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Q: How do I contest a parking ticket?
A: To contest a ticket by court appearance, please call (434) 455-4045.
Q: How much are parking fines?
A: An overtime parking fine is $20; Prohibited parking is $30.
Q: How much is a residential parking permit for residents of downtown?
A: A residential parking permit is $25 per month for the first vehicle; $50 per month for the second vehicle; permit is for parking 24/7 in City-owned parking facilities.
Q: How much are monthly parking permits for City owned parking facilities?
A: Parking deck rates are $50 per month. Surface lots are $40.00 per month.
Q: Where can I apply for residential parking permit?
A: An application for residential parking off-street in the CBD is available on this website. Once the application is completed it may be taken to the Parking Management Office located on the 3rd floor in City Hall.
Q: What other types of parking permits are available?
A: Construction parking and construction dumpster parking permits are available. They are issued by the City's Inspection Division.
Q: How do I rent a parking space in the Mid-town Parking Deck?
A: Parking spaces are rented by the month in City parking facilities. If you wish to rent a parking space in the Midtown Parking Deck you will need to complete a Parking Permit Application and take it to the Parking Management Office located on the 3rd floor in City Hall.
Q: What happens to the revenue that is collected from parking fees and fines?
A: All revenue generated from parking downtown provides funding for the management and operation of parking facilities; maintenance, security, streetscape improvements, and other downtown amenities.
Q: Where can I not park?
- On a sidewalk or city trail
- In front of a public or private driveway
- Within an intersection or traveled way
- Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant
- On a crosswalk
- Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection
- Within thirty (30) feet of any flashing beacon, stop or yield sign or traffic-control signal located on the side of a roadway
- Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad grade crossing
- Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of the entrance
- Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when parking obstructs traffic
- On the roadway side of any vehicle parked at the edge or curb of a street
- Upon any bridge or other elevated structure
- Where official signs and/or pavement markings prohibit parking
- Between the street curb, or the edge of the paved portion of the roadway when there is no street curb, and the adjacent sidewalk
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McMillen Fine Art Gallery Grand Opening
McMillen Fine Art Photography, 1678 W. Redstone Center Dr., Suite 120, at Kimball Junction, will host a grand opening on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. The gallery is owned by Jared and Trish McMillen. For more information, visit www.mcmillenfineart.com.
Utah Film Center Tumbleweeds Program
The Utah Film Center Tumbleweeds program will collaborate with the Park City Film Series to bring in a free screening of "Kids Flix Mix," a collection of short films and animation for children on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. The film, which runs one hour, is rated PG and features works from around the world. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.parkcityfilmseries.com.
Toastmasters Meeting at the Sheldon Richins Building
The Park City Toastmasters meet each Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. in the Sheldon Richins Building, 1885 Ute Blvd., at Kimball Junction.
Park City Bridge Club
Park City Bridge Club offers weekly social bridge sessions to Park City visitors and residents every Wednesday at the Park City Senior Center, 1361 Woodside Ave. from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Beginners who have completed lessons and more experienced players are invited. There are no age restrictions. For more information, visit www.parkcitybridge.com or call (435) 615-1417.

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Rated 5 out of 5 by PamCB Best Smelling and Best Value Wonderful scents (except the rose--I don't like it). Exotic. Lingering. I love these incense fragrances and will definitely buy them again. Oh, and you get so many sticks for the low price. May 1, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by littlegems This incense is awesome! My whole family loves this incense. My husband requests it as a gift at every occasion he can possibly squeeze a gift out of. Mainly because my kids come and steal the incense from the box all the time. We all love to burn it, so the whole house smells so good all the time. You just can't beat this for quality and value both. January 14, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by ofl53 Better than expected Very fresh with great smell and packaging-Will order agin September 25, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by BlahBlah WOW My daughter-in-law who live in Minneapolis sent me a box of these. Good grief I loved them! Ordered some off this site. The fragrance is wonderful. BTW, I live in Pittsburgh PA and whish we had this store. May 23, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by IanM Long-Lasting, Old-Fashioned Scents? Not sure if these are more traditional scents, but I am impressed enough by half a stick to write up a review. For $5 you really get your money's worth with these. It only takes half a stick to burn for three rooms or so to be covered all day and into the next day, no doubt. I've so far tried Lotus, but I think I'll continue one scent at a time. Pine seems interesting to me, as do several others. The scent is strong and long-lasting, but to me, incense has to make you feel good, and that means no headaches. You might find other incense to have a type of perfume that is nauseating with a sharp headache. This incense doesn't have that effect at all. It is very smooth, and I notice the scent time and again throughout the day without sinus getting in the way. I am very happy with the purchase, but I am disappointed only that I cannot remember using these 10 or 12 years ago when I worked at World Market and became confident in my purchases there. Hi to N Broadway! March 15, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by mozartslivingroom Great price for good incense I really enjoyed these. The variety is awesome and getting to try the different scents is fun. I will buy them again. October 22, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by TheCityMouse Not Very Good :-( I bought this collection instead of my old faithful Nag Champa because of the price point and the number of sticks included. While they are authentic, they are SMOKY, terribly smoky! I have burned each scent and have found that the sandalwood is the smokiest of all. While I do not necessarily dislike the fragrances, the smoky aspect is a deal breaker for me and I shall not be buying this variety again. I shall go back to Nag Champa instead. September 6, 2013
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Orange Cream Cheesecake RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 package (3 ounces) orange gelatin
- 3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1-1/4 cups sugar
- 1 can (5 ounces) evaporated milk
- 1/3 cup thawed orange juice concentrate
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 2 tablespoons boiling water
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 2 cups whipped topping
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Citrus fruits and lemon balm, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the cracker crumbs, cinnamon, orange peel and butter. Press onto the bottom of a greased 10-in. springform pan. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Prepare orange gelatin according to package directions. Set aside 1/2 cup at room temperature. Chill remaining gelatin until slightly thickened, 40-60 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the milk, orange juice concentrate, lemon juice and vanilla. Beat on medium-high speed 2 minutes longer.
- In a small bowl, sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold water; let stand for 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water until gelatin is completely dissolved. Stir into the room-temperature orange gelatin. Stir into cream cheese mixture, then fold in whipped topping. Pour into crust.
- For topping, in a large bowl, beat whipped topping and sugar. Beat in refrigerated orange gelatin (mixture will be thin). Chill for 30 minutes. Gently spoon over filling (pan will be full). Refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight. Remove sides of pan. Garnish with fruit and lemon balm if desired. Yield: 10-12 servings.
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Reviews for Orange Cream Cheesecake
"I came to TOH to find out which issue this recipe is in because our family is planning a "We're All Depressed Because of All the Horrible Things That Are Happening to Us," celebration this Sunday, & this was the dessert that's been requested. This is one of our all-time favorite desserts, so everyone NEEDS it right now. Easy to make, a little time consuming, but well-worth every minute! We have 6 kids, ages 16-28, & this has been a "go to" recipe since I first made it when it came out in the April 2002 issue."
"We LOVE this cheesecake. Great for Easter dessert."
"I love the taste but it's not an easy recipe."
"I've received rave reviews each time I've made this. It was such a hit at a huge gathering - over 300 people, folks were waiting at my empty dish to pin me down for the recipe - I had dropped it off and left. I agree, adding gelatin to both topping gives it more body. I also added some orange powder breakfast ( tang) - 1 tbs -mix to the last topping to give it more zing - I've made this with lime jello as well as raspberry. I've also made it with a layer of lime and a top layer of orange - you can also make it rainbow by dividing the first layer in half using raspberry, lime to make two layers instead of one - you need to allow "each" layer to set up by refrigerating the layer for at least 30 minutes, then add the top with the original orange. This not only taste good but is very pretty. I've also done a marble cheese cake which is very lovely - just add the layers random by spoon, then swirl with a knife. The key is to allow this all to set for at least 8 hours. Best recipe I've ever had for cheese cake."
"I made this for a family gathering and it was a hit. I baked the crust for 10 minutes at 350 and I omitted the evaporated milk"


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The LGBT Resource Center (LGBT RC) (est. 2005) provides support, education, and advocacy for LGBTQ and Ally undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Southern California. LGBT RC also provides resources and referrals, such as information about neighboring LGBTQ support services, to all campus members.
Join the Queer Rising Retreat
From November 20-21, the LGBT Resource Center is hosting a retreat for USC students at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul overlooking Echo Park Lake. Open to both graduate and undergraduate students, the retreat will be a mixture of workshops and discussion that explore the theme of the queer experience across time. The retreat also Read more
Minor in LGBTQ Studies at USC
Beginning in Fall 2015, USC students can minor in LGBTQ Studies! Read about it in the Daily Trojan.
