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Ask a Psychiatrist: How Does Silver Linings Playbook Handle Mental Illness?
Vulture consulted with Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Dr. Steven Schlozman. He loved the film.
It's to be expected that one (or both) of a romantic comedy's protagonists will go a little crazy in some way. Silver Linings Playbook takes things a step further: Bradley Cooper's character, Pat, is newly released from a mental hospital, and his romantic foil Tiffany (played by Jennifer Lawrence) is battling her own demons. Neither, however, has the typical Hollywood version of mental illness, i.e. "My second personality is a prostitute with a Cockney accent!"
Pat's bipolar disorder and Tiffany's unnamed condition manifest themselves in ways that are realistically, even heartbreakingly mundane; Tiffany texts relative strangers for booty calls when she gets depressed, and Pat channels his mania into long jogs and rants about Hemingway. Yet the film has generated controversy among some reviewers about its portrayal of mental illness. Do the characters get off too easily, their symptoms falling by the wayside as soon as they find one another? Does the film imply that Pat's medication was doing him more harm than good? Seeking a professional opinion, Vulture consulted with Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Dr. Steven Schlozman. He loved the film.
Silver Linings Playbook has been accused of having an anti-psychiatry bias, but you seem to feel the opposite.
It's Hollywood, so there are still going to be things that are there more for the story than for accuracy. But they did a very nice job of depicting manic depressive illness or bipolar disorder in somebody who's quite bright, and who has limited but present insight on it. Only about 40 percent of people with bipolar disorder will look back on a manic episode and realize that they were manic. They'll often say something like, "Yeah, I was going a million miles a minute, but I was also onto something really good, really important, and if you guys hadn't interrupted me I probably could have pulled it off."
Pat is able to say, "That was a delusion, this isn't right." Yet he still seems to have very little insight into the situation with [his wife] Nikki: thinking he's going to get her back, without having a real understanding of the repercussions of what he did. We're the viewers and we feel sympathetic towards him, so in some ways we understand his response. Maybe that's where some of the controversy's coming from.
Because beating up the guy who's having an affair with your wife seems like a fairly sane reaction?
There's plenty of people who don't have bipolar disorder who do that. If we had just seen that scene, and if psychiatric illness wasn't any part of the subtext of the movie, we wouldn't have any reason to believe that that was a manic episode. We would have every reason to believe that that was a crime of passion, and we've seen that a million times in movies. But it's the aftermath, the inability to recognize that what he did was over the top. We see his inability to understand why his ex-wife would have a restraining order against him, his inability to understand that getting her back wouldn't be as simple as just reading everything on her syllabus. Those are reactions you wouldn't expect from the average guy who beat the crap out of the person who was having an affair with his wife.
And then you have an added thing here, which is important: Contrary to what people think, it's really, really hard to be institutionalized for a violent crime unless the mental illness is pretty obvious. So the fact that he was institutionalized for so long in a psychiatric facility, is supposed to give us at least a hint that this was a slam dunk for the courts.
When he's in the institution, Pat is given a pill, puts it under his tongue to make it look like he took it, then spits it out. I feel like I've seen this in hundreds of movies.
Yeah, that's because it happens a lot. [Laughs] Yes, we have seen that in hundreds of movies. But that happens all the time on inpatient units. We do our best to get the folks to take their medicine. We can check to see whether they're taking them in other ways, through blood levels and stuff like that. But you always assume a certain level of lack of adherence to the regime, for a while, as people are getting better. And you can understand it; I mean, if you lack insight into the fact that there's something not right, it's hard to come up with a good reason to take the medicine. And even if you know you're better off on your medicines, a lot of them have really not-nice side effects. So there's a lot of reasons that you might decide not to take them.
But isn't there an implication that you're supposed to root for those characters in some way? Somehow, Pat not taking his meds — which he absolutely needs — is supposed to endear him to the audience.
We do read into that a kind of defiance that we find admirable. And who knows what that's related to; is it related to the stigma that is associated with psychiatric illness, the idea that a medicine can fix these very complex issues? Thinking back on my time on an inpatient unit, I actually feel some admiration for somebody who pushes back a little bit, too. It's an action that's meant to be conveyed as a message. Is he doing it because he doesn't think he's sick, is it because he's mad at his doctors, is it because he's determined to beat this thing on his own? All those things add to someone's character.
A lot of the criticisms of how the film treats mental illness come down to the fact that Pat is initially resistant to taking his meds, and it's not clear whether he was taking them again by the end.
This might very much have to do with what I do for a living, but I just assumed he went back on them. Towards the end, he says, in what feels like a very sincere way — remember, he's not been big on lying in the movie — and he says, "I'm taking my meds, I'm doing good." It never occurred to me that he might have stopped.
What did you make of the scene where Pat and Tiffany are swapping stories about their psychiatric medications?
To me, that felt de-stigmatizing, not stigmatizing. They got the pronunciations right, they got the side effects right. I mean, I've heard those discussions a thousand times. And actually, on an inpatient unit, those are the discussions you want. And that fact that this scene could so blithely make its way into a mainstream film without a lot of explanation around it — I thought that was important.
We see Pat him have several manic episodes, some of which are violent. He's basically entirely manic in the film; we don't really see a depressive episode, do we?
No, you're right. Which makes for a better storyline but it's not actually the most common case. Even though we picture bipolar disorder as this kind of sine wave thing where you go up-down up-down, most people have mixed states when they're decompensating. So they'll have be highly irritable, going a million miles a minute, but not euphoric. Pat is not sleeping, he's grandiose, he has pressured speech — he actually meets the criteria for mania. And you don't ever really see a purely depressive state. You see these times where he feels sort of defeated, like that hilarious scene where he finishes the Hemingway book and he goes "WHAT THE FUCK!" and throws it through a window.
The Hemingway scene felt like a very realistic portrayal of someone with mental illness, in that he was feeling this trivial thing so intensely.
