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Lakewood falls to Sultan at home
One week after a euphoric Homecoming victory over Coupeville, the Cougars lost some players to injury and illness and fell to the visiting Sultan Turks 57-20 in a Cascade Conference loss Friday, Oct. 27.
First-year coach Dan Teeter said his squad was fired up after their first victory of the season, but suffered key injuries leading up to and during the Sultan game.
Seniors Kelvin Mansfield (knee), Dallas Smith (leg) and junior Jarrod Alexander (elbow) had to watch from the sidelines and senior Danny Borisov left the game in the first half with a shoulder injury.
With our lack of experience and depth it (injuries) takes a toll on our guys, Teeter said.
The loss dropped Lakewood to a 1-6 record in league play and 1-8 overall. Sultan improved to 4-3, 6-3.
Junior quarterback Jay Wettlaufer scored the first touchdown for the Cougars on a 22-yard sneak in the second quarter.
He found a seam and hit it pretty quick on the quarterback sneak, Teeter said.
Junior Marcus Harkins converted on the extra point.
Even though Lakewood trailed 36-7 at halftime they were able to rally for 13 points in the third quarter.
Junior running back Ernest Mitchell dazzled the crowd in the third quarter with an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown after a Sultan TD.
Teeter praised the exciting upperclassmen.
Hes a spark that ignites the offense in a hurry, he said.
Wettlaufer connected with senior wide receiver Shane Holland on a 22-yard pass play in the third quarter.
The kids are beginning to become more comfortable, Teeter said. They are getting more confident. Jay had one of his better games and offensively we were able to move the ball pretty well.
The Cougars will finish out their season with a league crossover game against Sehome of Bellingham Friday, Nov. 3.
Teeter said fans should be in for a wild ride as Sehome is one of the highest scoring teams in the region, but they also allow a high number of points.
At Lakewood H.S.
Sultan 14 22 15 6 57
Lakewood 0 7 13 0 20
Records Sultan 4-3 in league 6-3 overall, Lakewood 1-6 in league, 1-8 overall
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This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: #http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of _the_WP15.xls#.
Cramp, S.; Perrins, C. M. 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
SACC. 2006. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: #http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html#.
Brazil, M. 2009. Birds of East Asia: eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, eastern Russia. Christopher Helm, London.
Butler, C. J. 2003. The disproportionate effect of global warming on the arrival dates of short-distance migratory birds in North America. Ibis 145: 484-495.
Croxton, P. J.; Sparks, T. H.; Cade, M.; Loxton, R. G. 2006. Trends and temperature effects in the arrival of spring migrants in Portland (United Kingdom) 1959-2005. Acta Ornithologica 41: 103-111.
Jenni, L.; Kery, M. 2003. Timing of autumn bird migration under climate change: advances in long-distance migrants, delays in short-distance migrants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 270(1523): 1467-1471.
Mason, C .F. 1995. Long-term trends in the arrival dates of spring migrants. Bird Study 42: 182-189.
Rich, T.D.; Beardmore, C.J.; Berlanga, H.; Blancher, P.J.; Bradstreet, M.S.W.; Butcher, G.S.; Demarest, D.W.; Dunn, E.H.; Hunter, W.C.; Inigo-Elias, E.E.; Martell, A.M.; Panjabi, A.O.; Pashley, D.N.; Rosenberg, K.V.; Rustay, C.M.; Wendt, J.S.; Will, T.C.
Sparks, T. H.; Huber, K.; Bland, R. L.; Crick, H. Q. P.; Croxton, P. J.; Flood, J.; Loxton, R. G.; Mason, C. F.; Newnham, J.A.; Tryjanowski, P. 2007. How consistent are trends in arrival (and departure) dates of migrant birds in the UK? Journal of Ornithology 148: 503-511.
Vahatalo, A. V.; Rainio, K.; Lehikoinen, A.; Lehikoinen, E. 2004. Spring arrival of birds depends on the North Atlantic Oscillation. Journal of Avian Biology 35: 210-216.
Further web sources of information
Detailed species account from Birds in Europe: population estimates trends and conservation status (BirdLife International 2004)
Detailed species account from Birds in Europe: population estimates, trends and conservation status (BirdLife International 2004)
Explore HBW Alive for further information on this species
Search for photos and videos, and hear sounds of this species from the Internet Bird Collection
Text account compilers
Ekstrom, J., Butchart, S.
IUCN Red List evaluators
Butchart, S., Symes, A.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2016) Species factsheet: Riparia riparia. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 28/10/2016. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2016) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 28/10/2016.
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.
To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife
To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums.
Additional resources for this species
|Key facts
|Current IUCN Red List category
|Least Concern
|Hirundinidae (Swallows and martins)
|Species name author
|(Linnaeus, 1758)
|Population size
|mature individuals
|Population trend
|Distribution size (breeding/resident)
|28,900,000 km2
|Country endemic?
|Links to further information
- Additional Information on this species
- 2015 European Red List assessment


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Resume highlights: Holyoke Civic Symphony Concerto Competition, first place, Ithaca College School of Music piano competition, Massachusetts Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra, American Guild of Music age championship
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James Stewart took an exciting win over Ricky Carmichael in front of 44,953 fans at the second round of the 2006-2007 Amp'd Mobile AMA Supercross Series held at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, tonight, while Chad Reed rode a consistent race to finish third on his San Manuel Yamaha.
It took two starts to get the Supercross final event underway as a crash by Xyience MDK/Honda's David Vuillemin brought out the red flag on the third lap of the first attempt. At the time, Stewart was pulling away from the 21-rider field on his factory Kawasaki, while Carmichael was carving his way through traffic after a poor start.
Vuillemin, who came up short over a triple jump in the rhythm section, would eventually walk off the track under his own power, but was being checked by the medical staff as the main event restarted. According to Xyience MDK/Honda team manager Steve Lamson, Vuillemin suffered a possible spleen injury.
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"I gave it 100% tonight, but James beat me," said Carmichael. "I looked up in the stands and everyone was standing when James and I were battling. After he passed me, I wanted to put in a surge at the end of the race but didn't have it. Phoenix is a very special place for me, and I had a blast here tonight."
