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Richard Dreyfuss loves acting, but passion is politics
LOS ANGELES — Politically, Richard Dreyfuss describes himself as "intensely pre-partisan, and even more intensely anti-shmuck."
The 66-year-old Oscar winner almost immediately injected politics into an hour-long conversation with actress Ileana Douglas about his life and career Friday as part of The TCM Classic Film Festival. Dreyfuss was even more outspoken in a later interview with The Associated Press, calling for a "civil strike" in support of the United States Constitution.
"I'm going to send you a copy of the preamble to the Constitution," he said. "If there's anything in it that you don't agree with, don't sign it; just send me back an explanation. You will agree with everything, because it's beautifully crafted and it's meant for all. And if I get 500,000 signatures, I'm going to call for a civil strike.
"What I would do is pick a weekday, and according to the time zone, 12:30 in the east, 9:30 in the west, you don't go, you don't do, you don't call, you don't buy. You don't do NOTHING for 30 minutes. That's not enough to hurt the economy, but it's enough to get their attention."
As you've probably guessed, Dreyfuss is even more passionate about politics than he is about acting these days. He still takes roles — including one in a current TV pilot he won't discuss — but he doesn't feel the same fire as before.
"I had this urgency to act," he said of his early career. "And then after 50 years, I realized that it had mellowed into a friendship and I didn't have to do it... I love acting. I love it. I just don't have to do it."
There's no part he's yearning to play, though he likes the idea of performing Shakespeare on radio.
What Dreyfuss does have to do, as a descendent of generations of activists, is express his frustration with the elected and the electorate and try to do something about it. ("From the outside," he said, "it looks like America is taking acid.") The actor took a hiatus from Hollywood to study at Oxford and establish his nonprofit Dreyfuss Initiative in 2003 to promote civics education in American schools.
During his earlier film festival appearance at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Dreyfuss cited the first U.S. president: "Washington said that the Constitution should always be central and the parties should always be peripheral," Dreyfuss said, "and we have it turned around now."
He also shared memories of working with Steven Spielberg on "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He talked about working with Audrey Hepburn, doing the voiceover for "Stand By Me" and Neil Simon's "perfect script" for 1977's "The Goodbye Girl," for which Dreyfuss won the lead actor Oscar.
He also talked about the magic of movies.
"No art form has ever swept the world like this one," he said. "Movies have captured your dream state... They are reaching into your dream state and pulling you out and showing you that you're alive."
Though he joked in an interview that he continues acting because "it's the only way I know how to make a living," Dreyfuss admitted he's deeply grateful for the opportunity to touch others with his performances.
"Acting is giving a blessing and getting a blessing. You can feel it all over, and when you make people laugh, you do what Shakespeare says: You give surcease from sorrow," he said. "And when you do a drama and you're in the zone, you are telling them: This is life as you know it..."
"It's an extraordinary thing I got to do my entire life," he continued, "which means I was blessed."
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Naruto Shippuden Episode 476
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Naruto: Shippuuden is the continuation of the original animated TV series Naruto.The story revolves around an older and slightly more matured Uzumaki Naruto and his quest to save his friend Uchiha Sasuke from the grips of the snake-like Shinobi, Orochimaru. After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work, though it will not be easy, as he has amassed a few (more dangerous) enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.
Twelve years before the start of the series, the Nine-Tails attacked Konohagakure destroying much of the village and taking many lives. The leader of the village, the Fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to seal the Nine-Tails into a newborn, Naruto Uzumaki. Orphaned by the attack, Naruto was shunned by the villagers, who out of fear and anger, viewed him as the Nine-Tails itself. Though the Third Hokage outlawed speaking about anything related to the Nine-Tails, the children — taking their cues from their parents — inherited the same animosity towards Naruto. In his thirst to be acknowledged, Naruto vowed he would one day become the greatest Hokage the village had ever seen.
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Wow, I don't know about you, but it really seems like that old saw "the world is going to hell in a hand basket" is really happening. Maybe not for me (I'm knocking on the proverbial wood right now) and hopefully not for you — but lately I've been inundated with super sad news about my friends — and their friends or family members.
I find some of the sad news on Facebook. In my newsfeed, where I like to dilly-dally and scroll through funny videos of cats terrorizing dogs, or babies and puppies sleeping together, I've been stabbed in the gut with updates that are definitely not warm and fuzzy. And again, I don't know about you, but every time it happens — and like I said, it just seems like it's happening more and more — a small part of me that I am definitely not proud of, makes my finger waver over the thumbs-up "like" button. Sometimes that small, almost tiny part of me (thank God it's nearly infinitesimal) rolls on by to the next, hopefully, much more upbeat update. Maybe another funny cat video.
But I really do like my friends — even all of my Facebook friends, some with whom I am really not that well acquainted.
And I do really want to help if I can — with a kind word, a sympathetic sentence or two. It's a kind of a new way to reach out, and I'm not sure we are all yet comfortable about it. God knows, we have a hard enough time reaching out in person. I think it's harder yet to do so with the buffer of a computer screen or phone scroll. Nobody knows you're really there, right?
But like I said, I do, I want to help — and, when I can muster it up, sometimes a "comment" is all I'm good for. And many times, so many times, I wish I was better at saying something special or meaningful or coming up with some magic words that will ease my friend's pain or suffering. Or maybe help her find a smile. maybe make him laugh.
Because, me too, I hate cancer, house fires, car, motorcycle and bicycle accidents. I despise crippling diseases, autism and Alzheimer's. If I was a billionaire, I would give all my money to all my friends, hoping that in some way, I could buy them what they need or at least make it so their pain might be lessened with 500 pounds of ice cream, or their burden eased by an exclusive, intimate Louis C.K. in-home concert.
But all I got is words. And here they are. Today, although I am heartsick about one of my friend's sister's recent cancer diagnosis, and another of my friends whose husband was in a tragic motorcycle accident, and another one who is dealing with the mind-numbing trauma of visiting her mother who doesn't remember her name or her face — I am going to single out two of my friends who are dealing with hardship. I am going to tell you about them, I'm going to tell you their stories, and maybe you will tell your friends about them and maybe they will tell their friends — and maybe we can just all pitch in to make a difference.
And if we can do that, we can be as good as billionaires toting suitcases of cash. We could bring as much joy as ice cream and maybe even bring as much happiness as a night with Louis C.K.
My friend Christine: Christine (who many call Queen or Queen of the Universe) lost her home and all her worldly possessions — yes, even her iphone — in a fire just before Christmas. She ran out of the blazing inferno with only the clothes on her back — and those were hacked off in the emergency room. Oh yeah, and she miraculously came through this ordeal relatively unscathed, except for eyebrows, eyelashes, singed hair — and a really nasty third-degree burn on the back of her leg. She just completed her third skin graft at the burn center in Salt Lake City. There is a fund set up for her that you can donate to:
And my friend Will is putting together an event fundraiser that will be held at the Visual Arts Collective Feb. 21. Music, art, silent auction and more with all proceeds after bar tab going to Christine.
Here's my second friend's plight and plea: Meet Alex's sister, Monica
When my brother Dan passed away a few years ago, one family who came to his memorial was not one familiar to me — but one with whom Dan had become close to. They worked at Dan's favorite restaurant, Baja Fresh. He went there at least a couple of times every week and they knew to start his order — he always ordered the same thing — when he pulled into his parking space.
