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By Corbin Hosler
The Norman Transcript
DEL CITY — Shaking off the holiday rust isn't easy. Neither is playing the entire game without one of your leading scorers and the last five minutes without another one.
All of the above happened to Norman High on Thursday, and the effect on the Tigers showed in a 59-52 loss to Putnam City North in the opening round of the Mid-Del Tournament.
For the first time this season, the Tigers started the game without Jay Finley, who is out six weeks with a small stress fracture in his lower back. Finley, who missed all of last year with an injury, found out about the injury last week but was cleared to play against Norman North because the risk of furthering injuring his back was low.
But he missed his first game on Thursday, a move that clearly hampered the NHS offense. And when Sam Blodgett went out with a nasty cut on his head with five minutes left in the game, the Tigers couldn't put the ball in the basket or hold onto their slim lead. That allowed PC North, which entered the final frame down 10 points, to outscore NHS 23-6 in the fourth quarter.
"We were out of sync early on and we weren't able to make enough plays down the stretch to win," NHS coach Matt Thornton said. "They kept battling and found a way to get back in the game and we made some bad decisions down the stretch."
After taking a 46-36 lead into the fourth, NHS would go scoreless for more than four minutes while PC North caught fire. Led by JR Simon's 19 points, the Panthers hit several big threes to climb back into the game, and they took their first lead when Simon hit one to make it 52-51.
After tying it at 52, NHS got the ball back with just under two minutes to go and tried to hold it for an easy shot. But a wobbling lob pass across the court led to one of the Tigers' 15 turnovers and gave PC North a 54-52 lead that the Panthers wouldn't relinquish.
It was an ugly game from the start, with both teams coming out of the gates sloppy. After four minutes of play, there were nine combined turnovers and the score stood at 2-2. NHS woke up first, going on a 9-2 run to take a lead that would balloon to 16 at one point midway through the third quarter.
"I think the layoff contributed to that start," Thornton said. "The conditioning looked off. We probably could have run a little harder in transition."
But PC North fought back, and with 4:32 left in the game and NHS up 46-44 Blodgett got tangled up with a Panther player under the basket. The pair crashed to the floor and Blodgett hit the side of his head on the wood, producing a bloody cut that delayed the game for several minutes. It wasn't immediately clear if Blodgett would be available to play today.
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Oscar-winning actor/director Ben Affleck may be a huge Sox fan, but it's doing very little for his beloved team. The Red Sox are 0-14 on Affleck's birthday (Aug. 15) since "Good Will Hunting" came out in 1998.
Battered Rivals
On paper the Patriots should cruise to another AFC East title this season. It turns out the Patriots opponents in the AFC East have been making it easier on Tom Brady and company before squaring off against New England as the Bills, Jets and Dolphins have all sustained key injuries during the preseason.
Bills rookie quarterback and first round draft choice E.J. Manuel injured his knee in Week 2 of the preseason and just underwent surgery. Manuel was projected to be the starter but his injury opens the door for the dreadful Kevin Kolb to start the regular season opener against the Pats, a welcome site for the Patriots defense.
New York Jets starting outside linebacker Quinton Coples, a promising second year player on the rise, could miss significant time with an ankle injury.
The Miami Dolphins have also been hit hard by the injury bug as tight end Dustin Keller, one of the team's top free agent acquisitions during the offseason, will be sidelined for the entire season with a knee injury suffered over the weekend.
Of course the Patriots also have their fare share of injuries, most notably All Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, but an already weak division has gotten weaker and while the Patriots may have taken a step back this offseason, their division rivals may have taken a step even further back.
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In July, the Korean rhythmic gymnast threw a mind-blowing first pitch before a game in her country's professional baseball league that has to be seen to be explained. It already has over 11 million views.
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The Ada News
Ada —
In honor of the holiday, a city-wide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service will be held from 9 a.m. until noon on Monday, Jan. 21.
Because the day is a federal holiday, many consider it to be a day off. Members of King's family have urged that his service to the country be honored by considering it 'A Day On, Not a Day Off.'
The city of Ada is coordinating the service effort which will consist of picking up trash and debris throughout the city.
Volunteers are urged to bring gloves and wear work clothes. They should go to East Central University's Centennial Plaza, which is located in front of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center, by 9 a.m.
For more information, contact Dr. Christine Pappas at 559-5640 or Lisa Bratcher at 436-6300.


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Finally, a slavery movie fit for the holidays.
Antoine Fuqua Getting Paid For 'Tupac' Biopic Either Way
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Tell Mama don't cry. Cuz even if they kill me. They can never take the life of a real G. I'm getting money.
