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U.S. Press Kit for FIVB World Grand Prix
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 20, 2010) – Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) scored a match-high 20 points to lead the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team to a 25-15, 25-18, 25-13 victory over Germany on Friday afternoon in Hong Kong during Pool G of the 18th FIVB World Grand Prix.
Team USA, now 5-2 in this year's FIVB World Grand Prix and in third place with 15 points (although two teams could move ahead based on results later today), plays Thailand on Aug. 21 (10:15 a.m. Pacific Time on Aug. 20) and China on Aug. 22 at 12:45 a.m. Pacific Time in the final weekend of preliminary round matches.
Not only did the U.S. open the third weekend of preliminary pool matches with a win, it also qualified for the FIVB Final Round to be held Aug. 25-29 in Ningbo, China, thanks to an Italian 29-27, 25-16, 25-15 victory Netherlands earlier today. Italy has a 5-2 record and 15 points in the World Grand Prix to also qualify for the Final Round. Heading into today's action, the Americans needed to defeat Germany in three or four sets and have the Italians do the same against Netherlands to earn their berth to clinch a spot in the six-team round robin FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round.
The U.S. used a 7-1 scoring run against Germany to break from an early 7-5 lead in the opening set to win 25-15. Team USA broke an 11-all tie with a 7-2 scoring run in the second set and cruised to a 25-18 victory. The Americans scored eight unanswered points to take a commanding 16-7 lead in the third set and clinched the match with a 25-13 victory.
With the victory, Team USA broke a three-match losing streak to Germany during FIVB World Grand Prix action dating back to 2009. The Germans won both meetings in 2009, along with a four-set victory on Aug. 7 in this year's event. The U.S. did defeat Germany in pool play during this year's Montreux Volley Masters event held in Switzerland.
"Our team played very well today," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "We were strong in tactics and technical skills. We are making improvement from weekend to weekend. We are very happy with the victory today and it is time to get ready for tomorrow's match. The team had a strong evolution after the match against Thailand and Italy last week. Thailand is a very challenging team. They are very fast and play with a different system and combination. However, if we play strong tomorrow, we are confident that we will have a good chance to win. Winning Germany in this match is very important for us as Germany still has the chance to get into the finals."
Hooker, who is playing in her first-ever international tournament with the U.S. Women's National Team, scored her 20 points on 17 kills via 31 attacks and three blocks. Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), who was not part of the U.S. roster that played Germany in the opening weekend of the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix, contributed eight kills on 18 attacks, four blocks and two aces for 14 points. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) chipped in eight kills on 15 errorless attacks and an ace for nine points. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) added four kills, one block and one ace for six points. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) recorded three kills and two blocks for five points. Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) rounded out the scoring with two blocks, one kill and one ace for four points from her setting position.
Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) topped the U.S. in digs with nine, while Larson had 23 excellent service receptions on 30 errorless attempts. Glass provided the Americans with 29 running sets on 74 attempts leading to a .409 hitting efficiency.
"Our goal is to get better individually and as a team," said Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), who is serving as team captain for the U.S. during the FIVB World Grand Prix. "We will try our best to have a strong week in Hong Kong."
McCutcheon started Tom and Larson at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Bown at middle blocker, Hooker at opposite and Glass at setter. Sykora was the designated libero for the match. Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) came as a serving specialist all three sets.
Like all seven U.S. matches in this year's World Grand Prix, the Americans held a dominating 12-3 block advantage over the Germans. Team USA also held a 5-0 advantage in aces as the service game kept Germany from running in-system most of the match. The U.S. committed just eight errors the entire match while Germany gave away 17 points on errors. Team USA converted 46.6 percent of its attacks into kills, while Germany was limited to a 36.5 kill percent and .177 hitting efficiency thanks to 18 attack errors.
Germany was led by Margareta Kozuch's 17 points, which were all on kills. Corina Ssuschke added seven kills and two of Germany's three blocks for nine points in the loss.
"Congratulations to the USA team," Germany Head Coach Guidetti Giovanni said. "They performed very well. We did not play that badly today, and have actually played better than we did in Japan. Our volleyball skill is yet to be improved, and we have to work harder to strengthen our physical condition. In order to prepare for the next match against China, we will watch videos, and one or two sets of live matches at the Coliseum. We have played against China in Russia before, we played quite well and we do hope to play even better."
During the match, the Americans were being watched by its former head coach – "Jenny" Lang Ping, who led the team to the 2008 Olympic Games silver medal in her hometown of Beijing.
In other completed matches today, Brazil (6-1, 18 points) topped Puerto Rico (1-6, 3 points) 25-18, 25-13, 25-20. In other matches today, China (4-2, 13 points) plays Thailand (1-5, 3 points) in Pool G in Hong Kong, Japan (5-1, 15 points) hosts Dominican Republic (2-4, 5 points) in Pool I at Tokyo and Chinese Taipei (0-6, 0 points) hosts Poland (5-1, 15 points) in Pool H at Taipei, Chinese Taipei.
The U.S. has not reached the FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round since 2008 when it finished fourth. It has not reached the World Grand Prix podium since bronze medal finishes in 2003 and 2004. The Americans have won the World Grand Prix in 1995 and 2001, their only other podium finishes.
For the latest news on the FIVB World Grand Prix, visit the U.S. Women's National Team FIVB World Grand Prix event web site by clicking here. The page includes archived press releases, schedule and results involving all 12 World Grand Prix teams, photo galleries, statistics and match videos by Universal Sports.
