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Agents find about $400,000 worth of marijuana in Houma house
Published: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 10:58 a.m.
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Agents confiscated nearly $400,000 worth of suspected marijuana in a raid last week on a Houma residence where they believe it may have been grown. Gerard Desoto, 58, 306 Cenac St., was arrested Friday after the raid of his house, which happened after a four-month investigation, agents said.
The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office incorrectly reported the worth of hydroponic bauds found in Desoto's house. The 120 grams of hydroponic buds have a street value of $12,000.
The State Police Crime Lab has to verify if the seized materials are real marijuana, said Darryl Stewart, an assistant supervisor with the Terrebonne Parish Narcotics Task Force.
In Desoto's house, agents believe they found 20 suspected plants valued at $30,000; 29.8 pounds of hydroponic marijuana with a street value of $223,000; four bundles of marijuana, which weighed 83.2 pounds, worth $116,480; 120 grams of hydroponic buds worth $12,000; and $9,365 in cash.
The plants were growing inside the house, rather than surreptitiously outside, which is more common, Stewart said.
Agents also found two guns, he said.
The state Air National Guard aided the investigation, Terrebonne deputies said.
Desoto is in the Terrebonne Parish jail on $300,000 bond.
He is charged with possession with intent to distribute or manufacture marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a firearm with a controlled dangerous substance, and illegal proceeds from drug transactions, records show.
The ongoing investigation may lead to more charges, Stewart said.
The minute agents talked to Desoto at his house, there was "an obvious smell" of marijuana, Stewart said.
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Awaken is a digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice or choose from a selection of built in alarm sounds. Alarms can be created to alert you on a weekly basis at a set time, or at any specific date and time. You can also fall asleep to your favorite music using the newly introduced sleep timer.
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Since version 5 I've been experiencing occasional failed awakenings (crashes) that have been leaving my boss and colleagues none too happy (I work in a pre-school. I just can't be late. Ever.) So I've had to install Alarm Clock 2 as a backup alarm 5 minutes after Awaken.
I've also been experiencing other bugs, like multiple instances running at once. In a fullscreen alarm, using the spacebar doesn't work to stop the alarm on a second press; I have to use the mouse. Previous versions were much more stable and reliable. The app needs some updates, Jerry.
iTunes Alarm does the same thing and it's free
is the version 5 coming in the next 5 years or 2 maybe?
I thought Cha-ching was slow but this...the master of mega slow..one year ago there was a comment : we are finishing it up...n stuff...
mistergsf - we replied yesterday to let you know that the issue you were having has been corrected in Awaken 5 which we are working on finishing up. Along with that message we sent a free license for your patience. We're looking forward to getting Awaken 5 out there for everyone.
It has been 5 business days since my email to Embraceware for support on November 11. Other than the automated reply thanking me for my message, I have not received any response. Your website states that you respond to email support within 48 hrs.
On November 14, I sent a follow-up email regarding my case (#608) asking when I can expect a response. This time, I did not even get an automated reply.
This is a BIG disappointment. Especially since I chose to purchase Awaken over Aurora because I was impressed by your quick response to my questions during my decision making process.
I don't know what else to say except that it almost feels like an insult to have my email for support totally ignored. Kinda makes me lose enthusiasm for your product.
Hi Jerry,
any chance to have a beta version of the upcoming 5.0 version ?
We cannot wait anymore :)
When the new version will be avaible ?
@fa_ce - to answer your questions. #1: Yes, there will be many languages coming with Awaken 5 including Italian. #6: We're planning to have a feature complete beta of Awaken 5 available by the end of this month. Regarding your support questions please email our support staff at [email protected] They're very responsive. I have no way of emailing you as your iusethisprofile contains no contact information. Cheers.
I really like your application and like to know:
1) there'll be a localizated version, in Italian ? When ?
2) i just want to setup an alarm to wake up my mac, no sound, no task, nothing ... only wake up, seems a missing function, isn't it ?
after wake up i'd like to leave mac turn on for example 30 minutes and then let awaken puts my mac to sleep again, how to do ?
3) i just want Awaken to wake up my mac and not show Awaken (it should be run only in background), is it possible ?
4) when add a musical alarm (itunes song) i'd like Awaken simply sing it without execute itunes on the screen, or at least i need a functionality to exit from itunes when alarm is finished, is it possible ?
5) one more, i want to play a alarm (itunes song) for 1 minute and then after 30 minutes make my mac to sleep, seems impossible to setup.
I've setup in preferences of my mac to sleep after 30 minutes but seems that Awaken interfere with it, how to solve that? Any chance, as said for Awaken to overwrite system preferences and sleep mac after xxx time after alarm ?
6) when the new version will be avaible ? i've read in september, when ?
thanks and sorry for this email questions attack :)
@paperdigits - we just launched version 4.0.19. It addresses any memory issues you were having. Thanks for the feedback which lead to the fix for everyone. We're back to coding Awaken 5 now.
jerry - it is indeed at 24 megs of ram upon opening it. if it gets back to 75, i will try and document what is going on and email.
button mapping -- awesome. i can't wait. :P
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by Craig Weatherby
In a coincidence that seemed to echo the back-and-forth nature of many findings on nutrition and health, two seemingly contradictory announcements were made on the same day last month.
This latest apparent contradiction concerned the cardiovascular effects of carbohydrates a term that covers sugars (glucose, sucrose, glucose, etc.) and the chains of linked sugars called starches.
Last month, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended that people cut back on added sugars, because of the well-establish heart risk of sugary diets.
And on the very same day, the authors of a new study reported that mice placed on a low-carb diet suffered two ill effects:
- A significant increase in atherosclerosisthe buildup of arterial plaque that leads to heart attack and stroke.
- A likely loss of ability to repair the kind of routine vascular damage that promotes atherosclerosis if left unaddressed by the body.
- The design of the mouse study was so hilariously flawed that it actually proves little or nothing about the effects of low-carb diets on mouse arteries, much less human arteries.
- Diets that are either extremely high in added sugars or extremely low in carbohydrates (sugars and starches) fall well outside the range of diets the human body became adapted to over many millennia.
