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Benedetti & TchaikovskyConductor Kazem Abdullah begins his PSO concert debut with Brahms' furiously brooding Tragic Overture. Hindemith's Mathis der Maler is arguably the German composer's most famous orchestral work and is based on music from his opera of the same name. Young Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti performs the Tchaikovsky concerto, featured on her recent highly-praised recording.05/10/2013 - 05/12/201305/10 - 8:00 pm05/12 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Vincent Carr, organVincent Carr will play the Cathedral's historic 1931 Steinmeyer organ. Now Associate Organist at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, NJ, Carr earned his bachelor's degree in organ performance at Indiana University, and received the Charles Ives Prize from the Yale School of Music.05/10/2013Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Altoona, PAwebsite
Walk Two MoonsAdapted by Tom Arvetis from the Newbery Award-winning book by Sharon Creech and directed by Lisa Ann Goldsmith. "Flawlessly adapted, 'Walk Two Moons' challenges audiences to look outward into a world where everyone has the immense power to help one another. 'Walk Two Moons' has a poignant, valuable message for audiences of every age." - ChicagoBeat.05/10/2013 - 05/19/2013New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Trio AoideComing from three different continents, the musicians in Trio Aoide bring a unique blend of classical music from their varied musical backgrounds and styles. They have played their respective instruments (violin, piano, and cello) throughout the U.S. and Europe, and enjoy playing together as Trio Aoide, named after the Greek muse of song05/11/2013Time: 7:30 pmFirst Presbyterian Church, 309 Lincoln St., Johnstown, PAwebsite | map
Maecenas XXIX GalaConsistently recognized as one of Pittsburgh "Top Ten" parties, Pittsburgh Opera's Maecenas gala is always a glamorous, elegant evening. This year, Pittsburgh Opera honors PNC with the Maecenas Award and Dr. Jared L. Cohon of Carnegie Mellon University with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Tickets available at pittsburghopera.org or 412-281-0912, ext 225.05/11/2013Time: 7:00 pm - 1 amBenedum Center, 231 7th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Angela Sheik Red Dress Tour with special guest Jim Rodgers2011-2012 BOSS US National Loop Champion Angela Sheik is a fierce vocal- and multi-instrumentalist who wows audiences by building her own virtual backup band using rhythmic harmonies, beatbox rhythms, a looper pedal, and a collection of unusual instruments. Pittsburgh Symphony bassoonist Jim Rodgers goes electric with sound layering devices, recreating classical favorites, rock classics, and original soundscapes.05/11/2013Time: 3:00 PMAndrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, PAwebsite | map
Peter Yarrow Mother's Day ConcertThe music of Peter, Paul and Mary awakened a generation to activism and idealism. Their songs, "Puff the Magic Dragon," "Blowin' in the Wind," and "If I Had a Hammer," are classics. Peter Yarrow continues to use music to inspire and bring people together to create a more just, peaceful and compassionate world. This pay-what-you can benefit concert supports Hope Academy's music scholarship fund.05/12/2013Time: 7:30 pmEast Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Mother's Day ConcertBring your mom to this fun and festive celebration.05/13/2013Time: 2:30 pmLocation: Somerset High School, Somerset, PAwebsite
Art for ChangeThe 25th anniversary of Persad's largest fundraiser and premiere art auction in southwestern Pennsylvania. The event is a verbal and silent auction featuring more than 200 original works of art donated by local, national, and international artists, including paintings, photography, sculpture, furniture, and jewelry. Tickets: PersadArtforChange.org, or 412 441-9786 x-22405/13/2013Time: 6pmLocation: August Wilson Center, downtown Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh International Childrens FestivalThe Festival offers 65 performances in 5 venues with performers from Australia, Russia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and United States. Attending a performance engages audiences with different cultures and perspectives, as well as exposes them to different mediums for expressing ideas and stories, such as puppetry, soundscapes, music, movement, and dance. 05/15/2013 - 05/19/2013Location: Schenley Plaza and University of Pittsburghwebsite
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A lot of bad things go on in the world today, and the media is always looking for a scapegoat. Once upon a time it was film, then it was music, and now it's our beloved video games. Politicians and certain ill-educated members of the media will blame video games for anything they can, be it murder, rape or even seemingly unrelated diseases such as rickets. The list that follows is 10 of the most controversial games of all time, and the reasons they whipped up such a storm.
Mortal Kombat – SNES, Mega Drive
Before the processing power of the PSone and N64, violent video games were a rare breed. In this respect, you could consider Mortal Kombat a pioneer of video game violence. It featured realistic character models, devastating 'finisher' moves, and more blood than a slaughter house. It's widely accepted that the controversy surrounding the launch of the game was what prompted the formation of the ESRB.

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"Hey, this Filapoola guy plays that thing, what's it called again? Oh yeah, defense. So, like, we don't have to play, uh, defense, right? Cuz we have a guy for that. Right? Man, I love Filapoola!" said the Lightning forward.
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"They were a great couple," says a source close to the family. "Theirs was not only a marriage, but also a close, loving friendship. Everyone enjoyed being around them."
Now that union has exploded in hurt feelings on both sides in a highly publicized split that has Dina and the infamously private Clint now respectively dating former spouses Scott and Erica Fisher.
Reality ShowAccording to multiple sources, the marriage began to fissure when Dina, 48, did the Mrs. Eastwood and Company. The show, which averaged around 1 million viewers per episode, featured Dina, daughters Morgan and Francesca Eastwood (Clint's daughter with actress Frances Fisher), and Overtone, the a capella group that Dina managed.
Clint Eastwood, 83, was an occasional guest star, appearing uncomfortable.
"Clint was furious about the show," says a source who has worked with Clint. "It went against everything he stands for: he's incredibly private, and she put his kids on TV." Adds the source, "It was not a happy time for them."
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Old FriendBy the end of 2012, according to those sources, confirming published reports, Dina was leaning on Scott Fisher, a friend from her high school days in Fremont, Calif., who had gone on to star in the Australian basketball league.
Just as Eastwood's marriage was crumbling, Fisher, who had left Perth for a job as assistant coach at the University of Hawaii, was finalizing his divorce from Erica Fisher, his wife of 10 years, according to court papers.
That's when things took a twist. Concerned by her ex-husband's relationship with Dina – which Dina maintained was still platonic – Erica Fisher started reaching out to Clint in early 2013. He eventually returned her calls, and the two sparked to each other. By March, they were dating.
Dina learned about Clint's relationship with Erica shortly after Alison Eastwood's March wedding.
"She was in total shock," says the family source. "She couldn't put one foot in front of the other. Dina went into a tailspin."
Rehab StintSoon after learning about the relationship, she checked herself into rehab in Arizona. At the time, the reported cause was stress, but, according to sources close to the situation, the real reason was her shock over Clint's relationship with Erica.
In the months that followed, Dina grew closer to Scott Fisher. Now the old friends are seeing each other romantically, though, according to one source, things between them have been proceeding slowly.
"Who else could understand the pain and shock of this but Scott?" says the family source. "As far as their relationship turning into more, there are so many layers of grief that she still needs to process."
