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Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday, August 9, 2013, at Ray Funeral Home.
Celebration of Life Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 10, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Cleveland with Rev. Milton Burd officiating. Interment will be in New Cleveland Cemetery.
Mrs. Lishman was born on November 26, 1934, to Oscar Steve Sizemore and Rosa Lee Thornnill Sizemore. She married Bobby Charles Lishman on March 17, 1957, and worked as a nurse for 38 years. She enjoyed working in her yard and caring for other people. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Oscar Sizemore and Rosa Thornnill Sizemore; husband, Bobby Charles Lishman; and a brother, Steve "Buster" Sizemore.
Mrs. Lishman is survived by her children, Kenneth Charles Lishman and Karen Brunetti (Ike); grandchildren, Jason Meyer (Jana), John Meyer (Rebekah), Edgar Meyer, Christopher Lishman, Matthew Lishman, Elisa Oswalt (Michael), and Chaley Brunetti; five great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Charles Jason Meyer, John Latham Meyer, Edgar Meyer, Christopher Lishman, Matthew Lishman, Charles Sizemore and Stevie Sizemore.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude or the Alzheimer's Association.
To view and sign the online guestbook, go to www.rayfuneralhome.net.


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About heavymetal1971's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
20+ year wait for this one - glad it's finally mine. Been into the muscle cars since before I started driving. Proud owner and happy to be restoring it!
My first car
ugh - 74 volvo station[party]wagon -hand-me-down
Car I wish I still had
none of 'em
My dream car
the one I got
Car clubs I'm in
Mopar Enthusiasts Car Club of America - Director of Operations
Member of Middle Tennessee Muscle Machines
- Type of racing: drags
- Driver: the King and 'me'
- Driving song: Too many to list
- Car movie: The Car/ Phantasm /Shaft
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Monmouth University Marine Policy expert Ryan Orgera was featured on Discovery News on August 15
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Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University students worked on the launch of the winning product as part of an Entrepreneurship class project! Congrats Nanina's in the Park!
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A total of $1,000 was raised and will be donated through The Kortney Rose Foundation to the pediatric brain tumor research program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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April 01, 2014
Event will raise money for The Valerie Fund.
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Cancro pledges $110,000 to Monmouth University at the event.
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Ryan Orgera will be based at Monmouth University
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An innovative project that provides a great location for community and campus members to come together to grow produce and community.
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Cancro is the founder and chief executive officer of Jersey Mike's Franchise Systems.
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Paws for a Cause" event includes police dog demonstrations and door prizes.
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The tidal flooding from Superstorm Sandy in Ocean and Monmouth counties exceeded previous record elevations set in 1992 by 12 to 18 inches. Eighty-mile per hour winds also generated waves across the lagoons and bays of the four coastal counties, raising tidal elevations 4 to 5 feet above normal.
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No page unturned in Trey Parker, Matt Stone's 'Book of Mormon'
BY HEDY WEISS Theater firstname.lastname@example.com December 5, 2012 6:44PM
Robert Lopez (left), Matt Stone, Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw are the creative team behind the hit musical "The Book of Mormon."
◆ Previews begin Dec. 11; opens Dec. 19 and runs through June 2
◆ Bank of America Theatre,
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◆ Tickets, $45-$115
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Updated: December 14, 2012 5:01PM
Ask Trey Parker and Matt Stone, progenitors of both "South Park," that blissfully uncensored animated TV series, and the megahit Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," if they have yet to stumble upon anything they might consider too hot to handle, too potentially dangerous or sacred to satirize, and, chuckling in tandem, they will answer: "Not yet. But we might come across it one day."
Let's just put it this way: You could easily make a long list of the countries in which this pair of mischief-makers would long since have found themselves in jail, or worse. But here, in our (almost) Anything Goes Land, they have only thrived. And in "The Book of Mormon," their happily subversive instincts have been aided and abetted by composer Robert Lopez (of "Avenue Q" fame), and co-director (with Parker)/choreographer Casey Nicholaw (whose credits include "Spamalot" and "The Drowsy Chaperone"), and whose blithely comic input is visible at every turn.
Together, they've created a show that has drawn hordes of true believers to the box office. It is a show that invites audiences to worship at the altar of subversive comedy and playful commentary as it pokes fun at this country's most homegrown religion — Mormonism and the Church of Latter-day Saints — and, in the spirit of total political incorrectness, upends the wider tradition of Christian missionary work as practiced in modern-day Africa.
"The Book of Mormon" is about to ring bells in Chicago, with an already extended, nearly sold-out engagement at the Bank of America Theatre that begins performances on Dec. 11.
Of course playwright Tony Kushner gave us a gay Mormon in "Angels in America" nearly two decades ago. Well after "The Book of Mormon" received its nine Tony Awards, American voters decided not to elect a (straight) Mormon for president. And as far as theatrical treatments of Africa are concerned, let's just say that "The Lion King" made it clear that Africans had no need of outside rites and rituals.
But Parker and Stone and their creative enablers had their own ideas to explore, developing them over seven years of on-and-off work. As always, laughter was their primary goal as they began to spin the story of two young missionaries sent from the antiseptically clean kingdom of Utah to a remote village in war-torn Uganda where poverty, AIDS and maggots (a reference to the latter hilariously sums up the limitations of faith) are all part of the stubborn reality.
"Writing this show was a gigantic learning curve for us," said Parker. "We are used to doing whatever we want in 10 minutes or so, and being able to change things in a flash. Now we had to make the plot move emotionally, and we had to musicalize feelings because songs get more attention than dialogue. Musicals also involve teaching people dance routines and hearing the response of a live audience. And previews are a terrifying time, so you'd better be working with people who like to see things change."