Reed ran most of the race in third place, after fending off an early charge by Windham, riding the SoBe NoFear/Samsung Mobile-backed Honda, and a late charge by Windham's teammate Travis Preston. Reed went on to take the final spot on the podium, and by doing so maintains third overall in the series standings.
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Research Topics
Maida P Galvez
Affiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Associations between neighborhood resources and physical activity in inner-city minority childrenMaida P Galvez
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10023, USA
Acad Pediatr 13:20-6. 2013..We describe how availability of physical activity resources varies by individual and block characteristics and then examine its associations with physical activity levels of Latino and black children in East Harlem, New York City...
- Effective risk communication in children's environmental health: lessons learned from 9/11Maida P Galvez
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 54:33-46, viii. 2007..This article describes the theory behind effective risk communication using examples from events following September 11, 2001. It shares lessons learned and provides a template for risk communication that can guide pediatric providers...
- Race and food store availability in an inner-city neighbourhoodMaida P Galvez
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Public Health Nutr 11:624-31. 2008..Less is known about whether differences in availability of resources by African American or Latino race/ethnicity exist within a single minority community...
- Childhood obesity and neighborhood food-store availability in an inner-city communityMaida P Galvez
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Acad Pediatr 9:339-43. 2009....
- Childhood obesity and the built environmentMaida P Galvez
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 22:202-7. 2010..Whereas studies on the impacts of neighborhood factors on adult obesity are relatively common, studies examining these same factors on childhood obesity are far fewer...
- Dietary and physical activity behaviors of New York City children from different ethnic minority subgroupsNita Vangeepuram
Department of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:481-8. 2012..To examine racial/ethnic differences in diet and physical activity behaviors in ethnic minority New York City children...
- Asthma and physical activity in multiracial girls from three US sitesNita Vangeepuram
Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
J Asthma 51:193-9. 2014..Our objective was to investigate the association between asthma diagnosis and physical activity and to examine differences in these associations by race/ethnicity, weight status and caregiver education...
- Temporal variability in urinary concentrations of perchlorate, nitrate, thiocyanate and iodide among childrenNancy Mervish
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 22:212-8. 2012..Surrogate analysis show that single-spot urine samples reliably categorize participant's exposure providing support for the use of a single sample as an exposure measure in epidemiological studies that use relative ranking of exposure...
- Dietary flavonol intake is associated with age of puberty in a longitudinal cohort of girlsNancy A Mervish
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Nutr Res 33:534-42. 2013..13). Consistent with biologic properties of phytoestrogens that indicate hormonal activity, their consumption may be associated with reproductive end points, even in childhood. ..
- Associations between phthalate metabolite urinary concentrations and body size measures in New York City childrenSusan L Teitelbaum
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, NY 10029, USA
Environ Res 112:186-93. 2012..To examine prospectively associations between urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and body size measures in children...
- Measures of obesity associated with asthma diagnosis in ethnic minority childrenNita Vangeepuram
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Obes 2011:517417. 2011..63 (95% CI 1.12-2.39), 1.50 (95% CI 1.02-2.21), and 1.56 (95% CI 1.04-2.34), resp.). Conclusions. This study found a significant association between increased body size and asthma diagnosis, regardless of the measurement examined...
- Environmental justice and the health of childrenPhilip J Landrigan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
Mt Sinai J Med 77:178-87. 2010..Documentation of linkages between health disparities and environmental injustice is an important step toward achieving environmental justice...
- Obesity in the 21st centuryMaida P Galvez
Environ Health Perspect 111:A684-5. 2003


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It's a milestone year for Society of the Arts (SOTA) as the organization celebrates 50 years of service to the Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley. Founded in 1964, the service-oriented volunteer women's group has contributed more than $1,100,000 to support the museum through its fundraising efforts. From helping curators, conducting tours and visiting schools as docents, assisting with mailings and events, and even working in the gift shop, SOTA members literally pool thousands of volunteer hours each year at the museum. One of its major fundraisers held every other year is the SOTA Show House, which this year will be held April 26 through May 18 in Historic Bethlehem.
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This will be Mickenberg's first Show House experience with the Allentown Art Museum since coming on board last November. He succeeds Brooks Joyner, who stepped down last February after successfully opening the museum's new building expansion. Mickenberg, a Brooklyn native, was CEO of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va., and previously was director of the university art museums at Wellesley (Mass.) College and Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
For further info/tickets: sotapa.org
Australia's Hannah Bertram is artist-in-residence through Feb. 6, at Kutztown University's Miller Gallery, working with students and community members in creating a large-scale, site-specific art installation. The installation exhibition will be on view Feb. 6 through March 14.
Bertram will be creating a large-scale decorative ephemeral work made from the dust of Kutztown and Australia. In describing her work, she utilizes "the complex idea of 'ornament,' or something that simultaneously adds value and is functionally unnecessary – to transform banal materials into extremely detailed temporary installations."
Students, faculty and community members are assisting in shifts on a daily basis during the installation.
For further info: kutztown.edu/acad/artgallery
The exhibition, "Local Mill Makes Good: Celebrating 75 Years of American Theater at the Bucks County Playhouse," is running through March 2, at the James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown. It's a who's who of American stage and screen in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Included are Robert Redford, Grace Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Helen Hayes, Walter Matthau, Angela Lansbury and Shirley Booth, plus playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. All, plus more, have graced the stage of the Bucks County Playhouse.
The exhibit traces the roots of the historic New Hope landmark venue and its impact on American theater, as well as the regional economy and cultural life.
For further info: michenermuseum.org
International Steinway pianist Jeffrey Biegel will perform at the inaugural Betty Aierstock Moore Memorial Concert in honor of Moravian College's attainment of "All-Steinway School" status on Friday at 7:30 p.m., at the college's Foy Hall in Bethlehem. The program will include music selections by Beethoven, Bach, Paderewski and Strauss Jr. The concert is presented in partnership with Jacobs Music of Philadelphia. A reception will follow.
