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Cannes, 04 October 2010: FremantleMedia, one of the largest creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, brings to MIPCOM 2010 a fantastic mix of inspiring global entertainment, with challenging competitions, exciting game shows and gripping factual entertainment programmes. Exceptional new talent is on show as contestants battle it out in casting format My Name Is..., while fun, unpredictable game shows Total Blackout and Face It join the excitement and humour of Comedians Under The Hammer, Children or Animals, The Better Sex and All New Hot Streak. Real-life emotional challenges are overcome in You Can't Take It With You and Who Does What?, while inspiring displays of raw talent in Ultimate School Musical and Work Of Art round off FremantleMedia's internationally appealing blockbuster slate.
Rob Clark, President, Worldwide Entertainment for FremantleMedia, said: "We have a very strong slate for MIPCOM and we are confident buyers will find something that audiences will love. Our exciting new game shows, entertainment, and factual entertainment formats join a well established catalogue of some of the world's most successful shows, including X Factor, Got Talent, Take Me Out, Idols and Farmer Wants A Wife. We're very pleased to be bringing to this year's market new shows such as My Name Is…, a big cross-genre entertainment show that takes impersonation and look-a-like programmes to the next level, and Total Blackout, which was developed as a part of our hugely successful Creative Exchange Alliance in collaboration with Fuji TV. We have fantastic programmes from all over the world, with good production track records and great broadcast partners that will be sure to inspire and entertain audiences around the world."
Headlining this year's slate is the nationwide casting competition, My Name is... which aims to find a country's best young and adult impersonators of world class performers. An uplifting, feel-good entertainment show, My Name is... sees competitors of all ages battle it out on stage to prove themselves the best at playing world-renowned stars such as Justin Bieber, Amy Winehouse, Puff Daddy and Lady GaGa. With every contestant set on a personal mission to prove that they embody the performing spirit of their favourite star, it's a thrilling battle of song and dance, with live shows, iconic routines, and amazing passion and talent on display. Exploring the relationship between contestants and their heroes the show uncovers heart warming stories of people who share the same dream. This engaging format, based on an idea by Albert Verlinde and developed by Blue Circle, has had huge success for broadcasters RTL4 in The Netherlands and VTM in Belgium, ranking as the number one programme in its time slot in both countries and winning audiences of over 1.5 million.
Viewers of all ages will love Total Blackout, the hilarious new game show in which players are thrust into a room of total darkness to compete in a series of outrageous challenges. In order to emerge victorious into the light they must survive a series of knock-out rounds in which they come face-to-face with their worst nightmares. With unpredictable games that range from navigating your way around a sumo wrestler in a tiny room, to plunging your hand into a tank containing a live animal, it takes brains, courage and a sense of humour to survive this game. Seriously scary for contestants and devilishly funny for audiences, Total Blackout was created out of the FremantleMedia / Fuji TV Creative Exchange Alliance, and has already received a fantastic reception internationally with pre-sales to broadcasters in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and a Japanese version set to air on 30 October 2010.
Next is the groundbreaking factual entertainment programme You Can't Take It With You, which tackles head on the often unaddressed problems of dividing an estate and writing a will. Laying bare the deepest secrets and grievances amongst relatives, You Can't Take It With You follows real families on an emotional journey as they make the ultimate decision about who gets what, and why. It can be difficult to separate emotions from money, so families are assisted by a lawyer and an expert presenter to help them rationally navigate the process. Together, they face and resolve their fears and dilemmas, and talk openly about the future for what's often the very first time. This touching, insightful and beautifully crafted format is from talkbackTHAMES in the UK, and will air on BBC.
Showcasing creative talent, Work Of Art challenges a group of aspiring artists to compete for a solo show at a prestigious national gallery. Each episode sees contenders of various skill levels, styles and characters compete over a challenge to create a unique and thought-provoking piece of art. Throughout the series contestants must defend their unique creations to a panel of top figures from the world of art in their efforts to get one step closer to reaching their dream of a successful career in art. This hugely enjoyable series from Magical Elves Inc. and Pretty Matches has proved a ratings success on Bravo in the US, doubling the channel average share for the commercial target of Adults 18-49.
Face It is the shocking, madcap game show from the creators of Hole In The Wall, Fuji TV, in which contestants confront physical challenges, using only their heads. This zany competition sees teams playing against each other in a series of elimination rounds to win their place in the final. Players can use their mouths, teeth, lips, ears, faces and heads to negotiate each challenge – and penalties are imposed if any contestant uses their hands. It's compelling, grotesque and very, very silly!
Next up, Who Does What? is the anti-therapist show for every couple that's ever argued over just who does what to keep their household running. This pioneering series puts perceptions to the test as couples face up to the facts about who really does what in their homes and relationships. Each episode begins with couples declaring the amount of work they feel they do, but as cameras observe their activities over the course of a week, the reality becomes clear. Partners are monitored then presented with quantitative evidence about who really does what, and with these foolproof statistics for all to see, the results are indisputable. Couples are challenged to redress the imbalance to revive or even save their relationship, and one month on, we revisit the couples' homes to see what's changed. Only this exciting new format from talkbackTHAMES can get to the bottom of Who Does What?
Turning the TV studio into an auction house of comedy, Comedians Under The Hammer sees celebrity comics competing to make the most outrageous bid, using ridiculous suggestions of what they would do when posed a question. The winning bidder, as selected by the show's host, is then set the challenge of acting out, or being subjected to, their winning offer. With comedians jousting to be the funniest in the room, wild and wacky comic carnage ensues, with the resulting videos played back to the assembled comedians and audience. One comedian may opt to be woken every day by having a wheelbarrow of dirt dumped on their head, another may need to be on guard every day of a week as an American football squad are out to tackle him at every turn; the bids and challenges just get more and more extreme, as audiences in turn laugh more and more. Irreverent, original and outrageously funny, Comedians Under The Hammer is a Tokyo Broadcasting Systems format developed in the UK by talkbackTHAMES and has already sold to TPI in Indonesia.
From challenging the professionals, to putting future talent under the spotlight, Ultimate School Musical from Mentorn gives one ordinary high school the chance to prove how extraordinary its pupils really are. Top producers and dance and singing coaches have just four weeks to cast, rehearse and stage a "one night only" performance starring students exclusively from the school. Packed with ambition, tension, and emotionally uplifting stories, we discover bookworms ready to throw caution to the wind, skaters with stage fright, and confidently cool kids failing to make the cut. From classroom to class act, we watch nerve-wracking moments and life-changing accomplishments, as the curtain rises for their one-off spectacular performance. For everyone involved, there's just one question: will they pull it off?
Giving a classic game show a whole new dimension, All New Hot Streak is the funny, fast-paced test of quick wit, imagination and team spirit. Two teams of five contestants play a clever mix of two classic party games: Chinese Whispers and Charades, for a jackpot prize. The energetic first round sees players race against the clock to describe a clue to each of their teammates in turn, while never repeating the same word twice! The teams then test their miming mettle as they act out clues without using any words at all. The previous show's champions then return for a second chance, and the winners of this round play a quick-tempo word association game for a chance to win an ever increasing jackpot, and return to the following show. FremantleMedia's All New Hot Streak is the perfect stripped daily game show for broadcasters; a cost effective, self contained, ratings winner. In Spain, the show consistently increased its market share from launch, outperforming broadcaster Cuatro's access prime time share by up to +96% for adults 13-24. It will also soon go to air in Indonesia on ANTV.
FremantleMedia's The Better Sex is the strippable prime time battle of the sexes which pits men against women in an ultimate showdown to solve the age-old question of who really is better? Through a series of question and answer rounds, two teams – three men and three women - each supported by their enthusiastic panel, attempt to prove their superiority by answering gender-based questions to find out how much we really know about ourselves and each other. It's a vivacious, dynamic, and determined showdown as the winning team goes on to the final round, where all the supporters play together. Each time the winning team get a question right, the opposing supporters who answered it incorrectly are eliminated from playing, but if the winning team get it wrong, it's their own supporters that are at risk. Only when the winning team has dispatched all members of the opposing team supporters can they take home the jackpot, and truly declare themselves The Better Sex.
