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By: JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
Above: Referee Dave Ferguson Holds Up The Hand Of Chantein Wasion After Wasion Captures The V3 Lightweight Championship From Tripp Carter. Photo By JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.Com
V3 Fights rocked an electrified capacity crowd in the FedExForum Lobby, Saturday, August 14th. Prior to the kickoff of the event, fans were giving access to fighters for snapshots and autographs.
The main event of the evening showcased V3 Lightweight Champion Tripp Carter (21st Century) and number one contender Chantein Wasion (CTO) in a fight labeled as the most anticipated rematch in V3 Fights' history. In their initial fight, Wasion suffered a fight stopping cut which deferred victory to Carter, who secured the V3 Lightweight Belt.
In round one of the main event both fighters began circling one another in the center of the cage. Wasion threw first but didn't land. Carter struck first with a front kick and both then landed near synchronous left hands. After tangling up, Carter then took Waison to the canvas where the fight remained throughout the round.
Above: Wasion (l) and Carter exchange left hands as the brawl in a Title rematch Saturday night at the FedExForum. Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
In the second stanza Wasion quickly took Carter to the canvas, where the fighters worked, again, throughout the round. Wasion, in dominant position, was able to get some shots off as his corner implored him to posture up and strike.
Above: V3 Lightweight Champion lands a kick in his rematch with Chantein Wasion. Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
In round three the champion appeared to be the stronger and fresher fighter. Carter dominated with effective stand-up striking and connected with big right hands sending Wasion reeling against the cage. Wasion appeared to be in trouble from the start of the round but did manage to bring Carter to the canvas and halt his assault. With seconds left in the fight and both fighters gassed, Wasion dug deep. Chan'DA'man, slipped around behind the Champion and locked in a rear naked choke. Carter tapped out seconds later just before the final round expired.
Above Referee Dave Ferguson Officiate the Carter/Wasion Rematch at V3 Fights August 14 at the FedexForum in Downtown memphis, TN. Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
Wasion rose to his knees, celebrated briefly, then fell back to the canvas in sheer exhaustion. Carter graciously stood and helped lift the new V3 Lightweight Champion to his feet.
Above: Chantein Wasion defeats Tripp Carter to Capture v3 Light Crown.
Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
Wasion brought to his knees
While the main event was engaging, nothing could prepare fight fans for the engagement that came next. As Chan'DA'man celebrated the V3 Lightweight belt now securely affixed around his waste, his girl friend entered the ring. Wasion, before all in attendance, submitted to one knee and proposed to a clearly moved young lady.
Hatley Defeats Hengst by Split Decision
In a heated lightweight bout that carried with it a grudge-match atmosphere, Tyler Hatley (Fight Clinic) fended off Derek Hengst's (Hostile) stand up striking, with ground-and-pound style to grind out a split decision victory.
Above: Hatley strikes Hengst. Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
Holmes Hands Parker first Loss
Fighting at a catch-weight of 140 lbs., Jesse Parker's (Premier) ground-and-pound style was outmatched by a Matt Holmes' (Independent) height and reach advantage. Parker stuck with the same plan for the entire fight but for all the opportunities to impose his style, Holmes managed to slip away. Their bout was stopped for several minutes in the third round after Parker received a finger to the eye with Holmes receiving a warning for accidental poking. Holmes was never in trouble, and won the fight via decision.
Lee Dominates
Zach Lee (DTF) delivered a massive take down just seconds into his fight was Law Purifoy (Mongoose). Purifoy managed to thwart off a constant ground assault from Lee and somehow survive Lee's rear naked choke that lasted nearly the final minute of the first round. (After the fight Lee would say that he had a good grip duing the rear naked choke but the thickness of the gloves may have prevented him from enforcing the submission.)
Purifoy was on the defensive throughout the fight but did connect with a sharp leg kick in the third which Lee quickly answered with one of his own. Lee then took Purifoy to the canvas, where the fight remained through the end of round third. Lee won by decision.
Above: Lee Postures and pounds. Photo by JD Meredith, MemphisMMA.com
Debuting Welters Moses Bushnell (Memphis JJ) and Brandon Smith (Independent) locked up for nearly two minutes before Smith tapped out after finding himself in a rear-naked-choke.
Above: Kevin Global (BANG) lands against Jimmy Osbourne (21st Century). wins via split decision.
Above: In the opener Johnathan Vargas (21st Century) submitted Zach Williams (DTF) by arm bar at 1:06 of round one.
V3 Fights will return September 4, at the Delta Fair.


text: Fabian "Flaco" Bell is a local indie artist whose new tape, Hom3Grown is the soundtrack of a generation on the rise. His verse imparts skillfully constructed patterns and invokes images that spark connection and emotion through masterful word play. It's important to note that a serious car accident derailed the production Hom3Grown. It's release is a testament to the inherent persistence of an artist on a mission. The resulting recording is personal, raw and rooted in a city that is being propelled forward by a generation striving for better. This tape is much more than the tracks that comprise it or the production that frames it. It's a profound and soulful contribution to Baltimore's renaissance.

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Vanilla Spice, 2 sugars
Ok so, this is my first book ever... Warning: it is probably rubbish! Please read it and VOTE COMMENT FAN!!! Hehe, ok ok ok ok I will shut up now!!
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I lifted my nose above my warm fluffy covers and sniffed again. Yup, there was no mistaking it. It was definitely there; I groaned loudly and slumped my head against my pillow again. Letting the delicious smell of sausage and bacon fat fill my lungs. Why? Why were they doing this to me, it was so unfair. I sighed and imagined them sitting there, waiting for me to crack. I lay there warm and comfy pondering the most important question of my life:
Should I carrying sleeping or get up for a full English breakfast on a Saturday morning?
I groaned loudly as I stumbled out of my warm covers and pulled on my fluffy slippers, glancing back longingly at my king size bed I sighed before padding softly through my room and into my bedroom suite foyer and along the glass corridor.
I stared out across the Thames and at the beautiful skyline of London, everything was perfect as usual. The birds were flying swiftly through the low clouds, swarms of people had already gathered on the streets, the grey sky threatened rain as usual! London, this was my home and I had that cliche perfect life, my parents were crazy rich, I was miss popular at my school, everyone knew me and wanted to be me. I had the hot and popular boyfriend, but I hated it. Everything was so fake, it was too perfect I guess. I would find myself staring across at the nerd table at school, seeing them chat about books and laughing at how stupid and fake we were; we were completely fake and I agreed with everything I heard them say. I just wish I could-
"BROOKEY WOOKEY!!!!" a deep voice teased from behind me, there was only person this could be!
"CALVY-BEARY!" I teased back while throwing my trade mark smirk at my idiotic brother. He had no top on and was showing off his 6 pack that he was so proud of! "seriously Cal, put some clothes on!" I carried on teasing him, he just smirked widely at me while ruffling up his already messy blonde hair.
"How was your night then squirt?" he asked genuinely, this was what I loved about my brother. He was the mr. popular in his year, the biggest player and captain of the football team, just like the male version of me, but when it came to it we were close as could be. We both changed from our normal icy cool exteriors and became warm, loving people when it came to each other. I guess that's what happens when you hardly ever see your parents, my 5 maids feel more like family then my parents do; and I know Calvin feels the same.
"It was good I guess, I am still tired though" I yawned while rubbing my eyes. "But-" I started, but Calvin ended my sentence.
"But the only reason your up is because it's a full English breakfast, we know Brooke, we all know." He smirked at me with his trademark smirk, so I threw mine back.
"sometimes I think you know me too well Cal" I thought out loud, whilst we entered the huge glass double doors into the kitchen.
"Well thats because I do" he said suddenly seriously, I just sighed, the smell of eggs took over everything. FOOD! I loved the stuff, I just ate and ate and ate and to Calvin's amusement and all my friends annoyance, I was still beautifully thin! Oh I do have the perfect life I thought happily as I stuffed more sausage into my mouth and Maribella passed me my famous Vanilla spice tea with 2 sugars, it was the only tea I drank and I was addicted to the stuff!
"So, Maribella what are you up to today?" I asked genuinely facing my maid (but more like my mum) as she turned more bacon in the pan.