It was a personal connection between Moravian College artist-lecturer in composition Sean O'Boyle and recording artist, composer and arranger Biegel that was instrumental in bringing the pianist to Bethlehem.
Recently, Biegel has performed two world premieres with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and a global webcast with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He performed the premiere of his adaptation of pop legend Neil Sedaka's "Manhattan Intermezzo" for piano and orchestra with Orchestra Kentucky. He also arranged the piano part for Billy Joel's "Symphonic Fantasies" in 2006, with performances at national music festivals.
For further info: 610-861-1650
Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra presents its "Winter Vivaldi" concert on Sunday at 3 p.m., at Wesley Church, 2540 Center St., Bethlehem. The program is for chamber ensemble and features principal instrumentalists of the Sinfonia rather than full orchestra. The repertoire includes works by Bach, Telemann, Neruda and Gallo.
Father Sean Brett Duggan, pianist, once more joins Sinfonia musicians, including violinist Mary Ogletree and flutist Robin Kani. Duggan is a monk at Saint Joseph Abbey in Louisiana, with extensive formal training and recital experience. He has been a regular with the Sinfonia since 2000. Trumpeter Lawrence Wright also will be performing.
For further info: PASinfonia.org
Forks Township's Nina Attinello, 17, a junior at Easton Area High School, was voted best actress in a [lay, as announced on the 2013 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia website on Jan. 9. She captured regional attention in the role of Wendla in Civic Theatre of Allentown's 2013 fall production of "Spring Awakening."
Tony-nominated actress Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway "Annie," won for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in "Mame" at the Media Theatre/Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope. Attinello, who made her Civic debut, also was nominated in the category.
An email from Broadwayworld.com explained the voting process: "Nominations are open to the public in the month of October, and that list is then checked and whittled down by our local editors, and then voting is open to the public in November/December."
Other nominees from "Spring Awakening:" Michael Barthel as Melchior (best actor in a musical); Alexander Michaels as Moritz (best actor in a musical); Morgan Reilly as Ilse (best supporting actress in a musical), and John Schaffer as Otto (best supporting actor in a musical). Also, Civic Artistic director, William Sanders, for best director of a musical, and the production for best ensemble/musical, best musical, and best theater company.
Sanders called Attinello's performance "fantastic," and of the cast, "it was solid, amazing, involved, connected work by all involved, doing very difficult emotional material. I was thrilled to have had the opportunity to bring this piece to Allentown."
Nina is the daughter of Jimmy and Kathy Attinello, and sister of Andrea, 16, an Easton Area High School varsity cheerleader. She studied at Pennsylvania Youth Theatre in Bethlehem and with dance instructor Lynn Mariani. She also performs with Country Gate Players in Belvidere, N.J. She is captain of the debate team, a writer for The Junto school paper, and a member of the National Junior Honor Society. She hopes to pursue a double major in theater and pre-med for a career as a pediatric oncologist.
She won a 2012 Freddy Award for outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of Lola in the school musical production of "Damn Yankees." She is portraying Marguerite in "The Secret Pimpernel" scheduled for March.
McArdle can be seen in an evening of song and dance in "4 Girls 4" with Leslie Uggams, Maureen McGovern and Donna McKechnie on April 4, at the State Theatre.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Rusty Hickman, born four months early at 22 weeks, weighed just 1 pound and 1 ounce. Doctors put his chance of survival at less than 10 percent.
His lungs were underdeveloped, his skin was translucent and his eyelids were still fused shut. He measured less than a foot long.
After delivery by Cesarean section, he couldn't be held again by human hands for 57 days.
Severe brain bleeds and excessive time spent on a ventilator left his doctors convinced he would be blind and experience profound disabilities.
"Our fear was he was going to die and we were never going to have touched him," said his mother, Lisa Hickman. She and her husband, David, prayed for their tiny boy, enlisting family and friends and strangers to do the same.
Those tense times at the University of South Alabama Children's & Women's Hospital all seem far away now.
Today, 9-year-old Rusty is finishing up third-grade at St. Dominic Catholic School in Mobile where he reads at a seventh-grade level, his mother said.
He not only isn't blind, he doesn't wear glasses.
Rusty enjoys playing basketball with his sisters Riley, 12, and Regan, 8, and fishing with his grandfather John Maderia.
"We know he is a miracle," said his father, David. "What he has overcome is amazing."
His family is making plans to attend a Sunday reunion for the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Events will be held in a sculpture park on the hospital campus.
Every year, the NICU cares for nearly 1,000 babies born premature, underweight or ill.
The Hickmans said they will always be grateful for the doctors and nurses who helped their son thrive. They have attended every NICU reunion since Rusty's birth and also visit the nurses they came to know as friends.
In the first months after Rusty's birth on April 17, 2003, the Hickmans were summoned several times to the hospital when his condition slipped from critical into a crisis.
At one point, his weight sank below 10 ounces. "Then he would just rally again," his mother said.
Nine years ago, on the day after Mother's Day, Lisa Hickman got a call from a nurse who'd been caring for Rusty. She rushed to the hospital, quickly pulling on a yellow gown. Then, she reached out to cradle him for the first time
A photograph of that moment is tucked between the pages of a small album that the Hickmans made to remember Rusty's early days. The same book shows him about three months later sitting up in a car seat on Aug. 7, the day doctors let him go home.
"We left the hospital thinking our lives had changed forever," Lisa Hickman said.
As the family settled into a new routine, they made appointments with specialists, such as a pediatrician who cared for children with developmental delays. Lisa vividly remembers meeting a doctor who looked at her and said, "Are you sure he wasn't a full term baby?"
As weeks became months, Rusty achieved some milestones a little later than his older sister, but never required the services of speech, occupational or physical therapists.
Last Friday, the Hickman family made its way to the elevators at Children's & Women's with plans to see some staff members on duty. Sometimes, Lisa explained, a nurse will call and ask her to speak with another mother anxious about a baby in the NICU.
Lisa Hickman believes that Rusty's story is being written by a larger hand: "There's got to be something amazing that he's got to do."