This strong selection of entertainment formats joins FremantleMedia's established catalogue of blockbusters including some of the world's fastest selling formats of 2010, Got Talent and Take Me Out, as well as Idols and The X Factor, which continue to smash audience figures around the world, bringing inspiring entertainment to millions of viewers.
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Notes to Editors
FremantleMedia is one of the leading creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world. FremantleMedia is part of the RTL Group, Europe's largest television and radio broadcast company, which is in turn 90 percent owned by Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's major media and entertainment companies. FremantleMedia's worldwide production arm is responsible for many of the world's highest rated prime time entertainment, drama, serial drama and factual entertainment programmes. FremantleMedia Enterprises is the brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, offering a one-stop-shop for all Licensing, Distribution and Home Entertainment around the world. The FremantleMedia Group (which includes talkbackTHAMES, UFA and Grundy amongst others) has operations in 22 countries, one of the most comprehensive global networks, creating nearly 10,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats and managing over 300 individual titles. FremantleMedia has some of the world's most sought after and long running formats in its catalogue, and globally, produces such programmes as: Idols (co-produced with 19 Productions in the US), The X Factor (co-produced with Syco in the UK), Got Talent (co-produced with Syco in the UK and the US), Neighbours, Family Feud, The Price is Right, Farmer Wants A Wife and Hole In The Wall.
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Archive for January, 2014
Help us join Mizzou Basketball in supporting Coaches vs. Cancer – an organization co-founded by Mizzou legend Norm Stewart to empower coaches, their teams, and communities – to join the fight against cancer.
We encourage you to Wear White to Saturday's game.
Both coaching staffs from Mizzou and South Carolina will wear sneakers with their suits to help raise awareness for Coaches vs. Cancer.
A commemorative Coaches vs. Cancer Whiteout shirt is on sale now at the Tiger Team Store for $9.99. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit Coaches vs. Cancer.
Missouri Basketball returns home to face South Carolina on Saturday afternoon as the Tigers look to even their SEC record at 3-3 and bounce back from a tough road loss at LSU on Tuesday night.
Mizzou has been outstanding at bouncing back following a loss under Frank Haith … The Tigers are 17-2 all-time after a defeat under Haith and have never lost more than two games in a row under the guidance of the third-year coach.
Saturday's game will mark the annual Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Awareness Weekend for the American Cancer Society … Coaches will wear sneakers in support of Coaches vs. Cancer at games across the country this weekend to help raise awareness for the fight against cancer … Coaches vs. Cancer was of course co-founded by Mizzou's Norm Stewart … The program began as "The 3-Point Attack… Norm's Special Challenge" 20 years ago and was adopted by the NABC the following year at a national level.
Tiger fans are encouraged to wear White for Saturday's game against the Gamecocks in support of Coaches vs. Cancer.
Few players have been better offensively than Jabari Brown in the month of January … The junior has scored 20 points in three consecutive games, including a career high 28 points on Tuesday night at LSU and since moving into "2014" (six games), the Oakland native is averaging 21.7 points on 56 percent shooting from the floor, 53 percent shooting from three-point range and 82 percent shooting at the charity stripe … Brown currently leads the SEC in scoring and three-point shooting in league play.
The tandem of Jabari Brown (19.3) and Jordan Clarkson (18.7) continue to lead the Tigers offensively this season … The pair combined for 47 points on Tuesday at the Pete Maravich Center and have reached double figures in all-18 games played this season … The last Tiger to open a season with 18 consecutive double-figure scoring games was Kareem Rush (21 consecutive) in 2000-01.
With Brown surging into league play the Tigers have a pair of award candidates in the backcourt … On Wednesday Jordan Clarkson was named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list … Clarkson was one of college basketball's Top 25 players through the first half of the 2013-14 season and ranks among the SEC's leaders in scoring (18.7) and assists (3.4), which includes a team-leading nine 20-point games.
Mizzou is 14-4 on the season and its four losses are by a combined 16 points to Illinois (1), Vanderbilt (3), Georgia (6) in overtime and at LSU (6) … The Tigers are accustomed to playing close ball games this year, with 10 of their last 11 outcomes being decided by 10 points or less.
Earnest Ross continues to move up the SEC's career active leader board for scoring and rebounding … The Cary, N.C., native began his collegiate career at Auburn and ranks No. 4 among active scorers in the league with 1,100 points and No. 3 among active rebounders with 595 … So far this season Ross is averaging a career high 14.0 points and is coming off his second double-double of the year with 16 points and 11 rebounds in the loss at LSU.
For more information visit MuTigers Men's Basketball Home
SEDALIA, Mo. – In the battle for Region 16 supremacy Tuesday night, Jan. 22, the Missouri State University-West Plains Grizzly Basketball team found themselves on the losing side.
Harlin Hutchison has the details:
The Grizzlies fell to State Fair Community College 116-144 in a triple overtime thriller at the Davis Multipurpose Center on the State Fair campus in Sedalia, Mo. The loss gives the Grizzlies a 15-8 overall record and 2-1 region record. State Fair, 14-6 overall, now sits alone at the top of the region standings with a 3-0 record.
"I have to start by complimenting both teams for the effort they gave in an outstanding game," Grizzly Basketball Head Coach Yancey Walker said. "Both teams fought hard and gave tremendous effort. State Fair simply made one more play than we did."
The Grizzlies started off the game hot, going up by as much as 17 points twice in the first half of regulation before the Roadrunners battled back to make it a 10-point game at halftime, 45-35. The Grizzlies continued to lead throughout much of the second half, going up by as much as 14 points midway through the period, but the Roadrunners inched closer and closer in the later stages of the second half and finally took an 83-82 lead on a conventional 3-point play by Kevin Punter.
A free throw by sophomore Grizzly guard Arroyo Edwards knotted the score at 83-83 with 51 seconds remaining, but the Roadrunners took the lead again with a dunk by Jean-Louis Wanya at the 19 second mark. A quick layup by sophomore Grizzly guard Devaugntah Williams tied the game again with 10 seconds remaining to send the contest into the first overtime.
The teams continued battling back and forth in the first and second overtime periods, scoring 11 points and 8 points each, respectively. The battle continued in the third overtime, with the Grizzlies holding onto a slim lead through much of it, but the Roadrunners finally went on top for good on a layup by Punter with 37 seconds remaining.
"We had five guys who scored in double figures, our assist-to-turnover ratio was over two-to-one, and we were 74 percent from the free throw line. We just didn't finish the game off when we had the opportunity," Walker said.
Williams led the team in scoring with 36 points, followed by Edwards with 27, freshman forward Justin Jamison and freshman guard Jameel Moore each with 15, and redshirt freshman forward Ed Seay with 12. Overall, the Grizzlies connected on 40-92 shots from the field for 43.5 percent, eight of 24 attempts from 3-point range for 33.3 percent and 26 of 35 shots from the free throw line for 74.3 percent.
Seay led the team in rebounding with 13 grabs, and Jamison followed with 11, giving each a double double performance for the night. Williams led the team in assists with six.
State Fair hit 41 of 94 attempts from the field for 43.6 percent, seven of 23 3-point attempts for 30.4 percent and 27 of 38 free throw attempts for 71.1 percent. Leading scorers were Punter with 32 points, Joe Thomasson with 27, Kedar Edwards 24, Wanya 14 and Dondre Alexander 11. Edwards led the team in rebounds with 14.
"I really feel for our team," Walker said. "They went to State Fair and fought hard. I hate the fact that they are hurting because they gave all they could in a game like that and came up just a little short. The emotions that go into a game like that are indescribable, but I am very proud of our team."
Next up for the Grizzlies is a 7 p.m. contest against Region 16 rival Mineral Area College Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Park Hills, Mo. After a Feb. 1 game against Region 16 rival Moberly Area Community College in Moberly, Mo., the Grizzlies will return home Feb. 4 for a 7 p.m. game against God's Academy from Dallas, Texas.
