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PORT ORANGE — Halifax Health is reopening the nuclear medicine department at its 80-bed hospital in Port Orange, investing $1.2 million into imaging capabilities.
The hospital's new machine, which includes a nuclear medicine camera and CT scanner, is equivalent to the technology used at Halifax Health's main campus in Daytona Beach, said Andrea Huffman, coordinator for nuclear medicine.
"We are trying to provide service closer to where patients live," Huffman said. "Now, we have the advanced imaging at both centers."
Hospital officials closed Port Orange's nuclear medicine department because the equipment was outdated, but they decided it needed to be reopened in response to community need, she said.
The new imaging will be particularly beneficial for uninsured and low-income patients who were having to travel from Southeast Volusia to the main campus, Huffman said. The device — called a SPECT/CT — is used for cardiac, bone and tumor imaging and provides fused data for bone and tumor imaging that makes it easier for physicians to accurately diagnosis patients, hospital officials said.
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Education and the economy are among the top issues expressed by the three candidates seeking to serve District 59 in the Indiana House of Representatives.
Appearing on the Nov. 6 general election ballot are Republican Ryan Lauer, Democrat Dale Nowlin and Libertarian Clyde Myers, all of Columbus. The winner will fill the seat held by Milo Smith, a six-term lawmaker from Columbus who chose not to run for re-election.
District 59 encompasses Columbus, Taylorsville and in general areas west of State Road 7 in western and southern Bartholomew County.
Lauer, who ran against Smith and lost in the 2014 and 2016 Republican primaries, said it would be his highest honor to serve the people of Bartholomew County in public office.
"I believe strongly in service to our community and making a positive difference for the lives of all Hoosiers," Lauer said. "I will serve earnestly, honestly and with integrity seeking, seeking what is right, listening to the people and protecting our Constitutional rights."
Nowlin, a math teacher at Columbus North High School since 1985, said as he became involved with issues in downtown Columbus, he saw that his efforts could have a positive impact on his community.
This is his second attempt to win the District 59 seat. Nowlin mounted his first campaign for the seat in 2016, losing to Democrat Bob Pitman in the primary.
"As an educator, I knew we could do more to support and improve our schools," Nowlin said. "I decided to use my people skills, my understanding of data and my expertise in education to serve our wider community."
Myers said he was motivated to run for office since he contends that Indiana lacks no champions for businesses.
"Republicans and Democrats continue to move the goalposts on businesses and individuals trying to work in our state," he said. "They pass legislation without any analysis for unintended consequences. I want to legislate using facts, data, reason, logic and principle, not emotion, opinion or party bias."
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Nearly 25 percent of Hoosier adults smoke, compared with 17 percent nationally.
"Indiana's cigarette tax would be higher than any surrounding state, resulting in other economic consequences," Nowlin said. "I would not support any increase unless all new revenue went towards smoking prevention and support for those trying to quit smoking."
Lauer cited information from the Centers from the Disease Control and Prevention that indicated most smokers are under or near the poverty level.
"Raising this tax will have a disproportionately negative effect on lower-income Hoosiers," Lauer said. "Attempting to change people's behaviors and addictions by raising taxes is ill-conceived and will hurt our citizens with lower incomes."
Myers agreed, referring to the cigarette tax as nothing more than a tax on poor people.
"It's insulting to people who are already struggling to kick them down. No, I do not support a cigarette tax nor excise taxes of any kind," Myers said.
The three candidates also offered their perspectives on different topics.
Q: Identify three priorities for the next legislative session and why have you chosen them?
Lauer: "Attack the opioid and methamphetamine epidemic by increasing enforcement, awareness and treatment options. We are all affected by this scourge and too many children and families have suffered. Reform the Department of Child Services. Serious issues have been identified at DCS failing our most vulnerable children who must be protected. Expand school choice with education savings accounts for all children and allow more local control of education by letting teachers teach again."
Nowlin: "Indiana can be a welcoming state with a thriving, sustainable economy. That requires a well-educated workforce. We can grow that workforce by investing in Hoosiers and by creating a quality of life that will attract newcomers. That means we must fix the Indiana Department of Child Services, support and improve our education system and support local communities as they work to overcome the opioid epidemic."
Myers: "Business — The Indiana General Assembly consistently props up some businesses and industries, while simultaneously putting roadblocks in front of others. If we want good jobs in this state, we need to legalize work and let people earn their own living without a mountain of bureaucracy in their way. Education — Many seem to think that the more money spent on education, the better. We may indeed need more money for education, but that isn't the only factor. There are other states performing significantly better without many more resources. We need to implement what works, not just throw money at problems. Personal liberty — I am the only candidate running that doesn't think that he knows better than you how you should run your life. I think you own yourself, your body, your property, your business, your relationships, your self-defense. No one else should decide how you should live, so long as you aren't hurting anyone else."
Q: What is your stance on Indiana enacting a hate crime law and explain why you feel that way?
Lauer: "Judges today under current law have wide latitude to increase penalties for crimes with hateful motives and should do so. I support harsher penalties for violent crimes and heroin and meth dealers who are killing people. All violence is hateful and motive should be considered in sentencing, but hate-crimes proposals do not cover all biases and hate."
Nowlin: "I believe Indiana should pass a hate crime law. It would send a message that all people are welcomed and valued. That is a message for members of minority groups in Indiana and people outside of Indiana, who might be considering making Indiana their home. It is the right thing to do and it would provide more quality candidates for Hoosier companies."
Myers: "I wish things were so simple that we could just legislate away hatred and bigotry. I would be in favor of legislation that has undergone a thorough analysis to protect against it backfiring and hurting those it is designed to protect and does not infringe on constitutionally protected freedoms."
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Current office held: None
Previous offices held: Bartholomew County Council, elected in 2010, president in 2014
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Since metalcutting fluids are an integral part of many machining operationsthey need to be applied correctly to make parts productively. When understood and used correctly, cutting fluids also optimize the production process to yield quality parts safely and at lower cost.
