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Ragni, Gerome
Gerome Ragni 1942– James Rado 1932–
Ragni—American lyricist, playwright, and actor.
Rado—(Born James Radomski) American lyricist, composer, playwright, actor, and producer.
The rock musical play Hair has become a dramatized over-view of the 1960s. The Ragni-Rado lyrics span nearly all of the issues protested and embraced by the youth of that decade. The human body, marijuana, love, and sex were celebrated by the characters while they showed their contempt for war, pollution, and the establishment in general. The rebellion even extended to the conventions of the theater as the musical progressed in a haphazard fashion. The characteristics of the show denounced by some critics, such as the lack of a plot and the seemingly unchoreographed dancing, reflected the hippie movement that advocated a carefree, unconventional lifestyle.
The Ragni-Rado lyrics and Galt MacDermot's music have most often been cited as the best aspects of the play. The lyrics have been called fresh, innocent, and vital, but also rambling and of little importance. The play was also criticized for its idealized depiction of flower children and its failure to show even one sympathetic adult. Hair's topical characterization of the sixties weakened its effect and relevancy as early as three years after its opening. However, many critics felt that although it was a period piece, it would always have meaning for those who were a part of that era's counterculture.
Since Hair, Ragni and Rado have worked independently of each other. Their individual work, however, is not considered as proficient or important as Hair. In Rado's play Rainbow which could have been the sequel to Claude's story in Hair, a young man is killed in Viet Nam and taken to the rainbow world. The lyrics of Rainbow were written by Rado, in collaboration with his brother Ted. Their use of surreal imagery has caused reviewers to compare these lyrics to the works of Lewis Carroll. Rado's music for the play, combining country, big band, and show business styles, was better received than other rock musicals for its coherence.
Ragni's Dude was not so critically acclaimed as Hair and Rainbow. The play was an allegory about "that great theater in the sky" and the loss of innocence. It was said to be unclear in its allegorical representations. The critics see the lack of structure that was so successful in Hair as failing here and generally considered it an ambitious work that fell short of its potential.
Together, Ragni and Rado created a work that was a statement for its time and appealed to theater-goers and critics alike. Although the context of Hair is considered somewhat outdated today, the issues examined remain a part of our consciousness.
Clive Barnes
If only good intentions were golden, "Hair" … would be great. As it is it is merely pretty good; an honest attempt to jolt the American musical into the nineteen-sixties, and a musical that is trying to relate to something other than Sigmund Romberg.
If it had a story—which to be honest it hasn't—that story would be about the young disenchanted, turned on by pot, switched off by the draft, living and loving, the new products of affluence, the dispossessed dropouts. That, if it had a story, would be what "Hair" is about.
But "Hair" is sparing storywise—as someone might say. A boy wants to get to bed with a certain girl before he is drafted—yet that is not what "Hair" is all about. Much more, it is a mood picture of a generation—a generation dominated by drugs, sex and the two wars, the one about color and the one about Vietnam….
The intention is clear enough—to show a generation that has freaked out of the American "bedrock foundation of baths and underarm deodorant." The picture given, however, is only honest in parts, for the authors not only have little or no interest in dramatic structure, they are also easy prey for the first shiver of theatrical exaggeration that strikes them….
Dancing, singing, swinging, prancing, the open stage becomes [the cast's] arena for protest—and although reality is always quite a long way away, it is always just near enough for you to be uncomfortably aware how far away it is. This is a pity but "Hair" is still very much worth seeing….
[Charm] is perhaps the key to "Hair." The enthusiasm of its actors, the zest of its music and the very bustle of its somewhat purposeless action, are the things that make it attractive.
Clive Barnes, "Contemporary Youth Depicted in Play," in The New York Times (© 1967 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), October 30, 1967 (and reprinted in The New York Times Theatre Reviews, The New York Times Company, 1971).
Edith Oliver
I have mixed feelings about "Hair."… (p. 128)
"Hair" is a musical comedy about life among the hippies in New York—a mixture of humor and put-on humor and wistfulness and smugness and self-pity and baloney—and life among the hippies can grow awfully tiresome after a while. And disagreeable as well; the second act is mostly taken up with a drug party—a farewell celebration for one of the characters, who has just been drafted—and it is a distressing concept. Even so, the show does have a life of its own, which is always rare and which cancels out some of my objections. Then, too, the sight of such a patently vigorous and high-spirited bunch drooping up and down the aisles as hippies in beads, panhandling and passing out leaf-lets, is just ironic enough to make some inroads into the attendant depressing effects…. "Hair" simply could not have existed ten years ago, and it is conceivable that it could mystify audiences ten years from now, but it does catch, and quite successfully, one of the many moods and aspects of life in this city in 1967. (pp. 128-30)
Edith Oliver, "The Theatre: 'Hair'," in The New Yorker (© 1967 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), Vol. XLIII, No. 38, November 11, 1967, pp. 127-28, 130.∗
Howard Taubman
The story line of "Hair" … is so attenuated that it would be merciful to label the piece a revue. Examined under this rubric, it can be appreciated for what it essentially is—a wild, indiscriminate explosion of exuberant, impertinent youthful talents. What if coherence is lacking, discipline meager and taste often deplorable? The youngsters—authors and performers—have the kind of vitality that sends the memories of an older theatergoer wandering back to the twenties—to the bright impudence of "The Grand Street Follies" and "The Garrick Gaieties."
"Hair," it seems to me, is today's equivalent to those Off-Broadway revues of four decades ago in which another generation of gifted newcomers proclaimed their arrival. There are, of course, significant differences in content and style, but the great, overriding similarity is that of new voices expressing themselves with a freshness and vigor that warn they mean to take over uptown one of these days….
"Hair" is much more concerned with the larger issues than its predecessors of the twenties. Although it devotes a good deal of time to the tribal rites of the hippies, it lashes out at public figures. Its comment on the war in Vietnam is biting, and its contempt for contemporary institutions is unmistakable….
Could be that the score of "Hair" will shape up as an authentic voice of the popular culture of 1967.
Howard Taubman, "'Hair'," in The New York Times (© 1967 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), November 13, 1967 (and reprinted in The New York Times Theatre Reviews, The New York Times Company, 1971).
Robert Brustein
The concept of a hippie musical with an electronic score is potentially very exciting, and I am convinced that the sound of rock—a sound that has developed real drive, sophistication and vitality—is destined to become of tremendous importance to our stage. But despite its effective moments, Hair is still too closely linked to the meretricious conventions of American musicals to realize this potential, and there is something intrinsically one-dimensional in the hippie movement which prevents the material from ever developing a texture of any thickness.
Since the hippies have recently become the victims of a vast publicity network, there is also something intrinsically voguish about their scene, and this gives one the recurrent feeling that Hair is going out of fashion even as it is being performed. Like Viet Rock—to which it owes its inspiration and even a few of its episodes—Hair is pieced together out of newspapers and magazine sections, being a topical series of allusions to contemporary politics and culture, designed less to convey information than to play imaginatively upon what is already known.