While neither extreme is likely to be ideal for arteries or overall health, the available evidence leans much more heavily in favor of low-carb diets than the typical American's high-carb diet.
How Americas sugary diets harm cardiovascular health
Sugars are harmful in excess, especially when they are consumed in the form of empty-calorie snacks and sweets, as opposed to whole fruits rich in healthful fibers, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Too often, low-carb diets make little distinction between added sugars and carbs from healthful whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
The refined, rapidly digested starches in white flour and other refined rain products from which the fiber and nutrients have been stripped are just as bad as sugars when it comes to promoting diabetes and heart disease.
(Its important to note that the resistant starches found in all beans and in pasta or whole corn thats been cooked and rapidly cooledhelp stabilize blood sugar levels, and are considered actively healthful.)
The AHAs new scientific statement is targeted at sugars and syrups added to foods during processing or preparation and sugars and syrups added at the table.
And as noted in an AHA press release, High intake of added sugars, as opposed to naturally occurring sugars, is implicated in the rise in obesity. Its also associated with increased risks for high blood pressure, high triglyceride levels, other risk factors for heart disease and stroke, and inflammation (a marker for heart disease).
(They should have included refined starches such as white flour in their advice, since theres little distinction between such starches and added sugars in terms of their effects in the body.)
The AHA statement says that women should consume no more than about six teaspoons of added sugar a day for and men should eat less than nine teaspoons daily.
To us, that still sounds like a lot of added sugar, but a report from the 200104 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed that the average Americans intake of added sugars totaled a whopping 22 teaspoons per day ,or two to four times as much as the maximum recommended by the AHA.
Sugar-sweetened drinks are the leading source of added sugars in Americans diet, with one 12-ounce can of regular soda averaging about 130 calories, derived from about eight teaspoons of corn syrup or cane sugar.
So far, so good. In fact, many researchers would say its high time the AHA took a stance against excess sugar, which has long been linked, separately, to increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. And of course, diabetes often leads to cardiovascular disease.
Given the charge against excess sugars, what are we to make of new animal study that finds low-carb diets actually harm their artery health?
People should make very little of the results of this ridiculously flawed study.
Unfortunately, we trusted the highly misleading press release from Bostons Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) when we first reported this news (We've edited this article to correct the misimpressions we conveyed).
Now that we've read the full journal article and had a chance to dig deeper, it's apparent that the researchers at BIDMC are guilty of distorting both the facts and their meaning.
Many commentators have since accused the researchers of deliberately trying to demonize popular low-carb diets. Instead, we think they were just being lazy and sloppy... flaws found in all too many scientific studies.
Seriously flawed mouse study raises unwarranted alarms about low-carb diets
Writing in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a scientific team at Bostons Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) reported that mice placed on a very low-carbohydrate/high-fat/protein diet for three months showed a significant increase in atherosclerosis and an impaired ability to form new blood vessels in tissues deprived of blood flow, as might occur during a heart attack (Foo SY et al. 2009).
The studys co-author Shi Yin Foo, M.D., Ph.D., embarked on the study after seeing heart-attack patients who were on these diets.
Dr. Foo works in the lab named after the studys senior author Anthony Rosenzweig, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School himself an adherent to a low-carbohydrate diet regimen.
Rosenzweig asked Foo to do the mouse experiment, so that, as he said in a press release, ...we could know what happens in the blood vessels and so that I could eat in peace (BIDMC 2009).
Mice bred to be vulnerable to arterial plaque buildup were fed one of three diets:
- Standard diet of mouse chow (65 percent carbohydrate; 15 percent fat; 20 percent protein);
- Western diet (43 percent carbohydrate; 42 percent fat; 15 percent protein);
- Low-carb/high-protein diet (12 percent carbohydrate; 43 percent fat; 45 percent protein).
However, the study design was doomed to produce irrelevant results, for two reasons:
- Both of the two low-carb diets were much lower in carbs and much higher in fat and protein, compared with the diets followed by most people who adhere to low-carb plans such as those proposed in the bestselling Atkins, Zone, Perricone, and South Beach diet books.
- They used animals bred to possess an otherwise rare genetic defect in the ApoE cholesterol-processing gene ... and that alone invalidates the outcome.
The mice fed the low-carb diet (#3, above) gained 28 percent less weight than the mice fed the Western diet, but their blood vessels showed a significantly greater degree of atherosclerosis, as measured by plaque accumulation: 15.3 percent accumulation in the low-carb diet group, compared with only 8.8 percent among the Western diet group.
However, these results are mostly meaningless, given the extremely high fat content of the low-carb diet, and the genetically pre-determined disability of the mice to process dietary cholesterol properly.
Wondering why the low-carb-diet mice had such an increase in atherosclerosis, the Boston team measured the usual risk markers thought to contribute to vascular disease, including the animals cholesterol and triglyceride levels, oxidative stress (an indirect measure of inflammation and balanced immune function), and blood levels of insulin, glucose and pro-inflammatory messenger proteins.
In each case, despite their genetic inability to process cholesterol properly, there was either no difference in risk-marker measurements compared with the mice on the Western Dietwhich contained the same amount of fat and cholesterol or the risk-marker numbers slightly favored the low-carb group.
Since there were no differences in the standard risk markers, none of these results explained why the animals blood had more arterial plaque and lacked the ability to form new blood vessels in tissues deprived of blood flow.
However, the authors found an increase in plaque build-up and impaired ability to form new vessels in mice fed few carbohydrates among the mice on the low-carb, high-fat/protein diet after only two weeks.
This impairment was associated with a whopping 40 percent drop in vascular progenitor cells, which some researchers think could play a protective role in maintaining vascular health.
While it remains unproven whether these cells help prevent vascular disease, the new findings fit with the idea that injuries to artery walls - such as from homocysteine (a marker for vascular disease) or from oxidized cholesterol - may be counterbalanced by repair work performed by vascular progenitor cells.
While the researchers pinned this outcome on the absence of carbs, they could have easily pinned it on an extreme excess of fat and protein.
