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By John Shinn
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — The court at Lloyd Noble Center was kind of like Times Square Sunday afternoon. Huge video screens loomed in every direction. The only difference? Each screen was locked on the NCAA tournament selection show.
As Oklahoma's players, coaches and support staff sat in one corner of the arena, coach Lon Kruger stood off to the side. He's been through many Selection Sundays during his distinguished career.
His team's reaction to seeing itself in the field of 68 was one to savor.
"It's like as a parent when the package is under the Christmas tree," said Kruger, who, with OU's selection, became the first coach to guide five different programs to the NCAA tournament. "You don't get excited about your own, you get excited about seeing your kids (open their gifts); that's the same thing here. You see the fans enjoy it.
"The players and the coaches have worked so hard. For them to forever have that NCAA tournament experience is what makes it most enjoyable for sure."
The Sooners (20-11) have been waiting for their next Big Dance bid since exiting the 2009 tourney after a Blake Griffin-led run to the Elite Eight under former coach Jeff Capel.
They're the No. 10-seed in the South Regional and will face No. 7 San Diego State (22-10) at approximately 8:20 p.m. Friday at Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia.
Sooner freshmen like Buddy Hield, Je'lon Hornbeak and
Isaiah Cousins were excited when OU's name was called. Seniors like Romero Osby, Steven Pledger, Andrew Fitzgerald and Sam Grooms breathed huge sighs of relief.
Every national bracketologist had the Sooners getting into the field, the only issues being ones of site and seed. But when you haven't been to the NCAA tournament in a couple of years, the wait can brutal, especially on the heels of a one-and-done conference tournament experience.
"It was tough," Osby said. "We had a good practice yesterday, though. It was a competitive practice … Friday was a day off, so I hung out with my family a little bit. I really couldn't stop thinking about basketball. I watched the Iowa State game and I really felt like we should have been playing against Kansas.
"We let an opportunity slip away, but we still got an opportunity to get in the tournament. Thank God we're here."
If the Sooners win Friday, they'll face either No. 2 seed Georgetown (25-6) or No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast (24-10) Sunday. The South Regional will be decided the following weekend at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The Final Four is in Atlanta.
No one at Lloyd Noble Center was looking that far ahead Sunday afternoon. More time was spent reflecting on the journey to return to the NCAA tournament.
"Could have definitely been here a lot sooner," Pledger said, "but I'm glad to be where we are."
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DEX: Bridging Gaps Between Debian and Derivatives
Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu CTO, has found a way to bridge the ever-widening crevasse between Debian and its derivatives. The Debian Front Desktop was formed last summer in order to bring together these camps, but Zimmerman wants to go a step or two further.
What is DEX?
Zimmerman explains, "DEX is all about action: merging patches, fixing bugs, crunching data, whatever is necessary to get changes from derivatives into Debian proper. DEX doesn't try to change the way any existing project works, but adds a "fast path" for getting code from one place to another."
Ubuntu has been accused of not contributing code back to upstream projects, but Debain acknowledged that the process for this has been difficult to navigate. The Debian Front Desk seems limited to linking interested parties, but DEX is an attempt to grease the wheels by actually merging code, recording statistics, and updating bug reports. It appears it is going to do the dirty work.
Ubuntu Involvement
One of the first tasks of Zimmerman was to form the Ubuntu DEX Team with the goal of facilitating cooperation between Debian and Ubuntu. With this Zimmerman hope to merge more Ubuntu improvements into the Debian code-base. Several developers have signed on already and are getting their hands dirty sorting through old patches to see which might be appropriate to merge upstream. Once that is accomplished, which seems to be progressing rather quickly, Zimmerman says they will move on to a new todo list.
DEX was set up with all derivatives in mind, so other distributions can form their own DEX team and start contributing to Debian as well. Debian is the genetic code for many projects and a general idea within Open Source and the GPL is to give back improvements. Perhaps more teams will emerge in the coming months.
Susan Linton is a Linux writer and the owner of tuxmachines.org.
log in my eye?
it's funny that one of the biggest perpetrators (purpose traitors?) is now appearing to act as adjudicator. Actions speak louder than words Matt Z. (and Mark S.)
Do we really need time and effort on a bureaucratic policy, instead of just communicating and giving back improvement to the global community?
DEX and Debian plus derivatives
I am glad to see this happening. One of the things that has kept me away from Ubuntu is that most of it's packages are not compatible with stock Debian and vice/versa. Hopefully the problems can be worked out and the Debian Derivatives maintain compatibility with the stock Debian archives and the improvements be folded back into stock Debian.