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Original artwork to card #170 Bill Werle of the Boston Red Sox from the 1953 Topps series. Artwork measures 3.5 x 5 inches. Standard production-related glue remnants on the front and blank reverse. Small surface chipping above left shoulder, otherwise in Excellent condition. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$1,500. SOLD FOR $940
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Meet the new Yamaha CV820WB - A Hollowbody That Totally Rocks!
This month's copy of Total Guitar magazine features a round up of their 6 favourite guitars of the last year. Along with high end guitars from Dean and Gibson, the Yamaha Wes Borland signature model, the CV820WB, features in the list - and no wonder! The Yamaha CV820WB is a very unique and surprising guitar: a hollowbody that totally rocks!
Here's a sample of what Total Guitar had to say: "This guitar supplies a fantastic drop-tuned tone that's powerful without being murky (Wes tunes to C Sharp!). This is one of the most imaginative axes we've seen in a long time and for virtually any kind of Rock and Metal it takes the Bizkit!".
Borland was intensely involved in every aspect of the design process of his dream signature model guitar from conception to completion. It boasts a distinctive design incorporating Yamaha's unique Takumi-Kezuri construction in which the back, sides, and center block are all carved from one block of wood (alder, in this case). A two-piece carved maple top finishes the instrument, making it a true semi-hollowbody electric guitar.
Other notable design elements include YASH (Yamaha Artist Services Hollywood) designed Custom33 pickups and binding on the inlayed 12-degree angled headstock, F-holes, and beautifully contoured body.
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Even those who are not fans or are not familiar with Limp Bizkit can't fail to recognize the daring design of the CV820WB, a truly unique and surprising guitar that also sounds great, of course! Over the years, many rock bands from Oasis to the Arctic Monkeys have played semi-acoustic guitars, commonly used in Jazz, because of their rich sound. The Yamaha CV820WB once again shows that semi-acoustic guitars can rock - and, in this case, rock hard!
We managed to find an earlier Yamaha interview with Wes Borland, and here's what he had to say about the CV820WB.
Wes Borland - Guitar From The Bottom Up
A decade with rap-rock ruffians Limp Bizkit made Wes Borland one of the most visible guitarists of his generation. But Borland's on/off partnership with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst now seems to be permanently off. "We recently had another falling out," sighs Wes. "We've decided we just can't work together anymore."
But fear not, Borland fans: Wes has just completed Cruel Melody, the debut release by his new group, Black Light Burns. The album, produced by band member and longtime Nine Inch Nails guitarist Danny Lohner, is due this fall.
In the meantime, Borland has been touring as bassist with the band From First to Last—and collaborating with Yamaha on his first-ever signature guitar, the CV820WB. We recently spoke to Wes about his innovative new instrument.
What inspired you to collaborate with Yamaha on the CV820WB?
For a long time, various companies have been asking me to produce a signature guitar. But I'd soon find out that what they really wanted was for me to customize one of their existing models. Every time I'd tell them that I'd rather make something completely new, they'd back away. I like working with wood. I've built a couple of guitars from scratch. I've done a lot of sculpture. So I didn't want someone else's design. Yamaha was the first company to say, "We'll design a guitar with you and make sure it's perfect. We'll do whatever you want."
And what did you want?
I wanted an instrument that incorporated my favorite features from every guitar I've ever had—all the things I always wished I could transplant from one guitar to all the others. I wanted a semi-hollowbody with f-holes that also incorporated features from my favorite solidbodies. I wanted it to look "old" in a classic way, but seamlessly incorporate a modern locking tremolo. Yamaha has just developed a new tremolo system that uses a lever to lock and unlock the strings, as opposed to wrenches. It's smaller, sleeker-looking, and very cool. It also works perfectly with the headstock I designed. The guitar will come in two finishes: One is glossy black, and the other is dark wood-grain, the color of a violin.
What about the electronics?
I prefer not having a tone control, since I always keep mine set all the way to treble—there's no reason for me to roll off highs. But I like having separate volume controls for each pickup, because I blend them sometimes.
You favor loud, heavily overdriven tones. Is feedback a problem with a hollowbody?
I've played hollowbodies for a long time in many different high-gain situations. The trick is to play the guitar as-is in the studio, but to stuff a few little pieces of foam into the guitar when you play live. It doesn't change the guitar's tone or weight, but it deadens it enough to prevent feedback. I also use noise gates to keep things quieter.
Why have you veered away from the seven-string guitars you used to use?
Actually, I played six-string all the way through the first Limp Bizkit record. But then we went on the road with Korn, who got us some seven-strings for free. But I never played with a low seventh string like they did—I had a doubled high E, which I used to create chorusing effects, or to grab dissonant notes right next to each other. But as time went by, I used the doubled string less, so it was easy to go back to six string.
You mean you played those low-tuned Limp Bizkit riffs with no low B string?
Right—though in Limp Bizkit I tuned the whole guitar a step-and-a-half lower than standard, C# to C#. I wound up using a lot of different low tunings on the Black Light Burns album, because I had to find the right key for my voice. Sometimes we went as low as B. And sometimes, like on the song "Lie," we use the C# tuning, but with the low C# dropped down to B. It's like a regular dropped-D tuning, transposed down.
So is the CV820WB everything you wanted?
Yes—it's exactly what I wanted. Everything came together perfectly. I just can't wait to get my hands on a few more of them!
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Use WebEx to Raise Money for Your Cause: Social Giving [Infographic]
Frank Barry at NETWITSTHINKTANK has published a compelling infographic that visually describes the power of social media to enhance charitable giving.
He describes this as the power of "friends asking friends." A call out in the graphic notes, "Participants who use online fundraising tools raise six times more money than those who don't."
See the social giving infographic.
I know this has worked with me – I feel good when I click on a friend's Facebook post about a walk they are doing or a cause they support. For just $5 or $10, I can support them and their cause and it's a win-win-win.
