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Pat Conroy remaps his past
"The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son"
By Pat Conroy
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday; 352 pages; $29
Seven pages into Pat Conroy's new memoir, his father erupts into a rage because Pat's mother has asked that he sing "Happy Birthday" to their 9-year-old daughter. After watching his mother backhanded to the floor, Pat, then a seventh-grader, tries to intervene, only to end up smacked to the floor with her.
"When I got between them again, there was very little room for all three of us as I pounded my fists against Dad's chest before he slapped me out of the kitchen with his right hand.
"Somehow, I got the feeling during those years that my mother's love for me depended on how many times I placed myself between them when Dad was beating her."
After that day, Conroy writes, he can't remember "the next year of my life." But he'll spend the next four decades reliving versions of that scene and its aftermath in every book he writes.
His childhood, he admits, "is both the wound and the foundation of my work." Pick up any of Conroy's novels -- "The Prince of Tides," "Beach Music," "South of Broad" -- and you'll find "disguised voyages" into the turbulent world he grew up in as the oldest child of Donald Patrick Conroy and Frances Dorothy "Peg" Peek.
In the prologue to "The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son," Conroy promises that this journey will be his last. It's easy to see why. Though the memoir covers much the same territory found in his books, it's polished up, filled out and honed to a sharper point, a "reckoning" that presents a more damning and far-reaching indictment of the Conroy clan than anything found in his novels.
For those unfamiliar with his story, the blustering, sadistic hero of Conroy's first novel, "The Great Santini," was modeled on Pat's father, a Marine Corps fighter pilot and veteran of three wars, hot-tempered and quick with his fists. He beat his five sons on a regular basis, as well as his wife, Peg, who eventually elected Pat to protect her and the other kids.
But it wasn't enough to prevent the "ruthless collateral damage" that left two of Pat's siblings battling mental illness and drove one to suicide.
When Conroy finally "let the hate out into the sunshine" in 1976, the truth-telling in "Santini" threatened to end his relationship with his father for all time.
Instead, a strange thing happened. When the family threatened to disown Pat for going public with their family hell, Don underwent a change of heart. He championed his son, making light of his savage portrait and attending Pat's book signings.
Though his father's about-face is the centerpiece of "The Death of Santini," it also functions as a springboard for Conroy to "examine the wreckage one last time." Beginning with his high school graduation in 1963, the book chronologically recaps Conroy's life via schooling, book publications and film adaptations, marriages, and the illnesses and deaths of his parents.
We're introduced to his father's side of the family, the "Chicago Irish," a hilariously nasty group who clearly helped forge Donald's abusive character. A look at his mother's primitive Baptist background contributes to our understanding of her side of the equation, and of why the damage she inflicted, while subtler, was just as scarring.
Despite the intended "love story" he proposes to tell, Conroy can't resist painting his family members as monsters. The adored sister Carol, on more than one occasion, delivers a performance of such bloviating self-importance and sustained venom that it's hard to tell what Conroy's after -- the reckoning he promised or an exorcism.
But when he transforms his demons back into human beings, it's impossible not to melt a little. Observe Don's initial reaction, on the day he first sets eyes on the book that will flay him alive: "'My God, son,' he cries. 'You've named the book after me. What an honor.'"


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Penn State Behrend men's soccer falls to Case Western
Case Western used a strong combination of efficient offense and stingy defense to earn a 2-0 shutout against Penn State Behrend in a non-conference men's soccer match Tuesday.
The Spartans (2-0-3) got on the board in the first half when Chris Cvecko scored an open-net goal in the 28th minute. Case Western's Devon Belew later added an insurance goal in the second half on an assist from Jacob Grindel.
Ari Lewis was outstanding in goal all evening as he kept Behrend (4-2-1) at bay and recorded the shutout.
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'What's so small to you is so large to me," purred Suzanne Vega on "Rock in This Pocket," the poised, polite, murderous song that kicks off her fourth album. In the guise of David threatening Goliath — Vega loves Biblical stories — the singer reminded her listeners that little things can make a profound impact.
Vega, who has compared herself in song to a small blue marble and a sewing needle, has never attempted to grab her audiences by the collar. Instead, her music is a gentle tug on the elbow, a tap on the shoulder. Her voice is an angelic half-whisper; her approach is coy; her arrangements are often modest. She gives the impression that if you're disinclined to follow where she's leading, she's not going to backtrack to find you.
Yet Vega's songs burn with emotional intensity. Her music is a deep pool that only looks placid from a distance; the closer the listener gets, the more apparent the dangerous currents become. Her songs confront violence, deceit and the frailty of the human body with an unflinching gaze. Vega can pull apart a relationship with scientific dispassion, animate and undermine female archetypes, or tease out the contemporary reverberations in an ancient myth.