"We have to use this to get better," Walker said of the loss. "We have to finish games off when we have the opportunity. We have Mineral Area up there next Wednesday. That is a chance to get back on the winning track and finish the first half of the region season 3-1."
For more information about the Grizzly Basketball team, including complete statistics from the games, visit wp.missouristate.edu/grizzly/bb/. And don't forget about the Grizzly Trivia Night Saturday the 25th starting at 6pm. You can find more details about that HERE.
ST. LOUIS – UNI has been picked as this year's preseason favorite in Missouri Valley Conference softball as voted unanimously by the league's coaches, earning 100 points. Illinois State took second-place and 83 points with Drake an extremely close third (82 points).
The Panthers will have a lot of experience back as all four of their 2013 MVC All-Tournament team members (Lock, Brown, N. Fisher, J. Fisher) and three of the four UNI 2013 All-Conference winners return to the field. Last year's Tournament MVP and this year's MVC Preseason All-Conference Team member, Jamie Fisher, will be on the mound again for the Panthers trying to make her senior season a success. UNI will be going for their third NCAA appearance and second-consecutive.
For Illinois State, three 2014 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team members in first baseman Laura Canopy, outfielder Nichelle Harrison and pitcher Taylor Baxter will lead the charge. Canopy was a First-Team All-Conference member a year ago with teammates Harrison and Baxter making the Second Team. The Redbirds return five of their nine starters, including their four infielders (Canopy, Hoffman, Drish and Bradley).
The Bulldogs welcome back seven starters including their 2013 RBI leaders, Nicole Randel (Senior) and Hayley Nybo (Junior) and their runs scored and hits leader, Amy Pierce (Senior). Once again on the mound for Drake is Rebekah Schmidt and Jordan Gronewold. Schmidt had a 2.22 ERA in 2013 which was third in the MVC while Gronewold earned 17 wins, also good for third in the Valley.
Southern Illinois, the coaches' fourth-place pick (63 points), is represented on the 2014 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team by Jayna Spivey and Meredith Wilson. Spivey brings an offensive spark to the Salukis as she finished tied for first in RBIs, second in home runs and fourth in two-out RBIs in the Conference. Wilson is a two-time All-MVC Second Team member.
The Missouri State softball team garnered 51 points and is picked to finish fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference in 2014 according to the preseason coaches poll released by the league office today (Jan. 22). The Bears are slotted behind league favorite UNI (100 points), Illinois State (83), Drake (82) and Southern Illinois (63). Sophomore Mary Stephens was voted to the preseason All-MVC team, the lone Bear on the squad.
Loyola is picked sixth with 44 points. The Ramblers return 16 letterwinners (eight starters) from a squad that won 28 games last season and shared the Horizon League regular-season title. Seniors Lauren Moore (55 hits, 13 home runs) and Brittany Gardner (2.18 ERA, 174 strikeouts) will lead Loyola in their first MVC season.
Bradley takes the seventh-place spot and 43 points. The Braves have three members on the 2014 MVC Preseason All-Conference Team in seniors Bailiegh Basham, Madeline Lynch-Crumrine and Bri Joseph. Lynch-Crumrine and Basham were both voted on to the MVC All-Conference Second Team a year ago.
Wichita State claimed 33 points and eight-place. The two returning pitchers and six starters (11 letterwinners total) will welcome ten newcomers for the Shockers. Senior Ali Vandever will lead the way after garnering the second-most hits and runs scored as well as the third-most RBIs last season.
Evansville was voted a close ninth with 30 points. The Purple Aces bring back three pitchers and three position starters including Kayla Fortner, 2014 Preseason All-Conference team member. Fortner finished the 2013 season starting every game and 39 hits.
Indiana State was picked tenth in the poll with 21 points. The Sycamores are represented on the Preseason All-MVC Team by seniors Shelby Wilson and Morgan Allee. Wilson led the team in hits, home runs and RBIs while Allee stole the most bases in the Conference with 36 (one away from the Conference all-time record).
Nine of the ten Missouri Valley Conference softball teams begin action the second weekend of February, with tournament play and non-conference games. League competition will heat up starting Saturday, March 15.
Mizzou returns to action Thursday, Jan. 23, against Texas A&M. The game will be the Pack the House contest, and we will also honor former Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt in the annual We Back Pat game. The first 1,000 fans to arrive at Mizzou Arena on Thursday will receive a free Mizzou Pennant. Mizzou and Texas A&M have a longer conference history, but the Aggies lead the all time series, 7-13. The last meeting between the two teams was in College Station last season, and the Aggies earned a 77-58 win.
Missouri will head back out on the road to face Mississippi State on Sunday, Jan. 26. The game will air on SportSouth, FS Southwest, FS Midwest and Sun Sports. This will be the second meeting between the two teams. Last season, Mizzou dropped the contest 61-56 in Mizzou Arena.
The Aggies are undefeated in conference play this season, adding wins over highly ranked opponents LSU and South Carolina. Courtney Walker leads the Aggies averaging 13.2 points. Courtney Williams is also averaging more than 10 points per game, while teammate Karla Gilbert leads the team with 7.8 rebounds per game. Walker was most recently named SEC player of the week on Jan. 20 as she led the Aggies to two wins that extended the team's win streak to eight consecutive games.
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The first two games of a four-game road trip saw drastically different results for St. Louis, which finishes its journey Saturday on Long Island. The Blues were on top of their game in a 4-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings on Monday, but anything but the following night as they lost 7-1 in New Jersey.
Jaroslav Halak was supposed to get the night off after beating Detroit, but he was pressed into action before the end of the first period after Brian Elliott gave up three goals on nine shots. Halak yielded four goals on 14 shots. Still, their teammates hoisted the blame for the rout on their own shoulders.
"It's brutal," forward Chris Stewart said in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Those are guys who battle for us all year and saved our [butts] two or three years in a row now. So we've got to be better for them. It's time to take a serious look in the mirror and get ready for New York."
Only eight points separate the second-place Rangers from the eighth-place Islanders in the Metropolitan Division standings after the Isles rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Blueshirts 5-3 at Madison Square Garden. This is the final game indoors for the Rangers before 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series coming up at Yankee Stadium against the Devils and Islanders.
An illness kept goaltender Henrik Lundqvist from dressing on Tuesday, but he was back at practice Wednesday wearing his pinstriped pads. Meanwhile, the Rangers shook up their defense corps by acquiring Kevin Klein from the Nashville Predators in exchange for 2008 first-round pick Michael Del Zotto.
"He's going to fit in our system very well," general manager Glen Sather said of Klein, who has four more years remaining on his contract and will be in New York by Thursday. "The coaches know him, know what they are getting, know how he plays."
Who's hot: Steen scored the Blues' lone goal Tuesday, his career-high 25th, and his first in three games since returning from a concussion. … Rangers forward Rick Nash has consecutive two-goal games and nine goals in as many games. Forward Chris Kreider had a goal and two assists against the Islanders.
Injury report: St. Louis forward Vladimir Tarasenko (flu-like symptoms) has missed the past two games. Forward Maxim Lapierre (lower body) is on injured reserve. … New York forward Derek Dorsett (broken fibula) is on injured reserve.
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The Missouri State University-West Plains Grizzlies travel to Sedalia tonight for a Region 16 showdown with the State Fair Roadrunners at the Fred E. Davis Center.
Currently, the Grizzlies and Roadrunners share first place in Region 16 with records of 2-0. Overall, the Grizzlies are 15-7 while State Fair is 13-6.
The game will air on KDY and kkdy.com with streaming video of the game on ozarkareanetwork.com
Other Region 16 teams in action tonight include:
Mineral Area @ St. Louis Community College-Forest Park
Three Rivers @ Arkansas Baptist
Tuesday night was round two in the 43rd Annual Liberty Tournament.
Gary Lee has a summary:
The next segment will be Thursday, JV Game winners bracket 4pm Liberty VS Houston. And at 5:15 JV match up Eminence VS Thayer.
On the Varsity side of the winners bracket, #1 Liberty will face off with #4 Alton at 6:30 followed by #2 Eminence VS #3 Thayer at 8pm. Both games will be broadcast on 96.9 The Fox.
