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Online Campus State Specific Information
The Wake Forest University Department of Counseling is excited to offer the MA Counseling and MA Human Services degree programs through online delivery.
Below is state specific information pertinent to Online Campus students living in the states listed.
*Please note that this list is NOT comprehensive and it is the responsibility of the student to periodically review the requirements for licensure in the state in which they reside and/or plan to seek licensure.
Wake Forest University's online Counseling programs are exempt from authorization requirements under AS 14.48 because the program is online or distance delivered and does not have a physical presence in the state. 20 AAC 17.900 (a)(12) defines physical presence as presence of a facility, faculty, or staff within the state; in this paragraph, 'faculty' and 'staff' do not include site supervisors or mentors for local internships or practica, or adjunct personnel.
Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board certification does not constitute an endorsement of any institution, course or degree program. Such certification merely indicates that certain minimum standards have been met under the rules and regulations of institutional certification as defined in Arkansas Code §6-61-301.
Additionally, students should be aware that these degree programs may not transfer. The transfer of course/degree credit is determined by the receiving institution.
Wake Forest University is authorized to provide online, distance, or correspondence education to Georgia students by the Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission (NPEC) of Georgia. Students living in Georgia may find information about filing complaints through the NPEC Complaint Process here.
This institution is authorized by:
The Indiana Board for Proprietary Education
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Indianapolis, IN 46204-1984
Please note that Clinical Mental Health Counseling students may not qualify to seek licensure in Kansas due to educational "in residence" requirements outlined by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. See their website here for more information regarding Clinical Mental Health Counseling Licensure in Kansas.
Wake Forest University is currently licensed by the Board of Regents of the State of Louisiana. Licenses are renewed by the State Board of Regents every two years. Licensed institutions have met minimal operational standards set forth by the state, but licensure does not constitute accreditation, guarantee the transferability of credit, nor signify that programs are certifiable by any professional agency or organization.
Due to higher education regulation changes effective July 1, 2011, Wake Forest University is registered with the Maryland Higher Education Commission and authorized by the Commission to offer the Online Campus delivery of the MA Counseling and MA Human Services degree programs. The Maryland Higher Education Commission requires an annual registration, and the renewal application evaluation is in progress.
Additionally, students living in Maryland may find information describing the process for filing and resolution of student complaints in the Wake Forest University Graduate Student Handbook. Wake Forest University is subject to investigation of complaints by the Office of the Attorney General or the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission may be contacted at:
6 N. Liberty Street, 10th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21201 410.767.3301 or Toll Free: 1.800.974.0203
The Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at:
Maryland Attorney General Consumer Protection Division 200 St. Paul Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 410.528.8662 or Toll Free: 1.888.743.00823
Online Campus students living in Mississippi may make a formal complaint with the Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation here.
Online Campus students living in Missouri, please note that you have access to MOBIUS, a consortium of Missouri's academic libraries. Access MOBIUS here.
Additionally, please note that Clinical Mental Health Counseling students may not qualify to seek licensure in Missouri due to educational requirements outlined by the Committee for Professional Counselors with the Missouri Division of Professional Registration. See their website here for more information regarding Clinical Mental Health Counseling Licensure in Missouri.
Online Campus students living in Utah may make a formal complaint with the Utah Department of Commerce, Division of Consumer Protection by clicking here.
Wake Forest University is authorized by the Washington Student Achievement Council and meets the requirements and minimum educational standards established for degree-granting institutions under the Degree-Granting Institutions Act. This authorization is subject to periodic review and authorizes Wake Forest University to offer field placement components for specific degree programs. The Council may be contacted for a list of currently authorized programs. Any person desiring information about the requirements of the act or the applicability of those requirements to the institution may contact the Council at PO Box 43430, Olympia, WA 98504-3430.


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Crist turns up campaign for the Black vote
Democratic candidate for Gov. renews attacks with "Restore Cuts Tour"
Erick Johnson | 8/21/2014, noon
Trailing behind Gov. Rick Scott in most polls, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist campaigned heavily in Miami's Black community last Friday with his "Restore Cuts Tour" to boost sagging numbers as the clock ticks down to Election Day.
With concerns about his political aspirations fading, Crist launched the campaign to regain the lead in opinion polls against his opponent. Traveling on a yellow school bus to highlight this election's hottest issue, education, Crist campaigned in Liberty City before opening a new office in Miami Gardens, Florida's largest Black city.
The new office is located at 4797 NW 183rd St. In May, Crist opened another campaign office at 675 NW 62nd St. in Liberty City.
With new voter registrations among Blacks still lower than needed to help him defeat Scott, Crist is campaigning harder for the Black vote. His efforts come after Scott gained momentum in several opinion polls over the summer. Critics said Scott's appeal grew because of Crist's low campaigning in the past several months. They also cite numerous attack ads Scott has launched against his opponent. Crist has declined requests for debates from his Democratic primary opponent, Nann Rich, an articulate legislator who has been steadily campaigning at special events in the Black community.
Despite her efforts, Rich has been viewed as an underdog who's expected to lose to Crist in the primary on Aug. 26. Confident of his chances, Crist has already picked Annette Taddeo as his running mate to boost his chances against Scott in the race for governor.
Since the race began, Scott has avoided the Black community altogether to campaign in Miami-Dade's Latino community, where the number of registered voters outnumber Blacks by nearly 4 to 1. Crist has also appealed to the Latino community and has a campaign office in Little Havana. The two have been battling for the Latino vote by speaking out on issues, including lower college tuition rates for undocumented immigrants which became a new law that lawmakers passed during the last session.
Once an opponent of Medicaid expansion, Scott has reversed his stance on the issue to curry favor with Latino voters. Last Friday, former Gov. Jeb Bush threw his support behind Scott and campaigned with him in Homestead.
During campaign stops, Bush credited the state's economic recovery to Scott, saying the incumbent had a "field of dreams" for Floridians looking to prosper after the recession. He criticized Crist as a "craven opportunist."
In an interview with The Miami Times, Crist said he did not allow his opponent back into the race by not actively campaigning during the summer.
"I think I had a great summer," he said. "I couldn't be more pleased to open the Miami Garden campaign office. I think it's going to be a good race. The two things that drive people to the polls are hope and fear."
Scott has the lead in six of eight opinion polls, some by as much as 5 percent. Crist leads Scott 45 percent to his 40 in the heavily-used Quinnipiac University poll. Another poll shows Crist leading his opponent 46 percent to 40.