Under Ubuntu/Mint10, qemu works right after apt-get. Under Debian/LMDE, it's dog-slow. Yes, I checked kernel modules. But under Mint10, Puppy can't find eth0 (tinycore can). Under Mint10, xoscope no longer works because /dev/dsp has gone away. It's little differences like these that keep me dual-booting. And why can't KDE4 leave the network card alone when I logout? It kills eth0. This is poison for using the 'at' command, and mini-httpd.
RE: differences
seems like you've got some bug reports to write? :)
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Julie Wrazel
Julie Wrazel is the CTO of Home Dialysis Plus, a developer of portable, easy-to-use dialysis equipment. Julie recently retired from Hewlett Packard after 29 years of service in a range of engineering and engineering management roles. For 20 years within HP's highly successful Inkjet printing business, she held roles in R&D, Manufacturing and Supply Chain in component process and product development, and supported the extremely high growth rates of the Inkjet Supplies business. This included over 15 years developing products and processes with HP's strategic partners leading to leadership roles in the management of several of HP's key strategic partners in the printing business.
Julie holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and an MS from the National Technological University in the Management of Innovation, a program hosted by Lehigh University, and is an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD University, teaching in the Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances program. She has also been an invited speaker in workshops and programs on the subject of alliance management and open innovation.
In her spare time, she gardens on 10 acres north of Corvallis and chases after her retired racing greyhounds.
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
- M.S., National Technological University
- B.S., University of Missouri, Columbia
Professional Highlights/Activities
- Technical program management in rapidly growing businesses
- Structuring and maintaining long-term co-development and manufacturing alliances
- Managing technology across cultures including 15 years of experience in Asia (Japan, Singapore, Korea) and Europe (Italy, France, Finland, Ireland, UK, Sweden)
- Management of engineers and scientists
- Managing business and technical goals and objectives in complex technology programs
Class Topics CoveredProcesses and Information Technology (MBA for Professionals)
Selected Presentations
Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances executive education program in INSEAD University (2005-Present) on topics associated with her experiences in HP in alliance management.
Open Innovation Symposium – Boston, MA, May 2008: "When the Product is an Experience: Challenges in Mobile Experience Co-Development."
CoDev 2007 Open Innovation – Opportunities, Models and Methods, Scottsdale, AZ: "When the Product is an Experience: Issues in Mobile Experience Co-Development."
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Dean Koontz: Angels, Demons, and Our Mysterious World
The best-selling writer talks about why in the short-term evil wins, but in the end, good usually triumphs.
BY: Dena Ross
As one of the most popular fiction writers today, Dean Koontz captivates his readers with his creative plotlines and unique characters, often incorporating a spiritual element into the story. According to a recent Beliefnet interview, Koontz says these elements are both partially woven into his writing consciously and partially come second nature as he's writing. This may have a lot to do with his own faith life. Although Koontz was born into the United Church of Christ, he converted to Catholicism after marrying his wife, Gerda.
Koontz—whose upcoming book, "Your Heart Belongs to Me" is set for release November 25th--spoke to Beliefnet about the amazing supernatural experience he had after his beloved dog died, how his father's attempt at murdering him affected his life and faith, and why he gives his characters free will.
Why did you convert to Catholicism from the United Church of Christ in which you were brought up?
I was from a dysfunctional family. And although my mother made sure I went to church, the family didn't reflect the values of the church. There wasn't a lot of closeness among relatives in our family.
When I started dating Gerda, we didn't have much money. We would go on Sundays to neighboring Jonestown, where she had aunts and uncles. I was so impressed with the sense of family among them and the fun they had being together and the easiness with which they interacted that I, either rightly or wrongly, identified that in my mind as being a consequence of Catholicism, which was so strong for all of them. So, it got me interested in it. When I was in college, I expanded my reading about things and ended up thinking about halfway through college that this was for me.
What's your favorite thing about being a Catholic?
It gives me a sense that the world has shape and form and function and meaning. I suppose that's my favorite thing about it, because I don't wander aimlessly seeking for some meaning in things. I have a sense of what those meanings are. It opened my eyes to a deeper, more complex world, and that leaves you a lifetime of exploring to follow.
What's your least favorite thing about being a Catholic?
How Vatican II threw away so much tradition. It's only beginning to come back. The Latin Mass and all of that was a great loss, something that is embraced and promoted for hundreds upon hundreds of years and then disappears overnight in an attempt to satisfy an urge toward trendiness. It was a great loss to the church, and I think it still is.