I say to patients all the time, "Look, you've got a really big radar, so you're going to pick up on a lot of things and feel them real powerfully. And that's a gift and also a kind of curse." I've seen patients really get worked up over something like that. It's appropriate to get worked up over Hemingway; that's fine. It's not appropriate to throw the book through a window, wake up your parents, and pace and scream about it.
We know that Jennifer Lawrence's character, Tiffany, has been on meds, but we don't actually get a diagnosis. What was your take on her from a psychiatric perspective?
It's hard not to see that character and wonder a little about borderline personality disorder for her. I think we're probably supposed to think that, and then we're supposed to feel bad about thinking that after we hear her history — which is silly, because people are allowed to have horrible histories and people are allowed to have borderline personality disorder, and there's nothing wrong with either of those things.
So she's had a significant response to a pretty awful trauma, the death of her husband. But she wasn't doing well even before then, because we know she said, "Look, I can barely take care of myself." And we don't know whether those medications she talked about being on actually predated or came after that trauma. We can make the assumption that there's depression, because someone put her on Effexor, which is an antidepressant. But you can have both: You can have depression and borderline personality disorder. I guess I'd be most comfortable just saying: She's not doing well.
So her symptoms seem plausible: the promiscuity, the mood swings, the lying.
Oh yeah. What was frustrating to me as a watcher of the movie is, since she's basically a foil for Pat's character development, you don't see her develop a whole lot. I think her life's more complicated than she's leading on. So she's not out of the woods yet. I'd actually worry a little bit more about her than about him.
The Hollywood convention is that two crazy people find each other and somehow love cancels out all the crazy. Does this film fall into that trap?
I did leave the movie with the lingering concern that that could potentially be read into it. I mean, falling in love is an absolutely awesome wonderful thing, but it's not going to cure bipolar disorder any more than it's going to cure diabetes. It just doesn't work that way. The flipside of that is, we know from all sorts of really good studies, that people with psychiatric illnesses — horrible depression, bipolar disorder, even schizophrenia — they do better when they're in love. That's one of the things that confers resilience. So it's not an unheard-of story; the part that's unheard of is that you suddenly don't need your medicines and life goes on fine forever.


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Wide receiver Steve Breaston and tight end Kevin Boss were released by the Kansas City Chiefs, the team announced Tuesday.
Breaston, who caught only seven passes for 74 yards last season, caught 61 passes the year before. He had three years left on a five-year, $23 million deal. He was brought in as part of a new offense by former coach Todd Haley two years ago.
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Nashua planners approve Bridge St. projectBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
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NASHUA - Despite concerns about potential traffic congestion, city planners on Thursday unanimously approved a major waterfront development project on Bridge Street that will serve as an eastern gateway into the city.
The Nashua City Planning Board granted site plan approval to Renaissance Downtowns LLC. for the first phase of its mixed-use development surrounded by the Merrimack and Nashua rivers.
Board members authorized the construction of three, four-story multi-family residential buildings, a community center and restaurant with a balcony overlooking the water. Overall, there will be 228 apartment units associated with the first phase of the project.
Future plans at the 10-acre site, which is located at 70 Bridge St., will include courtyards, a park, community pool, boulevard and public promenade.
"The city has a vested interest in this development," City Engineer Steve Dookran said before Thursday's vote.
The city currently owns the Bridge Street property, but it previously entered into negotiations with Renaissance Downtowns to sell the land for redevelopment.
Thursday's meeting was the second Planning Board meeting concerning the Bridge Street project, and some residents voiced anger that only limited public testimony was permitted.
Kenneth Dufour, chairman of the board, stressed that the public hearing took place two weeks ago, at which time numerous residents spoke either in opposition to or in favor of the proposed development.
Former alderman Paula Johnson was selected as the single spokesman to speak against the project on Thursday, expressing worry about increased traffic in the area as a result of nearly 230 new apartments.
The three residential buildings will house one- and two-bedroom apartments and studio apartments, which will be rented at market rate.
"The traffic study determined the Bridge Street impact is minor," said Ryan Porter, project manager with Renaissance Downtowns. Any potential traffic problems, he said, may be mitigated with the addition of a turning lane once two of the three apartment buildings are occupied.
Furthermore, Porter said the city is working on various traffic signal projects throughout the city, which he believes should improve the traffic flow in the area. Overall, Porter estimated that the number of vehicles traveling east on Bridge Street toward the downtown area will increase by about 3 percent daily because of the development.
There was extensive discussion about a proposed roundabout at the Hudson and Nashua border, which is a separate project being pursued by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the city of Nashua.
While the roundabout would provide a better traffic flow and increased pedestrian access, Porter said the Renaissance project does not require the roundabout, saying that other creative alternatives will be studied if it falls through.
Several Planning Board members praised the Renaissance Downtowns project.
"This has been a pretty lengthy process for the applicant," said Adam Varley, board member, noting that plans have been in the works for about three years. "To me, I thought they very adequately addressed the concerns raised here."
Edward Weber, another board member, said the development will offer construction jobs in the short term and provide more permanent jobs at the restaurant in the long run.
"It is a positive thing for this city," added Weber.
Matt Taylor, deputy planning manager, said school impact fees will be assessed at a maximum of $500 per apartment unit to alleviate any potential burden on the school system as a result of the development.
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I've just finished promised SSMS add-in which enables creating of custom folders directly in SSMS Object Explorer. Idea for add-in came from fact that I was dealing with hundreds of SQL objects and was fed up of browsing for correct one in SSMS standard folders. I tried also many "quick find" add-ins but they were not 100% solution for this issue.
I observed that I search for object in two ways:
- I know full or part object's name – I use free Red Gate's SQL Search Add-In (unfortunately, I have issue with integrating it with my add-in now). To make long story short, you can find any object very quickly with this add-in.
- I can't remember any part of object's name – I was lost at this point and doomed to browsing for object in standard e.g. Stored procedure node.
Second of mentioned points was the key driver to develop this add-in for me. I've even found similar commercial solution (for $65) but it supports only one level hierarchy. I employed SQL object schemas for emulating one level hierarchy before and it was simply not enough for me.