Some of this is entertaining, but in none of it do we sense that the authors have thought about or felt their material very deeply, and they are too mindless in their acceptance of the teenage version of reality. The nonhippie world is facilely identified as a society of Puritan Moms...
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Henry Hewes
Hair has a minimum of plot, being content merely to try to describe what it is like to be a teen-age hippie. Gerome Ragni and James Rado, who wrote the book and lyrics … appear to take no sides in the war between generations. But because they are attempting to show us the world as it looks to the kids, the older people are presented as parodies of such attitudes as the one which allows a man to be proud that his son will die for his country in Vietnam….
There is a good deal of irreverent humor, and one touchingly funny song in which a girl … asks in an innocent voice that an obviously insensitive brief acquaintance return and take advantage of her and her girl friend again. Oddly enough,...
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Gerald Weales
What Hair has most to offer is the good-natured exuberance implicit in even the most ordinary rock music and embodied in the vitality of young performers. It has several amiable numbers—the ballad "Frank Mills," for instance; yet its songs are commonplace, musically and lyrically, compared to the work of the more sophisticated contemporary groups—the Rolling Stones in their most recent manifestation and the Beatles of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The plot, about which no one cares very much, is the old standard about the boy who loves the girl who loves the other boy who…. Although the show, despite its self-mockery, embraces the somewhat amorphous love ethic that is presumably...
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Clive Barnes
What is so likable about "Hair" …? I think it is simply that it is so likable. So new, so fresh and so unassuming, even in its pretensions….
[When it was off-Broadway] its music came across with a kind of acid-rock, powerhouse lyricism, but the book, concerning the life and times of hippie protest was as rickety as a knock-kneed centipede.
Now the authors of the dowdy book—and brilliant lyrics—have done a very brave thing. They have in effect done away with it altogether. "Hair" is now a musical with a theme, not with a story. Nor is this all that has been done in this totally new, all lit-up, gas-fired, speed-marketed Broadway version. For one thing it has been made a great...
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William Kloman
"Hair" will be the "West Side Story" of the sixties. The difference between the two shows illustrates how far we've come in a decade. "West Side Story" had vigorous music, but a smarmy social conscience. It now seems awfully dated. In good liberal fashion, it romanticized the lower classes to within an inch of their downtrodden lives. Events have outrun its message, and the vision of slum gangs dancing into battle would probably strike today's young audience as odd, if not funny….
"Hair's" godparents are Marshall McLuhan and Herbert Marcuse, the prophet of polymorphous perversity…. Love, in "Hair," comes interracial, intrasexual, and in multiples of three. As well as the regular way…....
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John Simon
[As an off-Broadway production] Hair was an unpretentious, charming, swinging little musical. Not without flaws, it was nevertheless youthful, zestful, tuneful, and brimful of life. In its new, Broadway version, it is merely fulsome. What happened? It would seem that the new producer was hellbent on giving uptowners a sensational revelation of how it really is; as part of that endeavor, he hired Tom O'Horgan [as director]…. Given his first go at Broadway, he was, like the producer, out to épater les bourgeois for all he was worth …; but, at the same time, care had to be exercised only to titillate the middle class, not to offend it. So, with shock and inoffensiveness as its contradictory...
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
"This, folks, is the Psychedelic Stone Age," says Claude, in the Broadway musical production, Hair. Claude opens the show by declaring that "… I'm a genius genius / I believe in Gawd / And I believe that Gawd / Believes in Claude / That's me that's me." Of course, Claude doesn't believe in Gawd—nobody does in the cast of Hair, because they are far too sophisticated, provided one understands that paganism is sophistication….
[A] great deal of energy—and talent—go into the production of this psychedelic extravaganza. It serves up everything from the shock-counter: boys love boys, American flags are desecrated, all those tired old four-letter words are used, there is male and...
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Theophilus Lewis
[Hair] is a saturnalia in scatology that voices the revolt of the hippie generation, which rejects all traditional values of the social order, as well as the amenities of civilized living. There is no story, at least not one your observer could detect, only a mélange of what a few years ago were regarded as indecencies.
If the American theatre is performing its constitutional function according to Hamlet's prescription—that is, reflecting the form and pressure of the time—we are living in the most licentious era since the age of the Caesars. Perhaps Restoration society was more dissolute, but it could hardly have been more vulgar. In Hair we may be observing a Hogarthian...
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Robert Kotlowitz
[There] is something curiously attractive about [Hair's] excessiveness (and vigor), its willingness to be both flamboyant and ruthless on behalf of its cause. The evening is a series of more or less salubrious shocks to the personality; and what keeps it steadily exhilarating is a kind of good-natured improvisatory humor that sweeps almost everything that might be offensive off the boards.
It is, in many places, a very funny show. A few laughs—the most dispensable ones—are one-liners, pure raggedy-end gags, which are not better, and sometimes are far worse, than the ones Guy Bolton or Dorothy and Herbert Fields used to write for standard musicals. Most are purely visual. Early in the show,...
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Benedict Nightingale
The beleaguered youth of Hair live precarious, vulnerable lives. If it isn't the fuzz, vindictively breaking up a harmless 'suck-in' on the steps of city hall, it's the New York winter, driving them out of the parks and into bare, draughty pads. If it isn't either, it's their own nagging sensibilities. They are touchy, curiously touching people, for all their brashness and exuberance. They take things hard, ludicrously so at times. When one of them rejects the gift of an admittedly hideous yellow shirt from his girl friend, she promptly breaks into a song about social injustice, moral indignity and most of the other human evils. They feel themselves hemmed in by pressures both blunt and insidious—hence the...
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John Weightman
Hair comes rather as an anticlimax. The actual performance did not seem to contain any features that have not already been present in other avant-garde productions. (p. 165)
The theme, basically, is another protest against the Viet Nam War. A boy belonging to a drifting herd-like mass of drop-outs receives his call-up papers and, after trying ineffectually to escape his fate, has to submit and is shorn of his anarchistic locks. But these events are commented on wrily, rather than pugnaciously; it is as if the pet lamb of the flock had been snatched from the pastoral bliss of the hippie world and rudely clipped by Them, the grown-ups, the incomprehensible people who run society on the...
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Clive Barnes
"Hair" is beautiful…. Nearly a year after the opening, the show has a kind of radiant freshness. It still seems as though the whole thing is swiftly, deftly and dazzlingly being improvised before your very eyes….
Seeing "Hair" again did raise a few questions. Its success stems from two things. First its perfect reflection of a generation that seems in no mood to lower its voice—it knows what whispering can do to people. Second the music by Galt MacDermot and the lyrics by Ragni and Rado. This is pop-pop, or commercial pop, with little aspirations to art—a clever and honest dilution of what is happening in pop music. Fundamentally it is pure Broadway—but Broadway 1969 rather than Broadway...
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Gene Lees
The real nature and significance of the [nude scene in Hair] seems to have gone unobserved by everyone.
Before we get into that, I want to define my position on the "moral" issue of Hair: I don't think there is one…. Perhaps the people who made and appear in Hair would like to think the "adult" world is uptight about the issue, but I don't think it is. Hair attacks only straw men, and by no stretch of the imagination is it daring….