Has a situation in your life ever tested your faith to the point where you wanted to let it go?
There was a time in my life after losing my mother, who had a very difficult life, [where] she was ill. She was married to a man who later in life was diagnosed as sociopathic. I was in my 20s when she died.
That seemed to me so unfair [and then I began to] question whether things had meaning. But, it was a sophomoric kind of questioning. It wasn't anything that was intellectual in its nature. And time passed, and that doubt passed.
Your father tried to kill you a few years before he died. How has that incident affected your life and your faith?
The attempt came before he was in the home. When [my wife and I] moved west, one of the benefits of it was [we were] 3,000 miles from my father. I thought, "At last, I've got some distance here. The phone calls won't come at 2:00 in the morning that he's in some kind of trouble or he's too drunk [and] they won't let him leave a bar and get in his car and somebody has to come get him.
However, his health took a turn for the worse, and we had to bring him west and support him for 14 years. It was really toward the end of that [time]—I guess he must have been about 80 [with] the first attempt. He pulled a knife on me on two different occasions. The second time was in a retirement home. The first time made it necessary for him to go on anti-psychotics. He didn't need to be in a nursing home, but he needed to be under some supervision where we could be assured he was taking the anti-psychotics, that somebody was monitoring this. He was taking them in that retirement home. He couldn't drive anymore, but he could walk to the shopping center across the street. It was not a facility to which he was restricted. What nobody knew was that he was developing an immunity to the drug, or it was having the opposite effect, as sometimes these things do.
The second attempt was in front of a lot of witnesses, and that ended up—after he was committed to a psychiatric ward— requiring that then he spend time thereafter in a restricted facility.
It certainly affects your life. What more affected the life was his presence in it up until that moment. In my childhood he—especially when he was very drunk—would threaten to kill us all, my mother, me and himself. As a kid I assumed sooner or later that would happen. Then, I grew up and it hadn't happened, and I felt guilty about that. I felt like, as awful as he is and all the terrible things he's done, I was putting upon him a heavier weight of evil perhaps than he actually carried.
But, one of the psychiatrists who had to deal with him after his first outburst, the first attempt with the knife and he went in for observation and everything, called me in and said, "Let me tell you some things about your father. He would not go to church or be religious in any way, except periodically, when things went really bad for him. Then he would sit around all day reading the Bible and quoting it and everything." She began to list a number of personality traits as things he would do from time to time. And it became eerie, because she was telling me things that I thought nobody could know unless they had grown up in [my] house. She said to me, "I believe your father is a paranoid schizophrenic with tendencies to violence, complicated by alcoholism." Later, he got a darker diagnosis than that. But, she said, "These are the kind of people with all this complexity of problems." This was in the days before they were really finding drugs that were effective.
She [then went on to say that], "Somebody with this tendency to violence complicated by alcoholism and has a paranoid schizophrenic complex will frequently be the kind of person you do see in the news who has killed himself and his family. It was good of you as a child to come through this without more of the problems you have." I said, "Well, writing is, to some degree, therapy, and I think every writer works out some of his own problems in the course of telling his stories."
But, at that moment I realized that my guilt was not proper, my feeling that I was putting too much weight of evil on him. Actually, I wasn't. And whatever his problems, whether they were partly behavioral, partly of his own making or partly because of some condition he was born with in a mental way, I'll never know, but I think it's probably a combination of both. But, it never taxed my belief that life had meaning and purpose. In fact, seeing him live his life without meaning and purpose sort of showed me the way to live life more successfully.
Good always seems to prevail in your books. Is it because of your faith that you always believe that, ultimately, good will triumph over evil? When you write, do you want good to prevail because in your own life to some degree it didn't?
It's actually sort of the opposite. I saw my father live a life where everything was done for himself, when he subsequently was diagnosed as sociopathic. And, of course, I've written a number of novels where a sociopath is the center of the action, even before my father was diagnosed.
When I looked at the way he lived his life, it was always about himself. It was always about his wants and desires and not about anybody else. Therefore, he broke just about every kind of rule of behavior and cultural or legal behaviors that would make a life an acceptable or an admired one.
And yet, although he had a lot of fun—he drank a lot and he ran around with a lot of women and he was gambling—all the things he wanted to do that he thought were fun, he got to do and he got away with. But, he never had a pleasant life. He was always an unhappy man, and although he would never have acknowledged it, always sort of desperate.
In the end, he ended up with nothing, with no friends and no family who cared about him. When he died and I had to make a list of people to call, there was no one to call because he had left a life without any friends. Even what few family members he had were uninterested. Nobody sent flowers, nobody thought of coming to a memorial or anything like that. In the end, that kind of behavior did not lead to a satisfying life.