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They got Chris Hemsworth. Now they need to fill his mouth with words.
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You'd have to be an idiot not to notice.
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Jo Anne Embleton
Jacksonville Daily Progress
Elbow grease provided by inmates from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Institution Division has allowed the city to beautify an old cemetery and a local lake without even having to dig in its pocket.
Since Oct. 8, five-man volunteer crews from the Jerry H. Hodge and Skyview criminal justice facilities in Rusk have cleared and burned piles of brush around the Lake Jacksonville Dam and trimmed trees at the Old City Cemetery on Kickapoo Street.
While the city has maintenance crews who work on various projects throughout Jacksonville, "this was work outside our normal schedule," Public Works Director Will Cole said. "We would have had to take a number of men off scheduled projects to do these jobs, but instead, we can use this labor."
Beck Durant, a correctional officer at the Rusk facilities helping oversee the projects, said community service work crews come out at the request of city and county agencies, local organizations and the Texas Department of Transportation to volunteer labor.
These community work squads are approved to work outside the facility, with men classified as "outside trustys," said Beth Morris, Chief of Classification at the Skyview-Hodge units.
"For a long time we sent crews only to Rusk, New Summerfield and Alto, but in the last few years, we've been coming more to Jacksonville," Durant said.
His fellow correctional officer Billy McCutcheon said crews work a 40-hour, four-day work week, with the length of the contract the only varying factors, "depending how long the volunteers are needed."
This year, crews painted walls and erected a chain-link fence for New Summerfield schools and helped stabilize the exterior wall of a building in downtown Alto earmarked for an art project.
"They were great," said Kathi Davis, Alto Economic Development Co. administrative assistant. "It took them about a week, because the crew was really quick. The wall has been crumbling and deteriorating for a while, and the men completely restored the area where an old mural was painted."
The EDC's board of directors are considering a new, "more eye-popping" mural on the 75- by 13-foot wall, she added.
Volunteers usually enjoy working on the service detail, "I guess because it gets them outside," McCutcheon said. "They'll do whatever jobs that need to be done."
Cole called the program, launched in the 1990s, "a big benefit to us, and we're absolutely satisfied with the work the men have done."
"I think it's a great benefit to the city, and we plan to continue to utilize their help as often as we can. There's a big demand for this help, but we hope to get back in Jacksonville soon," he said.


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Social media, friendly atmosphere fueling resurgence in long-distance running
Social media, friendly atmosphere fueling resurgence in long-distance running
NEW ORLEANS — Somewhere north of 20,000 people will congregate near the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Saturday morning, their shoes double-knotted and a 6.2-mile journey by foot in front of them.
For some, it's an annual trek. The Crescent City Classic, now in its 35th year, has frequently drawn large crowds since its inception and is widely regarded as one of the most popular road races in the country.
But others are just getting acquainted with the world of running. And in recent years, they've been coming out in larger numbers.
Running's popularity has soared in the past decade, leading those closely involved with the sport to call this modern era the "second running boom."
"Running is back in vogue again after a hiatus," said Eric Stuart, the Classic's Race Director.
The first boom came in the 1970s and '80s with the proliferation of running shoes and the success of Americans like Olympian Frank Shorter and running rock star Steve Prefontaine on the track and the road.
It spawned a generation of runners aiming to beat the clock.
This is not necessarily the case with the second wave of new runners.
"The running boom, when I first started around 1980, was a big boom of people that were finding the sport for the first time," said Jenni Peters, founder of Varsity Sports running store in Baton Rouge. "The end result was a little bit more competitive athlete. They were out there just to race.
"This one's a much nicer boom, in terms of being inclusive. Most people are out there just for the experience and for themselves, or as part of a fundraiser or to be with friends."
At the heart of it all is the social aspect of the sport. Rather than hitting the pavement with nothing but a stopwatch and a personal best to beat, people are increasingly choosing the sport as a way to meet with friends.
Combine it with being relatively inexpensive, the recent trend toward health and fitness and the ever-increasing presence of social media, and it's easy to see why running has taken off.
Stuart visited a local running club earlier this week. Outside of a few who would qualify as competitive runners, most of the roughly 70 people in attendance were there to enjoy a quick run with friends and family.
"It's a socialization thing now," Stuart said. "They may meet at a park and do a race, then go have dinner together. Maybe go catch a drink together. And it's fueling this huge rebirth of running."
Technology and social media have also opened new doors for those looking for a way in.
Anybody with a smartphone can download an application that charts their progress and mileage.