Friday night the Fox will also air the Summersville Wildcats game against the Doniphan Dons at 8pm.
A low scoring game but none-the-less a win for the Zizzers as they went up against the Parkview Vikings Tuesday night.
Brian Ingles has the game summery:
Once again the West Plains Zizzer boys get the win over the Parkview Vikings 45 to 41.
The Zizzers will play the Camdenton Lakers next on Friday night.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Anthony Hickey made four consecutive free throws in the final minute and LSU held on for a 77-71 victory against Missouri on Tuesday.
Shavon Coleman led LSU (12-5, 3-2) with a season-high 19 points. Johnny O'Bryant added 16 points, while Andre Stringer had 12. Jordan Mickey scored 14 points and grabbed 13 rebounds.
Missouri, which trailed for most of the game, went ahead 65-64 on a 3-pointer by Brown with 3:39 remaining. LSU's Mickey replied with two free throws and a field goal and Coleman made a layup after a steal by Tim Quarterman.
Following a 3-pointer by Jabari Brown, Hickey was again fouled. Hickey sank two more free throws with 17 seconds left to push LSU ahead 76-71.
Hickey, who entered the game shooting 50 percent from the free-throw line, was fouled on purpose twice by Missouri. Hickey made his first pair of free throws to give LSU (12-5, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) a 74-68 lead with 37 seconds remaining.
Missouri stayed in striking range as Clarkson made three of four free throws on Missouri's next two possessions. Then Hickey was fouled twice, and he sealed the win with his clutch foul shooting.
SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State senior Jarmar Gulley matched a career high with 26 points and snagged a game-high 12 rebounds to lift the Bears (13-6, 3-4 MVC) past visiting Evansville, 64-61, here Tuesday in a key Missouri Valley Conference game.
MSU overcame a halftime deficit for the fifth time this season and used the strength of a 15-4 run over the course of seven-and-a-half minutes early in the second half to turn the game around.
Evansville (9-11, 2-5) led 34-32 at the intermission behind a 52.4-percent shooting effort and led by as many as eight points late in the opening period.
The cardiac Bears scored six unanswered points in the final 78 seconds of the opening half as Gulley converted a traditional 3-point play, and Gavin Thurman dropped in a clutch trey to make it a two-point game at the break. MSU later took its first lead since 7-6 when Emmanuel Addo scored on an up-and-under move at the 17:12 mark of the second half on a pass from Ron Mvouika to make it a 39-38 contest. Evansville regained the lead briefly on a layup by D.J. Balentine, but Paul Lusk's troops found their rhythm and use the game-breaking surge to push ahead 50-42 with 11:28 remaining.
On the ensuing possession, MSU trapped Balentine in the front court, forcing Evansville into its final timeout with 21 ticks to play. Marty Simmons' squad drew up a shot for the MVC's top scorer, but Balentine's trey missed and was gathered in by Gulley who was fouled at the 14-second mark.
Gulley went to the line sitting at a perfect 7-for-7 on the night, but his only miss from the stripe came at a bad time, as Evansville grabbed the missed one-and-one front end to get another crack at it. However, MSU quickly wrapped up Duane Gibson to send him to the line. Gibson also missed his front end free throw chance to keep the score at 63-60.
Austin Ruder got a chance to put the game on ice three seconds later, but also missed, and when the Aces got a third chance in the deciding moments, MSU fouled Balentine before he had an opportunity to set up a potential tying shot. Balentine responded with a made free throw to bring UE back within 63-61, but he missed his second shot on purpose as it scraped off the bottom of the net and out of bounds.Dorrian Williams, who finished with 8 assists and just one turnover for MSU, then went to the line with 2.8 seconds to go and made one-of-two. His second shot was picked up by Simmons, but Evansville could not get off a final shot, and the Bears improved to 9-1 at home this season with the win.
Balentine was held four points below his league-leading 22.2-point scoring average with 18 tallies on the night, while Egidiju Mockevicius added 10 for Evansville which finished 19-for-44 (.432) from the field and just 4-of-13 (.308) beyond the arc.
Missouri State, which snapped a three-game losing streak, also got double figures from Christian Kirkwho went 5-for-7 from the field in a reserve role to finish with 11 points. Williams added 8 points and a career-high 6 rebounds to go with his game-high assist total, and Lusk picked up his 40th victory as Bears' coach.
The Bears out-rebounded the Aces by a 43-28 margin and snagged 18 offensive boards – 7 by Gulley — that led to 14 second-chance points. MSU finished 24-for-63 (.381) from the field, 4-of-21 (.190) from long range and 12-of-19 (.632) at the stripe with 11 turnovers.
MSU closes out its current two-game home stand on Saturday at 7 p.m., when the Bears host rival Southern Illinois in a White Out game on FOX Sports Midwest and MVC TV Network. Tickets are available now at MissouriStateBears.com/tickets and during regular box office hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at the JQH Arena box office and by phone at (417) 836-7678.


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A Day in the Life of a Dance Studio Owner:
This article brought to you by Business Ideas! If you enjoyed this article, make sure to subscribe to the Business Ideas Newsletter to get ideas sent straight to your email inbox.If you are an instructor in your dance studio, you will need to dress appropriately for your scheduled classes and make sure the studio is clean and ready for students to arrive. If you have other instructors working with/for you, make sure they arrive on time and are dressed appropriately. Spend time between classes marketing your new studio via magazine ads aimed at your target audience, distributing fliers to dance clothing stores and other businesses that cater to dancers. During your day you will be talking with students and parents (if your students are school-age), making sure they are happy with their classes. You will collect tuition payments and send out invoices as necessary. You'll want to make sure to enter the tuition payments in your finance software and to ensure that your instructors are paid.
About Your Customers:
Your customers will be dance lovers looking for quality dance instruction. Depending on what type of classes you offer, your students will range in age from pre-school to adult.
What You Need to Start:
- Passion for dance
- Business plan
- Marketing plan and materials
- Business license and insurance
- Dance studio (with proper floors, barre, dressing room, etc.)
- Dance instructors
- Music (CD player, record player, piano with pianist, etc.)
- Dance attire
- Computer with finance software
The Good:
- For a dance lover, being able to dance all day and get paid for it is a dream come true.
- Watching people learn to dance is very rewarding.
- Demand for dance classes will always be high.
- You can charge top dollar for quality instruction.
- If you have instructors teaching all your classes, you won't need to do a lot of work each day.
The Bad:
- Finding dance instructors up to your standards could take some time and patience.
- You will need a decent-sized building, so renting or buying a studio is a must.
- National Association of Schools of Dance
- National Dance Association
- Bureau of Labor Statistics on Dancers and Choreographers
- Wikipedia on Dance Studio
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Modern people are still influenced by the mind-body dualism of Rene Descartes. Some of these people said "Anxiety aggravated the symptoms of these patients," a notion that most people probably consider natural. By contrast, I would like to criticize this concept because anxiety is posited as an independent driving force that actively changes one's body. However, anxiety per se is a subjective feeling produced by the brain and somatic signals from the body. Actually, neural activities in the central and autonomic nervous systems along with endocrine and immune function change the body. From this point of view, anxiety is not the CAUSE of mind-body changes but the RESULT of them. The origin and synthetic processing of emotion are more important than simple idea that the "mind" directly changes the body. Descartes' mind-body dualism conceals, in our view, how diseases should be recognized and analyzed.
Functional gastrointestinal disorders are useful for illustrating how the rationale of "nervism" of my notion is manifest. In particular, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prototype of functional gastrointestinal disorders [1], and the biopsychosocial model is well fit to IBS [1]. Although genes, inflammation, gut microbiota, psychosocial stress, and early learning may play an important role in the pathogenesis of IBS [2,3], brain-gut interactions cannot be excluded from the pathophysiology of IBS [4]. Brain imaging studies have clarified the roles of the anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, insula and the brain stem in response to visceral stimulation [2,5,6]. These structures produce both visceral pain and negative emotion that are typical symptoms of IBS patients. Some researchers interpret the anxiety and depression of IBS patients as "noise" or "confounding factors" that require control. However, IBS patients naturally have negative emotion. Some IBS patients may not have anxiety or depression at the clinically diagnostic level, but a high percentage of IBS patients show increased levels of anxiety and depression. Therefore, the concept that "pure IBS" pathophysiology is completely separated from anxiety and depression is influenced by the Descartes' mind-body dualism and may hinder our ability to see the true nature of the mind-body relationship.