Neither Scott Fisher nor Erica Fisher has replied to requests for comment, nor has a rep for Dina Eastwood. (She spoke out on Twitter, saying, "I don't like reading negative things about Clint. He is a wonderful, good-natured, brilliant person. No matter what, I attest to that." Clint Eastwood's longtime manager, Leonard Hirshan, says he has no knowledge of his client's personal life.
Back to WorkFor his part, Clint has continued to date Erica Fisher ("It's the real deal," says another source) who has split time between his place in L.A., Vancouver, Wash., and her native Australia. He has also thrown himself to his work in L.A, where he is directing his adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys.
As for Clint and Dina, they don't even speak to each other, according to sources.
"Right now, their family is not what it was, not by any means," says the family friend. "There is so much shock, so much pain – it's going to take a lot to ever repair this."


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Man check out the Townie McWinchester convention by the train tracks
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After being closed for the majority of Thursday, Highway 20 between Nevada City and Interstate 80 is open again.
The crucial commute route opened at 3 a.m. Friday morning, said Gilbert Mohtes-Chan, spokesman for Caltrans.
The entire stretch of Highway 20 has been closed from Dow Road to Interstate 80 since 7:10 a.m. Thursday morning due to a traffic accident and a downed power pole, Mohtes-Chan said.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and AT&T crews responded to the incident and conducted repairs, which proved to be more extensive and complicated than initially expected, accounting for the length of closure, Mohtes-Chan said.
The utility companies had to await the transportation of a new pole, as the tower struck in the crash was no longer usable, Mohtes-Chan said. They then worked at reattaching the wires.
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Right through November, there was no question which place would qualify as Worst Vacation Spot in Maui County and, perhaps, also as bottom of the Bottom Ten Stories of 2011.
Nakalele Point, usually a quiet and very far out-of-the-way place, leapt to prominence in July when a tourist was swept into the blowhole by a wave and drowned; and again in September when a man was seen beating a woman, who was later found dead. (Follow along; the suspect breaks a record for getting in Bottom 10 twice in one year.)
But after Thanksgiving, Molokai, inscrutably nicknamed the Friendly Isle, moved to the front, or the back, according to the way you look at it, by raising a huge fuss and demonstration against a cruise ship that intended to deliver three dozen tourists to the island.
There were fears that all those tourists would overrun the island if they were let loose for 24 hours, and change Molokai forever. Really.
There is no set criterion for being a bottom story, but some just beg to be picked. For example:
KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE. In September, a long-distance swimmer was run over by one of the safety boats sent out by the organizers, nearly losing his hand. And in June, two 50-something watermen who were swimming from Mala to Lanai were pushed off course; their escort boat reported the problem three hours later. Rescuers scrambled but weren't needed. The men made it, although it took one of them nearly 12 hours.
CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS. This year, nobody stole a police cruiser with its engine idling while its driver chased a miscreant, but almost every year someone decides the long arm of the law doesn't want to get wet. Indeed, twice a suspect leaped into the ocean to escape arrest. It's cold and wet, and the police can wait in comfort for you to come back out. One of the two was the suspect in the Nakalele homicide (not yet come to trial), who spent an uncomfortable night clinging to a rock before being reeled in. The other was a naked man in a monkey mask.
JUST YOU WAIT. The County Council postponed, again, the deadline for itself to complete the Maui Island Plan. It is now four years behind schedule and won't get done until August even if there are no further delays.
Do not try this with your tax payments. The new system was set up to avoid the delays of the old Community Plan-General Plan method, which ended up about a decade behind schedule.
MISSING IN ACTION. It was a presidential campaign year - well, wait, that's this year, but unlike the Maui Island Plan, it's ahead of schedule. Somebody forgot to remind Dennis Kucinich, who was not reported campaigning on Maui even once.
ISLAND PRIDE. When Josiah Okudara was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police siege, he sported a neck tattoo: 96793. That's the Wailuku ZIP code.
THE BIGGER THEY ARE . . . If you let a problem go long enough, it will become a crisis. Thus, the ocean has been eating its way toward Honoapiilani Highway for many years. Rather than move the road, the state Highways Division threw up boulders along Olowalu.
. . . the harder they fall, sometime this year, probably.
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS. Most overwrought contretemps of the year in Maui County: The upset over replacing real flowers with plastic ones at The Whaler. Second most overwrought: Predictions of calamity if Front Street was/was not closed off for Halloween.
BOOBY PRIZE. A Kula householder found what he suspected was unexploded ordnance, possibly left over from World War II. Before authorities could deal with it, someone stole it.
WANNA RACE? Stay in Indianapolis. A tourist from Indiana was collared after witnesses told police he was racing his Lexus up and down South Kihei Road at speeds up to 80 miles an hour. Officers testified he claimed to have a "message from God to speed."
The economy must be looking up. Ever since 2008, Bottom 10 Stories has been strapped to come up with 10 worthy entrants.
I cannot explain it, but it seems that the better off people are feeling, the goofier they act. Anyway, there was no difficulty in reaching 10 in '11.
* Harry Eagar is a reporter for The Maui News. "Off Deadline" offers staff members the opportunity to step back and reflect on issues of the day or to just talk story. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dude that last chick was so pissed she almost circumsised me. Its a damn good think I brought my bank girl.
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Nick Kingham hadn't made it past the first inning since June 25. His last start on July was halted due to rain after six pitches and two outs.
When he finally made it out of the first inning on Saturday, he allowed two runs and after the second inning, another two.
Those four runs couldn't be made up as the Curve fell to Erie, 6-0, snapping a three-game winning streak before 4,148 at PNG Field.
"The first two innings, we lost the game in those first two innings," Curve manager Carlos Garcia said.
The SeaWolves mustered six hits and four runs off of Kingham in the first two innings. The six hits were the only hits Kingham allowed on the night.
"They just kind of put the ball in play before I had a chance to really do anything that I wanted to tonight," Kingham said.
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Tonight: Erie at Altoona, 6 p.m.
Pitchers: Curve RHP?Jamison Taillon (3-5, 2.97) vs. SeaWolves RHP?Jon Link (1-1, 1.50)
Record: 39-48
Kingham was able to settle in, getting five strikeouts - all after the first two innings. He walked just one, but got the loss.
While Kingham didn't allow a hit, the Curve offense fell silent, getting just three hits off of Drew VerHagen.
VerHagen went the distance, getting the win, striking out six and allowing just three hits.
"For the most part, he kept our hitters in check," Garcia said of VerHagen. "He moved the ball in and out very well We hit the ball in the dirt, and the defense did very well for him."
Only Mel Rojas, Adalberto Santos and Justin Howard were able to get a hit off of VerHagen. Howard's hit extended his hitting streak to 12 games, the longest from any player this season, surpassing Andrew Lambo.
While the bats were quiet, Garcia is hoping this doesn't keep his team from repeating what happened the last time. A winning streak was snapped and the team lost four straight and nine of its next 10.
"We've just got to come back ready to play," Garcia said. "We know we are going to continue to face this ball club for the next two days. We know what they are capable of doing. We know where their stronger points are, and we know we can play with any team in this league."