Runners can record their runs on a phone, take pictures along the route and post it to their Facebook or Twitter timelines afterward.
"I think social media has enhanced running's popularity," Peters said. "People say, 'Here I am; here's what I've done; here's the fun I'm having.' "
Women are becoming increasingly involved in the sport. Look at the male-female splits of most races short of a full marathon, and you'll find the split to be somewhere around 60 percent female finishers.
Peters said that number is also reflected in her retail sales.
"Women are out there in massive numbers," Stuart said. "And the one thing about women is that it's not necessarily younger women. Women of all ages are out there. From a fitness perspective, it looks like women are more concerned about fitness than men."
That concern is spawned from a societal desire to be fit. For proof, Peters said, just look at subtitles on magazine covers when grocery shopping.
"How can I look younger, feel younger, feel fitter, look better?" Peters said. "I think running is a real easy avenue to that.
"That sounds trite, but I know it's an incentive for a lot of ladies."
The increased popularity has no signs of slowing down. Running USA submits an annual report that charts the current state of the sport. One report looks at the amount of people running in the top 100 races around the country.
The most recent report, issued in September, showed that an all-time high of 1.6 million people finished those top 100 races. It marked a 75 percent increase from the 2000 report.
"You're seeing all these big races now are putting up big numbers, as far as runners go," Stuart said. "It's uncanny. We now have 'X' amount of races that attract well over 20,000 people all over the United States."


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RALEIGH — Traffic in Raleigh and around RDU International Airport may be difficult at best in the midday hours as President Barack Obama comes to North Carolina State University to speak.
The White House did not disclose the time of Obamas talk to an invitation-only audience at the universitys J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center on Varsity Drive, but traffic is likely to be affected on many streets in the area because of presidential security concerns.
Interstates 40 and 540 are usually affected when Air Force One lands at RDU and the presidents motorcade heads for an area engagement.
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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
Opening and closing this week
Welcome to another week. Here's my rundown of art events opening and closing around the state this week.
"Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land" at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (Madison) on Feb. 23
"Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now" at the Charles Allis Museum on Feb. 24
"True Individuality: Adornment for the Hand" at UW-Eau Claire on Feb. 25
MARN Salon at the Hotel for the Arts on Feb. 26
"Faculty Exhibit" at Alverno College on Feb. 23
"Flora/Fauna" work by Ueda and Roxanne Jackson at UWM Union Art Gallery on Feb. 26
Allison B. Cooke & Erica Spitzer Rasmussen at the Elaine Erickson Gallery on Feb. 27
"Showcase of Local Artists: Mixed Media" at the Gilded Edge Lakeshore Gallery, Shorewood on Feb. 27
"Culture in Transition: Transitional/Transcultural: New Paradigms for a New Century" at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design on Feb. 27
"Painting" work by Barry Carlsen at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts on Feb. 27
"In the Balance" work by Amanda Gerken, Josie Osborne, & Heather Wiedeman at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts on Feb. 27
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Bill Maher wants you to know that he's no flag-burner. "I love America!" he gushes, sitting down for a two-hour interview with Rolling Stone. "It gives me so much material." The host of Real Time With Bill Maher has dedicated the ninth season of his Friday-night show on HBO to reclaiming patriotism for progressives. For Maher, 55, that means never conceding that a batshit politician like Michele Bachmann has a reasonable point of view. And it means not backing down – even for the president he believes America can't afford not to re-elect. "The American people don't really care what side of an issue you're on," Maher says. "They just don't want you to act like a pussy."
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That attitude has turned Maher into one of the leading satirists of his generation. His 2008 takedown of God, Religulous, was one of the most successful documentaries of all time, grossing $13.7 million. The political panels he hosts each week on Real Time put Meet the Press to shame, and the show is unlike anything else on television – a frenetic, uncensored mash-up of Ted Koppel and George Carlin, his comedy hero.
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Kevin Butler and Eric Houle are the most recent additions to Southern Utah University's Coaching Factory Hall of Fame for their achievements as coaches and their impact on their athletes and their sport.
After an all-state football career at Grantsville High School, Kevin Butler went on to further gridiron greatness at Southern Utah University, where he was a three-year starter on the offensive line for the Thunderbirds. He coached for a year at Tooele High School, and then returned to Grantsville in 1984 as an assistant football coach before assuming the top job in 1987. He lead the Cowboys to glory, winning three state crowns, including the first in the school's history in 1992, and amassing a record of 117 and 54 over 16 seasons, with each team progressing to the playoffs.