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One Filter
July 25, 2008 - Dave Hecei
Digital photography has definitely changed the way we take pictures. Not only do we have the freedom to experiment with shots, because we no longer have to pay for expensive film and processing, but working with digital images on the computer allows for even more creativity. With film, you had to carry lots of filters for your lenses to correct color or do special effects. This is all done in the computer now. Except for one thing.
The polarizing filter performs a very special task that, as of yet, cannot be duplicated in the computer. Digital SLRs have adjustable white balances, so color correction filters are no longer needed. Photoshop has the ability to adjust the brightness levels in a scene, so graduated filters are no longer needed. Polarizing filters are used to remove glare off of water or reflections on glass. They can also deepen the blue of the sky and whiten the clouds. Polarizers can also help cut through haze on a muggy day. Photoshop cannot do this.
So the one filter that everyone still needs is the mighty Polarizer. If you've never used a filter before, which may be the case if you are new to DSLRs, a filter fits on the end of your lens. There are small threads on every lens so you need to know what size your lens takes, usually it will say on the lens or you can look in the lens manual. Common filter sizes are 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 67, 72, and 77mm. Another place to look is the inside of the snap on lens cap, most have the filter size written there.
For digital cameras you do need a special type of polarizer. Older manual focus film cameras can use a standard polarizer, or what is now called a linear polarizer. Linear filters do not work with autofocus film or digital SLRs. Autofocus SLRs need to split the light coming through the lens, most of it going to the viewfinder but part of it going to the auto-focus sensor. This light going to the sensor becomes polarized. If you use a linear polarizer, the light going to the auto focus sensor can get cancelled out and the camera won't be able to focus.
Digital SLRs need to use a special type of polarizer called the Circular Polarizer. Of course this is a little bit more expensive than a standard polarizer, but since the popularity of DSLRs is very high, prices have come down quite a bit. Prices will vary with the size of the filter. Try not to buy the cheapest filter you can find. A cheap filter can make your expensive SLR lens…well look cheap. There are a couple companies that specialize in filters. Hoya, Tiffen, and B&W are the big ones.
Polarizing filters are variable. When you attach the filter to you lens you will note that the filter rotates in its frame. With the filter attached, look through the viewfinder and rotate the filter slowly. As you slowly rotate the filter you should see the scene change ever so slightly. Polarizers work best outdoors, but inside it will help reduce reflections in windows or on other glass surfaces (will not work with mirrors). If you are shooting outside on a partly cloudy day, you should see the clouds become brighter and the sky should darken. As you rotate it more, the effect should lessen.
Another time I like to use a polarizer is when shooting foliage. This can be either the deep green meadow or sparse forest area, or in the autumn shooting the fall leaves. Using a polarizing filter will remove the glare that you don't notice but robs the scene of saturated color.
Because of its special abilities, a polarizer is the one filter that all DSLRs should have.
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The unprecedented realignment of plastics assets in North America continued yesterday as Dow Chemical announced the creation of a new business group called Dow Portfolio Optimization. Each product assigned to the group has been earmarked for strategic evaluation, indicating a possible divestiture. All product lines in the group are plastics or polymers, including the engineering plastic polycarbonate.
Within any organization, systematic portfolio management is fundamental to a companys evolution and sits right at the heart of long-term shareholder value creation, says Dow CEO Andrew N. Liveris. Our newly created portfolio brings this highly important activity squarely into the spotlight, ensuring we drive it forward with discipline, with diligence and with due speed.
George Biltz, who currently heads the companys Specialty Plastics and Elastomers portfolio, has been appointed business group president of the new portfolio, which includes Saran Films, synthetic rubber, polycarbonate, compounds and blends and specialty polymers. More product lines may be added later.
Dow and Chevron Phillips earlier spun their polystyrene businesses into a joint venture called Americas Styrenics. The biggest move was GEs sale of its engineering plastics business to Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp. The volatility of plastics prices coupled with high oil prices have made many plastics operations unwanted baggage for many publicly held companies.


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Payton drafted 39 years ago today
January 28, 2014 - Terri Castelaz
It was 39 years ago today (Jan. 28), Walter "Sweetness" Payton was drafted into the NFL. He was chosen by the Bears as the fourth overall pick in the 1975 draft.
Payton played at Jackson State University. He was a two-time first-team All-American, who set the NCAA scoring record with 464 points, established nine school records and received votes for the Heisman Trophy.
Sweetness knew he would enjoy a successful career with the Bears. "When I get through with Chicago, they'll be loving me," Payton said the day he was drafted. A running back was a big need for the Bears that year. Bears owner George Halas said after drafting Payton, "We certainly did one thing. We helped our needs. I'm so enthused with the whole thing. I think it's the finest Bear draft in 10 years."
And a very successful career it was — Payton rushed for 16,726 yards during his 13-year career with the Bears. And help the team to a Super Bowl victory in 1985. He once held the league's record for most career rushing yards, touchdowns, carries, yards from scrimmage, all-purpose yards, and many other categories. He was also selected nine times to the Pro Bowl.
He retired in 1987, only missing one game in his rookie year. Payton was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
Many describe Walter Payton as the greatest football player they have ever seen (including me)—but even greater as a human being. Payton passed away on Nov. 1, 1999 at the young age of 45.
I became a Chicago Bear fan at a young age watching Sweetness play. As many know I am still a die hard Bears fan, even named my middle daughter, Payton after this talented athlete.
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After Katrina and the levee breaches, New Orleans' failing school system was broken up. The Orleans Parish School Board kept the small number of schools that were thriving, and the state-run Recovery School District took over the rest.
Now, seven years into the transformation, charter high schools in the Recovery School District posted a better average ACT score for the Class of 2012 than the high schools the Orleans Parish School Board runs directly. Students at the RSD charters had an average composite score of 17.9 compared with 17.3 for the School Board's direct-run schools, according to a new report by the Cowen Institute.
The RSD charter school scores went up significantly from the Class of 2011's composite average of 15.8 points, according to the report. The average composite score for schools run by OPSB went down slightly.
Given that the ACT is a 36-point test, the 2.1 point increase year-to-year by RSD charters is significant. Their performance also is notable because they have risen from what were the city's most-troubled schools before Katrina. Since RSD took over the vast majority of city schools in late 2005, it has been working to find charter operators to take on more of them. High schools have been the most difficult piece of that puzzle.