My Add-in currently supports following:
- Create custom folders in SSMS's object explorer using drag&drop. It works for databases, stored procedures, functions, views and tables
- Ctrl+click on object will bring ALTER script
- Perform bulk operations in explorer-style management dialog – I did that because while I was refactoring and re-foldering more objects, drag&drop was not enough
See this short video or following screenshot to find how it works:
Technical solution
I must say that it was really hard to develop this add-in because documentation for SSMS add-in development is really bad. Add-In is developed in C# and partly in C++ and is installable to SQL Server Management Studio and supports SQL Server 7.0 and higher versions on server-side. From client point of view, it supports currently only SQL Server 2008 R2 Client Tools because this is platform I am working on these days. My intention was to support also lower versions of client tools but I soon found out that Microsoft made incompatible changes in 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2. I did first version for me and my team members so there was no push to convert it to other platforms. If I feel pressure on different platforms I will probably convert it. You can push me for other supported platforms here.
Logic of handling folders is quite simple:
If you create empty folder within standard SSMS node nothing happened on server-side, it only creates folder in client tree within Object Explorer. This is the reason why empty folders are not persistent. After you drag anything to folder, extended property is created/updated on dragged SQL object (e.g. table) by sp_addextendedproperty / sp_updateextendedproperty procedures.
If you expand standard tree node (e.g. Stored procedures), every object inside is queried with for extended properties by fn_listextendedproperty procedure. Add-in than creates folder structure dynamically based on found custom extended properties inserted by add-in before. Based on this internal behavior, you can bypass add-in when you create extended properties for your objects on your own – add-in just reads them and creates folders based on their values.
Synergy with Red Gate's products
We are using ingenious Red Gate's SQL Source Control SSMS Add-In which handles database versioning for our team (in Subversion). I used extended properties as "persistence medium" for folders because I wanted to share logical folders in our databases across all team members. My add-in and Red Gate's add-in together works like a charm for that – when I create folder in my dev database and commit changes to source control, other team member see this folder once he updates his development database from source control. This is because extended properties are versioned as well.
I am big fan of Red Gate's SQL Search and SQL Prompt add-ins so I examined coexistence of those to add-ins with mine. SQL Prompt is ok, no issues. Unfortunately my add-in cannot currently handle situation when SQL Search add-in is jumping to Object Explorer treeview for highlighting object (it crashes). I was trying hard to solve that but I will probably ask Red Gate for changing their SQL Search code because I simply cannot do that on my side. They will probably send me to ****** but I will try
Roadmap is maybe strong word but here is a list of features which came from every day use of this add-in:
- ability to change color of folders – this will faster catch your eye for correct folder
- have one folder "Uncategorized" which would serve as container for unfoldered objects
- ability to completely bypass standard SSMS structure (e.g. combine tables, stored procedures and function in one folder name "Banking Module")
- store custom queries in your folders
- … and some more stuff
You can download add-in on my pages.
I hope it will be helpful.Tags: Add-In, custom folders, development, Red Gate, refactoring, server management, SQL, SQL Prompt, SQL Server, SSMS


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Bantam, Nov 2002, 23.95, 304 pp. ISBN 0553803034 Though Harton, New Jersey Chief of Police Tom Holder is married, he has a crush on Episcopalian minister Kathryn Koerney and wishes he had a case that he could involve her in so they could spend some innocent time together. He gets his wish when George Kimbrough reports his wife Grace missing. Ten-year-old Tita Robinson saw the Kimbrough's neighbor Bill Stanley put a woman body into his car. Sin...


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(Reuters) - TV newsmagazine "60 Minutes" on Friday said it would correct an October report on the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, saying that a source who told the program that he had been present at the scene of the attack gave conflicting testimony to the FBI.
The program on October 27 aired a segment on the attack, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed, quoting a security official who described being at the compound during the attack, fighting off an assailant and seeing the ambassador's body.
Reporter Lara Logan said 60 Minutes no longer had confidence in the information the security official had given the program and it was a mistake to put him on air.
"60 Minutes" has since learned that the official, who it named as Dylan Davies, gave the FBI a different account of his actions that night, Logan said on a CBS morning news program on Friday.
"The most important thing to every person at '60 Minutes' is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake," Logan said on "CBS This Morning." "Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you are wrong. And in this case, we were wrong."
The program plans to air a correction on Sunday, Logan said.
Simon and Schuster, a publisher owned by CBS Corp, on Friday began withdrawing a book on the incident, "The Embassy House," which was written by Davies under the pseudonym Morgan Jones.
"In light of information that has been brought to our attention since the initial publication of 'The Embassy House,' we have withdrawn from publication and sale all formats of this book and are recommending that booksellers do the same," said Jennifer Robinson, a spokeswoman for Simon and Schuster's Threshold Editions unit.
The Benghazi attack, mounted by militants linked to al Qaeda, has emerged as a political flashpoint in Washington, with Republican lawmakers saying the assault and death of an ambassador show that President Barack Obama's administration has failed to maintain security at foreign posts.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham last month threatened to block Janet Yellen, Obama's pick as next head of the Federal Reserve, until the administration provides more information on how the attack occurred.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Friday that it ousted its president and future CEO over a relationship with a subordinate.
The defense company said its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher Kubasik from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer. He was scheduled to become CEO in January.
This was not the first case of a top executive leaving because of personal matters. And the news came on the same day that CIA Director David Petraeus resigned over an extramarital affair. Here's a look at a few other top business executives who have stepped down or were fired after getting into trouble for seamy matters.
-Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned from the retailer in April after an investigation found that he violated company policy by having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
-Mark Hurd, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., was accused in 2010 of sexual harassing a former marketing contractor. An investigation ensued but the company found no merits to the claims. However, HP discovered through the course of the investigation that Hurd had falsified some reports to disguise expenses he incurred for meals and travel with the woman. While both said the relationship was not sexual and Hurd insisted the expenses were legitimate, he resigned a few weeks after the probe began and settled with the woman for an undisclosed sum.
