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Neil Patrick Harris is happy to host the Emmys
It's his second stint as host for TV's biggest night.
Neil Patrick Harris didn't need to have his arm twisted to host a show celebrating television.
"I love TV and the motley crew of people that are part of it," says Harris, who will host the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday on CBS (live, 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT). With so many TV offerings of every type, "I think that makes for a better viewing experience of television than ever, and I'm happy to be the guy in charge of honoring that."
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Harris, a How I Met Your Mother star in his second stint as Emmy emcee, has earned high praise (and three Emmys, including one at Sunday's Creative Arts ceremony) for his awards-hosting skills. He says being a jack-of-all-trades while growing up helped.
"I dabbled in magic and juggling and I sing some," he says. "Those are all, as it turns out, good attributes for being a host."
Harris praises other awards hosts, including Billy Crystal, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Whoopi Goldberg and Ellen DeGeneres, but says he doesn't model himself on anyone. "I want to do my own thing and hope people respond to it. I think the key is to try and be nice. I'm not so wild a fan of comedy at people's expense."
His opening song-and-dance number at the Tony Awards in June was so well received he's not going to try to match it. Viewers willsee Harris in at least one dance number conceived by nominees for the choreography award.
The show will feature more music thanusual. A tribute to the late pianist Liberace (the subject of nominated HBO film Behind the Candelabra) features a performance by Elton John. And a 50th anniversary segment honors television's vital role in covering John F. Kennedy's assassination and introducing The Beatles to a mass audience on The Ed Sullivan Show a few months later. Music from the era, including Beatles songs, will be performed by Carrie Underwood.
"It's fortuitous, because (music) goes hand in hand with who Neil is," says executive producer Ken Ehrlich. "He's multi-layered, but there's that musical side of him that's great fun to work with."
In addition to the traditional In Memoriam segment, the Emmys will feature tributes to four stars and a producer from well-known people who were close to them.
Edie Falco will honor her Sopranos husband James Gandolfini; Jane Lynch will talk about her Glee co-star, Cory Monteith; Michael J. Fox will pay tribute to Family Ties creator Gary David Goldberg; Rob Reiner will remember Jean Stapleton, his All in the Family mother-in-law; and Robin Williams will honor a mentor, comedian Jonathan Winters, who worked with him on Mork & Mindy.
Ehrlich says the separate tributes, an extension of the traditional memorial montage, are not meant to diminish the loss of other industry notables.
Monteith, who died in July at 31, had less of a TV history than others, Ehrlich says, but "It was important to be responsive to younger viewers to whom (he) meant as much as perhaps these other four individuals meant to their own generations."
Returning for the second year as host of Sunday's Emmys, Neil Patrick Harris says he's ready with his one-liners and plans to hang out on stage throughout the telecast. (Sept. 18) AP


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Someone who spoke to USC athletic director Pat Haden last week described him as "stressed" over the Trojans' search for a new football coach.
But as USC prepares to play UCLA on Saturday at the Coliseum, there is a growing sentiment a victory over the Bruins might end the search before it truly begins if interim coach Ed Orgeron gets the job.
Orgeron barely was on the radar when Lane Kiffin was fired nearly two months ago, but fan sentiment is so strong it might be difficult to ignore him with a victory over the crosstown rival.
With fans storming the field Saturday night for a second time in three weeks, would Haden be able to ignore the rebirth of the program since Kiffin was fired? USC would have 10 wins and still play a bowl game.
Or would Orgeron actually be doing him a favor by taking the decision out of his hands? Instead of a stressful December trying to make a decision, Haden could swiftly name Orgeron the coach and no longer need to worry about it.
If Orgeron were a success, Haden would get the credit. If Orgeron failed, Haden could say he merely bowed to the fans' wishes and would go outside the program with the next coach.
If USC is 10-3 next week, it might be too hard for Haden to introduce someone like Vanderbilt coach James Franklin, a relative unknown to most USC fans. The dilemma for Haden is Franklin is 14-4 over the past 18 games, the second-most wins in the Southeastern Conference behind only Alabama.
Haden must decide if he can resist a rising star like Franklin in favor of the popular Orgeron. Even tougher would be to ignore Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, whom sources said is the Trojans' top target if Orgeron is not hired.
Sumlin is expected to draw interest from NFL teams too, so Haden probably would need to move quickly in December if he really wanted the charismatic coach.
A wild card to all this would be ESPN analyst Jon Gruden. USC contacted him last month, and if the former Oakland and Tampa Bay coach was interested, Haden would not need to explain hiring the big-name coach to fans or boosters. Gruden probably is the one candidate who would satisfy everyone, even though Haden acknowledged last week he expected to be criticized with the hire.
"I completely understand that people are going to disagree with the decision I make, no matter who it is, right? So we're going to get that. I'm fully prepared for that," Haden said.
Haden has also interviewed Denver Broncos interim coach and former USC linebacker Jack Del Rio.
