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Friday • Southgate House Revival
Steven Rosen
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 20, 2015
According to Publishers Weekly, Steve Katz's new memoir Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? has maybe the most spectacular revelation yet of any Rock memoir.
More Than Blood, Sweat and Tears
Following the release of his acclaimed new memoir, 'Rock Star' Steve Katz comes to Newport
Steven Rosen
0 Comments · Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Veteran music man Steve Katz reflects on his rich history in music with a new memoir and an acoustic/storytelling performance Friday at Southgate House Revival.
It's Never Too Late
Garland Jeffreys' successful second act continues at age 71
Steven Rosen
0 Comments · Monday, November 3, 2014
Veteran singer/songwriters stop performing and recording for all kinds of reasons — health, fatigue, lack of success, too much success or changes in music trends all sometimes figure into it. But the reason the New York City-based musician Garland Jeffreys, who will be performing Wednesday at Southgate House Revival, didn't issue a U.S. album of new material from 1992 until 2011 because he wanted to spend time with his daughter.
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Britney: Torture or Gospel?
Plus, YouTube launches messy music awards and James Blake and Lou Reed name mixups
Mike Breen
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Britney Spears' music gets used as a pirate repellent and to tell the story of Jesus, the YouTube Music Awards were an unfocused mess, some dumb social media users mix up their Lous and James Blake wins the Mercury Prize, then gets dissed during his introduction.
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Worst Week Ever!: Oct. 23-29
Danny Cross
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Cincy: Let's Get Wasted in Public: Sometimes questions kind of answer themselves, like when you're offered a sample of a little cracker in the grocery store and you feel like eating a cracker. An Enquirer headline today prompted a similar response, as its story titled, "Want to drink in the street?" was likely met by most readers with an excited, "Sure, when?"
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All Yesterday's Memories, All Tomorrow's Parties
Remembering Lou Reed
I was a few months shy of 16 when I first heard the lucidly stark voice of Lou Reed stream over the airwaves. I was just another suburban weirdo, looking for a justified rebellion to call his own. I had spent those "formative years" sleeping around with any album loud enough to drown out my inner white noise, moving through a steady stream of Hardcore, Punk, Metal — if they were screaming it, I was buying it. As it turns out, though, what I was really looking for was a quieter sort of revolution, and at the helm was Mr. Lou Reed, telling me with a frank honesty that there was freedom in the composition. It was, like any great lesson, one I'd come to learn in time. To say I enjoyed those first striking chords of "Heroin" would be an understatement. It was on a snowy night in 2007, crammed in the back of a friend's Yaris Liftback, when I first heard it. I can't remember exactly where we were previous to that moment, when that raw melody first came in. All I can remember is how I suddenly became more aware of myself than ever before. Everything I knew about music, about artistry, about writing — all of it would change with that first overlap of beautiful melody. I was mesmerized, shaken from a stupor of conditioned knowledge and thrown into a concoction of John Cale's haunting strings with Lou Reed's candid crooning. By the time Maureen Tucker's drumming kicked in, sparse in its reverberation, my resolve would be just as stripped, replaced by a wily knot that would take years to untie. Though, right then, the song was just "fucking awesome." It would only be years later, waking up to a chilled October morning in 2013, that this memory would even begin to matter. As the headlines would come to read, "Lou Reed Dead at 71," so, too, would the horizon appear most clearly. I've always been a firm believer in the crossover of influences, the collaboration of mediums in shaping any sort of artistry. As a writer, I can proudly say that the recorded sound has had just as much influence on me as the written word. And when I heard the Velvet Underground for the first time, it became clear that they believed in a similar marriage, affirmed on the morning of Oct. 27. With the news of the passing of a legend came an onslaught of anecdotes from around the arts world, plastered against my computer screen. Amidst the mass of legends, one story stood out in particular. As according to Rolling Stone, it was 1965, and the first few months of the Velvet Underground playing under their iconic moniker. They had began a residency playing in New York's Café Bizarre and in the beginning stages of developing their distorted and chaotically composed sound. Management was set on having performers play more contemporary numbers, and warned the band not to play their original composition "Black Angel Death Song." They went on to perform the number anyway, fit with all the chilling accidentals in its string arrangements, and were fired immediately.Though they would emerge from that loss victorious (it led to their introduction to Andy Warhol, the man who would come to produce their record and put them on the map of the underground art scene of '60s New York), there was something bigger about that moment, something more pressing in my association with it. Incidentally, "Black Angel Death Song" was the first thing I clicked on Sunday morning when I heard the news of its writer's passing. The strings were suddenly more haunting, and the story seemed all the more important. It was yet another quintessential moment in the life of Lou Reed, a man who sang with unbridled frankness, who played with unencumbered passion, and who inspired me with the tirelessness of his dedication to honest expression. It transported me back, seven years and a lifetime ago, to that night in December 2007, when I first pricked my ears with another of his songs, that found, all at once, both comfort and chaos within itself. Though I'd spend the lapsed time between 2007 and 2013 finding appreciation for the 40-plus years of Reed's prolific career — from "Black Angel Death Song" and "All Tomorrow's Parties," through "Satellite of Love" and "Pale Blue Eyes" and even up until his Hudson River Wind Meditations — it would always be that compositions that would stay, forever imprinted in my mind."Heroin" became, for me, a love song to the in between — it was everything I'd been listening to up until that point and nothing I'd ever heard before; it was the sentimentality of Indie Rock, the calm before the double bass in hardcore, the simplistic, chord interplay of Punk and its cleaner cut cousin Pop. And, at the same time, it was also the recklessness of avant-garde, the soundtrack to the colors of an underground New York I'd only experience in preserved murals and snapshots. It was everything I'd known, and everything I would come to know about music, about art, about sound and about writing. There are moments that comprise your past, songs that take you to a memory you thought you'd left. And then there are moments that define your future, songs that propel you forward into infinity. Lou Reed, and what he accomplished before, with and after the Velvet Underground, stood as a symbol for finding freedom in ones composition, and pushing the statements made to work in a fashion of success. It was a lesson I would learn time and time again in my own work, as I moved through the progression of my writing and my own performance techniques. I would come to face my own obstacles, fight my own battles against normative expectations. And it would be in those times I fell the deepest, my resolve threatening to falter, that this education would come back to me, mysterious in its origins, all the while growing, like a backbone that stood rigid for honest experimentation and freedom in the composition. Even now, as this mystery's been unearthed, its inductor put to rest, ahead of me remains miles and miles of still shrouded possibility. But against that wall of lessons I'll stand, riveted, staring towards the looming unknown. And I'll try for a different kind of kingdom, if I can.
