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GAME RECAP: Utah 6 - Stockton 2
Koskinen victimizes Thunder with 36 saves in ECHL debut
VIDEO: Highlights and postgame locker room reaction
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STOCKTON, Calif. - Mikko Koskinen, less than a year after being drafted 31st overall by the New York Islanders, made 36 saves in his ECHL debut and the Utah Grizzlies scored five unanswered goals in the first two periods to send the Stockton Thunder (29-25-9, 67 points) to a 6-2 defeat before 5,456 fans at Stockton Arena on Friday night.
The Thunder, who lost in regulation on home ice for only the third time in the last 19 games (12-3-4), fell to sixth place in the National Conference but maintained a four point deficit behind the first place Bakersfield Condors in the Pacific Division, who lost, 5-1 to Victoria.
James Bates and Matt Robinson scored for Stockton, while Utah was led offensively by Ryan Kinasewich's pair of goals.
James Bates got the Thunder off to a good start with a 1-0 lead and his 23rd goal in the first period. (photo by George Steckler)
Bates' 23rd goal of the season, 4:14 into the game helped the Thunder draw first blood with a 1-0 lead, depositing a rebound at the goal mouth after Mikko Koskinen stopped Anthony Aiello's bid from the left point.
Utah leveled the score at 1-1 on Simon Ferguson's first goal in a Utah uniform, when he set a screen in front of Andrew Perugini and got a piece of Matt Sorteberg's drive from the right point.
Vladimir Nikiforov continued the Utah rally with his 17th goal of the season, tapping in a rebound at the doorstep for a 2-1 lead with 3:30 gone in the second period. A.J. Perry converted a backdoor set-up by Dylan Hunter from the right circle, hiking Utah's edge to 3-1 just 2:09 later.
Back-to-back shorthanded goals by Ryan Kinasewich, 2:24 apart opened the Grizzlies advantage to 5-1starting with his 40th goal of the season on a breakaway with 10:38 remaining.
Kinasewich then finished off a 2-on-1 break with Matt Clarke on the ensuing penalty kill, tapping the puck into a half open net at the left goal post.
A post-to-post feed by James Sixsmith found Tom May at the right wing, who slipped in a one-timer with his forehand with 1:15 into the third period and boosted Utah's margin to 6-1.
The Thunder finally bookended the scoring with a Matt Robinson shorthanded breakaway goal just 4:03 later, closing the gap to 6-2 when his wrist shot beat Koskinen to the blocker side.
Koskinen wrapped up his ECHL debut stopping an array of Thunder quality scoring chances in 10 saves for the final period. Perugini took the loss with 23 stops.
NOTES: The Thunder scratched J.F. Caudron (injured reserve), Igor Gongalsky (injured, day-to-day), Matt O'Dette (healthy) and Craig Valette (injured reserve) ...
Stockton outshot Utah, 38-29 and fell 2-3-2 in the head-to-head series this year ... Chris D'Alvise's assist on Bates' goal gave him 12 points (4g-8a) in the last six games ... Edmonton Oilers assistant general manager Kevin Prendergast was in attendance at the game.
The Thunder continues the seven-game homestand tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., hosting the Utah Grizzlies at Stockton Arena in a weekend rematch. The game can be heard and viewed online exclusively at www.stocktonthunder.com, courtesy of B2 Networks (audio is free of charge).
The Thunder was voted "Best Local Sports Team" by readers of the San Joaquin Magazine, has led the ECHL in attendance for four consecutive seasons and drew 223,854 fans to Stockton Arena in 2008-09. Season Tickets for 2009-10 are on sale now. For more information about tickets, merchandise, or other inquiries contact the Stockton Thunder offices at (209) 373-1500 or visit http://www.stocktonthunder.com/ .
1. UTA - 9 Ryan Kinasewich
2. UTA - 14 Tom May
3. UTA - 41 Mikko Koskinen
*Reprinted with permission from Stockton Thunder Professional Hockey Club, ECHL. The Stockton Thunder are a proud 'AA' affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers (NHL) and Springfield Falcons (AHL) *


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After going through thousands of submissions for the Win Any Ford giveaway, Shawn Thompson, Manager of Multicultural Marketing at Ford Motor Company, revealed the winner is Kimberly Johnson of Dallas, Georgia! Attendees of the Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage were able to enter the contest on the cruise.
As the winner, Kimberly will be able to select any vehicle, up to $30,000, from the latest lineup of Ford vehicles like the Ford Fusion, all-new Ford Edge and even the Mustang!
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Ford also gave away $75,000 to students at Spelman earlier this year.
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Principal Investigator: Dr Nabila Bouatia-Naji
INSERM, Paris. FranceTags: 32360, genetics/genotyping, GWAS, mitral-valve-prolapse, non-infectious-valve-disease, valve-degeneration, valve-repair
The mitral valve is a tissue composed of two leaflets that allows the blood not to come back to the atrium to the ventricle during a cardiac cycle. Except in very rare cases, mitral valve prolapse (MVP) occurs without any other conditions and is considered as a common degenerative cardiac valvulopathy that affects nearly one in 40 individuals in the general population.
When patients are diagnosed, they may live with this conditions but they have a poor quality of life, especially when they are at an old age. When an individual present MVP he is at high risk to have heart failure, arrhythmia and can even die suddenly. The only treatment we have currently is surgery repair or replacement of the valve, especially if the patient present mitral regurgitation (back flow of the blood in the ventricle) diagnosed by echocardiograms.
