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In our newest issue, we've compiled a list of holiday survival tips to ensure that everything runs smoothly, from gift giving to preparing dinner. But we know the holidays are way too hectic to only give you suggestions we can fit in the magazine.
That's why, we decided to share everything we couldn't fit, plus more helpful hints on holiday picture taking and more right here on saltlakemagazine.com.
Inexpensive or last-minute gift giving
Does a last-minute party invite have you scrambling to find the perfect hostess gift? Look no further; we've got you covered with these quickie gifts under $20.
Gingerbread tiles, traditionally rolled with a German roller, $8 for 8, or large tiles for $2 each. Complimentary kraft boxes or cello bag with Tulie sticker. Call ahead for large orders. Tulie Bakery, 863 E. 700 South, SLC, 801-883-9741
Deep Steep organic foaming hand soaps from The Kura Door, 1136 E. 3rd Ave., SLC, $8 for 8 oz.
Kitchen Sticky Notes in tin box, $14 for 480 sticky notes, Tabula Rasa, 330 Trolley Square, SLC, 801-575-5043.
Your holiday portraits
Don't let those precious moments slip away. Take time this year to capture the magic of the holidays in photographs, whether it's baby's first Christmas or their twenty-first.
For fancy party dresses and dapper little boys' attire, check out Four and Twenty Sailors, 2645 Parleys Way, SLC, 801-485-2951, or The Secret Garden Children's Apparel, 602 S. 500 E., SLC, 801-534-0552.
Then be sure to catch everyone in their holiday finery before the sticky candy cane fingers and snowball fights ensue with the help of one of these Salt Lake-based children/family photographers:
Julie Parker Photography, email@example.com, 801-644-7995.
Heather Gibb Photography, heathergibbphotography.com, 801-471-8471.
Monkeyface Photography, firstname.lastname@example.com, 801-660-7866.
How the Scrooge or Grinch in your life can blow off some steam
The Bayou, at 645 S. State Street, SLC, offers the best selection of seasonal beers, with 23 heart-warming brews that includes Ridgeway "Bad Elf," a Winter IPA, as well as the "Pickled Santa," an aromatic, spiced amber.
Or, for a locally brewed favorite, head to the Wasatch Brewery for their Wasatch Winterfest Seasonal Ale, sure to melt the icy demeanor of any Scrooge, 250 Main Street, Park City, 435-649-0900.
For those craving something more serious to blow off steam, High Top Outfitters takes hunters out to bag bull elks from Nov. 12 to 20. They're not exactly reindeer, but we'd better leave Rudolph to prepare for the big flight on Christmas Eve. Celebrating eight crazy nights in the Beehive
Rabbi Zippel Lighting the Menorah at Chanukah on IceFor Chahukah-celebrating Utahns, you may be hard-pressed to find many Jewish activities in Salt Lake.
Luckily, Chanukah on Ice is a great way to plan a day out with the kids amidst all the hustle and bustle. Rabbi Benny Zippel hosts free ice-skating and a giant menorah lighting at the Gallivan Center on Dec. 22 at 4 pm. Click here for more info.
Or, if you're planning a Chanukah party of your own, but don't have the proper party space, contact Temple Har Shalom. The temple will host a community-wide celebration, including activities for every age following Friday evening services on Dec. 23. 3700 N. Brookside Court, Park City, 435-649-2276.


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I found this Snickers 3X Chocolate in a local CVS in Eagle Rock on lunch break from work one day. My eyes were attracted to it immediately as I don't seem to find Snickers limited editions much anymore. I completely zeroed in on the bright blue wrapper and the giant "3X" on it.
So how is this Snickers 3 times the chocolate? Well the package says it's "Milk Chocolate, chocolate flavored nougat, chocolate caramel and peanuts". Guess that is 3 whole chocolate elements in there.
This really smells intensely of chocolate with only a hint of peanuts at the end. My first bite was indeed a mouthful. At first it reminded me of brownies, then the flavor transforms once you hit the peanuts. They add a nutty saltiness to it which really levels out the chocolate's sweetness. The chocolate caramel is surprisingly absent, s I don't taste any of it at all. heck I don't even see it when I take a bite. There's no beautiful ribbon of caramel. So odd. The flavor pretty much is the same as a normal Snickers to me, it's just that initial moment of the bite that tastes like brownies. That's all that tasted different to me, really.
As far as Snicker's bars go, this is n't bad. I just didn't find it tasting that differently from a normal Snickers. I'm more of a 3 Musketeers or a Milky Way girl, so as far as Snickers bars go, they just don't excite me that much. Maybe more seasoned Snickers fans can taste the difference in the 3X Chocolate. But for me, it wasn't anything new.
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Infrastructure enhancements like the widening of County Road 540A don't get off the ground without the Fleet Management Division, which repairs, maintains, and fuels nearly 2200 vehicles and pieces of heavy equipment for all county divisions, eight municipalities, several state agencies, and even the FBI.
Fleet director Bob Stanton says it's the replacement program that sets his team apart from other fleet divisions.
The program has brought in more than $14 million of revenue for the county since the 2000 launch of a unique purchase contract, whch gives county technicians the same access to online technical information as Ford technicians. Plus, the contract lets technicians order on-highway vehicles from the office rather than using the bid process, and vehicles are priced at or below contract levels. Vendors are paid via electronic funds transfers.
Another reason for success is the division's nearly 40 dedicated employees. Collectively, 25 technicians have earned 227 Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certifications—and they did so on their own time.
Employees are so committed to the division that they star in their own recruitment video, spreading the word about what they enjoy about their jobs, and what benefits new hires can expect—such as a 10 cent/hour increase for each certification earned plus a 20 cent/hour bonus for achieving the "Master" level.
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In early 1964, Beatlemania crossed the Atlantic. Over the next two years, English acts dominated the American charts. The Beatles scored hits with their poppy, guitar-driven music that merged skiffle with American rock and roll. The Rolling Stones and the Animals had a more gritty sound influenced by R&B. Herman's Hermits appealed to the teenybopper crowd, whereas Freddie and the Dreamers were more of a novelty act. With the exception of a few Motown acts and the Beach Boys, no American group could compete. The British Invasion reinvigorated the rock and roll landscape and paved the way for the artistic and commercial breakthroughs that would come in the second half of the Sixties.
This exhibition of 22 framed photographs captures some of the British Invasion acts of the early 1960s both onstage and behind the scenes. All of the color prints are from the archives of 16 magazine, a music-oriented magazine for teens in the Sixties and Seventies. Publisher Gloria Stavers insisted on exclusive photos for her publications and, due to her influence as a tastemaker, artists often complied.
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Cats on Road for Final Time
Arizona (19-30, 8-19 Pac-12) at California (21-25, 9-15 Pac-12)
Friday, May 16 // 4 p.m. (PDT)
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Probable Starters
Game 1: RHP James Farris (4-6, 3.86) vs. RHP Daulton Jefferies (2-6, 3.36)
Game 2: RHP Cody Hamlin (5-4, 3.72) vs. LHP Kyle Porter (5-5, 3.09)
RHP Tyger Talley (1-3, 3.43) vs. RHP Ryan Mason (5-1, 2.73)
Television/Live Stream
All three games will be televised on Pac-12 Arizona with commentators Dave Raymond (play-by-play) and Eric Byrnes (color analyst) calling the action. Cable/satellite subscribers who get the Pac-12 Network are able to watch online at http://pac-12.com/network/pac-12-arizona
Arizona Baseball on the Radio
The Arizona IMG Sports Network will have a live radio broadcast on 1290 AM in Tucson for all three games this weekend. The Voice of the Wildcats, Brian Jeffries, will provide the live play-by-play descriptions. The broadcast can be heard online here.
On Deck: Arizona closes out its 2014 season with a non-conference series against Abilene Christian in Tucson, Ariz., next weekend, May 23-25. The series begins on Friday at 6 p.m. at Hi Corbett Field. A live radio broadcast on 1290 AM is scheduled for each game.
Arizona Baseball Tickets
General admission single-game tickets for all home games are on sale through the McKale Ticket Office, which is is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in-person or by phone (520-621-2287). Tickets also can be purchased anytime on www.arizonawildcats.com. The Hi Corbett ticket office opens 60 minutes prior to game time this weekend. For all home games, fans are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance as tickets purchased the day of the game are $2 more. Complete ticket information can be found here.
