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Setting a standard of excellence
Setting a standard of excellence
Not even a blizzard could keep the trailers away from the aptly named Four Winds Farm in Hartland, Wis., on March 26, 2011. The hundreds of plaques and banners decorating the shed easily confirmed why this die-hard crowd was so willing to stand the cold that sale day. Over the years, Four Winds' owners, Clark and Joy Vilter, have gained a sterling reputation for breeding awe-inspiring Guernseys.
The Vilters are nothing less than an icon when it comes to breeding accomplishments in any breed, having earned 281 All-American nominations with a remarkable 149 being homebred. Members of the Four Winds herd have been selected as National Grand Champion 17 times, 11 times being homebred.
A household name in dairy circles, Westlynn Tom Dee, the farm's first national Grand Champion, is celebrated among all breeds as one of only a few cows to win four or more Grand Champion titles at World Dairy Expo. That's not all. Led by Four Winds Magicman, a five-time Premier Sire at World Dairy Expo, the Four Winds prefix ranks fourth all-time among Guernsey sires for All-American nominees.
In 1998, Clark was chosen as the 57th winner of the Klussendorf award, the nation's highest showing honor. He also served as a leader to his peers as the president of the American Guernsey Breeders' Association and Klussendorf Association. In addition, Clark and Joy have tirelessly supported youth and gave many young showmen their start by showing Four Winds cattle.
It was a difficult decision for Clark to hang up the milkers and sell out his herd in 2011, but he knew his health wouldn't allow him to continue milking much longer. Despite their decision to leave the industry, the Vilters' impact on the Guernsey breed and showing community has set a standard of excellence for years to come.
What were the keys to your herd's success during the 28-year run since your first All-American nomination in 1983?
First of all, having an understanding and very helpful wife. Without Joy, I could not have accomplished any of this. My three children, Tim, Tina and Jim, were also always a big help. The support of my family was key to my success.
The second ingredient would be a little bit of luck. Once in awhile success comes from what you have accomplished, but other times it comes from luck. Sometimes I was just in the right place at the right time with the right animal.
Our breeding program probably helped us quite a bit, too. We bred for type and we fed and managed for production.
Explain why your herd transmitted so well for other breeders.
We are firm believers in cow families. Having said that, it comes down to using the right bull on the right cow. We never did subscribe to the theory of going the index route. We bred more for animals that suited us, and I guess we got lucky in that respect. I wanted a cow that would last for a number of years. They had to have good udders, good feet and legs, and have some strength along with dairy character. We weren't necessarily out to set a national class-leading record but the cow had to be profitable.
Of Four Winds' 17 National Grand Champion titles, which one was most memorable?
Probably the first time that Westlynn Tom Dee was Grand Champion at a national show. She was a once-in-a-lifetime cow. Tom Dee was the first animal that we ever showed that was a national champion. We didn't breed her. We purchased her as a 2-year-old.
Tom Dee put us on the map, so to speak. She was 4 years old the first time she won. She won four times in Madison at 4, 5, 6 and 7 years of age. I know the last year that I showed her my daughter, Tina, said I was nuts to take her out and risk it. That conversation firmly rings in my mind.
What made Tom Dee so impressive as a cow and so successful as a transmitter?
She transmitted like no other Guernsey cow had. There have been cows of other breeds that surpassed her. But she transmitted the most reliably of any Guernsey cow that I am aware of.
In the beginning, her overall balance attracted me to her. She had a beautiful udder, beautiful front end and beautiful feet and legs. When she was offered to me, it was one-third ownership and I had to care for her. When I saw her for the first time at World Dairy Expo, it took me all of three seconds to decide I would rather own part of her than look up at her in the show ring the rest of my life.
What unique aspects do you appreciate about the Guernsey breed?
At one time, I milked a few Holsteins and I found that Guernseys are more docile when comparing the two breeds. Guernseys are also more heat tolerant. They are probably more energy efficient because even though some of the Holsteins milked more, I also had to clean-up an awful lot behind them and they ate more. The bottom line was we probably made more money with the Guernseys.
What do you think needs to be improved within the Guernsey cow to make her viable long-term in our industry?
We need to improve the feet and legs overall in the breed, and we also need to give the breed more overall strength so they can more efficiently make milk. If you have a narrow front-ended cow, chances are she's going to be narrow in the rear end. And I have yet to see a cow make a lot of milk out of a narrow udder.
Four Winds Farm has received much recognition over the years, what achievement do you think has been the highlight?
It is hard to select just one highlight. The two at the top of my list are when the Klussendorf Association elected me to be part of that group and receiving the Master Dairy Cattle Breeder Award from the American Guernsey Association.
The Klussendorf Award is for what I accomplished in the show ring, while the Master Breeder is for accomplishments over the years breeding cows. The Master Breeder Award was given to me and my wife, Joy, because without the help of Joy and my kids, it wouldn't have happened.
Did some of the previous Klussendorf winners serve as your role models?
Yes. When I look at that list of winners I think, "How in the world did I get there?" As a kid, I would read the list of winners and was just in awe of the names. Some of the people I knew and some of them I didn't. Of the ones I knew, I thought, man, that's the upper echelon. When they put my name on there, I think it came down a bit.
When I was a boy, I remember going with my dad to Olaf Kjome's (1937 winner) farm. He drove us around out in the field with a pick-up truck to look at his cows. I also looked up to Lew Porter (1969 winner). Another Guernsey breeder, Myron Lancaster (1983 winner) is someone I looked up to.
It's so hard to single anybody out because I admire the names on that list. I admired previous Klussendorf winners for being able to show cattle with great ability and having great sportsmanship. If they won, they were a gracious winner; if they lost, they were a gracious loser.
Through your leadership roles over the years, what things have you learned?
First of all, I found that I needed to be a good listener. Secondly, I needed to approach issues impartially until I knew all the facts and figures and the ramifications of a decision. If my peers elected me to a leadership role, I tried to do the best job I possibly could.
When the American Guernsey Association decided to reestablish a sale at World Dairy Expo, you put a first choice of Tom Dee in the sale and Forhar Magic Show that you owned in a three-way syndicate. What caused you to make that kind of commitment to that sale?
We are strong believers in the Guernsey breed, and we wanted to showcase it. There isn't a better place than World Dairy Expo to do it.
Why have you been such a strong supporter of youth?
There is no future in the dairy industry without our youth. I am not the future, I'm at the tail end. I have always believed that the youth are the future of the dairy industry and we need to give them support and guidance.
What advice would you have for a young person entering a career in our industry?
If they work hard at it and are honest, they'll have a very rewarding career. I'm glad I made my career in the dairy industry.