Los Angeles Rally for SCOTUS Decision
Rally in WeHo for the SCOTUS decision on Marriage Equality – June 29th /30th. Details here.


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Advent candles in October? Wait a minute? Christmas is still 2 1/2 months away!
Now I know it is just the beginning of October, but given the fact that mail to our sponsored children can take 2 to 3 months, now is the time to find and pin some creative Christmas items to make and send to our sponsored children this year.
Print out these Bible verse ornaments on card stock for your sponsored child. To make them a little more durable, laminate them or cover them with clear contact paper.
Get your kids and family involved with this one! Have different family members use their hand print for the camels. Just make sure your paper is no longer than 8 1/2 by 11 inches.
How about a few questions to ask your sponsored child about Christmas?
- How do you celebrate Christmas with your family?
- What special Christmas traditions are there in your country?
- Do you have a favorite Christmas song?
- Do you prefer to give gifts or receive them?
- What is your favorite Christmas memory?
Have you joined our Second Friday Writing Club on Pinterest? If not, be sure to leave the URL for your Pinterest profile in a comment below, and I will add you to our growing group of "pinners"!
I would love for you to join us in finding wonderful projects and ideas to share with our sponsored children each month.


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In 1997, Sarah Michelle Gellar was an ambitious, superorganized actress fresh out of her teens. She could pull a pager, a flip phone and a personal digital assistant from her purse and multitask her way through lunch, simultaneously eating, fielding interview questions and keeping her career on track. "A 40-year-old in a 17-year-old's body" is how one of her friends described her back then.
More than a decade and a half later, Gellar, 36, finds herself at a different stage of life. She's been married for 11 years to film and television actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That; 24), with whom she has two kids—Charlotte, four, and Rocky, one—and the passage of time has loosened her up. "I'm getting younger, actually," says Gellar, sitting in an L.A. restaurant dressed in ripped gray jeans, a Rebecca Taylor knit blouse and sparkly Chanel flats. "I think I'm goofier now." She points to that morning, when a bomb scare in the building across the street prompted an evacuation that interrupted the More photo shoot. Upon hearing the news, the Gellar of yesteryear would probably have placed a follow-up call to 911, quickly sketched out an escape route on the back of a napkin, then led everyone to safety. The new SMG? She decided it was cocktail time. "I was like, 'Let's go have Bloody Marys!' I would never have said that—even when I was 22!"
She has a good explanation for her premature maturity. "I had a big load on my shoulders," says Gellar, who made her acting debut at age four in a TV movie, An Invasion of Privacy, and hasn't stopped working since. By the mid-'90s, she'd won a Daytime Emmy for her role on the soap All My Children. Then, at age 18, she landed the part that would make her an international star: the demon-battling high school student on Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Recently ranked number eight on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows Ever, Buffy was both a dream job and a punishing gig for Gellar. The show demanded constant night shoots—you don't slaughter the undead in the light of day—as well as chunks of time devoted to memorizing smart, slang-filled dialogue. "It was a cultural phenomenon, but the hours were insane," she says. "I could barely make it home to bed." When cast and crew were pushed to their limit, she functioned as their protector. "Sarah, because she was the star, was one of the few people who could actually stand up for everyone else," says longtime pal and Buffy costar Seth Green.
When Gellar bumped into her Buffy love interest, David Boreanaz, while both were vacationing in Newport Beach, California, it didn't surprise him that one of the first things she mentioned about her new CBS show, The Crazy Ones, was how happy she was with the easier shooting schedule. He says one thing about Gellar that hasn't changed since their Buffy days is her vivacity: "She doesn't stop talking. She's just like that. She'll just go on and on about anything."
The star's love of conversation should serve her well on The Crazy Ones. Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, The Practice), it's a workplace comedy about Sydney Roberts (Gellar), co-owner of the Chicago-based Roberts & Roberts advertising agency, which she runs with her successful but eccentric dad, Simon, played by world-class chatterbox and comedy legend Robin Williams. "Blown away by her talent" is how Williams put it when asked what working with Gellar was like. "I'm excited for people to see just how funny she is."
In the opening of the series, Sydney and agency colleague Andrew (Hamish Linklater) are in the midst of a scene that Gellar didn't have to think too hard about: They're coaching a string of pint-size actors as they audition for a commercial—a process she went through as a child. But it's only since becoming a mother, she says, that she has felt fully confident exploring a father-daughter dynamic in front of the cameras. "I didn't really have a relationship with my father when I was growing up," says Gellar, whose parents divorced before she was 10 and who was raised on New York's Upper East Side by her mother, Rosellen, a nursery school teacher. (Sarah was still estranged from her father, Arthur Gellar, a garment worker, at the time of his death in 2001.) "But now I can base my role on seeing my husband and daughter together. I understand that bond. I see the pride when he looks at her and the love she has when she looks at him."
Linklater, who plays the agency's art director, says Williams and Gellar fall easily into their roles: "They have a similar sense of humor. She speaks incredibly rapidly, and so does he. You imagine the two of them around the breakfast table as father and daughter and no one getting a word in edgewise."
Part of the appeal of The Crazy Ones for Gellar was that she could remind the public that she's not a comedy newbie; not only did she deliver those wry Buffy lines, but she has also hosted Saturday Night Live three times. She's always been great at squeezing laughs out of an ordinary moment. Today, for example, when the restaurant music suddenly gets very loud, she calls out to a bespectacled man in a pinstripe suit, "Do you think you can lower that a bit?" He obediently trots over to the sound system, and Gellar says, deadpan, "I really hope he works here."
But The Crazy Ones also appealed to her because taking a job for the first time since giving birth to Rocky didn't mean she had to sacrifice parenting. "In the pilot, I'm in every scene but one," she says, "yet I was either with my kids in the morning or there to put them to bed every night we shot." Intent on raising their children themselves, Gellar and Prinze try not to be employed at the same time—though occasionally they make exceptions, as they did for Prinze's recent multi-episode arc as a CIA agent on the Fox series Bones. (The idea was broached by Bones star Boreanaz during their chance Newport Beach meeting.)
Prinze was a teen heartthrob when the two met in 1997 on the set of the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer, and they started out as just pals. It wasn't until three years later, says Gellar, that things got romantic: "We hadn't seen each other in a while, and we were catching up over dinner and it just felt different." In 2002 they were married in a small nondenominational ceremony at a luxury resort in Jalisco, Mexico. Perhaps because they were raised in -single-parent households—Prinze was 10 months old when his famous father, who starred in the sitcom Chico and the Man, died, an apparent suicide—they both seem clear-eyed about marriage. "We work at it," says Gellar, emphasizing the importance of having "a separate life. I always say I'm Sarah Michelle Gellar when I work and I'm Sarah Prinze in the other life." Though the Prinzes' union has "had its ups and downs," she says, it remains strong: "I don't know if there's a secret—if I had a secret, I'd write a book and retire. But we talk. We check in."
As evidence, she proffers her iPhone to display a photo she sent Prinze from the More shoot in which she stands dressed in Eres tap pants, black bra, gauzy Dsquared2 white blouse and Jimmy Choo spike heels. "He sent this back to me," says Gellar, laughing at Prinze's response to her sexy text: a cute snapshot he'd just taken of daughter Charlotte standing on a red restaurant banquette doing her best four-year-old riff on Mom's kittenish pose.
When Gellar was six months pregnant with Charlotte, she spoke to a friend about joining a mommy support group. She thought she was just prepping for parenthood, but as it turned out, she learned a great deal more. "It's very hard to go into situations where people know a lot about you and you don't know anything about them," says Gellar, who instantly clicked with the other women, all first-time mothers. "This is the first group I could join where I felt like I was on the same playing field. When we talked about sleeping or feeding or any of those things, my situation was no different from theirs. It was very freeing for me."
Four years later, Gellar and the group are still tight, meeting for dinner once a month. "It starts out quiet and gets loud," says one of the gang, talent manager Lainie Sorkin Becky. She and Gellar bonded during 3 a.m. gab-by-text fests while they were pumping milk, laughing ruefully about what it's like for two perfectionists to confront howling infants, dirty diapers and toy-strewn living rooms. "The type A mothers have the steepest learning curve," says Becky, adding that Gellar is the group's nurturing, energetic ringleader, organizing museum outings and scheduling swim lessons in her backyard pool.