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Print-at-Home is the quickest and recommended method of ticket delivery. When fans purchase single game tickets online or over the phone, they can choose print-at-home and the tickets will be emailed directly to the customer. Tickets can be printed on a home printer and bought straight to the entrance gate to skip any ticket lines.
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Follow @ArizonaBaseball on Twitter for continual updates on the Wildcats at home or on the road, including score updates, news, facts and other pertinent information. Interact with @ArizonaBaseball for chances to win prizes and participate in promotions throughout the season. Be sure to "like" Facebook.com/ArizonaBaseball for stories and behind-the-scenes updates on the club, including photos and videos. Check out YouTube.com/ArizonaAthletics or YouTube.com/UAWildcatBaseball for the most recent videos and Instagram.com/ArizonaBaseball for candid photos throughout the season.


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When it came time to renovate the University of Alabama's Sam Bailey Track and Field Stadium, which first opened in 1975, Crimson Tide head coach Dan Waters had one directive for everyone involved in the project and that was to create a world class facility that would be comparable to nation's best facilities. Mission accomplished.
The new nine-lane track has a state of the art Beynon BSS -2000 track surface, which allows for a faster and more durable surface for both competition and training. Read More
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For a casual get-together, this saucy herbed chicken is a terrific choice. Serve it over angel hair pasta for a delicious dinner that's special enough for company. —Marcello Basco, Deerfield Beach, Florida
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (6 ounces each)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup tomato puree
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 4 slices mozzarella cheese
- 4 tomato slices
- 4 teaspoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Hot cooked angel hair pasta
- Minced fresh parsley
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt and pepper; add chicken, one piece at a time, and shake to coat. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown chicken in 2 tablespoons oil on each side. Transfer to a greased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish.
- In the same skillet, saute garlic in remaining oil for 1 minute. Stir in the broth, tomato puree, basil and oregano. Bring to a boil. Pour mixture over chicken.
- Cover and bake at 400° for 25-30 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°.
- Remove chicken and set aside. Pour sauce into a small bowl and keep warm. Return chicken to the pan; top with mozzarella and tomato. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, for 6-8 minutes or until cheese is melted. Arrange pasta on a large serving platter; top with chicken. Pour sauce over chicken and sprinkle with parsley. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Italian Baked Chicken in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2009, p49
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"Very good. I did think it was a bit bland as written. It may have been partially my fault as I forgot to salt my pasta water. Will definitely make again but add a bit more seasoning."
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"Easy to make and so delicious. Will definitely make again."
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"easy, tasty and can be made almost any time with such basic ingredients."
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Erin Gray Ratliff and Jesse Dylan Boger, both of Wilmington, N.C., were married on June 15, 2013, at the Coastline Convention Center in Wilmington.
The bride is the daughter of Brenda Maddox of New Bern, N.C., and William Ratliff of Jacksonville, N.C. The groom is the son of Vickie Bigham of Greensboro, N.C., and Tom Boger of Wilmington.
The couple will reside in Wilmington.
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The Orlando Magic routed the Phoenix Suns in a relatively boring 111-88 road contest Sunday. But the commentary from ABC's crew of NBA analysts Mike Breen, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy was anything but boring.
Early in the first quarter, Mike Breen asked Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy's thoughts about the controversial exchange between Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy and NBA Commissioner David Stern regarding Dwight Howard's recent suspension.
As usual, the guys didn't hold back. Jackson said he understood Stan Van Gundy was protecting his star player, but went overboard with the criticism.
Jeff Van Gundy, brother to Stan Van Gundy, took an emotionally neutral stance for the most part pointing to the discrepancy between the number of flagrant fouls Dwight Howard has called for him versus how many times he's fouled during the NBA season.
"Well, I thought Stan's comments were snarky and I was surprised by what I thought were unbecoming comments by Commissioner Stern," Jeff Van Gundy said. "But I think the comments obscure the big fact. The big fact, to me, is is Dwight Howard being officiated correctly?"
"Up until a couple of days ago there's been 88 flagrant fouls called in the NBA this season drawn by 67 players. Dwight Howard is the most fouled player in the league and has had not one flagrant foul committed against him. Blake Griffin leads the league, he's had eight called for him. Going back the last flagrant foul called against Dwight Howard was a year, 81 games, almost 3,000 minutes. I would suspect he's been fouled a thousand time in those times. Are we to say that this this guy who has been fouled the most has never had a flagrant foul called, a thousand fouls? If I was the NBA, I would forget about the comments and I would look to is there a point the Magic are making that's correct."
But the conversation took a comical turn after Lisa Salters gave her sideline report about Otis Smith confirming team management spoke with Stan Van Gundy's public outlash against the commissioner.
In case you don't recall, David Stern's response to Stan Van Gundy, his quote is as follows; "I see somebody whose team isn't performing, whose star players is suspended, who seems to be fraying. Whatever the pressures are that Stan is feeling…it made me sad. I would render a guess…that we won't be hearing from him the rest of the season. When he stops and reads what he said and realizes what he did, he will say no more."
Jeff Van Gundy likened David Stern's powers to Michael Corleone (although that's giving Stern entirely too much credit) to which Mike Breen deemed the Orlando Magic coach "Fredo" Van Gundy.
"It's very godfathery-like, 'we'll never hear from him again. I thought he was being taken to the Meadowlands to be buried. I mean my goodness, commissioner don't bury my brother yet. Geez!"
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@PrincetonTennis Women Open Ivy Season With Win at Penn
Taking care of its first of three road matches during the Ivy League season, the Princeton women's tennis team won 6-1 at Penn Saturday afternoon to open the league season.
The Tigers, ranked No. 65 in the nation, will host Yale next Saturday and Brown next Sunday in their Ivy home openers. The Bulldogs are ranked No. 36 in the nation in this week's rankings, and a new chart will be out next Tuesday.
"This being our first Ivy match of the season, we are really proud in how every singel person on this team stepped up and took ownership of their spots today," Princeton head coach Laura Granville said.
Princeton opened by winning the doubles point and came within one point of clinching the match with singles victories from Lindsay Graff and Joan Cannon. A Penn win at third singles for Sonya Latycheva delayed the clincher momentarily, but Emily Hahn had Princeton's fourth point of the afternoon.
Katherine Flanigan, Graff and Katie Goepel were wins in both singles and doubles against the Quakers.
(65) Princeton (9-4, 1-0) 6, Penn (8-4, 0-1) 1
1. (32) Eskenazi/Latycheva (Penn) def. Cannon/Hahn (Prin), 8-5
2. Flanigan/Graff (Prin) def. Jania/Jaime Yapp-Shing (Penn), 8-6
3. Chow/Goepel (Prin) def. Do/Ion (Penn), 9-7
Order of finish: 1,3,2
1. Lindsay Graff (Prin) def. Sol Eskenazi (Penn), 6-2, 6-0
2. Katherine Flanigan (Prin) def. Stephanie Do (Penn), 6-3, 6-2
3. Sonya Latycheva (Penn) def. Monica Chow (Prin), 6-2, 6-3
4. Katie Goepel (Prin) def. Alex Ion (Penn), 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(6)
5. Emily Hahn (Prin) def. Katherine Jania (Penn), 6-2, 6-4
6. Joan Cannon (Prin) def. Emma Whitfield (Penn), 6-1, 6-1
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Authorities say a man working for a tree-trimming crew in Little Rock was killed after a limb he cut fell onto a power line.
Little Rock Fire Department Capt. Randy Hickmon says the worker was tethered to the top of a tree Wednesday when the limb fell onto the power line. Hickmon says the worker was touching the branch and was immediately electrocuted by an 8,000-volt charge.
The Pulaski County coroner's office identified the worker as 27-year-old Filiberto Martinez Pita.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://is.gd/ilMRcm ) that Pita worked for Hernandez Tree Service, which was hired to trim branches that were hanging over the roof of a home on 10th Street.