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Evaluation and treatment services are provided to individuals up to age 18 and their families who reside in Warren and Washington counties. Our staff is composed of social workers and two psychiatrists (board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry). Note that services are also provided at our Cambridge, NY satellite clinic which can be contacted at (518) 677-3441.
In addition to treatment services, we offer a Family Support and Respite Program for families with a severely emotionally disturbed child. This program provides: respite services to families by a skilled care-giver; coaching services to assist a child with integration into mainstream activities; and a parent support group. Additional information is available by calling (518) 926-7068.
Most commercial insurances are accepted, including Child Health Plus and Medicaid. Families without insurance may apply for a reduced fee based on family income and composition. Respite services are available at no charge.
Requests for services can be made by calling (518) 926-7100. Requests are triaged by a clinician.
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It would seem that Mondays are my fast day, it's not really planned, it just seems to happen that way.
First good night's sleep in almost a week so feeling human again! Woke up had breakfast this morning, I couldn't really finish it (normally I will lick the plate clean literally!). Had my lunch already prepared from the night before so I brought it with me but I already knew I wouldn't be eating it, it would just have to keep until tomorrow. It's the first night back to capoeira after the Christmas break, thought it was going to kill me but it seems the idea of a hard workout is worse than the reality. It was actually really fun to be back and seeing all my capoeira buddies and get sweaty and out of breath.
Hopefully nobody reads this as me gloating but I have to say the weight is literally melting off me, I am now into the 68kg bracket, less than two weeks and close to 2.5kgs down-this is unprecedented for me, normally the scales move painfully slow and then when I think I am getting somewhere jump back up again! I have found that my desire for non-primal things is reducing, when I was in the supermarket over the weekend the smell of fresh bread didn't really have the same effect on me, haven't been fantasizing about fries or pasta. The only kryptonite left for me is CHOCOLATE…. Jesus I could eat the stuff until I slip into a sugar induced fit… but I have a plan… bought myself some high quality dark chocolate (85%) the other day and then some almonds today and am going to make myself some chocolate covered almonds as a primal treat sometime later this week.
Hey did anybody pick up on the above sentence- I went into a shop while fasting and wasn't like a ravenous beast- I haven't eaten in almost 15 hours, I have chocolate in my cupboard and I haven't demolished it- WTFf!


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September 8th, 2011
Lou the Frog Princess
Now there's a version I've never seen before. [Nor do I want to see again!]
I think toonhole will open our webstore and sell super tiny brushes to clean your eyes. We'll be billionaires!
Better sell some bleach toothpaste too
I still prefer the Toonhole take to the Disney take. That's my story and I'm sticking to it
So well done throughout. I love how he's got underwear for just the one panel.
shoot. how much longer do ya' need them anyway!
Yeah, that part is purely autobiographical. Hehe, thanks Chris!
love it. panel with his bulging black eye is amazingly well drawn.
Thanks Ryan! Wanted to do a lot of fun details with this. Glad people recognize it!
Freaken awesome comics. Love the art work, energy and the twisted humor. Really cool.
Thanks, Frank! We've been workin at a couple years now and only hope to get better and push more an more the art level and humor.
Thanks Frank! Means a lot coming from such an awesome artist as yourself!
hahahaha happy ending.
You should've seen the Honeymoon…
Thanks Tung : )
Ha Ha What a twisted outcome.
And yet, it's still happily ever after… Right?
Lou is such a great character. Can't wait to see more of him
Thanks John! Keep coming back on Tuesdays and Thursdays for more!
OH GAWD Why DOES THIS TURN ME ON? *horror*
The detail that really does this for me is how the prince squeezes the frog's butt at the end. I don't know why but that disturbs me in a funny way.
Robotnik: GAY PINGAS!!!!
Umm…that last panel.I'm speechless
Aw c'mon! Speech speech speech *hand claps*


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Sri Lanka, also known as the pearl of the Indian ocean reached a greater level of success in economy and development after ending the 30-year war with the LTTE terrorists. As a Sri Lankan, I'm proud to say that our country is developing much faster than it ever was. Now we are even confident enough to shoot for the stars, and to reach the space with our latest project to have our own communication satellite.
Sri Lankan millionaire, R.M.Manivannan of The Supreme Group is supporting this project financially to make the Sri Lanka's first ever communication satellite. And it will be named as "SupremeSAT". With the help of China Greatwall Industry Corporation, this project will be completed in few years. Sri Lanka already plans to launch the satellite by December, 2015 from China. After the launch it will be controlled by the satellite ground station in Kandy/Sri Lanka, which is already planning to build with state of the art technology. Entire cost for the project is said to be over 300 million US dollars.
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No argument here.
It is hard to argue that a meal that is named for breaking a fast isn't important.
But it is open to debate whether or not the so-called most important meal of the day comes too early in the morning. Not everybody is hip to the notion of rise and shine.
Like a lot of others I think that the final meal of the day – supper if you are from the South and dinner if you were raised by wolves – is by far the most important meal of the day.
That doesn't mean, however, that the two are mutually exclusive. I've written often about our shared love of breakfast food, about how bacon, eggs, waffles, flap jacks and biscuits are so good that it's hard to waste them on a meal that comes right after sunrise.
If you could get cornbread at breakfast it would be the best meal of the day. But that is neither here nor there and the topic for another time.
But on the other hand, most of the good things we like about breakfast are some of the bad things that those same health care professionals are always complaining about. That's why we don't eat it all the time but when we do want it, we want it right now.
The only thing that could make a breakfast/supper meal complete is to have somebody else cook it for you. Since the chances of that are pretty slim, we can turn to one of my favorite kitchen tools, the slow cooker.
This recipe comes from the folks at Jimmy Dean Sausage. They ought to know.
And if any of those so-called health care professionals give you any grief about it just tell them I said you are eating the most important meal of the day. It doesn't matter when you eat it.
Slow-Cooker Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Makes about 12 servings
1 package (26-32 ounces) frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
1 package Regular Flavor Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Roll, cooked and crumbled
2 cups (8 ounces) mozzarella cheese, shredded
½ cup (2 ounces) Parmesan cheese, shredded
½ cup julienne-cut sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained
6 green onions, sliced
12 eggs
½ cup milk
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Spray a 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Layer half of the potatoes on the bottom of the slow cooker.
Top with half of the sausage, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and green onions. Repeat layering.
Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper in a large bowl with a wire whisk until well blended. Pour evenly over potato-sausage mixture.
Cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 4 hours, or until eggs are set.