Our research group compares genetic information from MVP patients and controls to identify positions in the genome where mutated or deregulated genes can predict clinical progression of mitral valve prolapse through early detection and provide novel biological clues on valve degeneration. However, there is only limited number of case control cohorts with DNA available to conduct large-scale genetic studies. In a previous study, we analysed 1400 cases and 1500 controls and identified at least 6 genomic regions that we proved are important for MVP risk. We believe that the extension of our genetic study to a larger number of cases and controls available at the UK Biobank resources will hugely improve the current findings and we expect to identify more genes involved in valve disease.
It is important to know which genes are important the genetic risk of MVP and what are their functions because this knowledge is a mandatory step in the scientific process of conceiving new therapeutics to valve disease. For instance, thanks to the genetic information, and as part of the precision medicine goals, we can also identify who are the persons in the general populations that will benefit most from a preventive treatment based on their genetic make-up. Also, we can work on how to stop the degeneration of the valve in proteins if we find what causes in the patients compared to healthy persons the degradation of some important proteins of the substance called the extracellular matrix where valve cells are anchored.


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This is the second in a series of posts written by the SEED community chronicling their journey into the rural heartland of Limpopo, South Africa with 25 girls who are a part of the SEED program. The trip was a part of the urban/rural exchange filmed to capture the voice of young women of South Africa. The journey was documented through journal entries by SEED staff and each Friday for 5 weeks Girls' Globe will publish a new entry. Read the first post in the series here.
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The heavens have opened! The rain is torrential, another blessing in the eyes of the Venda people. We are not so sure and arrive at the hall with the uncertainty of who will come back today. Slowly as the rain dissipates, the hall fills once more, the girls are chatty and eager to begin. Song fills the room, girls break into traditional dance, the atmosphere is electric. Music is their redemption and takes on a power that touches the soul.
As the group discussions get under way, the local girls seem to have found their voice and the individual stories of rape, abuse, teenage pregnancies abound. The room pervades an overwhelming sadness and at the same time there is a certain relief as the stories have been met with such open understanding. So many of the girls share similar stories they are able to unite in their sadness and provide each other with the security, they are not alone.
Our interviews are an intimate reflection of the mood inside the hall. Despite the enormous challenges girls face, the silence they have been encouraged to keep for the reputation of their families; they continue to hold their heads high, as they feel with God's grace, this is the life they were meant to lead.
It has been a long day and we all go home to our families, deeply grateful to be here together.
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The day begins early and the girls are all keen to get into their discussions. Today each group will spend time giving expression to the topics they have been discussing. The sun has returned, everyone moves outside and once more song fills the air from all corners of the playground.
We will be spending most of our time interviewing both girls from SEED and from the local community. They have decided to come forward to share their story and for some of the girls, it will be for the first time. As the stories unfold we are left speechless at the unforgiving intensity of these girls lives. Rape, violence, and teenage pregnancies are a common thread woven into each of their lives. But faith, courage and hope are also deeply woven into their tapestry and every girl considers their life to hold possibilities to fulfil their goals. They are able to share their stories for they are no longer bound by them, rather they belong to their history and they will not allow them to determine their future. These are the voices that need to be heard, for despite the enormous challenges these young women have faced, they have such strength, wisdom and determination to make their world a better place, not only for themselves but also for their children.


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International Internet Business: 5 Tips When Entering The Global Market
The Internet is definitely a global phenomenon, business compete on a global scale rather than just a local one. Books posted from another continent are often cheaper than ones from the local mall, music downloaded from an online store based tens of thousands of miles away is often cheaper than buying music by a local group in a local music store.
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Setting up an international internet business can be very rewarding and profitable activity but like most business opportunities you need to be dedicated and focused to succeed.
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Vanarama National League club Chester FC have confirmed the signing of midfielder Gary Roberts and the extension of goalkeeper Sam Hornby`s loan spell.
Thirty-year-old Roberts from nearby Blacon has signed a short-term deal at the Swansway Chester Stadium.
He came through the youth ranks at Crewe Alexandra and went on to make over 100 appearances for the Railwaymen – scoring 11 goals.
He went on to feature at clubs such as Yeovil Town, Rotherham and Port Vale in the Football League.
Roberts also played for England at under-16, 17 and under-19 levels; as well as being captaining the England under-18s.
The Chester local began the season as Southport in the National League North – scoring 4 goals in fourteen games.
On the signing, CEO Mark Maguire told the club`s official website: "It's safe to say that Gary Roberts name has been mentioned hundreds of times over the last couple of years and that he has a large number of people willing him to do well at the club.
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Chester have extended Sam Hornby`s loan deal from SkyBet League Two side Port Vale for a further month.
Hornby has featured in all six Chester games following his arrival at the Swansway Chester Stadium.
The 22-year-old is in line to feature once again for the Blues tonight against AFC Fylde.
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Croatian Coffee – A love story
Bok! Daj me jedna bijela kava, molim.
That is how it all began. The wish for a normal coffee with milk. What I got was the invite to stay several hours, sip your coffee every now and then and just see "being".
Drinking coffee in Zagreb has become a wonderful tradition of an almost daily routine, involving working on my thesis (wi-fi is widely spread), reading a book and continuously improving my language skills. But all this I could do back home in Germany too. Here, it is a different feeling….coffee. It means so much more.
