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We promote kindness toward all animals and emphasize veganism as a way of being. Kindness, as expressed through a vegan lifestyle, is the foundation for justice, health, wholeness, and compassion in our lives and in the larger world.
I've found that there are many vegan groups out there, but many of us (including myself) would benefit from a holistic approach to community involvement that includes practicing balance, self-care, and self-love. We've all seen people get involved in activism or volunteering at the expense of self-care and they end up "burning out." Well, I want to help you prevent that from happening. So, in addition to community-oriented events to promote veganism and animal rights, I will also offer mindfulness techniques, yoga, meditation, life-in-balance education, food preparation lessons, and wellness coaching. All of these offerings will help you be the best you can be by quieting the mind and healing the body.
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Just for kicks, after watching Russell Wilson toy with the Bills for three hours while T.J. Graham suffered through a severe case of the dropsies, I decided to take a look back at the Bills' draft history for some answers. Think of this as a public service as they move forward in search of a quarterback.
First, let's address one problem. Chan Gailey points to Ryan Fitzpatrick's past success as a foundation for his faith in his struggling passer. "He's done it before" stands out as a common refrain, but it's an entirely twisted approach. With that logic, I would have spent the past seven years on the PGA tour.
After all, I have two holes-in-one.
Forget the fact that my swing is terrible and my scores fall somewhere between 90 and 110 for 18 holes. I should be shooting around par or better. Why? Because I've done it before. I birdied every hole on a golf course at least once in my life. Of course, I've also had enough snowmen to populate an arctic village, which is why the only way I'm breaking 72 is by hopping in my car after 13 holes.
Yeah, I know many believe hindsight should be inadmissible. I understand that point as much as anybody. Last year, I wrote a column saying the Bills needed to sign Fitzpatrick to a contract extension after he had played so well. Last summer, I wrote a column suggesting the Bills had the right people in place with Gailey and Nix.
Looking back, they were regrettable pieces. What can I say? Both were written based on evidence that was available at the time. General managers work under different standards. They should be experts in player evaluations. Nix should have known Fitz wasn't the long-term answer before handing him a six-year extension that included $24 million guaranteed.
It's too bad Fitz wasn't the one throwing the money around. It would have been intercepted.
Anyway, if Gailey can use hindsight to extend his commitment to Fitz, the same can be applied when examining the Bills' drafts history. Rather than having Fitzpatrick look dazed and confused against the Seahawks, the Bills could have had Russell Wilson or Andy Dalton throwing passes to Rob Gronkowski and Chris Givens.
Gronk was taken in the second round in 2010, one pick after Nix passed on him and reached for defensive tackle Torrell Troup. The Bills worried about Gronkowski's back problems in college. Gronk is the highest-paid tight end in NFL history and could wind up in the Hall of Fame. Troup has started two games in his career and has been sidelined all year with ... back problems.
No general manager is perfect, and Nix shouldn't be criticized for every poor decision. He inherited numerous problems, but he hasn't done enough to solve them. Still, I can't imagine him reminding us that there were other scouts in the room the way Mario Williams made sure fans knew there were 10 other players on defense Sunday.
The Bills' organization has picked 13th or higher nine times, starting with the Mike Williams debacle in 2002. The former fourth pick overall leads this list of first-round busts who failed for one reason or another: J.P. Losman, John McCargo, Marshawn Lynch and Leodis McKelvin. Wait, I almost forgot Aaron Maybin.
Marcell Dareus isn't exactly eating up offensive linemen. Time will show what the Bills have in Stephon Gilmore, who is off to a good start. Buffalo has had little room for error, especially in the early rounds. And yet they have made a ton of errors over the past decade and counting.
General managers thumb their noses at so-called armchair draft experts, but the Bills wouldn't be any worse if they handed you a magazine and told you to oversee the draft. They didn't miss on every pick, but nobody would if armed with the same information.
In 2010, Buffalo used the ninth pick on C.J. Spiller when they already had Lynch. Lynch was more trouble than he was worth and was sent packing. Spiller has been terrific this year, if not underused.
But look at the players selected after him. Six who were taken later – Ryan Mathews, Earl Thomas, Jason Pierre-Paul, Maurkice Pouncey, Jermaine Gresham and Devin McCourty – were picked to play in the Pro Bowl. Gronkowski was picked after them, and had a bigger impact than any of them.
In the third round, the Bills took Alex Carrington with Eric Decker and Jimmy Graham still on the board. Decker is a big receiver they need. Graham is just behind Gronkowski among the NFL's elite tight ends. Aaron Hernandez and Geno Atkins were taken after Marcus Easley in the fourth round. Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor, who started Sunday, was picked after Buffalo took Ed Wang.
In the sixth round, the Bills took Arthur Moats and Danny Batten before the Steelers grabbed wide receiver Antonio Brown. In the seventh, Buffalo took Levy Brown nine picks before Chicago selected J'Marcus Webb, an offensive tackle who has started all but two games.
Dareus was picked third overall in 2011. The two players picked before him, Cam Newton and Von Miller, and the two players picked after him, A.J. Green and Patrick Peterson, were selected for the Pro Bowl. Dareus has added beef along the defensive line, but he's far from a dominant player.
The bigger blunder in 2011 came in the second round, where the Bills picked cornerback Aaron Williams one spot before the Bengals took Andy Dalton and two before the 49ers selected Colin Kaepernick.
Stevan Ridley has 1,105 yards rushing for the Patriots, including 106 yards and two TDs in a blowout over Buffalo. We'll see what happens with quarterback Ryan Mallett, but he and Ridley were taken after Kelvin Sheppard.
In April, it was much the same. Thank goodness Gilmore can cover receivers because they missed on Williams and McKelvin. It's still hard to fathom that Nix traded up in the third round for T.J. Graham, who couldn't catch a cold Sunday against Seattle. It was viewed as a reach on draft day because Graham had problems catching the ball.
Wilson was taken six picks after Graham. The Bills wouldn't have needed Wilson if they selected Dalton over Williams in 2011. They could have passed on Graham and taken Chris Givens, who has been very good for St. Louis.
They had many options. Too often, they chose the wrong one.
And that's how teams miss the playoffs year after year. Sunday's loss marked the 13th consecutive year the Bills fell short of the postseason, giving them a baker's dozen of doughnuts. You can only hope they lose the final two games, improve their draft position and finagle a way to take N.C. State quarterback Mike Glennon.
Yes, that was an attempt at foresight.
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Officials of West Virginia's two teachers' unions have made it clear they deeply dislike Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's school reform proposal. Fine. Debate the plan on its merits - but don't try to kill it by using red herring tactics.
Some misunderstanding about the bill Tomblin sent to legislators was raised over a technicality. Before the governor's office was able to straighten it out, many union teachers had been warned the proposal would eliminate their paid holidays during the school year. One newspaper even reported that, before quickly correcting itself.
Last week the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers sent each of its members a list of complaints about the Tomblin proposal. Among them was that it would eliminate the seven paid holidays teachers now enjoy.
But had the AFT not shot first and asked questions later, its officials would have learned there is no intention of depriving public school employees of the paid days off.
A section of state law requiring the paid holidays was not included in the governor's bill - but was included in a proposed section of state code dealing with school calendars.
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Brake pads and rotors are an essential part of the braking system of vehicles with disc brakes. Most cars and trucks produced after 1972 have come standard with front disc brakes. Many vehicles today also have rear disc brakes, although some models still use drums and shoes in the rear. Brake pads and rotors are the last step in the process that slows your vehicle down when you press the brake pedal.
When you pump the brakes, hydraulic pressure causes your brake calipers to move, pushing the pads into the rotors. The rotors are connected to the wheel hubs and spin at the same rate. Pushing the pads into the rotors slows the rotors, and therefore the hubs, ultimately slowing or stopping the vehicle.