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A balancing act between safety and liberty
10:31am Monday 7th November 2011 in News By Dan Kerins, Digital Editor
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HOOLIGANISM is not the problem it was back in the 70s or 80s, but remnants of it remain.
It's not as if away fans travel the length and breadth of the nation any more with the aim to 'take the home end'.
No sane person wants to be on the end of a kicking, especially just because you happen to come from Southampton rather than Portsmouth or are red rather than blue.
But at the same time, no-one likes being told what to do.
Football fans are not allowed to drink alcohol during matches, or to be served soft drink bottles with lids on.
We're not allowed to stand up and we are not allowed to go to whichever pub we desire. Now we're not allowed to even travel how we want.
I don't envy Hampshire Constabulary. I wouldn't want to have to stand in front a few hundred football fans jeering and lobbing coins at each other.
But at the same time, why should the thousands who just go to the game, sing a few songs and go home or to the pub have their freedoms curtailed just to prevent the few from causing trouble?
My personal belief is that a lot of the problems at the last derby match at St Mary's was due the perpetrators believing they were safe – protected from the police by the crowd and from the opposing fans by the police.
It's all very well giving it the "big I am" behind a fence and few dozen coppers, but I imagine many would think twice if there was actually a risk of reprisals.
That's not something any police officer could ever say, but at the same time you can never guarantee you'll weed out every troublemaker, so you have to depend on enough people policing their own behaviour to a point – that's kind of how law and order works in a society like ours.
For those who don't, that's where the authorities come in.
I understand why the police and the clubs – and let's not forget, this policy is as much Southampton and Portsmouth football clubs' as it is Hampshire Constabulary's – are taking this action.
They want to prevent disorder. Fine, but they have a duty to uphold liberty also.
Football fans in the UK are used to being told what they're not allowed to do.
We all know the reasons for it and sadly the spectre of hooliganism has not yet been entirely eradicated – but it is not the problem it once was.
But why curtail the freedom of the majority to tackle a fraction?
As Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1775: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
It may sound twee, naive and utopian but a balance has to be found.
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1:13pm Mon 7 Nov 11
St.Yorkie says...
I did Pompey in the 70's and won with an 89th minute (Channon) winner at a night match. Sure they wanted "it" - but they backed down if you stood your ground! Similarly in 1984 - just let them get on with it.
Sadly today there are a lot of grown men (not adolescent or pubescent lads) who still find this kind of behaviour acceptable.
Now on awaydays the last thing I
expect is confrontation. The closest I have got to that in the last 10-years following Saints has been a light hearted dispute as to who got served first!
Football is a very social activity attracting people from all walks of life - it's a great shame we can't all just have a few beers and some light hearted banter every week, and leave it at that...
8:10pm Wed 9 Nov 11
Jesus_02 says...
Soveling 2 pints at half time has far more effect on the atmophere under which people watch football.
Ecstacy comdowns rather than hangovers curatailed hoolaganism as much as anything.
In short if you treat people like animals they will act like animals, and yes Pompey fans hurling abuse from the saftey of a police baracade only hieghtens the sense of danger and if for some reason the bubble bursts then thats how people find themselves in places they would never imaginethemselves to be in.
3:05pm Fri 11 Nov 11
costa gaz says...
The journey to and from the stadiums will be a much nicer experience, mums and dads with kids would attend without fear of being caught up in trouble, the clubs would save an absolute fortune on policing, the grounds would sell out.
Ok, the atmosphere inside would be a bit strange, but that would be a small price to pay.
Some would say that the trouble makers would travel anyway, very unlikely in my opinion especially if the matches were beamed live to the away sides ground.
If there is no one to fight, then a fight cannot happen.
When all 64 coaches leave the relative stadiums, it'll take most of Hampshires finest to form human shields along the routes leaving the grounds.
Next month will see how effective the bubble is.
11:31am Sat 12 Nov 11
Scrutinizer says...
2:43pm Sat 12 Nov 11
ÚTS says...
It is people with attitudes like that which mean the police and the government get away with treating football fans like criminals without proper justification.
Dan, complain as much as you want. Someone has to say something rather than just taking all the crap that is forced on to fans and I'm glad someone in the media is at last making a stand.
5:32pm Sat 12 Nov 11
Scrutinizer says...
ÚTS wrote:In denial, me thinks.
Scrutinizers comment is the biggest amount of patronising rubbish I've ever read and makes me wonder if its actually by a copper. It is people with attitudes like that which mean the police and the government get away with treating football fans like criminals without proper justification. Dan, complain as much as you want. Someone has to say something rather than just taking all the crap that is forced on to fans and I'm glad someone in the media is at last making a stand.