What caused you to hang up the milkers?
Although I did have really good help the last couple years that I did farm, I had some health issues. I wore a knee brace for the last two years I milked. A couple months ago, I had a total shoulder replacement in my right shoulder. Everything that I had to do above my head I had to do left-handed, and as a right-handed person this made milking very difficult. Joy convinced me it was the right choice to sell. I didn't want to, but some days age catches up with you and you have to face the facts.
You had an outstanding sale and cattle went to many states. Talk a little bit about that day.
We couldn't have planned a worse weather day for the sale. We had a blizzard and it was cold and windy. We were told we had 700 people here for the sale and that still blows my mind. I was also told that in the trailer parking lot there were 32 trailers and cattle went into 16 different states. I didn't realize that many people would come. I was just blown away by the amount of people. For that I say a big thank you.
Your Guernsey cow Charity was proclaimed "Cow of the Year" by the Wisconsin governor. What can you recall from that day?
Governor Thompson gave a long speech since it was an election year. Charity got a bit impatient during the long talk, so she swung her head around and hit the governor! He didn't go down but he moved. The crowd laughed. Governor Thompson quickly wound up his speech. It was 10 to 15 minutes too long and he was holding the show up. It was right before her class. We didn't plan it but it kind of wrapped things up for him.
Rumor has it some junior members encouraged you to ride a roller coaster during a Guernsey convention. What prompted you to hop on?
I'm still trying to figure that one out. What possessed me on that day I have no idea. Thinking back, I'm glad I did because those young ladies have gone on to become very prominent youth in the dairy industry. I don't think a roller coaster ride convinced them to do that, but I'm glad to know and associate with them. And don't ever look for me to do it again!


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MACON, Ga. – Heavy rain in the central Georgia region has forced the cancellation of Stetson and Mercer's series finale, Sunday. The softball game was originally scheduled to start at 1 p.m. at Sikes Field in Macon and there is no scheduled make-up date.
Both teams split a double header on Saturday, with Stetson taking Game 1, 6-1 and Mercer claiming Game 2, 5-4 in eight innings. Stetson stands at 15-5 on the year and 3-2 in the A-Sun, while Mercer has an identical 3-2 conference mark and is 18-10 overall.
The Hatters now lead the all-time series between the two schools 54-17 (.761), dating back to 1987. This was the final regular season meeting of the two teams as A-Sun opponents as Mercer will be leaving for the Southern Conference next season.
Stetson next takes the field Tuesday, March 18, with a non-conference doubleheader against Marist. Game 1 is set for 4 p.m. at Patricia Wilson Field, with Game 2 taking place at approximately 6:30 p.m. The Hatters then host Buffalo in a single game, Wednesday at 6 p.m., in DeLand.

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Access starting point: Trains from Berne, Zurich, Biel/Bienne, Interlaken, Basle, Brig
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Total altitude meters: Approx. 120 m
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Gastronomy: Thun, Gwatt, Amsoldingen, Allmid, Wattenwil
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The brown signs for the Jakobsweg show the way for the whole route. Thefirst part of the walk leads along the bank of Lake Thun to Gwatt. Thenyou go over a hill to the Stockental valley. Finally, the route takesyou past lakes and little hamlets to Wattenwil.
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Toasted RavioliMakes 24 ravioli
4 cups vegetable or canola oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
6 eggs
½ cup half-and-half
2 cups seasoned breadcrumbs
12 frozen beef ravioli
12 frozen cheese ravioli
¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
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1. Heat the oil in a medium-sized pot over medium-high heat. Bring the temperature to 400 degrees. (The temperature will lower once the frozen raviolis are dropped in.)
2. Place the all-purpose flour in a dish, then whisk together the egg and half-and-half in a separate dish. Pour the breadcrumbs into a separate dish.
3. Grab the ravioli (they should be frozen solid), and one at a time, drop them into the egg mixture. Quickly dredge them in the flour, then dunk them once again in the egg mixture, then coat them in the breadcrumbs. Set aside on a plate, repeating until they're all coated.
4. Three or four at a time, drop the breaded ravioli into the oil and fry for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the surface is golden brown and the filling is hot. Remove, and drain them on a paper towel.
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The setting for the evening was a Catalonian masia (a typical farmhouse of the region) called Can Travi Nou near the Vall d'Hebron Park in Barcelona. More than two hundred guests were in attendance to honor the lifelong dedication and commitment of Dr. Bladé to myeloma patients, their families, and to myeloma research.
The rain that had plagued the city all day ended just in time for the arrival of the guests, and the informal reception was held in the gardens of the masia. Dr. Bladé's lovely wife Maite, his children Joan and Esther, his mother, his brothers and their wives and many other family members joined several past honorees; colleagues and staff from the Hospital Clinic Barcelona; 50 international myeloma clinicians and researchers; the five corporate sponsors; and the International Myeloma Foundation in honoring Dr. Bladé on a very familial and enjoyable covered patio.
Dr. Jesús San Miguel presided over the event as master of ceremonies, and introduced the speakers during the course of the evening: Dr. Brian G.M. Durie and Susie Novis; Dr. Heinz Ludwig; Dr. Ciril Rozman; Dr. Robert A. Kyle; and Dr. Bladé; however, the last speech of the evening, an emotional and heartfelt message to his father, was given in Castilian Spanish, Catalonian, and English by Joan Bladé Herrero, his son. His colleagues spoke of his career, his dedication, and his meticulousness – his son spoke of the example he sets for the family. A very intimate experience that all were permitted to share.
A photo montage with musical accompaniment documenting events in Dr. Bladé's life was prepared by his friend and colleague Dr. Laura Rosiñol. For those unfamiliar with his career path and his hobbies, this was a humorous and insightful look back at his childhood, his studies, his career, his hobbies, and his family. (Did you know that Dr. Bladé is also an internationally known and respected breeder of canaries?)
Personally selected by the honoree, everything from the welcoming glass of cava (Catalonian sparkling wine) to the dessert (milk chocolate mousse in a dark chocolate shell) was delicious. Plate after plate of different varieties of tapas (appetizers) were especially well-received, and helped the international attendees adjust to the later dinner hour that is the custom in Spain.
Eventually, however, the night came to a close – although as the guests departed, everyone was in agreement that this was a night to remember. After having spent the evening as part of a family that included Dr. Bladé's own family, his friends and his colleagues, we knew that all had shared a very special experience: una nit molt catalana. (a very Catalonian night).


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Playboy: The Mansion Review
Saved only by some reasonable (although crude) strategy elements, the core of the game unfortunately falls very flat. Throwing parties should be fun, right? Not in the Playboy mansion they're not.