As you can imagine, a great of deal of friction is needed for this to occur. With use, brakes will break down due to this friction. The friction will cause the kinetic energy of the spinning rotors to be converted into heat (like when you rub your hands together for warmth). Heat can also be a cause of wear to your rotors and brake pads.
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Local merchants are gearing up with Mother's Day just a week away.
"The Saturday before Mother's Day is just nuts," said Jeff Moist, manager of Warner's Florist, Gifts and Greenhouses, Hollidaysburg.
According to the National Retail Federation, consumers will spend an average of $168.94 on their moms, up 11 percent from last year's $152.52. Total spending is expected to reach $20.7 billion.
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Mike Dorman of Dorman's Jewelers, 712 Pleasant Valley Blvd., Altoona, shows mothers' rings to a customer on Tuesday.
Traditional gifts such as jewelry, flowers and a nice dinner remain popular.
More than a third of consumers will buy jewelry, with spending expected to increase to $4.2 billion, up from $3.7 billion in 2012, according to the retail federation.
Mother's Day is the second biggest holiday of the year behind Christmas for Beerbower Jewelers, Hollidaysburg, said President Don Beerbower.
"It is busier for us than Valentine's Day. Everyone has a mother, but not everyone has a valentine," Beerbower said.
Mother's rings, mother's pins and family rings are among the most popular items, Beerbower said.
Mother's Day is also a strong holiday for Dorman's Jewelry, Altoona.
"We do a lot of mother's rings and pendants. Silver is more popular these days with the price of gold," said co-owner Mike Dorman. "We can put a mother's ring together pretty quickly, but you shouldn't wait until the last minute."
Jewelry sales are comparable to Valentine's Day at Kranich's Jewelers, Altoona, said President Michael Kranich Jr.
"We sell a lot of mother's rings. We also sell basic diamond jewelry. Some people upgrade their engagement rings," Kranich said.
On average, Mother's Day beats Valentine's Day by "a hair" in terms of sales at Your Jewelry Box, Altoona, with Pandora charm bracelets and mother's rings as the top sellers, said President Devin Mullen.
"Mother's rings are always popular," he said. "In the last couple of years there have been some new designs with some cool modernizations. That selection has improved significantly. They appeal to a much wider audience. They are more stylish and fashionable."
"For people who come out at the last minute, we have stocked some of the most popular rings and birthstones. We are prepared for the last day customers and can put [a ring] together on the spot," Mullen said.
Many moms will be enjoying a special meal, as $3.5 billion is expected to be spent on brunch or dinner, according to the retail federation.
Mother's Day is one of the busiest days of the year at Finelli's Italian Villa, Altoona. And it is the only Sunday the restaurant is open.
"We want to take care of moms. On Mother's Day, mom wants to be waited on and enjoy the service and be pampered," owner Frank Finelli said.
Mother's Day is also busy at the Allegro Restaurant, Altoona.
"It is probably second to New Year's Eve for us. We usually sell out. There is usually a big rush early, then a lull around 3 o'clock, then it picks up again," owner Dan Taddei said.
Mother's Day is important but not as busy as Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas at the Creekside Inn, East Freedom, which offers a Mother's Day buffet.
"There is so much competition for Mother's Day. It used to be just restaurants but now there are other clubs and organizations who have Mother's Day dinners. We do well but it is just more of a competitive holiday," said owner Ron Brumbaugh.
Flowers are always a popular Mother's Day gift.
Mother's Day ranks second among holidays for consumer purchases of fresh flowers and plants for holidays, behind Christmas, according to the Society of American Florists. The organization said more than a third of adults bought flowers or plants as gifts for Mother's Day 2012.
Mother's Day is the biggest holiday for fresh cut flowers, Moist said. He added that bright colors, such as orange, hot pink and green, are popular in arrangements.
"They are real hot. They give a real fresh look to things," Moist said.
Mother's Day is also a very busy holiday for Creative Expressions Florist, Altoona. Owner Debbie Arnsparger said her regular customers come to her for the creativity she brings to arrangements.
"Our best sellers are our creative arrangements. If five people spend $40, they will all have different arrangements," she said. "We strive to make different things for everybody."
The week leading up to Mother's Day is the busiest week of the year at City View Florist, Altoona, said floral designer Marcia Hallinan.
"Most of what we sell are fresh-cut flower arrangements. They vary from roses, tulips and lilies to mixed bouquets," Hallinan said.
While the holiday is not a big one in terms of candy sales, local candy makers are ready to take care of that mom who has a sweet tooth.
"A nice box of candy is a nice way to say thanks to mom. We can package a special box for mom with her favorite chocolates," said Sam Phillips, Gardners Candies president.
Phillips said the weather and the time between Easter and Mother's Day has an impact on sales. For example, if there are cool days around Mother's Day, sales go up. But if it is warm, sales aren't as strong, he said.
Mother's Day week is usually busy at Dutch Hill Chocolates, Altoona.
"We do chocolate-covered strawberries for Mother's Day. People also buy boxes of assorted chocolates," owner Jerry Moore said.
The strawberries will be made Friday and Saturday, Moore said.
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Friday, January 3, 2014
The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC), along with the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department is launching the Lowcountry Master Games in January.
The Lowcountry Master Games will feature a different sport or event each month this year. The games, which include basketball, softball, racquetball, golf, bocce, table tennis, track and field, along with several others, will be held at different locations throughout the greater Charleston area.
The Lowcountry Master Games is a cooperative program of local park and recreation agencies dedicated to promoting healthy and active lifestyles for athletes age 50 and over.
As the fastest growing segment of our population, the 50-plus market deserves attention, CCPRCs Fitness and Wellness Program Manager Allison Foster said. Powerful, active, and competitive 50-plussers are redefining age as we know it. They personify the adage age is just a number. Most are living longer, healthier, more productive lives with little thought of slowing down. The Lowcountry Master Games capitalizes on this trend.
The program begins Jan. 28 with bowling. The Town of Mount Pleasants Recreation Department is the sponsoring agency hosting the inaugural event in the series. A complete schedule listing each sport or activity along with the time, date, location and associated fees is available online at www.lowcountrymasters.com.
Participants will compete in the following age groups: 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, and 80-plus. CCPRC staff reserve the right to combine age and gender divisions if registration numbers require it.
The website will provide direct access for those interested in learning more about the programs and for registration information. Registration can also be completed in person at the recreation department or agency hosting the event. Participating agencies include the City of Charleston Department of Recreation, City of North Charleston Recreation Department, Town of Mount Pleasant Recreation Department, Isle of Palms Recreation Department and St. Andrews Parks and Recreation Department.
During the month of January, participate in the Lowcountry Master Games Bowling Tournament. It will be held Jan. 28 at 9 a.m. at Sparians River Bowl
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Register in person at the Mount Pleasant Senior Center, 840 Von Kolnitz Road, Mount Pleasant or by phone at 843-856-2166.
The Lowcountry Master Games are presented by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and supporting sponsor Glasspro. For more information on the Lowcountry Master Games, visit www.lowcountrymasters.com or contact one of the participating agencies.
Participating agencies
Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission Park and Program Services at 843-795-4386
City of Charleston Recreation Department, Frances Deschenes at 843-724-7336 or Robin Cooper at 843-724-3747
City of Isle of Palms Recreation Department, Ben Hull at 843-886-8294
Town of Mount Pleasant Recreation Department, Rhea Pitts or Sherrie Pompeii at 843-856-2166
North Charleston Recreation Department, Belinda Swindler at 843-745-1028
St. Andrews Parks & Playgrounds, Brian Burke at 843-763-3850
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Also known as hoogy; Donk: A nasty girl
"who would touch that donk bitch"
από B 6 Ιανουάριος 2005
being ugly or otherwise unpleasant
"That fuckin' bitch is donk!"
από Jake 6 Ιανουάριος 2005
A human mans erect penis
"Man my girl sucks a good donk!"