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Lou Lives, "Love" Bytes and Daft Pink/Puck/Punk
Mike Breen
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 5, 2013
What's weirder — that Joy Division has inspired a video game or that the free, browser-based computer game actually captures the essence of the legendary U.K. gloom rockers perfectly?
by Mike Breen
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This Date in Music History: March 2
A look at the legacies of R&B pioneer Hank Ballard and kid lit god Dr. Seuss
On this day in 2003, proto-Rock & Roll singer/songwriter Hank Ballard died after a battle with throat cancer. One of the under-heralded heroes of the development of Rock & Roll, Ballard's career is inexorably tied to Cincinnati, where he recorded for locally-based King Records (as well as the related Federal imprint). Ballard was a member of early '50s Doo-wop grope The Royals, which had an R&B hit with the Federal single "Get It" in 1953 (despite it's alleged "sexually-suggestive" lyrical content). The group became The Midnighters and landed a No. 1 R&B hit with Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie," another risque tune that was banned by the FCC from radio play. In 1959, the group became "Hank Ballard and the Midnighters" and moved to the King label proper. A 1959 B-side written by Ballard was covered by Chubby Checker and became a No. 1 smash on the Pop charts in 1960 and again in 1962. The song and accompanying dance (said to have also been developed by Ballard) became an international craze. The book Behind The Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll called the song's success "a major turning point for adult acceptance of rock and roll music."Despite having one of their songs co-opted and turned into a cultural phenomenon, the early '60s did bring Ballard and the Midnighters several Pop chart hits, including "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and the Grammy-nominated "Finger Poppin' Time." Ballard began a solo career in the late '60s (despite support from James Brown, it never fully took off) and performed with a version of The Midnighters off and on until the year before he died. In 1990, Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (without his Midnighters). The footage is a little rough, but here's a cool clip of Ballard from 1989 performing "Work With Me, Annie" on one of my favorite live-music TV shows ever, David Sanborn's Night Music. Click on for Born This Day, featuring Lou Reed, Chris Martin and … Dr. Seuss?
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0 Comments · Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Here's a shocking discovery for Cincinnati Pop-music historians: Did you know it was a legendary Iggy Pop performance here in 1970 that inspired David Bowie to create his Ziggy Stardust character and thus turn the British Glam Rock movement into a worldwide phenomenon? That's one of many perceptive insights in this new documentary.
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Prince Down on the Internet, Folks Are Down on Lou Reed and Whitesnake Pays Out
Mike Breen
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Then As An Unpronounceable Symbol and Now Prince Again gave an interview to Britain's Daily Mirror (which gave away his new album for free with a recent edition of the paper) and made the bold prediction that this crazy "Internet" trend was "completely over." Prince, who won't sell his albums online and has shut down his official Web site, told the paper that "all these computers and digital gadgets are no good."
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A gas pipeline from Russia to India and reviving the South Silk Road from China are two projects that will get their first official sanction during Prime Manmohan Singhs visit to the two countries next week, with New Delhi agreeing to set up joint study groups for both.
India is also keen on Russia adopting a township along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor just like the USSR had done with steel townships Bhilai and Bokaro.
With China, an agreement is also expected to be signed on twinning three pairs of cities for city-to-city collaboration Delhi-Beijing, Bangalore-Chengdu, and Kolkata-Kunming.
On transport, an understanding is likely between the railways on both sides, where China will help increase the speeds of some trains to about 200 kmph.
Further, the two countries will also firm up an agreement on setting up service centres for Chinese power equipment. While this faced resistance from domestic manufacturers, the agreement went through as currently power-producing equipment worth 43,000 MW is operational in India and is expected to go up to 61,000 MW in five years.
On the pipeline and the Southern Silk Road, India wants to explore all avenues of improving linkages and to create, in the process, more stakeholders, be it Afghanistan and Pakistan or Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Both projects would run through troubled and politically unstable areas, but sources said the fast rate of progress on the TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) pipeline is a good example to follow.
The idea is to have a direct pipeline from Russia to India run parallel to TAPI from a junction point and build in similar economic advantages for countries through which the pipeline would pass.
While there is reasoned scepticism in South Block on the fate of this idea, sources said the broader economic logic and immense benefits to energy-starved India is what makes it worth exploring at this juncture.
Similarly, the other big idea that was floated by new Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his first visit to India, was the Southern Silk Road connecting Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, also called BCIM corridor.
The establishment of a joint study group will look to explore extending road linkages between China and Myanmar to form an economic corridor that will benefit Chinas Yunnan province, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indias Northeast region.
However, the obstacles are considerable starting with Myanmars immediate concern with Bangladesh over fleeing Rohingya refugees.

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Index of Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches
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Irwin Spear died at his home in Austin on March 21, 2002. He is survived by his wife, Helen, four children, Scott Spear, Laura Smith, Sona Nast, and Jodie Goldberg, six grand-children, five step grand-children and sons-in-law Jerome Nast, Michael Goldberg, and David Bartone. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Robin Bartone. Dr. Spear was a member of The University of Texas at Austin faculty from September 1953 until January 1994. He remained an active participant in University, community, and scholarly affairs until his death.
Dr. Spear was born on January 4, 1924, in New York City. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps from January 1943 until February 1946. While in the army, Dr. Spear and his colleagues were in the first crew to monitor the development and movement of a hurricane on radar. Using this medium, they also discovered the existence of the strong upper level winds that later became known as the jet stream.