The clinical usefulness of psychological treatments for IBS patients is evidence of the rationale of the biopsychosocial model. The theoretical background of psychotherapies for IBS is as follows. First, IBS patients have deranged life styles characterized by more perceived stress, more irregular sleep and more irregular meals [7]. Reduction of these risk factors is the first step to minimize the exacerbating factors of IBS. Second, the doctor-patient relationship is important for effective treatment. A positive physician-patient interaction is associated with a good prognosis of IBS [8]. Third, the close relationship between daily stress or hassles and IBS symptoms is present [9]. The stress response should be managed. Fourth, IBS patients show high response to placebo [10]. This phenomenon means that suggestion and expectation greatly influence the therapeutic effect. Fifth, IBS patients have high levels of anxiety, depression, and somatization [11]. Not only neuropharmacotherapies but also psychotherapies are indispensable for these co-morbid disorders whose improvement often alleviates IBS symptoms. Sixth, intractable IBS patients have often experienced traumatic life events [12]. Improved brain function has been reported after treatment including psychotherapy [13]. Seventh, the effects of health beliefs and learned behaviors may adversely affect outcome.
There is evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of rigorously executed trials on IBS that psychological treatment in general is effective for IBS [14]. Hypnotherapy is a representative strategy for refractory IBS [15]. Autogenic training is auto-hypnosis with the goal of being able to self-administer suggestions of relaxation. We reported that autogenic training is effective for intractable IBS patients [16]. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on ways to increase or decrease a particular behavior that addresses automatic thoughts and irrational beliefs. CBT was found to be more effective than an educational intervention [17]. Psychological treatments are interpreted as how humans have been influenced by others. During psychological treatments, function of the specific brain regions in patients is altered. Good examples are the decreased activities of the anterior cingulate cortex during hypnotic modulation of pain [18] and the increased activities of the anterior cingulate cortex during empathy to pain [19]. Therefore, how neural processing of interoception is modified after the activation of specific brain regions, including the mirror neuron system, should be explored. Further research on neurological approaches to biopsychosocial medicine will be valuable.
IBS: irritable bowel syndrome; CBT: cognitive-behavioral therapy
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan, and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Labor of Japan.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Record of Decision; Final Environmental Impact Statement/General Management Plan; Grand Canyon National Park; Coconino and Mohave Counties, AZ Summary: Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1505.2), the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, has prepared a Record of Decision on the Final Environmental Impact Statement/General Management Plan for Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino and Mohave Counties, Arizona. This Record of Decision is a concise statement of what decisions were made, what alternatives were considered, the basis for the decision, and the mitigating measures developed to avoid or minimize environmental impacts. Decision: The National Park Service will implement the proposed general management plan for Grand Canyon National Park, as detailed in Alternative 2 of the Final General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement issued in July 1995. The draft plan and environmental impact statement was issued in March 1995. The proposal is described below as the Selected Action. Selected Action: The selected action is a comprehensive proposal for future management and use of the park, including a regional, ecosystem planning focus, park management zones, visitor experience, expanded provision of alternative visitor transportation services, interpretation planning, park operations, and park facilities development. Summary of Actions: The regional context of Grand Canyon National Park will be emphasized, and proposals for resource preservation and visitor use will take into account environmental effects on the park as well as the region. Planning outside the park will be done cooperatively, with an emphasis on disseminating information, preserving regional and park resources, and providing a quality visitor experience. The National Park Service will work jointly with adjacent entities to provide for many park needs outside park boundaries. A gateway information center, some community services, and up to 500 employee housing units will be provided in Tusayan. The most appropriate locations for facilities will be considered in a regional context, taking into consideration principles of sustainable design and the need to preserve resources while providing for a quality visitor experience. Alternative modes of transportation (public transit, hiking, and biking) will be emphasized within the park. A primary orientation center and public transit hub will be constructed near Mather Point. From there several shuttle routes will provide efficient and quiet visitor transportation to Grand Canyon Village and other points on the South Rim. Visitor parking and a shuttle system will also be established on the North Rim. To minimize impacts on natural and cultural resources within the park, existing structures will be adaptively reused, and required new facilities will be built in previously disturbed areas wherever possible. The Kachina and Thunderbird lodges will be removed and the number and size of gift shops on the South Rim will be reduced. The RV campground and the existing helicopter base will be redesigned. Some disturbed areas will be revegetated. To ensure a quality experience, the number of visitors admitted to certain areas will be limited during peak visitation periods based on recommendations derived from a carrying capacity monitoring program. The methodology for determining use limits will be the same throughout the developed areas of the park; however, visitor use limits for specific areas will vary considerably, and visitor use may be limited sooner in some areas than in others. Day use on the South Rim and the corridor trails will not need to be limited during the life of this plan, provided the recommended alternative visitor transportation services are fully funded and operational; day visitation on the North Rim will be limited by the year 2005 or 2010, depending on the effectiveness of management actions; and day use at Tuweep may be limited during peak times. In areas where reservations become necessary, visitors will be able to obtain reservations ahead of time (their reservations will be checked at park entrances). A monitoring system will be established to measure resource impacts, facility use, visitor satisfaction, and levels of visitor attendance in each park developed area. The reservation system will be adjusted as needed. Summary of Impacts: A stable situation for the future will be provided for all the developed areas of the park, significantly improving management's ability to preserve and protect the natural and cultural resources, provide a high-quality visitor experience, and ensure quality living and operating conditions for park employees. Most development will in-fill on already disturbed areas. Historic structures will be adaptively reused, resource damage will be minimized, and local economies will be enhanced. Sustainable planning, design, and implementation will be encouraged within a regional context. Alternatives Considered No-Action Alternative--Existing Conditions / Ongoing Programs Summary of Actions: Unlimited day visitation would continue in all park developed areas, with nearly every visitor facility in developed areas of the South Rim continuing to be overcapacity during peak use periods. No major facilities would be built, and no major park functions would be relocated. Any required facility changes would be done in or adjacent to existing disturbed areas. The number of overnight accommodations, campsites, and all other visitor services remain the same in each developed area. Minor adjustments in management would be made to help reduce resource damage and to provide a safer visitor experience. Planning would be focused inside the park, primarily to solve existing problems. Issues related to planning and land management practices in areas immediately outside the park would be handled individually as the need arose, without an overall area vision or cooperative regional planning effort to guide the direction. Limited cooperative planning to distribute regional information to visitors would occur. Summary of Impacts: Uncontrolled growth would continue within the park, with only limited improvements to visitor services. Damage to natural and cultural resources would continue to worsen, and the visitor experience would become degraded. Communication with visitors to help them plan their trip so they could have a quality experience in the park would continue to be minimal, resulting in negative experiences for park visitors. Extensive quantities of substandard housing would remain, along with an ever-increasing shortage of park housing, forcing more and more employees to find housing in adjacent areas, perhaps long distances from the workplace. The lack of operational space would become severe, reducing employee effectiveness. Over the long term the economy of the area could be damaged due to the worsening image of Grand Canyon National Park and the poor visitor experience. Alternative 1--Minimum Requirements Summary of Actions: Unlimited day visitation would continue in all developed areas of the park until visitor congestion, resource damage, and public safety warranted restricting access during peak visitation. This would be accomplished by implementing reservation systems based on the capacity of existing parking and eating facilities on the South and North Rims. Regional information programs would explain the park's reservation systems to visitors. Overnight accommodations would not be affected. Visitor use at Tuweep and on the corridor trails would not be limited under this alternative. Existing land use patterns would be retained--no major facilities would be built, no major park functions would be relocated, and most park facilities would remain where they are now. A few minor facilities would be added. Any required facility changes would be done in or adjacent to existing disturbed areas. Planning would be focused inside the park, primarily to solve existing problems. Issues related to planning and land management practices in adjacent areas outside the park would be handled individually as the need arose, without an overall area vision or integrated regional planning effort to guide the direction. Summary of Impacts: Park resource damage and a worsening visitor experience at Grand Canyon