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War broke out in earnest last Friday afternoon at Emma B. Ward Elementary School — a lemonade war, to be exact.
Fresh off their summer assignment to read a book titled The Lemonade War, fifth grade reaching teacher Lisa Hudson's students used what they learned in the book to not only figure out how to best sell lemonade, but how to effectively market it, draw the biggest crowds and earn the most money.
As you walk into Mrs. Crystal Darnell's brightly colored classroom, you will quickly notice that something is amiss.
There are no desks.
Well that's not entirely accurate, there are about three traditional school desks scattered around the classroom. The rest is a hodge-podge of couches, stools, cushioned crates and stylish Adirondack chairs surrounded by plush carpets and pillows.
School traffic might be a little easier to navigate this year if early attendance numbers are any indication.
According to information provided by school officials, early enrollment figures show a slight drop in enrollment for Anderson County schools.
The most significant decrease in enrollment numbers is within kindergarten and high school, said Superintendent Sheila Mitchell.
Kindergarten enrollment is down by 39 students and the high school is short by 37 students compared to last year's attendance records.
Jennings Barnett, a math teacher at the Christian Academy of Lawrencebug, said sometimes the best education a person can get is outside the confines of a classroom. It is for this reason he has designed an educational trip to Costa Rica that is open to all students in Anderson County.
The trip will consist of eight days and six nights and the group will travel around central Costa Rica taking in the sights and guided tours with experienced guides.
"Look, momma, Superman!" exclaimed one five-year-old this morning as he walked with his mother to the entrance of the Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Learning Center for his first day as a kindergartener.
The young boy was describing the bright blue Superman-style 'S' on the t-shirts of the smiling teachers and staff who were there to greet students and parents this morning.
When students return to Emma B. Ward Elementary on Wednesday morning, they may notice their school's library looks a little different. It still has books, but this library is far from traditional.
Over the summer, contractors renovated the library into what school officials call a 21st Century learning space.
Gone are the large, hulking shelves crowded with stacks of books and organized rows of desks topped with desktop computers. Instead, the space is open and completely transformable.
Thanks to an approved change in the district's code of conduct manual for the 2015-2016 year, parents or guardians of habitually truant students could face a charge of educational neglect if students continue to remain absent from school.
Anderson County Schools Director of Student Services Derek Shouse requested the board approve the change last Monday night as another option the school system can implement to prevent chronic absenteeism.
Anderson County high school juniors Adam Sanderson and Chance Wayne recently returned home from Kentucky Farm Bureau's Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders (IFAL).
Sanderson, Wayne and 44 other high school students from around the state attended the five-day summer leadership conference, held June 21-25 at the University of Kentucky.
An identical IFAL conference was also held June 14-18 at Murray State University for an additional 48 students.
Brooke Carpenter, a junior at Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg and a daughter of Dale and Melissa Carpenter, has been selected to participate in the 2015 Kentucky Governor's Scholar program this summer. Carpenter was one of nearly 1,000 students in Kentucky selected from a rigorous application process.
Only students with exceptional grades, high ACT scores, outstanding character, community involvement, and expressive written and verbal communication skills were considered.
Eastern Kentucky University conferred three advanced degrees and eight baccalaureate degrees to 11 local students at the conclusion of the spring 2015 semester.
Courtlyn A. Adams, MAED School Counseling
Markus M. Brown, BS Criminal Justice
Daniel Carlisle Goodlett, BS Criminal Justice
Amanda M. Gritton, MAED Instructional Leadership
Angel Dawn Hudson, BS Criminal Justice
Gina Marie Lee, BSN Nursing
Garrett Daniel Makowski, BA History Cum Laude
Steven Paul Marraccini, BA History
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If you're looking for nail care information in consumer beauty magazines, you're looking in the wrong place.
Nail care is such an important part of personal beauty to us in the nail industry that we naturally assume it merits a key position in the editorial focus of consumer beauty magazines. Not so. In general, consumer beauty magazines offer limited coverage of nail care. When they do provide information on nails, it is usually delivered as an adjunct to a larger focus on health or beauty. Nevertheless, reading these magazines helps you stay abreast of the latest trends in fashion, hair care, and skin care and allows you to provide nail services that complement and enhance fashion trends.
What Beauty Editors Say
In an attempt to discover how important nail care is to editors of consumer beauty magazines, NAILS Magazine interviewed editors of the top beauty magazines on their coverage of nail care – how nail care fits in with their general views on beauty and health, what their readers' interest is in nail care, and how their readers are wearing their nails.
Martha McCully, senior editor of beauty for Allure magazine, says that her magazine places great importance on nails.
"We cover nails the way we cover all aspects of beauty," says McCully, "We cover it from the angle of health, from the angle of style, and from the angle of color," McCully says that Allure addresses reader concerns about nails and provides solutions. "We get information from the experts. We ask manicurists in salons, manufacturers' consultants, and manicurists who do celebrity nails. We ask them about the current trends in style and color of nails as well."
McCully says that Allure integrates nail information into its regular features. For example, the magazine ran a story on extending the clean, healthy, smooth nails of summer throughout the year. "The story emphasized how at the end of summer your nails are better moisturized. They dry, cold winter hasn't yet affected the nails. You've been wearing sunscreen. How can you keep those nails past the summer?" McCully says the magazine regularly assigns reporters and writers to meet nail care experts in person. "We want to see what's new, what's different," says McCully.
"Allure tries to find the newest things going on from nails to hair to skin care." McCully says that the biggest nail problem her readers face is nail splitting. She says that women are wearing shorter nails with a beige or pink color; not a French manicure. Or they're going for the solid red or dark burgundy now, which she calls more of a fashion look than a natural look. "Healthy nails are extremely important," McCully says, "the style is health."
Mary Lisa Gavenas, beauty features editor of Glamour magazine, agrees that nails are a health issue. "I think for our readers the main focus of nail care is health-related issues. Basically, they are interested in healthy, strong nails," says Gavenas Glamour provides its reader with information on how to keep cuticles strong and healthy and in optimum condition. Glamour assumes that its reader don't have a lot of time to lavish o their nails, according to Gavenas. "We focus on low maintenance and on big improvements over existing nail products," says Gavenas. "Our reader is not someone who wants an elaborate manicure. She wants it very easy and simple." For this reason, quick-dry products are very popular with Glamour readers. Gavenas says her magazine includes nails as part of a makeup story, as a part of makeup trends.
Glamour has done stories that spotlighted nails. Gavenas says the trend for her readers is short, very natural-looking nails with either very sheer and natural polish colors or bright red polish. Extensions are not the trend. She says that French manicures, even with the quicker ways of doing them, are too elaborate for Glamour readers.