Note: You can substitute 1 cup chopped fresh tomatoes for sun-dried tomatoes if desired.


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KALAMAZOO, MI – A former Kalamazoo County sheriff's sergeant accused of videotaping a deputy while she was in a private office pumping breast milk will not face criminal charges in the case.
The Michigan Attorney General's office has had the case against Matthew E. Emmert, 53, since December when former Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Fink asked the office to assign a special prosecutor.
Emmert, who has since resigned from the sheriff's office, was accused of a felony – surveilling an unclothed person.
"After personally reviewing your exceptionally thorough report, and discussing the matter with staff counsel, I have decided that criminal charges are here not the best way to proceed," Richard L. Cunningham, chief of the AG's criminal division, said of the Emmert case in a March 15 letter to sheriff's Capt. Bill Timmerman.
MORE: Read the AG's letter
"Within the scope of prosecutorial discretion, I am thus denying the warrant request and closing our file."
Cunningham does not cite a specific reason for the denial in his letter, however, he does tell Timmerman that in making a decision whether to authorize criminal charges, "we must consider whether credible witnesses are able or willing to provide sufficient testimony to support a conviction. We also consider what other sanctions a suspect is facing for his or her alleged misconduct."
Emmert's attorney, Mike Hills, said he believed the AG's office made the "right decision" in the case. He said the recording of the female deputy by his client was an accident and that, upon learning of the recording, Emmert turned it over to the sheriff's office and never viewed it.
"From what I know talking to other deputies and my own client, I didn't think there was a case to be brought and I think they made the right decision," Hills said.
The female deputy who was recorded by Emmert and the woman's husband received a $200,000 settlement from the county that was announced at Tuesday's meeting of the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners.
More than $130,000 of the settlement will go directly to the deputy and her husband, while $69,235 will pay for their attorney fees in the case, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained from the office of Thom Canny, corporate counsel for Kalamazoo County, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
The settlement says that the deputy will be on paid administrative leave "with a return to work date to commence when sexual harassment training of employees who work in the jail ... has been completed."
Canny said that Emmert contends the recording of the woman was "an accidental taping" and that neither the sergeant nor anyone else from the sheriff's office viewed the recording.
The deputy and her husband have claimed that the woman's privacy was invaded and she was subjected to a hostile work environment. Both claims have been denied by the county and Sheriff Richard Fuller.
The settlement between the deputy and the county was reached without the filing of a lawsuit. Canny said that lawyers on both side met on two separate occasions with a mediator to reach the settlement.
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Spring is on its way, so salad is on the menu. This is no side dish - it's huge.
"I like salads a lot," said Konstantinos Kouvas, owner of the Four-Star Diner in Cortland. "It's probably the only thing I can eat this much."
This dish looks good too, probably because Kouvas really cares about what he's doing.
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Konstantinos "Gus" Kouvas shows his grilled pecan chicken salad recently at his restaurant, the Four Star Diner in Cortland.
Kouvas was born in Athens, Greece. When he was 10 years old, his parents moved him to the United States. At 19, he went back.
While there, he met his wife and started a family.
He also owned a company there, and it had nothing to do with food. This man who "likes to cook everything" owned a clothing manufacturing business.
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Grilled pecan chicken salad
Boneless chicken breast
Crushed pecans (for meat and on salad)
Spring mix greens
Bell peppers
Diced tomatoes
Diced onions
Mandarin oranges
Dried cranberries
Shredded mozzarella cheese
Sliced, hard-boiled egg
Grill chicken four to six minutes on each side. Add pecans to chicken while cooking, and use a sandwich press to work them into the meat. Also add butter while cooking.
Put all fresh ingredients in bowl, including some of the mozzarella cheese. Slice the chicken and put on top of the salad, and sprinkle with more mozzarella cheese and parsley. Garnish with the sliced hard-boiled egg.
Use a dressing of your choice, but the one Gus Kouvas serves with this salad is a homemade and includes olive oil, red wine vinegar, spices and feta cheese.
When he moved back to the United States, it was to give his daughter better educational choices. She's now 27 and on her way to becoming a doctor.
Kouvas, called "Gus" by his employees, said he knew the business he had been in would not be successful here.
"I always liked cooking," he said. "I always wanted to create a restaurant."
So that's what he set out to do right here in the Valley.
"I worked with some really good names," he said.
He said he worked with Jimmy Chieffo and also worked at Leo's Ristorante for a while, as well as a lot of other places.
"When I started to see the basic things, then I started to put my ideas in," he said. "Keeping the old recipes but adding something new."
He said he thinks people are eating differently now, getting out of the old routine and making it healthier.
"Cooking is lighter," he said.
Kouvas wanted to meet at the restaurant for this interview, mostly because he's not home much. But he said his pecan chicken salad is something he would make at home, where he also does most of the cooking.
"I would never serve anything that I wouldn't serve my family," he said of his menu offerings. "From eggs to steak to fish to lobster, I give the same attention and same love to everything."
Kouvas, who now has a young granddaughter, did say he's trying to take a couple hours off every day to spend some time at home.
"Thank God for the holidays," he said.
When he is there, he makes a few things he doesn't offer at Four-Star.
"I was born in Greece, and my wife is Greek - it's a different culture," he said. Those specialties might include roasted lamb and other Mediterranean dishes.
He did name one essential for his pantry at home.
"Olive oil - because you can't do anything without it."


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Because life is about living
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#01-26 Wilkie Edge, Singapore 228095
Singapore is a dominant player of tourism in the South East Asian region. As a key transportation hub to most parts of the world, this nation diversifies and redefines ways and means of entertainment on a regular basis. Shopping, dining and nightlife available here are among the best in the world, and the people among the friendliest.
A quick, easy and insightful perspective of Singapore can be gained by a journey on the Singapore Flyer, said to be among the world's largest observation wheels. There are 28 capsules attached to this giant wheel, each holding up to 28 people, while an entire revolution takes a span of 30 minutes.
The views during the day and even at night are truly spectacular. Visitors who make the journey during the day will enjoy breathtaking views of the city, Marina Bay, Raffles Place, Singapore River, Merlion Park, Padang and neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. Those who visit this popular tourist attraction of Singapore at night will be mesmerised by the sparkling cityscape.
Standing at a height of 165 metres, the Singapore Flyer was built at a cost of S$ 240 million. Providing an overall experience, a popular seafood restaurant called Seafood Paradise @ Flyer serves local delights such as Chilli Crab, Drunken Prawns and Cereal Prawns. Other restaurants are also available that cater to the gourmet enthusiasts.