My day starts with making a strong coffee in one of the Balkans (some might claim Turkish) cezve. Boiling water, adding some sugar, adding the coffee, letting it boil just another second. Taking it off the stove, letting it rest for a moment – truly the most authentic coffee I have every tasted. And yet I am far from mastering this technique.
Hence my frequent visits to decent cafés like Funk Club or Melin.
Some of the "best" poems I wrote in the past few weeks were created under the influence of strong coffee and comfy chairs, mixed with an unstoppable amount of inspirations walking the streets and, of course, cigarettes.


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Jack Spade X Barbour = The Only Coat You'll Be Wearing This Fall
What happens when iconic, outdoor sporting apparel meets stylish, contemporary menswear? The Hopper Jacket, a ruggedly chic, built-to-last coat that takes the classic English countryside feel of Barbour and combines it with the smart, polished look we've come to expect from Jack Spade.
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Community Players proudly announces performances of our fall production of Fred Carmichael's Done to Death, directed by Sarah Grace Hollander.  In the story, five has-been mystery writers (played by Ken Cox, Derrick Swistak, Amy and Dave Hollander, and newcomer Kathy Bright) are brought together to collaborate on a new mystery television series, and then the murders begin… These writers believe they can investigate and solve the crimes. Hilarity ensues! Come see for yourself! The play also features the talents of Dean and Carol Craig, Eddie Green, Dave Jenkins, Chris Karnes, Garth Lawson, Sarah Grace Hollander, and Sharon Cuneo.
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- Saturday, October 21, 8:00 pm
- Sunday, October 22, 2:00 pm
- Friday, October 27, 8:00 pm
- Saturday, October 28, 8:00 pm
The doors will open one half hour before the curtain of each performance. The general admission tickets are $15 (cash or checks only, please), will be available for purchase on Sunday mornings starting October 1, and can also be purchased at the door, or reserved by going to Community Players ticket page or by calling Dean Craig at (630) 340-4735.


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Death by Design
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Consumers love – and live on – their smartphones, tablets and laptops. A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising even better communication, non-stop entertainment and instant information. The numbers are staggering. By 2020, four billion people will have a personal computer. Five billion will own a mobile phone.
But this revolution has a dark side, hidden from most consumers. In an investigation that spans the globe, filmmaker Sue Williams investigates the underbelly of the electronics industry and reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs. From the intensely secretive factories in China, to a ravaged New York community and the high tech corridors of Silicon Valley, the film tells a story of environmental degradation, of health tragedies, and the fast approaching tipping point between consumerism and sustainability.
"Death by Design" is a highly relevant film which demonstrates a clear connection to our every-days. E-waste is a relatively under documented topic making this film even more newsworthy. The journalistic research is broad and the film has good documentary quality.
The film has a strong relationship to life and environmental damage. The transfer of knowledge is followed through well and the facts are clear. The demonstration of the influence of man on the earth is rich due to the many empirical examples.
The film speaks of a broad sense of responsibility and arouses a planetary perspective in which it promotes self-responsibility.
"Death by Design" has a logical structure and is consistently entertaining. Footage, cut and music are good.
|Sue Williams
|Sue Williams
|Sue Williams, Hilary Klotz Steinman
|Paul Brill
|Kimberly Prather, Darrin Magee, Paul Maher, Luke Soules, Kyle Wiens, Linda Greer, Richard Clapp, Yvette Flores, Ma Jun
|73 min
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|German, French, English
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|United States
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|China, United States
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|Bullfrog Films ()
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Vital. Provocative in its focus on giant American corporations. – The Hollywood Reporter
You won't look at your iPhone in quite the same way again after viewing Sue William's thoughtful documentary. – The Seattle Times
Both jaw-dropping and heartbreaking, Death by Design forces the viewer to reconsider their whole approach to technology. – Aesthetica Magazine
Next time you're craving the latest smartphone, watch "Death by Design" instead. – Seattle Business Magazine
Winner 2017 – International Films for the Earth Festival
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A Hoot of a Good Time: Coyote StageWorks Pays Tribute to Country-Western Music With 'Honky Tonk Laundry'February 02 2019
Honky Tonk Laundry, presented by Coyote StageWorks, has boot-scooted into the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs.
Are you ready, darlin'? Because the laughter, the music, and the sheer fun of this production will gallop off with you to Nashville.
Yes, it's a romp.
The Wishy Washy Washateria (!) is owned by the overworked Lana Mae Hopkins (Bets Malone), and she hires redheaded Katie Lane Murphy (Misty Cotton) to help her out. What ensues is plenty of chaos, country Western music, soapsuds—ؙand a few surprising cleaning hints). A two-woman show is a great rarity in theater, and these actresses know how to use their special stuff to make us appreciate their differences.
The author of this wild ride is Roger Bean, who also directed the play. It gives a satisfying cohesion to a show when it is created and then directed by the same person—the voice is stronger and clearer when another person doesn't "interpret" the words of the other. Artistic director Chuck Yates has already treated his audiences to Bean's work via The Andrews Brothers, a delightful Coyote StageWorks success back in 2014, written about entertainers in USO shows during World War II.
The set, created by Tom Buderwitz, is the aforementioned Wishy Washy Washateria, and center stage is dominated by four looming washer-dryers of industrial strength and lemon-colored ugliness. The always-subtle lighting, created by Moira Wilke, provides some excellent effects.