All-Star news
A record four former Curve players have made the Major League Baseball All-Star game.
The Pirates' Pedro Alvarez, Andrew McCutchen and Jeff Locke all made their way through Altoona before making it to the majors. On the American League team, Jose Bautista, now with Toronto, was also named to the game in New York.
Alvarez spent 60 games with the Curve in 2009, McCutchen played 118 games in 2007 and Locke spent parts of the 2010 and 2011 seasons in Altoona.
Bautista played 130 games in 2005 with the Curve.
Moving on up
Former Curve infielder Brock Holt was added to the Boston Red Sox roster Saturday, making it 108 Curve players to get the call to the majors.
Holt, who played in Altoona for most of the 2011 and 2012 season, hit .302 in his tenure with the Curve.
Game recap
Key player: Erie's Eugenio Suarez went 3-for-3.
Key play: Herman Perez's hit an RBI triple in the first.
Key stat: The loss snapped a three-game winning streak.
How they scored
Top 1st: Suarez singled, scored on Perez triple (0-1); Perez tripled, scored on Cabrera ground out (0-2).
Top 2nd: McCann singled, scored on Castillo (0-3); Gaynor singled, scored on Suarez single (0-4).
Top 8th: Perez reached on a fielder's choice, scored on Cabrera double (0-5); Cabrera doubled, scored on Robbins single (0-6).


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Medical Devices: What's Taxed, What Isn't
Among the moving parts in talks over the government shutdown is a 2.3% excise tax on medical devices sold in the U.S. that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
The tax, long opposed by the medical-device industry, was intended to raise money to help pay for new insurance coverage for millions of people under President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Estimated to garner about $30 billion dollars over the next ten years, the medical-device law went into effect this past January.
Republicans in the House have long fought the tax, as have members of both parties from states like Massachusetts and Minnesota where many makers of medical devices are headquartered.
Under the law, "devices" mean everything from MRI machines and cardiac defibrillators to tongue depressors and bandages – as long as they are being sold to medical "providers" like hospitals and doctors. If bandages or medical gloves are sold at a drugstore, that sale isn't subject to the tax. But if they're sold in bulk to a hospital chain, that transaction does fall under the law. Also, certain items are always exempt, such as eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Here's a rundown of devices and products that typically are and aren't subject to the excise tax.
Band-Aids EXEMPT
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Band-Aids and other consumer products get a pass under the retail exception. In this 2009 file photo, a customer removes a box of Band-Aids from a display at a pharmacy in Tallahassee, Fla.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines TAXED
From left, MRI technician Laura Woods, Jacksonville Zoo veterinarian Adrian Atkins, and MRI Technician Sharon Vizcaino, position Torra the cheetah on the table in the MRI room at the Baptist Medical Center Nassau in Fernandina Beach, Fla., last year. Torra was having trouble with vision and stability.
Wheelchairs EXEMPT
Mechanical and powered wheelchairs fall under the retail exemption. Above, Korean War veteran Robert Olson, from Iowa, is pushed in his wheelchair by Zach Twedt, also from Iowa, around the National World War II Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013.
LASIK machines TAXED
A television monitor shows the image from the operating microscope during Lasik eye surgery in this 2005 file photo.
Heart valves TAXED
An Edwards Lifesciences Corp. SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve is assembled in a training room at company headquarters in Irvine, Calif., in 2011.
Pacifiers EXEMPT
In this 2012 image released by Jessa Decker-Smith, her 7-month-old daughter wears a pacifier with a felt mustache attached to it.
Pacemakers TAXED
An x-ray from the North Carolina State's College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh, N.C., seen here on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2003, shows a dog with a pacemaker in place.
Dentures TAXED
While the final product isn't taxed, the components that go into a set were taxed during the production process. In this March 30, 2012, photo, Kelley Gannon smiles as she first sees her new full set of dentures installed by Stephen Alouf, rear, a dentist in Roanoke, Va.
Eyeglasses EXEMPT
Eyeglasses and contact lenses are specifically exempted under the law. Above, then-presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton shops for eyeglasses during a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky., in May 2008.
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Two more Oklahoma school districts have decided to cancel class because of threats.
Authorities with the Caney Valley School District said threats made by middle school students to harm other students on Dec. 21 prompted officials to cancel classes on Friday district-wide.
Same for school officials in the town of Locust Grove, who decided to start the holiday break a day early amid reports of possible incidents against the high school.
"Our students and their safety are always our main concern," said Locust Grove Superintendent David Cash.
Both schools plan to analyze and implement recommendations to improve security during the holiday break.


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WATCH: Acoustic Daft Punk Guitar Medley is Off The CHAIN
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Romana's generally make excellent wives, mothers and partners. Try to spend your life with a Romana if at all possible.
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February 18, 2013 - Record Turnout for Cruz the Blues
This weekend Big White hosted Cruz The Blues for the third time this season. Over 1,100 people registered. The youngest being only four years old and the oldest an incredible 89.
Saturday's weather tested our participants navigation skills with a thick fog covering the mountains for majority of the day - but no one complained since it was snowing and was much more adventurous! Whilst Sunday's weather was overcast with clear visibility which helped people collect their stamps a lot faster.
By 3.30pm, Happy Valley's Day Lodge was completely full with families and groups of friends lining up for their Cruz The Blues t-shirt. The presentation commenced, hosted by the Guest Services Crew, and random participant's names were drawn out and were given prizes. The Crew also threw out prizes such as sunglasses, clothing, stickers, belts and mascot stuffed animals to the crowd who were lucky and quick to snatch them up! Grand prizes included a GoPro, Oakley Snow Goggles, an iPod Shuffle and Nintendo DS Games. It was great to see everyone receiving something. The overall weekend was successful and fun.
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American Idol Discovers Big Talent in Texas and California
It's the final week of American Idol's cross-country talent search. And as the judges head to San Antonio, Texas, a surprising lack of diva-on-diva trash-talking allowed the focus to fall squarely on the contestants who seemed like they could be serious contenders this season (or at least keep things interesting).
Case in point: 19-year-old Mississippi native Papa Peachez who described himself as "a cute little white boy and ... so much more than that. I'm really just a big black woman trapped in a little boy's body."
After Peachez belted out an original song, Nicki Minaj immediately showed him some love. "I think that you are a superstar," she said. The other judges weren't as convinced, but Minaj managed to twist enough arms (not literally) to get the boy through to Hollywood.
Peachez is going to have some steep competition from another 19-year-old – San Antonio's Adam Sanders, who blew away the judges with his rendition of the Etta James classic "At Last."
"You shocked us all, Dawg," Randy Jackson told the singer before giving him a standing ovation, along with Mariah Carey and Keith Urban.
Other notables from the Lone Star State included an Arkansas beauty queen, a vibrant mariachi singer and 16-year-old Sanni M'Mairura, whose rendition of the JMichael Jackson's "Who's Lovin You" drew raves and left Minaj sputtering about other things that apparently make her feel good: "Candy canes, strawberries, whip cream, rainbows and sunny skies," she said.