According to the article,
Overall, those who use social media tools at all increased their fundraising by 40% compared to peers. However, fewer than half of fundraisers tap into their social networks or use social media tools when fundraising.
Those are persuasive numbers. The infographic shows a host of tools folks are using to raise money and it includes hosting events and other online tools. That's where WebEx can help. It is just another tool to add to your arsenal for social fundraising.How to use WebEx for fundraising.
Host an online party
Think of it as a friend raiser where you do something fun to get your friends or fans involved in your cause. Maybe an online art show or how to cook something – simply a fun way to bring people together to get excited about what you are doing.
Take them "behind the scenes"
Training for a marathon or a big walk? Take your fans with you as you train! Use WebEx Mobile to broadcast from nearly anywhere and show them just how hard you are working!
Record a short testimonial
Use WebEx to record yourself talking about why you are involved and how it relates to what you believe in. Use graphics or video to enhance your story.
Share the results
It's never too late to give and it's always great to see someone's success. When you complete a fundraising goal, get on WebEx and share your results and thank yous. Record the session so you can post it on your website or Facebook and be sure to add a link for folks to want to give even though your part is done!
Don't have WebEx?
Not a problem. You can do this the first time with no investment on your part. Get the free trial here or subscribe to WebEx for just $19 a month with our WebEx 8 package. It lets you meet with up to seven people (plus you as the host equals eight!).
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Avon, Oct 2004, 5.99, 384 pp. ISBN: 0060587873 In 1823 caricaturist Calliope Minton gains access to her subjects by donning disguises; currently she works as Lady Simpson's companion. Her prime target of late has been Marques James Trenton, who gets her fired. Not long afterward, Calliope arranges through her mentor Robert Cruickshank to pretend to be a courtesan attached to Stephen Chalmers, who has just come in from the cold. James who wor...
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The early morning dropoff at Belén Jesuit Preparatory School unfolds with almost military precision. Young uniformed boys, backpacks in hand, one by one jump out of late-model SUVs and minivans. The vehicles, many displaying "Belen Wolverines" license plates, linger momentarily at the school's entrance before lurching back into west Miami-Dade rush-hour traffic. Older boys, all wearing the standard-issue white shirt, blue-and-red-striped tie, and navy trousers, pull up in cars of their own, parking them in neat, single-file formation just beyond the chainlink fence that surrounds the campus.
It is not entirely a coincidence that the scene should recall a well-coordinated military operation. Before his religious conversion, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the sixteenth-century founder of the Jesuit order, served as an officer in the Spanish army, a vocational antecedent that still finds expression in the Jesuits' insistence on strict discipline.
But the purposeful march of uniformed students into the school building suggests something else as well: a long-running assembly line spanning the distance between Havana and Miami and producing as many esteemed, beloved, corrupt, and hated public figures as one school could ever hope to include on its alumni rolls. The school, founded almost 150 years ago in Cuba and relocated to Miami in 1961, lists among its graduates more than one Cuban president, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, a disgraced Miami city commissioner, the current Miami-Dade mayor's right-hand man, and the recently appointed executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation. And that's just for openers.
The Duke of Wellington once observed that his victory over Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo had really been won years before, on the playing fields of Eton, the elite school that produced England's nineteenth-century ruling class. It would not be too far a stretch to similarly suggest that much of Miami-Dade's contemporary political landscape was long ago mapped on the playgrounds of Belén.
"There's a certain pride that comes with graduating from Belén," says Sergio Gonzalez, sipping Cuban coffee in his 29th-floor office at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center. Gonzalez, who graduated from the school in 1981, has been Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas's chief of staff for three years. If not for the salt-and-pepper hair and wedding band, the youthful-looking Gonzalez might still pass for a choir boy. "Do you know what the dean at Georgetown once said about Belén students?" he asks, proudly pointing out that six students from the '81 graduating class, himself included, went on to study at the prestigious Washington, D.C., university. "He said, They're worth their weight in gold.'"
Academics and accolades aside, Gonzalez insists the most valuable lesson he learned at Belén is the Jesuit dictum of "Men for Others." Indeed, he says, pointing to a framed poster containing the phrase and commemorating not the millennium but the "Bellennium," it's the reason he's in politics.
Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, like Gonzalez a 1981 graduate of Belén, agrees that public service is a motivating principle for the school's alumni. "Belén ties you into the community," says the lawyer and former county commissioner who last year ran for Miami-Dade mayor against Gonzalez's boss. "It inculcates a sense of oneness between the individual and his environment."
While the Jesuit commitment to serve others may have something to do with the school's disproportionate representation in the local political power structure, Joe Garcia, who trailed Gonzalez and Diaz de la Portilla at Belén by a year, graduating in 1982, thinks that's only part of the reason. "It's that arrogant feeling," says Garcia, the new executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation. "We had that Those who can't do, teach' attitude even in high school. We were trained to think there wasn't anything we couldn't do."
Garcia appears to have taken the lesson to heart. Literally. From his table at Versailles, the Calle Ocho restaurant that is a favorite with the Cuban politerati, Garcia works his cell phone and the crowd with equal vigor. "Three seconds. Go!" he shouts, instructing the person on the other end of the phone to begin speaking, while jumping up from his chair to say hello to "the political consultant of the moment."
Watching Garcia in action, visiting Gonzalez in the county mayor's office, or, for that matter, looking out over the Miami skyline from Diaz de la Portilla's 34th-floor law office, it seems irrelevant to ask why Belén students get involved in public affairs. A better question would be: What is it about the school that makes little Cuban boys want to run the world?
El Colegio de Belén first opened its doors in Havana in 1854. The all-boys Catholic boarding school inherited its name from the building's previous tenant, a convent called Nuestra Señora de Belén (Our Lady of Bethlehem). By 1925, when the school moved to a 60-acre campus on a residential edge of the city, it had become the island's most renowned educational institution, the place where boys from Cuba's most powerful families got together and began discussing how they would one day run the island nation. There was little to suggest this was anything but the natural order of things. By 1950 Belén could count among its alumni the Cuban president Carlos Prio Socarras and the editors of three of Havana's largest newspapers.