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Formerly Bad Dog Rediscovers America, they've shortened the name to just "Bad Dog Arts" and along with the change they've moved to a new artspace at 824 S. 400 West w/ more space and parking. The cool kids' art classes are still going.
In fact, we just got the spring schedule from Bad Dog in our e-mails here at the office and thought we should share it. This spring the theme is "Time Machine," and kids will get to go back to periods of history through their artwork.
Classes cap at 12 students and run March 14-May 27. Bad Dog closes the week of April 18 for Spring Break.
For younger kids:
Land of the Dinosaurs 4-5:30 p.m. Mondays $150 Kids sculpt, paint and print prehistoric creations. For dinosaur-loving kids ages 5-6.
The Stone Age 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays $180 Going back to the time of the first humans, kids make their own cave paintings and fashion their own tools and object. Ages 7-8.
Medieval Times 4-6 p.m. Wednesdays $180 Kids build their own castles, dragons and go on some wild adventures. Ages 9-10.
The Renaissance 4-6 p.m. Thursdays $180 Like Leonardo Da Vinci, kids will dabble as sculptors, painters and inventors, taking some cues from the greatest artists of all time. Ages 11-12.
Extended Day 1-5 p.m. Art instruction, then music or movement.
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The Future 1:30-2:30 p.m. Kids imagine what the future will be like through art projects like imagining what their own houses will look like, the fashion of the future and what they'll be doing and where they'll be. Ages 7-12.
For older kids (ages 13-16):
Pushing Paint 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays $200 Acrylic painting with emphasis on risk-taking and individual expression.
Collage & Assemblage 4-6 p.m. Wednesday $200 Experiment with mixed media to create 2D and 3D assemblages.
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Rated 4.9 out of 5 by 17 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by kysh Even more wonderful in person! I saw this painting online after getting an e-mail from World Market about their sale on all wall art. I scanned through all the pieces and kept coming back to this one. I haven't bought anything artistic or decorative in quite some time (we've been trying to get rid of stuff around the house!), but since it was my birthday this weekend, I told my husband that I wanted to go see it in person. It's even more amazing in person! It was a wonderful birthday present to myself - it's a very intriguing piece! :) January 30, 2011
Rated 5 out of 5 by Decor girl Love it! Beautiful colors. Beautiful colors and design. Love that it is on canvas. December 11, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by ajoyjoie Definite Buy!! I just finished decorating my guest bedroom. I bought this wall canvas art to compliment another wall art, the "Momentary" canvas art also from World Market. This canvas piece I hung directly above the bed. It is a lot bigger than I thought it was, but it fit perfectly in my guest bedroom. Colors are super rich, vibrant, and bright. I like that you can hang the canvas art in any direction to compliment the circle patterns. This art piece fit my asian/indian theme extremely well. Definitely recommend buying this! It is worth the price!!! November 25, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by Amy I love this print!!!! Wish that I could find smaller prints to compliment this print. October 9, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ade Great art! I was worried this may be too bright but it's not at all. We have it above our fireplace and then another WM canvas piece, Momentary, above our couch. We love it and have received several compliments. September 10, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by D Love it! Looks great above our fireplace! August 11, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jen Loving it!! This painting is awesome!! I was eyeing it for awhile online, and when I spotted it in my local store I went ahead and bought it. It adds so much color to my living room, I absolutely love it. June 19, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nettles Love it! I love this canvas! I decided to turn mine a different direction to hang it, and I really like the result. It looks different each way you turn it. I also love the bright colors and the texture. Very nice piece. February 4, 2010


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|Vandals race past NMSU
The Idaho Vandals dominated the pool again Saturday with a 149.5- 93.5 Western Athletic Conference victory over the New Mexico State Aggies at the UI swim center.
"Having back-to-back victories this weekend is huge," coach Tom Jagar said.
Sophomore Paige Hunt broke the school record when she won the 1-meter dive with a score of 174.90.
"The divers are quality people turning into quality athletes," Jagar said "They're sticking with it and doing things well."
The Vandals won 11 of the 13 events in style with freshmen Shana Lim and Megan Venlos winning twice each - Lim in the 50 free and 200 back, and Venlos in the 100 and 200 free. Another freshman swam her way to victory with Sammi Mischkot winning the grueling 1650. Lim is off to swim at the Asian Games and returns after the Thanksgiving break.
Idaho's depth through the classes and events showed with senior Alyson O'Brien winning the 500 free, junior Calleagh Brown winning the 200 butterfly and sophomore Kelsie Saxe winning the 200 IM.
In addition to the nine individual races, the Vandals won both relays.
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2006-2007: Track and Field: Notched top-15 finishes in two events ... Set a career-mark of 2:33.10 in the 800-meter run at the C-USA Indoor Championship ... Also finished eighth-place (12:01.61) in the 3,000-meter run at the Freedom Games.
2005-2006: Cross Country: Finished in the top-20 in two of five events ... Top result occurred at the McAlister's Deli Invite as she turned in a mark of 20:40, good for 16th place ... Track and Field: Career best 2:36:00 running the 800-meter at the Virginia Tech Invitational (fourth place) ... Career best 1:25:21 at the 500-Meter Run at the Virginia Tech Invitational (third place)...Competed and ran strong at the Conference USA Championship.
High School: Two-time letterwinner in cross country ... Coach's Award winner for outdoor track.
Personal: Majoring in exercise and sports science ... Daughter of Stanley and Debra Latta ... Has one sister (Aimee).


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Put on your green threads and cook up corned beef and cabbage. And if you have kids in tow, here are two family-friendly events to check out for St. Paddy's:
St. Patrick's Day Parade and Siamsa
It's supposed to rain on Saturday, March 17, but that won't stop the Hibernian Society of Utah from hosting the St. Patrick's Day Parade, which has blazed right through the rain in the past.
The parade, honoring working men and women, will start at the Gateway with fun, creative Irish-themed floats. The Siamsa (Irish for celebration) will be held afterward at the Gateway's Grand Hall, where you can grab an drink and sing along to traditional Irish music and watch Utah's best Irish dancers.
The parade starts at 10 a.m. Doors open for the Siamsa at 10:45 a.m. Click here for more info on both.
The Frog Conservation Ball
Utah's Hogle Zoo has it's own way of showing a little green on St. Patrick's Day, throwing a ball in honor of the zoo's frogs. The Frog Conservation Ball will be held Saturday, March 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Radio Disney will be there to teach kids how to make pipe cleaner frogs to take home, and they'll learn about frogs and efforts to ensure the survival of frogs and other amphibians.
Hogle Zoo, 2600 Sunnyside Avenue, SLC, 801-582-1631. Click here for more info


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Cinemark Imax Theatre
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - The Cinemark Imax experience is a 5-story tall, 7-story wide version of educational and recreational film subjects of both 2-D and 3-D.
Hollywood Blvd Cinema
The 1st full service, fully integrated restaurant, bar and movie theater to open in the greater Chicagoland area. Each auditorium features terraced seating with high-back executive leather chairs.
Yesterday's Farm Museum
A historic 1800s family farm that is maintained in its original location. Programs depict settlers' lives with period accuracy.
CITY:Wood Dale
Home Alone House
The Home Alone House is a three-story single family detached house used for shooting the majority of the scenes in the movies Home Alone (1990) and parts of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).[3] The kitchen in the film was actually shot in the house, along with the main staircase, basement and most of the first floor landing.
Home Alone - Hubbard Woods Metra Station
An eight-year-old boy is accidentally left home alone as his family rushes off for a vacation to France, leaving him to fend for himself against a pair of bungling burglars. Filmed along the North Shore, movie sites include Wilmette's Trinity Methodist Church and the Hubbard Woods Metra Station in Winnetka. Right across the street from the Metra train tracks is the former drugstore where the stranded kid stole a toothbrush in the movie.
Sixteen Candles - New Trier High School
A fifteen-year-old girl has a crush on the most popular boy in school, the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her, her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement, her family forgets her 16th birthday! This 1980s teen-angst classic was filmed in several Chicagoland suburbs, including Highland Park, Evanston, Glencoe and Winnetka.
Winnetka Community House
The Winnetka Community House enriches the lives of the North Shore residents, their families, visitors and friends by providing diverse educational, cultural, social and recreational opportunities for people of all ages.