Her stanzas are full of dark alleys, dancers, strange fever dreams, passion that looks like illness (and vice versa) and shadowed city scenes that present the starkness of a Edward Hopper painting. Thread is a recurring obsession in her writing: It represents women's work, painstaking and precise labor. It can be decorative. It can bind. It can snap beyond mending
As Vega prepares to play five area shows over the next two months, it's worth asking why her songs have rarely resonated quite as strongly with pop audiences as their quality suggests they ought to. She deserves to be appreciated alongside the best American songwriters.
In her home city, she is, but far from Greenwich Village, audiences have often been intimidated by her independence and the intensity of her vision. Even in the Garden State, where she's always maintained a passionate fan base, it can be tough to convince the uncommitted that Vega does not belong exclusively to the New York downtown — and not the musical downtown, either, but the intellectual, insular sphere of art, theater and literature.
From the beginning of her career, those literary ambitions have been manifest. She handles language judiciously, feeling for phrases with the sharpest edge possible. Vega took her name from her stepfather, a lauded Puerto Rican novelist, and she has always paid scrupulous attention to words.
Her fascination with Carson McCullers prompted her to write a play about the life of the Southern author. (She took on the role of McCullers herself.) In an attempt to take control of her catalog, she re-recorded more than 60 songs and released them on four thematically organized discs. She titled her record label Amanuensis — a term for a literary assistant who takes dictation and copies manuscripts.
But as judiciously as Vega chooses her words, her true gift is for melody. Every album contains at least one short, punchy folk-rock earworm. Although her deep cuts are all rewarding, she has always been a stealth singles artist — and if contemporary American radio had a place for mature female voices, it's a good bet that pop listeners would know more of her songs than they do.
Many of these tracks bear the stamp of her trademark cautious defiance: "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May," a kiss-off from the divorce album "Songs in Red and Gray"; the extended poker metaphor of "No Cheap Thrill"; "Zephyr and I," a barbed reminiscence about '70s New York from the smoldering "Beauty and Crime," and the confrontational love song "Marlene on the Wall," a highlight of the 1985 debut. These are all testaments of an independent, intellectual woman in the city, fighting for emotional self-determination and weaponizing her formidable powers of observation. They're catchy as heck, too.
As it was, only twice did musical appetites perfectly coincide with Vega's mission. In 1987, Americans were going through a rare period of susceptibility to smart topical verse, and a mass audience fell for "Luka," a tale of child abuse set to a big beat and fitted with a solo of chiming guitar chords. Like Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," it fit the mood of a nation waking up to social responsibility after the long, self-congratulatory daydream of the Reagan administration. A Top 10 hit, "Luka" earned Grammy nominations in the Record and Song of the Year categories and made Vega, briefly, a familiar face on MTV.
She followed up "Solitude Standing," the album that contained "Luka," with her only forbidding set. "Days of Open Hand" is a series of hallucinatory tales illustrated by chilly Fairlight synthesizer. From her debut, Vega's acoustic guitar had borne the pristine, slightly brittle sonic quality associated with New Age music; on "Open Hand," it sounded like she was strumming an icicle.
The album broadcast Vega's experimental intentions, but did not contain a hit, and it was possible to imagine the singer disappearing over the horizon of her own introspection. It took a pair of British producers to bring her back to heavy rotation. DNA set "Tom's Diner," an a cappella track from "Solitude Standing," to a beat pinched from Soul II Soul's "Back to Life." The remix gave Vega a dance floor burner and demonstrated that her voice and her storytelling worked as well with club beats as it did with folk-inspired arrangements.
A less imaginative artist would have attempted to replicate the success of the DNA track with a dance record of her own fashioning. Instead she took a leap of faith. Vega's next two albums sounded unlike anything else she'd done previously — or, for that matter, anything that any artist has done since.
The polarizing producer Mitchell Froom, who married Vega in 1995, matched her songs with electronic loops, vintage organ, junkyard percussion, industrial noise and heavy bass grooves. "99.9F°," their first collaboration, takes the mutability of the human body as its central metaphor: the characters are either sick, or wounded, or in a state of transition between identities. "Blood Makes Noise," a single from the set, sought to capture the psychological state of a patient waiting for test results in a doctor's office. It was released during the long hot summer of HIV panic, and while it was too discomfiting to be a hit, it struck its mark.
Like much of Vega's work, "Blood Makes Noise" is a city story. There is nothing pastoral about her version of folk music — most of her songs either take place in New York City or a dreamscape that looks quite like it. Her city is a place of dislocation and alienation, and her female characters encounter resistance as they attempt to negotiate its treacherous angles, but she's fiercely protective of it anyway.