Flawed mouse study countered by ample human evidence in favor of moderate low-carb diets
Human studies continue to document the benefits of low-carbohydrate diets, and in the Boston mouse study, harm was seen only after researchers used animals bred to suffer a rare genetic defect in the ApoE cholesterol-processing gene, and fed them diets extremely low in carbs and absurdly high in fat and protein.
The diets the mice received are totally unnatural to mice or humans, yet the press release referred to them as "low-carb", as even though they resembled the moderately low-carb, high-fat/protein diets recommended in the Zone, Perricone, and South Beach diet books.
In fact, the preponderance of research suggests that diets which contain higher percentages of calories from fat and (especially) protein than the standard, carb-heavy American diet may help people from becoming overweight or diabetic.
The authors of the Boston mouse study did not cite the numerous studies showing benefit of low carbohydrate diets compared to the extreme low-fat diet first promoted by Dr. Dean Ornish and subsequently recommended by most doctors to prevent or treat cardiovascular disease.
Intriguingly, standard markers of cardiovascular risk, including blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, were not changed in the animals fed extreme low-carb, high-fat/protein diets.
Most studies of diet and cardiovascular health rely on such blood markers, and people on moderate lower-carb/higher-fat/protein regimens such as the Zone, Perricone, and South Beach diets have not been shown to suffer worsened blood fat profiles.
(Folks who follow the guidelines of these bestselling books typically lose weight though not more than people on higher-carb diets with limits on calorie intake. This is because calorie intake, regardless of the source of the calories is by far the greatest determinant of weight gain or loss.)
Our chief objection to promotion of moderately low-carb, high fat/protein diets is that a great deal hinges on the kind of fat being consumed.
In fact, the Perricone, Zone, and South Beach diets arose in reaction to the indiscriminate promotion of high protein intake by the steak-loving Dr. Atkins, who seemed unaware of or indifferent to the major distinctions among kinds and sources of dietary fat.
Unlike fish, for example, red meat is associated with increased rates of cancer, while diets high in the omega-6 fats abundant in cheap vegetable oils (corn, soy, safflower, sunflower) and in processed foods and grain-fed meat and poultry are linked to higher risk or severity of depression, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and other major diseases.
If you're one of the very few people wholike the mice in the Boston studyhave a flaw in the ApoE gene needed to process cholesterol, you will need to cut back on dietary cholesterol, and possibly take a prescription drug.
But for most folks, it appears that the best bets for heart and overall health are regular exercise and a balanced, produce-rich diet that's relatively low in sugars, starches, and omega-6 fats and rich in omega-3s.
- American Heart Association (AHA). Association recommends reduced intake of added sugars. August 24, 2009. Accessed at http://americanheart.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=800
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Low-Carb Diets Linked to Atherosclerosis and Impaired Heart Vessel Growth: Study suggests that popular diet regimen may have adverse effect on body's restorative capacity. August 24, 2009. Accessed at http://www.bidmc.org/News/InResearch/2009/August/LowCarbDiets.aspx
- Foo SY, Heller ER, Wykrzykowska J, Sullivan CJ, Manning-Tobin JJ, Moore KJ, Gerszten RE, Rosenzweig A. Vascular effects of a low-carbohydrate high-protein diet. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print]


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A Parisian getaway becomes anything but romantic for a high-strung New York couple in writer/director Julie Delpy's smart, sexy comedy about how opposites attract—and then slowly drive each other crazy. Marion (Delpy) is a French photographer and Jack (Adam Goldberg) is an American interior designer. After a less than idyllic vacation in Italy, they stop off in Paris for two days, where Jack has to deal with a new language, a crazily unfamiliar culture, meeting Marion's sexually frank and permissive family and a bevy of flirtatious ex-boyfriends. In the city of lights, Jack and Marion begin to see each other in a different, less appealing light as the cultural divide between them grows. Will these two days in Paris be Jack and Marion's last days as a couple, or will they be the beginning of a new, richer life together?
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Hi there. I am very new to this technology, so I am a little confused about some things. For reference, I am running PMS 1.72.0 on Mac OSX 10.6.8 on an otherwise lightly used Mac Pro 1.1.
The PMS seems to serve up video files no problem so long as I see them in my renderer with the 'video/mp4' tag. I have many mp4 and m4v video files ripped from DVD via Handbrake, some of which are similarly tagged and others that are tagged 'MIMETYPE_AUTO'.
I can stream the 'video/mp4' files with no difficulty to both my iPad renderer and my Panasonic BD player, but the others require transcoding. This is where my confusion starts.
When I select one of the files requiring transcoding, the PMS log shows a StartPlaying event and the status bar on the UI tells me it is serving the file:
'Serving <name> [MEncoder][container: mp4][video: h264]'
The status panel shows the transcoding buffer filling with data, though the numbers sometimes make little sense going from positive numbers, e.g., 5 MB, to negative numbers, e.g., -4083 MB. The current bitrate never changes from 0 Mb/s though the peak bitrate goes to 33,554 Mb/s.
During all of this the mencoder process is working hard, so it appears as though the file is being transcoded.
However, this only lasts for a few seconds (maybe 30s or so, haven't timed it accurately) and no video actually makes it to my renderer. Eventually, I get a StopPlaying event and everything goes quiescent.
Eventually, I did figure out that if I browse to the '#--TRANSCODE--#' virtual folder and select the 'video/mp4' version of my file, it streams and plays with no issue. Curiously, the mencoder process does not appear to run and PMS coasts along using relatively little CPU.
I am confused because I had been under the impression that the transcoding was supposed to happen transparently when I selected the original file (it looks like that's what happens, but everything works furiously but nothing happens). Is the behaviour I am seeing normal? Should I be ripping with a different video codec? While functional, it's not terribly slick this way (hard to convince my wife that this is worthwhile ).


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Officials are allowing more water to be pumped out of the Delta, one day after warning that the number of threatened Delta smelt killed in the pumps was imperiling the water supply for California.