Dr. Spear received a B.S. in botany from Cornell University in 1947. He enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in September 1947, and completed a Ph.D. in biology in 1953. While a graduate student, he held a Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University to the Atkins Garden in Cienfuegos, Cuba during the summer of 1949 to study the eradication of an introduced weed that had escaped and overrun more than a million acres of range lands and sugar fields. He also held a Traveling Fellowship to conduct research with Professor F. G. Gregory at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England from August 1950 until January 1952.
Dr. Spear spent his entire faculty life at The University of Texas at Austin, from September 1953 until his retirement in January 1994. At the University, Professor Spear was very active in teaching and won nine teaching awards during his years of service. His influence went far beyond the teaching of undergraduates. He was a member of the College Board and Educational Testing Service National Committee on Biology Advanced Placement for four years. He was a dedicated educator for summer science training programs and received 25 National Science Foundation grants to run these outstanding programs. He also edited many biology textbooks of the day. One publisher commented upon receiving an extensively edited version that it was too much work to adhere to his suggestions. Dr. Spear then wrote back and asked him to remove his name from the published list of editors for the series!
As he was known to be a strict reviewer of scientific information, Dr. Spear also was known to be a very demanding taskmaster of students, but he also gave them generous encouragement to reach their academic and intellectual potential. Over the years, he promoted the advancement of hundreds of bright young students, many of whom had the greatest respect and admiration for him. He often singled out students who had difficulties in the first exam of the semester and invited them to his home for informal discussions so that he could help them gain insight and encouragement to do their very best. Following are excerpts from typical thank you letters:
I want to thank you for being such a fine teacher, one of the best that I have had. In addition to expanding my useful knowledge, your course made me more aware of the life around me and in me.
What you provided to me, and I didn't even realize it at the time, was a sincere belief that I can be the one to affect the future within my sphere of influence. You forced me to defend by beliefs, and I needed the practice. Thank you for being a part of my life and teaching me some very important lessons. I have not [forgotten] and will not forget you.
Somehow I felt the need to check in after a few decades. I always wanted to tell you (but never took the time) that I appreciate everything you did for me. You also made me learn to learn. No one ever before or since demanded so much from me.
There are a few memorable experiences at The University of Texas that continue to shine on my life and career. The most outstanding was my exposure as a student to Dr. Irwin Spear, my freshman Plan II biology professor, and later, my biology advisor within Plan II. I mastered the art of taking Dr. Spear's notorious exams and chose to take all of his offered botany courses that are part of my science requirement. Dr. Spear embodies the best qualities of teaching. As an alumnus, I have continued my support to UT both professionally and financially and serve actively as a Plan II pre-med mentor as well as the ophthalmologist for the UT Women's Athletic Department. With this perspective, I consider Dr. Spear a real treasure within the UT system.
Dr. Spear was very active in the development of innovative Plan II tutorial courses covering biological problems affecting the future of man, and human sexuality, as well as a summer workshop for high school teachers of advance placement biology courses. One of his later courses, Botany for Gardeners, was a unique blend of sophisticated plant physiology concepts intermingled with hands-on experiences in using these concepts to produce outstanding vegetable gardens each year. Frequently, the students took their produce home for the dinner table along with the knowledge of how it was synthesized!
Dr. Spear also was very active holding many important university committee assignments. He was a member of the Faculty Senate and the University Council in the 1960s and 1970s. He successfully promoted the acceptance of biology advanced placement testing at the University and helped to formulate the biology and botany honors programs at their inception in the early 1960s. One of his greatest interests centered around the University's Plan II program. He was an active member of the Plan II Committee as well as the Plan II Advising Committee for many years. Dr. Spear also was named a Plan II Scholar.
Outside of the academic community, Dr. Spear was very active in civic affairs. He was a proud member of the American Civil Liberties Union and served until his death on the boards of the West Austin Neighborhood Group and the Cornell Club of Austin.
Above all, Professor Spear was a loving and caring husband and father. He will be sorely missed by his many friends, family, colleagues, and former students.
Larry R. Faulkner, President
The University of Texas at Austin
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
This memorial resolution was prepared by a special committee consisting of Professors R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. (chair), Ira Iscoe, and Stan Roux.


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Bolts blow out division rival Raiders
The Oakland Raiders showed up just in time for the Chargers.
The Chargers tonight snapped a three-game losing streak -- including two straight losses at home -- by defeating the Raiders a 11th straight time dating back to the 2003 season.
LaDainian Tomlinson rushed for a touchdown and Philip Rivers passed for three, including two to running back Darren Sproles, as the Chargers routed the Raiders 34-7 before 68,097 at Qualcomm Stadium.
Two of the Chargers five wins this season have come against the hapless Raiders. The Chargers are now 5-8 while the Raiders fell to 3-10.
The Chargers gained 372 yards -- including 246 during a 27-7 first half -- while the Raiders turned the ball over three times in the first half on two JaMarcus Russell interceptions (both by middle linebacker Stephen Cooper) and a fumble by the quarterback at the Oakland 12.
Tomlinson finished with 91 yards on 25 carries. Rivers completed 10-of-22 passes for 214 yards. And wide receiver Vincent Jackson had five catches for 148 yards, including a 59-yard touchdown strike from Rivers in the second quarter.
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The Chargers defense held the Raiders to 163 yards and no offensive touchdowns while forcing four turnovers.
Tomlinson's 49 rushing yards in the first quarter more than doubled the 24 yards he gained in the entire game against Atlanta on Sunday.
And after 17 minutes, the Chargers held a 17-0 lead and a 155-23 edge in yardage over the Raiders.
The lead was built on drives of 59 and 96 yards (actually 99) and a Raiders turnover on Oakland's third play from scrimmage.
Rivers went for the bomb on the first third-down situation he faced, passing 46 yards down the middle of the field to Jackson to the Raider seven. Jackson caught the ball although he also drew an interference call against Raiders corner Nnamdi Asomugha.
However, the Chargers had to settle for a Nate Kaeding field goal after being stopped at the two.
Oakland began its first possession at its 10 following an unnecessary roughness penalty against Raider Isiah Ekejiuba.
On third-and-eight from the 12, Raiders quarterback was stripped of the ball by linebacker Shaun Phillips with the Chargers Jyles Tucker recovering at the 12.