Like all other conscientious celebrity mothers, Gellar worries about her children growing up in an environment where strangers sometimes intrude on their privacy. "I just want them to be happy, to enjoy life, to be good people," she says. Charlotte and Rocky have never seen any of their parents' film and TV work, not even the kiddie favorite in which the couple costarred, Scooby-Doo. They have been on set and watched Gellar getting her hair and makeup done, but even so, she says, "Charlotte doesn't know what I do for a living."
Post-Buffy, Gellar's career has included a kaleidoscope of projects, successful and not. She filmed a pilot for HBO that never went to series and has appeared in more than eight movies, including the hit remake of a Japanese horror film, The Grudge, which spawned a sequel, and Southland Tales, an indie famously booed at Cannes, although a New York Times review praised Gellar for giving her role "dignity and melancholic soul." In 2011 she was executive producer of the CW series Ringer, in which she played identical twins; it was canceled after one season.
Recently, Gellar caused a stir in the press by suggesting that she and Whedon would be interested in making a Buffy movie. But the truth is, she doesn't seem nostalgic for that lost, magical time. Asked if she dreams of Buffy at night, she answers at once: "No. I'm the parent of two. I sleep hard and fast."
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My number-one rule when striving to achieve MORE is . . .
To just have fun. I've already accomplished more than I ever thought I would. Everything else feels like gravy.
I wish I had MORE time for. . .
Me time. If I have extra time, I want to be with my kids. I still have that mom guilt. I haven't had a facial since my first child was born.
What do you appreciate MOREas you age?
How good my life is. I focus less on the bad.
MORE women should. . .
Go on female dates—girl dates with your friends to recharge.
What's MORE terrifying than failure?
We look at failure as a bad thing, but if failure is a learning experience, then it makes you a better person. Don't be so afraid of that word. Instead of "That failed," how about "That didn't work"?
MORE women seek to age gracefully. What's your advice?
I'm trying to take care of myself. It's funny: I just discovered Oil of Olay, and I was like, Oh, wow. That's why it's been around all these years. It's awesome!
Describe a moment from your past that you wish you could do one MORE time.
Sometimes at night when I can't sleep, I think about giving birth to my children. I like reliving that moment when they hand you your baby.
Margy Rochlin profiled Angie Harmon in the September issue of More.
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Factory Workers at Risk from Formaldehyde
According to a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, factory workers exposed to high levels of formaldehyde are more likely to die from cancer. Data on 14,000 deaths among people who worked at facilities manufacturing formaldehyde revealed a 37% higher risk of death from blood and lymphatic cancers. Many preservatives are made with formaldehyde and have been implicated in the unusual rate of leukemia deaths in pathologists; via The New York Times.
In February, researchers discovered female employees working around organic solvents containing formaldehyde had a 30% greater risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. And pesticides, like those used on farms and for hobby-gardening, may heighten the risk of Parkinson's disease.
Now, you got to be careful around chemicals, especially kids. Dr. Fuhrman insists it's the parents' responsibility to maintain a chemical-free environment for their children.
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Feb. 16 Public Record
Published: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 6:52 p.m.
The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Steven Eugene Snider, 32, of 1028 Garner Drive, Denton, was charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny, first-degree trespass enter/remain on premises and felony obtaining property by false pretense, $15,000 secured bond, March 14.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• A Bobcat mini excavator breaker and Bobcat forks valued at $9,000 were reported stolen from behind a building on LFI Complex Lane between Feb. 8 and 2:49 p.m. Thursday.
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Elizabeth Wilson, RN, BSN, OCN, MSN, FNP-BC, an oncology family nurse practitioner, has been honored with Beebe Medical Center's employee You Make a Difference Award for September.
Liz sees patients in the hospital and at Tunnell Cancer Center. Beebe's Medical staff says that Liz continues to provide the best support for families who have loved ones dying of cancer. They say she helps to navigate them through the emotional process, providing them with choices, along with oncology-related care.
Liz is a graduate of Beebe Medical School of Nursing and has been a nurse at Tunnell Cancer Center for eight years. She earned her family nurse practitioner certification in 2011.
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In King Arthur Henry Purcell lets the world freeze, humanity loses its way and sings ecstatically of nationalism. A hundred years after the start of the First World War the director Paul Koek and the librettist Peter Verhelst place the music of Purcell in a contemporary setting. A blind woman wanders through the battlefield looking for her beloved. She is accompanied by a woman who describes for her what she cannot see, whilst Arthur, the little boy of the latter, dreams of going to war. The music and melodies of Purcell react with the situation to add an emotional depth: a glimmer of beauty that lights up the darkness.
Following on from Medea and Moby Dick, this is the third collaboration between the Dutch musical theatre director, Paul Koek and the Belgian writer, Peter Verhelst.
Paul Koek: Peter Verhelst was introduced with the arrival of the dramatist Paul Slangenat at the Veenfabriek. For sure, I already knew Peter at the time of Hollandia, but I had never worked with him before. During his years at NTGent Paul had linked up with Peter and he was convinced that we should get together. Peter Verhelst is a writer who I get a lot from. In his writing, virtually every sentence evokes an image, and that works really well when transferred to the stage. It's agreed that they should therefore be as beautiful as possible. This allows me to have a truly musical approach: even if I wanted to it would be impossible to just settle for a simple musical illustration of the text. Peter moves on too quickly for that, as much on the level of images as of perspective. And that's where the difficulty lies: Peter truly follows his own path: the only way to manage it is to trust him. In general I am happy with one or two discussions then to let Peter produce a text in conjunction with my dramatist. I find this an excellent way to work. Not to spend too much time on the form it has to take but to confront what another has imagined and developed. That allows me the latitude afterwards to treat it with great freedom. I believe that Peter totally approves of that approach.
Peter Verhelst: Absolutely! I know that my way of writing can make life difficult for Paul and his actors. My texts are constructions that are totally interwoven. To find your way through this material is not easy. But, every time, Paul Koek comes out of it brilliantly, thanks to which Paul Slagen and his actors and musicians can do what they want. At the same time his musical approach is the ideal key. The application of musical principles such as rhythm and melody is a technique that confers a maximum of grandeur and clarity to the entire world that is hidden in my writing. As a result the emphasis is less on the character and more on what he represents. To come to the content, I love working with Paul Slangen. We get together and discuss the different angles for possibly attacking the material – the philosophical, historical and political dimensions. Then I write isolated fragments which we then integrate in a structure. I am not a typical writer for the theatre: I don't really believe in dialogues but rather in monologues. I believe in language. To create a situation or a connection between the characters on stage, I leave that largely to the dramatist. Then I can concentrate on what makes them react in their heart of hearts, what moves them and what they understand of the world, as much in their interior body as their exterior body. For me the theatre is less about a place where you have to tell a story but more about a place where human experience can be shared and understood; another reason why I like working with Paul Koek. The music allows us to directly transform the lived experience into metaphor. For the mystery of man is and remains that, most often, he finds himself face to face with 'the other' when through language he could share experiences with this other. In this way I try to do with language what Paul does with sounds: I get under the skin of people and lead them to discover themselves through the intervention of 'the other', the one that is on stage.
The Baroque Orchestra B'Rock was born out of a wish to renew and rejuvenate the world of early music.
PK: Yes and the music of Purcell's King Arthur is ideally suited to it. In the beginning I thought it would be necessary to add another type of musical material in order to include more laments in the production. But, with the conductor of the orchestra, George Petrou, we came to the conclusion that the music composed by Purcell is so rich that King Arthur gives us plenty of possible variations that are more than capable of touching people's deepest emotions. In my eyes, B'Rock is the ideal ensemble to take on this challenge, because it was born out of a wish to renew and rejuvenate the world of early music. It is comprised of exceptional musicians, ambitious and sufficiently confident in their abilities to dare to improvise within the limits of baroque music. Since its creation in 2005, they have undoubtedly proved their worth. They have already been involved in a production at la Monnaie during the 2011-2012 season: Orlando under the musical direction of René Jacobs. They received many plaudits for this collaboration. The act of starting with the individual – something Peter can do better than anyone else – was a blessing for me in the case of Arthur. Guy Coolen, of Transparant, asked me to create a piece for musical theatre about the First World War with King Arthur as my starting point. But I wasn't very taken with the idea of finding myself in the trenches. Not because of a lack of interest, but because I was convinced that I could never truly understand what those millions of men had to endure. And anyway the idea that all those men would have experienced the same tragedy in an identical way seemed to me highly unlikely. Without realising it we would reduce each victim to an anonymous individual who was sent to his death 100 years ago. We therefore had to find a way to render it more personal and understandable; find a way to set up someone who is no longer of this world as a of symbol of the millions of men who lost their lives. Paradoxically this led me to the libretto of King Arthur where blind Emmeline wanders in a landscape which has become foreign to her. A dramatic image. When I learnt later that 53 different nationalities, men from all the colonies, fought around Ypres, everything fell into place. We can only grasp the inconceivable nature of the war through the incredulity which overwhelms us when we are confronted with the results. My making this blind African woman wander through the battlefield looking for the mortal remains of her husband fallen in battle, in the company of a woman and her son from that area, we are able to evoke the overwhelming nature of the disaster through the personal sorrow of two survivors.