These results reinforce the success of charter schools generally in New Orleans post-Katrina. And they give credence to the RSD's approach of switching more direct-run high schools to charters. The difference in academic growth between direct-run and charter schools is dramatic in both the RSD and OPSB systems.
The best ACT scores by far among the city's public schools are found at Benjamin Franklin and Lusher, both of which are selective-admission charter high schools under OPSB. Their average composite scores are 27.1 and 24.1 respectively. But O. Perry Walker and Sci Academy, which are open-enrollment RSD charters, had the next-highest composite scores at 19.4 and 19.2.
O. Perry Walker showed the most improvement class to class, increasing by 1.6 points, according to the Cowen study. Interestingly, the school's scores have gone up since the school made the college admissions test mandatory. That will happen at all schools in 2013, when the ACT will be factored into schools' state performance scores. The expectation is that scores will go down as more students take the exam, but Walker's experience shows that doesn't have to be the case.
Sci Academy is another success story. The school opened in August 2008 in eastern New Orleans with a class of 80 ninth-graders. By May 2009, the school was No. 1 in English and No. 2 in math in the Recovery School District. In June 2012, more than 95 percent of the school's first graduating class were accepted to four-year colleges, according to Sci Academy's website.
These schools are an example of what every school in the city can achieve with the right leadership.
The ACT results weren't all positive, though, according to the Cowen study. Many schools had scores that "lag considerably behind the state and national averages." And only 38 percent of all students scored high enough on the college admissions test to qualify for a TOPS award from the state. Again, the charter schools as a group performed better than the schools directly run by OPSB or RSD. But the RSD's direct-run schools had the worst results, with only 11.3 percent of students qualifying for TOPS at either a four-year or two-year school.
There also was a huge gap between the worst composite score of 13.5 at ReNEW Accelerated High School-City Park and Ben Franklin's 27.1. Still, academic performance across public schools in New Orleans is significantly better than it was when the OPSB ran all schools pre-Katrina.
In test results reported in July, the Recovery School District had an increased percentage of students scoring good or excellent in all four categories of the state's end-of-course exams. Scores for students who attend schools under the Orleans Parish School Board saw improved scores in three categories.
The differences between low-performing schools and high-performing schools remained stark, however. For example, no students scored excellent or good in Algebra I at John McDonogh High School. By contrast, 75 percent at Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School scored good or excellent on the Algebra I exam.
Addressing those disparities remains an urgent challenge. But state Superintendent John White is right to see the end-of-course scores as "tangible proof that the state's education reforms are working.'' The improving ACT scores for RSD charters are proof as well.
There still is a great deal of work to be done to make all of the city's high schools high-performing -- which must be our goal. Every student should leave high school well prepared for college or for work. That isn't the case yet in New Orleans. But the city's schools are much closer to it than they were just a few years ago.


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30 Days of Twilight: Day 20 - Favorite Magazine Cover
What is your favorite magazine cover with a Twilight star (or stars) on it?
Any magazine, any Twilight star.
The December 2009 cover of Harper's Bazaar won best magazine cover by several groups. It's stunning!
The April 2009 GQ about killed me when it came out. I was blogging for another Twilight site and got an email from someone at GQ with some of the photos from the shoot. *Thud* I. was. dead.
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There are too many to choose from, however I have to say that my fave is from BD 2... The EW 'Wild Child" issue with Bella, Edward, Renesmee and Jacob on the cover.
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2009 Harpers Bazaar wins hands down ! The photo shoot was so sexy I think this is why people think Rob and Kristen belong together in real life. I know their actors but the two of them take great pictures together. I just went thru my dozens of old mags and I have two of these...think my daughter bought it for me :) way back then....


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5 Techniques You Can Use To Relieve The Stress In Your Life
It's extremely important for your health that you learn how to manage stress or overcome stressful situations. After all, not overcoming the stress can ensure that you suffer with the above health conditions. With some helpful techniques, however, you can start living your life again – something everybody should want to do.
1 – Take A Deep Breath
You might be surprised by how much stress you can release with a deep breath. The best thing you can do for yourself is to take about 10 to 15 minutes of time to yourself, blocking out all noise. Concentrate on just your breathing, going slow and thinking about nothing else.
2 – Exercise
Would you believe that exercising can do you a world of good? Take time out to go swimming or join an aerobics class. If you have a gym membership, have a workout there. Exercising will relieve your stress and make you feel better overall.
3 – Relax In A Warm Bath
Another way to combat stressful feelings is to soak in warm water. Do you remember the commercial for Calgon? In it, women would say, "Calgon, take me away!" Well, that's pretty much what you're doing with warm bath water. You're allowing it to bring your body peace and serenity. Consider adding in essential oils to further the bathtub experience.
4 – Garden
If you've got a green thumb (and even if you don't), gardening can help you to relieve stress. After all, the soil has several nutrients in it, which the human skin can soak up. Gardening allows you to put your stress to good use by growing beautiful flowers or some wonderfully tasty vegetables and fruit.
5 – Get Plenty Of Sleep
Your body needs to rest to release the stress. You want to get enough sleep to release that stress; but, if you're spending most of your overnight hours tossing and turning, you're not getting the sleep you need to feel relaxed in the morning. If you're unable to get eight good hours of sleep, four to five hours of good sleep will do you just as good.
While stress can be good for you when handled correctly, stress can also work against you. If you're unable to cope with stressful situations and none of the above has helped you to get a grip on it, it's best to talk with a therapist to get to the root of the problem. The therapist may suggest prescription medications along with talk therapy to help you move past what is bugging you.


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ANN ARBOR -- Through 10 games, the Michigan basketball team is perfect.
It's the third time in program history that the Wolverines have started a season 10-0, and the first time since 1989 -- putting 2012-13 squad in relatively rare air early on.
For coach John Beilein, though, it's not uncharted waters.
In 2004-05, Beilein's West Virginia squad started the year 10-0, scoring eight of those wins by 10 points or more.