από Joey Dee 9 Νοέμβριος 2006
An abbreviation of donkey used to define a person who listens to Donk music. Given as a name to total mosh heads with no taste in music, Those who listen to Donk NEED to be stoned as they would'nt listen to it otherwise
"lets get stoned and listen to some donk!"
από angelj 22 Αύγουστος 2006
The sound of a pistol whip to the back of the face. Could also be followed by kadead.
Kyle: What the heck?!
Dave: I just donked you on the back of your face! Kadead!
Dave: I just donked you on the back of your face! Kadead!
από Darin Number 2 18 Απρίλιος 2007
The sound supposedly made when inserting something into ones ass.
I think I'll do something with this random object. Eh... *donk*
από Bleach Injected 11 Μάιος 2003
donks is when you walk around aimlessly and manage to win, also known as super lucky.
Oh my god you pulled a donks.
Wow thats sooo donks.
Wow thats sooo donks.
από nb 9 Νοέμβριος 2003


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on May 4, 2013 - 10:57 PM
, updated May 5, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Christmas parties are notorious for bringing out embarrassing behavior from some people.
But the office holiday party a group of dental school employees held at a Tonawanda tavern in 2010 had all the makings of a career-threatening debacle.
Bosses downed shots of liquor. A clerk was on her boss's lap. The banter among some of the University at Buffalo employees was tinged with sexual innuendo. And then an associate dean tried to goad two women clerks into kissing each other.
One of the clerks has since filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in federal court.
And this holiday party has the rare distinction of being argued over in four levels of courts.
In the federal lawsuit, Lesley Shiner of Amherst accused Dr. Jude A. Fabiano of making unwelcome sexual advances toward her at the party and creating a hostile work environment. Fabiano was an associate dean of clinical affairs at the School of Dental Medicine at the time of the party, but he no longer works there. Shiner's federal lawsuit also named the university as a defendant.
Fabiano was also prosecuted in Town of Tonawanda court on misdemeanor and violation charges. He successfully appealed the verdict in Erie County Court and was granted a new trial. And a State Supreme Court justice recently ordered the state to pay the former dean's legal defense costs in the federal lawsuit.
An attorney for Fabiano said Fabiano has reached a settlement with Shiner in the federal case, but the agreement still must be drafted and then submitted to the court for approval. It is not clear who would pay the settlement.
Court filings, including partygoers' statements and transcripts of interrogations, lay out what happened at the party.
Four partygoers said they watched and heard Fabiano encourage Shiner and the other clerk to kiss. Five others said they did not hear what he said but recalled seeing him put his arms around their necks and pull them together.
That was the first of four unpleasant encounters with Fabiano at the party that Shiner cited in her lawsuit.
"I went home and cried," Shiner said in a statement to the Town of Tonawanda Police Department.
Several who attended the party and provided statements to the university acknowledged the unbecoming behavior.
"Everyone was drinking," one clinical worker recalled. "I saw people sitting on people's laps and touching each other. It was a weird party."
"He was touchy. You could tell he had too many drinks," the worker said of Fabiano.
A graduate student who attended said Shiner "seemed like she was joking around, but toward the end, she seemed like she'd had enough."
Another clerk recalled Fabiano leaving his seat to approach Shiner and the other clerk.
"He was kind of on them, sort of sharing their seat, on their lap," according to the clerk's statement. "I saw Lesley's face. She was laughing, but I knew it wasn't from anything funny. Lesley was kind of trapped in a corner."
One of Shiner's bosses said he saw Shiner sit on a manager's lap and "at some point after she got up from [his lap], she sat on Dr. Fabiano."
Paying for defense
Another employee recalled laughter from Fabiano and the two clerks he grabbed.
"Everybody was laughing and having a good time. I know that there is some inappropriateness," the employee said.
The State Attorney General's Office has resisted paying for Fabiano's defense in federal court. What happened at the tavern occurred outside the scope of his state university post, according to the state office.
Fabiano was "sued as an alleged intoxicated partygoer, based on improper statements, touching and harassment rather than as a professor or dean," the Attorney General's Office said in a court filing.
Fabiano maintained in his court papers that attending the party was part of his work. The university sponsored the party and the UB Foundation paid for it, he said.
Though the party was held off-campus with alcohol served, "this was the normal course for such parties," Fabiano said in an affidavit.
"I saw it as part of my role at the dental school to socialize with staff members at these department parties," Fabiano said. "The actions allegedly taken by me and others at the party, including the plaintiff, may have been silly, boorish or socially inappropriate at times, but they were part of the socializing which occurred at the party."
Fabiano, 62, began working at the university in 1980 as a clinical instructor. He earned a promotion in 1985 and became full time in 1999.
"I categorically deny intending to discriminate against the plaintiff based on her sex," he said in an affidavit. "I further categorically deny intending and/or creating a hostile work environment."
State Supreme Court Justice John F. O'Donnell granted Fabiano's petition to make the state cover his legal defense costs in the federal suit.
The State Attorney General's Office has filed notice it will appeal O'Donnell's order at the state Appellate Division.
District Judge Richard R. Arcara in November denied UB's motion to dismiss Shiner's federal lawsuit.
A federal lawsuit
Shiner, 64, of East Amherst, has worked as a clerk for the dental school's instrument management services for 14 years.
In her federal lawsuit, she recounted hearing "blatantly inappropriate sexual remarks" at office holiday parties in 2008 and 2009.
Shiner attended the Dec. 21, 2010, party anyway, held between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Neighbor's Pub on Kenmore Avenue in Tonawanda.
She sat next to Fabiano and a clinical operations manager, both of whom were drinking alcohol and passing around a bottle of Crown Royal whiskey to the staff, according to her lawsuit.
She said Fabiano grabbed her and another clerk by their necks, in front of the others, calling them the "hottest" women at the party and urging "girl-on-girl" action, according to her lawsuit.
"He was holding my head tightly and slurring his words, telling us we were the hottest girls there," she said in a police statement. "He kept saying he wanted the three of us to be together."
The other clerk confirmed Shiner's version.
"Dr. Fabiano came over and put his arms around us," the clerk said in a statement to the university. "He made comments that we were both beautiful and that he wanted to see the two of us kiss."
"He pushed our heads together. It did hurt a little," according to her statement. "Dr. Fabiano did kiss my ear. I don't know if it was tongue or slobber. My ear was wet."
Shiner said Fabiano's behavior "badly traumatized" her, according to her lawsuit.
Fabiano stuck his tongue in her ear and drooled, she said in her lawsuit.
After trying to get the two clerks to kiss, Fabiano got up from his seat and chased Shiner around the table while co-workers cheered him on, Shiner said in her lawsuit. When he caught up to her, he told her, "I want to meet you somewhere," she said in her complaint.
Later at the party, he grabbed her and squeezed her ribs, she said.
Shiner said she mouthed the words "Please help me" to another partygoer, who came over and pulled her away from him, she said.
The clerk who is not suing said Fabiano apologized to her a couple of weeks after the party.
"He said he was completely embarrassed and did not realize that he did that," the clerk said.
Fabiano's behavior at the party made her uncomfortable, she said.
"It was completely out of character," she said in her statement. "And I completely accepted Dr. Fabiano's apology because I've never seen him behave like this before."
Request for an apology
The day after the party, Shiner told a supervisor – her boss' boss – that she wanted an apology. But the supervisor said it would not happen because Fabiano "did not remember anything," according to Shiner's police statement.
The supervisor denied to a university investigator that Shiner asked for an apology or that he told her she would not get one.
When questioned by the university, the supervisor said he talked to three women at the party who he thought might have been offended. Two of them laughed it off.
"Lesley seemed mildly upset but not grievously upset," the supervisor said.
"She said she didn't want anyone to know and that she didn't want to embarrass Dr. Fabiano or his family."
A couple of weeks after the party, however, Shiner told the supervisor she did not feel safe at work.
Then Shiner filed a complaint with the university's employee relations office, according to her lawsuit.