PV: Something totally different but it is related: when I was a little boy I saw pictures of a famine in the Sahel region, it was like a bomb exploding; I realised that everyone of us, wherever we are in the world, feels the ground slipping from beneath his/her feet when he or she loses someone dear to them… even in Africa where people face death on a daily basis. Maybe it's stupid but this awful idea, that everyone who loved one of these men who disappeared – ( How many was it again? Five hundred thousand in Flanders alone during the First World War?) was overwhelmed by grief because of these deaths – it is a truth that is difficult to live with. It is, above all else, this which interests me in Arthur, this immense grief. This grief after loss. This emptiness that will never completely heal. This appalling small battle which has nothing, really nothing, to do with armies, generals or nationalism. This universal dimension of the little man. So nothing heroic, the opposite of heroism: the gut-wrenching tears of all those who lost someone during the First World War. And in stark contrast with this: nature which returns to life in spite of everything, even if it is with wounds – hills created by the impact of a bomb, bombs still hidden in the soil; it doesn't stop the flowers and trees from growing and the birds from returning. A consolation.
Interview by Paul Slangen


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Thanksgiving travel to rise about 4 percent, AAA says
For the second year in a row, Thanksgiving travel is expected to rise, travel group AAA predicted on Thursday.
Nationwide, the number of people traveling 50 miles or more for the Thanksgiving holiday is projected to increase by 4 percent to exceed 42.5 million this year, with about 90 percent of those people traveling by car.
In Florida, where the economy has been harder hit than the U.S. average, travel will grow at a slower rate: up by 3.6 percent to 2.2 million people, with 2 million traveling by car, AAA said.
Rising airfares and cutbacks in seating capacity on planes will limit the growth of travel by plane during this Thanksgiving holiday between Wednesday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. 27, AAA said.
Nationwide, roughly 3.4 million people are expected to fly this year, up 1.8 percent. The number flying from Florida will rise at a slower rate: up 1.4 percent to reach 157,000, the group predicted.
Thanksgiving airfares are expected to be 20 percent higher than last year, with an average lowest round-trip rate of $212 for the top 40 U.S. air routes, AAA said in a statement.
Rates for U.S. mid-range hotels are projected to be 6 percent more expensive than last year, with travelers spending an average of $145 per night, the group said.
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News: Season Preview: Youthful Women's Water Polo Launches Into Play
The first thing that stands out on the 2013 Pasadena City College women's water polo roster is the fact it contains 10 freshmen and its only returning sophomore was a reserve last season. So, head coach Terry Stoddard knows his 15th season in charge of the Lancers will involve more teaching than just coaching.
"We're looking to letterman Mariana Silva to lead and teach the freshmen our PCC system," Stoddard said. "We have a good team in the making, but it will take time for the freshmen to learn collegiate water polo. I'm excited about this group because we have a chance to mold them into a cohesive unit."
Silva, a top driver on the squad, is a product of Roosevelt High.
Incoming center-forward Stephanie Velasco was the leading scorer for two-time, Los Angeles City Section CIF champion Eagle Rock High.
Scarlett Bonilla, from Montebello High, has a strong shot and is a disciplined playmaker, according to Stoddard. Another top player should be Caroline Liu, who scored a team-leading 20 goals and added 23 steals for Mark Keppel High as an All-Almont League selection.
The rest of the PCC roster is made up of new goalie Alenoush Aslanin (Glendale High, played three seasons there), utility player Jazmine Hernandez (Alhambra High), winger Camille Saurenman (Pasadena High), utility player Katherine Kleinschmidt (Reseda HS), and players in their first year competing in the sport in driver Adriane Krawinkel (who attended Lycee Francais de Palma, a french school in Spain), winger Kendall Delgado (International Polytechnic High, Pomona), and driver Connie Peng (Arcadia High).
Stoddard has brought in one of his former men's swimmers in Cario Liu to be an assistant coach.
PCC began both the South Coast Conference schedule and its home game slate Wednesday by playing back-to-back matches against Rio Hondo and East Los Angeles Colleges. Unfortunately for the Lancers, Rio Hondo downed them, 16-6, and the brand new Huskies squad edged the Lancers, 10-9, in matches at the PCC Aquatic Center.
Against Rio Hondo, Bonilla, Hernandez, and Silva all scored two goals each while Aslanin made five saves defending the PCC goal. For Rio Hondo, Kelci Carcamo was a one-woman machine with 10 goals and numerous strong counter plays.
The game against the Huskies came down to the final quarter. The Lancers led, 4-3, after one period and were tied, 7-7, after three quarters. In the final period, Liu connected on her first collegiate goal with just 3:48 left to tie it 9-9. But 14 seconds later, ELAC would net the winning goal when Veronica Orantes broke through the middle of the PCC defense and scored her fifth goal of the match.
Bonilla scored four goals while Velasco and Hernandez tallied two a piece. Aslanin made three saves.
PCC will participate in the El Camino College Mini Tournament on Friday, Sept. 20. The Lancers face host El Camino at 12 noon, then take on Santa Monica College at 2:20 p.m. On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the Lancers resume conference play when they travel to face Long Beach City College for a 3 p.m. match.
[Photo--Lancer freshman Scarlett Bonilla ready to fire a shot during PCC's season opener Wednesday at the Aquatic Center, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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It is amazing to realize that Park City's first inpatient facility since the Miners Hospital closed in the early 1960s is just three years old. Many Parkites and visitors already take it for granted. In fact, it is hard to imagine that, just a few years ago, having surgery or delivering a baby in Summit County wasn't possible (except in an emergency).
In that time, the facility has progressively expanded its services and is now about to break ground on an intensive care unit. In the meantime, the hospital already boasts an array of services including preventive screening and wellness programs, a 24-hour emergency room, a nationally ranked orthopedic clinic and women's center.
Initially there was a great deal of skepticism about whether Park City's medical needs could sustain a hospital, particularly one within an hour's drive of a major city. There were also concerns about how Intermountain Healthcare, one of the West's largest health-care providers, would fit in with the city's existing medical professionals.
But thanks to a dedicated group of local visionaries who formed an exploratory committee that spent several years surveying the community's needs and then hammered out agreements with Intermountain that ensured local physicians and private clinics would not be negatively impacted, the hospital has been well received and well used.
While health-care costs and quality remain at the forefront of citizens' concerns across the country, Summit County residents should take a moment to appreciate their own state-of-the-art medical center - and the community that made it happen.


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Each week from now until the first game of the 2013 Sun Devil football season, the ASU media relations department will release a position group summary for every spot on the Sun Devil roster. These will provide in-depth detail on the top returners, promising newcomers and all you could need to know about each position as we head into what should be another exciting season under Todd Graham.
The first batch of summaries will focus on the offensive side of the ball, and this week we review the 2013 Sun Devil Tight Ends and Wide Receivers.
by Jeremy Hawkes
Perhaps the biggest question marks raised by fans and media outlets alike about the 2013 Sun Devil football program is how well the receiving corps will fare this season. The concern might seem valid after a Spring that saw just four scholarship wide receivers practicing, but an influx of new and exceptional talent as well as a solid base at tight end should provide Taylor Kelly with the targets he needs to be successful in spreading the field this season.
One area that won't likely be a cause for concern is the H-back position with senior record-setting tight end Chris Coyle back for his final season. Coyle put up one of the best seasons in tight end history at ASU in 2012 after finishing third in the nation in tight end receptions per game at 4.38.
His 57 receptions last season led the Sun Devils, as did his 696 receiving yards on the year. He took over the single-season tight end school record in receptions at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, bringing down four catches in the contest (Zach Miller previously held the record with 56). Coyle finished with five touchdowns on the year, one shy of the single-season tight end record set by Miller and Joe Petty.