To say Belén was the Cuban equivalent of exclusive New England prep schools like Choate and Philips Exeter Academy, however, would be to miss the point. Those schools had to compete with one another for their share of Kennedys, Bushes, and Rockefellers. In Cuba, Belén alone attracted the sons of the country's leading families.
"The physical structure of the place was imposing," remembers Miami talk-radio host Francisco Aruca, who attended the school between 1953 and 1959. "It was like a fortress." Old photographs of the school, including a wall-length black-and-white aerial view that hangs in the foyer of the modern-day Belén, suggest a cross between the Roman Coliseum and the Pentagon: a main building with eight large, seemingly impregnable wings assembled in a semicircle around a massive courtyard, fronted by a Neoclassical façade.
The school, which took students from first grade through the completion of their secondary education, was arranged into six divisions, each composed of two or three grades. Discipline was a central tenet. "They would ring a hand bell at 6:45 or 7:00 a.m.," remembers Aruca, "and you had three minutes to get up and into line. There was a line for everything: mass, breakfast, everything." Honors and awards, not surprisingly, were based on the military model. The top student in each division was called the division general; the top student in the senior division, the brigadier. Aruca admits he never made it that high up the chain of command, but he likes to point out that he often was put in charge of recess. "That was an honor that entailed responsibility," he recalls, no doubt quoting the priests who instructed him as a youth. "I had to make sure the equipment was on the field when students got there, then pick up all the stuff when they left."George Suarez, Region 4 director of the Miami-Dade Public Schools system, flashes a wide grin when reminded of the various tasks assigned to students at Belén. Suarez, who followed both his father and grandfather to the school, was one of Belén's most distinguished students; named brigadier in 1955, he graduated the following year. Four years later, while studying for the priesthood (a pursuit he eventually abandoned), he returned to Belén as an instructor. His brother Xavier, the former mayor of Miami, was still only a fifth-grader at the school.
The mid-Fifties were portentous years on the island, and at Belén. While President Fulgencio Batista's soldiers were having no luck cornering Fidel Castro and his band of guerrillas in the Cuban countryside, students at the school knew exactly where to find the rebel leader. "There's Fidel!" Aruca remembers students shouting as they walked past the Belén class portrait of 1945, hanging on the wall in one of the school's assembly halls.
And Aruca, for one, became obsessed not only with Castro's life in the mountains but with his career at Belén. He recalls going to the school's library and requesting Fidel's senior yearbook. To this day the radio host and businessman (his Marazul Tours operates flights to Cuba and has made him a controversial figure in the exile community) can recite the cryptic inscription beneath the young man's photo, words Aruca interpreted as prophetic. "Fidel has timber," Aruca recounts, his index finger in the air. "The artist will have much with which to work." Knowing the Jesuits were not free with their compliments, Aruca set out on a comparative study. "I went through all the yearbooks in the collection, one by one," he says, smiling at his own youthful exuberance, "and there was never a prediction like that for any other student."
Castro's ties to Belén were well-known throughout Cuba. George Suarez recalls that on his triumphant march into Havana in January 1959, the rebel leader was handed the school flag. Castro reputedly took the school symbol in his hands and kissed it, pledging to visit his alma mater.
According to Suarez, Fidel did visit but not for two years, and then only Suarez caught a glimpse of him. "One day in early January 1961, I was making a phone call from the school's switchboard, just inside the main entrance," remembers Suarez, leaning back in his chair to get a better look around the corners of the past. "Someone comes running in, out of breath, and says to me: Allí está el caballo.'" Suarez understood the slang phrase (literally translated: "The horse is here") to mean Fidel was outside the school. He remembers walking into the sunlight, looking across the bridge that separated the campus from the surrounding community, and seeing Castro's motorcade perched just on the other side. Suarez made it across the bridge and over to Castro's vehicle. "It wasn't a jeep," he recalls, painting the scene with great care. "Just a car, a sedan." In it sat Fidel Castro and four bodyguards. Everyone in the car carried a machine gun. "I asked him if he was there to see anyone in particular, but he just looked at me, stared back at the school, eventually nodded to his driver, and drove off."
Three months later, on April 17, 1961, 400 government soldiers seized the school. Suarez recalls the exact date because, at precisely that moment, on a beach south of Havana, a small army of Cuban exiles was launching the failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Suarez and the rest of the faculty were herded into the school's auditorium and held at gunpoint while the buildings were ransacked. The episode, though terrifying, was not without its moments of levity. "A soldier would come down every couple of minutes with some device from the observatory," says Suarez, referring to the school's celebrated star-gazing and weather-forecasting facility. "And he'd say, This is what you use to communicate with the CIA.' And we'd say, No, that's what we use to measure atmospheric pressure.' Then he'd come down with something else and accuse us all over again." Suarez smiles wryly, shaking his head and muttering, "Comemierda."
Not long after that Fidel Castro, class of 1945, ordered Belén shut down and its priests banished from the new socialist state. The upheaval of those days is written between the lines on the pages of the yearbooks George Suarez keeps in his small office. "This priest skydived into the Bay of Pigs," he says, pointing to the grinning photo of a young clergyman from the school's 1956 yearbook. "It was the first jump he ever made." Flipping a few pages, he finds a group picture of the faculty. "And this is the professor who showed up one day in a rebel uniform," he sighs, reliving the moment, "and expelled all of us from the school."
The two-story, mustard-yellow edifice at the corner of SW Eighth Street and Seventh Avenue is one of those structures that appears not to have been designed so much as improvised. The main building, a windowless succession of right angles, is a box. Behind it, running away from Eighth Street and toward Ninth, is a long corridor of rooms surrounded by a small parking lot. The property seemingly has had as many lives as the stray cats that wander the neighborhood. Today it houses the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center, an organization that provides meals and recreation for the area's elderly. Years earlier, during Prohibition, it was rumored to have functioned as gangster Al Capone's liquor warehouse. Still, no tenant is more closely associated with the site than Cuba's most elite prep school, which, after operating out of the Gesu Catholic Church in downtown Miami for a year, relocated to the abandoned Little Havana warehouse in 1962.
