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Religious Notes
Published: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:52 p.m.
The Religious Notes column is published every Saturday to highlight special religious services (fundraisers go in the Calendar). E-mail information to email@example.com, bring in printed information to 30 E. First Ave. or mail it to The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293. Notes must be submitted by noon Wednesday to run the following Saturday. Notes will run no more than two times prior to the event.
Bethesda UMC
The church will host Christian recording artist and inspirational speaker Crucial on April 19. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and show starts at 8.
Center Hill Baptist
The church, 3759 N.C. Highway 8, will host gospel singer Tony Corner at 6 p.m. April 21.
First Missionary Baptist
Dr. Larry E. Covington, senior pastor at Ebenezer United Church of Christ, Burlington, will be the guest speaker during the spring revival at 7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday at the church, 103 Church St., Thomasville.
Evangelist Katina Singleton will be the speaker at the church at 11 a.m. Sunday. Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m., and Bible study is 7 p.m. each Wednesday.
Goodwill Baptist
The church, 541 Goodwill Road, Arcadia, will host a singing prayer band concert in Building No. 1 featuring James H. Diggs Heritage Choir and The Winston-Salem Community Prayer Band No. 1 at 3 p.m. April 21. For more information, contact the church at 764-3930.
First Baptist, Village Drive
The church, 210 Village Drive, will have a Total Woman Women's Conference at 9 a.m. April 27. Panel guests will be Bessie Holmes, R.N., Veterans Administration, wellness/nutrition; First Lady Veronica Miller, FBC, fashion/makeup; the Rev. Gale Campbell, detective with the Burlington Police Department, self-defense; and Janice Richardson, Career Connections Coordinator, education, job skills.
Guest speaker Evangelist Leah McNair of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Thomasville will speak at noon.
First Reformed UCC
The church, 104 E. Center St., will host a free choral concert by The Catawba Singers of Catawba College at 4 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary, followed by a reception in the fellowship hall. Dr. Jim Shepherd is Catawba College's director of choral music. He leads the 34-member Catawba Singers as they perform their repertoire of chamber literature, sacred masterworks and pop, vocal jazz and Broadway literature for a Cabaret performance. For more information, call 247-2617 or visit www.frucc.org.
New Deliverance Worship Center
The church, 204 Beethoven Ave., will celebrate the second anniversary of the church at 3:30 p.m. April 21. Guest speaker will be Pastor Denise of Bethlehem Baptist in Winston-Salem.
New Zion Baptist
The church will have spring revival at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. The Rev. Tyrone Tyson of Freedom Baptist Church in Winston-Salem will be the guest speaker.
Tyro UMC
The church will have an outdoor worship service and spring fling at 11 a.m. April 21. Bring lawn chairs and meet at the field across from the church. There will be games, activities and bounce house.
Welcome Church of God
The church, 4844 Old U.S. Highway 52, will host the gospel singing group Mountain Joy at 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Hartford, Conn. - No. 7 Stanford fell to No. 4 Trinity College by a 7-2 decision Sunday to wrap up its East Coast road trip.
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More than 20,000 women gather for LDS Church's General Relief Society Meeting
President Henry B. Eyring says there is power in unified sisters
SALT LAKE CITY — Bands of valiant women representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the Earth have turned their faith into action in hundreds of places, said President Henry B. Eyring on Saturday evening.
"What you have done remarkably well together is to cherish, watch over and comfort each other," said the first counselor in the LDS Church's First Presidency.
Speaking to a more than 20,000 women gathered in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City for the church's General Relief Society Meeting, President Eyring emphasized the need for women to care for each other, teach each other and be taught and "sit down together with God."
"My purpose tonight is to help you feel the commendation and appreciation of God for what you have already done to help each other reach that lofty goal," he said. "And, second, it is to describe some of what is yet to come in your unified service."
In addition to President Eyring, Sister Linda K. Burton, Relief Society general president, and her counselors, Sister Carole M. Stephens and Sister Linda S. Reeves, spoke. President Thomas S. Monson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, also attended the meeting, which was broadcast to LDS meetinghouses across the globe.
During his remarks, President Eyring told the worldwide congregation that each Latter-day Saint woman is "in a unique place in your journey to eternal life."
"Some have years of experience and others are early in their mortal discipleship. Each is unique in her personal history and her challenges. But all of you are sisters and beloved daughters of our Heavenly Father, who knows and watches over each of you."
President Eyring spoke of a miracle that, one month ago, touched his family.
His daughter, Elizabeth, was six months pregnant and home alone with her 3-year-old daughter when she experienced a medical emergency associated with her pregnancy. Her husband was away at work and told her to call 911. But before she could place the call a knock came at the door. It was her visiting teaching companion.
"They had no appointment for that morning," he said. "Her companion had simply felt she ought to come by to see Elizabeth."
The woman drove Elizabeth to the hospital, where doctors performed surgery just in time to save Elizabeth and the baby — which weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces.
"A faithful member of the Relief Society, prompted by the Holy Ghost, watched over, cherishedand comforted her sister in God's kingdom," President Eyring said. "She and the tens of thousands of others who have given such inspired service over the generations have not only the thanks of those they helped and their loved ones, but of the Lord."
The miracle of one Relief Society sister arriving to help just in time is multiplied through the power of a unified society of sisters, President Eyring said. Soon Elizabeth's family received a message from their bishop who said the ward Relief Society president was building a plan to assist them and help them care for their older children while they spent time at the hospital with the new baby.
President Eyring then spoke to LDS women across the globe. "With all your differences in personal circumstances and past experiences I can tell you something of what lies ahead for you," he said. "As you keep the faith you will find yourself invited by the Lord often to serve someone in need when it will not seem convenient."
The Holy Ghost is sent to Relief Society sisters and to those they care for, he said. "You will be strengthened and yet inspired to know the extent of your ability to serve," he said. "The spirit will comfort you when you may wonder, 'Did I do enough?'
"I testify that the Lord will be with you and that your way will be prepared and marked for you by him in your service to those he loves in their needs and trials."
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Q: I know you'll think this is reaching, and in a way it is, but if you are LeBron, don't you feel a bit remorseful, maybe guilty? Doesn't it ever dawn on you that maybe you single-handedly might've caused this? — Mike.
A: Why, because he invoked his right as a free agent to move to the team of his choice? What you're really saying is you don't think there should be free agency. LeBron played by the rules of the system offered to him. He did not create that system.
Q: OK, so the NBA has its most successful year in recent memory and they want to tear it down? OK, let's put the Dan Gilbert personal Heat agenda aside for a second and go to other big cities, such as N.Y. and L.A. Did people fill up MSG or go see the Lakers when there was just one superstar or are they going now because there is a chance to win something? The hate and agenda by all this crap to change the NBA from what made it successful until now is just asinine. — Julio.
A: Look, any team could have done what the Heat did prior to the 2010 offseason, cut payroll to bare bones in order to eventually slide in three near-max contracts. But, let's be honest, how many teams (and owners) would have been willing to put up with a 15-win season and two seasons without winning a playoff series in order to set up the future?
Q: Why can't the owners try to force some of the players back by playing a season with scab players like the NFL did during the strike in the mid '80s? — Moe.
A: If no one is going to the D-League now, why would they go to see D-League players in NBA arenas?
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'Poor man's Hemingway'
Author Robert Ruark led a rich literary life. So why is it so few people have heard of this hard-drinking, hard-living hero of Southport?
Published: Sunday, January 8, 2006 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 9, 2006 at 10:43 a.m.