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Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Catalyst 5000 Family Supervisor Engine III with NFFC I & II and associated daughter card upgrades. The last day to order the affected product(s) is April 30, 2000. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available until the termination date of the contract, even if this date exceeds the Last Date of Support shown in Table 1.
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For use with our Geometric Cabinet (sold separately).
Consists of 96 color digital imaged printed cards. Each card measures 4.25" x 5.5".
For ages 3 and up.
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Magazine Wars: September
On the cover: In 2011, Sonam Kapoor has had a longer streak of magazine covers than tennis player Novak Djokovic has had of championship titles. Despite the cover fatigue, we have to give it to Ms. Kapoor—the girl does take an exceedingly pretty picture. Here, dressed in a sparkly Falguni & Shane Peacock dress, her hair flying back courtesy a wind blower, Kapoor looks ethereal. Inside, she says she doesnt "give a shit" about what people think about how she dresses, weighs somewhere between 58 and 60 kilos, and has the grace to admit that despite the media fawning, she isn't a style icon yet.
Read it: "Great Finds", particularly for the affordable McQueen-ish maxi dress by a label called Butter. An incredibly creepy spread of accessories modeled by Smurfette—yes, that would be the cute blue lady Smurf from the Smurfs cartoon series—which is worth a look only to reinforce the point that the quickest way to kill the kiddie fun out of something is to dress it up in high fashion (parents with blood pressure problems, please note: you may want to avoid looking at Smurfette dressed in thigh-high platform boots). "Runway Report", because it's a fashion smorgasboard of designer clothes!
Don't bother: We've commented before that jeans brand Diesel may have a deal with magazines to be featured in at least one issue or another every month. Here, founder Renzo Rosso talks about, what else, jeans. Read at peril of your own sanity. Right up with Rosso, is Gucci designer Frida Giannini, who like her Italian menswear counterpart, is what you'd politely term, media savvy or less so, a media whore. Avoid also the monster package on India International Jewellery Week, which helpfully is easy to skip because it's labelled "A Harper's Bazaar Promotion". Note to magazine editors: no one really cares about perfumes and how they were created and whether they have tulip extract or cat's eye, okay? Especially if it's a three-page piece on a Burberry scent that is described in the two most cliched words in the scent industry, "light and feminine". In the Amy Winehouse fashion tribute, actress Jacqueline Fernandez dons some ferocious tattoos, wing-tipped eyeliner and faux attitude, which is a glossed-over, sanitised version of the tragedy of the late singer's life.
On the cover: Ranbir Kapoor's heroine in the upcoming Hindi film Rockstar and rumoured real-life arm candy, Nargis Fakhri mugs for the cover in a python and wool Versace number, looking as pretty as any mixed blood muggle can (she's half Czech and half Pakistani). While we don't like the blow-dry, which is too wedding attendee-ish for our taste, Fakhri looks suitably ingenue-like or as Vogue would have us believe, like "Bollywood's Best-Kept Secret". Fakhri, who grew up in Queens, New York, denies she's dating Kapoor (he was a "caring and supportive co-actor"), and says she fell into acting only after director Imtiaz Ali bombarded her with emails, and that she is a shy, self-described tomboy, who like Sonam Kapoor (see Harper's), doesn't really care what people think.
Read it: "Girl Gone Wilde", about it-actress Olivia Wilde, who was married at 18 to an Italian prince, divorced him eight years later, and, unlike other pretty young things, whole-heartedly embraces the fact that she's beautiful ("A real feminist doesn't apologise for her beauty"). A Q&A with the Pulitzer Prize finalist and playwright Rajiv Joseph, whose cute picture, and single status will have many mothers tracking him down; a profile on American-Indian installation artist Aakash Nihalani just to see his zany 3D-esque public works made of tape. Max Vadukul's fun portraits of designers and the musicians who inspire them particularly for the shot of a bleached blonde MIA riding pillion with Donatella Versace (is it us or were the two separated at birth?).
Don't bother: "40 Autumn Must-Haves", which is the print equivalent of window-shopping at Barney's: great to gawk at, but sadly out of your price range. An impassioned defence of wearing shades indoors, "The Real Slim Shady" is well-argued (you may be lacking in the looks department or have perhaps undergone the knife lately) but even then, doesn't save indoor-wearers from one inescapable fact: it still makes you look like a tool. Christopher Bailey on his Burberry Body fragrance, for reasons we've enumerated above.
On the cover: Katrina Kaif in a sparkly Giorgio Armani number. We love the dress, and Kaif's dark red lips, but wish her hair had been done in the 1950s curled wave rather than this '40s "retro" look. Inside, Kaif, billed as the Hindi film industry's "most hard-working star", is shot, strangely, only in profile from her left side, and save for one full-length pic in a lovely Lanvin gown, looks immobile and waxen.
Read it: A brief chat with comedian Aziz Ansari, who says he's tired of people congratulating him on the success of Slumdog Millionaire; a Q&A with Modern Family's Ty Burrell who is as funny and oblivious as his character on the show, Phil Dunphy (Burrell, who once lived in a van to save money, says he was completely unaware that as a struggling actor, he had no prospects). Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake smolder in a photoshoot that will have you wishing your BFF was as sexy. The two banter in this joint Q&A with the kind of chemistry that has made most critics love their new movie Friends With Benefits. Twenty years on, designers, filmmakers, advertising executives and others talk about how the liberalisation of the Indian economy in 1991 vastly changed their fields and lives for the better, making us eternally grateful, even in these beleagured times, for Manmohan Singh. If you're going to read but one article of dozens on Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif and his new book Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, then we recommend this quick, pithy one where Hanif shoots off on amusing cliches about Pakistan ("Our family values are the best in the world"), potatoes, and literary festivals.
Don't bother: Two gushing testimonies (with liberal use of terms like "genie in a bottle" and "worth its weight in gold") about the wonders of Shiseido's Wrinkle Resist range, and Kerastase's Elixir Ultime for your hair.
On the cover: It's the battle of Bollywood young 'uns with this month's fashion mags. Anushka Sharma in sheer Fendi, however, looks the least becoming. Made to sit rather awkwardly, hand on hip, Sharma looks a tad uncomfortable, probably because the pose stunts the usually leggy star. Inside, Sharma, who wears the same black-and-white star patterned Dolce & Gabbana dress as Fakhri, could be switched out for Kaif, Fakhri or Kapoor and you'd never notice: like her Bollywood brethen, she's described as a hardworking, down-to-earth young talent who belies all expectations of being a spoilt brat.
Read it: "How the World Really Dresses", a visual map of the buying habits of shoppers on e-retail site net-a-porter.com. In India, we love us some Jimmy Choos; in England, it's skinny jeans that are highly coveted; Canandians like evening gowns and embellished accessories; while the Japanese are the biggest buyers of Burberry's trench coat. "Label Alert", which breaks down the best emerging designers who came out of the recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week.
On the cover: Kingfisher scion Sidhartha Mallya, who like that other famous heir to an empire, Paris Hilton, may not be known for doing much but still has lots to say. Which is why his interview runs for three (!) pages as opposed to the standard single-page celebrity Q&As GQ typically runs. Over the course of his 90-minute chat with the men's mag, Mallya delivers plenty of quotable quotes, including "You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between half our national newspapers and [trashy gossip rag] Heat magazine." And: "The biggest cultural difference [between India and the UK] is that men in this country are very possessive of their women, which I am not one bit…" He also refuses to confirm or deny his relationship with actress Deepika Padukone; shares an anecdote about how Richard Branson is a sore loser; reveals that he lost his virginity at 17 (the "when" question is GQ's equivalent of Simi Garewal's "symbol of desirability"; it has to be asked) and that he moonlighted as a bookie at boarding school; and claims that he doesn't need alcohol to party all night provided he has good company and good music (that would be U2, Usher, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lady Gaga, FYI).
Read it: "The Last Bad Boy", a profile of Transformers star Shia LaBeouf and his rags-to-riches story, in which he shares why he pulls no punches (quite literally) when it comes to dealing with the paparazzi, or even his opinion on his own blockbuster films. "None of us had any clue what we were doing," he says about making Revenge of the Fallen, the second instalment in the Transformers franchise. "The Viral Me", in which writer Devin Friedman travels to Silicon Valley to meet with techie entrepreneurs hoping to invent the next Facebook, and asks them the question we've all asked ourselves—what's the point of it all?
Don't bother: The Autumn/Winter 2011 Fashion Trend Report. You can flip over these pages for a couple of reasons. For one, we don't really have autumn or winter in Mumbai. For another, most of the trends—they include animal prints, velvet and the return of that 1980s relic, the double-breasted jacket—aren't quite worth following. Instead, browse through "Making the Cut", a fashion photo feature that has eight (!) Indian male models (that's possibility the entire lot) looking sharp in a variety of very wearable suits.