Tomlinson reached the end zone on three runs, scoring the touchdown on a three-yard sprint through a gaping hole in the right side of Oakland's defense.
The Chargers began their third possession at the Raider four. But back-to-back false start penalties against guards Kris Dielman and Mike Goff pushed them back to the one.
Although a pair of Tomlinson runs netted only six yards, a roughness penalty against Oakland defensive tackle Tommy Kelly gave the Chargers a first down at the Oakland 22.
A 17-yard Rivers completion to Jackson and consecutive 11-yard runs by Darren Sproles and Rivers moved the ball to the Raider 35. After an eight-yard gain by Tomlinson to the Raider 16, Sproles touched the ball on the next four possessions, scoring from the eight on a screen pass from Rivers.
The Chargers final 10 points of the half both began with Cooper interceptions over the middle.
The first Cooper interception gave the Chargers the ball at their 37.
On third-and-six from the 41, Rivers found Jackson racing down the right sideline behind Raiders cornerback Chris Johnson. The play covered 59 yards with Jackson catching the ball at the 20.
Cooper's second interception resulted in a 39-yard field goal by Kaeding to make it 27-0 with 23 seconds to play.
But Oakland, which hasn't scored an offensive in the first half since the first Charger game, got on the board on Justin Miller's 92-yard kickoff return following Kaeding's second field goal. It was the third return touchdown by the Raiders this season.


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Members of the cast and crew of Friday the 13th Parts VII and VIII sat down with a small crowd of genre press to discuss their experiences on the films and delve into the extras on both films' forthcoming DVDs. Vincent Craig "VC" Dupree, who played Julius in Jason Takes Manhattan, said he was amazed people still had so much affection for his death in the film, in which Jason literally knocks his block off. "People just have a lot of love for that particular kill," Dupree said at a press event Wednesday on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles. "As Kane and I were just talking about, the fact that I'm one of the only black guys who's like made it towards the end of the movie [is significant], so the response from it is really cool. More recently I started doing these conventions, and I didn't realize how much love people had out there for that kill."
Kane Hodder, who played Jason in the film, corroborated the fans' love for that particular scene. "It's one of the kills that I'd done that fans talked about the most," he revealed. "In fact, I was just in Atlanta at DragonCon and a guy came up and was talking about that kill. He says, 'do you know how many times he punched you before you knocked his head off?' I said no. 'Sixty-six!' The guy knew that. Then I was looking at them and it was hard to count because he was throwing body punches really fast. I'm not kidding – he was hitting me. I had a catcher's pad on." Dupree explained that he and Hodder really threw themselves – and each other - into the scene. "I was asking Kane, so are we going for this? And he's just like, what are you going to do? And in New York, I don't know how many people it was, but out of the apartment buildings that were adjacent to the rooftop, [it was like] those Where's Waldo books; you would literally see curtains and heads, and the director was like, get down! It was just the energy of all those people, and then just realizing what we were actually doing."
Ironically, Dupree said he didn't even know he was making a Friday the 13th film when he signed onto the picture. "I think the first script I read was [called] Burial At Sea, or Ashes To Ashes. It was going to be one of my first leads in a film, it was going to be shot out of town, they were paying me, and I was going to fight this monster. I guess they had the name changed from Jason Voorhees to Ethan Deerborn; Crystal Lake was changed to something else, just so you could plug the letters in there."
"As I said on the DVD, I was in the lounge area just before you board, and this actress, Kelly Hu, came in and was like 'oh my Gosh, I'm so excited,'" he remembered. "'Me too, girl, me too.' 'Oh, a Friday the 13th,' and I'm like, 'well, we must not be shooting the same movie. I'm going up here to shoot Ashes To Ashes.' And then, slowly two and two came together and I was like, wow, okay, this is a little different. So I found out on my way up to Vancouver what we were doing."
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan will be released by Paramount Home Entertainment on September 15, 2009.


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Salvador Garza is a rehearsal assistant at Lyric Opera of Chicago after previously serving in similar positions with the Santa Fe Opera and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The performance begins at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in North Central College's Madden Theatre at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave. Tickets are $20/adults and $15/students and seniors; call the North Central College Box Office at 630-637-SHOW (7469) or visit northcentralcollege.edu/showtix.
Jonathon Kirk, North Central College assistant professor of music, is among 40 classical composers from around the country who were commissioned to write pieces for the Mobile Miniatures ringtone project.
Ramona Wis, North Central College Mimi Rolland Professor in the Fine Arts and chair and professor of music, was Honors Chorus Guest Conductor for the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) District IX Festival held Nov. 23 at East Aurora High School. Wis rehearsed the 306-voice chorus, chosen by audition from among 50 high school choral programs in the western and northwestern Illinois area, and then conducted the ensemble in a culminating concert, which also featured the Honors Band and Honors Chorus of District IX.
Colin Loeffler has been named North Central College's 2013 Lincoln Laureate. A senior from Sun Prairie, Wis., Loeffler is double majoring in theatre and English literature and active in the music department and many campus programs.
"Colin is a formidable scholar, whose work in classes is often graduate level. He excels as an artist and student leader and is an extraordinary role model in all his endeavors," says Lisa Long, professor of English at North Central College.
North Central College began the 2013-2014 academic year Sept. 16 with a record number of students.
Total enrollment stands at 3,048 undergraduate and graduate students, eclipsing the 3,000 mark for the second straight year. The College welcomed 852 new full-time undergraduate students. Enrollment this fall includes a record number of international students and increased representation of out-of-state students and veterans.
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Before a customer starts using Automated Indexing, Hart InterCivic typically runs a collection of archived documents through the system to get the software familiar with the formats that particular county employs. "We try to process at least 50,000 documents, going back in time, before we ever go live with the system," Walker said.
Alameda County chose about 15 of its most common property documents, including the deed (title transfer), deed of trust (mortgage documents) and deed of conveyance (indicating that a mortgage has been satisfied), Jones-Williams said. Hart InterCivic ran about 30 days' worth through the software. "When it was installed, it was already familiar with many of our documents," she said. "It knew what to extract and where to go look for it."
