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The scheduling game keeps getting more complicated — and, to say the least, more expensive.
For non-conference games on future home football schedules, Georgia will pay $875,000 to Louisiana (Lafayette) in 2010, $925,000 to New Mexico State in 2011 and $975,000 to North Texas in 2013.
It's the cost of getting games against teams that don't require you to come to their place another year in return. Here's my story on that topic.
Meanwhile, an issue we've discussed here before — the Atlanta Sports Council's desire to have Georgia play a season-opening non-conference game in the Georgia Dome in 2010 or some other year — continues to percolate.
There's still nothing concrete . . . just a continuing desire by the Sports Council and its TV partner ESPN to put something together involving the Dogs, when/if possible. Rumored opponents have run the gamut –- UCLA, Texas, Southern Cal, North Carolina, you name 'em.
Damon Evans, Georgia's AD, said a couple of weeks ago that he'd heard various rumors, but said he'd gotten word some of the schools rumored to be interested in playing UGA in Atlanta really weren't. Georgia's position is that it doesn't rule out any possibility but isn't actively pursuing a 2010 Dome game. UGA already has six games scheduled away from Athens that year and won't, under any circumstances, play fewer than six games in Sanford Stadium. So unless that year's contractually committed game at Colorado were shifted to another year, there'd be no room for an Atlanta game.
Sports Council president Gary Stokan said last month — and reiterated Monday –- that trying to mesh schedules to put together a neutral-site game, particularly one as close at hand as 2010, is "like a Rubik's cube."
Your thoughts on any of this?
June 2nd, 2009
6:57 am
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June 2nd, 2009
7:20 am
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June 2nd, 2009
7:30 am
Move the Florida game to home and home and scheduling problems like this disappear. Time to realize that an annual weekend bender for the big wigs at the beach isn't worth giving up a home game every other year.
The trip to Boulder shouldn't be moved, I'd much rather go there than the hell hole of Jax.
June 2nd, 2009
7:53 am
These games with Ok St, AZ St, Colorado, Louisville do nothing for us. They don't help us in recruiting because we don't recruit any of those areas and they are perennial powerhouses (Mich, Okl, PSU, TX, USC, OSU…) so nationally they don't help us. They only hurt us because of the schedule. You don't see Florida playing those games and for good reason.
I am all about playing teams outside the conference but they need to be BIG schools or stay and play teams like Clemson or even Florida State but not teams out west that kill you to travel. And not when we give up a home game every other year because of the FLorida game.
June 2nd, 2009
7:57 am
it is about time that georgia negates these high priced exhibition games by scheduling florida to a home and home.
also, that will allow more home and home scheduling with major college teams. georgia always has to struggle to get enough home games and pay huge prices to balance their home games because the florida game is always in jacksonville.
June 2nd, 2009
8:21 am
Hey Taser Boy/ hop a long….I couldnt agree more on the crappy teams we are scheduling at home, nd while Jax has improved 1000% in the last 15 yrs, the town is still a bit nasty. The fact is that UGA COULD schedule better teams for home and home, AND keep the Fla game in Jax, but instead chooses to have 7 games some yrs with two patsies.
That said, however, the solution is not moving the Fla game. It is not only big wigs there. Most there are regular people like you and me. Also , as a student, that trip is a very special part of the UGA experience. When I see a Dawg fan pushing for home and home, I often think that person must not have been a student at UGA; because if he had been, he would know about the incredible buzz on campus the wk before that game. It is a tradition that should not be messed with.
June 2nd, 2009
8:25 am
Hop makes a GREAT point.
Has anyone brought up the idea of playing the Florida game in Athens, then Jacksonville, then Atlanta and finally in The Swamp? A 4 year rotation?
I can't imagine seeing a Georgia-Texas or Georgia-USC matchup to start the season. Wow…
I always found the Rubik's Cube to be easy so maybe this will happen.
June 2nd, 2009
8:27 am
here's an idea. why not have the colorado game at the dome?? yeah, colorado get's short changed on the home game, but they'll make up for it with the nationally telivised game and the proceeds generated by that game. I just wonder if the dome will allow the buffalo inside?
June 2nd, 2009
8:32 am
and i also strongly dis-agree with moving the UGA-uf game out of JAX. it's just one hell of a weekend and is a tradion to both schools.
June 2nd, 2009
8:37 am
While I agree that the Florida game in Jax is special, every one of you that comments on it talks about how special it is for you…..as a fan.
How does it affect our team?
June 2nd, 2009
8:46 am
Would UGA vs UNC in Charlotte draw a crowd?
June 2nd, 2009
8:51 am
How does the game in JAX affect the team? Usually it drops us in the polls.
June 2nd, 2009
8:52 am
I have a great idea, lets move to the ACC so we don't ever have to play Florida in JAX.
June 2nd, 2009
8:57 am
If we're going to play USC or Texas then it needs to be in Athens! So we can have the full effect of the home crowd. It would be OK to play any ACC school except for Clemson in the GA Dome. What Stokan needs to do is get a new dome built that has the ability to expand its capacity to 100+k like the new Cowboys stadium then it would be easier to entice teams to give up a home date. Otherwise unless they really over pay financially it doesn't make sense to give up a home date in Athens.
June 2nd, 2009
9:31 am
Aren't you DAWG fans embarrassed being run out of JAX! This story is making us look like whimps!
June 2nd, 2009
9:32 am
There is no need to play any game in the Dome. Play any of the other teams mentioned in Kick Off Classic in a home and home. Keep the WLOCP in Jax. UF can get away with the easier schedule, UGA and Auburn can not. UF earned that after dominating the SEC.
Also I like the current scheduling of OOC games. UGA should win them and it gets national TV exposure which helps rankings, thus bowl selection and therefore more money and better chances of getting in a debated BCS title game. Would I like the see UGA vs USC? Yes however USC is booked through 2013 from what I've read.
June 2nd, 2009
9:40 am
Personally, I don't think that UGA needs to play a regular season game in the Dome. The trek to Athens and the on-campus experience of game day is what makes me continue to buy season tickets. You can't get that same feeling at a game in the Dome. Tailgating in Athens is a large part of the whole game day experience.
June 2nd, 2009
9:44 am
Why doesn't UGAy just drop into Division II and play patsies every week? Or better yet, join the prison league. UGAy's thugs and illiterates would fit right in.
June 2nd, 2009
9:53 am
north texas, new mexico st, tennesee tech!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaahhahahahhahhahhahahahahahhaahhaah
June 2nd, 2009
9:55 am
UGA loves those cupcake teams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
June 2nd, 2009
10:00 am
I'm sure plenty of Florida's other rivals would jump at the opportunity to play a game every year in Florida if Georgia reverts back to a home and home. I mean it would be foolish to even want to play your biggest rival at home every other year.
June 2nd, 2009
10:07 am
saint simons, bring on Wofford, Gardner Webb, Furman, or maybe just NC State, Wake, or UNC. Then we can be on par with your "all-star" schedule. We are the toughest team on your schedule. Your beanie headed, slide rule carrying, cow worshipers are on the bottom 3rd or ours. That is why you win once every 7 years. Do you pick up Valdosta State this year?
June 2nd, 2009
10:20 am
Scheduling GA Tech and GA to open in 2010 in the dome would be a great local draw but….