The urban quality that has always been present in her writing eased her mid-'90s transition to dance beats and experimental pop. When New York came under attack in 2001, she responded with "Beauty and Crime," a 2006 album that addressed both the changed metropolis and the people who still wear the imprint of the crisis.
Vega is presently supporting "Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles," which was released in mid-February through her Amanuensis imprint. The album is a return to her early preoccupation with myth. Much like Taylor Swift, a singer she doesn't often get compared to but perhaps should, Vega has dismantled the ideology of the fairy tale in her songs in order to amplify their mysteries.
"The Queen and the Soldier," a ballad from her debut album that is still her best song, could be an allegory of the relationship between men and women, or a poisoned version of Grimm, or a cautionary fable about the perils of solitude, or all of that at once. It's redolent with secrets, she sings it like she's guarding it, and it ends in blood. Small as she might be, she packs a terrific punch.
Suzanne Vega's face has appeared on the cover of every one of her eight albums. Often, she shows off her hands, too — which, given her interest in the expressive possibilities of the body, isn't that surprising. On "Solitude Standing" (1987), those hands are gloved and tucked under her chin. It's an uncharacteristically complacent pose for a performer who generally looks a little tense, and it feels appropriate for the one album that even those outside the Vega cult know. But as good as "Luka" is (and it is), "Solitude" is by no means the most intriguing of her sets. Don't take my word for it: Just read the body language.
The hands aren't visible on the cover of "Suzanne Vega" (1985), but the singer's torso is: It's confined to a horizontal frame that's tipped a bit askew. Her face is strangely illuminated; she's on a city street, and it's possible to imagine that girders are throwing a shadow on her cheek. The frame fits a set that is obsessed with control. The young female protagonists of these spare, crackling stories are attempting to alter themselves and their surroundings, but exist on a knife-edge of uncertainty: the woman on "Straight Lines" who cuts off her hair as a symbolic gesture, the aging children looking to mimic Marlene Dietrich's cool, and the distraught Queen who allows the Soldier to be killed rather than shatter her reserve. This is a cold album, but thrillingly so, and if the singer "would rather be a riddle," as she sings on "Knight Moves," it's an open-ended one, like a koan.
Vega appears on the "Days of Open Hand" (1990) cover with an open hand, palm upward, fingers even like the straight lines of her terrifyingly even haircut. But on the masterful, disturbing "99.9F°" (1992), that hair is disordered and aflame, and there's a bandage around her middle finger. The physiology is not behaving, and the narrators are trying to hold it together, but losing control. Vega sings about transsexuals, circus freaks, hospital patients and, once again, victims of childhood abuse — this time, sexual abuse — and these bodies in a state of transition will not settle down. On the album, physical existence is imagined as a kind of record book. "If you lie on the ground in somebody's arms," she sings in the uneasy centerpiece ballad "In Liverpool," "you'll probably swallow some of their history."
On the cover of "Nine Objects of Desire" (1996), Vega's second and slightly more stable album with producer Mitchell Froom, the singer's face is partially obscured by a green apple. This is a set about temptation, and Vega is both Eve and the serpent. She's got a half smile, and might be about to blow the viewer a kiss. Desire leads to intrigue, and intrigue leads to encounters — with a friend (the bossa-nova "Caramel," one of the sexiest songs ever recorded by anybody), another woman ("Stockings"), her food-poisoned husband ("Honeymoon Suite") and the personification of death ("Thin Man") — that all end in frustration. Yet Vega calls off the dogs for one unambivalent love song: "World Before Columbus," written for her infant daughter.
For the first time in more than a decade, no hand is visible on the cover of "Songs in Red and Gray" (2001). Instead, Vega is blurry, looking over her shoulder as if she's walking away. In a sense, she was: This is a divorce album, an unvarnished chronicle of a breakup between misbehaving adults. "Soap and Water," "Penitent" and "Widow's Walk" are devastated and profoundly beautiful, demonstrating again that the more desperate she becomes, the more focused her performances are. She calls herself a handful of thorns, and sure enough, there's a depiction of exactly that in the liner notes. Five years later, she'd dress as a Gothamite femme fatale for the cover of "Beauty and Crime"; here, she's practically naked, and vulnerable, stumbling through the underbrush with a wide-eyed stare.
Suzanne Vega
Where and when: Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Ave., Red Bank, Thursday at 8 p.m.; Bergen Performing Arts Center, 30 N. Van Brunt St., Englewood, Friday 7 p.m.; Bell House, 149 Seventh St., Brooklyn, May 20 at 8 p.m.; City Winery, 155 Varick St., New York, May 4 at 8 p.m.; South Orange Performing Arts Center, 1 SOPAC Way, May 7 at 7:30 p.m.