text: Skedge Miller | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Skedge Miller Performer ( b. May 18, 1918 Greenville, Ohio, USA - d. Sep 10, 2007 New York, New York, USA ) Male Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsBad HabitsRavenswood[Play, One Act, Comedy, Original] Understudy: Skedge Miller [Hiram Spane, Francis Tear]Dunelawn[Play, One Act, Comedy, Original] Understudy: Skedge Miller [Mr. Ponce, Dr. Toynbee]May 05, 1974 - Oct 05, 1974Affair of Honor[Play, Comedy, Original] Performer: Skedge Miller [Cleeve Williams]Apr 06, 1956 - Apr 28, 1956The Relapse[Play, Comedy, Revival] Performer: Skedge Miller [Foretop]Nov 22, 1950 - Dec 16, 1950 Find out where Skedge Miller and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Will You Get the Life-Saving Care You Need?
Do you think our nation's leaders would allow a hospital to refuse to perform an emergency abortion on a woman – even if it means she would die? Unfortunately, if some leaders have their way, the answer would be yes. The House of Representatives actually passed a bill that would allow hospitals to turn away women needing emergency abortion care. This bill is just one example of the recent onslaught of attacks at both the federal and state level that that aim to deny women's access to reproductive health care.
Getting the emergency care a woman needs should not depend on the hospital to which she is taken.
Watch our new video and tell your leaders: My Health is NOT Up for Debate™!
From this bill and others on the spring agenda of the U.S. House of Representatives, to state bills that would mandate transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortion care or that would shut down provider clinics, anti-choice lawmakers continue to take aim at women's health care at every level. We can't stand by and wait to see what their next attack brings – watch our new video and tell your leaders to stop the attacks on women's reproductive health care by saying: My Health is NOT Up for Debate™!
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Lesson Plan
Comparing and Contrasting Fiction and Nonfiction
- Grades: 1–2
- Unit Plan:
- Compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction
- Evaluate their understanding of fiction and nonfiction individually
- Create a class diagram to demonstrate their understanding
- Labeled Venn diagram blanks (see below), one for every student
- Chart paper and markers
- Class charts from Lesson 1 and Lesson 2
Set Up and Prepare
- Draw a Venn diagram on chart paper. Label the diagram: "What we've come to expect when we read fiction and nonfiction." Then label one side Fiction and the other side Nonfiction.
- Make copies of Venn diagram for students.
Step 1: Review. Discuss all the features of fiction and nonfiction, as well as observations they made during the Mixed Bag activity.
Step 2: Display the large Venn diagram. Quickly review how it works for students who aren't familiar with Venn diagrams. (Consider modeling the diagram with the differences between cats and dogs, then with ONE difference or similarity between fiction and nonfiction.)
Step 3: Distribute the student Venn diagram form and explain that they will individually fill out as many similarities and differences as they can. Allow about 7 minutes of independent work.
Step 4: Allow the students to partner up. They can work with their partner to share their findings. They can then continue brainstorming and adding ideas to both Venn diagrams. Allow another seven minutes for this. Students can either work around the room or right on the carpet; it's up to you.
Step 5: Regroup as a class, and record the findings on the large Venn diagram on chart paper. Make sure some key-points are mentioned: real vs. not real, features (cross sections, glossary, photographs) vs. story elements (characters, problem, solution).
Step 6: Make sure your class Venn diagram is displayed so that students can refer back to it throughout all nonfiction units. If you are going directly into nonfiction writing, use the charts to help add nonfiction features to their writing.
Supporting All Learners
Filling out the Venn diagram individually may be challenging for some students, but it is an important step for assessment. The students have had a lot of time to work on nonfiction reading, so they should be able to write something by themselves. If a student is having major difficulty, prompting them to look at some of the charts is certainly welcome.
Lesson Extensions
As I stated earlier, all these lessons lead easily into a nonfiction writing unit. Try to stress what the students have learned about reading nonfiction when they write nonfiction. Also, continually using the vocabulary of the features allows them to retain the information throughout the year and into the next.
Home Connection
You could ask students to use their Venn diagram as a way to evaluate fiction/nonfiction book sets that they may have at home. See if they can add anything to the diagram for homework.
Ask students to use their Venn diagram as a way to compare and contrast fiction/nonfiction book sets in the classroom.
Ask questions of yourself and the lesson:
- What went well?
- What didn't?
- Are the students able to name some similarities and differences of fiction and nonficion?
- How could you change the lesson to better suit the needs of your class?
Assess Students
- Ask questions and observe during class discussions.
- Observe individual ability during Venn diagram completion.
- Subjects:Assessment, Cooperation and Teamwork, Charts and Graphs, Compare and Contrast, Writing
- Skills:Compare and Contrast, Diagrams, Writing
- Duration:1 Day