Next the judges hopped aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., to see what the West Coast had to offer. That's where Jesaiah Baer, 16, had to contend with an impromptu fire drill but still managed to blaze her way to Hollywood.
Then, after an emotional number from Iraq war veteran Matt Farmer, the episode ended with two powerful stories from young, would-be Idols who've overcome bullying.
Briana Oakley, 16, had to change schools after her classmates turned on her when she found success on a televised talent show. But she won the judges over with her performance Patty Griffin's "Up to the Mountain."
And 21-year-old Matheus Fernandes, who was quite a bit shorter than everyone else in the room, broke down in tears after getting praise from the judges for his version of "A Change Is Gonna Come."
"To me," Randy told him, "You're 10 feet tall."
Thursday American Idol heads to Oklahoma – and next week to Hollywood.


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Men's Volleyball To Host IPFW Wednesday
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State men's volleyball team wraps up its five-match home stand by hosting I-69 rival IPFW Wednesday evening at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals are coming off a 1-1 weekend.
Greg Herceg and Matt Leske were named this week's MIVA Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week as voted on by conference SIDs. Herceg led the offense against Grand Canyon, connecting on a career-high 25 kills in Saturday's 3-2 win. Leske tied his career high in assisted blocks with eight and also got under a career-high four digs.
The Mastodons are currently 4-3 on the season and 1-1 in MIVA play. IPFW is led offensively by Eddie Rivera who has a 3.09 kills per set average. IPFW is holding opponents to a .229 hitting percentage.
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"There are so many things," the actress, 35, told PEOPLE in Los Angeles Wednesday night at the Grey Goose-sponsored party for Chelsea Handler's new book, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
For starters, she cited Carrey's "capacity to love and to take on something that most men would completely run away from."
McCarthy, who revealed her 5-year-old son Evan's condition nearly a year ago on The View and published a book about their experiences, Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism, said of Carrey, 46: "He could have any 20-year-old perfect girl with perfect breasts, and he stays. He has really opened his heart and his life to us. I'll forever be grateful."
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LISBON -Columbiana County's newest state senator spent a day this past week getting to know some of his constituents.
Joe Schiavoni, D-Canfield, met with county commissioners and officials from the county elections board, St. Clair Township and Wellsville before stopping by the Morning Journal. Prior to that, he had called every mayor and school superintendent in the county, as well as many township trustees.
"This a good introduction for me to see some of the places, although I'd like to see more. So I'll come back another day," he said.
Schiavoni, 33, was elected in 2010 to the Ohio Senate from the 33rd District, which included Mahoning, Carroll and portions of Stark and Tuscarawas counties. Columbiana County was in the 30th District and represented by state Sen. Jason Wilson at the time.
In 2011, a redistricting plan approved by the state legislature created a new 30th District that included only Mahoning and Columbiana counties, with Schiavoni scheduled to become the district's state senator starting in 2013.
Schiavoni promised that the county would not take a back seat to the much larger Mahoning County and he intends to serve both as equally as possible.
"Some people from Columbiana County automatically feel if you're from Mahoning County you won't represent Columbiana County ... I know people get that feeling," he said.
But that will not be the case.
"If there are things I can help you with I want to be there. I want to treat Columbiana County like I treat Mahoning County, my home county," Schiavoni said, adding that the fact he lives only 35 minutes away will make that possible.
One thing that jumped out of him while touring Wellsville was the need to help the village obtain funding to demolish or rehabilitate blighted properties.
"We need to make sure we get the resources to not only Wellsville, but to communities throughout Mahoning and Columbiana counties so they can deal with this blight problem. People need to feel safe in their neighborhoods," he said.
For this to occur, "we need to make sure communities are adequately funded. We have to make sure we don't cut local governments 50 percent like we did before, and we can't cut schools like we did before," Schiavoni said, referring to funding cuts included in the 2012-13 state budget.
"I voted against both of those (cuts) before because I don't think you can strengthen your communities by cutting (state) local government funding and cutting schools," he said.
When asked how he would have addressed the projected $4 billion to $8 billion shortfall in the last state budget, Schiavoni he would have started with eliminating business tax loopholes and extended by another two years a freeze on an approved cut in state income taxes.
"There were other ways to get to the number," he said, adding all the legislature did was pass on the budget cuts to local governments and schools.
Following are Shiavoni's thoughts on other issues:
Oil and Gas Development
Schiavoni supports the shale gas boom underway in the region because of potential economic development benefits, but he wants it done in way that safeguards residents and the environment as much as reasonably possible, by enforcing existing regulations and adding new ones when required.
As an example, he recently introduced a bill doubling the minimum distance between wells or storage tanks and homes from 150 to 300 feet. Schiavoni said he also introduced an amendment that would have put more teeth into road use maintenance agreements, but it was rejected.
He voted against the bill that allows drilling in state parks.
Senate Bill 5
Schiavoni voted no because he believed it went too far in reducing the negotiating power of public employee unions.
"That was just too much too fast, let's take away the ability of public unions to collectively bargain. It would have made it so skewed there was no way the bargaining unit could win in negotiations," he said.
Schiavoni said there were parts of the bill he could have supported had the Republican majority taken a more measured approach, such as requiring public employees pay a more of their health insurance. "That's fair," he said.
Schiavoni is opposed to a bill that, if passed, would have banned abortions after the first heartbeat of the unborn child can be medically detected, which can occur within six weeks of becoming pregnant.
"I think the woman has the right to choose how she wants to deal with this specific situation. It kind of upsets me how much time we spend on these issues, when we should be spending time on helping kids succeed in school, make sure people have jobs, and making sure we have safe and clean communities," he said.
A practicing Catholic, Schiavoni said he has struggled with his position on abortion.
"The Catholic Church at its most strict level doesn't even agree in abortion for rape or incest. I just don't see how you can have a woman have a baby from someone that is the scariest person in their life. That's the kind of stuff I can't accept, common sense ... When it gets to that point I will never be able to budge on that point," he said.
Voter ID
Schiavoni is opposed, saying the current law covers the issue to his satisfaction by requiring voters to produce a driver's license or other legitimate document proving where they live.
"I think we waste a lot of time on this as well. We're talking about minor, little details, fighting over certain dates here and there. Just let the people vote. As long as it's not a major distraction for boards of elections and they believe they can handle it, let them vote," he said.
Consumer Protection
Schiavoni, who is an attorney in private practice, was opposed to a bill that would eliminate jurors being able to award triple damages to winning plaintiffs in consumer lawsuits, if the plaintiff had rejected an offer to settle for more money. Winning plaintiffs would have also been prohibited having the defendant pay its attorney fees.
He said these large judgments are needed to discourage businesses from engaging in ways that result in lawsuits of these sort. "You have to have serious damages in place to prevent wrongdoing," Schiavoni said.
Gun Violence
The Ohio Senate leadership announced this past week one of its priorities is to introduce legislation to curb gun violence. Schiavoni, who described himself as a supporter of the Second Amendment and Ohio's concealed weapon law, said his support would depend on the bill that emerges.