I often say that in the short run, evil wins. I've seen it all my life. Bad behavior can triumph in the short run. But, in the long run I never see that it does. I think it's more realistic to say that most of the time good does triumph over evil, even in the shorter run, but certainly in the longer run. It's partly faith-based, but it's partly just practical, just looking at the way I've seen life for the past 60 years.
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Passionate worship is the purpose behind Stephen Rew's band, Decided.
In the last year, four musically-inspired friends who lead worship together each Sunday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Raymore decided put their passion for music into developing their first album, Come Home, released July 7.
The band plans to perform locally in coming months, including at Freedom Fest at the Harrisonville Park Amphitheatre Saturday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m., and on Friday, Sept. 21, at Rockbrook Church in Belton at 7 p.m.
Musician and teacher by trade, it had always been the dream of 31-year-old Rew who has served as the music director at St. Paul's and as a teacher in the Raymore-Peculiar School District, to produce an album.
Over the course of time, inspiration for new songs kept coming to Rew but he had no means to record them professionally.
The Peculiar resident was taken by surprise last July for his 30th birthday, his wife, Cindy solicited funds from family and friends and raised nearly $3,000 in donations to help him fulfill his musical dream.
"My wife knows me and that I wouldn't spend the money to record an album," Rew said.
In honor of turning 30, he was presented with a check and the opportunity to fulfill his musical goal.
A year later, reality approached, and Come Home was released on Rew's 31st birthday after he and his friends, Nathan Richard, 30, Lee's Summit, Mark Thompson, 48, Peculiar, and Mike Medsker, 33, spent the course of a year producing a 12-track album.
"For me, it's been a dream come true," Rew said. "The purpose of our music is that it's all about praising God. We want to find the conduit for people to get closer to Him."
The CD was released at a concert in the theatre of Raymore-Peculiar High School. About 275 people attended the event.
"We put on a show," Rew said. "We had video presentation - the whole nine yards."
The band recorded their work with Chapman Recording Studio and Mastering, the same studio used by popular artists including Tech Nine and Chris Calico.
On the Christian music circuit, their tunes are influenced by the styles of Matthew West, Mercy Me, and Skillet.
Now that their album has been released, Rew and the other band members to use their collective as a ministry.
The track, "There is a Hope," was originally arranged by the musicians before officially becoming a band, for those affected by the 2011 aftermath of the Joplin tornado.
"I felt compelled and sat down to right that song right away," Rew said. "I had a student who was actually in the Pizza Hut during the tornado and he was very fortunate to survive. I think of the name of the song, 'There is a Hope,' and I believe that's kind of the purpose of the album –- to give some sense of hope to anybody who is hurting."
Rew is open to performing in churches and other venues around the metropolitan area throughout the year. The band is hoping to start traveling next summer to take their music around the country.
To bring Decided to your event, contact the band via Facebook.
The Band:
Drums – Nathan Richardson
Bass – Mark Thompson
Electric Guitar – Mike Medsker
Acoustic, piano, keyboards, vocals – Stephen Rew


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So if I wanted to eat two Big Macs I have to leave and come back? What if I wanted to bring a date? I'd look like a real loser if I couldn't get BOTH of our meals for free - she'd never believe I was the manager
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I suppose if you stretched it out to one every 5 years it wouldn't be so bad.
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2 weeks? But lunch is in an hour!
Humbug! The price is 50% off the regular price of the Big Mac and a Large Fry, not a combo meal with a drink price. By the time you add a drink, you push the price up another buck or two, which is not much cheaper than a combo price all the time. The deal also states that it can be redeemed at any participating McDonald's in the US. How do we know that our local McDonalds is participating?
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#1, there's no "what if" to your life. If you're taking a date to McD's, you are a loser.
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Pols can now get verified on the petition website.
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From the site's inception there hasn't been a way for lawmakers to easily look up who was petitioning them and respond. "We weren't giving them an easy way to see what their constituents were talking about," explained Megan Lubin, Change.org's communications manager. But on Wednesday, Change.org introduced a new platform – Change.org for Decision Makers – which will allow lawmakers from all levels of government (and, later, corporations) to see what's going on and write back.
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Lawmakers will receive verified accounts – like they do on Twitter – but in the Change.org world verification means access to good data. A member, or his or her congressional staffer, will be able to see where petitions originated and how many people in the member's district signed on. Members of Congress, or other politicians, signed up for the special accounts would then be able to respond. "They'd be able to weigh in directly and make sure their position on the issue was broadcasted," explained Lubin.