1:21pm Mon 14 Nov 11
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mansak_hunt says...
9:59am Tue 15 Nov 11
Johnny77 says...
mansak_hunt wrote:Ha very true!
if footy fans stopped behaving like morons this wouldn't happen - name anoter sport that get these problems - oh hang on there isn't one
5:53pm Tue 15 Nov 11
Redrobbo says...
mansak_hunt wrote:Unfortunately, you are right to a degree. A small minority act like morons and ruin it for the majority, a bot like society in general! I have watched football for over 50 years and have never engaged in any act of hooliganism, and I am sure I am not alone.
if footy fans stopped behaving like morons this wouldn't happen - name anoter sport that get these problems - oh hang on there isn't one
3:04pm Wed 16 Nov 11
RedArmy1 says...
We will all be there.
We go for a DOUBLE WIN.
We are SOUTHAMPTON's RED ARMY and WE RULE THE SOUTH. COYR
11:10am Thu 17 Nov 11
St.Yorkie says...
I think they should re-name Portsmouth..."No Scummers Aloud" or perhaps "Skatesville"
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Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art's Museum/Healthcare Partnership Program will hosts its inaugural healing arts conference.
The two-day event is designed to highlight the importance of art therapy programming and to showcase how arts can aid in the healing and recovery of patients.
It will focus on art therapy as it relates to diseases such as autism and Alzheimer's.
The conference will be held Nov. 16-17 at Pitt-Johnstown's conference center.
The confab is specifically designed to benefit art therapists, artists, caregivers, educators, health care administrators, parents of children with autism, psychologists and students in the field of arts therapy.
"The healing arts conference will be a great opportunity for people to see how important the arts are when it comes to health, healing and the rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from many different ailments," said Tina Lehman, SAMA's Healthcare Partnership Program administrator. "It will also be a time for industry professionals, artists and even students to network, create new partnerships and share their own experiences."
Lehman said a great deal of research was conducted to select the presenters for the first conference.
"We had a long list to choose from, but we whittled it down to those speakers who could best serve the needs of the community," she said.
The conference will open with a presentation by Cathy Goucher and Jill Scheibler, art therapists at Make Studio in Baltimore.
Make Studio is an organization that provides visual arts programming to adults with disabilities. Goucher and Scheibler have several years of experience in arts therapy and were co-founders of Make Studio.
The second day of the conference features three speakers, beginning with a presentation by Elizabeth Warson. An assistant professor in the graduate therapy program at George Washington University, Warson employs American Indian arts in art therapy programs.
She is on the board of directors for the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
As a professional artist, her sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
The second speaker will be Janet Bernson, perhaps better known as "The Healing Artist."
Bernson uses creative expression as a tool for making positive life changes. She has created several popular expressive arts programs that focus on individuals as they relate to the world at large. Bernson has been featured on NBC's "Starting Over" and is an award-winning theater director, playwright, editorialist and visual artist.
The third speaker will be Marcia Rosal, professor and director of the arts therapy program at Florida State University. Rosal is a past executive secretary of the Kentucky Art Therapy Association and a past president of the American Art Therapy Association.
"Anyone interested in the arts and how it effects healing, especially for those families who could benefit from such information, would be interested in attending," Lehman said.
Cost is $100 per person or $25 for students. Continuing education credits may be available.
Reservations are required by Nov. 5 and can be made by calling SAMA at 269-7234.
After Nov. 5, the cost will be $125 per person.
In 2003, SAMA introduced its Museum/Healthcare Partnership Program, an initiative designed to help area residents suffering from mental and physical disabilities.
"This is another opportunity to get our message out there and extend our program into the community," Lehman said.
Through the program, SAMA's trained artists and educators work with health-care providers to develop residencies and workshops aimed at providing relief for patients dealing with physical pain and discomfort.
In recent years, the program has been expanded to include working with disabled veterans as well as placing a greater emphasis on mentally challenged citizens.
The program has benefited more than 500 individuals throughout central and western Pennsylvania.
Information: 269-7234 or visit www.sama-art.org.
What: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art's healing arts conference.
Where: Pitt-Johnstown's conference center, Richland Township.
When: Nov. 16-17.
Tickets: Reservations required by Nov. 5 at 269-7234.
Cost: $100 per person and $25 for students. After Nov. 5, the cost is $125.
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FBR Open 2007
Oakley Golf and the new Rolling O Lab made a strong presence at this year's FBR Open. The FBR Open is known for its unique and diverse crowds, ranging from college students to the Scottsdale elite, thus producing a great platform for Oakley to showcase its golf brand and first stop of the Rolling O Lab.