How much: $40 to $75 for Red Bank; call (732) 842-9000 or visit countbasietheatre.org. $29 to $39 for Englewood; call (201) 227-1030 or visit bergenpac.org. $35 for Brooklyn; call (718) 643-6510 or visit thebellhouseny.com. $40 to $60 for New York; call (212) 608-0555 or visit citywinery.com. $39 to $50 for South Orange; call (973) 313-ARTS or visit sopacnow.org.


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It took a lot of effort to jam this week's show into 68 minutes, but we did it!
The show starts off with some Penn State track talk (0:00-9:04) and moves on to hit the big track results of the weekend as well (9:05-13:32)! After a brief mention of the Rotterdam Marathon, the guys tackle the Boston Marathon recap (14:46-29:34)! In that segment we discuss all aspects of the race as well as hear from elite runner Lauren Philbrook who ran in this year's race (23:20-26:52). Nick and Ryan hit some quick news stories and tweets (26:53-33:46) and then move on to the extended interview with Millersville coach Andy Young (33:47-51:17 ). The show ends with the first installment of the training topic of the week featuring Brian Sell (51:18-1:04:02 )!
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Unlike the picture above, Monday was everything that is right about CrossFit. All day I heard people cheering each other on as they went hard, had fun, and gave the workout 100%. Really…where else could every day people get to be cheered for while they workout. Nothing against the whole watching TV while you workout in front of mirrors and stare at your biceps crowd, but what we do is amazing compared to that experience. A great culture like ours comes from the community and I hear over and over again how welcoming you guys are, how people get greeted more times in a week than they did in a year somewhere else, and how they feel like WCF is a special place. Thank you! Oh…and a quick note for the members of the 6:30 PM class. Aaron B, pictured up top, is a firefighter. If you get confused again about the difference between a chair and a fire extinguisher he'll happily explain it to you!
Olympic Weightlifting Today: 2-6pm on the hour
CrossFit Endurance: 9am at WCF. Bring road shoes, music, and a tempo timer if you have one.
14/Aug/2012 Tuesday WOD
Run 1200 M
50 Pushups
Run 800m
50 Air Squats
Run 400m
50 Burpees
Strength: Accumulate as much L-sit time as possible in 2 minutes. Accumulate 2 minutes of handstand time on the wall.
Endurance: CFE or Row 20 min TT


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The Camera Tracker inside of Adobe After Effects is nothing short of amazing. It can analyze the footage and recreate a camera inside of After Effects to replicate the camera that you actually shot the footage with. This way you can insert any elements that you have created into the scene and make it look like they were actually there. To get started let's look at our footage. I'm going to press 0 and load up a RAM Preview and you can see that I have some rather shaky footage. And I did this as kind of a proof of concept.
I went out and shot this with my iPhone and I wanted it to be shaky, because I wanted to see just how powerful this Camera Tracker could be. So I'm going to press Home and apply the Camera Tracker. Now there are multiple ways you can apply the tracker. First way, if you right-click on the layer you can choose Track Camera. When this happens you will see this blue bar that pops-up and in the upper left corner of your Effects control you will get a status update as to how the progress is going as it's analyzing the footage trying to figure out where the camera was.
You could also go up under Effects and go to Perspective > 3D Camera Tracker to apply one, or you could go to the Animation menu and choose Track Camera. Once this has finished analyzing what's going on in the scene, I'll jump back in here and show you what we've come up with. All right, so you can see now it's actually solving the camera and then you will see these little things on the screen that look like, I don't know, Rainbow Brite crosshairs. They're really cool, because they actually track pieces of data in the scene based on where they are in relation to the camera.
So for example, if I scrub through my timeline, notice how all of these little elements stay where they supposedly were created within the scene. I know it's a little jarring as I keep moving my mouse over these crosshairs, because you keep seeing this big red target-looking thing. That's exactly what this is. It's a target. So as we move throughout the scene, here let me zoom in so you can it a little more clearly, notice I have a triangle that gets created as I'm moving around. What After Effects is doing is triangulating between at least three points to create an angle, or a plane, that we could use as reference for placing elements in the scene.
So if I zoom back out here, let's see if we can place something a little over here on the left-hand side. Notice between these three points, this is exactly what I'm looking for. The target is aligned with the edge of the ground and it looks like it's accurate in terms of its angle. You can choose to activate crosshairs just by moving your mouse, or if you left-click and drag you can actually select a bunch of crosshairs. Notice I'm drawing a lasso like that. Notice the more I select, the more it gives me some different perspectives.
Here let's choose over here, in the lower right, I'm going to drag a lasso around all these and you can see, okay, that's quite not what I'm looking for, right? So if you want to deselect some of the points you can hold down Command or Ctrl on the PC and as you deselect points you can use that to figure out, okay, am I getting closer, closer, closer, you get the idea. As you deselect you can get closer or further away, heaven forbid, from what you're looking for. Honestly, as I move my mouse around, you can see, okay, I think the three-point versions are what's going to give me the most accurate track.