I think Hair has no real social or philosophic point to make that hasn't been made earlier and better; it's fighting a war that has long since been won. But is it musically interesting?
Not to me it...
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John Rockwell
Hair has been the most successful music drama of the decade, if not of the entire postwar era…. [It] has been exalted as a paean to the health and vitality of today's youth, denounced as an open slander of time-tested ideals, dismissed as a commercial exploitation. Whatever one's opinions as to its worth, nobody can deny its success. (p. 9)
Hair has been widely hailed as the salvation of the Broadway musical, which has been dying an inexorable death from massive public indifference to arm-cranking chorines purveying plastic joy. But if this is so, then Hair and the phenomenon it represents must also be of great interest to opera-lovers, particularly those concerned with the...
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Peter Schjeldahl
[I dearly wish that I had seen "Hair"] earlier—say, during the lamented 1967 "Summer of Love" that gave birth to it. For, astonishingly enough, the three years of history that have changed me along with everyone else have also left a perceptible patina of age on "Hair," a patina which no amount of newly minted anti-Nixon-and-Agnew jokes can dissipate—inspiring some glum thoughts….
The unexpected trouble with it is, so to speak, at its roots.
What was surely devastating about "Hair" in its infancy was the raw topicality of its depredations—anti-Vietnam War, anti-racist, anti-"normality"—combined with the earnest sincerity of its affirmations—peace, love, sexual liberty....
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David Ewen
The psychedelic years of the late 1960's had a musical stage spokesman in Hair. The authors, Gerome Ragni and James Rado, have revealed that for two years they had been putting down random ideas for a musical about the chaotic world around them, the people they knew and loved, and the people and things they hated and rebelled against, and the various other vagaries and indiscretions of the younger generation in the Vietnam war years. Whenever the authors thought of something appropriate, they jotted it down on scraps of paper…. One suspects that the authors then threw all the slips of paper high in the air, let them fall pellmell, and then proceeded to write their text by picking up the pieces of paper at...
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Jonathan Swift
"What a big put-on!" is the cynical reaction many of us have on first being exposed to Hair. A closer look, however, might cause a wary reevaluation, for Hair's very dynamism could be part of our "hang-up." Unlike most plays in the theatrical tradition, every Hair production is a characteristically unique one…. The musical's ever-changing body at the same time hypnotizes us and deludes us. We must be wary of trying to read too much, of trying to find symbols in every word, in every bar of music: interpretation of the arts can be a treacherous game to play. (p. 626)
Hair has become a cause célèbre by virtue of its choice of language style. Fundamentally, however,...
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Clive Barnes
[This] godson of "Hair" never quite makes it. ["Dude"'s] pretensions are always clearer than its achievements, yet even those pretensions are not without a certain naiveté that might endear the show to some…. [Those] wonderful folks who gave us "Hair," here give us a brave try.
[Here] the lack of discipline to that imagination, a freedom that proved so charming in "Hair," chains the musical down instead of liberating it. In "Hair" the very aimlessness of the piece, its random poetry and shafts of insight could afford the luxury of a nonstructure because it was describing a life style that deliberately embraced nonstructured patterns as its aim. "Dude," on the other hand, seems to be an allegory...
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Walter Kerr
"Dude" might have been waved away as just another failed musical if it hadn't been for two things: its pedigree and its challenge. We were entirely aware of both as we sat—in the foothills, in the mountains, in the valleys, among the trees—watching it on opening night. The pedigree? "Dude" was by the authors of "Hair," that watershed rock festival that changed the minds of the country about what it wanted to look at and listen to. The challenge? The producers and authors of "Dude" made it plain by word and woodwind, by hammer and chisel, that they were out to restructure the contemporary theater in every conceivable way.
Let's take the restructuring first, since that is where the occasion's...
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Clive Barnes
The progenies of "Hair" have not enjoyed a great track record. It is therefore all the more pleasant to report that the latest of that tribe, "Rainbow,"… is a distinct success. It has the style, manner and energy of "Hair," as well as its chaotic organization and its simplistic view of a far from simple world….
The musical is joyous and life-assertive. It is the first musical to derive from "Hair" that really seems to have the confidence of a new creation about it, largely derived from James Rado's sweet and fresh music and lyrics.
"Rainbow" almost literally takes off from where "Hair" ended. At the end of "Hair," Claude, the drafted dropout, is killed in Vietnam. In "Rainbow,"...
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Walter Kerr
I was made seriously uncomfortable in the theater … last week … by a naive strain of what I suppose we've got to call triumphalism. That is to say, I was … asked to believe in much too easy a victory….
[A second act sequence in "Rainbow"], I am sorry to say, curdled my blood.
It came about this way. The first half of the entertainment began with the levitation of an American soldier freshly killed in Vietnam, while all about his flag-draped bier a group of non-mourners in curiously old-fashioned psychedelic robes, eye spangles, red hands and daubed foreheads sang him a welcome to their heavenly Radio Rainbeam show….
James Rado's songs … were enlivening,...
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Radcliffe Joe
["Rainbow"] is a brave little musical that makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in originality. (p. 13)
One gets the feeling that the show was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek backlash at the social and political structure of our present day society, for it does, somewhat feebly, try to poke fun at everything from God, religion, homosexuality, and the generation gap, to the President of the United States and the war in Vietnam. This basically has been its undoing, for in trying to be all things to all men, it succeeds only in becoming cluttered, confused, and lacking in direction.
The music, too, lacks originality running the gamut from old-fashioned revival meetings and musical sounds...
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Richard Eder
Nothing ages worse than graffiti. "Hair," the hippie musical, was a raffish slogan scrawled in day-glow upon the institutional walls of the late 1960's.
Its message—liberation, joy, pot and multiform sex, the vision of youth as a social class of its own and, in short, the notion that there can be flowers without stalks, roots or muck to grow in has faded.
It is too far gone to be timely; too recently gone to be history or even nostalgia. Its revival has no particular occasion to it, and so it must stand or fall quite badly upon its own merits.
It falls, or rather it sags. Its virtues remain, but 10 years after its first appearance they look much feebler than they...
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Brendan Gill
Why on earth should anyone have wished to bring back "Hair"? Surely not for any reason as simple as making money. No, I Fear that its producers believed in it and will perhaps not understand why its return amounts to an embarrassment. The novelties that proved attractive almost a decade ago—the easygoing, not to say fugitive, book, the informal relations between audience and cast, and the endearing (and never very erotic) nudity—have lost their power to move us. Except for two or three charming songs, what remains is a sort of cold dregs, which fail to give us even the sorry satisfaction of tasting bitter. It is simply there, poor "Hair,"… all feverishly abustle and all, alas, lifeless.
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John Simon
[When Hair! first appeared in 1967] it was carefree going indeed. True, there were weaknesses, but the show's flower children were in full bloom, the anti-war protest resonated endearingly….
