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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- At the 22nd Komen Global Race For the Cure Saturday in DC, nearly 40,000 people, including 4,000 survivors, will be on the National Mall to help Nancy Brinker honor the promise she made to her sister to find a cure for breast cancer.
2020 -- A nice round number and hopefully the year a cure for breast cancer will be announced. That's the deadline set by Susan G. Komen For the Cure. One of the people helping Komen achieve that goal is its global president, Elizabeth Thompson.
"Each race is very, very special and every community that we visit is just tremendous," said Komen President Elizabeth Thompson, who will be among the special visitors cheering those on at Saturday's Komen Global Race For the Cure. It's one of dozens of races she will attend this year.
"The race is a gathering of people who come with all these energies, all these hopes," said Thompson. "so it never feels like been there done that, because it's always new for someone."
Thompson is relatively new to her job. After serving as Komen's senior vice president, medical and scientific affairs, she eagerly accepted the president's job in 2010. "I wanted to make a difference."
Thompson calls this a dynamic time in the breast cancer movement. Today there are nearly 3-million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. alone, the largest number in our history. But getting women to practice early detection continues to be a challenge.
"Last year in our country alone, 40% of the women eligible for screening weren't screened," Thompson said.
Another priority is research. It's the key to helping Nancy Brinker keep her promise to her sister Susan of finding a cure. So far, Komen has invested nearly $2 billion and the payoffs are evident.
Brinker said, "We are taking what we've learned and translating it into real therapy, therapy at the best centers & hospitals in the world all the way to the street, all the way to some of the poorest communities."
"Last year here we invested $93 million in communities across the U.S.; we invested another $58 million in research," Thompson said. "We have 16 trials, clinical trials, in development because of our research today."
So, how close has the research brought us to finding the cure? The deadline set by Komen is 2020.
"Screening is absolutely essential. Then if we move people from screening to diagnosis to treatment very quickly, and very early on in this stage in their breast cancer diagnosis, we can cure those women. We can make a difference for those women," Thompson said. "Together, we still have a lot of work to do. And we're at a very important point. So, we must join together to get this important and critical work done, and take it to the next level. Now's our time."


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Alice in Wonderland (Review)
Ensemble Theatre offers a colorful, energetic take on classic tale
Harper Lee
0 Comments · Friday, November 30, 2012
Alice in Wonderland works best when treated as an ensemble show, rather than a show about a dreamy little girl meeting a cast of supporting characters. This show does exactly that.
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Stage Door: Non-Holiday Edition
So Thanksgiving was early this year, and that means that not only retailers but all of our local theaters have fired their starting guns earlier than usual with family-friendly holiday shows. That began with Ensemble Theatre's opening of Alice in Wonderland on Nov. 28, and continues with Cinderella at the Covedale, A Christmas Carol at the Playhouse and New Edgecliff's Santaland Diaries (newly paired with The 12 Dates of Christmas) using a new venue, the Aronoff's Fifth Third Bank Theater. But before you start wearing your Christmas sweaters and holiday socks, I have a few non-seasonal but highly entertaining productions you should consider: Let's start with Cincinnati Shakespeare's staging of The Importance of Being Earnest. This is a classic comedy from 1895 by Oscar Wilde, but don't think there's anything old and musty about it. The production of this witty, romantic tale of harmless manipulation bubbles with laughter and sprightly performances. I gave it a Critic's Pick here and I suspect it will be another sold-out run for Cincy Shakes, which has assembled a gangbuster season. You should note that it's only onstage through Dec. 16, so if you want to see it, don't wait too long. (As of the 16th it will be supplanted by Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some), Cincy Shakes' holiday offering.) Box office: 513-381-2273 x.1. And if smiles without holiday trimming are something you seek, I highly recommend the touring production of Jersey Boys. This is the true story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Pop stars from the 1960s, and the show is stuffed full of their memorable, tuneful hits. The four leading actors faithfully recreate the group's close harmonies and Valli's soaring falsetto tenor — he's one of the great Pop vocalists of all time, and Nick Cosgrove nails the role. Although the history of these four singers has its ups and downs, the story is told with a sense of wry humor (and numerous F-bombs) that keeps things light and entertaining. Audiences have been clamoring for Broadway in Cincinnati to bring this show back since it appeared at the Aronoff back in 2008, and tickets are selling fast. Box office: 800-982-2787. Don't forget Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Playhouse's Shelterhouse stage. (Review here.) It's another genuine reincarnation of a singer who made an indelible mark on the world of Pop music. Box office: 513-421-3888.
Diamond In The Rough
The Emery Theatre reclaims its spot in the local and national spotlight
Kelly Tucker
0 Comments · Tuesday, November 20, 2012
If the historic Emery Theatre had a voice, it was a distant echo ricocheting off of boarded-up buildings and dissolving into the background, unheard by Cincinnati for the nine years its doors were closed. Lately, however, the Emery is a murmur growing louder among art enthusiasts.
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Stage Door: Thanksgiving Edition
The weekends around Thanksgiving tend to offer fewer theater opportunities than most since lots of companies are readying holiday productions that open near the end of the month. (In fact, from Nov. 28 to 30, eight shows will open!) But that doesn't mean you should look elsewhere for entertainment.First and foremost is Street Scene at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, the kick-off of a year-long celebration of works by Kurt Weill. It's a dramatic American opera in two acts, a story set in a mid-century Manhattan neighborhood. It's a massive undertaking involving hundreds of students from several CCM departments; Steven Goldstein is directing, and the performances will be musically conducted by Mark Gibson. The opera is based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama; it's sometimes compared to Porgy & Bess, presenting a wide range of multi-ethnic characters and two intertwined love stories. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets ($17-$30): 513-556-4183.A feisty young theater company, Untethered Theatre, is producing a dark comedy, John Patrick Shanley's Savage in Limbo in a storefront theater on Ludlow Avenue, Clifton Performance Theater. The performers are young and the characters they portray are young adults who haven't yet taken hold of life. The venue is intimate, recreating a bar where the characters gather, and the audience sits amidst the action. Tickets ($15): 513-938-0599. If you show up at 7:55 p.m. you might get lucky and score a rush seat for $5.Two community theaters are wrapping up productions of classics that ought to be worth seeing: Cincinnati Music Theatre is presenting Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Tony Award-winning musical from 1970, Company, at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theatre. Tickets: ($20-$22): 513-621-2787 … And Footlighters' is finishing up a run of Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, at the Stained Glass Theatre in Newport. Tickets ($20): 859-652-3849.Finally, if you want an evening of great music with a bit of true life biography, check out Hank Williams: Lost Highway, at the Cincinnati Playhouse. This one runs through the holidays, but tickets will be hard to come by in December, so this would be a perfect weekend to take in a performance of two dozen songs by the guy who blended the Blues with "Hillbilly" tunes and more or less created Country Western music in the early 1950s. You'll know lots of the tunes. Tickets: 513-421-3888.
