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You know Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), or someone like her. At school, she's the busy mother volunteering for social committees and fundraisers. At home, this loyal wife oversees the tidy schedules of son, Logan (Sawyer Ever), and husband, Jeff (Josh Radnor). When no one's looking, she's happy to sneak a cigarette or dish about her dormant sex life with her frank-talking girlfriends. I'd bet my life savings Rachel has "50 Shades of Grey" and its provocative sequels on her Kindle.
But don't assume that you understand Rachel. Writer-director Jill Soloway's complicated indie dramedy "Afternoon Delight" hides a corrosive underbelly that threatens to shift the story in unexpected directions.
Lurking beneath the surface is an emotional discontent that's threatening to swallow Rachel's staid existence whole. She's dismayed by the superficial minutia her peers on mommy blogs have embraced. The thought of intercourse with her shlubby spouse sends her into a panic. She's unfulfilled and isn't fully able to express why.
This sounds depressing. It isn't. At least, not always. "Afternoon Delight" puts the typical suburban mother's lifestyle under an uncomfortably honest microscope, then documents the sporadically funny and occasionally sad results. The movie is cut from the same basic material that spawned the forthright and sexually explicit "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." But it has a softer, darker, and more sympathetic view of its characters because of the feminine perspective provided by Soloway (who took home a directing award from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year) .
"Delight" actually should be viewed as the female answer to the male-driven "Crazy Stupid Love," in which Steve Carell played a marginalized family man who enlists a dangerous muse to help remind him how to live again. Rachel doesn't encounter a dapper Ryan Gosling. (Too bad for her.) Instead, during an impromptu trip with close friends to a gentlemen's club, she meets and sort of befriends McKenna (Juno Temple), a saucer-eyed topless dancer. In this impressionable stripper, Rachel recognizes all the rebellious qualities she'd rather see in herself. She begs the girl for guidance and gets more than she bargained for.
"Afternoon Delight" doesn't break new ground when it comes to midlife-crisis analysis for the minivan set. Soloway steers clear of broad, wacky scenarios that easily could have steered "Delight" down more mainstream avenues. When Rachel invites McKenna into her home as a live-in nanny, the movie asks complicated questions and waits for us to find our own answers.
But "Afternoon" is groundbreaking in its own specific way. How many female comedians working in contemporary Hollywood are asked to carry a dramedy? The list is far too short. Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz used to do it regularly. Kristen Wiig, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tina Fey currently come to mind.
Hahn's name belongs in those same circles. An expressive and unfiltered performer, she's usually cast as "one of the guys" in raunchy ensemble comedies like "Anchorman," "Step Brothers" or "The Goods." Earlier this year, she effortlessly stole scenes from Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis in "We're the Millers," and the second half of "Delight" proves she can take an emotional punch.
The movie's a mixed bag, but Hahn makes the most of her opportunities. Casting directors would be wise to take note.
Two and a half stars. R. Contains strong, sometimes graphic, sexual content, language and some drug use. 93 minutes.
Ratings Guide: Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars OK, one star poor, no stars waste of time.


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In answer to a not and link a reader sent to Jim Sinclair on Great Britain starting some MOPE on Russia, he writes:
GB knows that Euroland is headed towards the BRIC nations as part of a strategy towards the ascendancy of the Euro versus the US dollar to the reserve currency of choice versus the dollar, a reserve currency by default. This strategy can now be seen as you review the percentage of fiat currency versus gold, marked to the market that the Euro represents.
The British pound does not want to be a lesser citizen of the new economic power currency.

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Email your organization's events to email@example.com. Please have them in by noon on Friday to have them included in the following Thursday's edition. Visit our website, www.abingtonsuburban.com, for the complete calendar listing, including additional events.
Friday, Aug. 15: Cocktails for the Courts
The Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, will host its annual "Cocktails for the Courts" fundraiser on Friday, Aug. 15, from 6-8 p.m., rain or shine. The event will feature signature cocktails by the State Street Grill as well as wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres. Music will be provided by the Von Storch Trio. Tickets are available at the door and are $25; attendees must be age 21 or older. All proceeds will benefit community tennis programming at the Waverly Community House. Call 570-586-8191 for more information.
Saturday, Aug. 16: Chicken Barbecue
The Countryside Community Church, 14011 Orchard Drive, Newton Twp., will host its inaugural, take-out only chicken barbecue on Saturday, Aug. 16, from 3-6 p.m. Tickets are $9; $7 for children younger than 10. Both adult and children's portions will include a baked potato, corn, coleslaw, roll and a brownie. Advance sale only tickets are available at the church office weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by calling 570-587-3206 or emailing email@example.com.
Friday, Aug. 22: Summer Cocktail Party
Serving Seniors Inc. will host its annual summer cocktail party on Friday, Aug. 22, from 5:30-8 p.m. at Abington Manor, 100 Edella Road, S. Abington Twp. Tickets are $35 per person and include hors d'oeuvres, cocktails and entertainment. Call 570-344-3931 for more information.
Saturday, Aug. 23: Dance Auditions
Symmetry Dance Studio, 206 N. Main Ave., 3rd floor, Scranton, is hosting auditions for its junior dance company for ages 11-15 in Clarks Summit on Saturday, Aug. 23, at 1:30 p.m. at Jaya Yoga, 320 S. State St. Call 570-290-7242 or visit symmetrystudioNEPA.com for more
Monday, Aug. 25: Toastmasters Meeting
The Greater Scranton Roaring Ramblers chapter of Toastmasters International will meet on Monday, Aug. 25, at Allied Services, located on the Morgan Highway in Scranton. Call 570-498-1110 or 570-350-7441 or visit scrantontoastmasters.org for more information.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The Abington Memorial Post No. 7069 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 402 Winola Road, Clarks Summit, meets the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. New members are always welcome.
Glenburn 4-H
The Glenburn 4-H Club is open to young people ages 8-19 who would either like to learn how to sew or know how and would like to learn new skills. Hilda Lewis and Ann Northup are instructors. Call 570-563-1369 for more information.
Social Singles Club
A social singles club meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month at Our Lady of Snows Church rectory basement, 301 S. State St., Clarks Summit. Meet other active, mature singles for fun activities and friendship. Call Linda at 570-470-5220 for more information.
Senior Center Activities
The Abington Senior Community Center, 1151 Winola Road, South Abington Twp., will host the following activities this fall.
• Oil Painting Classes will be held on Tuesdays from 12:45-2:45 p.m. The ten-week session will run from Tuesday, Aug. 26, through Tuesday, Oct. 28, and will be taught by Mary Lou Chibirka. Cost is $70 for the session.
• The center will run a bus trip to Baltimore and Annapolis, Md., from Wednesday, Sept. 10, through Friday, Sept. 12. The trip will include a tour of historic Baltimore, Annapolis and the Naval Academy. There will also be a harbor cruise to see the tall ships and a Blue Angels practice session. Cost is $354 per person, double occupancy.
Call 570-586-8996 or visit abingtonseniorcommunitycenter.com for more
information or to register.
Comm Summer Events
The Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, will host Camp Create, a specialized themed day camp for children with special needs in grades six-12 or equivalent abilities, from Monday-Friday, Aug. 18-22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information or to register, call 570-586-8191, ext. 2 or visit waverlycomm.org.
Summer Hours
The Newton Recreation Center, 1814 Newton-Ransom Blvd., recently announced its summer hours. The center will be open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed on weekends through Sunday, Aug. 31. Call 570-586-7808 for more information.
Bus Trips
The Abington Senior Community Center will host a bus trip to Baltimore and Annapolis, Md., from Wednesday, Sept. 10, to Friday, Sept. 12. Trip includes two nights lodging, two dinners, a guided tour of historic Baltimore, a tour of Annapolis and the Naval Academy and a one-hour Inner Harbor Spirit cruise, plus a Blue Angels practice session. Cost: $354/double occupancy; $443/single occupancy.
Call 570-586-8996 for more information or for reservations.
Permits Required
Clarks Summit Borough officials would like to remind residents that burn permits are required in the borough, even for recreational burning. Call 570-586-9316 for more information.
Safety Checks
In recognition of National Safety Month, the Home Instead Senior Care office in Clarks Summit, which serves Lackawanna, Monroe, Pike, Wayne and Wyoming counties, is offering a free home safety checklist for area seniors and their families. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 20 million seniors ages 65 and older visit the emergency room each year with almost a third of the visits related to injuries, many of which are sustained in the home. However, almost half of all home accidents by seniors (48 percent) can be avoided according to a recent survey of emergency room doctors, conducted by the Home Instead Senior Care network. To request a free home safety checklist, call 570-687-4755 or visit makinghomesaferforseniors.com.