"Initially, upon arriving in the Unites States, we considered ourselves a temporary support service for Cuban families in exile," explains Father Marcelino Garcia, Belén's current principal. The belief among the school's directors was that Belén and its students would be back in Cuba in a few short years. So persistent were the priests' dreams of a return to the island, in fact, that Patrick Collins, a civics instructor at the school for 30 years, recalls as late as 1971 "the lay teachers were still wondering if this was going to be the school's last year in Miami." Not surprisingly, significant modifications to the property were put off until the Seventies. Only slowly did the structure begin to resemble something other than a warehouse.
The students who attended Belén in the Seventies in many cases were not the scions of well-to-do Cuban families but the children of working-class parents for whom exile, at least initially, had been a struggle. "When they first got here," says Joe Garcia, pausing so the listener can appreciate the significance of his remark, "my father was a car wash at Avis and my mother a waitress at HoJo's." The urban setting and the adversity of exile proved a powerful alchemy. "On Eighth Street," adds Carol Vila, then a math teacher and now an administrator at Belén, "it was a different group of students. They were very street smart. They were survivors." In other words very much like the school itself and perfectly suited to flourish there.
It is those students who attended Belén during its Little Havana era who now exert disproportionate influence on the political and cultural life of South Florida. Those who graduated between 1979 and 1982 alone include not only Garcia, Sergio Gonzalez, and Miguel Diaz de la Portilla but state Rep. Gaston Cantens, WSCV-TV (Channel 51) vice president and general manager Luis Fernandez-Rocha, gay-rights activist Damian Pardo, and former City of Miami Commissioner Humberto Hernandez. This from a school that, at the time, graduated only about 80 students per year. As Garcia puts it: "If you went to Belén back then, you had a pretty good chance of ending up either famous or infamous."
Or so it must have seemed to students who, from an early age, were made to feel they had joined a select tradition, regardless of the fact that it was housed in a cramped former warehouse. Or maybe because of it. "We were like a small family growing up in a little apartment," remembers Jorge Blanco, a member of the class of 1981, the last to graduate from the Little Havana campus. "It was like Dead Poets Society," waxes Garcia. "When we went to see it, my wife actually got mad and punched me, telling me: You don't cry at any other movies and you're crying at this stupid piece of shit.' I couldn't help it."
The rituals, as might be expected, were decidedly male and sophomoric. "The old Belén in Little Havana had no windows," recounts Garcia. "You'd turn off the lights, and it would be pitch black. Then the books and chairs would start flying." Blanco recalls another tradition, referred to only, and ominously, as "the pole."
"When it was your birthday," reports Blanco, now a successful dentist in Kendall, "the other students would take you out to the basketball courts, spread your legs, and ram you into the metal pole that held up the basket." Pause. "I wonder what the sterility rates are for Belén alumni," he asks with a mix of nostalgia and professional curiosity before revealing, somewhat sheepishly, that his own birthday fell safely in the middle of summer vacation.
What Joe Garcia remembers most are the limitations imposed by the concrete-locked campus and the students' subsequent resourcefulness. "We didn't have an athletic field," he explains, "so the gym teacher would say, Run a lap around the building,' and we, of course, would cut through the alleys."
Some of the corners cut by the students crossed the line from inventiveness to larceny -- for example, the notorious final-exam scandal of 1980. One alum, who asked not to be identified, remembers the first time he heard a name he and the rest of South Florida would grow to know well. "I crammed for all of my tests and did pretty well," he recalls. "Then I found out I had to take all my exams over again because a guy named Humberto Hernandez and some other people had stolen copies prior to the final-exam day."
Hernandez had taken advantage of the Little Havana building's antiquated design -- which included hard-to-lock windows and doors -- to gain entry to the offices where the tests were kept. The exams were surreptitiously distributed, along with the answers, to various students.
"Twenty minutes into the chemistry final," chuckles Garcia, "a guy with a 40 average gets up from his seat and starts walking toward the front of the auditorium. We can't believe it. We're grabbing for him, telling him to sit back down so he won't give us away." The test proctor, though, didn't catch on until the exam was nearly over, and then only with the help of divine intervention. Or something like that. "One guy was so stupid he couldn't memorize the answers," Garcia recalls, allowing himself all these years later to relish the moment of the caper's collapse. "He actually brought a copy of the exam to the test, then dropped it on the floor by accident."
The tests were readministered to the students; Hernandez was allowed to graduate. After Belén, "Bert," as his classmates still refer to him, attended college and law school and in 1996 successfully ran for the Miami City Commission. The source of the youthful Hernandez's appeal with voters, particularly elderly Cubans, was a naughty-niño-next-door charm: prep-school manners coupled with back-alley smarts. In 1998 the popular politician was found guilty of vote fraud in the 1997 city elections, then later convicted of unrelated bank-fraud charges. He was sentenced to four years in the federal penitentiary at Pensacola.
Garcia, then the state's Public Service Commission chairman, was in Tallahassee when Hernandez's legal troubles began. He recalls a curious exchange he had at the time with his assistant, also a Belén grad. "When we heard [Hernandez] had been indicted," Garcia says, "my aide screamed, Yes!' and I looked at him like, Coño, why would seeing Bert in this situation make you happy?'" Because, the aide answered, "that guy stole my sneakers in eighth grade."
The anecdote, both funny and revealing, suggests the poetic continuity between the Belén schoolyard and the political jungle of Miami, illustrating not just the degree to which, in Hernandez's case, the child is the father of the man but the extent to which relationships and opinions forged at the school persist among its graduates.