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Looking ahead at Know Theatre's holiday schedule and beyond
In my recent Curtain Call column, I talked about collaboration and made some mention of past ventures by Know Theatre. After a period of self-examination covered in an earlier column ("Big-Picture Thinking at Know Theatre," issue of Oct. 24), the Over-the-Rhine company has now shared some of its programming plans for the holidays and the months ahead. For the holidays, they'll produce The Naughty List, hosted by Ronda Androski and her great staff at Arnold's Bar & Grill downtown and featuring the talent of OTR Improv, one of the groups Know has nurtured with its Jackson Street Market. They'll take holiday memories from those in attendance as they recreate holiday movies and tell you how your life would have been different if you had received that special gift you yearned for. The fun will be happeing in Arnold's courtyard on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings from Dec. 2 to 30. Tickets will be $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Know will also offer The Apocalypse Show! for two nights on its home stage at 1120 Jackson St.. Since the world is scheduled to come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012 (according to the Mayan calendar), Know will produce a variety show to end all variety shows on Dec. 20 and 21. There will be sketch comedy, predictions, guest appearances, "gratuitous drinking and answers to all of your apocalypse FAQs." Dec. 20 will be a fundraiser (tickets: $50), despite the funny come-on that you should bring all your money, since it will be worth nothing the next day! (If you come to the performance on Dec. 21, you only need to scrape together $15 in advance or $18 at the door.) Assuming that the world really isn't ending on Dec. 21, Know will co-host its annual New Year's Eve event with CityBeat, the Speakeasy Party from 8 p.m. on Dec. 31 (to 1 a.m.). Know typically attracts 300 well-dressed guests for this event, and everyone has fun with casino games, food, dancing to a DJ and a live band, martinis and a champagne toast at midnight. After all this fun stuff, Know will get down to some serious theater — presenting Andrew Bovell's "best new play of 2010," When the Rain Stops Falling (Feb. 8-March 16, 2013). It's another partnership, with the production being staged by Brian Isaac Phillips, artistic director at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. (Bovell's Speaking in Tongues had a great production at the Cincinnati Playhouse last season.) The show uses an intricate fabric of overlapping connections, moving between several generations between 1959 and 2039 and between London and Australia. Acts and sins of the past are connected to three generations that follow. More will be following, including an unnamed production running from April 5 to May 12. Sometime in late April (date TBA), just in advance of the tenth annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival (May 28-June 8, 2013), Know will host the 2013 United States Association of Fringe Festivals Conference. "We're honored to have been selected to host this year's conference," says Know's Producing Artistic Director Eric Vosmeier. "It's an amazing opportunity to work on ideas and issues at the core of all Fringe Festivals. Every time I have been to a conference, the Cincinnati Fringe is better for it. We can't wait to show off our city to festival producers from all over the United States." One more note: Know is selling its version of a subscription, Flex Passes. But these have evolved: You can purchase six flex passes for $90. Valid for most Know productions, they do not expire. (If a show ticket has a higher price than the pass, you can use your pass and just pay the difference.) Know's website will designate: "Flex passes are valid for this event." When you run out of tickets (and you surely will), you simply need to buy another pass. Know's Fringe Festival has promoted itself with the slogan "Weird, like us." And they're living up to that mantra in a way that should appeal to its supporters and more.
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Stage Door: The Little Guys
There's plenty of good theater available around town in the next few days, including the just-opened production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Cincinnati Playhouse, as well as Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus, which finish their runs at Cincinnati Shakespeare this weekend. But for this week's edition of Stage Door, I'm recommending three productions that might not be on your radar.One of the big hits of the 2012 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Grim and Fischer, is back for performances on Friday and Saturday. It was only offered three times back in June, and a lot of people missed the unusual "full-face mask" show about death (aka Grim, as in "Grim Reaper") matching wits with elderly Mrs. Fischer, who's not ready to take her leave of this world. Everyone who saw the wordless piece raved about it, so Know Theatre (they guys who present the Fringe) have brought back the two performers from Wonderheads Theatre in Portland, Ore., to give us three more chances, Friday and Saturday evening at 8 p.m. plus a 3 p.m. Saturday matinee. I'm not missing their 50-minute performance this time around. Tickets ($12): 513-300-5669.Community theater often brings back classics that audiences love, and Footlighters (you can find them at Newport's Stained Glass Theatre, right across the street from the York Street Cafe) is doing just that with Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner, Our Town. But don't think you've been there and done that, since this production takes several familiar conventions and freshens them. The "Stage Manager," usually a folksy older guy, is played by a woman, and many of the references to New England life in the early 1900s are minimized, which makes the show feel a lot more universal and relevant to life today. Through Nov. 18. Tickets ($20): 859-652-3849. And my third recommendation is from another community theater, one that really knows its way around musicals: Cincinnati Music Theatre is staging Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, a Tony winner from 1970 — and again in 2007 when the Cincinnati Playhouse's revival of the story of Bobby and his married friends moved to Broadway and was named the year's best musical revival. It has a brilliant and energetic score, great comic scenes and songs you're likely to know, including "Another Hundred People," "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive." CMT presents its shows at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater. Through Nov. 17. Tickets ($22): 513-621-2787.
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Stage Door: Non-Political Ad Edition
If you can tear yourself way from TV ads for the presidential election this weekend, you'll find plenty of good theater to distract you, starting with a production at Covington's Carnegie Center opening Friday night. It's Under a Red Moon, a world premiere co-production with Dayton's Human Race Theatre Company. Michael Slade's taut psychological thriller just spent nearly a month onstage at the Loft Theatre in Dayton, so it's already a seasoned production. A dramatized psychological interview in the same vein as Silence of the Lambs, it's based on the chilling true story of England's notorious "Acid Bath Murderer" from a half-century ago. The play features Broadway actors Bradford Cover as the criminal and Dee Pelletier as the psychologist trying to get inside his head. Box office: 859-957-1940. A different set of thrills are available from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, which is staging Shakespeare's bloody revenge tragedy, Titus Andronicus. This show requires a lot of hand-to-hand combat, blood and gore — presented by CSC with ghastly zeal. Just as creepy tales like Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween have chilled film audiences in recent years, this kind of play was all the rage in the early 1590s. (CSC director Jeremy Dubin calls it "a snuff film in blank verse.") It's especially fun to watch veteran Nick Rose as a Roman general who gets into a grotesque battle of wills with the amoral Queen of the Goths, played by Miranda McGee. The awful things they they do to one another's families make for some delicious, hair-raising storytelling. Also onstage at Cincy Shakes is Romeo & Juliet, with the central characters played as hormonal, irrational teens. Sara Clark is especially good as Juliet. Both productions tell their tale through more contemporary visual filters — R&J's characters wear contemporary clothing and are surrounded with music of the here and now, while Titus gets a "Steampunk" treatment that presumes that the Victorian ingenuity of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells extended its steam-driven, mechanical technology to the present. Both approaches give new vitality to the shows. (Review here.) Box office: 513-381-2273. Also worth seeing is a funny, touching tale of growing up in Depression-era Brooklyn, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Cincinnati Playhouse (513-381-3888)). (Review here.) It's the first time that the Playhouse has staged a work by Simon, one of America's most prolific playwrights of the 20th century. Box office: 513-421-3888
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Stage Door: Some Bloody Good Theater at Cincy Shakes
My schedule prevented me from making it to Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's opening of Romeo & Juliet back on Oct. 11, and I hadn't caught up yet with CSC's annual Halloween-season tarting up of a Shakespearean tragedy to be offered within the run of the mainstage show. This year it's the rarely produced revenge piece, Titus Andronicus, presented on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings as well as Saturday matinees through Nov. 11, the same day that Romeo & Juliet wraps up. Neither production could be termed "traditional," although they are sharing the same set, designed by Andrew Hungerford, and both shows are effectively lit by Gregory Bredestege.Although the two plays are located at the opposite poles of familiarity in the canon of Shakespeare — R&J has a plot that everyone knows, while Titus is almost never staged — they have some elements in common. Both tales are driven by thoughtless acts that fuel an unquenchable desire for revenge. The young lovers' meet their ends in a tragedy of miscommunication and bad timing; the fictional Roman general, Titus, and those around him find themselves caught up in a horrifying series of events brought on by greed for power and a desire for one-upmanship. In fact, both plays are the product of a young Shakespeare, not yet 30 years old. They were probably first performed just a year or so apart: Titus was his first tragedy, initially presented in January 1594; R&J made its debut sometime in 1595. Titus is a revenge tragedy, wildly popular plays that were all the rage in the early 1590s. (CSC's director for Titus, Jeremy Dubin, aptly calls it "a snuff film in blank verse."). R&J is a paean to impetuous adolescent love, and until things start to go wrong it's as much a sweet comedy as it is a story barreling toward a tragic ending. The humor in Titus is dark and twisted; that in R&J intensifies the tragedy. In both cases, we see the work of a writer who knew how to