"Of course, there's a couple of candidates at USC that played (or coached) for me, including Jack Del Rio (and Orgeron)," Fox NFL analyst Jimmy Johnson said. "I don't think they'd miss with either one of them. It just depends on what they're looking for.
"Regardless, I know USC would benefit from naming either of them as the leader of their program."
Del Rio would be riskier because he does not have college experience and USC's compliance department is the largest in the nation, which means he would need to adjust to its myriad rules and constant scrutiny since being put on probation.
That is where Orgeron has a big advantage on the rest of the field. He has been at USC off and on since 1998 and knows how to recruit under the school's NCAA sanctions.
"When I was at Miami, I was winning simply because I had the best players than anyone else," Johnson said. "I thought I was a heck of a coach, but it was really the players we recruited. You have to attract the talent. And Ed has proven he can do that."
Ironically, Orgeron's stock is not only rising but could give him leverage when Haden interviews him for the job because other schools might now be interested.
"I know with the success he's had, and recognition and visibility, there'll be a lot of folks around the country happy to have Ed Orgeron, but only he can answer that," Johnson said.


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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Oakland prepared to begin season without Bethany Watterworth
The Oakland women's team kicks off its season in the first half of Friday's doubleheader against George Mason at 5 p.m. at the O'rena.
Coach Beckie Francis' team has a strong non-conference schedule which includes visits from Michigan State (Dec. 5) and Purdue (Dec. 16) as well as a trip to face Connecticut Dec. 19. The slate gets tougher when considering leading scorer and preseason Summit League Player of the Year Bethany Watterworth (Lake Orion) will miss the beginning of the season with an undisclosed injury.
"This is actually helping our offense because people aren't standing around waiting for her to score," Francis said.
The Grizzlies fought off Windsor last weekend in a triple-overtime exhibition.
"They reminded me of the top tier of the Summit League," Francis said. "That was a good barometer game for us."
Freshman Elena Popkey had scored 25 points and had 16 rebounds in a Watterworthy type of performance in her first game.
"She's a freshman and she's already taken over this team," Francis said in awe.
Francis said Watterworth still isn't practicing with the team and declined to give a timetable for the senior's return. The Oakland coach, in her 13th season, said the Golden Grizzlies are preparing to play without their star, who, herself burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2009-10.
"It's going to be tough, but we're prepared," Francis said.
Oakland was 11-17 overall and 7-11 in conference play last season, tied for sixth. It has been picked to finish third in the league's preseason poll.
The Grizzlies host American Monday and Buffalo (Nov. 16) before leaving for a two-game road trip.
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Wearing a padded swimsuit can be a quick fix for those who want to increase the size of their bust. But is this really something to be worrying about at the age of 7 or 8? Abercrombie & Fitch thought so when they recently released a padded bikini top named the "push-up triangle" on their Abercrombie Kids website.
Due to the feedback, the company announced on Facebook that it has changed the product name to "lightly lined triangle" (see the story on the Tribune's Breaking Business Blog). Yet to many, the damage had been done.
"My first instinct was 'Are you kidding me? That's outrageous!' " says Leslie Modelski, a Chicago-area mother of three girls, ages 6, 9 and 12. "And whoever buys these is equally at fault. I mean, who puts their kid in that? My girls don't even wear bikinis. That's for teenagers."
"I won't be buying these for my daughters," says David Stewart, father of two daughters, ages 8 and 10. "This is all a publicity stunt. They did this a while back when they had thongs they were marketing for little kids. People talk about them, and sales spike for a little bit, but in the end, the smart parents know it's not something they will be buying for their kids."
"It is irresponsible to push fashion that promotes a particular asset that hasn't been physically developed yet," says food and relationship writer Rea Frey. "[Kids] are like sponges. Making a padded top for someone who does not yet have breasts makes the child feel like something is wrong with them, and this could feed into childhood obesity or an eating disorder."
Psychologist Jean Greaves, who has two daughters ages 12 and 15, says she noticed her kids were gravitating towards Abercrombie years ago, and couldn't stop the infatuation from intensifying.
"I learned early on I had to set boundaries with them about what we could take home, even when they said 'But Mom, everybody has it!' " Greaves said.
So how can we draw the line at age-inappropriate clothing and help our daughters with their self-esteem?
"Don't freak out about this in front of your kids," suggests Charlotte Reznick, author of the book "The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success" (Penguin, $14.95). "If your daughter says she wants that padded bikini, stay calm so she can hear your message. If you get emotional, the child won't hear your words—they just hear the emotion in your voice."
"If you get into an argument about why it's wrong or bad, then you become the person who is pushed out of the conversation," adds Greaves. "A parent can help their daughter develop positive self-talk, which is the talk that plays in your head all day long. If you hear them say to their friends 'I need to be skinny' or 'I need to be sexy,' you can bring it to the surface with a dialogue. Lots of small conversations throughout the day, like in the car when you're heading to or from school, can be helpful."
