" volunteer co-ordinator to organize strong Jewish programs such as Shabbat dinners in private homes, while discovering the skills and interests of the younger demographic so programs of value can be offered to them.
It was also stressed that younger community members should become involved in the AJC's executive structure in order to give continuity to its future.
Immigration is growing in the region – Halifax has attracted 70 new Jewish families since 2008 – and a session co-ordinated by mostly Israeli newcomers revealed that their main concerns are connecting children to the community, finding employment, and retaining their children's Israeli culture by teaching Hebrew language skills (at Hebrew school) to newcomer children who are growing up as English-only speakers.
Also attending as speakers and panelists were Joel Lion, Israel's consul general to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, Jewish National Fund of Canada CEO Josh Cooper, Jewish Federations of Canada–UIA chair Marc Gold and CEO Linda Kislowicz, and Jordan Kerbel, deputy director of communciations and advocacy training for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Kerbel headed a discussion about pro-Israel advocacy and overcoming antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment in the media. He suggested that local Jews engage their non-Jewish friends by spreading positive social media items.
"We also have to educate our own communities," he said. "We have to understand the reasons that Israel deserves to be our own homeland and ramp up our education to those who don't know. We must get to our friends in local media for more positive coverage and write letters to the editor to combat anti-Israel sentiment."
He concluded, "Always speak positively about what Israel is. Never talk negatively."
Lion, who earlier sat on a panel with Kerbel about the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, carried the positive theme further.
"In 65 years, Israel has gone from nothing to everything. We mustn't defend Israel. We have to celebrate it. Give the message 'Look where we are. Look what we have given the world.'"
He said people should overcome the criticism of Israel as "an apartheid state" by coming to Israel and "seeing what's really there. We have won the Middle East because we continue to exist, innovate, invent. The others dance on the blood of the dead."
Community members Kathy Zilbert and Lloyd Newman, both of Halifax, and Harry Gorber, of Moncton, were recognized for their longtime commitments to their local communities and their contributions to Israel through organizational involvements.


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James Michael McAdoo scored 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds, as No. 11 North Carolina fended off Long Beach State, 78-63, in a tough non-conference battle at the Walter Pyramid.
Marcus Paige chipped in 15 points and P.J. Hairston added 14 for the Tar Heels (3-0), who needed a 17-2 run in the second half to put the 49ers away.
James Ennis and Mike Caffey led Long Beach State (1-2) with 18 and 14 points, respectively, in the loss, which ended the program's 23-game home winning streak.
The Tar Heels made three of their first four attempts from 3-point range, but missed 13 straight to keep the 49ers in the game.
They finally hit their stride with just over 15 minutes remaining when Reggie Bullock and Paige hit from deep on consecutive possessions, the latter resulting in a 45-43 lead.
McAdoo followed with a three-point play and a tip-in, and after Ennis stopped the run with a layup, UNC hit 3-pointers four straight times down the floor. Bullock hit the first, Leslie McDonald followed and Hairston made two in a row for a sudden 62-48 cushion with 11 minutes to play.
The visitors led by double digits the rest of the way.
A tight first half ended with Brice Johnson putting in a pair of buckets in the final minute to give UNC a 33-32 edge.
Game Notes
North Carolina heads to Hawaii next week to participate in the Maui Invitational, starting with a matchup against Mississippi State on Monday ... The Tar Heels did not score any fastbreak points but held a 55-39 rebounding advantage ... There were nine ties and 10 lead changes.


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To the Editor:
An interesting letter to the editor appeared recently, stating that many of the people living in this state would move if given the opportunity.
As a native of this state and someone who lived here for 55 years before my husband and I moved to South Carolina and then to Indiana before returning to Illinois in 2011, I now realize that we do have choices. Moving out of Illinois would be a prudent financial decision.
I was born and raised in the Chicago area. My husband and I raised our family here, and every time I flew over the Chicago skyline when I visited I would have tears in my eyes. I have spent all but seven years of my life here.
But when you have experienced the financial freedom of living in a state where the budget is balanced, the property taxes are one-tenth to less than one-half of what they are here, you start to think. The price of gas here is among the highest in the nation because of taxes. Many people I know have left or will leave.
Anyone who criticizes Texas Gov. Rick Perry for encouraging Illinois businesses to move to his state is simply not facing reality. They can bury their heads in the sand, but when people legitimately weigh the options of living in another state, Illinois wouldn't come out near the top. And it's not only because of the weather.
We need our elected officials to wake up.
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Concerned about Cowher
Cowher's unwillingness to publicly clarify his status, beyond a "year-to-year" assessment of his continued tenure with the Steelers, is unsettling to former running back Jerome Bettis.
"The Ben Roethlisberger (injury) issue I'm not concerned about," Bettis told USA Today in Friday's editions. "I'm concerned about Coach Cowher and his ability to stay focused. Is this a lame-duck year?
"He's the glue. If he's not motivated the same type of way, it will be difficult for this team to stay together."
Bettis makes his debut as an NFL analyst on NBC tonight.
The Steelers and Cowher have ceased negotiations on an extension of Cowher's contract, which has two years remaining, and won't revisit the subject until after the season has been completed.
Personally I think Cowher wants to take this year and make sure the fire is still there. He worked over a decade to get that super bowl ring, its the thing that drove him every year...year and year out. Now he's got it so before he commits to another 5 years in a contract he needs to make sure he's still got the fire to do it. His kids are in college now, he's got alot going on...personally Im not worried about it; players on the Steelers don't get a new contract 2 years before their current one expires so if Cowher wants to wait then its better to be sure. I think once he gets going with the season he'll realize how much fire he still has left and he'll sign this coming offseason.