No smelt have been killed there since Feb. 6, "suggesting this year's unusual entrainment event may be over," said the official notification by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Monitoring will continue, however, and less onerous pumping restrictions remain in place.
More than 75 percent of the smelt that can be killed at the pumps under Endangered Species Act permits have perished, and the tiny fish could be vulnerable for another two months.
Actions to protect the fish since December have cost cities and farms up and down California about 700,000 acre-feet of water. One acre-foot is roughly enough water for one family for one year.
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Suddenly, Apple's iPhone 4 Is a Major Point of Interest
During today's earnings call to discuss Apple's first-quarter earnings, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the iPhone 4 — a phone that's two generations old — was under "constant constraint."
Meanwhile, the iPhone 5 was "very constrained for much of the quarter," Cook said. So Apple is making enough iPhone 5 devices to sate demand for the new iPhone, but isn't making enough iPhone 4 devices.
Here's the money quote:
Cook: If you look at the iPhone sales across the quarter, we were very constrained for much of the quarter on iPhone 5. As we begin to produce more and ship more, sales went up. iPhone 4 was actually in constraint for the entire quarter. Sales remained strong. That's how sales progressed along the quarter.
Later in the call, Cook said, "we believe we can achieve a supply/demand balance on iPad Mini and on iPhone 4 during this quarter." So there is certainly interest in keeping hold of this demand.
This is an interesting data point because of increased chatter over whether Apple plans to roll out a cheaper smartphone. The iPhone 4 is free under contract in the U.S. and is the cheapest smartphone in Apple's lineup. Without a contract, the iPhone 4 costs $450, compared to a $650 starter price for the iPhone 5.
It is also important internationally because carrier subsidies aren't the same across all markets. Compared to the iPhone, the Nexus 4 — Google's flagship smartphone — costs $300 without a contract.
It's a slight change in Apple's tenor, which has typically focused on higher-end markets. Cook re-iterated it on the call, but does leave the door open for the possibility of a cheaper iPhone:
The most important thing to Apple is to make the best products in the world that enrich customers lives. That's our high-order bit. That means that we aren't interested in revenue for revenues sake. That's not what we're here for. We want to make only the best products.
We've had a great track record of iPod doing different products at different price points and getting a reasonable share. I wouldn't view the things as mutually exclusive. But the high-order bit is making a great product.
There are reports that Apple plans to release one as early as the end of this year, and one particular model of interest included using a polycarbonate shell.


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One dominant type of an ER injectable product is polymer-based. This type includes microspheres, implants, and gels. These systems rely on diffusion through a polymer as well as erosion of that polymer to control release of the API. Another type involves conjugating a releasable chemical moiety to the active drug, thereby making a prodrug that is less soluble for slow uptake, or is slower to clear from the body. And another type would be insoluble salts.
According to Heidi Mansour, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky and editorial advisory board member of Pharmaceutical Technology, these types of products are become more popular to manufacture because "scientific advances in polymer science and biomaterials have given rise to biocompatible and biodegradable polymers (e.g., various diblock and triblock copolymers) that offer a wide range in their temporal degradation profiles. As a result, there is a wide range in the temporal profiles of drug release for a wider range of drugs." In addition, she notes that, "there have been scientific and technological advances in particle engineering design methods, and in nanotechnology and tangible application to nanopharmaceuticals and nanomedicines."Extended-release injectables are considered to be complex dosage forms by the regulatory authorities. These products bring key challenges to the manufacturing process, including: sterility assurance, the number of unit operations required, as well as comparability and control strategy concerns. Pharmaceutical Technology spoke to experts engaged in the development and manufacture of ER injectables to dig deeper into these challenges and to offer potential solutions.
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Martin Brodeur will play between the pipes for New Jersey on Saturday.
The Carolina Hurricanes have signed executive vice president and general manager Ron Francis to a contract extension.
Phil Kessel (hand) might not be ready for the start of the regular season.
The Colorado Avalanche have hired Jared Bednar to be their next head coach.
Sidney Crosby will wear the "C" for Team Canada at the World Cup of Hockey.
The Florida Panthers have traded Dave Bolland and Lawson Crouse to the Arizona Coyotes for a conditional 2nd round pick in 2018 and a third round pick in 2017.
The Dallas Stars and Jiri Hudler have agreed to terms on a one-year, $2 million contract.
The Colorado Avalanche will likely name a new head coach this week.
The Ottawa Senators have re-signed Cody Ceci to a two-year, $5.6 million contract.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A Field Poll predicted that 70 percent of California's registered voters will cast ballots in Tuesday's election, with more than half voting by mail.
It would be the first time the number of mail-in ballots overtook the number of precinct ballots in a California general election. Field predicts 51 percent of all ballots for this election will be mail-in. Voters can deliver these ballots through the postal service or in-person on Election Day.
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This week, we celebrate a quiet anniversary – one that's probably far from most people's minds. It's the anniversary of an agreement that's been a quiet success. A deal that keeps a nuclear weapon out of Iran's hands, and makes the world a safer place. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the Iran nuclear agreement.
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In Wednesday editions, the Contra Costa Times editorial board recommended that Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour "start looking for another job" if the football program's atrocious graduation rates and academic scores don't show marked improvement.
I'll piggyback off that editorial with some thoughts on Barbour's job performance . . .
In the past year, I have reported extensively on two big issues involving Cal athletics: The declining academic performance and the fragile state of Memorial Stadium financing.
While discussing the state of Cal athletics, I often get the same reaction from industry sources -- people with a deep understanding of, and passion for, college sports. And that reaction is this:
How does Sandy Barbour still have her job?
My answer: It's complicated.
The issues are complicated, which makes a fair, reasoned assessment of Barbour's performance as athletic director somewhat difficult.
Is she wholly, partly or not-at-all to blame for the budget mess?
For the exorbitant cost of the facility upgrades and the flawed financing model behind the projects?
What about the humiliating graduation rates and Academic Progress Rate scores?
Barbour, who was hired in 2004, has detractors on campus and within the Cal athletic constituency at large, and I can't help but think that adversely affects her ability to make positive change and significant progress.