The correspondence is neatly typed on light blue White House letterhead. Its dated Sept. 1, 1959.
Famous opinions
Robert Ruarks fame led to relationships with many famous people. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has preserved some of their correspondence. Here are a few of the more memorable excerpts:
Thanks for your piece on dirty comedians. It blew a fresh breeze across a smutty section of America.
Freedom of speech is one thing, but these gents are overdoing it.
Groucho Marx, June 25, 1963
I only hope you dont find it necessary to shoot any elephants while you are there. I am sure you will agree with me that there are few enough Republicans man or animal as it is.
To Bob from Richard Nixon, Dec. 4, 1959
Your observations concerning Alcatraz were most interesting, and I was particularly pleased to see you support my contention that there has been too much coddling of criminals in recent years. Certainly, as you indicated, this is a trend which is extremely dangerous.
J. Edgar Hoover, Nov. 4, 1958
I received your letter of July 29th and of course I remember the evening we christened your piano.
Conrad Hilton, president of Hilton Hotels, Aug. 3, 1959
I think we should picket Mr. North. He is 51, has drunk more liquor than either one of us, and still manages to look like a small boy.
From Ruark to Ernest Hemingway, Nov. 3, 1954
We have developed a taste for the Ruark style . .
Robert Fuoss, managing editor of The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 14,1944
The idea for this column stems really from Secretary of the Navy Forrestal and from Admiral Merrill of the Navys Bureau of Public Relations, both of whom have expressed concern that once the war in Europe is concluded, the public may be inclined to forget about the war against Japan.
NEA believes that you are just the man to help overcome this loss of interest. Knowing you as an experienced reporter and a gifted writer, we believe you could go into the Pacific theater and do for the Sailor, the Marine and the Coast Guardsman what Ernie Pyle has done for the Soldier in Europe.
Peter Edson, Washington Bureau, Newspaper Enterprise Association Service, Sept. 20,1944
At the bottom, theres a small handwritten note: I particularly got a kick out of the piece where you referred to my chipmunk profile!
The person who wrote that was Richard Nixon, then the vice president of the United States. And the man who could get away with calling him a chipmunk was Robert Chester Ruark a balding, chain-smoking, mustached man from Wilmington.
Ruark was one of the most syndicated writers in the world, hunted elephants in Africa, went to bullfights with Ernest Hemingway and called New Yorks Twenty-One Club, the Studio 54 of its day, a second home.
Never heard of him? Then you either arent from Southeastern North Carolina, arent an avid hunter or werent around from just after World War II through the early 1960s.
But youre certainly not alone, either. For someone so widely read a few decades ago, Ruark is barely mentioned on any college syllabi or discussed in book clubs. In the areas where he lived and went to school, however, organizations such as Chapel Hills Robert Ruark Society and Southports Robert Ruark Foundation keep his memory alive through birthday parties and writing awards.
Readers first developed a relationship with Ruark through his first-person columns. He would write about things he knew because he actually did them whether it was running into Frank Sinatra and Lucky Luciano in Cuba or putting down a charging water buffalo with one bullet.
According to a July 20, 1953, Newsweek article on the author, his United Feature Syndicate columns were running in 166 American and 30 international newspapers with an estimated 15 million readers. In addition, he appeared often in Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and Field & Stream among other magazines.
Today, those who know about him mostly associate his name with the books. Something of Value, an account of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, was a Top 10 best seller in 1955 and was made into a motion picture staring Sidney Poitier. In 1959, Poor No More, a novel about a penniless young college kid making it big, reached the Top 10 as well.
You can still pick up The Old Man and the Boy and The Old Mans Boy Grows Older at Barnes & Noble, but most of his other publications are long out of print.
The letter from Nixon and most of Ruarks other personal papers that stand as evidence of a short but full life are kept at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Wilson Library.
The last file in one of his boxes contains correspondence from people such as Groucho Marx, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover and others.
Nixons note, one of several, starts Dear Bob. Others say Dear Mr. Ruark.
But around here they call him Bobby. Robert was his dads name.
Bobby was best friends with my dad, said William Northrop. His dads name was Robert, too.
Northrop, then elementary-school aged, was spending his summers on Wrightsville Beach when Ruark would show up to carouse with his father, a childhood friend. Ruark and the elder Northrop would go fishing or sit around the table, drink and shuck oysters. The author taught him and other neighborhood boys how to swim by throwing them overboard in the sound.
Northrop recalls the time when his dad, a friend named John James, and Ruark needed to make a trip to the liquor store. When they got there, it was open but no one was inside. Under Ruarks instigation, the men took what they wanted and then snapped a photo of themselves in front of the store holding up the bottles.
They did go back the next day and pay, but it was quite a joke that evening.
He had a very, very dry sense of humor, Northrop said. Kind of like W.C. Fields. He was really funny.
On another occasion young Northrop walked up to Ruark and his father as they were drinking bourbon and eating oysters. Rather full of himself, the boy looked at the men and said, You guys drink a lot.
At that, Ruark turned around slowly, looked him up and down and replied, Excess in all things. Moderation is for monks.
I was scratching my head, Northrop said, Trying to figure out what it all meant.
They werent real lushes or anything. But compared to today, hell, they were lushes . . . I have the impression that he was not the favorite of my mothers.
Old mans influence
Ruark was born in Wilmington on Dec. 29, 1915.
The good times were very good to his family. But the bad times tended to hold on longer.
They would go from a big brick house on Market Street with several servants and two automobiles, to near destitution.
Ruarks father was an accountant hit particularly hard by the Great Depression. Eventually, both his parents would succumb to alcoholism and put the burden of their care on Ruarks shoulders.
Perhaps the best part of Ruarks life at this time was the influence of his maternal grandfather, Edward Adkins, and Adkins Victorian home at 119 N. Lord St. in Southport.
The house played a particularly important part in young Ruarks life. Adkins would be immortalized as the main basis of the old man in The Old Man and the Boy, a column that regularly ran in Field & Stream.
Ruark spent most of his summers at the house with the old man, and when times got hard, his parents moved in with his grandparents. Adkins was a former river pilot who liked to read. He used these stories to fertilize the mind of the boy as they went bird hunting or just walked in the woods. To the youngster, Adkins easygoing but disciplined manner, his tales of far-off people and places and his common-sense guidance were mesmerizing.
Ruark wrote so vividly and emotionally about the home and his time there, its become a sort of pilgrimage for Ruarkians.
I got to thinking about all the things that had happened to me with that House as a base; all the things I had done, all the things I had learned in that House and from that House. Most of the things that I value today had started in that House . . . That House combined Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter and summertime, in an ordered world of guns and dogs and boats and fish and ducks and quail . . . That was not just a house, that House was Me, Ruark wrote in The Old Mans Boy Grows Older.
Sadonie Donnie Kirby, who has owned The House for the past 38 years, has learned to adjust to people from all over the world writing or calling her about the property. Occasionally someone still shows up on the freshly painted white porch, gushing with questions: Is that the magnolia tree he wrote about? Has it changed much since Ruark lived here? Did the family leave anything behind?
When Kirby first moved in, she was surprised at how many Ruark artifacts were left behind, considering the house had changed hands and was once even used as a boarding house a picture of the author as a boy, pewter items, a hat rack.
In the garage, Kirby found many personal letters, including some written between Ruarks parents when his mother was sent to a sanitarium.
They wove a story of their really troubled lives, Kirby said. I just sat there for two days and read those letters. That was the most interesting history . . . They were always going to make it big but they never did. And they would always write and ask for money from Robert.