June 2nd, 2009
10:20 am
The UGA vs UF game in Jax does not have as big of an effect on our shceduling as most of you think. In fact, it makes us a lot of money financialy which is one of the biggest reasons it remains there. The other being tradition.
Why don't we just add 1 more SEC game across the board? We wont have to shell out extra money for the gimmies, and will in fact make a lot more of it with another big time home & home. The only problem is the SEC will beat each other up that much more but so what. 1 game shouldn't have that much more of an effect on things. Of course this would work a little better if there was a 4 or 8 team playoff. In the beauty pagent of the BCS championship game, knocking each other around too much while the other pansie coference leaders sail in on easy wins is too likely. Eh, just throwing some ideas around.
June 2nd, 2009
10:33 am
I am a UGA fan……but you never hear Florida fans complaining about playing in Jacksonville (even tough they are losing a "home game" too) It all has to do with how UGA has played there…….I will admit some teams have tougher schedules…….but when you play in the SEC it is prudent to schedule at least one or two teams you should beat 95% of time…..if you want a shot at playing for the National Championship.
June 2nd, 2009
10:57 am
Here is a novel idea. Let Damon and Richt deal with the scheduling then adopt the idea of I will play anyone, anywhere at anytime. If we go 12-0 then we are #1. Just win. Isn't that what we are suppose to teach our young kids. Anyone that disagrees with that is a Loser with a Cap L.
June 2nd, 2009
11:06 am
I've blogged many times before that moving the UF game out of Jacksonville would make scheduling much easier and provide greater quality. Both UF and UGA lose a slot every year w/ an in-state rival that is non conference.
That puts UGA and possibly UF in a situation to get two teams annually with the "play one at mine with no return trip". It amazes me the people who spend thousands on tickets on contributions get stuck with non marketable games.
Moving the UF series home and home would allow an AD to schedule "two for ones" and "three for ones" with WAC, Mountain West and possibly a Big East team. I bet Washington State from the PAC 10 would do a two for one. They just gave Auburn a game there with no return trip two years ago.
I guess when you're an AD or a rich board member, it's probably more important to be able to use your St Simons home and yacht for the game though. Heck, got to do what's best for "me" instead of what's best for the university and their people.
June 2nd, 2009
11:07 am
Keep on paying or wins and you can maintain the same respect you have now. Very little on the national stage. take a page from the VOLS. They have no problem doing home and aways with National teams.
June 2nd, 2009
11:13 am
Damon Evans should not have to pay for teams to come to Athens to play the Dogs. That is ludicrous. When there are areas around the country that Coach Richt does well in recruiting like North Carolina, then perhaps Damon Evans and Coach Richt should collaborate better with the schedule in future years. When the Dogs have to travel out west, then schedule that game with an off weekend to follow instead of having to come back and play Alabama.
There is no patsy game within the SEC schedule, but there are opportunities that should be looked into for use of a better strategy toward future scheduling, recruitment, publicity, etc. I agree that the Dogs should be able to stack up against anyone, anywhere, anytime, etc. However, there should also be some well thought out strategy for doing so as well. No more patsies and miliion dollar payoffs. Come on Dogs!! Woof, Baby, Woof!! Go Dogs!!!
June 2nd, 2009
11:20 am
All you dawgies can now STFU about scheduling.
June 2nd, 2009
11:27 am
WOW – A lot of negativity in the comments about the schedule.
I propose to keep Alabama in the kickoff classic – playing Clemson, VA Tech, GA Tech, Miami, and FSU on a rotating schedule.
Besides that tail kicking we gave to UGA last year – the tail kicking we gave to Clemson has raised our teams profile in the state of Georgia – and we are now on the radar of a lot of blue chip recruits that normally would have not have seriously considered Bama……plus the fact the media hype that comes with having Saban – really raised the profile of the school after being on probation,
This game has made recruiting in Georgia a lot easier – that's for sure!
June 2nd, 2009
11:31 am
GatorZone, UGA still has Clemson for 2013. UF has not played a BCS conf team in the regular season other than Miami 3 times and FSU since Okie St. back in '90.
June 2nd, 2009
11:34 am
NC Dawg I agree and like to see the team open against a team you should beat 95% of the time. I also like the idea of 1 Big OOC game other than the Nerds.
June 2nd, 2009
11:37 am
If playing in the Dome gets us more national exposure we need to do it. While most of us would agree that Samford Stadium is heaven on earth, most outsiders probably would not. ABC/ESPN does not give two craps about Samford Stadium. They care about great matchups that get people from all corners of the USA watching the games so that they can get good ratings. That is all they care about. Playing in such games, and winning them, will up our profile and only benefit us in the long run. Some of you are too old fashioned and myopic. This is 21st century college football and a good ole boy mentality will only leave us far behind others in the race for college football supremacy. We should kiss ABC/ESPN's butt. We should do unusual things that break with "tradition." We should not fear change. Thanks for listening and class dismissed.
June 2nd, 2009
11:40 am
Lets do a home and home with Michigan at the Georgia Dome and Ford Field
June 2nd, 2009
11:41 am
Otto, I guess in their current state it is easy to brush over games against Miami and FSU. Tell you what, why don't we swap Georgia Tech for FSU?
June 2nd, 2009
11:53 am
Gatorzone, The GT for FSU swap is very tempting at the moment.
A schedule where FSU is your only BCS OOC game (at the end of the season as well) is alot easier to manage from an injuries and game planning perspective than Az St., Okie St, Colorado, L'ville, Oregon often having more than one in the same season, as well as a respectable in state rival.
I would take FSU over Okie St, Az St., and GT in the same year.
June 2nd, 2009
11:55 am
The ideal game would be a University of North Carolina vs University of Georgia contest in 2010. UNC is certainly interested as should be UGA. Such a match-up would be a game that would go down in the books as marking the beginning of an OOC rivalry!
June 2nd, 2009
1:24 pm
FSU sucks.
June 2nd, 2009
1:57 pm
I'm not sure what Colorado's finances are, but maybe they could be bought to move their home game to the Dome. I remember years a go Southern Miss was paid to move their home game with FSU to Jacksonville. It didn't go so well for FSU, though. S. Miss had a guy named Brett something playing QB.
June 2nd, 2009
2:00 pm
I am not a UGA fan but I thought the on-campus stadium at Athens is called Sanford, not Samford. Which is it?
June 2nd, 2009
2:01 pm
Why? Why does ESPN need to kiss ESPN's butt? I'm tired of that approach. UGA trying to get ESPN's attention with impressive match ups and traveling to the west coast is just like a 2 year old trying to get mommy's attention. It makes them look second rate IMO. Not to mention that adding all these tougher games to our schedule makes it that much tougher to go to the SEC Championship let alone the National Title.
Consider last season, UGA had to take a plane to Arizona State and then turn around a play a brutal home game against Alabama the next week. Did it get UGA exposure? Yes. But at what cost? This isn't the NFL, where teams travel to the West Coast one week and the east coast the next.And even in the NFL, it's pretty much understood that if you play a bunch of games across country, your win-loss record will suffer. If college football had a playoff system like the NFL( don't worry I won't be that horse) where 3 or 4 losses doesn't hurt you, then it wouldn't be a big deal. But what's the point of playing across country if your team is going to be jet lagging the next week in an important conference matchup?