Reflective Address Markers
The Fleetville Volunteer Fire Co. is selling reflective address markers for the residents of Benton Township. Organizers say that the markers are highly visible day and night, with reflective material on both sides. They are also fade-resistant and will last for years. Markers are $20 and will help the fire department find residences quickly in case of an emergency. Call 570-945-3139 for more information or to place an order.
Garbage Collection Notice
Garbage collection days will be delayed one day in the following weeks that include major holidays for residents of South Abington Twp.:
• Sept. 1, due to Labor Day;
• Nov. 27, due to Thanksgiving; and
• Dec. 25, due to Christmas.
Residents are reminded that the collection hauler is allowed under contract and for the safety of the general public and their employees to stop collection on any given day due to inclement weather conditions. If that is the case, residents are to leave their items out for collections for the next few days, as the hauler will return the first clear day to finish the route.
South Abington Township residents may call the township building at 570-586-2111 with questions.
Assistance Available
The Voluntary Action Center (VAC), 538 Spruce St., Scranton, was recently awarded a grant to help seniors age 60 and older enroll in SNAP, formerly food stamps. Officials say that the Senior SNAP Enrollment Initiative Grant will increase the enrollment of senior citizens residing in Lackawanna County in the SNAP program and that approximately two out of three senior citizens who qualify to receive SNAP are missing out on benefits. Senior citizens who have an income at or below $1,916 for single individuals or $2,585 for married couples and resources under $9,000, excluding primary home, vehicle and other items, could qualify for SNAP benefits. Call Jennifer Wynn at 570-347-5616 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Volunteers Needed
The borough of Clarks Green is recruiting residents to serve on various boards and commissions. These include the borough's zoning hearing board, board of health, planning commission and shade tree commission. Residents should send letters of interest to Clarks Green Borough, 104 N. Abington Road, or email them to email@example.com. Call 570-586-4446 for more information.
Preschool Available
The Oppenheim Family Children's Center at Keystone College is accepting new enrollees. Located on Keystone's campus in La Plume, the program offers several preschool program options for children three to five years old. Children must be three years old by Sept. 1 to participate. Preschoolers will receive developmentally appropriate educational services provided by qualified early-childhood professionals. The center also serves as a training site for students majoring in education and related fields at Keystone College.
Licensed and inspected by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, the center is accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs and has earned a "Four-Star" rating by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning Quality Rating System. This designation recognizes child care facilities which exceed state requirements.
Call 570-945-8260 or email email@example.com for more information.
Clarks Green Shade Trees
The Clarks Green Shade Tree Commission is seeking to assist borough residents by providing free or low-cost trees for resident properties. The commission is also looking for volunteers for plantings, scheduled in November and April, as well as attendees for its monthly meetings. Residents interested in either free or low cost trees for their properties are asked to contact the commission by emailing Jan Brown at email@example.com or by calling her at 570-586-4446.
Volunteers Needed
Serving Seniors Inc. is seeking dedicated and caring people of all ages to provide friendly visits and companionship to residents in long term care and personal care homes within Lackawanna County. Visitation volunteers will help to improve the quality of life of an older adult. Training is provided. Call Lisa M. Torch at 570-344-3931 for more information.
Ombudsmen Needed
Serving Seniors is in need of volunteers for its Ombudsman (Resident Rights' Advocate) Program. Volunteer ombudsmen are community neighbors who are specially trained to help clarify responsibilities and the rights of consumers in long-term living facilities. Applicants need to be available for a few hours a month, older than age 18 and concerned about the rights of nursing home and assisted living/personal care home residents. Call Lisa M. Torch at 570-344-3931 for more information.
Volunteer Opportunities
The Voluntary Action Center, a United Way agency, matches volunteers with volunteer opportunities at more than 100 nonprofit agencies in Lackawanna County. Visit the Voluntary Action Center's website at vacnepa.org to learn more or call 570-347-5616 for more information.
Used Clothing Drop Off Shed
The Church of the Epiphany, 25 Church Hill Road, Glenburn, is sponsoring a used clothing drop off shed, which is located in the church parking lot. All clothing, sneakers, shoes, belts, purses, blankets, sheets, pillowcases, drapes and stuffed toys will be accepted.
Organizers are asking that no rags, fabric scraps, pillows, toys or household goods be placed in the shed. Donations will not be cut up or shredded.
The items will be sent to people who can use them either in the United States or internationally.
Donations are tax deductible and receipts are located on the shed. If possible, please place items in tied or closed bags.
Items Needed
The Griffin Pond Animal Shelter, 967 Griffin Pond Road, South Abington Twp., is requesting donations of the following items: blankets, sheets, towels, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, paper towels, dish soap, kitty litter, puppy chow, kitten food, dog food, cat and dog toys and gift cards. Call 570-586-3700 or email email@example.com.
Park Survey
The Abington Area Joint Recreation Board (AAJRB) is conducting an online survey in order to gauge public interest and participating in the Abington Area Park community as well as to help the park better serve residents' needs. Those interested in participating can visit abingtonparks.com and follow directions to the survey.
Donations Needed
The Benton Township Lions Club, in cooperation with Abington Memorial Post 7069, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has placed a deposit box for eye glasses and hearing aids at the post home, 402 Winola Road, Clarks Summit. The yellow box is in front of the post and is clearly marked for deposits.
Online Fundraiser
An internet-based fundraiser is available for Abington-area residents who would like to help the Abington Area Community Park raise needed funds. If you use goodsearch.com and enter the Abington Area Community Park as your selected charity, one cent from each web search that you do through their site or toolbar addition to your browser will go toward benefiting the park's various initiatives.
Pavilion Rentals Available
The Lakeside Pavilion at the Abington Area Community Park, located at the intersection of Winola Road and Grove St., is available for rentals. Amenities include the use of Eston Wilson Lake, the boundless playground, soccer and softball fields, hiking and nature trails and a dog park. Handicapped-accessible parking is also available.
Reservation forms are available at the Clarks Summit Borough Building, 304 S. State St., or online at abingtonparks.com. Call 570-585-4811 for more information.
Dining/Meeting Room Available
The dining/meeting room at Abington Memorial VFW Post 7069, 402 Winola Road, Clarks Summit, is available for rental and catering. Call the post at 570-586-9821, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. for more information.
Help for Disabled Persons
Lackawanna County Coordinated Transportation is offering reduced-fare transportation to persons with disabilities living in rural areas of the county. Those eligible must live in Lackawanna County, be 18 to 64 years old, and have a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Applications are available by contacting Lackawanna County Coordinated Transportation, 800 North/South Road, Scranton, PA 18504 or by calling 570-963-6795.
Through Sunday, Aug. 17: Softball Tryouts
The NEPA Wildcats 16 and younger fast-pitch softball organization will host tryouts for its fall 2014/ summer 2015 team on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16-17, from 1-3 p.m. at Abington Heights High School, 222 Noble Road, Clarks Summit. Call 570-504-4808, 570-351-5187, 570-240-7030 or email email@example.com for more information or to schedule a private tryout.
Golf Tournament
The Newton Recreation Center will host a golf tournament at the Summit Hills Golf Course, 1235 Country Club Road, Newton Twp., on Saturday, Aug. 23, beginning with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. The captain-and-crew format tournament is $75 per person and includes a green fee, cart, dinner and prizes. For more information, call the center at 570-586-7808 or Diana McDonald at 570-587-3083.
Soccer Registration
The Abington Youth Soccer League (AYSL) is hosting online registration for fall youth soccer. Anyone born on or between Aug. 1, 1994, and July 31, 2009, is eligible to play. All players must still be in high school this fall to register and there is no residency requirement. Visit abingtonyouthsoccerleague.com to register. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 570-586-9589 for more information.
Little League Registrations
Anyone who would still like to sign up for Christy Mathewson Little League baseball and softball may still do so. Benton, Dalton, Factoryville and Nicholson, residents may call Phil Evans at 570-563-0223 to register. Lake Winola residents may call Gene Dziak at 570-955-9653 to register.
Soccer Openings
The Abington Fire Girls U12 Competitive Soccer Team has several openings on its roster for the spring season. Potential players should have previous soccer experience. The team will compete in league play and practice several times a week. Birthdates for eligible players must fall between Aug. 1, 2001 and July 31, 2002. Residency in the Abington area is not required to be on the team. Email email@example.com or email@example.com for more information.
Free Yoga Class
The Clarks Summit United Methodist Church, located at the intersection of the Morgan Highway and Grove St., is sponsoring a free yoga class on Tuesday evenings from 6-7 p.m., instructed by Tina Young.
Yoga Classes for Seniors
A yoga class for beginners is offered to seniors 55 years of age and older at the Abington Senior Center, 1151 Winola Road. The class is held each Monday at the center from 11:15 a.m. to noon. A fee of $4 per class is required to help pay for the professional instructor. Call 570-586-8996 for more information.
Zumba Classes
Zumba classes will be held at the Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, on Mondays and Thursday evenings at 7:15 p.m. and on Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. Call Diane Hibble at 570-878-8212 for more information.