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Mayor justifies retreat
CONYERS -- Though last weekend's city retreat was on the public's dime, Mayor Randy Mills said that the out-of-town meeting was an appropriate way to focus planning efforts and move the city forward.
The blues brothers: Bryants keep family tradition alive with blend of music
The Bryant brothers -- Dave and Tony -- have been playing their own style of "old school" blues in Oxford since they were both children, but they'll achieve a milestone of sorts on Feb. 18 when they perform at Oxford College.
Local hits charts in Nashville
CONYERS -- If you remember Matt Ferguson from Salem High School in the mid-'90s, you might not know he's a rising country star in Nashville now.
Douglas sponsors bill to deport illegals
COVINGTON -- State Sen. John Douglas, R-Social Circle, is sponsoring a bill that would allow illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a crime to be voluntarily deported upon eligibility for parole.
Judge signs order for execution
COVINGTON Newton County Superior Court Judge Horace Johnson has signed the order setting a seven-day window for the execution of Melbert Ray Ford Jr., beginning at noon on Feb. 23.
Local MD leading new health council
COVINGTON Dr. Henry M. Patton of Covington has been elected chairman of the newly formed Advisory Council for Public Health serving the Georgia Department of Community Health.
Hotel/motel tax increase starts April 1
COVINGTON The Covington City Council approved Monday night an ordinance increasing the hotel/motel tax from 5 to 8 percent.
Safety lessons
Newton County Sheriff's Office Capt. Doug Kitchens, right, is asking department range master Deputy Wayne Scott a question about a firearm. For residents who have questions about firearms or would like to learn to safely use a gun, the NCSO is offering a series of firearm safety classes.
Planning encouraged as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week
COVINGTON Newton County has seen its share of severe weather in recent months, and Newton County Emergency Management is urging residents to make plans now to stay safe during the next onslaught that nature hurls this way.


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Scott Atchison has tenderness in his elbow
Scott Atchison has tenderness in his right elbow and will soon be evaluated by team doctors, Terry Collins told reporters after tonight's game.
According to Marc Carig of Newsday, Atchison said he felt numbness and tingling and he could not feel the baseball in his hand.
Atchison allowed a run on three hits without recording an out with two outs in the seventh inning in tonight's 6-3 loss to the Cardinals – he now has a 4.50 ERA and has appeared in 19 of the team's 35 games so far this season.
Michael Baron, ContributorIt's worth mentioning Atchison dealt with an elbow problem last season which caused him to miss a significant amount of time while with the Red Sox…
Atchison is 37, and he's pitching way too frequently with not enough rest in between outings. He is a good pitcher with a track record, but this is not the way he should be used. However, the way Terry Collins has used him has been mostly out of need, as has been the case with mostly everyone in the bullpen.
Eventually, the lack of innings from the rotation leads to overuse, overexposure, and potentially injured arms in the bullpen. Hopefully, Atchison simply needs to rest and it's nothing more than some burn in the elbow, but this just doesn't sound like good news for him.


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A Fundamental Change
by Eve Resnik Beutler
Showing:September 19 - September 22, 2013
Where:Lyceum Stage
About the Show
Why is it that catastrophes, ironically, bring us together? Most of us will stop to pick up the fallen as we run from an avalanche, a flood, a burning building...yet there's always the few that will continue to stampede. In the same way, the bond between us all, while we battle for life, melts away color, race, religion, socio-economic status, gender. While most of us gather fleeting insight about what really matters in life, some cling to ignorance and the need to feel superior.
" A Fundamental Change", the movement, the musical, brings to light these elements of humankind; the desire for peace juxtaposed against ignorance based violence, the bonding together through common suffering versus the obscenity of hate crimes erupting from the darkest fears in misguided souls. Through shifting genres of music, from gospel to classical, rock and rap, " A Fundamental Change" will engage your mind, spirit and heart and move you through the interwoven stories based on truth, both here in the USA and in a foreign land. This real-life inspired story of heroism, triumph and tragedy will captivate and move you, leaving the melodies swirling through your head along with an innate love of freedom.
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Going South
May 04, 2012
On a hot evening in March, with the temperature still over 100 degrees, I met a veteran journalist named Jacob Akol in South Sudan's capital, Juba. South Sudan is the newest nation in the world, and it shows: Juba is expanding so quickly that it basically reinvents itself every month. Hotels and offices are constructed out of used shipping containers.
Is Sudan Heading for Civil War?
May 24, 2011
The residents of Abyei, the largest town of the contested border region between north and south Sudan, have deserted their homes in search of safety after the northern government took the town by force this weekend. The seizure of the town follows an ambush by a southern group on a convoy of northern forces who were withdrawing from the town under U.N. escort. According to U.N. deputy spokesperson Hua Jiang, 15 Sudanese army tanks rolled into the town on Saturday evening. Heavy shelling ensued, and a mortar was fired on the U.N. compound in the area, wounding two peacekeepers.
What About Darfur?
February 09, 2011
In January, southern Sudan held a historic self-determination referendum. Final results, announced this Monday, show that 98.83 percent of voters cast their ballots in favor of the region becoming independent, and Sudan's president, Omar Al Bashir, is making all the right noises to suggest he is willing to let one-third of his territory go peacefully. The Obama administration, which played a major role in supporting the referendum and getting Khartoum to accept it, rightly sees this as an enormous achievement.
'When Your People Come Here, We Will Kill You'
November 19, 2010
Abyei, Sudan—On October 19, Bulbul Deng was detained at a government checkpoint as he traveled by bus back from a medical appointment in Khartoum to his home in Abyei, a region situated in the heart of Sudan. At the checkpoint, Deng says the men onboard were forced to lie face-down on the ground, while the Sudanese government soldiers, carrying wooden sticks and AK-47s, asked who among them had fought against the government in violence that destroyed part of Abyei in 2008.
May 14, 2010
If you've been following developments in Darfur, then you know the situation is dire. Last month, the U.N. reported that fighting between the Sudanese army and an obscure rebel faction rendered the Jebel Marra region in southern Darfur inaccessible to humanitarian aid, cutting off some 100,000 Darfuris who had relied on aid agencies for food, water, and medical care.
'There Is No Simple Formula Here'
December 11, 2009
President Obama gave a pretty good speech when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe it was a little too eloquent. I don't much like soaring rhetoric; I know there are times to soar, but Obama does it, or tries to do it, every time. Plain speech is also useful, and there was some plain speech in Norway—particularly the reiterated insistence, directed, I think, to our European friends, that sometimes making war is the only way to a just peace.
The Monster of Darfur
December 03, 2009
In late February 2004, Janjaweed militias and Sudanese government forces waged a three-day, coordinated assault on Tawila, a village in northern Darfur. Government aircrafts destroyed buildings, while the Janjaweed broke into a girls' boarding school, forced the students to strip naked at gunpoint, and then gang-raped and abducted many of them. Video footage shows fly-covered corpses strewn among the village's smoldering ruins.
TNR Editors: Obama's Sudan Envoy Is an Embarrassment. Fire Him.
November 05, 2009
In an editorial, TNR calls on Barack Obama to fire his Sudan envoy, Scott Gration: Scott Gration is an embarrassment. As Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, Gration has a dual mission: to help win justice and peace for the nearly three million Darfuris who currently live in camps after being subjected to genocide by Sudan's government; and to prevent that same odious government from initiating another slaughter in southern Sudan, where a 2005 peace agreement is looking more tenuous by the day. How is he doing?
The Ingratiator
November 05, 2009
The case against Obama's envoy to Sudan.
"We Can't Just Do Nothing"
August 27, 2009
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror By Mahmood Mamdani (Pantheon, 398 pp., $26.95) The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All By Gareth Evans (Brookings, 349 pp., $24.95) I. IN THE SUMMER OF 2007, Mahmood Mamdani found himself at a meeting of activists and politicians, listening to sentiments that had by then become quite common among a certain class of politically active Americans. The speakers were calling on the United Nations to send peacekeepers to Darfur.


