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Sona has an effortless ability to blend different musical styles, not just between the West and Africa, but also between West African musical genres. She uses her innovative stance to talk about issues to do with cultural identity, gender, love and respect whilst still referencing and rooting herself firmly in her traditional cultural heritage. Sona represents her tradition in a way that is easily accessible to her audiences from around the world, who are drawn in by her captivating voice, strong rhythms and catchy melodies.
One of Sona's most captivating qualities is her voice. Although only pursuing her ability to sing later in life, she has fast been gaining a reputation for her voice alone. Most recently Sona's vocals were featured in the Hollywood blockbuster movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" which was released in the United Kingdom in January 2014.
As an ardent advocator of tradition Sona has been working on setting up Gambia's first manding music school alongside her father Sanjally Jobarteh over the past year which is dedicated to cultivating knowledge and expertise in traditional music and culture amongst the next generation of young Gambians. Named after her grandfather Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, Sona's intent is for the success of this school to stand as an enduring testament to the invaluable legacy he left behind.
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Are you tired of receiving 3 blue scarves, 2 red ties and bottle of wine that you don't even like for Christmas? For those who don't know what to ask for Christmas and for those who want to give themselves an important gift, today I share with you the best financial book you can read depending on what situation you are in.
You want to create more income for retirement: THE 4 HOUR WORKWEEK by Tim Ferris
I received this book last year and this is by far one of my favorite. Some people will say that Tim is selling an unrealistic dream; I can tell you that I am not far from his "reality". I think this book is a great motivation booster while giving tricks to someone who really wants to put in the effort to create a passive source of income.
You want to pay off your debts and manage your finances differently: UNAUTOMATE YOUR FINANCE by Adam Baker from Man Vs Debt.
I must confess, I really like Adam's style. He is one of his own kind and he proves it once again with this great book. You will read how to "unlearn" what you know about personal finance and reorganize it in a very effective way. It's a great book if you don't know where to start with your budget. Click here to view more details
You want to learn the basics of investing: Oblivious Investing by Mike Piper from The Oblivious Investor
Mike is a great blogger and he shares his knowledge in this book about investing. It is a very easy to read guide on how to invest. A must if you want to start your investing journey on the right foot!
You want to open or contribute to an RESP for your kids: THE RESP GUIDE by Mike Holman from Money Smarts Blog
Here again, the RESP is a weird beast created by the Canadian Government. Most people know it's for their children's tuition but they don't know about its full potential. If you want to learn more about this great gift from the Government, this is the book to buy.
You want to learn the basics of financial planning and have no knowledge of personal finance: THE WEALTHY BARBER by David Chilton.
This is the most complete and easy to read guide to personal finance. By going through the story of 3 friends, you will learn how to manage several aspect of your finance such as insurance, debt management, investing, etc. You will read it within a weekend!
You want to sell what's accumulated in your garage for the past 3 years and make extra money: SELL YOUR CRAP by Adam Baker
We all have tons of things that we don't use anymore. They usually gather dust in your basement or garage. Adam shows you a step by step method to sell most of your stuff and get the best you can on each thing sold. Sell your crap and pay off your debt with them!
Be creative and offer an eBook
I have built an interesting list of the best personal finance ebook over at Green Panda Treehouse. Most of them are free. So you just have to print them and create your own book ;-).
There are tons of good financial books to offer for Christmas
I personally think that offering a personal finance book is a great gift for anybody. Giving someone the chance to improve their financial situation is definitely one of the most lucrative gifts you can give. These are my personal choice. I have read each one of them and enjoyed them big time. Some are funny, some are very practical and they are all very interesting.
If you have more books to suggests, please leave a comment. This will create a huge list for all our readers, thanks ;-).

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I finally got around to updating ScriptExport to the official iPhoto '08 export plugin SDK, added a nice icon and treated this as a good excuse to call it 1.0. You can get the result in the usual place. Here's the ChangeLog:
When you've got a project like ScriptExport that uses an undocumented plugin API for an Apple product you tend to greet product releases (and even updates) with a bemused sigh. The iPhoto export API has actually been pretty stable, but it's always unsettled me to think of the extra work in store if Apple [...]
It looks like the MacWeb has finally noticed my baby! No, not that one. The ugly one. And hey, I got a shout out from no less than John Gruber, which probably single-handedly advances me a degree or two closer to Kevin Bacon.
It's a nice feeling to see your name in the [...]
I just put up ScriptExport 0.3. Get it while it's hot!
This version fixes a file-descriptor leak that caused a crash after exporting about 200 items. The new version has been tested with about 1500 items and all is well.
In my continuing quest for blogging/content-management bliss I've decided to migrate my website to WordPress. The migration has been painful, but now it appears to be complete enough that I can take the site live. You probably aren't noticing any dramatic differences, since I ported my oh-so-sexy green and orange theme to WordPress, [...]
I just uploaded ScriptExport 0.2. This version improves compatibility so that SE can be used with iPhoto 5. It also has a new help file that's still ugly (unstyled) but not ugly anymore (hideous TextEdit.app HTML). Get it while it's hot!
There are lots of great iPhoto export plugins out there. There's FlickrExport, iPhotoToGallery, Photon, and so on and so on. Each of these has a specific job and performs it admirably. However, there are times when your needs are more specialized and you just have to do your own thing. That's where ScriptExport [...]


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The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Written by by Edward Albee
- Australian Premiere 2003
- by Melbourne Theatre Company
Triple Olivier Award-winner Philip Quast returns from London to star with AFI Award-winner Wendy Hughes in the Australian Premiere of Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, directed by MTC Associate Director Kate Cherry.
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? concerns an architect who - in the same week that he's received an international prize, been awarded a lucrative contract, and celebrated his 50th birthday - is forced to confess to his wife and son that he's involved in a relationship that will probably destroy his marriage, his career, and his life.
Peter Curtin (Summer of the Seventeenth Doll) also features in the cast. The creative team includes Richard Roberts (set and costume design), Rory Dempster (lighting) and Paul Grabowsky (music).
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? contains adult themes, sexual references and strong language.
Exploring the mystery of sexuality
The Age February 21 2003, review by Helen Thomson
- By Edward Albee, directed by Kate Cherry.
- Fairfax Theatre until March 29.
With The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Edward Albee has certainly made good his promise to stir up theatre-goers.
The play crosses boundaries of all kinds and raises issues that are so remote from our everyday experiences, we don't even talk about them. If you thought there was nothing left to reveal about sex, then perhaps you haven't given bestiality enough consideration.
