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Is there friggin' anything Matt Damon can't do? As the action hero/leading man/activist/Oscar-winning screenwriter/sitcom revelation/Internet meme finally makes the transition to Serious Director, we're about to find out
I'm ducking Matt Damon. We're supposed to meet at the Central Park Zoo ticket booth precisely at noon, but I'm not there. I'm thirty feet away, standing behind a huge oak tree, keeping watch.
Cameron Crowe, the director, has urged me to try to get a glimpse of the 41-year-old actor when he doesn't know I'm there. "Matt's fans relate to him as an older brother or a member of the family. And that's how he relates to them," Crowe says, recalling how during the shoot of their new movie, We Bought a Zoo, he liked to do reconnaissance on Damon as he signed autographs and interacted with his public.
The Boston native, who now calls New York home, can be reticent in interviews, reluctant to reveal too much or get too personal. I want to observe him in his natural habitat, and I imagine that my stealth will be rewarded with the kind of unguarded moment that can only be viewed in the wild. As minutes pass, however, and I don't spot him anywhere, a thought looms: This is Jason Bourne I'm hunting—the master of evasion. What if Matt Damon is ducking me?
Stepping into the open, I sort of wave my notebook like a journalistic homing beacon, and suddenly there he is, all smiles. "Hi, I'm Matt," he says, extending a hand. He's in jeans, a gray waffle-y long-sleeve T-shirt, and what look to be brand-new black Puma sneakers. He has a knit cap pulled down to his eyebrows, which makes it easy to notice that his hat and his eyes are exactly the same blue. He's taller than I thought he'd be and exactly a quarter inch taller than the man standing next to him: a gray-haired, bespectacled guy in pleated chinos and a baseball cap.
"This," Damon proclaims, "is my dad."
When Damon the younger pulls out a credit card to gain us entry to what we will all agree must be the smallest zoo on earth, Damon the elder (his name is Kent) observes wryly, "This is the first time the son buys the father a ticket to the zoo. When has that happened before?" Whereupon the son grins big and says, "There's, like, a disturbance in the Force!"
"Come on," Kent says. "Let's go see the polar bears."
As we set off, I'm immediately struck by the constant cross-generational ball-busting between father and son. For example, the story of when 12-year-old Matt announced his intent to play point guard for the Boston Celtics.
**Kent: **I said, "Matt, I have to tell you a little bit about the real world."
**Matt: **My favorite player was Tiny Archibald, and he goes, "You know they call him Tiny because he's six foot one." He told me that he was the tallest Damon to ever evolve at five foot ten.
**Kent: **Five ten and a half, by the way.
**Matt: **Used to be, man.
**Kent: **Not that we're sensitive about it.
I mention something Crowe has told me about Damon's performance in the new film, in which he plays a widowed father of two who buys a ramshackle zoo. Crowe singles out a scene in which Damon talks to an ailing Siberian tiger through a chain-link fence. In the script, the tiger was supposed to be supine, but the minute Damon delivered his first line, the cat got up, snarling, and came toward him with menace. "Most people would have said, 'This isn't funny—put a chain on that thing!' But Matt stays in," Crowe told me, explaining why that first, unexpected take is the one he used in the final film. "You see him flinch but stay in."
Hearing this, Kent gets a mischievous look: "So you were brave?"
Matt shakes his head and rolls his eyes. "Cameron was telling stories about how I was brave in the face of a caged tiger," he says. "He was working it."
"Bunch of b.s.," agrees Kent. Which is when I realize that we may still be talking about who's the bigger man. Standing in front of a 90,000-gallon tank containing Gus, the zoo's half-ton polar bear, Matt describes borrowing a bike from his elder brother, Kyle, and discovering (when he couldn't reach the pedals) that Kyle has much longer legs. "We realized if you took his lower body and my upper body, we'd be, like, six foot three," Matt tells his dad, who readily concedes that Matt is long of torso. "You have a neck," he tells his son. "I don't even have a neck." At which point, Matt nods and says simply, "It's true." If you measured the smirks on their faces, I swear they'd be precisely the same size.
When I tell the director Steven Soderbergh that I'm writing this piece about Damon, he responds with faux derision: "Why? He's not doing much." (Damon was in five movies released in 2011, and he's appeared in more than thirty-five films since his breakout role as an emaciated addict in 1996's Courage Under Fire.) Soderbergh has directed his friend in six of those—Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen; Che: Part Two; The Informant!; and Contagion—and most recently has cast him as Liberace's lover in an HBO biopic slated to shoot later this year. He calls Damon "probably the least vain person in his position"—meaning movie star—"out there. He has no interest in protecting any sort of idea of himself as an actor."
What he does have, however, is an interest in using his power as an actor to champion the underdog and right what he perceives to be wrong. He has thrown his full weight (and his money) behind a charity, Water.org, that seeks to provide sources of clean water to the Third World. Over the years, he has spoken up about public-school teachers (he supports them), the middle class (he thinks they're getting the shaft), and President Obama (he feels he's not delivering on his promise). At the White House Correspondents' dinner this year, Obama responded directly, saying, "Matt Damon said he was disappointed in my performance. Well, Matt, I just saw The Adjustment Bureau..."
Damon tells me he didn't see that speech live but got thirty e-mails from friends the next morning and watched the president's remarks online. "I have to say, it was pretty funny," he says, getting in his own dig: "Whoever came up with it, it was a terrific joke."
Recently the director Michael Moore called on Damon to run for president, which he says he will never, ever do. Which may be for the best, given how explicitly he pokes fun at his own image. In appearances on late-night TV and on shows like Entourage, he seems to relish being pompous, arrogant, goofy, even profane. Tina Fey says he approached her at an awards dinner and said he'd like to be considered for a cameo on 30 Rock. ("We don't let people slide," she says, "once they make a mistake like that.") Whether impersonating his pal Matthew McConaughey for David Letterman ("In today's scene, I think it would be a good opportunity for me to take my shirt off....") or pretending to be screwing Sarah Silverman on her then boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's show (On the bed, on the floor, on a towel, by the door, in the tub, in the car, up against the minibar!), he seems to have an intuitive feel for comedy.
"A lot of stars/serious actors try to put some weird 'comedy sauce' on their acting. Matt doesn't put anything on it. He says the lines honestly," says Silverman, whose Emmy-winning music video, "I'm Fucking Matt Damon," nearly melted the Internet after it aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2008. Whether it's comedy or drama, she adds, "he has that Meryl Streep thing where he always blows your mind, and you just want to watch him and watch him. He doesn't need a fancy accent or a fake tooth to play a 'regular person.' He just eats normal and gets a not-expensive haircut."
Scott Rudin, the ber-producer who worked with Damon on the Coen brothers' True Grit, says he's been a "crazy stalker fan" since he read Good Will Hunting fifteen years ago. And Rudin's regard for Damon has only grown, he says, as he's watched the actor carve his own path through Hollywood.
"He's done such great things with his stardom," Rudin says, recalling how Damon turned his nonleading role in True Grit—the buffoon with a romantic streak, LaBoeuf—into "the beating heart of the movie." There's something about Damon—a melding of his talent and his public persona—that gives him a "compact with the audience," Rudin says. "And he retains it, whether every movie works or doesn't."
With the Bourne franchise, which has earned more than $1 billion worldwide, he has proved his box-office clout. And then he turned his back on it, at least temporarily. What other A-lister would have walked away from the fourth Bourne film (and an estimated $20 million payday) because, he says, he and director Paul Greengrass felt that the tight timetable set by the studio would endanger its chances of being good? "That's a pretty striking move," Rudin says.
Damon says they had no choice. "If you look at the first three movies, we kind of pounded that idea of identity and amnesia into the ground. We really got everything out of it that we could. So to reboot it, we need to come up with something completely new," he says, explaining why the eleven-month turnaround that Universal Pictures wanted didn't feel doable.
Another Bourne film is in the works, however. Tony Gilroy, who wrote or co-wrote the first three films, has written and begun directing the fourth, The Bourne Legacy. The movie is said to exist in the same world as the previous three, but it introduces a new main character, played by Jeremy Renner. Damon says he learned about the project one day while surfing online. "It was a surprise," he says, though he doesn't sound particularly miffed. Not yet, at least.