So let's come back over here to these three points and right-click. Now when you right-click, you have some options. The first four options are highlighted here or we could delete the selected points. Well I definitely don't want to delete these. So let's look at these four options. The first one, we can Create Text and a Camera. This is what we're going to do right now so you can see exactly what it's like when you insert an element in the scene. But these other two Solid and Camera and Null and Camera, these are just kind of personal preference.
I like working with Solids, because I can set the interactivity between the solid and the background layer and get a better idea as to what's going on in the scene, but some people like using a Null and a Camera, because Null Objects are very flexible and you don't have to worry about whether they get rendered into the scene if you want to render what you're looking at. This last one, Shadow Catcher, Camera and Light, we will get to that later on in the chapter, but basically it's when you're trying to create a 3D composite and really make something look like it's in the scene.
So for right now let's choose Create Text and Camera. Notice we have text in the scene and it's been placed, and look in our composition. We have a Camera and we have Text. Well let's select the Camera and press the U key, and notice I have just a few keyframes. There is Position, Orientation, and Zoom. Now what's interesting, as I'm looking at the Zoom, you can see when we scrub, check it out, the Zoom parameter is never changing.
That has to do with the setting we used in the Camera Tracker by default. So if we select Layer 3 and come back up under the Camera Tracker, look at the Shot Type option. When I click on the pulldown, it's set for a Fixed Angle of View. This is great, because it already figured out that I was using a camera that had a lens that was at a fixed focal length. If you're using a zoom lens, After Effects would have probably switched to Variable Zoom. If it didn't, you could always come here and specify that, and then this last one is to Specify an Angle of View if you know that the scene just doesn't look quite right in terms of what you're looking at.
You can specify the Angle of View if you wanted to save some time, you could just choose the Angle of View for your individual lens. I'll show you how to figure out your own Angle of View later on in the chapter. So let's select our text here and as you can see it has an anchor point. Now if we press U on the text layer, notice there are no keyframes. There are no keyframes, because all of the position data is determined by our camera in the scene. Notice since layer 1 is inhabiting 3D space, as we scrub through the timeline, it looks like it's stuck in the scene.
Now this text is rather large for what I'm looking for, so let's double-click on the text layer and open up our Character control panel. In here we could change the size down a little bit. Let's change it to around 10 pixels. That's great, and I'll deselect just by clicking down in the bottom of the timeline, reselect layer 1 and press R for Rotation and Orientation. We just need to flip this up on its X axis. So we can change the X Rotation to 90 and press Tab, and now it's flipped up in the scene and since it is kind of off at a slight angle here, we can look at adjusting the Y Rotation and the Z Rotation. There we go! Now that it looks like it's a little closer into the scene in terms of what we're looking at, it's sitting over the rock.
If you want to move this to a different point, don't move the position. Press A to select your anchor point, because that way our point that was tracked will stay in its place, and if we just slide on the X axis, we can move our text out of the way. Let's see what we've got in our scene. I'm going to press Home and zero on the keypad to lit up a RAM Preview. Let's hit the Spacebar just so we can see the first couple of seconds, and as you could see, this is tracked remarkably well and obviously we haven't added any shadows or texture or color or anything like that for the time being.
But this is stuck in the scene and it is moving quite nicely. There's one last little thing we could for polish. If we stop playback here, we can select layer 1 and enable Motion Blur. If you click on that switch in the timeline and then make sure it's enabled here in the top of the timeline, we can press Home to move our playhead to the beginning and press 0 to load up a RAM Preview. Okay, I think that's enough. I'm going to hit the Spacebar so we can check it out, and now you can see there is motion blur.
I don't know about you, but I think that looks pretty cool even if our text literally just says Text.
- Setting up the workspace, important preferences, and the cache
- Importing footage and comps
- Relinking missing footage
- Creating type, shape layers, and masks
- Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush
- Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor
- Timing animations to audio
- Building backgrounds with effects
- Rendering with the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder
- Animating 3D type
- Smoothing shaky footage and retouching footage
- Keying green screen footage
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Welcome to Jackson Current, your daily peek into stories we're working on and a look back at some of yesterday's news.
— BOOM!: It might have not bee that loud, but there was a bit of exploding going on inside the old Riverwalk Plaza Hotel. The Michigan State Police SWAT and Bomb Squad conducted training there Tuesday morning.
— SMOKING IN CITY PARKS: A coalition formed to reduce the amount of tobacco use in Jackson County wants to know if residents think smoking in city parks should be banned. The Jackson Tobacco Reduction Coalition created an online survey with eight questions.