In early March, about two months after the party, the university sent Fabiano a letter, advising him he was being suspended without pay because of the incidents at the holiday party. The dean of the dental school also informed him his current term appointment would end the following March, according to the lawsuit.
A second letter to Fabiano from the university's employee relations office stated he engaged in "unwelcome and offensive behavior."
Town court charges
Fabiano was charged in Town of Tonawanda Court with forcible touching and unlawful imprisonment, both misdemeanors, and harassment, a violation.
Town Justice Daniel T. Cavarello granted defense attorney Kevin Spitler's motion to dismiss the unlawful imprisonment charge. Cavarello also acquitted Fabiano of forcible touching. The judge convicted him of harassment and sentenced him to a conditional discharge.
Fabiano appealed the conviction.
Attorney Lawrence J. Vilardo, who handled his appeal, argued that the town judge erred in admitting evidence about the "sexually charged atmosphere" at the dental school while excluding evidence of the Amherst woman's bias and motive to lie.
At the trial, Spitler tried to elicit statements from two witnesses that the clerk was using the sexual harassment claim "as her ticket out of the job" she did not like.
"The testimony should not have been disallowed, since it essentially denied the defendant the right to present his case," said Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico, who ordered a new trial in his April 4 decision.
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The possessive of a singular noun is formed by adding 's (whatever the final consonant).
1. Jane's book
2. Keats's poems
3. the boat's mast
4. Jesus's teachings
Note that some consider Jesus to be an exception to this rule and insist that its possessive be written Jesus'; other exceptions may include other ancient proper names. It is not necessary to make this exception in your writing. Also note that in the case of Keats's and others, a spell-check hit indicates only spelling, not grammar.
The possessive of a plural noun is formed by adding only an apostrophe after the final letter if it is an s (or by adding an 's if the final letter is not an s).
1. the students' papers
2. the children's toys
3. the Clemenses' box seats
The possessive of a pronoun has NO apostrophe.
1. The pen is his.
2. The car is theirs.
3. The decision is yours.
4. The car lost its hubcap.
Note that it's is a contraction meaning it is. It's is never a possessive form. It's a shame it's such a common error that it warrants its own section.
For more information, refer to The Fourth Deadly Sin: Misuse of the Apostrophe
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Rebecca Stenn
Production Guest Choreographer: Summerdances 2014, New Work Award winner
Rebecca Stenn, dancer, choreographer, writer, teacher, formed Rebecca Stenn Company in 1996. The company has since performed to critical and popular acclaim in over 19 states nationally and internationally. Rebecca's love for collaborations with live music comes from her years at the Interlochen Arts Academy and later the Juilliard School, where she earned a BFA in dance. In 2008, Rebecca graduated Summa Cum Laude from the The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, with her MFA in Dance and Performance. As a member of Momix Dance Theatre from 1989 to 1996, Rebecca performed in over 30 countries, touring extensively throughout Europe, the Far East, South America, the U.S. and Canada and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. Rebecca assisted in the choreography of and performed in the Emmy Award winning film Pictures at an Exhibition, a PBS, Dance in America Special. She is also a featured performer in the 3D IMAX film Imagine. She has collaborated with Moses Pendleton in the making of Passion, an evening length work to the music of Peter Gabriel, and assisted in the choreography of Lina Wertmuller's Carmen at the Munich State Opera, also performing as a principal dancer. Rebecca is a founding member of Pilobolus Too, a duet company formed by Pilobolus Dance Theater. With Pilobolus Too she has toured throughout the world, created numerous works for the repertoire and a piece for the Radio City Rockettes, and has taught Pilobolus residencies at universities, elementary and high schools, and programs for the deaf and blind. Rebecca has choreographed and performed as solo dancer in Jaron Lanier's PBS special Musork. Also with Lanier, she performed a duet show at the Kitchen in NYC entitled Thinning of the Veil. Rebecca choreographed the U.S. premiere of the Opera Leap Over the Shadow at the Lotte Lehman Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA. Other choreography credits include an evening length solo performed with the Da Capo Chamber Orchestra at Columbia's Miller Theater in New York City, an evening length collaboration with Squonk Opera and Attack Theatre premiered in Pittsburgh, an Off Off Broadway production of The Wild Party and three productions with Vision Into Art, at Lincoln Center. Rebecca has held residencies and taught at numerous festivals and universities throughout the world, including The Juilliard School and The Sadler's Wells Theater in London. She has been artist in residence at Barnard College, Montclair State University (winner of the NWI prize), Manahttanville College, Stockton College and Keene State College and in 2013, won the New Works award from University of Wisconsin. She has been a contributing editor at Dancemagazine, has published work in the International Journal of Dance and written for the Brooklyn Rail. Rebecca has also enjoyed collaborations with renowned photographers Howard Schatz, Roy Volkmann and George Del Barrio and visual artist Terry Rosenberg. Rebecca has been a teaching artist for both The Joyce Theater in New York City and The Open Stages Program at Lincoln Center and is on faculty at The New School. She has been the Dance Mentor/Choreographer for the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, choreographing concerts performed at the Kennedy Center and the Gusman Theater. Rebecca is the proud mother of two children, Jonah and Elie, whose father has been known to play bass for the company.
Kevin Williamson
Curricular Guest: Modern and Composition
Kevin Williamson is a dancer and choreographer who graduated from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Culture in 2004. Since then he has performed for the LA Opera, David Gordon, Julie Taymor, Angelin Preljocaj, Sebastian Prantl, Stephan Koplowitz, Kate Hutter, Fatima Robinson, Ryan Heffington and Maria Gillespie in Los Angeles, New York City, and Vienna. In 2007, the LA Times described Kevin as "a major artist." In the Fall of that same year he co-directed "pinky swear" with LACDC artistic director Kate Hutter to much acclaim. Kevin had begun pursuing choreography while at UCLA – creating works for the Fringe Festival Scotland, Highways Festival of Student work, and Miami's Winter Music Conference. In 2008, LACDC commissioned him to create his own long form work "excavating gray". Kevin is the full time dance educator at Chadwick School in Palos Verdes. Williamson's interest is in the fragility of structured improvisation in conjunction with idiosyncratic modern movement. Kevin premiered his company KDUB Dance at Highways performance space in October 2010 with the evening length work, Fruit, for which he received a Horton Award for Best Male Performance.
Nguyen Nguyen
Curricular Guest: Modern and Composition
Nguyen Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the United States at the age of 7. He received a Regents Scholarship to attend UCLA and graduated with a B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Nguyen received his teaching certification as a District Intern and taught for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He holds a cleared credential for secondary Biological/Chemical Science. Nguyen is currently a member of Maria Gillespie's Oni Dance as well as Holly Johnston's Ledges and Bones dance project, and has also performed with Collage Dance Theater. He has worked and collaborated with local artists Taisha Paggett, Shyamala Moorty, Nicole Smith and Eva Aymami. His own works has been presented at Highways Performance Space, Ananotomy Riot, Diavalo Space, Citrus College Dance Festival, Santa Monica's "Music and Dance by the Pier", "Dancers For Life" at Landis Performing Arts Center, and the American College Dance Festivals. Nguyen is on dance faculty at Santa Monica College where he teaches contemporary movement.