-Randy Michaels, former CEO of Tribune Co. faced a probe of his conduct in 2010 following an unflattering portrait of his management style that appeared in the New York Times. The story likened Michaels to a ringleader of a college fraternity house and asserted that Michaels helped cultivate a culture filled with profanity, poker parties and other bawdy behavior. Then, one of Michaels' top executives emailed an internal memo to employees with an Internet link featuring a racy video that included a bare-chested woman pouring booze down her chest. Michaels resigned two weeks after the article ran. Lee Abrams, the executive who sent the racy memo, also resigned.


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ABC's "This Week" — Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta.
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New Eagles fullback Leonard Weaver clearly wanted to remain with Seattle, but he says the Seahawks did not want him, at least not for what he is worth. He said no one from the organization contacted him in the offseason to discuss a potential role and did not make him a fair offer.
That, he said, forced him to "resort to this, where I have to make a secondary choice, which I did."
"I've connected with so many people on a personal level," Weaver said in a wide-ranging interview with the Tacoma News-Tribune. "And it's just been a hard deal knowing that I want to be here and I made that clear to the organization a number of times, and here it is we still can't get nothing done.
"And now it resorts to this where I have to make a secondary choice, which I did. So it makes it very tough."
Weaver signed a 1-year, $1.75 million deal that could escalate to $2.25 million. He was introduced last Friday. He chose the Birds over Tampa Bay, Minnesota, Houston or returning to Seattle.
"No, I don't think it was fair," he said of what Seattle offered. "I don't think I was worth that. Of course, that's my opinion. And I believe I bring a lot to the game. And I wasn't trying to seek anything that I thought was unreasonable. But at the same I have to also respect that they have a new system coming in. They've got new coaching and a new way they're doing things, and I respect that. Of course I wanted to be there, but obviously you can't change that aspect of the business."
Weaver said he chose the Eagles because he thought the offense presented the best opportunity for him to fit in quickly and showcase his skills in a system that he was familiar with, especially since he could be out on the free-agent market again at this time next year.
"It's a good opportunity to show what I can do to not only Philly but other teams out there," he said. "And then if Philly offers a long-term deal, that would be great. But if not, hey man it was a great time and we move on."
He also expressed excitement at playing for a winning team and on an offense with Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook.
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The Open University has received three funding awards, totalling £682,656, from the UK Space Agency's £2M allocation for science associated with Mars exploration. The projects will enhance the UK's science capabilities and help understand the Martian environment and its potential for life.
Commenting on the awards, Professor Simon Kelley, Director of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR), at The Open University (OU), said: "The Science Faculty at The Open University has an international reputation and a great heritage in planetary, space science and astronomy research, and we continue our involvement in current missions such as ROSETTA which will land on a comet in 2014. We have an excellent laboratory infrastructure here at the OU, and that's allowing us to pursue exciting science and study potential habitats that might support life on Mars."
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"The only things Duane Pitre wants to overcome on Feel Free are his own ingrained work habits and the mandates of his material ... the music proceeds without conflict into a three-dimensional fractal framework of curved contours and bright, pulsating nodes. Remaining poised and infinitely deep throughout, it's gorgeous stuff." - The Wire
"Feel Free might be the most listenable probability-based music that I have heard … certainly has to do the fact that this five-part piece is not purely steered by the vagaries of chance … only possible when it is executed deftly and ingeniously and Pitre scores on both counts … Not "random" in any jagged, cacophonous kind of way, mind you, but the amorphous, organic unfolding of plucks and swells feels naturally occurring rather than deliberate … While I certainly admire his stealth and fluidity as a composer, it is the blurring of computer and human … into a single woozy, soft-focus middle ground that is Duane's real masterstroke, yielding a seamless, gently swaying tapestry of sublime, droning beauty. In a way, Feel Free is a weirdly perfect piece of music … complexly textured … genuine, deep pathos … off-kilter, mysterious … it can probably be endlessly looped without ever becoming boring." - Brainwashed
The two major focal points in the creation of composer Duane Pitre's Feel Free, his new work for a unique sextet combination, were rhythm and melody. An open yet orderly system intended to produce potentially infinite variations of self-generating rhythm and melody was carefully created for this piece, allowing the sextet musicians to approach these factors in a freer manner. This 'musical system,' combined with the fixed elements of the composition, in turn, spawned a rich foundation of harmony & rhythm that sounds & feels exotic and new.
The title, Feel Free, derives in part from one of the composition's instructions to its performers. It suggests that they should feel free to interact with (or ignore) one another, as well as with the random, real-time, computer generated patterns of guitar harmonics (the pillar of the work); therefore making intuitive yet rule-based decisions, in that moment of the piece, instead of relying on standard notation to dictate their every move. This approach creates a performance that is unique upon each occasion that it is performed; it is free from its own restraints.
Pitre set out to compose a piece as a musical lattice-work that was rich with layers and interweaving rhythmic patterns, superimposing themselves upon each another in ways that would at times synchronize with and without intention. It is a system rooted in chaos that finds alignment in a myriad of ways.
Recording personal: Duane Pitre - computer (electronics & guitar) • Jim Altieri - violin • Shannon Fields - hammered dulcimer • James Ilgenfritz - contrabass • Jessie Marino - cello • Jesse Sparhawk - harp
Released in conjunction w/ the Feel Free CD/LP, is this split LP w/ Pitre & Eleh (also on Important Records). Pitre's side contains a recording of his Feel Free Installation. This sound installation is void of any performers and unlike the group version of the piece (found on the Feel Free CD/LP), is meant to embody a certain stillness.


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October is fast approaching, and we're already in a Halloween mood. Starting this weekend, we're unleashing a whole host of horror flicks at Alibi Midnight Movie Madness. Stop by the Guild Cinema this weekend to check out the extreme horror anthology V/H/S/2. Directed by the people who gave us The Raid, Hobo With a Shotgun, Who's Next? and The Blair Witch Project, this collection of four horror shorts will have you screaming, flinching and hopefully curled up in a whimpering ball on the theater floor. Check out the trailer ... if you dare. V/H/S/2 will screen at 10:30pm this Friday and Saturday night.