And their fascination with Mormons?
"I grew up in a non-religious household," said Stone, whose dad was an economics professor. "But living in Colorado there were many Mormons in my school, and one of my best friends from fifth grade came from a big Mormon family — religious people who said prayers before meals and several times a day. I kept thinking they'd call on me for that, but of course they didn't. And as a kid you just roll with this stuff."
It was a similar case for Parker.
"My first real girlfriend in high school was a Mormon, also from a big family," he said. "Plus, living in Colorado, right alongside Utah — well, we're two big pioneer states, and Mormonism played a major part in the stories of both."
It was Parker, now 43, who fell in love with musicals early on — watching VHS tapes of Rodgers and Hammerstein classics and performing in community theater musicals from junior high on. (He made his youthful debut as nightclub owner Sammy Fong in "Flower Drum Song," and later played Danny in "Grease.") Parker also "baptised" Stone into the world of musicals.
"I didn't know anything about them," confessed Stone, 41. "Trey took me to see 'Les Mis' when I was about 23. My mom had the soundtrack to 'Fiddler on the Roof,' but beyond that, musicals just weren't on my radar."
In 1993, as students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two collaborated on their first film, "Cannibal! The Musical." And six years later, Parker, along with Stone and composer Marc Shaiman, created the hit animated musical comedy film, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut."
But it was only in the wake of their next movie, "Team America: World Police," the 2004 satirical action comedy — produced with Scott Rudin, and featuring a cast of marionettes — that they began talking about Broadway and the possibility of a puppet musical.
Ironically, that also was when "Avenue Q" became a major Broadway hit, and as Robert Lopez recalls: "Jeff Marx [his partner on that show] and I were very influenced by 'South Park,' especially the movie, and in the program for "Avenue Q" we even thanked Trey and Matt. Then, one night in the theater I noticed they were in the audience — my heroes — so I finally met them. Matt said 'Avenue Q' was the first musical he'd ever really liked because it integrated his and Trey's brand of humor. They also liked the idea that audiences never stopped laughing, yet also fell for the characters."
When the three of them began tossing around ideas for a show, they all said "Maybe something about Joseph Smith Jr.," referring to that early 19th century American religious leader who founded the Latter-Day Saint movement, and who, at the age of 24 published the Book of Mormon. (For the uninitiated, that tome is said to be the English translation of a long-buried collection of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of ancient American civilizations. As the story goes, Smith had a vision in which an angel directed him to those plates.)
Smith, who began his religion in an area of western New York State that was swept by religious revivals, was eventually replaced by Brigham Young, who founded Salt Lake City. The worldwide Mormon church now has a membership of about 13 million (5.5 million in the U.S.), with 52,000 missionaries and 340 missions.
It is after a class of missionaries completes its training in Utah that "The Book of Mormon" begins. That's when the handsome, obnoxiously confident Elder Kevin Price (played here by Nic Rouleau), who dreams of ringing doorbells in Orlando, Fla., and the nerdy but wildly imaginative Elder Arnold Cunningham (played by Ben Platt) who would follow Price anywhere, set off on their first assignment — flying out of the Salt Lake City airport to Uganda.
"Trey and Matt grew up around Mormons while I grew up in Greenwich Village and then headed off to Yale," said Lopez, 37. "I was interested in religion as a kid, growing up Catholic but then becoming Episcopalian, and it was in the church that I first got involved with music. The church was so theatrical; I guess I just fell for the ancient prototype of musical theater."
"At Yale I was an English major and took a class with Harold Bloom [the eminent literary critic] who had lots to say about Mormons, and even wrote a book about it — 'The American Religion.' I remember him saying he thought the closest cousin to the Book of Mormon was 'The Lord of the Rings,' and that literature of any kind is a consciousness-changing force. Gods exist in stories, and they help us mold our lives. And think about this: What is more of a miracle — that an angel talks to Joseph Smith, or that he writes a book that is long and obscure, and a whole village follows him?"
As you can tell, the forces behind the musical version of "The Book of Mormon" are not just funny; they are a unique type of brainiac.
As part of their research, the men went to Palmyra, New York — the birthplace of the Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism where, in 1830, the Book of Mormon was first published.
"Every July they stage a big outdoor pageant right on the sacred hill there, with 10,000 people in folding chairs watching the story of Joseph Smith," said Lopez. "The pageant itself is pretty kitschy, with John Williams-like music and a Disney style, and we drew on that for the tableau in the musical. We also became interested in Mormon art, because the depiction of Jesus is so interesting. He's kind of a honey blond, all-American football type with muscles and perfect teeth. "
Parker was the only member of the show's team to travel to Africa, visiting a Mormon mission in Kampala rather than the embattled northern region of the country where the show unfolds.
About the music for the show, Lopez said: "We didn't want it to be too brittle or cheap or cynical. We all try to love what we're writing, and I like to use music in a way it might not have been used before. For the African music, I listened to a bit of Somali pop, but really, I wanted Disney African, because both the Price and Cunningham characters have a Disnleyland sense of what Africa is like."
And what about the iconic opening "doorbell" number?
Lopez said none of them is quite sure whose idea it was, but it came early in the process — a process that was "gradual."
As Parker explained it: "Because we all had other jobs and families and were living in different places, we decided to think about it as an album, so that even if a show never happened, we'd have this funny album at the end. So we'd get together as often as possible to just write a song in a two-hour headf--- session."
"With every song we'd also talk about musical precedents," said Parker. " 'All-American Prophet' has a 'Music Man' connection; 'I Believe' has its roots in 'The Sound of Music'."