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STATELINE (WIFR) -- If you didn't know it's Valentine's Day, you're probably in some trouble. For those who remembered, the holiday is bringing love to significant others, and to local retailers too.
Little Anthony Garcia says he forgot to buy his first grade love a valentine this year, a crucial mistake that apparently starts at a young age.
It turns out 64% of men don't start planning for February 14th until: February 14th.
"I'm not good at the gift giving you could say."
Justin Tiesman will spend more than 100 dollars on his love this holiday, pretty close to the national average, ringing in at $130 per person.
"I'd rather fix the car though.. we're having car trouble," Tiesman said.
Not to put any pressure on Tiesman, but a Bloomberg Business study shows, more than half of women surveyed will break up with a lover who did not buy them a gift.
That's probably not a concern for Andy Maxwell who surprised and serenaded his wife with a barbershop singing group at Chilis.
"I thought uh oh when I saw the camera, but it was very sweet," said Maxwell.
Other sweet gestures 189 million roses will be sold today alone, a gesture some guys like Garcia wish they had thought of earlier.
The study also says 15% of women end up sending themselves flowers. A special thanks to Johnson Elementary School for letting us join in on their party today.


text: UMW News BureauThe University of Montana Western will hold its 2012 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 15. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. in the Lewis and Clark Room at the University of Montana Western. UMW NEWS BUREAU Note: The UMW Office of Alumni Affairs announced the 2013 inductees at the 2012 induction ceremony. Next year's inductees will be Van Puckett (football), Donnie Keltz (meritorious service), Heather Hart (rodeo) and the 1977 football team. The University of Montana Western will held its 2012 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 15. The ceremony took place on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the Lewis and Clark Room at the University of Montana Western. The 2012 inductees include Holly Costello, Jake Hayworth, Randy Spaeth, Pat Yeager and the 1999-2000 women's basketball team. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Holly Costello and Olie Else."][/caption] Holly Costello University of Montana Western alumna Holly Costello will be inducted into the Montana Western Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, 2012. Costello earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from Montana Western in 2001. As a rodeo athlete at Montana Western, Costello was a College Nationals Final Rodeo (CNFR) qualifier in 1998; the 1999 Big Sky Region All Around Cowgirl and Reserve Champion Barrel Racer; a CNFR Barrels and Goats Qualifier in 1999; the 2000 Big Sky Region Champion All Around Cowgirl and Goat Tier; a CNFR Qualifier 2000 in Barrels, Breakaway, and Goats; the 2001 Big Sky Region Champion, All Around Cowgirl, and Goat Tier; and a 2001 CNFR Qualifier in Barrels and Goats. Costello and her husband Jake now live on a ranch south of Buffalo, S.D. and have two children, Cade (7) and Kelsi (9). Holly is currently finishing a second degree at Black Hills State University. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Jake Hayworth and Olie Else."][/caption] Jake Hayworth University of Montana Western alumnus Jake Hayworth will be inducted into the Montana Western Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, 2012. Hayworth earned a Bachelor's in Secondary Education from Montana Western in 1999. As a rodeo athlete at Montana Western, Jake was the 1999 CNFR Bareback Champion and Reserve All Around; the 2000 Big Sky Region All Around, Bareback and Saddle Bronc Champion; and the 2000 CNFR Saddle Bronc Champion and Reserve All Around. Since graduating, Hayworth was a four-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Wilderness Circuit Qualifier; a seven-time PRCA Montana Circuit Qualifier; a three-time Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo Qualifier; was ranked 21st in the 2001 Bareback World Standings, 19th in the 2005 Saddle Bronc World Standings and was 16th in the 2007 Saddle Bronc World Standings. He was the 2007 Montana Circuit Saddle Bronc Champion and a mentor to 2009 world champion Jesse Kruse. Hayworth currently starts and trains horses in St. Anthony, Idaho and is the co-owner of the Dark Horse Rodeo Company. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Randy Spaeth."][/caption] Randy Spaeth University of Montana Western alumnus Randy Spaeth will be inducted into the UMW Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, 2012. Spaeth earned a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education from Montana Western in 1997. Spaeth was a member of the Frontier Conference Champion Bulldog football teams from 1993 to 1995. He played in the NAIA semifinals in 1994 and 1995, was a First Team All Conference athlete in 1993 and 1994, a 1994 Frontier Conference Player of the Week, a 1994 Booster Club Player of the Week and an All American Honorable Mention in 1994. After leaving Montana Western, Randy spent 15 years as a teacher and head coach at Raft River High School in Malta, Idaho. His football teams have gone 103-47 with two state titles, three runner-up trophies and five third-place trophies. He was the head girl's basketball coach for five years and the head wrestling coach for three years (with one state title). He also served as the head track coach for three years and assistant track coach for eight years with a total of seven titles. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Pat Yeager and Mark Durham."][/caption] Pat Yeager University of Montana Western alumna Pat Yeager will be inducted into the UMW Hall of Fame on September 15, 2012. Yeager earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from Montana Western in 1969. Pat coached cheerleading at Montana Western for six years. She was a member of Save Our College and fought to keep UMW open when the Montana Legislature considered closing the campus. Pat went on to earn a double major in business and physical education. She taught business and coached cheerleading, drill team and girl's basketball and track at the high school level for eight years. After working in the private sector, she began working in the UMW Foundation office in 1997 before transferring to the athletic department where she served as the associate athletic director for the past nine years. She retired in 2012. Yeager is a 20-year member of the Dillon Soroptomists. She and her husband Jon rarely miss home or away Bulldog events, traveling with teams to playoff games and national tournaments. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="The 1999-2000 UMW women's basketball team with head coach Kevin Engellant."][/caption] The 1999-2000 Women's Basketball Team The University of Montana Western 1999-2000 women's basketball team will be inducted into the Montana Western Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, 2012. The Bulldogs won the Frontier Conference Tournament by defeating the previously undefeated, first-ranked team in the country, Lewis-Clark College. The Bulldogs went on to win the first round game at their first-ever national tournament appearance and advanced to the Sweet 16. The team led the Frontier Conference in free throw percentage (73.4 percent), had the single game highest team free throw percentage versus Montana State University-Northern (95.2 percent) and the single game highest team three-point percentage versus Western Oregon University (63.6 percent). Alison Burlingame was named First Team All Conference while teammates Bobbi Konen (Suhr) and Trish Gustin (Jones) were honorable mentions. Alison Burlingame was second in the conference in steals (2.9 per game) and fourth in assists (3.1 per game), tallied the most steals in a season (86) as well as the most steals in a single game (eight) and made the most three-point field goals in a single game (seven). Tanya Romer was fifth in the conference in rebounding with six per game. Bobbi Konen (Suhr) was second in the conference in field goal percentage with 58.3 percent and fourth in the in free throw percentage with 77.5 percent. Trish Gustin (Jones) was third in the conference in three-point percentage with 37.4 percent and second in assists with with 3.9 per game. The team's most memorable moment of the season came in the Frontier Conference Championship game when Alison Burlingame hit a half-court shot at the buzzer to beat previously undefeated and nationally first-ranked Lewis-Clark State.