The thought of banning smokes in city parks due quite the response from readers.
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I'm not a smoker, and I'd say that we've done enough. Restaurants I can agree with as it is a confined space, but in the open air? If you're going to do this, why stop here? Why not ban it all together. I'm more concerned about the litter of butts on the ground than the actual smoke itself when it comes to a public park.Shelly, however, thinks people should be able to enjoy the parks smoke-free.
What people are seeing as an outcry because they are not allowed to do what they have been doing for years, is because no one spoke up and let anyone know how harmful cigarettes and cigarette smoke is to people. Now that we have that knowledge, we should be protecting ourselves and kids. You smoke, it is your choice don't make it become my choice.What do you think? Don't forget to fill out the survey.
— LOS TRES AMIGOS FIRE: The owner of Los Tres Amigos hopes to have
the West Avenue restaurant open again in about a month. Much of the
restaurant was damaged by smoke and fire early Tuesday morning.
The damage is worse than he expected.
"We are going to make sure everything is clean," said Arnulfo Ramirez, who owns nearly a dozen of the restaurants in Lansing, Jackson and elsewhere.
— JPS SCHOOLS: Two Jackson Public Schools were classified as "priority" this year by the state. That means that Frost Elementary and the Middle School at Parkside are among the 5 percent lowest achieving schools in the state. Reporter Leanne Smith talks with Superintendent Dan Evans on what "priority" means and how the district intends to change. Look for her story later today.
— JERRY WATSON: The case against Jerry Watson heads to Circuit Court after a Jackson County District judge heard testimony in a preliminary examination Tuesday. Sandra Watson and her sister, Donna Hoard, testified
Watson shot open the front door of his wife's Blackman Township
apartment Aug. 10 and busted down a bedroom door before pointing a gun
at Sandra Watson.
"Why did you do that to me?" Hoard asked Watson from the witness stand before Judge R. Darryl Mazur told her to cease such communication. As she spoke, she was wiping tears from her eyes with a tissue.Mazur kept Watson bond at $100,000.
— BOOM!: It might have not bee that loud, but there was a bit of exploding going on inside the old Riverwalk Plaza Hotel. The Michigan State Police SWAT and Bomb Squad conducted training there Tuesday morning.
— MATTHEW LUSBY: A former teacher accused of criminal sexual conduct with a student will be sentenced today. Matthew Lusby faces up to life in prison. Lusby pleaded guilty in July to a single count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Reporter Danielle Salisbury will be posting information live from the courthouse on MLive.com/jackson.
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The Cybergolf team ventured out of the Great Northwest to participate in the recent Golf Industry Show in Orlando. This expo isn't the same as the PGA Show, where golf professionals get wined and dined by manufacturers in the hopes that their pro shops will stock up on the newest soft goods and equipment. Staged by the Golf Course Superintendents Association (GCSAA) and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA), the Golf Industry Show intends to attract vendors and services involved in the turf industry and the operations of golf facilities. It also brought together the heads of every major golf organization (except for the LPGA Tour's outgoing commissioner, Ty Votaw, a late scratch) for a State of the Industry Q&A session.
You would think that when Tim Finchem (the head of the PGA Tour), Jim Awtrey (PGA of America), Steve Mona (GCSAA), Mike Hughes (NGCOA), and Fred Ridley (United States Golf Association) got together to reveal their thoughts on the status of golf there'd be a huge turnout. Indeed, the ballroom at the Rosen Plaza hotel was spacious enough to hold 2,000 or so. But, only a couple hundred showed up to listen to the game's czars, who sat on throne-like chairs upon a stage. Golfweek's Dave Seanor served as moderator.
Before the questions were posed and the elliptical responses given, Seanor asked each of the guest speakers to rate the state of golf based on a scoring system for an Olympic event like gymnastics, on a scale of 1 to 10. (Golf has an outside chance of returning to the Olympics.) The ratings were as follows: Mona - 7.5; Finchem - 8; Hughes - 7; Awtrey - 8; Ridley - 8.5. The generally high scores for a sport that has seen dwindling participation and dozens of golf courses being paved over for housing and shopping malls elicited a hushed "Huh?" from the crowd.
The Q&A attendees were mostly hard-working golf course owners who came to the show to learn ways to spare their businesses from going into the toilet. Yet, in the face of these serious concerns, this quintet of Neros seemed to be playing their fiddles while Rome is burning.
The scores were telling. Mona, a cherubic sort who seemed quite pleased to be on the same stage with the game's exalted rulers, said his score reflected the great interest among exhibitors at the show. Well over 21,000 superintendents attended the event, while 830 exhibitors showed their wares to a record 8,099 "qualified buyers" roaming the cavernous Orange County Convention Center.