"The fact that it took so long to write this show actually helped," said Stone. "We'd come back together after a break and be reminded of what we had. But it took a toll, too, so finally, about four years ago we just said: OK, we have all these songs, so we better s--t or get off the pot."
For true-to-life details they all headed to Salt Lake City where, according to Stone, the waiters in the local restaurants were their best source of information.
"They're all college grads, and many have worked in missions. We knew we wanted one of the guys in the show to think he might be gay, so we asked: 'Do you happen to know anyone who IS?,' and the answer was: 'How many do you want to talk to?' "
Casey Nicholaw was the last man to join the team.
"I had seen a workshop of the show two years before I ever got involved and it just made me laugh my ass off," he said. "I knew nothing about Mormonism, but I got a crash course, and was really thrown into it — just relying on my instincts, which is always the best way. I DID look at videos of the old Donny and Marie [Osmond] dance steps, and thought about the Disney kingdom theme park stuff, and the wholesome, youthful optimism of the 'Up With People' phenomenon of the 1960s."
And, Nicholaw observed: "The interesting thing about this show is that it might be irreverent along the way, but by the end it's kind of pro-faith."


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Attica Raceway Park announces purses for 2006 |
Wednesday, 01 March 2006 | |
By Brian Liskai ATTICA, Ohio (March 2, 2006) - The racing action in Northwest Ohio is second to none in the United States. And the purse at Attica Raceway Park for 2006 will reflect that high caliber of competition. "We are very encouraged by the support we've received from the many sponsors who have signed on as business partners in 2006," said ARP Director of Operations, Rex LeJeune. Just two months since new ARP Promoter John Bores and the team he has put together to run "Ohio's Finest Racing" speedplant began work, 19 out of the 24 scheduled nights of racing have sponsorship backing. "With this support and continued great support from the fans, Attica is anticipating one of the most exciting racing seasons in the 19 year history of the track," said LeJeune. "Between Attica Raceway Park and Fremont Speedway, race teams and fans have a great opportunity to enjoy an entertaining and exciting weekend of action," added Bores, noting the two tracks are within 40 miles of each other. Mix together that great fan support, the backing from the business community and some of most entertaining weekly racing in the country, and you have a recipe for fun and excitement! LeJeune said the weekly purse at Attica Raceway Park will pay the winner of the 410 sprint feature $2,500, with the A-main paying $250 to start. The highly competitive 305 sprint division will pay $500 to win the A-main, with $120 to start. The battling limited late models will compete for $500 to win each week and $75 to start the A-main. The three division weekly payoff totals $20,925. And, when the Dirt Trucks make it a four division program they will race for $300 to win and $60 to start the A Main, taking the total night's purse to over $23,000. For the complete purse payoff Click here. Opening night is scheduled for Friday, March 31 with a raindate for Saturday, April 1. Opening night is sponsored by Jackson Hewitt Tax Service/Kevin Dick Certified Financial Planner. |
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Drumwright honored by Henricus
George T. Drumwright, Jr. may have retired from his position as deputy county manager for Henrico. But on Sept. 14, Drumwright's friends at Henricus Historical Park let him know emphatically that he will not be allowed to retire from his role as a Henricus Foundation board member and long-time volunteer. At a reception honoring Drumwright and celebrating the opening of 2012 Publick Days, friends, family, colleagues and fellow members of the Henricus Foundation Board of Trustees gathered to dedicate the Drumwright Education Fund, a component of the Henricus Annual Fund that will enable the Foundation to expand interactive history program offerings for students. Drumwright's colleagues also presented him with gifts and mementos, and spoke at length about his 25 years of contributions to the park. Henricus Executive Director Charles Lewis Grant pointed out that when Drumwright first became involved, the park was just a place "covered in vines." Today, Henricus boasts a dozen re-created colonial structures, including a hospital, parsonage, tobacco barn and planter's house. "But it's not just about the buildings," emphasized John Siddall, chairman of the Henricus Foundation. "It's about the 25,000 schoolchildren that come through here every year." And the Drumwright Education Fund, added Grant, will help students from the most disadvantaged schools gain access to park programs. "If they can't get here," said Grant, "we go to them." Jurisdictional cooperation Siddall, who led off his remarks by telling Drumwright, "The first thing I want to say is you are not retiring from here," also praised Drumwright's role in supporting the partnership between Chesterfield and Henrico counties that has helped made the park so successful. Through a fluke of history, said Siddall, both counties own land in Henricus -- even though today's park lies south of the James River in what is technically Chesterfield. During the Civil War, Union troops began digging a new channel near the James so they could bypass Confederate fortifications that blocked approaches to Richmond. The new channel, completed after the war, left a part of Henrico across the river — surrounded by water. "Because of this, we benefit," said Siddall, "and not only because we have this beautiful bluff. We also benefit from a great partnership between Chesterfield and Henrico; we get the support of both counties." Ken Perry, former chairman of the board, noted that Drumwright had first visited the site in 1977. "I visited this site in 1985," said Perry, "and we both saw the same things: a bunch of trees and a beautiful river view." He and Drumwright worked together on the board for 15 years, said Perry, during which the jurisdictional cooperation was "marvelous." 