Alex — her name is actually Alexandra — had dropped out of high school and Dan constantly chided her about it, telling her to get her G.E.D. — "I'll pay for it," he would say. Alex did get her G.E.D. just a month ago. And, sort of filling in for her Dad and his promise, Dan's daughter Dana stepped in and paid for it. I was the lucky person who got to deliver the check:
Well, while I was there, Alex told me about Monica, her 25-year-old sister. Monica has kidney failure and needs a kidney transplant, and hey, she also just had a stroke and found out she has a bad heart. Her mother, who, yes, is still working at Baja Fresh on Broadway in Boise, is frantically trying to figure out ways to make money to help her daughter. They need to raise $5,000 for the surgery and so far are up to a little more than $1,500. You can donate here:
This is the only way I can think of to help my friends. (Not a billionaire, remember?) And I vow to help as many as I can. I vow not to skip over their Facebook posts for funny cat videos — I will still watch the cat videos of course, but only after I say a few heartfelt words to my friends.
I turn now to the Beatles :
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» John Savage's two championship teams finished with identical 49-17 records. He earned his first ring as a USC pitching coach in 1998, in a 21-14 victory over Arizona State that saw the teams combine for eight home runs.
"I looked at the record yesterday, and I had a good feeling we were going to end up with the same amount of wins, the same amount of losses," Savage said after beating Mississippi State 8-0 Tuesday night, earning his first as UCLA's head coach. "I knew the game wasn't going to be 21-14, thank God."
Sixty-two home runs were hit during the 1998 CWS. This year's saw just three. His team is built as a polar opposite to those "Gorilla Ball" squads, one that squeezes in just enough offense to complement defense and pitching. The Bruins took the bumpier road and sped along untouched, downing No. 5 seed Fullerton, No. 4 seed LSU and No. 1 seed UNC through the postseason.
"I don't think any of the experts thought we would be here at this stage, and we did it the right way," Savage said. "We played baseball."
» UCLA's pitchers combined for a 0.80 ERA in the College World Series, the lowest mark in the aluminum bat era (since 1974). The Bruins were also the first team to ever run through Omaha without allowing more than one run in any game.
The superlative defense, marked by the play of all-tournament shortstop Pat Valaika, helped hold opponents to 1-27 with runners in scoring position. Continue reading "Notes: UCLA sets numerous marks in title run" »


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Almost no one today has heard of Capt. Henry Bell, an English military officer, well-known in aristocratic circles, who traveled throughout Europe in the early 17th-century, and is described by official British records as having, "no equal in Christendom as a brave and experienced soldier."
Capt. Bell was an unusual man, living during the reigns of King James I & Charles I of England, with whom he was closely associated, and who is described as having a firm "knowledge of Latin," and was particularly fluent in High German or 'Dutch,' as a result of his residency in Germany for many years.
Though Bell served in a number of military capacities for the Crown, he also was the 'Surveyor of Lead' for a time, but eventually found himself deep in debt, incarcerated in the famed 'Tower of London,' where he languished for a number of years, contributing unexpectedly to the spread of the 'Reformation,' and all because of a Ghost!
In 1626, Capt. Bell made the acquaintance of a Mr. Casparus Van Sparr, during a time when the works of the famous Christian reformer, Martin Luther, were 'banned & burned' throughout Germany. Sparr, having cleared off an out-building on his grandfather's property, found a book, "lying in a deep obscure hole, being wrapped in a strong linen cloth, which was waxed all over with Bee's wax...whereby the Book was preserved," a book "hid for many years, imprison'd under ground, till (to a miracle) it was brought forth, and sent over into England..."
The above mentioned book, having lain underground for some 52 years, and at the request of Van Sparr, was brought from Germany to England by Capt. Henry Bell, who promised to translate it, one of the works of Martin Luther, in this case, a volume known as the Colloquia Mensalia or Divine Discourses at his Table, first published in 1566.
Captain Henry Bell would later recount the following (in his own words and archaic spelling):
"Then about six weeks after I had received the said Book, it fell out, that I being in bed with my wife, one night between twelv and one of the clock, she being asleep, but my self yet awake, there appeared unto mee an antient man, standing at my bed's side, arraied all in white, having a long and broad white beard...who taking mee by my right ear, spake these words following unto me; Sirrah! Will you take time to Translate that book which is sent unto you out of Germany? I will provide for you, both place and time to do it: And then he vanished away out of my sight."
As one would imagine, Capt. Bell was "affrighted" and "fell into an extreme sweat," stating how he "never did heed nor regard visions nor dreams." He wife awoke to whom he related his experience, and though in shock at the time, the visit of the apparition and its words to him, soon lost their urgency. He states that, "Whereupon I took the said Book before mee, and manie times began to Translate the same, but alwaies I was hindered therein..."
However, the statement made by the spectral visitor, soon proved to come true.
Not long after the above visitation, Capt. Bell found himself a Prisoner of the famed, 'Star Chamber,' for some ten years, five of which he states: "I spent...translating...the said Book: insomuch as I found the words very true which the old man in the foresaid Vision did saie unto mee. 'I will provide for you both the place and time to Translate it."
Eventually Captain Henry Bell's translation of Martin Luther's Colloquia Mensalia would indeed be published in London, England, in 1651, but not until a Spirit of the 'nether-world,' would visit in the 'dead of night,' a much surprised individual, who did not believe, in "visions nor dreams."
Because of Capt. Bell's incarceration, he would remark while in prison, that 'by reason whereof my wife and two young infants miserably were destroyed." He continually stated his innocence of any wrong doing, being willing as he said to "rot in prison" if guilty, but since he was "guiltless," he would petition to have his cause "brought to a legal hearing."
The 'life & times' of Captain Henry Bell could fill a volume, but it might be pertinent when you commemorate Halloween during this month of October, take some time to reflect on the fact, that such things as ghosts, spirits or spectral visitations and their belief are nothing new, and some have even played significant roles at times, in important historical events or publications.
{The reason for Capt. Henry Bell's imprisonment are laid out in the Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I: 1636-1637 (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867): 433; as are biographical facts regarding his career in other volumes of the same series, available at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania}


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Baltimore Ravens practice-squad quarterback Dennis Dixon has spent the past week and a half impersonating Colin Kaepernick to give defenders a taste of the San Francisco 49ers' read-option attack. It likely will be Dixon's final contribution to the team.
According to Comcast SportsNet Philly, there are "strong indications" that Dixon could be reunited with former Oregon coach Chip Kelly as soon as next week. Dixon's practice-squad contract expires after Super Bowl XLVII, allowing him to sign with the Philadelphia Eagles shortly thereafter if he'd like.
Regarded as a Heisman Trophy candidate and potential first-round draft pick before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during his senior season with the Ducks in 2007, Dixon already has a firm grasp of Kelly's spread offense.
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I replied "the day I summarily judge a man as worthless for being poor, I will have lost something far more valuable than a dollar".
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I've done it too. Who am I to judge his situation? We are all just one bad event away from being in that same place. Just one and we could be catapulted into a place we never thought we would be. People will spend $40 - $50 to put out bird seed in the winter for the birds, but won't help a fellow human in need. I don't understand it.
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Waiheke may be renowned for its vineyards and scenery – both equally divine – but there's more to the island than that.
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Now you can get a look at some of that spectacular scenery from a totally different perspective – flying over it on a flying fox. Seven excited but slightly nervous girls are about to experience one of Waiheke's newest activities, EcoZip, and the flying fox is actually a state-of-the-art dual zipline – three of them in fact. Each is higher than the last, which means the views and the thrills only get better as you go.
Our lovely – and very patient – guides Stacey and Helen get us into our safety harnesses and we're ready to ride. The harnesses don't do us any favours in the looks department, but at least we know safety is number one. A quick note: come dressed casually and comfortably – no skirts or stilettos welcome here.
The dual ziplines mean you can ride side by side and seeing your mate squealing and giggling next to you is part of the fun. We're told we can curl up a bit to go faster, but I go for the undignified flapping arms and legs option instead.