Also in the Singapore Flyer is the Flight Experience attraction where visitors can experience the thrill of flying a commercial plane in a simulator. Those yearning for a unique spa treatment will be delighted with the Fish Foot Spa on level 2. Garra fish imported from Turkey will nibble away gently at the dead skin on your feet, and give one a pedicure that is memorable!
Delve into Singapore and discover a whole new world of entertainment for the whole family. Citadines Mount Sophia Singaporeoffers one of the best accommodation options for the traveller in search of a spacious, comfortable and elegant serviced apartment in Singapore.


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DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI -- Dearborn Heights Police had a chase on their hands when four people, two men and two women, one woman who was pregnant, stole a black Dodge pickup and attempted to flee driving the wrong direction on Telegraph near Ford, WDIV, Channel 4 News reports. According to Channel 4, the car crashed into a telephone police and all but the pregnant woman fled on foot. They were later arrested and the pregnant woman shortly after went into labor.
Dearborn Heights, a city of about 57,000, reported 219 auto thefts in 2012, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics.


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LEBANON TWP. — Sunset was not far off when, in a ferocious battle, the ragtag army of rangers, soldiers and mercenaries slayed the Dragon King and his minions, restoring peace to the land, in this case Voorhees State Park.
The grand battle was the climax in a day of live-action role-playing organized by The Wayfinder Experience. Wayfinder runs camps and events that immerse participants in a world of fantasy, giving kids the chance to become characters in a magical work complete with costumes, masks, treasures, spells and quests.
Fifty participants, ages 8 to 17, took part in Hunterdon's first Wayfinder event on Oct. 19. Over the course of nine hours, they practiced improvisational acting techniques through games and workshops, including the proper way to wield a foam sword and "die" a dramatic death.
They also learned how to perform and respond to spells, hexes and healing powers. They spent time creating their characters for the day's adventure game, which was written by Wayfinder staff member Michael Phillips. While all the games are written in advance, the actions and choices of the players determine the specific way each game progresses.
Lebanon Township residents Leslie Werstein Hann and Julianne Targan, whose sons have attended Wayfinder events for several years, arranged for the Voorhees State Park event, hoping that it could become a recurring event.
"My son Ben has been captivated by Wayfinder — by the sheer potential for creative expression, by the intelligence and rich complexity of the stories, by the joy of losing himself in character, and by the broad sweep of personalities participating," Targan said. "He fell in love with the inclusiveness and expressive spirit of everyone involved." i
That's the secret of Wayfinder, said Trine Boode-Peterson, a co-director of the organization. Many children sign up at first because they love sword battles, but they leave with a new sense of themselves, having explored aspects of their own personality by assuming a completely new one, she said.
"I felt transported to a new world," said Deven Runge, 12, of Califon.
This adventure game was set in a world once overrun by now dormant dragons — played by 15-year-olds Jesse Hann and Ben Targan of Lebanon Township — and their once powerful Dragon King, who was played by Wayfinder staff member Matt Wright. Now, however, the King's General has found the sword that serves as the Dragon King's source of power. She brings a group of rangers and a mercenary company together with her army to face the weakened Dragon King, but instead of fighting, she returns his powerful sword and joins the dragons.
The remaining members of the three groups seek help from an oracle, who advises them how to defeat the Dragon King and bring peace back to their land.
Wayfinder incorporates a range of roles that can be played by children of various ages. Among the participants were a dozen 8- and 9-year-old girls from a local Brownie troop.
"We were pleasantly surprised to see them completely engaged for the entire nine hours," said Brownie leader Stephanie Petron Cahill of Lebanon Township. "They loved it."
"It was fun marching around and fighting with swords and daggers and spells against the dragons," said Noah Rodgers, 8, of Califon, who helped find dragon eggs that were hidden in the woods.
Flemington resident Abby Reid-Green, 13, played Starling Silverstone, a ranger held captive by the Dragon King. "As a cleric I had magic powers to heal, kill, talk to the dead and turn those that were killed in battle into zombies," said Abby, who enjoys role-playing games and participates each summer in the Hunterdon County Parks Department's performance camp.
"I loved the whole experience and how all of the counselors were just as into it as us," said 13-year-old Julia Preston of Flemington, who also played a cleric ranger.
Lebanon Township resident Gina Sampaio said her children, 12-year-old Bella Hanley and 11-year-old Gabe Hanley, loved the event, and so did she. "The Wayfinder Experience excites them because of all the fantasy role play they love, it excites me because it gets them using their brains and their bodies and it's outside," she said.
The staff were impressed with how well the children, most of whom had no experience with live-action role-playing, embraced it.
"We're used to kids who haven't played with us before being hesitant and skeptical, and winning them over as they participate," said event director Michael Grant. "But these kids showed up eager and ready to jump into a fantasy world together. It was amazing how little coaxing they needed to come out of their shells."
For more information about The Wayfinder Experience, visit its web site.
Submitted by Leslie Hann
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Doing puzzles can benefit older people
Puzzles and crafts can bring more benefits for older people than many may first realise. This is the suggestion of new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine, which noted cognitive training can boost memory and improve reasoning.
It had previously been demonstrated that such tasks can slow down and even reduce the risk of the onset of dementia, but the new findings point to additional advantages that include better control over hand-eye coordination and bolstered language skills.
Leaders of the investigation Professor Chumbo Li and Wenyuan Wu carried out training sessions to measure cognitive approaches as a defence tool against any mental decline that older adults - who are otherwise healthy - may experience.
These sessions included a system that focussed on reasoning, memory, problem-solving, map reading and exercise.
Professors Li and Wu authors noted the results were positive when compared to control groups that received no such assistance.
"The more detailed training also improved memory, even when measured a year later and booster training had an additional improvement on mental ability scores," they added.
Dr Steve Boddington, Chartered Psychologist, commented: "This study adds to a growing literature regarding the importance of cognitive stimulation in optimising cognitive functioning in later life which generally shows that specific cognitive exercises improve performance in the cognitive processes related to that exercise; the so-called 'practice effect'.
"However, this finding is not specific to studies of people in later life and claims that such interventions may slow down/reduce the risk of dementia are highly contentious given the underlying biological bases for most forms of dementia.
"Current advice emphasises the importance of healthy living (diet/exercise/avoiding brain injury/managing blood pressure/etc) as important strategies for reducing the risk of dementia.