Ahh, Playboy magazine. With its biting articles and broad coverage of topics, is it a magazine for the more sophisticated gentleman that just so happens to have pictures of naked women in, or is it one for the Dirty Macs brigade? The purists would argue that it is too arty to be porn (i.e. not graphic enough), and the more prudish chap would probably be put off by the aforementioned naked ladies interrupting the interviews with the stars and articles full of social commentary. In reality it is a bit of both, but doesn't really fit in either category. Still, why is this relevant? Well, much like the fact that the magazine is hard to pigeon-hole, the game also suffers from a schizophrenic personality. Is it a management, relationship or a party sim? More importantly, is it any good?
Playboy: The Mansion thrusts you into the shoes of Mr Hugh Hefner (literally, as you control an on-screen representation of him), father of the Playboy empire, and charges you with the task of emulating the respected man's success. In fact, if anything, the game is really nothing more than a celebration of Hugh's life, with everything telling you how great Hugh is and what wonders he has achieved - there is a even a little thank you tucked away in the credits that thanks Hefner "for all he has done to better this country". Shameless self-promotion aside, the game isn't all about Hugh, per se, but about the Playboy magazine. Offering a mission-based campaign or a sandbox mode (for when you fancy doing it at your own pace), success in either comes through publishing a successful magazine and earning money. Oh, and helping Hugh to become more famous.
'In any mission your main aim is to publish a magazine, but other objectives are thrown in'
In any mission your main aim is to publish a magazine, but other objectives are thrown in to add some spice to proceedings, such as getting a certain person to appear on the cover, patching up staff relationships, or even paying some guy's bail. To do these things you will generally need to throw parties - lots of parties. Indeed, this is really the core of the game: throwing parties to get people to see how great being Hugh really is. You can select the guests, the setting (additional areas of the mansion open up during the game, such as the pool), whether or not it is a night or day party, and choose the general attire (you want a lingerie party in the mansion's upper floor? Go for it). Once these details are sorted, your guests will start to arrive, at which point your job is to play the perfect host. You can engage in conversation with potential lovers, friends and business partners, instruct them to use the various equipment to help keep them happy, and introduce them to new people for your own wicked purposes. It all seems very Ken and Barbie, what with you manipulating everything to your heart's content (you can even pick the outfits the Playboy Bunnies wear). And yes, you can have sex (with lower underwear kept on, strangely enough).
In order to produce a quality mag you will be responsible for securing quality content from a range of celebrities and important folk who attend your parties (such as sports stars, actors and politicians), perform photo shoots for the both the cover and a centrefold spread, and get the aforementioned important folk to provide interviews and essays for you. It's not hard; in order to get people to provide you with the stuff you want you will need to talk to them to develop relationships, and make sure they are happy whilst at the mansion (which involves decorating and extending Hugh's homestead). Parties and furniture cost money though, money which you earn by selling lots of copies of the mag. And so, the circle is complete. Each element impacts upon each other, and in that respect it all hangs together.
Cutting straight to the chase, though, none of the core gameplay elements on their own are very strong, and even when taken as a whole it just isn't interesting. Take, for example, the need to talk to people to develop relationships. Each person has levels of interest in Hugh on a business and friendship level and, for women, a romantic one too, represented by a bar that goes up and down. When engaging in a conversation you will be offered the option to talk about something that influences one of those areas (such as talking about the stock market, or making a joke). As the bar gets higher, the options increase. Get friendly or romantic enough with somebody and you will soon be able to request an article, an essay, photo shoot or to have digital sex, with a high chance of success.
Whilst that may seem interesting, none of the conversation topics actually do anything, other than project some idiotic alien noise out of your speakers, and play a little animation. It is too easy (albeit very boring) to get everybody to love you, to be your best friend and want to be a business partner just by monotonously clicking on buttons. In short, it is awful; it is poorly implemented, a point that is beautifully illustrated by the fact that you can fool around with a woman who doesn't like you, just by raising her romantic interest and ignoring her friendship level. Another of the game's gimmicks is that you have to perform the photo shoots for the cover of the mag. These too are poorly constructed. Sure, you can pick the outfit, the location around the mansion and the pose (to a degree), but it is all rendered obsolete when you realise that you can take a picture of the wall or the girl's elbow, and suffer no detrimental effect in sales or quality.


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Verdi's RigolettoThe court jester Rigoletto (Mark Delavan) loves his daughter Gilda (Lyubov Petrova) nearly as much as he hates the Duke of Mantua (Michael W. Lee). The Duke steals Gilda's honor, and the jester must continue to joke, even as he plans revenge. Rigoletto sometimes takes a joke too far for the comfort of his audience. But, this being opera, Rigoletto is met not by boos, but by a curse, when one of his jokes gets a little too personal. Antony Walker conducts.10/06/2012 - 10/14/201210/06 - 8:00 pm10/09 - 7:00 pm10/12 - 8:00 pm10/14 - 2:00 pmBenedum Center, 231 7th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
ItaliaMusic Director Matthew Kraemer begins the orchestra's 64th season with such familiar classics as Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien and Respighi's The Pines of Rome.10/06/2012Time: 7:30 pmButler Intermediate High School, 551 Fairground Hill Rd, Butler, PAwebsite | map
Carnegie Mellon Wind EnsembleUnder the direction of George Vosburgh and Thomas Thompson, the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble will perform Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs, a bright and upbeat march, as well as Strauss' lyrical Serenade for Winds, among others. Free admission.10/06/2012Time: 4:00 pmLocation: Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts, CMU, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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Carnegie Mellon Symphony OrchestraUnder the direction of Ronald Zollman, the Carnegie Mellon Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Beethoven program including the Overture from The Creatures of Prometheus and Symphonies #8 & #4.10/07/2012Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Opera Orchestra Artists in RecitalPittsburgh Opera Orchestra violinist Dawn Posey, violin, and harpist Nuiko Wadden perform an arrangement of J.S. Bach's Lute Suite #1, Saint-Saens' Fantasie for violin and harp, Ricardo Lorenz'sJaromiluna, and Henriette Renie's Trio for Harp, Violin, and Cello with cellist Katya Janpoladyan of the Freya String Quartet.10/07/2012Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Monk's Place, 3634 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
The lower half of the face does indeed look like the lower half of Bel-Cam's face. However, this could actually be an obscure Batman villain called, um, Half-Bel-Cam-Face.
Luckily, the extended cut on the blu-ray includes an extensive subplot where Bel-Cam plays a bounty hunter hired by the mob to capture Tom Hanks. Which he does, putting the entire rest of the movie at risk until the Fantastic Four (the version from the unreleased Roger Corman film) rescue Hanks and the movie continues.