"Make your point lovingly," says Reznick. "Say, 'That kind of bathing suit is nice, and it's for a much older person.' Or, 'You wouldn't drive a car if you were 7 or 8.' Point out the positive and be sure to tell them they can do that when they're older."
And don't forget to stress the point.
"It's critical to point out your family's values often," say Reznick. "Tell your kids you want them to enjoy where they are NOW. We know kids are impatient, but point out that it's important to enjoy where you are in each stage as it happens. There will be countless times when your kid brings up an issue that might be shocking. Use that moment to have a calm conversation."
Experts also say that focusing on a lifestyle of wellness can help alleviate some of the peer pressure surrounding how you look on the outside.
"Girls need to realize there's not one body shape that's more beautiful than the next," says Frey. "Does it mean you're pretty if you have a voluptuous top half in a bathing suit? Absolutely not.
"Girls need to think about being healthy—and that takes into account what goes into your body, not what you wear outside of it. Show a child how to read. How to balance a checkbook. How to do a push-up. How the word 'beautiful' is subjective. How to have self-confidence that has nothing to do with what you like in name-brand clothing."


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Fox Sports announced today, per USA Today, that once-blond nuisance (and current White Sox starting catcher) AJ Pierzynski would join Eric Karros' pompadour and the formerly frosted, still gelled tips of Chris Rose on Fox's World Series pregame and postgame coverage. Yuck. (We presume Jeanne Zelasko and Kevin Kennedy are in a storage unit somewhere.)
Then again, even though the active-player-as-broadcaster thing normally leads to encomia ("Miguel Cabrera's got a great physique"), we know Pierzynski well enough that we can trust him to say horrible, horrible things about his peers. And he'll mean them. Game one's October 19.
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WHEN Army bomb disposal experts are killed or injured on the front line, the Felix Fund charity is there to offer support.
Now the organisation supporting soldiers from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, which has its headquarters in Didcot, is celebrating a special commendation.
Holly Davies, chief executive of the Didcot-based charity, accepted the Chief of The Defence Staff (CDS) commendation at Ministry of Defence headquarters in Whitehall on Wednesday.
The award recognises outstanding commitment by non-military individuals or organisations to the services and was presented by General Sir Nick Houghton, the head of the British Armed Forces.
Felix Fund, which is based at Vauxhall Barracks, the home of 11 EOD Regiment, is one of only two charities to get a CDS Commendation since the inaugural awards in 2012.
Sir Nick said: "Felix Fund is a charity that significantly improves the lives of soldiers returning from operations through the generous provision of breaks, grants and peer support. Their work wholly complements our own efforts and is worthy of special recognition."
Ms Davies said: "Everyone at Felix Fund is thrilled by this commendation.
"It's very reassuring to have formal confirmation that our work for the military bomb disposal community has been good and useful."
The charity was founded in 2011 by Ms Davies and three serving bomb disposal experts. It has provided therapeutic breaks for more than 300 military bomb disposal experts who have served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Northern Ireland and the UK.It also makes hardship grants to people and their families, and on-camp welfare facilities for bomb disposal units are also supported.
Since April 2011, more than £1m has been raised for bomb disposal experts and their families.
Peter Norton, a retired major who was injured in Baghdad in 2005, has been helped by the charity, which has funded a mobility vehicle and stairlift at his home in Shrivenham.
The 51-year-old dad-of-two, who was based at Vauxhall Barracks with 11 EOD, said: "I think the commendation is completely fitting and well deserved recognition.
"The funding of the vehicle has enabled me to be independent and see my children, and very shortly once the lift has finished that will make my day much easier.
"For the bomb disposal community and those that are injured, they are making significant changes to the ability to get on with their lives."
Seven members of 11 EOD have been killed in action since 2003 – Warrant Officer 2 Gary O'Donnell, 40, Staff Sergeant Brett Linley, 29, Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, 30, Captain Daniel Shepherd, 28, Staff Sergeant Chris Muir, 32, Captain Lisa Head, 29, and Captain Dan Read, 31.
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The P22 is a semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen.
On the exterior, it resembles the Walther P99, but it is somewhat smaller (75% of the P99's size) and its action chambers the rimfire .22 LR cartridge. The most noticeable exterior difference is the P22's slide mounted, thumb operated, ambidextrous safety and its external hammer. The P22 features a cast polymer grip-frame. Its slide and serial numbered frame receiver inserts are made from MIM (Metal Injection Molding) cast zinc alloy, its barrel consists of a rifled steel insert within a steel barrel sleeve, and its internal lockwork and fire-control parts are a combination of MIM cast steel and steel stampings.
The P22 can be purchased with a 3.4-inch short barrel (pictured to the right), or with a 5-inch barrel which includes a barrel mounted weight compensator matching the profile of the slide. The P22 was originally designed such that the two different length barrel assemblies could be easily interchanged, and "combo" packages including both barrels were offered for sale.[citation needed]
The P22 is offered in many different color variations of its polymer lower receiver. The pistol is available in black, olive drab, grey, carbon fiber and 3 pink versions. There is now a new lower receiver finish that looks like Damascus steel. The slide assembly will have either a blue-black applied finish or it will be finished with a nickel/stainless look. Along with the new finish for the lower receiver, the slide also has a new finish option of brushed stainless.