CHURCH EVENTS Sunday, Aug. 24: Hymn Sing
The Countryside Community Church, 14011 Orchard Drive, Newton Twp., will host a hymn sing on Sunday, Aug. 24, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The event will be followed by an ice cream social. Call 570-587-3206 or visit countryside-church.org for more information.
Weekly Children's Program
The Waverly Community Church, 101 Carbondale Road, hosts a weekly series every Friday for children from three years old to fifth-grade level from 6:30-7:45 p.m. The "Badge of Honor" program will feature Biblical and character education while providing children the opportunity to earn merit badges. Call 570-587-2280 for more information.
Countryside Community Church Events
The following is a list of events taking place at the Countryside Community Church, 14011 Orchard Drive, Newton Twp.
• Bible study is held on Monday mornings at 10 a.m., followed by a prayer group at 11:30 a.m.
• The "Pins and Needles" sewing group meets on the first and third Tuesday of the month at 1 p.m.
• Choir rehearsal is held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. from September through May.
Call 570-587-3206 or visit countryside-church.org for more
Clarks Green UMC Events
The following is a list of events taking place at the Clarks Green United Methodist Church, 119 Glenburn Road.
• Sunday Drive Discussion will be held on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. in the church lounge. Sunday Drive Discussion is an open-forum conversation on contemporary questions and spiritual living in a secular world.
• A Christian book study is held on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. in the church lounge. Come and enjoy thought-provoking studies of Christian authors with diverse perspectives.
• Tae Kwon Do classes for all ages are held at the church. Children's classes are held Monday through Thursday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and adult classes are held on Saturdays from 7-8:30 a.m. Classes are open to the public for nominal prices.
• Exercise classes are held at the church on Mondays and Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. Classes are open to the public for nominal prices.
Call 570-586-8946 for more information on these events.
Bible Study
Bible Study will be held at the Countryside Community Church, 14011 Orchard Drive, on Monday mornings at 10 a.m. For more information, call 570-587-3206 or visit countryside-church.org.
Sunday School
The Chinchilla United Methodist Church, 411 Layton Road, is offering a refurbished nursery and children's Sunday school during Sunday services. Call the church at 570-587-2578 for more information.
SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Support Groups Available
The Lung Cancer Alliance is hosting a support group for children ages 5-18 who have a loved one with cancer that meets on the last Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton. A support group for children ages 5-18 with cancer meets the first and third Monday of the month from 5-7 p.m. at Timmy's Town Center in the Mall at Steamtown. The group's next meeting will be on Monday, Aug. 4. Call Rita Fenton at 570-586-0179 for more information on both groups.
Eating Disorder Support Group
Marywood University's Psychological Services Center will host a weekly eating disorder support group on Tuesdays from 8-9 p.m.,in the McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies. The group is limited to those 18 years of age and older and the fee is $5.00 per session.
According to organizers, the group will help support those with eating disorders on their journey towards recovery. The focus of meetings will be determined by the needs of the group. Some sample topics include mindfulness, intuitive eating, body image, perception of others and self-care.
For more information, to register for the group or for any questions regarding this group or individual treatment options, call 570-348-6269.
12-Step Program
The Waverly United Methodist Church, 105 Church St., is hosting a support group for Christians who are in recovery from various addictions that uses the twelve-step program as well as related scripture readings. Meetings are held on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon and on Thursdays from 5-6:30 p.m. in the church's fellowship hall.
Call Theresa at 570-587-2081 for more information on Tuesday meetings and Nancy at 570-878-7408 for more information on Wednesday meetings. Call Pastor Barbara Snyder at 570-586-8166 or Ron Hackman at 570-586-1043 for general information.
Alzheimer's Association of Greater Pennsylvania
The Alzheimer's Association of Greater Pennsylvania hosts a support group meeting at Elan Gardens, 465 Venard Road, Clarks Summit, on the last Tuesday of the month from 7-8 p.m. For reservations, contact Rhonda Falk, 570-585-8099, or Rita Fenton, 570-342-1776 (work) or 570-586-0179 (home).
Lung Cancer Support Group
A newly-formed support group for people with lung cancer and their caretakers will meet at the Center for Comprehensive Care, 5 Morgan Highway, Suite 7, Scranton, every first Wednesday of the month. Call Rita Fenton at 570-586-0179 for more information.
Families Helping Families
Families Helping Families meets at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday during the school year at the Abington Community Library, 1200 W. Grove St., Clarks Summit. This support group, provided by the library and the Clearbrook Foundation, gives families who face drug and alcohol addiction a place to find support, education and information.
Lupus Support Group
The Tunkhannock-area monthly lupus support group meets every third Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Tunkhannock Library, 220 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock. For more information, call 1-888-99-LUPUS or visit lupuspa.org.
Overeaters Anonymous
Clarks Summit meetings of Overeaters Anonymous at the First Presbyterian Church, 300 School St., are as follows: Sundays, 4 p.m.; Mondays and Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. Call 570-587-4313 for more information.


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The London Mayoral election is certainly causing fireworks in the capital, but it could well be that the biggest story on the night of May 3rd ends up being the local council elections being held across the UK.
There'll be elections held for 131 local councils in England and all the councils in Scotland. Though they're less glitzy than the mayoral clash, the local elections could easily have a greater impact in the long-run on British politics, with the Tories and Lib Dems clearly in for a rough night.
The Conservatives could end up with 400 fewer councillors, while the LibDems could lose up to 250, according to Professor Leighton Vaughan Williams from Nottingham Business School. The LibDems won't suffer quite as bad a night as last year, he told HuffPost UK, as there are "fewer councillors to lose."
With a consistent poll lead, Labour are in a good position to benefit. Prof. Vaughan Williams anticipates they could gain over 650 councillors. Polling expert Mike Smithson, from Political Betting.com, tells HuffPost UK that he expects them to win 750 councillors. "Their predictions to win only 300 or less are just claptrap. They should be doing very well indeed", he adds.
But Labour can't count on it being a perfect night for them. Glasgow is the place to watch in the Scottish local elections. It is Scotland's largest council, which Labour manage precariously in a minority administration.. If the SNP took control of it, Prof Vaughan Williams argues, it would be a "game changer".
"It's Labour's jewel in the crown. If they took that, whatever happened elsewhere on the night – that'd be the big story and would be a deep embarrassment to the Labour Party not just in Scotland but nationally."
The danger of Labour losing Glasgow to the SNP is underlined by Labour blogger Peter Kenyon. He told HuffPost UK that Labour's campaigning network, with which they won a landslide in 1997, "has been severely neglected, if abused in the intervening years". He warned that Labour's membership in Scotland is "pathetically low, that reflects the machine type political model [there]".
However, the SNP may be prone to "wildly inflated expectations", according to Professor John Curtice. He told the Huffington Post UK that the Scottish Nationalists "talked somewhat loosely about [their prospects]. They are at risk of failing". He admitted it would be a "quite substantial achievement" for them as it is at the "top end" of their expectations.
The other big story of the night looks set to be Birmingham City Council. Labour look set to take control of the second biggest city in the Britain - a council currently slenderly controlled by the Tories and Lib Dems.
Claire Spencer, chair of Birmingham Fabians, is cautiously positive about Labour's prospects. She tells HuffPost UK that "mathematically speaking its very likely that the council will become Labour". She highlights the fact that it'd only require "4 or 5 seats" for Labour to take control.
After George Galloway's win in Bradford West, speculation has mounted that the Respect Party could make an impact in Birmingham. Respect have claimed Labour is "running scared", claiming they could win the parliamentary seat of Birmingham Hodge Hill.
Claire Spencer is sceptical about Respect's potential impact in Birmingham, claiming they "aren't on the radar, as they haven't stood any candidates in the elections this time". She suggested that if Respect leader Salma Yaqoob stood for MP in Hodge Hill, it would help the Tories as it would "dilute the Labour vote".
The Conservatives are sanguine about the prospect of big losses in the council elections. CF Chairman Ben Howlett told HuffPost UK - "if you start at the top, you're not going to end up gaining more at the top".
"To be frank, we're going to lose seats" Howlett admitted, "but I haven't heard any briefings come out saying we're bracing ourselves for a massive defeat "
Howlett highlighted councils like Southampton as potential targets. He says that the Tories have their eye on the "last bastions of LibDem heartland" for potential gains. "Are we going to pick votes up from Labour? Unlikely" he says, "it depends how miffed off people are with the current system".
The LibDems are sober about their prospects on May 3rd. A Liberal Democrat spokesman admitted to HuffPost UK that it'll be an "extremely difficult" set of local elections. He suggests their target is to avoid the calamitous losses they suffered last year.
"We're hoping we could get to the point this year that we don't see the same levels as last year" he said.