On the golf side, Oakley sponsored the infamous 16th Hole and Greenskeeper area, two of the heaviest traffic stops for all visiting spectators. The 16th hole of the FBR Open is infamous among PGA Tour holes as it offers a truly unique experience to both spectators and competitors alike. To say the crowd at this hole is rowdy would be a true understatement. The layout of the 16th hole is best described as a par three with stadium seating. The seating wraps around the tee box and along the fairway, with an equally rowdy crowd of people guaranteed to be surrounding the green. This hole is most widely known for Tiger Woods' hole in one from a few years back, which resulted in all types of beverages and assorted items being thrown onto the course. Oakley's iconic ellipse logo was strategically placed so that on almost every commentary camera angle it would appear just over the broadcaster's shoulder. This strategy was well planned out, as a great majority of the coverage of the tournament focused around this unique hole.
Scottsdale has a very affluent community that enjoys the FBR Open every year on Super Bowl weekend, and the place to be and be seen is the Greenskeeper area. The Greenskeeper area was situated just a few hundred feet past the opening gates and initial booth set-ups. Swarming with local wealthy business people the Greenskeeper area is a sight to behold. Oakley had two large ellipse logos on the huge tents with continued logo usage on all the umbrellas, fencing and banners. Additionally, Greenskeeper passes sported the Oakley logo, serving as a walking advertisement on the many tournament attendees. The Greenskeeper area was officially marked as the Oakley hang out spot.
In addition to the great on course coverage, Oakley's Al Janc and Casie Scorey, Sports Marketing Managers, invited select members of the golf and surrounding communities, as well as flying in several top accounts from around the country for nightly festivities at the Oakley Safe House and phat VIP Sky Box seats on the 16th hole! Great food and drinks were served up along with events such as Ricky Barnes' pool party, complete with several cannonballs from Ricky himself throughout the night when no one was expecting them. This proved to be quite a good time for all in attendance and fit perfectly Oakley's unique style of sport involvement when it comes to golf.
Another element adding to Oakley's pronounced presence at the FBR Open was the premier of Oakley's new Rolling O Lab, a mobile facility housing all of Oakley's HDO testing Lab. The Lab was located between the 6th and 7th holes and received a good amount of foot traffic during the tournament on its inaugural voyage to Arizona. Most notably, golf great Johnny Miller came by the Lab and got a tour of the facility. To say the least, he was impressed not only with Oakley's optics but also the Lab itself, stating, "Oakley's got the right idea with this lab. I think it's great."
Aside from Johnny, several news crews as well as the general public walked through the Lab during its four days at the tournament, proving to be a successful first outing for the vehicle and its crew. People were definitely impressed by the spread the Lab has to offer, including the Sport Chassis and the hospitality trailer.
Overall, the week spent in Arizona was a fun-filled; Oakley inspired few days worth of golf. There could not have been a better tournament for us to have such a strong presence.
This could not have been possible if not for the dedicated sales force that helped out in every way possible. So, a big thank you goes out to Cliff Neil, Tom Faukner, Jim Flanagan, Yogi Ybarra, and huge props to Jocelyn Lemieux for an amazing job.
Oakley had the following golfers in the field at the FBR Open 2007:
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Tuesday evening, as the votes were being tallied, Patch spoke with a number of candidates for state and local office in Mendota Heights and Inver Grove Heights.
The following is a collection of some of the best quotes we heard. Make sure to check out our pages on the Mendota Heights, Inver Grove Heights and Dakota County elections for more coverage.
Senate candidate Dwight Rabuse (R)
I feel exactly as I have for several months: I tell everyone 'I'm not predicting victory, but I'm not assuming failure either.' ... We'll see how much of that Minnesota Nice translates to Dwight Rabuse support.
Sen. Jim Metzen (DFL) on the advantage of moving into the Capitol should the Democrats retake the Senate.
We're down where the trash[men] come down with the trucks and the horns are beeping in the back and the water jugs are coming out at different time—it's much better in the majority, let's put it that way.
Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL) on a large issue he'll work on if re-elected.
Minnesota's blessed with water. Water is kind of our oil, and protecting our water and making sure that we have good water quality helps our tourism, helps our industry, helps our quality of life.
Paul Mandell, Inver Grove Heights city council candidate
It's the loneliness of the door knocking that gets to you. When you're going door-to-door with 12,000, 13,000 households, you thrive on the contact with the people themselves. I'd get home from work and go out for two or three hours, but you don't want to disturb people during dinner hour so it's difficult.