Damon tells me he thinks Gilroy is a great director (Michael Clayton, Duplicity) and that he admires Renner. And because Damon fully intends to make another Bourne movie someday, he says he's "really pulling for this one, even though I don't have anything to do with it. Selfishly, it's bad for me if that movie doesn't do well." He says he still feels "inoculated" by the franchise—as if it protects him from having to do anything that could be bad for him. "It feels like I can swing freely, like a baseball player—just be relad and really do the things that I want to do and not worry, because I know there's another one out there."
Later, though, Damon will wonder if maybe he has become a little too relad. Because suddenly, as we sit on a bench in the afternoon sunshine, he takes a major swing at Gilroy. Damon says that back in 2001, when the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity, was still in postproduction, Gilroy saw a rough cut and got worried. "The word on Bourne was that it was supposed to be a turkey," Damon says. "It's very rare that a movie comes out a year late, has four rounds of reshoots, and it's good. So Tony Gilroy arbitrated against himself to not be the writer with sole credit."
Typically screenwriters use the Writers Guild's arbitration process when they feel they've been denied credit unfairly. This time, Gilroy wanted to share the credit (and the blame), Damon says, "to have another guy take the bullet with him." And so someone named William Blake Herron is now cashing residual checks on Bourne, just like Gilroy is. (Actually Damon may have gotten his chronology wrong—one source says Herron initiated the credit dispute, but that Gilroy didn't oppose sharing credit.)
Gilroy wrote Bourne 2 as well: The Bourne Supremacy. Then, Damon says, for The Bourne Ultimatum, the third in the franchise, Gilroy struck a deal to write just one draft of the script, take no notes, do no rewrites, and get paid "an exorbitant amount of money."
"It's really the studio's fault for putting themselves in that position," Damon says. "I don't blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in. It's just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It's terrible. It's really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left."
Gilroy's lackluster work left the production in chaos, Damon says. "We had a start date. Like, 'It's coming out August of next year.' We're like, 'Hang on, we've got to figure out what the script is.' " In the end, the shooting script was written under extreme deadline pressure by George Nolfi and Scott Z. Burns, with input from Greengrass, Damon says. And then Gilroy raised another challenge. "Before the movie came out, he arbitrated to get sole credit," Damon says, disgusted. The WGA looked into it and turned Gilroy down. (He shares credit with Nolfi and Burns.) "That was just a little bit of justice, I have to say," Damon says.
A representative for Gilroy referred all inquiries to Universal Pictures, where spokeswoman Kori Bernards reiterated the studio's support for both Damon and Gilroy. "We could not imagine replacing Matt as Jason Bourne, which is why we're so excited Tony's script creates a fantastic new character in The Bourne Legacy and also leaves open the option for Matt to return.... Tony has done everything we've asked of him on each of the Bourne films, and his work has been a huge asset to the franchise."
"Are you spying on me?" Damon says into his cell phone, which has just vibrated in his pocket. He's talking to his wife, Lucy, and he's also looking right at her. The petite, dark-eyed beauty is standing forty feet away, on the other side of a low fence.
"Do you want to see a polar bear?" he asks Lucy, his voice playful and delighted and warm as melted butter. (If he bottled that voice, lots of women would pay thousands of dollars an ounce and pour it all over themselves.) But Lucy isn't budging. Damon turns to his dad and me: "She says, 'I've already done the zoo.' "
They met in 2003 in Miami, where Damon was shooting the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You, in which he and Greg Kinnear played conjoined twins. The movie was a god-awful flop, but boy, was there an upside: Luciana Bozan, an Argentine-born bartender with a 6-year-old daughter named Alexia. Once they met, Damon—who'd been romantically linked to actresses like Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder— was done looking. They married in a civil ceremony in 2005 and promptly (very promptly: Lucy was pregnant when they wed) had three more girls of their own: Isabella, now 5, Gia, 3, and Stella, 1.
Meanwhile Damon and Ben Affleck, the man he calls his "hetero lifemate," remain as tight as ever. The two have a production company, Pearl Street Films, and Damon lets slip that they are developing a biopic about James "Whitey" Bulger, the onetime godfather of the Irish Mob in Boston, who was on the lam for sixteen years before being apprehended last June. Damon will play Bulger and Affleck will direct. But that won't be for a while yet. First Damon must finish Elysium, a sci-fi picture directed by Neill Blomkamp, who made the acclaimed District 9.
Then Damon will direct himself. Beginning sometime in early 2012, he is going into preproduction on an as-yet-untitled movie he's writing with John Krasinski, of The Office. They met and hit it off when Damon did The Adjustment Bureau with Krasinski's wife, Emily Blunt. Krasinski shared his script idea—about a salesman (Damon) who visits a small town and experiences something that changes his life—and the two started working together on the weekends while Damon was shooting We Bought a Zoo.
"I just found writing with him really easy—like writing with Ben," Damon says. We've stepped briefly into the penguin house, which smelled like you'd expect a place filled with the excrement of sixty-five large birds would. ("The penguins were great, by the way," Damon said as we fled. "Thank you for that.") Now we've detoured past the red panda toward an enclosure that houses three snow leopards. As we wander, I'm struck that Damon appears to approach this major career shift much like he seems to do everything else: without much apparent angst.
To be sure, he is thinking a lot about how to apply the lessons he's learned during the two decades he's closely observed almost every great director alive—in addition to the ones we've already mentioned, he's also worked with Eastwood, Redford, Scorsese, Gilliam, and Van Sant. DeNiro and Affleck have advised him, he says, on the challenges of directing and acting at the same time. Damon's not naive: He knows that if he sucks as a director, it will be a very public failure. "There are just too many decisions over the course of too long a time, and if you're not a truly great director, you just can't hide," he says.
So why do it? "When I first started getting work, I felt like acting was the most important thing," he says. "But the more you do it, the more you realize that in the end, the director has all the power.
"Clint says all the time, 'Let's not fuck this up too much by thinking about it,' " he says, referring to Eastwood, with whom he's done two films, one of which (Invictus) got Damon an Oscar nomination. "That's his approach, and some people love it and some people hate it, but he doesn't do too much hand-wringing about it. I'd love to do what Clint does."
Certainly, Damon hasn't been a hand-wringer when it comes to acting. Instead of simply "protecting the beachhead," as he puts it, sticking with action roles (and cashing the big paychecks), he has used the Bourne franchise to afford him the freedom to do lower-paying, noncommercial work that he finds worthy, often in supporting parts that don't get his name at the top of the call sheet. ("There are no small roles," he explains, winking at his dad. "Only small actors.") He played an energy analyst in Syriana, for example, Stephen Gaghan's 2005 drama about the forces driving the oil industry, and narrated the Oscar-winning 2010 documentary Inside Job, about the financial meltdown. For Soderbergh's The Informant!, in which he played a self-deluded whistle-blower who lies as much as he tells the truth, he gained thirty pounds, grew a doltish mustache, and wore a hairpiece. Oh, and he took a greatly reduced salary as well.
"I haven't made him a lot of money lately," Soderbergh says, noting that Damon's agent, Patrick Whitesell, "jokes, 'Whenever the phone rings from you guys, I know we're taking a haircut.' "
The Ocean's movies pay pretty well, Damon insists—"I think you get half your quote." (Which, if reports can be believed, would be about $5 million for Damon.) But even in those, which ooze glamour, he plays an oddball. And that, he says, is just the way he likes it. Given his castmates, he says, it's the only way to make a splash.
"Look," Damon says, "if you want to try and GQ it up with George and Brad, good luck! That's pretty rarefied air, and you're not going to bring more charm than those two, so you've got to find something else."
We're sitting near a throng of barking sea lions when I ask if he's read A Visit from the Goon Squad. He hasn't. "What is it?" he asks. "I've never heard of it." "It's Jennifer Egan's book," I say, pulling the slender novel from my bag. "It won the Pulitzer this year."
He laughs. "I'm like, 'I've never heard of it.' You're like, 'Well, it won the Pulitzer, dumb-ass.' " I explain that I brought the novel not to shame him, although that's kind of fun, but to show him a chapter that spoofs the very thing we're doing: a celebrity interview. In addition to being hilarious, the fake magazine profile in Egan's book—it's about a made-up actress named Kitty Jackson—drops a few real names, including Damon's. Kitty is said to belong "in the category of nice stars (Matt Damon) rather than of difficult stars (Ralph Fiennes). Stars in the nice category act as if they're just like you (i.e., me) so that you will like them and write flattering things about them, a strategy that is almost universally successful...."