The U.S. opened the first set with a 2-0 lead with a Bown kill and Akinradewo block that Germany could not cover. After a Hooker kill, Tom served an ace to extend the U.S. lead to 5-2. Larson slammed a kill off the block and served an ace around a Germany net violation to increase Team USA's advantage to 10-5 leading to a Germany timeout. Out of the break, Germany committed a back-row attack error to send the score to 11-5. Tom stuffed a German attack and Germany committed an attack error after a Hooker back-row kill to yield a 14-6 U.S. lead. Germany cut the gap to 14-8 with back-to-back points. Team USA took back the two points with consecutive kills by Akinradewo and Hooker to give the Americans a 16-8 margin at the second technical timeout. Out of the break, Germany scored consecutive points to chip the score to 16-10. Hooker and Tom turned in consecutive kills to extend the U.S. margin back to eight points at 19-11. Germany responded with consecutive points to narrow the gap to 19-13. Bown put up a block after a Hooker kill to lead the U.S. to a 21-13 advantage. Larson connected for consecutive kills and Tom put up a block to send the U.S. to a 24-14 advantage. The U.S. ended the set at 25-15 on a Germany service error. Hooker finished the set with a team-high six points, while Tom added five points and a team-high two blocks. The U.S. tallied three blocks and three aces in the set victory while committing just three errors in the set.
Team USA picked up an early 4-2 lead in the second set with consecutive kills from Tom, Hooker and Larson. Germany tied the set at 5-all with consecutive points leading to a quick USA timeout. Out of the break, Germany grabbed the lead at 6-5. Team USA responded with a block and overpass kill by Bown to go into the first technical timeout leading 8-7. The teams traded points until Tom followed a Hooker kill with an ace giving the U.S. a 13-11 advantage. Hooker followed with a block at 14-11 prompting Germany to call timeout. Larson slammed and Bown slammed kills around a Glass block to present the Americans an 18-13 margin prompting Germany to call timeout. Germany responded with two quick points out of the break to narrow the gap to three points at 18-15. Tom and Hooker snuck in roll shot attacks for kills and Germany committed an attack error to lift the U.S. in front 21-15. Team USA reached set points at 24-17 on a Glass joust at the net. Germany saved one set point, but Hooker finished off the set with a kill at 25-18. The U.S. tallied six blocks in the second and Hooker scored a team-high eight points. Tom added six points.
The U.S. put together four unanswered points starting with two Germany errors followed by an Akinradewo block and Larson kill at 6-2. Germany trimmed the gap in half at 7-5 with consecutive points. Germany came out of the first technical timeout with consecutive points to cut the gap to one point at 8-7. Bown responded with a kill and block on consecutive plays to return the U.S. in front by three at 10-7. Out of a Germany timeout, Tom slammed two kills around a Germany error to extend the American lead to 13-7. Hooker, Larson and Bown added kills to run the scoring streak to eight points on Larson's serve to reach the second technical timeout leading 16-7. The U.S. lead reached 10 points at 19-9 with consecutive kills by Tom and Hooker, then Germany and two errors to give the Americans a 21-9 lead. Germany cut the gap back to 10 points at 22-12 with consecutive points. Team USA won the set with a Hooker block and Germany attack error at 25-13. Hooker scored six points in the third set to lead the way for the U.S., which committed just three errors in the set.
Volleyball fans across the world will be able to watch three FIVB World Grand prix matches a week as FIVB TV announced on Aug. 5 that it will stream matches on the Internet. One match per day from the three preliminary rounds as well as all matches form the Final Round will be streamed live on www.laola1.tv/en/int/fivb/video/203---.html. The USA-Italy match on Aug. 13 was shown live as part of the package, while the USA-China contest on Aug. 22 rounds out the preliminary round coverage. As a note, the FIVB TV matches cannot be viewed in most locations within the United States based on negotiated broadcast rights.
Fans in the United States can watch all remaining USA matches on Universal Sports (www.universalsports.com), on a tape delayed same-day coverage. Selected matches will also be shown on Universal's television channel. All matches will be on-demand after they take place. To find out if Universal is in your home area and its daily schedule, click here.
For more information on the U.S. Women's National Team, visit its home page by clicking here.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for FIVB World Grand Prix Pool G (Hong Kong)# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OPP, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)2 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)17 - Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)19 - Destinee Hooker (OPP, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)Assistant Coach: Jim Stone (Columbus, Ohio)Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)Team Leader for Poland/Thailand: Reed Sunahara (Cincinnati, Ohio)Team Leader for Hong Kong/Final Round: Laurel Iversen (Kalaheo, Hawaii)