One letter, from her doctor to her husband, explained that Mrs. Ruark still had a way to go before she would be released.
But she was lucid. Some of her letters were very poetic, loving, Kirby said. They seemed to be really in love, really caring to each other.
In another letter, Ruark tells his father hes not going to send any more money and for him to grow up, she said.
Kirby said she gets the feeling a lot of locals didnt like Ruark because they either thought he didnt take proper care of his parents or they thought all that fame had gone to his head.
Indeed, the fattest file at Wilson Library is marked Rolls-Royce, Ruarks pride and joy. He wasnt afraid to show it off.
And I had this Rolls-Royce, a lovely, gleaming new Silver Cloud, he wrote in a 1963 True magazine article. Prince Rainier gave Grace Kelly RXK-1 for a wedding present. Little Rob from North Carolina had RXK-2. It was the only new model Rolls-Royce in Spain, and none had arrived as yet in America.
Ruark was living in a mansion in Spain at the time, but shipped the car to North Carolina in 1957 so he could descend on my home-town, Wilmington, in a veritable fiery cloud . . .
He gallivanted all over Wilmington, Charlotte and Chapel Hill. He was so proud, his shirt buttons would have popped off if one Wilmington lady hadnt mistaken the car for a second-rate Pierce Arrow.
Shortly thereafter I crated up the old beat-up Pierce I mean I packed up the gleaming new Silver Cloud, and we caught the first boat back to Spain, he wrote.
Others saw a much humbler side of the man.
George Saffo, a Wrightsville Beach resident who visited the author at his home in Spain, said that one day Ruark great white hunter and a macho drinker noticed a flower blooming on a bush in his yard and started running around the house, yelling for his wife to come and look at it.
He said theres Robert Ruark the man and Robert Ruark the myth, Saffo said. And the man that I saw was gentle and gracious and thoughtful and he was a complete Southern gentleman.
The brain power that would carry Ruark from Wilmington and Southport to Spain, Africa and beyond, became evident while he attended New Hanover High School. He graduated at age 12. Three years later, he started classes at UNC-Chapel Hill.
I was always several years ahead of myself in school because of an improbable IQ, something called achievement tests, and the schools habit of skipping smart children upward, Ruark wrote in a September 1963 True magazine article. I was reading Shakespeare for fun at 10 . . .
At UNC-Chapel Hill, he became a cartoonist for the campus humor magazine, The Carolina Buccaneer.
And he got a job on the campus paper, The Daily Tarheel, because I fell in love with a girl named Nan Norman who was taking journalism.
But he also discovered a love of writing. The story goes that he bootlegged and hustled his way through college, graduating at the ripe old age of 19. Then he unleashed himself on a string of small-town newspapers in North Carolina, tried his hand at the Works Progress Administration as an accountant and even joined the Merchant Marines.
Writing beckoned, though, and after reaching dry ground, Ruark landed his first big newspaper job as a sports writer for The Washington (D.C.) Daily News.
He didnt marry Norman, but fell in love with a Washington, D.C., interior designer named Virginia Webb. They married in 1938 and divorced after more than 20 years together.
She was educated and statuesque, Saffo said. She was pretty sharp, a pretty elegant lady.
She had to be sharp. Saffo said Ruark often had a boyish way about him and his wife helped keep him balanced.
By the 1940s, war was rumbling around the world. Soon, Ruark would be off to the Pacific making his way up from an ensign to an officer in the Naval Reserves. After the war, he made his own big explosion, this time on the American consciousness.
Imitating Hemingway
According to a July 12, 1965, Newsweek article, Ruark looked around for the biggest rock I could find to throw.
That rock was a column telling the world that womens fashion had turned into something like Halloween costumes while the boys were overseas. Those nine-inch nails and hairdos that looked like an Iroquois Indian topknot made women so hideous, battle-hardened men felt like recoiling back to Funafui.
About 2,500 letters poured in and Scripps-Howard boss Roy Howard gave Ruark the weekly syndicated column he was looking for.
Luck unrolled like a long red carpet. His articles led to the recognition of a lost Navy cruiser, the removal of a lieutenant general from his job as chief of the American Armed Forces in Europe and the discovery of a pyramid in Egypt by accident.
Add to that the success of his first attempt at autobiographical fiction, Something of Value, and the man was on a roll. Hed sell movie rights to the book for $300,000. Overall, he was worth millions.
Ruark was still a self-professed loner, though. He moved to Spain in the 1950s and kept apartments in London and Barcelona to get away from the New York socialites. And to vacation from the rest of the crowd, he took to African safaris.I revel, I literally wallow in loneliness, which is pretty Irish of me, he wrote.
Ruark would go on to write several books about Africa, the hunting, the culture, the politics.
That only made one peculiarity of his public perception stand out even more.
If Ernest Hemingway did not exist, wrote a Time book reviewer at the time, it is difficult to see how Robert Ruark could ever have been invented.
The nickname behind his back was The Poor Mans Hemingway.
Its easy to see why. His writing style and some subjects were classically Hemingway-esque. Now, it seemed, his life was beginning to mimic that of Papas writing, drinking, hunting, Cuba, Spain.
Ruark met Hemingway in 1953 in Pamplona. They became friends and corresponded for years.
The resemblance was uncanny. Even they couldnt ignore it.
We were both embarrassed by the title Poor Mans Hemingway that somebody once hung on me, Ruark wrote in a 1963 True magazine article. It used to bother me at least, annoy me until one day, well taken in wine, Hemingway said: Look kid. Screw em all . . . We use the same alphabet. Its a different world and its your time at bat. I had mine. Just remember one thing: Write what you know, as true as you can and screw the critics. If they knew anything they wouldnt be critics.
Hemingway would die July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Ruark would die July 9, 1965, in London from complications of cirrhosis of the liver. He was only 49 and had no heirs. He and his wife had divorced a few years before his death.
Two months before he became sick in Spain and was flown to London to recuperate, he would sign his last will and testament. In it, he was careful to include one special provision.
The Rolls would go to his friend and agent, Harold Matson.
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Northampton Community College (NCC), the only community college in Pennsylvania that offers on-campus housing for students, is breaking ground on new residence hall.
The new building under construction will house an additional 300 people, and be erected next to the current dorm which currently holds 260 students.
This new residence hall will connect to the older one; by adding another building with two wings, makes the current student housing a quad with food court, full-service cafeteria, and patio featuring courtyard space for activities.
The facility was designed by USA Architects of NJ and will be constructed by the J.G. Petrucci Co. of Bethlehem. The building is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2015.
With additional on-campus housing, NCC can welcome more international students, and it also enhances the athletic programs and student life.


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By Shane Cohn and Michel Miller 11/21/2012
MISS SAIGON Through Dec. 15. A classic love story is brought up-to-date in Conejo Players' production of Miss Saigon. Puccini's Madama Butterfly is adapted to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggle to find each other over the ensuing years ends in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had. $20. 351 S. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. 495-3715 or www.conejoplayers.org.
THE SANTA TRAIN Saturday, Nov. 24. To experience one of Southern California's most unique arrivals of Santa introducing the Christmas Season this year, bring your family to one of four stops along the route in Ventura County. Santa will be riding aboard the Fillmore & Western Railway Co. Santa Train, powered by a Baldwin 1913 vintage steam locomotive, the #14. Santa's first stop will be at the Montalvo Metrolink Platform in East Ventura at 5 p.m. and will make stops at 6:10 p.m. at Alelia Avenue in Saticoy, 7:10 p.m. at Santa Paula depot and 8:20 p.m. in Fillmore. This year we are asking that families bring an unwrapped toy that will be donated to the Fillmore Volunteer Firefighter Foundation and the Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs Association, who will distribute the toys to needy children throughout the valley. Santa will distribute goodies from our sponsors to children at every stop, and asks kids of every age to bring their Christmas Wish Lists to fill his mailbag. For more infomation, visit www.fwry.com.