George Tourville, Inver Grove Heights mayor
My opponent didn't really do much, but I took a look at forging forward to tell the people of the city of Inver Grove that I still was interested in running, and if you're going to run, you want to win.
Ultan Duggan, Mendota Heights mayoral candidate
I personally have knocked on over 1,900 doors. Our team has knocked on every door in Mendota Heights that we know of.
Sandra Krebsbach, Mendota Heights mayor
I think it's a campaign that didn't need to happen. Normally the mayor is not challenged, the city's been doing well. And Mr. Duggan was in a safe spot, he's in the middle of a four-year term [on the city council], and I think he just wanted it.


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These four bassets were purchased at a dog auction in Missouri by a local rescue, brought to a vet's office where they were spayed/neutered, updated their vaccinations, and dewormed. The vet held onto the bassets until they were ready to move this weekend, which involved a ground transport that started Saturday morning in Missouri, an overnight stay in Richmond, IN. The ground transport resumed the following morning into Somerset, PA, where pilot Paul Pogorzelski and his daughter Haley picked them up and flew them into West Trenton Mercer airport. It was a sight to be seen when the bassets were being unloaded - reminiscent of the clown car in a circus!!
After loading up the bassets into my car, we stopped at our next destination in Washington Twp, NJ. Two of the bassets were adopted that night by a pre-approved home who originally was to select one of the female bassets - they decided two were more fun. The other two are in a foster home, with the one male basset to be adopted this weekend, possibly the last of the four (a female) to also be adopted this weekend.
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Photo of the four bassets in Paul's plane that helped with our transport on Sunday. Haley, the pilot's daughter, snuggled with three of them (Abby, Allison,a nd Gene) while the fourth (Peaches) peeks over the back seat.


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The following checklist is preliminary and hopefully will be useful for environmental management and planning as well as a starting point for further biological studies of the regional spider fauna. Citations refer to papers with locality information, descriptions, or nomenclatural notes. As the author is relatively new to arachnology having "jumped ship" from herpetology he welcomes any comments, additional records and, especially, corrections. Classification generally follows Roth (1993). Families are arranged alphabetically within the mygalomophs and araneomorphs to permit more efficient access to a particular taxon by those unfamiliar with spider taxonomy. This list shows 43 families, 151 genera and as many as 411 species.
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This is from the May 28th, 1998 issue of Rolling Stone.
The 180th and final episode of Seinfeld, to be broadcast on May 14th, was scheduled to be filmed over nine days, from March 31st to April 8th. Rolling Stone was there the whole time – for more than 100 hours on set – watching. Hiding in corners. Being nosy. All Jerry Seinfeld asked in return was that the ensuing story not reveal anything. This is that story.
Tuesday, March 31st
This morning the Seinfeld principals sit down with Larry David, who helped create the show and wrote the final episode, for the table reading. (Which is where actors sit and read a script aloud. Round a table.) Jerry Seinfeld stands up at the beginning of the reading and says, "You're going to hear me say 'thank you' a lot during the week – here's the first one." Before they even start reading, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is in tears. It is the first time the three other principals have learned in any detail how everything will end. "It was a little emotional," says Jason Alexander afterward. "It's creeping in, slowly."
That afternoon the first scenes are shot. Most sitcoms are filmed in one evening on three or four sets on a single Hollywood sound stage in front of an audience, with maybe one day's shooting on location. For the final episode of Seinfeld (which is planned as an hour, though it may end up being longer), they will film on a number of sound stages and at a number of locations until next Wednesday, before shooting some final scenes in front of an invited audience.
As they watch some supporting cast members rehearse, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David discuss, with amusement, an editorial in the New York Times that links New York's perceived Nineties rebirth, in part, to Seinfeld. "The image of the city is this fun, silly place with these colorful characters," says Seinfeld. And it's because of their show. "The lead editorial!" he says. Seinfeld, who grew up on Long Island, will move to New York after the show is finished. He has already sold his Hollywood home. "I've had enough of Los Angeles," he tells me. "I always say that Los Angeles is like Vegas, except the losers stay in town."
That's going to make everyone else here feel good when you leave.
"I really don't dislike Los Angeles. I just love New York. That's where I belong. New York is the only place in the world that I do prefer – the rest of it is, to me, all off."
The rest of the world? You're not keen on it?
"No. There's a couple of other places I like. A few cities. I like London and Paris and Austin, Texas. But not to live. For me, New York is the only place. It is the center of the humor universe, New York. That is where all humor is born. Everything else is just imitating that."