FIVB World Grand Prix StandingsBrazil (18 Points) 6-1Japan (15 Points) 5-1 – Aug. 20 vs. Dominican RepublicPoland (15 Points) 5-1 – Aug. 20 vs. Chinese TaipeiUSA (15 Points) 5-2Italy (15 Points) 5-2China (13 Points) 4-2 – Aug. 20 vs. ThailandNetherlands (8 Points) 3-4Germany (7 Points) 2-5Dominican Republic (5 Points) 2-4 – Aug. 20 vs. JapanThailand (3 Points) 1-5 – Aug. 20 vs. ChinaPuerto Rico (3 Points) 1-6Chinese Taipei (0 Points) 0-5 – Aug. 20 vs. PolandNOTE: Matches won 3-0 or 3-1 earn the winners 3 points; Matches won 3-2 earn the winner 2 points and the loser 1 point
2010 FIVB World Grand Prix Schedule
Pool A (Sao Carlos, Brazil * Ginasio Nilton Olaio Filho)Aug. 6: Brazil def. Chinese Taipei 25-15, 25-19, 25-12Aug. 6: Japan def. Italy 30-28, 27-29, 25-20, 25-13Aug. 7: Brazil def. Japan 25-20, 25-19, 25-20Aug. 7: Italy def. Chinese Taipei 25-15, 25-20, 25-19Aug. 8: Italy def. Brazil 25-22, 25-21, 18-25, 25-19Aug. 8: Japan def. Chinese Taipei 25-16, 25-16, 25-16
Pool B (Gdynia, Poland * Gdynia Competition Hall)Aug. 6: USA def. Dominican Republic 26-24, 22-25, 25-14, 25-19Aug. 6: Poland def. Germany 25-18, 16-25, 25-22, 26-24Aug. 7: Poland def. Dominican Republic 25-23, 25-16, 25-14Aug. 7: Germany def. USA 25-23, 25-22, 16-25, 25-23Aug. 8: Poland def. USA 16-25, 26-24, 25-19, 25-23Aug. 8: Dominican Republic def. Germany 25-19, 22-25, 31-29, 16-15, 19-17
Pool C (Chengdu, China * Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau)Aug. 6: Netherlands def. Thailand 25-22, 25-22, 25-23Aug. 6: China def. Puerto Rico 25-20, 25-18, 25-22Aug. 7: Netherlands def. Puerto Rico 25-9, 25-12, 25-21Aug. 7: China def. Thailand 25-16, 25-16, 25-22Aug. 8: China def. Netherlands 19-25, 25-20, 25-15, 25-21Aug. 8: Puerto Rico def. Thailand 25-22, 25-23, 25-21
Pool D (Bangkok, Thailand * Keelawes 2)Aug. 13: USA def. Italy 26-28, 26-24, 25-23, 25-15Aug. 13: Thailand def. Puerto Rico 25-16, 25-19, 25-16Aug. 14: Italy def. Puerto Rico 25-12, 25-17, 25-18Aug. 14: USA def. Thailand 25-18, 25-21, 25-13Aug. 15: USA def. Puerto Rico 21-25, 25-22, 25-12, 25-15Aug. 15: Italy def. Thailand 21-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-20
Pool E (Macau, China * Forum de Macau)Aug. 13: Brazil def. Dominican Republic 25-14, 25-18, 25-14Aug. 13: China def. Netherlands 25-16, 25-19, 25-16Aug. 14: Brazil def. Netherlands 25-21, 21-25, 25-15, 26-24Aug. 14: Dominican Republic def. China 25-20, 20-25, 21-25, 25-22, 15-9Aug. 16: Netherlands def. Dominican Republic 25-23, 25-20, 17-25, 23-25, 15-7Aug. 16: Brazil def. China 25-12, 25-19, 25-19
Pool F (Okayama, Japan * Okayama Momotaro Arena)Aug. 13: Poland def. Chinese Taipei 25-16, 25-19, 25-15Aug. 13: Japan def. Germany 26-28, 25-17, 25-20, 25-11Aug. 14: Germany def. Chinese Taipei 25-19, 25-14, 25-19Aug. 14: Japan def. Poland 25-19, 25-21, 19-25, 25-16Aug. 15: Poland def. Germany 25-23, 25-23, 29-31, 25-20Aug. 15: Japan def. Chinese Taipei 28-26, 25-15, 25-11
Pool G (Hong Kong, China * Hong Kong Coliseum)Aug. 20: USA def. Germany 25-15, 25-18, 25-13Aug. 20: China vs. Thailand, 8 p.m. (5 a.m. PT)Aug. 21: USA vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m. (10:15 p.m. PT on Aug. 20)Aug. 21: China vs. Germany, 3:45 p.m. (12:45 a.m. PT)Aug. 22: Germany vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m. (10:15 p.m. PT on Aug. 21)Aug. 22: USA vs. China, 3:45 p.m. (12:45 a.m. PT)
Pool H (Taipei, Chinese Taipei * Taiwan University Gym)Aug. 20: Brazil def. Puerto Rico 25-18, 25-13, 25-20Aug. 20: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 7 p.m.Aug. 21: Puerto Rico vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.Aug. 21: Chinese Taipei vs. Brazil, 4:30 p.m.Aug. 22: Brazil vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.Aug. 22: Chinese Taipei vs. Puerto Rico, 4:30 p.m.
Pool I (Tokyo, Japan * Yoyogi National Stadium)Aug. 20: Italy def. Netherlands 29-27, 25-16, 25-15Aug. 20: Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 6:30 p.m.Aug. 21: Dominican Republic vs. Netherlands, 2 p.m.Aug. 21: Japan vs. Italy, 7 p.m.Aug. 22: Dominican Republic vs. Italy, 2 p.m.Aug. 22: Japan vs. Netherlands, 5 p.m.
Final Round (Ningbo, China * Ningbo Beilun Gymnasium)Aug. 25-29: Teams TBA


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CHAPEL HILL — Reminders of the recent past surrounded Bryn Renner, the North Carolina quarterback.
On the wall behind him was a picture of Jonathan Cooper, the Tar Heels former left guard who left UNC as one of the best offensive lineman in school history. Down the hall from Renner, Giovani Bernards old UNC jersey hung in a large case.
Renner sat surrounded by reporters earlier this week on the fifth floor of the Kenan Football Center. The questions were about why UNCs offense has struggled three games into a long season, and part of his answer focused on the absence of Cooper and Bernard and others who perhaps made success come easier than it should have last season.
Its always tough to score points, Renner said on Monday, two days after UNCs offense failed to generate much of anything during the second half of a 28-20 loss at Georgia Tech. I think at times last year we made it look easy, just because of the caliber of players that we had. And every teams different.
A season ago, in Larry Fedoras first as the Tar Heels head coach, UNC set single-season school records in total offense, yards per game, points and points per game. The Tar Heels passed for more yards than they ever had, ran more plays per game than they ever had and gained more yards per play than ever before.