I hand Damon the book. Keep it, I say. I don't tell him that in it, the journalist ends up trying to rape the celebrity-profile subject—in Central Park, no less. I don't reveal the book's suggestion that celebrity profilers are, metaphorically at least, having their way with their subjects. Because that would be kind of like saying that while interviewing Matt Damon, I'm also fucking Matt Damon. And as we all know, Sarah Silverman got there first. Here, Damon and Silverman on the making of "I'm Fucking Matt Damon."
**Matt: **Jimmy Kimmel and I had this kind of fake feud going.
**Sarah: **Every night at the end of > Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy would say, "Sorry, Matt Damon, we ran out of time"—a joke that started because in the early years of Jimmy's show, the lead guest would be, like, the man with the longest leg hair in the world.
**Matt: **So the producers called me up and said, "Would you ever consider coming on and we'll do a bit? We'll finally get you on, and then we'll run out of time, and then you and Jimmy'll do a whole fake fight." And I was like, "Oh, that's funny." So I came on, and I did this whole fake fight with him as they're rolling the credits. And then we did a thing for > The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, a fake trailer in which Guillermo [the security guard who has become a regular on Kimmel's show] ends up in my movie, and I say, "Wait, now you're trying to bump me from my own > movie?" Then the question was, How do we beat that?
**Sarah: **For Jimmy's fortieth birthday, the plan was to have a show where all the guests and bits were a surprise.
**Matt: **Sarah was going to come out and say, "Well, happy birthday, but there is this one thing that I should probably tell you."
**Sarah: **Two writers, Tony Barbieri and Sal Iacono, had the idea that it should be a song.
**Matt: **We shot it really quickly. I was in Miami, and I think we met at the Delano Hotel at seven in the morning, and we were done by ten. It was a tiny production: one camera, a couple of backup dancers. We recorded the song in the closet. They put sound blankets in there and a microphone, and I recorded my part. After it was over, I had to go to a parent-teacher conference for Alexia, and I was like, "What the fuck did I just do? Holy shit. I can't do this shit anymore. I have kids. This is crazy. They're going to see this."
**Sarah: **The video was actually shelved for many months because of the writers' strike. We dusted it off and aired it on Jimmy's five-year-anniversary show instead. I remember that night: Jimmy and I were brushing our teeth before the show, and he was like, "I'm so excited for your surprise—I hear it's great!" I didn't want him to psych himself up too much, so I was like, "It's a 'funny video,' you know?" Jimmy loved it, which was nice.
**Matt: **After the thing ran, I went to pick Alexia up at school, and one of the teachers came out and had seen it and said, "Oh, it was great, it was really good," and then I realized, "Okay, it's okay."
**Sarah: **The fact that it became this viral thing was very unexpected. It's funny—though our names will forever be linked, I really don't know him personally. I mean, if I see him somewhere, he gives me a warm hug and hello, but I don't have his phone number or anything.
Apparently, Damon doesn't just collect famous friends. Which makes sense, since his relationship with his own celebrity has been fraught. While he understands that profiles like this one play a part in marketing his films, he has at times been difficult when interviewers have tried to talk about anything more personal than global politics or film theory. The last time this magazine profiled him, in 2007, the writer resorted to describing the "excruciatingly long and loud—like, racehorse long-and-loud—piss" he took in a trailer lavatory, because "it was the most interesting thing he did over the course of...three hours."
Crowe has a theory about Damon's elusiveness. "Matt's a guy who skewers pretension. Hourly and by the minute, nothing is going to get pumped up into some lofty thing with Matt around," the director says. "It may not be as subversive as him trying to be tricky about not letting the interviewer get to him. It's more that he would skewer the guy that you mostly read in celebrity interviews. He laughs at that guy. He's very careful to not be that guy."
With me, he hasn't been that guy. He's been forthcoming—way more forthcoming, he already realizes, than he meant to be. Damon has very pointedly skewered someone—Gilroy—who he feels unfairly pumped himself up. And he regrets it. As this story is going to press, he'll call me to clarify: "If I didn't respect him and appreciate his talent, then I really wouldn't have cared.... My feelings were hurt. That's all. And that's exactly why I shouldn't have said anything. This is between me and him. So saying anything publicly is fucking stupid and unprofessional and just kind of douchey of me."
But that will come later. Now, at the zoo, his phone buzzes—his wife again. It's time to pick up their daughters from school, so Damon, his dad, and I head for the exit. There we meet up with Lucy, and we all walk briskly east, toward a huge chauffeured black Yukon XL that waits to whisk them away. Before we can get to it, though, a paparazzo suddenly charges toward us, his camera raised. He's not exactly menacing, but he's persistent, trying to herd Damon and his family into a single frame. Most movie stars of Damon's stature would have said, "This isn't funny—put a chain on that thing!" But Damon smiles a tight smile. "Here," he says politely, "you can take a shot of me and my pop." Damon stays in. You see him flinch, but he stays in.
_Amy Wallace is a GQ correspondent. _


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Some studies show that HIV+ men may have a higher incidence of testosterone deficiency (hypogonadism) than HIV negative men controlled for age. Particularly, free testosterone levels in HIV+ men may be low even in the presence of normal total testosterone levels (free testosterone blood levels measure the "active" part of testosterone that does the job of increasing stamina, sexual function and mental focus).
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- With just three days to go until the Florida primary, Newt Gingrich told reporters Saturday he is in this presidential race for the long haul.
"I will go all the way to the convention. I expect to win the nomination," Gingrich told reporters following an event outside the PGA Museum. "You just had two national polls that show me ahead. Why don't you ask Gov. Romney what he will do if he loses since he is behind in both national polls?"
The former House speaker, who convincingly won the South Carolina primary, says he will get to the GOP convention in Tampa "state-by-state." "If we win Florida, I will be the nominee," he also noted to the couple hundred people in the crowd.
GOP rival Mitt Romney and Gingrich are fighting it out down in the Sunshine State this week – throwing jabs at each both on their own and with surrogates.
Romney continues to call Gingrich "Goldilocks" – making fun of him for complaining about the audience at debates. Gingrich reiterates his assertion that Romney lies because the campaign is desperate, telling reporters Saturday, "You cannot debate somebody who is dishonest."
Surrogates from the Romney campaign stand in the back of most Gingrich events to give a "rebuttal" to the press. Saturday outside the golf museum, three members of Congress – Rep. Charlie Bass, R-N.H., Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., and Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., – stood chatting when Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond, for the third day in a row, approached the group and began asking questions.
Gingrich told reporters curious what he thought of the way his spokesman interacts with members of Congress that it is "a free country" and sees the Romney campaign sending supporters to his events as evidence of "desperation."
"It's a slight overmatch – R.C.'s a little bit more informed than they are, but nonetheless, it's fine with me, he [Romney] can send as many members as he wants. When he gets tired we'll bring Toby back and Toby's agreed to help R.C. take a hit," Gingrich said. [Toby is R.C. Hammond's dog.]
One Romney surrogate, Rep. Bass, served with Gingrich in the House back in the '90s and said voters should listen to those who worked with the Speaker.
"He is a good guy but he is not going to be president of the United States," Bass said. "He knows it, we know it, the people of Florida will know it next Tuesday."


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It's the 20th Anniversary of Paul's Boutique and I've been musing about the album and its influence on pop culture and bike culture.
Where were you when it came out? Did you hate it at first or have been coveting it since it hit the record shops?
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Artist uses dresses as her canvas
Abigail Vona, a 28-year-old New Milford artist, is something of an alchemist. She checks thrift shops and tag sales for the rich material for her work -- dresses that are old, stained or just sadly unwanted. Satin and silk dresses are her favorites, although she'll consider cotton and linen. Vona rescues them and painstakingly gives them a second chance, turning them into one-of-a-kind works of wearable art.
To Vona, the dresses are a way for people to interact with her art, and those attending the second annual Garden Party hosted by the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council on Saturday, July 27, will be able to do just that, as the artist's dresses will be modeled throughout the event. The fundraiser at the historic Harwinton home and gardens of Victoria Elliot and Marvin McMillen supports the arts council and gives artists a venue for promoting their work.
The event will provide a stage for a number of artists, including some plein air painters who will be creating art in the gardens, but Vona's "fashion runway through the gardens" is a first. Her spectacular dresses will be modeled by council volunteers and staff members and will include a gown worn by a model on stilts. Vona explained the 10-foot-long dress was once a wedding gown with a gathered train that she has transformed for the performance.