Today, for each newly scanned property document, the software automatically populates the indexing fields with the required data. It then presents that document and the indexing screen to the operator for verification. The software highlights the indexed data on the document image, so he or she can find it quickly. The clerk then verifies that the entries are correct, in which case, the clerk moves on to the next document. If the software makes a mistake -- placing data in the wrong field, for instance -- the clerk corrects the entry by retyping or dragging data from the document image to the database screen.
Automated Indexing archives those corrections and uses them as learning opportunities. Every 90 days it updates its knowledge base, so its ability to extract the necessary information continues to improve. Because of this, performance has improved since Alameda County started using the new module in November 2003, Jones-Williams said.
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Productivity has improved as well. Once the staff became comfortable with the new process, and Hart InterCivic helped the county make some system adjustments, the pace of work picked up. By February 2004, there was a clear difference, Jones-Williams said. Part of that difference occurred because the rush to refinance tapered off, but the Clerk-Recorder's Office still processes a healthy 2,000 to 2,500 documents per day, she said. Even so, it has reassigned its three temps to other activities.
Title insurance companies also use Automated Indexing, Walker said. The software helps them assemble 30-year histories of real estate parcels, using documents provided by counties to determine whether a parcel has a clear title. Automated Indexing helps speed up their data entry, he said.
Although Hart InterCivic markets Anthem and Automated Indexing primarily to counties, there's no reason the same technology couldn't be used to manage state-level documents, Walker said. "The amount of volume is not the issue. It's just finding the right application for it."
Implementing Automated Indexing "hasn't been just a cakewalk," Jones-Williams said. "There are a few glitches here and there, and we work with Hart to take care of those." But overall, she said the new module has been a godsend, adding the Clerk-Recorder's Office might eventually start using it for other kinds of documents, such as birth, death and marriage certificates.


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Any patients with these high risk symptoms should present to a colorectal surgeon asap.
However, for most people, the development of early colonic lesions has no symptoms, thus screening is now offered in the UK.
Prevention is better than a cure so it makes sense to screen for such an important, deadly and common disease. The method of detecting polyps and early colorectal cancers is not universally agreed though.
Who should we screen? Well Faecal Occult Blood test in over 60's is used in the National Bowel Screening programme and picks up some colorectal lesions, but misses a significant amount. High risk patients should certainly be screened and colonoscopy, if performed safely, is the gold standard test still. For further information, please refer to my publications on Perianal Conditions.
High risk patients include those with a positive family history, and inheritable factors accounted for 35% of the risk of developing colorectal cancer. But some of these are, as yet, not completely understood.
Early rectal cancers and rectal polyps are often best treated by Transanal Endoscopic MicroSurgery (TEMS) which leaves no scars and patients can be discharged within 24 hours.
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This home sleeps 2 to 12 guests. You get more value with an extra bedroom: 4 Bedrooms + Sleeping Den = 5 Bedrooms for the cost of 4! The central floor is the ideal gathering place with Overstocked Kitchen for home cooking, Living Room with TV/DVD/VHS, Dining Room, and Reading Nook with large Window Wall that opens 'Treehouse' to the Outdoors. Enjoy a large Private Deck with classic Patio Furniture and Gas Grill.
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We just wanted to write and thank Brian and his team for providing us with the PERFECT Autumn Getaway! Our (rather large) family fit perfectly into the spacious unit. Everything was clean, organized, and very comfortable. And the outside hot tub on the cool fall nights was just amazing. Thanks Brian! We'll be back again next year.
Located at the top of the mountain we found this home very nice. There were four golfers and we each had our own bedroom and bath.
The unit was spotless. You could tell it was not used very much as there were limited spices in the kitchen if you plan on cooking any meals..but I'm guessing that will change as more folks stay and stock the pantry.
This is much better than staying at the main lodge. It is at the end of the lift for skiers..and you could ski right in the back door.
The owner is a great guy and easy to work with. I would stay there again.
This superior property is an ideal getaway for families, golf groups, corporate retreats, or even romantic escapes. We are located at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania's number one year-round resort. Seven Springs is located in the heart of the Laurel Mountain Region of Western Pennsylvania - an area of spectacular natural beauty and almost unlimited activities! Everything you need is here for you in a townhouse that boasts privacy, comfort, functionality, and a large array of amenities and extras that will make your getaway a memorable experience that you will want to have over and over again.
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Ebay and Amazon are great places to buy unlocked handsets in the USA. And now amazon has the N900 for just 560 USD
This means that the handset would cost just around 26000 approx if you got it from the USA. Isn't it a steal ? Talking about network support – This phone is optimized for 3G networks on WCDMA 900/1700/2100 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900.It should work very well in India .
But its still a Pre Order on Amazon and they might ship sometime in November according to the Nokia Release
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We got our hands on the sneak peek photos from Pretty Little Liars' Film Noir episode (Season 4, Episode 19 — "Shadow Play"), and we have one word to describe them: wow.
Executive producer Joseph Dougherty, who also wrote and directed the black and white episode, truly outdid himself with "Shadow Play." All of the Liars looks amazing in their 1940s garb, but no one takes to the Noir quite like Spencer, who is at the forefront of the episode. According to the synopsis for Season 4, Episode 19, "Spencer's numerous sleepless nights with the help of prescription pills start to take a toll on her as her hunt for Ali and much needed answers continues."
It continues, "As she pours over newly acquired information, her world view takes a black and white turn. Now teleported into the world of 1940's Film Noir, Spencer tries to come up with the answers she and her friends have been desperately looking for."
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A group of co-workers from the Voluntary Action Center took to the west end of Mulberry Street on Monday with a box of hand-made signs and a mission "to make people smile and inspire them to serve."
"It's terrific," said Jennifer Wynn, the volunteer coordinator at the Spruce Street nonprofit who spearheaded the agency's "Make Scranton Smile" campaign. "People are giving us thumbs up and beeping."
Smiles were the immediate goal of the group of women lining the sidewalk outside of Dunkin' Donuts and the esplanade on Mulberry Street, but service is ultimately what the VAC hopes to inspire.
That is why they decided to kick off their campaign on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which a lot of people have as a day off of work to observe the holiday.