The LibDem spokesman claims that in areas where the party has an MP, they have either held or increased their number of council seats. He claims that, from the by-elections this year, the Libdems are still "in contention" - as they have polled on average 26 (while Tories poll 34 and Labour 23).
He says the "biggest challenges" for the LibDems lie in the north.
"There aren't any Conservative councillors. We've pushed the Conservatives out of councils across the north of England. So where is the protest against the government vote in all the northern metropolitan cities? If you want to vote against the Conservatives, you can't as there aren't any councillors there. That is where we get hit."


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Pizza Pizza Announces 4.2% Dividend Increase
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Jan. 16, 2013 09:32 AM
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 01/16/13 --
Attention Business Editors:
Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp. (TSX:PZA), formerly Pizza Pizza Royalty Income Fund, today announced a 4.2% increase in its monthly dividend which will be effective beginning with the January 2013 dividend.
On an annual basis the dividend will increase from $0.72 to $0.75 per share.
For the period January 1 to January 31, the dividend per share will increase to $0.0625 from $0.06 and will be payable February 15, 2013 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 31, 2013.
For tax purposes, the Company's 2013 distributions will be treated as taxable eligible dividends. In previous years, distributions were treated in part as a taxable dividend and in part as a return of capital.
The Company's shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PZA.
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As celebrities including Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman celebrated Wal-Mart at its annual meeting last week, workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the company's U.S. stores and global factories. Around 100 striking workers with the group OUR Walmart arrived in a caravan from across the country to protest what they allege to be retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, safety and unions. Kalpona Akter, a workers' rights activist from Bangladesh, urged Wal-Mart to stop rejecting new safety standards after the Dhaka building collapse that killed over 1,100 workers in April. Wal-Mart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign onto an industry-wide agreement that establishes legally binding protections for garment workers. On the heels of bringing her demands to Wal-Mart shareholders, Akter joins us to discuss the campaign for improved safety standards in factories used by Wal-Mart and other major retailers. A former garment worker from the age of 12, she is now executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. We're also joined by Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, which investigates working conditions in factories around the world, and by Josh Eidelson, a journalist covering labor issues for The Nation who reported from the Wal-Mart shareholders' meeting last week.
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Aaron Maté: The annual shareholders' meeting of the retail giant Wal-Mart was held last week in the company's home state of Arkansas. Thousands of Wal-Mart workers were flown in for a week-long celebration of the world's largest retailer. In some ways, it resembled a major Hollywood event. The singers Jennifer Hudson, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend all made appearances. The actor Hugh Jackman served as master of ceremonies for Friday's meeting inside a sports arena named after Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton. To the cheers of thousands of spectators, the actor Tom Cruise took the stage praise on Wal-Mart's global reach.
Tom Cruise: Very pleased to be here. I truly admire your company, you know, and the more I learn about everything that you do, I'm inspired by what you all create every day, you know, because your company—I'm sure you all know this, but it is a role model for how business can address some of the biggest issues facing our world, you know, in ways big and small. And all around the globe, Wal-Mart is taking the lead and making a difference. And that's something I really admire. You know, that this company does is it's using its size and scale to improve women's lives across the world.
Amy Goodman: But amidst the celebration of Wal-Mart, there also came protest. The group OUR Walmart brought its demand for the company to commit to giving workers full-time employment and a minimum salary of $25,000 a year. Around a hundred striking workers staged a series of actions after arriving in a caravan from across the country. They have walked off the job in Florida, Massachusetts, California, to protest what they allege to be worker retaliation against those seeking to change company practices on wages, worker safety and unions. Although small in size, it's Wal-Mart's longest strike to date. Inside the shareholders' meeting, the workers and activists took advantage of a brief window to present non-binding resolutions before thousands of their colleagues as well as the company's top executives. The measures were all defeated, because the founding Walton family still owns more than half the company's stock. Janet Sparks, a Louisiana Wal-Mart employee, drew applause when she compared the wages of struggling U.S. workers to CEO Mike Duke's $20.7 million paycheck.
Janet Sparks: We all know that times are tough for many of our customers. But I want you to know that times are tough for many Wal-Mart associates, too. We are stretching our paychecks to pay our bills and support our families. ... So when I think about the fact that our CEO, Mike Duke, made over $20 million last year—more than 1,000 times the average Wal-Mart associate—with all due respect, I have to say, I don't think that's right.
Amy Goodman: Also speaking out there was Kalpona Akter, a workers' rights activist from Bangladesh. She urged Wal-Mart to stop rejecting new safety standards after the Dhaka building collapse that killed over 1,100 workers in April. Kalpona Akter made a direct appeal to Wal-Mart Chair Rob Walton.
Kalpona Akter: Mr. Rob Walton, I'm sure you know that these fixing buildings would cost just a tiny fraction of your family wealth. So I implore to you, please, help us. You have the power to do this very easily. Don't you agree that the factories where Wal-Mart products are made should be safe for the workers? For years, every time there is an accident, Wal-Mart officials have made promise to improve the terrible conditions in my country's garment factories, but the tragedies continue. With all due respect, the time for empty promises is over.
Amy Goodman: Wal-Mart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy.
For more, we're joined now by Kalpona Akter herself, just back from attending the Wal-Mart meeting, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. She started work in garment factories when she was 12. She's currently in the United States to call on retailers like Wal-Mart, The Gap and Disney to take the lead on improving working conditions in Bangladesh. And we're joined by Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, which investigates working conditions in the factories around the world.
We contacted Wal-Mart to join us, but they said they were unavailable. The Gap did not respond to our request for an interview.
Kalpona Akter, what about the response to what you had to say in the Wal-Mart shareholders' meeting?
Kalpona Akter: The response was, I would say, it was zero, which was expected, because this Walton will not get back to you when it has come the time to pay the workers or improve the working conditions. So, they didn't respond at all. But our point was, the people need to be heard. These Waltons and the Wal-Mart other shareholders, they should know from us, from the firsthand information, that—what's really going on there. They shouldn't just close their eyes and say, or just wash their hand and say that, "Well, we didn't know that," or, "It wasn't our fault. It was our sourcer who was killing these workers" in—back home.
Aaron Maté:: Well, Wal-Mart said no one from the company was able to join us today, but it sent us a statement that said, quote, "Some media reports have given the impression there was production for Walmart happening in Rana Plaza at the time of the tragic building collapse. That's wrong. Our investigation ... after the collapse revealed no evidence of authorized or unauthorized production at the time of the tragedy." Meanwhile, in May, Wal-Mart announced it would terminate its contract with Canadian jeans maker Fame Jeans after documents surfaced the company ordered pants from inside Rana Plaza. So, are these satisfactory steps to you?
Kalpona Akter: It is not. I mean, first, they are sourcing from the outsourcer. And when it has come to say that, "Yes, our products were there," now they are just saying that, "Oh, we are cutting the contact with our sourcing companies." I mean, definitely, this is not a satisfactory answer for us. That Wal-Mart should take responsibility. They were producing their clothes in Rana Plaza, but not in the time when the factory collapsed, but they had connection. They could even improve this factory condition. They could prevent these deaths, and Rana collapse would be even prevented.
Amy Goodman: There was the fire.
Kalpona Akter: Mm-hmm.
Amy Goodman: And then there was the building collapse, two different buildings, two different workplaces.
Kalpona Akter: Yes.
Amy Goodman: Did Wal-Mart refer to any officially from the stage at the shareholders' meeting?
Kalpona Akter: It was—you know, I was surprised that they haven't said any word about this fire and about this building collapse.
Amy Goodman: How many people died in the fire?
Kalpona Akter: In the fire, in Tazreen Fashion fire, it has killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. And in Rana Plaza, it killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured for lifetime. And in that shareholder meeting, they haven't even given any condolence for those families. They haven't felt sad. No word for those.
Aaron Maté:: Scott Nova, the wider picture here—can you talk about how companies like Wal-Mart and others use subcontractors to employ people in places like Dhaka?
Scott Nova: Sure. Well, it's crucial to understand, Wal-Mart and the other big Western retailers didn't stumble into a worker safety crisis in Bangladesh. They helped to cause that crisis by placing tremendous pressure on their contract suppliers in Bangladesh to produce forever lower prices, giving them overwhelming incentive to reduce production costs by ignoring safety standards. This is the fundamental reason why workers are dying in Bangladesh in factories producing for companies like Wal-Mart.
Amy Goodman: What are the safety standards that are being proposed, that The Gap and Wal-Mart have not signed onto, but other corporations like H&M have?
Scott Nova: Well, for the first time in the contemporary history of the global apparel industry, major brands and retailers have signed a binding, enforceable agreement under which they must pay to carry out building renovations, repairs and retrofitting necessary to turn these death-trap factories into safe structures. H&M, the biggest producer in Bangladesh, has signed. Carrefour, the second-largest global retailer after Wal-Mart, has signed. Inditex, the biggest fashion retailer, has signed. But Wal-Mart and Gap refuse to make these binding commitments to clean up their factories in Bangladesh and make them safe.