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College Hockey:ECAC Hockey picks: Week 13
Last week: 6-11-1
Overall: 48-52-20
Every ECAC team with the exception of Brown is back in action this weekend, which is also the final weekend of non-conference play for many of the league's teams. Each game is at 7 p.m. unless noted. For those in the New England area, both of Quinnipiac's games this weekend will be televised on the New England Sports Network.
Dartmouth at Quinnipiac
The ECAC's top offense and defense (Quinnipiac) is pitted against the league's second best offense and defense in Dartmouth. These teams are also the best at killing penalties in league play, with the Big Green holding a narrow edge over the Bobcats for the top spot. Quinnipiac hasn't lost in nearly two months, so I've got no reason to pick against them despite an impressive showing by the Big Green to date. Quinnipiac wins
Harvard at Princeton
Neither team is on any sort of hot streak – the Crimson have been outscored 12-3 over an 0-2-1 span, while the Tigers are in the midst of a seven-game winless stretch. Princeton's special teams have been fairly solid this year, while Harvard's power play in dead last after being the top unit in the nation last season. Princeton wins
RIT at St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence certainly needed the break, as the Saints ended the first half with a four-game losing streak. St. Lawrence is still in search of the program's 1,000 career win. RIT enters Friday on a 2-0-1 run, but both those victories came against winless Sacred Heart. St. Lawrence wins
Sacred Heart at Colgate
The Raiders could be a dark-horse contender for a top-four spot, but first they'll close out their non-conference schedule with a pair against the Pioneers. Sacred Heart is last in the nation in both team defense and penalty killing, which is bad news against a Colgate power play that scored five of the Raiders' 11 goals in a sweep at Massachusetts last month. Colgate wins
Massachusetts-Lowell at Clarkson
Lowell has won four straight and five of the last six meetings against the Golden Knights close the gap in their all-time series to 11-8 in the Knights' advantage, although these teams have not met since 2004. Clarkson is only 2-5 at Cheel Arena, while the River Hawks have picked it up a bit since a sluggish start. Lowell wins
Yale at Boston College
Don't expect a lot of neutral zone play in this one, as both teams like to move up and down the ice. The Eagles are minus top forward John Gaudreau, who is competing with the U.S. team in the world juniors, and defender Patch Alber, who is out for an extender period after an injury in practice last weekend. Yale gave up three power-play goals and a shorthanded goal in a loss to Holy Cross Sunday. Can't do that against the Eagles. Boston College wins
Rennselaer at Boston University, 7:30 p.m.
RPI is on a nice 5-2-2 run, but they'll have a tough test against the Terriers on the road. Goalie Jason Kasdorf left last Thursday's game at St. Cloud State with an injury and was held out Friday. That will be something to keep an eye on, as the freshman had started six straight games, and played well in that stretch. Boston University wins
Union at Lake Superior, 7:35
The Dutchmen continue a seven-week stretch away from the Capital Region with their final non-conference roadtrip of the year. Union has been a second-half team the last few years, going 47-20-3 after Dec. 25 since the 2009-10 season. These teams have met only once, a 0-0 tie in the RPI Invitational Tournament in 2009. Expect another low-scoring game here. Union wins
Cornell at Denver, 9:37 ET
The Big Red are coming off a 6-4 loss to Maine in the Florida College Classic and head to Colorado for the second straight season after taking three points at Colorado College last January. This is the first meeting in 27 seasons between these teams. Tie
Saturday, January 5
Dartmouth at Princeton, 4 p.m.
The Big Green are only 1-2-2 on the road this season, but should have enough to end the weekend with a win. Dartmouth wins
Harvard at Quinnipiac
It's the worst power-play in the nation (Harvard) versus the nation's third-best penalty kill unit (Quinnipiac). I'll take the Bobcats. Quinnipiac wins
Rennselaer at New Hampshire
A brutal road trip for RPI continues in Durham. The Engineers have started to put some goals together, but they'll be facing a stingy Wildcat defense and goalie Casey DeSmith, who is tied for second in the country with four shutouts. New Hampshire wins
RIT at St. Lawrence
The Saints should complete the sweep here to head into conference play with a little momentum. St. Lawrence wins
Sacred Heart at Colgate
The Raiders are undefeated against Atlantic Hockey teams this season and are 7-0 all-time against the Pioneers. I don't see any of those streaks coming to an end here. Colgate wins
Massachusetts-Lowell at Clarkson
I think the Golden Knights bounce back to get the weekend split. Clarkson wins
Union at Lake Superior
The Dutchmen haven't won two in a row since sweeping Penn State Nov. 24-25. Road sweeps are always tough, but I think Union should head home with three points from the weekend. Tie
Cornell at Denver, 9:07 MT
Like Union, I think Cornell heads back east with three points. Cornell wins
Wednesday, January 9
Harvard at Boston University
This is Harvard's third game in just under a week after playing only three times over the last month. Boston University wins
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Winter solstice lunar eclipse
Here are the series of pictures of the moon I took early this morning during the full lunar eclipse. We were lucky that the sky remained clear throughout the night.
The 1st one shows the pre-eclipse moon at 19:44 on 20 December.
I went to bed before midnight, but got up around 01:15 and stayed up for the next hour and a half. The good thing was that I didn't have to venture far from the house to photograph the moon. Until about 02:00 I had an unobstructed view of it from my deck. Soon after that the moon moved behind a pine tree. But even then I only had to step down into the backyard for a clear view of the moon.
The next shot taken at 01:26 shows a shadow falling across the upper lefthand edge of the moon. The eclipse had started.
At 01:53, the eclipse was obvious.
Most of the moon's face had been shadowed by 02:19. At that time, the stars near the moon had become visible. The eclipsed moon and the bright stars formed a nice spectacle that more than justified standing at below-freezing temperatures outdoors in the middle of the night.
This is the last photo I took at 02:41. These last pictures showing the full eclipse didn't come out good. Over at A DC Birding Blog, John has much better ones.
I took all the pictures with an Olympus E-500 camera using a Zuiko 40-150 mm lens set at 150 mm. Until shortly before the moon was fully eclipsed, I did not need a tripod and could hold the camera in my hands. Even at 02:09 the moon was still bright enough for a shutter speed that did not require the use of a tripod. Once the brightness of the moon was reduced to a sliver, however, I had to reduce the shutter speed and put the camera on a tripod. At the time when the full eclipse started, I was using a shutter speed of 1/30 s at f4.5 and a sensitivity of 400 to be able to capture the red light covering the eclipsed face of the moon. I should also have used a remote release, for some of the last pictures turned out blurry from the shaking of the tripod.


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Pitbull and genocide are probably two words you never thought you would hear together but alas they are being used in the same sentence by celebrity dog trainer, Cesar Millan.
As an advocate for the nation's most feared breed, Milan claims that many dogs are being killed just because of how they look -- and some are not even pitbulls.
It's sad but realistic truth. Thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of these dogs are needlessly killed each year in shelters, in dog fights and by trigger-happy police officers who use the breeds reputation as an excuse to shoot and kill something. It needs to stop.
"Our ignorance level is growing way too out of proportion, to the point that we believe that getting rid of a breed is a solution," Millan said. "Genocide. It's a genocide."