"However, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Dementia Guidelines also promote cognitive stimulation as part of a range of interventions that should be made available to people with a diagnosis of dementia as a means of optimising cognitive ability as well as improved quality of life."


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AN £11.5MILLION scheme to create a new leisure centre for Bromsgrove has been revealed ahead of a debate by councillors.
A draft report has been produced outlining in detail the proposed mix of services a new centre would be built to provide, including two new improved pools, a spa and sauna with treatments, two studio spaces, a spin studio, an 80-station gym and an opportunity for a café.
Members of Bromsgrove District Council's Leisure Task Group will meet on June 12 to discuss the ambitious project to create a new centre as the 1960s Dolphin Centre approaches the end of it's natural life.
The report sets out how the new centre would be built on School Drive next to the existing one, allowing the old centre to remain open until the new centre was completed, preventing loss of service to residents.
A dedicated 200-space car park for it would then be built on the cleared site of the old Dolphin Centre, and after that the current car park would be made available for redevelopment.
District Councillor Michael Webb, who is responsible for leisure services, said: "As the district's only 'wet and dry' leisure facility that's open to everyone on a pay and play basis, the Dolphin Centre has long been pivotal in making physical activity and healthy lifestyles an everyday choice for everybody.
"The council has long indicated our intention to build a new leisure centre, and after a lot of work over 18 months we're now in a position to present detailed options for consideration.
"Our careful financial stewardship over the last few years has put us in the enviable position of being able to fund this, despite the tough conditions that have seen many local authorities closing facilities."
Councillors will consider proposals for a six-lane 25 metre main pool with a 100-seat viewing gallery, and a 12 by seven metre training pool with a floor that can be raised to significantly improve access for people with limited mobility or complex needs.
The existing Customer Service Centre will be relocated under the plans into the refurbished Parkside Middle School building together with the district council's offices and town library.
The draft proposals will be scrutinised by the Leisure Provision Task Group of the district council's Overview and Scrutiny Committee on June 12.
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Mastergram certainly deserves credit [sic] for the concept, and for Instagramming the Gursky in the first place, but that photo only has 10 or so likes and reblogs, which is pretty small in terms of tumblr.
But Mastergram also got a lot of high-traffic coverage outside tumblr, from Petapixel and Kottke. So either they drove a bunch of traffic to/thru Mastergram, or maybe even the mildest attention on a Tumblr can result in [relatively] big traffic shifts on a museum site.
It'd be tricky, and the PR scamming would be intense, but it'd be interesting to track down and explain spikes of attention/interest in particular artworks at any given time. Sort of the inverse of 3rd of May.
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Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn unveiled his two proud productions in London Thursday night: his completed gangster film Layer Cake and his pregnant wife Claudia Schiffer. The Vaughns' second child is due later this year.
At the movie premiere, Schiffer delivered some unorthodox advice to other pregnant women, saying with a giggle: "Eat whatever you want to eat." In fact, even supermodels have cravings, she admitted. In her case, they are "doughnuts and non-alcoholic beer."
As for her fitness regime, Schiffer revealed there's no yoga or exercise program. "I'm afraid not. I'm just enjoying myself."
When asked if a baby name had yet been picked, Vaughn replied: "We don't even know the sex, how could we have a name?"
Schiffer, 34, and Vaughn, 33, were married May 25, 2002, and have a 17-month-old son, Caspar. Her second pregnancy was announced in June.
Schiffer, who's been named one of PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful People, was previously engaged to magician David Copperfield, though they never married. She also was engaged to (and, again, never sealed the deal with) British playboy Tim Jeffries.
Layer Cake marks Vaughn's directorial debut. His producing credits include such movies by director Guy Ritchie as 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the ill-fated 2002 Swept Away, starring Ritchie's wife, Madonna.
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Police said Marco Bequett was found dead Monday near Black Mesa Golf Course on State Road 399 in Rio Arriba County.
Officials said Bequett knew the suspects, and they got into a fight before he was killed. Sheriff's officials said they know who the homicide suspects are, but they haven't released that information.
Bequett was facing charges in Santa Fe County for stealing a car, reckless driving and criminal damage to property. Authorities said Bequett's upcoming charges have nothing to do with why he was killed.
The slaying was the 11th homicide of 2012 in Rio Arriba County.
"I've never seen a year like this," Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella said.
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BEIRUT — Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers escaped their besieged outpost in the Golan Heights after a seven-hour gun battle with Syrian rebels, Philippine officials said Sunday. Al-Qaida-linked insurgents still hold captive 45 Fijian troops.
The getaway, combined with the departure of another entrapped group of Filipino troops, marked a major step forward in a crisis that erupted on Thursday when Syrian rebels began targeting the peacekeeping forces. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the assaults on the international troops monitoring the Syrian-Israeli frontier, and has demanded the unconditional release of those still in captivity.
The crisis began after Syrian rebels overran the Quneitra crossing—located on the de facto border between Syrian- and Israeli-controlled parts of the Golan Heights—on Wednesday. A day later, insurgents from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front seized the Fijian peacekeepers and surrounded their Filipino colleagues, demanding they surrender.
The Filipinos, occupying two UN encampments, refused and fought the rebels Saturday. The first group of 35 peacekeepers was then successfully escorted out of a UN encampment in Breiqa by Irish and Filipino forces on board armored vehicles.
The remaining 40 peacekeepers were besieged at the second encampment, called Rwihana, by more than 100 gunmen who rammed the camp's gates with their trucks and fired mortar rounds. The Filipinos returned fire in self-defense, Philippine military officials said.
At one point, Syrian government forces fired artillery rounds from a distance to prevent the Filipino peacekeepers from being overwhelmed, said Col. Roberto Ancan, a Philippine military official who helped monitor the tense standoff from the Philippine capital, Manila, and mobilize support for the besieged troops.
"Although they were surrounded and outnumbered, they held their ground for seven hours," Philippine military chief Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang said, adding that there were no Filipino casualties. "We commend our soldiers for exhibiting resolve even while under heavy fire."
As night fell and a ceasefire took hold, the 40 Filipinos fled with their weapons, traveling across the chilly hills for nearly two hours before meeting up with other UN forces, who escorted them to safety early Sunday, Philippine officials said.
"We may call it the greatest escape," Catapang told reporters in Manila.
The Syrian and Israeli governments, along with the United States and Qatar, provided support, the Philippine military said without elaborating.