Prior to last season, Coyle was a reserve that had just six career receptions in two seasons at ASU. Now, he is one of the top tight ends in the nation, finishing third among all FBS tight ends in receptions and fifth in receiving yards. He was recently named to the Mackey Award Watch list, given annually to the top tight end in the nation. Alongside UW's Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Coyle one of just two returning FBS tight ends who finished in the nation's top five in receptions, receiving yards and tight ends for a tight end last season.
Tight ends coach Chip Long praised Coyle for bouncing back from a slow start in the Spring to finish strong and for getting his body in the best shape of his career and says the next step for him is to become the best tight end in the country.
Darwin Rogers played a valuable part in the more traditional role as a blocking tight end last season but Long has noted he is leaps and bounds more improved this season from both a physical and mental standpoint. Rogers "worked his butt off" to become a better tight end over the offseason and Long firmly believes he has it in him to play an impact this season.
Redshirt frosh Kody Kohl has added 35 pounds to his muscle mass since the start of last offseason and Long has referred to him as "a weight-room warrior". Kohl will likely see reps as a fullback this season as he slowly gets worked into the role as a tight end.
ASU will receive two impressive newcomers this season in the form of De'Marieya Nelson and Grant Martinez.
Nelson was regarded as a top-100 junior college transfer by ESPN after an impressive season at Stockton San Joaquin Delta College. A prep school running back standout, Nelson is a dynamic big man at 6-3, 230 that has the speed, size and versatility to make some big plays for the Sun Devils and his ability to serve as a rusher adds a new flavor to the H-back role.
Martinez is a local product out of Notre Dame Prep that was regarded as the top senior tight end recruit in the state and the Scout.com's No. 51 tight end prospect in the nation and will certainly improve ASU's depth at the position along with walk-on's Alex Bykovskiy, Billy Davis and Chris Hughes.
After losing the team's two leading wide receivers from last season in Rashad Ross (37 reception, 610 yards, 6 TDs) and Jamal Miles (37 receptions, 373 yards), the Sun Devils find themselves with a young and relatively inexperienced squad at the receiver position this season.
ASU returning receivers have just a combined 79 career receptions, the second-lowest total in the Pac-12 behind Stanford's 62 (though an asterisk can be added to USC, which returns 217 receptions though 191 of those come courtesy of Marqise Lee). With that in mind, it is clear that some multiple young men will need to step up this season. On the plus side, the talent is certainly there for that to come to fruition.
Senior Kevin Ozier leads the way into the coming season after posting 21 receptions for 324 yards and five touchdowns last season. With nearly 25 percent of his touches going for scores, the sure-handed-former-walk-on-turned-scholarhip-player-under-Coach-Graham has the experience and the maturity to step into a role as a lead receiver this season.
Wide receivers coach DelVaughn Alexander praises Ozier for being smart and for his tough work ethic and says that he is someone that can be counted on to do the things he is supposed to do and that could pay off for a big season this year.
Rick Smith showed signs of his explosiveness during the spring, catching the attention of the media and the coaching staff. An explosive and elusive receiver, Smith should succeed in the role that had been filled by Miles the past couple seasons and he will also factor into the return game.
Smith played as a true freshman last year and while his numbers weren't necessarily eye-popping, they were impressive you consider some other true freshman wide receivers in the past decade - some of which have gone on to professional careers. With 14 receptions for 141 yards and two touchdowns, Smith posted the second-highest tally of receptions by a true freshman receiver since 2003 behind only Derek Hagan (32) and more touchdowns than any true freshman wide receiver in that time span (Kerry Taylor is the only true freshman receiver to have scored a touchdown prior to Smith in the past decade). With a list of true frosh receivers in the time that included Kyle Williams, Taylor, Jamal Miles, Gerrell Robinson and Kyle Middlebrooks, what Smith did in limited playing time can't be scoffed at.
Alonzo Agwuenu should flashes of brilliance in the 2012 preseason but it didn't quite pan on the field. Agwuenu finished his 2012 season with a flash, nabbing his first career touchdown in the Kraft Fight Hunger bowl and is someone Alexander hopes can show some consistency so that he can be a player in the coming season.
Gary Chambers worked his way into one of the team's top-five receivers in the Spring and will be joined by converted running back Kyle Middlebrooks as two guys that can add depth to the team. The likes of Frederick Gammage, Blake Covey, Jordan Gaston, Daniel Groebner and Byron Thomas - all non-scholarship players – all had a chance to to earn practice reps during the offseason and improve upon the team's depth as well.
The team will lean heavily on the newcomers this season however, with several having a chance to come right in and start right away. ASU signed five wide receivers during the offseason, including three high school products and two junior college transfers.
Jaelan Strong and Joseph Morris each come in having been teammates together at Pierce College in Los Angeles. Strong played just one season at Pierce, but amassed 67 receptions for 1,263 yards and 15 touchdowns on the year and was regarded as the No. 15 overall junior college prospect in the country by ESPN.
Head coach Todd Graham says that Strong is one of the most dymanic receivers he has seen on film and Alexander notes that he is a guy that brings it all as far as size, work ethic and speed.
Morris was rated as the No. 61 overall junior college recruit by ESPN and averaged 18 yards per reception as a freshman in 2011 and is someone that has Alexander excited because he is a big, tough receiver that can do some of the dirty work and contribute on special teams.
As far as the three freshmen, Alexander plans to throw them right into the fire with no initial plans to redshirt anyone. He hopes their football IQ and ethic will take over as they all compete for a select few spots on the field.
Ellis Jefferson helped lead his Guyer High School team to the 2012 Texas High School State Championships game, where he hauled in 176 receiving yards and two touchdowns. At 6-4, 200, Jefferson brings good size and quickness and in addition to being a smart route-runner.
Another Texas prep standout, Cameron Smith is a speed guy that is still self-disciplined and runs good routes that will help spread the field. A 4.40 40-yard-dasher, Smith had 1,071 receiving yards on 59 receptions and 15 touchdowns as a senior at Coppell High last year.
Ronald Lewis rounds out the 2013 signees and is a dymanic player that played quarterback as a junior at West Jefferson High before switching to receiver as a senior. Ranked as the No. 25 overall recruit out of Louisiana, Lewis can immediately step into a role on special teams and has Alexander excited for his ability to be a jack-of-all-trades.


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Who do you believe is lyrically close to Lupe? Right now
Lupe's Lyrical Competition?
Who do you believe is lyrically close to Lupe? Right now
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It's true there's NO ONE as advanced as Aesop Rock but that's in the art of writing and he's in a totally wild zone right now. I don't need to have a hero but here and now Lupe clearly stands out as the best, hands down. His relevance to the world is too real.
Hard to compare when there are so many different types of it, as ian n anon already mentioned ...But for the sake of it: Chester P Jehst Lowkey (from the UK, so doubt you'll of heard lol)
and did everybody forget to mention rhymefest?? he was kanye jadakiss and jays ghostwriter, and his own shit is sick to
Lupe isnt on a whole nother level then every other rapper, but hes definitely in his own corner when comes to being a lyricist, meaning hes not the best rapper to ever live hes the shit no doubt, but hes unique in what he writes and hes articulate, and for kid cudi ill agree and disagree with nianja kid cudi doesnt rhyme very well in his songs, but that doesnt mean what hes saying doesnt have meaning its more of a poem
LOLOL KR, ian was clearly joking. Tryna roast someone who was joking is normally subject to being labeled stupid.
Obviously KR hasn't caught on to your sarcastic oxy-moron Ian, and quite a few haven't noted the hyperbole he purposefully uses throughout these boards just to piss yall off. Hence the friction XD but I'll give you guys a simple solution to "Lupe Fiasco's competition": He's in a league of his own. Now drop it.
nianja909... in the gutta of the suburbs... "b" lol wow... can you make yourself sound more ignorant? really dude, quit PRETENDING, go somewhere with that cause I doubt even you can come up with an artist that can make lyrically dense songs as lu, thats my opinion and I have plenty of support. Thats why we all like Lupe, if you don't have the capacity to realize his ability, then YOU need to either go back to school, learn the definitions of a metaphor, double entendre, pun, simile, or simply just "kill yourself"... nothing against cudi, hes dope aight, just lupe brings something else to the table if you dont understand the definition of the word "opinion"... go kill yourself... the world would be much better without ignorance shout out 2 KAT 'nuff said
i don't think anyone really is. i be thinking about how the shit he says goes together so fuckin nice even after the song is over
'the world needs less ignorance. suicide is just the quickest and most effective way to rid itself of it' ironic that YOU would say that Ian loooool anyways, ok well now that my self-esteem is ruined by e-beefin' (im a noob, handicapped, stupid and ignorant.. oh and not AnonG) I may as well go kill myself, i will just need to come to your neighborhood Ian cause it's soooo hard and get shot or something? Sorry, is that what they do, I don't know how the ghetto works, but it seems like if I went it wold be some form of suicide...