The encore, though, hasnt been nearly as prolific. Or productive.
UNC last season amassed at least 410 yards in every game. Four times, the Tar Heels surpassed the 500-yard mark. Yet already, just three games into this season, UNC has twice failed to generate at least 400 yards of offense.
The most recent of those times came on Saturday in Atlanta, where UNC gained 62 yards in the second half at Georgia Tech. Afterward, Fedora again expressed disappointment in his teams running game, which gained 101 yards against the Yellow Jackets.
After spending time studying the game film, Fedora earlier this week spread his discontent around his entire offense.
Weve still got a ways to go, he said. Weve got a ways to go in our passing game, our screen game, our running game, and I dont know if theres an aspect of what were doing offensively that we feel good about yet.
Fedora expected an adjustment period given the loss of Bernard, Cooper and two other offensive linemen Brennan Williams and Travis Bond who were selected in the NFL draft. In addition to those four, UNC also lost Erik Highsmith, one of the teams most productive receivers during the past two seasons.
Even so, though, Fedora said he expected the offense to be better than it has been.
I really did, he said. And thats disappointing. So weve still got a lot of work to do, you know, and weve got a long season, and well get there.
Already, the journey has perhaps been more difficult than Fedora and the Tar Heels coaching staff envisioned. Up front, UNCs rebuilt offensive line has already allowed six sacks only five fewer than it surrendered all of last season.
The pass protection has been spotty, causing Renner, whos not known for his mobility, to buy time with his legs. It nearly worked on one occasion on Saturday, when Renner threw an 82-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Switzer, a freshman receiver, early in the third quarter. But a holding penalty nullified the play.
The Tar Heels run blocking hasnt been any better. Space has been difficult to come by up the middle, and neither A.J. Blue nor Romar Morris, the two backs most responsible for filling Bernards void, have consistently made plays on the outside.
Its steady, we just havent had any huge ones, Blake Anderson, the UNC offensive coordinator, said of Blue and Morris, both of whom are averaging 4.7 yards per carry. Its steady. Were having to go a long way, and the bottom line is well find a way to make a mistake along the way.
Were not getting the 40-yard pop, and getting off the field, or the 30-yard pop, and getting off the field.
Bernard specialized in those kinds of plays long, momentum-swinging runs that often ended in touchdowns. Outside of Morris 26-yard touchdown run earlier this month against Middle Tennessee State, those plays have gone missing from the UNC offense, which ranks 82nd nationally.
Three games into the season, the Tar Heels are already searching for answers to questions they hoped not to encounter. Fedora is hopeful time and experience will solve some of the offenses problems. The lack of productivity, Blue said, hasnt been a matter of play-calling.
The thing is, you can dial up all the Xs and Os you want to, but if we dont execute them then the job wont get done, said Blue, the senior running back. So I think its just execution obviously this is going to be a slow process because we havent completely turned the switch yet.
When Renner and his teammates walk inside the Kenan Football Center, they are reminded of players who came before. The accomplishments of the record-setting offense from a season ago are still fresh.
Yet Anderson, who said the postgame atmosphere after the Georgia Tech game was like a funeral said he reminded his players about a part of last season thats easy to forget.
I think we were 1-2 at this point last year, he said. And had made some similar mistakes. I just reminded them we rallied from that. We got better every week.
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Brigette Browning is the president of Unite Here Local 30, which represents hotel workers. She says she believes that assaults on hotel housekeepers, often immigrant women desperate to keep their jobs, are underreported.
"I think one, because they're afraid and two, because the mentality in the hotel industry is, the guest is always right," she said.
Andria Babbington, a hotel housekeeper in Toronto for 17 years, applauds the victim in Friday's assault for coming forward but says that too often that is not the case.
Babbington says on several occasions she was the target of unwanted sexual advances, including the time she had to deliver a blanket to a hotel guest.
In Friday afternoon's incident, according to police, a housekeeper at the Wyndham Garden Hotel on Sports Arena Boulevard was cleaning a vacant room when a man entered.
The suspect is described as a black man, 40 to 45 years old, 5'9 to 6'1 with a short afro-style haircut and muscular build. He was wearing blue jeans, a beige polo shirt with blue and yellow stripes and a blue baseball cap with a white logo.
Authorities have released a sketch of a possible person of interest in the case.
The victim was taken to the hospital to be checked out for non-life-threatening injuries.
Police also say that earlier in the week a man with a similar M.O. attempted to assault a hotel worker at a Mission Valley Hotel but ran off. Authorities are looking to whether the two cases are connected.


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'World's End' pulls off difficult trick
The completion of the so-called Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy may be the best yet, Steve Ouellette writes.
Sequel ramps up violence, loses satire
"Kick-Ass 2" offers very little of the cleverness or humor of its predecessor, Steve Ouellette writes.
'Elysium' interesting, entertaining
Dystopian adventure mildly disappointing, but still very watchable, Steve Ouellette writes.
Washington, Wahlberg the right match
The buddy cop flick is a time-tested formula, but its success generally rests heavily on the shoulders of whoever plays the two inevitably mismatched partners, movie critic Steve Ouellette writes.
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"The Wolverine" is good, though it doesn't quite reach the level of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," Steve Ouellette writes.
'R.I.P.D.' short on originality, story
Supernatural action comedy wastes a decent concept and a strong cast, Steve Ouellette writes.
'Pacific Rim' a decent summer blockbuster
Film is every bit as big and loud as one would expect a movie about giant robots and monsters to be, but it's not stupid, and it doesn't treat its viewers as if they are either, Steve Ouellette writes.
Kids will enjoy 'Despicable Me 2'
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Hard to recommend 'White House Down'
In the end, film is ludicrous and implausible, Steve Ouellette writes.