manipulate the emotions of his audience. Romeo & Juliet. Staged by Brian Isaac Phillips, CSC's artistic director, this production has been modernized. The inhabitants of "fair Verona" wear contemporary clothes, and their entertainment and behavior has a 21st-century overlay. But rather than trying to twist it too far out of its original context in a Renaissance town in Italy, I'd say this feels more like an alternate reality. Billy Chace plays the brash Mercutio, Romeo's kinsman, as a madcap clubber, always ready for a good time with his cronies Benvolio (Jessie Wray Goodman) and Balthasar (Maggie Lou Rader). The masked ball at the Capulets' estate where Romeo (Ian Bond) first spies Juliet (Sara Clark) begins with delicate chamber music but quickly devolves to thumping club tunes.But this filter does not diminish the nature of the central characters. Both Bond and Clark play their roles like the hormonal teens they are meant to be. Juliet is not quite 14, and Romeo is perhaps 16. When we first meet him, he is pining for Rosaline, a love we never meet — we only hear Romeo's idealized whining that she's spurned him. He wants to be in love, and she's his most likely prospect. He quickly transfers his affections to the sweetly innocent Juliet, and the petite Clark gives her the kind of breathless silliness that is endearing if not enduring. Neither of the lovers is meant to experience love in any profound way: They are swept up in the passion of youth — they go from meeting to marriage in a blur of four or five scenes. Bond's Romeo spends a lot of time agonizing over his frustrations, and he doesn't seem to mature much, despite the seriousness of the situation. Clark's Juliet has more opportunity to show growth and personal recognition at the conundrum life has presented her. Her loving but thoughtless nurse (Sherman Fracher), her domineering, unthinking father (Jim Hopkins) and her vain, superficial mother (Jennifer Joplin) make matters worse by forcing her toward an arranged marriage. The well-intentioned Friar Lawrence (Jeff Groh, more like a hippie raising strange herbs than a devout priest) aids the young lovers, but like the nurse, exacerbates a tough situation with his meddling. Clark is stunningly honest in her role, and the heat between her and Bond is palpable, if uncomplicated — as it should be for a couple of teenagers in heat.The production as a lot of stage combat, and seeing it two weeks into its run let me see how capable Cincy Shakes can be. I had heard things were a little rough on the opening weekend, but there was no evidence of that at the performance I saw, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the full house.Titus Andronicus. This show requires a lot of hand-to-hand combat and considerably more blood than Romeo & Juliet. It was all done with ghastly if over-the-top realism. The plot is both simple and ridiculous by contemporary standards: Titus (Nick Rose) is a successful general who turns down the chance to become emperor. Things go bad for him and his family when his prisoner Tamora, Queen of the Goths (Miranda McGee in a showy, sexy role), gets hitched to the emperor Saturninus (played as a foppish, preening fool by Justin McComb). She wreaks some vengeance on Titus's offspring, masterminded by her scheming lover Aaron (Darnell Benjamin) who steers her fawning, selfish sons Chiron (Travis Emery) and Demetrius (Zach Schute) to some vile acts. After gruesome violence on Titus's daughter Lavinia (Maggie Lou Rader), a grief-crazed Titus figures out some even more grotesque ways to fight back.This is all spelled out in the script and played out on CSC's stage with a lot of gore and stage blood — decapitated heads and severed hands — for instance, and extended to the brink of insanity lengths in the second half with Titus's missing left hand replaced by a metal forearm that accommodates various implements from a fork to a corkscrew to a set of mechanical knife blades (like the electric knife I use to carve the Thanksgiving turkey). You can be assured these are used for violent purposes, and Nick Rose, a CSC veteran (in fact, one of its founders), revels in Titus's madness — with some manic behavior, including bemoaning the "murder" of a fly in a blackly humorous moment. Rose is having a ball with this juicy role.Director Jeremy Dubin has provided a different sort of filter for this interpretation of Titus Andronicus, that of the sci-fi genre of "Steampunk," which presumes that the Victorian ingenuity of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells in the 19th century extended its steam-driven, mechanical technology prevailed in the 20th and 21st centuries. Accordingly, costumes are a curious, colorful mishmash of Victorian styles — cutaway coats, vests, goggles, belts and bustiers — and six video monitors around the theater display show cards offering the gist of scenes with quaint, tongue-in-cheek summaries. Each act began with n actor attaching a hand crank to a gear at stage right to wind up the mechanism of the show. Similarly, when certain offstage action needed to be represented, a servant bearing a kind of magic lantern projector came on to reveal a scene, which the audience saw on the monitors. (The device was clever; I wish it had been more fully and frequently integrated into the action.)Titus Andronicus is not a great play, but Cincy Shakes — and especially actors Nick Rose, Miranda McGee, Darnell Benjamin and Maggie Lou Rader — make this production great fun to watch, providing you're not too squeamish. It is, after all, a bloody mess, intentionally so and perfect for the thrill-seekers of late October.
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Stage Door: Options Abound
You'll have to pick and choose this weekend because there's so much theater onstage. In addition to our professional theaters, it's worth checking out production at universities: Tonight through Sunday, CCM's esteemed musical theater program is offering the cult favorite Chess, with music by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. The story is set in Bangkok and Budapest during a mid-1970s world chess championship — and it's driven by gamesmanship between nations, between lovers and, of course, between chess players. I saw the opening on Thursday, and it's a BIG show with a gigantic cast. Several leading roles are double cast (with more juniors than seniors, in fact, which bodes well for CCM productions for this season and next). In particular, Matthew Paul Hill, playing the Russian grand master Anatoly, lifted the roof of Corbett Auditorium with his powerful baritone voice singing the stirring "Anthem," the Act 1 finale. Tickets ($30) Box office: 513-556-4183. At Northern Kentucky University you'll a production of Royal Gambit by German playwright Hermann Gressieker (translated into English in the late 1950s). The subject is King Henry VIII and his six wives, and this looks to be a beautifully costumed show, featuring senior Seth Wallen in the leading role. Tickets ($14). Box office: 859-572-5464. Neil Simon's funny and endearing Brighton Beach Memoirs is onstage at the Cincinnati Playhouse. I gave it a Critic's Pick (review here), and I'm sure audiences will love this sweet portrait of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, where a loving but fractious family copes with hard times. It's told from the perspective of Eugene, a precocious adolescent (he's really Simon as a 15-year-old), who takes notes on his family's behavior. Well acted and beautifully staged. Box office: 513-421-3888l. My schedule hasn't permitted me to see several shows that are getting good notices, including recognition from the folks evaluating productions for the League of Cincinnati Theatres. I'm catching up this evening with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, which is offering two shows this month. Romeo & Juliet is its mainstage show, and Sara Clark is getting high marks for her portrait of romantic but tragic young love. Brian Phillips' staging picked up an LCT nod, and the show received an overall recommendation from LCT. On the evenings when R&J is not onstage, there's another Shakespeare work for thrill seekers, specially selected and staged for the Halloween season: the bloody, gory tale of revenge, Titus Andronicus. Veteran actor Nick Rose plays a crazed Roman general, and just about everyone I've heard from says his performance is memorable. (It earned him an LCT nomination, too.) Box office: 513-381-2273. This weekend is the final one for Mrs. Mannerly at Ensemble Theatre. When Harper Lee reviewed this one for CityBeat (review here), she gave it a Critic's Pick, and I agree wholeheartedly. (LCT named it a recommended production, too.) CEA Hall of Fame actress Dale Hodges is great fun to watch as a strict etiquette teacher in 1967, and Raymond McAnally plays all the other characters — a bunch of kids who are learning how to behave in a "mannerly" way. It's funny from start to finish, but there's a heart-warming message within the story. Definitely worth seeing. Box office: 513-421-3555. At Clifton Performance Theatre, Clifton Players are staging A Bright New Boise, which also picked up an LCT recommendation. I haven't seen it, but the show won an Obie Award (that's for outstanding off-Broadway plays) in 2011, and it has a strong cast. This is a newish venue that's specializing in "storefront theater." Should be worth supporting. Tickets ($20): 513-861-7469.
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Cincinnati Art Museum's Rifle Firing Set for Monday
The firing of a high-powered rifle inside the Cincinnati Art Museum, sending a bullet past masterpieces through the first-floor Schmidlapp Gallery and into a block of bronze in the middle of the Great Hall, will occur on Monday, museum officials said. Todd Pavlisko, the New York-based, locally born artist who proposed the project, will be at the museum Friday for final planning and discussions. (CityBeat will interview him for a story in next week's Big Picture column.) The museum has refused to allow press — or the public — to witness the actual event, for security concerns, according to Director Aaron Betsky. It also won't say what time it will occur. The male sharpshooter who will fire the high-powered rifle from a mounted stand also doesn't want to be identified. The museum normally is closed to the public on Monday. A spokeswoman said the museum will be on "lockdown" for the event. Those who will attend the actual shooting include the artist and the sharpshooter, Betsky and Chief Curator James Crump and several others. A Cincinnati police officer also will be present, a requirement of the City Council ordinance permitting the event. According to an earlier press release, which did not set a specific date for the actual rifle shot, Pavlisko's project is an outgrowth of his work with photography and video. This will reference the work of Harold Edgerton, whose photographs capturing bullets passing through fruit and droplets of milk have become masterpieces for making visible that which the naked eye could not see. Pavlisko's idea is to contrast the flight of the bullet with the timeless nature of the masterpieces on display in the Schmidlapp Gallery. (The bullet will be 12 feet from any actual artwork.) High-speed cameras and video equipment will document the shot, and the resultant work will be on display May 25-Sept. 22 in a show called Crown. So, too, will the 36-inch cast brass cube, or what remains of it, as the bullet strikes it.