Millan will be shown in a special National Geographic documentary which will showcase the breed and interview shelter workers, among others.
"A dog can't hire a lawyer, to protect and defend himself from the mistreatment of humankind," Millan explained, in an interview with HuffPost Green. "We have so many problems. One area where we shouldn't have problems is with dogs. No matter what breed you have, we shouldn't have problems with dogs. The most dangerous thing on the planet is an ignorant humankind."
He's right, you know. Dogs cannot defend themselves at all. They can't speak and say that their owner taught them to fight and would torture them if they didn't obey ; They can't speak and say that their former owner was so neglectful that they are now terrified for their lives and feel forced to defend themselves ; They can't speak and say that they are a really good dog in need of a loving home where they can rest their weary little head. They can't say any of these things which is why having someone as well known as Cesar Milan speak on their behalf is uplifting.
If you have a pitbull -- or have even just known one in a casual circumstance -- then you can probably attest that not all pits are bad. If you've never met with one face-to-face, go to your local shelter, which is sure to be crammed with the breed, and ask to know about one. Most of the pitbulls that enter a shelter will never get out alive and sadly, many of them are kind, loving dogs who just want a home and an owner to call their own.
Cesar Millan's "Love My Pitbull" will air on Nat Geo Wild on April 18.


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There has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of shale gas wells drilled in the U.S. during the past ten years. The most prolific shale gas fields are the Barnett (north central Texas), Haynesville (northeastern Texas and western Louisiana) and the Marcellus (portions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and New York). Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) of the producing formation is the process by which high volumes of water are pumped downhole under high pressures in order to fracture the productive formation thereby releasing the gas to production.
As one would expect, the anti-fossil fuel green crowd and their lawyers have sought to do everything in their power to block drilling in these new gas fields. Their main ploy has been to claim that fresh groundwater has been polluted as a result of the fracing process. The main and simple truth of the matter is that (as illustrated above) the groundwater formation, just below the surface, is cased with surface casing pipe. Additionally, the entire production string is cased from the producing zone to the wellhead . The producing formation which is fraced, is a mile and a half below the groundwater formation. The idea that fracing a well causes ground water contamination has as much merit as someone who lives a mile away from you claiming that their ceiling leaks every time you flush your toilet.
The University of Texas' Energy Institute last week concluded and published the results of an exhaustive investigation into many issues related to shale gas development. Their conclusions pretty much mirror what industry experts have been saying for years. The findings
Researchers found no evidence of aquifer contamination from hydraulic fracturing chemicals in the subsurface by fracturing operations, and observed no leakage from hydraulic fracturing at depth.
Many reports of groundwater contamination occur in conventional oil and gas operations (e.g., failure of well-bore casing and cementing) and are not unique to hydraulic fracturing.
Methane found in water wells within some shale gas areas (e.g., Marcellus) can most likely be traced to natural sources, and likely was present before the onset of shale gas operations.
Surface spills of fracturing fluids appear to pose greater risks to groundwater sources than from hydraulic fracturing itself.
Blowouts — uncontrolled fluid releases during construction or operation — are a rare occurrence, but subsurface blowouts appear to be under-reported.
The study further shows that public perception of the fracing process has been negatively impacted by the overwhelmingly negative reporting by the biased and scientifically ignorant press.
Energy Institute researchers analyzed print, broadcast and online news media coverage of shale gas development in the Marcellus, Haynesville, and Barnett shale areas. They found that the tone of media coverage has been overwhelmingly negative in all forms of media. Roughly two-thirds of the articles and stories examined were deemed negative, a finding that was consistent nationally and at local levels.
Researchers also found that less than 20% of newspaper articles on hydraulic fracturing mention scientific research related to the issue. Similarly, only 25% of broadcast news stories examined made reference to scientific studies, and about 33% of online news coverage mentioned scientific research on the issue.
Don't take my word for it. Read the entire article here.
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Low-cost airline to begin new service out of PBIA
$56 to Virgina
"PeopleExpress" Airlines is returning to West Palm Beach.
The carrier that served West Palm Beach about 30 years ago, is returning with its low-fare flights.
The carrier is beginning service to connect PBIA with Newport News, Virginia. The inaugural flight into West Palm Beach is set to arrive at 2:15 p.m. on Monday and will be greeted with a water-cannon welcome at the gate.
Introductory fares start as low as $56 each way for travel in July.
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Trace Guidry (right) fits freshman walk-on punter Steven Broccoli with a helmet during the Green Wave's reporting day on Sunday.
Aug. 5, 2012
New Orleans - Tulane University first-year head football coach Curtis Johnson welcomed 100 players to campus on Sunday morning as the 2012 Green Wave football squad assembled together for the first time on the eve of the 2012 fall camp.
The team began the morning moving into their fall camp dorm rooms, meeting with various support staff areas and compliance officers, going through team rules and policies and was fitted for equipment. The players and coaches will conclude the evening with its first team meeting.
"I have been looking forward to this day since we finished up spring practice," Johnson said. "It's great to finally have all the players and coaches together and I cannot wait to get started. We'll spend today getting everyone organized and tomorrow we'll start camp and the process of preparing our team for Sept. 1.
"This is the fun time of the year and my expectations are to get better every day. I hope our fans will come out and support us throughout fall camp."
The Green Wave will practice for the first time as a unit at the Westfeldt Practice Facility on Monday, Aug. 6 at 8:30 a.m. Tulane's practices are open to both the public and the media.
TU's 2012 preseason camp features 22 practice dates, including a pair of public scrimmages and two dates at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and the Wave will wrap up fall camp on Saturday, Aug. 25. Fall classes begin at Tulane on Monday, Aug. 27.
Senior defensive end Brock Sanders was the lone player who did not report. Sanders was excused from today's team activities due to his right foot injury he sustained near the end of spring practice.
Johnson announced on Sunday the addition of punter/kicker Peter Picerelli and five walk-on players, including punter/kicker Steven Broccoli, punter/kicker Logan Hilton, linebacker David Laborde, wide receiver Alec Macias and defensive lineman Ruston Pritchard from nearby Chalmette.
Johnson's first-year squad is comprised of 54 returning lettermen, including 17 starters (7-offense; 7-defense; 3-special teams), with 10 redshirt-freshmen and nine squad members and features 28 newcomers. Tulane's 2012 squad is made up of 83 scholarship players and 18 walk-ons.
Tulane will play its first game under Johnson when it opens the 2012 campaign at home in the Superdome against Big East Conference opponent Rutgers on Saturday, Sept. 1 in a nationally-televised contest on the CBS Sports Network at 7 p.m. CST.
For ticket information, please call the Tulane Ticket office at (504) 861-WAVE (9281), visit the ticket office inside the James W. Wilson Jr., Center located along Ben Weiner Drive on the Tulane campus, or simply log on to www.TulaneGreenWave.com.
This Week's Camp Schedule:
6 - Monday - Practice #1 (8:30 a.m.) - First Practice
7 - Tuesday - Practice #2 (8:30 a.m.)
8 - Wednesday - Practice #3 (8:30 a.m.)
9 - Thursday - Practice #4 (8:30 a.m.)
10 - Friday - Practice #5 (8:30 a.m.) - First Day in Pads
11 - Saturday - Practice #6 (8:30 a.m.) - Scrimmage


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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Huntley Journalist Al Balk: History On the Run
Balk, born 70 years ago in small-town Iowa, was pretty good right off the bat earning a Master's at Northwestern's Medill journalism school. After a timeout for the Army he did stints as a newswriter at WBBM and a reporter at the Sun Times before becoming a national freelance writer in 1958. There followed several years of stories for important magazines, most of which don't exist anymore. A lot of the stories involved race relations like a piece he wrote with Alex Haley, the first big expose of the Nation of Islam. Others involved politics like a legislative corruption piece he wrote with Paul Simon that eventually prompted state ethics reforms.