For Felicia Rogawska Milewiez, beauty and heath director for Mademoiselle magazine, nails are important as a fashion accessory. "Nails are the best accessory you've got," says Milewiez. "Nails ae a natural extension of your grooming." Madermoiselle acceuts nails as beauty items that enhance a woman's overall beauty and fashion statement. Coordination of nail and lip color is very important.
The readership of Mademoiselle is young – the average reader is 24 years old and single. What nail styles are these women wearing? "Generally, they are wearing their natural nails," says Milewiez. "They may wear bright colors for nighttime for shine and decoration, but they are wearing their nails short." Health of the nails is important to Mademoiselle, just as it is to Glamour and Allure. Milewiez says that Mademoiselle does stories on cuticle care. "Our reader is health-conscious. In the same ways she has to care for her skin before getting dressed, she has to care for her nails before dressing them up."
Self magazine does one big nail story a year in the middle of the book, according to Maureen McGrath, who has worked at the magazine as an editorial assistant for two and a half years. McGrath says Self did a long nail care story, "the Modern Manicure," in its April 1993 issue. "We survey our readers each month," says McGrath. "the modern manicure story received a very favorable response from our readership." McGrath says the magazine regularly reports on nail care trends. "If there is something newsworthy, we will do a news flash on it, such as the toluene or formaldehyde issues. We also touch on the health aspect of nails. For example, we advise our readers not to have their cuticles clipped in a salon unless they bring their own clippers." According to Peter Cowles, associate marketing director for Self, the median age of the magazine's reader is 30. "Our readers prefer natural nails," says McGrath. "They prefer to wear the sheer polish colors and tend to wear their nails fingertip length and more squared than rounded."
Although we were unable to reach Shirley Lord, beauty editor at Vogue, her assistant sent us articles Vogue had published that she felt would help us understand the magazine's view on nail care. Of the four articles on nail care. Of the four articles on nail care. Of the four articles on nail care we received, dating from February 1991 to April 1993, two were major features and two devoted only a paragraph or two to nail care. We were unable to get a direct statement from the editors of Vogue on their views on nail care.
What Nail Technicians Say
The editors' intentions about nail care coverage may be good, but what gets published in the magazine is the true picture of a magazine's editorial philosophy. NAILS Magazine asked five nail technicians across the country to review five major consumer beauty magazines and rate them on the amount and accuracy of their nail care coverage. The magazines were Self. Mademoiselle, Allure, Glamour, and Vogue. Each nail technician reviewed three 1993 issues of one of these five magazines.
Deneen Daniels, owner of Nails By Deneen in Atlanta, Ga., reviewed three 1993 issues of Mademoiselle and said she would give the magazine a 3 on a scale from 1 to 5 for the amount of coverage. In terms of the usefulness of the nail care articles, Daniels says, "I'd give it a 2, and that's being nice. The nail care coverage in Madeoiselle provides nail care information for the average consumer, but it's not technical enough. It's his or miss." Daniels feels the articles don't really cover the issues that nail technicians at Gerald Kriegisch Salon in Tarzana, Calif., who has been doing nails for 13 years and does the nails of such celebrities as Loni Anderson, says she found no nail care at all in the three issues of Vogue she reviewed. "I even looked through other issues of Vogue and found nothing except one ad for a professional company," she says. Sanders feels Vogue deserves a *** rating on its nail care coverage.
Bea Lea Somerville, who has been doing nails for about three and a half years and works at The Head Quarters in Midland, Texas, says of Glamour magazine's nail coverage: "I'd give it a rating of 1. There is no nail care overage. The only thing I did find was a correction referring to a statement made in a previous issue about reflexology and hand massage. The only ads in the magazine that had to do with nail care were for over-the-counter polishes and one professional products ad." Somerville says that the cover model's hands on the April issue were not well-groomed. On the cover of the September issue, the model's nails just look white. "All of the models show bare nails or a natural manicure." Says Somerville. "The only color polish appears in polish ads."
Somerville says that there was nothing on hand, nail, or foot care in the "Health and Beauty" section of the three issues she reviewed. She sums it up like this: "Everything was complexion or hair care. The only nail coverage at all was in the advertisement." To Glamour's credit, there was a full-page article on nails in the June 1993 issue, although NAILS did find a couple of points in it to SNAG!
Judy tomaras, who works at Avante Nail Studio in Barrington. III has been doing nails for 13 years but has worked in the beauty industry for 30. She reviewed three 1993 issues of Self magazine and says the nail coverage wasn't extensive. Tomaras gives the magazine a 2.5 on a scale from 1 to 5 for amount of coverage. The thing that unpressed Tomaras was the Self's nail care articles were very interesting to read. "One article described different manicures around the country – what different salons are doing. It was really interesting and gave me some ideas," Tomaras says. Overall, Tomaras found the magazine to be very useful to the consumer, less so to the nail technician. "Consumer-wise it was very, very interesting," she says. "I'd give it a 4 on accuracy and usefulness for the consumer. What I read on manicures was accurate. For technical usefulness. I'd only give it a 1.5 or a 2 on a scale from 1 to 5. But, then, we nail technicians have trade publications we can read for technique."
Allure magazine was rated on its nail coverage by Wendy Coleman, who has been doing nails for five years and owns Distinctive Touch in Hamilton Square, N.J. Says Coleman, "Allure is accurate, but it doesn't elaborate enough. I'd give the magazine *** 2 on the amount of nail coverage." But Allure scored higher with Coleman on its usefulness. She says she'd rate it a 3 or 4 on that count. Coleman was disappointed with what she thought were missed editorial opportunities. In the August 1993 issue on page 117, a full-page-size model is painting her toenails, but the page is entirely devoted to hair care. There is no mention of nail care anywhere on the page. What does Coleman conclude about Allure's views on nail care? "Nail care is presented in a favorable way and there does seem to be a fair amount of skin care, a service that can also be found in nail salons," she says.
Overall, with the exception of an occasional lengthy article on nail care such as Self's "The Modern Manicure" in its April 1993 issue, consumer beauty magazines provide scant coverage of nail care, and when they do it's tied to a more general feature on health or beauty. Although nail technicians may find the nail articles in consumer beauty magazines interesting and even useful in some ways, they put neither the nail technician nor the profession in its best light.