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Chux, I thought I could trust you to post "Spoiler Alert" statements. Why should anyone see the movie now, nor its sequels? I'll admit, the 4th film was really weak in the middle, but the ending definitely makes up for that. JJB, I apologize for this Forumite ruining the movie that you obviously already saw, exactly as El Chuxter posted.
Oh, and Love and Other Drugs has been a movie I've seen on cable often this weekend.
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Picnic (1955). William Holden gets a bunch of ladies all excited over the Labor Day holiday.
The Killer (1989). Chow Yun Fat and John Woo. Need I say more? But I will: Fat is a hit man who accidentally blinds a cabaret singer during a job. He takes work to raise enough money so she can get a cornea transplant. Nice action sequences.
Gambit (1966). Michael Caine is a cat burglar who employs Shirley MacLaine to help him on a heist. Never knew the two of them worked together before I saw this movie.
On the Beach (1959). The aftermath of a nuclear war and how it affects survivors living in Australia. I don't know why but I find this film depressing yet fascinating at the same time. Good performances by Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire.
I've been re-watching the complete series of Breaking Bad. I'm currently finishing season 3 in my marathon, "b#^CH!"
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SyFy's had Raiders of the Lost Ark on this weekend; man, I'd forgotten just how great this movie is.
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I'm watching THOR for my first time.
I'm finding I'm actually enjoying it.
I objected to superheroes (besides Superman) being alien "gods" or something, but this is kind of interesting.
Thor is the main reason I never saw Avengers, Thor 2, or Ironman 3. I am revisiting that decision now and possibly correcting it depending upon what my final opinion of Thor is.
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Fail Safe (1965). An Air Force bomber received incorrect orders to bomb Moscow, and the US and Russian gov'ts are trying to stop it.
King Rat (1965). Not your typical WWII POW meeting in the vein of Stalag 17 or Bridge on the River Kwai. It's more about survival than anything. George Segal is an American POW who's running a black market operation within the prison.
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Norman Clift 's voice quivered when he told his story.
But when he told the brewery full of attentive men to get themselves checked, his voice was strong.
Just 17 months before he shared his story in public for the first time, the then-49-year-old attributed ongoing bleeding to hemorrhoids. Clift finally went to the doctor when the problem was consistent, and he was immediately referred to a urologist for a colonoscopy.
"I had an appointment scheduled for my 50th checkup, and I beat him to the punch," Clift said.
He should have gone in sooner.
"As I'm coming out of being sedated, trying to be helpful and take out my IV, they're telling my wife I have cancer because there was no question it was cancer, there was no reason to wait for the biopsy."
A 4-centimeter tumor was nearing the end of his colon. It required a year and a half of chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries and a support group that calls itself "Team Stormin' Norman."
After surviving colon cancer, Clift recommends men evaluate their health years before doctors typically require tests.
Unless a man has a family history of the disease or is black, both of which make people more susceptible, age 50 is the threshold after which doctors urge cancer screenings.
While there are many cases like Norman Clift, which disprove that threshold, Chief Medical Officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and former family physician Chris Urbina argues that the risks of far-advanced screenings, like colonoscopies, outweigh peace of mind.
In addition to discomfort, colonoscopies run the risk of infection, puncture, bleeding and anesthetic complications, Urbina said. Additionally, the extremely low likelihood of benefitting from early testing does not undo the high costs of the medical work.
"I see people who want to get every test in the world and I say, 'No, you're wasting your money,' " Urbina said.
Three men who had been experiencing problems similar to Clift's symptoms approached him after he spoke at March Manness, a men's health initiative held in three locations across northern Colorado in early March. Clift urged them to see a doctor if they have symptoms, no matter what their age.
More than 200 people participated during the three days of the March Manness events, which were designed to get men to take their health seriously and see a doctor if they think they need one. University of Colorado Health Marketing Strategist and event organizer Dave Rizzotto called it a huge success.
"We definitely plan to make it an annual event just based on the response we got," Rizzotto said. "We didn't want to slap wrists or use guilt, we just wanted to present accurate information and make this topic accessible."
Based on information from Weld and Larimer counties, Rizzotto found that close to 50 percent of men in northern Colorado do not go to the doctor on a regular basis. Common reasons, he said, are hassle, embarrassment, cost and feeling like they're in good health.
Michael Lee, a urologist at Colorado Health Medical Group Urology in Fort Collins, said men's apathy toward doctors visits is an ongoing issue.
"The biggest barrier to men seeking care is fear, fear that we're going to perform real painful procedures, and also embarrassment," Lee said.
He was a panelist at the Fort Collins event, where he saw skeptical attendees find relief, he said, after discussing their concerns and deciding to take the plunge.
"Talking to your provider is the best thing you can do because he or she can help you decide the best tests," Urbina said the same week he visited his own primary care doctor.
Genital screening is a main part of a checkup at primary care, Lee said, and the family doctor is who men should voice initial concerns to.
"The real gatekeepers are the primary care doctors," the urologist said. "When something is identified like having trouble with erection or urine, there is then a referral that is made and that probably accounts for the vast majority of people I see."
From there, the specialty doctors walk people through every step of the process.
Three weeks after his last surgery in February, Clift boasts getting to see his grandson be born, teaching his second of two daughters to drive, and the ability to work out at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute in Greeley. He is 100 percent cancer free and owes it, in part, to venturing to the doctor on his own will.
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Running back Devin Campbell was taken out of UB Stadium on a stretcher Saturday and transported to a local hospital after suffering an apparent back injury during the Bulls' victory over Western Michigan.
Campbell lay face down on the turf after a play with 8:27 remaining and was assisted to the sideline by medical personnel. Before the game's conclusion he was placed on a stretcher and wheeled to an ambulance parked at the corner of the stadium.
"He got hit pretty hard and he was just really tensed up," said UB coach Jeff Quinn. "Obviously they're doing more extensive checking on him so our prayers go out to him and make sure that he's OK, No. 1 being his health and well-being, and then see where he's at in terms of being able to come back. I'm not as concerned about that as his health and well being."
Campbell became UB's main running back when starter Branden Oliver suffered what's was called an ankle injury late in the first quarter.
Oliver missed four games earlier this season while recovering from a knee sprain. Oliver had 75 yards on 12 carries before the injury. Campbell finished with 22 carries for 107 yards, including a 45-yard TD run. No. 3 back Brandon Murie finished out, amassing 17 yards on six tries.
Oliver was positioned for his 13th career 100-yard game - which would have tied the school record - when he left the game. Campbell went over 100 yards for the third time as a true freshman.