She wants the best for Cal and its student athletes -- of that there is no doubt.
And I would argue that her mistakes on fiscal matters are, to some extent, rooted in her desire to create the best possible experience for Cal's student athletes.
Also beyond dispute: She has a difficult job.
The AD post at Cal is one of the toughest in the Pac-12 because of the state budget crisis, soaring tuition (i.e. scholarship costs), UC bureaucracy, an unwieldy (albeit commendable) number of NCAA-sponsored sports, the cost of living for coaches, the cost of construction, the cramped campus . .
I could go on and on.
But we have reached the point that Barbour's job performance and future at the school require a fair, honest public examination.
A budget debacle, stadium financing mess and humiliating graduation rates would be huge issues anywhere.
At the top-ranked public university in the country, they are off the charts.
And Barbour is the boss.
So what's fair? Let's take it issue-by-issue:
Her predecessor, Steve Gladstone, spent freely -- the Bears didn't start relying on millions in direct campus support when Barbour took over. And the administration (i.e., former chancellor Robert Birgeneau) allowed it to happen.
But the amount of direct institutional support essentially tripled under Barbour's watch even though revenues increased by less than 50 percent.
(Other schools in the conference marveled at Cal's free-spending ways. I know, because I have spoken to officials at many of them.)
It was not sound management on Barbour's part.
But Barbour is largely responsible for the athletic department's stunningly inaccurate description of the premium seats sales.
She failed to implement a sound method of accounting for the sales, then helped mislead the public.
Despite the price tag, she pushed for the upgrades that were ultimately approved by the administration and the Regents.
And the price tag is stunning: Cal spent more on facility upgrades ($474 million) than any school in the history of collegiate athletics.
Sure, a portion of that was unavoidable. But even when you back out the cost of the seismic retrofit, Cal still spent approximately $250 million.
Bottom line: No university has ever spent more on an athletic facility than the athletic director felt comfortable with.
Had Barbour said to Birgeneau, Brostrom and the Regents, "I'm not sure the price tag is manageable for us going forward," then Cal would not have spent $474 million.
When I asked Barbour about the project's cost while reporting my June series on the financing, she staunchly defended the price tag.
(Vice Chancellor John Wilton, who was hired two years ago and is charged with fixing the fiscal disaster, responded differently: "That's a good question," he said.)
As with the budget mess, the stadium/training center project seems to indicate a lack of fiscal discipline on Barbour's part.
And taken together -- especially when compared to the decisions made by other schools in the conference over the past decade -- the budget mismanagement and facility costs show an inability on Barbour's part to properly consider the consequences of the spending.
Sure, Jeff Tedford was in charge of the football program and Mike Montgomery the basketball program.
But Barbour is the boss. Barbour had access to all the academic progress data before and during the GSR collapse, and Barbour was responsible for making sure something like this did not happen.
That it has gotten to this point is astounding and inexcusable.
Remember: The grad rates are an annual calculation and somewhat of a lagging indicator: The data released last week tracked student-athletes whose six-year graduation window closed in the spring of 2012 -- we're 18 months behind.
But like every school, Cal has access to more accurate tracking data in the form of the single-year APR scores.
While the public wasn't aware of the football team's GSR plunge into the 40-percent range until October 2012, the Bears' single-year APR scores were already off the cliff.
Year released: GSR/single-year APR
2011: 54/921
2012: 48/923
2013: 44/923
And yet, it wasn't until October 2012 -- that's a full 18 months after the 921 APR bottoming and years after the scores had begun their decline to unacceptable levels -- that Cal announced steps "recently taken" to rectify the problem.
From this vantage point, it's clear that Barbour was too slow to react to the GSR deterioration.
Where does this leave us?
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has been on the job for five months and, so far as I know, hasn't uttered a public peep about Barbour's job performance.
But examined in its totality, her tenure has been, at best, a mixed bag.
The football team flourished for several years under a coach she did not hire, then collapsed on her watch -- and remains in the gutter.
The stadium was renovated during her tenure, but the Regents gave Cal no choice: Make it safe for the public, or play somewhere else.
She hired Montgomery and has made several shrewd decisions with Olympic sport coaches. The women's basketball team, for example, has flourished.
Her passion for Cal's student athletes -- and for creating an environment in which they can thrive-- is beyond dispute.
But her biggest failings are, as I noted at the top, on the biggest of all possible issues.
She is partly and/or largely responsible for the budget issues and the frightful stadium financing situation, and she is wholly responsible for the GSR debacle.
Cal's highest-profile sports not only embarrassed the university but failed the academic mission at the core of their existence.
All of which is grounds for reasonable observers to wonder not how Barbour still has a job, but how long she will have it.
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Life Lessons From Former Citi CEO Sandy Weill
Sanford "Sandy" Weill has never owned a BlackBerry and doesn't send emails. But that didn't stop him from connecting with people who worked for him, the former Citigroup chairman and chief executive told a class of 212 graduates last Saturday.
"I didn't just talk to the eight or nine people who reported to me," he said. "I learned about our customers, I learned about how people in our company really felt."
Mr. Weill, 81 years old, was addressing this year's graduates of The University of California at Davis Graduate School of Management, where he served as commencement speaker. Mr. Weill relinquished his Citi CEO title in 2003 and his chairmanship in 2006. More recently he caused a stir in 2012 when he suggested that big financial institutions should be broken up, a position seemingly at odds with the multiple acquisitions he championed during his career.
In his speech, Mr. Weill recounted his career history and also gave policy recommendations.
Discussing his first job at Bear Stearns Cos., Mr. Weill said he made $150 month in 1955, which translated to 85 cents an hour, he said. "That's why I support minimum wage," he said to laughs from the audience.
He also urged immigration reform, saying that granting green cards would spur more innovation at the top.
Mr. Weill told the graduates that six of the big financial companies in the U.S. are run by people who used to work for him, including James Dimon, the chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
"You can go work for Goldman Sachs and make a lot of money or you can work for me and look at it as continuing education," Mr. Weill says he told Mr. Dimon when he was recruiting him from Harvard Business School in 1982. "You're going to make a little more than a secretary, but you're going to learn a lot."