Our confidence boosted, the next two rides are even more fun, though admittedly slightly scarier for some of us. The third zipline – appropriately nicknamed Kurinui – Big Dog – is definitely a notch up in the thrill stakes, and by far the most fun. Below and all around us is lush native bush, and the views stretch right out to the Hauraki Gulf and back to the city in the far distance.
After the adrenaline kick from Kurinui, it was time to unwind on the walk back through the bush. Stacey and Helen pointed out various native plants and trees along the way and shared the stories behind them, from the grand Totara to the huge cluster of Nikau palms dubbed the Nikau Cathedral.
By the time we were back at HQ we'd worked up quite an appetite, and luckily our next stop was The Oyster Inn in Oneroa Village. With views out over the water and the beach-chic decor already making a good first impression, we had high hopes for the food. And we were not disappointed.
We kicked off with a jug of homemade lemonade – perfect for a hot day – and house baked sourdough with Rangihoua Estate olive oil, produced on Waiheke.
If you're in a group, order several different dishes to share – that way you get a taste of everything and no one tries to steal your salt and pepper squid. From the freshly shucked oysters to the pork belly, everything was superb. An honourable mention goes to the pulled pork rib slider with daikon, apple and chilli mayo – sublime.
Much of the produce is grown and sourced locally and the passion of the owners is evident in every bite. Of course, it also helps to have chef Christian Hossack at the helm, formerly head chef at London's Providores. We finished off with rolled pavlova and homemade ice cream before waddling back to the ferry to downtown Auckland.
What a fantastic way to spend a day. Who knew you could have this much fun on Waiheke without a drop of wine?
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A poetry anthology edited by Hope College English faculty members Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl has again made the top of its category in the best seller lists reported by the Poetry Foundation.
The volume, "250 Poems: A Portable Anthology" was number one in the "Anthology" category for the week of August 1, the current data set presented on the foundation's website at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/books.html.
It's a position that the anthology has held before, most recently during the summer of 2009. The August 1 report noted that the anthology has been back on the top-10 list for the past three weeks.
"250 Poems: A Portable Anthology" was published in 2002 by Bedford/St. Martin's Press and released in a revised, second edition in 2009. The book is a collection of poems, arranged chronologically, from medieval English ballads to works by recent American poets laureate such as Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, and Billy Collins. It features classics like John Donne's "The Flea," Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz when I died" and William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," as well as poems by contemporary ethnic poets such as Sonia Sanchez, Li-Young Lee, Louise Erdrich, Alberto Rios and Naomi Shihab Nye. It includes a detailed biographical note on each poet represented and a full glossary of poetic terms.
The book is designed both for general readers looking for a compact volume of excellent poetry and for use in classes on poetry.
Schakel is the Peter C. and Emajean Cook Professor of English at Hope, where he has taught since 1969. Ridl joined the Hope faculty in 1971 and retired in 2006 as a professor emeritus of English.
Each the author of multiple works individually, Schakel and Ridl have collaborated on three volumes in addition to "250 Poems: A Portable Anthology." They co-authored the textbooks "Approaching Literature: Writing + Reading + Thinking" (second edition, 2008) and "Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses" (1997), and are co-editors, with Janet E. Gardner from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Beverly Lawn from Adelphi University, of "Literature: A Portable Anthology" (second edition, 2009).
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of "Poetry" magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in contemporary culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
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Steve Wynn has told a jury he never threatened the life of "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis and that if he had, it would destroy his upscale casino businesses.
Francis claims that Wynn threatened to kill him and have him buried in the desert in emails and conversations with record producer Quincy Jones in 2010. Francis first made the claims while embroiled in a multi-million dollar dispute over a gambling debt.
Wynn later sued for slander.
Francis repeated the claims during a trial that began Tuesday in Los Angeles. He says he took the warnings from his neighbor Jones seriously.
Wynn is the CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd. and developed many of Las Vegas' signature hotels including The Mirage and Bellagio. He testified he has never sent an email in his life.


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The USC Thornton School of Music Opera Program is one of America's premier training grounds for singing-actors, opera coaches and collaborative keyboard artists – a program where youth and experience meet in a vibrant urban setting to create provocative productions of classic and modern masterpieces.
In addition to studying under Music Director Brent McMunn and Resident Stage Director Ken Cazan, opera program participants work with nationally and internationally recognized artists and designers. The USC Thornton School Vocal Arts Department also brings in distinguished opera industry professionals each semester to conduct seminars and master classes.
The opera program has access to all USC Thornton School of Music facilities as well as the USC School of Dramatic Arts' premiere venue Bing Theatre.
The University of Southern California is known for its active and socially conscious student body, and the USC Thornton School is no different. The Chamber Opera of USC is a student run group that brings undergraduate and graduate students together to produce newly composed as well as traditional chamber opera. Also, the USC Thornton School has an extensive community outreach program that hires students to teach music to elementary through high school aged children.
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The Next George Bush
Can the heir to America's oldest political dynasty save the GOP?
It's an unseasonably warm midwinter day when a giant blue campaign bus arrives at a downscale strip mall in Pasadena, Texas, announcing the imminent return of a Republican dynasty. George Prescott Bush, the scion of arguably the most successful political family in American history, is launching a statewide bus tour that will introduce him to public prominence as he runs for commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, an important but generally obscure statewide position.
Bush is a lock: He faces no serious challengers, a fact attributable largely to the overwhelming advantages that accompany his name. Come November, the handsome, studious and half-Hispanic 37-year-old George P. will walk into public office, and a choir of observers will begin a round of intense speculation about what his ascension means for his party, his state and his country.
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One might think the Bushes had acclimatized themselves to public recognition by now. Yet there's Pierce Bush, another nephew of former President George W., fleece-jacketed and playful-seeming as he circles the giant bus emblazoned with a huge blowup of George P.'s face, taking pictures with his phone. "It's not every day you see your cousin on one of these," he tells me. He seems proud—and a bit incredulous.
Inside the strip mall, the small office of the San Jacinto Republican Women is packed. Older women stand around chatting about P.—his resemblance to different members of the Bush family and the well-being of Barbara Bush, George P.'s grandmother, who recently told the nation it should forget the dynasty thing and look outside of the " Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes" for a new generation of leaders. Her grandson seems not to have taken the message personally; asked about it at another campaign stop, George P. said that Barb was talking mostly about the presidency.
Bush has been campaigning with a calculatedly low profile for months, but this six-week, statewide bus tour, starting a month before early voting begins for the March primary, is something of a coming-out party. While land commissioner is an important post—the office oversees Texas's oil-rich public lands—campaign events for the position usually have as much pomp and circumstance as a rotary club meeting in a dry county. Today, though, there's a lot of enthusiasm, with even the manicurists at next-door Orchid Nails, who do not speak much English, recognizing the Bush name and coming over to have their picture taken with the candidate.
When George P. finally takes the microphone, he speaks for just over two minutes. It's a speedy pitch, laden with slabs of red meat for the GOP faithful—proof that he has adopted the rhetorical style of the state's Tea Party faction. "Our state's values and our future is under attack, and this attack is being led by one man and one man only, and that's Barack Obama. He wants to bring his liberal progressive agenda to the shores of Texas. And I think we sum up our message to him and Wendy Davis in just two words," he says. "No way." He goes on to speak about guns and the Second Amendment, partial-birth abortion and renewing the state's pride in its petrochemical industry—none of which falls even remotely under the purview of the land commissioner.
No one seems to mind. Afterward, P. poses for pictures and makes the rounds in the shopping center. Then he departs for well-heeled fundraisers in downtown Houston.