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I'm probably going to place a couple of new characters in Warder Keep in the near future. Like the innkeeper.
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No contract with the Warders will be broken, but the Warders will do no harm to innocents. Wield the Warders improperly and you may find that the you are on the wrong side of their swords. Courage, honesty, faith are all virtues that Artor has instilled in his men. From the start of the group, Artor has picked men who share his code of honour. The Warders take contracts to defend and to protect, sometimes at costly odds.
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I'm probably going to place a couple of new characters in Warder Keep in the near future. Like the innkeeper.
Can anyone point me to where on tile 11 this map is ? I cant seem to find any reference to it. Am I just being blind ?
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I thought I saw somewhere that there would be no more updates released for FC3? There is however a binary listed for the FC3 3.1.4 update.
I am in no way being ungrateful here ...but just curious if there has been a change of heart in regards to FC3 support?


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I'm having problems with creating a replication server from backup (the backup is created just user tar and gzip of a running server).
Once I extract the archive which is currently ~250 GB, i hate two problems:
1) the database can't be started since the database files doesn't match the entries of the tables which i'm fixing with moving all ib* files from /opt/zimbra/db/data/ and repair and check the database (with /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqlcheck)
2) once 1) is done mysql is able to start but all of the services are started except the mailboxd daemon. Upon executing zmcontrol start as zimbra user, it says that the daemon is running, but still it's failing.
Below you can see the output of mailboxd log, which says that the database is missing some tables, which i think it's because the backup is created while the server is running. Have in mind that we can't stop the server and make the backup that's why we are backing it up with tar only. Any suggestion will be much appreciated
Thanks in advance.
Here is the error from logfile:
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorEx ception: Table 'zimbra.config' doesn't exist
Query being executed when exception was thrown:
SELECT * FROM config
Which is quite obvious - table zimbra.config doesn't exists but logging into mysql with user zimbra i'm seeing the following:
mysql> use zimbra
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
| Tables_in_zimbra |
| config |
| current_volumes |
| deleted_account |
| mailbox |
| mailbox_metadata |
| mobile_devices |
| out_of_office |
| pending_acl_push |
| scheduled_task |
| service_status |
| table_maintenance |
| volume |
12 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from config;
ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'zimbra.config' doesn't exist


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May 31, 2016
The city of York has elected a new mayor and a new city council.
York officials say Gena Doggett Robbins defeated incumbent Glenda DuBose in the race for mayor. Unofficial results sent to Newscenter 11 by Robbins herself show she received 571 votes and DuBose 224 votes. Election officials in York could not be reached on Tuesday night to confirm these numbers.
York voters elected four new city council members. York officials say they are Joe Brown, Belinda Hood, Diane Ruffin, and Ecoles Cook.
Voters also approved a measure that will allow the sale of alcohol on Sundays in York.
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Online Marketers Take Note Of Brains Wired For Rewards
Ask yourself: Are you addicted to technology — any technology? Do you check email obsessively, tweet without restraint or post on Facebook during Thanksgiving dinner? Or perhaps you are powerless in the face of an iPad loaded with Angry Birds?
Many of the most popular technologies of our time tap into powerful reward mechanisms in our brains. And while most researchers stop short of calling video games and modern tech addictive, there's evidence that these technologies alter how our brains work and change how we behave.
Research has even demonstrated that gamers will get a boost of dopamine when they play.
Many techies and marketers are tapping, sometimes unintentionally, into decades of neuroscience research to make their products as addictive and profitable as possible.
A couple of weeks ago I got a pitch from Uber, the creators of the car service app of the same name. Every once in a while when you open the Uber app, you are greeted with a surprise, and the company will offer an unexpected service.
"We've done pedicabs in Austin," says Travis Kalanick, Uber's co-founder and CEO, "[and] we've done on-demand Texas barbecue. We've done Uber chopper and we've done on-demand roses on Valentine's Day."
Last Friday, the surprise was on-demand ice cream.
"It's not our core business; it's not what we do normally," Kalanick says. "It's just fun."
The thing about these PR stunts is that customers love them. Traffic to Uber skyrocketed Friday. The other thing is that you never know when to expect these little rewards, so it pays to check Uber's app and click, and then click again.
And something about that reminded me of a very old, very famous psychology experiment known as the Skinner Box.
"An unexpected reward has much more power than one that is regular in driving behavior," says Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "This has been known for a very long time."
More than 60 years ago, the famous American psychologist B.F. Skinner demonstrated that unpredictable rewards created obsessive behavior in lab rats. The rats would click and click and click again on a bar, hoping to trigger a random reward.
"We are not mad scientists trying to figure out unexpected reward systems that Skinner predicated in theories decades ago; that's not us," Uber's Kalanick says.
Still, random reward structures are built, sometimes unintentionally, into many of the technologies we use everyday.
Even responses to tweets or Facebook posts offer unpredictable rewards. Just talking about ourselves triggers reward mechanisms in our brains. When people pay attention to what we say, it feels even better.
But think about it: Do you know ahead of time which tweets will be retweeted or which posts on Facebook will attract likes? You don't. So it's a bit of a crap shoot, but when a post takes off, it feels great.
Rewards in video games are designed to be intentionally surprising. Even the ping of an incoming email contains the hope of unanticipated pleasure.
Some think all of this could be driving compulsive behaviors in people that can resemble Skinner's rats in a box. Over the past decades, researchers have realized much of this reward-seeking behavior is driven by dopamine.
"Writing a blog that then becomes viral will then hook you to want to repeat that act — that specific experimental story has not been done," Volkow says. "But equivalents have actually [been] shown. The first one was many years ago in which they had people playing a video game, and when individuals got a point, dopamine got activated — an unexpected reward."
Volkow and others have studied how the human brain releases dopamine in anticipation of a variety of rewards, from sex to food to cocaine.
We even get a bit of dopamine when we talk about ourselves, which might help explain Facebook's global popularity.
Dopamine is the brain's way of rewarding behaviors that helped humans survive. It's released when we eat or have sex or learn, but Volkow and others have shown that when it's manipulated with drugs, the dopamine response in our brains plays an important role in addiction.
While it is far too soon to say that video games or other types of technology are truly addictive, there is evidence that avid gamers, for example, process these kinds of neurochemical rewards differently.
Volkow says when she sees stories about people spending real money for imaginary or virtual products in games like FarmVille, she's reminded of research that used dopamine to manipulate rats through a complex maze.
"They actually wanted rats to be able to act like little spies, like little robot spies," Volkow says. "You could put a [recorder] in the rat and the rat just has to go where you want it to go and record the conversations that are happening."
Volkow says they designed the rats basically by manipulating, with electrodes, these dopamine reward systems.
When the animals headed in the right direction, they received the sensation of pleasure. Rats with with these electrodes wired into their brains and connected via a wireless backpack climbed ladders, navigated through complex mazes and would do almost anything the researchers wanted them to do.
"There was nothing in it for the rat except the sensation of reward," Volkow says.
Ramin Shokrizade says a well-designed video game works in a very similar way. "I think that analogy translates completely to humans," Shokrizade says.
Shokrizade studied neuroscience before switching careers, and now he helps video game companies monetize their games.
"I would say my primary job when I am creating a monetization model for a game is to do exactly the same thing to humans," he says.
Shokrizade believes that the rush of pleasure games provide can be addictive. And he says some game designers have made a fortune by creating games that slowly encourage players to pay for that rush of pleasure.
When the leaks about the NSA first came out, it made a lot of us think about our technology habits, how often we send emails, what we send in those emails, how we use the Internet. Many people joke that they're addicted to their phones, tweeting without restraint or posting on Facebook during holiday dinners, but there may be something to the idea of addiction.
It turns out many of the most popular technologies of our time tap into a powerful reward mechanism in our brains. NPR's Steve Henn reports.