'He knew every inch' Dorothy Jaeckle, vice chairman of the board, recalled that when first elected to the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, she was taken aback by the number of boards on which she was expected to serve, and overwhelmed by the steep learning curve required to learn about the various organizations. Appointed to the Henricus board because the park was in her district, Jaeckle said that joining a board with Drumwright only magnified her feelings of inadequacy. "George was the one," she said, "who took the sickle and cleared the way in [to the historical area]. He knew every last inch of this place." But her feelings of inadequacy were soon eased, said Jaeckle, because Drumwright was so clearly passionate about the park, and made it clear that he wanted only to share his knowledge of it with others. Chesterfield County Manager Jay Stegmaier, noting that Henricus was recently named the best park in Central Virginia by readers of Richmond.com, credited Drumwright with being one of the key players that helped the park succeed. "You've become an icon for Central Virginia," Stegmaier told Drumwright, jokingly inviting him to use a sword to carve his initials in a tree on the site. "[Henricus] is a treasure for Chesterfield and Henrico County, and it's rapidly becoming a treasure for the entire country." "And," added Stegmaier, echoing the previous speakers, "we're not going to let you totally retire." A radiant light In thanking his colleagues for gifts that included colonial-era replicas of a hat and a lantern, Drumwright cited "huge support" from the community as his inspiration, and noted that like the lantern, Henricus had blossomed from a tiny spark of a concept into a radiant light. Only days before, said Drumwright, students visiting the park from Lucille Brown Middle School had been using a newly re-created platform overlooking the bluff to calculate the trajectory of cannon fire needed to bridge the river – demonstrating just one of the unique hands-on lessons that the park provides to schoolchildren. Upon being presented with a sword, Drumwright reminisced about his first job in Norfolk, during which he occasionally perched on the rails of a replica ship and played the role of pirate. "We used to break these swords once a week," he said, "fighting each other." Everything a miracle As the celebration moved into the dinner-and-music phase – featuring favorite Drumwright band Steve Bassett and Friends – incoming Henrico County Manager John Vithoulkas read a letter from Tuckahoe Supervisor and fellow Henricus board member Pat O'Bannon, who could not be present at the celebration. Addressing Drumwright, O'Bannon wrote, "Before Google, George, we had you to ask for answers. Now we can ask Google, but it's not nearly as good." Thanking Drumwright for serving as a mentor, O'Bannon went on to quote Albert Einstein, who once said, "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, and you can live as if everything is a miracle." "George," wrote O'Bannon,"lives his life as if everything is a miracle." Echoing O'Bannon's sentiment, Vithoulkas recalled visiting the undeveloped, overgrown future site of Henricus decades ago, when he worked under Stegmaier as a budget analyst. "It wasn't nearly what we've got here now," said Vithoulkas. "George, you've done a phenomenal job." For details about Henricus and the Drumwright Education Fund, visit http://henricus.org |
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In September, Richmond Region Tourism launched OutRVA, a campaign designed to show people Richmond's strong LGBT community and highlight the area as a travel destination.
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CAT Theatre announces auditions for 'Quartet'
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He was also a professor of law at The University of Mississippi Law School from 1982 to 1995 and the building now bears his name.
It was through those experiences Khayat wrote his book "The Education of a Lifetime," and as the second speaker in the colloquia series, Khayat explained to listeners how and why they should and deserve to change Mississippi for the better.
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"I was a left guard and I was a place getter. The plan was that I would play a quarter, he would play a quarter, I would play a quarter, and he would play a quarter and we might make it through the night.
"It meant when we kicked off I would start. A guy named Sherman Plunkett ran right over my alternate, I mean right through him."
Sherman Plunkett was an offensive tackle for the champion Baltimore Colts in 1958 and 1959 and was known for his massive size. While the typical lineman in the 1960s weighed in at around 250-260 pounds, Plunkett was almost 100 pounds heavier.
Khayat said after Plunkett plowed over his alternate he watched to see what the reaction would be from his teammate, who was then on all fours.
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After reaching the field, Khayat put his hands on his knees to prepare for the play and it was at this point he should have been looking directly into the other player's face.
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"They snapped the ball and I started to try to tackle but I couldn't hold so I grabbed his big ole leg and he was dragging me. He called me sweet pea! He said 'Sweet pea, let me go,'" explained Khayat.
Khayat then decided this was a teaching moment and said he thought, "I am going to law school. I learned a big lesson that night. There's always someone smarter, prettier, faster, stronger, has more endurance — somewhere that person exists no matter where you are."
After telling a few more humorous stories about his football career and what those lessons taught him, Khayat began talking about his time as a law professor at Ole Miss.
He said after years of teaching he applied to be dean and was told the law faculty said he was unacceptable.
"They didn't just vote that they didn't want me. They said I was unacceptable. You want to feel bad about yourself, get called unacceptable," said Khayat.
He explained that the phrase, "when one door closes another opens," is true and despite his being upset over not getting the deanship, 16 months later, Khayat became chancellor.
"You've got a guy who can't pass freshman chemistry, who plays football, who thinks he's going to be a high school history teacher, who is unacceptable to his colleagues to be the dean of the law school and ends up being chancellor," he said.
Khayat went on to explain that a person must think well of themselves to have others think well of them.
After the riot of 1962 when James Meredith became the first black student at Ole Miss, the school had difficulties with racism and keeping an African American population of students.
This was a subject that was close to Khayat and he recalled being asked by a reporter when did he become so sensitive to race?
Khayat told the reporter that his father, who was Lebanese and therefore dark complected, took himself and his family to church and went to sit on one of the front rows in the sanctuary. It was then that a woman named Ida Thompson came and rested her hand on his father's shoulder and told him that he and his family would have to move to the back row of the church.
Upon becoming chancellor, Khayat began to face the issue of racial discrimination head on and began visiting public schools all over the state, including all black schools.