When people talk about George P.'s potential, they're talking about two things. First, there's his name. For those keeping score: George P. is son of Jeb Bush, governor of Florida; nephew of George W. Bush, former president and governor of Texas; grandson of George H.W. Bush, former president; great-grandson of Prescott Sheldon Bush, senator from Connecticut; and great-great-grandson of Samuel Prescott Bush, the patriarch.
Spend time with George P.'s campaign, and it quickly becomes apparent how impossible it is to separate his identity from his family background. Even the campaign photographer working the bus tour, David Valdez, has been shooting Bushes for three decades.
When it comes to the Bush legacy, George P. plays a balancing act. It's a huge asset, of course, and it lends excitement to what would otherwise be a dull campaign. But he attempts to differentiate himself from the family in ways large and small. For one, he describes Newt Gingrich as a political role model, and whereas his uncle branded himself a "compassionate conservative," George P. describes himself as a "movement conservative." He talks earnestly about how he's "been interested in politics from a very young age." A lot of people develop an early interest in politics, but few have led a political party's national convention in the Pledge of Allegiance at age 12, as P. did in 1988.
Born in Houston in 1976, George P. grew up in Florida but returned to the Lone Star State to attend Rice University (and play on the baseball team there) during his uncle's first term as governor. He then taught public school back in Florida and worked on W.'s presidential campaign before enrolling at the University of Texas School of Law. He practiced corporate law for a time and touts his experience with two investment firms, as well as his service in Afghanistan as an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserve.
In conversation, he deploys careful phrasing to distance himself from the family, while simultaneously keeping them close to mind. When I ask what the Bush name means to him in his current campaign, he replies that "they've provided their advice. Some pieces have been heeded, some pieces have not been heeded." Sometimes, though, his phrasing is less careful. On a number of occasions, he has used the royal "we" to refer to his campaign or his family or both, like when he recently told the Associated Press, "We're a mainstream conservative that appeals to all Republicans."
Despite that statement, Bush hasn't, in fact, asserted himself as a mainstream conservative, instead using the heated rhetoric of the Tea Party. At the Pasadena event, he closed by telling the crowd that they "deserve a future that springs from the wells of freedom dug deep under the ground by the founders of our great republic and the heroes of 1836"—a nod to the Texas revolution.


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Why, oh mercy, can't I shut out the noise of my half-baked thoughts and lose consciousness? Stand me up, sit me down and I'll drift off like a narcoleptic but here, in my bed, all reclined and covered with blankets, there's too much pressure to take advantage of this fleeting opportunity to achieve sanity via quiescence, to make up for those nights void of any relief from exhaustion - my exhaustion putting a strangle hold on the normalcy I took for granted before my life imploded. I am suffocating.
You don't ease yourself into motherhood, pausing between each new responsibility to catch your breath, slowly adjust to the changes, become acclimated. It's more a jump off a cliff into the ocean then sink or swim sort of deal. A fair amount of flailing and panic, those first few months, are to be expected. The sleep issue (or more specifically, how new moms don't get any) was a big one for me. I'd hear women complaining about their surly, sometimes lazy adolescents and I'd find myself pining for the season when I'd be frustrated by a son who'd moan and groan when told repeatedly to "wake up and get a move on!" I swore to myself that if I somehow survived his infancy, I would revel and rejoice in Elijah's addiction to his pillow and blue cotton sheets. In fact, I'd crawl in right beside him and he and I would snore, drool, dream away the mornings. The two of us would finally, after all those trying years, refuel and refuse to greet the day until we were good and darn ready to. I've made many such vows as a mom too ridiculous, too impractical to keep.
Of course, I have to shake him now and turn the lights on and announce LOUDLY a dozen times over that it is, "time, young man, to get down here for breakfast!" I made it through, somehow, to that next stage of parenting where the nights are uneventful and the days are but a blur of classes and clubs, errands and meal preparing. Rarely, anymore, am I jolted from out of a deep and heavy slumber by crying or the urgent needs of fitful little ones. When I retire for the evening, I can expect, for the most part, to make it all the way through to dawn without interruption. And yet, silly me, I've been fighting a fog of fatigue, lately - one I've managed to stumble into all on my own, by way of dawdling. I'm beat, I'm telling you, and it's nobody's fault but mine.
We read a lot in home school, which is lovely but sometimes painful in a "I was up until 3:00 am studying and now this 8:00 am Western Civilization class is practically forcing my eyelids to close" kind of way. The subject matter is interesting but also quiet and scholarly, and nothing at all like a cold shower. "Break time," I declare every fifteen minutes or so to stretch my legs, refill my mug and keep from passing out cold on the couch. "But too much coffee," I once complained to my brother, "makes me jittery and even more tired later on." To which he replied,
"You know what the cure for that is, don't you? More coffee."
I had an epiphany last week while sitting back down to continue on with that day's assignment: More than half of my current frustrations, including my sluggishness, lack of productivity and my irritability, would decrease dramatically if I…brace yourselves for this…went to bed earlier. I wasn't helpless. I could decide not to send out yet another e-mail or put down my novel. It's just so much more convenient to pour some Espresso on the problem than to organize my life and make room for the actual solution. It takes discipline to set boundaries, to pry your attention away from the task or distraction at hand and make surrendering to the source for true refreshment and well-being a priority.
"He promised to send the Holy Spirit," I read to my children, between yawns, from Barbara Pappas's excellent book, God's Bubbly, Gurgly, Overwhelming, Overflowing Love, "The Holy Spirit would be with them always! The Holy Spirit would give them power to do everything God wanted them to do. The Holy Spirit would fill their hearts with as much of God's Bubbly, Gurgly, Overwhelming, Overflowing Love as they would let in." And then I paused, I read that final sentence again, struck even in my sleepy state by the significance of those last five words. How many of us still picture in our heads a God that comes and goes, depending on our worthiness? How awesome would it be to help our kids absorb early on that His promises are constant, consistent, and unbreakable? It is tempting to make things more complicated than they need be when we cannot wrap our minds around a Love that's not dependent on our actions or intentions or ability to reciprocate with the same degree of steadiness and deified perfection. It requires restraint to ignore our doubts and take Christ at His word.
If I wander, if I forget, if I concentrate on only the warning signs or spend all of my waning energy on treating the symptoms and not the cause of my agitation; if I run in the opposite direction of where calm and rejuvenation originate and perpetually generate in the form Christ and His plan for our Salvation, God will nevertheless keep His arms open wide and I will only be hurting myself by choosing, by preferring the coldness and the darkness of my own egotism to His warmth and brightness. It's been too long since I last yielded to my cravings for wholeness and rest. It's up to me to change direction, to slow down, to turn around - to accept the incomprehensible and be satisfied.


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The mission of the Washburn fraternity and sorority community, in conjunction with Student Activities & Greek Life, is committed to the development of life-long membership, strengthening the character of the individual and promoting excellence, while preparing members for a competitive global environment.
The vision of the Washburn fraternity and sorority community is dedicated to increasing quality chapter growth through higher standards of academics, leadership and service, while encouraging community and campus pride.Joining a fraternity or sorority is an excellent way to meet people, get engaged in campus life, learn new leadership skills, focus on your academics and give back to your community. At Washburn University we pride ourselves on living up to the values that created a foundation for all of our organizations.


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DK Pub., Jul 25, 2002 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 256 pages
Fascinating stories and vivid photographs and illustrations summarize one thousand notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 600,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.
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A card shower has been requested to honor former Marion residents, Bruce and Sandra Hett, who will be observing their 50th wedding anniversary.
The couple was married Dec. 22 and will be celebrating the event with family and friends.