And if the SEC is considered the best football conference in the country( which should be a mute point by now), then why schedule all these Pac 10 games? Florida doesn't do it and neither does Alabama. I say the hell with ESPN! UGA doesn't need them. If the Dawgs go 11-1 or 12-0 in the SEC, ESPN is going to have to cover them whether they want to or not. If ESPN doesn't respect what Mark Richt has done by now they're not going to. So I say let's win a National Title and change ESPN's mind for them.
June 2nd, 2009
2:08 pm
Why? Why does UGA need to kiss ESPN's butt? I'm tired of that approach. UGA trying to get ESPN's attention with impressive match ups and traveling to the west coast is just like a 2 year old trying to get mommy's attention. It makes them look second rate IMO. Not to mention that adding all these tougher games to our schedule makes it that much tougher to go to the SEC Championship let alone the National Title.
Consider last season, UGA had to take a plane to Arizona State and then turn around a play a brutal home game against Alabama the next week. Did it get UGA exposure? Yes. But at what cost? This isn't the NFL, where teams travel to the West Coast one week and the east coast the next.And even in the NFL, it's pretty much understood that if you play a bunch of games across country, your win-loss record will suffer. If college football had a playoff system like the NFL( don't worry I won't beat that horse) where 3 or 4 losses doesn't hurt you, then it wouldn't be a big deal. But what's the point of playing across country if your team is going to be jet lagging the next week in an important conference matchup that could knock you out of National Title contention?
And if the SEC is considered the best football conference in the country( which should be a mute point by now), then why schedule all these Pac 10 games? Florida doesn't do it and neither does Alabama. I say the hell with ESPN! UGA doesn't need them! If the Dawgs go 11-1 or 12-0 in the SEC, ESPN is going to have to cover them whether they want to or not. If ESPN doesn't respect what Mark Richt has done by now they're not going to. So I say let's win a National Title and change ESPN's mind for them.
June 2nd, 2009
2:38 pm
Yes the mickey mouse teams do require a lot of money for CMR's gawdy record to look good. But as everyone knows in the collge football world , UGA and CMR just cant win the big ones. CMR also seems to play to the level of the S. Carolinas , vandys and Troys or UAB's. Big time money spent by a Big Time Wanna Be fools gold program (UGA)…….
June 2nd, 2009
3:21 pm
You guys sure do worry a lot about schedules and where games should be played and things.
You need to worry more about the enemies!
June 2nd, 2009
4:12 pm
UGA will lose 6 games this year!!!!!!!!!
June 2nd, 2009
4:16 pm
Native Atlantan, moving the game to home and home cost each school about 1.2 million a year. And how much more national exposure would some mid-level opponent gain be over losing one of the most widely recognized games in the country? What I really don't get is how moving the game would ADD an extra game? What slot is lost by playing FL (wherever)? If you go to J-ville or Gainsville, how is that different as far as who we can schedule at home? Playing in Athens certainly doesn't open anything up.
June 2nd, 2009
4:16 pm
Which 6 and why?
June 2nd, 2009
4:36 pm
Where is Samford Stadium?
June 2nd, 2009
4:40 pm
OK enough. Now the poll is will UGA win 8 games this season? We have recruited well and the last I checked we have some pretty good coaches. The AJC is doing a good job of firing up the nerd herd though.


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Boys fight for district spot
Perhaps it was the incessant screaming from the Nooksack bench, but something motivated a surprising 13-2 third quarter run by a Nooksack team Blaine has beaten before, and they ended up putting away Blaine 69-53 last Friday night at home.
Only five Borderites scored points, Mike Pianki's 19 leading the list. His fast break lay-up at the first half buzzer to tie the game at 25 brought the homecrowd town to its feet. "Now that's Blaine basketball!" said one excited fan.
But over the break the momentum went to the Pioneers, specifically Dan Skilman and Brett Handy, who dumped in four treys between them in short order. "We were with them until then," said head coach Dan Rucker, "a lot like when we played them there and won, but those four treys killed us, and after that it was catch-up ball."
The Blaine team earned more attention from the refs as well, Ryan Goodwin fouled out midway through the fourth quarter on a mysterious call that seemed to have little to do with what was happening on the court, as if the ref was thinking about calling the Super Bowl the following weekend. The loss of the 6-5 senior Blaine cost two-thirds of its inside offensive punch.
Blaine ended up with 25 fouls called to Nooksack's 19, although Blaine managed to equal Nooksack's harvest of 15 charity points despite the difference with superior shooting from the line.
With the loss Blaine's record sinks to 4-5 in league, but the Borderites remain in third place. Their next opponent will be Meridian on Friday, February 10, a possibly tough road game against a team that they beat by four at home but lost to by ten on the road earlier in the season. Winning means securing third place prior to district play. The game begins at 7:30 p.m.
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An outbreak of shigellosis, a food-borne bacteria that can cause severe diarrhea, forced postponement of last weekend's district wrestling meet after at least 14 wrestlers, several coaches and some referees became sick following the previous weekend's sub districts at Nooksack.
The district wrestling tournament was transferred to Wednesday, February 8. Results will be in next week's paper.
"It can fool you because at first it looks like the flu," said Blaine's athletic director Gary Clausen, "but it's pretty severe once it gets going." He said that the outbreak will cause some changes in the way that Blaine keeps its own mats clean, although the infection had nothing to do with Blaine's facilities.
The bacteria is spread through bodily contact and by touching something an infected person has touched, making a wrestling meet an almost ideal location for the bug to grow. Clausen said that Blaine already takes precautions by cleaning its mats and asking athletes to wash their hands.
Dan Steelquist, coach of the girls' soccer team, successfully applied to also coach the boys team, something he did for several years five years ago. Now he'll coach the girls in their fall season and the boys in their spring season.
In football, the head coaching position is now officially open though the school district has already been receiving inquiries from as far away as North Carolina.


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Although the sun is warm, there is still snow on the ground and we (I) are (am) at our (my) breaking point....
At least it is supposed to be in the 50's by early next week.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday. March. What more can I say.
Although the sun is warm, there is still snow on the ground and we (I) are (am) at our (my) breaking point....
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Monday, March 9, 2009
BEST $20 bucks I ever spent...
We went to a hip, cool trendy restaurant for dinner on Saturday night: Sushi Samba. Dee-licious food, fun atmosphere. The rain also let up enough so we could stroll back from the restaurant to the hotel.
The cab driver was a nice, friendly guy and we chatted about stuff on the way to Gino's. Thanked the guy, paid the fare and went in to the restaurant.
Under normal (not pouring rain) circumstances, this would be a smart idea. But, because it had been raining so hard when we hailed the cab, we just jumped in, rode to the restaurant and jumped out.
"Company?" Ummmmm, errr, ahhhh. No clue.
This time, I was stumped and fearful. I could certainly cancel the credit cards, but how do you get on an airplane with NO ID? How do you replace pictures on a camera?
We went to the cab, I got my bag and give him a $20.00 for finding it and returning it. To the left, you see the bag, on the table, at the restaurant, with ME!
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
A HA! It all makes sense now...
For a few weeks, I've been trying to figure out why I've been so loooooowwww energy. Why my runs have been sooooooo hard. Why sleeping more hours every day than a cat sounded soooooo appealing.
I've been sick!
This may sound gross (at least it sounds gross to me), but I have shingles. It is an aftereffect of chicken pox, which can lie dormant in your nerves.