"I believe folks should have the right to bear arms ... but at the same time there's got to be some sort of system created for background checks, and we have to determine what is the level of acceptability as to who should be able to carry firearms, who should be able to own certain kinds of firearms," he said.
What about restrictions on semi-automatic rifles of the sort used in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting? "I would consider looking at that ... It's very hard to justify these high-powered weapons if you're not in the military or a police officer. I know that they are fun to shoot, but you really don't have a practical purpose for them," he said.
Personal Information
Schiavoni graduated from Boardman High school and earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Ohio University and law degree from Capital University. He is currently in private practice with the Austintown law firm of Schiavoni, Schiavoni, Bush & Muldowney.
He and his wife, Margaret, have a 4-month son. They live in Canfield.
Schiavoni said he maintains a field office at his law office at 87 Westchester Drive, Austintown, and he can be reached at 330-799-1834.
Schiavoni said he has a newsletter that is mailed out to random households in the district every month, and an e-newsletter will be available online once his new website is up and running.


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Author Affiliations: Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (Drs Post, Mainous, and Diaz, Mr Gregorie, and Ms Knoll); and Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England (Dr Saxena).
Physician counseling is effective in promoting healthy behavior. We evaluated whether patient reports of physician acknowledgment of overweight patients' weight status are associated with the patients' perceptions of their own weight and desire to lose weight.
We analyzed the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data on adults aged 20 to 64 years with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 25.0 (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared). Logistic regressions were computed to evaluate the impact of reports of physician acknowledgment of patients' weight status on patients' perceptions of their weight, desire to weigh less, and attempts to lose weight.
In logistic regressions controlling for relevant confounding variables, participants with a BMI of 25 or greater (odds ratio [OR], 6.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.38-8.53) and those with a BMI of 30 or greater (OR, 7.58; 95% CI, 5.83-9.84) both had an increased likelihood to perceive themselves as overweight if they were told by their physician that they were overweight. Similarly, participants with a BMI of 25 or greater (OR, 2.51; 95% CI, 2.15-2.94) and those with a BMI of 30 or greater (OR, 2.24; 95% CI, 1.74-2.88) had an increased likelihood to have attempted to lose weight in the previous 12 months if they had reported being told they were overweight. However, only 45.2% of individuals with a BMI of 25 or greater and 66.4% of those with a BMI of 30 or greater reported being told by a physician that they were overweight.
Among patients who were overweight or obese, patient reports of being told by a physician that they were overweight were associated with more realistic perceptions of the patients' own weight, desire to lose weight, and recent attempts to lose weight.
Obesity and overweight are an increasing epidemic in the United States, with steady increases in incidence over the last decade.1Recent estimates suggest that approximately two-thirds of Americans are overweight and one-third are obese.1Overweight and obesity have been shown to increase health care costs, increase mortality, and significantly shorten life expectancy.2- 5 Being obese or overweight raises an individual's risk of developing chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.6- 8
Overweight and obese individuals are now more likely to consider themselves to be of normal weight than overweight and obese patients did 20 years ago.9 Americans have had a shift upward, not only in their body weight but in their desired body weight as well.10
Risk perception by the patient is a key factor in determining the potential for change. According to the Health Belief Model, the primary motivation to change behavior is the level of perceived risk of a condition.11 Therefore, if patients do not perceive themselves at risk, then they are unlikely to change. The recent normalizing of overweight and obesity suggests that patients do not perceive the health risks of their own weight status and therefore would be unlikely to want to reduce their weight to reduce health risk.12,13
Previous studies show that physician advice encourages patients to change behaviors. These studies show that this is an important strategy in promoting healthy lifestyles among their patients. Multiple studies that have evaluated physician advice regarding smoking cessation, diet and exercise, and immunizations have shown an increased likelihood that the patient would participate in these behaviors if the physician provided this guidance.14- 16 Physician recommendations in each of these studies helped motivate the patients to change behaviors, especially those who are at high risk.16 Specifically in terms of obesity and weight management, physician counseling has been shown to be an effective driver of patient weight loss intentions.17- 19
However, we do not know if overweight and obese patients will have more realistic perceptions of their own weight status or a greater desire to lose weight and attempt to lose weight simply by reporting if their physician tells them that they are overweight. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate patient perceptions of overweight and obesity in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States and if reports of physician acknowledgment of patients' weight status are associated with a difference in these perceptions and behaviors.
A cross-sectional analysis of the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data was conducted. The NHANES is a continuous national survey that represents a stratified multistage probability sample of the noninstitutionalized US population. The NHANES combines questionnaires with physical examination findings and laboratory samples obtained from participants. The data are weighted to allow for computation of appropriate population estimates.
The subjects included in this study are nongeriatric adult participants in the 2005-2008 NHANES aged between 20 and 64 years with measured body mass index (BMI) values (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), who were asked if they had been told by their physician or another health professional that they were overweight. There were 7790 participants, which represents 174 246 403 in the US population. Of this sample population, 5474 (weighted n = 116 914 006) had a BMI of 25.0 or greater, of which 2874 (weighted n = 59 970 136) had a BMI of 30.0 or greater.
Participants were asked to report their height and weight, and a self-reported BMI was calculated. Participants also had height and weight measured in the NHANES, and an actual BMI was calculated. The self-reported and actual BMIs were compared via Pearson correlation to determine the accuracy of self-reported BMIs.
The main outcome measure was the proportion of participants who considered themselves as "not overweight" vs "overweight" in 2 different BMI classifications: overweight (BMI ≥25.0) and obese (BMI ≥30.0). Participants with obesity, defined as a BMI of 30.0 or greater, were also included in the overweight classification because obese participants are also overweight, and thus the categories are not mutually exclusive.
Secondary measures include participant perceptions of desired weight and weight loss attempts. The former was determined by participants finishing the following statement "Would you like to weigh . . . " with the options "more," "less," or "stay about the same." The latter was determined by participants answering the question "During the past 12 months, have you tried to lose weight?" with potential responses including "yes" and "no."
Physician acknowledgment of overweight status was determined by the participants' answers to the question "Has a physician or other health professional ever told you that you were overweight?" Answer choices to this question were either "yes" or "no."
The following demographic characteristics of respondents were included: sex, age, race (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, and other), family income as indicated by poverty to income ratio (<1.0 indicates poverty), marital status (married/living with partner or not married), and education (<high school graduate or ≥high school graduate).
Because the NHANES has a complex sampling design that makes the resulting sample representative of the noninstitutionalized US population, nationally representative estimates were made. Analyses were performed using SUDAAN (version 10.0 [2008]; RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) to account for the weighting and complex sampling design.
χ2 Tests were performed to evaluate bivariate relationships in each BMI category between participants who were told by a physician that they were overweight and perceived weight, desire to lose weight, and whether the participants attempted to lose weight in the last 12 months. These results are presented as proportions.
Forced-inclusion model logistic regressions were performed for individuals in each BMI category on their perception of themselves as being overweight, their desire to lose weight, and whether they attempted to lose weight in the last 12 months when controlling for the following variables: whether they were ever told by a physician that they were overweight, age, sex, race, poverty to income ratio, marital status, education, whether the patient has a routine source of health care, and the number of physician visits in the last 12 months.