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The North Carolina Democratic Party's communications director resigned Monday, a day after the state party executive director was abruptly fired, WNCN confirmed.
Micah Beasley announced his resignation in a letter to state party Chair Randy Voller Monday.
In the letter, Beasley cited "recent events" as the reason for his resignation. Sunday, Robert Dempsey, the former executive director of the state Democratic Party, was fired.
Party insiders told WNCN Monday that they were shocked at Dempsey's dismissal and were kept in the dark about it. They believe it was due to disputes in leadership and direction between Voller and Dempsey on issues such as how campaigns should be run.
"We live and die by the sword in this business," Beasley said Monday. "[I am] Proud to both make a stand for what's right and my record at the North Carolina Democratic Party over the past year."
The sudden removal of Dempsey and resignation of Beasley are the latest in a string of public troubles for the state Democratic Party that reach back to before Voller arrived in early 2013. The party is trying to rebound after losing the General Assembly to Republicans in 2010 and the governor's office in 2012 to GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.
Voller tried to calm the party faithful in an email Monday, saying that on Monday morning the doors of the party headquarters "opened as usual for the business of electing Democrats to serve the people of North Carolina."
The Democrats underwent internal turmoil in 2012 when a male employee accused party executive director Jay Parmley of sexual harassment. Parmley resigned from his job but denied the allegations. Top Democratic elected officials called on then-Chairman David Parker to resign. He offered his resignation in May, but a majority of party regulars declined to accept it.
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"It's relaxing, it gives you time to think. It gives you a different outlook on life and the world," she said Friday. Usually not much of an outdoors person, she drew inspiration in the quiet of nature while fishing with her sister and another relative at Moore Dam last year.
This fall, when she saw the notice of the New England Outdoor Writers Association's 2013 Youth Writing Contest posted on her classroom wall, she reached back to the day of fishing.
After writing the best essay in the senior (grades 9-12) division for the state, Brown, a freshman at Lin-Wood High School in Lincoln, went on to win first place overall for New England. Alysse Cleasby, a sixth-grader at Chichester Central School, wrote the winning essay in the junior (grades 6-8) division for New Hampshire, and first place overall for New England.
Students were asked to write an essay of not more than 500 words on an outdoor activity that increased enjoyment and knowledge of nature and natural resources.
Dr. Harold Lyon, board member of NEOWA and chair of the contest, said he is very proud of the young writers, and the English teachers who encouraged them, Kate Dockham of Chichester Central School and Heather Krill of Lin-Wood High School. Lyon visited the two schools and presented the winners with certificates for the contests, and two checks each, $50 each for the state contest, and $100 each for the New England. He also gave each teacher a red rose "to acknowledge their inspiring influence behind the scenes."
Brown and Cleasby will have their essays published in a future issue of North Woods Sporting Journal (sportingjournal.com) as part of the prize package.
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Floyd to start Friday; Buehrle gets the ball on Saturday
BALTIMORE -- The White Sox are shuffling their rotation for the three-game series against the Blue Jays that begins on Friday at U.S. Cellular Field.
Right-hander Gavin Floyd will start the opener against Toronto left-hander Brian Tallet.
Floyd was scheduled to start Saturday's game, a duty that now will go to White Sox left-hander Mark Buehrle. The Blue Jays' starter for that game has yet to be announced, after scheduled starter Ricky Romero, a rookie left-hander, went on the disabled list Thursday with a strained right rib cage muscle.
The moves essentially give Buehrle, who is 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA, an extra day of rest and push up Floyd, who is 2-1 with a 4.74 ERA.
"We have to do it to keep everything on track," said White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. "I don't want to move people around, but anytime we have the chance to move them, we will. The more rest they get, the better for us. ... I want all those guys [rested] in July, August, September. The stronger we keep them, the better ballclub we have."
Sunday's scheduled matchup between Chicago right-hander Jose Contreras (0-3, 8.04 ERA) and Toronto ace right-hander Roy Halladay (3-1, 3.72 ERA) remains unchanged.
Pete Kerzel is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sure didn't take long for some significant injuries at NFL training camps — Philadelphia Eagles receiver Jeremy Maclin, Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta, Denver Broncos center Dan Koppen, to name only three.
Immediately, some theories developed: too much offseason work. Not enough. New labor-contract rules limiting padded practices to one per day, while generally seen as helpful, are hardly a cure-all.
Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher thinks some guys get hurt in camp because players are trying so hard to impress coaches and earn a roster spot or a starting job.
"You know now coaches are really evaluating you," said Fletcher, whose teammate, second-year linebacker Keenan Robinson, tore his left pectoral muscle on Day 1 of training camp. "You've got guys with a competitive spirit and they're looking at it, like, 'My job's on the line. I need to make a play' and not realizing there's going to be times to show that coaches that you can hit, you can make plays in preseason games, but you don't want to have a guy go down because of something that happened in practice."
Whatever the cause, severe injuries are increasing in the NFL lately. The number of injuries that forced a player to miss at least eight days jumped every year from 2009 to 2012, according to an analysis of NFL injury data released yesterday. The study by Edgeworth Economics, based on information collected by the league, also shows that players with concussions missed an average of 16 days last season, up from only four days in 2005, while the length of time out for other types of injuries has been steadier.
"Severe injuries are increasing in frequency," Jesse David, the economist overseeing the study, said in a telephone interview from Pasadena, Calif. "I know that's a very important issue for both the players' association and the league — trying to tweak the rules and the equipment to deal with that. But despite everything they've been doing, it's still going on."


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A short film by Nick Watson about Almuth Tebbenhoff's new steel sculpture 'Sunset' in Holland Park.