Lana Mae and Katie Lane both struggle in the relationships with their men—well of course! It's a prerequisite for country Western music, y'all. Both Lana Mae's husband, Earl, and Katie Lang's sort-of boyfriend, Danny, we learn, are cads unworthy of these good women, so the stage is set for the girls to burst into frequent song expressing their feelings. They manage to mix up the standards we all know, such as "Stand by Your Man" and "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'" with some new titles such as "I Need a Vacation" and "Potential New Boyfriend." Yee haw!
Both of these belles get to strut through some entertaining choreography, designed by James Vasquez. He gives a line-dance feel to these steps, and the girls move smoothly through their dancing.
But what truly fascinates is one major characteristic of this kind of music: close harmony. In this show, both gals have chosen to use a hard-edged voice, holding the end-of-phrase notes with admirable breath control before segueing into their vibrato—and when they blend their voices together, the effect is magical. They merge their sounds perfectly, and the timing and their attacks on the notes is flawless. It is a breathtaking and too-rare experience in music. Brava, ladies!
Katie Lane and Lana Mae, both facing relationship ruin due to the "moral flexibility" of both their men and certain predatory females (whom we never meet), elect to comfort themselves and satisfy Lana's unfulfilled ambitions by putting on a show. They choose to use the laundromat as their stage. This gives costume-designer Renetta Lloyd a chance to bedeck our heroines in classic faux-cowgirl-style boots plus crimson and white-trimmed skirt outfits. Oh … and keep an eye out for some outrageous second-act hair styles; they're more fun than a rodeo.
The girls' show pays tribute to many of the queens of country-Western music such as Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells and Tammy Wynette. Even during the intermission. we are treated to famous songs by Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline. One of their showy numbers, in which Lana Mae and Katie Lane break out in yodeling—a mystifying skill if there ever was one—will leave you astonished.
The script features an endless barrage of charming country-fried sayings and intentionally adorable provincial slang. They inspired most of the play's hearty laughs. There is some fancy cussin' and a goodly amount of name-callin', but the undercurrents of the solid values of these rural people permeate their songs with hints of gospel music and its beliefs, an influence never too far from country songs. Family is everything. Heartache is to be expected. But love can conquer all … and we're all going to heaven. Yahoo!
Frankly, the show surprised on several levels. First, it is cute. Yes, cute … something it's not possible to say about very many productions. You will leave the theater smiling, which also doesn't happen that often, doggone it.
Second, you will definitely agree that these are two of the hardest-working actresses you have ever seen. Their handling of these vocally demanding songs is truly impressive—nearly entirely done using their chest tones, only sliding up into head tones on a rare couple of notes (and the yodeling). The energy level is relentlessly high, excepting maybe a ballad or two, one of which had some echo added to the sound—but these ladies sing and dance and banter and move almost constantly. They will lasso your heart.
Third, I had expected much more caricature—the names alone!—but Malone and Cotton turned in fairly realistic interpretations of these roles. Perhaps choosing over-exaggeration and outrageousness would have been the easy way out, if sometimes more hilarious. There is even a serious note injected into the script, with some pill-popping, drug abuse and drinking, about which nothing, alas, is funny, provoking, at best, some laughs borne out of shock. I guess it happens, even in country settings, but since it didn't advance the plot, I couldn't help wishing we had been spared this, as the current news about our opioid crisis has left us all so raw that it briefly depresses the energy level of the show.
Despite that, this is, as I say, a romp, and you will have a great time. On opening night, the theater rocked with satisfying belly laughs, and the actresses were awarded a joyous standing ovation.
And as Lana Mae and Katie Lane their ownselves might say: Dang! It don't git better than that.
Honky Tonk Laundry, a production of Coyote Stageworks, is performed at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Arts Museum, 101 Museum Drive, in Palm Springs. Tickets are $45 to $60, and the show runs two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission. For tickets or more information, call 760-325-4490, or visit www.coyotestageworks.org.
Mae West in Motion: Coyote StageWorks' Brilliantly Acted 'Dirty Blonde' Is Perfect for 'The Year of the Woman'February 03 2018
In the program notes for Dirty Blonde, Coyote StageWorks Founding Artistic Director Chuck Yates mentions he has wanted to present this play, which focuses on Mae West, since the theater's inception 9 years ago. Since 2018 has been dubbed "The Year of the Woman," he chose the perfect time to do so: Whether or not you're a Mae West fan, it's impossible to deny that she was an icon of womanhood, in her own way.
Written by and starring Claudia Shear, Dirty Blonde ran Off-Broadway in 2000, and on Broadway in 2000 and 2001. (Interestingly, it's one of just a few plays in Broadway history to have its entire cast nominated for Tony Awards.) The show explores the phenomenon of West through the eyes of two devoted fans—aspiring actress and office-temp Jo, and public-library film archivist Charlie. They meet while visiting West's grave, and develop a warm friendship based on a mutual love of the bawdy sex symbol.
Both Charlie and Jo are lonely and seem to be missing something in their lives, so finding in each other a fellow Mae West groupie seems like coming home. Jo idolizes West as an example of female strength, confidence and sexual liberation; after all, West spoke her mind and didn't care a whit what anyone else thought. Mild-mannered Charlie, who actually got to meet and spend some time with West in her later years, is simply in awe of the star, describing her as "blonde and tough and ready for sex." He basks in her flirtatiousness, and some of her sexual confidence even seems to rub off on him: When in her presence, he becomes the man he's always wanted to be.