At the end of his speech, he imparted some lessons to the graduates:
– Be a team player. Teams are the ones that really win.
– Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you're not willing to make a mistake, you're not going to make the right decisions.
– Don't be afraid to surround yourself with or hire people who are smarter than you…I've had a lot of people working for me that are smarter than I.
– If you don't understand something, don't do it. Like Warren Buffett talking about derivatives…he was right, it didn't make any sense.
– Make long-term commitments to the things you really value. Be consistent.
– Don't do anything you'd be embarrassed about seeing on the front page of a newspaper three years hence.
– Find a great partner to enjoy life with.
– Whatever you do, be passionate about it. Always keep a sense of humor.


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Roger suffered his earliest defeat at Wimbledon since losing in the first round in 2002 today. He lost his second-round match against Sergej Stakhovsky 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 5-7, 6-7(5).
"It's normal that after all of a sudden losing early, having being in Grand Slam quarter-finals 36 times, people feel it's different. But I still have plans to play for many more years to come," Roger said.
Roger started well and secured the first set in the tie-break. But Stakhovsky went on to take the second set tie-break to level. Not being able to score a break himself, our champ was broken in set three - enough for his opponent to finally take a lead in sets. Roger fell back another break in the fourth set, but this time he managed to level at 3-3. Unfortunately he did not make the points in the final tie-break, falling back 2-5 and eventually admitting defeat after just three hours of play.
It was Roger's first defeat by a player ranked outside the top 100 since losing to Richard Gasquet (ranked at 101) in Monte Carlo in 2005. He will now fall back to at least number 5 in the world rankings.
I hope you are taking a rest and train for future tournaments. It is hard watching Wimbledon without you in it. But I'm glad to hear that you still have plans to play many more years. Watching you playing is one of the most exciting things and one of the most anxious things that I do in my life, hahhaha...
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On-track handle, total handle, and NYRA Rewards account wagering continued their upward trends at the 2012 Belmont Park spring/summer meet which ran 55 days from April 27 through July 15, according to the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA).
On-track handle on NYRA races was $88 million, up 13.4 percent from $77 million in 2011. All-sources handle on NYRA races was $563 million, up 9.4 percent from $515 million in 2011.
NYRA Rewards account wagering, including bets made on Belmont races and simulcast races, also posted gains. NYRA Rewards telephone wagering was up 17.8 percent, increasing to $15.7 million from $13.3 million, and internet wagering was up 26.7 percent, increasing to $27.4 million from $21.6 million.
Handle at the Aqueduct simulcast center also increased, with $36 million wagered on Belmont's races and on simulcast races, a 53.7 percent increase from $23 million wagered at Aqueduct in 2011.
Attendance at Belmont Park decreased 1.1 percent to 328,915 from 332,413 in 2011. Attendance at the Aqueduct simulcast center was 121,820, a 158 percent increase from last year's attendance of 47,208.
There were 525 races run this year compared to 530 in 2011, due to the cancellation of five races on June 22 because of a storm and loss of power at Belmont Park. Average betting interests per race increased 12 percent to 8.2 (4,294 total) compared to 7.3 (3,894 total) in 2011. Turf races decreased to 223 with 59 taken off the turf, compared to 244 on and 29 off in 2011.
Aqueduct and the Belmont Café will be open for simulcasting for the Saratoga meet which runs from Friday, July 20 through Labor Day, Monday, September 3 with live racing six days a week, Wednesday through Monday.
Below are the exact totals for the 2012 Belmont Park spring/summer meeting as compared to last year:
Racing Days
55 in 2012, 55 in 2011
Belmont Park Attendance
Down 1.1 percent (328,915 vs. 332,413)
Aqueduct Simulcast Center Attendance
Up 158 percent (121,820 vs. 47,208)
On-Track Handle* (including simulcast races)
Up 10.6 percent ($155,672,521 vs. $140,769,767)
On-Track Handle* (just NYRA races)
Up 13.4 percent ($87,660,853 vs. $77,319,170)
Total Handle (including simulcast races)
Up 9.1 percent ($631,447,699 vs. $578,534,100)
Total Handle (just NYRA races)
Up 9.4 percent ($563,436,030 vs. $515,083,504)
NYRA Rewards Wagering
Phone up 17.8 percent ($15,666,539 vs. $13,300,054)
Internet up 26.7 percent ($27,411,634 vs. $21,636,104)
Aqueduct Wagering
Up 53.7 percent ($35,925,684 vs. $23,372,381)
* Please note that NYRA on-track wagering numbers include handle wagered on-track at Belmont Park, through NYRA Rewards account wagering, and at the Aqueduct simulcast center*
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xGasPricesx wrote: Loving the album so far, 'Arthur's Song' and 'Flicker' are two of my personal favorites at the moment. The whole verse on Flicker towards the end with the "You'd ridicule these lyrics, you'd hate this chorus, and probably tell me the concept is too straight forward" makes me cry and laugh at the same time. The whole song also reminds me a lot of a friend of mine who also died of a heroin overdose 10 years ago, we had actually started to drift away from each other for awhile before that and he had called me the night before he OD'd and I didn't answer cause I was tired and "didn't want to listen to his high ramblings", I still regret that to this day. I always wonder if there was something I could have done to change things, although I know that's a good way to drive yourself crazy, especially because he was the first in a long line of friends who died the same way over the next 10 years. Such a shame.
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This is first time that its confirmed for me that it was heroin overdose, though i was pretty sure thats what it was. I used to know some one on methadone who still used the junk at least weekly (whenever he wasnt broke). He actually reminded me of Mikey, appearance wise only, eyes/hair/complexion/build. I cant really say about character cause i didnt know either of them. Kind of weird though, the resemblance and the presence of the same substance.
I knew i was pretty powerless to do anything about it and i guess his family and close friends, the most likely people to intervene, probably felt powerless too.