The production year is located on the receiver and is visible through the ejection port when the slide is closed. The year is indicated with a two letter code where A=0, B=1, C=2 and so on to I=8 and K=9 ("J" is never used as a year designator). In the image you can see the receiver is labeled with AH indicating a production year of 07.
There are three revisions of the Walther P22 magazine as the original design was prone to feed failures. Walther corrected the issue by modifying the feed ears and adding a short 3/8" slot which allows rounds to stagger as they approach the top of the magazine. The second version of the magazine is designated with an "A" after the part number. Later versions of the "A" magazine have an elongated 1" stagger slot which further improves the magazine's performance. Finally Walther has released a "B" version which is made of thicker steel, has a tall spring retaining nub and retains the 1" stagger slot.
The P22 may be fired double action at about 12 pounds of force, and operates as a single action with slightly more than 5 pounds of force. The P22 operates by blowback where pressure generated by a firing cartridge is countered by a combination of the inertial weight of the slide assembly and the force of the recoil spring. The action will not open until the projectile has left the barrel and the pressures have dropped to safe levels.
The P22 is equipped with a magazine disconnect that prevents the trigger from operating on the sear mechanism unless a magazine is actually inserted and locked into the weapon. The magazine disconnect on a P22 works by using a strong spring to apply downward force against the trigger bar, such force being sufficient to overcome the action of the relatively weaker trigger spring which interacts with upward force on the same bar. When a magazine is not locked into the weapon, the downward force of the stronger magazine disconnect spring causes the trigger bar to pass beneath the internal lockwork of the weapon when the trigger is pressed. Once a magazine is fully inserted, however, an actuator surface on the front of the magazine pushes against the magazine safety. This overcomes the magazine safety's strong spring, and thereby serves to allow the trigger bar to spring upward under the force of the less powerful trigger spring. When this occurs, the trigger bar is in a position where it engages the lockwork when the trigger is actuated.
Walther recommends the use of high velocity 22 Long Rifle cartridge and reportedly tests with CCI Mini Mag round nose coated lead.The P22's slide mounted safety, when engaged, performs two functions. First, it serves as a "hammer block" by rotating a portion of the metal surface of the safety into a position that interferes with the hammer's contact with the firing pin. Second, it acts as a "firing pin lock" by rotating a portion of the safety into a notch on the underside of the firing pin, thereby inhibiting forward movement. The P22 safety does not prevent sear or trigger movement, and (as noted), it does not provide a hammer-drop function. If the hammer is cocked when a P22 has been placed on "safe", the hammer will continue to remain cocked and will fall only if the trigger is pressed. If the safety is on, the hammer will strike the safety instead of the firing pin and, therefore, fail to fire.
The P22 uses an additional, passive, safety mechanism to protect against accidental discharges in the event the weapon is dropped. When the action is closed, a small metal button on the underside of the breech block is actuated by an arm surface extending from the sear. In this state (whether or not the hammer is cocked), the firing pin is mechanically blocked and cannot move forward to strike a cartridge rim. When the trigger is pressed, the sear moves downward in such a way as to move from its interaction with the firing pin safety, which in turn springs downward under the force of a captive spring within the breech block. This disengages the firing pin safety, allowing the firing pin to move and the weapon to fire.


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The horrors of the Holocaust continue to reverberate some 70 years later. As I reflect on all the lives lost and others irreparably changed, I know the story has to be told again and again. As new generations arise, they, too, need to understand what happens when religious intolerance is allowed to breed unchallenged and unchecked. All too clearly, we saw what transpired when the world looked the other way...and even colluded...when Hitler launched his "final solution" against the Jews and others he deemed "Lebensunwertes Leben" (life unworthy of life). Afterwards, governments and citizens had to grapple with how to justify their actions or inaction. Most assuredly, we in the United States were not exempt.
Many excellent documentaries and movies have been devoted to the Holocaust, exploring the history the world would rather forget. I recently had the opportunity watch There Was Once, a new documentary on the Holocaust that looks back at the past through contemporary lenses. This compelling story struck me anew with the importance of personal responsibility in the face of religious intolerance. It is a message that needs repeating.
On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world recalled and remembered the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was a time to consider the price of standing idly by when bigotry and hatred is given free rein. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I hosted a screening of There Was Once at the Department of State for students, civil society, and government colleagues on January 30. Directed by Gabor Kalman, the documentary tells the story of a Hungarian teacher who discovers the Jewish community of Kalocsa, Hungary, which once was so vibrant, but disappeared in the Holocaust. Gyöngyi Mago, a Catholic high school teacher in Kalocsa, engages her students as she teaches tolerance and fights prejudice in the face of an emerging cultural and political right-wing reality in Hungary.