It's something that might lead to an off-colour joke or two, but Albee takes it much further. This is not a story about rural farmhands up to no good in the barn. It is about a leading 50-year-old New York architect who suddenly, inexplicably, falls in love with a goat.
He calls her Sylvia, and the brief reference to a passage from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona - "Who is Sylvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her?" - only adds an ironic edge to a situation as tragic as it is absurd.
Albee has dealt with the absurd before, most recently in The Play About the Baby, performed in Melbourne by Red Stitch Actors Theatre last November. This is a black, tragi-comic play that makes us laugh, then pulls the rug from under our feet with the theft of a baby who may - or may not - be real. Sylvia also tests our sense of probability. Like Stevie (Wendy Hughes), wife of the goat-loving Martin (Philip Quast), incredulity is one of our first reactions.
The play begins by setting up what appears to be a classic marital comedy. The fact that infidelity seems to be a recurring subject of conversation suggests that this will also have a familiar plot of sexual betrayal. It certainly does, and incorporates, in a devastating conclusion, a classic act of revenge.
The reactions of two others are important; Ross (Peter Curtin) an old friend of Martin's, and Billy (Simon Corfield), Martin and Stevie's vulnerable 17- year-old son, struggling to understand his apparent homosexuality.
But it is the titanic struggle between man and wife that is at the heart of the play, and this has an intensity at least equal to what Albee created in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In both cases, it is the strength of the love between the couples that fuels the rage.
Wendy Hughes is simply magnificent. The range of emotions she expresses, and arouses, is huge, from an alienated distaste to a rage that is positively incandescent. She instantly understands, as Martin does not, that he has broken something that cannot be mended. As she gradually reduces their clean, smart apartment to rubble, this point is graphically demonstrated.
Philip Quast is equally impressive as Martin. His is the more difficult role, for obvious reasons. And Albee does not make the mistake of suggesting that what has happened to this character is in any way explicable. So Martin cannot really account for himself or the powerful emotions that have swept him into unknown territory. The mystery at the heart of this play remains just that.
In a key scene between father and son, Albee does suggest that sexual impulse can come from inappropriate sources, but that it should be understood as just that, not as a permanent affliction. Simon Corfield gives a wonderfully touching performance as Billy, a child-man suddenly crossing a minefield, unsure of his own sexuality and facing the collapse of the family unit that anchors him to certainty.
Peter Curtin gives a suitably reined-in performance as the "everyman" friend, whose reaction can give the measure of what the rest of the world might do if Martin's story became public.
Albee actually enters the contentious Peter Singer territory of extending animal rights to the sexual realm in this play, although it is never argued in these terms. It is sexuality itself that is the mystery, although what makes Sylvia so confronting is the involvement of emotion - Martin's claim to be in love.
Director Kate Cherry demonstrates her mastery of contemporary American drama in this production in which an economy of dramatic gesture keeps the almost-unspeakable in tight control.
- Stage Left, Melbourne's Online Theatre Magazine, 22 February 2003
- Reviewed by Narrelle Harris
Edward Albee is not a playwright for the faint-hearted. He draws his material from way, way out on the fringe and approaches it from unexpected and disturbing angles. His recent The Play About the Baby was a prime example.
Sometimes it can be difficult to see beyond Albee's confronting imagery to the underlying theme. And it doesn't come much more confronting than The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Martin (Philip Quast) is a successful architect, happily married. Then his perfect life shatters when he confides to his best friend Ross (Peter Curtin) that he is having an affair. With a goat.
It's funny, shocking, disturbing, sad and tragic by turns. And also very literate and entertaining, Albee's trademark obsession with language shining through. Witness the playful word games indulged in by all members of the family, even in the midst of terrible rage and the destruction of their lives.
The Goat boasts a superb cast. Wendy Hughes is magnificent as Martin's wife Stevie. And surely only an actor of Quast's calibre could carry off the disturbing yet very sympathetic role of the goat-lover, Martin. Simon Corfield ably supports them as their emotionally vulnerable son Billy, and Curtin as their "best friend" Ross.
It is not a play about bestiality, although this is the kick Albee has used to lay open his story. Instead, The Goat looks at how we treat those who act outside the norm.
He has used an extreme example; but Ross' choice to punish rather than help his friend is a demonstration of the self-righteousness, judgementalism and hypocrisy of society towards anyone who is "different".
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? isn't an easy play to approach. It needs an open mind and a willingness to go where it takes you. But it is intelligent, involving and entirely worth the effort.
- Expect some gruff responses to this shaggy goat story
- Interview by Shaunagh O'Connor, Herald Sun 19 February 2003
For a pair who have only just met, Wendy Hughes and Philip Quast are amazingly lovey dovey. The actors have admired each other from afar, but the latest Melbourne Theatre Company production is the first time they have worked together, both arriving from Sydney to star in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
"I changed my flight so I could sit next to her,'' Quast says.
Their rapport can only help when it comes to playing a married couple in strife in Edward Albee's new play. Hughes says she was drawn to the play in the time it took to read the script. "Once I discovered what's happening, my mouth just fell open,'' she says. "It's different. Then I couldn't stop reading it because it's so powerful, the characterisations are well drawn, and I just couldn't wait to smash all that furniture.''
Overturning tables and crashing objets d'art is all part of her character's reaction after discovering her until-now faithful husband has been having an affair with a, um, goat. Playwright Albee, of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'? fame, adds Martin's confused, gay, teenage son Billy to the mix.
"This is the first production outside Broadway, which makes it very attractive, "Quast says. "It's been very successful there. It's wonderfully controversial in a way that's not sensationalist, in a way that makes the audience think and confronts them.''
Last year's Tony Award winner for best play, The Goat was first performed in New York by Bill Pullman and Mercedes Ruehl. "The story goes that Albee wrote it at the time of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky thing and it was partially a response to that, "Quast says. "And the more we get in to it, we think how did that connect? But it's probably that people were more worked up about a blow job than they were about killing 170,000 in Iraq, and the questions of: What is truth, what is important?''
Quast and Hughes say they expect walkouts from shocked audience members during the show, which examines a man's obsession with a goat, sexual taboos, and a wife's reaction to her husband's news. "The play's about what is shocking and how much people will accept,'' Hughes says. "And reading an interview that Albee did, he was saying he finds the theatre now very safe and not confronting, and he wanted to write something that was definitely going to be controversial and shock people. He was sick of safe theatre.''