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Port St. Lucie man charged with lewd behavior with girl, 15
A 21-year-old man has been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl May 9 at a Port St. Lucie home.
Benjamin Lenard Davis, who lives in the 2300 block of Southwest Lejune St. in Port St. Lucie, was charged Wednesday with lewd and lascivious behavior with someone between the ages of 12 and 16 and violation of probation in a St. Lucie County marijuana possession case, records show. He was being held without bond Thursday at the St. Lucie County Jail.
The girl told her mother about the sex the week after it happened and said it had been consensual, according to a Port St. Lucie Police Department warrant affidavit. The matter was reported to police June 7 and a warrant for Davis' arrest was signed Saturday.
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'Furry Vengeance' fits with star's advocacy
DALLAS — Brooke Shields, hailed as Time magazine's "Face of the 1980s," has been in the public eye from the time she was a child.
"Acting was the only thing that gave me a childhood," she said at a press tour promoting her latest film, "Furry Vengeance," with Brendan Fraser. As an adult, she's become an advocate for children, working for children's literacy, writing children's books and sometimes making family films. Why does she have an interest in helping children? "It boils down to respect," Shields said. "I've always believed that they're pure, and they don't deserve so much of what they have to endure." With two kids of her own, Shields said children can tell whether they are being patronized. "It doesn't have to be stupid just because it's for kids," Shields said. "They're highly intelligent individuals." In "Furry Vengeance," Shields plays Tammy Sanders, the wife of developer Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser). He's trying to develop a pristine forest into a housing division at the bequest of his smarmy boss, Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong).


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Merchant of Venus
Presented by Zero Point Theater at Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
June 6 - June 16, 2013
Zero Point Theater's new staging of Merchant of Venice, while essentially true to Shakespeare's text, is set against the background of a Jazz/Blues World during Prohibition, in a Venice very like (but not) New Orleans.
Antonio, our Merchant of "Venus" (one of Shakespeare's many puns), is a rumrunner whose understanding of love is sadly warped by his mercantile nature. He so monetizes love that he risks his very life borrowing from Shylock to provide money to Bassanio, who he achingly loves but, under the strictures of society, he can never have. He even gives the money to Bassanio to woo a woman.
Portia, whose own father did not see her as capable to choose her own mate, is one of the most brilliant people around. She cares little about her wealth, her beauty and her sexiness except as tools. She so desperately wants to be respected for her mind, in a world in which only men can be, that she risks exposure and ridicule by disguising herself as a man to argue law in the bright spotlight of the Venetian Court.
Shylock is a black woman who owns a Speakeasy Jazz Club, and a devout Jew. She struggles under both the disrespect of her white Christian competitors, and the pain of the hard choices, unfair deprivations, and compromises in her values she made to get where she is. In her desire to ensure her daughter Jessica a better life than she herself had, Shylock so represses and keeps Jessica cloistered at home that Jessica elopes with a Christian, and a lot of Shylock's money. Shylock's dogged insistence on a literal enforcement of Antonio's bond in order to gain the respect of the law backfires, and leads to the loss of all she holds dear.
Zero Point's production of Merchant will challenge the audience to recognize and re-think its own perspectives on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and the us versus them struggles which either bind us together in a sense of security, or expose us to biting and lonely pain, and at worst threaten our sense of personal identity and value.
Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA 02472
Admission Info:
Limited $35.00 tickets available to all BOSTIX customers. Type in "Bostix" in the promo code box when purchasing tickets to get that price. $46.00 per person tickets are applicable to the following dates/times:
Thu, June 06 at 3pm; Sat, June 08 at 3pm; Sun, June 08 at 3pm; Thu, June 13 at 3pm;
Sat, June 15 at 3pm; Sun, June 15 at 3pm;
$52.00 Per Person tickets are applicable to the following dates/times:
Fri, June 07 at 8pm; Sat, June 08 at 8pm;
Fri, June 14 at 8pm; Sat, June 15 at 7pm;
High School Students any date/time ticket prices $15.00
Phone: 800-734-8903
The Arsenal on the Charles complex has a centrally located 6 floor parking garage that is completely free, as well as a large number of ground level parking spots around the campus.
Accessibility Information: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.


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Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart millennia ago, the strange race of giants had already vanished. All that remained of them was a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen moon of Jupiter. Now Earth's scientists are there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race. But when suddenly the Ganymeans return, they bring with them answers that will reveal the secret of our own as well.
©1984 James Patrick Hogan (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"Scientists' efforts to uncover the unexpected genetic link between Terran and Minervan life is aided by the equally unexpected reappearance of a Minervan ship. Interesting reading for sf enthusiasts and for those who enjoy a methodical analysis of a complex theory." (Kliatt)
"Great Story of First Contact"
So much of sci-fi is pessimistic in nature. Taking the ills of society and extrapolating them to the extreme. Hogan's "Giant's Series" is so good because he show's humanity for the good they can do. The scientific progress they can make and how welcoming they can be. Get this book.
"Everything we leaned in Inherit the Stars was wron"
I first read Inherit the Stars 35 years ago... and I can honestly say that it was one of the inspirations that lead me to become a scientist. Being a young reader, I followed up with The Gentle Giants. In a fit of nostalgia, I bought the audio book (along with the two direct sequels to the trilogy). Although the book feels very dated and sexist, it is still an enjoyable story without diverting too much into new age phooey (unlike the final book of the trilogy, Giant's Star). I did truly enjoy many of the concepts regarding how the Giants evolutionary pathway and physiology determined their race's outlook on life. Some of the science does tend to get a bit far fetched, but still more or less works. The narration is passable at best.
"Great story. Start with the first book."
A fantastic story weaving evolutionary theory with a taste of Sherlock Holmes and sci-fi. This is a series I always go back to.
"Too complicated"
I gave up with this book after just 40 mins. Too complicated and badly read
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Hervé & Trevor Loveys - Jackin' With Your Mum
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No stranger to the highs of Skint Records, we are delighted to welcome back the illustrious Hervé.
With previous remixes of Kidda, and collaborations with Fatboy Slim already seeing the light via the label, this new production is nothing short of his previous success.
Teaming up with Trevor Loveys, the mastermind behind House of 909 and former member of Switch, "Jackin' With Your Mum" perfectly ignites a jacking, bassy roller that works it's way around the themes of lyrical genius.
Released 15th March, by which time club goers will be echoing this masterpiece worldwide.
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Green group PETA now claims that, according to information leaked by several whistleblowers, a white-tipped shark has recently passed away while on the set of a Kmart commercial.
PETA says that the shark was flown to Los Angeles all the way from New York this past March 6, and later on made to swim around in a relatively small pool in Van Nuys, California.
The official website for the organization reports that the shooting of this commercial basically involved having human actors jump in and out of the shark's pool.
This caused the animal to experience tremendous stress, hence its passing away roughly one day later.
"Sharks are delicate animals who, in captivity, require a highly specialized and controlled environment."
"Sharks have exceptional sensory systems that allow them to detect minute electrical fields and sense low-frequency sounds and vibrations. The noise and chaos of a commercial shoot is a very stressful environment for these sensitive animals," PETA explains.
The organization hopes that Kmart will agree to launch an investigation into this incident, and that the American Humane Association will also see fit to look into this matter.
"In addition to urging Kmart to adopt a policy against using wild animals in its commercials, PETA is contacting the AHA regarding its failure to protect the shark. One animal death is one too many," the organization wrote on its website.