Gabrielle Lamb
Curricular Guest: Ballet, Improvisation, Composition
Gabrielle Lamb left home at fifteen to study at the Boston Ballet School. At 16 she declined admission to Harvard University in order to search for her artistic home, a quest which led her all the way across the United States with stops along the way to dance with the Boston and Cleveland Ballets. By 20 she found herself on the shores of the Pacific, broke and heartbroken in Los Angeles. She landed in the Czech Republic, where she performed as a soloist on the stage of the Prague State Opera. She also performed with the Finnish National Ballet, where she remained for three years as a soloist. Notable experiences of her time in Helsinki included private coaching by superstar French ballerina Sylvie Guillem and appearances as a snake-woman (kaarmenainen) in a Finnish heavy-metal ballet entitled "The Evangelicum". During the course of her career Gabrielle Lamb has used her interpretive powers to embody lilac fairies, swans, harem-dancers, milkmaids, dewdrops, angry ghosts, and ostriches; but she finds her greatest fulfillment in the creative process. She was a winner of the 2009 National Choreographic Competition of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; and her dance works for stage and screen have been presented by Hubbard Street 2, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, BalletX, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, and the American Dance Festival. Her dance-film work has also screened on the Bravo and ARTV networks (Canada) as well as at dance film festivals in Australia, Belgium, Argentina, France, and Japan. Last year she was Artist-In-Residence at Mystic Ballet (Connecticut) and Motion Dance+Theater (Asheville, NC) and was invited to present her work at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Most recently she was the Grand Prize winner of the Genesis International Choreographic Competition at Milwaukee Ballet; she will have the honor of returning to the frozen shores of Lake Michigan in Winter 2014 to create a new work.
Amaniyea Payne
Curricular Guest: Modern, African-Caribbean and History
P. Amaniyea Payne has built an impressive thirty year career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She studied extensively with groups including National Dance Company of Senegal, International Afrikan-American Ballet, Ballet D'Afrique Noire De Toubacouta and Djolibah & Les Ballet Africans from Guinea. Ms. Payne has worked with seminal African dance artists such as Baba Ishangi Razak, Djibril Gueye, Assane Konte, Arthur Hall and former Muntu Artistic Directors Alyo Tolbert and Abdoulaye Camara. She also studied with African American dance experts including Frankie Manning, Micki Davison, Lenwood Sloane, Pepsi Bethel and Norma Miller as well as dance artists from Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, Cuba and South Africa. Ms. Payne began her tenure as Muntu's Artistic Director in 1987, after serving as guest choreographer, setting the work "African Swing" on the Company. Since that time she has been the principal architect of the company's technical growth, expanded repertory and national reputation. She has brought to the Company a commitment to authentic presentations of traditional African dance and a vision of developing and nurturing new work rooted in African, African American and Caribbean traditions. Her signature works with Muntu include, "Through Mandela's Eyes"," Yanga" and 2011's "Roff", a collaboration with Assistant Artistic Director Idy Ciss. Her style is centered in natural rhythmic movements based in and informed by traditional African dance and movement of the African Diaspora, with an emphasis on the Caribbean, as well as traditional jazz and dance theater. Ms. Payne's many credits, include touring with productions of Cab Calloway, Stevie Wonder, Redd Foxx, John Hendricks and Lindy Hop innovators Mama Lu Parks and Norma Miller. Her choreographic credits include the production ''Black Heroes and the Hall of Fame,'' which later toured the US and England and the restaging of Oscar Brown Jr.'s award winning musical ''The Great Nitty Gritty.'' She is included in dance documentaries produced by Nippon Television (Japan NY), by the BBC and has received the prestigious Ruth Page award two times, in 1994 for Dance Achievement and in 2001 for Lifetime Service.
Keely Garfield
Production Guest Choreographer: Winterdances 2014
More and more, British-born choreographer Keely Garfield has been developing her artistic offerings as an extension of her personal and professional engagement in the world beyond dance. Recent works are inflected with her time in India, Alaska, and Haiti, where she respectively studied yoga and penned a novel, hiked and choreographed a musical, and served as an integrative therapist in an orphanage and hospital. Garfield holds a BA and MFA in choreography, is a certified E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, and Urban Zen Integrative Therapist. She also teaches dance composition and improvisation at colleges, curates and writes about dance, and leads wellness workshops. Garfield's work has been presented at many theaters and festivals both nationally and internationally. Highlights include: Deep (The Joyce Theater), Disturbing The Peace (Zenon Dance Company, MN), Iron Lung (Groundworks Dancetheater, OH), Disturbulance (Dance Theater Workshop), Scent of Mental Love (a film for Radio Bremen/Canal Arte), Limerence (Danspace Project 2009), "Bessie" nominated Twin Pines (Danspace Project 2012), and most recently Telling The Bees (Chocolate Factory). Twin Pines will be presented at The Joyce Theater in January 2014. Additionally, she has created work for ballet dancers, antique puppets, musical theater, children, students and MTV.
Lionel Popkin
Curricular Guest: Modern
Lionel Popkin (choreographer/performer) has had his choreography presented nationally and internationally at numerous venues including DanspaceProject and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, The Getty Museum, REDCAT, and Highways in Los Angeles, the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Series, On the Boards in Seattle, the Wilma Theater and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, Sushi Performance in San Diego, Dance Place in DC, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou China. From 1999-2000 Lionel was a Choreographer-In-Residence at the Susan Hess Studio in Philadelphia, PA and he has been commissioned by San Diego's Lower Left Performance Collective, the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, Carolyn Hall, and Nejla Yatkin. As a dancer, Lionel has performed throughout the US and Europe in the companies of Trisha Brown (2000-2003), Terry Creach (1996-2000), and Stephanie Skura (1993-1996). He has received grants from the National Performance Network's Creation Fund, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the City of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs, the Santa Monica Artist Fellowship, the Puffin Foundation, the Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative through the Jerome Foundation, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New York State Music Fund, and the Durfee Foundation. He has served on the faculty of Bates College, London's Laban Centre, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University and the University of Maryland. He is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique. Currently Lionel is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Performance at UCLA.
Morgan Thorson
Curricular Guest: tbd
Morgan Thorson investigates movement and the body as a purveyor of culturally, socially and kinesthetically relevant life experience. Her stage productions combine movement, light, sound and objects; always considering the representation of the body, the work of her collaborators and her relationship to the history of the field. Her work is a form of itinerant labor that is crafted through the process of entering, sharing and leaving communities world-wide. Since 2002, Morgan Thorson has taught a variety of contemporary dance forms at University of Minnesota. She has also been teaching interdisciplinary courses in Religion, Drawing and Archaeology at Wesleyan University since 2010. She is a certified practitioner of Skinner Releasing Technique. Morgan is a 2011 USA Artists Friends Fellow. She has received many awards for her work including the Fused Program in 2011, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, The McKnight Fellowship in Choreography in 2009 & 2002, The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Fellowship in 2009 and 2011; and The Jerome Foundation from 1998-2007. In 2012, she was in residence at the Centre Choreographique National De Franche-Comte in Belfort, France, and a MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow. Morgan was "Best Choreographer" of 2010 awarded by the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Pages for her work, Heaven, commissioned by Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Performance Space 122 in New York and DiverseWorks in Houston. In 2007 she created the site-specific work Docudrama for which she received a 2007 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography and "Best Choreographer" of 2008 by the City Pages. Her work Faker, commissioned by Walker Art Center, received a 2006 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography as well. Other honors also include 2010 Dance To Go award; and The Bessie Schonberg Memorial Fellowship in 2004, and commissions from James Sewell Ballet and Zenon Dance Company. This year Morgan received a commission from the Walker Art Center for the Momentum Series. Thorson teaches dance at the University of Minnesota and has received many awards for her work including fellowships from the Bush (2000) and McKnight Foundations (2002) and Jerome Foundations (2002). In 2004 she received the Bessie Schonenberg Memorial Endowed Fellowship.
Jeanine Durning
Curricular Guest: tbd
Jeanine Durning is a choreographer and performer from New York City. Durning began performing her solo works in 1998. Her evening length group choreographies include "Wishbone" (1998), "A Good Man Falls" (2002), "half URGE" (2004), "out of the kennel into a home" (2006), and "Ex-Memory: waywewere" (2009). Since 2002, she has created15 original works, commissioned by companies and independent performers. In 2008, Durning was the recipient of The Alpert Award for Choreography. Jeanine's current solo performance experiment, "inging," was first publicly performed in 2010 in Amsterdam and has since been invited to theaters, studios, museums, galleries and rooms in Berlin, Amsterdam, Leuven (BE), Chambersburg (PA), and Minneapolis (MN). Over the years, Jeanine has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers, among them, including David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Lance Gries, and Chris Yon. Jeanine has performed in several choreographed ensemble works by Deborah Hay since 2005. She is currently involved in Hay's work with Motion Bank, an interactive archival project of the Forsythe Company, which includes her performance adaptation of the solo No Time to Fly. Jeanine also acts as consultant to the Motion Bank team on Hay's choreographic work.