Amy Goodman: What are the commitments, and who wrote this contract?
Scott Nova: The agreement was developed by non-governmental organizations and both global and Bangladeshi labor unions. Under the agreement, the brands and retailers must open their factories up to independent inspections by competent safety experts with full public reports of all inspections. And then they must compel the factories to carry out any and all building repairs and renovations necessary to address safety hazards and make the building safe—installing fire exits, which most of these buildings don't have, to offer a critical example. They must then leave, cease doing business with any factory that refuses to undertake these repairs and renovations—except the critical point, the brands and retailers have to pay for the repairs and renovations; they can't place the burden purely on the factory. And if the factories will take the money and undertake the renovations and operate safely, then the brands and retailers have to stay and continue to produce at those factories and support the factory and support the workers.
Aaron Maté: What would it mean if Wal-Mart signed on?
Scott Nova: Wal-Mart is the second-biggest producer in Bangladesh after H&M. Wal-Mart's refusal to participate means that there are hundreds of factories and tens of thousands of workers that are outside the protective scope of this accord, which means that the safety hazards in those factories won't be addressed, the safety of those workers won't be protected.
Amy Goodman: These are some of the voices of workers, shortly after the Rana Plaza disaster, who said the factory owners forced them to go to work even after they found massive cracks in the building's walls.
Ria Begum: [translated] We didn't want to go up in the factory this morning, but the management forced us to go up and said there was no problem with the building. Just after that, I sat on my table to work, and the building just collapsed. I couldn't even leave. I was trapped at my table.
Jweel Islam: [translated] I started my work at 8:00 this morning. At about 9:30, I suddenly heard a strange sound, and I saw the building was collapsing. I then ran through a stairwell and jumped down. I lost consciousness, but I was rescued by others.
Halima Khatoon: [translated] Inside at about 9:10 a.m., the building collapsed, and we were trapped inside since then and up to now. It is 10:18 p.m. Eleven hours, we were trapped. We did not want to enter the building, but the owners pushed us to get in and work.
Amy Goodman: Some of the voices of those workers who escaped the Rana Plaza collapse. I wanted to go to what Wal-Mart and The Gap, these two—and I'm sorry that they wouldn't join us, but—are saying about not signing onto this contract that other multinational corporations are signing onto.
Scott Nova: Right. Well, one of Wal-Mart's most astonishing excuses, their claim is that the inspections they themselves do, with no transparency or accountability, will be a faster mechanism for protecting worker safety in Bangladesh—this from a company that has been producing in Bangladesh for nearly a quarter of a century and during that time has done nothing to protect the safety of workers. Gap's main argument is some abstruse claim about supposed legal liability that they face. It's a trumped-up claim. Gap's real concern is that they don't want to pay the costs of repairing these buildings and making them safe. But even if there is legal liability, the question for Gap is: Are they saying that workers in Bangladesh should continue to die so Gap can be protected from litigation? That appears to be their position.
Amy Goodman: And since we just played these voices from the Rana Plaza, Kalpona, again, the documents that surfaced, what, three weeks after, because Wal-Mart was called. They said, "We are not making clothing in this factory now."
Kalpona Akter: Yeah, I mean, we found that documents in the rubble. And my colleagues and me, we went there, and we found that. And it clearly says that Fame Jeans was—Fame Jeans, one of the outsourcing of the company—sorry, Wal-Mart—was sourcing clothes from Ether Tex, a factory, was located in Rana Plaza. And there were—when I saw the email in relevant to Fame Jeans and Wal-Mart, I called a person. There was a merchandiser. I called personally to that person to be confirmed that Wal-Mart was there. And he confirmed, "Yes, the Wal-Mart was sourcing from our company last year."
Amy Goodman: We're going to continue this conversation and talk also about Wal-Mart workers in the United States. Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity is her organization. Scott Nova, Worker Rights Consortium. And when I come back, Josh Eidelson will also be joining us, talking about Wal-Mart workers in the United States. Stay with us.
Amy Goodman: To talk more about Wal-Mart, we're joined by Josh Eidelson, journalist that's covering labor issues for The Nation, has reported from the Wal-Mart shareholders' meeting last week, also a contributing writer for Salon.com and In These Times. We are still with Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, and Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium.
Josh Eidelson, can you make a link between what Scott and Kalpona are talking about with worker conditions abroad and what's happening here, this growing movement around Wal-Mart?
Josh Eidelson: So, in each case, we see a challenge to Wal-Mart's business model, a business model that we see the most extreme consequences of in places like Bangladesh. When you talk to some of the workers in the United States, though, what they will tell you is the difference is just a question of what Wal-Mart can get away with. So we see this push down on costs and this active effort to suppress worker organizing, that has consequences that are dramatic and then has daily consequences in terms of the poverty of Wal-Mart workers in the United States. In each case, though, we now see a challenge. And so, we see a strike wave that's moved through Wal-Mart's supply chain. We see Wal-Mart retail workers, workers in Wal-Mart contracted warehouses and Wal-Mart workers abroad making common cause in taking on the company.
And we saw that in Arkansas when the strikers came to crash Wal-Mart's party in Arkansas. One of the most dramatic actions I witnessed there was workers, along with Kalpona Akter, along with international Wal-Mart workers, lining up across from Wal-Mart's home office headquarters to sing a dirge about the deaths in Bangladesh, to read Bible verses. And as they did this, some of those thousands of Wal-Mart employees that were flown in by Wal-Mart started watching, listening, taking pictures. At that point, Wal-Mart management started leading those workers in the Wal-Mart cheer: "Give me a W! Give me an A! What does that spell? Wal-Mart!" They were having workers do this cheer, as about 50 feet away you had workers chanting, "Which side are you on, Wal-Mart? Are you on the side of safety, or are you on the side of murder?"
Aaron Maté: Josh, what are some of the key complaints that OUR Walmart has against Wal-Mart? And what do you say to the company or supporters of the company, I imagine, saying, "Well, look, it's only a hundred workers. It's a small strike"?
Josh Eidelson: So, this absolutely is a small strike. The workers' main demands have been around wages, which one estimate pegged at $8.81 an hour currently; around healthcare; around staffing, which they say creates problems both for customers and for workers; and around retaliation against workers who organize. Wal-Mart is right to say that this is so far a very small minority of workers who are active. What Wal-Mart is not saying is that Wal-Mart is doing everything in its power to prevent this from getting bigger. We see what, in labor organizing, we call "carrots and sticks." So, on the one hand, Wal-Mart has begun to make moves at least to appear to address some of these grievances; on the other hand, you have these mandatory captive audience meetings, where the company lectures workers in mandatory meetings about not getting involved. And you have over 150 allegations of illegal retaliation and intimidation against workers to prevent them from stepping up. And so, when Wal-Mart says it's not concerned, it's fair to say that they're bluffing.
Amy Goodman: And explain what OUR Walmart is.
Josh Eidelson: So, OUR Walmart is an organization significantly backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. It's a part of the array of alt-labor groups that are organizing workers outside of collective bargaining, without demanding collective bargaining, but using mobilization, political, community, legal, media pressure and industrial activism like these strikes, which we have never seen at Wal-Mart in the United States up until last year, in order to try to transform the company's business model.
Amy Goodman: Scott Nova, why are you here in New York?
Scott Nova: We are here this week to meet with the comptroller of the city of New York, to participate in an event that he organized for investors, to talk about the enormous risks for investors that Wal-Mart's reckless policies in Bangladesh are creating.
Amy Goodman: This is John Liu, who is also running for mayor.
Scott Nova: Exactly, John Liu. The failure of Wal-Mart and Gap and other retailers to sign onto this critical fire safety agreement is not only, of course, extremely bad for workers, it's ultimately bad for the shareholders of these companies, because the risk to the reputation of these companies, if there is another fire, if there is another building collapse, is enormous. But the executives are acting recklessly, refusing to acknowledge that risk and refusing to take the steps necessary to protect worker safety in their facilities in that country.
Amy Goodman: Kalpona Akter, as you travel the country, do you feel that there's a different awareness about what's going on in places like Bangladesh? And are you concerned that if you raise these concerns, that these corporations will just move to the next country?
Kalpona Akter: In terms of the awareness, yeah, I mean, this is different level of awareness. If we consider like the last five years, I would say that the consumers—I mean, they are the main part of the supply chain, so they are more aware than before. And, of course, many things come—give awareness through the medias. And yeah, so this is really a different level I can see in these days. So—
Amy Goodman: And the issue of whether Bangladesh—
Kalpona Akter: Yeah, I mean, this is really a big point, whether the—
Amy Goodman: And we have 10 seconds.