The Hetts' three children and spouses are Aaron Hett and wife Lanell, Amy Pavlik and husband Jay, Andy Hett and wife Kristi. They also have eight grandchildren — Nickolas, Travis, Lindsay, Jayla, Jared, Courtney, Trey, and Riley.
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David Tepper is arguably the most influential "smart-money" voice in the markets right now.
While hedge funds have persistently underperformed the market of late, there are at least a handful of talented money managers with some undeniably jaw-dropping track records. Tepper is in that category.
SkyBridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci, the host of the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, says that $1 million invested with Tepper's Appaloosa Management when it was founded 20 years ago would be worth $149 million now, net of fees.
Tepper's public pronouncements remain rare.
So it was a nice coup for the well-connected Scaramucci when he got Tepper to agree to an on-the-record chat Wednesday at this year's conference.
Tepper, who had previously been adamantly bullish, struck a decidedly cautious tone. He didn't advocate a stampede for the exits, but he notably warned that it's probably not a good idea right now to be "so freakin' long." The interview was the signature event of this year's conference. The nervous tone may have helped sink stocks on Thursday.
Josh Brown of The Reformed Broker blog argues that Tepper has now earned a spot in the pantheon of elite market-moving investors:
David Tepper is becoming today's Hedge Fund God. He's younger than Soros and Cooperman, less cantankerous than Loeb and Icahn, can claim higher returns than Einhorn and Ackman, carries none of the regulatory taint of Steve Cohen and has all of the garrulous authenticity that almost none of his peers possess when in a public setting.
This is his moment, whether he wants it or not. The apotheosis of David Tepper is now complete.
Indeed, Andrew Wilkinson, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers, wondered in a note if Tepper's remarks at SALT were serving as something of a bookend to a market rally tied to Tepper's bulish comments around this time last year:
It was May 14, 2013, when Appaloosa Management LP founder David Tepper appeared in pre-market trading on CNBC's "Squawk Box". Before Tepper spoke on that day futures were trading lower; as he pounded the table about how the economy was improving the market turned around. The S&P 500 index jumped by 17 points that day in what was dubbed "the Tepper Rally." Prior to Mr. Tepper's appearance the S&P closed at 1633 and has since surged over the past year by 16.35% to 1900 earlier this week.
Still, investors should always treat pronouncements by market gurus carefully. It may be better to treat their opinions as valuable data points, but not as triggers to blindly buy or sell. Here's options strategist Bob Lang, writing at Trader Planet:
"We know there are a million reasons to sell but only one reason to buy. Markets were modestly overbought by early Wednesday as the SPX reached the 1900 milestone for the first time ever. With no buyers left, why not take some money off the table? Did we really need to hear from Mr. Tepper to make that happen? Of course not."
Editor's note: This article was first published on May 16.
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The Public Child Welfare Certification Program (www.pcwcp.eku.edu) is a pre-service education and training program for undergraduate junior and senior social work majors designed to prepare them for employment in Kentucky's public child welfare services.
The PCWCP at the University of Kentucky (UK) continues to operate under the administrative umbrella of the College of Social Work's Training Resource Center. The Participants of this program are exposed to two child welfare courses, 24 hours of training at four Program retreats plus an additional six days of training in their last semester. Both of their practicum placements, accounting for 640 hours on-site in two semesters, are spent with the Commonwealth's Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department of Community Based Services, Protection and Permanency units. This collaborative effort between the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) and eleven public and private universities is a comprehensive and thorough preparation that is meant to ensure competent and confident workers. Statewide, the retention rate for participants who continue two years or more beyond their initial two-year commitment to employment with the Cabinet is approximately 85%.
To be eligible for PCWCP, students must be full-time Bachelor's of Social Work majors with an overall cumulative grade point average of 2.5, a 3.0 in all Social Work courses and a solid commitment to the work of public child welfare services. Students take coursework and CHFS training equivalent to that given new employees in their first six months of employment as well as internships in local Protection and Permanency units.
The students' (in-state) tuition and a stipend are paid by Cabinet for Health and Family Services for each of their last four semesters in the Program. Upon graduation, the students are obligated to work for two years in KY's Children and Family Services local offices, where they might do the work of Child Protection Intake, Investigations, On-going (treatment), Foster Care, Permanency Planning, Adoptions or Juvenile Services.
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At the end of its thirteenth year in June 2010, the statewide PCWCP consortium had proudly graduated over 600 of Kentucky's "brightest and best" social work majors. Those graduates have joined Child Welfare workers to provide informed and conscientious service to those Kentucky families who have need of Child Welfare services. With their BSW degrees, child welfare courses, CHFS training, and on-site agency experience, they well prepared for this challenging career.
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Parkites' bank, credit card accounts raided, losses top $5,000
The Park City Police Department since late January has received four reports from Parkites indicating accounts attached to credit cards or bank cards had been raided by a person who somehow obtained information about the accounts.
It is a rare string of cases of that nature involving Park City. The Police Department said each of the cases involved transactions that occurred in the Salt Lake Valley. Since the victims are from Park City, the local Police Department was contacted.
The cases total more than $5,000 in losses, the Police Department said. The first report was logged on Jan. 27.
According to the Police Department, the reports through early in the week were:
Rick Ryan, a Police Department captain, said one of the cases occurred in Draper while another one included withdrawals in Draper and South Salt Lake. The cities where the other ones were reported were not immediately available.
"Someone has obtained the credit-card numbers here, we believe," Ryan said.
The Summit County Sheriff's Office said on Tuesday it had not received reports recently like the ones filed at the Police Department.
The police in Park City are looking for similarities between the cases. Ryan said, though, the Police Department is referring the victims to law enforcement agencies where the money was taken. He said agencies in those cities will lead the investigation since the cases occurred in those jurisdictions. Ryan said there were no suspects early in the week.
Ryan said it is not clear how the accounts had been compromised. He said thieves seeking the information have several favored methods.
"There's so many different ways to obtain credit-card numbers," Ryan said.
He said a favored method is attaching a card reader known as a skimmer to cash machines or gas pumps. The skimmer collects the information. Other methods include grabbing the information from a card reader attached to a cell phone or copying down the information from a receipt, Ryan said.
In one of the initial reports to the police, the victim said the account information had been obtained using a skimmer at a merchant in Park City, according to police logs. The logs did not provide details like the location of the merchant where the information might have been obtained. In another case, the police were told a victim's bank wanted an official police report.
Ryan suggests people using credit cards or bank cards track their purchases and regularly check their accounts. He acknowledged, though, that sometimes people must hand their cards over when paying, losing sight of the cards briefly. He said people should not worry about using credit cards or bank cards in Park City.
"I do business here every day . . . It's safe," Ryan said.
People with information about the cases may contact the Police Department at 615-5500 or the department's anonymous-tip line, 615-5847. The department also offers an online tip form. The direct link is: https://www.tipsubmit.com/WebTips.aspx?AgencyID=994.
Information about fraud involving skimming card numbers is available in a one-page document posted online by the Secret Service. The document is available at: http://www.secretservice.gov/Skimming%20Fraud.pdf.
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King's Crown names road honoring late United Park City Mines president
A group of people that appeared to largely represent Park City's development and real estate industries joined family members of the late United Park City Mines President Hank Rothwell on Wednesday as a road was named in his honor. It was a tribute to a key figure in the great growth battles of the 1990s.


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CHICO >> The Chico Fire Department will be adding one more tool to its arsenal, but its not a hose or a ladder, and it"s smaller than the hand of a firefighter.
Chico"s AAA provided the Chico Fire Department with $2,500 to purchase cameras that will be affixed to firefighters" helmet, Chico firefighter Mike Velazquez said. The Fire Department was able to acquire close to 10 cameras with the donation.