By the time Hair was transferred to Broadway—stripped of most of its story line yet bloated and made vastly noisier, gimmicked and camped up by its clever but coarse new director, Tom O'Horgan—it lost most of its appeal. The chief new device was nudity—and what self-conscious and self-righteous nudity it was! Yet it succeeded, as souped-up versions of ingenuous little trouvailles hailed by the cognoscenti so often do. A decade later, the show is not yet a nostalgia-laden antique, but...
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Danielle Holmquist (Coral Springs, Fla.) and TJ Curry (El Sobrante, Calif.) both went undefeated at Thursday's Olympic Team Trials for Taekwondo in Colorado Springs and will advance to the final phase of the Olympic Trials in March.
Holmquist won all five of her matches in the female -57kg division. She went 4-0 in the round robin portion and then posted an overtime victory over Deireanne Morales (Lynwood, Calif.) in the finals. Holmquist will now face 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Diana Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) in March for the spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. As the #2 seed, Holmquist will need to defeat Lopez twice to earn the spot. Lopez needs just one win in March to qualify for her second straight Olympic Team.
Holmquist trailed Morales 4-1 in the third round of the final match but rallied back to tie the match and eventually landed the winning kick in sudden death overtime.
"Deireanne is young and hungry and has a bright future, but I felt really good today," said Holmquist. "Everything came together. Most importantly I was smart, calm and had fun."
The men's -80kg division was a double-elimination format and Curry won all three of his matches including a 3-2 win over Phillip Yun (Walnut, Calif.), a 6-2 win over Brian Gallagher (Littleton, Colo.) and a 2-1 win in the final over Luke Ford (Coconut Grove, Fla.).
Ford held a 1-0 advantage over Curry in the final round but Curry, fighting through a knee injury, responded with a two-point turning kick with 43 seconds remaining to jump ahead and hang on for the 2-1 victory.
"Luke Ford is a great athlete and I've been watching him for a long time, but I had the confidence in myself that I was going to get it back," said Curry of his come-from-behind win.
Curry earns the right to face three-time Olympic medalist Steven Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) in the final phase of the trials and will need to defeat Lopez twice to make the Olympic Team. He was runner-up to Lopez at the first phase back in November of 2010.
"Steven Lopez is great and I'm really excited to be fighting him again. I've always dreamed of facing him with a chance to go to the Olympics."
The Olympic Trials continue on Friday with competition in the female -67kg and male -68kg divisions. Start time is 10:00 a.m. in Sports Center I at the Olympic Training Center.
Final Results in Female -57kg
1. Danielle Holmquist (Coral Springs, Fla.)
2. Deireanne Morales (Lynwood, Calif.)
3. Simone DeVito (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.)
4. Nicole Palma (Lake Worth, Fla.)
5. Danielle Pelham (Bothell, Wash.)
Final Results in Male -80kg
1. TJ Curry (El Sobrante, Calif.)
2. Luke Ford (Coconut Grove, Fla.)
3. Brian Gallagher (Littleton, Colo.)
4. Phillip Yun (Walnut, Calif.)
5. Daniel Cosmillo (Ft. Myers, Fla.)
6. Alexander Ahlstrom (Granada Hills, Calif.)
Match-by-Match Results for Female -57kg
DeVito def. Pelham, 6-3
Holmquist def. Palma, 6-3
Morales def. DeVito, 5-3
Holmquist def. Pelham, WDR
DeVito def. Palma, 15-12
Morales def. Pelham WDR
Holmquist def. DeVito, 12-6
Morales def. Palma, 6-2
Holmquist def. Morales, 5-4
Palma def. Pelham, WDR
Holmquist def. Morales, OT
Match-by-Match Results for Male -80kg
Cosmillo def. Ahlstrom, 4-1
Yun def. Ford, 11-0
Gallagher def. Cosmillo, 6-1
Curry def. Yun, 3-2
Yun def. Ahlstrom, 7-3
Ford def. Cosmillo, 4-1
Curry def. Gallagher, 6-2
Ford def. Yun, 2-0
Ford def. Gallagher, 3-0
Curry def. Ford, 2-1
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About the Author: Rebecca Daley serves as Policy Advisor in the Office of International Health and Biodefense in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES).
On December 15-17, 2010, the U.S. government hosted the second bilateral meeting with Pakistan on U.S.-Pakistan bioengagement activities. I attended, along with a consortium of U.S. government and Pakistani participants, to discuss challenges, concerns, and commonalities between projects, as well as to clarify next steps, milestones, timelines, and funding mechanisms of these biorisk management projects. The projects, proposed by national stakeholders, were divided into categories that included biorisk management in health, livestock/ agriculture, management, education, and science and technology.
I was a part of the working group that looked at the project put forward by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) which looked to expand capacity of Pakistan through the Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) to detect and assess microbial and viral waterborne pathogens as part of its national water quality monitoring program. As we discussed in our working group, this project is important because a reliable laboratory is a prerequisite for a strong public health response to emerging waterborne diseases. The hope is that expanding the capacity of the PCRWR we will improve identification of vulnerable water supplies, as well as improve capacity to manage biological risks associated with drinking water supplies in Pakistan.
Our group, along with the other breakout sessions, will continue to work on a matrix which reflects the progress made since our December meeting -- many participants have talked about how this example of U.S.-Pakistan bioengagement was a model for other bioengagement worldwide. I encourage anyone interested in the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) or other biological engagement programs to go to our website.
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The code-named Zosma processors – quad-core chips based on the Thuban design with six cores – may never find themselves in the retail market. The chips, with potentially unlockable cores, are currently only aimed at original equipment manufacturers, said Advanced Micro Devices. However, going forward everything is possible…
"AMD sends out engineering samples to our partners to help them prepare for future products. Sometimes there are engineering samples sent that do not represent a processor that will see general availability. AMD Phenom II X4 960T is likely one of those processors. There is always a possibility that it could be an OEM-only SKU. AMD Phenom II X4 960T is not currently planned for general availability," said Damon Muzny, a spokesman for AMD.
AMD Phenom II 960T "Zosma" processor was supposed to be a derivative of the six-core AMD Phenom II X6 "Thuban" chips with two cores disabled. Back in the past advanced mainboards allowed enthusiasts to re-enable disabled cores inside quad-core and triple-core processors without any instabilities caused by that, which meant free performance. However, this is not going to be the case with Zosma processors, at least, any time soon.
"I have long-since learned the dangers of saying 'never' in this industry. I would like to to set correct expectations on the possibility of a quad-core derivative of 'Thuban' in the channel any time soon," added Mr. Muzny.
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Posted on 09/16/2005 3:07:56 PM PDT by Panerai
OCCASIONAL LISTENERS to ''Extreme Games" on WTKK are accustomed to host Jay Severin admiring himself in the mirror of his own imagination, a glass so vast and glittering as to rival the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
But last Friday, the talkmaster positively outdid himself in setting new laurels upon his brow:
He awarded himself a Pulitzer Prize.
That came as part of a conversation with a caller about the declining standards he sees in journalism. Here's what Jay said: ''But since journalism began, and up until the time at least that I took my master's degree at Boston University -- and may I add without being obnoxious, up till and including the time that I received a Pulitzer Prize for my columns for excellence in online journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism, the highest possible award for writing on the Web -- right up to and including that in 1998, you still had to practice journalism to be a journalist."