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So far, Ryan and Warren have both signed on for verified accounts, along with Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Mike Honda, D-Calif., with more to come.
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The Catalyst is made up of so many different ways. It depends on the person how it relates to them to find the meaning.
For me this is where we the people need to realize that we can make a difference in our lives things cant be out done out fought out run but we can make them better than what they are. They go to god and ask to bless everyone not just christian or muslims or whatever religion because religion shouldn't matter. We all have a god, in my mind it's the same god just being worshiped differently. The band wants everyone to be safe and to know that they are cared for no matter what the consequences are. If we all just stood together in this world life would be soo different. Why do we need guns? Why do we need to start riots? We are broken people under a loaded gun is why. We need to be healed and to have god save us to bless us and show us yes we are strong and we can out fight out run and out do so many things.
I think the reply from "chris s" sums it up pretty well, except for the whole BP oil spill reference. I didn't quite pull that part from the song. Either way, I've enjoyed LP's music for the longest time now, THEY ARE BRILLIANT MUSICIANS!!!, and recently after watching the video for this song - the Catalyst video seems to encapsulate the feelings of a pain, rage, and pure loneliness from the imagery of what looks like hell. After just seeing the LP at the VMA's Observatory performance for this song, it's prevalent that the same uprising energy is with them. Although the audience may not understand the impact The Catalyst's message brings them as warning, it does shows us a sign of the times, as the entire crowd hammers their fists into the air. Now I know these men in the band don't align themselves with Christ, but the prophecy in the lyrics of this song really holds some weight in the Book of Revelation. Actually, I'd say most of the lyrics in this song applies to that book, but because their message is not completely aligned with this book, this would be considered a false prophecy and they'd be false profits. Go figure... It's crazy how God is still continuing to fulfill his promise to all the people through out these past couple thousand years, even through people who may not want to be used to fulfill his prophecy. Anyways, this is my honest depiction for any deep or intrinsic meaning in this song. If you read this, then thanks. I know, it's a tad overkill.


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CLEVELAND — Dolores A. Knuth, age 83, a resident of Roaming Shores, Ohio, passed away Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at University Hospitals of Cleveland.
Born Jan. 26, 1929, in Steubenville, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Elodia and Joseph Gallupoli.
A Homemaker and Musician, Dolores married Norman Knuth on Sept. 20, 1954, in Garfield Heights, Ohio. In 1954, Dolores's stage name "Dee Gallo" met the love of her life, Norm, when she won a singing contest at the opening of the Skylark Supper Club in Cleveland. It was a marriage of making beautiful music performing together on several radio shows on WDOK and WELW.
She was a member of the East End YMCA in Madison and the Cleveland Federation of Musicians.
Survivors include her daughter, Karen (Cit) Cameron of Austinburg; a grandson, Ryan Czerwonko of Chicago, Ill.; two brothers, Carl (Ruth) Gallupoli and George (Paula) Gallupoli; and two sisters, Dorothy (Tom) McNulty and Patricia (Basil) Russo.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman Knuth; her parents, Joseph and Elodia Gallupoli; and a sister, Ann Masavage.
Friends will be received from 9 to 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13th, at THE BEHM FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, 26 River St., Madison, Ohio.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 a.m., Tuesday, at Immaculate Conception Church, 2846 Hubbard Road, Madison, Ohio.
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It'll be the best Wild West Fest ever.
So say the planners of the Wild West Festival set for Oct. 5 in McAlester's Old Town.
Although the Old Town Festival has been ongoing for years, this will mark the second year it has been billed as the Wild West Festival, with even more of an emphasis on Western culture. This year's festival is dedicated to the famed Western novel and movie, "True Grit" — part of which features J.J. McAlester, the founder of the city of McAlester.
It will include a free outdoor showing of "True Grit" featuring John Wayne's Academy-Award winning performance as Rooster Cogburn, on the night of the festival.
Live entertainment — including a well-reviewed Johnny Cash impersonator — a shoot-out, a bevy of food and crafts vendors, stagecoach rides and numerous other activities will be ongoing during the festival, set to begin in the morning and extend all day and into the night.
Meanwhile, volunteers are set to work at Hutchison Park, beginning at 9 a.m. next Saturday and Sunday, to try and get the first phase completed of a project to re-create a traditional Choctaw village and stickball field at the site.
This year's festival will mark a first for the event.
"We kick-off with our first-ever parade," said Eddie Gray, president of the Old Town Association.