Kalpona Akter: Yeah, whether these companies will be moved. I would say no, because Bangladesh is the world's cheapest country in these days, and there is no alternative market for these retailers to move. So they should be keep doing their business. But in the same time, they should sign this accord and make a safe working place for our workers.
Amy Goodman: I want to thank you all for being with us. We're going to do part two right after the show and post it at democracynow.org. Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity; Scott Nova, Worker Rights Consortium; and Josh Eidelson writes for The Nation and In These Times and Salon.com.


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Adventure Park & Hotel Vista Golfo
Come spend your next vacation at Adventure Park and Hotel Vista Golfo in the Gold Mountains (Montes de Oro) in Costa Rica. Whether you are looking for pure relaxation or prefer adventure tours, Adventure Park and Hotel Vista Golfo has what you are looking for.
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From San Jose take the Highway 27 towards Caldera >>Guanacaste. At 'Cuatro Cruces' (entrace Miramar) you will see a Shell Station on the right side. There you need to turn right and take the paved road that leads you through Miramar straight up to our hotel (approximately 14 km). Keep following the signs that advertise our hotel. With your GPS go to Points of Interest and just type Vista Golfo and it will come up as Vista Golfo Adventure Park and Hotel.
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This is my California buck. I drew a X zone tag this year and had a great hunt with two of my hunting partners. We all got 4X4's, with mine being the smallest. I passed up bigger bucks and took this one the last day I could hunt. Fun trip.
Every hunting season you miss is one you can not make up.
I had a pretty good year,
Got another bird but don't have a pic uploaded, all taken public land DIY.
Bob T nice pics. Is your deer from the Mark Twain National forest? I've hunted it a few times. Just curious.
Great pics! Looks like a lot of awesome animals were taken this year. I love seeing the threads with pics. Congrats to all.
Definitley looks like alot of you had great seasons. Congrats!
Here my wife's antelope. I was unsuccessful in the draws this year.


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University of Colorado faculty leaders may consider whether the use of black face paint at sporting events is school spirit or racially insensitive and reminiscent of "blackface" costumes.
The Boulder Faculty Assembly's diversity committee has raised the concern that, on multiple occasions, "blackface" costumes have been displayed at sporting events and on Pearl Street during Halloween.
But students who have worn black body paint to past football games say they're simply showing school spirit and supporting the Buffs, whose colors are black and gold.
Members of the Boulder Faculty Assembly received notification Thursday of a resolution, still in its draft stage, that calls on the campus community to "vigorously address" the unacceptable behavior. The assembly is scheduled to discuss the measure at a meeting next month.
The blackface minstrel acts, and their racist depictions of blacks, were a form of entertainment in 19th-century theater.
Boulder Faculty Assembly Chairman Joseph Rosse, a business professor, said faculty leaders are expecting to hear more context from the diversity committee on the issue at the assembly's next meeting. The draft of the resolution says CU values a diverse and inclusive campus.
In a preliminary discussion Thursday, faculty members indicated they'll be raising issues about fan behavior in general after CU students used profane language at the Kansas basketball game last month; discussing free speech issues; and exploring ways the school can condemn racially insensitive behavior.
Faculty representative Marty Walter, a math professor, said there needs to be a balance of respecting others' feelings and allowing students to exercise free speech rights.
While the draft of the faculty resolution cites no specific incidents, dozens of students have worn face paint to football and basketball games.
CU junior Chris Scully, a chemical engineering junior, and a group of his friends painted their faces and bodies black and wore blue and pink wigs to the CU-Georgia game in October.
Buffs fans, via Facebook, declared the game a "blackout," encouraging those supporting CU to wear black and show a unified front for the night game at Folsom Field.
"We were not doing it to be racially insensitive," Scully said. "We wanted to have fun and support the school."
His friend Mark Hinaman, a mechanical engineering junior, said he typically outfits himself in black-and-gold Buffs apparel for home games. He said it's ridiculous if their fanfare has been misinterpreted as racially insensitive.
"I would classify it as school spirit, and I think everyone else would, too," Hinaman said. "We all thought it was a blast, and we got a lot of positive vibes from everyone who we interacted with."
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[Ed Note: In particular, this trust's intent to offer no-cost "fieldworkers to provide practical assistance for the severely unwell" should resonate with ME/CFS and FM advocates everywhere this Awareness Day. The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Trust Facebook page is HERE.]
May 7, 2012 NEW ZEALAND:
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers around the world are looking forward to May 12th 2012 for their international awareness day. The exciting news is that a new charitable trust is launching here in New Zealand on May 10th to provide services for 120,000 – 220,000 people who suffer in this country.
Fibromyalgia (Fibro) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) are extremely debilitating disorders with symptoms such as extreme fatigue (unrelieved by rest), severe headaches, chronic sore throats, body wide muscle pains and spasms, insomnia, severe abdominal pain and nausea.
After 2 years of preparation and building relationships within the health sector, both medical and not for profits, the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Trust is now ready to start providing no cost services to sufferers throughout the country.
Services are aimed at achieving four main priorities;
• Raising awareness and understanding in the community
• Education of medical communities
• Education, self-management and treatment advice and support for those that suffer
• Fieldworkers to provide practical assistance for the severely unwell
The official launch is being held at Rannoch House in Epsom (Thursday 10th May) and is being celebrated by medical professionals, volunteers, other not for profit representatives and local sufferers.
All press are welcome to attend. Canapes and drinks from 6.30 onwards.
Contact Details:
Emma Nielsen
Founder & Chair
Email: email@example.com
Phone 09 282 3865; Cell 021 607 661


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West Hawai'i CC Nursing program to host open houseHawaiʻi Community College
Josephine K Lee Hong-Mauga, (808) 934-2810
External Affairs and Relations
External Affairs and Relations
Posted: Jun 6, 2014
KONA—The Hawai'i Community College Nursing & Allied Health Program will host an open house in Kealakekua on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 from 1 – 4 p.m.
The Open House will be held at the Nursing Laboratory Resource Center just below the Kona Community Hospital.
New and in-coming nursing students and their families as well as the general public are invited to attend. The event is free, and refreshments will be served. Nursing faculty, graduates and current nursing students will serve as hosts.
For more information about the event, contact May Kealoha at 934-2653.


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Special Bees, Playgroup for Special Needs Children aged 0-5
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SPECIAL BEES is an Auckland based play group for children with special needs and their siblings alongside their parents and carers. Special Bees invites all children with special needs (aged 0-5) to come and have fun playing with toys, games and a …Special Bees, Playgroup for Special Needs Children aged 0-5 Announces 2013 Dates & Plans
SPECIAL BEES is an Auckland based play group for children with special needs and their siblings alongside their parents and carers. Special Bees invites all children with special needs (aged 0-5) to come and have fun playing with toys, games and a variety of sensory equipment.
SPECIAL BEES is a place where positive play is encouraged and where families have the opportunity to receive support in encouraging their children to play and have fun. Casual attendance is welcomed and tea, coffee, biscuits & healthy snacks will be provided.
SPECIAL BEES is run by a specialist team that have experience in working with children with special needs. Headed up by Emily Conway, who started working with children with disabilities and their families in 1995 in the UK. Emily qualified as a social worker in 2001 and has worked in the field of disability ever since.
Conway says "I had found the work incredibly rewarding and I was humbled and inspired every day by the children, young people and their families that I had the pleasure of working alongside."
Emily's first role as a social worker was within a local council disabled children's team and whilst this work was very demanding, she found the work immensely rewarding and the challenges she faced working alongside families struggling with everyday life were matched with the reward of families making significant positive changes that she helped facilitate.
After 2 years in this team, Emily moved to a 'Shared Care' team recruiting, training, assessing and supporting specialist foster carers to provide short term placements for children and young people with disabilities. Seeing the children and young people she placed thrive, learn, develop and grow and also the carers that looked after them gain so much from this relationship in addition to seeing all individuals involved have such a rewarding experience was both humbling and inspiring and taught her so much about the kind of person she wanted to be.
Having moved to New Zealand in 2009 and having her son in 2011, she took a career break but when he was 18 months, she approached PLUNKET to start a playgroup for pre-school children with disabilities and SPECIAL BEES was born.
SPECIAL BEES is on during term time and is caters for anyone that is able to attend and is on the 2nd & 4th Monday of every month during term time. Children and their parents and carers are welcome to arrive at any point between 9.30 -11.30am and the play group is held at Zion Hill Methodist Church, Onewa Road, Birkenhead, Auckland and a $3 donation is requested.
Please contact Emily for more details on 021 040 2215 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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Sporting a pair of faux tattoos designed to mock opponent Jamie Varner (19-6-1), Drew Fickett (41-17) was forced to eat a little crow.
Varner landed a crisp one-two in the opening seconds of their Friday bout at XFC 16, dropping Fickett and serving as the beginning of the end.