That struck several listeners as unlikely. Once I'd heard the claim, I asked the Pulitzer folks to check it out. ''We looked at the records and there is no record of him winning a Pulitzer Prize," says Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzers. Nor is there a Pulitzer for excellence in online journalism.
How does Jay explain his assertion?
''What I said was, there is a prize that my editor told me is the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Web journalism," Severin said in an interview. ''That is a hell of a caveat."
Certainly it would have been if Severin had made it. The problem is, he didn't. I read him his on-air comment.
''I certainly could have been more precise," he conceded. Or more, say, truthful.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
A master's degree? So what... you don't brag about that.
I don't know what is the matter with him. He claimed Pres. Bush would lose the second election (because of exit polls which Rush Limbaugh warned us to completely ignore) and now he wants us to pull out of Iraq which will bring devastating effects and a real boost to terrorists all over the world.
Does he hate the President that much that we should pull out of Iraq because it was the idea of the President to go in there?
Your taking the side of the Boston Globe is disgusting on its face. Moreover, this is a meaningless charge, a drive-by shooting which is utterly insignificant.
Scot Lehigh has been in a pissing match with Jay for the last 2 years.
Howie Carr, to ridicule Jay Severins, is saying he went to Harvard Law School for two years (he used to pick up his kids at the Havard day school)
O'Reilly constantly does.
Jay recently filled in for Neal Boortz for a few days on WSB in Atlanta. I had never heard him before.
I listened to part of one day's effort. The following days I needed to clip my toenails or some such important task and left Jay to his hatred of Bush and his self adulation.
So it left me puzzled as to why Neal had Severin filling in. Then a light dawned. Neal is a Libertarian, and Severin is a libertarian, I think.
I get easily irritated with Boortz and turn him off, but at least he sometimes has an entertaining show.
Jay was a senior at Vassar College when I was a freshman. Only then his name wasn't Jay Severin. It was Jimmy Severino and he was a townie, from Poughkeepsie.
He was no preppie - but he was obsessed with them. He used to pretend he was one and would walk around with the collar of his polo shirts up. When he met a new person, he never asked them what their name was. His first question was always " Are you a preppie ?"
Exactly right.
Actually, his biggest gaffe, if you believe certain reports, was to engage in some sort of off-camera hanky panky at MSNBC, which led to him getting fired after only a couple of weeks on the air. More here:
Jay used to be ok until he began to support the Dems, but not support the Dems, if you know what I mean. There's enough criticism of Bush on the MSM that we don't need to hear him go on with the same rant repeatedly. Also, I've noticed that I can't turn on that station without finding it in the middle of a commercial break, usually a very long one. It appears that commercials account for the largest protion of content. And when Jay stoops to on-air product promotion (Perfect smiles / Contertop Shope etc.,), I just want to throw up. For all his past criticism of AM stations, WTTK(sp?)is no better.
That's fine; it's funny. But the Glob has no honor, no standing to nitpick. From Lehigh's column, it would seem to have been an honest mistake on Jay's part, and so the hack journalist's gotcha with a pious tone about being truthful grates.
I've heard Jay Severin tell the story before and, as I recall, he explained that he meant the prize was the online equivalent of the Pulitzer.
Moreover his self proclaimed love of all things military is a bit much to take at times when he opposes the mission they are conducting.
Ole Duke Nuke'm needs to learn a bit of humility. Perhaps this will help.
"So it left me puzzled as to why Neal had Severin filling in. Then a light dawned. Neal is a Libertarian, and Severin is a libertarian"
Libertarian = new age liberal. Leopards, spots,
fence rider$, re-arrange, you get the picture.
HA! Also, Michael Savage and his 500 master's degrees and his Ph.D in Botany or whatever it is...
But he fits right in here in Bosotown, doesn't he?
We have a U.S. Senator whose sole claim to fame -- not infamy, now -- is that his three older brothers died in World War II, in the back seat of the presidential limousine, and in a kitchen staffed by a Palestinian with a pistol.
We have another U.S. Senator who claims to be a war hero for being wounded while playing with a grenade launcher, for wearing a bandaid, and for shooting an unarmed, fleeing teenage Vietnamese boy in the back.
We have numerous frauds up her in the public arena. Scoopnose Severin is just one of many frauds here.
Jay has not been on WTTK 96.9fm out of Boston going on three weeks now. Does anybody know what is up with that???
Severin has been severly embarrassed by the revelations of all the things he has simply made up - his Pulitzer - his "on-line equivalent of the Pulitzer" - his Harvard Law degree - his award for his MNBC column - and now it turns out that the Masters Degree from Boston University is a figment of his imagination. He just makes things up to give him cred. Who wants to listen to someone like that.
I listened to Jay for five years. I haven't listened to Jay much in the past year but I did enjoy him when he wasn't ranting and raving against the war in Iraq, or Pres. Bush, or trying to convince everyone he was Gods gift to young, sexy women. I can't IMAGINE being married to the guy and always suspected he was divorced at least once.
It must be true that vampires (have you ever seen Jays picture?) can't see their own reflection in the mirror the way he seemed to fool himself into believing he was a young studmuffin.
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Seat belt use better but still not good enough
While visiting our daughter and family in Charlottesville, Va., a newspaper article about rural Virginia lagging in use of seat belts caught my attention. It compared the rural area section west and north of Richmond, with a 2011 compliance rate of only 76 percent, with the state's rate of 82 percent. Compliance nationwide was 84 percent.
A major contributing factor to Virginia's low compliance rate is the fact that failure to wear a seat belt is a secondary offense, meaning a police officer must observe some other violation first before he/she can stop a vehicle for failure to wear a seat belt. In New York state, failure to buckle up is a primary offense -? you can be stopped and fined for that offense alone.
Another contributing factor is that in Virginia, the fine for failure to wear a seat belt is only $25, the fourth lowest in the country. It's a proven fact that seat belt compliance is directly proportional to enforcement and sanctions.
For comparison, in New?York state, the overall compliance rate was 90.5 percent in 2011. Compliance rates in states where primary enforcement is the law average 90.4 percent. In states where it is a secondary law, compliance averaged only 81.9 percent for 2011. The state with the highest compliance rate was Washington, where compliance was 97.5 percent. The lowest rate was 73.2 percent in Massachusetts.
In 2011 seat belt compliance in Franklin County was 90 percent, quite good for a rural county. However, we need to get the compliance rate closer to 100 percent.
From the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a nationwide telephone survey found the top reasons for not using a safety belt were forgetfulness, discomfort, inconvenience, low perceived risk of crashing (e.g., driving on private roads or short distances), pressure from other unbelted occupants, and lack of safety belts in the vehicle.
More survey information from the IIHS gives us some idea as to who does belt up and who might be more unlikely not to do so. Safety belt use is lowest among younger people and males. Belt use also is lower in the back seat. In New York, this is at least partly because rear seat restraints are only required for passengers under age 16. This law should be changed to require everyone in the rear seat to be belted.