But in the team's 11th game, the fairy tale came crashing down -- as the Mountaineers were crushed on the road at Villanova by 38 points.
"The one thing that stands out that I did think about was that we had a West Virginia team that started out 10-0, wins at North Carolina State and LSU," Beilein recalled Tuesday night after Michigan's 67-39 win over Binghamton. "Then we got thumped, badly, and went into, all of a sudden, shock."
And that shock lasted a while.
The Mountaineers followed their 10-0 start with six losses in their next seven games, suddenly finding themselves back at the drawing board trying to figure out what went wrong.
"You've got to be careful when you get off to a start like this," Beilein said. "Because, when you do lose, some guys will overreact to it.
"You're going to lose."
Beilein was eventually able to right the ship that season, and in a big way, as West Virginia finished strong and played itself into the Elite Eight -- coming just a handful of possessions away from a Final Four.
That team learned a lesson in how to handle adversity when it comes along. And so did Beilein.
So far this season, the Wolverines haven't had any adversity. They've won every game. But Beilein -- and the rest of the club -- knows everything will get tougher as the year drags on.
It's pretty unlikely that Michigan will run the table this season. The Big Ten won't allow that.
But, for right now, the Wolverines' head coach is doing his best to keep things humble -- and remind his team that adversity will come, and when it does, Michigan will have to be ready to handle it.
"You're going to lose games," Beilein said. "There's only been one or two teams in the past 40 years that have gone undefeated. You're going to lose. And you're going to lose more than a few.
"But you've got to hang in there."
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Scout dens gather for Pinewood Derby
Things went downhill quickly at the recent 10th annual Orca District Pinewood Derby.
Eight dens showcased their speediest creations at the races, with their pack's champion competing in each of the four den divisions: Tiger, Wolf, Bear and Webelos.
The Pinewood Derby is a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America. With the help of parents, kids build their own cars from wood, usually from kits that include a block of pine, plastic wheels and metal axles.
The Orca Runoff Derby, held on Saturday, April 20 in Silverdale, was a big success, and islander Cort Satterwhite won first place for the Wolf division.
Cort is part of Pack 4545, a new pack that began in 2012. He previously won the local Pinewood Derby held at Rolling Bay Church on March 16.
For more information about joining the pack, made up of island boys in first through fifth grade, e-mail Alex Brown at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Through brazenness and intimidation, dressed in fine clothes and self-justifying morality, bad guys kill and maim and steal, and innocent people -- whole communities of them -- suffer. In response, lawmen chase whispers and flail at shadows, and even when they succeed in felling one kingpin, another steps in to fill the breach. Where there is society, these shows assure us, there will be criminals and crime empires.
HBO's taut and dense new series, "Boardwalk Empire," which takes its title from a nonfiction book of the same name by Nelson Johnson, extends this fascination to a new setting: Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1920, the dawn of the era of Prohibition. Fueled by the population's thirst for illicit alcohol, syndicates of gunmen, gamblers, political fixers, and crooked policemen and elected officials set off more than a decade of high-profit bootlegging and vicious infighting.
Though superficially a staid little resort, Atlantic City was vital to the Prohibition trade, with a seaside location that made rum-running easy and a crooked political structure that not only turned a blind eye to vices such as gambling and prostitution but actually ran and profited from them. Bootleg liquor, even with the attendant violence and muscling-in by gangsters from New York, Philadelphia and even Chicago, was, for the town's powers, a boon.
"Boardwalk Empire," which debuts on Sunday at 9 pm, follows this explosion of booze, money, and blood from virtually the start: New Year's Eve, 1919, when County Treasurer and vice boss Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is already doing big business in illegal whisky with New York gambler Arnold Rothstein and his enforcer Lucky Luciano. Thompson is a bit out of his league playing with these fellows, but he has muscle of his own -- his brother is sheriff -- and he has local, state and even national politicians in his pocket.But he's also got trouble: Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), a bright kid he has helped raise, has returned from the trenches of World War I more interested in quick money than in returning to Princeton, and with his ambitions he brings turmoil. At the same time, Federal Prohibition agents, in the person of the ramrod Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon), are sniffing around Thompson's businesses and homing in on him. Nucky is savvy and nimble and quick with a joke, but he's feeling the heat.
And it's not only his public and criminal lives that are roiling. Ensconced in his lair -- an entire floor of the Ritz-Carlton hotel -- Thompson romps with the insatiable Lucy (Paz de la Vega) but pines for the wife he lost to consumption. When he meets Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald), a goodhearted Irish lass married to an abusive drunk, he's drawn, and everything he does to help her out of an awful situation reminds him more and more of the life he thinks he ought to be living.
Like other HBO series, "Boardwalk Empire" is sprawling, complex and allusive. It wanders off to follow characters to Chicago and New York, where large crime organizations vie against each other with prizes such as Atlantic City in the balance. There are minor characters with whole lives and story lines; some subplots perk up only occasionally, like the islands of an archipelago, while others dominate for an episode or two and then fade, satisfyingly resolved or not. It's filled with sex and blood and coarse language (amusingly, Nucky is utterly puzzled upon first hearing a certain 12-letter swear word that has become common parlance in the ensuing 90 years). It feels like top shelf HBO, which is an estimable thing in and of itself.
Too, "Boardwalk Empire" shares with its HBO siblings an impressive display of acting craft. As Thompson, Buscemi believably combines a glad hand, a wary eye, a quiet cunning and, as the series progresses, a burgeoning anxiety. Pitt is plausibly dark and direct as Darmody, who has, as he says, "seen things" and "done things" and can't settle into any pattern of civilian life comfortably. Shannon is tense and determined and, over time, torn horrifically against himself. Macdonald has, perhaps, the greatest set of changes to essay, and she's completely natural and at ease in all of them. In smaller roles, Michael Stuhlbarg is a fine, sleek Rothstein, Anthony Laciura is comically unsteady as Nucky's factotum, Stephen Graham is a giddily anarchic young Al Capone, and Michael Kenneth Williams brings a drawling menace to bootlegger Chalky White.The show is rich in local and period detail (the boardwalk, with its lights and noise and sea air and -- so help me -- premature baby hospital, is lovely) and music (look for Stephen DeRosa's uncanny Eddie Cantor). And if it's not initially as funny or tense as other HBO dramas, it nevertheless regularly offers moments of gripping action and off-kilter comedy. Its first six episodes, offered as a preview to critics, pass quickly and engagingly.