would be alleviated by limiting the number of people visiting developed areas on the North and South Rims at any one time. Tuweep would continue to experience uncontrolled use, possibly leading to deteriorated natural resources and a degraded visitor experience over the long term. Some impacted areas would be rehabilitated, helping to restore resources within the park. The visitor experience would improve compared to the no-action alternative because fewer people would be competing to use facilities. However, visitors would continue to be frustrated by not being able to easily find places they want to see. Information, orientation, and education about park themes would remain ineffective because of inadequate and poorly located facilities. Visitors would not be well distributed throughout the park, reducing the number of people who could enjoy the park at any one time, and more and more visitors would be turned away. An increasing number of employees would not be able to live in the park, and many would have to find their own housing, often over an hour from the park. Housing in some developed areas would be improved, and the need for additional housing would be reduced by limiting visitation. Some improvements would occur outside the park due to NPS assistance to outside entities for regional visitor information. However, many park problems would fall to regional entities, for example, visitors parking outside the park and using private transit services to enter the park, disappointed visitors being turned away at the gate, and housing for park employees. Alternative 3--Reduced Development Within the Park Summary of Actions: Alternative 3 would emphasize the preservation of park resources by placing all new facilities and relocating many existing functions outside the park. Cooperative regional planning would ensure that NPS functions occurring outside park boundaries demonstrated environmentally sensitive planning and design. The National Park Service would expand its regional information services, as described for alternative 2. On the South Rim all day visitor vehicles would be removed, and a major public transit system would be provided. No new lands within the park would be disturbed, and historic uses of existing structures would be retained wherever possible. Overnight accommodations would be reduced on the South Rim but increased on the North Rim by adaptively reusing historic structures. Planning for the park would be done in a regional context to minimize negative impacts resulting from park uses being placed in areas outside the park. Communications would be expanded, as described for alternative 2. Wherever possible, facilities placed outside the park would be clustered in disturbed areas and linked to existing systems. Alternative modes of transportation would be emphasized regionally as well as in major high use areas of the park, the same as alternative 2. Summary of Impacts: There would be an emphasis on preserving natural and cultural resources within the park, and many park disturbed areas would be rehabilitated. The visitor experience within the park would be highly controlled on the South Rim, and strict limitations of the number of visitors on the North Rim and at Tuweep would force many visitors to plan far in advance to experience those areas. Many more acres would be disturbed outside the park than any other alternative as a result of park-related facility development; services, housing, and operational facilities within the park would be limited. Many visitors would be inconvenienced since no private vehicles could be driven through the park. Alternative 4--Increased Development Within the Park Summary of Actions: Alternative 4 proposes actions to improve visitor convenience by placing major park visitor services inside the park wherever reasonable and by distributing visitors throughout the developed areas of the park. No day use limitations would be established unless the visitor experience was being significantly degraded. The type of vehicular use allowed in some areas would be restricted, and high use areas would be accessible only by transit vehicles or hiking or biking (the same as alternative 2); other developed areas would be accessible by private vehicles. Overnight accommodations would be increased in all developed areas on the North and South Rims by constructing some new facilities and adaptively reusing existing structures. New facilities would be placed either in or adjacent to disturbed areas. Planning outside the park would emphasize regional information, as described for alternative 2. Cooperative planning with outside entities would focus on disseminating information, providing trip planning assistance, and distributing visitor use. Summary of Impacts: Allowing all visitors to enter the park and developing facilities to accommodate their needs would result in continuing resource damage. This alternative would produce more resource impacts inside the park than any alternative and would set a precedent for continued resource impacts in the future. The greatest resource impacts would be caused by widening roads and developing additional parking. Visitor convenience would be significantly enhanced. Park operations and development would continue to expand to meet visitor demand. After 2010 the visions and management objectives for the developed areas might not be attainable due to the increases in facilities and visitors. Impacts to regional resources would increase over the long term as a result of growth inside and outside the park to meet visitor needs. Due to ever-increasing needs for park construction, new employee housing, and larger visitor facilities, the regional economy would continue to increase. Basis for Decision: The selected action was formulated to address problems and management concerns related to the protection and preservation of natural and cultural resources, the provision of appropriate visitor experiences, and the fulfillment of identified management objectives. The management objectives reflect the park purpose, significance, and park area vision statements. They provide a standard against which progress on the implementation of the plan can be measured. The management zoning concept set forth in the March 1995 draft plan (and refined in the July 1995 final plan) is adopted, which will enhance management's ability to direct future park actions in specific areas within the context of an overall management philosophy. The selected action also adopts the ongoing implementation plans within the park (for example, the Resource Management Plan, Backcountry Management Plan, Colorado River Management Plan, Fire Management Plan, and Land Protection Plan), and provides direction, through the management objectives, for future revisions of those plans. The selected action provides for a monitoring program that will provide an appropriate park management presence and an adjustable, sustainable carrying capacity for people and vehicles in developed areas within the park with minimal disturbance to park resources. No protests or other comments were received on the final plan and environmental impact statement during the 30-day no action period that the document was available to the public. Environmentally Preferred Alternative: Alternative 2 is the environmentally preferred alternative. It balances the statutory mission of the National Park Service to provide long-term resource preservation while still allowing for appropriate levels of visitor use and appropriate means or forms for visitor enjoyment. Within the range of alternatives presented in the plan, alternative 2 corrects the existing infrastructure deficiencies in the park and provides for the projected growth in visitation through the year 2010 by adaptive use of existing historical structures and provision of visitor transportation services other than private automobiles. A long-term monitoring program to determine appropriate use levels and carrying capacities within the developed areas of the park will be established to ensure protection of the natural and cultural resources of the park and to maintain a quality visitor experience. Alternative 2 also provides the best combination of long- and short-term regional economic and community proposals that will favorably affect the tourism industry and communities in northern Arizona and southern Utah. An emphasis in alternative 2 is to promote economic development in surrounding communities by not providing all tourist related facilities inside the park. Measures to Minimize Harm: All practicable measures to avoid or minimize environmental impacts that could result from implementation of the selected action have been identified and incorporated into the selected action. These include, but are not limited to, protection of viewsheds and wilderness values, and natural resources including the protection of populations of threatened plant species in the developed zone. As specific aspects of the selected action are further developed or implemented, the National Park Service will consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service regarding threatened or endangered species. Also impacts to the integrity of historic properties, ethnographic resources, and archeological sites will be avoided or minimized. A programmatic agreement has been signed by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the National Park Service which provides a framework for further consultation and discussion when implementing the selected action. Conclusion: The above factors and considerations warrant selecting Alternative 2, identified as the proposed action in the draft document (and as modified in the final general management plan and environmental impact statement). Additional copies of the approved Record of Decision may be obtained from the Superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023. The officials responsible for implementing the selected action are the Field Director, Intermountain Field Area, National Park Service and the Superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park. Approved: August 21, 1995. Stanley T. Albright, Field Director, Pacific West Field Area. [FR Doc. 95-21964 Filed 9-1-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-70-P
Record of Decision; Final Environmental Impact Statement/General Management Plan; Grand Canyon National Park; Coconino and Mohave Counties, AZ
Pursuant to Sec. 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1505.2), the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, has prepared a Record of Decision on the Final Environmental Impact Statement/General Management Plan for Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino and Mohave Counties, Arizona. This Record of Decision is a concise statement of what decisions were made, what alternatives were considered, the basis for the decision, and the mitigating measures developed to avoid or minimize environmental impacts.


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Over 2.5 million saw Pope Benedict in 2011
Catholic World News - January 03, 2012
More than 2.5 million people saw Pope Benedict XVI at papal audiences and liturgical ceremonies during the past year, the Vatican has disclosed.