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July 04. 2014 7:23PM
John Habib's City Sports: Big honor for Little League's Marston
By JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
Veteran umpire
Dick Marston
is about to work his first Little League Baseball East Regional tournament, but don't tell him it's taken a lifetime to get there.
"Hey, I'm only 73 years old," he laughed.
The East Regional — scheduled for Aug. 1-10 in Bristol, Conn. — is actually two tournaments in one, determining both the New England and Mid-Atlantic champions. Marston will umpire Mid-Atlantic games.
"I'm very proud to have been selected. It's a great honor, and I have many people to thank, including
Don Kirkland
," he said, referring to New Hampshire's District I commissioner. "In the Manchester area alone, we've had some great umpires selected to the regionals, people like
Jack Caron
Kevin West
Mike Robinson
. I'm in some very good company."
And still going strong.
At an age where many umpires have hung up their chest protector, Marston still averages between 100 and 120 games a season, and as the regional assignment shows, he's still considered to be at the top of his game.
Now in his 36th season of calling balls and strikes, Marston has been associated with many leagues as both an official and administrator. He's served as president of three Manchester leagues, twice leading Manchester Central (1985-87, 1991) and doing one stint each with Manchester West (2004-06) and Manchester West Side (2007-11). Currently, he serves as West Side's vice president.
While next month's regional will be Marston's first at Little League's flagship level, for 11- and 12-year-olds, he has plenty of experience with major tournaments at the Senior Little League level, for players ages 14-16. He directed three regional tournaments in Manchester and in 1990 worked as an umpire at the Senior Little League World Series in Kissimmee, Fla.
"I worked in 23 World Series games that year and was one of six umpires chosen that week to work in the championship game of that tournament," he said. "I have worked many District I and state tournament games and finals. I've also done State Senior Little League tournament games and other local baseball tournaments but that national tournament in Kissimmee is still my highest honor as an umpire.
"Having said that," he added, "getting selected to the regionals this year is a close second."
When Marston isn't busy with Little League, you can find him in Concord serving as a state representative from Manchester's Ward 12.
"Not in August," he said. "I always tell my colleagues in Concord that August is the month I really commit my time to the kids, working tournaments and attending the World Series in Williamsport."
After working the regionals in Bristol this summer, Marston said, he's planning his fourth straight trip to Williamsport, Pa., to volunteer as an usher.
"You get to meet some wonderful people there, make new friends and watch the top Little League teams around the world compete in person," he said. "Little League baseball keeps me young at heart, and anyone who knows me will tell you I'm a marshmallow for kids."
Asked if he dreams of umpiring a World Series in Williamsport some day, Marston said, "Absolutely. But to get there, you must first work a regional tournament. I'm going to enjoy the regionals this year and then hope someday I can umpire in the World Series."
Marston said local umpires
Ray Valliere
Fred Jasinski Sr.
were among the first umpires to teach him the trade. Marston said he's been to three Little League umpire schools, including his first one in 1990 at Williamsport under legendary Little League umpire
Frank Rizzo
On Aug. 10, one day after Marston celebrates his 74th birthday, the Mid-Atlantic championship game will be televised live on ESPN2. Based on performance during the week, Marston said, a committee will select the six umpires to work the final. So how would he feel if he were chosen to work the plate on national TV?
"If that happened, it would definitely surpass my experience at Kissimmee," he said with a laugh.
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THE MANCHESTER Catholic High School Hall of Fame committee has announced its 2014 inductees. Five athletes and two coaches will be honored at the annual banquet on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. in Trinity High School's McHugh Gymnasium.
Honorees include
Roger Paradis
(Bishop Bradley, 1954),
Roger Godin
(St. Anthony's, '56);
Greg Wenger
(Trinity '76),
Christopher Roy
(Trinity '87) and
Luke Bonner
(Trinity 2004).
Paradis and Godin both excelled in football and baseball. Wenger was the starting center on basketball teams that won back-to-back Class L championships in 1975 and '76, earning first-team all-state honors as a senior. Roy was a four-sport star, competing in football, basketball, track and field and baseball.
Bonner played four seasons of varsity basketball and was a two-time Gatorade New Hampshire Player of the Year, in 2003 and '04. A 7-foot center and forward, and younger brother of two-time NBA champion
Matt Bonner
, Luke spent three seasons at West Virginia before concluding his college playing career at UMass Amherst. He also played professionally in Europe and in the NBA's D-League.
The coaches entering the hall are
Dr. John Hurley
(ice hockey) and
Eddie Poisson
A 1956 graduate of Manchester's Bishop Bradley High, Hurley coached for 14 seasons at his alma mater's descendent, Trinity, leading the Pioneers to a state title in 1988 and runner-up finishes in 1990 and '91.
Poisson served as head coach for 27 seasons before stepping down after the 2013 campaign. His teams never missed the state tournament, and he coached two players who went on to play in the major leagues,
Chris Carpenter
Jeff Fulchino
. He led the Pioneers to the 1992 state title, and his 1991 and 2007 clubs finished runner-up in the state tournament.
"City Sports" is published Saturdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader. Email staff reporter John Habib at email@example.com.


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If you're a deer hunter who put in for the New Hampshire moose hunt drawing, you'll find out June 21 whether you're in store for more work this season.
The annual drawing to select the lucky hunters who will be offered a permit to hunt moose in New Hampshire this autumn will be June 21 at 9 a.m.
The drawing will be held at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in Concord. Fish and Game will issue 275 moose hunting permits this year. The public and interested media are invited to be on hand to watch the excitement as the names are drawn. Winners are selected through a computerized random drawing.