Forced-inclusion model logistic regressions were also performed on the likelihood for physicians having told patients in each BMI category that they were overweight, when controlling for the following patient variables: age, sex, race, poverty to income ratio, marital status, education, whether the patient has a routine source of health care, and the number of physician visits in the last 12 months.
Age was treated as a continuous variable. Sex, race, poverty to income ratio, marital status, whether the patient has a routine source of health care, education level, and number of physician visits in the last 12 months were treated as categorical variables.
The demographic characteristics of those who were overweight or obese are featured in Table 1. The Pearson correlation coefficient between measured BMI and self-reported BMI for all overweight participants was 0.947. For only obese participants, this was 0.922. This represents that participants in the 2005-2008 NHANES were aware of there own weight at the time of the survey and had fairly accurate reporting of their own height and weight.
In participants with BMIs of 25 or greater, 45.2% (95% CI, 42.9%-47.4%) reported that they had been told by their physician that they were overweight. In participants with BMIs of 30 or greater, 66.4% (95% CI, 63.7%-69.0%) reported that they had been told by their physician that they were overweight.
Participants who reported that they had been told by a physician they were overweight, compared with those who were not told, were more likely to accurately identify themselves as overweight, whether they were overweight (94.0% vs 63.1%; P < .001) or obese (96.7% vs 81.4%; P < .001) (Table 2). Similarly, participants who reported that they had been told by a physician they were overweight were more likely to desire to lose weight and attempt to lose weight.
Overweight participants who reported having been told by their physician that they are overweight had an increased likelihood to perceive themselves as overweight, when controlling for age, sex, race, education, income, marital status, whether a patient has a routine source of health care, and number of physician visits in the last 12 months (Table 3). When controlling for these same factors, obese participants were also at an increased likelihood to perceive themselves as overweight if they reported having been told by their physician that they are overweight.
As with perceptions of being overweight, both overweight and obese participants were at an increased likelihood to desire to lose weight if they were told by their physician that they are overweight. In terms of attempts to lose weight in the previous 12 months, both overweight and obese participants had an increased likelihood of having attempted to lose weight if they were told by their physician that they are overweight.
Among individuals with BMI of 25 or greater, within a model with age, sex, education, poverty to income ratio, race/ethnicity, marital status, having a place for routine care, and number of physician visits in the last year, several variables were significantly associated with patient reports of being told that they were overweight. Specifically, participants who were older, female, had at least 1 routine place of health care, and had at least 1 physician visit in the previous 12 months had an increased likelihood of reporting that they were told by a physician that they were overweight (Table 4). Respondents who were married or living with a partner were less likely to report being told that they were overweight. Among individuals with a BMI of 30 or greater (obese participants), the same factors were associated with an increased or decreased likelihood of reporting having been told they were overweight. In addition, non-Hispanic blacks had a lower likelihood of reporting being told that they were overweight compared with the reference category of non-Hispanic whites.
Since the participants' self-reported BMIs correlated very highly with their measured BMIs, the participants showed that they were aware of how much they weighed, which is similar to other reports of population-based studies in the past.20However, almost 37% of overweight participants and almost 19% of obese participants still did not consider themselves to be overweight if a physician had never told them that they were overweight. Fortunately, in participants who had been told by their physicians at some point that they were overweight, these proportions were much lower: only 6% of overweight participants, with just over 3% of obese participants, still did not consider themselves to be overweight. This speaks strongly to the influence that physicians' words have on their patients.
Telling an overweight patient that they are overweight was associated with a greater than 8-fold increase in the odds that the patient will classify themselves as overweight compared with a patient who has not been told that they are overweight. For those who are obese, there was more than a 6-fold increase. This is an important point in the aspect of risk perception. Since being aware of a problem is the first step to changing behavior, this relates to our study in that telling a patient that he or she is overweight is associated with the patient's awareness of being overweight.
Furthermore, having been told of being overweight was associated with an almost 8- and 5-fold increase in the odds that overweight and obese participants, respectively, will desire a lower weight. Both overweight and obese respondents also had more than double the odds that they had attempted to decrease weight in the previous 12 months if they had been told by a physician that they were overweight. This is another important area where physicians can help intervene with their patients in taking the opportunity to help drive those who desire to lose weight to attempt to lose weight, as well as to help those who are attempting to lose weight be successful in their attempts. However, more than half of overweight participants and more than one-third of obese participants reported never having been told by a physician that they were overweight. With the weighted estimates that NHANES allows for, this equates to more than 74 million overweight individuals, including nearly 23 million obese individuals, who have never been told that they are overweight. Previous studies have shown that physicians generally perform well at recognizing patients who are overweight.21,22 However, as shown by the results of our study, this is a point of action for intervention that is being missed by many physicians. Furthermore, because being overweight is a risk factor for a number of conditions, such as diabetes and hypercholesterolemia, physicians not identifying obesity could also lead to missed opportunities for screening for these conditions. Past studies have found that more than a third of obese individuals not identified by physicians as overweight have undiagnosed chronic conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia.23
What barriers may cause physicians to fail to address weight with their overweight patients? Previous studies have shown that physicians tend to have a more negative outlook on patient weight and behaviors than patients do. For example, physicians were more likely than patients to think that patients lack self-control to stay on a diet.24 Physicians also tend to believe that patients have less motivation and think that patients will lose less weight than patients themselves believe.25 Perhaps time constraints could also contribute as a factor preventing discussion of a patient's weight status. Many physicians, regardless of how much time they generally have allocated for a visit, feel as if they need more time during visits.26 Patient counseling requires additional time during a visit,27 and if physicians feel that they do not have the time, they might avoid starting a potentially long conversation regarding a patient's weight. However, the strong associations shown in our study should help to change these negative perceptions among physicians and encourage incorporating extra time into visits to discuss weight management with their patients.
There are several limitations in this study. First, because this is a cross-sectional study, no cause and effect association can be made. However, the odds ratios for the associations found in this study are strong and are found in a large sample size that is representative of the entire United States. Therefore, these results are easily generalizable because they represent the general population. Future intervention studies could explicate the power of physician discussions of patient weight status. Second, the extent of the physician intervention cannot be determined from this study. The question asked of participants regarding whether they had been told if they were overweight did not ask about specific details of the conversation or if follow-up counseling was performed. Because the NHANES relies on self-report, we do not really know what physicians told their patients. Therefore, assumptions about the quality of the interaction cannot be made. It is possible that the patients who do not know that they are overweight did not "hear" that they were overweight when told. Third, the labeling of overweight based on BMI can be wrong in very muscular people. Although this phenomenon is unlikely to account for the low percentage of persons reporting that they were told that they were overweight, it is important to consider. Fourth, we could not assess the type of visit in which the patients were encountering the physician. It is possible that visits for chronic conditions are more likely to yield this type of healthy lifestyle advice. Past research shows that "opportunistic prevention" is desirable but may not occur at the rate we would like.28
In conclusion, patient reports of being told by a physician that one is overweight were associated with major increases in the odds that overweight and obese participants had realistic perceptions of their own weight, had a desire to lose weight, and had made recent attempts to lose weight. However, fewer than one-half of overweight and fewer than two-thirds of obese participants had been told by their physicians that they were overweight. This is an important intervention point that is being missed by many physicians. Physicians need to tell more overweight and obese patients that they are overweight because this may help encourage them to change their behavior to lose weight and lower their risk for many diseases.