Certainly all the alumni trace their interest in government and passion for politics to their days at the school. "Student government was something real at Belén," says Garcia. "We'd go to Washington, D.C., as part of the Close-Up Program, and while students from other schools were sightseeing, the Belén guys wanted to go to the National Archives and listen to the Nixon tapes." The point of the yearly trips to the nation's capital, which began in 1975, and of the school's emphasis on civics, says government teacher Pat Collins, was a practical one: "I thought our job was to bring these [Cuban] boys into the political mainstream as expeditiously as possible."
By 1993 Collins's ex-students had done more than simply join the political mainstream. They had stormed it. In that year's District 11 Miami-Dade County Commission race, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla defeated a field composed of not only Joe Garcia ("I was supposed to win that election") but fellow Belén alumni Jorge Alvarez and Justo Luis Pozo. Fittingly the district the ex-Belemitas fought over included the school itself, which in 1981 moved from Little Havana to a 30-acre campus in Westchester.
"This is not the little school that came to this country to take care of the needs of 100 or so students," says Father Marcelino Garcia, reflecting on just how much has changed since Belén offered classes at the Gesu Church in 1961. Indeed almost nothing about Belén today would qualify as "little." The school, already the recipient of several high-profile gifts in recent years, including one of two million dollars in 1997 from the estate of alum and late Coca-Cola chairman Roberto Goizueta, is in the midst of a ten-million-dollar fundraising campaign. An active alumni association of more than 4000 members should aid in achieving that goal. In the meantime several large-scale building projects, including the construction of a science pavilion, are under way.
If the school's campus is constantly evolving, the same cannot be said of the composition of its student body. Belén's enrollment of about 1000 boys, in grades six through twelve, no longer overwhelmingly Cuban, nevertheless remains overwhelmingly Latino and almost exclusively white. "It's been hard to raise the number of black students above a handful," says one administrator. "You're asking parents to send their kids across town to a white neighborhood to be surrounded by a classroom of white students." And while a fifth of Belén students receive some degree of financial aid -- totaling almost $600,000 per year -- the school's $7500 annual tuition undoubtedly remains an obstacle to racial and socioeconomic diversity. Entrance exams designed to select students who already have benefited from good schooling present another challenge. As for the possibility of admitting girls to Belén? It's been raised, say the school's directors, but it's not a serious consideration.
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It is the continuities with the old ways, after all, that most define Belén. The students wear the same school-uniform colors their Cuban counterparts once wore. The school remains affiliated with the Catholic Church, even if only a small portion of its faculty is ordained. Mass is still held every morning, once before school begins and again during homeroom. Theology classes are a required component of the curriculum.
In many ways the current incarnation of the school more and more resembles the Cuban Belén, if not in its physical appearance (though architectural echoes of the Havana fortress remain) then in its social and cultural function. It is once again the place that successful, prominent, and connected fathers send their sons so they, in turn, may become successful, prominent, and connected. "My five-month-old is going to go to Belén," vows Jorge Blanco. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla's son already is there.
And the school continues to nurture good relations with the area's political stars, alum and otherwise. Belén boasts, according to Pat Collins, not one or two but "a slew" of students working in Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's Miami office. Internship opportunities in local government may expand next year if attorney Manny Diaz, Belén class of 1973, succeeds in his Miami mayoral bid.
Nevertheless those associated with the institution maintain the school confers no special advantage beyond a good education, a desire to succeed, and a commitment to reach out to others. "Folks believe there's a network," stresses Sergio Gonzalez, excusing himself for a meeting with Juan Mendieta, acting director of communications for Miami-Dade County. "Did I mention he went to Belén, too?" Small world.


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NobodySpecial wrote:MudFlap33 wrote:I'm trying to remember my Descartes. Is the quote we were shown about the "powerful deceiver" the part where Descartes wrestles with where he can go now that he knows he exists? I have a feeling it is part of his kind of frustrating leap to the existence of God. Maybe part of this crisis is Sara having the same trouble a lot of people have with Descartes and his leap of faith.
I have convinced myself that there is nothing in the world — no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Doesn't it follow that I don't exist? No, surely I must exist if it's me who is convinced of something. But there is a deceiver, supremely powerful and cunning whose aim is to see that I am always deceived. But surely I exist, if I am deceived. Let him deceive me all he can, he will never make it the case that I am nothing while I think that I am something. Thus having fully weighed every consideration, I must finally conclude that the statement "I am, I exist" must be true whenever I state it or mentally consider it.
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The fourth annual CardioCraze Wellness Walk of Mount St. Mary's Hospital brought more than 150 walkers to the Village of Lewiston on Saturday. Designed to promote awareness of heart disease and good health, the walkers collected donations and raised more than $10,000 for cardiology initiatives at Mount St. Mary's Hospital.
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The Norse team is now available!
Hey Coaches,
Blood Bowl 2 welcomes a new race on its pitch: The Norse. The new screenshots show off the fearsome Norse players, their impressive Big Guy and their bestial Star Players - all included in the Norse DLC available today on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
To respect the PC players of the first Blood Bowl game, which accumulated 23 races through 3 paying editions - we have heard their frustration - we decided to create the FOUNDERS INCENTIVE for PC players of Blood Bowl 2: players will receive the Norse, the Undead, the Necromantic and the Nurgle teams for free, as long as they purchased the game before the races release.
Hailing from a far north peninsula of the Old World, Norsca, the Norse are fearsome warriors who naturally benefit from the Block skill – making a Norse line one of the more resilient Blood Bowl defensive walls. Norse players also have low Armour value, meaning they're built for dishing out damage, not taking it. We're excited to see how new Norse Coaches plan around the team's weaknesses and exploit their strengths.
The Norse DLC pack includes new types of players, including the Ulfwerener. These werewolves encourage damage-dealing plays with their high Strength and their brutal Frenzy skill. The Norse Big Guy is the Yhetee, a vicious Snow Troll with Claws built for shredding high armoured players. Finally, two Star Players are joining the Norse: Icepelt Hammerblow, Yhetee, and Wilhelm Chaney, Ulfwerener.