Radio personality Peter St. James will broadcast live from Fish and Game headquarters from 6-10 a.m., with the drawing starting at 9 a.m. Tune in to radio station WTPL (107.7 FM), which can be heard from Nashua to the Lakes Region; or in the Upper Valley, the broadcast can be heard on 94.3 FM or 1400 AM. The station will also stream the audio on its website.
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Food52 Review: Simple and straight forward, this updated spaghetti classic was perfectly balanced. Shrimp and broccolini sauteed with garlic and spice, married nicely with sweet tomatoes and fresh basil. This would be a quick, yummy and healthy weeknight pasta. —jvcooks
Serves: 4
pound spaghetti or linguine
Exrta-virgin olive oil
Crushed red pepper flakes
pound medium shrimp, peeled with tail shells intact, deveined
pound broccolini, ends trimmed, cut in 1 inch pieces
large garlic clove, minced
28 ounce can Italian plum tomatoes, drained
Freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of sugar, to taste
cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, plus extra for serving
cup whole basil leaves (torn in half if large)
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add spaghetti and cook until al dente. Drain.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat one tablespoon olive oil with 1/2 teaspoon chili pepper flakes in a skillet over medium heat. Add shrimp in one layer. Cook until pink on both sides and just cooked through, 2-3 minutes. Transfer shrimp to a plate.
- Add one tablespoon olive oil to same skillet. Add broccolini and sprinkle with one teaspoon salt and a pinch of red pepper flakes. Sauté until crisp tender. Transfer broccolini to another plate.
- Add one tablespoon olive oil to skillet. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant, 30 seconds. Add tomatoes, one teaspoon salt and one teaspoon black pepper. Simmer 10 minutes, breaking tomatoes apart with a spoon. Taste and if necessary add a pinch of sugar. Stir in shrimp and broccoli; remove from heat. Add spaghetti and toss to combine.
- Transfer spaghetti to a serving bowl. Scatter cheese and basil leaves over pasta and toss one more time. Add a grinding of black pepper. Serve along with extra Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
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"All I wanted was to go into a bar to see my favorite team play, enjoy classic, quality beer, and have a good bite to eat," HopsScotch co-owner Luke Gomez said. "I'd either go into a sports bar with 30 TVs and be forced to drink Coors Lite, or I'd go into a beer bar and have to watch the game on a 13-inch black and white set, and wonder why it was either/or."
So Gomez took matters into his own hands. He recruited partners Mark Maki and Nirav Patel, his wife Sarah, and wooed Chef Nick McCoy – the former executive chef of Koi restaurant in New York City – to Jersey City's financial district to provide patrons with a drinking, dining, and sporting experience unlike any other in the area.
HopsScotch sits nestled on the corner of Washington Street and Christopher Columbus Drive and beckons patrons in with its bright, playful signage bearing the name of a childhood game, save the extra "s."
But the 40 beer taps (the "hops" component) that line the rustic stone-hewn bar walls that sit beside 40 specialty scotches prove this is more than just child's play, although, according to McCoy, customers have been known to gather in droves around a heated and vocal game of Jenga.
"It's amazing to just how intense a game can get," he said. "They take it to a totally different level, which is appropriate to what we do here."
From basketball to having it all
Gomez and Maki met in 1998 coaching college basketball at California State Fullerton. Gomez spent 21 years in and out of the restaurant industry, while Maki managed a 2.1 million sq. ft. Target distribution center in Seattle until Gomez came up with his own idea for HopsScotch.
"It's the American dream to be your own boss, and to love what you do," Gomez said.
They unveiled their baby with decidedly mature tastes on July 5. During HopsScotch's "soft opening" the new restaurant has had few kinks to work out and has become packed to the gills on weekends simply by word of mouth.
The formal opening will coincide with the sports season in September, Maki said, when they will add 40 bottled beers, a happy hour, and a brunch menu to the already impressive list of HopsScotch offerings.
"I personally think this is exactly what the financial district has been missing out on." – Luke Gomez
Patrons first enter a sprawling main dining room flanked by an extremely long bar beneath a loft-like area owners term the "Scotch Lounge:" a more intimate place to drink and dine on couches and chairs reminiscent of cigar lounges of old.
There is cozier booth seating in a smaller dining room to the left of a very large, very full chalk board boasting daily rotating drink and food specials, and to the right is another large dining space.
"Jersey City is a growing area right now," Gomez said. "I personally think this is exactly what the financial district has been missing out on."
Craft hops, craft scotch
"It was our collaborative idea to marry together craft beer and craft whiskeys," Gomez explained. "The criteria for selection? They all have to be extremely special and extremely hard to get."
Gomez has the handle on the hops component, and McCoy knows a little something about the scotch.
"I lend my tastebuds, and my liver," McCoy joked. "These guys have made sure that part of my health insurance plan covers my future liver transplant."
HopsScotch lives up to its name with some serious scotches and beers. Gomez recommends the Balvenie 14 -Year Rum Cask either served neat (a 1.5 oz. pour) for $14 or on the rocks (a healthy 3 oz. pour) for $25. Since it spends its last six months in rum barrels, it has a sweet finish.
Or you have what Gomez calls the "gateway scotch," which is a 12-year Caol Ila for $12 neat or $19 on the rocks. Not only is the price attractive, but it lends a smokey, peatey finish that's smooth and easy to drink.
If you're looking to try the kind of rare find that really puts the light into Gomez's eyes, go for the limited 12-year Lagavulin, cask strength, for $15 neat and $26 on the rocks. He swears it's better than Lagavulin 16-year.
Then there's the wall-o-beers. The endless line of taps have interchangeable signs on strings to accommodate the ever-evolving selection, including daily specials that often make an appearance in the food as well.
"The three largest purveyors of beer are the United States, Germany, and Belgium," Gomez explained. "We draw mainly from there, but we're not limited to it."
They have pale ales and lagers and dark beers and fruit beers and beers to fit any taste. Currently draught is all there is, but they plan to soon take on 40 Belgians, bombers, and boutique beers.