London-based Quast comes to the play after a career spanning everything from a role on The Young Doctors to performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company. "My career's been a hotchpotch, and I think Wendy and I have the same philosophy on hotchpotches,'' the actor says. "A bit of this and a bit of that. Not necessarily doing this because it will lead to that, but doing this because it's good for you or, 'I feel like doing that'."
Hughes' career, too, has crossed TV, theatre and film, including her fair share of period pieces, such as 'Careful He May Hear You', 'Power Without Glory', 'My Brilliant Career' and 'An Indecent Obsession'.
Review by Martin Ball, The Australian 21 February 2003
AMERICAN playwright Edward Albee has made a habit of beginning his plays with a seemingly bright and happy couple, whom he then proceeds to destroy piece by piece with Sophoclean wrath and fury. In 'The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?', we meet the successful architect Martin (Philip Quast) and his wife Stevie (Wendy Hughes). Martin has just turned 50, is showered with prizes and has a major new contract. So who is Sylvia? Well, she's the goat, of course, with which (or with whom) Martin has fallen in love and is having a sexual relationship.
Martin's old friend Ross (Peter Curtin) reacts by expressing moral outrage and disgust. Stevie exorcises her dismay by smashing pots and furniture as each detail of the relationship is revealed, finally leaving the house. Only Martin's 16-year-old gay son Billy (Simon Corfield) is able, eventually, to express some emotional bond with his father, though even this is problematic.
Albee's play is ultimately not about bestiality. There is no philosophical debate of the sort in which Peter Singer might engage, about the needs and rights of each party. Rather, Martin's behaviour is mobilised as something beyond the pale, an act for which there is neither understanding nor forgiveness. Like the shards of pottery that cannot be mended, the zoophilia is a metaphor for the gulf of incomprehension between people.
Quast gives a sustained and thoughtful performance as Martin, presenting him as a complex but rational man, desperately seeking a sympathetic audience with whom he can discuss his strange situation. Hughes is mostly in overdrive as the aggrieved wife Stevie. She's fine at the indignation, but her character lacks variation. Richard Roberts's set is exquisite, a beautiful modern house complete with courtyard garden that fits on the Fairfax stage and still leaves room for a Greek wedding's worth of broken pots and glass.
Kate Cherry's production is still a little uneven in rhythm; the first scene is all out of sorts, and the long interplay between Martin and Stevie tends to drag. Albee's play ends as Stevie returns to the house dragging the bloodied carcass of Sylvia, whom she has tracked down in order literally to "kill the beast''. It's a neat ending but wants a second act where the really hard questions are answered, not just asked.
Sunday Herald Sun 23 February 2003, review by Catherine Lambert
This may be one of the most shocking, controversial plays shown by the Melbourne Theatre Company. Which makes its humour and success all the more surprising. Under Kate Cherry's direction, it does not pretend to be anything other than shocking: its chief subject matter is bestiality. However, with a brilliant cast and fine writing by renowned US playwright Edward Albee, Cherry finds a sense of pathos and truth that is powerful and challenging.
The scenario of a successful professional couple being rocked by infidelity and a mid-life crisis is taken a few grotesque steps further by Albee. The infidelity is so unimaginable and horrific that it is sometimes humourous, often perplexing and always tragic.
A rich New York architect, Martin (Philip Quast), has a happy and loyal marriage and family and he has just won a prestigious international prize. But he is unsettled, finally revealing to his best friend that he is having an affair with Sylvia. When Sylvia's identity is revealed, Martin's family is "brought down'' to a level that is foreign to them and terrifying.
The play explores issues of betrayal between husband and wife, father and son and best friends, raising very pointed questions about relationships and their extreme fragility. There are times when performances turn into stylised hysteria, which is uncomfortable but hardly surprising given the confronting subject.
Performances by Philip Quast, Wendy Hughes and Simon Corfield are raw and generous. Hughes is at her best when she is teetering on a precipice between anger and shame and Corfield is a stunning newcomer as the couple's son, Billy. It is all held together in a masterful performance by Quast, whose complex portrayal of Martin gives the play the integrity it needs to become something more than simply shocking.
Review by Chris Boyd, Herald Sun 21 February 2003
Best known for his 1962 play 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', Edward Albee is an acknowledged master of the guilty secret. In his first one-acter, Zoo Story, a shabby young man admits he learned how to live by being cruel to a dog. This latest play from Albee, now in his mid 70s, is a zoo story of a very different kind. No cruelty, as such. Well, only to audiences, not animals. If you're at all squeamish, or don't want the plot spoiled, skip the next paragraph.
The happily married Martin (Philip Quast) has fallen in love with - and begun a sexual relationship with - a goat. It's coincidence, of course, that his son is named Billy, because this is not a comedy. Well, it's not played as a comedy. The opening scene is a superbly rendered slice of midlife marriage in which Martin and his wife Stevie (Wendy Hughes) are utterly familiar to one another. Still loving and gentle. But there are clouds gathering. It seems the fabulously successful architect is losing his wits. Perhaps to Alzheimer's disease.
The big revelation comes at the end of the first scene, when Martin 'fesses up' to his best friend, Ross (Peter Curtin). The rest of the play is one hysterical confrontation after another. While all those around him - perhaps understandably - lose connection with the truth of their roles, Philip Quast manages to play perfectly straight. He is torn between two lovers. It is a mighty performance.
Just as Albee's play systematically smashes conventions of morality, director Kate Cherry neatly draws the connection between our most precious relationships and pottery bowls. Once shattered, they can never be restored. The one truly disturbing thing about this sicko play (don't say I didn't warn you that 'The Goat' makes Bad Boy Bubby look tasteful!) is that none of Albee's characters considers that Martin might have lost the plot. Which makes us question the playwright's motives. Albee makes deft swipes at male hypocrisy - anything goes as long as you're not caught - but he is playing with us. He is experimenting on us.
We would like to thank Ben, Maria, Tina and Kathy for taking the time to provide and send the details of all the interviews and reviews to us.
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The Daniel Island Club recently hired a new Director of Golf to oversee its golf operations and member golf programming. Chris Edwards joined the Daniel Island Club team in February. He leads a staff of 21 and works closely with the club's Golf and Grounds Maintenance and Food and Beverage departments to manage operations for the club's two nationally ranked golf courses, the Beresford Creek course and the Ralston Creek course.