Yeh well the world needs less ignorance. Suicide is just the quickest and most effective way to rid itself of it.
what makes me laugh is that you are pretty correct on most accounts, you just make it seem like the world is the way you see it when you do the whole `kill yourself`` thing, which is childish
^ Update on number 4. Not necessarily the best way to describe what I was trying to say. Different people enjoy certain aspects more, I understand that. But Meaning alone doesn't make a song good or bad. If you think it does, then kill yourself.
1) Anyone who thinks Lupe is on a "whole nother level" then other rappers, should kill themselves 2) Anyone who thinks Cudi should be mentioned in a conversation about lyricists, should kill themselves 3) "Potential" DOESN'T sound good, and USUALLY doesn't equate to good music 4) If you seriously think "Meaning" is the primary judging factor for the quality of a song... Kill yourself 5) Having an opinion is fine. Having a stupid opinion... Kill Yourself Seriously, just cause this is Lu's site doesn't mean you have to drool all over dudes nuts. There is a s*** load of music out there, the world doesn't end at Lupe and f***in Cudi. 6) If you TRULY believe one rapper is better than everyone else and or "the best", Kill Yourself. Having a favorite artist among many is one thing, thinking a single rapper and or limited group of rappers (i.e. Conscious rap, Gangster Rap, Backpackers etc) are the end all be all is completely different. 7) Kill Yourselves. All of you. (Except for AnonG) Oh yeah 8) If you think rap about "Money/Cars/Women/Materialism" isn't good based on the subject matter ALONE. Killer yourself.
Also, the brothas from Dead Prez are up there. They tend to keep their lyrics simple as their focus is on delivering a message with urgency. M-1 and Stic both have incredible flow, and their song topics reflect much of this world.
Blu is up there with him... but they not eye to eye... Lupe is one of this generations lyrical genius'... he's on a whole... notha... level..
There is maybe only a handful of other artists that can compete with lupe. But the messages in lupe's songs is what makes him such a great rapper in my eyes anyway. He doesn't put out songs that will get tons of radio play, but yet he has managed to become so popular anyway. he is already a legend in the rap game....Kid Cudi and Kanye West are the best in my opinion, but Lupe is up there with them.
Hmm I can see what your saying IBIS... I mean EVERYONE has potential to a certain extent to do great things haha... artists themselves don't use young as an excuse, it's people like me that like to have faith in someone who released something that was good but would like the next to be something great, or they just like to overuse the words potential and young loool ya I'm guilty for that too. When did Soulja boy have potential though?? jk!! but ya, point taken
lol i just love the random percentages thrown around as if some complex-ass calculations were just made. Regardless, just support the music people, Lupe Fiasco is the best that is under 30 years old, that's the way i see it. Over 30, there are a few that can fux with him
Every emcee has "potential". I think the criticism comes from the point that it is frustrating to see that potential go to waste. Also, as a fan I become frustrated when an artist uses words like "young" and "potential" as an excuse. In the end, the artist has a choice on whether they want to sign the contract for the major label. They make their choice on how much of their "potential" they want to use. Souljah Boy had "potential" when he was an embryo.....
Nianja, grow up and learn how to see things from a different persons perspective.. like shit your not the only one on this planet who is entitled to an opinion? I'm not surprised at Cudi haters though, what you all said negatively did make sense (everybody at Nianja b/c your just talking shit and not facts and trying to drive me insane I think, you wanna talk politics? then grow a pair), don't get me wrong... I just think that he has potential. AnonymousG, I really like what you said pointing out the individuality of art in general, what you said makes a lot of sense probably the most sense that I've seen so far on this topic... and as if you referenced Salvador Dahli, respect!!!! haha, but I agree with that viewpoint 100%
"if you actually LISTEN to what he says it's got solid meaning.." You just named about 90% of the "Decent" or better rappers. Which make up about 70% of all rappers with any respectable sized following. And the best names you can come up with are Asher and Cudi for "Lyrical Content"? Who fall under the, maybe lower 20% of the initial group? That's not me sticking my nose up... That's me getting a chuckle out of Special Ed kids trying to talk politics.
Not sure. Lupe has the kind of ability to switch flows throughout the song. He has a knack for complex rhyme schemes, and makes song writing seem effortless, which I mean by way of storytelling. He also raps under many different types of sounds, as he can go over rock type beats or slower soulful types. A few other emcees that can do that are Tech N9ne, Raw Poetic of Panacea, Jean Grae, and K-Rino.
Old School can't compare though, their rhyme simplicity (rhyme scheme) is way under what we have now. Daddy Kane was the first real popular rapper to incorporate complexity in his rhyme. And unless you were there with Herc, i don't think you can just call people kids lol
Yes I left the Old School out of it because most kids nowadays haven't the slightest clue of what the trailblazers have done... nor the depth of the rhymes.


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Don Swanson, Minot I am suggesting that we draft Bob Schempp to be city manager so something gets done around here....
Hmm.Got things done? He said the dams would be dry, hid the deal with Canada and left true flood control for others. We have Hostefest instead of flood control. Maybe yes on Shemmp.
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Stricter conditions is meant by as home improvement codes, not over looking city annexation laws and ensuring homes in 2 mile radius are up to code....it's sad it took a flood to ensure these requirements are finally being met after so many years......
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One more thing Mr. Schempp had his chance at city manager and city finance director......and we don't need to go backwards but forwards and maybe start from scratch over the next few years?
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If you have issues with the city, first and foremost, you should run for Alderman. Second, there are process in place to recall your Aldermen and other means to resolve your issues. Third, Chet Reiten yes was a great man, but the city did have faults even then and the beast has shown its head, and I think with the flood with new homes I am glad there are stricter conditions. Yes you will hear complaints over and over with the roads, but it starts with your Alderman, Mayor....maybe you should run?
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Facing homelessness in Ventura County
The never-ending story
By Michael Sullivan 06/12/2014
Christina Cabral, 27, works as a case manager for the Homeless2Home Project through the Salvation Army in Ventura. (The Homeless2Home Project focuses on rapid permanent rehousing for the homeless.) Though she first began her job in 2011, within a year, she became despondent. She started feeling discouraged that she wasn't able to help others to the extent she wanted to, that many of the people she had spent so much time working with just didn't want help or just didn't seem to care. So she quit; she needed some time for reflection. Within a couple of months, however, she found herself volunteering to do the job she once got paid to do. It didn't take long for Salvation Army to rehire her, eventually moving her back into her position as a case manager in street outreach.
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"I returned because I was hopeful," she said. "I still am."
Since October, you can find Cabral, among several other case managers, doing street outreach with the homeless. Street outreach begins with an introduction — she will introduce herself to a person sitting on a bench or under a tree, a person, to all appearances, who seems to be living without a home. If the person is willing to work with her, she does intake and collects information that will help her find appropriate housing through housing specialist Amy Luoma with the Homeless2Home Project. From there, it could take a few weeks or, more often, several months before suitable housing is available. But that's where things can become difficult.
It's not just the fact that housing remains scarce, but her clients may disappear. Some of them find housing, such as motel rooms or with friends, or some may end up in jail. Further, though, even when she is able to get them into housing, sometimes what was supposed to be permanent turns into temporary. After all, certain people, more so the chronically homeless than those who just came into homelessness, have been living without structure for months, years and, for some, their whole lives.
In working with Cabral on this story, it became obvious that the reality of homelessness is volatile, constantly changing, though Cabral admits, not all people living without homes are the same. Some of those she has worked with say what they mean and get help while others shift and morph their stories to suit, or even excuse, their situations; and almost nothing is predictable or runs smoothly. The reality is that a person who lives without a home is just slightly different that what others consider "normal." Those living without homes are just more exposed than the average Joe so it's easy to judge them for bad habits and behavior when the truth is, many in homes are doing the same but behind closed doors.
To find the solution to homelessness, we first must understand those who are living without homes for any length of time. For the second part of our series "The long way home," we spoke with several in various states of homelessness. During the course of these interviews, it became clear that the stigma of homelessness remains alive and well. Some who have come out of homelessness and are now moving forward with their lives refused to talk about their experiences. But for those who did share their stories, it is obvious that the story of homelessness is never-ending and complicated. We appreciate those who came forward to give us insight into their worlds. These are their stories.