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Modeled after the "Make DC Smile" campaign in the nation's capital, Ms. Wynn said the idea really took hold when her 13-year-old daughter painted a sign reading "Cheer up, Buttercup" to bring into school shortly after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., in December.
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addition of the new Invincibles Pavilion Stand in
2008, it now means that Deepdale has now been
completely re-built in recent years. What was a
great looking stadium, is now an even a better one
as the new stand completely fills the remaining side
of what was the Pavilion side of the ground.
Three sides of the stadium are composed of some excellent looking all seater stands, complete with some spectacular looking floodlights. They are of the same height and style and are all large, covered, single tiered stands. Each has a likeness of a past player outlined on the seats and is named after that player. Tom Finney, Bill Shankly and goalkeeping legend Alan Kelly, are all honoured and this makes a welcome change from the boring letters outlined on most new stands. The first of these stands to be built was the Sir Tom Finney Stand in 1995. This was followed by the Bill Shankly Kop in 1998 and the Alan Kelly Stand in 2001. The 4th new stand, the Invincibles Stand (named after the legendary Preston team of 1888/1889 who went through the whole season unbeaten and were also the first in that season to win the League & FA Cup double), cost in the region of £9m to build. The design of this stand is slightly different to the other three. Even though it is of the same height and has a similar roof, it has a smaller tier of seating, with 22 executive boxes sitting above. Alas I presume that there was not enough space to incorporate another player image on the seating so instead we have to make do with the letters 'PNE FC' instead. Outside the stadium is a statue of former Preston legend Tom Finney.
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modern Bill Shankly Kop at one end of the pitch.
Normally the allocation for away fans is approximately
half of this stand (3,000 seats). However for teams
with a large away support, then the whole end can be
allocated, raising the allocation to 6,000.
The views of the playing action and facilities within this stand are excellent. The stand is particularly steep, meaning that fans are kept relatively close to the pitch. On the concourse there are TV's by the refreshment serving areas showing the game live and with the bars being open during the game, this is too much of a temptation for some. There is a wide range of food available including; Cheeseburgers (£3.50), Burgers (£3.30), Hot Dogs (£3.50), Meat & Potato Pie (£2.60), Chicken Balti Pie (£2.60), Steak & Kidney Pie (£2.60) and the Potato & Butter Pie (£2.60). You can also get a pie, peas and gravy for £3.50, plus the Club offer a 'Pie & a Beer' for £5.50. James Prentice adds; 'I would recommend the 'Butter Pie', which is a bit of a local delicacy. It is just a normal pie but with a filling of very buttery mashed potato and onion. I was attracted to it by a flag at the top of the new Invincibles Stand that read 'True Prestonians Love a Butter Pie!' I particularly enjoyed my last visit as the fans, stewards and even police all seemed to be fairly friendly and there was a good atmosphere being generated within the ground.
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not a great deal in the way of pubs in close
proximity to the ground. Further up Tom Finney Way (which used to be called Deepdale Road) from the stadium, is
Sumners. This pub normally has a
good mix of home and away supporters,
although for certain high profile games and local
derbies the pub does not admit away supporters. There
is a good sized beer garden & car park at the pub.
The pub does charge for parking (£3) but this can be
redeemed against a purchase at the bar. Good food is
available and children are allowed in. James Pritchett
adds to get to the Sumners; 'Make sure you go towards
Sainsburys and away from the Town Centre and it should
take five minutes. As you go past Sainsburys turn
right at the lights and it is half way up the hill. It should be full, but
friendly. The pub welcomes a mix of away and home
support and are friendly towards families. It serves Theakstons on
draught.' Whilst Charlie
Guinan a visiting Nottingham Forest fan informs me;
'Sumners was good for away fans and apart from the
beer they served an excellent pie, chips, mushy peas
and gravy for only £3.50.'
There are also a couple of nearby clubs that welcome away fans. First there is St Gregory's Catholic Club, which is around a five minute walk away on Blackpool Road. The Club offers reasonably priced drinks, hot pies, plus has SKY television. You can also park at the Club at a cost of £3. Secondly, there is the Fulwood Conservative Club, situated around ten minutes walk away from Deepdale, at the junction of Blackpool Road and Garstang Road across from Moor Park. Parking is available at the Club at a cost of £3 per car and non-members are admitted free into the club on matchdays.
Paul Billington adds; 'In all honesty visiting fans should avoid town centre pubs simply because the Police will move you on quickly if they see you and most pubs will refuse to serve away fans. If you arrive by train I would recommend the Vic and Station not for the decor but simply convenience.' Otherwise alcohol is served within the ground. albeit in bottled or canned (Lager £3.50, Bitter £3.30, Cider £3.50, Guinness £4, Smirnoff £3.50. Wine £4).
Whilst John a visiting Chelsea fan informs me; 'We went to Preston and had a great day. The Yates pub located about a 15 minute walk from the station towards the ground was fine and was okay for us away fans and family friendly. My only criticism of the ground was that it was difficult inside to get a drink as there was no proper queuing system and hence it was a mad scrum at the bar'.
|How To Get There By Car & Where To Park
M6 at Junction 31 and follow signs Left for Preston.
Go up a steep hill (often a police speed trap on the
hill, so stick to 30) and follow the road down
to a mini roundabout (speed
camera by the BP garage on the left). At the
roundabout with the Hesketh Arms turn
into Blackpool Road. Go straight on over
three sets of lights and just before a fourth set, the
ground appears set slightly back on the left. Parking
is mainly in the streets surrounding the ground. There
is some parking available at the ground itself, but at
a cost of £10 per car.
Mike Holroyd adds; 'as you turn right at the Hesketh Arms roundabout into Blackpool Road and then pass a park on the left there is now another speed camera to watch out for. The Police also sometimes set up another mobile speed trap on the forecourt of the fire station on the left, so watch your speed. Plus as you near the ground don't be tempted to park up on the grass verges, you are likely to find after the game that you have been given a ticket for it!' Steve Thornley informs me; 'Parking for cars is available for £3 a car at Moorfields Special School. The car park is manned by volunteers from the school and all proceeds go into school funds. Just follow the directions above and at the last set of traffic lights continue straight on for about 200 yards, and you will see the school on the left near Moor Park'. Whilst Andrew Weston tells me; 'If approaching the ground by car along Blackpool Road (A5085), parking is available at the Preston Fire Station. It costs £3 and all fees are divided between the Fire Fighters Charity and the Preston Fire Station Welfare Club. Getting to the ground from the fire station car park is about a 5 minute walk and is very straightforward - leave the parking through the gate you DIDN'T enter it by, walk along Harewood Road and turn right onto Skifferton Road. The ground is in front of you'.