"Chris has already proven to be a valuable member of our team," said Greg Keating, Vice President of Club Operations at the Daniel Island Club. "His outgoing personality and dedication to member service have been noted by many members, and his leadership skills will be a great asset to our golf staff."
Edwards started his golfing career in 1995 as a marshal at the Atlanta Athletic Club. He made his way through the ranks at the exclusive club, eventually becoming Head Professional and helping to host the PGA Championship in 2001. Later in 2001, he moved to South Carolina and took the job as Head Professional at the Golf Club at Briar's Creek, where he served for 12 years before leaving to take his new position at the Daniel Island Club.
"I am honored to be joining the dedicated team at the Daniel Island Club, and I hope that my past experience will benefit members as the club continues to grow," said Edwards.
Located in Daniel Island Park, the golf neighborhood on the north end of Daniel Island, the Daniel Island Club is the island's in-town country club, offering nationally ranked private golf courses by Tom Fazio and Rees Jones and an outstanding collection of swim, tennis, fitness and dining amenities. The club is the primary social and recreational amenity for neighborhood residents. In addition, a limited number of membership opportunities are available for non-property owners. For further information, visit www.danielislandclub.com.
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Report: Centralizing NC fleet would save money
State policy analysts recommend bringing North Carolina's law enforcement vehicles under one management team to save $153,000 a year.
The General Assembly's Policy Evaluation Division delivered a report Monday recommending the Department of Public Safety centralize the management of 2,453 vehicles currently overseen by three different law enforcement agencies.
The report found that inconsistency with policies allowing law enforcement officers to take their vehicles home costs $153,000 in additional fuel and maintenance each year.
DPS officials accepted the report but argued take-home policy exemptions help retain state troopers they would otherwise lose to agencies with more competitive pay. Agency officials said they're already working on centralizing management.
Legislators directed General Assembly staff to incorporate recommendations into two related transportation reform bills.


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Patrick Swayze Loses His Battle With Cancer at 57
Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer. (Learn more about his disease at AOL Health.)
He had put on a remarkably brave face during his illness, working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.
Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.
When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.
"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking," Swayze told ABC's Barbara Walters in a candid interview earlier this year. "Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."
A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.
A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.
It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.
Swayze followed that up with the 1989 action flick "Road House," in which he played a bouncer at a rowdy bar. But it was his performance in 1990's "Ghost" that showed his vulnerable, sensitive side. He starred as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee (Moore) - with great frustration and longing - through a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg.
Swayze said at the time that he fought for the role of Sam Wheat (director Jerry Zucker wanted Kevin Kline) but once he went in for an audition and read six scenes, he got it. Why did he want the part so badly? "It made me cry four or five times," he said of Bruce Joel Rubin's Oscar-winning script in an AP interview.
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"Ghost" provided yet another indelible musical moment: Swayze and Moore sensually molding pottery together to the strains of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." It also earned a best-picture nomination and a supporting-actress Oscar for Goldberg, who said she wouldn't have won if it weren't for Swayze.
"When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said in March 2008 on the ABC daytime talk show "The View."
Over the last year, Swayze's name had been connected with countless death rumors on the cover of tabloid magazines. Swayze had been aggressive of fighting back against the claims of his failing health.
"It's amazing to me that the tabloids such as the National Enquirer print such negative stories about me and my health when there are so many positive things going on in my life right now. I've started a new chemotherapy and, once again, I am one of the lucky ones with pancreatic cancer that is responding well to the treatment," he told PEOPLE.
Among his earlier films, Swayze was part of the star-studded lineup of up-and-comers in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," alongside Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane.
Other '80s films included "Red Dawn," "Grandview U.S.A." (for which he also provided choreography) and "Youngblood," once more with Lowe, as Canadian hockey teammates.
In the '90s, he made such eclectic films as "Point Break" (1991), in which he played the leader of a band of bank-robbing surfers, and the family Western "Tall Tale" (1995), in which he starred as Pecos Bill.
He appeared on the cover of People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991, but his career tapered off toward the end of the 1990s, when he also had stay in rehab for alcohol abuse. In 2001, he appeared in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko," and in 2003 he returned to the New York stage with "Chicago"; 2006 found him in the musical "Guys and Dolls" in London.
Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston, the son of Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze, whose films include "Urban Cowboy." He played football but also was drawn to dance and theater, performing with the Feld, Joffrey and Harkness Ballets and appearing on Broadway as Danny Zuko in "Grease." But he turned to acting in 1978 after a series of injuries.
Within a couple years of moving to Los Angeles, he made his debut in the roller-disco movie "Skatetown, U.S.A." The eclectic cast included Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormack and Billy Barty.
Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa to shine a light on "man's greed and absolute unwillingness to operate according to Mother Nature's laws," he told the AP in 2004.
Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center.
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- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Travis
Swayze truly was one of the few class acts in the sleaze of Hollywood. Ever notice how he NEVER had any nasty tabloid scandals? How brave he was about facing his deadly cancer. How he came from nothing to become one of the biggest stars in the world. He was great.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Blaze
Patrick Swayze will be missed dearly. One of the greatest actors there was. My heart goes out to his family. May he rest in peace.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Survivor!
He put up a good fight, a good example of will, and strength, a good example for others with the same disease such as myself.
God bless him and peace to the family.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Gary
RIP Patrick. Our thoughts and prayers go out to your family. We have lost a great actor.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy karie
What sad news this is. Patrick I will surely miss watching you on the big screen. RIP Patrick.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy mlk
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Vicki
- Monday 14 September
I am so saddened by the Loss of this brave and
talented Man ~ He fought a courageous battle against An Evil Foe! I pray He saw THE LIGHT and CAME To THE LIGHT ~ Patrick You were already Blessed in Spirit ~ In this Life Your Spirit will Live ON in Our Hearts. GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL! My deepest Sympathy to his Soul Mate, His Wife of many, many Years...
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Brittany
Patrick was a good actor. He had a lot of movies but they did not mention the north and south movies he made. I waited every week for the movie to come in the mail for I can watch it. He was a great person. He was a role model for some people. Rest in peace Patrick.
My Prayers go out to his family
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Harold
God Bless you, you were one of the Best !!!
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Karen M Clay
It is difficult enough to battle cancer and pancreatic cancer is one of the worst, but to have to fight it with the media watching your every move, must have been all the more difficult. My thoughts are with his family and friends. Rest In Peace Patrick.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Sissy
What is wrong with AOL? This byline should be displayed first before "Whitney Houston sits down with Oprah". Who gives a rip about that ghetto crackhead? Put up a big photo of Patrick Swayze's smiling face. Show some respect for his life. Besides, no one really watches Oprah anymore.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Hope
i did not know he was deid? when did he die?