Charles Harman, of Ventura: chronically homeless
Charles Harman, 62, pictured on the cover, stays in Ventura, hanging out in Plaza Park in downtown Ventura by day and sleeping outside the nearby post office at night. According to Cabral, he has been chronically homeless for more than five years, though he said during one interview that he had been so since 1979. Harman lives with severe back pain but he said he wouldn't get surgery unless he had a place to stay. He had been living in a motor home up until last year, when he would park it in city lots in downtown Ventura, but he lost it for reasons not disclosed and wound up in the winter warming shelter, then Plaza Park. Harman is among many who deal with the harsh reality of living on the street, including a recent confrontation with another homeless person who had beaten him. Harman is still in the process of working with case managers on finding a home.
David Guthrie of Ojai: displaced
David Guthrie, 60, was born and raised in Stockton, California, one of eight boys. He didn't speak much about his childhood, flashing forward to his late teens, when he dropped out of high school and joined the military; he volunteered for Vietnam. He was 18 when he entered, 20 when he got out, but it was three years of his life that would permanently change his future.
"I've seen what happens to people in the ghetto," Guthrie said, talking about his hometown of Stockton and his choice to go to Vietnam. "They are still sitting on the porch, guys my age, guys that never left the 'hood. I just wanted to get the hell out."
But the cost of going to Vietnam was much higher than he could have realized. Over those three years, he was exposed to Agent Orange and tremendous loss. He was too young to understand the impact that Vietnam would have on him before he made the decision to volunteer. Though he didn't agree with the war, he joined because he felt it was the only option.
After his three-year stint was over, he went back to Stockton, where he became a butcher. It didn't take long for him to figure out that he wasn't cut out for such a career path, so he did odd jobs in construction and handyman work. But his real passion was music; it still is today. He spent much of his life doing odd jobs and living with some success as a musician/singer-songwriter. In the mid-1990s, however, Vietnam took its first tangible toll — he lost a kidney to cancer. Kidney cancer is on the list of diseases associated with Agent Orange. Two decades later (last March), he was diagnosed with liver cancer, with nine tumors on his liver, another disease associated with Agent Orange.
In the midst of his struggles with cancer and other ailments, he happened to meet a few women … women, he loved and who loved him back. Though his relationships were somewhat short-lived, their legacies live on. He has three children, two of whom he took full custody of. He lives with his oldest, David Guthrie Jr., 25, who acts as his caretaker, and his youngest, his daughter, who is 10. They live together in a granny flat in Ojai, but this is a new home for them, having moved in the last month. Last December, they became homeless.
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Despite many challenges, including his fight with cancer,
David Guthrie of Ojai has found overwhelming support
that led him to a new place after losing his home late last year.
For the Guthries, homelessness was a foreign situation. David Sr. had always lived in a home. When he left Stockton in the 1970s, he moved to Santa Barbara and lived there and in Carpinteria until the late 1990s, when he settled in Ojai. He got involved with Ojai Valley Sprouts and fell in love with the small town. He loved the schools and thought it was an ideal place to raise children. David Sr. admits he was always living on the fringe, paycheck to paycheck, odd job to odd job. Three and a half years ago, the Guthries had to move out of their home and quickly found another place. Apparently, though, a place found in haste may have issues. In this situation, it was his landlord. They lived in a house on a property that had other smaller homes on it and the landlord would allow others to park their RVs on the property as well. While the Guthries paid their rent, the landlord was squandering it away on a meth business unbeknown to them. David Sr. said the property — not his home — was raided 16 times. Eventually, code enforcement came to inspect his home and found black mold and condemned the house. That's when they found themselves looking to various people and agencies for help, including the homeless services program offered by the County of Ventura and the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program.
Over the course of five months, the Guthries were living in a hotel during the week, thanks to an agreement that allowed them to pay reduced rates; and on the weekend, they stayed on another friend's property. David Sr. and Jr. both worked diligently with everyone, excessively appreciative of the outpouring of support and generosity. It was perhaps a bit of good karma and fortune that led them to their place today.
In working with the various agencies, they were led to the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program. David Sr. found that when he went to apply for the program, two of the veterans on the list before him had just died and he and his family were moved to the top of the list. Within a very short time, a home became available; and just a week or so before this interview, they found permanent housing.
In their new home, the Guthries have begun organic farming, something they believe will help David Sr. in his fight with liver cancer. David Sr. says healthy eating plus a somewhat controversial cancer treatment — light therapy — are helping improve his condition. The Guthries' story is a familiar one, as the 2008 recession took its toll on many families living paycheck to paycheck. But David Sr. spoke of the commitment he made to making sure his family didn't go without a home for long.
"The whole deal, if you don't take it 200 percent, you ain't going to get no help, ain't no one going to do nothing for ya', you gotta be out there every day," he said. "We help people; that's why we got help."
Monty Monkress of Ventura: lifelong homeless
Monty Monkress, 49, is one of the happiest guys you will ever meet. Or maybe it just looks that way. Monkress shares his life story with a smile and snicker at the funny parts, and with displays of sincere sadness at the harder times. In the last couple of years, Monkress has had brain surgery for hydrocephalus — water on the brain. Surgeons placed a shunt in his head to redirect the fluid to another part of the body where it will be properly absorbed. He said that he didn't have the condition as a child but he said the doctors told him it would have helped him if that surgery had taken place when he was an infant. Monkress said with a smile, his hydrocephalus was the reason he had such a big head.
Monkress talked about his childhood growing up in Baldwin, California, and being in special ed., that he always had problems keeping up with all the schoolwork. In high school he found himself in juvenile hall after trashing his physical education teacher's office with liquid soap and pencil shavings after a disagreement. The administration claimed Monkress was trying to set a fire with the shavings. At age 18, his family moved to midtown Ventura. By that time he had dropped out of school and started smoking pot and drinking. He said that he regretted drinking and smoking pot, that they were the worst decisions of his life.
In Ventura, he struggled. When he was in his late teens, early 20s, he found himself sleeping in his parents' van until it was repossessed. From that point, he wandered toward Sanjon Road and met a guy who was homeless and stayed with him, sleeping on a couch in the encampment near the railroad tracks. That's when he learned how to pick up trash for recycling to make money. He recalled teenagers throwing rocks at him through the nearby fence. It was one of the more humiliating times in his life.
"That made me feel pretty low," he said. "I started throwing rocks back at them. But then the kids came and tore up this guy's camp. I told my mom about it, she said, 'That's just them picking on the homeless.' "
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Monty Monkress has been homeless in Ventura since his late teens,
early 20s, and is currently working toward getting into permanent housing.
Occasionally, Monkress would luck out with a decent job, with stints at Pierpont Inn, various motels and then in the oil fields. In the oil fields, he slipped a disk in his back and he ended up on crutches. Shortly after that, he broke his leg and hurt his ankle. During this time — he was still in his 20s — he lived on unemployment for a while, admitting he cheated on his unemployment, something he said he learned from his father. When he recovered from his injuries, he got a temporary part-time job at the fair. At that point, he lost his unemployment with the new job. A few years later, broke and despondent, he was arrested for stealing merchandise outside of a Radio Shack in Carpinteria. He was released a few months later. It didn't take long before he ended up in prison, this time for residential burglary at a motel, for trying to steal vodka out of a room. He spent many years in and out of prison, 10 years in total, on seven different occasions.
After his prison time, he had a friend who ran a motel next door to a sobering center in Santa Barbara. He got a job at the center despite his past criminal record, which he says human resources never checked. That was when he started doing crystal meth. He was in his early 30s. He moved in with his friend from the motel, and the meth addiction really took off. Because he was still on parole, his parole agents had come to check on him and found that he was intoxicated and in possession of meth. After a short time in jail, he lost his job and car and was on felony probation. He went back to pushing a shopping cart and recycling to make a little money. His friend, Glen, from the motel, however, had received back payment for his disability for his stint in Vietnam and they took off to Ohio.
Monkress and Glen lived on Glen's disability and Monkress' food stamps. They were also drinking regularly and doing meth and pain pills occasionally. In 2008, Monkress and Glen decided they wanted to visit a friend in Santa Barbara. So they began their way back to California, first by car and then by train. It was this trip that would change both their lives. When Monkress and his friend finally arrived in Santa Barbara, they both realized they had left his friend's diabetes medication at the train station. His friend later started vomiting blood and died shortly after in a hospital. During the interview, Monkress's grief was obvious.