Does this all mean that a nail technician should limit her reading to trade magazines aimed specifically at her career? No. Reading consumer beauty magazines can help a nail technician stay abreast of the latest in fashions, including colors, fabrics, and styles that nail styles will need to complement. They also help nail technicians stay in touch with the trend in hair styles and colors (very important if the technician works at a full-service salon) and in-the-know about skin care, tinting, and massages. In addition, just browsing through consumer beauty magazines and taking a good look at the models' nails will help a nail technician keep abreast of the nail length, shape, and color that particular magazine suggests its readers wear. Another advantage to reading consumer beauty magazines if you're a nail technician is that if a magazine publishes incorrect information on nail care issues, you have to opportunity to set clients straight. And remember, your clients read consumer beauty magazines, and there's a good chance some of them will come to you wanting you to copy something they have seen in one of them. Show your clients that you're aware of the trends and able to help make them look smart and fashionable.
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OK, so it's time again for high winds, evil leprechauns, disgusting green beer and arming yourself with a stout shillelagh. Lighten up dude, it's also time for the good things ... remember parades and bagpipes?
We usually only think of bagpipes once a year, around St. Patrick's Day. Maybe the occasional funeral (or even a wedding, in my case). But to the members, family, and friends of Mac-Tire of Skye Pipes and Drums, every day is like St. Patrick's Day.
The sky is crisp and clear as March 17 approaches and the group prepares for the most exciting time of the year for bagpipe fans and players alike. What better place to prepare for such a holiday—named after a saint and all—than a church?
Mac-Tire of Skye (or MTS) rehearses each Thursday night in a big beautiful church on the Westside of Albuquerque. I showed up looking for bursting stained glass; instead, I found the group in the sturdier Sunday School room.
MTS begins with several groups of varying skill and age, using only "practice chanters." The chanter is the pipe portion of the bagpipe; the practice chanter is a smaller version used for practice (I know you were wondering). Latched bagpipe cases strain at their seams as students pop them open, eager to begin. Instructors, such as Pipe Sergeant Nate Lorenz, patiently teach musical exercises over and over. Terms like "low G," "grace note" and "doubling" are thrown around like darts in a pub.
One aspiring piper says he joined MTS "for chicks." Another says it's because "my grandpa played." The younger members stuff their piggy banks toward a $1,500 starter set of pipes, and they keep the group updated on their progress. That's $1,500. Plans are discussed for the future gigs they've been invited to play. And the list just keeps growing. Metronomes, foot tapping and the hum of a dozen or more chanters floats down the halls of this "Pipe Church".
After a long night of piping, what self respecting player can go without a pint at the local pub? So off we go to the watering hole in search of refreshment. (Adults only, of course.) Irish beer. Pizza. Maybe a Martini. Yah, a Martini. And some bad karaoke this night at Sneakerz. They lament the passing of Whisque.
MTS first shuffled onto the local bagpipe scene—yes, we do have a local bagpipe scene—at the St. Patrick's Day parade in 2008. "Mac-Tire" is an ancient Gaelic word meaning "wolf." And in the immortal words of Duran Duran they are indeed hungry like one. MTS even staged a photo shoot with real wolves. They were reminded to remove all meat products from their pockets, as a safety precaution. (But did they?)
It's clear this band isn't afraid to take chances, a tradition started when then 21-year-old Pipe Major Suzanne "Aden" Lumb formed the band in August 2007. The group says the mere presence of a new band, especially led by a young lady, seemed to intimidate some other local pipe groups to the point of sabotage. But MTS loves its craft and has banded together one of the finest bunches of solo misfits in all the Land of Enchantment. They even bought shillelaghs last year. MTS now regularly plays alongside other groups, such as Santa Fe's The Order of the Thistle Pipes & Drums ... and friend Rudolfo Serna and his bongos.
The players all look alike in their tartan kilts, but you may have seen MTS around the holidays in Albuquerque's Twinkle Light Parade or Madrid's Christmas Parade. MTS can also be spotted at private parties, charitable events and various bar gigs around town. The group was voted "Best Upcoming Scottish Musical Group" in Albuquerque the Magazine's most recent Best of the City issue. And you may have heard them carried on the wind from their No. 1 fan's yard in the Ridgecrest neighborhood. (Guess who?)
This week you'll spot MTS at The St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, March 14, starting at 10 a.m. on at Kirtland entrance on Gibson, winding past the Veteran's War Memorial on Louisiana. You can also expect appearances at Kelly's Brew Pub, O'Niell's, The Mountain View Club on KAFB and both Gecko's locations.
MTS says the road ahead includes becoming a competitive band in addition to its performance band status. Its future is well tuned and the group continues to grow in size and popularity. MTS says you can be certain that it's here to stay. Best wishes, or as they say in the old brogue tongue, Beir bua agus beannacht!


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Congratulations to the Blender Foundation, Ton, and all the developers, artists, and funders who made this release, and the recent Mango/ Tears of Steel film all possible.
"The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.64. This release was targeted at improving Blender for the Mango open movie project, along with integrating branches and patches from the past years.
The focus was on creating a full VFX pipeline, with improved motion tracking using a planar tracker, easier green screen keying, and a new mask editor. A new tile based compositing system was added, along with more advanced color management. Cycles rendering got dozens of smaller features and improvements resulting from its use in production.
Sculpting now supports masks, and a skin modifier was added to quickly create a model from skeletons. The game engine got improved shadows and physics options, and Collada export now has more options to tune for exporting to other game engines.
Check the list below for highlights and the full changelog."
New additions, improvements, and bug fixes!
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We're late coming to the film criticism of Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter. Earlier this year reader Judith Sears brought Hunter to our attention in connection with his excellent, beautifully written review of "The Great Raid." Last Friday Hunter reviewed "Munich" for the Post. His take on the film is the first that has made me laugh:
The film arrives at, politically, today's classic liberal cri de coeur against the war in Iraq: It's taking too long. There's no plan. It's too violent. It's degrading us. We can't be like them. Too many people are dying. It'll never end. How did we get into this mess? Make it go away.
Hunter humorously describes the film's portrayal of the Israeli assassination team led by Avner:
Avner is, naturally, an idealist. His guys are far from the commando types usual to movies about Special Operations (and to actual Special Operations themselves): One is a frail toymaker whose circuitry skills lend themselves to bombs as well; another is a Brit thug who happens to be Jewish (Daniel Craig, who will shortly play James Bond, but here is content to be an ensemble professional); there's a reluctant ex-soldier and mild-mannered guy who could be an accountant (he wears bow ties and sweater vests). No tattoos, no Seal or Delta machismo, no eight hours a day spent on firing ranges or in shoot houses or hoisting iron in a gym, no funny haircuts, no sexy specialist weapons, no throat or ear mikes — just skilled technicians with clean backgrounds as unearthed by Israeli intelligence (represented by Geoffrey Rush as Avner's case officer).