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy marie
the article said he died today....
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Phil
57 seems to young to die these days, rest in pease buddy, I get made fun of because every time Road House is in TV I have to pull up a seat and watch it--lol You pulled off the dream dude. God bless you!
- Saturday 19 September
You ever been to Flagstaff,AZ Phil?
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy William
I am so deeply saddened by Patricks way too early passing.To know now he is with God and eternal life and away from suffering of this world.Tahnks for the great movies and shows you did and uyou will always be remembered for the kind soul you are.My your family find peace is knowing your out of pain.Your legacy will live on.God bless all.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy Steph
It's a very sad day .RIP Patrick.
- Monday 14 SeptemberBy kim
growing up, Patrick Swayze was my biggest crush!!! The man I married looked alot like him and he passed away 3 years ago to pancreatic cancer, and now to lose Patrick, the pain comes back! I pray they find a cure for this horrible disease!!!!!
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How could you leave out the "North and South" miniseries??? Fabulous Swayze work!
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Boy Scouts take an oath which includes "to do my duty to God ... and to be morally straight." "Moral," according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online, refers to "right behavior."
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"I don't know where I end and he starts," Maya Rudolph brags of her lookalike boyfriend (OK, her) in the 2005 Saturday Night Live ad for "Me Harmony." And we can't help but wonder if that eerie feeling we get from seeing comedians standing next to themselves in drag is part of what inspired Elle's art department to pose Kristen Stewart with masculine, slicked back hair and wearing a suit, looking on admiringly and possessively at a much more feminine version of herself, all sexed up in a bustier and leather skirt. Or are the magazine's people big fans of Lady Gaga's Jo Calderone act — particularly when the two romance each other on a piano in her "You and I" video? Was Gaga channeling Rudolph, Horatio Sanz and Rob Riggle? Cross-dressing ladies are no new thing (see: ancient history, Shakespeare), nor are stars who poke fun at the narcissism of stardom. But we think Gaga and KStew do a damn sexy job at portraying something so fundamentally creepy as romancing doppelganger, don't you?
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• Scary Stories at the Carter Mansion will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Carter Mansion historic site in Elizabethton, 1031 Broad St. Tales will be told by C. Keith Young, and the Front Porch Storytellers — Mary Jane Kennedy and Chad Bogart. Bring a lawn chair or blanket for this family friendly event. Call 543-5808 or visit www.sycamoreshoalstn.org.
Friday, Oct. 25
• Memorial Park Community Center Pool, 510 Bert St., will host a Pumpkin Swim and Paint Party from 5:30-7 p.m. Admission is $2 per person. Participants will catch a slippery pumpkin in the pool, then paint and decorate their capture. All ages are invited to join this wild and wet fun.
• Jonesborough's Teen Movie Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Jonesborough Library. The film will be "Hocus Pocus." The program is free and open to students in grades 6 through 12. Registration is required. To register, call the Jonesborough Library at 753-1800 or the Gray Library at 477-1550.
• Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 212 Sunset Drive (just above the Mall), wil have Trunk or Treat at 6:30 p.m. There will be food, fun, games, scary pictures and more. All are welcome. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/OSLC.TrunkorTreat or call 282-2313.
• The Southwest Virginia 4-H Educational Center will be hosting the fourth annual Pumpkin Walk on Oct. 25 and 26 at the 4-H Center in Abingdon, Va. On Friday from 4-8 p.m., there will be a Carving Party in Ratliff Hall. Every one is invited to carve pumpkins that will be featured in the Pumpkin Walk on Saturday night. All pumpkins, stencils and carving tools will be provided free of charge.
Activities will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. There will be a safe trick-or-treat throughout the evening. Walk the grounds and see more than 100 pumpkins carved and lit for display. A costume contest with prizes will be held at 7:30 p.m. The carved pumpkins will be auctioned at 8:30 p.m., with all proceeds benefiting the 4-H Center. Call 276-676-6180 with any questions. The 4-H Center is located at 25236 Hillman Highway.
• Christian Care Center's annual fall festival and trunk or treat will be held from 5-8 p.m. at 140 Technology Lane. Businesses are invited to decorate a vehicle for truck or treating. Prize awarded to the best decorated truck. Arrive an hour early to find a space and set up before the main event. For information, call 434-2016.
• Hands On! Regional Museum will hold its second annual BOO!Seum from 5-7 p.m. in the museum ballroom. It will include treats, games, science experiments, arts and crafts and more. Wear your most festive costume and bring your own trick-or-treat bag. Admission to the event and activities are free (while supplies last). The exhibit area will be closed. This event contains nuts and soy as well as small parts that may not suitable for children under 3. Call 434-HAND or visit handsonmuseum.org.
• Tri-Cities Talent Costume Ball and Freak Show will be held from 7:30-9 p.m. in the Kingsport Renaissance Center Theater, 1200 E. Center St. The event is open to ages 3-14. The fee is $10 per family. There will be an age-appropriate haunted house, face painting, games, a costume contest and refreshments. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for details.
• Bays Mountain Park, Kingsport, will host its annual Halloween Haunt from 7-11 p.m., Oct. 25-26, at the park. Includes a Haunted Forest, which is not recommended for children under 12. Call 229-9447.
• Witches Wynd will be held at 8 p.m., Oct. 25-26 at The Exchange Place. Tickets required. Call 288-6071 or visit www.exchangeplace.info.
• "Harvest of Souls II" will be held at LampLight Theatre, Kingsport, Oct. 25-27 and Oct. 29-31. Shows are at 6:30 nightly, with additional shows at 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. General admission with a suggested donation of $8. Reservations aren't required, but recommended.
This production sheds some light on the history of "All Hallows Eve" steeped in pagan customs. Tattie Bogal, an evil scarecrow, will entice you to enter her twisted world. If you aren't careful, Muck Olla will deceive you into believing his lies as he unleashes his plethora of demonic spirits. When this hellish troupe comes to town for the second year, several teenagers who have forgotten the aftermath of the previous year's festival are hoodwinked by the power of The Boogey Man, who is out to reap their souls. Some fall prey to his traps. Little do they know the eternal impact that this encounter will have on their mortal lives. Their destiny in the "after-life" hangs in the balance as choices are made under the influence of principalities and dark forces.