Tom Flynn's monograph on British sculptor Charlotte Mayer is now available via Amazon
'Charlotte Mayer – In Essence' tells the moving story of Mayer's life and career from her idyllic childhood in Czechoslovakia, her move to England as a refugee, student days in London, the tragedies of her family history and the challenges of her first public commissions, through to the success and recognition she enjoys today.
Tom Flynn's scholarly text traces the influences, inspirations and personal experiences which have shaped her work from the Royal College to the present. Now in her eighties, Mayer is as passionate as ever about her craft and continues to produce sculptures of great eloquence, grace and subtlety which have the depth and power to reach us all.
Format: Hardback
To purchase a copy, visit Pangolin Gallery here
Sean Henry at Glyndebourne
British sculptor Sean Henry is the artist in residence at Glyndebourne throughout the summer where he has installed a series of new works alongside a few of his better-known pieces. The catalogue produced by London dealers Osborne Samuel includes the essay written by Sculpture Agency founder Tom Flynn to accompany the display.
Among the most remarkable works is a piece entitled The Wanderer, inspired by the great Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel (illustrated on the front cover of the brochure, left). If you get a chance, drop down to Glyndebourne. You don't have to be an opera aficionado to appreciate the works on display but, speaking from recent experience, if you get a chance to see an opera too (and picnic in this amazing weather) then so much the better.
Jodie Carey's The Daily Mail at Paper exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery
The Daily Mail, another exquiste work in paper by Jodie Carey, is currently included in the exhibition entitled Paper at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
Carey's floral arrangement plays with the conventional expectations we bring to flower arrangement and floral still life, interrupting the traditional associations with freshness and purity by incorporating blood, tea and coffee (none of which I can do without).
Paper continues until 1st September 2013. Check it out and visit Jodie's website at www.jodiecarey.co.uk.
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Steve Russell's book of Africa photographs with an introductory text by Tom Flynn was launched at Pangolin London in February
Katonda Wenge, Steve Russell's new book of photographs of Africa, is now available, with an introductory essay by Sculpture Agency founder Tom Flynn. Steve has built an international reputation as the most sensitive and intuitive photographer of sculpture, a notoriously difficult thing to photograph due the vagaries of ambient light on variably reflecting surfaces and the fact that sculptures generally offer multiple possible viewpoints.
Steve has collaborated on numerous occasions with the Pangolin bronze foundry in Chalford, Stroud. In recent years he has made a number of visits to Uganda to photograph the foundry and workshops set up there by the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation, a charitable body established by Pangolin founders Rungwe Kingdon and Claude Koenig that promotes creative dialogue and skill-sharing between African and UK sculptors and craftspeople.
Thus it was appropriate that Steve's book launch took place at Pangolin's London gallery at King's Place, Kings Cross. The publication is altogether well-timed given the popularity of David Attenborough's stunning TV series on Africa. Steve has titled his book Katonda Wenge, which means "Oh My God!" in the Luganda language of Uganda. That was how one of Steve's portrait subjects responded when he showed her the photo he'd taken of her.
For more information, visit Steve's website at SteveRussellStudios.com and Pangolin London's website here.
Sculptor Tom Hackett shows new work at the National Shoe Collection, Northampton, Museum and Art Gallery
Once is an accident, twice is a revolution comprises 1000 pink silicone jelly shoe forms placed to form a large floor sculpture to dominate the visual field with a bright slightly undulating circular mass of colour. "Reading initially as factory made, or direct casts, a closer inspection reveals them as duplicates from observational studies of the artist's collection of found single children's jellies. Individually viewed they function as curious and intriguing objects, collectively they generate an extraordinary and displaced entity", writes the exhibition's curator.
"Once is an accident, twice is a revolution is a meditation on repetition and workmanship in art. The duplication of the iconic children's shoe form en masse the work offers potential for further narrative associations. Launched at the National Shoe Collection, Northampton, Museum and Art Gallery, the work connects to the town's rich shoe heritage and current shoe industry, which includes contemporary fashion jelly shoes."
Hackett will also be showing 20 new text and image works under the sub title 'flip charts from the therapy room'. These contain various text fragments and 'sound bites' gathered from personal encounters, gleaned conversations and self -generated musings taking on at times the visual devices of absurd mind maps from fictional staff development events.
A 24-page artist's publication also accompanies the project.
Tom Hackett has been described by Robert Clark in The Guardian as an artist who: "systematically transforms banalities into deceptively simple moments of bemused and amused wonderment teasing us with a disarming mix of deceptive technical simplicity and a creative spirit as wild and ranging as the stars."
Tom Hackett has shown extensively across the UK and internationally, his key solo shows include: Firstsite Colchester, MAC Birmingham, UH Galleries, Aberdeen Art Gallery, and PM Gallery London.
Once is an accident, twice is a revolution has been project-funded by Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England.
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British sculptor Peter Burke's TED talk on the use of technology by sculptors ancient and modern
Peter Burke recently delivered a most interesting talk on 'Sculpture and Reproductive Technology' at TEDx in Bradford-on-Avon. It offers a fascinating insight into his innovative use of traditional fabricating processes as well as contemporary technologies in the making of his work.
Those familiar with Peter's wonderful installations at the Cass Foundation in Sussex (above left) and elsewhere will
find his TED talk both engaging and instructive. My thanks to Peter for allowing me to circulate it more widely. Click here for the talk.
Tom Flynn's new book on British sculptor Terence Coventry has just been published
Terence Coventry — Hands On is the first biographical study of West Country-based sculptor Terence Coventry. Specially published to accompany a new retrospective exhibition of Coventry's work at Gallery Pangolin in Chalford, Gloucestershire, the book is an in-depth account of an intensely private artist's life and work.