Eventually Balk moved to New York where he edited four different national magazines including the influential (in journalism, anyway) Columbia Journalism Review and helped found the National News Council, an organization that tried for a while to raise journalistic standards before the bean counters decided that was too expensive.
Balk served on the faculty at both Columbia and Syracuse schools of journalism before moving to Huntley in 1994. He also authored seven books, one with Irv Kupcinet, the last four years ago, a well-regarded history of radio.
In the pic: Al Balk signing his radio history at the Museum of Broadcasting in Minneapolis last year.
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William KentridgeSouth African, born 1955
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William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, seven years after the 1948 elections that instituted apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness") as a government-sponsored regime that imposed rigorous restrictions on nonwhite citizens, from mandating the types of employment available to them and controlling areas of tenancy to disallowing their right to vote. The son of two prominent lawyers invested in representing those the apartheid system oppressed, Kentridge came of age, and sought to come to terms with, the fragmented and fractured society of Johannesburg, a city whose elite center was surrounded by shantytowns full of marginalized black, Indian, and other nonwhite populations. As a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1970s, Kentridge focused on politics and African Studies, but in the years following he would find theater and art better suited to grappling with his country's tension and plight. He began to act, write, and design sets for the racially integrated Junction Avenue Theatre Company, and he introduced fine art into his repertoire in 1976-78 while studying at the Johannesburg Art Foundation. In 1978, Kentridge began experimenting with film and also had his first solo show at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg. While studying theater and mime in Paris in 1981-82, Kentridge also exhibited in numerous group shows in South Africa with drawings that evoked European influences such as Max Beckmann and Francisco Goya. His short film Howl at the Moon earned a Red Ribbon Award at New York's American Film Festival in 1982, and he garnered a Blue Ribbon in 1985 with another short. Following his first group show in New York in 1986 and first solo show London in 1987, Kentridge made Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris in 1989, the first in his series of animated films deriving from nine Drawings for Projection that tell the epic tale of Kentridge's opposing and semi-autobiographical characters-the avaricious businessman Soho Eckstein and the romantic and somewhat lost soul Felix Teitlebaum. In 1993 Kentridge's films were screened at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. During this period, negotiations within the government started to dismantle South Africa's apartheid system, and in 1994 a democratic election accepted votes from across the populace in an effort to unify the country. Yet the ideals of reintegration in areas such as Johannesburg were met with the volatile reality of the rich and poor populations sharing metropolitan spaces. The city hosted the global art community in 1995 and 1997 for two Johannesburg Biennials, both of which included works by Kentridge. He soon became a leading voice in contemporary art through practice that expressly deals with the plight of South Africa but also resonates with strife-stricken communities and cultures throughout the world. In 1997 his films were included in Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and in 1998 in New York, the Drawing Center hosted a show of his works on paper, the Museum of Modern Art held Projects 68: William Kentridge, and he was short-listed for the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize at the Soho Guggenheim Museum. By the early twenty-first century, Kentridge's global reputation as one of the most fascinating and innovative artists spurred the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, to co-organize a survey exhibition that also traveled to Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and Cape Town. In 2001, Creative Time aired his film Shadow Procession on the NBC Astrovision Panasonic screen in Times Square. Kentridge remained involved in theater simultaneous to his art projects, and his puppet-based play Confessions of Zeno-one of several collaborations with the Handspring Puppet Company in Johannesburg-was presented at Documenta11 in 2002, as was his film Zeno Writing. In 2004-5, a major retrospective of Kentridge's work was shown in Turin, Düsseldorf, Sydney, Montreal, and Johannesburg. His recent staging of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute played to audiences in Brussels, Tel Aviv, Naples, New York, and Johannesburg. Kentridge continues to live and work in Johannesburg, and he is represented internationally by Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, Lia Rumma Gallery in Naples and Milan, and Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. Notations/William Kentridge: Tapestries, 2007


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Things to see and do - Coalisland
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Coalisland Travel guide
Coalisland : Michelin's recommendations
The landscape around Coalisland is still scarred by coal mining and the industrial activity that stemmed from it. The coal seam, exploited from the 17C onwards, was abandoned because faults were present, and the last mine closed in 1970. Spinning and flour mills operated nearby, and refractory clay was produced. The Coalisland Canal was the first British canal to be dug which incorporated inclined planes.


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Jul 7, 2010 11:07 AM
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Franchise Index: Previous Season / Next Season
Record: 2-14-0, Finished 4th in AFC East Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 322 points (20.1/g), 15th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 370 points (23.1/g), 22nd.
Differential of -48 points (-3.0/g), 19th.
Expected W-L: 6.7-9.3.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -17 (-1.1/g), 27th.
Simple Rating System: Total -3.7, Offense: -0.6, Defense: -3.1, SoS: -0.7, versus averages of 0.0.
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Ron Erhardt
Offensive Coordinator: Jim Ringo
Defensive Coordinator: Fritz Shurmur
Training Camp: Bryant College (Smithfield, Rhode Island)
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Better batteries and high-torque starters have helped, but starting big inch motors can still be troublesome.
S&S Cycle's compression release system eliminates high compression starting problems. Designed exclusively for S&S cylinder heads, the compression release system consists of a small valve that opens during starting and allows a portion of the cylinder pressure to escape into the exhaust port. The reduced cylinder pressure makes it easier for the starter to turn the engine.
When the engine starts, the valve closes and the engine runs normally, with full compression. With the S&S compression release kit, a stock starter is able to start almost any engine. These compression releases are a good solution for engines using other manufacturer's cams, which do not have built-in compression releases. Fits S&S cylinder heads for big twin.
Electric compression release:
Solenoid operated, this system automatically opens and closes when the starter button is pressed and released. Convenient and simple, this is the best setup for big displacement high compression bikes. Requires S&S die cast rocker covers shown here.
- S&S rocker covers must be used with electric compression releases due to clearance requirements for the solenoids.
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- All S&S heads for 1999-up big twins are machined for S&S compression releases.
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Aechmea fasciata
The classic vase-shaped bromeliad from Brazil. It's semi-hardy here if you have a protected spot but we prefer not to worry and so we keep them indoor.
I don't really have much to add to that stunning display of pink red purple and blue, so I'll just let the picture speak for itself.
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Kelly Says:
August 31st, 2011 at 7:24 am
Beautiful. I wonder how it would do in my office (downtown sf)? Does it need a lot of light? One concern I would have is that whenever I put interesting flowers in my office, co-workers tend to touch and/or pet the petals. Why? Why would you touch a flower? Isn't that weird?
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August 31st, 2011 at 7:33 am
It will do well in a SF office with some bright light nearby. As for the flowers, they're a bit stiffer than most since it's a bromeliad, so it's OK to touch.


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Re: [groovy-dev] Support for python's -i flag
On 5 Aug 2004, at 16:34, Yuri Schimke wrote: > Sounds quite useful. But we are currently following perl/ruby command > line args, and using -i for in-place editing, search and replace kind > of thing. > > How about? > > groovysh --include groovy > > groovysh (groovy.ui.InteractiveShell) currently ignores the command > line arguments. But you can copy some of the code from > groovy.ui.GroovyMain to add command line handling and execute the > file contents before hand. Sounds like a good idea. I can imagine this being really handy for having a script which sets up a bunch of resources (e.g. JDBC connections and so forth) so that you can then just do some interactive querying etc. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/


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Jonas Gustavsson takes to the net wearing an OHL practice jersey, having switched to Team Black for the third period of the "Rock Out the Lockout" charity game.