"We went in there and the principal said 'I have to tell you, we've never seen a white chancellor from Ole Miss walk in here.' And I said 'I'm not surprised and I will be back.' We've increased our African American enrollment by 73 percent since 1995. African American students now feel totally welcome and have served for years now in leadership positions across the board," explained Khayat.
Despite Ole Miss increasing the interracial relationships on campus, the media was still knocking the school around.
"Anything that possibly had to do with race, the film of the riot of 1962 was played," he said.
"We decided as a community we were going to adopt a value — respect. Everyone gets treated with respect until someone gives you a reason not to. It works through every level of staff, all faculties, all administrators, all alumni. Respect is the value you will find on the Ole Miss campus. You won't find perfection and you won't find that absence of controversy and conflict, but for the most part you will find harmony and respect," he said.
Khayat discussed the importance of giving credit where credit is due and not only delegate responsibility but also delegate authority.
Ending his lecture with telling of how the new 'no stick rule' in the stadium and removing the confederate flags has changed the perception of the campus and caused racism crimes to drop, Khayat said, "Not only did we change the way we were externally perceived, we changed the way we saw ourselves."
Khayat encouraged LaForge and said he must have the courage to lead the university and also said to all those listening in the audience, "You are an absolute beacon of light in the Mississippi Delta. This is the organization to take on the Delta and you have the perfect person to lead and revitalize the Delta."
With all of the listeners silent, encouraged by his words, Khayat ended by saying, "I hope you'll decide to put together agencies and get some federal help and be a model for the county, state, and maybe the world. I really think Delta State can do that."


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But according to Mr. Peralta and his campaign information, he is a member of the Independent Party of Oregon (which he is co-founder).
Now both claims cannot be correct. It's one or the other.
But the most interesting aspect of this dilemma is why would liberal party-line voters be supporting a candidate not of the same ilk? -- unless the illusion that candidate portrays hides the true substance.
An explanation could be rather entertaining, wouldn't you say?
Based on history, it would be foolish to believe government could or would 'save money'. Nearly all public-funded services adhere to the 'spend it or lose it' theory. The spending occurs near the end of every fiscal year, so as to guarantee same or more funding in the future.
And get over M37! The problems with M37 were addressed by M49. Just because a few no-growth zealots appealed everything in sight doesn't mean the commission was wrong to implement the process. How much did all those appeals cost the taxpayers? It's a little ingenious to talk about saving county money, while knowing all those appeals cost much more than salary for 3 commission seats. And since these measures were passed by vote of the people, which side of 'ruled or governed' do such conflicting actions stand?
Apparently, 'bad government' is only the view when someone can't push and bully their way into changing the decisions made by elected officials or voters. Look around -- there are much more important things to consider about government problems than two commissioners who refused to go against the will of the people.
And on the other end of the spectrum, we have Republican fervor for long-time Constitution Party member, national officer and gubernatorial candidate Mary Starrett, who was still registered with that party last time she ran for commissioner and told us she felt the Republican Party had lost its way.
Fortunately, it's a free country and folks affiliated with a particular party are able to back anyone they wish, both in non-partisan races like these and even in partisan, party-label races. I don't see any problem with it. If Republicans like Mary and Democrats like Sal, so be it.
"Progressives" are liberals. That means that they support huge, unsustainable hand-outs and freebees. They support no standard of morality and have no respect for those that do. They, for the most part, believe anyone with a physical or mental defect are victims and not responsible for their actions. Liberals hate guns, love government intrusions into our lives (except for abortion) and are most likely to give up freedom for security.
So sad that so many people are willing to give up freedoms that we have fought so hard to sustain for a little "security".
What truly IS sad is that someone is motivated to publish such false, vitriolic, and insulting allegations anonymously. Would you be willing to write these same "opinions" in a Letter To The Editor and sign it?
There's no common agreement on the meaning of "progressive." Even so, we're debating Sal's politics as a progressive just because someone called him one.
We can agree that a progressive is more liberal than a conservative, but the terms are not synonymous. One interesting discussion comes from journalist David Siroda, who said a liberal "focuses on using taxpayer money to help better society," while a progressive "focuses on using government power to make large institutions play by a set of rules." He wrote, "A liberal policy towards prescription drugs is one that would throw a lot of taxpayer cash at the pharmaceutical industry to get them to provide medicine to the poor; A progressive prescription drug policy would be one that centered around price regulations and bulk purchasing in order to force down the actual cost of medicine in America."
The Independent Party of Oregon promotes a moderate alternative to ideologies of the left and right, citing frustration over the "inability (of Democrats and Republicans) to work collaboratively to solve our nation's biggest problems." That party's core issues relate to reducing special interest influencing over legislation, increased transparency in government spending, protecting Oregon consumers and "taking a sensible approach to job creating and economic development."
Is Sal an Independent … a Progressive … a Liberal … a Moderate? For him, as with any candidate, it's better to consider the actual policies they advocate than to characterize them with labels that provide more heat than light.
'On the other end of the spectrum?' Weren't we discussing 'this end of the spectrum'?
Someone other than myself labeled Sal. That claim has an origin, a reason, and it has nothing to do with being independent. So, again, why do party-line Demo voters support him?
Given the circumstances, and the defending responses, it seems the correct question to ask.
1) Candidates have a right to align themselves any way they wish, be it with a major party or not.
2) Voters have the right to align themselves any way they wish, be it with a major party candidate or not.
My take is that many Republicans, but not all, embrace Mary because they believe her to be a kindred spirit, and many Democrats, but not all, embrace Sal because they believe him to be a kindred spirit.
In truth, both have an array of positions that cut across a lot of political fault lines, including those of party platforms. I think there are some interesting parallels there between a pair of candidates who have developed enough dissatisfaction with the two major parties as to invest a lot of effort in exploring alternatives.