(Sidenote: The chicken pox thing was also a surprise, as the only childhood disease I thought I had was the mumps (were the mumps??? Is "Mumps" as a disease singular or plural?))
Apparently, once you have chicken pox, the virus stays lurking in your nerves. Some people go the rest of their life with no sign of the virus.
Others, like me, get shingles. The virus decides to pop its little head out of sleep and runs wild through your nervous system.
Symptoms are rash (my rash is on my neck) and swollen lymph glands, bumps, etc. which tend to congregate on one side of the body (my left side of my head is where it is showing up: my head, ear and neck are all swollen and very, very tender).
Bummer -- BUT may explain why expending energy was a big issue. Why I've been so achy for the last few weeks.
Stress is a factor that can help wake up the virus, and heaven knows I've been a bit stressed lately, so that must have been the trigger.
The doc gave me a Rx to help fight this thing faster and I've been asked to "take it easy". (What does that mean again?)
Training? I'll do what I can, when I can.
Fargo 1/2 is really only a placemark race for me this year. I won't start tri training in earnest until the end of April, so I have some time.
I'm kind of mad this happened, though, because I really don't get sick much.
Perfect timing!
(Similar to the "perfect timing" of the delivery of the Girl Scout cookies I ordered in January coinciding with my re dedication to Weight Watchers.....")
Starve a cold, give a cookie to a shingle...
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When Nilo Cruz became the first Hispanic playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama a decade ago, Latino theater artists in his adopted hometown of Miami and around the United States felt enormous pride.
The boy who left his Cuban homeland on a Freedom Flight in 1970 had become a spellbinding theatrical storyteller, a man whose Anna in the Tropics blended illicit passion, Cuban-American history and thematically resonant passages from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
The impact of Cruz's triumph was also felt — and continues to be a source of pride — in the country his family left behind.
"To find an author like Nilo, who writes about things like cigars and tobacco workers and other traditions, we have to think that he is a Cuban author," Carlos Díaz, director of Teatro El Público, said by phone from Havana, where his company staged the play last month. "He has very strong roots in Cuba and in his memories of it. We have to think about that with pride."
Ten years after his life-altering Pulitzer, Cruz is one extremely busy theater artist, one whose work has broadened to include opera, theatrical songs and screenplays.
On Thursday, a Cruz-directed Arca Images production of his 2001 play Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Hortensia y el museo de sueños) opens at Miami-Dade County Auditorium's OnStage Black Box theater. On Nov. 22, the FUNDarte-Teatro El Público collaborative production of Anna in the Tropics (Ana en el trópico) begins a weekend run at Miami Beach's Colony Theater, after winning acclaim during recent performances in Havana. Both plays will be performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
In the not-so-distant future, Cruz will see a summer workshop of Bel Canto, the commissioned opera he and Peruvian composer Jimmy López crafted from Ann Patchett's bestselling novel, which will get its world premiere at Chicago's Lyric Opera in the 2015-2016 season. His play Sotto Voce will premiere at New York's Theatre for the New City, with Cruz directing, Feb. 15-March 9, 2014.
In the spring, the movie Castro's Daughter, with a screenplay by Cruz and Oscar-winning producer-director Bobby Moresco ( Crash, Million Dollar Baby), will start shooting. He has a completed screenplay for Anna in the Tropics and is working on a still-untitled play about the collapse of Florida's housing industry. In July, he'll travel to Russia for the premiere of Anna in the Tropics at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.
"I didn't have a window to direct Hortensia in Miami. My agent fought me on it," says Cruz, who has sold his place in New York and relocated to Miami full time. "But Alberto Sarraín had done a really good [Spanish] translation of the play, and I fell in love with it all over again. ... I like to direct one show a year, and this is a play I've never directed."
As for the new Anna in the Tropics, Ever Chávez, founder and executive director of the Miami-based FUNDarte, remembers seeing a video of Repertorio Español's New York production of it and thinking the play would be a perfect piece for Teatro El Público's Díaz to stage.
"It had the elements of the United States, Cuba and Russia, but it was set in Tampa in 1929, so the political issues would be OK for Carlos," says Chávez. "I brought Carlos to meet Nilo, and Nilo said yes to doing it in Cuba. ... This is our treasure. Anna in the Tropics won our Pulitzer Prize."
Both Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams and Anna in the Tropics had their world premieres in English at New Theatre. Each was staged in the tiny Coral Gables space by founder and then-artistic director Rafael de Acha, Hortensia in 2001, Anna in 2002. (The company has since moved to Miami's Roxy Performing Arts Center and is now led by Ricky J. Martinez.)
Hortensia, infused with gritty shocks, magical realism and Cruz's beautifully poetic language, centers on Luciana and Luca. The sister and brother, who left Cuba on a Pedro Pan flight, return to their homeland during the Pope's 1998 Cuban visit to try to reclaim their lost childhood.
Anna is set in an Ybor City cigar factory near Tampa, where a new lector (reader) keeps the workers entertained by reading from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The words and the man ignite a passion in the unhappily married Conchita, who proceeds to reclaim her husband in a most unusual way.
The new production of Hortensia features a cast of Miami-based Latino actors (Martha Picanes, Grettel Trujillo and Raúl Durán respectively play Hortensia, Luciana and Luca), while Anna is performed by a blend of Cuban actors (Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Fernando Hechevarría, Clara González and Yanier Palmero) and Cuba-born Miamians (Lili Rentería, Mabel Roch and Carlos Caballero).
"I have a word for my work with Nilo. I say I'm a 'Niloist,'" says Durán, who is doing his fourth Cruz play in Hortensia. "When I moved back to Miami after nine years in New York, I was trying to find a place like Repertorio Español to work. I'm proud of being one of the people Nilo chose to create theater here. He's the first Hispanic playwright to win the Pulitzer, and he entered into the world of theater here in Miami. He should have a company here."
Adds Picanes, who plays the title character in Hortensia, "He doesn't have that Pulitzer Prize for nothing."
For Rentería and Roch of the Anna cast, working again in Cuba proved easy yet profound and joyous.
"All the actors are from the same school. We share the same form of artistic language. We're all Cuban. ... I owe Nilo for this trip to Cuba," says Roch, who plays the matriarch Ofelia.
"Going back was like encountering someone who was already waiting for me. Or someone I was wanting so much to see," says Rentería, who portrays the restless Conchita.
Both actresses were gratified by the hunger Havana audiences had to see Anna. At several performances, several hundred would-be theatergoers waited outside, trying to figure out a way to get into the sold-out theater. And at one show, the crowd simply wouldn't let a technical problem halt the play.
"One night in the middle of the piece, the lights went out for 15 minutes. There were over 300 people there, and no one moved or spoke. They held up their cellphones to light the stage, and we kept going," Roch says.
In creating the new Anna, Chávez says FUNDarte and Díaz decided to start from scratch, beginning with a new translation by James López, a University of Tampa professor.
"We wanted to find another way to do it and not be intoxicated by others' presentations," Chávez says.
That meant making room for Díaz's powerful visual imagination, a trait he shares with Cruz and another playwright both admire, Federico García Lorca.
"Nilo's writing has a lot in common with the plays I like to produce in Cuba. There are a lot of ways to use poetry onstage. We share the same love for Lorca. To create very strong images onstage, in that, Nilo and I are like brothers," Díaz says.