Mortality Room's "Harvest of Souls II" is not for everyone. Due to its true-to-life situations and scary images, this show is rated PG-13. For reservations and information, call the LampLight box office at 343-1766, Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. or visit www.lamplighttheatre.com.
• Theatre Bristol Young Actors Guild presents A Night Of Not-So-Scary Halloween One-Acts, Oct. 25 and 26, featuring "Ghost Hunters of Route 66," "Touched By an Alien," and "Superhero Support Group" written by D.M. Larson. The production features three separate one-act plays with intermediary acts performed by members of Theatre Bristol's Young Actors Guild.
Audiences are invited to get into the Halloween spirit and come to the show dressed as their favorite ghost, alien, superhero, or any other not-so-scary character.
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• East Tennessee State University and the General Shale Natural History Museum and Visitors Center at the Gray Fossil Site will host a day of Zombie Tag on the ETSU campus. Proceeds from the day will benefit the museum and help provide state-of-the-art exhibits and science education. The festival area, located at the intersection of John Robert Bell Drive and North Dossett Drive (between the Mini Dome and the parking garage), will have face painting, zombie makeup and photo booths set up for all guests to enjoy. The day begins at 10 a.m. with a Zombie 5K.
The Kids' Event, for ages 5-12 will be held from noon-2 p.m. Zombie Tag for those ages 12-17 will be held at 2 p.m. on the main campus. A game for those ages 18 and up begins at 5 p.m. The goal of Zombie Tag is to "survive" the game. Each player is required to wear a black shirt over a white shirt, with the black shirt denoting "human." As players are tagged, they must remove their black shirts to reveal their white shirts, which indicates "zombie."
Participation in the 5K is $20 ($15 for ETSU students) and includes an event T-shirt. Tickets for Zombie Tag are $12 at the gate or $10 when you buy advance tickets online for the teen and adult events. Kids' event tickets are $5.
More information can be found and tickets purchased at http://zombietix.com.
• The 5th annual Haunted Half Marathon and Boo to Brew 4-Person Relay will begin in Kingsport at 3 p.m. The race is expected to draw around 1,300 participants, many dressed in full Halloween costume. The half marathon features a flat double-loop course with bands, music and other entertainment along the course. The start, finish and all race activities will be located near the new Farmers Market and Kingsport Chamber of Commerce.
The Boo to Brew 4-Person Relay draws over 100 teams with four runners splitting up the 13.1 mile distance, with each team member handing off a wristband from one team member to the next.
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• A Kids Fun Zone will be set up in the Kingsport Farmers Market parking lot at 2 p.m. $5 admission for all ages.
• Rockin' the Hallows Halloween party will be held inside the Kingsport Farmers Market building beginning at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 (sold at the gate or online at rockinthehallows.com), and include music from Travis O'Quinn, Catfish Frye Band, Ivy Road, Benny Wilson and Wolfcreek. A costume contest with a $1,000 prize for ages 18+ (entry fee required) will be held at 9:45.
• The Little City Roller Girls will present "Night of the Rolling Dead" — LCRG vs. the NRV All Stars from Christiansburg, Va. — at 4 p.m. at the Appalachian Fairgrounds Farm & Home Building. The event will feature costume contests, prize giveaways and "Zombiefication." Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door, kids 10 and under free. Tickets are on sale at Energy Fitness in downtown Johnson City or online at BrownPaperTickets.com. Find out more at www.LittleCityRollerGirls.com or on Facebook.
• David Crockett High School is hosting a Fall Festival from 2-6 p.m. The event is sponsored by Pioneer Parents and Partners who work to support the school through fundraising and promoting parental involvement. All proceeds go to support DCHS.
The festival will feature something for all ages including Jonesborough arts and craft vendors, antique tractors and cars, emergency vehicles, a cornhole tournament, games and activities for children, karaoke, costume contests, cakewalks, an air rifle contest, Zombie Zones, and silent and live auctions. Barbecue, hotdogs and hamburgers will be some of the food items available for purchase.
Kids 12 and under may bring two canned food items for two free tickets to be used for games. Donations are for Second Harvest Food Bank. Call 753-1150 for information.
• Abingdon's Haunted Jail will be open Oct. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 from 6-9 p.m. nightly, at Holston Mountain Artisans, in the old Washington County (Va.) jail, 216 Park St. The artisan co-op purchased the jail and the event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit. The haunted house is appropriate for ages 8 and up. This event doesn't have the guts and gore that some events feature.
On Halloween evening the faint of heart and younger children can participate in a trunk or treat and harvest games. Apple cider, hot chocolate and baked goods will be for sale in the Artisans Annex. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children 12 and younger. Visit www.holstonmtnarts.org for information.
• Johnson City Parks and Recreation will host a free Super Spooky Saturday event for all ages at Winged Deer Park. From 5-7 p.m., families can enjoy arts and crafts, snacks, a pumpkin patch and more. From 7-9 p.m., participants can take a hayride through the haunted forest. Parents are asked to plan accordingly because the darker the sky, the scarier the ride. All activities will be held at the Robert Young Cabin, adjacent to the Park and Recreation Administration Office at Winged Deer Park.
For more information, call 283-5815.
• HOWLoween with ETSN will be held at Tractor's Supply, Elizabethton, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. This pet event includes pet photos for $5, a costume contest, spooky bake sale, free dog training demonstrations, microchipping for $20, and vendor booths. Proceeds benefit East Tennessee Spay & Neuter. Call 289-5548 or visit www.etnspay-neuter.org for information.
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Sunday, Oct. 26
• The American Cancer Society's Bark for Life event will be held in Storytelling Park, behind the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough from 2-4 p.m. This dog-friendly event is a fundraiser for ACS. Activities include a "strut your mutt" pet parade, costume contest, trick contests, a raffle, vendors, demonstrations by a K-9 police dog and more. Sign up and begin fundraising at www.BarkforLifeWashington County.org. Donations should be turned in at the event. The top 13 fundraising dogs will be featured in the 2014 Bark For Life calendar by Happy Tails Magazine. Call 975-0635 or visit the website for more information.
• Duct Tape Madness Masquerade Ball will be held at The Charles, downtown Johnson City. This is a two-part costume competition and masquerade ball. All competing costumed must be made out of Duct Tape.
A children's party and costume contest, face painting and activities, will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Beginning at 8 p.m., Plankeye Peggy will begin playing carnival rock, a gift shop will open with Duct Tape items available, face and body artists will be there and the organizers are attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most Duct Tape used in one event.