Hunter takes the film both on its own Spielbergian terms and on the terms of the controversy it has generated:
Spielberg has attracted, even before the fact, a great deal of criticism for the crime of moral equivalency; that is, he shows how at the ground level, the ideologies tend to vaporize, and you are left with the squalor of violence. You can hate a man, yes, for what he has done and what he represents, but at a certain point, it's difficult to bear that in mind. If you shoot him in the head, he reacts exactly as a man who is innocent would react: There's really only one way to react to a bullet in the head. The movie is about the cost of such repetition, and how it kills the soul.
In the end, Avner becomes a self-imposed, bitter exile. At one point, when two young Israeli soldiers express admiration for what he's done, he recoils in horror. It's worth repeating, however, that this is a theme Spielberg didn't sound in "Saving Private Ryan." In that film, he argued quite the opposite: Kill them until they're all gone.
But killing, like it or not, is an important issue. Right now, in the sandbox, young Americans are killing in extraordinary numbers. Read David Zucchino's "Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad" and realize that in the rush to the Iraqi capital, American gunners spray-painted literally hundreds of men bright red. The killings, of armed combatants, were all legal and sanctioned at the highest levels of government. And nobody cares. Nobody wonders: What of those machine-gunners? Do they just go back to civilian life with 150 kills on their memory at the age of 21? What's the long-term cost? What's the cost, in short, not of dying, but of killing? How many times can you pull the trigger before you begin to go sour? We owe it to our guys to contemplate the issue.
So give the movie credit for its rigor in facing this depressing problem, and not covering it in Shinola and the other stuff, as do most movies on war or armed conflict. That's very impressive, but at the same time, "Munich" has a few seedy aspects. For one thing, it's strangely obsessed with…food? Yeah, food. Avner, a cook, is continually preparing giant meals for the team and as they discuss killing this Black Septemberist or that, they peel potatoes, dice celery, beat eggs. It's very odd.
Then, worse, in a somewhat crude attempt to impose a suspenseful structure, the narrative memories of the Munich massacre are inserted throughout, climaxing in intimate scenes where the Black September terrorists blow up one helicopter and machine-gun the hostages at point-blank range. Problem: Whose memories are these? The cinema grammar of the film places them in Avner's head, though he wasn't there, so who, exactly, is doing the remembering? But Spielberg has done this before (the "false memory" is the central structural device in "Saving Private Ryan"). The bigger problem is the question of appropriateness. It seems almost disrespectful to weave in a provocative re-creation of the killings — somehow a massacre of unarmed innocents that shocked the world should be more than just fodder for ginning up the tension at the end of a commercial movie.
Then there's a strange, even troubling, episode where the boys hunt down and execute a contract killer — who has taken out one of their own — apparently under the pay of the Russians, who are ticked off that the team accidentally whacked a KGB agent when they were blowing up a target in a Cyprus hotel room. The contract killer is, in fact, a beautiful woman and she is, in fact, naked when her executioners arrive with silenced .22s disguised as bicycle pumps. The scene plays out with weird, sadomasochistic sexual overtones that will remind aging boy baby boomers of their most salacious prepubescent memories (guilty!) of the commingling of sex and violence in the famous, near-pornographic ending of Mickey Spillane's "I, the Jury." Spielberg may be arguing that, in this case, the hit was not ordered by Jerusalem but is purely at the initiative of the surviving members; the team had become They, The Jury. Nevertheless, the weird, almost pornographic vibration of the sequence is itself completely uncharacteristic of Spielberg and completely gratuitous.
The problem with "Munich" is simple: It asks hard questions and finds easy answers.
Hunter's review is "Circle of death."
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson covers terrorism in this year's films: "Hollywood's misunderstood terrorists." Hanson writes:
Actors, producers, screenwriters and directors of Southern California live in a bubble, where coast, climate and plentiful capital shield the film industry from the harsh world. In their good intentions, these tanned utopians can afford to dream away fascist killers and instead rail at Western bogeymen even in the midst of a global war against Middle East jihadists who wish to trump what they wrought at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
If Hollywood wants to know why attendance is down, it is not just the misdemeanor sin of warping reality, but the artistic felony that it does so in such a predictable manner.


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John Legend Snags TV Development Deal
Is singer John Legend saying goodbye to his singing career? Since landing a gig on Fox's hit show 'Duets,' the nine-time Grammy winner has seemingly focused his talents on the broadcasting side of things. And now, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Legend has signed a deal with Universal Cable Productions to develop a number of projects.
He, along with his Get Lifted Film Co. partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious, will work with Universal Cable Productions senior VP's Richard Rothstein, Chris Sanagustin and Maira Suroto to create a number of series for cable and broadcast networks. The three VP's oversee developments for USA Network, SyFy Channel, and all external networks.
"We're thrilled to have the creative talents of John, Mike and Ty to help us in our efforts to create imaginative and signature television," said VP's Rothstein, Sanagustin and Suroto in a joint statement. "Already, they've proven their passion and commitment to TV by bringing unique talent to the studio. We look forward to a fun and productive partnership."
Fans shouldn't be too concerned, though. Legend will step back into his singing shoes when he heads out on tour this fall, but that doesn't negate his excitement over his new deal. Ty, Mike and I are really excited about working with Maira, Richard and Chris and the entire UCP family as we take this next step forward in building Get Lifted," he said in a statement. "I believe we can do something really special."
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Despite a faltering economy, many of America's downtowns are in the midst of a revival, according to a September U.S. Census study, and Memphis is no exception.
Many of the country's downtowns are in the midst of a revival, including Memphis. That's according to a recent U.S. Census study that shows downtown populations are growing at double-digit rates.
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The study, "Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010," shows that in many of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, downtown populations grew at double-digit rates over the last decade, primarily due to the availability of new housing and services. And after previous decades of decline, the residential population in Downtown Memphis increased as well, growing by 7 percent to reach approximately 22,000 residents in 2010, according to the latest metrics compiled by the Downtown Memphis Commission.
The area is primed for more growth on the horizon, say commission officials.
"There is much happening in the South Main District – such as the ArtSpace project, the Chisca Hotel redevelopment, three apartment projects, more locally owned businesses – which is pointing to more residential and small-business growth," said Leslie Gower, vice president of marketing and communications for the Downtown Memphis Commission. "We've definitely seen an uptick in apartment rentals and are at about 92 percent occupancy in Downtown rental space, with a growing need for more."
Retail sales in the area also are on the rise. From 2003 to 2007, retail sales in the 38103 ZIP code steadily increased from $208 million to $254 million, then fell to $237 million and $217 million in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Sales rebounded in 2010, climbing to $231 million. That year, businesses located in 38103 contributed nearly $76 million in state and local sales tax revenue.
According to the latest commission statistics, there are approximately 73,300 employees working Downtown.