Curricular Guest: Modern
Israeli Dance Company located in NYC, LeeSaar The Company was established in Israel in 2000 by Lee Sher and Saar Harari. The company uses the different disciplines and training of Theater and Dance to create original dance performances. The company members are from Taiwan, Korea, the United States, Malaysia, Canada and Israel. In 2004, after residency in Sydney, Australia, and two seasons in Tel Aviv, the company moved to NYC where it is currently based. In 2005, Lee and Saar received American green cards awarded for excellence in the performing arts. Lee, Saar and the company received the following fellowship and Grants: Six points fellowship 07, NYFA fellowship 08, Guggenheim Fellowship 08, The BUILD Grant from NYFA in 2010, The Map Fund 2010, TMU 2008 2010 2011, The Asian Cultural Council 2010, The Greenwall Foundation, 2008 2009 2010, NDP from NEFA 2010 2012, Bessie Nomination 2012
Taisha Paggett
Curricular Guest: Modern, Composition
Taisha Paggett is a Los Angeles based choreographer, dancer, teacher, and co-founder of the dance journal project, itch. Her work is inspired by various discourses on the body as an expressive tool and is interested in bridging the sensibility and discourses of both the visual and performing arts. Her movement background is inspired by a number of influential teachers and choreographers whom she's worked with over the years, as well as studies in yoga and contact improvisation. Before moving to Los Angeles she lived in New York City where she performed with the Stanley Love Performance Group, Fiona Marcotty and Kraig Patterson, and studied dance primarily through Movement Research. Prior to NYC, she attended UC Santa Cruz where she received an undergraduate degree in Art History, studied dance with Connie Kreemer, Sylvia Martins and the late Mel Wong, and performed with Moving and Storage Performance Company/Crash, Burn and Die Dance Company. Her work and collaborations have been presented in several California venues including Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara, and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Taisha has worked extensively with visual artist Ashley Hunt in collaborative video and installation work including Undeliverable Address: 54 questions that will not be answered by the White House and Engagement. She has also done freelance writing for Dance Magazine and is the co-editor of the L.A. dance journal project, itch. As a dancer, Taisha has most recently worked with David Roussève, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Rosanna Gamson, Yvonne Rainer and Cid Pearlman.
Irene Dowd
Curricular Guest: Movement research, composition, anatomy, tbd
Irene Dowd has a B.A. in philosophy from Vassar College, studied anatomy and neuroanatomy at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical School, and neurosciences at Teachers College, Columbia University. She studied with and assisted Dr. Lulu E. Sweigard at the Juilliard School from 1968 through 1974. Irene performed under the direction of Anna Sokolow and Jose Limon at the Juilliard School. She has been strongly influenced by her study of dance with a number of choreographers, especially Merce Cunningham, Lucas Hoving, Antony Tudor, and Viola Farber. Since 1970 she has taught dance, composition, functional and kinesthetic anatomy, and neuro-muscular re-education in many institutions throughout the United States and Canada such as University of Utah, Simon Fraser University, Queens College, Brooklyn College, the American Dance Festival, the Naropa Institute, the American Center for the Alexander Technique, the Dance Notation Bureau, the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. She has been a consultant to professional dancers in such companies as the White Oaks Project, National Ballet of Canada, and Merce Cunningham Company. She taught in the graduate programs at Teachers College, Columbia University (MA programs in dance education from 1977 to1995) and Wesleyan University (MALS program in movement studies from 1985 to1993). From 1984 to 1986, Irene was co-principle investigator in a study on "Effects of Neuromuscular Retraining on Mobility of the Elderly", with Judith A. Smith, PhD., R.N., as principle investigator, funded by the Center for Nursing Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Her words and drawings have appeared in journals including Eddy, Dance Scope, Contact Quarterly, Dance Research Journal of CORD, Pour La Danse, La Danza, Dance Magazine, Choreography and Dance, and books including Schmerz und Sports (Pain in Sports: Interdisciplinary Paintherapy in Sportsmedicine), the International Dance Encyclopedia. She is author of Taking Root to Fly (1981,1990,1995), now in the tenth printing of the third edition. She is choreographer, director and editor of a video-film series produced by Canada's National Ballet School entitled: Spirals, Volutes, Warming Up the Hip Joints: Turnout Dance & Orbits, Preparation for Jumping, Preparation for Performance. She has choreographed for solo dancers Peggy Baker and Margie Gillis. Currently she is on the dance faculty at The Juilliard School (since 1995) and is a guest faculty member of Canada's National Ballet School (since 1991). Irene teaches in the MFA program in dance studies at Hollins University Graduate Center in conjunction with the American Dance Festival (since 2006), and is a frequent guest teacher at University of the Arts in Philiadephia. She teaches a regular weekly movement class at Movement Research in NYC. Irene has continually maintained a teaching practice in neuro-muscular training and kinesthetic anatomy for over forty years (since 1969).
Cheng-Chieh Yu
Cheng-Chieh Yu is a dance theater choreographer, whose stage and video works explore Asian Diaspora profiles, interrogating notions of gender ascription, social-political perspective, and globalization. Yu's involved postmodern dance technique is informed by her long time practice of the Chinese martial art form, BaGuaZhang, as well as Contact Improvisation and Release technique. Yu began her performance career touring with Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. Residing in New York City from 1989 to 2001, Cheng-Chieh performed with the Jose Limon Dance Company, the Solomons Co. Dance, Irene Hultman, Bebe Miller and as a guest artist for the Ralph Lemon Dance Project. Her choreography has been produced by numerous venues in NYC and Los Angeles as well as internationally in Germany, Israel, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Choreographic commissions include from the Chinese Information and Cultural Center, Mulberry Street Theater, Yangtze Repertory Theater, Movement Research and Danspace at St. Mark's Church in NYC, The Yard in Massachusetts, the Beijing Modern Dance Company and Guangdong Modern Dance Company in China, The Creative Society and Sun-Shier Dance Theatre of Taiwan, as well as the Jumping Frames Dance Video Festival in Hong Kong. She has received fellowships and grants from the Cultural Exchange International, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, James Irvine Foundation, New English Foundation, The Jewish Federation, The Asian Cultural Council, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, the CHIME Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, the Cultural Council and the National Endowment of Arts and Cultures of Taiwan, the Jerome Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, DTW Suitcase Fund, UC Institute for Research in the Arts as well as UC Humanity Research Institute. Her extensive teaching credits include Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, the Beijing Dance Academy, ATV Academy for Performing Arts, Beijing Dance Festival, Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in China, The Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theatre/Israel, as well as in NYC at Movement Research, The Limon Institute and Dance New Amsterdam (DNA). She holds a M.F.A. in Dance, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Cheng-Chieh Yu is an Associate Professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA.
Gabriel Anderson
Curricular Guest: Modern and Composition
Gabriel Anderson is a choreographer, performer, and teaching artist. Gabriel draws upon a range of performing arts practices when creating new work that integrates movement, text, characterization, and sound in efforts to excavate new points of entry and considerations into the creative process. He perceives the creative space as a space for experimentation, mining and examining the innumerable ways our bodies may embody poetic expression and be used for meaning-making in choreography and performance. His choreographic work has been performed by places such as Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts, Minnesota State University-Mankato, The University of Iowa, as well as at other venues. Gabriel has taught as affiliate faculty of dance at Minnesota State University-Mankato, and has guest taught at numerous locations including: Saint Olaf College, University of Iowa, and various American College Dance Festivals. He will be joining the dance faculty at Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists (Saint Paul, MN) for the academic year 2013-2014 where he will be teaching advanced modern dance technique, and will be an adjunct instructor in the Theater Department at Hamline University in the spring semester of 2014. Gabriel received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Department of Dance with an emphasis in Choreography/Composition where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and taught extensively both lecture-based and dance technique courses within the department. Prior to attending the University of Iowa, Gabriel danced professionally primarily as a company member of Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES (2005- 2010), touring nationally and internationally. In addition to his work with Mr. Janczewski, Gabriel has danced professionally with numerous other dance-makers, and is currently working with Time Track Productions on their newest full-length evening work to be premiered in 2014.