Now, back to the article from Virginia. Jonathan Adkins, deputy director of the Virginia Governor's Highway Safety Association (similar to this state's Governor's Traffic Safety Committee) wants Virginia to toughen its seat belt laws. Most persons will buckle up because it's the smart thing to do. To get the rest of the people, enforcing tough seat belt laws is required. In New York, at least we have relatively tough laws, but we certainly need to toughen up the requirements for rear seat passengers and continue with enforcement programs like the "Buckle Up, New York" program of several years ago.
For more articles on traffic law and safety, go to the traffic safety board's web site at: www.franklincony.org and click on "Traffic Safety Board" under departments then look for Did You Know articles under "services."


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Smoky Beer Burgers with Creamy Mustard Sauce
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray, 2008
- 30 Minute Meals
Anyone can cook up some ground meat on a grill, but, like Arthur and his sword, only a true King can bring this much flavor from the grill[ to the table. Conquer friends and family for the night with this smoky, spicy champion.]
- 2 pounds lean ground sirloin
- 1/3 pound smoked Gouda cheese, diced into 1/4 to 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 medium onion or 1/2 large onion
- 2 teaspoons smoked sweet paprika, 2/3 palm full
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1/3 palm full
- Grill seasoning (recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning)
- Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, grated or finely chopped
- Generous handful finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 (12-ounce) bottle beer
- Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- 1/2 cup spicy brown mustard
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup sour cream
- 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 4 crusty Kaiser rolls, split and lightly toasted
- Green or red leaf lettuce, for topping
- Sliced sweet bread and butter pickles, for topping
Preheat grill over medium-high heat.
Place the meat in a bowl and add the cheese. Peel the onion and halve it, if using the medium onion. Grate about 3 to 4 tablespoons of onion directly over the meat into the bowl. Finely chop the remaining onion and reserve for topping. Add spices to meat: paprika, cumin and about 1 tablespoon of grill seasoning and/or some salt and pepper. Add garlic, parsley and Worcestershire and beer then form 4 large patties making them a little thinner at the center than at edges. Burgers plump when you cook them so this will prevent burger bulge. Drizzle a little olive oil over the burgers then grill about 4 minutes on each side for medium rare, 5 minutes on each side for medium and 6 to 7 minutes on each side for well done.
Mix mustard and sour cream with dill.
Serve patties on bun bottoms and top with lettuce, pickles, chopped raw onion. Slather bun tops with sauce and serve.
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray, 2008
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It didn't take long for Hamline's indoor track and field team to make a good early impression. Brenna Coyle, a senior from Lindstrom, Minn. and Shaise Schuette, a junior from Anoka, Minn. have been named by the MIAC as the inaugural Indoor Field Athletes Of The Week. Both had personal records in winning performances last Saturday at the St. Olaf Triangular.
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As the proliferation of online tea sites shows, and the rapidly growing number of increasingly educated members on Tea forums - the demand for quality oolong is increasing.
I don't know what the market statistics are showing but surely the cost of quality Oolong is likely to increase. Perhaps instead of promotiing our great discoveries we should be selfishly keeping them to ourselves.
A recent tea day topic concerned dreams, well I don't dream about tea - not at night whilst sleeping.
But sometimes whilst quietly mulling over my third infusion of an Anxi Ben Shan or a Yellow Leaf Dancong I do wonder IF ............
Taiwan seems far too developed in a 21st century sort of way, communication and marketing wise. Wuyi seems to be imitated to an excess and whether or not what is called Da Hong Pao is anything like the genuine article (whatever that is). But Fenghuang and Anxi County may just have possibilities.
.......... IF Only there is a master craftsman making tea just like his father and grandfather before him, but in a quiet backwater of a less fashionable village. Now this guy's tea is an elixir, but his neighbours make similar though not so good tea, and when the whole village's tea is purchased en masse, to bulk out a commercial blend, the elixir is diluted and lost to the world.
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Having just checked the highest chart psotion ratings for NEW I notice it has done the poorest in Australia. Sadly I am not surprised as Paul very rarely features in the media down under and hasn't toured for a very very long peiod here. Whether it matters or not is detable, but I think Paul is beginning to be forgotten in Australia due to lack of promotion etc in this country. It shows that to achieve good sales you need to promote and be seen.


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The next time you go to get money out of the ATM machine, think again because you might be giving away your identity.
An attendee of the Defcon conference on cybersecurity, found a breach of security in the very hotel- The Riviera Hotel- the conference was being given: a fake ATM machine. A computer that was hidden inside the ATM was designed to scan debit cards when they are swiped through the machine, said officials who came to retrieve the suspicious machine. …Read More →


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Watch this 1990s Columbus promo video...
The Columbus Dispatch - September 27, 2013 02:05 PM
The great city of Columbus is featured in the latest video post from Everything Is Terrible, a
found-footage site
founded by Ohio University alumni in 2007.
Everything Is Terrible unearths old commercials, movies and fitness videos and recuts them — or sometimes posts them in full — and, despite most of the videos' initial, earnest efforts to be entertaining or informative, Everything Is Terrible helps all of them crumble into anachronistic hilarity.
I wrote not long ago about the phenomenon of reporters who visit Columbus and never can believe that the city is home to such good food, world-class shopping and entertaining attractions.
Maybe it's because our city-promotion videos once began with this kind of self-effacement:
"This is another film about a city. Now, you won't see the usual palm trees and sandy beaches. Or awesome snowy mountain peaks, or tall ships in a busy harbor. You know, all those things you might see on vacation. You just won't see 'em. No, this film — this film's about living in a city that's smack-dab in the middle of the state of Ohio."
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IVANHOE – Services for Harriet Dorenkamper, 68, of Ivanhoe will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Ivanhoe. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Monday at the Birk Funeral Home in Ivanhoe with a prayer service at 7pm and the rosary to follow. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial is at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Cemetery in Ivanhoe. Birk Funeral Home of Ivanhoe is entrusted with the arrangements.
She died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at the Golden Living Center in Olivia.


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Young Announces $50,000 Emergency Grant For Forestville
ALBANY – State Sen. Catharine Young – R, Olean – has secured $50,000 of emergency funding for the village of Forestville for a new roof and other capital improvements that are needed immediately.
Young said the grant will provide some relief to village taxpayers who cannot afford the massive property tax increase resulting from the convergence of debt repayments and necessary emergency building repairs.
"Families already are struggling to pay their bills, and Forestville has many seniors living on fixed incomes," she said. "The situation is not the residents' fault, and they need help.
"These funds will be for a new roof and other capital improvements to the village-owned fire hall and community center. The leaking roof had to be fixed right away and added to the village's budget woes. This grant will lift that portion of the burden from taxpayers," Young continued.
Recently, Chautauqua County also helped alleviate the pain of the tax hike with a $150,000 loan to the village. In exchange, the village of Forestville will undergo an audit by the State Comptroller examining the village's finances over the last five years, and participate in a task force examining the village's long-term viability.