The statistics furnished by the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household count only those people who attended audiences and ceremonies at the Vatican or the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. These figures do not include the millions who participated in public ceremonies during the Pope's trips.
The statistics show that about 400,000 people attended the Pope's weekly public audiences on Wednesdays; 1.2 million attended the Sunday Angelus audiences; 846,000 participated in liturgical ceremonies at the Vatican; and 101,000 came to private audiences.
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Los Angeles is a hot town. Hot women. Hot clubs. And, when private eye Sam Hunter is involved, hot tempers. Sam doesn't take kindly to threats, so when a street thug busts up his office and warns him to "Stay away from Domingo," he might as well draw Sam a map pointing where to swing his fists. Soon, Sam finds himself racing around L.A., dodging bullets and spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of sex, drugs and danger. A teenage porn star, an heiress and some spoiled rich brat lead Sam to the Black Knight club, a place dark enough to hide heroin and sleaze from the bright lights of the law. What will he find when he finally reaches Domingo? Big rewards or a deadly end? From Edgar Award-winning L.A. Morse, author of THE FLESH EATERS and THE OLD DICK, comes the thrilling story of pimps, pushers and porn that will hit you in the chest like the kickback of a Colt .38 Special.


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PAWTUCKET ŌĆö St. Raphael Academy head coach Linley Pullem's post-game synopsis of her squad's overall performance was very simply put.
The Saints had just sustained a 3-0 Division III-North loss to Johnston High at the Alumni & Wellness Center late Monday afternoon, and she admitted she saw flashes of brilliance coupled with moments of complete disarray.
ŌĆ£We just need to be more consistent,ŌĆØ she stated.
On this day, SRA squandered three-point cushions in each of the three games, but watched them evaporate due to the Panthers' superior serving.
John R. McKinley
PAWTUCKET - John R. McKinley, 69, passed on September 30th with his son by his side.
Marilyn E. Lefaivre
SEEKONK - Marilyn Edith (Chestnut) Lefaivre, 73, of Seekonk, died unexpectedly at Sturdy Memorial Hospital on September 17, 2013. Born in Attleboro on February 24, 1940, she was the daughter of the late George Edmund Chestnut and Edith Virginia (Claflin) Chestnut and lived almost her entire life in Seekonk. She was the former wife of Allen D. Lefaivre of Pawtucket, RI.
EAST PROVIDENCE ŌĆō Police have made two arrests in connection with SundayŌĆÖs
shooting at Onna Moniz John Park, but are not releasing the names of the
suspects until later this afternoon pending further investigation,
according to police Lt. Michael David.
ŌĆ£We have two individuals in custody,ŌĆØ David said. "The quick arrests in
this are a direct result of police officers being familiar with the
community in which they work and inter agency cooperation."
Meanwhile, the 22-year-old victim in the shooting was being listed today
Hendricken Field, the official name of the onetime campus venue for Providence College baseball, no longer has a spacious, perfectly trimmed lawn. In its stead is an outdoor track and field complex that stands on the threshold of completion.
CUMBERLAND --- Ever since organizations such as Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and Warrior Dash burst onto the scene in 2010, obstacle racing has become the rage and the ŌĆśto-doŌĆÖ activity for runners and non-athletes alike in this country and overseas.
Runners would try to complete a race ŌĆō from your average 5K to a marathon ŌĆō on a trail course that has its share of mud, ponds, and rocks and is littered with obstacles, ranging from climbing over walls to crossing balance beams, crawling under barbed wire, and jumping over fire pits.
PAWTUCKETŌĆöPawtucket Police have recently come upon a phenomenon involving older model stolen vehicles and apparent cases of ownership fraud somehow slipping through the state's Department of Motor Vehicles registration system.
According to Police Chief Paul King, within the past six months or so, about a dozen cars that city residents have purchased off of private owners have turned out to be stolen, unbeknownst to the new owner. The issue, it seems, is that for cars older than 2000 models, no title is required to register the vehicle in Rhode Island.
EAST PROVIDENCE ŌĆō Friday marked the four-year anniversary of an unsolved arson and hate crime in the city, and even though the case remains cold, East Providence police say they are still reviewing all aspects of the investigation in hopes of developing further leads.
On Sept. 27, 2009, anti-Semitic graffiti, including swatiskas and a racial slur, were spray-painted on a Ferris Avenue home in Rumford before the back of it was set on fire with an accelerant. A family sleeping in the home was able to get out safely, but the suspect responsible for setting the fire was never caught.
LINCOLN ŌĆō Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral AcademyŌĆÖs Drew Madden, 27, admits skydiving was never really on his list of things to do someday.
But that wonŌĆÖt keep Madden from bailing out of a plane over Middletown this afternoon with Commissioner of Education Deborah A. Gist.
Madden, a noted math instructor for the Blackstone Valley Prep charter school network serving Lincoln, Cumberland, Central Falls and Pawtucket, made a commitment over the summer to support the middle schoolŌĆÖs reading program, and his skydiving excursion is the payoff of that endeavor.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö It seems a lot of photographers have an idea about what represents a slice of life in Pawtucket. Over 300 submissions were received for the cityŌĆÖs 15th annual Photo Contest under the theme ŌĆ£A Piece of Pawtucket.ŌĆØ
By TERRY NAU
Sports editor emeritus
PAWTUCKET ŌĆō Earning and maintaining good field position proved crucial for Shea High on Friday night during a 19-0 victory over Central High in a Division II-B matchup at Max Read Field before approximately 200 fans.
John C. McGinnes
PAWTUCKET - John C. McGinnes, 80, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 27, 2013. He was the beloved husband of Nina M. (Batchelder) McGinnes for 54 years. Born in Providence, he was a son of the late Francis and Julia (Nichols) McGinnes.
Ruth J. Microulis
PAWTUCKET - Ruth J. (Pinsoneault) Microulis, 84, passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 26, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Peter Microulis. Born in Pawtucket, she was a daughter of the late Arthur and Elizabeth (Garland) Pinsoneault.
Ruth was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary's of both St. Leo the Great Parish and St. Raphael Academy.
Richard W. Robbins
PROVIDENCE - Richard W. Robbins died Monday, September 23, 2013 in the Philip Hulitar Hospice Center in Providence. He was the husband of Nancy Martin Robbins.
He was born in May 21, 1927 in Riverton, NJ. Recently living in the Elmwood section of Providence, but for many years he made his home across from the historic Dexter Training Grounds in Providence. He found a great sense of community in this area of the city which he fondly referred to as Armory Village.
LINCOLN ŌĆö YWCA Rhode Island Thursday honored 12 ŌĆ£Women of Achievement,ŌĆØ including WoonsocketŌĆÖs Jacqueline L. Dowdy, Sally Ann Hay of Lincoln, and Central Falls native Anna Cano-Morales at its ninth annual awards luncheon at Kirkbrae Country Club.
Among the honorees was Quota International in Woonsocket and Pawtucket/Central Falls, which was recognized as Organization of the Year.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Enjoy a feast for the senses, as the 14th annual Pawtucket Arts Festival continues through Sunday with its lineup of creative films, live music, refreshments and food.
All of the films are shown at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center, 175 Main St., Pawtucket. The standard admission fee is $10 per day, and that price includes a free T-shirt from Mirror Image, music, food, drinks, short films and features.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö The Ten Mile River Greenway, a paved two-mile bike path that connects Slater Park in Pawtucket to the Kimberly Ann Rock Athletic Fields in East Providence, is a boon to local walkers, bicyclists and inline skaters. But one City Council member is expressing concerns about the safety of a new crosswalk on Armistice Boulevard that utilizes a solar-powered traffic signal.
CUMBERLAND ŌĆō Ed McVeigh served 18 years as a business teacher and coach at Central Falls High School, and ŌĆō in that latter category ŌĆō mentored his WarriorsŌĆÖ boysŌĆÖ basketball teams to six divisional titles and one state title, that during the 1986-87 campaign, his first.