This year's Wild West Festival is set to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, with the McAlester Public Library's downtown parade opening the event.
Parade participants will gather in the lot adjacent to the North Town Church of Christ, and will head north on North Main Street.
Organizers said there is still time to enter the parade by contacting the McAlester Public Library.
"We're looking for floats, horseback riders, old-time wagons — anything that will fit," said MPL Assistant Librarian Ellen Barlow.
Costumed participants are especially welcome.
"We're looking for cowboys, Indians, Confederate soldiers, Union soldiers, pioneer women, mountain men," Larkin said, presenting a few examples.
One library worker, Candy Larkins, is coming dressed as Belle Starr, Barlow said.
Walkers and animals are also welcome. she said, noting the parade distance is about a quarter of a mile, she said.
"We have about 17 entries already from churches and businesses," Barlow said of the parade participants. Application forms are available on the library's Web site at www.mcalesterlibrary.net, she said. The library can also be contacted at 918-426-0930.
Simultaneously with the parade, a Little Buckaroos Skittle Dash will be held, for children 12 and younger. Similar to a fun run, the dash calls for the youngsters to lead the parade down the street, then turn off North Main Street at Krebs Avenue, where they can help themselves to a trough full of packaged Skittles, Gray said.
When they finish the race, their clothes will be doused with colored powder, so the clothing should be something that's OK to have colored, organizers said.
It's similar to the Wild Color Stampede 5K Run for grown-ups, organizers said. The Color Run is set to begin at 10 a.m.
Another area with activities for youngsters will be the Kid Corral, said Pam Kirby, who is helping with some of the planning. It will include inflatables and other items for children, organizers said.
Meanwhile, there will be a lot of action on-stage, where Stage Manager Lacey Sudderth will shepherd a variety of acts throughout the day.
McAlester Mayor Steve Harrison is set to proclaim Oct. 5 "True Grit" Day in McAlester, organizers said.
Former Mayor Kevin Priddle will serve as emcee in the morning, and Ward 5 Councilor Buddy Garvin will be the emcee for the afternoon, Gray said.
The new re-created Choctaw Village is set to be formally dedicated at Hutchison Park at 11 a.m., organizers said.
At high noon, a shoot-out is set for downtown, which will also include some scenes from "True Grit," and is set to feature Rooster Cogburn, Tom Chaney, Frank Ross and Mattie Ross, and others characters from the movie and novel.
Assistant Librarian Cathy McGilberry said there are still several roles to fill.
Also, Choctaw dancers will participate in the Wild West Festival, Gray said.
Festival organizers were enthusiastic about the booking of Johnny Cash impersonator Phillip Bauer, who will pay tribute to Cash through a 90 minute concert. He's set to perform at 3 p.m. Saturday on the main stage.
Another new feature this year is stagecoach rides, which will feature an authentic stage coach, according to Gray. Stagecoach rides will be available around the festival area for $5 each, he said.
Also during the festival, a shuttle hay ride will be available to transport festival-goers to the Tannehill Museum, which will also be open for viewing.
Meanwhile music will be ongoing throughout the day.
Additional performers include:
• Levi Parham, a local musician who sings and plays blues, folk and Americana music, who has performed across the Southwest.
• Kyle Martin, another local performer, who recently moved back to the area from New Mexico. He plays country favorites as well as originals, organizers said.
• Hunter Gotcher, a 17-year-old musician from the McAlester area, winner of the recent Spaghetti Western Talent Show at The Grand Event Center.
• Stan Ward is also set to perform during the event.
Additional performers include trick roper Richard Heinrich from the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show.
Also new this year is Steve Crawford, who will come to the festival as a snake-oil salesman with a medicine show featuring Doc Crawford's Water Experiments.
In the evening, the movie "True Grit" is set to be shown, utilizing the city of McAlester new inflatable outdoor screen. While some bleachers will be available for the audience, those attending may want to bring their lawn chairs, in case the bleachers are filled.
For the movie, the McAlester Public Library will offer chili dogs "with all the fixin's" to the first 200 people to attend.
In addition, the Old Town Association will host an ice cream social.
Wild West Festival organizers plan to use 10 tents the city recently purchased to be used for festivals and other community events.
In addition to other activities, the Pink Garter Saloon will be opened, in a tent next to the Whistle Stop Bistro, organizers said. The Wild West Festival will have its very own labeled beer for the event.
A variety of vendors will have booths set up for the festival.
"We have a pretty good turnout of vendors," said Wes Carter, another of the individuals helping plan the festival. He said approximately 40 vendors have already signed up.