Baha'i House Of Worship
One of only seven in the world and the only one in North America, the Baha'i House of Worship is the largest and oldest surviving Baha'i Temple. Standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, the auditorium, with its walls of lace-like ornamentation and its dome rising 135 feet above the main floor, offers a scene of unsurpassed beauty. It is surrounded by exquisite gardens and fountains. This imposing and dramatic structure has received numerous design awards, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Home Alone - Trinity Methodist Church
An eight-year-old boy is accidentally left home alone as his family rushes off for a vacation to France, leaving him to fend for himself against a pair of bungling burglars. Filmed along the North Shore, movie sites include Wilmette's Trinity Methodist Church and the Hubbard Woods Metra Station in Winnetka. Right across the street from the Metra train tracks is the former drugstore where the stranded kid stole a toothbrush in the movie.
Ordinary People - The Original Pancake House
This wrenching drama focuses on an affluent Lake Forest family as they deal with the accidental death of their eldest son. North Shore movie sites include The Original Pancake House in Wilmette, known for its homestyle breakfast dishes, including the popular baked apple pancake. Locations ,
DuPage County Historical Museum
Enjoy DuPage County's rich history from the 1830s to the present. The Museum exhibits feature hundreds of historic artifacts and photos along with many fun hands-on activities. You'll find something for toddlers to seniors, and everyone in between. Housed in an 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque building, the museum highlights 150 years of DuPage County history with participatory activities, changing exhibits and extensive model railroad display.
Billy Graham Center Museum
This museum located on the campus of Wheaton College is devoted to the history of Christian evangelism and its influences on society. View rare artifacts, art and displays that include a powerful 3-D presentation of the gospel message.
Edman Memorial Chapel - Wheaton College
This large auditorium, seating more than 2400 people, is the site of campus chapels, concerts, commencements, and various community-related events such as the Artist Series.
West Chicago City Museum
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Housed in historic Turner Town Hall (National Register site), the museum features community history exhibits and a research collection including local history and railroad materials. The Kid Zone Gallery offers changing hands-on displays for all ages.
CITY:West Chicago
City of West Chicago's Gallery 200
DuPage County, Chicago's Western Suburbs - Gallery 200 is fast becoming a haven for art lovers as a quality destination for buying and browsing great local art. The gallery, a cultural initiative supported by the City of West Chicago, hosts artist opening receptions, art talks and workshops.
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Odeum Expo Center
The Odeum Sports and Expo Center, located in Chicago's western suburbs, is DuPage County's largest sports and special events facility. This 130,000 sq. ft. complex includes 3 diversified areas totaling over 85,000 sq. ft. of clear-span exhibition space.
CITY:Villa Park
Vernon Hills Park District Sullivan Community Center
Overlooking park land, the Community Room, equipped with a stage and kitchen, can serve 260 dinner guests or 400 people theater seating. Smaller meeting rooms with a capacity of 10-140 people including a gymnasium rental are also available.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Cuneo Mansion and Gardens
The opulent Cuneo Museum and Gardens, located on 75 acres and dotted with formal gardens and statuary was the perfect setting for the wedding scenes in "My Best Friend's Wedding." The gazebo where the best friends were caught kissing was built specifically for the film, but Cuneo's owners liked it so much they decided to keep it permanently. Take a guided tour through the historic Mediterranean-style Cuneo mansion to see Renaissance artworks and lavish European furnishings.
CITY:Vernon Hills
My Best Friend's Wedding - Cuneo Museum
In this romantic comedy a food critic jealously tries to put a stop to her best buddy's wedding. The movie filmed extensively around Chicago, including the historic Drake Hotel on North Michigan Avenue; on a Mercury boat cruise as it sailed down the Chicago River; and at the suburban Cuneo Museum & Gardens, a Mediterranean-style mansion that features 75 acres of beautiful formal gardens. The gazebo featured in one of the wedding scenes was built for the film, but Cuneo's owners decided to keep it permanently.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Beautiful outdoor music theatre open May through September with a capacity of just under 30,000 people. Concessions and private catering available; tour buses welcome.
CITY:Tinley Park
Tinley Park Veterans Memorial
The Tinley Park Veterans Memorial features benches along a parkway and is dedicated to Village Trustee Pat Rea, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General.
CITY:Tinley Park
Tinley Park Historical Society & Museum
The Tinley Park Historical Society was established in 1974 to preserve the history of Tinley Park and the surrounding areas that have influenced its growth and development. Since 1976, the Society has been headquartered at the "Old Zion Landmark," 6727 174th Street where it maintains a museum of local history and a local research library. The Prairie Gothic style "Old Zion Landmark" church was built in 1884 for the local Zion Lutheran congregation. The Historical Society complex also includes a reproduction of the Village's second schoolhouse. The original one room schoolhouse had been built in 1880 very near to the current location to replace a smaller schoolhouse and from 1892 to 1954 the building served as the community's Village Hall. The "Landmark Chapel" and the "New Saenger Hall" meeting room are available for weddings and other meetings and special events.
CITY:Tinley Park
Air Classics Museum of Aviation
Air Classics is an aviation museum located at Aurora Municipal Airport - ARR where the aircraft actually fly. You can climb into the pilot's seat of a UH-1 Huey helicopter. The museum's collection includes aircraft, vehicles, uniforms and other aviation memorabilia from the 1930s to the present time. General Admission: Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Group Tours: Tuesdays through Fridays by appointment.
CITY:Sugar Grove
Hoosier Grove Schoolhouse Museum
Originally built as a one-room schoolhouse in 1904 on the corner of Old Church and Barrington Roads, the museum was moved to its present site in 1991.


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Today reports that a new study out of London's University of Westminster found that when men's stress levels were raised, they rated heavier—and even obese—women as more attractive than relaxed men did.
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OK, everybody: all of those in favor of banning guns, raise your hands. This ban will prohibit all law abiding citizens from possessing firearms.
Well, theres President Obama. You knew hed be first. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Diane Feinstein, Sarah Brady and Charles Shumer; practically the entire Democrat Party. And, are those John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Guliani and several other Republican RINOS back there timidly lifting their hands? Go ahead, boys! All the way! Let everybody know your true feelings!
Lets look around the world. The entire hierarchy of the United Nations has its hands up. I also see Castro, Idiot Amin, the Communist rulers of China, Vietnam and North Korea. And, of course, the governments of most European countries, where the Nazi and Communist anti-gun laws are still on the books. They all have their hands in the air.
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Look! Whos that strange looking man with a mustache that resembles a tooth brush? HITLER! And millions of people are doing it with him. Its Germany in 1938!! And, there are Himmler, Goering and Goerbels and all the other patron saints of the anti-gun crowd with their hands raised.
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by Meredith Rutledge-Borger
A group of young black singers from the newly founded Fisk University first brought African-American religious music to the attention of the American public and the rest of the world in the years following the Civil War. The Fisk Jubilee Singers toured America and Europe in the 1870s, and were often the first black performers allowed access to the concert stage in American and European cities. They soon garnered critical and popular acclaim, performing spirituals, work songs and the popular songs of the day – in the words of a contemporary newspaper reporter – "with a power and pathos never before surpassed." The Fisk Singers began a tradition that lives on in gospel choruses from the smallest storefront church to professional choruses like the Georgia Mass Choir or Kirk Franklin and the Family.
Spirituals and European-rooted hymns comprised the bulk of music in African-American churches until around the turn of the 20th century, when a new form of sacred music began a rise to popularity in the African-American urban congregations of the North and Midwest. When African-Americans began pouring into urban centers after World War I, they brought with them their raucous and robust, transcendent and transporting church songs.
The rise of Pentecostal churches at the end of the 19th Century also gave impetus to the development of gospel. Pentecostal shouting is related to speaking in tongues and to circle dances of African origin. Recordings of Pentecostal preachers' sermons were popular in black communities in the 1920s, and sermon recordings along with choral and instrumental accompaniment, and congregational participation became bestsellers. The popularity of sermon recordings continued on through the work of the Reverend C.L. Franklin, who issued more than 70 albums of his sermons and choir after World War II, prominently featuring the burgeoning talent of his daughter, Aretha, later to find fame in the secular world. Aretha Franklin was instrumental in bridging the thin divide between rock and gospel, with transformative gospel recordings such as Amazing Grace – the 1972 sessions of which were visited by members of the Rolling Stones – and albums like 1971's Aretha Live at Fillmore West, which infused rock songs by the Beatles ("Eleanor Rigby"), Stephen Stills ("Love the One You're With") and Simon and Garfunkel ("Bridge Over Troubled Water") with her gospel–inspired timbre.