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Well done releasing the Norse. Can't wait to play countless mirror matches for the next week
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CLAREMONT, Calif. – Despite a large contingent of Pacific fans and a near-record setting touchdown reception by Jordan Fukumoto (So., Mililani, Hawaii), the Boxers found themselves outmatched by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps as the Stags rolled to a 28-9 victory in football action at Zinda Field.
Fukumoto found himself on the receiving end of an 87-yard touchdown bomb from T.C. Campbell (So., Kaimuki, Hawaii), a strike that ranks as the second longest in school history. It was the only touchdown the Boxers (0-3) scored on the evening as they were limited to 226 yards of offense and went 0 for 13 on third and fourth-down conversions.
Campbell completed 14 of 26 passes for 191 yards and the score and was intercepted once at the end of the game. Fukumoto posted a tremendous evening, recording a season high 132 yards receiving on four catches. Davis Jacobs (So., Tigard, Ore.) led a limited Pacific rushing attack, netting 23 yards on 10 carries. Punter Aaron Koford (So., Wilsonville, Ore.) was kept quite busy, punting seven times for an average of 33 yards per punt.
Quarterback Patrick Rooney was a one-man scoring machine for the Stags (1-1), completing 5 of 13 passes for 83 yards while also rushing 22 times for 118 yards and three touchdowns. Claremont gained 257 of their 340 yards of total offense on the ground. The Stags dominated time of possession, holding onto the ball for 35 minutes, 29 seconds, and were 7 of 16 on third down conversions.
Claremont's defense came up with the first big play of the game, blocking Koford's punt at the end of Pacific's first possession to take control on the Pacific 1-yard line. Rooney needed just one play to score the touchdown and put the Stags up 7-0 just five minutes into the contest.
The Pacific defense got a break of their own early in the second quarter when Bryan Mills (So., Imbler, Ore.) forced Nate Jiwanlal to fumble at the goal line. The Boxers earned the touchback, but could not convert the turnover into a score. Moses Villareal-Gomez (Fr., Stockton, Calif.) put Pacific on the board on their next series, kicking a 20-yard field goal with 4:29 left in the half to make the score 7-3.
The Stags moved quickly to put one more touchdown on the board in the second, going 62 yards over the next 3 minutes, 21 seconds. Rooney again took it to the end zone himself, scoring on an 18-yard run that allowed the Stags a 14-3 halftime lead.
Both teams traded possessions to open the third quarter before Campbell found Fukumoto for the 87-yard touchdown bomb to bring the Boxers within 14-9 at the 10:32 mark. The passing play ranks as second longest in Pacific history behind a 95-yard effort by Ralph Nickerson to Jim Wills against Eastern Oregon during the 1973 season.
Claremont answered right back on their next drive, running the ball on nine of the 10 plays. Once again it was Rooney doing the scoring honors, rushing in from 17 yards out to give the home team a 21-9 lead with 4:28 left in the third.
Pacific's defense once again gave their offense a chance to get back into the game early in the fourth when Sean Bangs (So., Portland, Ore.) recovered a Rooney fumble, but the drive stalled out before the Boxers could move the ball into Claremont territory. Pacific forced a total of three fumbles on the night, but could only convert three points off the turnovers. The Stags sealed the game late when Corbin Tognoni intercepted Campbell and ran back 53 yards for the game's final score with 1:03 to go.
Mills led Pacific defensively with nine tackles to go along with one tackle for loss and the forced fumble. Shane Feuerbach (So., Rocklin, Calif.) finished with eight tackles. Max Winsberg finished with six tackles to lead the Stags.
Pacific has a bye next weekend and will return to the field on Sat., Oct. 1, when they host Lewis & Clark in both team's Northwest Conference season opener. Claremont will also enjoy a bye next week before opening SCIAC play on Oct. 1 at La Verne.
BOXER BYTES: Pacific Board of Trustees member and KISS lead guitarist Tommy Thayer was in attendance at the game. Thayer and his wife, Amber, reside in the Los Angeles area…The game was Pacific's first ever in southern California and their first game south of the Bay Area since Nov 1, 1948, when Pacific played at Cal Poly.
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And speaker Cindy Jacobs has blamed a mysterious Arkansas bird-kill last year on Obama's repeal of the policy known as "don't ask, don't tell," which allows gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.[/i]The stupid burns my eyes!!
"radical homosexual agenda."had to laugh at that one.... cause you know.... equality is "radical".
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Correlation is not causality. I'm sure there have been other mysterious bird die-offs elsewhere in the nation; blaming this one on allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military is laughable.
Honestly, it reminds me of how gays are constantly being blamed for AIDS. There are far more probable and sensible reasons for its transmission to humans such as hunters cutting monkeys up for bushmeat, but no - clearly it only happened because the gays were having buttsecks with them!
Quote from: jaimehlers on October 01, 2012, 04:25:35 PMCorrelation is not causality. I'm sure there have been other mysterious bird die-offs elsewhere in the nation; blaming this one on allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military is laughable.Hey! Don't you realize that anything strange, unexplained or just something that people don't understand is caused by teh gay? That means that teh gay is the reason for the Theory of Evolution, why the French like Jerry Lewis, those orange circus peanuts, why morans can't spell moron, why the current president was given the nuclear codes even though he is an Indonesian Manchurian clone from Planet Kenya and why airplane windows don't open. We already know that teh gay is the reason why men have nipples.
Unless they are ALL the fault of "the gays". Ever think of that?!?!?!
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Aaron Murray threw four touchdown passes to rally No. 13 Georgia to a 29-17 victory over stubborn Kentucky on Saturday night.
The junior finished 30 of 38 for 427 yards as the Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1 SEC) stayed within reach of East-leading Florida entering next week's showdown against the Gators (7-0, 6-0) in Jacksonville, Fla.
Georgia, coming off a bye following a 35-7 loss at South Carolina, had to work hard to get past Kentucky (1-7, 0-5). Despite outgaining the Wildcats 504-316, the Bulldogs trailed three times and needed Murray's fourth TD for a cushion.