Vona also will discuss her art, her process and her story. "I rethink fabric and use it as a canvas," she said. "Art is meant to be shared. So much is collected and hidden away from us in people's homes, but I like being able to display art in daily life. Painting a dress that someone will wear is more personal."
Her favorite subject matter includes bettas (Siamese fighting fish) and peacocks, and though they seem disparate, there is a link. Aside from being brilliantly colored (like her dresses), the two animals share another characteristic.
"When bettas fight, that's when they look the most beautiful," said Vona, referring to the postures of the fish when they are in attack mode, which is also how they look during courtship. "Peacocks are the same way. It's like a dance. Love and hate can be so intermingled; it's a kind of balance that I find interesting."
Although Vona first exhibited at 17 -- it was a show of her free-style stained glass in Litchfield -- and also attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City for interior design, she is completely self-taught in fashion art, which she has been working on for two years. "It is very new and very fresh. I don't like putting myself in a box."
Using a batik method of hot wax and ordinary Rit dye, she works on each dress as a canvas. She blocks out chambers using wax and then dyes the different sections separately. The process can take anywhere from a day for a simple sundress to three days for a gown. She often works on wedding dresses that can be very elaborate and, by painting them, she breathes new life into them. Dresses at the party will be for sale and cost anywhere from $100 to $1,500.
The arts council discovered Vona through a word-of-mouth recommendation. Amy Wynn, executive director of the arts council, is enthusiastic about having her as one of the artists.
"Our goal is to celebrate the creativity in the region, make sure guests have a great time and raise money for the arts council," said Wynn, who will be wearing a Vona dress. "This younger group of makers are presenting themselves in wonderful, nontraditional ways, and Vona is part of the young creative community that doesn't fit into traditional labels. They are re-purposing things and bringing their own flavor to it. People are beginning to value this a bit more."
Vona is on Facebook at Vona Batik, and she does custom dresses, in case your favorite dress has been in the back of your closet because it has a stain.
Deb Keiser is a freelance writer in New York; firstname.lastname@example.com
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Garden Party, Saturday, July 27, 4-7 p.m., 10 Litchfield Road, Harwinton. Rain date: Sunday, July 28. Tickets, are $65 and include tours of the gardens, three-course dinner, beverages, plein air painting demonstrations, art sale and entertainment by Terra Coda and Litchfield Jazz Camp students. Parking at Congregational Church abutting the property. Council info: artsnwct-garden.info, 860-618-0075.
Abigail Vona is on Facebook at Vona Batik, and she does custom dresses, in case your favorite dress has been in the back of your closet because it has a stain.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 14, 2010) - The ETSU men's basketball team has its assignment, and once again the Buccaneers will play the role of David versus one of the NCAA's Goliaths.
During Sunday evening's live CBS Selection Show, the Buccaneers and the rest of the nation learned that ETSU has received a No. 16 seed in this week's NCAA Tournament and will face off with top-seeded Kentucky on Thursday in New Orleans. Tip time is set for 7:15 p.m. (EST).
Over 1,000 ETSU fans gathered inside the Millennium Center to learn of the Bucs' matchup for the tournament.
"We obviously expected to face one of the top four or five teams in the country, and Kentucky certainly fits that description," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "They have two of the best big men around, and arguably the best player in the country in John Wall. To say we will have our work cut out for us would be an understatement, but we are going to scrap and compete. It's a special opportunity anytime you play in the NCAA Tournament."
The Bucs (20-14) enter the tournament as champions of the Atlantic Sun Conference, while the Wildcats (32-2) are champions of the Southeastern Conference. The Bucs are 0-2 all-time against Kentucky, having played the Wildcats in 1981 and 1985.
For more on the Bucs as they prepare for the NCAAs, visit ETSUBucs.com throughout the tournament. For detailed information on ETSU's team and the 2009-10 season, click on the men's basketball link at ETSUBucs.com.
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Two Cited By State Police
Two Warfordsburg area residents face charges in connection with an alleged physical altercation that occurred on Wednesday, May 22, at 132 Layton Road. According to state police reports, Herbert A. Carpenter, 60, and 56-year-old Brenda A. Wolf were involved in the 6:06 p.m. incident. Charges of simple assault and harassment are to be filed through Magisterial District Judge Tamela Mellott Heming.
Lug Nuts Loosened
The lug nuts on a commonwealth of Pennsylvania vehicle were loosened between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday, May 17. State police said the vehicle was parked along a private lane off North Clear Ridge Road in Dublin Township when the mischief occurred. Anyone having further information pertinent to this case should immediately contact state police Trooper Horton at 717- 485-3131.
Mailbox Stolen
A mailbox and post were stolen from 4348 Old 126 in Union Township between 5 p.m. on May 17 and noon on May 18. Victim is a 44-yearold Warfordsburg area man. Anyone having further information concerning this theft is asked to call state police Trooper Doriguzzi at 717- 485-3131.
Meat Grinder Missing
A 44-year-old Big Cove Tannery man told state police investigators his meat grinder was stolen from 1333 Stoneybreak Road in Bethel Township between May 8 and May 24. Anyone with additional information regarding this theft should contact state police Trooper Poole at 717-485-3131.
Local Man Charged With Harassment
Fifty-two-year- old Mc- Connellsburg area resident James Marvin Younker Sr. is slated to be charged with harassment through the office of Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott. Younker, state police said, was allegedly involved in a physical altercation with a 51-yearold McConnellsburg woman on Monday, May 20, at 8:45 a.m. The harassment occurred at 635 East Pine Street in McConnellsburg Borough.
Two Men Jailed For Theft
Two McConnellsburg area men were remanded to the Franklin County Jail for the theft of approximately 20 storm grates between May 1 and May 24 in neighboring Franklin County.
Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg reported troopers had been investigating numerous thefts of storm grates in Antrim, Peters and Montgomery townships. On Friday, May 24, John Pittman Jr., 22, and 23-year-old Zachary Pittman allegedly attempted to steal an additional grate and were placed under arrest by troopers.
Man Jailed For Domestic Assault
Fifty-three-year-old Mc- Connellsburg resident Mark Steven Seville was arraigned on Tuesday, May 28, and remanded to the Franklin County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Seville, according to state police reports, was arrested followinga4a.m.domestic assault at 421 Lincoln Way East in McConnellsburg Borough. Seville allegedly argued with and grabbed a 44- year- old McConnellsburg woman by the throat while straddling her as well as threatened to kill her.
Police said the incident reportedly continued when Seville allegedly assaulted a 17-year-old girl and a 67-yearold woman, both of Mc- Connellsburg. All three victims sustained minor injuries but refused medical treatment at the scene.
Burglary Reported
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated a burglary at 2439 North Valley Road in Brush Creek Township.
The break-in, state police said, occurred Sunday, May 26, between noon and 12:30 p.m. Among the items stolen were two pistols, two rings, a bag with cash and several receipts. Victims are a 33-yearold man and a 28-year-old female, both of Crystal Spring. Anyone having further information related to this burglary is asked to call state police Trooper Poole at 717- 485-3131.
Harassment Reported
Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg, investigated a harassment at 8940 Thompson Road in Belfast Township. Police said an unknown individual reportedly loosened the cap on a vehicle's oil pan. Victim is a 52- year- old Needmore area woman. Anyone having further information pertinent to this case should contact state police Trooper Poole at 717-485-3131.
Hit-And-Run Investigated
A hit-and-run accident occurred along East Maple Street in McConnellsburg Borough on Tuesday, May 21, state police said. An unknown, eastbound vehicle struck the left mirror of a legally parked 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt at 2:30 p.m. Anyone with additional information concerning this accident is asked to immediately call state police Trooper Poole at 717-485-3131.
Harassment Reported
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg were dispatched to an alleged harassment that occurred at 709 Lincoln Way East, Mc- Connellsburg, on Sunday, May 19. Police alleged Richard Douglas Seville, 33, of McConnellsburg, grabbed a 21-year-old McConnellsburg man around the neck at 9:52 p.m.
Driver Cited Following Accident
A Three Springs, Pa., woman faces charges of failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic following a single-vehicle accident along Mountain House Road.