STEVEN HENN, BYLINE: A couple of weeks ago I got a pitch from Uber. The company makes an app that lets you hire a town car pretty much from anywhere using your mobile phone. But every once in a while when you open up Uber's app, you're greeted with a service that's a surprise.
TRAVIS KALANICK: We've done on-demand Texas barbecue. We've done Uber chopper, and we've done on-demand roses.
HENN: Travis Kalanick is Uber's co-founder and CEO. Last Friday, the surprise was ice cream.
KALANICK: You know, it's not our core business; it's not what we do normally. It's just fun.
HENN: Kalanick says traffic to Uber skyrockets after one of these stunts. And the thing is, you never know when to expect them so it pays to check Uber's app, to click, and then click again, and again. And something about that reminded me of a very old, very famous psychology experiment. Nora Volkow is head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
NORA VOLKOW: Well, this has been known for a very, very long time, that an unexpected reward has much more power than one that is regular in driving behavior.
HENN: More than 60 years ago, the famous American psychologist B.F. Skinner demonstrated that variable unpredictable rewards could create obsessive behavior in lab rats. Now, this isn't exactly what Uber had in mind, according to Kalanick.
KALANICK: We are not like mad scientists trying to figure out like unexpected reward systems that Skinner predicated in theories decades ago; that's not us.
HENN: Still, random unpredictable reward structures are built, sometimes unintentionally, into many of the technologies we use every day. Rewards in video games are designed to be surprising, and even the ping of an incoming email contains the possibility of unanticipated pleasure. Even tweets and Facebook posts offer unpredictable rewards.
Think about it. Do you know ahead of time which tweets will be retweeted or which posts on Facebook will attract likes. Some, including Volkow, think all of this could be driving compulsive behaviors in some people. Random rewards, even virtual ones, can release dopamine in the human brain.
VOLKOW: Writing a blog that then becomes viral that will then hook you to want to repeat that act, that specific experimental story has not been done. But equivalents have actually shown that people playing a video game, and when that individual got a point, dopamine got activated, an unexpected reward.
HENN: And that could be a powerful tool if you were trying to build an addictive product.
RAMEN SHOKRIZADE: Well, you want to disarm the consumer.
HENN: Ramin Shokrizade began his career studying neuroscience. Now he designs video games. He says many designers use tricks to distract consumers from the company's ultimate goal, which is to get them to spend money.
SHOKRIZADE: Make everything colorful. Make the sounds are always really splendid in their use of the dings and explosions; in all it just makes you think that you're in a circus or a fairground or something that reminds you of your childhood and it helps delay your ability to detect(ph) the potentially more nefarious actions that are occurring in the game.
HENN: Most mobile and social games make money by selling virtual goods. These games are free when you start and in the beginning random rewards built into these games offer you a quick dopamine fix. You play, sometimes you succeed. And when you do, you feel great. So the gamers become addicted?
The research is far from conclusive, but Shokrizade says having watched hundreds of thousands of online gamers, he's convinced some people feel compelled to keep playing.
SHOKRIZADE: And then as they progress through the game, the game changes such that the difficulty becomes very high and they're being offered all this help which will cost some money, and before they may not even realize it, they are now playing a money game.
HENN: For a chance to win those random rewards built into these games, you have to spend money. And slowly what began as a game of skill becomes really just a disguised version of a slot machine where the only way to win is to keep spending. Steven Henn, NPR News, Silicon Valley. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has aimed a furious rant at the organizers of the Grammy Awards after his closing performance at the show was cut short.
The rocker took to the stage at the end of the show to jam with stars including Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Lindsey Buckingham.
The final song of the medley was a rendition of Nine Inch Nails' "Copy of A," but the performance was cut short as the TV broadcast's credits began to roll before the track was finished, and Reznor is furious about the snub.
In a post on his Twitter.com page after the show, he writes, "Music's biggest night… to be disrespected. A heartfelt (expletive) you guys."
Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy, the organization behind the awards, later explained the decision to reporters, blaming time constraints for the mishap: "We save the end slot for something that is a bit of a jam, because you can have the energy go and then it's just a matter of the clock."


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DeKalb, IL (Sports Network) - A'uston Calhoun recorded a double-double with a
game-high 15 points as the Bowling Green Falcons defeated the Northern
Illinois Huskies, 57-41, in a Mid-American Conference bout at the NIU
Convocation Center.
Calhoun added 12 rebounds in the Falcons' (9-13, 4-5 MAC) victory. Richaun
Holmes recorded 11 points, five boards, and three blocks off the bench.
The Falcons have won two of their last three games.
For the Huskies (5-16, 3-6), Abdel Nader was two rebounds shy of a double-
double with 12 points, but was the only player in double-figures as NIU lost a
second consecutive game.
Bowling Green made 52 percent from the floor, while holding NIU to a mere 4-
of-29 field goals, en route to a 30-15 advantage at the break.
NIU continued hit 45.5 percent from the field in the second half but missed
both shots from the free-throw line and made only 6-of-12 from the foul line.
The Falcons closed out the game by shoot 35.7 percent while hitting 2-of-6
from 3-point range in the final 20 minutes.
Bowling Green Made 43.1 percent from the floor including five 3-pointers,
while NIU was held to 27.5 percent from the floor and only two from long-
range on the night.
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Vero Beach motel gets new life as homeless shelter
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 8:50 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 8:50 a.m.
VERO BEACH, Fla. — A landmark Vero Beach motel is finding new life as a homeless shelter.
The 20-room Citrus Motel was foreclosed on and purchased in December for $360,000. Its buyers are in the midst of renovating the property and hope to reopen it in April as Camp Haven.
Project organizers tell Treasure Coast Newspapers they plan to target newly homeless people to try and intervene before they become chronically homeless.
They say participants will be required to create and follow a self-sufficiency plan and will be allowed to stay for up to six months.
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Microsoft lauches their Icelandic versions of Live, thanks me like alot!
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I hope h-d's new small bike experiment is successful. Their past attempts haven't been. And it's what bankrupted Indian.
I hear you on what America wants. What about Europe? Would a smaller HD work there? Or do Europeans who want HDs want them big?Scott
" what shall I get as an second bike - one to work on while ride the other one?"
You still might ride in your 60s, but you're doing it less frequently and you probably aren't buying a new bike.
I wish they would have built the new bikes as standards rather than cruisers. The original Sportster looked a lot like a Bonneville with a V-twin. How are they going to attract younger riders with another cruiser with a 25" seat height? But what do I know?
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COMMERCE CITY - During cold snaps like the one on Tuesday, it may be tempting to warm up your car by leaving it running with the keys in the ignition.
It's called puffing. Not only is it illegal -on public streets - it also makes you a target for car thieves. The puffing law does not apply to cars parked on private property.
The East Metro Auto Theft Task Force caught 89 drivers puffing in Commerce City Tuesday morning. Officers also recovered a stolen trailer. Drivers received warnings and first-time puffers were not ticketed.
Commerce City Police officer Tom Poe says snowy days are the perfect opportunity for car thieves. Poe says on cold winter mornings, two things are guaranteed.
"Traffic accidents, and people leaving their vehicles running unattended - puffers," Poe said.
The term "puffing" was coined by car thieves who scour snowy streets looking for exhaust puffing out of the tailpipes of empty cars.
"Somebody could just come up, get inside your vehicle and then steal it," Poe said.
Officers with the East Metro Auto Theft Task Force gathered at 5 a.m. Tuesday. Task Force Commander Lt. Lee Condreay says Puffer Week is about educating drivers on the fact of about half of all stolen cars still have the keys inside.
"Stay with your car and don't take the chance. It's simple for them to steal," Condreay said.
Puffing citations can cost you more than $100. The losses from 9,300 car thefts in Colorado in 2011 totaled more than $57 million.
Commerce City resident Javier Alonzo says he learned his lesson and won't be puffing again.
"Because I don't want this to happen, and they can steal it," Alonzo said.
As anti-theft technology improves, car thefts are dropping each year. Police hope puffer patrols will keep it that way. Police say the bottom line is if you want to warm up your car and you have the key in the ignition, you need to be with your car. You don't want the police showing up or, even worse, a car thief.
If your car has a remote starter, puffing is legal because anti-theft technology prevents a thief from driving off without the key.
On Wednesday, the East Metro Auto Theft Task Force will head to Aurora, where at least one auto theft Tuesday morning was the direct result of puffing.