Anyone needing more information about vendor space and prices can call the Whistle Stop Bistro at 918-423-8620, and ask to speak to Carter or Gray.
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Every parent in New Jersey should thank the state Supreme Court for its unanimous decision (6-0) to uphold , which requires novice drivers (16-20 years of age) holding permits and probationary licenses under the state's Graduated Driver License (GDL) program to affix a red decal to their license plates. Why are decals necessary?
Car crashes -- not predators, drugs, suicide, or gun violence -- are the number one killer of teens in our state and nation and in many modernized countries around the world. Research shows that graduated driver licensing, which introduce teens to driving in stages over an extended period of time in an environment that minimizes risk, is proven to reduce teen crashes and save lives. The key to GDL's success, however, is strict enforcement. Parents must be the chief enforcer. It's up to us to ensure that our teens do not violate the passenger, nighttime driving, cell phone/texting, and seat belt provisions.
But once our children are on the road, failure to abide by these provisions, which are specifically in place to protect teen drivers and others (AAA research shows that for every teen driver killed in a crash, two more -- their passengers, drivers of other vehicles and pedestrians -- also die), must be enforced. Police will tell you, as they did the New Jersey Teen Driver Study Commission which I chaired in 2007-2008, that being able to identify GDL holders is the single most vexing aspect of enforcing the law. Teens know this and admitted to the Commission they frequently violated the passenger restriction and curfew because of law enforcement's inability to determine which teens are in possession of a probationary license. This problem isn't unique to New Jersey, law enforcement officials across the nation are struggling with it as well.
And that's why the decal is necessary. Strict enforcement of these provisions that over the past ten years have reduced teen driver and teen passenger (teens driven by their peers) deaths in New Jersey by more than 50% is essential. In Australia, where novice drivers have been required to display 5 1/2 inch x 5 1/2 inch L (learners permit) and P (probationary license holder) placards for nearly 40
years, there has been no uproar about identifying teens or predatory attacks, for that matter. Australian parents and teens are surprised by the reaction of their New Jersey counterparts, noting that the plates are meant to aid with enforcement and alert others drivers that a novice is on the road. Perhaps one teen summed it up best when it asked "how else will police know that we have license restrictions if we don't have red P-plates?"
The New Jersey Teen Safe Driving Coalition -- and nine other coalitions around the country established by The Allstate Foundation and the National Safety Council -- work to raise awareness about the risks teen drivers face and how GDL programs work to address that risk. While New Jersey is currently the only state in the nation to require a decal, other states are watching us closely and six have introduced legislation calling for a similar mandate. The Supreme Court's decision is an indicator our message is being heard and making difference. Measures like the decal will make our roads safer, not just for teens, but all roadway users.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — Recently, I had the honor of touring Carolyn's House of the YWCA of Niagara. CEO Kathy Granchelli graciously led me through the historic halls of this beautiful building and explained the services and programs that Carolyn's House offers to homeless women and children.
With apartments, daily GED classes, vocational/life skills training, college enrollment assistance and pre-college workshops, Carolyn's House offers several opportunities for homeless women to make a better life for themselves and their children. The house is named for Carolyn Van Schalk of Niagara Falls, an initiator of this work, and an advocate of life improvement for women, who died in a tragic accident before this program came to fruition. Carolyn's House opened in 2005, and in 2009, the YWCA of Niagara received the Hallmark Initiative Award for Economic Empowerment from the YWCA USA for its programs.
Carolyn's House is wonderful. I was glad to learn that the YWCA has recently been granted funding to transform their Lockport kitchen facilities into a culinary training kitchen. This new facility will be used to help give disadvantaged women or survivors of domestic violence an opportunity to gain employable culinary skills. How wonderful it will be to have yet another place of new beginnings for women and their families right here in Lockport.
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BLAND, Va. —
Like sister, like brother.
Basketball is just part of life in the Hankins family. Chase Hankins wants that life to continue on.
It will.
Hankins, a senior standout for the Bland County Bears, made the decision to continue his education and basketball career at Lynchburg College, signing a letter of intent on Monday in the library at Bland High School.
"I am very thankful and very blessed to be able to continue my basketball career, I just thank God for allowing me to continue and keep going on," Hankins said. "This has been a dream since I was a little kid to go on and play college ball and I am happy to be able to go do it."
Hankins, who played for his father, Rich Hankins, at Bland County, follows in the footsteps of his sister, Laurel, also a former standout with the Bears, who is a rising senior and starter at Roanoke College.