As a director, Cruz says, "I feel like my plays have to be layered. A theatricality has to be explored. The plays are full of images, but they're rarely done that way. ... The actors and director have to fill in what's not being said. They have to make unspoken moments be full."
This week and next, two Miami-born Cruz plays will be done exactly that way. And, like the writer whose prodigious imagination and distinctive voice crafted them, they will have come home.


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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. - Robert Spratt Jr. is accused of stealing more than $26,000 from a Glens Falls hospice home. Spratt worked with many local charitable organizations. News 10 spoke with one organization Wednesday to find out more about a man many say was well known in the community.
"Very shocked, I know Rob personally since I started on the board and I know he's done a lot of work throughout the community. To find this out was nothing short of a huge punch in the gut," said President of the Glens Falls Caritas, Michael Dezik.
Spratt was a board member for the local Caritas chapter in Glens Falls. The President of the non profit, which provides respite care, says Spratt was a leader in the community and an asset to the organization.
"It's something that really came out of left field, and not something that I expected. From my end of things these are very serious charges. For now we really just hope that our friend and colleague is getting the help that he needs," said Dezik.
The Board President for the House of Grace , the hospice home Spratt is alleged to have stolen from, says he too was shocked when they began to notice money was missing.
"The community here in the Glens Falls area is very generous and people donated things, or they gave us things at a reduced cost. He manipulated it so that he was getting reimbursed for full retail shall we say," said House of Grace Board President, Mark Griffin.
"He said to us that he doesn't quite remember everything about it," said Sgt. Peter Casertino of the Glens Falls Police Department.
Casertino says Spratt had been stealing money from the organization for around 9 months. The House of Grace says it hired Spratt to raise money so it could re-open its doors after having to close in January due to financial issues. It now hopes the community will once again give back and donate so it can provide to those in need of hospice care.
"We're trying to get past it and move on. We've been having this discussion and investigating all of this since June. Hopefully now we've got some closure," said Griffin.
According to Glens Falls police this is not Spratts first run in with law enforcement . Police say charges were filed last month in Queensbury and Moreau accusing Spratt if falsifying business records.
Spratt has since been arraigned and posted bail. Police say Spratt will be back in court Thursday morning.
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ACCOUNTING 501 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING Winter 2006 Instructor: Jeff Williams Office: D3223 Wm. Davidson Hall Phone: 734-763-5933 Fax: 734-936-0279 E-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com" firstname.lastname@example.com Office Hours: Before and after class and by e-mail Course Materials: SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h Required Textbook Easton, P.D., J.J. Wild, and R.F. Halsey, C.T., Financial Accounting for MBAs, Second Edition (2006), (Cambridge Business Publishers), ISBN #0-9759701-1-9. There is no coursepack for this course. During the term, I will post at CTools the following: Solutions manual (assigned chapters only) Practice quizzes and examination SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h Supplemental readings Course Content and Objectives: ACC 501 is the first in a series of financial accounting courses offered at the MBA level at the Ross School of Business. This MBA core course focuses on the nature of the financial reporting process and the basic accounting principles, conventions, and concepts underlying the extant reporting environment of GAAP-basis financial statements. ACC 564 is an intermediate financial accounting courses focusing on some of the more complex common contemporary financial reporting issues. ACC 712 is the capstone course to the sequence, concentrating on financial statement analysis and the role of financial statement information within the capital markets. Students interested in careers in finance, including investment banking, will want to complete the entire financial accounting series. Your objectives in taking ACC 501 should include: SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h Satisfying the core course requirement! SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol" \s 10 \h Enhancing your ability to read and evaluate the published financial statements of public and closely-held business enterprises as a basis for business decisions. 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There is a ?building block? effect for materials covered throughout the course, and failure to keep up with the assignments will adversely affect your exam performance and the knowledge you will take from this course to the remainder of your MBA program. Many of the Corporate Strategy, Finance, and Marketing courses rely upon your ability to read, interpret, and evaluate financial statements in the manner taught in the A501 - A712 sequence. A (tentative) class-by-class outline of the course is available at the CTools site. Many of the problems listed on the course outline will be discussed in class and should be worked prior to the assigned day. All assignments (problems and readings) are expected to be completed prior to class. Since we will likely not cover all of the assigned textbook problems in class, it is your responsibility to do these assignments in a timely fashion and to consult the published solutions or myself in case of difficulties. 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When a building project comes into conflict with a big tree,
the solution usually involves a chainsaw. But that's not the
only option. If the tree is rich in scenic, sentimental, or
historical value and the budget is sized to match, Capital Tree
Locators can probably help. The Austin, Texasbased
company specializes in transplanting mature trees and will
travel just about anywhere in the U.S. to do it.
To move the 70-foot ginkgo tree shown here, company employees
loaded a truck with equipment and supplies — including
a powerful air-operated pipe-driving machine and over a
thousand feet of high-pressure oil-rig pipe — and
drove nearly 2,000 miles to the site of a high-end residential
remodeling project in the Boston area. On arrival, the crew
painstakingly hand-dug an 18-inch-deep trench around the tree,
defining a root mat that measured about 32 feet in
Employees of Capital Tree Locators coax
a 40-inch-diameter ginkgo tree — thought to be one of
the largest in Massachusetts — toward a site elsewhere
on the property where it will be transplanted. To help the
nearly two-century-old tree adapt to its new environment, it
will be replanted at its original compass orientation and at
the same slight tilt from the vertical.
"You can't use an excavator for the initial trench, or you'll
tear the roots," says company president Shaun Welborn. Any
small-diameter feeder roots that extend beyond the trench, he
explains, are carefully severed with small bow saws. The
initial hand-dug trench was then deepened to 36 inches with an
Contrary to what many people assume, Welborn says, the root
systems of most trees lie within a very few feet of the
surface. Young trees often gain support from a deep-reaching
central taproot, but it becomes less and less important as the
tree develops a broad network of feeder roots and frequently
dies off by the time the tree reaches maturity. (If necessary,
Welborn's crews cut the taproot of a mature tree by anchoring
one end of a steel cable to the tow hook on an excavator and
threading it under the root mat before fastening the other end
to the excavator's boom. When the machine is carefully worked
back and forth, the cable quickly slices through the resistant
root like an enormous coping saw.)
The exposed root mat was wrapped in several layers of burlap
and wire mesh, and closely spaced steel pipes were driven
horizontally beneath it to create the structural "floor" that
would support the 450,000-pound weight of tree and soil.
Finally, a system of steel I-beams, hydraulic jacks, and a
powerful crane were used to ease the tree onto a flatbed
trailer for the move to its new home, 100 yards away.
That sort of expertise doesn't come cheap. The ginkgo project
cost about $100,000, and that's far from the biggest job
Capital Tree has undertaken. Welborn notes that his company
recently placed a $250,000 bid on a proposal to move a
1,500,000-pound Florida ficus tree.
That's a lot of money, but many of Capital's customers are
developers or corporations with the business sense to see leafy
shade as a profitable investment. "If you're working on a big
development," Welborn asks, "what's $200,000 in the grand
scheme of things? Big trees make a huge difference in how a
place looks and whether people want to live there."