It's time now, I suppose, to reveal what might be the most interesting thing to many people about "Boardwalk Empire," namely that it is executive produced by, among others, Martin Scorsese, who directed the pilot episode. It's tempting to read into the show the touch of the master director, and by all accounts Scorsese has been a hands-on contributor. But "Boardwalk Empire" feels less like "Goodfellas at the Beach" than like a new and worthy chapter in HBO's unparalleled project to bring TV drama to its current (very high) level. Scorsese is actually billed just after Terence Winter, who won a shelf of Emmys as writer and executive producer of "The Sopranos," and kinship with that series is perhaps evident in the show than Scorsese's auteurist hand.
Television, after all, is a more democratic affair than movies, and it needs to sustain and engage viewers consistently over many more hours. In the opening episodes of "Boardwalk Empire," you have the exciting sense that an entire world is only just being revealed. Gangsters, crooked politicians and loose women all have, after all, a lot of secrets to uncover. Enough, I suspect, to keep many people watching.


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You didn't have to be watching halftime to catch a show at the Meadowlands this Super Bowl.
Even before the game started, the NFL Tailgate Party boasted a talent lineup that included a winner of "American Idol," a lively country music act and the cast of a Broadway show that gives one heavy nod to the Garden State.
Of course, those who got in both had a game ticket and likely knew someone at the NFL (or someone who knows someone at the NFL), but the resulting party space (at the "old Meadowlands Racetrack) open from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. today before the game, had a slate of musical performances.
The grimy "Sopranos" theme music may have played in a fan lounge at least once, but live entertainment started with a family jamboree from The Band Perry, a guitar-strumming trio of siblings clad in leather.
Something more homegrown arrived with the high-pitched riff from the beginning of the Four Seasons song "Sherry," as the guys from "Jersey Boys" entered the scene with sparkling lapels and a discernible swagger. They continued on songs such as Frankie Valli's saccharine "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and dance favorite "Oh, What a Night." Party guests mouthed the words to the songs, recording the appearance with their camera phones as a parade of backing dancers in shimmering skirts launched into some of the show's choreography behind the singers.
Portions of the party's concerts — held in a large, blue-carpeted space at the racetrack — were filmed for the Super Bowl pre-game show on Fox. As a camera swung over the audience, fans craned to get their faces in the shot, like when Phillip Phillips, the emotive victor of "American Idol," took the stage with his guitar. While he played, a fan waved a "12th man" flag in support of the Seahawks.
As for music as a whole, a jazz band played in one of the many concessions areas where waiters passed around trays with sandwiches, but Phillips was the biggest pop act to play the party. His face stretched and his eyes squinted as his large, warm voice belted out up-tempo hits such as "Gone Gone Gone" and "Home."


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WINSLOW TWP. — Police said they found "a large quantity of stolen property" from Monroe Township vehicle burglaries Wednesday when they arrested a Buena man on another matter.
They found the property, they said, when they arrested Robert Cannon, 23, for allegedly stealing bank checks from a deceased Pennsylvania woman and filling them out to himself. They also arrested 27-year-old Darren Kaufman of Monroe Township, who was with Cannon.
Cannon deposited the checks in his account in Washington Township, police said, then tried to withdraw the money at a Fulton Bank in Winslow.
Police were dispatched to the bank at 8:42 a.m., on a report that Cannon was trying to fraudulently withdraw money, a police statement released Wednesday afternoon said.
Officers said they received consent to search the vehicle occupied at the bank by Cannon and Kaufman. There they located the allegedly stolen goods, they said.
Cannon was charged with theft by deception, and Kaufman with receiving stolen property. Both were committed to Camden County Jail in default of bail.
The Gloucester County Times was unable to contact Monroe Township police late Wednesday afternoon on whether they'd filed charges in connection with the vehicle burglaries.Contact Joe Green at 856-845-3300 ext. 253 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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The deniers that our mean-spirited, harsh immigration law isn't hurting Alabama remain in denial even as a national organization of doctors and academics -- the Association of Departments of Family Medicine -- canceled its winter meeting for 2013, scheduled for Mobile, because of the law.
As reported by staff writer Robert McClendon of the Mobile Press-Register, the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated "that the 500-600 hotel nights associated with the meeting, along with spending by attendees, would have generated $700,000 in economic activity."
But that's OK. Who needs the money, when it means we might not be able to demand these doctors and academics show their papers at some police officer's whim?
Of course, many readers weren't sympathetic.
The always engaging shrutebeets8 disagreed with one person who said the immigration law encourages law enforcement to harass people for identification. Said shrutebeets8: "All this time and you still haven't bothered to read the law? The only time an officer can ask for ID is in conjunction with another stop."
Shrutebeets and others still don't understand that it's not what a law says; it's what a law does. Studies conducted by national organizations have shown that people are, indeed, being harassed under the immigration law.
Along the same line, here is The Devil Made Me Do It: "If these people don't want to provide ID, then they should stay out of Alabama and take their dog and pony show elsewhere!"
There is no telling how many groups have avoided Alabama because of this ugliness. We know it's happening, and those close-minded deniers can keep living in a fantasy world where everybody looks and acts just like them.
What do you think?
DON'T FORGET to encourage your state representative and senator to refuse the $1,608 pay raise they are scheduled to get automatically in April. Here's a form letter you can give your lawmakers to help them comply.


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Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn has announced the cast for its winter comedy, Ken Ludwig's "Lend Me a Tenor." This hysterically funny, door-slamming comedy will feature Broadway stars and Paper Mill Playhouse favorites including: Judith Blazer (Maria), John Treacy Egan (Tito), Donna English (Diana), Nancy Johnston (Julia), David Josefsberg (Max), Michael Kostroff (Saunders), Jill Paice (Maggie) and Mark Price (Bellhop). The comedy will be directed by Don Stephenson and will run at the Millburn theater from Feb. 13 through March 10.