Seinfeld wanders over to the snack table and pops a piece of dried fruit into his mouth. He picks up the plastic packet, holding it out at head height, surveying the label. Dried Mango with Li Hing Mui, it reads. Watching, it is very easy to imagine that the comedy cogs are in motion, that in this little piece of everyday life's detritus, he is finding a new amusing riff. Maybe. Maybe not. He turns away. "Oooh," he sighs. "That dried mango is fantastic."
Between takes, I briefly ask him some questions. Larry David listens in and, finally, must interject.
"I am watching the greatest interviewee ever," he says. "This is a beauty."
"You have to embrace reality and then pervert it," Seinfeld continues. He is offering some of his comedy philosophy. "It's like a good magic trick – it looks like they're not doing anything: It looks quite ordinary. The movements look quite ordinary, and then something extraordinary comes out of it. It's all sleight of hand. [To David] I'm just making this up."
"I thought I heard you do the magic thing once," says David, deadpan.
"Someday I'm going to have the collected volumes of all the interviews," Seinfeld says. "Bound volumes."
"It'd be a great book," says David.
"Just call it My Horseshit. Larry always marvels at my ability to just come up with horseshit for these interviews."
"I've probably read over 200 interviews," says David. "Each one is different: always something new about the show, about life, about something. I'm amazed. I stand in awe. The greatest bullshitter on this planet."
"It's good bullshit," says Seinfeld. "Good, salable bullshit."
Should I be aiming for a truth beyond the bullshit?
"That is the truth," says Seinfeld. "I make no distinction between truth and good bullshit. What do you think philosophy is? All these philosophers and all their... Immanuel Kant and the inevitability of will. What is that? It's just a notion. It's a piece of bullshit."
"It's good bullshit," nods David.
"Yeah," says Seinfeld. "It's good bullshit. You set up a premise and then defend it. This is all comedy. It's all proving theorems. False theorems, especially. You set up something and then you prove it with logic, and for some people, that makes people laugh."
Why does it make people laugh?
"I don't know," he says. "I don't know. For some reason they enjoy the chicanery, I think. They like being fooled. Everybody likes a good magic trick, you know."
I can't tell you much, but i can tell you this: There is a moment in the film Gandhi that has always stuck in Jerry Seinfeld's head – his being a head in which small details are known to keenly accumulate long before any useful rationale for their retention might be found. It is the scene in which the passively resisting Indians are marching forward, row by row, to be bludgeoned outside the Dharasana Salt Works, and Martin Sheen – playing an American journalist sending his outraged report by telegram – dictates portentously about the awful day's events, "It went on and on, into the night." For some reason it was a line that Seinfeld remembered and that would sometimes seem funny to re-quote at inappropriate moments. On several days during the filming of Seinfeld's final episode, he would quote the line to those around him and begin to laugh. "Anything that is taken from such a dramatic context that we would use in our silly comedic world is really funny to me," he says.
Seinfeld began as a pilot called The Seinfeld Chronicles in 1989. Jerry Seinfeld was a stand-up comedian looking for a suitable TV vehicle. Larry David had been a somewhat misanthropic stand-up on the same circuit, and they agreed to create a show based upon the kind of obsessive conversations they would have in real life. Seinfeld would play a character who was more or less himself, and a characters called George Costanza would represent David.
The pilot's very first dramatic scene was in a coffee shop. (Not, yet, the coffee shop.) Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander sat at a small circular table. (It would take a little time for them to realize that these were characters whose endless dialogue of Platonic pointlessness was more naturally suited to the face-offs encouraged by rectangular tables and booth seating.) The first few episodes were a little clunky, but the show still hit its essential tone right away, in its very opening seconds:
Jerry looks at George. "See, now, to me," he begins, apropos of nothing whatsoever, "that button is in the worst possible spot. The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. Look at it! It's too high. It's in no man's land...."
Naturally, George gets defensive. And so nine years of quibbling begins.
"NBC had a lot of trepidation," recalls George Shapiro, one of Seinfeld's two manager-partners. "It felt like such a narrow audience. It seemed it was about a few Jewish people in New York City. It didn't have broad appeal." But something in there worked: "Larry's a great sufferer and Jerry's a great fun guy," Shapiro diagnoses, "and it just blended." Nonetheless, it took time. Shapiro estimates that the show's account went $10 million into debt before it began to get hot in the fourth season.
It is no longer in debt. Current estimates suggest that once Seinfeld has been sold for its second run of syndication, it will have generated $1.5 billion.
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