All labels from rolls used must be presented at door for tabulation to be included in the Guinness Record. For information, visit www.ducttapemadnessball.com.
Monday, Oct. 27
• Milligan College will host its annual Trunk or Treat event from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held in the parking lot of Milligan's Faculty Office Building, a new location for the festivities. The building is located behind Milligan's McMahan Student Center, and parking for the event is available behind the Gregory Center for the Liberal Arts.
Milligan students will dress in costume and decorate their cars to house a variety of treats for participants. Trunk or Treat is sponsored by Linking Individuals to the Needs of the Community. The LINC volunteer center is a student-run organization that connects Milligan students to volunteer needs in the surrounding community.
For more information, contact LINC at 461-8711.
• The Jonesborough Yarn Exchange once again brings the old-fashioned radio hour to the International Storytelling Center stage at 7 p.m. with songs, skits and stories dedicated to sharing untold stories of Halloween traditions and tales. The show will also be recorded for a future broadcast on WETS, 89.5 FM and is part of Jonesborough's Mary B. Martin Program for the Arts.
Seating is limited, and tickets are available for $5 for adults and $3 for children. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the night of the performance, or at the Historic Jonesborough Visitor's Center by calling 753-1010 and visiting http://jonesboroughtheatre.com.
• There'll be a Teen Halloween Party from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Jonesborough Library. Students ages 12 to 17 are invited to put on their spookiest or funniest costume and take part in free activities, including a costume contest and games. Pizza and fun Halloween-themed refreshments will be served. Space is limited and registration is required. Call 753-1800.
Halloween, Friday, Oct. 31
• Carver Recreation Center, 322 W. Watauga Ave., will host a Halloween Festival from 6-9 p.m. Kids in costume will be admitted for $1; all others $3. Game tickets will be available for 50 cents. This event is open to all ages and will feature a "King and Queen" contest, inflatables, football toss, basketball shoot, dart throw and much more. Call 461-8830 for more information.
• Memorial Park Community Center, 510 Bert St., invites citizens to celebrate Halloween at the center, with two special events:
• Chills and Thrills Trunk or Treat for all ages, 5-7 p.m. Bring the family and enjoying a little trick-or-treat fun in the parking lot, arts and crafts activities, a costume contest (6 p.m.) and warm apple cider. A pumpkin carving station will also be available for $1 per pumpkin.
• Monster Mash Teen Dance for ages 13-17, 7-9 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. Enjoy music provided by a local DJ with a few Halloween favorites thrown in the mix. Drop-off at 7 p.m.; pick-up no later than 9 p.m.
Call MPCC at 434-5750 for more information.
• Mall-O-Ween at The Mall at Johnson City will be held from 5-8 p.m. The event includes trick-or-treating and a costume contest.
• Ghosts and goblins will be roaming Walnut Street in Johnson City during the annual Trick or Treat on Walnut Street event from 3:30-5 p.m. All of Walnut Street will be participating, but the street will be closed to car traffic from Southwest Avenue to University Parkway. For more information, call 461-4550.
• Talking Heads Halloween Costume Contest will be held during Trick or Treat on Walnut Street, from 3-5:30 p.m. (winners announced at 5:30) at the Acoustic Coffeehouse's Next Door venue, 15 W. Walnut St. Public admission is $5, all ages welcome. First place wins $50. Be judged by the weird and fabulous family of "Talking Heads."
This contest is to raise public art funds for Southside Neighborhood (aka the Tree Streets) for a bike-inspired art project. For more information, call 833-8474, email email@example.com or visit www.facebook.com/artlandiajc.
Friday, Nov. 1
• Halloween Haunts & Happenings will be held on Main Street in downtown Historic Jonesborough from 6-8 p.m. This completely free event includes games, ghost stories, a costume contest and trick-or-treating.——— Halloween-themed attractions ———
• Cleek Farms and Corn Maze, 2233 Cleek Road, Kingsport, offers a five-acre corn maze and the Farm of Fears through Nov. 2. Call 765-3123 or visit www.cleekfarms.com.
• Fender's Farm, 254 Highway 107, Jonesborough, offers a seven-acre corn maze and three-acre Field of Screams through Nov. 3. Also available this year: Redneck Zombie Paintball. Call 753-4469 or visit www.fendersmaze.com.
• Myers Farm, 3415 Gap Creek Road, Bulls Gap, offers a 24-acre corn maze and a 9-acre Trail of Terror through Oct. 31. Call 235-4796 or visit www.myerspumpkinpatch.com.
• Stickley Farm Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, 531 Timbermill Private Drive, Bluff City, offers a regular maze and a haunted maze through Oct. 31. Also available this year: Ziplash, a 1,000-foot zipline. Call 306-9994 or 306-2173 or visit www.thestickleyfarm.com.
• The Painter Hollow Haunted Barn, 337 Montgomery Ave., Church Hill, opens at dusk on Fridays and Saturdays in October. Visit the Painter Hollow Haunted Barn Facebook page for details.
• Appalachian GhostWalks — Tours include locations in Erwin, East Tennessee State University, Tipton-Haynes, Johnson City, Jonesborough, Greeneville, Blountville, Appalachian Caverns, Bristol, Abingdon, Rogersville, Dandrige and Gatlinburg. Visit www.appalachianghostwalks.com or www.appalachianghostwalks.com or call 743-9255.
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Kilema Hospital is situated in the Moshi region of Tanzania on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. It is run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Kilimanjaro and has a catchment of around 228,000. This was the very first hospital in this area to be set up by the European missionaries. They chose this site – high up on a hill – because the place was too high for the mosquitoes so there is virtually no malaria caught in the area. The place is beautiful, and pine trees (planted by the missionaries to remind them of home) grow alongside lemon and orange trees. To reach the hospital it is necessary to travel on very poor roads up the slope of the mountain and in the rainy season this is virtually but not quite impossible. Years of rains and poor upkeep have turned the only road to the hospital into a rutted dried up river bed in the dry season. Because of their position they have a good supply of clean water from the hills above.The hospital is today recognised by the Government as a Designated District Hospital, which means the staff salaries are paid, but the subsidies in no way cover all the hospital's expenses. Inter Care medicines enable the very poorest to be treated free. Dr Ignace Massawe and his team look after the 150 bedded hospital which has to cope with very little in the way of equipment.Inter Care visited the hospital in September 2009 and saw the beautiful new care and treatment centre for HIV patients which has 973 patients registered. They are cared for by 3 Clinicians, 2 Pharmacists, 3 Counsellors and 1 Community Liaison Officer. The unit is clearly well organised and used by the people. It was evident that they still need the support of medicines from Inter Care including Patients With Aids (PWA) parcels.On a visit in August 2011, we found that the hospital appeared to be well run, they had Male, Female, Obstetric and Gynaecological wards in addition to maternity and childrens wards and an out-patient department which saw around 70 patients per day. They also performed major surgery and had visits from an eye surgeon. They had an orphan support scheme which gave help to 210 orphans providing them with food and education (the word orphan often means a child who has lost one parent). Many are orphans as a result of AIDS and are being cared for by grandparents or older siblings. The program encourages the children to remain within the community with family members and does home visits.