The scenes between Charlie and Jo are interspersed with vignettes from West's career, from her early days in Vaudeville to her decline into parody while she was in her 80s. The audience is reminded of what a trailblazer she really was. Her battles with censors were legendary; she defied orders to tone down her hip swiveling in dance numbers, and even spent 10 days in jail for public lewdness during the run of her self-penned play Sex on Broadway.
Director James Gruessing has assembled a stellar cast; each member plays multiple roles with great skill. As Mae West and Jo, Bets Malone is simply superb. She perfectly captures both the sweet insecurity of Jo and the bold outrageousness of West. Though prettier than West herself, Malone nails it when it comes to West's toughness—including the "don't mess with me, but jump into bed when I snap my fingers" message to men. Of course, she has some of the play's best lines: "I've seen more men than you've had hot lunches." When an assistant is dismissed by West's suggestion that he run down to the corner, he challenges her by asking, "What's down on the corner?" Her answer: "YOU!" A strong actress, Malone also exhibits great pipes during the musical numbers.
Also an outstanding actor, Steve Gunderson plays Charlie with subtlety and tenderness. His growing affection for Jo is touching and believable, as is his conflict over whether he's simply attracted to Mae West … or does he actually harbor a desire to be her? The onstage chemistry between Gunderson and Malone—crucial to this play—is quite strong.
Rounding out the cast is the fabulous Larry Raben, who portrays multiple characters, including West's little-known husband, Frank Wallace. An actor knows that jumping back and forth between characters (and costumes) throughout a production is not easy, but Raben handles it with ease. He has great comic timing (as does the entire cast), and owns the stage whenever he appears.
Josh Clabaugh's lovely set and Moira Wilkie's lighting design are spot on. Special mention must be made of Bonnie Nipar's lush costumes: The bright colors, sequins, glitter and boas are perfect for West's larger-than-life persona. The hair and makeup are quite well-done in this production as well.
The musical numbers (the original score is by Bob Stillman) are a delight, especially "Dirty Blonde" and "Oh My, How We Pose."
Kudos once again to Yates for choosing to mount this production now. It is so relevant to the current national conversation (long overdue) about what kind of sexual banter is and is not appropriate, and the movement for women to finally have both equal power in the workplace and complete control over what happens to their bodies.
I have a feeling Mae West would have quite a bit to say on the matter. Thank you, Mae, for your courage, your bluntness and your refusal to be anything other than what you were. And thank you, Chuck Yates and Coyote StageWorks, for giving valley audiences such a compelling and enjoyable evening of theater.
Dirty Blonde, a production of Coyote StageWorks, is performed at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3; 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 4; 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7; 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 8; 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, in Palm Springs. Tickets are $45 to $60, and the show runs one hour and 40 minutes, with no Intermission. For tickets or information, call 760-325-4490, or visit www.coyotestageworks.org.
Touching and Terrific: 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore' Is an Immensely Satisfying Production by Coyote StageWorksMarch 29 2014
For me, it was a one-shouldered floral pink tunic.
I wore it to the premiere of an independent film in which I was featured. Accompanying me that evening was an older female producer friend I was living with while she recovered from an injury.
The film, alas, was a bomb; the friend, who had always been competitive with me, seemed to enjoy my humiliation. At the after-party, I discovered she had betrayed me professionally in a huge way. We had a screaming fight on the way home. I moved out the next day, and our friendship was over.
I could never bring myself to wear that pink top again.
Nearly every female has a similar emotionally charged story or two about articles of clothing, which is part of what makes Coyote StageWorks' Love, Loss, and What I Wore so satisfying. Men (straight men, at least) may not get it, but women do: What we're wearing during a major life-changing event can never be separated from the event itself.
Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, is based on a book by Ilene Beckerman. The play is a series of monologues using a cast of five women. When it was produced off-Broadway in 2009, the cast included Tyne Daly and Rosie O'Donnell. In 2010, it won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite New Off-Broadway Play.
The five women, all dressed in black, sit on chairs downstage and occasionally refer to their scripts while relaying tales of first dates, bad marriages, divorce, death and fashion-challenged mothers.
Gingy (Gloria Loring) serves as the narrator. Gingy shares with the audience the way her wardrobe has marked important times in her life—starting with her Brownie uniform—and how easily such memories can be triggered. We learn of her three marriages, the death of one of her six kids ("Your son has expired," the hospital tells her in a phone call), and her contentment in becoming a grandmother.
Loring—known to many as Liz Chandler on Days of Our Lives, to others for singing the hit duet "Friends and Lovers" with Carl Anderson, and to yet others as the mother of pop-sensation Robin Thicke—is wonderful. She exudes warmth and humor throughout the production, and pulls off the dramatic moments with skill. (Her breezy handling of a malfunctioning microphone at the top of the show on opening night set just the right tone.)
Mo Gaffney, who plays Gingy's mother, among other characters, is hilarious. One of the evening's highlights is her diatribe on purses, and how she can never keep hers tidy and organized. Her description of a friend who was trapped in a Paris café during a rainstorm so her $6,000 Grace Kelly handbag wouldn't get ruined is priceless. Gaffney, a stage and film veteran, is the definition of a seasoned professional. She's magical onstage and makes it look easy.