How many times do you have the opportunity to discuss a noteworthy film with both the director and the protagonist? Such was the case today, when Gabor Kalman joined us in person and Gyöngyi Mago virtually linked up from Budapest for a question and answer session immediately following the screening.
It takes government and civil society joining forces to speak up and speak out whenever and wherever anti-Semitism and other forms of religious intolerance arise. It takes people of faith crossing religious divides to stand firm for those of differing beliefs. It takes a concerted will of the government and the people to challenge the "new anti-Semitism." For these reasons, we have to teach the Holocaust, with the emphasis on personal responsibility. By examining what happened...and happens...when governments endorse and encourage anti-Semitism, we grasp the importance of refusing to hide behind the actions of others as an excuse for personal inaction.
I welcome your thoughts.
About the Author: Ira Forman serves as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Follow Special Envoy Forman's work to monitor and combat anti-Semitism via @SEASForman on Twitter and on www.humanrights.gov.


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"My parents didn't just want to hand me everything. They taught me to work for it and work hard," she explains. "So, I started singing in competitions when I was 13 years old. I always knew I was going to be a singer, but my dad taught me that experience is what would get me there, and this was a great experience. I learned a lot. I then started singing at the Oklahoma Opry, now the Rodeo Opry, every three weeks or so to really hone my craft."
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The carnival has come to town! For the holiday weekend, a traveling carnival has come to Millersville for the long weekend. Friday night, five friends got their parents to drive them to the carnival for the evening. Meeting up by the roller coaster, the five friends spent the night riding rides, playing games, and eating carnival food. Their favorite food was the cotton candy booth – and it was crazy candy! With most cotton candy, if you get grape, the cotton candy is colored grape, strawberry is red, lemon is yellow, and so on. Well, at THIS cotton candy booth, strawberry might be purple and grape might be pink! None of the flavors had the expected colors. Determine the full name of each friend, what cotton candy flavor each ordered, and what color cotton candy each received.
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4. Mr. Williams bought the yellow cotton candy. The boy whose last name was Woods bought the strawberry flavored cotton candy but it wasn't blue.
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Discreet, Auto Rotate, Rotate, Search Jump (Shot Date, 10 images, 100 images, Movies, Still Images), Slideshow
Still Images:
Single, Index (4-100 Thumbnails), Magnification (Approx. 2x-10x), Information Display, Histogram, Overexposure Warning, Resume Playback, Red-Eye Correction, i-Contrast, Resize,
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Displays playback position and shooting time
*1 Audio settings available in 5 levels
*2 Approximately 4 seconds
*3 Rewind and Fast-forward are also available
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Single Image*, Erase All
The image data in the memory card stored with the design rule for camera file systems format can be erased (however, protected images cannot be erased).* Movies can be erased individually.
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Hi-Speed USB*1 (Dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video*2)
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Video Out
NTSC/PAL (unified type dedicated connector (female)) with digital, audio and video
Audio Out
Monaural (unified type dedicated connector (female)) with digital, audio and video
Memory card slot; direct connection to Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printers, PIXMA Inkjet Photo Printers and PictBridge-compatible printers via camera's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed cable
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Approx. 3.84 oz. / 109 g (Camera body only)
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More than a hundred chess players, ranging in age from kindergarten to 12th graders, faced off at the American Chess Academy Holiday Championship Sunday at the Maple Community Center in Glendale.
Armen Ambarsoumian, president of the academy, said the tournament "is one of the largest in Southern California and is helping to put Glendale on the map in the chess world."
Ambarsoumian said 133 players from San Diego to Bakersfield showed up to the event, which he called a huge success. He said his organization plans to have another tournament on Feb. 17, also at Maple Community Center.
-- Dan Evans, Times Community News


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Marquette students abroad love to share their experiences, and the most interesting stories often are told while students are overseas. Check out the student blogs below to get a sense of life on a study abroad program.
South Africa Service Learning Program
Austin Dunn's South Africa blog — spring 2010
"I had an oversized suitcase in each hand and a book bag over my shoulder as I walked out the front door of Cape Town International airport."
Cate Blankenship's South Africa blog — fall 2009
"This was the story we came to hear. The one about struggle and separation and liberty and reconciliation."
Brian Harper's South Africa blog — fall 2009
"There are many people we have had the good fortune of meeting that have different but equally inspiring stories."
Marquette en Madrid
Owen O'Riordan's Madrid blog — spring 2010
"I did get some quick pictures of the Metro, which is one of my favorite parts of Madrid so far. Don't get me wrong, I love the history, the food, and the people but I do appreciate a well run, efficient and clean mass transit system."
Marquette en Madrid Student blog — spring 2009
"Most madrileños live in apartments, where space is valuable. Kitchens and kitchen appliances seem minuscule by American standards. And they also seem older. Those 70s style avocado or mustard-colored appliances that are so passé back home still lurk around Europe. Why? Because they still work."
General program blogs
Mayra Roman — Institut Catholique Paris — spring 2010
"On every first Sunday of the month, all museums in France are free. This is the time where I will be taking advantage to visit some Chateau's near Paris."