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President's Message
Dear MSU Students:
I am pleased that you have made Midwestern State University--one of the most architecturally handsome campuses in Texas--your university. Over the course of your career, you will study with faculty who are graduates of some of the most prestigious universities in the nation. As a student at a university with an average student-faculty ratio of 17 to 1, you will learn in an environment that promotes personal attention and encouragement. You'll also have the opportunity to study and conduct research and perform in top-notch science and engineering laboratories, art studios, theatres.
Beyond the classroom, there are numerous other ways to become involved in your university. One is as a supporter of the university's NCAA Division II athletic teams, which include football, women's volleyball and softball, men's and women's basketball, golf, soccer, and tennis, and women's cross-country and indoor/outdoor track. If you haven't seen Division II sports, you will be surprised at the competitive level at which they are played. My philosophy as president is that if MSU is going to have a sports team, we are going to be competitive. The maroon and gold championship banners that hang from the ceiling of Ligon Coliseum are tributes to the success of MSU athletic teams over the years. For those of you who love to play a sport or just love to play around, consider becoming a part of MSU's intramural sports program. Find a team to join or organize your own; either way it will be fun and a healthy escape from the pressures of the classroom. By all means, take a tour of the Bruce and Graciela Redwine Student Wellness Center; become a regular. It's a great place to work out, relax, and socialize.
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Without question, National Geographic is the place to be if you love the science and art of mapmaking. National Geographic Maps' production schedules are full of stimulating and challenging projects, and every so often one of our cartographers gets an assignment that is so near to their heart that it becomes an overriding passion. Juan José Valdés, The Geographer and Director of Editorial and Research at National Geographic Maps, was given such a project in January of this year: a map of Cuba, National Geographic's first large-format map of the island since October 1906.
In August 1961, at age seven, Juan arrived unaccompanied to the U.S. from Cuba. He was one of thousands of Cuban youths who arrived alone in the U.S. from December 1960 through October 1962. Juan spent the next year living with friends until his parents were able to join him in the States. He eventually pursued his passion for cartography, and was hired by the National Geographic Society in 1976, where he has worked ever since.
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Over more than ten years of research in Europe and beyond, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented serious violations of children's rights arising from immigration detention of children.[i] Children may be arbitrarily detained, held in cells with unrelated adults, and subjected to brutal treatment by pol
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Sixteen-year-old Florence was an orphan doing domestic work when the January 2010 earthquake hit Haiti. She moved with the family she worked for to a displacement camp, where her employer raped her. The rapist threatened to harm her even more if she told anyone, so she didn't see a doctor. Besides, she didn't have the money, the means, or the information she needed to get care.
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January 23, 2015 4:00pm - 6:00pm
January 23, 2015 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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The four teams who advance to the Semifinal Rounds of the 2015 Kirkwood Competition will argue before a distinguished panel of judges from the United States District Courts. The panel will include Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, Judge Keith Ellison of the Southern District of Texas, and one judge to be named later.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Cally Macumber was named Southeastern Conference Cross Country Runner of the Year on Friday. The awards were determined by a vote of the league's cross country coaches.
2012 SEC Cross Country Awards
Men's Runner of the Year: Henry Lelei, Texas A&M
Men's Freshman Runner of the Year: Cale Wallace, Arkansas
Men's Coach of the Year: Chris Bucknam, Arkansas
Women's Runner of the Year: Cally Macumber, Kentucky
Women's Freshman Runner of the Year: Hannah Jumper, Vanderbilt
Women's Coach of the Year: Paul Spangler, Florida
Men's All-SEC First Team
Henry Lelei, Texas A&M
Solomon Haile, Arkansas
Eric Fernandez, Arkansas
Kemoy Campbell, Arkansas
Matt Cleaver, Georgia
Peter Okwera, Tennessee
Mark Parrish, Florida
Men's All-SEC Second Team
Hayden Legg, Missouri
Max Storms, Missouri
Luis Orta, Kentucky
Bryant Blahnik, Missouri
Layne Nixon, Arkansas
Brandon Lord, Georgia
Cale Wallace, Arkansas
Women's All-SEC First Team
Cally Macumber, Kentucky
Florence Ngetich, Florida
Chelsea Oswald, Kentucky
Carly Hamilton, Georgia
Grace Heymsfield, Arkansas
Agata Strausa, Florida
Hannah Jumper, Vanderbilt
Women's All-SEC Second Team
Kristen Findley, Vanderbilt
Katie Breathitt, Ole Miss
Andrina Schlaepfer, Arkansas
Diane Robison, Arkansas
Laura Carleton, LSU
Kayla Lampe, South Carolina
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In one of the most important congressional races in Texas, Nick Lampson and Randy Weber are using well-known surrogates to help them win Ron Paul's old House seat. [Read More]
Race to replace Ron Paul: The Houston area's only competitive congressional race
Republican nominee Randy Weber thinks it's a conservative district, but he concedes that "it's a closer race than I would like." His focus is on national Democrats and the candidate at the top of the ticket, rather than on Democratic opponent Nick Lampson. [Read More]
Ron Paul endorses Randy Weber in race to replace him in Congress
Paul joins his former presidential rival, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in Weber's camp. Two other statewide GOP officeholders, Comptroller Susan Combs and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, also are backing Weber. [Read More]
Replacing Ron Paul: Thus far, the incumbent has not endorsed a candidate to succeed him
The favorite in the Republican race is Randy Weber, 58, a two-term state representative from Pearland and the former owner of an air-conditioning company. Paul, who represented the district for 24 years, though not consecutively, endorsed Weber's two campaigns for the Texas House, but so far has not endorsed a successor. [Read More]
Replacing a legend: Candidate for Ron Paul's seat says 'it's sort of like being the coach after Bear Bryant'
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