However, even with the county's help, the financial obstacles for the village persisted and more help was needed. The $50,000 of support from Young will help to ease the burden.
"The county did an excellent job of also coming to the assistance of the village with a large loan. Working together at the state, county, and local level, all involved have demonstrated the significant progress that can be achieved when everyone is working together. Without this emergency state assistance, coupled with the county's help, the tax rate for the village would have been significantly higher than what the village board approved," said Young.
"On behalf of the village of Forestville, I would like to thank Sen. Young for her hard work to help the people of Forestville. The roof of the Forestville Municipal Building is in dire need of repair and this grant opportunity will help an already financially strapped community. She is truly an unmatched good neighbor," said Forestville Mayor Kevin L. Johnson.
Chautauqua County Executive Vince Horrigan said, "I extend special thanks to Senator Young for helping the village of Forestville. Together with the loan from Chautauqua County, this New York state capital improvement grant for their fire hall will go a long way to help village residents get through a very difficult financial period."
Assemblyman Andy Goodell said, "Fortunately, the state of New York was able to help the village of Forestville with this important project. Thanks to the teamwork with Sen. Young, County Executive Horrigan, and County and local officials, the financial impact resulting from previous problems has been reduced for Village of Forestville residents."
Young said, "I will continue to work together with local officials to help our taxpayers afford to stay in their homes, pay their bills, and secure a brighter future for themselves and their families."
The emergency funding Young has secured will be administered through the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY).


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Collection: Texas Fashion Collection
Pillbox Hat
Date: 1950
Creator: unknown
Description: Pillbox of navy blue velvet. The low, cylindrical crown is flattened at top, and surrounded by gathers of same cloth "banded" by vertical loops of dark blue satin braiding creating two horizontal bands. Hat is lined in dark blue netting, and was designed with two small combs to help secure it to wearer's head, one now missing. Retailer's label inside: "Harold's / Minneapolis".
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
Walking Shoes
Date: 1918
Creator: Foot-Schulze & Co. (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Description: Walking shoes of tan and black leather. The rounded toe and vamp are of black polished leather, the heel and sides of tan kid leather. A single strap across the instep fastens with two circular buttons out outer side of shoe. Decorative black stitching around edges and across strap on tan leather. Insole of light brown leather, and the insides of the sides are lined in tan leather. heavy low stacked heel. Sole of black leather with heavy applied rubber heel. Maker's label stamped in silver on insole: "Foot Schulze & Co / St., Paul" Stamped notation on lining: "455 29100" Molded into bottom of heel: "WAUK LITE" and "8"
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Sheridan Day funds to help a family in need
SHERIDAN – Help raise funds for a local family that lost their home in a fire.
Sheridan United Methodist Church will again be the site of the Sheridan Day celebration and fundraiser. Chiavetta's chicken barbecue, Chinese auction, bake sale and vendors will be part of the event to be held Saturday, July 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the church, located at 2679 Route 20 in Sheridan. Chiavetta's chicken barbecue will be available from noon to 4 p.m. (or until sold out).
A special raffle will be held for two tickets to the Toby Keith concert on July 21 at Darien Lake. The tickets will be $5 a chance.
The annual fundraiser held by the Sheridan United Methodist Church helps a designated cause. The mission is to reach out to people in need or to support mission programs that serve to better the lives of individuals around the world. This year the proceeds will go to a church family who lost their home and all their belongings in a fire. On May 1, a fire completely destroyed the Kevin Franklin home on King Road in the town of Sheridan. There were six individuals living in the home at the time and despite the valiant effort of the Sheridan Fire Department, the home was a total loss.
The Sheridan United Methodist Church is the first Methodist society in Chautauqua County. Established in 1809 the church and congregation have been a vital part of the community. Sunday services are held at 10:30 a.m. Tours of the church will be available.
Others organizations in Sheridan will also hold fundraisers on Sheridan Day. The Sheridan Memorial Field Association will host a yard sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., directly across the street from the church. Proceeds go to maintaining the Memorial Field, located on Center Road. The Memorial Field Association also sponsors regular Red Cross blood drives in Sheridan.
The Sheridan Fire Hall on Route 20 will be the site of the Sheridan Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary giant yard sale, bake sale and Chinese auction from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (or until sold out). There will be hot dogs for sale.
All are invited to come out on July 13 to meet friends and neighbors, and support the work of these organizations. For more information, call the Sheridan United Methodist Church at 672-2048.


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Tri-Lakes schools closed today due to inclement weather
Snowmobile trail is a good one
To the editor:
On Friday Feb. 15, the New York State Snowmobile Association had the pleasure of joining the Department of Environmental Conservation in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new multi-use trail in the Moose River Plains Unit Management Plan, between the MRP and Raquette Lake. Through the partnership of DEC and local volunteers, this multi-use trail is now ready to be enjoyed by walkers, hikers, winter enthusiasts, hunters, snowmobilers and many more who love the Adirondack Park.
Unfortunately, a group of individuals has chosen to challenge this new trail, with false claims regarding its characteristics. DEC officials put tremendous care in ensuring that this new trail stays within the guidelines and kept the trail from being considered in the characteristic of a "road." Utilizing old Adirondack travel corridors used for generations, this trail winds through the forest, respecting sensitive regulations where wetlands needed to be bypassed, and kept well within the width requirements set by regulating agencies.
This trail, which I had the pleasure of riding on Feb. 15, was specifically designed to allow tracked grooming, making the trail especially safe for riders and easier for cross-country skiers to navigate. While tracked groomers will be allowed, only the smallest of these will be used on this trail due to its narrowness and winding nature. The layout of the trail, with many turns, will not allow for any fast speeds, creating pleasant rides to enjoy the true beauty of the Adirondack Park.
We look forward to enjoying this new trail over the few remaining weeks of snowmobile season, and hope that other outdoor enthusiasts enjoy their time in the coming months.
Dominic Jacangelo
Executive director
New York State Snowmobile Association
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 - Pictures by Axiata Cup
Taufik Hidayat has taken on the persona of elder brother to his teammates and like an elder sibling, he knows when to encourage and when to chide them.
As such, after guiding the Indonesia Garuda team to a comprehensive 5-1 victory over Indonesia Rajawali in the finals of the inaugural Axiata Cup on Sunday, the former world and Olympic champion urged his younger teammates in the Rajawali team to step their game up if they want to do well in their career and next month's Thomas Cup.
Tommy Sugiarto, Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka and Shesar Hiren Rhustavito were the three singles players in the Rajawali squad, a team made up of Indonesia's up and coming talents.
Tommy and Dionysius are fighting to make the Thomas Cup squad where Simon Santoso and Taufik are the expected first choices with former Asian champion Sony Dwi Kuncoro fighting to prove his fitness after two years of injury hell.
"I consider all of them to be part of my (Indonesian) family and I want them to do well. Unfortunately, right now, only our doubles pairs have shown better results," said Taufik, who posed for pictures with his daughter Natarina Alika Hidayat (above), after Sunday's finals.