Anna Mohr — University of Kent — fall 2009
"So I realize the objective in starting this blog was to be able to share all of my super fun experiences and discoveries in England. well, my latest discovery is that I LOVE blogging."
Rosemary Lane — University of Kent — spring 2009


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Tony Prohaska writes, "Ray was a member of the Society of Illustrators from the time he moved permanently from Chicago to New York, sometime after the '29 Crash. Through the S.I., Ray became friends with all the illustrators in N.Y. at the time, but his particular favorite, almost a father figure, was Arthur William Brown. Ray and Carolyn were constant companions with "Brownie" . He was a frequent visitor in the early day's of their life in Amagansett."
"Their particular friends in those days included Al Dorne and his wife Edna, Bob and Aggie Fawcett, ……and I'll think of the others as I go along."
"Al Dorne though, would not go below 14th St. Carolyn said she thought it had something to do with not going out of his father's precinct. Supposedly, his father was a cop."
"Ray was also friends with many of the artists at the 10th Street Studios, where he kept a studio. (They had an apartment across the street, where I lived as an infant.) Ray became buddies at 10th Street with John Alan Maxwell. Ray liked to drink and chase women... [and] was accused by Johnny's wife of leading him astray."
When I found this ad it occurred to me that Tony's dad might have pressed some of his illustrator friends into service to pose for the reference photos. Tony replied, "I'm pretty sure the young man on the left was a local kid,"
"... but he may have also used a professional model or two, or even as you say, one of his friends, for one or more of the older guys..."
"The guy with the pencil moustache looks like Johnny Maxwell."
Then I found the scan below of a Ray Prohaska original, from a 1950 story for the Saturday Evening Post on the Heritage Auctions website. I had to ask Tony... did he pose for this piece?
He replied, "Yeah, the posing. I hated it. Seemed like I was doing it all the time. I sort of felt that every one of his jobs had a kid who just happened to be my age. He had big, old fashioned lights, including one that was like a theater light. It was..., "hold still, just one more.." and then, another roll... and of course there was sitting on some stranger's lap, male or female.., balancing on one foot to look like I was running, of course there were telephone books as props..."
"No, there were no other illustrators that used me, ....other than after I was grown, when I did a few posing jobs for Al Moore, (a teriffic guy!) who had the studio across the hall from the one that Ray inherited from Brownie, at 33W. 67th. (I eventually got him kicked out of there for a couple of parties I gave... and some rowdy visitors, to put it mildly)."
"That boy with the dog was both me and my friend Mickey Miller... He just turned 67 and is a commercial fisherman."
Tony adds, "My parents were great friends with Leonard Starr. My father and I modeled for two of his characters, circus performers... my character was Tony Abbott. For years afterwards my friends called me 'The Boy Cartoon'."
* Tony Prohaska has put together an extensive website devoted to his dad's life, where you can read a very thorough biography and see many more examples of the artist's work. Go to The Art of Ray Prohaska for more.
* Thanks to Heritage Auctions for permission to use the scan of Ray Prohaska's original art above.
* My Ray Prohaska Flickr set.
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David Terrell, a former first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears, released a statement today saying he's confident he will beat felony drug charges filed against him last week.
"Mr. Terrell adamantly denies any participation whatsoever in the alleged criminal acts," reads a statement released by his attorney, Mark P. Sutter. "Mr. Terrell has faith that the criminal justice system will ultimately vindicate him."
Terrell is accused of hitting two police officers as he was being arrested on drug charges last Friday on the South Side. Police say the officers were responding to a call of people smoking marijuana and found Terrell and two others in an apartment in the 3900 block of South Calumet Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood.
"In plain view were multiple items including cannabis and equipment to package it and other such narcotics. That included heat-sealing machines and baggies typically used to package, sell and use narcotics," said Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
"As officers were conducting an interview, Terrell struck an officer's hand by reaching over the top of the door and hitting the officer, injuring him," Mirabelli said. Terrell is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, according to court records.
As he was being placed into custody, Terrell tried to "defeat" the arrest and "in doing so, he caused injury to the hand of a second police officer," Mirabelli said.
Terrell, 35, was charged with manufacture and delivery of cannabis, a felony, and misdemeanor battery, Mirabelli said. The other two people were also arrested. Bail was set at $20,000.
"There is no evidence in the record that would indicate that Mr. Terrell had any possessory interest in the recovered contraband, or that he was in any way affiliated with or accountable for the acts of the other individuals that were arrested on the same charges," the statement reads.
The statement does not specifically address the battery charges.
Terrell was drafted by the Bears in the first round of the 2001 NFL Draft, arriving from the University of Michigan. He played four seasons with the Bears and one game with the Denver Broncos in 2005, finishing his career with 128 receptions and 9 touchdowns.
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How to make sushi rice?
This is probably one of the most fundamental questions when it comes to Japanese cuisine, thanks to the increasing popularity of sushi in the world.