According to state police reports, 19-year-old Tabitha E. Simpson lost control of her eastbound 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe while rounding a left-hand curve in the Wells Township roadway on Sunday, May 19. The vehicle then struck a guiderail on the berm. Simpson was wearing a seat belt during the 9:40 p.m. accident and was not injured.
Police Investigate Trespassing
A 47-year- old Mercersburg area woman told state police investigators she recently saw a man trespassing on her property located at 654 Big Cove Tannery Road in Thompson Township. The man was observed on the property at 10:40 p.m. on Monday, May 20. He was described as a white male wearing a flannel shirt and jeans. Anyone having further information linked to this case should immediately contact state police Trooper Poole at 717-485-3131.
Missing Man Located
A 76-year-old man who was reported missing from his Taylor Township home on Wednesday, May 15, was found following a five-hour search.
State police reported Herbert Hilton Hedge of 538 Hollow Log Lane, Hustontown, was reported missing from his residence at 10 p. m. Troopers searched the area along with assistance from officials with the Bureau of Forestry, Hustontown Volunteer Fire Co., state police helicopter and family and friends. Hedge was eventually found near a field in the area of Wooden Bridge Road.
Police noted Hedge had fallen down and was unable to walk back to his vehicle. He was taken from the scene by Hustontown EMS via allterrain vehicle and was reported in fair condition.
Vehicle Overturns On I-70
A Carol Stream, Ill., man suffered minor injuries on Wednesday, May 15, when his vehicle overturned along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70.
Pennsylvania State Police said Abu Z. Ghaffari, 42, failed to negotiate a righthand curve in the Bethel Township roadway at 8:17 a.m. Ghaffari's 2008 Honda CRV travelled onto the berm where it struck a ditch and overturned. Ghaffari was treated at the scene and will be charged with failure to drive at safe speeds.
State police were aided on the scene by Needmore Volunteer Fire Co., Hancock EMS and Town Hill Towing.
Baltimore Man Accused Of DUI
Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg, arrested a Baltimore, Md., man for driving under the influence following a traffic stop along Interstate 70. Troopers pulled over 27-year-old Edwin Gaye Porte on May 18 at 4:37 p.m. while he was travelling through Bethel Township. Charges, which will also include various vehicle code violations, will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Tamela Bard.


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Pennsylvanians want to put a moratorium on fracking. And it's not just a few thousand, but a majority of the state's residents.
Pennsylvanians want to put a moratorium on fracking. And it's not just a few thousand, but a majority of the state's residents.
A joint University of Michigan/Muhlenberg College study reveals that only 49 percent of Pennsylvanians support shale gas extraction and 58 percent of all Pennsylvanians want the state to order "time out" until the health and environmental effects of fracking can be fully analyzed.
Petitions with more than 100,000 signatures requesting a moratorium were delivered to Gov. Tom Corbett in April. As is typical for the man who willingly accepted more than $1.8 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry, it didn't matter.
In June, the Democratic State Central Committee approved a resolution to establish a moratorium.
So, if almost three-fifths of all residents want fracking to stop, who's opposing the moratorium?
Just about anyone in a political leadership position. They tend to be the ones who from their own houses can't see drilling rigs, well pads, frack pits, and frack trucks that block access roads. They tend to be the ones who have deliberately twisted the facts and now squawk about how fracking the earth has helped create jobs and improve the economy, while ignoring the problems already proven that affect their constituents' health, environment, and food supply.
The Democrats' resolution had begun in February. Sue Lyons, an attorney, had proposed the resolution. However, the Rules Committee of the Democratic Party Central Committee did not allow it to go forward, questioning its legality.
Enter Karen Feridun, Patti Rose, and Berks Gas Truth. With a massive grassroots campaign, in less than two months they convinced the delegates to the Central Committee last month not only to get the resolution out of committee but also onto the floor for the vote.
Before the delegates, Feridun argued that contrary to politician and industry claims, no one can say that fracking is safe because the chemicals are protected from disclosure under an exception to the Safe Water Drinking Act, the exception having been pushed through during the Bush-Cheney administration. The Michigan/Muhlenberg poll reveals that 91 percent of all Pennsylvanians believe fracking companies should disclose all chemicals used in the process. Feridun argued that frack waste is so radioactive that landfills and sewer plants won't accept it, and that fracking has led to massive fish kills. But, most important, fracking has led to health problems. Even the DEP has had to acknowledge there have been at least 160 identified cases of contaminated water wells because of nearby fracking.
The Democratic leadership, somewhat parroting the Republicans, didn't accept that democracy prevailed in the state central committee. Vice-chair Penny Gerber, who lives in Montgomery County, which is exempt from fracking, called fracking "a thriving industry." Gerber is an associate at a PR firm whose clients include large energy companies.
Former Gov. Ed Rendell said the resolution was "ill-advised," and then used the same arguments spewed forth by Tom Corbett and the Republican leaders by claiming fracking improved the economy and "helped create wealth in the poorest areas of Pennsylvania," avoiding any references to the detrimental effects that Feridun so eloquently brought forth.
What Rendell didn't say, although it isn't any secret, is that he is a special counsel to one of the nation's largest law firms that represents Big Energy. Among his chores was to intervene on behalf of Range Resources, one of the nation's largest drilling companies, to get the Environmental Protection Agency to drop a water contamination suit.
Also opposing the will of the delegates are at least two of the three Democratic candidates for governor. One is an unabashed supporter of fracking — he was the DEP head under Rendell, who opened the gates to fracking Pennsylvania; the other is a member of Congress, but who represents a district in the affluent Southeast Pennsylvania that has already received the state's official blessings to be part of a six-year moratorium on shale drilling.
The day the petitions were delivered to Tom Corbett in April, State Sen. Jim Ferlo (Pittsburgh) proposed legislation to call for a moratorium. Co-sponsors are Sens. Lisa Boscola (Lehigh/Northampton), Andrew Dinniman (West Chester), Shirley Kitchen (Philadelphia), Daylin Leach (Montgomery/Delaware counties), Judy Schwank (D-Berks), and Christine Tartaglione (Philadelphia)
Let's hope they can convince the Republican-controlled legislature to — as Karen Feridun says — "put people over profits."
Walter Brasch is an award-winning journalist and author whose book "Fracking Pennsylvania" looks at the health, environmental, and agricultural effects of high-volume horizontal fracturing. Check your local bookstore, at www.greeleyandstone.com or amazon.com.


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ADRIAN — Drivers will see few orange barrels on state highways in Lenawee County in the next five years.
After remaining details of construction and paving projects in Adrian are wrapped up next spring, contractors are not expected back on a state highway in Lenawee County until 2017. A 5.7-mile rehabilitation project on M-34 from South Main Street in Adrian west almost to Benner Highway is the only local project on a draft five-year plan submitted earlier this month by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
One reason for the coming lack of attention to state highways in Lenawee County is the amount of work done here in the last two years.
"We have undertaken a lot of work recently in the county, especially this year, so the system is in fairly good shape," said MDOT spokeswoman Kari Arend.
Contractors will be back in the spring to wrap up a paving project on M-52 through Adrian that was not completed this fall. Milling and paving is to be done from Maple Avenue to South Street where a major reconstruction of South Main Street was completed this fall.
There are few other MDOT projects on the drawing board around Lenawee County in the next few years.
In 2013, rehabilitation and paving is planned for three miles of M-50 between Brooklyn and Austin Road near Napoleon. The following year, the M-50 project is to continue for 5.9 miles from Napoleon to U.S. 127 south of Jackson.
"The other reason for a lack of projects across the region is our focus in the next 10 years on the I-75 corridor in Monroe County," Arend said. "We have a detailed plan that will last multiple years to reconstruct the entire length of freeway in Monroe County, along with major bridge and interchange work along the corridor. The first of those reconstruction projects is scheduled in this latest five-year plan."
MDOT has an interactive map available online that gives locations and descriptions of more than 400 projects across the state that are included in the draft plan. The map and the complete plan are available at www.mi.gov/mdot5yearplan.
The draft 2013-2017 Five-Year Transportation Program was presented to the State Transportation Commission on Dec. 6. Public comments are being accepted until Jan. 9. Written comments can be directed to Bob Parsons, Public Involvement and Hearings Officer, Bureau of Highways, Michigan Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 30050, Lansing, MI 48909. Comments can also be sent by fax to 517-373-9255 or emailed to email@example.com.