In a similar patrol two weeks ago, Aurora Police issued 142 warnings for puffing, 46 puffing citations and recovered two stolen cars.
For more information on how to protect your car, visit the Coloradans Against Auto Theft website, http://lockdownyourcar.org/.
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Saturday News, December 1
(Le Mars)--Several nativities from the Plymouth County area will be on display for"The Museum Manger" exhibit opening tomorrow (Sunday) at the Plymouth County Museum. An open house will highlight the display tomorrow, December 2nd, beginning at 1:45 with a special music program. A childrens group, a soloist, and the barbershop quartet "Pitch Blend" are all expected to perform.
"The Museum Manger" is a display of several hundred nativities from the Plymouth County area. This is the third year for the display in the museum's renovated 1905 Study Hall, but according to volunteers the 2012 display is completely different than the previous two years. An area for Memorial Nativities continues as a part of the display, and anyone still wishing to display a nativity in memory of a loved one may do so. No admission will be charged for "The Museum Manger" exhibit opening tomorrow at the Plymouth County Museum, but a free will offering will be collected.
C-38 Bridge Relacement Complete
(Le Mars) -- The bridge replacement on C-38 from Juniper Avenue to Kestral Avenue has been completed in the southwest corner of Le Mars. The road is now open with no restrictions.
Lots of Holiday Cheer in Le Mars tonight
(Le Mars) And of course tonight kicks off the official start of the holiday season in Le Mars with the Children's Lighted Parade at 6pm and the first night of Pioneer Village, beginning at 5:30. Pioneer Village features over 50 decorated trees, a live nativity, marshmallow roasting and refreshments, horse drawn wagon rides and of course Santa will be there ready to hear what you would like for Christmas.
Services set for Iowa native killed in Afghanistan
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Services have been scheduled for an Iowa
native who was during combat in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Sergeant Joseph Richardson died November 16th while on patrol. Richardson was assigned to 1st
Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
A funeral is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. today (Saturday) at St. Cecilia Catholic
Church in Algona. A graveside service will follow at the Indian Mounds Cemetery in Humboldt.
The 23-year-old Richardson spent most of his childhood in Algona and moved to Booneville, Arkansas after the ninth grade.
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Contractions started at midnight on the 18th. I looked at my clock and couldn't believe it. I would likely give birth to our baby boy the same day his father was born, 46 years ago! P and I had talked about how amazing it would be for them to share a birthday. We just didn't think it would happen.
I labored the first three hours by myself, not wanting to wake P up until I was sure THIS WAS IT. By 3am, I nudged him and said, "Happy birthday babe, we're going to have our baby today." Shocked and sleepy he rose up quickly... and there we went.
Our daughter Y was in our bed, of course, and we didn't want her to get up. So we went into the living room. The contractions got pretty strong within an hour so we called the midwife. But she heard me go through a contraction and thought we had time. Told me to rest as much as possible and call her back when the contractions were closer together.
The next two hours flew by. We went into our bedroom because I kept having to go to the bathroom and it was a closer trip to walk. I prayed Y wouldn't wake up. The pain was getting tough. I felt like throwing up twice. I got hot and then cold.
I sat on our new rocking chair for a long time and P says in between contractions I actually snored. I tried to relax as much as possible and breathe deeply. My back was tense. My uterus made me lose sense of everything so often I didn't know if I could go on. Nothing else mattered except getting through each wave of pain.
Then I somehow told myself I could do it. I got an internal injection of confidence. P was also determined, a strong anchor by my side. He massaged my back in ways that seemed to be the perfect remedy for my pain. I did bark at him a few times. One of those times it was to tell him to f'ing stop timing the contractions. They were REALLY close!
At 6:30, Y woke up. I explained to her little F was coming. That he was ready to meet her and that I would be making some noises to help him come out.
We called my mom by now, and she came to get her.
We also called the midwife to tell her we were ready to have our baby.
At this point, I laid on the floor, on my right side, with a pillow on my head and one between my legs. Here is where I traveled to a place of the most pure raw emotion I have ever experienced. Every four minutes, I would feel a punch coming through my throat, down to my bottom, pushing with such strength, I could only fight it with an animalistic grunt. But each time, right after that, a blanket of comfort and whiteness let me relax to such a degree I was limp and calm. I didn't want to change positions. P held my hand.
I had sat on the toilet on and off throughout the labor, and by about 7:30, I knew I had to go back there to continue opening up. I also screamed at my husband, "Where the f-ck is the midwife? I'm about to have the baby."
While on the toilet, I heard a POP and I promise I thought it was the baby's head. I looked down and it was my water, I imagine.
I had been leaking for days, but it must have officially broken at that point.
"Call my sister, call someone, I'm telling you this is it", I told P. He called my sister. My contractions continued. Right when P hung up with my sister, I told P I had to push. Something opened up in me... this time, I felt F's head.
"No one's here babe, and I feel his head. What do
we do?"
"We're having this baby. No one's coming. You
have to do this." He said.
I grabbed on to his neck with all of my might. I looked up to the ceiling and cried out to the Virgin Mary to give me strength.
I knew the next push would bring our baby out.
I waited those precious minutes until the next contraction. We were both standing in our bathroom, I squatted, hanging from P's neck, and I pushed.
Our baby's head was out. It was really out. Awe.
I touched it and talked to him, welcoming him and praying we would be ok.
"Do you see him, do you see him?" I asked P.
"Do we call 911?"
"Get some towels. I have to kneel. Do I force him
out? What do we do?" I asked a million questions.
Right then, little F started to cry, his head out, and body inside me still... hanging
between two worlds.
"You've got to push him out."
I lost all fear and knew there was no choice.
"Ok, I have to wait until the next contraction".
The contraction came. Push. And as I did, I grabbed our son's body out of me and onto my chest.
P and I shared a look that I know I have never
seen in his eyes nor he in mine.
"You did it" he said.
There was a pool of red LIFE, BIRTH, NATURE at our feet. The umbilical chord was still attached. I suctioned his nose and mouth. P handed me blankets. We became a team, sure and efficient. But we also wondered if we should call 911. Then, we knew, NO. We had our son. He was breathing. He was crying. But he was just fearfully purple.
We talked to him, remembering how important it was for babies to hear their parents voice. I prayed. I cleaned him off, tried to get him to nurse. We got our midwife on the phone. She told us to make sure he was warm, to continue doing what we were doing.
My mom and sister got there. We all sat on the bathroom floor, together trying to get F to nurse and get some color. My sister encouraged me to let it all out. I was so afraid. I cried out loud. I acknowledged how shocking this all was. And suddenly, F stopped crying, he latched on, and we began to see his body change colors. Miraculous. I had given birth. No one else did it for me. My husband and I did it with God's help. We made it. We were healthy. We had a son. Slippery and pure, in our arms.
What I've learned from this enlightened journey is that there is truly a plan from above. That we posses an inner strength much greater than we give ourselves credit for. That we will not stop living our lives in fear until we give birth to who we really are and want to be, regardless of who everyone else WANTS us to be. That God is grand. Welcome little F.
To follow my mushy, messy, magical stories of motherhood, you can read my daily blog at www.mariasotolongo.com
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Amazing! I just had my first homebirth and it was close to being unassisted but looking back I know we could have done it if it needed to be like that. Congratulations to you!
thx jd. after what we went through... i know this is possible for all of us!!! congrats to u 2!! :)
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The Samurais would like to make an amends with Tommy Haas Obama-style.
The German was visibly irritated by the rowdy supporters of eventual LA champ Sam Querrey during their semifinal bout and described the group as having "no class" afterwards.
But now the shirtless wonders are trying to calm the stormy waters, though they still disagree on the matter at hand:
First off, we would like to extend an apology to Tommy Haas for what he he believes was 'inappropriate' and 'classless' behavior.... Contrary to what Tommy Haas asserted, we were not cheering his errors and missed serves (our restraint is something we actually take pride in), but, simply applauding (yes, in a pretty boisterous fashion) the unbelievable effort from our former classmate and good friend, Sam Querrey. We understand that this line can easily be blurred in a competitive tennis match and therefore apologize to Haas for the confusion. To make up for it, we would like to follow in the steps of the White House, and offer to take Haas out for a beer (Beck's of course) and reconcile our differences at the upcoming U.S. Open Championships.... Again, we are simply trying to direct some passion and spirit toward the great game of tennis that we all love.... The Samurai.