Varner jumped on top of Fickett, unloaded a non-stop barrage of strikes that "Night Rider" was unable to defend. Under a vicious assault, Fickett rolled to his belly and tapped out to end the fight just 40 seconds after it began.
The contest served as the main event of "XFC 16: High Stakes," which took place at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium-Coliseum in Knoxville, Tenn. The evening's main card aired on HDNet.
Varner, who struggled through a 1-4-1 stretch in recent times, now has two-consecutive wins in just 49 seconds of total cage time. Fickett has now dropped four-straight fights.
The night's co-main event saw Josh Samman (9-2) utilize solid control on the floor and heavy leather to force a Mikey Gomez (12-9) tap from strikes in the opening round of their middleweight fight. Samman looked sharp on the feet early before Gomez looked to bring the fight to the floor. However, the jiu-jitsu stylist ended up underneath his opponent and eating heavy leather, sometimes with both fists at the same time. Gomez tried to buck free but finally wilted under the pressure, tapping out with less than 90 seconds left in the opening round.
In the night's lone female fight, flyweight Heather Clark (4-2) turned in an impressive first round against Marianna Kheyfets (6-0), battling int he pocket on the feet. Unfortunately, a chance blow that went unseen by event commentators, even with instant replay, closed Clark's right eye in the final moments of the opening round. Clark, who may very well have won the opening round, wanted to continue despite the injury, but doctors waved off the fight before the beginning of the second frame.
In an exciting 130-pound catchweight matchup Chris Wright (6-1-1) used his scrambling ability and a vicious ground-and-pound attack to earn a unanimous-decision win over Len Cook (2-1). Cook repeatedly gave up top position in an effort to bring the fight to the floor, and Wright took advantage of the dominant spot, blasting away with strikes and opening up a hematoma on his opponent's forehead in the opening round. Cook tried valiantly to turn the tide, but Wright continues to control the action and eventually claimed all three rounds of the fight.
In a slow-paced super-heavyweight contest, two-time UFC vet Chase Gormley (8-4) used superior wrestling to earn a decision win over a previously undefeated Brandon Sayles (2-1). Gormley started out well, controlling the opening round, before Sayles charged back in the second. With the fight on the line in the third, Gormley went back to his wrestling and again dictated the action from top position, earning the round and the fight.
In middleweight action, Tennessee's Amaechi Oselukwue (2-4) scored a highlight reel finish of Gerardo Julio Gallegos (4-2). Oselukwue missed on a low kick, but as he spun forward, he threw a straight right that landed directly on Gallegos' chin, who was looking to counter. The blow left Gallegos cold, and Oselukwue snapped a three-fight losing streak with the incredible finish.
In the night's main-card opener, Dustin West (6-4) needed just 83 seconds to dispatch of Stoney Hale (4-3). A high kick started the final sequence, and a barrage of knees and punches followed shortly after, forcing the stoppage that looked as if it could have even come a bit sooner than it did.
MAIN CARD (HDNet)
- Jamie Varner def. Drew Fickett via submission (punches) – Round 1, 0:40
- Josh Samman def. Mikey Gomez via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 3:37
- Marianna Kheyfets def. Heather Clark via TKO (doctor's stoppage) – Round 1, 5:00
- Chris Wright def. Len Cook via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Chase Gormley def. Brandon Sayles via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
- Amaechi Oselukwue def. Gerardo Julio Gallegos knockout (strikes) – Round 1, 1:23
- Dustin West def. Stoney Hale via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:23
PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)
- Scott Holtzman def. Brandon Demastes via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 1:44
- Chris Coggins def. Jay Meneghello via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 2:48
- Daniel Crockett def. Shane Matchette via unanimous decision
For more on XFC 16, check out the MMA Events section of the site.
(Pictured: Jamie Varner)


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The Lakers' string of bad luck continues.
They dropped a spot in the NBA draft, from sixth to seventh, after Tuesday's lottery provided one big winner that wasn't them.
The Cleveland Cavaliers vaulted from the ninth pick to the top overall selection after bucking slim 1.7% chances they would get it. The Cavaliers also won the first pick in last year's draft, taking seldom-used forward Anthony Bennett.
The Lakers got only six games out of Kobe Bryant this season and 15 from Steve Nash on the way to a 27-55 record that was the sixth-worst in the league.
They had a 6.3% chance to win the top spot Tuesday, 7.1% to take the second pick and 8.1% to win the third selection.
The Lakers had a 43.9% chance at staying at No. 6 overall, which suddenly looked good when it was revealed Cleveland jumped up from ninth.
Before the first ping-pong ball was even pulled, there was a 30.5% chance the Lakers would fall to seventh, and it happened. It could have been worse, perhaps. There was a 4% chance they could have fallen to eighth and a 0.1% chance of falling to ninth.
The Lakers can forget about taking anyone from the consensus top three at the June 26 draft: Joel Embiid and Andrew Wiggins of Kansas, and Duke's Jabari Parker.
More likely, they will be studying Kentucky forward Julius Randle, Indiana forward Noah Vonleh, Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart and Arizona forward Aaron Gordon.
Australian point guard Dante Exum, who shares the same agent as Bryant, is expected to be gone before the Lakers select at the seventh spot.
Not even bobblehead dolls of Chick Hearn and Jerry Buss could help James Worthy on Tuesday. Worthy, the Lakers' last No. 1 overall pick (in 1982), was the team's representative at the lottery in New York.


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I got the message while I was out of town. The owner of Little Pedro's said Nathaniel had flipped out while playing cello at the downtown Los Angeles club, launching into a belligerent tirade in front of his audience.
Fortunately, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers had calmed down before the situation got ugly and continued his concert on the sidewalk outside. But this well-meaning effort to treat him with dignity and respect, offering a job that might nudge him toward recovery, lasted only three performances and served as a reminder of how ill he is.
I was disappointed but not surprised. The man I met early this year is still a citizen of the streets, occasionally seeming as rational as you or I, at other times lost to the relentless cruelty of schizophrenia.
By at least one standard, the Juilliard-trained musician has taken a great stride. Almost every day, he pushes the shopping cart that contains his two violins and a cello to Lamp, a skid row agency whose mission is to gradually coax the mentally ill in off the streets. I had introduced him to Lamp months ago, but Nathaniel had no interest at first.
Patricia Lopez, the director, sees great promise in Nathaniel's visits for meals and a shower. It takes some clients years to get that comfortable. Nathaniel insists on earning his keep by mopping and sweeping the floors, although he isn't always a model citizen.
The 54-year-old Cleveland native sometimes argues profanely with other clients. He had to be separated not long ago from a woman he insulted. He uses a stone to doodle names and images on the courtyard sidewalk. He upsets blacks and whites alike with racial slurs, then is just as quick to offer impromptu concerts, sometimes making beautiful music and at other times struggling to remember a favorite Tchaikovsky or Haydn piece.
The quickest way to set him off is to offer housing or therapy. Nathaniel has been known to blow up or just stomp away.
"He insists very strongly that he doesn't want what he calls mental health involvement, because he insists there's nothing wrong with him," says Vera Prchal, a Lamp psychiatrist. "These are probably side effects from being forced into treatment before, and it's not unusual. Most of us wouldn't want to be told we're crazy -- that our brains don't work."
And so we wait, a strategy that seems both logical and insane. Nathaniel has to decide in his own time that he wants help, the pros keep telling me. And I keep wondering how a disturbed man can be expected to make a rational decision. It's a small window into the maddening, vicious circle of eternal hope and despair every family of a mentally ill person endures.
Nathaniel has an understanding champion in Anthony Hamilton, a homeless advocate who walked into Lamp one day and asked, "Whose violin and cello?"
"I went to the New York High School for Music and Art," says Hamilton, 44, a classically trained trumpet player who hasn't picked up the instrument in years. "I lost my mind in 1985," Hamilton tells me, "and there are things I used to be really good at that I can no longer do."
I asked, naturally, what he meant about losing his mind.
"I just lost my mind, just like that. I was working in PR in New York, and my thing was colors. I'd see certain colors, and they meant something to me -- mostly things that were spiritually negative."
He hoped it would pass. But his untreated delusions only got worse. In time, he developed a fixation on sidewalks and insisted on sleeping on the street. His horrified parents tried to help, but 20 years ago, Hamilton fled New York for Los Angeles, where he wandered in a daze until someone referred him to Lamp.
A diagnosis of schizophrenia followed, and Hamilton spent five years on skid row. Lamp founder Molly Lowery helped rescue him, he said, and now he tries to rescue others.
"I'm very struck with Nathaniel," he said, partly because they're both African American and artistic. Hamilton just went to the Basquiat exhibit at MOCA. The artist's colorful, eccentric street art reminded him of Nathaniel's pavement scrawling and of the way Nathaniel adorns his shopping cart with palm fronds, hubcaps and other trinkets.