Correspondence: Robert E. Post, MD, MS, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29425 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: July 16, 2010.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Post, Mainous, Gregorie, Knoll, Diaz, and Saxena. Acquisition of data: Post and Gregorie. Analysis and interpretation of data: Post, Gregorie, Knoll, and Diaz. Drafting of the manuscript: Post, Gregorie, and Knoll. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Post, Mainous, Knoll, Diaz, and Saxena. Statistical analysis: Post and Gregorie. Study supervision: Mainous and Saxena.
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As the weather turns cold and blustery and sunset comes earlier and earlier there's nothing better than to curl up with a good book.
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Twilight Tea at the Windsor Arms Hotel
Last week, on of Toronto's Five Star hotels, the Windsor Arms was gracious enough to invite me over for Twilight Tea. Before we headed in for tea, Christine, my lovely host, took me on a beautiful tour of the historical property. I had no idea we had such a little gem nestled in the heart of Yorkville.Read More


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On the surface it seemed one of the stranger matches of the 20th century: the serious, award-winning dramatic actress Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and the man whose fertile imagination introduced both flatulence around an Old West campfire and a singing-dancing Adolf Hitler to the silver screen, Melvin Kaminsky.
Or, as the world knew them, Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks.
Asked about the couple's marriage, which lasted from 1964 until her death from uterine cancer in 2005, an introspective Brooks says in the new PBS American Masters documentary Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, "You know, it took because Anne and I both grew up during the marriage, we both grew up, we both knew what was really important, and what love meant, and ... what doing for each other meant."
While the 82-minute program focuses primarily on Brooks's nearly 70 years of creative output – Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, as well as Get Smart and the 2,000-Year-Old Man – documentarian Robert Trachtenberg also turns a spotlight on the Brooks-Bancroft relationship.
For starters, as Brooks tells it, he first saw her during a TV rehearsal for The Perry Como Show. Then, as recounted by Bancroft in a vintage interview: "A guy from way over, from the other side of the theater, said, 'Hey, Anne Bancroft. I'm Mel Brooks.' "
Explaining the significance of his speaking up, Bancroft says, "I want you to know that, in two years, no man had ever approached me with that kind of aggression, because I had just done [the Broadway dramas] Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker, and people were very scared of me, especially men."
But not this brash young fellow. "This aggressive voice came out from the dark," recalled Bancroft, "and I thought it must be a combination of Clark Gable and Robert Taylor, Robert Redford. It turned out to be Mel Brooks, and he never left me from that moment on."
She wasn't kidding. "He would say, 'Where ya goin'?' And I'd say, 'To William Morris [agency].' He'd say, 'So am I.' He'd say, 'Where ya goin'?' 'I'm goin' to that delica-.' 'So am I.' Wherever I said I was going, he would say he's going there. ... It just went on and on, the man never left me alone, thank God."
On another occasion, she said, "I was in love with him instantly, because, you see, he looked like my father and acted like my mother."
They married at New York City Hall. (Both had been wed once before; Brooks has three children from his 1953-62 marriage to former dancer Florence Baum.) Together they had a son born in 1972, Max Brooks, who, among other accomplishments, wrote the 2006 novel about a zombie takeover, World War Z, now the basis for the latest Brad Pitt movie.
In 1980, Bancroft starred in a drama for the screen that Brooks produced, The Elephant Man. And the two starred together for laughs, in 1983's To Be or Not to Be, whose high point was their rendition of "Sweet Georgia Brown," in Polish – though if Bancroft were to have had a theme song, it surely would be Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." She played the mature seductress in director Mike Nichols's sharp 1967 movie satire, The Graduate.
In 1998, when she was 66, PEOPLE named Bancroft one of its Most Beautiful. "Anne died at 73," Brooks, now 86, says in his American Masters tribute. "She could have certainly gone on to 83, 90 … it would have been wonderful."
But perhaps the key to their magic is best explained in the documentary by Nathan Lane, who won a 2001 Tony for playing Brooks's quintessential protagonist, Max Bialystock, in The Producers.
Quoting Bancroft, Lane says, "You know, we're like any other couple. We've had our ups and downs, but … every time I hear the key in the door, I know the party's about to start."
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise premieres nationally Monday, May 20, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on PBS. Check local listings.
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The launch of a new "angel fund" focused on investment in Oregon-based companies will be announced at the Bend Venture Conference Friday at the Tower Theatre.
The Cascade Angels Fund aims to drive economic growth and prosperity in Oregon by creating opportunities for investors and businesses, according to Tuesday's announcement
Based in Bend, the fund is committed to Oregon's entrepreneurial ecosystem and will typically invest in launch stage companies from any industry or market, in investments averaging from approximately $50,000 to $200,000.
Investors in the fund must be accredited and will typically come from Oregon, Washington, and California. Funded companies can be from anywhere in Oregon, but the natural bias will be for Central Oregon-based companies.
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Past and current clients include Starbucks, Nike, Greater Portland Inc. and other private sector businesses and regional organizations.
"This is the only fund of its kind in Central Oregon and we have the opportunity to connect the best entrepreneurs and angel investors, providing an avenue to strengthen the entrepreneurial effort in the region," said Harrelson. "The Cascade Angels will help catalyze economic opportunity in Central Oregon and throughout the state."
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I can also blame the union and the players for not being willing to budge off of key financial points. The league has one method in mind, and the players have another method in mind. Who is to blame here? Both sides for not being willing to compromise in the least bit.
I don't really understand the fixation on the union not meeting months ago, other than it's really the only thing to try and blame just them for so far.
The union not wanting to meet last season is bad on them and they should be blamed, but the owners locking the players out and not being willing to negotiate this season is ok and makes sense?
We're 9 days out from the what was supposed to be the start of the regular season and there's no movement on either side. Any day now they'll start to announce the cancellation of games. I don't know what people think would've happened had they started meeting in January. Bettman even said he wasn't worried about the timetable back then.
Right now they still can't even agree on what constitutes HRR. It's not about lack of time.
It's not just about meeting with Daly and Bettman. Fehr was a relatively new president of the union and I'm guessing wanted to meet with a lot of the players, get a feel for where they stand on issues and also inform them of how he saw things.
That's a little harder to do with hundreds of players while the season is going on than it is 30 owners.
In a perfect world, yes they would've started meeting in January and had a deal hashed out this summer. I honestly (and naively) thought this would go relatively painlessly given the massive increase in revenue since the last CBA.
But the two sides are so monumentally far apart right now that it's looking like the only way a deal will be made is to play chicken with this season and see who gives first.