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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Nine Saint Vincent College students participated in a Campus Ministry-sponsored fall break service trip to Appalachia October 14 to 17. The students worked with Saint Michael's Mission in Clay, West Virginia, where they painted the floors and walls of the parish's food pantry. They also participated in scrubbing the church's carpet, power washing the church, and completing yard work. The volunteers include (standing in front): Sean Crockette, a sophomore communication major from Tucson, Arizona; (left to right): Chuck McCullough, a senior history major from Pittsburgh (15241); Julie Pomerleau, a senior psychology major from Jeannette; Thomas Waruszewski, a junior accounting major from Pittsburgh (15229); Maria Jarvis, a freshman international business major from Hagerstown, Maryland; Elijah Colliflower, a freshman biology major from Falling Waters, West Virginia; Bonnie Pratt, a senior elementary instruction major from Fairview; Natalie Jones, a freshman elementary instruction major from Export; Jody Marsh, Campus Ministry Secretary; Mark Mannerino, a senior accounting major from Rochester; and (standing in back) Fr. Jean-Luc Zadroga, O.S.B., campus minister.


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GRASS VALLEY, Calif. - A low-pressure system brought snow in the Sierra along with saturating showers and threats of tornados to the Sierra foothills Monday.
A tornado warning was issued for southwestern Nevada County by the National Weather Service, beginning at 3:37 p.m. and continuing until 5:45 p.m., said Karl Swanberg, forecaster with the National Weather Service.
At about 5 p.m., the weather service reported a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado about seven miles west of Lake of the Pines, moving northeast at 25 mph. The storm's path included Lake of the Pines, Alta Sierra, Cedar Ridge, Grass Valley and Colfax, the weather service reported.
Meteorologists originally had detected a rotation in clouds in a thunderstorm system six miles southwest of Hammonton, an unincorporated community in Yuba County, Swanberg said.
The tornado warning affected Lake Wildwood, Smartsville, Marysville and Beale Air Force Base until 5 p.m., Swanberg said.
A tornado touched down north of the state capital Monday afternoon, but only minor damage was reported, the Associated Press reported. The National Weather Service in Sacramento says it had no reports of injuries from the tornado.
"We've had reports of power lines down and some outbuildings damaged," meteorologist Eric Kurth told the AP. "Some kind of a small outbuilding was lifted about 200 feet from where it was located."
A tornado reportedly was spotted at about 3:15 p.m. near Yuba City, about 40 miles north of Sacramento and 35 miles west of Grass Valley.
The tornado also caused damage to the Mallard Lake Golf Center as the first storm of the season moved through Northern California, he said. No one was answering the telephone at the golf course Monday afternoon.
Kurth said the reports were confirmed by Sutter County sheriff's deputies and firefighters.
"We've heard about trees being downed, power lines being downed, no injuries," he said.
Several funnel clouds also were reported north of Sacramento, but Kurth said there were no other reports of touchdowns.
The storm system also brought large amounts of rain to the region.
While the heaviest batch of precipitation occurred overnight Sunday into Monday morning, scattered showers are expected to persist until Wednesday night, Swanberg said.
Another bout of heavy rain is expected Wednesday, Swanberg said.
Higher elevations in the Sierra saw 2-foot snow accumulations Monday, and eight to 16 inches were expected in elevations between 5,000 to 7,000 feet, Swanberg said.
Around noon Monday, Amelia Richmond, spokesperson for Squaw Valley Ski Resort, reported about 12 inches of accumulation in the higher elevations at the resort.
Snow accumulation on roads wrought havoc for commuters Monday, as Highway 20 between Nevada City and Interstate 80 was closed for much of the morning, according to traffic officials.
The chaos began shortly after 5 a.m. when a vehicle was reported to have spun out in the higher elevations of the foothills, about 16 miles northeast of Nevada City at an estimated elevation of 5,000 feet, according to the California Highway Patrol traffic incident website.
Within an hour, the roadway near the Highway 20 intersection of Omega Road was completely blocked as semis and other vehicles also succumbed to the road conditions, said CHP Spokesman Marc Morrison.
No injuries and minor fender benders were reported.
With as much six inches of accumulated snow, CHP closed Highway 20 between Interstate 80 and Nevada City for several hours as snow plows cleared the way for traffic that was redirected, according to Morrison.
"It's snowing like crazy," Morrison said shortly before noon. "They got up there, and no one could go any further."
Once snow plows cleared the road and the vehicles were pulled from the snow, Morrison said the road was reopened shortly before noon but only for vehicles that had chains affixed to their tires or four-wheel drive vehicles, Morrison said.
The weather pattern is expected to begin to dry out Thursday into the weekend, with warmer temperatures returning and highs predicted to hit the high 60s and low 70s in the latter portion of the week.
"This is the first significant moisture for much of the Sierra," Swanberg said.


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The movie-star mom had to fly to New York City on Sunday to attend the premiere of her new HBO drama The Normal Heart the following evening, so she packed up the whole family and took them with her.
"We celebrated Mother's Day the whole day," Roberts, 46, told PEOPLE exclusively on Monday at the star-studded after-party at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant. "We started in California celebrating, then we got on a plane and we celebrated, and then we arrived here in New York and they all took me out to dinner. It was beautiful."
Roberts traveled with her husband, Danny Moder, 45, the film's cinematographer, and their three children, Hazel and Phinnaeus, 9, and Henry, 6.
In the film, Roberts – who said she enjoyed having the chance to work with Moder on the project – plays the fictional Dr. Emma Brookner, who in the early '80s was on the front lines of the battle against HIV/AIDS with activist Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo, as a thinly veiled Larry Kramer, who wrote the drama), as they fought to bring attention to a surging epidemic.
On Mother's Day, Roberts said the family gave her the day off from her usual mom duties. "Everybody was very well-organized for the day," she said.
No wiping up spills or other things moms usually have to do? "Well, one day out of the year, they can tighten the ship!" she said, laughing.
Her children apparently "tighten the ship" quite often, according to Roberts's costar Matt Bomer, who saw them when she brought them to the set.
"Between Mark's kids and Julia's kids, I'm going to have to go back to parenting school because their kids are so impeccably behaved," he told PEOPLE at the premiere. "I am wildly jealous. They are incredible parents."
One of the best gifts Roberts received that day was a Mother's Day card from her son, Henry, which had fill-in-the-blank sentences that he pulled together into a book.
"One of them said, 'My mom is happiest when … ' And he had written, 'When she gets home from work.' "
Indeed, coming home to her children after playing such an emotionally grueling role all day was a relief, she said. "When you get home and you see those cute little faces and those big eyes, you just go, 'Yes.' I feel like when I walk in the door, as soon as I see them, everything else just disappears."


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Surprising celebrity birthplaces
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By providing a safe, secure and desirable place to live, my staff and I present you with opportunities for academic and social success. We truly want you to make this your home away from home!
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Let's face it…many writers want to specialize in travel writing. The truth is that very few know how to get started. Here is a collection of resources that will help you prepare for this type of work. Please check back frequently as we will be updating this list to reflect anything we come across on the web that might be of use to you as an aspiring travel writer.
As always, if you have something that you think belongs here, please send an e-mail to editor (at) freelance-zone.com for us to consider adding it to the list.
Bay Area Travel Writers - A professional association for writers and photographers living in the San Francisco Bay area.