The free flow of inspiration and talent between the secular and sacred world often meant that the voices of preachers were strongly affected by secular performers, and vice versa. Taking the scriptural directive "Let everything that breathes praise the Lord" (Psalms, 150), Pentecostal churches embraced all manner of instrumentation and secular performance styles and melodies, embellishing worship with full instrumental accompaniment (piano and/or organ, guitar, bass, fiddle, horns, drums and all manner of percussion) and melodic and rhythmic influence from the blues.
In 1921, the National Baptist Convention published a collection of 165 songs called Gospel Pearls, prominently featuring the works of the Reverend Charles A. Tindley, who is considered the earliest important gospel composer. But a radical integration of the secular and sanctified in church music was on the horizon, in the form of a vaudeville accompanist and racy blues songwriter known variously as Georgia Tom or Barrelhouse Tommy.
Thomas A. Dorsey was born in Georgia in 1899 and learned religion from his Baptist minister father and piano from his music teacher mother. He and his family removed to Chicago during World War I. Dorsey began his musical career as Georgia Tom, playing barrelhouse piano in one of Al Capone's speakeasies and leading 1990 Hall of Fame Inductee Ma Rainey's jazz band (pictured, left). In 1928, he wrote and recorded a best-selling bawdy blues hit called "Tight Like That," and that same year he wrote more than 460 blues and jazz songs. Personal tragedy struck in 1930 when Dorsey's wife and newborn child died, inspiring him to a religious awakening. The very day his family died, he wrote "Take my Hand, Precious Lord," one of the most frequently recorded gospel hymns in history. Dorsey began to inject more of "the feeling and the pathos and the moans and the blues" into his gospel compositions, combining a religious and secular fervor to "get over." Dorsey is considered the "Father of Gospel Music," composing nearly 1,000 hymns. He also became the first African-American publisher of black gospel music and founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. Dorsey also discovered and nurtured the talent of many future gospel stars, including the Ward Singers and 1997 Hall of Fame Inductee Mahalia Jackson (pictured, top).
In 1938, gospel songs were formally taken into a secular setting for the first time when Sister Rosetta Tharpe sang and accompanied herself on guitar at a Cab Calloway show at Harlem's Cotton Club. Later that same year Sister Rosetta became the first gospel singer to record for a major record company when she signed a recording contract with Decca – which would also become the home of Louis Jordan, Billie Holiday, Bill Haley & His Comets and the Rolling Stones. In December 1938, Sister Rosetta again performed on the secular stage when she appeared at legendary talent scout John Hammond's groundbreaking "From Spirituals to Swing" concert, which presented black musical traditions from African tribal music to big band swing at Carnegie Hall.
The other gospel act on the Carnegie Hall stage that evening was a male quartet called Mitchell's Christian Singers from North Carolina, which represented another aspect of the gospel genre. African-American quartets had been popular since antebellum times. By the early Thirties all-male a cappella gospel groups consisting of four or five singers were common. These groups influenced the development of popular secular groups like the Mills Brothers and Ink Spots and had direct descendants in gospel groups like the Soul Stirrers – the group that featured Sam Cooke, an artist who combined gospel and pop. Conversely, Al Green famously moved from being a pop sensation to a gospel artist.
In 1956, when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley gathered for the momentous "Million Dollar Quartet" session (pictured, left), they riffed on the gospel songs they all knew and loved. Presley frequently employed the gospel group the Jordanaires, who sang backing vocals on his 1956 debut for RCA Victor, "Heartbreak Hotel," and Presley himself recorded two gospel albums: His Hand in Mine (1960) and How Great Thou Art (1967).
Throughout the Sixties, in Detroit, Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown juggernaut was churning out an impressive stream of hits, many of which drew from the gospel quartets, including the Four Tops, Miracles and Temptations. Soul pioneers such as James Brown, Ray Charles and Curtis Mayfield channeled their blues and gospel roots to create fresh sounds that influenced artists across genres. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan would take a similar path, releasing a series of gospel albums: Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980) and Shot Of Love (1981).
Today, gospel elements can be heard in the works of artists as diverse as the Backstreet Boys and Jeff Beck to Paul Simon and Jack White. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate the legacy of gospel and the career of Kirk Franklin with a free concert on April 10 at PlayhouseSquare. Click here to learn more.
[Mahalia Jackson/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]; "Million Dollar Quartet" image / Memphis Press-Scimitar.]


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Looking Beyond celebrated its 15th Annual Gala at the always-fabulous Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday, April 9th. Guests were treated to a silent and live auction, fun raffle prizes and a tasty luncheon. This year's gala honored Rion Paige, an X Factor finalist living with a rare condition of arthrogryposis multiplex congenital, with the Soaring Spirit Award. Though AMC affects her muscles, joints, and sight in one eye, Paige continues to share her joy with the world through her sweet singing voice. The artist graced the stage for an incredible musical performance at the gala, proving her young age of 13 means nothing when it comes to her mature talent. Looking Beyond has made its mission to enrich the lives of children with special needs, and guests were happy to support the cause with this wonderful afternoon of fun and entertainment!
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After 18 holes of play at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, the Arizona State men's golf team sits in 14th-place, looking to take advantage of playing at its home course for the remaining two rounds. Spencer Lawson and Austin Quick lead the way thus far for the Sun Devils.
Lawson, playing as an individual, placed himself tied for 16th after the first round after he shot an even-par 71. Quick, who finished second in this tournament a year ago, shot a one-over par 72, good enough for 28th-place. He birdied holes 14 and 17 and recovered from three-straight bogies on the first three holes.
Also tied for 28th are fellow-Sun Devils Max Rottluff as well as Chris Russo, who is also playing as an individual. Rottluff had two birdies on the day, coming on holes one and eight.
Freshman Trey Ka'ahanui and senior Jin Song, despite the experience difference, both finished out the round tied for 40th at two-over par.
Jon Rahm currently sits tied for 60th at four-over par, while Mathias Schjoelberg shot six-over par as the Sun Devils look to improve on their performances heading into the second round.
Third-ranked University of New Mexico leads all schools to this point at eight-under par, five strokes ahead of second-place San Diego State. Arizona State shot a combined 12-over par, but is only a few strokes out of the top-ten.
Nick Chianello of Oregon State sits atop the leaderboard at seven-under par, two strokes ahead of the field.
The second round begins Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. (PT), and live scoring will be available on golfstat.com.
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Arizona State, Arizona, California (1), Cal State Northridge, Denver, Harvard, Hawaii, Iowa State, New Mexico (3), New Mexico State, Oregon State, Pepperdine, San Diego, San Diego State, Seattle, St. John's, UC Davis and UNLV
Fourteen ASU teams have won the Thunderbird Invitational, with ASU winning the title in 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2009.
Eight Sun Devils have won the individual titles on nine occasions, with Phil Mickelson (1991 and 1992) the only multiple winner. Other Sun Devil individual winners include Mark Sollenberger (1974), Jim Carter (1984), Larry Barber (1994), Todd Demsey (1995), Jeff Quinney (2000), Paul Casey (2001) and Alejandro Canizares (2003), Stephan Gross (2009-shared).


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Contini's Hat Trick Propels Women's Hockey to 6-1 Win Over Brown
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/2/13) - Freshman Molly Contini recorded her first career hat trick to lead the Princeton women's hockey team to a 6-1 win over Brown on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Hobey Baker Rink. The Tigers have now won three straight games.
Senior Kelly Cooke had a three-point game with one goal and two helpers. Sophomore Brianna Leahy tallied two goals and senior Corey Stearns had two assists.
Contini got the offense started with a goal in the first six minutes. Cooke fired on a pass from junior Gabie Figueroa and Contini got the rebound and put it behind Aubree Moore in goal.