For some reason, it seems to bother you, at least with Sal, and I see no basis for that.
Sal is a registered Independent running in a non-partisan race in which he is actively seeking support from voters of all stripes. He's seeking a local government seat in which the national issue fault lines are virtually irrelevant.
You either like what he brings to the race or not. If not, you support someone else. I don't see that labels are either terribly useful or terribly relevant.
We live in a time when many people don't appreciate the prejudicial baggage that comes with party affiliations. Even many long-term party members, faithful to a platform, are disillusioned by the operational extremism that has usurped the thoughtful exchange of ideas in the public square.
Every candidate for public office brings an ideological perspective to the table. It is a natural human tendency for voters to try indentify which "box" to put the candidate in. What this does, unfortunately, is bias the voter away from a candidate that may be able to think outside of their box, because the label becomes the arbiter of performance.
It is unlikely that we will ever get away from this kind of labeling. What I do hope for is an election atmosphere that is a little more interested in the light of ideas, rather than the heat of party passions.
Thank you for the well thought opinions. You have identified some of the hazards of discussing politics, but it is good to have the discussion.
Patriciafaye posed the 'vital' proposition of electing 'progressives' to both commission seats, and named Sal as one, not me. I am interested in the 'why', not the 'who'.
Members of all political parties are subject to the visions, ideas, agendas and platforms of each respectively, and many vote accordingly (for the party candidates). Please advise if that is not the normal case.
In my estimation, belonging to any political party pretty much eliminates one from being a true independent. But my opinion here is biased -- the political party system is broken (has been for some time) -- and I choose not to belong or support that failed system in any fashion. Those who do only perpetuate and accentuate the misery, no matter the affiliation.
If you look at the policy work I have engaged in for the past six years, you would see that it is clearly not partisan. Democrats are generally better at consumer protection than Republicans. Republicans are generally better than Democrats at economic development. Both parties generally oppose campaign finance reform (even though voters overwhelmingly support it) and it is a mixed bag in both parties as to which side cares about transparency. I did a fair amount of work to defeat the Democratic House Majority leader's bill to gut the state's open meetings law in the last legislative session.
Regarding your comments about the Independent Party -- our goal is to build political power to promote the issues identified by our members -- consumer protection, economic development, reducing special interest influence, and increasing government transparency. You may see that as "accentuating the misery", but I can point to several bills where we have made a positive impact and/or stopped something bad from happening.
The party now has 100,000 members statewide and is starting to attract its own candidates who will give voters a choice in the 1 in 3 state legislative districts where there is only one candidate filed for the general election or in some of the 45-50 seats that are so badly gerrymandered that the weaker major party candidate is really just a placeholder.
And, we are seeing other Independent Parties forming along similar lines around the country -- Hawaii, Florida, Maryland, Massachussetts, New Mexico, Delaware, Connecticut, and other states now have Independent Parties that are largely modeled on what we are trying to do here.
I wrote -- Patriciafaye posed the 'vital' proposition of electing 'progressives' to both commission seats, and named Sal as one, not me. I am interested in the 'why', not the 'who'.
Exactly how does this become confusing? Seriously!
You gave away your true intent in your very first post — to try to slap a particular partisan label on a candidate who has been registered as an Independent for seven years, has held leadership posts in the Independent Party and is running a non-partisan race for a non-partisan post.
Obviously, you are supporting someone else. All that's fine, but why the subterfuge and deception? You have no interest in the why. You had already made up your mind when you penned the initial post.
Anyone who doubts that need only scroll up and take a look. I think your exact words were, "Case settled!"
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The first question I asked in the first post is thus -- "But the most interesting aspect of this dilemma is why would liberal party-line voters be supporting a candidate not of the same ilk?" All 'why', no 'who'. Same thing in the second post. In fact, if you follow your instructions and read each post, you will see it's always the same question, 'WHY'. Odd that you didn't notice before claiming otherwise!
It appears the question won't get a viable answer, leaving the door open for all kinds of speculation, from all corners. In fact, some of these replies could lead one to believe maybe a political venture is in store for some, considering the 'respond, but avoid the question' approach.
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I would make only on correction... the AM21 is already active in Argentina. It has over 4 months working there. Don't know PR though.
Yeah ... the "LIM22," appears to be the LA version of the AM21.
Rollout seems to have begun last year, first in Peru and then Argentina so far;
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DirecTV Peru launched LIM22 STB fitted with Off-air-tuner that captures HD DTT channels in the city of Lima. The device is installed additionally to the DVR HD STB of clients and enables users to have access to five HD DTT channels currently available in the region.
Users can record and pause DTT HD channel content of: América Televisión, Global TV, TV Perú, Frecuencia Latina and Enlace, Eduardo Catter, DirecTV Peru Commercial Director, informed. Clients who rely on an DVR HD STB and those new clients who request them, will be installed the LIM22 for an additional fee. A small outdoor omnidirectional antenna is installed beside the company's parabolic antenna to capture free-to-air channels.
The device is available for clients of the following Metropolitan Lima districts: San Borja, Miraflores, Barranco, San Isidro, Surquillo, Magdalena, Jesús María, Pueblo Libre, San Miguel and Santiago de Surco.
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Within the following months, DirecTV will launch an off-air-tuner STB to receive DTT channels in Argentina. Therefore, the operator will follow the same line in Peru, where it has recently launched the LIM22 device to capture HD channels in Lima and Callao. Additionally, the next month, the device will be available in Puerto Rico.