"I see a lot of myself in Nathaniel," says Hamilton, whose illness is controlled with medication that's much more effective, and has fewer side effects, than what he and Nathaniel were both treated with years ago. "But one difference between us is that I knew something was wrong with me. Right now, Nathaniel doesn't have any insight into how sick he is. I think he could do well on medication, but you can't push them."
Sometimes, though, I want to do just that. I want to indulge my impatience, ignore the experts, and push.
Skid row teems with human misery, and the summer air reeks of urine, scorched asphalt and rotting trash. Men and women are sprawled on sidewalks. They scream at ghosts. They stumble and rant and threaten each other's lives.
Outside the door of Lamp, on a recent visit, a man lay in the street as if he'd just toppled out of his wheelchair. Was he drunk, sick, dead? I saw amputees, drunks, predators, drug dealers and the hopelessly psychotic, the lot of them thrown together and hanging on by a thread in a city and state without enough treatment centers, beds or concern.
Each night, Nathaniel lies down and sleeps on a sidewalk here, protected only by a hubcap he calls his shield and his trusty Beethoven stick.
Patience, say the experts, and surely they know best.
But is patience the humane approach, or the one that might one day cost Nathaniel and others their lives? I worry about him being attacked for the instruments I helped him get. I would testify, as Nathaniel's friend, that he is a danger to himself, that he and thousands of others need at least a temporary commitment in the hope of saving them.
Yes, I know the horrific history of involuntary confinement, but I wonder why an enlightened society can't agree on a humane way to rescue wives and husbands and sons and daughters who now sleep in gutters not far from the glittering skyline.
I think more and more about the advice of one psychiatrist who, while he agrees that patience is important, told me there may come a time when someone has to push.
I see Nathaniel's days slip away, lost forever. I flinch when the phone rings at night, wondering if something has happened to him.
I imagine telling him he can do much better than this, and that his resistance to help makes no sense. I'd like to tell him that the medicine is different now from when he was diagnosed 30 years ago, and that treatment could help him enjoy his one passion -- music -- without the hassles and dangers of the streets.
But I'm afraid of driving him away. And besides, how do you speak rationally to an irrational man?
Reach the columnist at firstname.lastname@example.com and read previous columns at www.latimes.com/lopez.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the second weekly poll released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), the MIT women's indoor track and field team was ranked 12th in the nation, moving up two spots from the last poll on Jan. 23. MIT is one of only two institutions in the NEWMAC that is represented on the top 25 list.
Over the weekend, the Engineers competed in the Terrier Classic at Boston University, earning a number of personal bests and breaking a few MIT records along the way. Junior Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.) broke the varsity record in the 800 meters with her time of 2:14.77, which earned her an 18th place finish. Freshman Isabella Stuopis (Amherst, N.H.) broke the freshman record in the weight throw when she threw a 44-4 ¼, which was good enough for 21st place. Back at home in the MIT Coed Invite, classmate Cimran Virdi also set a freshman record in pole vault with an 11-5 ¾.
MIT will return to the track on Friday, Feb. 1 when it travels to Medford, Mass. for the Tufts Invitational.


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BOLINGBROOK – More than $21,000 in valuables were reported stolen from a Bolingbrook residence, according to the Bolingbrook Police Department.
A residence in the 200 block of Laurie Circle was burglarized sometime between March 4 and April 5, police said. Unknown suspects entered the premises and reportedly stole cash and a diamond ring from a secured safe, according to police.
The total loss is estimated at $21,600, police said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-controlled House is set to approve a bill allowing workers to trade their overtime pay for more time off.
The measure would allow employees who work more than 40 hours a week to save up their earned time off for use weeks or months later. GOP lawmakers say it gives workers at private firms the same flexibility that public sector workers already have.
Democrats and worker advocacy groups oppose the measure, saying it opens the door for employers to pressure workers not to take overtime pay. They warn there is no guarantee workers would be able to take the extra time off when they want.
The bill is expected to pass Wednesday but has little chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The White House has threatened a veto.


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I have a problem at publish version of my application. I am testing the project in details at development tool, there is no error at debug . When I publish it, all combos at application are not loaded. It gives me a scrippt error which says "Cannot find table 0." When I look at the error with " IE Developer Tool ", It says that an error which titled as JsonRpcError says "Invalid object name +tableName+ " .(It throws an sql exception .) In brief , it says that can not be loaded the store for the related combo. But when I look at debug , there is no error at rpc and combo. It goes to related rpc , gets data from the related table although it says that the table does not exist. I thought that can be because of timeout . But the combos list max 10-12 data . And I can list the data from combo at UI ( at developer tool debug ). Unfortunately, It gives the error in detail and the items can not be listed from combo at publish. And realized that this error exists for all combos at application .
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text: No. I don't trade someone who is shown they can be one of the best in the game. Trout has shown that too for a season. I do not do it if I am the angels either. Fans already have an invested interest in both guys. A lot more to consider than just the raw numbers. Maybe neither guy would enjoy playing in the other city and maybe the other guys in clubhouse would hate the new guy. You don't mess with something when it is already so great....either side.


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DeKALB – Art met science and fun Saturday at the Electric Art Lab.
The lab was hosted for the second time in a row by the Bright Futures community program run by Northern Illinois University's STEM Outreach. The program encourages children's interest in electronics, said STEM Outreach associate Jeremy Benson.
The lab isn't completely focused on the science side of electronics. Bart Woodstrup, who teaches electronic art at NIU and oversaw the lab activities, said there is not much difference between what artists and scientists do.
"I think it's important for young people to see that relationship," Woodstrup said.
He said the art aspect of the Electric Art Lab is attractive to people. Last year, a couple of girls who were interested in drawing and art came to the lab, and Woodstrup said they came because it offered something creative.
"This is about teaching them how to build a circuit and then make art with it," Woodstrup said.
Woodstrup works in the Time Arts program in the NIU Art Department. The program teaches students how to make video games, video and animation.
Several parents came to the lab at Faraday Hall with their children, and worked with Woodstrup and STEM Outreach members on building devices that whizzed and popped.
The first device was a "throwie." Woodstrup said building this device required attaching an LED bulb to a battery and a magnet. The bulb lights up, but people are also able to stick it to a metal surface and create designs with them.
"People sometimes use it for graffiti," Woodstrup said.
The next device they built put a blinking LED on a 555 timer circuit. The circuit is commonly used in devices such as microwaves and clocks, Woodstrup said.
The LED was replaced with a speaker to make a synthesizer for the next device. The device creates a sound wave in the shape of a square, Woodstrup said.
Afterward, they used a solar panel instead of a battery. This made the synthesizer run on electricity generated from the sun.
Naperville resident Mike Rezak brought his son, Lucas, to the lab because of his son's interest in science. He said he learned a lot, including the basic principles of resistance and voltage.
"I thought it was informative and engaging," Rezak said.


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Parents interested in applying for School Choice openings in kindergarten, first and third grades may obtain an application from the superintendent's office at 39 Mass. Ave., or download the application from the link below and mail to the Superintendent's Office. Applications will be accepted until May, 3.
If the number of applications received exceeds the available openings in a particular grade, a lottery will be held in compliance with the commonwealth's School Choice regulations. If you have questions regarding this application process, please refer to the Department of Education School Choice information below, or contact the Superintendent's Office at 978-456-4140.
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Walter Anthony "Tad" Onorato Jr., 87, of Lantern Lane, died Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at his home.
Walter Anthony "Tad" Onorato Jr., 87, of Lantern Lane, died Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at his home.
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Episcopal Church, where he was a member, by the Rev. Tom King. Inurnment will follow in the church columbarium.
The family will receive friends after the service at the church.
Mr. Onorato was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on Sept. 9, 1925, to Walter Anthony Onorato Sr. and Jane Louise Anderson Onorato. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ora Warren, and a son, Timothy Warren Onorato. He sang in the church choir for 50-plus years, served on the Vestry and was a lay reader at his church. He was active in many community theater productions, served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II and was an avid golfer.
Surviving are his wife, Page Sink Haynes Onorato of the home; daughter Nancy Onorato Smith and husband Steve of Greensboro; stepsons David Haynes and wife Tammy and Nathan Haynes, of Lexington, and Charles Haynes and John O. Haynes and wife Ashley of Winston-Salem; sister Nancy Onorato Reynolds of Orangeville, Ontario, Canada; grandchildren Hayden Hobbs, Brian Smith and Carter Smith, all of Greensboro; and great-grandchild Kailan Hobbs of Pennsylvania.
Memorials may be made to Pastor's Pantry, P.O. Box 2051, Lexington, NC 27293 and to Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 1697, Lexington, NC 27293.
Piedmont Funeral Home is assisting the Onorato family.
Online condolences may be made at www.piedmontfuneralhome.com.