To illustrate, he describes a recent Texas project in which
his company lined the main drive of a high-end subdivision with
18 mature trees relocated from the back of the property. "It
took weeks to get everything ready but only a couple of days to
actually move the trees," he recalls. "People who were away at
the time drove right past the end of the drive. They just
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Most people experience a cough from time to time – and then the cough goes away. However, for the thousands of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), just taking a breath can trigger a painful coughing spell. COPD is caused by smoking, or other lung irritants such as air pollution, second-hand smoke, or dust.
Learn about COPD during an informational program with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine's William Wadland, M.D., M.S., from 6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, in Munson Community Health Center Meeting Rooms A & B. Dr. Wadland will discuss COPD, its symptoms, and new ways to manage the disease.
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A man was paid $100,000 to get breast implants.
Brian Zembic is a professional gambler who has had his fair share of bad luck. He has made a name for himself by participating in elaborate bets. In the past he had agreed to live in a bathroom for a week for $14,000, and he lived in a box for a week for $25,000. However, his biggest claim to fame is when he agreed to live with breast implants for $100,000. He did what he would later call his "most stupid" bet out of desperation in 1996 after losing over $100,000 from a bad stock tip.
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A few days ago, Adam Rubin stated the Mets need for a second left-handed reliever, citing the team's use of Casey Fossum, Ken Takahashi, Jon Switzer and Pat Misch to various degrees of failure in the LOOGY role. The Mets likely agree with his assessment when you consider that trade deadline rumors centered on their quest for a left-handed reliever. Well what if I told you there was a left-handed reliever in Buffalo striking out batters at a clip of 9.76 per nine innings? I wouldn't be selling your city a monorail; I'd be telling you about the richness of Adam Bostick.
Bostick was acquired after the 2006 season with Jason Vargas (since dealt to Seattle in the J.J. Putz
theft trade) in the oft-maligned Matt Lindstrom trade. In his best effort to show that Omar Minaya got more than tomato cans for the fireballing Lindstrom, Adam returned from micro-fracture knee surgery (what up Carlos Beltran?) that ended his 2008 season prematurely to post a 3.67 FIP in 57 2/3 innings pitched in Binghamton and Buffalo. Of the 74 left-handed hitters he faced, the 6′1″ left-hander struckout 23 and walked only 5. Granted, the sample size is small, but Bostick's 2009 splits jibe with his career numbers:
2009 vs LHH: 10.02 K/9, 2.18 BB/9, 43.1% GB
Career vs. LHH: 8.71 K/9, 3.34 BB/9, 44% GB
The uptick in control is likely due to spending time in Binghamton and the 3.18 BB/9 mark from Buffalo is more in line with his true talent level. It's clear that Bostick has done a fine job handling left handers; let's take a look at his performance against right-handers.
2009 vs. RHH: 9.73 K/9, 4.14 BB/9, 36.8% GB
Career vs. RHH: 8.27 K/9, 4.52 BB/9, 40.4% GB
What's most intriguing about Mr. Bostick is his ability to handle right-handers, posting solid strikeout and groundball rates against them. Obviously, the increased number of walks is a red flag and a sign that Bostick may not be an ideal "crossover reliever", but a pitcher who can be trusted to navigate a left/right/left lineup configuration without mandating an intentional walk. Most importantly, what Adam possesses are tools to become an effective relief pitcher. Good relievers must strikeout a lot of hitters because the sample sizes in which they work are small and subject to the slings and arrows of batted ball luck. His ability to generate ground balls neutralizes home runs and mitigates his spotty control.
In a season as disappointing and injury-plagued as this one, where the Mets have used eleven different starting pitchers and thirteen unique relievers, it's a great mystery as to why Adam Bostick was not called up. Isn't he a better use of innings and resources than Elmer Dessens and his quest for a full MLB pension? Isn't he worth a look when you're playing for next season? If it's because the Mets are being cautious with his knee, kudos to them for finally having some foresight; if it's because there's 'no room on the 40-man roster' or 'the organization doesn't think he's ready', chalk it up as another Metsfail in a season full of them.
Toby Hyde feels Bostick should be added to the 40-man roster at season's end — and the Mets better — or a smart organization will nab him, leaving the Mets in position to burn a couple of million dollars on a replacement level reliever (see Beimel, Joe). Where have I heard this before?


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Excellent for Motocross. It could be very handy for trail riding, when dragging the rear brake helps to swing the rear end into tight berms. But when used with a Recluse clutch it really shines. I no longer have to dance on rear brake, shifter lever, clutch lever, footpeg, seat, etc. A typical turn is super simple. Grab both brakes, downshift whenever, both feet on frootpegs (of foot out, it does not matter), then back on the gas. I gained 3 seconds per lap on my first practice, 2 seconds on the second, and 3 more seconds on the third. All on a two minute lap MX track. Outstanding.Read All Reviews


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This is a very comfortable little cottage with wonderful sky lights which make it bright and airy. The bedroom and bathroom upstairs are spacious and immaculate. We really loved the bed! There were many little touches, too, that we appreciated, such as the huge thick towels. The living room is cozy and would be especially nice in the winter, but in the summer we spent as much time as possible on the porch, the terrace or the swing in the backyard looking onto the golf course. The location is very convenient to either walk or drive to the lake, shopping and restaurants. Can't wait to go back!
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The Oconto Blue Devils were seeking a second straight WIAA Division 3 state baseball championship on Thursday afternoon but they had to settle for second best silver, falling to Wisconsin Heights 6-0 at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. Wisconsin Heights scored a pair of runs in the first, fourth and sixth innings and got a complete game, two hitter from senior Carter Howard. Oconto finished 17-7 on the season.
In other games, Sun Prairie made it three straight titles by beating Kimberly 5-2 in the Division 1 championship game. Lake Country Lutheran defeated McDonnell Central 11-7 in 11 innings for the Division 4 title and Jefferson needed only five innings to rout Viroqua 10-0 in Division 2.


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In a David-and-Goliath-like showdown, Cress restaurant in downtown DeLand received the top spot in Zagat Survey's 2013 Orlando City Guide, which includes rankings of restaurants in the greater Orlando area.
Cress nosed out the posh Victoria & Albert's in Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa for top honors in the area, although the latter took top honors for service.
Zagat Surveys, the respected consumer-driven rater of restaurants and other attractions, awarded Cress 29 points (out of 30) for its food, 26 points for its décor and 28 points for service.
The Zagat listings show the average price for a dinner -- defined as one entrée, one drink and tip -- was $41 at Cress; a dinner at Victoria & Albert's was listed at $136 on average.
"We're elated about the ranking," said Executive Chef Hari Pulapaka a tenured math professor at Stetson University who co-owns the eatery with his wife, Jenneffer Pulapaka, a podiatrist with a practice in DeLand. "It's gratifying that enough people think we're worth trying. I'm proud of our team, and it's always a good thing to bring attention to our community."
His wife echoed the sentiment.
"It's excitement for a job well done," she said. "We're humbled when looking at the group we're in."
Zagat blogger James Mulcahy, in announcing the release of the 2013 Orlando City Guide earlier this month, said the guide "covers 360 restaurants, 75 nightspots, 152 shops, and 57 sites and attractions. The spots were reviewed and rated by 5,614 local consumers."
It's the first time Cress has been listed in the Zagat Survey.