In New York, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF, whose mission is to monitor a 1974 disengagement in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria, reported that shortly after midnight local time, during a ceasefire agreed with the armed elements, all 40 Filipino peacekeepers left their position and "arrived in a safe location one hour later."
With the Filipinos now safe, full attention turned to the Fijians who remain in captivity.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke with the prime minister of Fiji by telephone Sunday, and promised that the United Nations was "doing its utmost to obtain the unconditional and immediate release" of the Fijian peacekeepers, Ban's office said.
Sharon Smith Johns, a spokeswoman for the Fiji government, said Monday the location of the Fijian peacekeepers remains unknown. She said the number of captive troops has been amended to 45 from the 44 cited earlier by the UN after Fijian military officials realized one soldier they thought was located elsewhere was among those captured.
"The situation over there is very fluid," she said.
Military Commander Brig. Gen. Mosese Tikoitoga said contacts on the ground in the Golan Heights have assured the military of the captured soldiers' well-being. He said a UN negotiation team and Fijians in Syria were working toward the peacekeepers' release.
The Nusra Front, meanwhile, confirmed that it had seized the Fijians. In a statement posted online, the group published a photo showing what it said were the captured Fijians in their military uniforms along with 45 identification cards. The group said the men "are in a safe place and in good health, and everything they need in terms of food and medicine is given to them."
The statement mentioned no demands or conditions for the peacekeepers' release.
The Nusra Front accused the UN of doing nothing to help the Syrian people since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. It said the Fijians were seized in retaliation for the UN's ignoring "the daily shedding of the Muslims' blood in Syria" and even colluding with Assad's army "to facilitate its movement to strike the vulnerable Muslims" through a buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
The Nusra Front has recently seized hostages to exchange for prisoners detained in Syria and Lebanon.
Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, said the abductions also may signal an expansion of Nusra's kidnapping operations to make up for a loss revenues from oil resources in eastern Syria and a reduction in private funding from Gulf-based sources.
"This money shortage comes amid a period of wider suffering for Nusra, as its image is being overwhelmingly trumped by the Islamic State, leading to sustained numbers of localized defections in areas of Syria," he said.
The UN mission in the Golan Heights has 1,223 troops from six countries: Fiji, India, Ireland, Nepal, Netherlands and the Philippines. A number of countries have withdrawn their peacekeepers due to the escalating violence.
Philippine officials said Filipino forces would remain in Golan until their mission ends in October and not withdraw prematurely.
Both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council strongly condemned Saturday's attack on the peacekeepers' positions and the ongoing detention of the Fijian peacekeepers.
Gomez reported from Manila. Oliver Teves in Manila, Maamoun Youssef in Cairo, Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, Peter Enav in Jerusalem and Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed to this report.
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One of my beets is going to seed in a prolific way (see photo). I have read that the appropriate time to harvest seeds is once the majority are brown, then let the rest dry. Has anyone done this before and know if there is further processing needed after that or have any tips? Thanks
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I guess I should add that this doesn't necessarily need to be standard breakfast fare; anything fast would be good.
Oh dear god, please help me. I just started a new typical 9-5 job (yea!) and I am otherwise pretty nocturnal (I know it's very non-Primal but now I'm forced to change so w/e), and it's been nigh impossible for me to be motivated enough to make myself breakfast in the morning. I have been thrown off track this week (first week on the job) because of this (and being crazy exhausted from the abrupt, drastic schedule change) and I need to get back on track!
So, please, if you have super fast ideas for breakfast, share them with me. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. By fast, I mean preparation would ideally take 10 minutes, max. Or, stuff to prepare ahead of time. Thanks!
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I guess I should add that this doesn't necessarily need to be standard breakfast fare; anything fast would be good.
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Through the week, I rarely eat anything before lunchtime, around noon. For me, it's just a couple of tablespoons of full fat probiotic yoghurt and a handful of blueberries. Do you want to eat? You don't have to if you're not hungry.
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you could IF, eat leftovers, or cook eggs. Those are all the fastest options. If you plan ahead, you'll be fine. Hard boil eggs the night before, toast up some coconut flakes to serve with cream for a "Primal Special K", etc.
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Leftovers are definitely a quick and easy option, or I like to toast some coconut chips and almond flakes (10 mins) and have with yogurt and berries, I also like veg rosti type things (grated veg of your choice cooked in butter/coconut oil, add an egg if you like), this might take up to 15 mins, you can make french toast (from non grain breads like nut butter bread) quickly, bacon and eggs in all sorts of combinations. I tend to have my cooked breakfasts bubbling/cooking/toasting away while I'm making the kids lunches... you might be in the shower or getting dressed, you might even practice a bit on the weekends. In the end you have to decide if you willing to put aside a few minutes to eat a healthy breakfast or not? Your decision really.
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I tend to either boil eggs the evening before and eat once I get to my desk or I throw my kefir, yoghurt, some coconut milk and oil and a handful of frozen berries into a liquidiser and drink this on my drive in.
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Leftovers are a great idea if you're not into IF.
If you don't mind eating them cold, try baking a few sweet potatoes the night before, then slathering them with butter and cinnamon the next morning (or you could nuke them). I start most days at 4am, so that plus a vanilla protein shake, or a few HB eggs is a great way to get going quick.
I also highly recommend making some variation of baked frittata - Bacon Wrapped Eggs - YouTube
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If you're not bothered about nuts (I know some on here are) then you could make a grain free breakfast 'cereal' in the weekend, and munch on it each morning for breakfast - super quick. I sometimes take it to work with me if I'm not hungry and eat this midmorning.
1 Cup roughly chopped almonds
1cup desicated coconut
1 cup almond meal
3Tbs each coconut oil and honey
1/4 cup each sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds
Roast the whole lot in a hot oven, stiring every 3-4 minutes until totally golden all the way through. Add a small handful of dried fruit if you like the added sweetness. Serve a small bowl full each morning with milk/cream/coconut milk.
I keep baked bacon in the fridge - perfect with a HB egg! Also I LOVE the berry/nut breakfast that is in the PB cookbook - I have a tiny cast iron skillet that is just the right size for 1-2 servings. Blueberries warmed with a little vanilla then topped with chopped walnuts/butter/cinnamon. Put it under the broiler for 3-5 minutes. Warm & Very filling.


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Yesterday, in response to months of requests for him to release many more years of tax returns, Mitt Romney dismissed this topic as "small-minded" and said he had never paid less than a 13% tax rate.
If this information was designed to make those who want to see Romney's tax returns feel like fools for asking, it didn't.