In November 2010, Stacy McCall, president of ServiceMaster by Stratos, moved her contract janitorial company from a suburban industrial park to 7,400 square feet of ground-floor commercial space in Downtown's historic Lowenstein Building at 66 N. Main St.
"We had a vision of becoming an integral part of the fabric of the community, and we saw that the Downtown location was perfect for that vision," McCall said. "We wanted to engage with the community personally as well as professionally, and now as soon as we step out the door here, we do that."
McCall said the Downtown Commission and others bent over backwards to help them get settled and overcome any challenges.
"We have to move supplies in and out of the building, so the owners installed a lift for us," she said. "We're not the typical law or corporate office that's down here. So they were really thinking outside the box in terms of, 'How can we make this atypical company meet their needs in ways we haven't explored in the past?'"
Logistics aside, the move was not without other reservations, McCall said.
"Our first concern was, 'How will people find us? Will applicants come Downtown?'" she said. "But our applicants have not missed a beat."
There were also concerns among Stratos employees – out of the employee base of about 250, there are about 20 in the office on any given day, not to mention additional people dropping in to fill out or drop off applications or pick up supplies.
Kelli Eason, account executive at Obsidian Public Relations, relocated to Memphis from Baton Rouge, La., in 2011. She chose to live Downtown because of its vibrant atmosphere.
(Photo Courtesy of Obsidian Public Relations)
"There was some hesitation at the beginning about traffic, parking and commuting," McCall said. "But once people discovered all the choices for eating, taking a break outside or just going for a walk, they realized the new location created great opportunities that didn't require crawling into a car to get to them."
The walkability factor also is a main draw for Kelli Eason, 25, an account executive at Obsidian Public Relations. She relocated from Baton Rouge, La., in October 2011 and, after looking at various locations throughout the city, ultimately chose Downtown's Barboro Flats on Gayoso Avenue as her home.
"I really wanted to live that city life," she said. "I wanted the opportunity to meet lots of people and live near work, restaurants, bars and other young professionals. And now, I don't even know what half my friends drive because we never take our cars. We walk almost everywhere."
Eason is a prime example of recent study results showing that Downtown is becoming a magnet for young, educated residents. According to a Census data analysis study by the group CEOs for Cities, a network of urban leaders from diverse sectors across the country, the number of college-educated residents between ages 25 and 34 who live within three miles of Downtown Memphis grew from 3,741 to 4,705 between 2000 and 2009.
It's a hopeful indicator of the city's potential to attract and retain young talent, but there's still work to be done, says Paul Morris, president of the Downtown Memphis Commission.
"National and local statistics indicate that the number of young professionals and empty-nesters who want to live and work in densely populated urban areas will rise dramatically over the next 30 years," he said. "For Memphis to compete in that arena, we have to offer that product. If we want to succeed in attracting this next generation of professionals, we have to continue to create a vibrant, livable Downtown."
Courtney Liebenrood Ellett, Eason's employer and principal of Obsidian Public Relations at 493 South Main, doesn't think that task will be a problem. Her business has been located downtown since she founded it in 2006, and during that time she's seen many changes, such as emerging condo developments and an influx of new residents. The sense of community, however, has only gotten stronger, she says.
"Downtowners are very passionate about downtown. I find so much commitment, enthusiasm and energy here. And there's a great sense of familiarity," she said. "Yes, evolution happens and things advance and grow and change, but we're growing at a pace that doesn't feel alienating – there's still that familiarity that's a comfort to me. I'm a businesswoman so I understand the need for progress, and I feel like we're putting the right energy and effort into that progress. We're headed in the right direction."
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Going from glass "lantern" slides to PowerPoint presentations may seem like a great technological leap forward, but for art- history students the progression is no doubt less awe-inspiring. No matter what the means of classroom display, works of art are still being viewed in two dimensions. Barnard's proximity to some of the greatest museum collections in the world ameliorates this difficulty somewhat, making field trips to view many masterpieces, from the ancient to the most modern, just a subway or bus ride away. That led Professor Anne Higonnet, former chair of the art-history department, to ask the question: Wouldn't it be ideal to hold lectures or study groups in a museum? Of course, it would, and thanks to Higonnet and some important support, the result this semester is the new art-history seminar "The Frick Collection."
One of the world's most outstanding personal collections of fine paintings and decorative arts, and a "great New York institution," says Higonnet, the Frick includes Old Masters, seventeenth-century Dutch works, and eighteenth- century English portraits, as well as prints and drawings, sculpture, enamels and porcelains, and French eighteenth- century furniture—all housed in a Fifth Avenue mansion whose construction began in 1913, and ultimately cost a then staggering sum of five million dollars. Built by industrialist Henry Clay Frick (his partnership with another multimillionaire, Andrew Carnegie, ultimately led to the formation of United States Steel), the mansion was meant to become a museum. Frick died in 1919, and after some adaptations for public usage, the house opened in 1935. Says Higonnet, "The Frick is like a time capsule ... it epitomizes the ideal of private collecting becoming a public gift. It also offers tremendous opportunities to students who can study and consider firsthand the relationships between the fine arts and the decorative arts."
Thanks to cooperative efforts between the Barnard art-history department in the person of Higonnet, and Inge Reist, director of The Frick Collection's Center for the History of Collecting in America, 15 students (initially limited to 12, but increased due to demand) are enrolled this semester in the new departmental offering; many are already familiar with the museum and eager learn more. Art- history major Lindsay Griffith '10, in an e-mail, writes that the Frick has always been her favorite museum in New York, a sentiment echoed by Iris Fernandez '10, an anthropology major with an archaeology track and an art-history minor.
Underpinning the seminar is the support of the Mellon Foundation, which through its grants, encourages innovative curricula in art history like the Frick seminar. The foundation is also known for its longstanding commitment to teaching at the undergraduate level. Higonnet explains that conducting classes in a museum seems like such an obvious idea, but curators and museum directors are not paid to teach. Yet the knowledge and unique perspectives of these professionals are invaluable to students. With the Mellon's backing, Higonnet approached the Frick and suggested a meshing of "complementary expertise" and team teaching for the seminar. Classes are roughly divided between on-campus classrooms and venues at the museum. This "pedagogic partnership" between Barnard and the Frick will not be the sole example of a cooperative course; she adds that environmental- science Professor Stephanie Pfirman is working out details for a course to be given at the American Museum of Natural History.
The new seminar does more than enable undergraduates to study fine and decorative arts and learn from the objects themselves, the Frick archives, and primary sources. The course also immerses them in the many facets of collecting. Seminar members will see the Frick Collection, not only as individual masterpieces by Rembrandt, or Bellini, or Turner, but as the aggregate of one collector's eye, and as a home envisioned by that collector as a museum for the future. The course places the collection in the context of its time, an example of collecting in the Gilded Age, a period spanning the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-centuries when breathtaking American fortunes were formed and frequently lavished on the arts as a means of social and cultural advancement and legacy-building.