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4-H Horse State Finals will bring up to 1,300 horses to Abilene this weekend
As many as 1,300 horses and nearly as many people will descend on the Taylor County Expo Center for the 4-H Horse State Finals, which begin Saturday.
This is Abilene's 29th straight year to host the event, which runs through July 27, and a contract keeps the finals here at least through 2018.
The show is divided into two segments, said Kit Horne, Taylor County Extension Agent /4-H and Youth Development. Qualifying events begin Thursday, open only to competitors who qualified at one of the 4H's 12 districts around the state. The open and invitational events are open to all competitors and begin at noon Saturday.
Horne said 4-H members compete in about 30 events, and none are designated by age.
"You'll have 9-year-olds competing against 18-year-olds," he said. "You have some that are just natural; they become one with the horse. ... You'll have others who work just as hard, but never reach that level. But they still get the same thing out of it. Our goal is youth development. They carry over what they learn into all aspects of their lives."
The show is a combination of competitive events with some aspects of a livestock show. In the halter class, horses are judged for appearance, much like one would see at a livestock show. In showmanship class, participants are judged on how well they handle their horses.
"From the grandstand, it's going to look like the same event, but they're judged completely differently," said Horne.
Some of the events in the open part of the show are similar to rodeo events with tie-down roping, team penning and breakaway roping. Most qualifying events are speed events, such as barrel racing. Horne said there are also English events in which the participants use English tack and wear traditional equestrian clothing.
He said one of the highlights of the show is about 6:30 p.m. Monday in the drill and precision riding show. Teams of 10 to 12 riders perform an exhibition to music and in costume.
"That's one of the events that everyone will enjoy, even if they don't have an interest in horses," Horne said.
Rochelle Johnson, general manager of the Expo Center, estimated the local economic affect of the 4-H Horse State Finals at $1.5 million, making it one of the four biggest events held annually at the center.
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James E. Pugh
|James Pugh
James Pugh, trombonist
|Background information
|Birth name
|James Edward Pugh
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|Jim Pugh
November 12, 1950
Camden, NJ
|Trombonist, composer
James Edward Pugh (born November 12, 1950) is a trombonist, composer, and educator. He is noted as the lead trombonist with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd (1972–1976) and Chick Corea's Return to Forever Band (1977–1978). For 25 years, he worked as a freelance trombonist in New York City. In recent years, he toured and recorded with the rock group Steely Dan, is a founding member of the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, and is on faculty as Distinguished Professor of Jazz Trombone at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Early years[edit]
Born in Camden, New Jersey and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, Pugh began studying piano at age five and trombone at age ten. Before attending the Eastman School of Music, he studied trombone with Matty Shiner of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While at Eastman, Pugh studied with Emory Remington, Donald Knaub, Chuck Mangione, Ray Wright, and was awarded Eastman's coveted Performer's Certificate. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, Pugh toured with the Woody Herman Band and with Chick Corea before settling to New York City, where he remained for 25 years.
As a performer and recording artist[edit]
Since the 1980s, Pugh became New York's top-call freelance trombonist for film scores, records, and music for television and radio advertising. He can be heard on more than four thousand recording sessions.
His trombone is heard in collaboration with classical and popular artists and orchestras such as Yo-Yo Ma, Steely Dan, Eos, Concordia, St. Luke's Orchestra, André Previn, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Pink Floyd, and Frank Sinatra.
Pugh added his sound to feature film soundtracks including A League of Their Own, When Harry Met Sally, and Meet Joe Black; and on hit Broadway cast recordings such as City of Angels, Fosse and Victor/Victoria.
In 2003, Pugh "re-premiered" the Nathaniel Shilkret: Trombone Concerto at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops Orchestra. This mid-twentieth century work was written for Tommy Dorsey.
Pugh is the only recipient of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science's Virtuoso Award for Tenor trombone, awarded after being voted Tenor Trombone MVP by the New York recording community for five years.
In 2008, NPR named his album, X Over Trombone in their list of best classical CDs of 2008.
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen wrote his Ashberyana for Pugh, the Brentano String Quartet and pianist Sarah Rothenberg, premiered with the composer conducting and later performed with James Levine conducting.[1]
As a composer[edit]
Pugh's original music and arrangements has been on National Public Radio, in film scores, on "jingles", and on record. Pugh wrote the theme music for Performance Today, the daily classical music program on public radio. His composition, Lunch with Schrödinger's Cat, received a Lincoln Center premier in 1989 by Marin Alsop and the Concordia Chamber Orchestra. Pugh premiered his "Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra" in May 1992 with the Williamsport Symphony. It received its New York premier in March 2000 with Joseph Alessi as soloist and Leonard Slatkin conducting the New York Philharmonic. A founding member of the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, Pugh's compositions can be heard on a recent Signum CDs Scenes of Spirits and The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble Plays The Music of James Pugh and Daniel Schnyder.
As an educator[edit]
Pugh is on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the past, he taught at SUNY-Purchase College, the University of the Arts Philadelphia, and at New York University. In the summer, he has been on faculty at the Skidmore Summer Institute of Jazz at Skidmore College. He appears at schools as a guest artist and clinician.
In the field of instrument development[edit]
Pugh has been involved with the development of the Edwards small bore tenor trombone and has worked with Dave Monette in the development of the Monette TS11 and TS 6 small shank tenor trombone mouthpiece. He plays and endorses Monette mouthpieces exclusively.
Solo projects
1981: Crystal Eyes - Pewter Records
1984: The Pugh /Taylor Project - DMP Recording
2001: Pugh Mosso - CD recorded in Brisbane, Australia with the ConArtists, big band from the Queensland Conservatorium
2002: E'nJ "Legend and Lion" with Eijiro Nakagawa - SuperKids Recording, Japanese release
2004: Echano - CD recorded in Brisbane, Australia with the ConArtists, big band from the Queensland Conservatorium
2004: E2'nJ2 - TNC Records
2006: E'nJ "Just Us" - SuperKids Recording, Japanese release
2007: X Over Trombone - Albany records
2007: Holly and The Ivy - Montclair Citadel Band of the Salvation Army
2012: "The Devil's Hopyard" - Jazzmaniac Records
2012: "Pugh Taylor II" - Pewter Records
as sideman
1972: Giant Steps, with Woody Herman
1973: Thundering Herd, with Woody Herman
1976: The 40th Anniversary Concert, with Woody Herman
1977: Musicmagic, with Chick Corea and Return to Forever
1977: Return to Forever - Live, with Chick Corea
1978: Secret Agent, with Chick Corea
1979: In a Temple Garden (CTI, 1979) with Yusef Lateef
1988: The Disney Album, with Barbara Cook
1989: When Harry Met Sally, with Harry Connick, Jr.
1990: Big Boss Band, with George Benson
1992: League of Their Own, with James Taylor
1994: Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool, with David "Fathead" Newman
1994: Scampi Fritti, with Marc Beacco
1995: Honey and Rue, with Kathleen Battle; St. Luke's Orchestra, André Previn, conductor
1995: Rush Hour, with Joe Lovano; Gunther Schuller, conductor
1996: Two Lane Highways, with Jay Leonhart and Friends
1999: Crossing the Bridge, with Eileen Ivers
1999: Songs from the Last Century, with George Michael
2000: Eight, with Walter Blanton
2000: Two Against Nature, with Steely Dan
2002: Looking for America, with Carla Bley
2003: Alegría, with Wayne Shorter
2003: Everything Must Go, with Steely Dan
2006: "Morph the Cat", with Donald Fagen
2007: This Meets That, with John Scofield
1989–present Manhattan Jazz Orchestra – all recordings
1998–present Super Trombone – "Super Trombone," "Hello Young Lovers," "Take Five,", "Basie" and "Mission Impossible"
2012: "Sunken Condos", with Donald Fagen
Broadway Recordings
1992 City of Angels
1995 Will Rogers' Follies
1998 Victor/Victoria
2000 Fosse
Motion Picture Soundtracks (featured soloist)
Classical (not as soloist)
Mass, Charles Wuorinen
Ponder Nothing, The Chamber Music of Ben Johnston, Music Amici
The Music of Irwin Bazelon
Collage - New York Trombone Quartet
Bright Sheng: Lacerations, 92nd St. Y Orchestra, Gerard Schwartz, conductor
EOS Orchestra - 5 CDs for Sony-BMG
Concordia Orchestra - 6 CDs for various labels
The Silk Road Project with YoYo Ma
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble Plays the Music of James Pugh and Daniel Schnyder, Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
References and external links[edit]
Dietrich, Kurt. Jazz 'Bones: The World of Jazz Trombone . Advance Music. 2005. ISBN 3-89221-069-1
pp. 344–7.
Feather, Leonard. Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies ISBN 0-306-80290-2
Jim Pugh's Official Website
Jim Pugh at Trombone Page of the World
NPR's Top 10 Classical Albums of 2008
- ^ Allan Kozinn (2008-11-03). "The Cerebral Onstage, Not Without Wit". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- People from Camden, New Jersey
- People from Butler, Pennsylvania
- American trombonists
- American film score composers
- Male film score composers
- Composers for trombone
- Return to Forever members
- Musicians from Pennsylvania
- Musicians from New Jersey
- Eastman School of Music alumni
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign faculty
- Steely Dan members