Kate Abbatt suggests; 'If you want to avoid the pre and post-match traffic, here's a handy tip to
avoid it. Instead of leaving the M6 at Junction 31, carry on to Junction 31a signposted, Preston East and Longridge. (This is a limited junction as you can only leave northbound and join southbound.) Keep in the right hand lane and go across the roundabout signposted Preston east, football ground and museum. Across the next roundabout (Anderton Arms on your right) and then left at the next one. At the next lights, go right onto Watling Street. You will go past the White Hart and a row of shops. At next lights by Fulwood Barracks, keep in the left hand lane. You can either park in Sumners, (turn left straight after the lights) or follow the road up to the big junction at Blackpool Road and the ground is on your left and take your chances with on-street parking. Sumners is better as you are the right side of the ground to get away quick after the game. Blackpool Road gets badly snarled up after games and the lights don't help it'.
Map showing the location of the Deepdale football ground (at the bottom of this page).
Post Code for SAT NAV: PR1 6RU
|Sir Tom Finney Stand
|By Train
|Preston railway station is
around a mile and a half from the ground and takes
around twenty five minutes to walk, although you will
pass some good pubs on the way. Leave the Preston
railway station via the main entrance, and head right
at the top of the drive. This is the main High Street.
Continue along the High Street, passing all the
regular big name shops. Some good pubs and eateries
can be found down side streets off the High Street, so
if you have time, take a look. Try the Old Black Bull,
and Academy, the later being about the last place on
the High Street that will allow away supporters before
you get to Deepdale. Colours are not recommended
around town. The High Street (or Church
Street/Fishergate as it's known) is about a mile long,
and you will pass a church and a bike shop as you come
to its end. Simply carry on walking along this street,
and when you reach the ring road, you head straight
over the large traffic lights, heading towards Preston
Prison. Turn left at the Prison into Church Street,
then left into Deepdale Road. Continue straight along
Deepdale Road and after about a mile you will reach
the ground.
Thanks to Kevin Wrenn for supplying the directions and general information.
Remember if travelling by train then
you can save on the cost of fares by booking in
advance. Visit the the trainline website to
see how much you can
normally save. Click on the trainline
logo below:
|Local Rivals
|Blackpool, Burnley & Blackburn Rovers.
|Admission Prices
* Under 8's can be admitted
free with a paying adult if they
join the 'Mini Whites'
membership scheme.
Concessions apply to Over 65's, Under 19's and
Full Time Students with current NUS card.
|Fixtures 2014-2015
|Preston North End fixture list (takes you to the BBC Sports Website).
|Programme Price
|Official Programme £3.
|Disabled Facilities
details of disabled facilities and club contact at the
ground please visit the relevant page on the
Level Playing Field website.
|Record & Average Attendance
|Record Attendance:
42,684 v Arsenal,
Division One, April 23rd, 1938.
Modern (all seated) Attendance Record:
23,119 v Chelsea
FA Cup Round 4, January 23rd, 2010.
Average Attendance:
2013-2014: 10,234 (League One)
2012-2013: 9,263 (League One)
2010-2011: 11,768 (Championship League)
|Fans Reviews Of Deepdale
|Alex Smith
(Coventry City) 18/1/14
Michelle-Louise Burrows (Blackpool) 5/8/13
Sam Martin (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 3/8/13
Dan Brennan (Sheffield Wednesday) 31/12/11
Steve Ellis (Exeter City) 20/8/11
Bobby Rooney (Everton) 24/07/10
|Hotel Accommodation
you require hotel accommodation in the area then first
try a hotel booking service provided by Late Rooms.
They have a huge choice of places to stay and their
booking facility is straightforward to use. Yes this
site will earn a small commission if you book through
them, but it will go to help with the running costs of
keeping the Guide going. Hotels are listed giving
details of their distance from the ground.
Access their Preston Hotels and Guest Houses page.
Remember that you can use the above link or panel below to book any other hotels that you may need for business or leisure, either in the UK or abroad.
|Other Places Of Interest
|You are only 20 minutes or so by car from Blackpool, which is Britain's premier seaside resort, so why not make a weekend of it? If you're feeling brave then try the UK's largest and fastest roller coaster, 'The Big One' at the Pleasure Beach. I braved it, but I think I was in shock afterwards! So much so that I had to seek out the Pleasure Beach bar for medicinal purposes. Only one word of caution, look at the other fixtures being played the same day in Manchester/Bolton/Blackpool etc... as your game. Simply because other away supporters attending these games will also be probably be heading to Blackpool after the game as well. So if there is a particular group of supporters from a club who you would rather avoid, then don't say I didn't warn you to check first.
|Map showing the location of the Deepdale football ground, railway station and listed pubs
|If anything is incorrect or you have
something to add, please e-mail me firstname.lastname@example.com
and I'll update the guide.
* The ground was opened
in 1875 as an athletics, rugby and cricket ground.
Football was first played later on the site in 1881.
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Computer Coding: The New Literacy
I saw the most awesome video today. Code.org created a video to dispense about the importance and relevance of computer coding. According to a CNN blog, Code.org is a website started by the Partovi brothers. These two have been involved in coding and supporting coders since the early days of the Commodore 64 computer. Their experiences led to a life of computer science.
In their video, big coding and technology names like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg, and myriad others laud the necessity for more coding classes in high schools and colleges.
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I was pleasantly pleased to see Oklahoma on the list of states that do allow computer science classes to satisfy core math or science requirements. This means that my little, rural state recognizes the changing job market and economy. Well, at least it means that Oklahoma sees the value of computer classes.