Olympic gymnast-turned-actress Cathy Rigby is also terrific in multiple roles. She's vulnerable and effective in a scene with Bets Malone as her lesbian lover, during which the two are deciding what to wear for their wedding. At another point, she recalls every stitch of clothing her character had on when she followed an abusive boyfriend to Seattle, begged him repeatedly to stay, and then finally mustered up the guts to dump the jerk.
Though not as well-known as the headliners, Malone is an amazingly versatile actress. She makes the most of a vignette comparing the loss of a favorite shirt to the end of a romantic relationship ("I just had to cherish the time I had with the shirt and move on") and rivets us as a cancer survivor who decides to get a tattoo on her reconstructed breast.
Rounding out the cast is Elaine Hayhurst, also in several roles, including the girlfriend of a Chicago gang member. She shines in bits about choosing between wearing high heels or "thinking" shoes, and the trauma of having an unwanted audience of saleswomen help her buy a new bra. (All five women share amusing dressing-room angst: "Oh my God, my butt fell!" and "This doesn't fit, but I always lose weight in May.")
Director Toni Kotite brings out the best in the cast. Each actress creates believable, likable characters whose stories draw us in, and the chemistry among the group is genuine. The tasteful lighting and simple set are perfect. Artistic director Chuck Yates once again has turned in a top-notch piece of theater, with a stellar cast and fabulous production values.
One of my pet peeves when attending plays these days is the tendency for audiences to jump to their feet at the end of every show, even when it's mediocre or just plain awful. But the standing ovation Coyote StageWorks' production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore received the night I saw it was richly deserved.
This play will make you laugh and cry—and perhaps make you wonder why you're REALLY hanging on to those bell bottoms from junior high.
Coyote Stageworks' Love, Loss, and What I Wore is performed at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, through Saturday, April 5, at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 N. Museum Drive, Palm Springs. Tickets are $39 to $55, and the running time is 90 minutes, with no intermission. For tickets or more information, call 760-325-4490, or go to www.annenbergtheater.org.
What a Show! Coyote Stageworks' 'The Andrews Brothers' Features Broadway-Quality TalentJanuary 25 2014
If you don't like to have fun, then you absolutely must stay away from Coyote Stageworks' The Andrews Brothers, at the Palm Springs Art Museum's Annenberg Theater. Stay home; be a curmudgeon; be a grinch—because this show might get to you. Opening night's nearly full house at the gently raked theater found itself whooping and applauding in fits of wild enthusiasm.
Let's discuss why.
Part of it is the music: a live band! On the stage! True, we don't get to actually see the musicians, who are parked behind a fence so they don't distract from the action. (Bravo to the seven-piece group; they never missed a lick, despite their not being acknowledged, or even mentioned, in the program. Why aren't they? They are performers too, right?) Nonetheless, nothing adds excitement like the thrill of live music. A gigantic YAY to Coyote for this decision!
Yes, The Andrews Brothers is a musical, written by Roger Bean, whose credits are breathtaking. It's set in 1945 on a Pacific island where an evening USO show is planned for "the boys." The plot is as flimsy as that of some 1940s movies, but nobody minds. The setting for Act 1 is a military camp (with a surprising amount of scenery for a stage like the Annenberg, which has such little room backstage), and Act 2 changes to "the stage" of the show. Also in keeping with Annenberg tradition, the sound is flawless, and the face microphones all function perfectly.
Coyote Stageworks' artistic director, Chuck Yates, opened the show at exactly 7:31 p.m., observing military promptness rather than the theatrical tradition of starting five minutes late for the tardy. After a charming little talk, he invited all the veterans to stand so we could thank them with our applause. I hope this wasn't just an opening-night thing, because it is lovely, and it is always very affecting. Whether or not this idea was lifted from the Palm Springs Follies, I don't care—because we can never thank our warriors enough.
So we GI-jive into the show, meeting the three USO stagehands who are planning their upcoming production. They have been assigned to this job because they are "effies," or 4F. A lot of the humor in the play, incredibly, comes from the disabilities which kept them out of active duty; this may be hard to believe in the uber-correct 21st century, I know, but it works. Tall, slim Michael Paternostro plays Lawrence, who is helpless without his glasses. Sweet, youthful Larry Raben is Patrick, a stutterer. Crafty, bossy Jamie Torcellini is Max, and I won't ruin the joke by revealing his problem (and it's not what you're thinking).
They are awaiting the arrival of Peggy—played by sweet, crisp-voiced Bets Malone—a contest winner and pin-up girl from Seattle who is nervous about launching her professional showbiz career with tonight's presentation. All four of these actors are Equity professionals with stunning résumés, so it is no surprise when they trot out terrific vocal harmonies, fantastic footwork and knockout comedic timing. They are also awaiting the Andrews Sisters, who are scheduled to fly in and perform—but we soon find out they are not going to arrive. Horrors! Will the troops be sent off the next day without a show? Well, in the best Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland tradition of here's-a-barn-let's-put-on-a-show, the stagehands offer to step in as performers. Corny? Sure. Cute? Totally.
I'm not going to give away what happens, but I will report that the Hawaiian number drew actual cheers from the crowd, and the staging of the "Slow Boat to China" number was beyond clever, while the "Six Jerks in a Jeep" was inventive and adorable. Kudos to the director Nicholas DeGruccio, choreographer Roger Castellano, musical director Colin Freeman, and stage manager Jill Gold for their work. Nothing in the world is more difficult than comedy. (Remember the story of the dying actor who is asked "Tell me, is dying hard?" He snarls in reply: "Dying is easy. COMEDY is hard.") However, this combination of perfect timing and superb craftsmanship hits a home run.