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Cahana Named CAA Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
By ODU Athletics
July 7, 2004
RICHMOND, Va. (July 7, 2004) - ODU senior women's tennis player Nataly Cahana was selected as the Colonial Athletic Association Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and William & Mary senior men's basketball player Adam Hess (Grosse Pointe, Mich./Grosse Pointe South) was selected as the Colonial Athletic Association Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in voting by the league's 10 sports information directors.
The conference selected a Scholar-Athlete in each of its 21 championship sports this season, and each of those winners was placed on the ballot for the Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. All of the winners were a starter or important reserve on their team and had a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher.
Among the contenders for the award, four were CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in 2003-04 and three others were named to national All-Academic teams in their respective sports. Not only did the finalists excel in the classroom, but also as athletes. Seventeen of the Scholar-Athletes earned all-conference honors this season.
Cahana is a three-time ITA Academic All-American and a two-time winner of the CAA Scholar-Athlete award in women's tennis. The senior international business major was named to the VaSID Academic All-State team and earned CoSIDA Academic All-District accolades in 2003. On the court, Cahana became the first women's tennis player in conference history to earn CAA Player of the Year honors during all four years, sharing the award with W&M's Megan Muth in 2004.
She was also chosen as the ITA East Region Senior Player of the Year and finished the season ranked 34th nationally by the ITA. Cahana reached the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship in 2004 and finished her career with a singles record of 143-28. She won the ITA East Regional earlier this year and reached the semifinals of the Cissie Leary Fall Championships
Hess was selected as a first team CoSIDA Academic All-American in men's basketball this season after making the All-America second team in 2003. The finance major was a six-time member of the Dean's List at W&M, a three-year member of the CAA All-Academic team in men's basketball, and twice won the CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in his sport. Hess was also one of just three Division I men's basketball players to receive a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship this year. On the court, Hess was a two-time first-team All-CAA selection and was also named to the NABC All-District 4 and All-State teams in 2003 and 2004. The forward became the first Tribe player to lead the CAA in scoring this season with 20.3 points per game and he ended his career ranked 10th on W&M's career scoring list with 1,341 points.
His career scoring average of 17.9 ppg is sixth at W&M and ranks in the top 10 in CAA history. Hess was also among the CAA's top 15 in seven other statistical categories this season, including rebounds (6.7 rpg) and steals (1.6 spg).