The specials the day we visited included St. John's Mango Pale fruit beer at $7 per draught. It lent an unobnoxious, non-syrupy mango flavor with a peach nose and a slight bitter zesty lemon finish.
And don't worry ladies (or men). If you're not into beer, Gomez said, you can try the Tundraberry version of Tommyknocker, which is a tart, refreshing pale ale with subtle berry fruits brewed right in for $7 a draught.
Craft food
It takes true conviction to lure one of the best (and youngest) chefs in Manhattan across the Hudson.
"I think it's a great opportunity for me to build something from the ground up," McCoy said. "We take the craft beers and the scotches and infuse the flavors into the food."
McCoy's roots have inspired the HopsScotch cuisine. He fondly recalled helping his German grandmother in the kitchen as she made bun dumplings when he was only four; an early start which perhaps in part explains his early level of culinary success.
"This is sort of my homage to her," he said of the German-Belgian inspired cuisine.
The current menu consists largely of smaller plates meant to be shared and sampled and to promote a communal atmosphere not uncommon in the countries of the cuisine's origin.
McCoy cooks in small batches using seasonal and local ingredients from highest quality purveyors like Pat LaFreida (a butcher made famous by the Food Network) and Hudson Breads. The dumplings of his childhood are one of the more popular bites on the menu, but have evolved considerably since he was four.
For $11, one can enjoy perfectly crisped, coin-sized bread dumplings topped with red cabbage, Serrano ham, and a lick-your-plate-good whole grain mustard sauce.
And then there's the potato skins, at $10 for a healthy portion. McCoy hollows out small Yukon Gold potatoes and fills them with a reduced beer and sharp cheddar sauce, smoked duck confit (duck cooked in its own fat) with a chive crème fraiche, which is a slightly lighter and tangier version of sour cream.
Larger plates include the $11 Imported German Bratwurst topped with an ethereal caramelized onion mixture born of a Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale reduced to create a sweet nutty flavor and a slight bitterness. And, of course, there's homemade garlic chips on top of that.
Though it may seem odd in a setting where "specialty" is king, any good pub has got to have a burger. And with Pat LaFreida as butcher and McCoy at the helm, theirs is a burger unlike any other.
For $12, the patty is made up of a super secret blend of top-grade meat that includes short rib and sirloin and sits beneath roasted garlic and the aforementioned caramelized onion mélange. Then you have your HopsScotch cheese sauce, which McCoy says it includes a béchamel base and, of course, beer.
The menu is set to expand in September.
Hours of operation
HopsScotch is located at 286 Washington St. in Jersey City. Their website, hopsscotch.com, will be fully functional soon. They are open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. They'll even validate your parking.
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Anyway - what amazes me is the message doesn't seem to get through to the artists that everyone is entitled to their opinion but where it crosses a line, as far as many countries' laws are concerned, is when it turns into 'Kill, chop , murder so and so'..
"If you are a DJ, a performer in dancehall, you cannot just go onstage and they applaud you, it's not that kind of concert. During the performance, you have to get a forward, which is people holding up their hand or lighters and cheering. They know they'll get a response by talking about a set of things, some of them commendable. It is not homosexuality alone. It is abortion, police informers, paedophiles, rapists, bowcat (which is oral sex). So if the performance is not going well, they say: 'Hold up yuh hand if yuh nuh like battyman, hold up yuh hand if yuh nuh suck ****, yuh nuh bowcat.' I'm not defending them, because although I'm one of dancehall's biggest supporters, I've been one of their biggest critics, but they're not literally saying kill a battyboy or step on the chi chi man, you understand? It's metaphorical. They have been saying 'informer fi dead', 'bowcat fi dead' for a long time, but they don't literally mean it. It's annoying what the DJs are doing because they are just pandering to the crowd and it's uncreative, but you can't take it in the same context as when someone in your culture does it."
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Ten of the Best... Pocket Camcorders
YouTuber or home-movie buff - here are the cameras you should audition
Sony HDR-TG3
Sony's TG3 is an impressive device that combines the 'point-and-shoot' simplicity of the Flip Ultra with the image quality of a high-definition camcorder. Its 1080i resolution produces very good quality video, and is complemented by 10x optical zoom and 5.1 surround sound audio recording. Thankfully, the TG3 is sold with a 4GB Memory Stick to get you started, which holds about 30 minutes of video at maximum resolution. We also like the little docking unit that is supplied with the TG3 for connecting it to your computer. Admittedly, it's not the most elegant camcorder we've ever seen, but its titanium casing is nice and solid, and should ensure that the TG3 can survive a few bumps and knocks when you carry it around in your pocket.
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Toshiba Camileo Pro HD
The Camileo Pro HD strikes a good balance between pocket-size portability, image quality and affordability. Priced at just under £140, it's also small enough to carry around in your pocket so that you can capture the action when you're out with friends. However, it has a much higher resolution than models such as the Creative Vado or Flip Ultra, capturing HD video at 720p.
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I'm beating myself up and I'm wearing out to succeed in this game. Scarred and bruised, I won't let up. Nothing you say can tear me down. End this nightmare and continue on the dreams. I'm beating myself up too much, too much runs through my head. I'm up all night writing these lines, hopeful in mind. I'm up all night writing these lines. As the clouds of sorrow overcast my heart, one point and purpose races through my veins. This is the cure, one cure, for all our pain as if it were nothing.


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The Walrus Says
Father Bill O'Neill says that Jamestown reminds him of him of his home, Malin Head in County Donegal, the most northern point in Ireland. "I grew up surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, our farm was about a mile from the sea," he explained.
He has been in Rhode Island since 1965 and his first assignment as a pastor was to St. Mark in 1984.
Who better than Fr. O'Neill to ask about St. Patrick whom we Americans of many backgrounds celebrate on Saturday by wearing green, eating corned beef and cabbage, drinking green beer and Irish whiskey, watching parades and hugging complete strangers.
"In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation as well as a National Holiday. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. It is always marked by parades and my fondest memory, as a child, is running alongside the bagpipe band and especially watching the drum major twirl and beat the huge drum," Fr. O'Neill reminisced.