Finchem, the commissioner of the second-most-watched sport on TV (after the NFL), said the PGA Tour was doing "very good," with the prospects of international expansion particularly rosy. However, he mentioned that expanding the fan base and increasing participation levels could be improved, and that "we're just scratching the surface for the industry working together." Finchem said the latter task would be a four- to five-year process.
With his score being the lowest, the NCGOA's Hughes, as might be expected, seemed to best grasp the realities hurting golf course owners, an industry segment that he said was "under more pressure." But instead of outlining some of the major issues facing the golf facilities and outlining some solutions, Hughes placed a great deal of hope in Play Golf America and Golf 20/20, two initiatives that most golfers know nothing or care about. (The first program was begun by the PGA of America, while the latter has industry-wide support. Since it started five years ago, Golf 20/20 has virtually failed to lure new players.)
Awtrey's high score can possibly be attributed to his organization's membership, now numbering over 28,000 around the U.S. Despite my personal opinion about how the PGA of America seems to treat its members as mere revenue sources, I found the native Oklahoman, and Finchem, the most engaging speakers on the podium. Awtrey, who grew up playing on a rural nine-holer, is quite aware of the game's current low state. He feels golf could be improved by increasing diversity and affinity groups, and that the current down-cycle could ultimately be good for the sport as new opportunities may develop.
Ridley's ridiculously high ranking of 8.5 reflects his position as the president of an organization often classified as being out of touch with golf's realities. The Tampa lawyer (who maybe was just out of his element) struck me as tight-ass - kind of a cross between a severer Kerry and a sober Kennedy, a silver spooner who views the high-handicappers plodding across local dog tracks as de classe bourgeoisie. That the number of rounds played by that important segment of the golfer population is dwindling didn't seem to concern Ridley. After all, he has a U.S. Open and 12 other national championships to run. Ridley's answer to bringing back golfers is for the USGA to continue working with the PGA of America, the aforementioned initiatives and the First Tee. If those efforts are pursued, golf will heal itself.
The folks who took the microphone to pose questions to the game's exalted rulers were, for the most part, from Michigan, a state that has seen more than its share of golf courses transformed into parking lots and tracts of four-bedroom split-levels. One Wolverine State operator asked how golf's leaders would deal with the increasing losses of mom-and-pop courses. (Of the 63 courses that closed in 2004, 91 percent, according to the National Golf Foundation, were public facilities and, often, par-3 or executive layouts.) Nearly all the leaders felt that the First Tee program, which recently launched its 200th facility, would bring higher demands for courses with lower green fees. Finchem reaffirmed that Golf 20/20 "might be the forum to generate affordable courses."
The lustiest cheer came when a Michigan woman, the owner of a 27-hole course, lamented how the new balls and space-age equipment were rendering her 1960s-built course obsolete. "You need more acreage, and maintenance costs are higher (when managing more turf) for both accurate golfers and high handicappers," she said. She added, "One guy with a hot club and a hot ball will slow play for everyone else." She mentioned liability problems; when her course was built, the homes lining its fairways were platted when 250 yards was the longest drive. She directed the question at Ridley, wondering how the USGA will marshal technology.
Ridley said the issue has been going on for 100 years, and that the USGA has done more in the past seven years than the previous century combined. "Many people feel we should go back to the '70s and '80s," he said condescendingly. "But it's the USGA's job to regulate the game based on good statistics and science. ShotLink (used on the PGA Tour to track the pros' club selections and distances) has helped. We have created many scientific tests to determine ball and club performances," Ridley said, adding that if "things get out of hand, the USGA will step in and take steps."
Besides high-tech equipment and meteoric golf balls, Awtrey and Finchem attributed the added distance off the tee to today's players being more athletic and in better shape. "Even the juniors and girls are hitting remarkably further today."
Yet another Michigan course owner complained about the perfect conditions and fast greens seen on the PGA Tour, remarking that average golfers expect the same playing fields upon payment of their $35 green fees. He noted that such high maintenance standards are expensive, and asked why the Tour doesn't use courses with less-pristine conditions so that skill levels become more important in determining the winner. To his credit, Finchem commented that during his next meeting with the Tour's superintendents he'll tell them that the "sites don't need to be green." He wants the superintendents to "push the envelope" for under-watering, while varying fairway widths and heights to alter the challenges. Finchem believes that Tour venues are "too consistent," and that the USGA sets a different standard for difficulty. But then Finchem remembered that he was the sport's commissioner and enthused about the winning 35-under-par scores at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic as "okay too."
Perhaps the most cogent comment came from a course owner from Montana, who wondered why the PGA Tour and PGA of America didn't get out of their ivory towers and become more active in growing the game at the local level. Finchem didn't even bother to tackle that issue, saying that "(the PGA Tour's) reality is about the competition - they're playing at the top of the game. We need to focus on that element, though it's fair to say we should give back to the game. What we're saying is that golf is the official sport of giving back (through the First Tee program, fund-raising for charities and public service announcements.)