Nominated for nine Tony Awards, winner of three Drama Desk Awards and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy of the Year, it is a wildly entertaining farce. The renowned tenor "Il Stupendo" is scheduled to sing the lead in the opera Otello. Chaos ensues when his wife mistakenly leaves him a "Dear John" letter and the distraught singer is accidentally given a double dose of tranquilizers. What follows is a laugh-out-loud chain reaction of mistaken identity, farcical plot twists, double entendres, and musical mayhem.
The comedy will be performed eight times a week, Wednesday through Sunday.
Performance schedule includes: Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Single tickets are on sale now and range from $26 to $97. Tickets may be purchased by calling 973-376-4343, at the Paper Mill Playhouse Box Office, 22 Brookside Drive, or online at papermill.org. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express accepted groups of ten or more can receive up to a 40% discount on tickets and should call 973-315-1680.
Broadway powerhouse Judith Blazer will play the role of Maria. Blazer was seen on Broadway in "Lovemusik," "45 Seconds from Broadway," "Titanic," "Me and My Girl" and "A Change in the Heir." Off Broadway credits include: "Whida Peru: Resurrection Tangle;" NYC Opera's "Sweeney Todd" and "Candide;" "The Torch-Bearers;" "Hurrah at Last;" "Bernarda Alba" and "Hello Again." You may have seen Blazer on television in "Law and Order," "As the World Turns," "Guiding Light," Bernstein's "New York," and "In Performance at the White House." Blazer has appeared in numerous Paper Mill Playhouse productions, including her celebrated performance as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady."
John Treacy Egan will portray Tito Merelli. Egan appeared on Broadway in "Sister Act" (Joey), "The Little Mermaid" (Chef Louis), "The Producers" (Max Bialystock, Roger DeBris, Franz Liebkind), "Jekyll & Hyde," and "Bye Bye Birdie." On television Egan appeared in "Boardwalk Empire," "Nurse Jackie," "30 Rock," "Cupid" and "Law & Order."
Donna English of Montclair returns to Paper Mill Playhouse as Diana following her critically acclaimed performance as Elsa Schraeder in "The Sound of Music." English also appeared at Paper Mill Playhouse in "Hairspray" (Velma), "Harold and Maude" (Mrs. Chasen), and "Meet Me in St. Louis" (Anna Smith), among others. English's New York credits include "Nice Work If You Can Get It;" "Madame X" (2011 NYMF Outstanding Performance Award), "Ruthless!" (Drama Desk nomination); and "Broadway," directed by George Abbott.
Nancy Johnston will play Julia. Most recently Johnston appeared on Broadway in "Elf." Other Broadway credits include "The Secret Garden" and the 2000 revival of "The Music Man." Off Broadway credits include Jessica Gatewood in the world premiere of "Splendora," "Merrily We Roll Along," "White Lies," "Olympus on My Mind," and Encores' "Allegro."
David Josefsberg of South Orange will play the role of Max. On Broadway, Josefsberg appeared in "Les Misérables," "Grease" and "The Wedding Singer." Off Broadway Josefsberg appeared in Altar Boyz, Slut, and Rated P. Mr. Josefsberg is half of the comedy-music duo Joberg and Gurner, recently signed to Comedy Central Records.
Michael Kostroff returns to play Saunders after his critically acclaimed performance as Thénardier in the 25th Anniversary production of "Les Misérables." Kostroff is best known for his five seasons on HBO's "The Wire," two seasons on Disney's "Sonny with a Chance," and for his dozens of television guest appearances.
Jill Paice, who appeared as Betty Haynes in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in 2011, returns to play Maggie. Paice appeared on Broadway in: "The 39 Steps," "A Little Night Music" (Anne), "Curtains" (Niki Harris), "The Woman in White" (Laura Fairlie) and on the West End in "Gone with the Wind" (Scarlett O'Hara). Paice appeared Off Broadway in "Death Takes a Holiday" (Grazia), "Tokio Confidential" (Isabella) and "Where's Charley?" (Kitty, Encores!).
Mark Price joins the cast as the Bellhop. Price has appeared in many Broadway shows, including "Mary Poppins" (Robertson Ay), "Wonderful Town," "All Shook Up" (Dennis), "Rocky Horror Show" (Riff Raff), "Mamma Mia!" (Pepper), "Dance of the Vampires" (Boris), "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Paul Simon's "The Capeman," "Chicago," and "Beauty and the Beast" (Lefou).
Don Stephenson will direct the comedy. Stephenson appeared as John Adams in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of "1776." Stephenson directed "Of Mice and Manhattan" for the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, "Titanic" at The Muny and "Noises Off" and "The 39 Steps" at the Flat Rock Playhouse, "Titanic" at the Hangar Theatre, and "The Great Unknown" for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. He directed critically acclaimed productions of "Oleanna," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and the hit musical "Doctors and Diseases" at the Barter Theatre, which moved Off Broadway to the Players Theater. Other New York directing credits include "Buck Simple" (Garrick Gaieties), "When Pigs Fly" (Kaufman Theatre), "Golden Voices" (Symphony Space), "Old Flames" (Theatre-Studio Inc.) and a workshop of "My Time of Day: The Music of Frank Loesser." Don has directed "The Desperate Hours" and "Through All Kinds of Weather" at the Clarence Brown Theatre and "Sleeping Beauty" at American Stage Festival.
The Lend Me a Tenor design team includes: Scenic designer John Lee Beatty has designed sets for more than 70 Broadway productions since 1973. Costumes will be designed by Wade Laboissonniere. Lighting designer Stephen Terry has designed productions at theaters throughout the United States and has served as Associate Lighting Designer on Broadway. Sound designer is Matt Kraus and hair design will be provided by Cookie Jordan.
Tom Helm (Music Coordinator) has conducted more than 40 productions for Paper Mill Playhouse.
The playhouse is a nonprofit arts organization. Programs are made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Paper Mill Playhouse is a member of Theatre Communications Group, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Council of Stock Theatres, and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.


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