Ah, just what tennis needs - a little back and forth. If the ladies can do it, why can't the boys?
Let's just say I can't wait for the rematch.
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Medicine | A New Jersey clinic may be a model for a new health-care system, but is anyone in Washington paying attention?
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ZAREPHATH, N.J.-Three years ago, if you had asked Amal Gurguis whether she was worried about a crisis in health insurance, she probably would have said no. The thirty-something mother of two small children was covered under her husband's health insurance policy, which he had through his employer.
But when her husband suffered a massive coronary on her son's second birthday, Amal's life changed. She lost her husband and joined the ranks of the uninsured.
Although the particulars of Amal's story are unique, the arc of her story isn't. And whether she knows it or not, Amal has become a rope in the tug of war between those who want the United States to adopt a single-payer, Canadian-style health-care system, and those who want to give consumers more choice and responsibility for their health care. For Amal is one of "the uninsured."
Who are the uninsured and how many are there? The numbers are plastic, bending to meet ideological needs. The U.S. Census Bureau says 44 million, and liberals like the sound of that. The Capital Research Center's David Hogberg subtracts noncitizens, those making more than $50,000 who presumably could afford insurance, and those eligible for Medicaid, and ends up with about 12 million-and that number sounds better to conservatives. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation notes that the uninsured tend to be younger, foreign-born, and employed.
Amal's story highlights the major problem with an employer-based health-care system: When an employee loses his job or gets too sick to work, he and his family often lose their insurance. The connection between health insurance and employment emerged from a quirk in American history rather than any grand design. During World War II, Franklin Roosevelt instituted wage and price controls. Since employers could not attract workers by raising wages, they began offering health insurance coverage as a backdoor way to increase wages. When the IRS ruled that the benefits weren't taxable, they became even more popular.
Until recently employers and employees both benefited from the constant super-sizing of benefits. Insurance plans grew increasingly generous, covering more procedures until insurance came to resemble pre-paid medical care rather than protection against unforeseen risks. Insurance shielded people from the true cost of their health-care decisions. Since it didn't matter to insured people whether they went to a doctor who charged $100 or $50-their out-of-pocket expense was the same-costs spiraled and to keep up, insurance premiums increased.
Some employers dumped their insurance programs. Others adopted "managed care" policies, which tried to hold down costs by micromanaging doctors and negotiating low reimbursements for services.
Meanwhile, people like Amal found it hard to buy individual health insurance policies. Policy-makers in New Jersey, where Amal lives, have so generously defined the benefits required for a standard policy that individual insurance is beyond the reach of all but the affluent. Individuals purchased 220,000 policies in New Jersey in 1996, but only 90,000 in 2004.
Both sides of the political divide have offered ideas about how to help Amal get access to health care. Liberals want to expand Medicare to include younger retirees and have the children's health insurance program include low-income parents. Conservatives advocate using tax policy to give individuals the same power to buy insurance that large employers have (see below). Congress in 2003 allowed individuals to create Health Savings Accounts that combine high-deductible insurance policies intended to cover major medical needs with savings accounts that allow people to save pre-tax money for routine medical needs.
But while congressional Democrats and Republicans debated big-picture ways to help Amal, a pair of northern New Jersey doctors, John and Alieta Eck, actually helped heróand were positioned to do so because of a disaster.
In September 1999, while the Ecks were in a group studying the history of Christian poverty-fighting and wanting to put their faith into action by providing charity medical care, Hurricane Floyd roared up the East Coast and left a massive trail of destruction from North Carolina to New Jersey. The hurricane caused the Raritan River to crest, flooding adjacent buildings and giving the Ecks an opportunity to rent a flood-damaged building for $1 per year if they would renovate it for clinic use.
A team from Zarephath Community Church completely redid the small building, turning it into a modern clinic with two examining rooms, two bathrooms (including one that is handicapped-accessible and equipped with a shower in case the building is later used to provide housing for the handicapped), reception, and intake rooms. Volunteers included an 80-year-old man who did all the tiling in the bathrooms. Donations from doctors and businesses furnished the clinic.
The Ecks in 2003 began offering low-cost medical care to uninsured people who heard about them from their friends, their employers, and even some government agencies. For 10 hours a week Zarephath Health Center (ZHC), 46 miles southwest of New York City, is now open for business, operating with an overhead of $500 a month that covers utilities, phone, and one paid staffer who officially works only during the clinic's office hours. Everyone else, including the Drs. Eck and nurses, volunteers. Patient fees of $20 a visit, for those who can afford it, cover the overhead.
It's clear from the minute a patient enters the clinic that this isn't a government facility, or even a government-funded one. Calligraphied in large letters on one wall is Matthew 11:28-30, which begins: "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
A new patient's first stop is the intake room to fill out a standard health history and talk to a clinic volunteer about his basic living situation and about whom he can depend on for help. One basic principle at the clinic is: "Look for the people closest to the individual to meet needs-first the family, then the church community, and finally local and state government."
New patients also fill out an income statement where they certify that they have truthfully revealed their income and expenses. Right above the signature line is this statement: "I recognize that other people are donating their time and money so that I can receive care at a reduced rate. I am thankful for this help. People are doing this because they care. I waive my right to sue, but am willing to submit to arbitration to cover future medical expenses if a mishap occurs while I am being treated here." Right away, before any services are rendered, the clinic signals to patients that they are leaving the world of lawsuit-crazy medicine and entering a new world of neighbor helping neighbor.
Since many clinic patients have chronic and untreated illnesses, they are, in general, sicker than the patients the Ecks see at their regular office. On one Wednesday night they saw Ingrid Dahl, a healthy graduate student in gender studies at Rutgers, who needed a physical and couldn't get into a university health clinic. But more often they see patients like Mary, whose job doesn't include insurance.
Mary first came to the clinic because of severe headaches, and an exam revealed that her blood sugar level had soared to 400 (normal is somewhere between 83 and 110). The Ecks provided her insulin and have monitored her sugar levels regularly, as they were doing that Wednesday evening. Before leaving the office, Mary talked with Susanna, the office manager who is also diabetic, and they exchanged tips about managing their disease.
Another patient that Wednesday night was Amal Gurguis, who first came to ZHC with a chronic untreated thyroid condition, high blood pressure, and emotional problems brought on by her husband's death. She could not afford the lab tests required to monitor her chronic conditions. The Ecks had given her a physical and lab tests, and had stabilized her medicines; now they were dealing with her allergies.
When patients with chronic needs can't afford medication, pharmaceutical companies step in to fill the gap. Using special programs designed for the uninsured, the Ecks are able to write prescriptions that the companies fill directly, sending the meds to ZHC in the patient's name. Pharmaceutical representatives who service the Ecks' fee-paying practice have been generous with samples intended for clinic patients. These programs enable the Ecks to care for patients who need medicines like insulin and can't afford the $300-a-month cost.
The Ecks act as advocates for patients who need surgery, negotiating lower rates with specialists and hospitals. Under the present system hospitals charge uninsured patients much higher rates than insured ones, who benefit from the negotiating power of HMOs and other insurance companies. One example: An uninsured patient's hospital bill for a hernia surgery was $8,700, but the Ecks know that the hospital would charge Blue Cross/Blue Shield only $2,100 for the same care, so the Ecks pushed successfully to get the lower rate for their patient. Hospitals deal with the Ecks because they usually would rather collect something than wait months for government reimbursement, or write off the amount as an uncollectible debt.
The Ecks encourage all patients to pay the clinic something; those with little money often donate their time. The Ecks want ZHC to be a model for a system where "people budget and pay for their own health care, but when they are in trouble, they get subsidized by friends, family, and the church." The Ecks point to first-century Christian communities, and a more recent precedent comes from mutual aid and fraternal organizations that provided health care for millions of Americans a century ago.
According to University of Alabama historian David Beito, in 1920 nearly one-third of adults over age 20 were members of fraternal lodges that typically contracted with a general practitioner to provide medical care to members who paid one or two dollars a year for coverage of themselves and their families. For example, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan "500 doctors had contracts with Jewish lodges alone. During the 1920s, there were an estimated 600 fraternal societies among blacks in New Orleans that offered the services of a physician." By the 1930s, though, "lodge practice" faced increasing competition from insurance companies, government programs, and medical associations that "launched an all-out war against lodge practice. . . . Old relationships of voluntary reciprocity and autonomy [gave way before] impersonal bureaucracies controlled by outsiders."