Patrick Clarke missed his first field-goal attempt on the heels of last week's winning kick against Miami, although he obviously disagreed with the officials' ruling. He walked up field in protest when his attempt from 31 yards was called wide. Replays were not definitive. Clarke rebounded to make his final three attempts - from 30, 35 and 38.
Senior linebacker Willie Moseley produced the first interception of his career with 9:08 remaining in the fourth quarter. Combine that with Cortney Lester's three picks and the Bulls had their first four-interception day in school Division I history. Before Saturday the last Bull with two interceptions in a game was John Syty in the 2008 opener at UTEP.
Defensive end Steven Means finished the home end of his career in style - nine tackles, one sacks, one tackle for a loss and a quarterback hurry.
"We might not have won the battle as far as going to the MAC Championship," Means said. "But right now we're winning the war as far as turning this whole program around."
Linebacker Lee Skinner matched Means for the team lead with nine tackles. Linebacker Jake Stockman had eight tackles and forced a critical fourth-quarter fumble.
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It's a a propellantless microwave thruster that defies Newton's laws of motion
Chinese scientists have taken on a heavily criticized space drive idea that could one day launch satellites, deep space probes and even flying cars.
The research team hails from Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xi'an, and was led by Yang Juan. What they developed was a propellantless microwave thruster called EmDrive, which is a controversial idea because it goes against Newton's laws of motion -- and many have claimed to create a "propellantless" thruster before and failed.
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While space drives tend to rely on Newton's laws of motion, the EmDrive is a closed, conical container that has a net thrust toward the wide end when filled with resonating microwaves. This goes against Newton, who said that no closed system could have a net thrust. However, EmDrive works because the microwaves have a group velocity (the speed of a collection of electromagnetic waves) that is greater in one direction than the other -- which is where Albert Einstein's theory of relativity comes in.
British engineer Robert Shaywer, who began looking at the concept of a propellantless thruster when he opened his own company called Satellite Propulsion Research in 2001, is the original creator of the EmDrive. He made demonstration thrusters to prove it could be done, and even made sure the test results were accurate (meaning, the results weren't affected by friction, ionization, air currents, electromagnetic effects or interference). The first, made in 2003, had a thrust of 16 mN. This was enough to show it could be done.
However, he received a ton of criticism for his idea and was ridiculed in his own country. But the Chinese team at Northwestern Polytechnic University believed in his research and took the project head on to author the latest study, "Net Thrust Measurement of Propellantless Microwave Thruster."
The Northwestern Polytechnic University team was able to create the EmDrive with 720 mN of thrust with a couple of kilowatts of power.
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Shawyer is even working on a superconducting thruster that could be ready as soon as 2016. It would boost the Q value of the cavity, which determines the amount of thrust produced. He said it could be boosted by a factor of several thousand, possibly equating to a tonne of thrust per kilowatt of power.
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RE: China isn't 40 years behind us anymore.
If you do not excel in school in these countries you are cast out.
In the US we don't cast them out, we just spend tons of money continuing to teach them even though those students will never learn any more that what they already have. Is it more wise to throw money at something and never change the outcome?
I have a good friend who is from China, and from what he describes they do not simply "cast them out". Sure they are not sent along to the University to waste four more years being taught things they will never learn, but they are sent to trade schools where they are taught skills such as welding, construction, auto mechanics, and other useful skills that may not require a genius level intellect to learn. For those who can not make it even at this level those are sent to be simple manual laborers.
Heaven forbid we delegate anyone here to being a simple manual laborer! No, everyone deserves to be a CEO level employee even if they only ever sit on their backside and wait to be handed everything they could ever want. I have already seen this attitude with the younger people we have tried to hire lately. One of the first things out of most of their mouths is " I don't work overtime and definitely no weekends", yet they want to be paid as much as someone who will put more effort into doing a job.
As far as the attitude the Chinese students put towards their studies, I remember in college that everyone hated having a Chinese student in class, because it meant there would be on curve in the grading, because the Chinese students would spend all of their free time studying and restudying for every class. I may have never put quite that much devotion into my studies, but I can say that having them in my classes made me a better student because I tried not to be left behind by them.
China pretty much still has the policy that the US had about 100 years ago, and that is if you don't work you don't eat. Only in the past 100 years or so has the world had a no one left behind policy which allows success even for those who put forth no effort. This is not something that has come about because of increased compassion, no, it has come about because those in power found it was a good way to maintain their power. In western democratic societies you stay in power by keeping the populace complacent and happy, while in the more authoritarian eastern societies you stay in power more by force.
A friend of mine at work said it pretty well the other day when it comes to how our current society promotes advanced learning. He said he spent four years earning a degree in Political Science and now he works in a laboratory. His degree is pretty much worthless yet no adviser ever told him that might be the case. He said "I wasted four years and a lot of money getting a degree I can not use when I could have spent those four years actually earning money from a regular job and be four years ahead financially." So, does a college degree really pay for itself for everyone who gets one, or just for those few to enter a field where it is actually a necessity?
RE: China isn't 40 years behind us anymore.
I agree that education should not be limited to academics and college. We are failing at introducing children to meaningful education in the trades and crafts. At least in my experience, in NJ, if you went to the vocational high school you were pretty much deemed a loser/junky. Shop courses have been virtually eliminated. Without introduction to these career choices many kids may never find a career that they could have been passionate about. In your comment you reference that failing students in Asian schools are left to manual labor, i refer to them as cast out. The manual labor/low education/skills jobs are rapidly drying up in the United States. Many of these jobs are filled by illegal aliens. Of course the standard blurb that we are fed is that the illegals are doing jobs Americans do not want. What the illegals are doing is jobs that Americans do not want at that low of a wage. The large supply of illegal (sub minimum wage) labor drives down the salary and benefits that would otherwise have to be paid for these jobs. Unfortunately it is going to get worse. As we move to autonomous vehicles, the last high paying low skill jobs: truck driver, taxi/limo driver are going away. So really with the exception of adding more trade/craft training we are not going to have any manual labor jobs. So the U.S is ahead of the curve in recognizing that the entire populace has to be educated or the subsequent have/have not divide will be so great that conflict is inevitable.
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The Voice opened Season 6 with a wealth of new – and returning – talent and plenty of fireworks, setting up an epic battle between Adam Levine and his nemesis, Blake Shelton, who clearly didn't take losing in Season 5 too well.
And then there's Usher, who dragged out his own shimmering gold Grammy award to lure one of the night's breakout stars, Bria Kelly, 17, who threw it down with a growling version of "Steamroller Blues" that had all judges vying for her attention.