Home cooks who are interested in Japanese cuisine will ultimately want to learn how to make perfect sushi rice—the vinegared rice which is the building block of all sorts of sushi.
Once you master a great sushi rice recipe, you can make just about any sushi to your liking…
A basic sushi rice is made with short grain rice with three basic ingredients:
- Rice Vinegar
- Sugar
- Salt
Other than the rice, the most important ingredient is the rice vinegar, which is pretty much the soul of the sushi rice. The sugar and salt are added to flavor the sushi rice to one's liking.
Therefore, a perfect sushi rice starts with a good rice vinegar and I always use Mizkan Rice Vinegar.
As the #1 brand for vinegar and vinegar-related condiments in Japan, Mizkan is the brand that my Japanese friends recommended when I first learned how to make sushi many years ago.
If you want something easier, you can use Mizkan Sushi Seasoning, which is widely used in Japan. This all-in-one sushi seasoning has the perfect and authentic flavor so anyone can make sushi if they want.
Here are some tips that I would like to share with you when making sushi rice:
- Use only high quality Japanese white short-grain rice. You can get the rice at Asian supermarkets or Japanese food stores.
- Wash the rice thoroughly with water before cooking. The rice is ready to be cooked when the water becomes clear—an indication that the "starch" coating the rice is completely washed off.
- Use an electric rice cooker to cook the rice.
- Add rice vinegar or sushi seasoning right after the rice is cooked, mix it while it is hot and then cool it.
- Preferably, use a wooden bowl and spoon to prepare the sushi rice. Traditionally, sushi rice is made in a wooden tub called hangiri.
- Always use fresh sushi rice to make sushi. Refrigerated sushi rice loses its original texture.
Stay tuned for the next installment as I will be sharing my hand roll recipe with you.
Sushi Rice Recipe
Learn how to make sushi rice with this easy sushi rice recipe. Sushi rice can be made easily with Mizkan rice vinegar or Mizkan sushi seasoning at home.
- 1 cup rice measured with the rice cup that comes with the rice cooker, about 80% of a regular measuring cup
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Mizkan Rice Vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt or to taste
Cook the rice in the rice cooker. Once cooked, transfer the rice out in a bowl and add the Mizkan Rice Vinegar, sugar and salt (OR the Mizkan Sushi Seasoning) into the rice and mix well with a spoon. Let the sushi rice cool to room temperature. Use the sushi rice to make the sushi of your choice.
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With new accounts of unconscionable behavior toward Catholic students in a Bavarian monastery, fresh reports of Vatican delay in handling a pedophile priest in California, and a papal visit this weekend to Malta, where 84 cases of child abuse by priests were recently revealed, the Roman Catholic church continues to struggle with damage control and the perception of drift in a crisis it was quite unprepared for.
Pope Benedict XVI has come under fire from critics outside the church – and some inside it – for not decisively expelling priests from the clergy when credible evidence of the sexual abuse of children emerged. The evidence dates back to his tenure as Archbishop of Munich in the 1970s, and as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal enforcement body, from 1981 until his election as pontiff in 2005.
On Thursday, there were mixed messages from the Vatican. The pope said at the end of a homily delivered in Rome that in response to the "attacks of the world that talks to us of our sins," the church sees "how it is necessary to perform penance." They were perhaps the most contrite words yet from the pope on the matter. But the same day, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, who as prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy has direct oversight of the world's roughly 400,000 Catholic priests, called on the clergy to descend on the Vatican to demonstrate "a determined rejection of the unjust attacks of which he is a victim."
Nevertheless, a situation that National Catholic Reported described as "the largest institutional crisis in centuries, possibly in church history" is taking its toll and creating sharp expectations of change.
Outcry continues
An angry outcry continues in the US, Germany, and Ireland. In Germany, favorable views among Catholics of the pope, born Joseph Ratzinger in Bavaria, have dropped from 63 percent in 2005 to 24 percent this month. A priest in western Massachusetts last Sunday called for Pope Benedict to resign if he is not truthful about stonewalled cases of abuse. Lay Catholics have renewed calls for everything from more church openness and transparency to reforms of priestly celibacy and the ordination of women.
This week, Vatican officials posted their policy for handling priests who abuse children, a change from a defensive strategy of blaming the media for targeting abuse problems it says are mainly 20 years old. And for the first time, the Vatican publicly advocated turning over child abuse cases to civil authorities.
But within the church, evidence is emerging of a strong and broad countermovement to defend the pope and the church, exemplified by Cardinal Hummes's letter Thursday. The church's hierarchy appear disinclined to pursue the kind of Vatican shakeup some in the media and general Catholic public are clamoring for.
A few days before Easter, some 70 French intellectuals, corporate leaders, and actors signed a statement defending Pope Benedict. The "A call to truth" petition decried pedophili, but blamed the press for playing "gotcha" with the pope. On the same day, some 4,000 European students from the ultraconservative Opus Dei order converged in Rome to support the papacy and to blame media as "sowers of doubt and discord." Both the French and Opus Dei rallying cries emphasize the good the church has done and is still doing.