Once again, we don't know what would have happened with more time because we don't have it today. Its easy to dismiss this claim as a mere formality, but the simple fact of the matter is that with more time, this lockout could have been avoided. We don't know for sure one way or the other, but I would have loved to have seen an NHL and an NHLPA that were willing to work hard to avoid a lockout. The sooner that they met, the better off they would have been and the happier the fans would have been in the end. They would have seen two sides that genuinely cared about hockey. As it turned out, we all saw two sides that were monumentally greedy. The league gave a crap lowball offer while the union sat until the last minute and played the PR game which didn't result in a deal being made.
At least you finally came out and said that it was a mistake for the union to not start negotiating last season. I know that was a hard step for you to take, and the very first constructive comment I have heard you take against the players association.
Ok, fair enough. I choose to take what both sides say to face value. When I hear the league say, "We are ready," I believe them. Just like I believe the players when Fehr makes a statement. We can agree to disagree.
No. I'm not advocating for either side in this debate, I am merely pointing out that despite your claims, the league was not willing to negotiate in January despite what they said. You keep bringing it up like it's a viable excuse for the owners locking out the players. I didn't claim anything about the PA or mention anything they said...I don't even have an argument, except that what you are claiming about the leagues willingness to negotiate is false.
I don't care who caves or what the CBA looks like or what constitutes HRR or what percentage of 3 billion dollars who gets to get for the next year, or two, or ten. Give me f****** hockey already.
With 6 months to negotiate instead of 6 weeks, a lockout could have been avoided. Just because they are at an impasse now doesn't mean with more time they wouldn't have been able to come up with a solution. We don't know for sure either way, but I will take more time than less that's for sure.
The quote below suggests that it is not lack of negotiating time, which causes the impasse. Sides understand each other, they just do not agree. So more meetings would not achieve much until some change to the circumstances of either side occurs.


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The scope and sheer volume of innovative research, fresh insights, next-generation technologies, and promising therapeutic opportunities presented at the recent Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in Chicago was more than any one, normal functioning brain could absorb, even with all neurons firing and all synapses and circuits on high alert.
The meeting focused on themes ranging from brain development and physiology, neural function and dysfunction, synaptic plasticity, genetics, pathology, and learning and memory, to normal aging. Presenters described how they are using light energy and light-responsive molecules to turn neurons on and off as part of a field of study called optogenetics. They also presented research on motor control, sensory mechanisms, cognition, and addiction.
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the new director of the NIH, urged attendees to "engage in advocacy" and "make the case for scientific research"—basic, translational, and clinical research—in the public arena. He described his vision for the NIH and took aim at the financial challenges that lie ahead.
Over the next two years, there is a $10 billion light at the end of the funding tunnel, due to the stimulus dollars appropriated to the NIH as part of the recent Recovery Act. Dr. Collins explained that $8.2 billion of that money will be allocated for scientific research. As of October 1, $5 billion had been awarded and 12,000 grants funded. Twenty-eight institutions and 1,885 investigators were first-time awardees.
Dr. Collins emphasized the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research and the announcement in July that it would launch a $30 million Human Connectome Project (HCP) aimed at mapping the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain using imaging technologies. Selected projects will be funded at up to $6 million per year for five years.
The HCP represents one of three planned Blueprint Grand Challenges that will focus on neuroscience research to understand brain function and treat brain disorders. The other two will promote targeted drug development for neurological diseases and research on the neural basis of chronic pain disorders.
Among the many new technologies and products on display at the meeting were a host of imaging tools, including confocal and two-photon laser scanning microscopes, antibodies, labeling reagents, and proteins for neuroscience research, software tools, and functional assays and live-cell imaging systems for high-content screening applications.
An illuminating symposium chaired by Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology and of applied physics at Stanford University, explored "New Technologies for Probing Brain Disease with Light: From Super-Resolution and in vivo Imaging to Optical Control of Circuits." Light energy is helping researchers explore the healthy and diseased nervous system with technologies such as optogenetics, super-resolution imaging, and microscopy in live unanesthetized animals.
Guoping Feng, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University's Institute for Brain Sciences, described the development of cell type-specific optogenetic mice for use in probing neural circuitry and dysfunction. Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics at Harvard University, gave a presentation on the application of nanoscopic fluorescence imaging to study neurons and brain tissue.
Maiken Nedergaard, from the University of Rochester, described her work using in vivo two-photon imaging in astrocyte cell cultures containing luciferase to study the role these cells play in neuronal function and communication.
Dr. Schnitzer's work using minimally invasive imaging in awake mice to study the brain's "cellular orchestra", aims to define large-scale patterns that underlie brain function. Light-scattering imaging techniques that rely on confocal and two-photon microscopy are limited by how deeply in the brain they are able to look. Dr. Schnitzer described an alternative technique called fluorescence microendoscopy that uses micro-optical probes to target specific brain regions. By introducing fluorescein into the plasma of mice and inserting probes into the hippocampal region, he demonstrated the ability to image capillary blood flow. "At the highest resolution you can see individual red blood cells."
An important advantage of this relatively low-cost technology is the ability to re-image the same site in the same animal over time. He described a range of clinical applications in which microendoscopy could be relevant; in muscular dystrophy, for example, the probes can be inserted directly into the muscle to image the contractile behavior of individual muscle fibers. Using laser scanning just once can image the dynamics of sarcomere contractility over time.
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the departments of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, showed how light-responsive proteins called opsins, derived from microorganisms such as algae, respond to specific wavelengths of light and can be used to control individual cell types in neural circuits, leaving others unaffected.
Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a positive stimulator (or "on switch") for neurons that was isolated from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, is an example of an opsin. Fiberoptic delivery of pulses of blue light at 470 nm into the brains of ChR2-expressing transgenic mice results in optogenetic stimulation, causing the light-gated ion channels to open and allowing sodium ions to flow across the membranes of ChR2-containing cells.
Feng Zhang, a graduate student in Dr. Deisseroth's laboratory described the ongoing search for light-responsive proteins in microorganisms across diverse ecological environments, with the hope of finding defined populations of molecules that he described as "microbial antennae," which will allow for targeted light stimulation of neurons to activate or deactivate specific neuronal circuits and synaptic connections.
Herbert Covington III, a postdoctoral fellow, described research performed in Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.'s laboratory of molecular psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in which directed laser light was used to stimulate Ch2 in the medial prefrontal cortex of mice with a depression-like phenotype. This region of the brain exhibits altered function in humans suffering from major depression. Optogenetic stimulation of Ch2 was associated with antidepressant effects in the mice.
At the University of California, San Francisco, Garret Stuber, Ph.D., and colleagues are exploring the use of optogenetic control of brain reward circuitry to modulate addictive behaviors. They are using Ch2 and light stimulation in the amygdala to determine which synapses in the brain have reinforcing effects similar to drugs of abuse.
Preliminary results of studies on optical stimulation-driven memory recall performed by Michael Häusser, Ph.D., and co-workers at University College London show that Ch2 activation to provoke memory recall stimulates neural activity and plasticity only in brain cells initially involved in memory formation. The researchers used a mouse model of memory based on fear conditioning, in which the mice were conditioned to respond to a tone. They demonstrated that in mice injected in the hippocampus with the Ch2 construct, light activation of Ch2 could evoke fear memory recall and the same behavior the mice exhibit after hearing the tone.
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