The Frick exists as an outstanding example of a private-collection museum, an idea that gained prominence from the 1880s to the mid 1940s. Other notable examples of the genre are the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and London's Wallace Collection. For comparative study, seminar members will make field trips to the Gardner, a museum little-changed since the death of its namesake, and to the Morgan Library, in Manhattan, much adapted since it was the home of financier J. P. Morgan. Only Morgan's impressive and imposing study remains much as it was during his residency.
The reading list gives an idea of the multidimensional approach to the study of art history the seminar affords: Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures by Cynthia Saltzman; Higonnet's new work, A Museum of One's Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift; and David Alan Brown's definitive Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, are among the titles cited for specific lectures. The list also includes works on collecting theory, collecting in the Gilded Age, and biographies of well-known art dealers and other period collectors. One of the attractions of the seminar is no doubt the opportunity to go "behind the ropes," so to speak, and gain access to areas generally off-limits to visitors. After the first class held at the Frick, Fernandez '10 noted, "I [did] love the intimate look into...the Frick Collection...an amazing experience as we were able to tour the whole building beyond what is open to the public."
Lindsay Griffith '10 offered a perspective that might make former Barnard art-history majors, including this writer, wish they were back in the classroom, "The course is unlike any other [art-history] course that I have taken at Barnard or Columbia.... I'm extremely lucky to be around for a convergence of events with Mellon Foundation funding, the Frick Collection participation, and Professor Higonnet's efforts ... the course even thus far has exceeded my expectations..."
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Ben Cochran is on the move again, and this time it appears to be for good.
Cochran, who was at safety for the first three weeks of Air Force's training camp, has moved to quarterback and will remain there, coach Troy Calhoun said.
Cochran started his Falcons career at quarterback, moved to safety, but filled in last year at quarterback when injuries hit. Cochran had 88 passing yards and a touchdown against BYU.
The move was less about concern at quarterback – though, Calhoun hadn't yet decided among the freshmen vying for the No. 3 spot behind Tim Jefferson and Connor Dietz – and more about Cochran's overall value to the team. Calhoun said playing quarterback will give Cochran more time to work on special teams.
"We just felt like what his role needs to be to help our football team is to be a holder, compete for the punter job, be on kickoff return, be on punt block, and be ready to go in at quarterback," Calhoun said.
Cochran has been mentioned as a possibility for the punting competition, and Calhoun said this could give him a fair shot to work on punting.
"There has to be a good segment of every practice where he works on being a specialist," Calhoun said. "This allows him to do that."
Cochran said early in camp that he could play quarterback on no notice if he had to, but he wasn't expecting to actually be playing quarterback this season.
"It was a pretty big surprise this year," Cochran said.
"I wasn't expecting to unless something happened and I had to, but if coach feels this is the best for the team for me to move over and work on some punting and holding and doing the special teams I'm on, that's what I'm going to do. Whatever needs to be done."
Cochran did look sharp passing the ball Wednesday. He had a few strong throws, including a long touchdown to wide-open freshman Ike Ariguzo.
The coaching staff also felt comfortable moving Cochran because a couple of backup safeties, P.J. Adeji-Paul and freshman Anthony Wooding, have had good camps.
But special teams will be Cochran's biggest impact. When asked if Cochran could become a good punter with more practice time, Calhoun replied "absolutely."
"There have been times he's been good, he just hasn't hit a stride in consistency," Calhoun said. "I'd just like to see, if he has a chance to spend more time and dedicate that way, what he can do."
Cochran has always been versatile, and maybe that has set him back. The coaching staff figures this is a way to let him focus a little and make a bigger impact.
"With all the meetings and the whole bit, we were pulling him in way too many directions," Calhoun said.


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Maybe it's time, you know? Maybe, at long last, I start in on the enormous backlog of Things I Need and Things I Want, and stop making excuses, and start checking them off. For the most part, a lot of these things have been trying to practically fall into my lap, if only I weren't standing up and facing the other direction. In other words, I may not even need to start out saying "yes," as much as to just stop saying "no."
"No," you see, has become a habit. A defense mechanism that I have come to use, over the course of years, to protect myself, and more importantly, my family. No, I can't have company, I'm needed. No, I can't spend time with friends, I have to stay here. No, I can't go on that trip that I planned all year, because I have to deal with this crisis, because I'm the only one who will. No, I don't have time to finish that book, or even to tend my website, because my attentions are demanded elsewhere. No, no, no... thank you for thinking of me, but I can't.
All anyone has to do is glance back through the last dozen entries here and see the snapshots in time that sum up the wild emotional-tsunami-driven ride of the last few years of my life. The one thing I opened myself up for was a relationship that started (and ultimately, ended, at least in one sense) with "no." I denied myself at least 6 months, maybe more, of quality companionship because of my Armor of No. I preferred being alone to taking a chance on what turned out to be something that did me good and for which I have zero regrets.
But if you go back even farther in the archives, you can pretty much see how this response formed, and how it became so ingrained. I don't really need to say more about it here, because it's all there. There was literally no one else who could handle the... issues that had to be handled. No one but me. Not when it came down to the nitty-gritty. I DID have help, from both family and professionals, for the bigger stuff, but the day-to-day heavy lifting was all mine. I didn't really have any choice. And so it began, and so it became ingrained.
"No" is easy. "No" is safe. "No" insulates and protects... unfortunately, "no" also isolates and alienates. I lost friends--good friends who just became weary of being seemingly rejected time after time. It got to the point (and many of you can attest to this) that I couldn't even talk on the phone. I was alone long before I was alone, and after a while, it became my default setting, comfortable in its familiarity, secure and safe, like my own little metaphorical hobbit-hole.
"Yes" is scary. "Yes" is risky. "Yes" means putting yourself out there, exposing vulnerabilities, and taking chances. All things with which I used to be, once upon a time, supremely comfortable. I have a lot of things that are needing a "yes" from me. But after all this time, it's extremely daunting. I can't promise I'll be able to follow through with a solid "YES!" every time. But I can start with "maybe," and then move on to "probably," and hopefully in short order to "yes."
Yes, I will accept help from others.
Yes, I will submit my chapters for editorial review.
Yes, I will resume the posting here that has meant so much to me.
Yes, I will have my chickens. (That one makes me smile.)
Yes, I will actively seek more artistic earning opportunities.
Yes, I will allow a well-intentioned gentleman or two to lavish me with courtly blandishments.
Yes, I will use more phrases like "courtly blandishments" in blog posts.