"O-M-G," a stunned Levine said of Kelly's performance, which got a standing ovation from all four coaches. "I can't believe that was you doing that. You haven't been alive long enough to feel the pain that you were showing up there."
But it was Usher's award show bling that won Kelly over, and he wasted no time throwing it up in his fellow coaches' faces, dancing in front of Levine in wicked delight.
The first night of blind auditions also had moments of great heart, as another talented teen, Jake Worthington of La Porte, Texas, returned to The Voice stage after failing to turn any chairs last season.
Singing the late Keith Whitley's classic country hit, "Don't Close Your Eyes," Worthington, 17, earned three chair turns from Levine, Shelton and Shakira, who said his performance was "perfect." "You're perfect," the starstruck Worthington responded.
Levine quickly jumped in to make his case for the young country singer, reminding Worthington that he turned his chair first. But in the end, Worthington went with his musical roots. "Do you want to be a novelty or a real country, rootsy singer?" Shelton asked. "I want to be a real rootsy country singer," Worthington replied.
Other standouts included two soul-R&B singers, Biff Gore, 45, of Denver, who turned four chairs with the Sam Cooke hit, "A Change Is Gonna Come," and T.J. Wilkins, 27, of L.A., who sparkled with his stylized take on the Elton John classic, "Bennie and the Jets."
Duo Dawn and Hawkes – a real-life couple – drew raves from Levine with their take on the Beatles' "I've Just Seen a Face." "Not only is that one of my favorite tunes ever, it's my roots and what I was raised on and what I love, " Levine told them, adding, "That was my favorite performance that I have ever seen on The Voice. This is special. This is something I want to be a part of."
Shakira, returning for her second season, noted that motherhood had made her sharper as she picked up two of the night's most interesting vocalists: Jeremy Briggs, 26, a rocker from Sacramento, Calif., and country singer Kristen Merlin, 29, of Hanson, Mass., who is openly gay, sports a platinum buzz cut and offered up a powerful version of Sugarland's up-tempo "Something More."
Also moving on was teen singer Christina Grimmie of Marlton, N.J., who turned four chairs and inspired the night's first battle.
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"More than anything, Washington needs strong and consistent voices for fiscal responsibility and liberty," Paul, R-Ky., said. "Mark has proven during his time in office that watching out for taxpayers and holding the line on spending are his top priorities. What we absolutely cannot afford is someone like his opponent, who will be yet another vote for a return to the Pelosi speakership, for disastrous programs like Obamacare, and for more spending and debt. I am pleased to endorse Mark and stand with him in this race."
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
While the calender says fall wont arrive until Sept. 21, summer officially ended locally on Aug. 19 as the doors of Berkeley County schools opened wide to welcome students back into the fold for the 2014-2015 school year.
The day, so far, has gone smoothly, a happy chaos according to one school official.
At Timberland, Principal Kerry Daugherty also welcomed 14 new teachers to his staff.
Daugherty expressed excitement about the possibilities and opportunities this coming school year offered in meeting the needs of their students.
I expressed this excitement to our staff in an email this morning about how much Im looking forward to the coming school year and working with them to meet the expectations of our students.
Daugherty also commended the students in getting to school and to class on time.
The students did an outstanding job, he said. Everybody arrived on time and was in a class room at the bell. We are still registering new students to get them in as soon as we can.
At Berkeley High School, Principal Steven Steele was extremely impressed with the Stags first day.
We have started off great, he said. People must have found out about our test scores because we have the largest enrollment at Berkeley that weve had in many years.
In 2013, BHS touted an 83-percent graduation rate and was the only high school in the district to improve on all their major test scores.
In addition to the surge in athletic participation, academics and fine arts are also on the rise.
Our Blue Brigade band is back, Steele said. We have the best participation numbers with our band this year than weve had in a very long time.
Steele commended the staffs collective effort in getting everybody where they needed to be in a timely manner.
Everybody did a great job and Im especially proud of the way the guidance counselors handled everybody and got everybody where they needed to be. We are still registering new students even as we speak.
At St. Johns Christian Academy, the Cavaliers get a leg up on the school year and avoided the dreaded first day of school traffic snarl on Main Street/Hwy. 6 by starting school last week on Thursday, Aug. 14.
Staff at SJCA said the first day of school went smoothly and it was a nice change of pace this year not having to deal with construction issues.
Construction of the schools new welcome center wrapped up in early 2014.
At Cross High School, school officials said while the first day of school was hectic, students found their way to the right classes and arrived on time.
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University at Buffalo Department of music professor Jon Nelson and his wife, musician Lazara Nelson, have lived all over the place – Mexico City, New York, Boston. While calling these cities home, they clung to what at first was a dream, and eventually evolved into a firm plan – to open an authentic art house, where performance and visual art could merge.
In those cities, however, the realization of that dream was highly unlikely, real estate being cost-prohibitive and competition being fierce. But in Buffalo, the Nelsons realized that, not only could they afford the real estate, but their dream would not be redundant. What they were proposing would actually fill a niche and offer artists and the public something they weren't necessarily getting anywhere else.
"In our experience, there's one thing that creative people do that just doesn't seem to have a home," says Jon Nelson. "And that's focusing on experimentation and genuine creativity, without the pressure to move cans of Bud Light or become a human jukebox, so to speak."
The Nelsons purchased the building at 19 Wadsworth St. in Allentown – the former home of Sugar City, an alternative arts collective that had to move out when the Nelsons took over the property. (This caused some controversy in the arts community, but as Nelson makes clear, "We didn't buy the building because we wanted to be landlords – we bought the building because we wanted to open our art house.")
Today, that building – now dubbed Pausa Art House – will open its doors to the public with the first shows in what Nelson says will be "an ongoing series of chamber concerts and art installations." But rather than simply throw conventional club concert-parties, the Nelsons threw a few interesting twists into the tale.
"When we were renovating, the architects were like, 'Don't you want a stage over here?' And we were like, very adamantly, 'No.' When you build a stage, no matter if it's even six inches off the ground, it implies a separation between performer and listener. That whole elevated idea of who and what the musicians are, that they are somehow godlike figures, or whatever – we really wanted to remove that barrier."
Nelson cites a recent piece in the New Yorker, penned by Alex Ross, as in keeping with his own aesthetic for Pausa. In that piece, Ross laments the fact that chamber groups – string quartets in particular – are routinely performing in large halls that are "simply too big" for the music. Ross rightly points out that revered chamber pieces were initially composed to be performed in the living rooms of patrons – an environment he sees as far better suited to the organic tones and implied intimacy of the compositions and performances. Nelson concurs.