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Dr. Goodall and her team consider each request and weigh it against her limited time and demands. Her staff responds to each request as promptly as possible. Please allow 2-3 weeks for a reply.
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This hearty, delicious soup from Giada De Laurentiis' new cookbook, Giada's Feel Good Food (Clarkson Potter, November 2013) is the perfect winter meal, plus it's really pretty! Keep this recipe on file for a few weeks: you can make it right after Thanksgiving using leftover turkey.
Turkey, Kale, and Brown Rice Soup
Recipe from Giada's Feel Good Food
Serves 4
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
5 large shallots, chopped
3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into ½-inch pieces
1 large red bell pepper, cut into ½-inch pieces
8 ounces ground white turkey meat, broken into small chunks
1 tablespoon herbes de Provence
5 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
1 cup cooked brown rice
1 small bunch kale, center ribs removed, leaves coarsely chopped (4 packed cups)
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¼ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
¼ cup freshly grated
Parmesan cheese
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, carrots, and bell pepper and sauté, stirring frequently, until beginning to brown and soften slightly, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the turkey and stir until the meat turns white and begins to color very slightly around the edges, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the herbes de Provence and stir for 1 minute.
Add the broth, diced tomatoes, and cooked rice and bring to a boil. Stir in the kale and season with ¾ teaspoon of the salt and the black pepper. Reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer until the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes. Season with the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt.
Ladle the soup into bowls. Sprinkle with the parsley and some Parmesan cheese.
Per serving (with Parmesan cheese):
Calories 361; Protein 24g; Carbohydrates39g; Dietary Fiber 6g; Sugar 10g; Total Fat 12g; Saturated Fat 3g; Sodium 627mg