Yes, I will have parties. At MY home. I will return my home to the warm, inviting place that it was once upon a time (when it was located elsewhere and was 100% mine), when friends felt comfortable gathering and socializing and eating delicious things and laughing and talking and laughing some more.
Yes, yes, yes. But let's start with... maybe. Probably. Yes.


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2006 Top 100: Corporate Profiles 51-100
The top 100 food and beverage processing companies in the U.S. and Canada are profiled in this annual feature. Find company contact information, major brands, key executives and main product areas.
To read the main article on the Top 100 processors and how our list was compiled, see "The Top 100: It's been a tough year." Access processor profiles ranked 1-25 here. Access processor profiles ranked 26-50 here.
51. Fortune Brands Inc.1700 E. Putnam Ave., Old Greenwich, CT 06870-0811
Phone: 203-698-5000; Fax: 203-637-2580; www.fortunebrands.com
Executives: Chmn., CEO: Norman H. Wesley; SVP-Finance and Treas.: Mark Hausberg; SVP and CFO: Craig P. Omtvedt; SVP-Strategy and Development: Christopher Klein; SVP, Gen. Counsel and Secretary: Mark Roche
Subsidiaries and Divisions: Spirits and Wine; Home and Hardware; Golf
Brands: Canyon Road, DeKuyper, Geyser Peak, Jim Beam, Knob Creek, Maker's Mark, Sauza, Whyte and Mackay
Product Areas: Alcoholic beverages
52. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.410 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-644-2121; Fax: 312-644-0097; www.wrigley.com
Executives: Chmn/CEO: William Wrigley Jr.; COO: Ronald V. Waters; SVP-Worldwide Strategy and New Business: Peter R. Hempstead; SVP and Chief Innovation Officer: Surinder Kumar; SVP and Chief Admin. Officer: Dushan Petrovitch; SVP-Worldwide Supply Chain: Darrell R. Splithoff; VP and CFO: Reuben Gamoran; VP, Secy and Gen. Counsel: Howard Malovany; VP-Manufacturing: Donald E. Balster; VP-Worldwide Gum Base Operations: Vincent C. Bonica; VP and CIO Donagh Herlihy; VP-Worldwide Engineering: Shaun Kim; VP-Nordic: Jon Orving; VP and Managing Dir.-West Europe: Frank Birkel; VP and Chairman-Europe: Stefan Pfander; VP-Worldwide Procurement: Patrick Mitchell; VP and Managing Dir.-East/Central Europe: Igor Saveliev; VP and Treasurer: Alan J. Schneider; VP and Managing Dir.-North Europe: Denis Schrey; VP and Managing Dir.-North America/Pacific: Ralph Scozzafava; VP-RandD: Tawfik Sharkasi; VP and Managing Dir.-China: Samson Suen; VP and Managing Dir.-Asia: Michael Wong; Gen. Mgr.-New Confectionary Brands: A. Rory Finlay
Brands: Airwaves, Altoids, Creme Savers, Doublemint, Extra, Ice White, Life Savers, P.K, Alpine, Eclipse, Freedent, Juicy Fruit, Spearmint, Big Red, Excel, Hubba Bubba, Orbit, Winterfresh, Big League Chew, Bubble Jug, Bug City, Blasters, Bubble Tape, Everest, Sugus
Subsidiaries and Divisions: Amurol Confections Co., Yorkville, Ill.; Four-Ten Corp., Chicago; L.A. Dreyfus Co., Edison, N.J.; Northwestern Flavors Inc., West Chicago, Ill.; The Wrigley Company Pty., Sydney, Australia; Wrigley Austria Ges.m.b.H., Salzburg, Austria; Wrigley Bulgaria EOOD, Sofia, Bulgaria; Wrigley Canada, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada; Wrigley Chewing Gum Company Ltd., Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China; Wrigley Zagreb d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia; Wrigley s.r.o., Prague Czech Republic; The Wrigley Co. Ltd., Plymouth, England, U.K.
Product Areas:Chewing gum, confectionary products
53. Colgate-Palmolive Co.
300 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022
Phone: 212-310-2000; Fax: 212-310-3405; www.colgate.com
Executives: Chmn. and CEO: Reuben Mark; Vice-Chman: Javier Teruel; Pres. and COO: Ian Cook; CEO, Hill's Pet Nutrition: Robert Wheeler
Brands: Hill's Prescription Diet, Hill's Science Diet
Product Areas: Pet food
54. Darigold (formerly WestFarm Foods)
635 Elliott Ave. West, Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: 206-284-7220; Fax: 206-281-3456
Executives: Pres. and CEO: John E. Mueller; VP—Finance, CFO: Steven Boyd; VP, Consumer Products: Steve Harper; SVP: Richard Low; VP, Manufacturing: John Underwood
Subsidiaries and Divisions: Dairy Export Co., Darigold Farms, Darigold Inc.
Brands: Darigold
Product Areas: Dairy
55. Cott Corp.
207 Queen's Quay West, Suite 340, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 1A7
Phone: 416-203-3898; www.cott.com
Executives: Chmn: Frank Weise III; Pres/CEO: John Sheppard; EVP-No. American Opers.: Mark Benadiba; VP-No. American Sales and Mktg.: John Dennehy; SVP, Gen. Counsel and Secy.: Mark Halperin; EVP and CFO: B. Clyde Preslar; VP-Bus. Dev.-Wal Mart: Jason Nichol; SVP and Managing Dir.-UK and Europe: Andrew Murfin; SVP-Corporate Resources: Colin Walker
Brands: Cott, Fruit Refreshers, private label and store brands
Product Areas: Soft drinks
56. Foremost Farms USA
Address: P.O. Box 111, Baraboo, WI 53913-0111
Phone: 608-356-8316; Fax: 608-356-3575; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; www.foremostfarms.com
Executives: Chmn.: Edward Brooks; Pres. and CEO: Donald C. Storhoff; CFO: Duaine T. Kamenick; VP, Fluid Division: Joseph Weis; VP, Cheese Division: David Fuhrmann; VP, Ingredients Division, Jim Geyer; VP, Finance: Duane Kamenick; VP, Member, Employee, and Industry Relations: Jim Kasten; VP, Planning and Marketing Analyst: Curtis Kurth
Brands: 127 Cheese, 1950 Cheese, Foremost, Golden Guernsey Dairy, Morning Glory Dairy, Maui Juice
Product Areas: Dairy products
57. National Dairy Holdings LP
3811 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 1300, Dallas, TX 75219
Phone: 214-526-2653; www.bordenonline.com
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Many visitors to Hawaii skip the island of Oahu, believing it's too city-like, not Hawaiian enough, not the laid-back feel they seek in a vacation. Honolulu has plenty of attractions that rival some of the great cities in the world. Here are five places to go that might not be on your radar:
Bishop Museum: Hands down, the best place to learn about the history of Hawaii. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum is in a historic building that is gorgeous. The artifacts from ancient times are numerous, and there's a planetarium. Daily shows and exhibits enhance the lovely grounds and learning experience. It's possible to take a bus there from Waikiki, but make sure it's the express, not the local.