But, who was the man who became a patron saint? Fr. O'Neill described Patrick as being born in Patricius somewhere in Roman Britain to a relatively wealthy family. "He was not religious as a youth and, in fact, claims to have practically renounced the faith of his family. While in his teens, Patrick was kidnapped in a raid and transported to Ireland, where he was enslaved to a local warlord and worked as a shepherd until he escaped six years later."
Fr. O'Neill went on to say that Patrick returned home and eventually undertook studies for the priesthood with the intention of returning to Ireland as a missionary to his former captors. "It is not clear when he actually made it back to Ireland, or for how long he ministered there, but it was defi- nitely for a number of years. By the time he wrote the 'Confession' and the 'Letter to Coroticus,' Patrick was recognized by both Irish natives and the Church hierarchy as the Bishop of Ireland. By this time, also, he had clearly made a permanent commitment to Ireland and intended to die there. Scholars have no reason to doubt that he did."
Fr. O'Neill described how Patrick is the only individual we know from fifth-century Ireland or England and no other written records from Britain or Ireland exist from that century. There are simply no written records at all from Ireland prior to Patrick's.
"Experts agree, however, that the two examples of his writing that we have are clearly written by the same man, the man we know as Patrick. These two brief documents, Patrick's 'Confession' and his 'Letter to Coroticus,' are the basis for all we know of the historical Patrick."
But this dearth of a traditional biography doesn't in any way dampen the love held for St. Patrick and the enthusiasm for celebrating his day.
Returning to his memories of Malin Head to which he tries to return every year, Fr. O'Neill said that on St. Patrick's Day everyone wears a big cluster of shamrocks on their clothing. "We would go out early that morning and pick the biggest shamrocks we could find. Of course, real shamrocks only grow in Ireland!" He added that everyone wore live shamrocks to church and the common question among adults was "are you going to drown the shamrock today?"
"We children learned much later what 'to drown the shamrock meant'! Of course, it meant sprinkling it with Holy Water!"
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
The incomparable Liza Minnelli was in the audience at Saturday night's Jamestown Community Theatre's presentation of "Yours, Anne." She was the guest of her friend Ellie Krach, mother of Artistic Director Mary S. Wright. Reports received the next day said that the star was very gracious and volunteered to have her picture taken with the cast and audience members.
Come back soon, Liza.
A reader told us there was a fabulous "moment" at Saturday night's performance.
When the play ended, the audience sat for an estimated three minutes in complete silence.
Kudos to McQuade's customers who have been donating their change to the Fireworks Fund.
The market's clerks have kept the Rocket Dawgz' donations can going through the winter and came up with $110 that the Dawgz deposited as the first 2007 contribution to the Fireworks Fund.
This year's shoot will be on Wednesday, July 4, at Mackerel Cove with a rain date of July 5.
Send us your money so we can blow it up. Make your check out to Fireworks Fund and send it to Box 1776, Jamestown, 02835, or leave it in the Walrus pigeon hole at The Press.
John A Murphy was late but no less welcome with "Side By Side."
Libby LaMantia is still waiting. No one was in with the answer to who sang Rolly Polly and in what movie? Let's not let John Murphy's readers trump us again.
R.I.P. Al Bates - the island has lost a very special person.
Eileen Tiexiera asks if anyone else has voiced concern over the "cell tower" issue and other controversies surrounding electromagnetic pollution.
"I intuitively feel that it is all very dangerous and our children and children's children will some day be paying a very tragic and damaging health price."
She says that the Safe Wireless Initiative (SWI) has reams of information describing the "probable and unfortunate dangers of electromagnetic radiation."
Eileen added that for those interested in becoming more informed on the subject to check out www.safewireless.org. "We need to raise awareness in our community. Please do your part by becoming informed," she said.
New members are bolstering the voices of the Jamestown Community Chorus as the group rehearses for its participation in RISings II April 29 at the East Providence High School and its own spring concert May 5 and 6 at the Central Baptist Church.
Joining the choristers are Prim Bullock and Philita Riley from Jamestown; Gale Goff from Newport; Charlotte Matteson, Charlestown; Jane Stewart, Warwick; Don Taft, Wakefield; and Jack Vanderbeck from North Kingstown.
The spring concert is titled "Going Home" and features some 15 selections of song and dance reflecting the various nationality backgrounds of chorus members.
The chorus rehearses Monday evenings at the Central Baptist Church.
Lee White called from her condo in the Bay View to tell us two beautiful swans were napping in the water next to the Conanicut Marina gas dock. "I can't remember ever seeing swans in the open bay," she said.
They didn't call it the Bay View for nothing.
Committee members Kathleen Brown and Matt Bolles are putting together a lineup of songs from musicals directed by Mary S. Wright when the artistic director is honored at The Toast of the Town March 31 at the Portuguese American Citizens Club.
So far, blockbuster tunes will include "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Wouldn't It Be Lovely."
The co-founder of the Jamestown Community Theatre in 1990, Mary is being honored by the Jamestown Education Foundation.
For tickets or more information call Lisa Carlisle, 423-3353.
Don't forget Caty Schnack's fund-raising dinner a week from tonight (the 22nd) at the Gaudet Middle School in Middletown.
Money raised will help the Jamestown seventh grader to be a student ambassador to Australia this summer.
The dinner starts at 6 p.m. and will be catered by the Outback Steakhouse. There will also be a silent auction and a raffle. Tickets cost $25 per adult and $10 for children under 10. Call Caty at 423- 3496 for tickets or to make a donation send your check to Caty at 36 Clarke St., Jamestown 02835.
During last month, the Fire Department held several training sessions including a walk-through inspection by all the companies of the Jamestown School on Melrose Avenue, the Incident Command System, Fire Alarm Systems, SCBA use and hose and appliances.
Call in your stuff for this column to 423-0383 or 829-2760. E-mail us at jtnwalrus@hotmail .com.


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