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Meet Beatrice David
Beatrice David will be celebrating her 101st birthday this July, making her one of the oldest members in the longevity study on healthy aging. She suffers some hearing loss, but her daughter helped to conduct this interview by asking her mother the questions and filling in any gaps. Born in New York City, Beatrice soon moved and grew up in a small town in New Jersey.
Growing up, she remembers walking one mile to school in the morning, a mile home for lunch, a mile back to school, and a mile back home in the afternoon. Later in life, Beatrice worked as a business secretary and raised her three children, two daughters and a son. She now resides in Arizona with one of her daughters while her other children visit frequently. Beatrice enjoys spending time with her loving, caring family.
Beatrice jokingly said, "I have no idea, no one else in our family has lived this long," when asked what the most important factor is that has contributed to her healthy aging and longevity. Her daughter jokingly said she never even ate healthy, but also never smoked.
In her leisure time, Beatrice enjoys reading. She purchased a Kindle at the age of 99 and spends time reading mystery novels and some romance books.
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This is the third time this film has been made by Disney, and the second in ten years. The original was made in 1976, and a 1995 television remake was produced for ABC. This story is based on the book of the same title by Mary Rodgers.
Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) is a rebellious teenager who constantly fights with her stuffy mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and annoying younger brother Harry. Sources of irritation include a rock band Anna's in, which her mother dislikes, and Tess's upcoming wedding to a man named Ryan (Mark Harmon), which Anna is not ready for emotionally since she still misses her father after his (unknown) death three years ago. Also contributing to Anna's irritation is Stacey Hinkhouse, the "insane pyscho freak" who never seems to stop torturing her, and Anna's English teacher, Mr. Bates, who always gives her an F on every assignment, no matter how hard she tries. When the family, along with Ryan and Anna's grandfather, eat out in a Chinese restaurant, Anna and Tess quickly start into a fight again: Anna wishes to participate with the rest of her band in a talent show, however the show is the same night as Tess's wedding rehearsal. Hearing the argument, an elderly Chinese woman offers Anna and Tess both fortune cookies. Upon opening them, there is a small earthquake which only the pair feel. The next day, Tess wakes up and discovers that she is in Anna's body. Likewise, Anna is in her mother's body. Confused, they decide to go back to the restaurant at lunch to find out what happened. Since Anna has an important test and Tess must go to work (as a psychologist, some of the patients are dependent on her), the two are forced into each other's roles. At school, Tess is given a bad grade from Mr. Bates and realizes that he had asked her when they were younger to a dance, which she refused and now he was taking it out on Anna. Tess confronts Mr. Bates in front of both of Anna's friends, humiliating him.
At work, Anna counsels the patients with some difficulty and then gives her mother's body a makeover, including new clothes, a new haircut, and an ear piercing. At lunch, the two go to the restaurant and talk to Pei-Pei, the daughter of the woman that gave them the fortune cookies. Furious at her mother's meddling but unable to directly help them, Pei-Pei advises them to read the fortunes in the cookies, as when the fortunes come true, they will swap back. The fortunes tell that "when what you gain is what you lack, then selfless love will change you back", leaving them just as confused. In the afternoon, Anna attends Harry's parent-teacher conference, where she learns that he secretly admired his sister greatly, but provoked fights so that she'd pay attention to him. When Tess took Anna's test, Stacey made it look like Tess was cheating. Tess is able to finish the test later with the help of Jake (Chad Michael Murray), an older student that Anna had a crush on (she also gets revenge on Stacey by erasing all of Stacey's answers and replacing them with "I'm Stupid!").
At the wedding rehearsal that evening, Anna's bandmates come to try to convince "Anna" to go to the audition. Ryan gives her permission and tells "Tess" that he wanted Anna to accept him into the family on her own. Seeing Ryan in a new light, Anna leaves to watch her band perform. At the audition, Tess is unable to play the guitar so Anna unplugs it and plays another guitar backstage. For the first time, Tess realizes how exciting it is to be on stage and why Anna loves the rock band.
Back at the wedding, Tess asks Anna to have Ryan postpone the wedding, so that Anna won't have to go through marrying him in her mother's body. Instead, Anna proposes a toast where she accepts Ryan. There is a second earthquake and Anna and Tess switch back into their own bodies. At the wedding the next day, Anna's band performs and Anna gets a chance to dance with (and kiss) Jake. Pei-Pei's mother notices Harry and his grandfather fighting and offers them fortune cookies...which Pei-Pei manages to retrieve before they are opened.
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Dr. Tess Coleman
- Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman
- Mark Harmon as Ryan
- Harold Gould as Allen Coleman
- Chad Michael Murray as Jake
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Mr. Elton Bates
- Christina Vidal as Maddie
- Ryan Malgarini as Harry Coleman
- Haley Hudson as Peg
- Lucille Soong as Pei-Pei's Mom
- Rosalind Chao as Pei-Pei
- Willie Garson as Evan
- Dina Waters as Dottie Robertson (Dina Spybey)
- Julie Gonzalo as Stacey Hinkhouse
- Christina Marie Walter as Same Shirt Girl
- Chris Carlberg as Ethan the Drummer
- Danny Rubin as Scott the Bassist
The film's producer Andrew Gunn said he initially hoped Jodie Foster (who played the daughter Annabel in the original film, "Freaky Friday", (1976) would be interested to play the mother in the remake. Foster declined in order to spend more time with her family and because of concerns that the casting stunt would overshadow the movie's overall merit. Annette Bening was then cast in the role, but dropped out because of family obligations.
Jamie Lee Curtis was given the role only four days before filming began. Marc McClure, who played Boris Harris, Annabel's love interest in the original film, has a brief cameo as Boris the delivery man. Director Mark Waters also makes a cameo holding a baby at the wedding. Also, in the end scene when Anna is dancing with Jake, there is a woman in the background dancing with an older gentleman, and she looks directly at the camera. This woman is Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina Lohan. The snapshots in the opening credits are photos of Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter, Annie Guest.
The movie was a box office success, garnering a total of $110,222,438. Critics were mostly positive in their movie reviews and the film currently garners a "B" grade on Yahoo! movies, an 88% "Certified Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a score of 6.6/10 on Imdb. The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe (Best Leading Actress- Musical/Comedy) for Jamie Lee Curtis's performance as Tess.


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Stanford, Calif. -- Freshman OF Cassi Brangham (Clovis, CA) recorded a seventh inning hit to drive in senior C Kellie Wiginton (Fresno, CA) to give the ninth-ranked Stanford softball team (34-9, 3-6 Pac-10) a 3-2 victory over 14th-ranked Oregon State (27-13-1, 1-7 Pac-10) today at the Stanford Softball Complex. The win is the second consecutive for the Cardinal in Pac-10 play.
Stanford had led the game 2-1 heading into the top of the seventh inning, but a home run by OSU's Shelly Prochaska tied the score, forcing the Cardinal to bat in the bottom half of the inning. Wiginton led off with a single to right-centerfield which was mishandled by RF Brooke Rutschman, allowing Wiginton to advance to second. A groundout by sophomore SS Robin Walker (La Palma, CA) allowed Wiginton to advance to third. OSU pitcher Tarrah Beyster intentionally walked sophomore OF Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, CA) and sophomore 1B Sarah Beeson (Tucson, AZ) to load the bases. Beyster struckout freshman Maureen LeCocq (Woodland Hills, CA), before allowing the game-winning hit through the infield by Brangham.