Honolulu Museum of Art: This used to be called the Honolulu Academy of Arts but changed its name last year after it was given the collection from the Contemporary Museum. This lovely building in downtown Honolulu is easy to get to and provides a perfect place to spend a day. The museum was founded in 1927 and has more than 50,000 works. The café is a delightful spot for lunch and there are many great outdoor spaces for lingering.
Foster Botanical Garden: With more than 13 acres in downtown Honolulu, Foster Garden has tropical plants from around the world, some rare and endangered. Plenty of shade and the ever-present tradewinds make wandering around the garden and looking at plants a great break from the beach, if you are looking for something different.
Leonard's Bakery: Before you start all this touring, be sure to stop for malasadas (Portugese doughnuts) at Leonard's. This small bakery operating since 1952 on Kapahulu Avenue is the king of the warm Hawaiian delicacy. It opens at 5:30 a.m. daily, and you can get all sorts of flavors, though the original is hard to beat.
Willows Restaurant: This eatery is one of the few remaining examples of the first wave of Polynesian-flavored buildings. The restaurant first opened in 1944. It closed in 1993 and reopened in 1999 after being restored. Today, it is mostly a buffet spot sitting on one acre of tropical gardens with waterfalls, but you can still get items off the menu. Locals go there for island food, and the setting is tropical and quiet with a koi pond. It's not far from Waikiki, but diners feel completely removed from the bustle of the city.


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Women's tennis travels to San Diego for ITA Regionals
Oct. 23, 2008
The Arizona women's tennis team will travel to San Diego, Calif. on Thursday for the ITA West Regionals hosted by the University of San Diego and San Diego State. The Wildcats will be competing against players from fifteen other schools from around the west coast.
In the first round of singles play, freshman Sarah Landsman will start off against Long Beach State's Stephanie Jeanes. Fellow freshman Deborah Castany will play against San Diego State's Emma Cioffi. Sophomore Jane Huh will be up against San Diego State's Olivia Colman.
Junior Ariane Masschele has a first round bye, and will play against the winner of the match between Loyola Marymount University's Jane Pringle and UC Irvine's Clare Fermin.
Senior Danielle Steinberg, also with a first round bye will play against the winner of the match between Marymount's Tina Razloznik and UC Santa Barbara's Ratchaya Chaichanachaicharn.
In doubles, Huh and Steinberg will be going up against Pepperdine's Marigrace Marshall and Danielle Thomasima, and after a first round bye, Landsman and Masschelein will play the winner of the match between Hawaii's Anja-Vanessa Peter and Natasha Zorec and Marymount's Jasmine Heckel and Tina Razloznik.
'This tournament will give everyone exposure to teams and players we will be competing against in the spring,' said head coach Vicky Maes.
'It's a good opportunity to measure ourselves. We have made a lot of progress this fall and done well in our first few tournaments, and this will be another good test.'
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Contrary to most Western approaches to nutrition, Ayurveda does not prescribe one diet as best for everyone, such as raw foods, macrobiotics or the basic four food groups, but seeks to individualize and optimize nutrition for the individual, based on their constitutional type and the particular imbalances in the person which need to be corrected. Food is selected based on its elemental balance, its taste, its effects on the body, and qualities of the foods such as hot and cold, moist and dry, light and heavy, oily, rough, subtle, and others. The main intention of diet in the Ayurvedic system is to nourish the body's tissues, known as the seven dhatus, ie. lymph, blood, flesh, muscle, fat, marrow, bone and sexual fluid. Each of these tissues, when it is fed, nourishes and forms the next in succession. In order to nourish the tissues, food must first be digested, which is the job of the digestive fire, or agni, which is seated in the stomach and small intestines. Food that is not properly digested, due to overeating, poor food combinations, imbalance of the elements, or toxins in the food creates a sticky, toxic substance known as ama, which coats the digestive tract and the tongue and which may also be deposited in the tissues, forming a breeding ground for chronic disease. Proper food nourishes without making toxic ama.
Ignoring the laws of correct living and allowing the accumulation of toxins in the body predictably results in disease. Ayurveda prescribes an individualized approach to the dietary and lifestyle practices which keep people healthy and promote longevity. Ayurvedic dietary and cleansing practices are among the simplest, but most profoundly effective in the world. By knowing your dosha and applying the principles of living prescribed by both the ancient Rishis and modern Ayurvedic practitioners, you can restore your health and live a long and happy life.
The three main doshas and their dietary principles are given below. A complete Ayurvedic examination includes pulse and tongue reading, your physical characteristics, your mental qualities and emotional temperament, and whatever symptoms you may be suffering from. Although the guidelines given below will probably be helpful for self-care, they are not intended to treat disease or replace the services of an Ayurvedic practitioner.
Vata. Vata is the principle of motion, and is responsible for everything in the body which moves. It is the combination of the elements air and ether (or space.) Vata is said to be mobile, light, dry, cool, rough, subtle, and clear. An excess of these qualities will aggravate Vata. Vata people tend to be thin, dark haired, wirey, fearful and nervous, with very active minds and bodies. They are often on the go (or on the phone!) Vata has its seat in the colon, and one of its main symptoms of aggravation is excess lower bowel gas. Vata is also prominent in the hair, nails, skin and joints and excess Vata will cause dry skin and hair, wrinkles, and cracking joints, and as you might guess, people become more Vata as they age.


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IT Management Slideshow: 12 Tech Behaviors: What They Really Say About You
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 12-14-2010
Our behaviors essentially define who we are. How we choose to conduct ourselves when it comes to interacting with technology speaks volumes about who we are and where our priorities lie. Are you a classic early adopter or a technology Luddite? Are you constantly texting away on a tiny mobile gadget, or do you look to unplug as often as possible? Do you use technology as a way to connect with others, or as a shield to avoid real human interaction? To find out more about what these and many other tech traits communicate to others about who you really are, CIO Insight consulted with Melody Brooke, a Richardson, Texas-based licensed counselor to professionals. The author of the book "Oh Wow, This Changes Everything" (Changes Press/Available now), Brooke is also host of the radio program, Wake Up Call. We asked Brooke to come up with a dozen "tech behaviors," and interpret for us what they say about who we are - not only in our personal lives, but in our professional lives as well.
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