According to what the Argentine Página 12 newspaper has confirmed, DirecTV is already testing the device that will also be installed together with its current STBs and that integrates channels directly in the EPG. The cost of the device has not been disclosed yet. The Argentine Digital Terrestrial TV System (SATVD-T in Spanish) currently relies on 15 channels, though reception depends on coverage areas.
In Peru for example, DirecTV subscribers in Lima and Callao have access to five HD free-to-air channels: América Televisión, Global TV, TV Perú, Frecuencia Latina and Enlace. Sky Brazil (whose 93% is owned by DirecTV) also relies on a tuner of this type. Roque Lombardo, DirecTV General Manager in Puerto Rico, has already announced that, as from October, the device will be included in the company's offer.
"Our idea is to be able to offer our clients the greatest and best quality programming content available in the market", Guillermo Delfino, DirecTV Argentina Commercial VP, told Página 12. "There will be more and better channels included in Digital TV". "And DTT provides us with the possibility to rely on these channels without increasing satellite space, which is currently very limited", he added. However, DirecTV PanAmericana (which includes Argentina) has already hired Intelsat on-board satellite capacity of two satellites that will be launched in 2014 and 2015.
The following are some of the channels included SATVD-T: Pakapaka, Tateti, GolTV, Vivra, VX, IncaaTV, SuriTV, Vesvi, Argentina HD, Construir TV, Encuentro and the new 360TV. The children channel Pakapaka is currently included in DirecTV programming chart, as Encuentro and Telsur - also included in DTT.


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Jerry Varghese, left, and Roy Cases are dedicated Holiday Lite FM 93.9 fans, even starting a Facebook fan page during high school at Niles West because they liked that everyone seemed happier when listening to Christmas music. Photographed on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 in Niles. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
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WLIT-FM (93.9) holiday listeners are familiar with these songs, the 10 most popular in the station's holiday rotation.
1. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," John & Yoko / The Plastic Ono Band
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3. "A Holly Jolly Christmas," Burl Ives 4. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams 5. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Brenda Lee 6. "The Christmas Song," Nat King Cole 7. "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas," Bing Crosby
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So this is Christmas.
And what have you done?
If you've tuned into WLIT-FM (93.9) since Nov. 9, when the station turned off the easy listening and turned on the holiday music, you've heard "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" time and again.
And again. And again.
The 41-year-old John Lennon and Yoko Ono song is the most popular on a 304-tune playlist that repeats the same standards day after day, holiday season after holiday season.
There's Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" and Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas." Karen Carpenter sings of "homemade pumpkin pie" in "Home for the Holidays." So does Perry Como. Paul McCartney is simply having a "Wonderful Christmastime." Brenda Lee is "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
Left outside in the cold are more contemporary takes, like Justin Bieber's "Silent Night," or "Baby It's Cold Outside," as sung by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in an album released this year. There's no Kenny Rogers or John Denver, with or without the Muppets.
"There's no question about it — it feels like you're hearing the same songs all the time," said Jerry Varghese, 20, a DePaul University student who started a Facebook Holiday Lite FM fan page with friend Roy Cases when the two were high school freshman.
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The 'wrong-footed soccer maiden' who bridged Manhattan, Beijing
Talese, in customary Italian suit and Panama hat, creates a new template for the modern-day soccer writer. He says of the Chinese footballer Liu Ying that "she was like a beacon drawing me toward her, illuminating possibilities. I thought of her in those terms." (Photo © Joyce Tenneson)
On Sunday morning, July 11, 1999, I listened to my pastor, down the street from our home in Decatur, Georgia, warn parishioners about the dangers of nationalistic revelry. The occasion was the aftermath of American victory over China the previous afternoon in the Women's World Cup final. The game finished 0–0, with the United States prevailing 5–4 in the penalty phase. "Let's not forget the Chinese players," our pastor said. It was the only time I have heard him, in 13 years, mention soccer within the worship context. "The TV cameras did not let us see their faces. What were their players thinking? What were they feeling as they watched all the American flags?"
Gay Talese refers to the setting at the Rose Bowl—the tableau of winning penalty-kick taker Brandi Chastain mobbed by teammates in a swirl of confetti and California sun—as a "stadium sky jet-streamed with jingoism." Soccer, as Talese says in a Jul 16 podcast, has never been nor will it soon become the national pastime. But on this one Saturday, the lure of the unfamiliar international pastime overpowered Talese's own lifetime affection for baseball.
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As the New York Yankees toiled on another television channel before surrendering to the crosstown rival, Talese, like some 40 million other viewers in the United States, could not take his eyes from the American and Chinese players. He had tuned in to watch the advertising icon Mia Hamm. But questions came to mind, not unlike those that my pastor posed in his homily. Talese, 77, a former sportswriter who calls himself "the Miss Lonelyhearts of locker rooms," thought especially of Liu Ying. U.S. goalkeeper Briana Scurry's left-gloved save of Liu's penalty effort secured the gold medal.
Talese lays out the roots of his curiosity about Liu Ying in A Writer's Life, the chronicle of his career in literary nonfiction. He imagines Liu
sitting tearfully in the locker room. Nothing in the life of this young woman of twenty-five could have prepared her for what she must have been feeling. … Was she surrounded now in the locker room by sympathetic teammates? Was she sitting in isolation after being rebuked by her coach? … I was asking questions as if I were a born-again sportswriter with access to the locker room, and if I were, she would have been my story, she who would probably not sleep tonight and might forever be haunted by the remembrance of her woeful moment in the sun while much of the world was watching.
In China, where it is acknowledged that most parents lack enthusiasm for the birth of females, what amount of enthusiasm would greet this particular female when she returned to her homeland?