"It would take much more for me to be motivated to attend a Haydn string quartet at a 1,000-seat hall than it would to hear that music in the kind of space it was designed for," he says. "We had this in mind when fine-tuning the idea for Pausa. We are following a chamber music aesthetic, in a loose sense, in that the music will be unamplified. We want to capture the authenticity of what the musicians are doing, like it would've been done in the old country. We want it to be intimate, so that the listener is drawn into the music and the performance itself."
Pausa will open this weekend with a pair of shows that fit this model. Tonight, pianist Kevin Doyle and percussionist/vocalist Guiche Perilla will offer pieces based on Caribbean and Argentinian folk music. On Saturday, a program of tango and klezmer music will feature Moshe Shulman on accordion, Ivan Docenko on piano and Ben Levitt on bass. Upcoming shows include the first installment of the Buffalo Percussion Festival; John Bacon Jr. performing a John Cage-inspired piece based upon improvisation; a piano and guitar improvisation program featuring Mike Wagner and Jeff McLeod; and a piano lab concert featuring the music of Stockhausen and Stravinsky.
If this all sounds a bit highbrow to the reader, it shouldn't – part of what makes the presence of Pausa a positive for the neighborhood, and the region as a whole, is the potential for listeners to broaden their experience. The goal is the realization that an evening where one might take in John Cage-inspired work, a smoking jam band, an adept DJ and perhaps a group of bluegrass virtuosos all within the same few blocks is more than a good thing.
The lack of stage is not the only aspect that will set Pausa apart. All shows will start at 8 p.m. At 9 p.m., the performers will take a break, and mingle freely with the crowd. The program will be over well in advance of 11 p.m., which, as Nelson suggests, will leave patrons "plenty of time to go have a drink and catch the late show at Nietzsche's, or Hardware or DBGBs." The front of the art house will feature a bar and a visual art space, where local artists will present solo exhibitions of their work. (First up is Priscilla DeVantier Bowen's "A Few Pieces of the Universe," which will run through April 30.)
The arrival of Pausa is a positive occurrence for the Allentown neighborhood, which is solidifying itself as a hub of the local original music scene.
Wisely, the Nelsons are moving into the neighborhood to provide something that is not in direct competition with what is already happening there, but rather, is designed to complement the experience. So we all win. (For more info, visit www.pausaarthouse.com.)
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Who do you think dealth with worst post career after boxing??
Boxing is a brutal sport with many ups and downs (no downs for Floyd Mayweather though ). Its no secret that every war these guys are in taxes their brain, body, and general health.
Aside from their general health, what can be worse in some fighters cases, is the mental side to it.
Having a lot of pride can be double edged sword. Some fighters hate losing so much that they can become depressed, or wind up on drugs. Sometimes a loss can affect a fighter enough mentally to cause them to go far as to do something like suicide. My choices (although i dont know everybody's story) for who got the worst end of the deal, would be....
Sonny Liston-died while on drugs during an age where he was only a few years removed from his boxing career.
Muhammad Ali-we all know how hes ended up. Very sad indeed. His bravado in the ring/blocking with his face and eating a million punches from George Foreman probably didn't help this one out.
Roy Jones Jr-when you look at how his reflexes and chin have become compared to a prime Roy Jones, the difference IMO is more night and day than any other fighter, and hes still boxing. His speech has also taken a hit...Atleast he still gets nice commentary gigs with HBO lol.
Riddick Bowe-Just punch drunk as all hell.
Sugar Ray Robinson-lived pretty long considering but when you watch his documentaries it seemed like he became somewhat brain dead or something by the end of his career. Didn't he end up on drugs too? I dont remember.
Ricky Hatton- became so much a shell of his former self that ended up resorting to fights in bars, within 2 years of his fight with Manny Pacqauio. Fights that he got knocked out in....Also had a coke problem dunno if he still does.
Arturo Gatti-smh somewhere along his afterpath he decided it would be best for him to commit suicide. Or he was not on point enough to see that the girl he was dating could have it in her to kill him. Either way I would result it to his head not being on straight after so many wars.
Randy Turpin-not too many people know about him but he was Brittish boxer who actually stole the title from SRR in his prime. A very great boxer indeed in his prime. Had a lot of hope, but his story somehow ended up with him killing himself after trying to gun down his own daughter.
Don't know any more, or I do but they escape my head right now. If anyone else knows any post them I guess.
I will next be doing Who do you think had the best post career lol.
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Liston was done by the way.
9:50, Sugar doesn't look bad...
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also I think both Floyd and Pacquaio will be 10x more tragic.
Floyd will be a 45 year old journeyman getting beaten into a coma by SMW Prospects.. Just wait and see. He will be broke and punch drunk..
Pacquaio will be stuttering and also a journeyman feeding future MW Prospects.
Both these guys are morons and if you can't tell both will end up broke. wake the fuk up.
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And although, you may be on to something with Pacqauio, I cannot agree with you in Floyd's case...lol, how do you figure any of that, when he is one of the best defensive fighters at his weight of all time.
Blatant Floyd hater...*yawnn*
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If Vitali is still fighting at age 49 against Prime Champions.. he will get knocked the fuk out.
Father Time is undefeated.
Im not saying Floyd will lose his defense, I'm saying that Floyd will go broke.. and will continue to be forced to fight until he suffers serious injuries..
So will Pacquaio.
their fates are forever interwined...
I call it like it is. Deal with it.
Don't forget to throw your homeys Floyd and Pacquaio some quarters in the future .. when you finally graduate middle school.
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Ill say Apollo Creed
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Carlos Monzon's post ring career lifestyle makes for incredibly grim, twilight reading that makes one of Marlowe or Jonson's plays look like a picnic.
He seemed to habitually beat the women he loved and eventually got jailed for throwing his girlfriend off the balcony of an apartment at a beach resort. Monzon then threw himself off the same balcony as well. He got 11 years for this and a couple of years before getting parole he died in a car crash.
Agree about Turpin as well.....I went to college in Leamingston Spa and it was almost as if the guy had never existed.
Randy - a former world middleweight king - ended-up wrestling for petty cash in god-forsaken small halls for no-money and finally committed suicide in a transport cafe as a bankrupt and forgotten man. Sad, sad stuff.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A fourth grader stole the show at last week's Black History celebration in Goose Creek.
Fourth-grader T'auna Prioleau gave a dramatic monologue for which she received a standing ovation. She spoke as Coretta Scott King (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife) in an emphatic speech she memorized.
The nine-year-old Joseph Pye Elementary School student used her booming, powerful voice and enunciated each word as clearly as the vision of the character she was portraying.