Captiv8 wrote: Let's be real: the beat for Arthur's Song is the best on the album, bar none. Rarely do you find a combination of something so emotive and head-noddable at the same time. The whole track is dynamite from start to finish, and I consistently return to this absolute jam more than any other. Goddamn. I'm truly in awe of how good it is.
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Set a career high in points (38), assists (19), game-winning goals (3), shots (167) and games played (79)…His 19 goals fell one short of his personal best set in 2011-12…Ranked fifth on the team in hits (140)…Scored two goals in the season opener on Oct. 2 vs. Anaheim…Was the first Avalanche player to score twice in a season opener since Paul Stastny in 2010-11 vs. Chicago…Missed three games due to a knee injury, Oct. 27 to Nov. 2…Scored his first career overtime goal in a 1-0 victory at Los Angeles on Nov. 23…Appeared in his 300th NHL game on Dec. 21 at Los Angeles…Scored a goal in three straight games, Dec. 31 to Jan. 4, equaling his career-long goal streak set March 4-8, 2012…Recorded his 100th career point on Jan. 10 vs. NY Islanders…Tied his career high with three points (2g/1a) on Feb. 1 vs. Buffalo…Recorded a career-high five-game point streak from March 12-19.
2013-14 PLAYOFFS: Finished fourth on the Avalanche in playoff scoring with five points (2g/3a) in seven postseason contests…His 19 shots were second-most on the team…Scored his first career playoff goal in the Avalanche's Game 1 win against Minnesota on April 17 at Pepsi Center.
2012-13: Finished fourth on the Avalanche in scoring with 22 points (11g/11a) in 47 games…His 11 goals ranked third on the team and he finished tied for second in both power-play goals (3) and game-winning tallies (2)…Ranked second on the club in shots (128)…Recorded his first career three-point game on Feb. 16 at Edmonton (1g/2a) and matched that with another three-point effort on April 21 vs. St. Louis (2g/1a).
2011-12: Was acquired from San Jose at the trade deadline on Feb. 27 and went on to record 13 points (8g/5a) in 17 games with the Avalanche…McGinn's 13 points tied Paul Stastny for the most on the team from March 1 until the end of the season…Combined between the Sharks and Avalanche, the left winger tallied a career-high 20 goals…Appeared in each of San Jose's 61 games prior to the trade, tallying 24 points (12g/12a) with a team-high 137 hits (a total that still led the Sharks at season's end)…Made his Avalanche debut on March 1 vs. Columbus…Tallied seven goals (7g/2a) in his first eight games with Colorado, becoming the first Avalanche player to score seven times in his first eight games with the team since Marek Svatos in 2005…Recorded his first career multi-goal game on March 4 at Minnesota…Posted his first career "Gordie Howe hat trick" on March 6 vs. Minnesota…Scored twice, including the tying marker with less than two seconds left in regulation, on March 14 at Buffalo…Fired a career-high nine shots on March 22 at Phoenix…Did not dress on March 30 at Calgary (back).
2010-11: Spent the first half of the year with the San Jose Sharks, tallying a goal and five assists in 49 games…Was reassigned to Worcester on Jan. 28 and spent the rest of the regular season with the AHL Sharks…Recorded 20 points (9g/11a) in 30 games with Worcester…Was leading San Jose with 101 hits when he was reassigned…Appeared in his 100th NHL game on Oct. 23 at Edmonton.
2010-11 PLAYOFFS: Was recalled by San Jose prior to the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on April 10…Skated in seven postseason games for the Sharks, tallying one assist and 30 penalty minutes…Recorded his first career playoff point with an assist in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals against Vancouver on May 22 at the HP Pavilion.
2009-10: Spent most of the season with San Jose, recording 10 goals and 13 points (10g/3a) in 59 games…Also skated in 27 games with Worcester (AHL), tallying 21 points (7g/14a)…Made San Jose's Opening Night roster and suited up for the Sharks in the season opener on Oct. 1 at Colorado…His final recall came on March 1 and he spent the rest of the year in the NHL.
2009-10 PLAYOFFS: Appeared in all 15 playoff games for the Sharks, who advanced to Western Conference Finals…Made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut in Game 1 of the WCQF vs. Colorado on April 14.
2008-09: Split the season between San Jose and Worcester (AHL)…Was recalled by the Sharks on Oct. 27 and made his NHL debut on Oct. 28 vs. Pittsburgh…Picked up his first NHL goal and assist on Oct. 30 vs. Detroit…Wound up appearing in 35 games for the Sharks, collecting six points (4g/2a)…Scored 19 goals (19g/11a) in 47 games for Worcester, which included a team-high eight power-play markers…Was on San Jose's playoff roster but did not see any action…Following the Sharks' first-round defeat, joined Worcester for their second round series against Providence…Shared the team lead with four goals in six posteason games.
2007-08: Served as team captain for Ottawa in his final season in the Ontario Hockey League…Led the 67's with 29 goals and tied for the team lead with 58 points (29g/29a) in 51 games…Was also first on the team in plus/minus (+10) and power-play goals (11)…Went on to lead Ottawa in playoff scoring as well with four points (2g/2a) in four postseason contests…Was assigned to Worcester on March 28 and appeared in eight AHL contests.
2006-07: Named a Third Team OHL All-Star after leading Ottawa in goals (46) and points (89) in 68 games…His 46 goals ranked seventh in the OHL and he tied for eighth in power-play goals with 21…Played in the OHL All-Star Classic where he had a goal, assist and was +3…Named OHL Player of the Week for the period ending Dec. 17…Led Ottawa with five goals (5g/1a) in five playoff contests…Joined Worcester after Ottawa was eliminated in the first round of the OHL playoffs…Appeared in four regular season games and six Calder Cup Playoff contests for the AHL Sharks.
2005-06: Totaled 57 points (26g/31a) and 113 penalty minutes in 65 games for Ottawa…Was the "Fastest Skater" in the Prospects Skills Competition…Following the season, McGinn represented Canada at the IIHF World Under-18 Hockey Championship.
2004-05: Appeared in 59 games for Ottawa during his first OHL season…Also played for Team Ontario at the Under-17 Tournament.