Little in MDOT's 5-year plan for state roads in county
ADRIAN — Drivers will see few orange barrels on state highways in Lenawee County in the next five years.


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Big Changes, Big Names, and Big Classes Ensure Biggest Charleston Race Week Ever
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Hosted by Yacht Club de Monaco, the 27th running of the Primo Cup Trophèe Credit Suisse 2011 happens on February 10-13. Full Story.
Kiss Wins MWS Event No. 1
December 12, 2010 (Miami, Fla.) — 2010 Audi Melges 20 USA Sailing Series Champion Michael Kiss, from Holland, Mich. and crew comprised of Chris Rast and Jamie Kimball on Bacio took the 25-strong Miami Winter Series fleet by storm winning all three of Sunday's races and the event by... Full Story.
Light Air Puts Arendshorts In Charge
December 11, 2010 (Miami, Fla.) —Only one race was held today at the 2011 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series hosted by the Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC), due to very light air conditions. John Arendshorst, from Holland Mich. on Blink 20/20 is seated in first place overall.... Full Story.
2011 AM20 MWS Promises Big Fleet Racing
December 10, 2010 (Miami, Fla.) — A record-breaking twenty-six Audi Melges 20 teams have gathered in Miami, Fla. for a great weekend of competitive, fun, one design racing at the 2011 Miami Winter Series, Event No. 1, hosted by the Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC). This number doubles the... Full Story.
COMPETITOR ANNOUNCEMENT No. 1 : Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 1
November 29, 20100 — Dear Audi Melges 20 Competitors, Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC) and the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association (IAM20CA) are very much looking forward to your arrival and another great Miami Winter Series on Biscayne Bay. Here are a few of items for your... Full Story.
Giallongo Steps Down As European Fleet President, Nominations Being Accepted
From Benedetto Giallongo, International Vice Chairman (EUR), Fleet President for the Audi Melges 20 Class: November 29, 20100 — A meeting of the European Fleet Executive Committee was recently held in Milan that included myself, the Technical Committee consisting of Federico Albano,... Full Story.
Catch-up With The Melges 20 on Macatawa Bay, Michigan — 22 November
Melges 20 fever is spreading fast! Its highly contagious as is the excitement about this extraordinary new boat. Last weekend sailors in Texas got a hands-on, first time sail courtesy of Gulf Coast Melges Dealer John Kolius and his team at KO Sailing. On hand was Andy Burdick from Melges... Full Story.
Audi Melges 20 Owners Meeting : Save the Dates and Time
November 22, 20100 — Prior to the very first Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Regatta (December 10-12): International Audi Melges 20 Class Association (IM20CA) Owners Meeting Thursday, December 9 Coconut Grove Sailing Club 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. ALL OWNERS (Only) are invited and... Full Story.
2011 Charleston Race Week, April 14-17
November 16, 2010 (CHARLESTON, SC) — The organizers of Charleston Race Week pride themselves on listening to their customers, as a result 2011 marks the earliest start ever to the South's biggest multi-class regatta. "CRW has rapidly evolved from a fun, regional event to one of the most... Full Story.
Winter Speed Clinic Update
November 8, 2010 — With a thick fog, the Melges 32 and Audi Melges 20 fleets participated in the Winter Speed Clinic from November 6th to the 7th on Garda Lake (Malcesine). Under the direction of the Italy's Olympic Women's 470 Class Coach, Guglielmo Vatteroni along with Melges 24 and Melges... Full Story.
36th Winter Championship Interlaghi 30 October to 1 November 2010
PRESS RELEASE October 30, 2010, (Lecco, Italy) — The short, wind from the south, which has been blowing steady at 7.6 meters, has been a natural ally in the first race day of the Winter Championship Interlaghi - Credit Valtellina Trophy Sailing in the Gulf of Lecco in the scene with the... Full Story.
Paola Spreafico Appointed As Audi Melges 20 European Fleet Secretary
October 1, 2010, (Rimini, Italy) — As of 2010 October 1, Paola Spreafico has been appointed to the official position of Secretary for the European Audi Melges 20 fleet. Her duties will include the day-to-day duties of supporting the European President Benedetto Giallongo and the rapidly... Full Story.
Melges Europe Hosts Exclusive Speed Clinic Weekend, Malcesine
September 29, 2010 — The high-level sportboat racing product, service and sales distributor Melges Europe is offering two exclusive speed clinic weekend opportunities to Audi Melges 20 and Melges 32 owners. This is your chance to try on some hot performance as the 2011 season will be... Full Story.
Benedetto Giallongo's 'Value Team' Wins Second Consecutive Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series Title
September 12, 2010, (Rimini, Italy) — Value Team's Benedetto Giallongo has won the 2010 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series taking the prestigious title for a second year in a row. Victory for Giallongo is very different than 2009 as Francesco Farneti on Reggini Sailing Team put up a good... Full Story.
Final Day Of Racing In Rimini To Decide All
September 11, 2010, (Rimini, Italy) - Rimini, the final stage of the 2010 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series event in Europe has presented the perfect platform for the ultimate dual between defending Series Champion Benedetto Giallongo on Value Team and Francesco Farneti on Reggini... Full Story.
Rimini — The Audi Melges 20 Races The Final 2010 European Series Event
September 10, 2010, (Rimini, Italy) - Club Nautico Rimini is prepared, ready and standing by to host the grand finale act of the 2010 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series. Last July, at the spectacular Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup in Malcesine, the strong and persevering Reggini Sailing Team of... Full Story.
Michael Kiss Crowned Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Champion
August 29, 2010 (Holland, MI) - Congratulations to 2010 Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Champion Michael Kiss on Bacioand his crew comprised of son Mitchell and Chris Rast. It's been a Kiss summer. First, Mitchell place third at the Men's Radial Worlds. Morgan, his daughter... Full Story.
TouchÉ Kiss
August 28, 2010 (Holland, MI) - After two days and six championship races at the 2010 Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Championship, Michael Kiss on Bacio continues to lead the twenty-one strong one design fleet. In second overall is Canada's Kate Mullin... Full Story.
Kiss Puts 3 Bullets In 2010 Audi Melges 20 Nationals To Lead
August 27, 2010 (Holland, MI) - Michael Kiss on Bacio delivered an astounding performance today at the 2010 Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Championship, hosted by the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club. Three races were held under picture perfect conditions with Kiss submitting in a 1-1-1... Full Story.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Tamara Pena's potential game-tying three pointer with 10 seconds remaining in regulation rattled out, resulted in a jump ball that gave WPI possession and allowed it to seal the 46-41 win with two free throws in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Wednesday night. Lauren Hannmann tallied a game-high 15 points for WPI along with a team-best seven rebounds, two assists, and three steals. Margo Batie paced MIT (6-9, 2-7 NEWMAC) with 12 points, four rebounds, and two steals.
Melissa Kuhn chipped in nine points and six boards, while Elle Fontaine added seven points including 5-of-6 from the free throw line for WPI.
Pena finished with nine points and three steals as Rachel Hunt totaled nine points and nine rebounds. Lauren Sascha Burton tallied nine rebounds, three assists, and two steals while Anna Merrifield posted six points, five boards, and four assists.
WPI (12-3, 8-1), winners of seven straight, never trailed in the first half and led by as many as 12 with 2:16 left in the frame, before MIT used a flurry of three pointers to cut the deficit before the break. Batie struck first at 1:11 and Merrifield added a pair of treys to pull the visitors within two at the break (22-20). WPI held MIT to just seven field goals in the first half with five of them coming from behind the arc.
MIT carried the momentum into the second stanza as it built a 30-24 advantage with 12:53 on the clock. WPI responded with a 19-5 run that spanned the next nine minutes. However, MIT countered with a run of its own to pull within three (44-41) with 35 seconds remaining as it capitalized on WPI misses from the free throw line. The hosts missed the front end of three one-and-ones allowing MIT to close the gap. Following Pena's near-miss three point attempt and the jump ball, MIT fouled Fontaine who sealed the win with two free throws.
Both teams return to the hardwood on Saturday for conference road games. WPI heads to New London, Conn. for a 2:00 p.m. contest versus Coast Guard while MIT ventures back to Worcester to take on Clark at 1:00 p.m.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > February 2002 > Wayland music department to host woodwind guests
Wayland music department to host woodwind guests
Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music will host a series of woodwind recitals and master classes this spring, beginning with a Feb. 28 performance by clarinetist Bob Spring and Trio del Sol.