Saying no to change?
Church analysts say beneath the "blame the media" strategy is a structural opposition to reform based on ingrained tradition, culture, and belief. They argue a proud and ancient church is not eager for change – especially not under pressure created by a scandal involving sexual abuse among within the priesthood, the foot-soldiers for church teaching and outreach.
"The tradition is strong to protect the institution, to do everything to protect the church," says Guillaume Goubert, editor of La Croix, the leading Catholic newspaper in France. "Many strong Catholics including in Rome believe the institution is holy and can't commit crimes. Pope John Paul asked us to forgive the church for its errors and mistakes. But Benedict has a different conception."
"I can't imagine the pope resigning," Nicholas Cafardi, a canon lawyer and professor at Duquesne University law school, told the Associated Press. "The people who are calling for this have no idea the seriousness of what they are asking."
Indeed, a strategic Catholic "map" shows fairly staunch support in deeply Catholic countries like Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Poland, where there have been fewer reported priest abuse cases, than in America, Germany, Austria, and Ireland.
At a Catholic chapel in downtown Paris, among many rank and file priests and nuns, a call for the pope to resign or for major rethinking of church policy is heard as something like a call to change the rings of Saturn. It's incomprehensible and alien.
"The church is rooted in Christ, and that isn't changing," says a priest from Moulins, in central France, who is planning to visit the Vatican next week with 10 priests and the local bishop to show support. A nun, Sister Asuncion, when asked about "the crisis," mainly thought the question was about the lack of Catholic churchgoers in Europe.
Indeed, the crisis is playing out against a policy dating back to 1981 when Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger, took over the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and began systematically rousting church liberals who support the more open and transparent church model advocated by Vatican II, the church council in the 1960s that advocated sweeping ecumenical reform.
Many current traditionalists including the Vatican's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, are known to see the abuse crisis as a stalking horse for liberals to push changes that would treat the church as more human, and less divine. Cardinal Bertone this week made headlines arguing that pedophilia stemmed from homosexuality, not the celibacy Catholic priests accept.
Marginalized moderates
Frank Flinn, a Catholic theologian at Washington University in St. Louis and author of an encyclopedia of Catholicism, says Vatican dynamics under Benedict has marginalized moderates "similarly to the way moderates are marginalized in the Republican party today by the conservative wing."
The appointment April 12 by Pope Benedict of an Opus Dei bishop, Jose Gomez, to lead the Los Angeles archdiocese, the largest in the US, is one example of circling the traditionalist wagons. Opus Dei is a deeply traditional group and its leaders have closed ties to Pope Benedict and his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
Mr. Gomez takes over from Cardinal Roger Mahony, who was not replaced by the Vatican despite the costliest child abuse scandal in the US, which involved a pay-out of some $660 million dollars in 2007 to more than 500 victims of sexual abuse.
The Ryan report in Ireland described more than 380 cases of sexual abuse. Figures in Germany run into many hundreds, and in the US, there are more than 5,000 known cases.
Mr. Goubert of La Croix says Pope Benedict has been "very courageous" in disciplining church figures like Marcial Maciel, head of the ultraconservative Legion of Christ in Mexico, who fathered children and was charged with child abuse and drug problems while remaining on good terms with Pope John Paul. "For Benedict, the problem is not with the church, it is with individuals," he says.
Weapons against the church
The former dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, highlighted current thinking around the papacy in comments to the Vatican newspaper L"Osservatore Romano: "By now, it's a cultural contrast. The Pope embodies moral truths that aren't accepted, and so the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as weapons against the church."
Gabriel Fackre, a United Church of Christ theologian and emeritus professor at the Andover-Newton Theological Academy in Massachusetts, cites the apostle Paul in Corinthians, saying that when "one member suffers, we all suffer. As churches, this hurts all of us. We have our own history of abuses in Protestantism. So from an ecumenical standpoint, let those who are without sin cast the first stone."
At the same time, Mr. Fackre hopes the Vatican stops foot-dragging: "The mutuality that binds us together also means mutual accountability, and there needs to be a calling to account of events of this sort," he says. "It is not a time for a fortress mentality in Rome."
Yet "Catholicism has changed, is changing, and must change," argues theologian Tom Beaudoin at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York. He finds Catholic groups demanding more participation, new views of Catholic spirituality, and self-governance to be rife at any American Catholic convention, showing that "on the ground," as he puts it, the church is evolving. But in the most sacrosanct halls in Rome, there remains a "concentration of power among traditionalists."
MR. Beaudoin wants a greater "spirit of truth" to animate the church structure. In this sense, he says, Benedict could build a bridge: "The current bishop of Rome is rightly interested in fidelity to the truth. So I would say this is a point of convergence between his vision and what is happening in the abuse crisis. We have to be a church that practices and is relentless if not reckless in its commitment to the truth about itself. It will be a very painful process that legal scholars would call disclosure – a process of letting go of illusions about who we thought we were and instead committing ourselves to the truth in a more demanding way."