The book traces Coventry's journey over the past twenty-five years from talented art student to successful pig farmer, to the rediscovery of his artistic identity in the mid-eighties and the evolution of his mature, confident and independent sculptural language. The book offers an insight into Coventry's working practice and the ways in which the Cornish landscape and its natural inhabitants have influenced his creative development. (Read a short extract here).
The book could not have been produced without the generous cooperation of Terence and Winifred Coventry and the team at Gallery Pangolin and Pangolin Editions, the internationally-acclaimed bronze foundry and gallery in Chalford, Gloucestershire who have collaborated closely with Coventry for many years.
The book will soon be available to purchase on Amazon here, but meanwhile is available through Pangolin Editions here, via email at: email@example.com or contact them by telephone on: +44 (0)1453 889765.
Almuth Tebbenhoff's London Film Festival award hits the red carpet
London-based sculptor Almuth Tebbenhoff's 'Star of London' sculpture — the London Film Festival's equivalent of the Palme d'Or in Cannes or the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival — was featured on Channel 4 News during the Festival (see their Arts Correspondent Matthew Cain holding the award on the red carpet, right).
Almuth's sculpture was selected from a shortlist of entries and has been awarded for the past three years. Festival organisers are confident it will soon become as iconic as its Continental counterparts.
Panel discussion: Sculptors' Drawings at Pangolin London
Tom Flynn will be chairing a panel discussion at the Pangolin London gallery at King's Place, Kings Cross on Monday 1st October as part of Pangolin's current exhibition of Sculptors' Drawings and Works on Paper exhibition. The evening starts at 6.30 and the panellists include artists Martin Jennings and Briony Marshall, along with Frances Carey, writer and past curator of the Prints and Drawings department at the British Museum, and Rungwe Kingdon, founder of Pangolin Editions sculpture foundry.
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Steelhead make fall runs in certain tributaries to the Great Lakes. Their movement patterns and habitats change with river conditions.
On larger lakes like the Great Lakes, trout move shallow where shorecasters can target them with spoons and swimbaits. Good areas to fish include mouths of tributary rivers, points, and other access areas like piers.
Tailraces below reservoirs can provide some of the best fishing for lots of big trout. Big browns migrate upstream and concentrate below dams during their annual spawning run.
Nighttime can be one of the best times to target big browns in tailrace fisheries of the South. Big browns are less spooky at night, moving out of heavy cover into areas easily approached and fished.
Tracking studies have verified that river largemouths make major spring migrations from wintering areas to shallow backwaters. Though miles may separate these habitat zones, fish unerringly arrive once ice has departed.
As lakes warm in the spring, largemouth bass move into shallow cover in coves, canals, and harbors. They seek warming water offered by these spots that also provide plentiful baitfish.
Docks and boat houses are important cover for bass, particularly when shoreline development has depleted natural cover. High-percentage spots depend on water depth and cover options.
After the spawn, big bass quickly move to offshore structure, where they hold along humps, ledges, or deep underwater points. They're ready to feed, so whet their appetite with a big deep-diving crankbait.
River currents prevent these waters from freezing when flatwater impoundments are ice-covered. With careful presentations, river largemouth can be caught.
Fall summons river bass to a major feast before winter sets in. Fish feel the urge to feed heavily, storing energy for the long cold period when activity is minimal.


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Time: Thursday, September 4, 2014; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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Ann and Rodger Lenhardt were in for a jolt when they received their notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield recently. It said their monthly health insurance cost would triple to $859.42 a month next year.
Under closer inspection, however, the Lenhardts discovered a different story: By switching policies and taking advantage of federal subsidies, they will be able to offset most of their monthly premium costs, giving the farming couple highly discounted insurance.
About 160,000 Blue Cross customers in North Carolina have been receiving such insurance notices in recent weeks, prompting widespread anxiety among insurance customers who fear theyll be priced out of the insurance market. The letters went out to Blue Cross customers who purchased individual policies after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010; the new law mandates more generous coverage that older policies didnt include.
Many of these Blue Cross customers will find financial relief with subsidies and cheaper policies, but some will not be able to avoid steep increases .
The Blue Cross notices do not explain how the rates were calculated. But the nations new health care law, by creating public insurance databases, offers a revealing glimpse into industry practices that for years had been tightly guarded corporate secrets.
The Lenhardts, who live in Chatham County, have the benefit of North Carolinas lowest-cost insurance rates. As a result, the Lenhardts will have access to health coverage that can cost over $100 a month less than it costs to buy an an equivalent Blue Cross policy in adjoining Harnett County, which happens to be attached to an area with some of the states most expensive health insurance rates.
I may end up being one of the winners in this situation, said Ann Lenhardt, an elderberry farmer in Pittsboro. Im going to end up with much better insurance than I used to have.
Under the new law, more than 1 million North Carolinians are expected to shop for health insurance or face fines for lack of coverage.
Location, location, location
State residents have paid significant price differences for health insurance for years, based on where they lived, but few outside the insurance industry knew about it. Now the Affordable Care Acts transparent data trove reveals that when it comes to health insurance, geography is destiny.
Geography is one of just three factors that insurance companies are allowed to base rates on, along with tobacco use, and, to a limited extent, a persons age. Gone are the days when insurers could jack up costs for older people and for women, or simply turn away people with pre-existing conditions.
Even though insurers are not allowed to consider the health of the people they will insure when setting regional rates within a given state, North Carolinas 2014 rates closely track regional health trends. Thats because insurance rates are influenced by the doctors and hospitals that treat local populations and negotiate reimbursement contracts with insurance companies to reflect those treatment costs.