As a result, and because of his ability to teach the game and train not just athletes but young men, he unanimously became the only coach enshrined in the CFHSŌĆÖ Athletic Hall of Fame last Oct. 11.
CUMBERLAND ŌĆö A summer-long project to replace the natural grass football field at Tucker Field with state-of-the-art synthetic turf is nearly complete, but whether or not it will be ready in time for the first home game of the season on Oct. 4 is still up in the air.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆō The Samuel Slater Junior High School will be closed for two days on Monday and Tuesday while workers remove a section of ceiling containing asbestos from the Mineral Spring Avenue facility.
According to school officials, workers demolishing a ceiling in the boysŌĆÖ locker room found a second ceiling underneath that tested positive for asbestos.
ŌĆ£When they ripped the ceiling down there was an older ceiling underneath that had some asbestos,ŌĆØ said Pawtucket School Committee Chairman Alan Tenreiro.


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Wolf is a name with a split personality. It can be seen as one of the fierce animal names, like Fox and Bear and Puma, with a touch of the werewolf, or it can be viewed as a quieter, Wolf Blitzer kind of name, fairly common in German (where is pronounced Vulf) and Jewish families, sometimes as a short form of Wolfgang.
CNN newscaster Blitzer inherited the name from his grandfather. Other Wolfs of note include British screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, who was instrumental in the early James Bond films, painter Wolf Kahn, and the hero of Jack London's 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, Wolf Larsen.
Nickname Wolfie definitely domesticates it.
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Nick is an international fishing and travel writer. He has fished in over 20 countries, swam with live sailfish, wrestled a 150-pound blue shark in open water and has held the post as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine. He also regularly contributes to Sport Fishing, ESPN.com and Marlin. E-mail Nick
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|Herr Mueler played by J.B. Arriola levels a Luger at Anna Kraaling played by Krista Viau, while Erik Hoffling played by Bo Brady looks on in Carbon High School's production of 'The Last Train.'
The Carbon High School drama team returned from region eight competition after a successful experience.
Carbon High School took top honors in the one-act play category with the judges awarding the drama team with the best play honor at the competition.
The Carbon High students performed "The Last Train," a play dealing with the holocaust and World War II.
Special recognition went to Lyndsay Durrant as the best supporting actress and J.B. Arriola for the best supporting actor.
"The plays were much stronger than last year," commented director Rodney Scott.
In the individual events category, Carbon placed a full slate for state, but the high school was unable to overcome stiff competition from Lehi, pointed out Scott.
Nevertheless, the Carbon High School drama team members still managed to capture second place overall at the competition.
Carbon High students receiving special recognition and medals for performances in the individual events at the region competition included:
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Sentencing delayed in boxer Fernando Vargas embezzlement case
A Superior Court judge Wednesday delayed until Oct. 8 the sentencing of a former business manager convicted of stealing from ex-Oxnard boxing champion Fernando Vargas.
A jury last month found Joe Pecora, 57, of Newbury Park, guilty of grand theft, forgery and tax evasion. Pecora, formerly of Camarillo, faces a maximum of nine years and eight months in jail.
Pecora was found guilty Aug. 21 of two grand theft charges, one count of forgery and five counts of tax evasion. The jury also found Pecora guilty of special allegations that he stole more than $200,000 from Vargas.
During the three-week trial, prosecutors alleged Pecora forged checks to embezzle about $470,000 from Vargas and his company, Ferocious Inc., from 2003-08, and that he failed to declare more than $700,000 in income from 2004-08.
The defense argued that prosecutors failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt and that they relied only on Vargas' recognition of his own signature and not on a trained handwriting expert.
After 20 professional fights, Vargas, a 1996 U.S. Olympian, won a world title in 1998 and defended it five times during the next two years.
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Guided by History is pleased to offer this guest post by Frances Dinkelspiel. Frances is a journalist and the author of new book — released today! — called Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California. It tells the story of Frances' great-great grandfather, one of the premier financiers of the Pacific Coast, and the president of Wells Fargo Bank from 1905 to 1920. (CR)
Even though I am a fifth-generation Californian, and my great-great grandfather, my great-grandfather and a close cousin were all presidents of Wells Fargo Bank, I grew up not really understanding my family's connection with the bank.
It wasn't until I was a teenager that I figured out the relationship was something special. I had gone down to the Old Poodle Dog restaurant in San Francisco to have a celebratory birthday lunch with my father, who gave me a checking account as a birthday present. After we finished eating, we walked into the Montgomery Street office of Wells Fargo, a massive room decorated with marble wainscoting and crystal chandeliers. My father took me over to an elderly banker, who handed me a card of thick white cardstock with my name on it.
"Don't lose it," the banker said. "It's identification for your checking account."
The first time I whipped out the card I was amazed at the reaction I received. I was only 13 and could barely see over the counter, yet the teller treated me with exaggerated courtesy. She didn't ask to see a picture ID, but just handed me my money.
That was my first clue that my family held special status at the bank.
Twenty-seven years later, after a long career as a newspaper reporter, I found myself researching the life of Isaias Hellman, my great-great grandfather and the president of Wells Fargo Bank from 1905 to 1920. Hellman had come to California from Bavaria in 1859 and started the first successful bank in Los Angeles. He moved to San Francisco in 1890 to take over the Nevada Bank, which he merged with Wells Fargo in 1905. Hellman, one of the most influential Pacific Coast financers of the late 19th and early 20th century, served as president or director of 17 banks and controlled more than $100 million in capital at the height of his power in 1910.
Yet it was amazing how long — and how hard — it was to find out that information. Even though Hellman had been famous during his lifetime, he was almost forgotten by the time I started my research in 2000. No one had ever written a biography of him. I didn't even know the names of his brothers and sisters as I set out.
Finding out about Hellman's life entailed an immersion into some of the state's most distinguished archives — the California Historical Society, the Bancroft Library, the Huntington Library. I also was granted special permission to do research in the Wells Fargo Archives, one of the great repositories of western Americana. It is not generally open to the public, but since I was researching a Wells Fargo president — and a relative — I was provided access.
The archive was full of fascinating material. I found an old red and black ledger that was cracked and a bit musty. As I turned the pages, I realized this was the ledger Hellman had bought in 1865 when he opened his first dry goods store in Los Angeles. The town was more Mexican pueblo than American city then and only had a population of about 5,000 people. The names of the customers in Hellman's store were the names of some of the pioneers of Los Angeles — Pio Pico , the last governor of Mexican California; John Downey , the governor of California during the Civil War; and Harris Newmark , a merchant and early Jewish resident.
I stumbled upon another document — a list of the people who had bought shares of stock in the Nevada Bank in 1890. The Nevada Bank had been created in 1875 by four men dubbed "The Silver Kings" for the massive fortunes they accumulated during the Comstock Lode . But by 1890, the Nevada Bank was almost broke, and Hellman agreed to buy it for $2.5 million. By that time, Hellman had such a sterling reputation that businessmen around the country clamored to invest in the business. "Millionaires stood in rows for hours waiting for their chance to subscribe to the stock and men feeble from age were among them," a Los Angeles newspaper reported.
Some of those investors included Levi Strauss, the founder of the jeans company; Meyer Lehman, the founder of Lehman Brothers and Hellman's brother-in-law; the Walter family, who had one of the largest rug and furniture stores in the state; and the Haas cousins, Kalman, Abe, and William, who had a string of dry good stores along the Pacific Coast (the Haas family are prominent philanthropists today and control Levi Strauss & Co ) and many more. What a thrill it was to examine this list.
There was so much more. Hellman played a vital role in restoring San Francisco's financial system after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and the archives had descriptions of opening the bank vault to see if any money had survived the conflagration. Wells Fargo also took the lead in selling Liberty Bonds — really war bonds — during World War I, and it was fascinating to see how the entire country rallied during that crisis.
Eight years after I started my research, my book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, is about to be published. It tells the tale of the rise of California from a state dependent on the barter of hides and exchange of gold dust into one of the country's most dynamic economies.
Isaias Hellman — and Wells Fargo Bank — were crucial to that transformation.