The recital is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Harral Memorial Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Trio del Sol is composed of Spring on clarinet, Katie McLin on violin and Andrew Campbell on piano. Spring is Professor of Clarinet at Arizona State University and principal clarinet of the ProMusic Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio. A noted performer with orchestras and wind bands across the nation and in several other continents, Spring has been described as "one of this country's most sensitive and talented clarinetists" by the Arizona Republic. His recordings include "Dragon's Tongue," a CD of virtuoso music for clarinet and wind band, "Tarantelle," the clarinet version of music made famous by violinist Jascha Heifetz.
Spring has performed at numerous International Clarinet Association conventions and served as president of the association from 1998-2000. He frequently serves as clinician and adjudicator and teaches on the faculties of several summer music festivals. He has also published several articles on contemporary clarinet techniques. He will be performing some solo pieces at the recital as well.
McLin is assistant professor of violin at Arizona State University and artist faculty at the Brevard Music Center. Since her debut with the Oregon Symphony at age 15, McLin has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles including the Cascade Festival Orchestra, Tempe Symphony Orchestra and Salem Chamber Orchestra. She is also a member of a performance duo with Campbell and has recorded numerous chamber works.
Campbell is director of the Collaborative Piano Program at the Brevard Music Center and principal pianist for the San Diego Opera. An active chamber musician, Campbell has performed on numerous recital series around the country as a member of the Papago Chamber Ensemble, collaborating with faculty artists from Arizona State University and the Phoenix Symphony.
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by Chip and Dan Heath
Anyone who reads this book will never look at communication the same again. Sure, most of what it has to say isn't some mysterious, scientific formula, that's what makes it so brilliant, this is stuff that you didn't realize you already knew. It's intuitive and obvious, I'd just never thought of it before. I love books that do that—and I don't even read non-fiction (not if I can help it!)
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Why Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath takes one principle from Malcolm Gladwell's national best-seller The Tipping Point (which I finished earlier this year and reviewed in an earlier post) and runs with it, examining it in microscopic detail—or at least 304 pages.
Only problem is, the pressure to write a review of a how-to book on communication is tremendous. Will I make it exciting enough? Will it be memorable? Will it be something that will stick with them after they click out of this page? Well I figured I'm going to attempt a review or die trying and here it goes:
Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point examines how ideas spread from person to person until they reach a critical mass of epidemic proportions. Gladwell identifies one of the factors in the spread of ideas as "stickiness" or the ability of an idea to be memorable in an enduring way. The Heath brothers take stickiness and go deeper, digging into what makes some ideas memorable and others as transient as yesterday's ball scores. Bad analogy. I'm still remembering the poor Rockies last week. How about as transient as last week's breakfast? That works, I'm hungry right now anyway.
So as I was saying, according to the Brothers Heath there are six characteristics of sticky ideas, they are: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional and Storied (catch the misspelled "Succes" acronym?) and they delve into each area with multiple illustrations in a gloriously readable, conversational way.
I'll give you an example from the opening page. It starts by describing how a friend of a friend had been on a business trip to Atlantic City. After work he'd stopped by a bar and had been offered a drink by a beautiful woman which he accepted. The next thing he knew he was waking up in a bathtub filled with ice water, a note and a cell phone by his head. The note said, "Don't panic, call 911." He immediately did so (calling 911 that is, not the panicking part) and the composed dispatcher said, "Sir, I want you to reach behind you and feel at your back. Is there a plastic tube there?" The man felt his back and yes, there was a tube coming out of his back. The operator continued, "Please don't panic but you've been the victim of organ harvesters. They've taken your kidney. Paramedics are on their way."
This urban legend is one of the stickiest forms of communication. It's Simple—no facts, streams of numbers or names are involved. It's Unexpected—who would have thought accepting a drink would lead to losing a kidney? It's Concrete—you may not remember the details of the business trip being in Atlantic City but you won't forget the plastic tube, the bathtub filled with ice water or the cell phone by his head. It's Emotional—what's more emotional than having your organs ripped out for no reason? And it's Storied—from its crazy beginning to its over-the-top middle to its ridiculous end.
The book is full of such terrific anecdotes that will stop you in your tracks and make you say, "Aha!" However, as much as I am applauding I have two small negative comments. First, the title. For a book about how to make your communication memorable the title is ironically forgettable. It's not simple, nor is it unexpected or concrete. No emotion, no stories. I found myself discussing the book with Andrew and having the darnedest time remembering the title. The Sticking Point? Making it Stick? Stick It? Stick with Me? Sticking it? Whatever. You see I listened to the book on my ipod and never got the benefit of the visual cover so that title was hard to remember. Luckily Andrew knew what I meant. Just calling it Stick or Sticking would have at least been unexpected and might have stayed with me better.
Second, they mention Aesop and hold him up as the master of these principles, the longevity and ubiquitousness of his fables as proof and while this is true I was surprised that in 300 pages only once was a New Testament parable mentioned. Yes, everyone in cultures around the world uses the phrase "sour grapes" but is the Golden Rule, the Good Samaritan, the Lost Sheep or the Prodigal Son any less resonant in western culture? And though both Aesop's fables and Jesus' parables meet all six criteria of stickiness, Aesop lacks the multi-layered genius of the parables. The tortoise and the hare is a first-rate allegory but the parable of the Good Samaritan goes beyond brilliant in its levels of meaning and metaphor. It's about the politics of ancient Israel, it's about being kind, it's also about the fall of man, it's about redemption. Evidently Chip and Dan Heath missed that which I thought diminished their work overall and their personal credibility.
But regardless of these minor flaws, you must read this. Everyone communicates: mothers talking to their children, teachers teaching their students, businessmen writing a memo, pastors giving sermons to their parishioners, advertisers trying to convince consumers, politicians reaching out to voters. How many times a week do you try to get someone to pay attention, to remember what you're trying to say? Hear this book's message and it will change the way you think and then the way you communicate.
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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Voices and hands raised in prayer, Coloradans of many faiths have remembered the 12 people killed in Friday's mass shooting at a movie theater.
At Calvary Chapel of Aurora, Pastor Ed Taylor assured worshippers that God remains a source of comfort in the midst of tragedy and had not abandoned the community. His congregation and others prayed for the wounded and for victims' families.
There were tears of relief for loved ones who survived and anxious questions from those whose faith was shaken by the massacre.
Worshippers at a Presbyterian church within walking distance of shooting suspect James Holmes' apartment joined in prayer. It appeared that none of them had ever met him.


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Anyone traveling around Los Angeles recently has likely noticed the menacing imagery of men in paramilitary garb with their faces covered by spooky animal masks. They appeared for a time as ghostly figures overlaid on posters for other movies, though they have recently been seen more clearly in ads all their own for the new horror-thriller "You're Next."
Referred to in the credits as Lamb Mask, Tiger Mask and Fox Mask, the characters are the main villains of much of the film. They invade the reunion of a wealthy family at a remote country estate seemingly at random, charging through the windows with crossbows and machetes.
The film is a bold step forward for the collaborative team of director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett.
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"You're Next" had a rollicking world premiere in 2011 as part of the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival that had the audience on its feet cheering during the screening.
That first showing has become part of the film's lore, a signal of its effect on audiences. It opens Aug. 23 around the U.S.
"We came to realize that the best way to deconstruct horror nowadays is actually just to make a really great horror movie," Wingard, 30, said recently in East Hollywood, not far from where he and Barrett live on the same block. "You don't have to sell the reference thing or be that clever. Recognizing all the horror tropes and playing off audience expectations is kind of the new deconstruction."
Though the film is full of spiky scares and elaborate bloody kills, it is also driven by a sharp wit, with repeated use of the Dwight Twilley Band's power-pop chestnut "Looking for the Magic" that's both funny and chilling.
"We went into the recesses of our minds and said, 'What got us into filmmaking?'" noted Wingard. "And we realized it's fun, action-y horror stuff geared toward having a good time."
The cast is not a typical low-budget assemblage of anonymous faces, but is instead full of indie filmmakers and stalwart actors, including Larry Fessenden, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, AJ Bowen, Kate Lyn Sheil and Amy Seimetz. The family matriarch is played by Barbara Crampton, a revered horror actress best known for 1985's "Re-Animator."
"A lot of studio films seem to assume that horror audiences aren't very bright," said Barrett, 34, who also plays one of the masked marauders.