In Santa Barbara, Monkress stayed with the woman they had intended to meet, but he recalled a potentially violent situation when her gangster boyfriend and his comrades were going to kill him — these gangsters remembered him from his work at the sobering center and thought he was a snitch. He was able to escape and made his way back to Ventura.
During this interview, Monkress had been staying at C Street Family Plan in Oxnard. He had originally come to the Salvation Army looking for help a month earlier — he was drunk and Cabral walked with him to the alcohol and drug program on Main Street. He was accepted into the program and went to a facility in Tarzana for detox. After his treatment, he was dropped off at C Street. Within a week of the interview, after a month staying at the C Street facility, he walked out, saying he had a disagreement with one of the other men staying there, and went back to flying a sign for donations. A few days later, the police picked him up for public intoxication and placed him in jail. On May 29, he was released from jail and placed at First to Serve Inc. Outreach Ministries in Los Angeles. According to Cabral, he was still at the facility in Los Angeles by this writer's deadline.
Lisa and David of Simi Valley/Ventura: in and out of homelessness, three years
Lisa, 51, and David, 49, met three years ago at the Samaritan Center in Simi Valley. They had both been in long-term relationships that coincidentally had come to the breaking point and ended at the same time, even the same exact day. And they've been together ever since, sometimes with shelter, much of the time without. They are currently staying at a motel. A couple of weeks ago they were using shrubbery at Surfers Point in Ventura to take cover and sleep. When the VCReporter talked to them, they had just passed their tuberculosis tests and were qualified to enter a program for immediate housing, though it is unclear if they have enrolled in any homeless service program for housing. Lisa and David, who asked that their last names not be used, have unique tales of their lives, so much so that most people would consider them unbelievable; but once the details come out, it becomes difficult to doubt.
Lisa calls Simi Valley her home. She grew up without a father and lost her mother to cancer just recently. She has a 25-year-old daughter in Simi Valley with whom she is in contact, but it's apparent Lisa is uncomfortable with her situation — and perhaps connecting with her daughter regularly may be too emotional. Her daughter, whom she hadn't seen for some time, came looking for her when Lisa's mother died. That was a week before this interview.
Lisa's life wasn't always this hard. She said that for 13 years, she worked in aeronautics as a microwave technician at a company in Simi Valley as well as Chatsworth. Because she was born with a medical condition where her bone marrow doesn't produce the cells to properly nourish her bones, her bones become brittle, even disintegrate. That's why, in her mid-40s, she had to have her hips replaced. She walks with crutches and often has to default to her wheelchair to get around. She couldn't work with the pain and went on disability. Within a short time frame, her relationship fizzled out — she noted the relationship had been over long before — and that's when the next and hardest phase of her life began: homelessness.
"We didn't know anything about homelessness and we really sucked at it," she said, speaking about David's and her situation. When asked how someone succeeds at homelessness, she laughed and said, "Write a book about it: Homelessness for Dummies."
Lisa says she suffers from anxiety and depression, something she takes prescriptions for, but on the street she has had her medications stolen from her. She says she wants to work by training service animals. For the time being, though, she is in a state of flux with her partner, David. While three years in and out of homelessness may seem like a long time to live without the certainty of a roof over one's head, for David, this is still a new experience.
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David, who used to work for Amgen,
and Lisa, who has a background in aeronautics,
both of Simi Valley, have been in and out
homelessness for three years.
David, the oldest of nine children, has always been a hard worker. Though he never graduated from high school, he found himself with unique opportunities.
It was the early 1980s when he applied to a newly founded pharmaceutical company in Thousand Oaks, a little place called Amgen. He applied to be a dishwasher, cleaning beakers and other lab equipment. Because the company was fledgling at that point, he said, no one had checked his educational background and the fact that he didn't have a high school diploma, which would become an issue down the road.
He worked his way from the proverbial kitchen doing dishes to quality control, inspecting chemicals that would make their way to life-saving drugs. One such drug was Neupogen. When asked what Neupogen was, he was on point, accurately describing the drug that became patented in 1991, a drug that kick-starts the bone marrow into creating white blood cells for chemotherapy patients, who often see a depletion during treatment. He spoke of George Rathmann, founder of the company, as anyone would of a boss. He also spoke of other drugs, such as Epogen, which fosters red blood cell creation, and tossed around other terms that probably only lab techs would know.
After a few years in the company, his colleagues intervened during an audit and helped him become certified in quality control. He worked there for 15 years until his mother became sick and he took a leave of absence. When Amgen went corporate, he said, things changed. After he took his leave, he never returned.
For his next job, he went to work as a swamper at AAMCO Transmissions and Total Car Care. A swamper keeps the shop clean and disposes of oil, etc. He started tinkering with cars, something he had always done on his own cars and his mom's. At one point, his boss took notice of his skills and offered him a job as a mechanic. He stayed there for 15 years, mentioning he was one of the only employees to stay there that long. He didn't talk much about why that job ended, but he said that when his relationship ended, that's when he became homeless, leaving everything behind.
Both David and Lisa commented that the services offered in Ventura County, especially at the Armory and Oxnard One-Stop Clinic, which offers multiple services at one place, have been beneficial to their recovery.
Trinity, new to Ventura County: transitional
Trinity, 19, met with homeless advocates at a Denny's in Camarillo in early May. She said she had stayed the night on the beach in Ventura a couple of nights before, and the night before she had slept at a nearby motel with a friend she had met at The Kingdom Center Oxnard. She had left The Kingdom Center days prior due to certain claims she made that remain unfounded at this point. But her story became more convoluted and confusing when it came to tracing the trail that led her to that Denny's in Camarillo.
Trinity said that she was born in Michigan, one of 15 children. Her mother practiced voodoo and various sexual acts were performed on her at an early age, which is why child protective services placed her in foster care. At 12, she was adopted but then was raped by her foster brothers and promptly taken away. At 13, she was staying at a foster home with other children to be adopted, when she met a guy she had seen around her city who forced her into sex slavery, making threats that he would hurt her family if she wouldn't comply. Unfortunately, the more she spoke about her story, the less sincere she seemed to be.
As she spoke about the initiation into sex slavery, being gang-raped by six men, she spoke with a smile as she doodled on her arm. She didn't tear up; her heavy eyeliner remained unblemished. She recalled going to school every day and that her guardians at the foster home never caught on that she was out of the home six nights a week, sleeping with or, rather, being raped by 18 to 60 men a night. At 16, she said, she was kidnapped — she was told to make her family believe she had run away — and forced to have sex with men at parties and various other events. She said there were even some celebrities she had sex with although she couldn't remember their names. She said she gave birth to a baby boy in a bathtub in a hotel in New York and she never got to hold him. She didn't wince at all when explaining that part of her story.
Trinity went on, saying that the last family she stayed with in Oregon didn't want anything to do with her and that she had nowhere to go. She had come to The Kingdom Center from the Dream Center Network in Los Angeles, a Christian organization that does homeless outreach. Before Dream Center, she was with the family in Oregon. She came to the family in Oregon via a longtime friend from her hometown in Michigan — her friend's wife had family in Oregon. Her longtime friend in Michigan had rescued her from her sex-slave captors. She said she wasn't in contact with her family, mainly her sisters, in Michigan and she was hiding from her captors. Her Facebook photos and her family's Facebook photos told a different story.
For more than a year of posts on Facebook, Trinity appeared well-adjusted, happy, praising God and Jesus. Her only job experience listed is in storytelling at a church. On her Google Plus page, she spoke about wanting to be a singer. Her heartbreaking story and the story revealed by Facebook, even her own emotions, were contradictory. Many local homeless advocates took her at her word and went out of their way to provide services a battered woman would need, but those particular services may have been unnecessary.
In Ventura County, she received an outpouring of help, first at The Kingdom Center, then Oxnard One-Stop Clinic, followed with referral services from Salvation Army, access to the food pantry at Project Understanding, assistance at TAY Tunnel in Oxnard and a hotel voucher from a local church, plus numerous hours of time from homeless advocates. Though it was recommended, she refused to be examined by mental health professionals. Further, the family that Trinity said had abandoned actually her put her on a plane immediately once local homeless advocates had contacted them.
In working with the homeless, such stories can lead homeless advocates on a hunt for services, costing a lot of time and energy — and the time may be well-spent, getting people on the right track. On the other hand, if the stories aren't true, it can lead to difficulty in providing the sorts of services that adequately meet the true need. Trinity, whose name was changed to protect her identity, is still with the family in Oregon, a month after this interview took place.
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