Leahy earned the game winner and gave Princeton a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period when she got the puck from behind the net from junior Alex Kinney and buried it.
Laurie Jolin scored Brown's only goal of the game, converting on its first power-play opportunity of the second period with help from Jennifer Nedow and Jessica Hoyle.
Cooke answered with a power-play goal 1:11 later when she beat Moore 1x1 on a pass from Stearns.
Contini finished off the second period with goals at 9:43 and 12:42 as Princeton took a 5-1 lead into the locker room.
Leahy net her second of the game at 10:04 of the third from the left point that hit the crossbar and dropped behind the line.
Freshman Kimberly Newell made 24 saves as Princeton improves to 9-12-2 overall and 4-10-2 in the ECAC to sit in eighth place in the standings.
Moore made 26 stops for Brown, who drops to 4-16-1 and 3-13 in the league.
Princeton was 1 for 4 on the power play and 4 for 5 on the penalty, and outshot Brown 32-25.
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High School: Southern Pines, Ayer
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Harvard Claims Class of 1975 Cup, Tops Women's Rowing In Tight Showdown
If there were any doubts that the 2013 Ivy League championship in women's rowing would be wide open, these first three weeks of the season should have taken care of them.
In the season opener, Princeton defeated Brown. Last weekend, Brown defeated Harvard. On Saturday, in the 38th edition of the Class of 1975 Cup regatta, the Crimson topped Princeton by 2.2 seconds.
In other words, the Ivy Sprints should be as wild and unpredictable as ever.
Harvard-Radcliffe won its 13th Class of 1975 Cup, and its first since 2007, with a winning time of 6:11.7 on Cayuga Inlet. Princeton, which fell to 3-1 on the season and saw its 25-race Ivy streak snapped, finished in 6:13.19. Cornell, the host school, finished third in 6:25.9.
"It was a beautiful day in Ithaca for racing," head coach Lori Dauphiny said. "Harvard-Radcliffe executed a solid race and were very impressive. The Princeton 2V, 3V, 4V and B4 won in some well-fought races."
The second varsity remained perfect in the Ivy League, finishing in 6:18.4 to defeat the Crimson by nearly five full seconds. The third varsity also had an impressive performance, winning by 8.8 seconds in a time of 6:41.1. The fourth varsity topped Cornell in 6:45.7.
The Princeton varsity four took second to Harvard by 4.8 seconds in a time of 7:16.1, while the 4B won by more than eight seconds in 7:15.3.
Princeton will conclude its three-week road trip next weekend at Yale when it competes for the Eisenberg Cup.
Varsity Eight
Harvard-Radcliffe 6:11.7
Princeton 6:13.9
Cornell 6:25.9
Second Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:18.4
Harvard-Radcliffe 6:23.4
Cornell 6:32.4
Varsity Four
Harvard-Radcliffe 7:11.3
Princeton 7:16.1
Cornell 7:19.2
Varsity 4 B
Princeton 7:15.3
Harvard-Radcliffe 7:23.9
Cornell 7:32.7
Third Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:41.1
Harvard-Radcliffe 6:49.9
Cornell 7:05.9
Fourth Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:45.7
Cornell 6:49.2
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StarNews breaks down top salaries of region's public officials
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 10:45 p.m.
For people employed by public agencies, their salaries are part of the public record, which makes them available to anyone who wants to see them.
Highest-paid public officials
Health care
1. Jack Barto Jr., NHRMC president and chief executive officer, $675,376
2. Edwin Ollie, NHRMC executive vice president and chief financial officer, $444,719
3. Matthew Heywood, NHRMC chief operating officer, $407,621
4. Samual Spicer, MD, NHRMC vice president, medical affairs, $375,064
5. Lori Feezor, NHRMC vice president, legal affairs, $337,558
Higher education
1. Buzz Peterson, UNCW head basketball coach, $420,000
2. Gary Miller, UNCW chancellor, $280,500
3. Ted Spring, Cape Fear Community College president, $250,020
4. Denise Battles, UNCW provost, $225,000
5. Jimmy Bass, UNCW athletics director, $222,640
K-12 public education
1. Tim Markley, New Hanover County Schools superintendent, $200,660.04
2. Edward Pruden Jr., Brunswick County Schools superintendent, $160,960.08
3. Bill Hance, New Hanover County Schools assistant superintendent for operations, $129,384
4. Terri Cobb, Pender County Schools superintendent, $123,881.04
5. Mary Hazel Small, New Hanover County Schools chief financial officer, $120,888
1. Marty Lawing, Brunswick County manager, $175,862
2. Sterling Cheatham, Wilmington city manager, $173,680
3. Matt Jordan, Cape Fear Public Utility Authority CEO, $165,262.50
4. Chris Coudriet, New Hanover County manager, $156,550
5. Jon Rosborough, Wilmington International Airport director, $152,100
Judicial system
1. W. Allen Cobb, senior resident judge, Superior Court, New Hanover, $154,354
2. Ola Lewis, senior resident judge, Superior Court, Brunswick, $148,139
3. Gary Trawick, special judge, Pender, $144,001
4. J.H. Corpening, chief judge, District Court, New Hanover, $136,247
5. Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover and Pender, $132,328; and Jon David, district attorney, Brunswick, Columbus and Bladen, $132,328
Since 2009, the StarNews has maintained a searchable online database of government salary information.
It is now updated with salary information for the 2012-13 fiscal year and is available at StarNewsOnline.com/salaries. Our purpose in doing this is not to embarrass anyone. Instead, it reflects our desire to paint an accurate picture of what people here earn for the work they do. Today's stories, in particular, are designed to show you how much top officials in five categories – health care, government, higher education, K-12 public education and the judicial system – earn and what their jobs entail.
Health care
Name: Jack Barto Jr.
Title: President and CEO, New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Salary: $675,376
Years in job: 9
Jack Barto Jr., the president and CEO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center, manages and oversees all facilities and departments under the hospital's umbrella. Included in his duties are the development and implementation of both long- and short-term strategies to make sure that patients receive a high level of care, and that the facility is cost-effective.
Barto also oversees the development of new businesses, programs and services designed to expand the health system's ability to serve patients throughout the region, among other things.
In the past several years under Barto's leadership, the hospital has successfully switched to an electronic medical records system and improved its patient satisfaction scores, which rank in the top 25 percent nationwide.
Barto's salary is set by the NHRMC Board of Trustees. The board attempts to stay competitive by keeping salaries for leadership positions at rates slightly above average for similar positions in the health-care industry. The trustees use an independent third party to determine the industry average, then set total compensation at the 50th to 60th percentile for organizations around the same size as NHRMC.
That compensation method is consistent for every position within NHRMC.
– Kate Elizabeth Queram
Higher education
Name: Buzz Peterson
Title: UNCW men's basketball coach
Salary: $420,000
Years in job: 3
Buzz Peterson is the highest-paid employee in area education, and when he was hired in 2010 his salary sent ripples through the UNC Wilmington athletic community.
The contract he was given by former athletic director Kelly Mehrtens more than doubled what his predecessors Benny Moss and the highly successful Brad Brownell earned as the Seahawks' coach during the previous seven years.
Peterson's job is to recruit and coach student-athletes who can win basketball games and graduate. At a mid-major program like UNCW, where blue chip recruits are elusive, the coach must help the players improve their individual skills and grow cohesive over the course of their four-year career.
With schools such as George Mason, Old Dominion and VCU leaving the CAA in recent seasons, Peterson is also the highest-paid CAA coach at any public university in the nine-team conference. (Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Northeastern do not fall under the Freedom of Information Act, so it is unclear how much their coaches make.)
While it's not unusual for a men's basketball coach to earn more than his boss, the athletic director, the salary has not produced the desired results on the court.
In Peterson's three years on the sidelines, UNCW has a 33-59 overall record and 17-37 mark in conference play. He has three years remaining on his contract.
K-12 public education
Name: Tim Markley
Title: New Hanover County Schools superintendent
Salary: $200,660.04
Years in job: 2.5
As superintendent of New Hanover County Schools, Tim Markley oversees 42 schools with more than 25,000 students.