Liu's tale consumes much more than a footnote in Talese's 429-page memoir. Her heartbreak, in fact, takes pride of place. She provides the point of entry and coda for the career of a writer devoted to pursuing similar burning curiosities. Her loss certainly exceeded that experienced by the Yankees on July 10, 1999, and even the saga of woebegone heavyweight fighter Floyd Patterson, whom Talese had covered at the New York Times in the 1950s.
To Talese, Liu became a beacon drawing him out of depressive reverie to action, onto a plane to Beijing in Oct 99 where he would pursue Liu's life story for the next five months.
"That's a writer's life—indulging your curiosity, and not only indulging your curiosity in terms of pursuing it but sometimes taking a long time, having the patience to stay with the subject," says Talese of how Liu became so central to his narrative of nonfiction craft and its relationship to the writer's experience. The Los Angeles Times in a profile of Talese calls the Beijing trip his biggest reporting challenge, comparing his work there to Truman Capote's Midwestern sojourn while researching In Cold Blood. Both Talese and Capote, far removed from Manhattan, were exemplars of the non-native. "Especially with a language barrier," Talese continues, "you're not going to get much from what people say, because they're guarded with a foreigner. … So the language as spoken isn't as important as your capacity to hang out with people, to spend time with them, to observe."
Talese set about writing the interior of Liu's life—literally from inside 74 Wuding Hutong, part of a warren of communal dwellings in downtown Beijing decimated in anticipation of the 2008 Olympics. This was where Liu was reared, where her football boots formed part of the landscape of household effects. Talese knew that Liu was not a central character in world football, but a symbol of cultural transformation. Through Liu's moment of mass-consumed anguish, Talese could speak of gains and losses at the level of society, especially within the erratically unfolding story of Chinese women's physical liberation. "I imagine their grandmothers having bound feet," Talese says of the women soccer players of China, "and here are the granddaughters running around in cleated sneakers in front of the world kicking the ball."
Historians of Chinese sport date the cessation of footbinding, a thousand-year-old custom, to challenges to Confucianism mounted by spirited peasant women in the mid–19th century and also to the arrival of Christianity, which helped bring to women "the normality of unmutilated limbs." In millennia past, based on evidence preserved in fresco paintings, women had participated in the stylized kicking game of cuju, one of football's earliest forms. In the modern era, as early as 1924, a physical-education teacher in Shanghai translated an English football rule book into Chinese. Backed by the school principal, who saw soccer as symbol of sexual liberation, women students started playing the game against men. Such physical emancipation continued under Communism, motivated by a desire to boost military and economic development.
But despite Maoist rhetoric of women "holding up half the sky," Liu's penalty-kick miss in Talese's work presages a cataclysm of loss. Her sobs, transmitted via telephone to Beijing early on Sunday morning, spread in close quarters within the hutong. Her twin sister must apologize on her behalf; her grandmother, Madam Zhang, cloaks the television screen in black. "It is a part of life," she tells neighbors. In the coda to the book, we learn that this hutong lies in ruins, an early victim of the Olympic improvements. Although Talese followed her career for several more years, Liu fades from view as she faded from the consciousness of most Americans, drunk with victory, on July 10, 1999.
At last contact, in 2003 or 2004, Talese says that Liu, now 35, was teaching high school soccer. "That's a worthy profession," he says.
In this chiastic framing of A Writer's Life, the writer's regard for craft develops in parallel to Liu's existence. At the opening Talese confesses a conflicted relationship to the game ("I am not now, nor have I ever been, fond of the game of soccer"). Liu meets her nadir as Talese acknowledges his own fascination with defeat. But to him, the women players exist at a remove, as objects for consumption. Talese rakes his subconscious for forthright observations that are far from politically correct:
It … appeared to me that the Americans' bodies were more curvesome and fully feminine than the Chinese. The latter were inclined to be quite narrow-hipped and boyish in figure, and, with one or two exceptions, to have smaller breasts than the Americans. Actually, I had not noticed large-breasted women on either team.
He does not stop there. Talese momentarily imagines them "gamboling in G-strings in a rain forest on the Playboy Channel."
By the end, however, Talese's affection for truth-telling and for his subject expresses itself. Liu Ying, whom he had identified in project notes as the "wrong-footed Chinese soccer maiden," has become a human being, even heroic, situated within the classic Chinese appreciation for long-suffering women able to eat bitterness (chi ku). Talese has ventured across boundaries of the known world and brought himself to a new vantage point. Both soccer player and author have taken a great leap forward.
Note: An excerpt from Talese's writing on Liu Ying is available in The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press).
Fan Hong, Footbinding, Feminism, and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China, Sport in the Global Society (London: Frank Cass, 1997); Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan, "Will the 'Iron Roses' Bloom Forever? Women's Football in China: Changes and Challenges," chap. 3 in Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era, ed. Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan, Sport in the Global Society (London: Frank Cass, 2004), 47–66; Jere Longman, "The Great Wall of China," chap. 6 in The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World (New York: HarperCollins, 2000); Mei Fong and Loretta Chao, "The Great Women of China," Wall Street Journal, 13 Jun 08; Gay Talese, A Writer's Life (New York: Knopf, 2006).
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The Paris Review (summer 09) queries Talese about his writing techniques (Katie Roiphe, "Gay Talese: The Art of Nonfiction No. 2"). He discloses that he takes notes on cardboard from dry-cleaned shirts. "I cut the shirt board into four parts and I cut the corners into round edges, so that they can fit in my pocket," he says. "I also use full shirt boards when I'm writing my outlines. I've been doing this since the fifties."


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