Steve Matthews, a AAA business manager in Chico, had a grant to offer support to first responders in the community and he wanted to show appreciation for the Fire Department"s work, Fire Inspector Marie Fickert said in a message to the Enterprise-Record.
Chico fire considered using the funds to provide more public education, but there was interested from members in the department to invest in cameras to use during emergency incidents, she said. The intent is to review the footage and have feedback and critique to improve, as well as to use the film to educate the community.
The cameras will serve as a training tool, so the department can revisit incidents and look at what changes need to be done to be more effective, said Velazquez, who is overseeing the process.
There are a few firefighters who are using their own cameras during incidents, and some of the footage was played for a batch of firefighters who were recently hired.
Firefighter Jim Lucanic, who uses his own camera, said there is something to learn from every incident, but it"s difficult to "catch everything when you"re focused on one piece of the operation" and it"s hard to "critique yourself based on memory."
- Watch video captured by Lucanic"s helmet camera of a two-alarm fire in June at the Redwood Park Apartments
The cameras haven"t been distributed yet, but the hope is to get them out soon since its the busiest time of the year, Velazquez said.
The Fire Department is still developing policies and procedures on how the cameras and footage will be used and shared, Interim Fire Chief Shane Lauderdale said. There will be trials to see how it works, but the film won"t be uploaded yet.
Fire personnel had been discussing the possibility of the cameras for a while, but on a tight budget, the technology wasn"t considered a necessity, he said. Now with the technology available, hopefully it will make the Fire Department better.
Once cameras are handed out, the plan is to encompass the whole spectrum of an incident — the view from a captain outside, firefighters on the roof and working the hose.
It"s going to be an inside and outside look, Velazquez said.
Everyone will be provided a bracket to mount the camera and the 10 cameras will be rotated between shifts, but now all stations will have personnel with cameras, Velazquez said. The Fire Department will hand them out to the busiest stations, such as Station 2, and maybe down the line more can be purchased.
Contact reporter Almendra Carpizo at 896-7760.


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Rogue Wave Software and AMD have announced that they're working together to improve the processing power of specialized applications in the financial services industry.
According to the companies, developers in the financial services industry are looking to increase computing performance to support higher business volumes, run faster, support more users, and process more transactions. In addition to the promise of multi-core CPU hardware, recent advances in graphical processing unit (GPU) chipsets lets developers harness compute power of specialized modern graphics processors to deliver significant performance increases in high performance compute environments such as financial algorithmic applications. With C++ applications continuing to serve a key role in financial trading, the companies' efforts will focus on tapping the potential of multi-core processors as well as GPUs to increase the performance potential of legacy applications.
However, writing code in this field can be difficult and time-consuming, and using proprietary APIs means code written for one brand of GPU cannot be easily ported to another GPU or to multi-core CPUs. Since most existing code is not designed to take advantage of the high performance potential of GPUs, it can present significant challenges for developers trying to accelerate their applications with GPUs.
"The future of parallel computing depends on two key elements. First, can your new and existing applications tap performance improvements without rewriting the code? Second, can they do it across multi-core CPUs, GPUs and other future specialized hardware? If enterprises cannot do both, parallel computing efforts won't deliver on their promise," said Tom Gaunt, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Rogue Wave. "This collaboration is an important step in not just researching, but delivering solutions that address these challenges and further the cause of parallel computing."
"AMD recognizes that offering users ways to develop applications that migrate easily between multi-core CPUs, GPUs and future architectures is essential in enabling the productivity of our customers and the longevity of their applications," said Patricia Harrell, Director of AMD Stream Computing. "We are pleased that our relationship with Rogue Wave will enable us to work towards providing an important cross-platform programming solution, while at the same time, growing our valuable technology partner ecosystem."


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Six actors. Twenty-four shows in a row. No breaks. No kidding. Brat Productions' A 24-Hour THE BALD SOPRANO will be performed by Ursinus College students in the Black Box Studio Theater. This will be the first college production of the Brat concept.
Eugene Ionesco's hour-long absurd comedy is repeated every hour on the hour. Grab some coffee, grab a pillow, because once the curtain rises at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2 in the Black Box Studio in the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center at Ursinus College, it won't fall again until 8 p.m. the next night. Audiences are welcome to come and go, entering and re-entering this screwy world. Tickets ($2) are sold in two-hour blocks, but can also be used for other time slots as long as seats are available. Tickets are available at email@example.com and by calling 610-409-3030.
A family time is scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Saturday when there is no charge for kids under 12 with a paying adult. During this time, families can come for an hour or stay for all four as the play is repeated.
Brat Productions' unique take on Ionesco's classic tests the mental and physical fortitude of every performer in this spectacle of metaphysical nonsense, suburban banality, and sleep deprivation. Eugene Ionesco's THE BALD SOPRANO, a biting satire of British social conventions, finds the Smiths and Martins, the Maid and Fire Chief trapped by silly routines, mindless manners and non-stop non-communication. Written as a continuous loop, the ending begins the action all over again, having substituted the Martins for the Smiths and the Smiths for the Martins. Brat Co-Artistic Director Madi Distefano directs this absurd-a-thon that will feature onstage pranks and campus cameos as the cast changes roles every hour on the hour.
Founded in 1996, Brat Productions is committed to "thinking outside the proscenium" with performance pieces that are surprising and incendiary, entertaining and unsettling. Brat's mission is to create an audience of the future by producing theatre that breaks the rules; theatre that tests conventions; theatre that rocks! Over the years, Brat has established itself as one of Philadelphia's most adventurous theatre companies and is known for using unusual performance venues to enhance original and noteworthy productions. Its numerous productions have included Three Chord Fiction, winner of the Ted and Stevie Wolf Barrymore Award for New Approaches to Collaboration, Haunted Poe, A 24-Hour The Bald Soprano, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant and Eye-95: Retarred.
Guest Director Madi Distefano is founding artistic director of Brat Productions. She works at Philadelphia companies such as The Walnut Street Theatre, Azuka Theatre, Theatre Exile, Brat Productions and The Live Arts Festival, which produced her original rock-a-billy musical, EYE-95 RE-TARRED. She has received nine Barrymore nominations for Excellence in Theatre in the categories of Directing, Best New Play, Original Music, The F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award and Best Leading Actress Award, which she won in 2005. Madi's original one-woman show, Popsicle's Departure, 1989, won Best Solo Show at the Edinburgh Festival and a Fringe First for new writing. A finalist for a PEW Fellowship in playwriting in 2010, Madi is also a recipient of grants from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Independence Foundation, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, and the Leeway Foundation. Madi holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University, where she is an adjunct professor.


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Adam Warren was called upon early for the New York Yankees on Wednesday, and he delivered a strong performance.
Adam Warren was called upon early for the New York Yankees on Wednesday, and he delivered a strong performance.
Warren, a relief pitcher for the Yankees, entered the game in the third inning.
He threw 5.1 innings in his season debut on Wednesday against the Boston Red Sox. The former New Bern and North Carolina baseball standout gave up one run on five base hits. He struck out four and tossed 86 pitches.
Warren has a 1.69 ERA.
�He did a tremendous job,� Yankees manager Joe Girardi said in a postgame press conference. �He saved our bullpen with the amount of innings he was able to give us today. I thought he threw the ball extremely well and mixed his pitches.�
MATT SOLTER (New Bern) is a sophomore pitcher at Furman. Solter notched a save in the Paladins� 6-5 win over South Carolina on Wednesday. Solter pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
Solter has appeared in 14 games. He has 14 strikeouts in 17.1 innings pitched. Solter has a 5.19 ERA and six saves.