Whether clinics like Zarephath signal a return to mutual aid, as the Ecks would like, depends a lot on forces beyond their control. Will Congress enact policies that encourage innovation and provide incentives for doctors to provide charity care? All doctors aren't like the Ecks, but the existence of only 17 low-cost clinics like ZHC in New Jersey shows both a lack of incentives and the presence of disincentives.
Many doctors who have the time and inclination to help are averse to putting themselves at risk. A newly implemented law, the Free Clinics Federal Tort Claims Act, allows federal health officials to declare volunteer free-clinic doctors to be, for purposes of malpractice insurance, employees of the Public Health Service. That should help attract doctors, especially retired or unemployed physicians who don't have malpractice insurance, to serve at free clinics.
Free malpractice insurance isn't a panacea, though, because clinic doctors face additional risks, including the demand of some state medical examiners for "perfect note keeping" and other practices of defensive medicine that may not be realistic under crowded clinic conditions. Many doctors don't want to bother. Unless they can get state-level legal indemnity, it's not worth the risk to them.
John Eck offers charity care "with fear and trepidation," realizing that an avaricious litigant or power-wielding bureaucrat could make his life miserable-and the larger question is whether policy-makers will value the sacrifices of doctors like the Ecks and make it more likely for others to volunteer. But for now, Amal Gurguis breathes easier, knowing that as long as Good Samaritans like the Ecks exist, she won't be left on the side of the road.
Is there a solution?
A bipartisan panel of 24 political, corporate, and health industry leaders began meeting last October to seek consensus and draft health-care proposals palatable to both Democrats and Republicans. Kate Sullivan Hare of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told The New York Times, "This effort holds as much promise as any I've participated in over the last decade, probably more." But the group, which includes leaders ranging from the liberal Families USA to the conservative Heritage Foundation, has not yet disclosed a specific plan.
The conservative Cato Institute, arguing that current medical insurance programs create no incentive for smart consumerism and lead to massive waste, is proposing dramatic privatization of health care and the expansion of health savings accounts. Left-wing Democrats such as Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), though, continue to insist on killing private programs by requiring all to pay for and accept governmental health care.
Some Democrats have shown a willingness to drop the one-size-fits-all attitude that characterized their party's approach during the 1990s. Meanwhile, some Republicans have softened considerably their initial push to clamp down on state spending-this despite pleas from conservatives who point to lessons learned in the successful welfare budget cuts of 1996.
The Bush administration's proposed 2006 cuts to federally funded Medicaid are modest at best, trimming what the Congressional Budget Office estimates will amount to one-half of 1 percent over the next 10 years. The Bush budget proclaims that Medicaid "will continue to grow at a robust rate." Most observers agree, however, that mere status quo growth of a Medicaid program that promises far more than it can deliver will not solve the ever-increasing crisis.
Health costs are also crippling small and large businesses. General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner last month said the American automaker spent $5.2 billion on health care in 2004, hurting it in international competition.
Seeking to find some middle ground, Republican governors such as Florida's Jeb Bush and South Carolina's Mark Sanford have proposed restructuring Medicaid rather than scrapping it. They suggest vast use of health savings accounts whereby Medicaid users could keep whatever money they do not spend, providing incentive for prudence.
Many Democrats, however, continue to insist that Medicaid is not the problem, and they favor expanding the current system to any adult below the official poverty line. Other Democrats have proposed federal grants to states for the establishment of insurance purchasing pools. It may be left to voters to break the ideological impasse, and to compassionate physicians to develop alternatives for those in poverty.
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|School board meets Tuesday, June 18
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Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education will meet Tuesday, June 18 at 8 p.m. in HJHS Room #218. The regular meeting will be preceded by a budget hearing at 7:45 p.m.
A special meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. for an executive session for legal counsel.
The superintendent's report will include a summer construction update.
Action items on the agenda include approval of new personnel, consolidated grant assurance/Title III signover, use of a portion of beginning fund balance, adoption of 2013-14 budget/appropriations resolution.
Also first reading on the following policies: ECA/ECAB-R, security/access to buildings, staff key control system; GBEC, alcohol and drug-free workplace; GBED, staff use of facilities; and IHBG, home schooling; and second reading on IKA-R, grading scale.
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OSU up 15-9
Too early for some home cookin' to help KU out?
Smart with a huge dunk on Withey
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What a ******* dunk by Smart
That was nice! Smart is owning them right now.
This start by OSU makes me feel a little better about the other night.. but only a little. Shouldve had one of the two @KU\@OSU games.
Two tickets to PARADISE!!!!!
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
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5 abc
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Big 12 Network. Ch 5 in central Iowa.
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
I wouldn't be suprised if OSU wins. If they play to their potential they can hang with anybody. Nash, Brown, Smart all really really good.
Take you pick for an answer haha
Really letting the rough play go, ISU would have been called for a foul on every one of those KU blocks
I'll pick channel 5!
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ANNAPOLIS (WUSA9) -- Tuesday, Maryland has a new governor. Well, sort of.
Tuesday morning, Governor Martin O'Malley swore in 8-year-old Genea Harrison as Governor for a Day. The Rosa L. Parks Elementary school student was chosen as the first ever Governor for a Day after an essay contest in honor of International Women's Day. Genea was among more than 200 girls under the age of 13 who wrote about why they wanted to be governor and what they would do if they held the position.
Read Genea Harrison's essay here: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=8878
"Governor Harrison" will have a full day meeting with Taiwan Ambassador Pu-Tsung King, attending the women's caucus meeting, going over remarks with speechwriters, addressing the Congress of Educatiors on stream restoration and environmental literacy and joining Lt. Gov. Brown to swear in Jim Smith and Abby Hopper as Transportation Secretary and Director of Maryland Energy Administration, respectively.


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Following in its tradition of overly impressive reading events (such as Pulitzer-prize winner Michael Chabon), the Belmont library brought Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik--creators of the Penny Arcade webcomic--in to promote their 11 1/2 year anniversary book. (It's one of those important anniversaries.)
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Penny Arcade, with its intense (almost exclusive) focus on the video game culture, inevitably drew one of the more interesting cross-sectioned slices of humanity.
An, Um, Diverse Crowd
Out came the Dungeons&Dragons crowd; comic book readers, writers, sellers, and collectors; people who take militant, hardcore stands along different lines in the console wars; fanboys; not so many fangirls; and people who hide yo-yos in their bras for some pre-show entertainment. And then mixed with these, because it was a library after all, came the literary types who just like to be in the library for no particular reason at all. Cats. We seem to like cats.
Talented With Many Interests
Mike and Jerry do more than poke fun at the video game industry, hard as that may be to believe. They also run a gamer convention called PAX, as well as a children's charity called Child's Play, which unites the gaming community into supporting children's hospitals around the world.
Not too bad for two guys whose jobs are to buy every single video game the minute it comes out and then draw funny pictures about it. Not bad for two guys, one of whom worked as a clerk at Best Buy.
Take That Question
They spent an hour answering questions from a standing-room only audience. More than standing room, there were people climbing the bookshelves and book stacks in order to poke their heads over and get a glimpse.
Free cookies were offered, to better keep your blood sugar from dipping to dangerous lows once the conversation topic got mired in the finer intricacies of assorted D&D releases. Other topics included "How to please your gamer boyfriend" and "Yes, I have a Pac-Man tattoo." They signed stuff: Jerry leaving a signature that I initially mistook to be the date, Mike generally leaving his mark in the form of a sketch.
This Is Real
Here, Mike has drawn an adorable little robot in my notebook! They also answered my question, which was, "Can you please talk more about how bad a writer James Patterson is?"
Funny About More Than One Thing
Jerry said, "Well, go to the section of the library where the books have torn a hole in the fabric of the universe and opened a direct portal to Hell, and you'll see." I had pushed his buttons on purpose. He had ranted before, on the website, against James Patterson: "The description for Patterson's Maximum Ride, Book One: The Angel Experiment suggests that " 'Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel are pretty normal kids--except that they're 98 percent human, 2 percent bird.'
Gabriel read this aloud from the site, and I must have hit my head on the corner of my desk when I was gripped by a black sleep, because when I woke up there was blood."
God bless him.
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Josh Pearce is a small, robotic juicer with an unusual means of extracting juice
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