But ah, the music. You know many of the songs, from Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Billy Rose, Frank Loesser—the usual suspects. Some more-obscure tunes are thrown into the mix, giving us variety and laughs and keeping the show from wandering off into cliché.
This all gives the actors an extraordinary chance to show off. In Act 1, we see enough glimmers of their talent to acknowledge the finely honed skills of these four performers, but Act 2 really lets them cut loose. (By the way: The film clips that are run during the intermission, all from that era, are astonishing—everything from war-bond appeals, to a cartoon with a cow playing the flute in Bugs Bunny's orchestra, to a three-little-pigs animation in which the wolf is wearing a swastika armband; I was left quite speechless!) The quality of their performances, with the beautiful sureness of their footwork and the hilarious sight gags, is wonderfully innovative. It's two hours and 15 minutes of feel-good Broadway quality, right here in Palm Springs.
But don't go if you don't want to have fun.
Coyote Stageworks' The Andrews Brothers is performed at various times, Wednesday through Sunday, through Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs. Tickets are $39 to $55. For tickets or more information, call 760-325-4490, or visit www.psmuseum.org/annenberg-theater.


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Being a good partner requires effort, but it's that extra effort that will help your partners produce real results.
Anyone who's ever found themself in an elementary P.E. class has likely been asked to pick a partner. Having a partner means you can play badminton two-on-two, you don't have to count your own push-ups, and a partner is pretty much a requirement for the three-legged race. As we learned very early in life, partners share challenges, risks, and celebrate their victories together. It's the same in business.
Through our network of preferred partners, Fortegra provides insurance, warranty, and credit protection solutions that help customers overcome the challenges of life's everyday setbacks. However, we don't just hand our partners a potato sack and expect them to run the race alone. That wouldn't be much of a partnership.
Being a good partner is about pledging a truly collaborative approach. Looking to boost your business partnership? Here are four great ways to provide support:
- Offering Customer Service for Your Products
If someone hands you a badminton racquet and a birdie and tells you to go have fun, that's not a great partner. Look, it could be the best shuttlecock ever designed, but you'd still be playing by yourself. The same holds true in business with partners and products. You can give your partner an awesome product to sell, but shouldn't you also give them support in the act of selling it?
If you're providing a product for your partners, go one step further and be there to provide support. Not just support for your partner (we'll get there in a minute), but also your partner's customers. Customer support can be challenging, but when done correctly, it can help build rapport between the customer and the brand and help take the burden off your partner.
- Providing Marketing Support
You know your product, and chances are, you know how to market it. In fact, you might already be marketing it. Shouldn't you extend that knowledge to your partner? If your partner sells your product at a retail location, consider providing them with custom point-of-sale material. If your partner sells mostly online, try supporting their social media presence or other digital efforts using your own branded accounts or website. When both parties approach marketing with the same game plan, you can make your efforts go further.
- Sharing the Latest Industry Updates
Your industry is always changing and you know how to play the game. But if your partner doesn't know the rules, it's not only going to negatively impact their business, but also likely your own. Consider sharing industry updates with your partners, especially those that deal with compliance and regulation.
Still, being attuned to the marketplace isn't just about preventing regulatory violations; it's about improving something. In order to help our partners drive to the heart of customer needs, we offer in-depth marketplace analysis.
- Delivering Product Education and Training
Even the best salespeople would struggle to sell something without understanding the features and benefits. As the product creator, make sure you're educating your partners about the product you've provided them to sell.
From in-person training to Webinars, there are a number of ways to go about product education. If you have a product that's part of a continuously evolving industry – like Fortegra's credit protection lineup – an online training portal is one way to keep partners and individual sales forces properly informed about the entire line. The Fortegra Learning Academy includes an overview of the product line, best practices for avoiding compliance issues, and downloadable sales product cards with details of each plan.
Don't be the kid who get's picked last in gym class, make sure you're taking the necessary steps to become the best partner you can. Yes, it requires effort. But it's that extra effort that will help you and your partners succeed together.
Interested in becoming a Fortegra preferred partner? Contact us today to learn more about how you and your customers can Experience More.


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Nexagate: A Trusted Cyber Security Partner
IT security and the demands it places on organizations of all sizes is changing rapidly. Cybercriminals and attackers are becoming increasingly advanced in their tactics, yet most organizations have relatively limited resources to deal with what's becoming a more significant and dominant threat. It's this gap between what is needed and what is being done in terms of IT security where Nexagate positions itself.
Upon initially launching in 2010, Nexagate worked primarily on security audit and compliance consulting. From an onsite assessment and analysis to penetration testing, the team can identify potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities before hackers do. However, later in 2014, after witnessing a wave of cyberattacks on the Malaysian government, the company identified the inability of existing cyber security solutions to address security requirements of most organizations. That's when they developed specific services to address the inadequacy of the security industry. Nexagate's key services include managed web security services and delivers proactive alerts about potential threats, managed DDoS protection, disaster recovery, web performance, and optimization.
Nexagate is ISO27001-certified in Information Security, Security Assessment, Managed Web Security and Business Continuity Services. They also offer compliance consulting assuring adherence with the ISO 27001 standards and the ISO 20000 standards.
According to Khairil Effendy, the company's MD, clients come to Nexagate because of the need to balance limited resources with constant protection of their IT architecture and resources, while also continuously improving their compliance efforts. With more than 100 clients in the brief six-year history of the company, it's apparent that Nexagate goes beyond simply helping clients choose technology.