BRETT WILLIAMS (New Bern) is a senior outfielder at N.C.State. Williams went 2-for-4 with three RBIs in the Wolfpack�s 6-1 win over East Carolina Tuesday.
Williams is batting .263 with three home runs, seven doubles and 23 RBIs.
The Wolfpack (21-10) hosts Virginia Tech on Saturday.
CODY MOLOSKY (Pamlico) is a sophomore outfielder at Methodist. Molosky went 2-for-3 and walked in the Monarchs� 8-4 loss to Averett Wednesday.
Molosky has played in all 31 games.
He is batting .333 with two doubles, 33 hits and eight RBIs. Molosky has scored 15 runs and stole 14 bases.
WILL SUTTON (Jones Senior) is a freshman infielder at Methodist.
Sutton has played in 25 games.
He is batting .152 with two doubles, 12 hits and 10 RBIs. Sutton has scored 11 runs and stole two bases.
MATT TOWARNICKY (New Bern) is a freshman infielder at Furman. Towarnicky is 2-for-6 on the season.
TREVOR PENCE (New Bern) is a freshman pitcher at Wake Tech Community College.
WILL COOK (New Bern) is a sophomore catcher at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.).
KYLE SMITH (Jones Senior) is a sophomore infielder at Lenoir Community College.
CHRIS JOYNER (Jones Senior) is a freshman infielder at Lenoir Community College.
BILL LITTLE (New Bern) is a sophomore at Catawba Valley.
MARYANN HOSKINS (HAVELOCK) is a freshman at Lenoir-Rhyne. Hoskins pitched a complete game shutout in a 2-0 win over Pfeiffer Wednesday. She allowed three hits and struck out nine.
Hoskins has pitched in 25 games. She is 10-4 on the season with a 1.86 ERA and 114 strikeouts.
LEIGH WARD (Pamlico) is playing at Chowan. The Hawks� sophomore outfielder went 3-for-6 with two walks, a run and an RBI in a doubleheader sweep of VirginiaStateon March 30.
Ward has started all 34 games.
She leads the team with a .462 batting average. She also has 22 stolen bases and scored 30 runs.
Ward has 48 base hits and 13 RBIs.
DARIAN ROBERTS (Pamlico) is a freshman at UNC-Wilmington. Roberts has pitched in seven games, starting two, for the Seahawks. She has given up 15 runs, walked eight and has an ERA of 8.40.
At the plate, Roberts is hitless, but has scored two runs.
ALEX WARREN (New Bern) is a senior infielder for MeredithCollege. Warrenwent 2-for-5 in a doubleheader split against GreensboroCollegeThursday.
The Avenging Angels won the first game, 3-2, and then lost the second, 7-3.
Warrenscored a run and had two base hits in the second game.
She is batting .318 with 21 base hits, seven doubles, seven RBIs and scored 14 runs.
KELSEY SANFILIPPO (New Bern) is playing at GreensboroCollege. The junior pitcher threw four innings in relief in the Pride�s 3-2 loss to Meredith Thursday.
Sanfilippo struck out four, but allowed two runs on five base hits.
Sanfilippo is 4-3 on the season with a 5.11 ERA and 66 strikeouts.
ERICA SAGE (Havelock) is playing at Pitt. No stats are available for Sage.
ELLEN TILLMAN (HAVELOCK) is a freshman at Indian River State College.
SHAWN ARMSTRONG (West Craven)is a relief pitcher for the Akron Aeros, the Double-A Minor League Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. Armstrong and the Aeros opened the season Thursday night against the Binghamton Mets. The game was not finished by press time.
If you know of any other area athletes playing spring sports in college, contact Adam Thompson and 252-635-5669 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Adam on Twitter @Adam_matic.


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First, I shall set the scene.
I am in my office. I am doing maths as that is what I do. I'm looking at Floquet analysis which is actually quite cool and I am enjoying myself.
As is the way with these thing my brain eventually just melts.
I therefore do what any self-respecting graduate student does in this situation
and goes on the internet.
So, scrolling down the newsfeed, and, what is this?
Has Wiggle got hacked or something? It appears to be advertising pornography...? Wait, hang on, they're selling this stuff?
The offending item is this, a calender featuring a bunch of female cycling pros.
Err. What? I basically saw this and lost my shit a little bit. Then quite a lot. I've been meaning to write something about women and sport for quite a while; stuff started bubbling away with all the of the endless WIMMIN'S VOLLEYBALL ASS PHOTOS all over the press all the fucking time during the Olympics but I held my cool and just enjoyed the sport for what it was. Sport. With athletes in it. This bought all the simmering rage right back up to the surface because fuck you Wiggle. Fuck you, calendar. Fuck you and your "women as objects" bullshit.
A blog post had to be written. I rushed home. A fucking epic rant was brewing and you can't keep that stuff canned up too long. My average speed was faster than the local bus by some significant margin and I was pleased (take that lazy bus riders!)
I threw an omelette down myself and started drawing stuff.
|OK, it wasn't an omelette, it was 3 rashers of bacon chopped up and four eggs smushed around in a pan with cheese on it but DETAILS.
|This is me right now! Oooo meta.
Now some of you are probably thinking, it's a calendar, what's the big deal? Why rush home to write about this?
WELL. What I (and every other woman who commented on Wiggle's advert) found pretty fucking offensive was (a) why the hell are you sexualising a seatpost clamp - it's a seatpost clamp ffs (b) and, more to the point, these women are all pro cyclists, i.e. they are fucking good at cycling. It makes me really quite sad that these women who have suffered and sweated and bled to get to the top of their sport and to be in the best form they can be are essentially reduced to a face, a set of tits and an arse sitting on a really fucking large front derailleur.
You know what would be nice? If we celebrated what these women have actually gone out and done and achieved instead of the fact that they are attractive and own a vagina.
Some of you rowers will draw parallels with the Leander men's calender a couple of years ago. You know, the one with Pete Reed and an umbrella in it:
|I really do not care about stealing these guys pictures.
The Leander calendar equivalent would have to be Pete Reed wearing some sort of latex underwear with tape over his nipples humping a Concept2.
Yeah sure, the Leander guys all have rolled down onesies and abs everywhere and stuff, but they're doing light-hearted stuff like rowing in a boat and erging and holding trophies they've won, not this weird having-sex-with-bike-components shit. The in-your-face sexuality is just absent in the former and is, well, in your face in the this Cyclepassion thing. Hell, in the Leander one they talk about the Olympic and World Champ and Henley medals they've won, where as this monstrosity? Do they even say what fucking cycling team their on? No.
These women are sportswomen and this is not what sport is about. I do not admire people because they are attractive, I admire them because they go out and do heroic things and overcome adversity and be courageous and suffer and suffer and suffer chasing a dream. To have these women draped over weird large bike components (what is even with that?!?!?! Are they saving money by not producing a catalogue or something?) in such an overtly sexual way just trivialises all they have worked for.
THIS is what sport is:
...it's the Danish LM2x being utterly courageous in the last 500m and taking out the reining Olympic Champions...
|The Mirror
....it's Frida Svensson taking on the best in the world in 2010 face on... and succeeding....
|From Frida's blog
|Getty Images
|Cycling Weekly (And yes I know this photo is from the wrong year)
|Steve Cristo
... and it is passion.
|The Telegraph
|Really? REALLY? (And blue tyres on a red bike?!?!?!?)
I have to evaluate why I do sport when this sort of palaver crops up. Now I am not the most genetically gifted person looks-wise and I know how averages work so I'm going to put myself in the sub-average lookwise category (and no, I am not fishing for complements, I get called 'Sir' about once a fortnight and well, I am not an idiot - you have to deal with the shit life deals you) but you know what, I do not give a shit.