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- It stimulates creativity and builds confidence, especially for girls; and
- It unlocks the best careers in America, with the potential to lift up an entire generation of American youth regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic background.
Those three reasons definitely inspire me to want to learn to code. Like most people, I am afraid of coding. That fear is the biggest obstacle for coding. The Huffington Post further supports this idea: "Most of us never learned computer programming in school; we don't know how to teach it, and we assume it's only for the geniuses. We don't realize that fifth-grade girls are learning to code in low-income public schools, or that iPad apps can teach the basics to a kindergartener."
I do not like the veiled sexist implication that if fifth-grade girls can do it anyone can, but I like the explanation that coding is not just for geniuses. Anyone can learn to code, and everyone should learn to code. Any activity that stimulates creativity is an activity I want to take part in. We often neglect creativity, but so much good comes from the creative acts. Coding is just another example of that.
If people have a better understanding about computers and coding, then they too can create the next big technological phenomenon. If Mark Zuckerburg can develop Facebook in his dorm room, so too can others create websites, social media, apps, and other coding functions. Computers are a part of our world, so more people should understand them. Coding classes—whether at a college or university, online, or via an app—will only help to improve our economy.
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Though I love my job as a prof and a writer, I think that I will learn to code if for no other reason than it looks fun. I will most definitely promote coding to others, too. One step at a time, one person at a time, we can help others experience the fun and creativity of coding.
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Casinos' anti-compulsive bet programs vary widely
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. As lost weekends go, this one was a doozy.
The woman and her longtime boyfriend, regular Atlantic City gamblers, lost $100,000 in two days in early January. She lost her job, and they now owe $205,000 to five Atlantic City casinos, with no realistic prospects of paying it back.
She picked up the telephone and called her host, John Conklin, Resorts' vice president of player development, whose job it is to keep gamblers happy - and coming back.
"This is more than I can handle," she told him. "I'm in over my head. All of my real estate is underwater. I don't know what I'm going to do."
Conklin was concerned.
"She sounded desperate," he recalled. "I could hear it in her voice."
He gave her the phone number of Arnie Wexler, the former head of New Jersey's Council on Compulsive Gambling and himself a former gambling addict. Wexler helped get the woman and her boyfriend into a program for gambling addicts, promised to help her work out some sort of arrangement with the casinos, and just let her know she was not alone, that there are thousands like her.
Wexler travels the country giving training sessions to casino employees on how to spot potential compulsive gamblers and what to do if they encounter any.
The casino industry's efforts to spot problem gamblers and intervene with them range from intense, hands-on sessions like those Wexler gives, to much more passive efforts like having brochures about where to get help for a gambling addiction available on the casino floor, or handling out pens with the toll-free number of a help line printed on them.
While most casinos have adopted some form of responsible gambling policy, it can be a delicate balance in an industry whose very business model relies on gamblers risking and losing money. The casino industry has two main motivations in dealing with problem gamblers, said Alan Feldman, a vice president at MGM Resorts International, and chairman of the National Center for Responsible Gaming.
"There is a strong belief among many of the casino executives that there is a moral obligation to do this," he said. "But there's also a strong business reason: Problem gamblers make for lousy customers. By their very nature, they will turn into bad debt.
"For them to hit bottom, they have to cause a lot of pain along the way, to themselves, their families and to companies," he said. "It serves no purpose in any business to have customers who can't pay their bills."
The center developed a training program called Emerge, which has become the standard among casinos belonging to the American Gaming Association, the industry's main trade group. Different casinos use it differently, but the aim is the same: to intervene when there is a problem, Feldman said.
Wexler's advice to the dealers, hosts and player reps at resorts was simple, and borrowed from the homeland security slogan: If you see something, say something.
"You're not clinicians, you're not counselors," he told the workers. "It's not your job to run over to a customer and say, `Hey buddy, you've got a gambling problem.' But you can kick it upstairs to an officer in your casino and they can intervene and take care of it. Let a supervisor know about it."
There are a few signs dealers and other customer service workers can pick up on that may indicate a patron has a gambling problem, said Donald Weinbaum, the current executive director of New Jersey's compulsive gambling council.
"If you have a regular patron and you see them making larger, crazy wagers, it might be that they're trying to break even. It might be that they're caught up in an addiction. If you see a patron going through mood swings, that could be another indication. Talk to the patron. Maybe suggest a brief timeout. Give them the 1-800-GAMBLER number and let them know there's a place where they can get help."


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Former Wachowski Brothers protégé James McTeigue (he directed both "V for Vendetta" and the gory-good "Ninja Assassin" for the Brothers and producer Joel Silver) has apparently made the suits at Relativity happy. The director helmed their forthcoming Edgar Allan Poe thriller "The Raven," and according to Deadline, they've just hired him back to take on the high profile historical drama "Ness/Capone."
The script, a 2010 Black List entry by first timer Grant Pierce Myers, focuses on the contentious early relationship between the well-known lawman Eliot Ness and infamous gangster Al Capone in Prohibition Era Chicago. The project was acquired by Relativity back in April, when we noted it would be competing with Ruben Fleischer's "Gangster Squad" for the period gangster movie love.
"Ness/Capone," which is strikingly similar to the "Untouchables" prequel that Brian De Palma happily never got around to making, follows a womanizing, 26-year old Ness and a 30-year-old Capone, at the beginning of their contentious feud. It seems like an intriguing premise, original enough without stepping on the toes of De Palma's original, masterful "Untouchables" and covering different territory than David Fincher's proposed thriller "Torso," which followed an aged Ness as he tracks a Chicago serial killer in the waning days of his law enforcement career (which by the sounds of it Fincher is sadly no longer making).
McTeigue, who has "The Raven" (starring John Cusack as the famous author) coming out in March, is in pre-production on "Message from the King," a contemporary L.A. noir about a mystery man investigating the disappearance of his sister, for FilmNation Entertainment. We can see McTeigue becoming an in-demand big budget filmmaker – he seems to be able to bring sizable projects in on time (and on budget) with just enough style and maximum entertainment value. Both "V" and "Ninja Assassin" were amusing pop confections, and "The Raven" looks better than it has any right to be. You can color us cautiously optimistic.