He's responsible for making sure those students, ranging from pre-kindergartners to high school seniors, get a quality education throughout the 13 years they spend in the system and graduate equipped with skills that will lead to a career.
For that, he's paid $200,660.04 a year – more than both other area superintendents.
Brunswick County Schools leader Edward Pruden makes $160,960, while Pender County Schools chief Terri Cobb makes $123,881. Markley's salary was set by the school board when he was hired in October 2010.
Last June, the school board extended his four-year contract through 2016 and gave him top ratings on his annual evaluation, saying then that Markley's "innovations and leadership are resulting in continuous facility, academic and staff improvement."
Since Markley has been superintendent, the schools' graduation rate has increased, while the dropout rate has fallen. Markley has dealt with three cycles of diminished budgets and closed, then reopened Virgo Middle School. He's put an emphasis on community input in the schools, starting the equity commission and business advisory council as a way to explain the importance of public education.
– Pressley Baird
Name: Marty Lawing
Title: Brunswick County manager
Salary: $175,862
Years in job: 12
It's unlikely Brunswick County's new manager will be brought in at the salary of outgoing manager Marty Lawing, according to commissioners.
Lawing is the highest-paid administrator in Southeastern North Carolina at $175,862, topping both Wilmington's and New Hanover County's managers' salaries.
"Marty (Lawing) has been a good administrator, and I am not trying to take away from that, but I really was a little gassed about how much he is paid," said Vice Commissioner Marty Cooke.
The goal for the new hire will be to set a line when talking about salary figures.
Chairman Phil Norris said it will be within a range being set by the county's salary study.
Commissioners called it looking at the position versus looking at the person.
"We are going to look at where they fall into our pay grade scale, and their level of experience," said Commissioner Frank Williams.
None of the commissioners would say what that amount could add up to be, but Cooke was vocal about the new manager's pay.
"If we are looking at the position, and if that is the case only, then I would submit we pay a lot of money for our county manager," he said. "We need to reassess."
Judicial system
Name: W. Allen Cobb
Job Title: Senior resident Superior Court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties in the Fifth Judicial District
Salary: $154,354
Years in job: 6
New Hanover County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge W. Allen Cobb makes $20,000 a year more than the lowest-paid judge in the county, and $5,000 more a year than the senior resident judge in Brunswick County.
Cobb's salary is set by the Current Operations Appropriations Act, which is the budget for the year.
As laid out in the N.C. General Statutes, a judge of the Superior Court shall receive the annual salary set forth in the Current Operations Appropriations Act.
In lieu of merit and other incremental raises paid to regular state employees, a judge of the Superior Court receives as longevity pay an annual amount equal to 4.8 percent of the annual salary. That's payable monthly after five years of service. After 10 years of service, judges receive a 9.6 percent increase; after 15 years of service, a 14.4 percent increase; a 19.2 percent after 20 years of service; and 24 percent after 25 years of service.
The senior resident Superior Court judge has the most seniority of the Superior Court judges in the district and is responsible for carrying out various administrative duties.
Superior Court judges rotate within divisions in North Carolina. There are three resident Superior Court judges in the Fifth District, which includes New Hanover and Pender counties.
– F.T. Norton
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Volleyball Sweeps Sacred Heart, Picks Up Ninth Win In EIVA Play
Sophomore Cody Kessel missed about a month of the season because of injury, but he appears to be rounding into form at the perfect time for the men's volleyball team.
Kessel followed Friday night's double-double at Harvard by recording 10 kills, four blocks and two digs in a 25-21, 25-18, 25-13 victory at Sacred Heart Saturday evening. He hit .409 for Princeton, which moved to 11-8 overall, 9-4 in EIVA play.
The win was especially important for Princeton as it continues to position itself for the EIVA postseason. The four teams for the EIVA postseason are set, as Penn State will serve as host for Princeton, Harvard and George Mason. Penn State will be the first seed, and George Mason will be in the opposite semifinal as the top-seeded Nittany Lions.
That leaves the two Ivy League programs battling for the final two spots. Princeton controls its own destiny; if the Tigers defeat Mason April 20 at Dillon Gym (4 pm), they will earn a rematch with the Patriots five days later at Rec Hall in State College. If Princeton loses that match and Harvard wins out, the Tigers will be the fourth seed and will play Penn State.
Princeton got seven kills and three blocks from senior captain Michael Dye, while junior Pat Schwagler added four kills, four digs and four blocks. Junior setter Davis Waddell had 30 assists, four digs, three kills and three blocks, while sophomore libero Tony Ensbury had a team-best eight digs.
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With more than a dozen air quality bills before the Legislature, you probably thought something might get passed to begin fixing the smog problem.
Wake up! With bills like SB139 from Wayne Harper Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Taylorsville, being introduced, the writing is on the wall—the Legislature is clueless, inept or worse. Considering Harper's bill would quadruple the fee to register a hybrid vehicle and triple the fee for a natural gas or electric vehicle, you've got to be wondering what those guys up there are thinking.
A 3,000-strong rally is apparently ignorable.
So, if you're tired of gagging on air muck and worring about the long-term health effects on your health, you might have to do something yourself. Start by moseying up the Hill after work Wednesday for Green Lobby Night. HEAL Utah will give you some tools.
* A summary of key bills upcoming this session
* Pointers on how to yank on the Legislature's levers of power (so to speak) through face-to-face lobbying, emails, phone calls, social media, paying golfing fees and sitting in on committee meetings (they hate that).
Wednesday (Feb. 12), 6:30 p.m.
Room 130, Utah State Capitol (the Capitol is that white dome north of downtown you can barely make out on bad-air days.)


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If downtown Concord, N.C., would have been Lancaster some years ago, we'd have been in trouble. Uncle Harry would have been standing before a judge trying to keep us from getting fined.
I don't know if you heard, but they announced Friday morning on the TV news that the elected folks in Concord voted down allowing chickens inside its city limits.
You know, there was a time when chickens and doughnuts shared a common bond in downtown Lancaster.
I'm about to explain it.
It's a given that I have a very healthy respect for boogers, hobgoblins and ordinary ghosts.
Since I'm now in southern Maryland a few days each month, I figured I oughta try to learn a little something about this place.
The town my granddaughter and her family now call home is Lexington Park.
A little bigger than Rock Hill, its name comes from the Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in World War II during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Heavens to Betsy, what was that? I only turned my head for a second when I heard the crash of something heavy on our kitchen floor.
My young great-grandson had managed to pull the "junk" drawer off its runners and bang, to the floor, it tumbled. What a mess.
That's probably happened at one time or another at every home in this county.
I'd wager that just about everybody has a junk drawer.
It's OK; we're supposed to have a place to store discarded stuff that will surely come in handy at some future time.
Remembering the past, unfortunately, isn't always as much fun as a wagon load of fresh cardboard and a hot backyard construction project just waiting for a young boy's touch.
There were some bad times, too, including jail time – that my father, the late Major Evans, saw more than I did when he was county sheriff.
To me, jail time has to be the worst. I know I don't want to experience any confinement first hand.
I'm sorta glad to see more folks hanging onto stuff and making the old new again these days.
For me, its a reminder of our backyard outbuildings concealed by hedge bushes and such.
Long before I arrived on the scene, homeowners had horse barns, wagon sheds, storage buildings and various shacks on their property.
But changing times brought on by automobiles meant that many of those old structures fell into disrepair.
However, I wasn't one to neglect anything.
For me, those old abandoned structures were a saw mill gold mine.
My sweet tooth was aching. Bless Pete, a big, old Buffalo nickel-sized Baby Ruth candy bar would surely ease the pain.
I wasn't financially embarrassed, but I was short on funds. All I had jingling in my pocket was three or four brownies.
I couldn't fight off the urge any longer. Mr. James Hinson's store was up the street past Mr. Hubbard's place, right across the street from Marion Tennant's.
I guess I had to settle for some penny candy bars.
The genuine metal storage building I recently put together is just about full.
You know, for some reason, I have trouble parting with a lot of my stuff.
I've always been that way, which is no big secret around our house.
After all, a man's toys are a man's toys and his plunder house is his castle.
Toys are like old friends.
We're supposed to hang on to them as long as we can.