Oregon State scored the first run of the game on a leadoff double by Jennie Jodoin and a one out double by Cara Maxey in the second inning.
The Cardinal responded to take the lead on Mendoza's seventh home run of the season. The two-run home run gave Stanford a 2-1 lead in the fifth.
Stanford P Dana Sorensen (San Diego, CA) improved her record to 17-5 with the win. Despite giving up 10 hits, four were hits to leadoff an inning, Sorensen allowed two earned runs and struckout four OSU batters for her seventh complete game of the year.
The Cardinal will resume play tomorrow, when the 23rd-ranked Oregon Ducks visit the Stanford Softball Complex at 2 p.m. The Cardinal and Ducks will conclude the weekend series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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12 Yard Productions, the ITV Studios-owned indie, has been commissioned by BBC One to produce pilot Mrs Brown's Celebrities, a Saturday night game show. It will be hosted by comedian Brendan O'Carroll as Irish mother Mrs Brown, the character from his BAFTA award-winning comedy Mrs Brown's Boys.
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The high seawall that lines the Cooper River side of Charleston Harbor replaced the masonry wall built in 1700 to fortify the city. Strengthened over the years to ward off hurricanes, this wall became known as the High Battery for the gun emplacement stationed here during the War of 1812. Today this popular promenade attracts strollers, joggers and bikers, who enjoy views of the river and of the graceful homes that line East and South Battery. These elegant pastel structures, positioned so that their airy piazzas catch the prevailing breezes, provide stellar examples of Charleston's noted antebellum residential architecture. At the tip of the point, White Point Gardens—named for the mounds of oyster shells that once accumulated here—were laid out by John Charles Olmsted in 1906.


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Adaptec's 5Z Series cards now come armed with a "super capacitor" and secondary NAND cache. When a lack of power is presented, the capacitor contains enough juice to write the traditional cache's contents to the NAND cache, thus evading data loss. The capacitor and controller card are separate units, adjoined with a power cord. There are numerous benefits of kicking your battery to the curb – not least its lengthy recharge time. The super-capacitor charges in mere minutes of having a power source.
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For the second straight year, an outfielder from Hagerstown is poised to skip Potomac and head to Harrisburg instead.
Multiple online sources are reporting that Hagerstown CF Brian Goodwin will be promoted from the Suns to the Sens, with Harrisburg CF Eury Perez heading to Syracuse to make room. Steven Souza Jr. is also in line for a return to Woodbridge, according to Kerr.
As the headline notes, this means that Potomac CF Michael Taylor is staying put, and according to Geoff Morrow of the Patriot-News, J.R. Higley will be reassigned to Potomac, indicating that more moves are coming since the Potomac roster was at the roster limit of 25 following the additions of Alex Meyer and Aaron Barrett yesterday as well as MiLB.com indicating that Sam Palace had been transferred from the Suns to the P-Nats as well.
Goodwin had posted a line of .324/.438/.542 in 58 games while missing five weeks with a hamstring injury, and gets the bump that went to Bryce Harper last July in 39 fewer PAs and 14 fewer games played.
UPDATE: Potomac has officially announced the placement of OF Jayson Werth and IF Chad Tracy to the roster as rehab assignments, the promotion of OF Steve Souza Jr. from Hagerstown and the placement of OF Randolph Oduber onto the 7-day DL. C Sam Palace has been transferred from the Suns, but he is listed as on the DL as well.
UPDATE #2: Harrisburg has officially announced the promotion of OF Eury Perez to Syracuse, the promotion of OF Brian Goodwin from Hagerstown, and the transfer of OF J.R. Higley to Hagerstown (not Potomac as initially reported).
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It might be time to start talking about signing or trading for BJ Upton. That would be a relief; I just don't see the appeal.
Were Meyer and Goodwin both picks the Nats received for losing Adam Dunn? I know Meyer was, but if Goodwin was, too, it is starting to look like a great "trade".
Correct. Both Meyer and Goodwin came to the organization from picks received from losing Adam Dunn.
Great news for Goodwin, he has had a very consistently good stint in Hagerstown. Have to wonder if the bump up for Perez means Brown is about to be promoted.
I'm not so sure. Brown has played all around the outfield, so they could just shift him to LF when Perez arrives.
I think this probably just ends Jim Negrych's time with Syracuse.
Or Brett Carroll, Mark Teahen, Jarrett Hoffpauir.
Glad to see the Nats FO finally not being so conservative with the farm system!
Here's to hoping Goodwin keeps playing just as well as he had in Hagerstown.
Very exciting news.
Can't wait to see him play when the Sens come back to Richmond August 7-9!
Anthony Rendon sighting in a Gulf Coast game yesterday! 0 for 2, but at least he's playing again.
Good catch! I was beginning to wonder if we were going to see him again this year.
good for goodwin, i hope that he, meyer and rendon dont get traded otherwise the farm is in trouble.
Taylor doesnt deserve a promotion, not much power, too many strikeouts, very low average.
corey brown isnt really part of the future, hes 26, past being someone the nats consider
I don't think that Corey Brown is completely off the radar at this point; while their chances diminish, there are players that are late bloomers. Jayson Werth, Josh Willingham and Mike Morse are three I can think of right off the top of my head. But he has put himself into a position where he's going to have to continue to rake just to remain a part of the conversation.
The Nats contenting for the playoffs this year hurts Brown's chances to get ABs in September. Most likely, he'll end up being a little used reserve after the rosters expand.
Taylor however is only 20/21 years old. He is still at this time part of the future.
Apparently Nats signed a LHP named Andrew Wall.
Looks like Graham Hicks is back and pitching in the GCL.
The Texas Rangers did this wih their top prospect (a SS) in May, going from Low A to AA, and he's doing pretty well so far.
It's a bit scary,as you don't want what happened with Bill Rhinhart to happen here, but Michael Taylor clearly wasn't ready to be promoted.
Let's hope Goodwin can make it work.
Rhinehart was two years older and never really considered a top prospect. Goodwin, on the other hand, might even be in the conversation to win the starting CF job in DC as early as sometime next year, assuming he does well at H-burg and in the AFL.
I'm hoping (rooting) that you're right.
I noticed a couple of non-drafted FAs from the 2012 crop on the CGL roster — Matt Foat from USC, Will Piwnica-Worms from Duke (where else with such a hyphenation!) and Mike Albaladejo from FL Atlantic. Anybody have any sights on these young guys.
I'd guess the chances of NDFAs moving beyond A ball ain't good. Seth Bynam made it all the way to Syracuse, but at 32 his run is nearly over.
Pete Orr was a NDFA, if you want an example of a guy who made it.
The chances for this year's NDFAs should be better just because the draft was shortened by 10 rounds.
Josh Wilkie was also a NDFA and has made it to AAA.
Has to get a cup of coffee and a coaching position. Jason Michaels is now a coach in Syracuse.
Higley to Hagerstown, per milb.com
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The Arkansas Senate is attempting to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would ban most abortions in the state 12 weeks into a pregnancy.
The Senate on Tuesday planned to vote on overriding Beebe's veto of the measure that would be the strictest abortion ban in the country if enacted. Beebe vetoed the measure on Monday because he said it was unconstitutional and because of the costs of defending the measure in court.
Overriding a governor's veto in Arkansas takes a simple majority in the House and Senate. It's unclear when the House would vote on an override.
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