We have the expertise to develop security programs that are tailored to our clients' needs
Owing to this approach and their expertise in cyber security, the company has garnered a vast client base, which includes Fujitsu, T-System, Cisco, Ministry of Home Affairs and RISDA. The company has also established partnership with key service providers in Laos, Bangladesh, and Oman to penetrate Indo- China, Bangladesh, and Middle-East market.
Khairil points out that providing leading edge IT security services and protection involves much more than selecting the right tools. "We have the expertise to develop security programs that are tailored to our clients' needs," he says. This expertise includes the ideal integration of not just technology, but also people, services, and processes. When these elements come together, Nexagate does not only offer customization but also maximize the resources the client has for optimal, value-creating solutions.
Much of the company's strength depends on its team, which consists of experienced IT experts with experience across information security, network communication, cloud infrastructure, and data centers. Many of the consulting team members have obtained most prestigious certifications in the industry including CISSP, CEH, VCP, CCDP/NP, AWS-ARCH, DCATS, ABCP and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
The organization focuses on the delivery of innovative processes and flexible delivery models to address even the most complex cyber security challenges. It lays its focus on meeting regulatory compliance requirements and providing peace of mind to clients assuring that they're operating within the framework of a secure IT environment.
Khairil points out a key advantage of Nexagate, which is their ability to help develop pioneering security solutions that also save clients anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of their budget over previous strategies. Through insight, expertise, and relationships with top technology providers, Nexagate creates scalable solutions to address present and future security requirements. This fast-growing IT security consulting and services provider capably delivers cloud-based security to companies of all sizes, and according to Khairil, along with technical expertise, there's something else that's critical to their success. "A key ingredient is our shared vision which is to focus on building a long-term relationship with our clients and becoming a trusted information security partner, rather than a reseller or external consultant," he concludes.
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Clashes resumed along the contested Afghan-Pakistan border on Monday after Pakistani troops returned to repair a gate adjacent to a Pakistani border post between the Afghan province of Nangarhar and the Pakistani tribal agency of Mohmand that was the site of last week's firefight (Reuters, AJE, VOA). Afghanistan, which has refused to recognize the 1893 British-mandated border between the two countries, says the gate is illegally located on Afghan territory.
Just a few days after last week's border clash between Afghan and Pakistani troops, President Karzai on Saturday urged the Afghan Taliban to "turn their weapons against places where plots are made against Afghan prosperity," in a not-so-veiled reference to Pakistan (Reuters, The News, WSJ). Referring to the Afghan border guard killed in the exchange of fire last week, Karzai called on the Taliban to "stand with this young man who was martyred and defend their soil."
After a meeting with the CIA station chief in Kabul on Saturday, President Hamid Karzai said he had been assured that deliveries of cash from the U.S. intelligence agency would continue despite criticism of the arrangement from many Afghans and some Europeans and Americans (NYT). Karzai told reporters that the payments were "not unusual" among all the different sources of aid in Afghanistan, and the money provided "an easy source of petty cash" that was used to pay rent for various officials, treat wounded members of his presidential guard, and fund scholarships.
Seven U.S. soldiers and one German Special Forces officer were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday: five U.S. troops died in Kandahar when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb; two were killed in an insider attack in Farah Province; and the German soldier was killed in a small arms insurgent attack in northern Baghlan Province (NYT, Reuters, CNN, AP, LAT, RFE/RL, AP). It was the deadliest day for American forces so far this year. On Friday, President Barack Obama named James Dobbins as his special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (NYT, AFP, Post). Dobbins is a veteran diplomat who led the negotiations leading to the 2001 Bonn agreement after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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In the run-up to historic general elections this Sunday, Pakistan is seeing many representatives of openly extremist and sectarian political parties contesting parliamentary seats across the country (NYT). Some 130 members of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, formerly known as the banned sectarian group Sipah e Sahaba, are running in this year's election, and have received a boost from persistent Taliban attacks on the country's more popular mainstream parties.
A Pakistani band known to produce songs critical of the country's military and civilian leadership has seen their most recent release blocked on the video-sharing website Vimeo (YouTube has been blocked in Pakistan since September) (NYT). "Dhinak Dhinak" criticizes Pakistan's generals more directly than the Beygairat Brigade's last song, and band members believe the military ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block it.
Two explosions killed three and wounded some two-dozen others near an election office of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the Pakistani port city of Karachi late on Saturday (AP). Also on Saturday night, Pakistani troops attacked two militant hideouts in the Taliban- and Lashkar-e-Islam-held Tirah Valley, killing 16 militants ad losing two soldiers as well (AFP). And a roadside bomb targeting a military convoy in the North Waziristan tribal agency killed two Pakistani troops on Sunday.
Pakistan has asked India to return Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah (known by only one name), who was attacked by his fellow inmates at a Jammu jail days after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died of wounds sustained in an attack by other inmates at a Lahore jail (TOI). Pakistani officials have been granted consular access to Sanaullah.
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Fishermen supporters of Sindh Provincial Assembly candidate Haji Usman Ghani held an unconventional political rally outside of Karachi on Friday – on boats floating off the coast (AP). Ghani is the underdog in a race against an incumbent Pakistan People's Party legislator, but many prospective voters in their constituency are fishermen who feel they've been neglected by the ruling party.
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