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Ukrainian prelate visits Rome, pushes for patriarchate
Catholic World News - March 30, 2011
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv, the newly elected head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, visited Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on March 30.
At his regular Wednesday audience, the Pope greeted the Ukrainian prelate, promising his prayerful support. Speaking in Ukrainian, the Pontiff praised the Ukrainian Church, "which is a part of the people who over 1,000 years ago received Baptism at Kyiv." He voiced his confidence that the Ukrainian Church will flourish "in accordance with her own tradition and spirituality, in communion with the See of Peter."
Archbishop Shevchuk said that when he spoke with the Pope—in the first meeting since his election last week to head the largest Eastern Church in communion with the Holy See—he would renew the appeal for Vatican recognition of a Ukrainian Catholic patriarchate.
The Ukrainian Church has long sought that distinction, and members of the Church routinely refer to their leader as a "patriarch." Pope John Paul II encouraged the request, but other Vatican officials have resisted the idea, citing the virulent opposition of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Benedict XVI has not offered any direct public comment on the idea.
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Port Authority unveils preliminary 2014 operating and capital budgets
NEW YORK - The Port Authority released for public review preliminary 2014 operating and capital budgets that keep core operating expense growth at half the expected rate of inflation, enhance security at the agency's world-class transportation facilities, continue the agency's aggressive resiliency efforts to rebuild and recover from Superstorm Sandy and provide for record levels of capital spending on critical infrastructure.
The $2.9 billion operating budget keeps core operating expenses at half the expected rate of inflation by maintaining non-police staffing levels at 5,143 positions and achieves additional savings through a reduction in employee health care costs and other benefits that took effect over the past two years. The 1.1 percent uptick in core expenses is attributed to higher insurance premium costs – up $18 million dollars following Superstorm Sandy – and enhanced security guard services at the airports. The 2014 operating budget also includes a new police class in 2014.
The operating budget also includes new spending to transform the World Trade Center from a construction site to an operating facility. Nearly 1.5 million square feet of World Trade center office space will come on line this year, a key milestone in the Port Authority's efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center site following the attacks on 9/11. Transforming the 16-acre construction site into an open place of business for thousands of workers will require the Port Authority to invest resources to operate and maintain the towers. The 2014 operating budget includes $93 million for new World Trade Center operating costs. The budget also includes $9 million in new expenses to enhance the agency's unarmed security forces to provide another layer of protection for the traveling public at the agency's facilities.
The $4.4 billion 2014 capital budget calls for record investments in Port Authority facilities that will result in more than 23,800 total job years and more than $5.4 billion in economic activity for the region in 2014. It will allow the agency's signature projects to proceed on schedule, including the raising of the Bayonne Bridge roadway, the replacement of the Goethals Bridge, the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal Building, the replacement of the George Washington Bridge's steel deck, the reconstruction of airport runways and taxiways and the redevelopment of Greenville Yards to accommodate efficient goods movement in the port. The budget includes $1.1 billion for state of good repair capital projects, which are key to maintaining the agency's transportation assets. All state of good repair projects have been carefully evaluated as part of an exhaustive prioritization process conducted by the agency's operating and engineering professionals.
Including $920 million in debt service, the operating and capital budgets combined total an authorized amount of $8.2 billion.
"This budget reflects our ongoing return to the agency's core mission with the goal of maximizing every dollar in investment for the region's infrastructure," said Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye. "This disciplined budget allows us to do more with less on the operating side, allowing us to invest record levels in priority capital projects that will fulfill our mission of building and maintaining world-class transportation facilities."
"As stewards of the region's major transportation facilities, we have an obligation to our tens of millions of customers to make sure they are well maintained, and that we invest our resources in projects with the greatest need," said Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Deborah Gramiccioni. "This budget keeps our staffing and administrative costs in check, which allows us to invest record levels in our airports, tunnels, bridges, port and rail system."
The Port Authority is seeking public comment on the proposed 2014 Operating and Capital budgets, which will be available online today on the Port Authority website www.panynj.gov/corporate-information/budget-capital-plan.html. The budgets are subject to Board approval on February 19. The agency is requesting that comments be received by February 14, but will review any submissions through February 18.


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Two of Colorado's biggest lacrosse rivals met once again at Mile High Stadium in Denver, where the Cherry Creek boys lacrosse team squared of against the Arapahoe Warriors. Using a huge 7-1 run third quarter, Arapahoe was able to defend its Class 5A title against the number one seeded Cherry Creek Bruins winning, 10-7. Check out all the highlights with Lax.com!
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A Turner Energy tanker truck caught fire just two miles north of Fritch on Monday.
According to Hutchinson County Fire Marshal Danny Richards, the truck was hauling hydrocarbon liquid which is similar to low-grade gasoline.
The wreck happened on Fritch Fortress just before 1 p.m. The Fritch Fire Department, Hutchinson County Fire Department, Fritch EMS, and National Park Service responded to the scene.
All officials had the fire under control around 3 p.m. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. No injuries were reported. The truck was a total loss.
The Borger City Council has approved an incentive agreement between the Borger Economic Development Corporation and a new business.
The agreement, which is between the EDC and Panhandle Maintenance, was approved last Tuesday.
Panhandle Maintenance, owned by Edward Rodriguez, is a Texas sole propietorship company that is engaged in, among other things, process safety including risk evaluations and preventative processes to avert accidents.


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Acupuncture With Deqi And Psychological Effects in Treatment of Bell's Palsy (ADAPT)
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The purpose of this study is to observe the influence of Deqi and neuropsychological factors on effects of acupuncture treatment for Bell's Palsy.
Bell's Palsy
Device: acupuncture, deqi
Device: acupuncture Non-manipulation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Study of Effects of Deqi and Neuropsychological Factors on Acupuncture Effects in Treatment of Bell's Palsy
- House-Brackmann scale (HBS) [ Time Frame: 6 months after onset of symptoms ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- facial disability index (FDI) [ Time Frame: 6 months after onset of symptoms ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF) [ Time Frame: 6 months after onset of symptoms ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Acupuncture with Deqi
Needles were inserted and manipulated manually using the techniques such as lifting, thrusting, and twirling, until the internal compound sensation of soreness, numbness, fullness, aching, cool, warmth, heaviness and radiating sensation (Deqi) occurred. The needles were retained for 30 min.
Device: acupuncture, deqi
Immediately after insertion of a needle, it is manually rotated backwards and forwards to induce the deqi sensation.
Other Name: Manipulation
Active Comparator: Acupuncture without Deqi
Needles were simply inserted and retained for 30 min, without any other stimulation.
Device: acupuncture Non-manipulation
After insertion of a needle, no manipulation is applied, and the needle is retained for 30 minutes.
Other Name: Non-Manipulation
Detailed Description:
Through long-term clinical practice,acupuncture treatment on facial paralysis has been generally proved effective;the large number of ancient and modern medical literature also have suggested that acupuncture is beneficial for facial paralysis. However,a scientific basis is still needed to be established to make sure the efficacy of acupuncture be recognized internationally.This study will adopt a series of international practice scales ,such as House Brackmann Scale,Facial Disability Index(FDI),World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF), Cattell Personality Factors (16PF),and Cancellation test to evaluate the role of deqi and neuropsychological factors in the acupuncture treatment for Bell's Palsy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria:
- Patients who were diagnosed to have unilateral facial-nerve weakness without any identifiable causes within 168 hours after onset of symptoms;
- aged 18 to 65 years.
Exclusion criteria:
- illiterate;
- the facial paralysis is caused by herpes zoster;
- recurrent facial paralysis;
- noticeable asymmetry of the face before the illness which may affect the evaluation;
- history of peptic ulcer disease, severe hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes, liver and kidney dysfunction, pregnancy, mental illness, or serious systemic diseases which may affect the treatment.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00685789
|China, Hubei
|Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
|Wuhan, Hubei, China, 430030
|Principal Investigator:
|Wei Wang, doctor
|Tongji Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Wei Wang, Department of Neurology of Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00685789 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 23, 2008
|Last Updated:
|September 28, 2011
|Health Authority:
|China: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Huazhong University of Science and Technology:
Bell's palsy,deqi,acupuncture, neuropsychology
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bell Palsy
Facial Nerve Diseases
Facial Paralysis
Cranial Nerve Diseases
DNA Virus Infections
Herpesviridae Infections
Mouth Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Stomatognathic Diseases
Virus Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 09, 2015


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Sophomore guard Aaron Cosby will transfer, Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard announced Monday.
Cosby started 27 games this season and was second on the team in scoring with 12.6 points per game. He shot 42.6 from the field, including 40.0 from 3-point range and averaged 3.0 assists and 2.5 rebounds.
"We want to thank Aaron for his two years in a Seton Hall uniform," Willard said in a statement. "We wish him luck in his future endeavors."
In 65 career games at Seton Hall, Cosby averaged 10.1 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists.


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