Two of Murray's scores were to Tavarres King, who had nine receptions for 188 yards - included a 66-yard TD.
Arthur Lynch and Chris Conley also caught TDs for the Bulldogs, and Todd Gurley added 47 rushing yards on 12 carries.
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PHOENIX — The Suns have dominated the Milwaukee Bucks in Phoenix for almost a quarter of a century. Sunday night was more of the same.
Short-handed and weary at the end of an 0-5 road trip, the Bucks were ripe for a rout, and that's exactly what happened. Steve Nash had 17 assists and 10 points in 27 minutes and the Suns rolled to a 109-93 victory over a Milwaukee team missing four players.
The Suns beat the Bucks in Phoenix for the 24th consecutive time, the NBA's second-longest active streak behind San Antonio's 27 wins in a row at home over Golden State.
"One thing you can account for is that they have had good teams here. I was a part of a few of them," Milwaukee coach Scott Skiles said. "That is the first thing, and to a period of that time the Bucks weren't very good at the same time. That long of a streak, though, you would think that at some point that things would come back in your favor and win one. It just hasn't happened."
Nash had the Phoenix offense clicking from the start. And with the Suns shooting 62 percent through three quarters (58 percent overall), the assists mounted for the 37-year-old two-time MVP point guard.
"Steve is doing Steve, man," teammate Channing Frye said. "Everybody said, 'Aw, he looks old and he needs to this or that.' You can't say nothing about him. He gets the job done. It's up to us to take a lot of pressure off him and continue to challenge ourselves to let him be the best he can be by making shots."
Marcin Gortat scored 18 points on 9-of-10 shooting to lead the Suns. Frye came out of a shooting slump to go 6 of 7, making all four 3-point tries, and finished with 16 points. Seven players, including all five starters, reached double figures for the Suns.
"Obviously, this is the worst defense we've played all year," Skiles said.
Nash said the Suns are beginning to find their rhythm.
"We are making open shots. We are also getting a little better pace and tempo throughout the game, a little bit of cohesion," he said. "It is taking us some time and I think you could have predicted that, but I think we are getting better."
Tobias Harris scored 15 for the Bucks, who last won in Phoenix on Feb. 21, 1987.
Grant Hill and Shannon Brown added 14 points apiece, Markieff Morris 13 and Jared Dudley 11 for Phoenix, which has won two in a row for the first time this season. The Suns made 9 of 20 3-pointers, 3 of 3 by the rookie Morris, who had a team-high 10 rebounds.
Shaun Livingston scored 12 for Milwaukee, and Ersan Ilyasova and Jon Leuer had 11 apiece. The Bucks again were without Andrew Bogut, who was returning from Australia after attending to personal matters and is expected to play Tuesday against San Antonio. Luc Mbah a Mouti (right knee tendinitis), Beno Udrih (left shoulder strain) and Mike Dunleavy (groin) also sat out.
Both of the latest Suns victories were one-sided affairs against worn-out teams playing the second of back-to-back nights. On Friday, the Suns routed Portland 102-77 a night after the Trail Blazers had beaten the Los Angeles Lakers. The Bucks lost to the Clippers 92-86 in Los Angeles on Saturday and played for the fifth time in eight nights.
Nash had 10 assists in the first quarter, two shy of his franchise record, as the Suns shot 68 percent (13 for 19) but led only 30-25.
Milwaukee cut it to 45-43 when Larry Sanders dribbled the length of the court for a dunk with 4:09 left in the half. Consecutive 3-pointers by Frye, who was 4 for 23 on 3s entering the game (17 percent), ignited a 10-2 run that put Phoenix up 55-45 after Gortat took a pass from Dudley for a layup. The Suns led 57-47 at the break.
Phoenix turned the game into a rout with a 17-4 third-quarter outburst, capped by Dudley's 17-footer that put the Suns up 87-60 with 3½ minutes left in the quarter. Nash had three straight assists in the run — for a layup by Gortat, a three-point play by Hill and Hill's 3-pointer.
Nash went to the bench for good with 2:56 left in the third quarter and his team leading 87-62. It was the second game in a row in which he was able to sit out the final quarter. He made all seven of his shots and had nine assists in Friday night's win over Portland.
"First of all, I have to say, 'Let's not get excited,'" Gortat said. "This is just two games and right now we are playing good basketball."
Notes: Four players in the game — Robin Lopez and Morris of the Suns and Brandon Jennings and Ilyasova of Milwaukee — were not born the last time the Bucks won in Phoenix. ... The 24-game home streak for Phoenix matched a franchise record set against Sacramento from 1988-98. ... The Bucks trailed at halftime for only the second time this season.


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By Tiffany Schirz- "I've written music because of the VG-99. If I get a piece of gear that does something I can't otherwise do, I'm going to write some music for it. And that's priceless," says master guitar-tone innovator, Adrian Belew.
Belew found success in what is perhaps his best-known role: as front-man of the landmark prog rock group, King Crimson. Belew also has a long list of session credits, from Paul Simon's 1986 epic Graceland to albums by Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Tori Amos and many more. He has consistently released solo albums over the years, and in 2005 he received a Grammy nomination in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for his single, "Beat Box Guitar."
But even with all his success, Belew is still pushing the limits and doing things he's never done before — like playing multiple virtual guitars at once using the Roland VG-99 V-Guitar System. Belew says, "I realized I could actually create a second 'guitar player' with a different sound and different tunings. It's like [having] a fourth member of the band!"
Belew is also now able to play some of his compositions live for the first time ever, thanks to the VG-99's onboard guitar models and ability to create and store alternate tunings.
"I wrote a lot of material at one point on a dobro with DADDAD tuning, but I was never able to play it live because of the complications of having to mic it up, having an odd tuning and all of those things. I can now do that.
The VG-99 has a really good dobro that's completely controllable — no microphone, nothing added, and I don't have to carry more gear around — listen to that!" Belew raves as he begins to play, filling the room with a full, harmonic sound that propels listeners into yet another new tonal universe.