If I want to achieve something I will work my arse off to get there and for that it doesn't matter one bit how attractive I am. I will gladly destroy myself on an ergo or on a turbo or whatever because that way you find your limits, you learn stuff about yourself, you suffer and you become a better human being because of it. I don't train and train and train to get a nice arse so I am somehow more attractive. No, fuck you, I train because I fucking enjoy it, I (perversely) enjoy suffering and I like seeing how good I can be at something. After all, there is no better feeling after a 2K race than knowing you gave every little bit of yourself; it is somehow purifying. You're basically throwing your arms up in the air and shouting "THIS IS ALL I'VE FUCKING GOT AND IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, FUCK YOU" to the world (before puking into the lake).
I am not an object that sits on top of stuff in an eluring manner (if I tried many of those poses I would probably fall off anyway). I am not a pair of tits and a vagina. I am a human being who likes to be good at stuff and enjoys the journey of getting to being good at stuff. I like cycling and I like rowing and I like sportsmanship. I like being treated as a human being.
And that is why, Wiggle, you have lost yourself a customer today. You stock this calendar, which insults me on a whole array of different levels and I am not going to buy lots of nice shiny bike stuff off you. Sure, it's a drop in the ocean but I don't care. This represents too much that I hate to put up with to condone.
So, Wiggle I say to you this fine October evening a resounding fuck you. Actually fuck you.


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YORK, PA – In a battle for sole possession of second place in the Captial Athletic Conference, the York College women's basketball team placed four players in double figures as the Spartans earned a 70-56 conference win over Salisbury University on Saturday afternoon in York. The Spartans improve to 12-3 overall and 6-1 in the league while the Gulls fall to 7-6 overall and 5-2 in the conference.
The Spartans got off to a great start as they led 14-7 just over seven minutes into the game. The Green and White pushed the led to 13 on an April Sparkman three at the 7:59 mark. The Sea Gulls cut it nine only to have York push it back to 13 at 30-17 with 5:42 left in the half.
Salisbury answered York's early advantage with an 11-2 spurt, cutting the hosts' lead to just four at 32-28. Sparkman got a lay up with 33 seconds left in the half to give York a 34-28 lead heading to the break. The Spartan advantage could have been greater as York shot 56.5% from the floor but the Green and White committed 12 turnovers in the opening 20 minutes of play.
The Sea Gulls got a Nicole Sisco hoop to start the second half but York scored seven of the next nine points of the game to take a 41-32 lead. The Spartans increased the lead to 13 on a Jess Selby triple at the 13:05 mark. The Sea Gulls made one more run at York, cutting the Spartan lead to seven courtesy of a 9-3 run with 9:45 left. York responded with a quick 6-0 spurt as Brittany Hicks had a three-point play and Kelsey Murphy followed with a triple from the top of the key, pushing the lead back to 13. Salisbury trimmed the York lead to nine three times over the final seven minutes but the hosts answered each time, quickly increasing the lead back to double figures. York pushed the lead to as many as 16 before settling for the 14-point win.
Sparkman led the Spartans as she poured in 21 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the floor including 2-of-4 from three and a 5-of-8 mark from the free throw line. The sophomore tandem of Hicks and Kristen Haley each notched double-doubles in the win. Hicks had 12 points and 11 rebounds while Haley had 11 points and 10 rebounds. Hicks was 3-for-6 from the floor including 1-for-2 from three. She also was 5-for-7 from the stripe as she recorded her sixth career double-double. Haley was 5-for-9 from the field and 1-for-2 from the line. The double-double for Haley is her sixth of the year. Murphy was the fourth Spartan in double figures with 10 points.
Sophomore point guard Aja Wallpher registered one of her finest floor games in her time as a Spartan. Wallpher had a career-high 13 assists while she also had four blocked shots, a career-high tying seven steals, six points and three rebounds in her 38 minutes of work.
Sisco led the Gulls with 19 points off the bench. The forward was 8-for-14 from the floor and 2-for-4 from the line. Sisco also pulled in eight rebounds and collected three steals. Freshman Anna Hackett contributed 12 points, five rebounds, and five assists while Katie McGahagan was the third Gull in double figures with 10 points.
The Spartans committed 20 turnovers which led to the Gulls having a whopping 21 more shot attempts from the field. York shot a season-best 52.3% from the floor including 43.8% (7-for-16) from three. The Spartans made 17-of-23 (73.9%) from the stripe including 13-of-17 in the second half.
Salisbury shot 35.4% from the field including 0-for-7 from distance. The Sea Gulls converted 10-of-14 (71.4%) from the line.
York outrebounded the Sea Gulls 36-33 but Salisbury managed 17 offensive rebounds, which led to 20 second chance points.
The Spartans return to action on Wednesday night when they host Stevenson University in a CAC contest. Tip time at Charles Wolf Gymnasium is scheduled for 6:00 pm.
Aja Wallpher photo courtesy of Mike Zortman


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REDLANDS -- Bob and Norma Clark recently celebrated 48 years of marriage.
But while organizing legal paperwork dealing with their deaths, the couple discovered their marriage was never legal.
They made the discovery after reading a story in The Wall Street Journal that said without a marriage license, one spouse could not collect the other's Social Security benefits.
So the couple tried to get a copy of their marriage certificate sent to their Redlands home.
They sent $20 to the San Mateo County Hall of Records to retrieve it, but there was no record of their Aug. 29, 1964, ceremony.
"They went back to the year 1956, but no record of our marriage could be found," Bob Clark said. "So we called the church we were married in and asked if they had a copy. They said, 'Oh, yes, we have a copy.' So we called the (records office) back and asked if we could record it now."'
Marriage certificates have to be filed within two years of the ceremony, the Clarks learned, and they would now have to register their wedding in San Bernardino County to make their marriage legal.
So the Clarks set out to do just that.
But to do so, they needed two witnesses who were at their 1964 wedding. And with Thanksgiving within a week of the discovery, that was no problem -- several family members who were at the ceremony were coming to town.
With only days to prepare, the Clarks asked Norma's sister, Deanna Silvestri, and her brother, Bill Thrall, to be their new witnesses. The two were Norma's maid of honor and the couple's junior usher at the original wedding.
The Clarks had a 10 a.m. appointment on Nov. 21 to file their certificate at the county Hall of Records on San Bernardino's Hospitality Lane.
And they came prepared.
"I got her a nice bouquet, and it was just a hoot," Bob said. "There were about 35 people there who were asking us why we were there. We told them that we've been married...and we brought along a book of all our pictures and showed them (off)."
After the filing was finished, making the marriage legal, one man in the crowd called out to the Clarks and told Bob to kiss his bride.
And he did just that.
Norma and Bob met while students at Santa Fe State. She was there to get a degree in arts and he was getting his master's in sociology.
They met while Bob was giving a report, he said, adding that Norma immediately caught his eye.
"I thought she was kind of cute," he said.
They soon began dating.
After graduation, Bob served in the Army for two years, including during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was on his way to Cuba when President John F. Kennedy called the troops back.
The couple set a wedding date and after what could have been another setback -- Bob waiting to be discharged -- they were married (they thought).
"And now we are here to tell our tale," Norma said. "Everyone thinks it's a real kick."
Silvestri agreed.
"It was interesting to review what happened that day because it had been so long ago," she said. "Seeing the pictures again brought back so many memories of the day. By the time they were done filing their certificate at the (records office), everyone clapped. "It was really cute."
Norma and Bob moved to Redlands 20 years ago with their adult daughter and son, Sarah and Alexander.
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