My wife has been knowing that ever since she helped my parents pack and move from Chesterfield Avenue to Bell Town a number of years ago.
They called it a carnival. For me, it was more or less a county fair wannabe.
This small outfit popped into town during the lull of my summer vacation.
It only had about three or four rides and all of them were old, but it was something to do.
Rides aren't everything, I guess.
There was a midway sideshow featuring the dog-faced man, a fat woman and a fella who could swallow swords.
Why, they even had what one of the fellas called a "hootchy-kootchy show."
Uncle Walter grew tired of running a service station and decided to take up the cattle business.
He wasn't content to just raise a few head on his Highway 903 spread, either.
Uncle Walter was really into it; the two concrete silos you rode by going to the beach were proof. They were his.
Uncle Walter even hauled cows to the sales in Columbia and Mineral Springs on a regular basis.
You can get into trouble when you don't know the territory.
Two brothers who lived down the street, their cousin from Arch Street, and me had a fishing trip all figured out.
Now, this fishing hole boasted a right nice cabin where we could all spend the night.
The oldest member of our quartet did the driving and as planned, we arrived just before sundown.
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Neshama works at the Fairfax Library.
This is an official blog for the Marin County Free Library.
All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
This installment: a mess of an upper class wedding, a miracle baby washes up on shore, and small-town Canadian life is exposed through linked stories.
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
At first I resisted this book, but kept reading because I know weddings are glorious petri dishes for revealing folly. The milieu initially put me off: upper middle class WASPs who care deeply about their clubs-- those snooty, hidebound, sophomoric, exclusive bastions of testosterone. Wim belongs to Ophidian but seems to be blocked from Pequod, the New England golf club where he has a summer home on the island. His pregnant daughter Daphne is marrying a perfectly respectable young fellow, Grayson. But oh those brothers of his, oh those bridesmaids, and for that matter, oh those grandmothers, Oatie and Mopsy, who's always complaining about being cold. Then there's Aunt Celeste, much married, much "improved" with plastic surgery, and often pickled. Lust and longing spring forth: Wim for the darkly seductive bridesmaid Agatha, and Livia, Daphne's bitter older sister, for two of Grayson's brothers. A dead whale washes up on the beach. Many farcical, sometimes dangerous misadventures happen but the wedding proceeds. Along the way, scores are laid to rest and some bleak truths are acknowledged. So what I discovered: no matter what the class, the human comedy is endlessly fascinating and entertaining
The Light Between Oceans: a novel by M. L. Stedman
Tom returns from Gallipoli to Australia. He has psychic scars from being a survivor when many of his mates were killed in battle and earlier from a mother who ran off when he was young. He and spirited Isobel take up, mostly through her urging, and start their life together on Jones Island where he's the lighthouse keeper. Izzy has miscarriages but then a miracle: a baby washes up in a dingy, alive, though the man with her is dead. They know it's not right but Izzy's so rapturous, the baby's so needy, and Tom loves his wife so much that they don't report the event and bring up the little girl as their own with great joy. The reckoning comes 4 years later, with incredible moral tangles and grave consequences. Utterly intense, thoughtful storytelling.
Juliet in August by Diane Warren
A mythical small town in rural Saskatchewan on the edge of sand dunes. We get to know many of the citizens in the course of one day in these linked stories. A farmer, Blaine, on the edge of bankruptcy; a banker, Norval, haunted by all those going under financially; a young man, Lee, who finds an Arabian horse on the loose and ends up replicating the 100 mile ride two cowboys undertook as a contest years ago. Blaine's wife, Vickie, 5 children in tow, gets into misadventures galore. Norval's wife, Lily, wants the perfect wedding for her knocked up daughter, Rochelle. Willard runs the town's drive in and shares a house with his widowed sister-in-law, Marian, clueless that she loves him. I enjoyed dropping into this small world and watching the dramas, large and small, play out. Warren treats her characters with great affection and they exhibit a combination of dignity and absurdity in varying proportions.
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Music needs to remain in schools
Published: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 2:06 p.m.
Music is a safe and fluid way to express, manage and control your emotions. Through singing, playing an instrument or even just listening to a certain song, your day can start off great or turn into a great day.
There's something in the melody, harmony and many other tiny but important aspects in music that make it so complex and beautiful to listen to. It's even more amazing learning every aspect and every detail involved in music.
I am involved in my church choir and my school choir. My church choir gave me a great start in learning music and its basics. Then inside my school choir I've learned the more complex side of music.
Getting to my point, music is such a wonderful thing to learn, but sadly some students can't learn music inside of school. The economy is tough; we all understand that. We also understand that cuts are going to have to be made in schools. Music is one of them.
Since some administrators don't see music as something "progressive," they decide to cut the music program to gain a little bit of money for the school. Yet little do they know how helpful music truly is and has become for many students.
According to Olivia Houck's Preparatory High School, 88 percent of Americans believe that participation in music helps teach children discipline. I speak from experience. It truly does help in discipline, and discipline is a major problem in schools these days.
Joshua Lopez is a student at North Davidson High School.
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Sullivan College of Technology & Design
It is the education philosophy of Sullivan College of Technology and Design to create an atmosphere of creative challenge for each student. The awakening of a desire to design to create and to develop is one of our major goals. In the pursuit of these goals students are challenged to develop their individual abilities and social responsibilities. The technical knowledge and skills obtained are blended with studies leading to an understanding of human beings and their relationship to the technical and design world around them. Surrounding all these objectives is the central goal of Sullivan College of Technology and Design: to train students for secure and financially rewarding careers to help them attain growth within these positions and to benefit society with the skills developed at the College. Beginning with the admission process each student is encouraged to develop within his or her individual capacities the highest degree of technical curiosity competence and social responsibility.
School Information3901 Atkinson Square Dr
Louisville, Kentucky 40218
Locale: Suburb: Large
Open Admissions: Yes
Sector: Private for-profit, 4-year or above
Carnegie Basic: Schools of art, music, and design
Religious Affiliation: Not applicable
Accrediting Agency: Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools
Common name(s): Known as Louisville Technical Institute prior to July, 2009
Students & Faculty
- 1,016Total Students
- 716Male Students
- 300Female Students
- 102Total Faculty
- 66Male Faculty
- 36Female Faculty
- 10:1Student/Fac Ratio
Tuition Information
Out of State Tuition
Books & Supplies
Room & Board
Other Expenses
total applicants
admitted (264)
enrolled (177)
Other Requirements:
Degrees & Programs
|Architectural Drafting and Architectural CAD/CADD
|Civil Drafting and Civil Engineering CAD/CADD
|Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
|Computer Engineering Technology/Technician
|Computer Graphics
|Drafting and Design Technology/Technician, General
|Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering Technology/
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|Manufacturing Engineering Technology/Technician
|Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD
|Network and System Administration/Administrator
|Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design


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"*Please ignore the audio quality / comfort / design / isolation / value sliders for this review. As far as I can tell, they seem broken* This is a universal in-ear monitor with a two balanced armature drivers and a dynamic driver. This earphone costs $1250 IEM with a cable that costs about $800, or as a package together, about $1400. I'm part of an Australian listening tour for this..." --a_recording
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"To actually be able to wear the G430, I have to actually place the entire right earcup behind my right ear, so I might as well be using a mono headset, it's very uncomfortable to wear normally. Mic directionality is pretty crappy (it picks up my roommate sitting over 10 feet away from me), at least compared to the g930 (which didn't). If the in-line volume is over 75% and the mic isn't..." --themastercheif
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This headset delivers a fast wireless connection so you can level up without being tied down. Add 7.1 surround sound, three programmable G-keys and a comfortable, adjustable fit and you've got everything you need to win. Features 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity Designed for a lag-free, interference-resistant connection with a range up to 40 feet (12 meters)*-so nothing stands...
981-000116 - G35 Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound USB Over Ear PC Gaming Headset with Noise Cancelling Mic
Victory never sounded so good, thanks to game-changing 7.1 surround sound powered by Dolby. Hear your enemy Explosions, footsteps, incoming fire, passing vehicles, team-member commands-you hear it all as if you were there. Combat comfort Marathon sessions, here you come-three swappable headband pads help you stay comfortable. In command With three programmable G-keys,...