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we can, and we are consistently insulted by how bad they are. So we knew we wanted to do something that still entertained on a broader level but didn't fall into any of these familiar pitfalls of clichés that everyone is sick of and anticipates anyway."
The pair met when Barrett was shooting the 2004 movie "Dead Birds" in Alabama, Wingard's home state, and Wingard tagged along with a friend on a set visit.
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They collaborated on the 2010 serial killer-romantic drama "A Horrible Way to Die" and have also been involved in the anthology films "V/H/S" and "V/H/S/2."
Lionsgate acquired "You're Next" off the strength of its appearance in Toronto but then merged with Summit Entertainment. Those combined entities, with the "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" franchises between them, suddenly had a release schedule brimming with films. So "You're Next" would have to wait.
Producer Keith Calder was also involved with the 2006 film "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane," which has seen its distribution rights change hands numerous times and is unreleased in the U.S. (That film is scheduled to finally come out this fall.) Since the 2011 screenings in Toronto and at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, anticipation has been high among genre fans for the release of "You're Next," with the delay only stoking excitement.
"There was definitely a moment or two where I thought, 'Is this going to be "Mandy Lane" all over again?'" said Calder. "The reasoning for how the delay happened was so different. In the 'You're Next' case, it really was these two large independent companies merged and had too many movies."
Among the many horror tropes "You're Next" grapples with is the notion of the "Final Girl," as characters are picked off one by one and a single female character is left behind.
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In "You're Next," the idea is flipped on its head with the character of Erin, the new girlfriend of one of the family members.
When things take a turn for the worse, Erin reveals herself as someone capable of handling even the most extreme situation. The character's no-nonsense approach to danger is something the filmmakers and cast point to with pride.
"She doesn't run up the stairs when she should be running out the door," actress Sharni Vinson said. The role was originally conceived as an American, but the character was rewritten so the Australian-born Vinson could play the role with her own accent.
For all involved, "You're Next" is a step up in ambition and scale. The film was made for less than $1 million, but Lionsgate is treating it as a major release, opening it on more than 2,400 screens.
"The intent going into it was, can we make a commercial film that mainstream audiences can understand and get behind. That was the real challenge," Wingard said.
"You have to play by certain rules and pull that off. You can't skip anything. You have to fill in all the blanks."
"It's a tricky thing to do," Calder said of the film's ambitions to satisfy hard-core genre fans and more general audiences alike. "And it's something Simon is very good at conceiving and Adam is very good at getting to work. It will satisfy your basic horror movie requirements."
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Ryan's military pay gambit backfires
Rep. Paul Ryan's bid to kick off an overhaul of military compensation is backfiring — instead highlighting the perils of scaling back entitlement programs.
The Senate on Wednesday handily approved, 95-3, a House-passed bill that the House Budget Committee chairman says "undermines" a tenet of the bipartisan budget deal he struck in December with his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Patty Murray of Washington state.
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The bill would roll back the budget deal's military pension cuts, which Ryan pushed to include in the agreement and then defended even as many of his fellow conservatives jumped ship amid a backlash from powerful advocacy groups for service members and veterans.
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The Wisconsin Republican's gambit was viewed as an attempt to get the ball rolling on military compensation reform — something top commanders say is badly needed — and to show that entitlement cuts are possible, that nothing is sacred.
So far, it's had the opposite effect, unleashing a massive lobbying campaign and forcing vulnerable incumbents to explain to constituents why they voted to cut benefits for those who've sacrificed for their country.
Congress has now overturned the short-lived pension cuts, providing political cover for members in both parties up for reelection this fall but undoing a rare victory for those seeking to scale back entitlements.
On Tuesday, Ryan blasted the House bill as taking "a step back" after he cast one of just 90 votes against it. "Compensation costs are hollowing out the Pentagon's budget," he said in a statement. "They are taking resources away from training and modernization — and putting our troops at risk."
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Across the Capitol, senators had been considering their own bill to roll back the pension cuts, with Murray and other Democrats who ushered the budget agreement through Congress in December saying they were open to changing a core part of their pact.
But, reversing himself on how to pay for the restored pension cuts, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided to proceed with the House-passed measure, which would offset its cost by extending for a year the impact of sequestration on mandatory Medicare spending. Republicans and Democrats in the upper chamber were united in their desire to overturn the cuts but divided on how to pay for the projected $7 billion in savings over the next decade.
The measure passed in the Senate on Wednesday would leave the pension cuts in place for service members who joined on or after Jan. 1, essentially grandfathering most current service members and all veterans.
The debate over the proposal that unfolded through the week highlighted just how political the issue has become.
"You're for vets, or you're against vets," declared Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska, one of four Democrats who put forward the Senate bill. He's facing the prospect of a tough reelection battle this fall, just like the other three bill sponsors: Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.
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The decision to bring their measure to the floor — of the more than a dozen bills to undo the cuts — was designed to provide them political cover back home. Pryor, for instance, is already battling TV ads on the pension issue.
The conservative Concerned Veterans for America has run spots in support of Republican Rep. Tom Cotton, who's challenging Pryor for his Arkansas Senate seat. And the group's CEO, Pete Hegseth, vowed in an interview to continue holding "people accountable" who voted for the pension cuts.


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Australia's Jenolan Caves will soon offer the world's first audio tour voiced entirely in Klingon, the guttural language created for the popular "Star Trek" aliens with bumpy foreheads and a warrior's mentality.
On Aug. 22, the Klingon language will be one of three options added to the eight currently available for the self-guided audio tour through the "Nettle Cave." As many as 200,000 people pass through the chambers of this underground labyrinth annually, making it the most visited cave on the continent, Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust officials said in a statement.
"We are poised to boldly go where no other tourist attraction has gone before, with the first cave tour in the world to be available in the Klingon language," Reserve Trust officials said. [Star Trek Technologies in Real Life]
Two Klingon scholars from the United States visited the Jenolan Caves in early July, the officials added. After Michael Roney Jr., a professional Klingon translator based in Indianapolis, and science fiction author Tracy Canfield finalized the translation of the tour script, they joined forces in recording the new, properly harsh-sounding audio track.
Speaking in the alien language, Roney, who goes by the Klingonese name of "naHQun," remarked, "lH, qar'a'" in expressing the beauty of the caves.
The formation of these caves in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales dates back 340 million years, placing the subterranean limestone structure amongst the planet's oldest caves open to the public.
A place in 'Star Trek' lore
The Jenolan Caves have a long-standing association with the "Star Trek" universe. A transport vessel in a 1992 episode of the series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," was christened the U.S.S. Jenolan after the caves.
In the episode, titled "Relics," the Enterprise crew discovers that Montgomery "Scotty" Scott of the original "Star Trek" series (played by James Doohan) found a way to survive for 75 years aboard the wreck of the Jenolan on the surface of a solar system-size metal shell. Scotty is revived, whereupon the doughty engineer saves the Enterprise from certain destruction.
As a Klingon might say: "Qapla!" or "Success!"
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As modern, made-up languages go, Klingon has been extremely successful.
Marc Okrand, an American linguist, devised the discordant dialect for the first "Star Trek" movies. He later published the first edition of the Klingon Dictionary in 1985.
Since then, a Klingon Language Institute has sprung up, "Hamlet" and "Gilgamesh" have been translated, among other literary works, into Klingon, and now fans can even tweet in the fictional argot.
The Klingon language's sharp-looking letters have been sent into space as well. Last April, the characters graced NASA patches for the Window Observational Research Facility — a new Earth-observation post installed on the International Space Station.
A designer recognized that the acronym of the facility's name was WORF, which is the name of the most famous Klingon of them all, played by Michael Dorn in "Star Trek's" "The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine" series.
Dorn, along with actress Marina Sirtis, who portrayed Counselor Troi in "The Next Generation," will be attending the OzTrek3 event in Sydney Aug. 22, along with, as it turns out, staff from the Jenolan Caves.
Courtesy of the Caves' Federation-worthy effort, it will soon be possible to boldly spelunk where no Klingon has spelunked before.


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LONDON (AP) — A Chinese spying campaign against U.S. journalists uncovered last week may still be going on. Rupert Murdoch says that Chinese hackers continued to attack The Wall Street Journal over the weekend. The New York Times and The Washington Post have also reported that their computer systems were breached in similar incidents, while Bloomberg News said it managed to deflect a hacking attempt.