Insurance data for 2014 show that within North Carolina, the costliest insurance rates will often be charged to those who can least afford it: those in poorer counties that have typically one rural hospital and a concentration of uninsured patients who drive up system costs. The cheapest insurance rates, on the other hand, are concentrated around the metropolitan area that includes the Triangle, an affluent region with a large insured population.
The disparity could exceed $200 a month for a family, or more than $2,400 a year, for a policy with the same name in different parts of the state.
Whats more, North Carolina has among the most expensive health insurance costs in the nation. The states cheapest area for insurance rates, where the Lenhardts live, is still above the national average in terms of cost. Meanwhile, Blue Cross most expensive area in the state, which encompasses Lincoln, Gaston and Cleveland counties, is in the costliest 10 percent of rating regions nationwide, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Those price differentials are forcing insurers to explain why they charge so much more in rural areas, justifications that until now had been made confidentially to the insurance regulators who approved the rates as sound.
With all this transparency and data we are all learning a lot of things we didnt know before, said Blue Cross CEO Brad Wilson.
The rate disparities also point to a troublesome aspect of the nations health care law, which awards federal subsidies to offset insurance costs based on household income, but does not take into account that insurance costs can swing wildly from county to county.
The fundamental question is: Why are those premiums higher in those regions than they are in others? Wilson said. The primary reason is the underlying cost of care i.e., the cost of medical services being delivered in that geography is higher than in other regions.
Wilson said thats a reflection of many factors, including obesity rates as well as uninsured people who go to the hospital emergency department for a headache.
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But there are plenty of other factors at work, too. The new health care law, commonly called Obamacare, raised insurance standards by requiring more generous coverage and mandated policies for people with pre-existing conditions. An estimate from the Rand Corp., prepared this year for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, predicted the law could drive up premiums by as much as 43 percent in some states and drop premiums elsewhere.
When North Carolina officials decided not to set up a state insurance exchange, deferring instead to the federal government, they triggered a 3.5 percent service charge, tacked onto North Carolinas insurance rates, to run the exchange.
Additionally, North Carolina officials opted not to expand Medicaid, the federal insurance program for the poor. As a result, about 200,000 people who would have qualified for Medicaid will now qualify for insurance subsidies.
Those people are widely expected to be in poorer health, prompting insurance companies to boost rates by an estimated 2 percent to compensate for the risk of insuring this population, said Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University.
The states decisions not to embrace the health care law likely dissuaded insurers from entering North Carolinas market, inhibiting price competition, said Kerry Hall, spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Insurance. Blue Cross is the only insurer that operates in all 100 counties, while Coventry Health Care of the Carolinas is selling subsidized policies in just 39 counties.
There are a lot of assumptions that had to go in there: How many uninsured will you have buying the products, and the health risks of those uninsured, said Patrick Getzen, Blue Crosss chief actuary. What youre seeing is, what are the negotiated deals that you have in those regions, how many providers are there. We have certain regions where there is only one hospital. That makes it tougher to negotiate.
Coventry officials declined comment about their rates. Coventrys regional cost patterns do not line up exactly with Blue Cross, largely a reflection of reimbursement rates Coventry negotiated with doctors and hospitals across the state.
Bracing for backlash
Blue Cross, the states largest insurer, has 375,000 customers with individual policies. Under the Affordable Care Act, customers can keep older insurance policies that dont comply with the new law but only as long as those policies were in effect at the time the law was enacted in March 2010.
Blue Cross spokesman Lew Borman said the company notified customers at the time about the new health care laws grandfather clause, but about 160,000 made changes or bought coverage during the past 3 1/2 years. Blue Cross in recent weeks has alerted those customers that the obsolete policies would be discontinued in 2014.
In its letters, the company also cited a premium for a comparable policy, which in some cases is hundreds of dollars a month more than what customers are paying now.
The N.C. Department of Insurance approved the rates this year, but the agency reduced the rates by 10 percent from the levels Blue Cross had proposed. Blue Cross, bracing for a customer backlash, launched a television and online campaign blaming the Affordable Care Act and a host of other factors for the dramatic rate increases.
The greater the convenience and flexibility, and the more stuff, the more it costs you, said Wilson, the Blue Cross CEO.
Recipients of the Blue Cross termination notices included the Lenhardts, who bought their Blue Cross policy last year and knew it would be terminated in 2014.
The Lenhardts, who own Norms Farms in Pittsboro, expect their elderberry business to generate less than $20,000 in household income next year, putting them at about 125 percent of the federal poverty level. Thats on top of the cheapest health insurance rates in the state.
Well qualify for a huge subsidy, Ann Lenhardt, 53, said. It looks to me like it would cover the entire cost of it.
Premiums are only one of several insurance costs customers will pay. They will also have to cover co-pays, deductibles and cost-sharing obligations. Many insurance customers will be learning that plans with cheaper premiums are more likely to have restricted networks of doctors and hospitals.
Nancy Mize, a Raleigh optometrist, bought her Blue Cross policy in May 2010, after the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She is now paying about $280 a month in insurance premiums from Blue Cross, and a similar Blue Cross plan would cost her about $589 a month in 2014.
Her income is too high to qualify for a federal subsidy, and she is stuck with paying full premiums.
Mize, 56, said she has found a cheaper Blue Cross option than the companys letter suggested, costing $448 a month, but the deductible in that plan is more than twice as much as her current deductible, and she expects her total health care costs to double next year.
Still, in more expensive sections of the state, an insurance policy for a single buyer could cost as much as $100 extra a month above what one would pay in Wake County.
Its not going to break me, Mize said of her insurance prospects. But it does seem like an awfully big tax on the middle class.
Staff researcher David Raynor contributed to this article.
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