Cress, which seats 35 diners inside and another 14 outside, prides itself on serving globally-inspired and locally-sourced food, with a menu that changes with the seasons. The menu lists eight suppliers from Central Florida from Orlando to Ocala, including Tomazin Farms in Samsula, Vo-LaSalle Farms in DeLeon Springs and Planted Earth Vegetables in DeLand, as well as many smaller local vegetable growers.
"It's important (to use local sources) because it always results in a fresher tasting dish," Chef Pulapaka said. "It's the only way I know how to do things. I wish there was more available locally, but I'll take what I can."
Zagat also ranked Cress tops for its wine menu, which Jenneffer Pulapaka oversees.
"Our wines are diverse and paired with the food," Ms. Pulapaka said. "I'm trying to make those tastes blend as much as possible. Our prices are very reasonable, compared to other restaurants out there."
Cress has been operating since late August 2008, even as the Pulapakas continue their "regular" full-time jobs as college professor and podiatrist. Chef Pulapaka grew up in Mumbai, India, where he was exposed to "bold and vibrant" food flavors of not only his home country but an array of other nations as well. He is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Orlando, which he attended while continuing to teach at Stetson.
The Pulapakas said they will use the Zagat results to keep improving.
"It will inspire us to do better and to push the envelop more," Ms. Pulapaka said. "I'm looking for more low-production vineyards that produce very good wines at a reasonable cost, like the farms who produce very good products for us."
"It's not going to change what we do, or the attention we give our customers," Chef Pulapaka said. "We're always trying to improve, and the award won't change that process."
Cress is at 103 W. Indiana Avenue in DeLand and serves dinner only Tuesday throuigh Saturday. Its website is www.cressrestaurant.com. Reservations may be made by calling 386-734-3740 or e-mailing email@example.com.
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blankJill M. Pizzotti
Jill M. Pizzotti Promoted to Associate Head Coach
Pizzotti begins her fourth season on the Blue Demon bench
DePaul's Play 4Kay Set for Feb. 12 Against Rutgers
Blue Demons and Scarlet Knights will both wear pink in support of the Kay Yow Fund
Women's Basketball Plays Santa Claus
The Blue Demons adopt a Rogers Park Family
DePaul's Play4Kay Game Set for Feb. 12
The Blue Demons and Marquette tangle on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 1:30 p.m. in Lincoln Park
DePaul Women's Basketball in France
The DePaul women's basketball team traveled to France, Aug. 11-22.
With stints as a women's basketball head coach, assistant coach, student-athlete and also in the women's basketball division at Nike, Jill Pizzotti, a Lombard, Ill. native, brings nearly two decades of experience to the Blue Demon program.
Pizzotti is in her third season with the Blue Demons and serves as the Blue Demons' recruiting coordinator, while also assisting with the day-to-day operations of the basketball office.
In 2012-13, Pizzotti helped DePaul reach its 11th consecutive NCAA Tournament with a 21-win season and put together a highly-regarded three-member recruiting class featuring combo guards Jessica January and ShaKeya Graves, as well as Vernon Hills standout Meri Bennett-Swanson. Off the court, DePaul set a program record by recording the second-highest team GPA in the country.
She has served on numerous committees during her career, including: the iHoops Advisory Committee (2010), the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors (2009), secretary of the Executive Committee of the Kay Yow Foundation (2009), Conference USA Women's Basketball Issues Committee (2002-04), District V WBCA Coach of the Year Award Committee (2001, 2002), Chair of Conference USA Women's Basketball Coaches (2001, 2004), WBCA Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award Committee Member (1999, 2000), and the St. Louis Athletic Advisory Committee (1997-2000).
Pizzotti received both her bachelors and masters degrees from Southeast Missouri State. She finished her bachelors degree in mathematics and physical education in 1989 and completed her masters in secondary education/administration supervision in 1991.
While completing her undergraduate education, Pizzotti helped Southeast Missouri State to four consecutive MIAA Conference Championships and to the Division II NCAA Tournament. Pizzotti was a two-time captain, while winning the team's Most Inspirational Player Award. She also earned SEMO's Trombetta Award, which honors the graduating senior with the highest GPA.
A graduate of Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Ill., Pizzotti was inducted into her high school's inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.


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It feels a bit like a child's game. That game where you pick between two people, rhyming the entire time.
It feels that way, doesn't it? Roberto Luongo's front-loaded contract? Nah, why bother. Marian Hossa's 12-year-contract-that-will-never-be-completed? You're fine. What about Marc Savard's deal with Boston, during which he will make 96% of his money in the first five years of a seven year contract? Not a problem.
But Ilya Kovalchuk's 17-year, $102 million behemoth, during which he makes $98.5 million over the first 11 years of the contract? Strike up the contract police.
"We want to thank Arbitrator Bloch for his prompt resolution of a complex issue," said NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly in a press release. "His ruling is consistent with the League's view of the manner in which the Collective Bargaining Agreement should deal with contracts that circumvent the Salary Cap."
Daly is absolutely right. But if Kovalchuk's contract circumvents the Salary Cap, so does Luongo's, Hossa's, Savard's, Johan Franzen's (Detroit), Chris Pronger's (Flyers), and so on.
There are a dozen players currently playing in the National Hockey League under contracts meant to circumvent the Salary Cap. So why, all of a sudden, is the league raising issue with contracts such as Ilya's?
It's not even about Ilya Kovalchuk. It's about negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement starting soon. The current CBA runs out before the 2012-13 season, and there are fears another work stoppage could be forthcoming.
Yes, that's a long two seasons away. But this reads like the opening salvo from the National Hockey League to its' Players Association. It's an Association in turmoil, after Executive Director Paul Kelly resigned last August before interim Director Ian Perry resigned two months later. They still don't have a replacement, nearly 10 months later.
The NHL is hedging its bets that the NHLPA, which released a tepid statement this afternoon proclaiming "disappointment" in Arbitrator Richard Bloch's ruling, isn't yet ready for a fight.
If it's not ready yet, it better be soon. This is just the opening salvo of what will surely be many over the next 24 months. Let the negotiations begin.


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As of now, the Brohan Museum in a changing exhibition architecture, a new presentation of the rich holdings of the Art Nouveau period to see. Be shown, for example, works of the Paris World Fair in 1900, the Arts and Crafts movement, the Wiener Werkstätte, artists and companies such as Alfons Mucha, Alfred Grenander, Henry van de Velde, Johann Loetz., Peter Behrens and Bruno Paul. The exhibition features furniture, artwork, porcelain, glass, textiles and metal.
The Art Nouveau is represented in the new presentation as a social phenomenon. Whatever one may call the movement - whether Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Secession style or Stile Liberty - it was more than just a style. Behind this was rather an attempt to develop a new, comprehensive all areas of life aesthetics. There creative answers were sought on contradictions, which were connected directly or indirectly with industrialization. Nature was not only a source of inspiration for a new ornamentation, but also a model for a better life model. Symbolism, dreamy and fairytale worlds shaped the motives and were often rather unpleasant reality of everyday life.
Over the last 30 years, this coach tour has proved the most popular and well-known of ARAU - www.arau.org's tours.
The tour helps participants to understand the place of Art nouveau in Brussels, its origins, its technical and stylistic characteristics, and the personalities of its most well-known architects.
The tour travels through several districts of the city to show participants beautiful Art nouveau facades, some of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The tour also offers the chance to visit extraordinary Art nouveau interiors, including some not normally open to the public.