Rather, it caused lots of jaws to drop.
Well, first because Romney confirmed what most people have long assumed, which is that he pays an extraordinarily low tax rate for someone who makes so much money.
Second, because the tax rate that Romney seemed proud to have paid was a lower tax rate than more than half of Americans pay–all of those who make more than ~$30,000 per year.
David Simon, a journalist and screenwriter who wrote "The Wire" and other series, summed up this reaction on his web site. As Simon himself notes, he has been a member of several different income brackets in his career–first, as a reporter, a low income bracket, and later, as a successful screenwriter, in a high one.
Unlike those who argue that Romney's money is Romney's money and that every dime that he is forced to pay in taxes is a dime that is effectively stolen or "confiscated" from him, Simon recognizes that his financial success is in part due to the economic environment in which he lives and works:
Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of at least 13 percent. And he's proud to say so.
Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit?…
Thirteen percent. The last time I paid taxes at that rate, I believe I might still have been in college. If not, it was my first couple years as a newspaper reporter. Since then, the paychecks have been just fine, thanks, and I don't see any reason not to pay at the rate appropriate to my earnings, given that I'm writing the check to the same government that provided the economic environment that allowed for such incomes.
The tax debate is extraordinarily divisive in this country, in part because many Americans have different philosophies about how big a role the government should play in our lives.
There's no "right" answer to that question, just as there's no "right" answer to who should bear the additional tax burden as the country begins to confront its yawning budget deficit.
But one other important philosophical difference between Americans is that they fall into two basic camps:
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Over the past 18 months Auckland theatre goers seem to have fallen into the grip of a Beckett craze - an appetite that might initially have been stimulated by envy at the rapturous reports from Wellington on Ian McKellen's performance in Waiting for Godot.
Whatever the case may be, there has recently been a steady stream of local productions of the lesser-know plays, and now the internationally acclaimed Gare St Lazare Players are serving up intriguing adaptations of a couple of Beckett's more obscure prose works.
The End gently seduces the audience into connecting with the experience of a world-weary narrator set on withdrawing from any kind of engagement with the world.
His downward spiral begins with his expulsion from a charitable institution and takes us through the relative comfort of a basement dwelling that comes with a daily delivery of food and a clean chamber pot.
A brief sojourn in a nicely arranged cave leads onto begging in the street, sleeping rough while ravaged by lice and the final indignity of having to devise ways to avoid being eaten by rats.
The bleakness of the tale is counterbalanced by meticulous attention to detail, a wry sense of humour and a highly developed appreciation of the poetry ofdesolation.
Conor Lovett's mesmerising performance comes with an endearing Irish accent that challenges the common perception of Beckett as a European writer.
This Irish sensibility is most evident in the play's humour. There is more than a touch of the blarney as the narrator throws up a range of wonderfully inventive though not completely logical arguments for avoiding eviction.
A similar regional inflection enlivens a detailed account of the etiquette of begging in which patient forbearance results in the design of the perfect apparatus for begging which thoughtfully takes account of the alms-giver's natural aversion to stooping and tossing coins.
By conveying a distinctively Irish expectation of misery, the performance creates enough distance for a wickedly ironic commentary on the exact nature of the narrator's misfortune.
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ELKINS - Pam Kelley is hoping to connect with the community of Elkins by providing great food and excellent service at her new diner, The Lunch Box, located in the Tygart Valley Mall.
The diner offers homemade recipes for breakfast and lunch Monday through Saturday. Kelley said what sets the diner apart from other food destinations is the family's dedication to serving the best burgers and hotdogs in the area.
"I always wanted to have my own restaurant, and my family and I decided this was the time to do it," Kelley said.
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"Everyone has been very supportive in the community so far," Kelley said. "(Elkins Mayor) Van Broughton stopped by to see how we were getting along. We've received a warm welcome."
Kelley sees the restaurant as not just a personal venture, but also as a way to give back to the community.
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Seeing 10 shows requires over 200 miles of car travel
To call Los Angeles a nontheater town is wrong. Rather, it's an audience-unfriendly town.
At the height of the Gotham theater season in late April, I took in 10 shows in one week, and my biggest hassle had to do with keeping straight my dinner reservations
L.A. is different. Seeing 10 shows in one month involves well over 200 miles of car travel (often in rush hour traffic) from my Hollywood home base, and the major decision isn't where to eat but whom to invite. In New York, if you or your date doesn't like the show, one of you can cab it home during intermission. In L.A., that kind of midplay bailout can result in a major altercation followed by a $50 cab fare.
The 2009-10 L.A. theater season, as well as my legit tour, begins auspiciously on Sept. 4 with an 18-mile trip to see Charles Randolph-Wright's new "The Night Is a Child" at the Pasadena Playhouse. Although the drama's scheme of soulful Brazilians/repressed Bostonians wears thin, "Night" is a fascinating companion piece to the playwright's previous mother-as-survivor piece, "Blue," and it is nice to see that most empathetic of actresses, JoBeth Williams, on stage.
On Sept 9, I drive 36 miles in the opposite direction to the Getty Villa on the Pacific Palisades to see Aristophanes' "Peace" as reinterpreted by Culture Clash. Never having experienced theater in a 400-seat outdoor amphitheater, I'm amazed how I can hear every word without amplification. True to Aristophanes, Culture Clash keeps the comedy topical, and my New Yorker date doesn't get 90% of the L.A. references, which is 80% of the play. Also, after 60 minutes of this 90-minute show, my vertebrae give out. Afterward, an old couple thanks the Getty usher for directing them to the rear row of this mini-stadium, where the seats have backs.
Three days later, it's a 10-mile trip eastward to downtown's Music Center for the L.A. Opera's opener, "L'elisir d'amore." After last year's first night "Il Trittico," directed by William Friedkin and Woody Allen, the Donizetti warhorse is a letdown thanks to an old production starring a couple of La Scala singers who don't make me regret having never visited Milan.
The following day's offering couldn't be more different, and it's a mere three miles from my apartment. Joe DiPietro's "Fucking Men," a clever takeoff on "La Ronde," is the scribe's gay answer to his "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change."
When I take my seat, a white slip of paper falls out of the playbill. Has an actor cancelled? No, it's DiPietro's bio. The theater forgot to include the playwright's curriculum vitae. And they say screenwriters aren't respected.
A few miles to the west is Westwood's Geffen Playhouse, which opens Sept. 16 with a new play by "Weeds" writer Blair Singer.