Guide Gecko - This online resource offers an opportunity for writers who want to publish a guidebook on the web. They also have a writing contest.
International Society for Travel Writing - This group has been around since 1997 and it has conferences, a newsletter, a resource guide and more for those in the field.
Literary Traveler - If you can write for a well-read audience, this may be a good place to query, but be sure and follow the writers guidelines. Also a great spot to read the work of other travel writers.
Outdoor Writers Guild (United Kingdom) - Founded in 1980, this is a professional association for writers and photographers in the UK.
Perceptive Travel - An award-winning online travel magazine.
Rick Steves - Television and radio host. Read this piece he wrote on travel writing.
Rolf Potts' Vagabonding - Travel writing advice from well-known author Rolf Potts.
Society of American Travel Writers - SATW has been around for 55 years and it has members from a number of different fields, including photographers, writers, public relations representatives and even film lecturers. The organization has more than 1,300 members.
The Tranquilo Traveler - great travel writing blog from a great travel writer.
Transitions Abroad - read up on "The Seven Myths of Being a Travel Writer", by Tim Leffel. This site also has a large collection of other resources for those who are thinking about becoming a travel writer.
Travelers' Tales is a great source for travel books. Take a look at their submission guidelines for information on what they are looking for in terms of writing. A good market for those who have done a lot of traveling and can write with wit and humor.
Travelwriters.blogspot - long-time travel writer Carl Parkes talks about travel writing.
Travelwriters.com - this site offers a network of PR contacts, writers and editors. Founded in 1997, this site has 3,000 pro travel writers that subscribe, and even more that use the site as a resource for networking and industry news.
UnAnchor.com - this site is for both travel writers and those who travel. You can either search for itineraries or write one yourself and sell it through the site.
Writing.org - Professional travel writer Durant Imboden offers an overview of what type of work is out there for those who want to write about travel.
WrittenRoad - This site offers some fantastic information on everything from paying travel markets to contests and more. Be sure to check out their resources for writers page.


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After an afternoon on the lam, police caught up with an escaped fugitive who slipped out of one of his handcuffs and scampered down the back steps of the Randolph County Courthouse shortly after being sentenced in Circuit Court Thursday morning.
Thirty-three-year-old Derrick Armstrong told jailers he needed to use the restroom and then ran off, Randolph County Sheriff Mark Brady told The Inter-Mountain.
"He went to use the restroom and was able to abscond out of one of his handcuffs," Brady said Thursday morning. "He still had one handcuff on and ran down the steps away from the jailer. At this time he's still on the lam."
Armstrong was apprehended by police at about 7 p.m. near the Davis & Elkins College campus in Elkins.
Brady said in light of Armstrong, who has two prior felony convictions, also will be charged with misdemeanor escape.
"There will be an escape warrant out for him," the sheriff said.
Armstrong escaped about 10 minutes after he had been sentenced to two years in regional jail on two misdemeanor counts of domestic battery.
During the sentencing hearing, Randolph County Circuit Court Judge Jaymie Godwin Wilfong ordered that Armstrong be drug tested prior to the imposition of his sentence. When the results were returned, the judge wasn't happy.
"Mr. Isner, your client lit up the screen for cocaine, and he also tested positive for suboxone," Wilfong told Armstrong's attorney, Phil Isner.
Wilfong asked Armstrong if he had anything to say.
"I just wanted to thank you and the court for allowing me to get therapy and see a psychologist," Armstrong said. "It's helped me out a lot with my kids. I apologize about the drug screening."
Wilfong sentenced Armstrong to one year in regional jail on the first misdemeanor count of domestic battery, and one year in regional jail on the second misdemeanor count of domestic battery; the judge ordered that the sentences run consecutively, or back to back.
Wilfong was about to call another hearing to order when she learned from Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Parker that Armstrong had escaped.
"He will be held in contempt for disrupting this proceeding, and from the looks of it, Mr. Parker, you might have an additional charge for him," the judge said.


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Top Definition
slang word for a woman's vagina. doesnt matter the color of the woman or the amount of hair (presumably some hair if you are being literal). made famous by George Clinton and the Funkadelics and later tapped by Ice Cube in his song "givin up the nappy dugout". Finally, the term was used in the film "bulworth" by warren beaty's character after he picked up the term hanging in the hood.
"the nappy dugout, its where you gets the bugout"-bulworth
Everybody do it this time
Come play
In a nappy dugout (x2)
-George Clinton and the Funkadeliks
Everybody do it this time
Come play
In a nappy dugout (x2)
-George Clinton and the Funkadeliks
by dereka1a May 11, 2006
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A reference to the vulva/vagina. Nappy refers to the pubic hair because it is curly. Dugout is a type of canoe and refers to the shape of the labia. There are other references to the vulva as being a type of boat, for example: "Little man in the rowboat" = clitoris
When she bent over to take off her panties, I got a nice look at her nappy dugout.
by WillyB December 27, 2005
The vagina of a female descended from african relatives. (i.e. A black girl's pussy)
"Damn, I gots'ta get me some of that hoes nappy dugout"
by Zen Master Vex November 25, 2002
bushy vagina
Rosaura has a nappy dugout
by JC June 27, 2002
the female sexual organ (vagina) unshaven
that slut gives up the nappy dugout
by Denny Chiu June 27, 2002
a very hairy pussy.
when she takes off her bathing suit, the first thing you'll notice is her nappy dugout. it stands out that much!!!
she needs to shave that nappy dugout.
she needs to shave that nappy dugout.
by Marcy February 27, 2004
The pubic region including the vulva and surrounding hair which may span as far as the inner thighs.
"my nappy dugout hurts" -Kara Tamiazzo
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The new school year brought new superintendents at three area school districts. They are Nicole Jiran at Hopewell-Loudon, David Danhoff at Lakota and Gregg Pettit in Bettsville.
Nicole Jiran said she is excited to be at Hopewell-Loudon Local School District to help her fulfill her goal of doing what's best for kids.
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Jiran previously was principal at Kirkersville Elementary in the Southwest Licking school district, a school with about 600 students, and she brings 11 years of school administration experience to H-L.
She said she chose to come to Hopewell-Loudon to have the opportunity to change from building-level to district-level administration. The adjustment, she said, has been wonderful, and she is fully enjoying the people, students and community in Seneca County.
Jiran also said she is excited about the new school building, which is on schedule for completion in June 2013.
The building "brings a sense of pride," Jiran said, and will help Hopewell-Loudon stay on task as "an excellent school striving to become better."
David Danhoff, new superintendent of Lakota Local Schools, has a background in school administration, and said he accepted the position at Lakota to "make a difference," and take the school's academic and athletic performance to the next level.
The biggest challenge facing Lakota schools, Danhoff said, is raising the academic bar for students, thereby improving the school's performance and state grade card.
Lakota is "zeroing in on core state standards," he said, to achieve desired scores.
Danhoff previously was superintendent at Willard City Schools, and said the job at Lakota was attractive because of the new facilities and resources the school system could offer. The people of Lakota, Danhoff said, "are extremely nice," and he is excited to be a part of Lakota's "rich, proud tradition," where students can achieve an outstanding education.
Gregg Pettit, Bettsville Local School's new superintendent, is focused on growing Bettsville school, in student body and academic performance.
Pettit, who previously was principal of Patrick Henry schools, said he was drawn to Bettsville by the challenges the district presented. He said Bettsville is not a "school on top," and future possibilities for the district were appealing to him.
Now, Pettit is focused on growing the school's enrollment and adding programs and athletic options to give students more choices. He said enrollment has increased by about 14 students for the new year, and "a long-range plan is in place" to help achieve Bettsville's goals.
Pettit was hired on a part-time contract, which is unusual for a superintendent, but he said the job "affords him flexibility," and that time will tell if the hours are effective.
In addition to growing enrollment at Bettsville, Pettit said he is focused on "increasing test scores and solidifying academic programs."
"We are taking steps," he said.