Each tour includes at least two interiors from the following list, subject to availability : Victor Horta's van Eetvelde house, Winssinger house, Autrique house or Waucquez store (now the Belgian Strip Cartoon Centre), Jules Brunfaut's Hannon house, Henri Jacobs' Schaerbeek School No.1.
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The 12 credit certificate program can be completed in one year and consists of four foundational and advanced courses from the Master of Science in Project Management curriculum. These courses cover topics related to writing and communications, leadership, advanced project management practices, and project management practice assessment.
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MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Wisconsin U.S. Senate Democrat Tammy Baldwin came out Wednesday in favor of a minimum wage hike that would keep going up with inflation, without Congress voting on it again.
Appearing at a forum at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Baldwin disputed Republican claims that a higher minimum wage would be a job killer.
She admitted there were studies which had different conclusions -- but she said more money in workers' pockets would stimulate an economy that's been, "sputtering back to life since the recession."
Baldwin also spoke up for Obamacare. She defended the Affordable Care Act in spite of numerous startup problems.
Baldwin predicted that the law would be viewed more favorably in five years. She also expressed concerns that Wisconsin has not embraced the program as much as other states have.
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Starbucks drops name from iconic logo
The coffee chain will remove the outer ring around the siren image to give the brand more global appeal.
By Miriam Reimer, TheStreet
Starbucks (SBUX) unveiled a new logo Wednesday that no longer includes the company's name.
Starbucks' streamlined logo removes the outer green circle that bears the Starbucks Coffee name, enlarging the inner siren, sometimes referred to as a sea nymph, in the company's signature green hue.
In a video posted on the Starbucks Web site, CEO Howard Schultz talked about the decision to update its emblematic logo on the 40th anniversary of the company in March.
"This new evolution of the logo does two things that are very important," Schultz said. "It embraces and respects our heritage and at the same time evolves us to a point where we feel it's more suitable to the future."
The CEO pointed out that the original Starbucks logo was brown, but was changed to green in 1987. It has gone through two other small changes since then. But now "the world has changed and Starbucks has changed," he said.
"We've allowed her to come out of the circle in a way that I think gives us the freedom and flexibility to think beyond coffee," he said. "But make no mistake. We have been, we will continue to be, and we always will be the world's leading purveyor of the highest-quality coffee."
Starbucks said its brand is so ubiquitous it no longer needs to display its name around the logo in order for customers to recognize it. A logo without words also reflects Starbucks' expansion plans in China and other international markets.
The new logo is expected to be rolled out in stores in March.
Investors seemed unfazed by the news. Shortly before the market close, Starbucks shares edged 0.6% lower to $32.30 on Wednesday amid light trading.
Not all corporate redesigns have come about so smoothly.
Just a week after a clandestine unveiling of a new logo on its Web site, Gap (GPS) announced in October it was backing off its new design.
"Ultimately, we've learned just how much energy there is around our brand. All roads were leading us back to the blue box, so we've made the decision not to use the new logo on gap.com any further," said Marka Hansen, the president of Gap Brand North America, in a statement posted on the company's Web site.
Within a day, the design community had pounced, with vitriol and mockery exploding on blogs and on Twitter. As Bobby Solomon on art and design blog Kitesunenoir.com put it, "This is some shabby work. . . . There was a lot of brand equity in that big blue square and they didn't move far away enough from the source for this logo to even begin to feel new or exciting."
Then, with the backlash building, Gap bactracked. The company took to its Facebook page and Twitter and declared that it was "thrilled to see passionate debates (about the logo) unfolding! . . . So much so, we're asking you to share your designs. We love our version, but we'd like to see other ideas."
PepsiCo (PEP) had a similar blunder when it redesigned the packaging of its Tropicana Pure Premium orange-juice cartons. The lackluster redesign elicited private-label or generic supermarket-brand juice containers, not the iconic and well-loved Tropicana most consumers knew.
In February 2009, Pepsi executives admitted defeat and said they would bring back the look consumers really wanted -- the classic orange with a red-and-white-striped straw poking out.
Pepsi's SunChips brand even had to abandon its progressive, fully compostable bag, released last year, because consumers complained the bags were too noisy.
Clorox (CLX) unveiled its new logo in 2010 in what it called "the most dramatic change in its visual identity since 1957."
"Using an updated version of the company's iconic diamond mark, a brighter blue color and new accents of green, the logo better reflects the corporate brand today as it heads toward its centennial anniversary in 2013," the company said in a statement.
Customers didn't care too much. The bleach maker blamed sluggish demand when it said it would earn less than analysts had forecast in its fiscal second quarter.
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As a retired member of the Board of Directors of a company, I will ask the same question that I used to drive our sales and marketing people nuts: This is going to cost a lot of money so show me how much more profit I will make and how soon will I have the return on the investment?
Changing the name or logo of a company usually signifies desperate senior management who are failing and grasping at straws to make themselves look good.
Business is all about PROFIT and this change will NOT increase profit.
In the original logo the Sea Nymph had BREASTS. The moment Starbucks cowered to the pressure of the PC Police and gave her a Mastectomy, the entire company lost its Testicles.
And as we all know, men who lack Testicles, combined with women who lack Breasts, can neither create nor foster Children.
Starbucks is history, and deservedly so.
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Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi Unveils Tracklisting for 'WZRD' Album
Kid Cudi Shows Off Pink Floyd Tattoo, Performs In Australia
Kid Cudi takes his fandom for Pink Floyd to the next level with his latest artwork. The 'Day 'n' Nite' artist unveiled his new tattoo of "Pink" on his right hand in honor of the '60s rock band that achieved worldwide acclaim with their progressive rock music.
Kanye West + Kid Cudi, Pharrell Tops Complex's Stylish Celebrities List
When it comes to style, no one is more dapper than Kanye West, according to Complex's list of the 25 Most Stylish Celebrities. The 'Watch the Throne' artist topped the magazine's list along with other fashionable music artists like Kid Cudi and Pharrell Williams.
Kid Cudi 'Broke Down' After Learning of Fan's Death
Kid Cudi has released an emotional statement following the death of Ben Breedlove, a young fan whose struggle with a congenital heart condition ended with his death on Christmas Day.
Steve Aoki, 'Cudi the Kid' Feat. Kid Cudi and Travis Barker – Song Review
'The Voice' Alum Dia Frampton Teams Up with Kid Cudi in Lyric Video, Foster the People on Debut Album
'The Voice' runner up Dia Frampton is teaming up with someone other than big sis Meg on her solo debut -- a few someones, in fact! Coach Blake Shelton's favorite opening act has some surprising guests on her upcoming album.
Kid Cudi, 'Brake' – Song Review
Reclusive artist Kid Cudi recently unveiled his new song 'Brake' that he co-produced with Dot da Genius for their group W Z R D. The tune is a far cry from his popular rap tracks like 'Day 'n' Nite and 'Make Her Say.' Cudi plays the guitar while Dot Da Genius provides the beat on this rock-infused song.
Kid Cudi Goes On a Killing Spree in 'Maniac' Short Film
Kid Cudi stars in a new video for 'Maniac' that is not only grisly but maybe tough to watch for people with a weak stomach. The 10-minute black-and-white short film stars Cudi and fellow rapper Cage as French serial killers named Mr. Rager and Mr. Palko, respectively, who get their thrills by killing random people. Yep, this is not your average rap video.