The former Asian champion explained the Thomas Cup would be a much harder after Indonesia were drawn to meet China and England in the group stages.
"Only the top two teams will progress to the quarter-finals and we cannot underestimate the English team. It would be easy and this is why I hope the younger singles players will be able to rise to the challenge from now till then," said Taufik, who won the Thomas Cup in 2000 and 2002, the last when the tournament was held in Guangzhou, China.
This year, the Thomas and Uber Cup competitions will once again be held in China, this time in Wuhan, from May 20-27 and Taufik will be hoping Indonesia can repeat their amazing feats from 10 years ago.
Meanwhile, two-time SEA Games champion Simon clinched the winning point for Indonesia Garuda (right), as the country's elite shuttlers became the inaugural champions of the Axiata Cup.
Facing their younger counterparts Indonesia Rajawali in the two-legged finals, Garuda entered the second leg with a comfortable 3-0 lead.
On Sunday, Simon once again faced Tommy, son of former world champion Icuk, who was fighting to keep his team alive.
Simon, however, was once again too strong for his teammate, carving out a 21-16, 21-10 victory in 50 minutes to give Garuda an unassailable 4-0 lead.
"I'm delighted to have scored the winning point and for Garuda to become the inaugural champions," said a delighted Simon after his match.
"This has indeed been a great tournament. It also helped us prepare for next month's Thomas Cup."
Rajawali pulled a point back when Alvent Yulianto Chandra-Angga Pratama upset world No. 6 Mohammad Ahsan-Bona Septano lost 23-21, 12-21, 21-13 before Taufik outplayed Shesar 21-14, 21-15 to cap a memorable tournament for himself.
Taufik is the only player to have played in all six matches in the Axiata Cup and he finished with a 100% winning record.
Dato' Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim President & Group Chief Executive Officer, Axiata Group gave away the trophy to the winning team.
The Axiata Cup is the world's richest badminton tournament with the winners taking home US$400,000 and the runners-up US$200,000. The losing semi-finalists pocketed US$100,000 each while the four teams who failed to get past the group stages picked up US$50,000 each.
For more on the Axiata Cup, click here.
Finals (second leg)
Indonesia Garuda 2 Indonesia Rajawali 1 (Simon Santoso bt Tommy Sugiarto 21-16, 21-10; Mohammad Ahsan-Bona Septano lost Alvent Yulianto Chandra-Angga Pratama 21-23, 21-12, 13-21; Taufik Hidayat bt Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 21-14, 21-15)
(Indonesia Garuda win 5-1 on aggregate)
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text: Foxconn confirmed reports that it used underage employees in its Chinese facilities. This is the latest in a string of labor-related claims against the Taiwanese electronics-manufacturing company, which assembles such well-known products as the iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. China Labor Watch, a New York-based nongovernmental organization, recently reported that Foxconn employed interns between the ages of 14 and 16 for three weeks this summer without checking their identification. The children were from schools in Shandong Province. The minimum employment age in China is 16. Foxconn said it is fully investigating the matter. "Any Foxconn employee found, through our investigation, to be responsible for these violations will have their employment immediately terminated," Foxconn stated in an e-mail to Bloomberg News. "We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company, and we have apologized to each of the students for our role in this action." This is the latest labor problem in China for the manufacturer, which has included a worker riot that resulted in a temporary plant closure. (PC Mag)(Bloomberg)(China Labor Watch)


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Topic: collection_select in form partial for new and edit methods
i have a one to many relationship:
arrangement belongs to card
card has many arrangements
i have created a partial for my form which is used by the new and edit methods. here's a part of it:
<% form_for(@arrangement) do |f| %>
<%= f.collection_select(:card_id, @cards, :id, :name) %>
<% end %>
that would work on creating a new arrangement but as you can imagine, i get unexpected nil errors on the edit action, for this partial.
i suppose i could use something like this to avoid this problem:
<% if params[:action] == 'edit' %>
<% else %>
<% end %>
but that's not too DRY and i'm sure Rails has something more elegant. any advice please?
also, if it helps, here's my edit function in the Arrangements controller.
def edit
@arrangement = Arrangement.find(params[:id])
@card = Card.find(@arrangement.card_id)


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Alexi,Many people, including Peter Reinhart (at page 112 of his book American Pie), put the New Haven style pizza in the same category as Lombardi's, Totonno's, John's, Grimaldi's and Tacconelli's, all of which, other than Tacconelli's, which is in Philadelphia, are usually considered "elite" NY styles. So, absent better data, I would use the elite NY style thickness factors. Peter
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Guys, I think .89 is a little bit too thin for a pepe's clone. Maybe I am crazy, but I am pretty sure its more in the .10 range. Some of the elite places mentioned above are much thicker than others, so im not sure its a good idea to generalize that Ny "Elite" pizzeras are all the same thickness factor. I think the common thread is the coal oven, not the thickness factor. Pepe's is more of a standard NY street style thickness, but with a flatter rim. There is some taper to it as well. If they cooked a thin pizza at Pepe's as long as they sometimes do it would snap like a cracker!
It would be a useful book for beginners to read before they come to the forum because it would save time educating them on the basic principles.


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Finally able to set out on their overdue assignment, Daisuke and J arrive at the Siberian Village. But deep within a cave, a man having lived in solitude for 18 years dispatches his androids in order to keep those behind Marius' death in the shadows.
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Saucon Valley School Board accepts fact-finder's report in teacher contract impasse
HELLERTOWN, Pa. - Saucon Valley Education Association teachers could have a new contract in hand Friday following the Saucon Valley School Board's approval of an independent fact-finder's report during a Thursday night meeting.
School directors voted by a 7-2 margin to accept the report of the neutral fact-finder, who was appointed by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in September to help end the lingering impasse. Terms of the potential contract could not immediately be made public, due to state laws.
Directors Sandra Miller and Eric Adams cast dissenting votes.
The 189-member teachers union, which was meeting Thursday night, has the option to accept or reject the fact-finding report. Teachers can accept the report and have a contract or reject it and have another 10 days to reconsider.
Saucon Valley teachers have been working without a contract since a four-year pact expired in June, 2012. Teachers were not allowed to strike during the fact-finding process.
The fact-finders report will be made public on the state Labor Board's web site should teachers reject it, according to school board solicitor Mark Fitzgerald.
School directors appeared both exasperated and relieved that the nearly two-year process was close to an end.
"We've been working on this for nearly two years and I'm tired," said school board director Edward Inghrim. "The contract certainly isn't everything I'd like to see and it isn't what the association wants to see. I acknowledge the fact that both sides moved. Everyone wants to see the end to this process."
Inghrim is the chairman of the school board's negotiating committee.
School director Bryan Eichfeld, who said the proposed contract was in the three-to-four year range and that concessions were made, expressed frustration with the process.
"We need some sort of change. It's ludicrous that we negotiate this in private and the public can't see it," he said.
Adams, who voted against the proposal, said it was "not in the best interest of the community."
Saucon Valley teachers received wage increases of 3.525, 3.625, 3.725 and 3.825 percent in its now-expired contract.
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