Like most of the theatergoing world, I missed the classic bad play "Moose Murders," but I can say with pride that I've seen "Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas," directed by John Rando, who gave me my fave bad tuner, "Dance of the Vampires."
Who alive has seen both "Moose" and "Modine"? My bet is that "Modine" is more god-awful simply because it features Modine playing himself as a grade-D star.
That conceit plays itself out by intermission and there's no reason to stay for act two other than to see how much worse it can get. It does. The best worst joke comes when Modine confuses the female character's incontinence for vaginal lubrication. And yes, the alpacas (puppeteers in seven-foot-tall costumes) do screw on stage.
With hopes that "Modine," will become a camp classic like "Showgirls," the Geffen now showcases the ultra-bad reviews in its ads. Too bad you can't Netflix a play for $2.50.
Going from the ridiculous to the sublime, I see Danai Gurira's "Eclipsed," a great new play that has deservedly received three nearly simultaneous productions, at Woolly Mammoth, Yale Rep and the Kirk Douglas Theater, where it opens Sept. 20.
Only at the Kirk Douglas does the theater's namesake sit front-row center for the West Coast preem in Culver City, a town that my New Yorker date refers to as "like the Hamptons," which she means in a good way. It's a seven-mile drive and Gurira's play is worth several miles more. Its subject — female soldiers in Liberia — recalls Lynn Nottage's "Ruined," and "Eclipsed" more than holds its own against that Pulitzer Prize winner.
The next few days, my Honda Civic turns into a yo-yo making the 16-mile stretch between Westwood and downtown L.A. On Sept. 23, it's back west to see Annette Bening, the big ticket at UCLA Live's production of "Medea." Bening brings her patently contempo, ironic approach to this murderous mom, and Euripides just as defiantly resists those charms.
Director Lenka Udovicki does know how to burn children to great theatrical effect, and her setting of sand, corrugated iron huts and crumbling walls is attractive in a post-apocalyptic way.
Which is more than one can say for Achim Freyer's take on Wagner's "Siegfried," which unveils at the Music Center three days later. This production is just plain ugly, as were Freyer's "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walkyrie" from last season.
Even though "Siegfried" takes place in an enchanted forest, Freyer offers a black scruffed-up raked stage with a bunch of LED light-sticks littered about. When those tubes change colors or burn out, it's impossible to tell if it's by design or if the things just short-circuited.
Worse, Freyer follows the John Doyle approach and stages every scene as if it were readers' theater. The singers park and bark and their emotion is conveyed by the spinning of the turntable.
Not all is lost. Conductor James Conlon makes the score come alive — for all five hours.
While John Treleaven isn't much of a Siegfried, Alan Cumming plays Alan Cumming to perfection in his cabaret "I Bought a Blue Car Today" on Sept. 29, and he turns the Geffen's second stage into the old Reno Sweeney at its best.
Back in downtown to see "Parade" at the Mark Taper, I run into the "Siegfried" posters on the Music Center plaza and, after seeing Alfred Urhy and Jason Robert Brown's musical, I think of Wagner's term "music drama," which describes "Parade" perfectly. This 1913 tale of Leo Frank, the only Jew in America ever to be lynched, in 1913, is great theater but not a toe-tapper, and Rob Ashford directs an accomplished, eclectic ensemble that includes "Grey's Anatomy's" T.R. Knight, London's Lara Pulver (from the recent Donmar production) and Broadway's Michael Berresse, Christian Hoff and Charlotte d'Amboise.
Having experienced the travel that L.A. theater necessitates, I now know why my friends in New York's outer boroughs don't visit Broadway very often. It's a schlep.


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Even the title of this latest from the Tom Tom Club says multiple personality disorder. Each of the band's six members brings an individual flair to the CD's eclectic offerings. Blending organ, guitar, bass, DJ scratching, simple lyrics and, yes, even tom-toms, they create a mosh pit of funk, reggae, dance, pop, hip-hop and R&B material. It's a mix that hasn't been heard since the band's last album a full eight years ago. Four of the Club's members have returned from that '92 effort, notably husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, former members of the new wave Talking Heads. The hiatus certainly has not affected Frantz and Weymouth's ability to come up with whimsical party music.
The Good's best numbers showcase the mature, soulful vocals of Charles Pettigrew (formerly of Charles and Eddie). His serious grooves, such as "(C'mon) Surrender" and "Holy Water" (about lust and drugs, respectively), may remind you of Al Green. And they certainly contrast with a tune like "Who Feelin' It," which is nearly weightless. There may be something for everybody here stylistically, but the album's 10 original and two cover tracks are not uniformly well-done.
Bottom Line: The wacky, the engaging and the uneven
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Following a near-death motorcycle accident, Shelby was given a 4 percent chance of survival. After a long but promising recovery at Shaw Emergency and Trauma Center at Miami Valley Hospital (MVH), he continues to show improvement every day.
At 71, Shelby Hobbs was in great shape. His wife, Carol, described him as 200 pounds and built like a 50-year-old. He still worked full-time, did sit-ups and rode his Harley. In 2005, he was out riding his motorcycle when a pickup truck in front of him blocked his view of a pickup approaching in the opposite lane. It also blocked the view of Shelby from the driver of the other truck. As he turned, the truck hit him and threw him over the top of the vehicle, and he landed on the road.
His injuries were so severe that he nearly died at the scene and was revived by the paramedics. The collision caused his brain to bleed in seven places. His spleen was damaged beyond repair. He had a compound fracture below the right knee and all the muscles above his knee were severed. His right hip and pelvis were broken. Three ribs poked through his lungs. He had a torn aorta, a broken back, separated vertebrae and a compound fracture of the right arm.
He was taken by CareFlight to MVH and treated at the Trauma Center. The physician later told Carol that 90 percent of the trauma cases as bad as Shelby's die at the scene, and the other 10 percent usually die en route to the hospital.
Shelby was in a coma for a month and remained at MVH for two months. The time was not without complications. Swelling raised Shelby's weight to 340 pounds. After the removal of his spleen, the swelling prevented organs from returning to their place in the abdomen. These were returned surgically, and skin was grafted over the incision.
He was the first patient in Dayton to receive an endovascular graft for a ruptured aorta. He was then transferred to Kendrick Nursing Home for a month and Dayton Rehab for a month. Afterward, Carol cared for Shelby at home.
Shelby still shows improvement every day. His long-term memory is fine, but his short-term is a little fuzzy. He walks with a cane the 200 feet to the end of the driveway every day with Carol. He can walk around the house without his cane.
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