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OAKLAND -- Quarterback Terrelle Pryor and running back Darren McFadden did not finish a 49-20 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, and coach Dennis Allen said their availability for practice this week was not known.
Pryor left because of a right-knee injury after he fell awkwardly on a fourth-quarter scramble at O.co Coliseum. McFadden carried five times for 12 yards but left in the second quarter with a hamstring strain.
"I have to look at it tomorrow, but it's stable," Pryor said. "Nothing's wobbly or anything like that. It was just precaution. Nine minutes left in the game. We were losing.''
Allen said the decision already had been made to play Matt McGloin at quarterback, and he didn't learn of Pryor's knee injury until after the game was over.
Pryor piled up big numbers (288 yards passing, 94 yards rushing), but in the first half when the Eagles were piling up points, he was unable to find open receivers if the first option was covered.
Pryor has one touchdown pass and seven interceptions in his past three games. He also has 256 yards rushing in those games and has 485 yards on the season. The rushing record for a Raiders quarterback is 529 yards by Rich Gannon in 2000.
"I just have to make plays and help the team, help the offense," Pryor said. "It's a group effort. I think we made a lot of plays. We just didn't make enough."
McFadden, who already has missed one game with a hamstring strain, said, "I'm doing all right, just kind of down about the game. I tweaked my hamstring a little bit, and I'm just trying to ride with it, come in tomorrow and see what the trainers say."
Allen said: "I thought Rashad Jennings did a great job when Darren went down. ... Other guys are going to have to step up.''
Jennings had 102 yards on 15 carries, his first 100-yard rushing game since gaining 108 yards in the 2010 regular-season finale for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Other players who came out of the game with injuries were wide receiver Rod Streater (hip), linebacker Kaluka Maiava (hip) and tackle Matt McCants (foot).
"We'll have to hear about it all week long," Woodson said. "They'll keep replaying this game, so we're going to take a beating, and we've got to stand up and accept it for what it is but understand that the season does go on and we have to go to work this week and prepare ourselves to make a long road trip out East and try to bounce back.''
The Raiders, 0-3 away from O.co Coliseum, are on the road four of the next five games. They visit the New York Giants on Sunday, then travel to Houston on Nov. 17. After hosting Tennessee on Nov. 24, they visit Dallas on Thanksgiving (Nov. 28) and are at the New York Jets on Dec. 8.
Watson entered late in the second quarter when McCants left with a foot injury. McGloin was 7 of 15 for 87 yards after subbing for the injured Pryor.
Wide receiver Juron Criner was active for the first time this season with Andre Holmes inactive because of a hamstring strain. Criner caught three passes for 32 yards.
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Duo de Twang is definitely a different kind of project for Les Claypool.
And that's really saying something, given that this Bay Area bass virtuoso has made a career out of doing things a bit "different" than the rest.
Claypool, of course, is best known as the leader of the legendary funk-metal outfit Primus. He's also courted the jam band crowd with such outfits as Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and Oysterhead (a jam-rock supergroup that featured Phish's mighty Trey Anastasio on guitar and the Police's Stewart Copeland on drums).
Les Claypool's Duo de Twang is nothing like those efforts. Instead, it's a rootsy, folksy outfit that makes music (according to Claypool's website) by using "one vocal, one bass, one guitar, and a basic beat supplied by stomping on a mini-tambourine-doohickey." The other half of the Duo is Bryan Kehoe, who has worked with Claypool on several other projects.
Duo de Twang released its debut, "Four Foot Shack," in February. It will support the record in concert on Saturday at the lovely Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Show time is 9 p.m. and tickets are $38-$42, www.slimspresents.com.
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TUSCALOOSA | The Dance Initiative will showcase its first performance in two shows Friday in downtown Tuscaloosa at the Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave.
Where Are you Christmas?
What: The Dance Initiative's holiday-themed show
When: First show begins at 5 p.m. Friday; second show follows at 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave.
Ticket information: Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at The Dance Centre, 1825 McFarland Blvd. N., as well as in its in-studio store, Primadonna's Dance & Fitness Boutique. Adult tickets cost $16, while tickets for children 12 and younger are $12.
The holiday-themed performance's aim is to get people in the holiday spirit, asking audience members to think about what Christmas really means to them, said Melissa Verzino, one of the recently-formed initiative's founders and artistic directors.
"We mix in themes that can distract you from the real meaning of Christmas, such as shopping or family chaos," Verzino said. "We try to recreate a situation where our ideal Christmas Eve turns south, but with bit of comedy thrown in to make people think about what's really important."
The Dance Initiative is an organization Verzino formed with Rebecca Tingle, her business partner, in the summer of 2012. The two co-own The Dance Centre, which is a local dance company.
The initiative's purpose is to provide dance education and performance opportunities to Tuscaloosa's young and training dancers.
There is not a set age range for participants, but it is designed for youth members up to age 18.
So far, a majority of the dancers are between the ages of 11 and 16, and the youngest dancer is 7 years old.
It is not required for participants to be members of the dance company. However, of the more than 60 dancers in the upcoming holiday performance, 80 percent are members of The Dance Centre.
The dance company has been involved with the local performance of "The Nutcracker," a holiday piece typically featuring only ballet, for many years, according to Verzino.
"We love that tradition," she said, referring to "The Nutcracker." "But we wanted to try to present something that represents our dancers, not only their ballet expertise, but (their skills in) the other types of dance as well."
In harmony with the initiative, its leaders planned to expand on that tradition and decided on the theme entitled "Where Are You Christmas?"
Auditions were held in mid-August, and the recital was arranged it to encompass all styles of dance. As the initiative's artistic directors, Verzino and Tingle played big roles as two of the choreographers for the upcoming performance.
"We've been working really hard to let family and friends know about this organization and this show," Verzino said. "We're hoping to show out and have a good audience."
The first show begins at 5 p.m. Friday, and the second follows at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at The Dance Centre, 1825 McFarland Blvd. N., as well as in its in-studio store, Primadonna's Dance & Fitness Boutique. Adult tickets cost $16, while tickets for children 12 and younger are $12.
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