"I can't be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be," T'auna said. "I believe all forms of discrimination are equally wrong."
T'auna's performance was only one of many show-stopping moments witnessed last week during the Goose Creek NAACP's Black History Month Celebration held at the Berkeley Electric Co-op building off Springhill Drive in Goose Creek.
The 2013 Black History Month theme was "At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington." The program touched on both topics.
Goose Creek Mayor Michael Heitzler spoke of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect 150 years ago. Heitzler said Lincoln waited two years into his presidency before the proclamation was made.
Heitzler added that Lincoln's move was similar to a British end to slavery and kept Britain, France and Spain from becoming allies with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Those countries were on the verge of supporting the South in the war, while Russia nearly became an ally to the Union, according to Heitzler.
This is when Lincoln turned from a politician into a moralist, Heitzler said.
A century later, on Aug. 28, 1963, America stood at the crossroads of segregation and discrimination when King led his peaceful march on Washington to the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech.
Goose Creek High School student Silas Adams read that speech to the audience at Monday's celebration and linked it to President Barack Obama.
Adams said Obama's inauguration cashed the check and made King's dream a reality. "Dr. King's dream, Obama's dream, my dream, your dream, the American Dream is just a blink away," he said.
Fort Sumter National Park Service employee Michael Allen spoke of the importance of Gullah and Geechee heritage.
Goose Creek Concerned Citizens Elder Kenny Johnson told his story of working with city officials to rename the Goose Creek Recreation Center the Casey Center, after a slave who escaped. There is also a historical marker by the Goose Creek Library off Old Moncks Corner Road.
GCHS student Uzuri Boatwright gave a brief history of Rosa Parks and read from some of her writings on the success of the bus boycott.
Goose Creek City Councilmember John McCants was honored and presented with a city proclamation on Black History Month.
"I was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. with a weapon as security as people marched from Selma to Montgomery," McCants said of the 1965 march that ended less than 100 miles away from Fort Benning.
U.S. Post Office employees presented framed posters of two special stamps: one honoring the Emancipation Proclamation and the other honoring Rosa Parks. The posters will hang at the Berkeley County School District and Goose Creek City Hall, respectively. Several actual first-class "forever stamps" were sold after the program.
BCSD Associate Superintendent of Human Resources Glenda Levine was the mistress of ceremonies for the evening.
Several other local dignitaries spoke and were among the more than 50 people in attendance.
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Alicia Keys
- 1980s
A Prodigy's Start
As a preschooler, Alicia Keys is singled out for her musical ability. "Her teacher, who was very much into the arts, had Alicia singing a song from Cats – at barely 4 years old," her mother Terri Augello, a professional actress, tells Ebony in 2007. Augello gets her daughter a gig on The Cosby Show (left) in March 1985 when she is 5, and enrolls her in gymnastics, piano, and ballet. "Being a single parent raising her in the city, I tried to give her every opportunity, just so she could find out what her muse was," Augello adds.
- mid 1990s
Alicia's Believers
Keys, 14, meets Jeff Robinson at a Harlem PAL (Police Activities League), and he becomes her trusted friend and manager. At 16, Keys attends Columbia University, but leaves her studies for a record deal with Columbia Records. She encounters creative differences with the label, and Clive Davis, then head of Arista, buys out the 17-year-old's contract, and she follows him to his new label, J Records (from left, Robinson, Keys' mother Terri, Keys and Davis).
- 2001
Fallin' into Songs in A Minor
With producer Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Keys find her sound and releases the piano-driven ballad "Fallin'," off her debut album Songs in A Minor. Rolling Stone says the album "unleashes neosoul's newest princess, a black woman impacted equally by hip-hop, soul, Prince and classical."
Rolling Stone Cover Girl
Keys is proclaimed "New Artist of the Year" by Rolling Stone, where she explains her connection with music: "I've had a deep love for music since I was four. Music came before everything, everything, everything. It just meant more than anything ever meant. I would risk everything for it...There was nothin' that was more important to me."
- 2002
Grammy Darling
Keys walks out of the 44th Annual Grammy Awards with five statues for Best New Artist, Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song ("Fallin'"), Best Female R&B Vocal Performance ("Fallin'"), and Song of the Year ("Fallin'"). "I'd like to dedicate this to just thinking outside the box and not being afraid of who you are no matter what you do," the 22-year-old Keys says during her acceptance speech. That night, she ties with Lauryn Hill for most Grammys won by a female artist.
- 2003
Dear, Dear Diary
Keys releases her sophomore effort The Diary of Alicia Keys, which adds four more Grammys to her already impressive collection. "Everything is so much better on this album. My first album, I felt good about it, but I didn't know what I was doing," Keys tells Time.
Keys' Krucial Connection
After shooting down rumors questioning her sexuality and revealing that she has been in a relationship for years, Keys is spotted canoodling with longtime collaborator and constant companion, Kerry "Krucial Brothers" (left), at the launch party for her second album, reports the New York Daily News. "I've known him for a really long time," she tells Ebony in 2007, though she still refuses to identify her boyfriend. "It's a beautiful thing because he's known me before all of this stuff...It's really lovely to know I have such a great catch who not only loves me for just who I am, period, end of story."
- 2004
Ambassador Alicia
After releasing Tears for Water, a collection of her poetry and unreleased lyrics and songs from albums, Keys uses her fame as an ambassador for Keep a Child Alive. She eventually helps raise $3 million for the organization that provides HIV and AIDS medicine to families in developing countries. In 2007, Keys releases How Can I Keep from Singing? (right), a collection of photographs of families and children before and after they receive retroviral treatment. "Being involved has given me a greater sense of purpose. It makes me see the power that we all have," she tells PEOPLE.
- 2006
Alicia Acts Out
Keys plays a hitwoman opposite Ben Affleck in Smokin' Aces. Three months after wrapping her big screen debut, she films The Nanny Diaries (left), where she plays Scarlett Johansson's best friend. Although both films fail to deliver at the box office, Keys goes on to form a television production company, Big Pita/Little Pita.
- 2007
As I Am
After her single "No One" takes the No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, Keys, 26, releases her latest album, As I Am. "I wanted to let go of any inhibitions and expectations," she tells Rolling Stone. "What I wanted was the energy of Aretha Franklin singing a Janis Joplin song." The Grammy winner enlists songwriter Linda Perry for "The Thing About Love," and John Mayer for "Lessons Learned."
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- Alicia Keys
- Real Name
- Alicia Augello Cook
- Date of Birth
- January 25, 1980
- Birth Place
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Egypt Daoud Dean, son (10/14/2010)
Genesis Ali Dean, son (12/27/2014)