"It is great, I can't wait to watch him play, even if it is at another rival ODAC school, but I am really happy for him," Laurel said. "I think he is excited and I can't wait to watch him play."
Hankins, who was a four-year starter at Bland County, also considered Roanoke, Washington & Lee and King, but chose the Hornets, who were 19-8 last season, including a 9-7 mark in the competitive Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
"I felt like I fit in, it felt like it was where I needed to be, where I should be," Hankins said. "I felt like the basketball program is doing great. I feel like I can go there and be successful and that is what I was looking for."
Lynchburg head coach Hilliary Scott, a native of Lynchburg who played at Roanoke College, just completed his fifth season with the Hornets, and was looking for players who can put the ball in the basket.
"We are excited, to really have somebody with his athleticism and his chance at scoring the basketball, we need that," said Scott, who was alerted to Hankins by Rich Hankins himself. We had a great season last year at 19-8, but I feel like we need to add some guys that can make some shots.
"We try to play fast and Chase with his athleticism and size will be able to step right in and help us."
The fact that Scott is looking for scoring from Hankins shows just how hard he has worked for this chance. A 1,000 point scorer, who was an All-Region C and All-Mountain Empire District performer, Hankins wasn't always an offensive threat.
"As an eighth grader Chase had tremendous trouble scoring the basketball," Rich Hankins said. "He could play the entire game and not score 4 or 5 points, each year he just progressed and got better and better and better and he has put a lot time into it.
"He is very worthy of going and playing at the next level, basically he has worked his tail off to get to this point."
Work has never been a problem for Chase Hankins, with motivation never being a problem with his coach living under the same roof.
"It has been a ride, it has had its ups and downs, but we ended on a pretty high note," Hankins said. "I enjoyed that, and we have had a great time doing it. He has taught me practically everything I know and I am going to progress on from that and to what Coach Scott is going to teach me and what I am going to learn at Lynchburg."
That high note was combining with fellow seniors Asher Dillow, Darryl Clark and John Miller to lead the Bears to a Region C championship — rallying from 19 down in the regional semifinals — and a Group A, Division 1 state tournament berth last season.
Dillow has also decided to play at the next level, having committed to Bluefield College.
"Making it to the state tournament definitely and when we came back against Auburn down 19, that was probably the best (memory) because it was such a hyped game, it was just thrilling," Hankins said. "We played together since we were in the fifth or sixth grade.
"We have grown up together completely and it was a great ride. We all enjoyed it and we are all very close."
Rich Hankins, who will face a rebuilding project next year at Bland County, certainly enjoyed watching the Bears reach the goal they set when they were freshmen winning just one game.
"We would have liked to have played one more weekend to get to that Final Four," said Rich Hankins, whose Bears were beaten by a buzzer-beater in the state quarterfinals. "We have really been blessed to get this far and get to that point in our career and see these kids mature more than anything else, it is a great feeling ."
Laurel Hankins, who averaged 8.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game as a junior last year for the Maroons, has a word of advice for her brother as he steps up to the next level.
"Be aware next year he is a freshman, and it a lot different being a freshman in college than it is high school and just as long as he learns from the seniors and works hard, he is going to have a great four years," Laurel said. "It has been a great experience (for me). My first semester was pretty hard, but since then I have loved every minute of it."
Scott is excited to add Hankins to a club that is going to lose nine seniors over the next two years, which will leave playing time available.
"It is going to be up to him…we are losing nine guys here in the next two years," Scott said. "We need some guys that will be able to come in and have a chance to play right away…It is a tough league and there are a lot of good schools. We are excited that Chase is making that move to us."
Hankins will make the switch from the small school Bears to college basketball, but Scott doesn't feel like that step will be a problem for the newest addition to the Hornets.
"I really don't worry about that kind of stuff because if players can play, it doesn't really matter where they are from and what size school," Scott said.
"You still have got to be able to score the ball and you have still go to defend and rebound and we are excited about that."
He can do all those things.
"He has gotten so much better. Even this year he looked to score a little bit more," Laurel Hankins said. "He looked to take over more and it shows how much hard work he has put into it and it is really paying off."
With two kids playing college basketball next fall, Hankins joked about the expense of college, but is excited for the opportunity that awaits.
"Absolutely, this is a great opportunity for Chase to begin with, I think he is really going into a great situation…," Hankins said.
"It is really exciting for my wife and I to be blessed to have these kids, further their education, number one, and number two, have a chance to play basketball, it is really great."
No one knows that better than his son, who continues to Chase his basketball dreams.
"I am excited and thankful," Chase Hankins said. "I am very blessed."
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