"I've got to believe that when Phil Mickelson won in Phoenix (at the FBR Open) and his family came to greet him, that (gesture) reached the common man," continued the Commish. "Honestly, we've got to focus on the intensity, drama and competition seen on the PGA Tour." Finchem cited an example, "Going back 44 years to Arnold Palmer at Augusta, there's been a lot of excitement generated by the game's best players."
Ridley readily agreed: "As Tim said, the competition and excitement seen on TV is good for the game." Thank you Fred.
So there you have it - the summation of one man's notes taken during the 2005 State of the Industry session. To review:
· The First Tee, Golf 20/20, Play Golf America and other initiatives spawned by the industry's captains will bring back the game's heydays.
· The organization that dictates of the rules of golf in America - the USGA - will remain uncommitted to quelling the development of more high-tech drivers and balls until critical mass is reached (or houses are woven into the field of play).
· And don't expect any magical wands to be waved over all those Michigan golf courses on the verge of closing. Apparently, its leaders believe that golf shares the Darwinian nature of business: only the strong will survive.
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But four is probably enough for the Boston native, 38.
"I'm the youngest of nine, and my dad has a few others. No, four is enough," he said. "We were all raised with a lot of love. But we didn't get the kind of attention I think that we all needed. My parents had to provide to put food on the table. My mission in life is to raise my kids right. With all the success I've had in the world, if I fail at that, my life means nothing."
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Wyandotte County Prosecutor Jerome Gorman said charges have been filed in connection with fatal shooting at the Suntree Plaza Apartments on Tuesday.
Deon J. Graham, 18, and Tiara N. Harden, 18, were charged with first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery in the shooting death of Shavar Buckner, 27.
"The conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery alleges that Graham and Harden conspired together and with Ernest Stamps to rob Buckner. Stamps and Buckner appear to have exchanged gunfire, and both Stamps and Buckner were killed," Gorman's office said in a news release.
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|Documentaries on King and Mandela highlight SFI slate
Indie film giant John Sayles' latest effort, "Go For Sisters," highlights the spring season for the Sonoma Film Institute (SFI).
The annual series at Sonoma State University kicks off at 7 p.m. on Jan. 17 with "King: A Filmed Record…From Montgomery to Memphis," which also will be reshown Jan. 19 at 4 p.m. This documentary, which his a new restoration, was made in 1970 by Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankiewicz. It chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Go For Sisters" (Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 26 at 4 p.m.) stars Yolanda Ross and Lisa Gay Hamilton as childhood friends who are now on opposite sides of the law. Sayles, who directed, is also knows for movies such as "The Return of the Secaucus Seven," "Matewan," and "Lone Star."
SFI also will show current international features such as: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," a romantic comedy from Taiwan (Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 16 at 4 p.m.); "Child's Pose," the top prize winner at this year's Berlin Film Festival (April 4 at 7 p.m. and April 6 at 4 p.m.); and "Just A Sigh," a French romantic movie starring Gabriel Byrne and Emmanuelle Devos (April 11 at 7 p.m. and April 13 at 4 p.m.).
Another highlight of the season is Kerry Candaele's "Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony" (March 7 at 7 p.m. and March 9 at 4 p.m.). It was filmed on five continents and in 12 countries and is the story of people whose lives have been transformed, repaired and healed by the message of Beethoven's Ninth.
Other documentaries include Bolinas filmmaker Jo Menell's documentary on the late South African former president "Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation" (April 18 at 7 p.m.) and "Big Joy" (March 28 at 7 p.m. and March 30 at 4 p.m.), Stephen Silha's documentary on the poet-filmmaker James Broughton.
Two classic films – "Anatomy of a Murder" (Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.) and "The Chess Player" (Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.) – will be screened and introduced by SSU Hutchins School Professor Dr. Ajay Gehlawat. The courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder" stars James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick and George C. Scott. "The Chess Players" is Satyajit Ray's dissection of colonialism.
All screenings will be in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall on the SSU campus in Rohnert Park. Admission is $7 general, $6 for non-SSU students and senior citizens, $5 for SFI members and children under 12 and free for SSU students. There is a $5 parking fee in all SSU lots.
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The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at American University of Beirut will host its fourth international conference on January 11-14, 2012, in Beirut, Lebanon. Within a context of profound political, environmental, and social transformations in America and the Middle East/North Africa (MENA), this international conference invites scholarly papers on the theme, "shifting borders." With this provocative title we aim to think of shifting borders in two primary ways. First, we want to conceive of scholarship that "shifts" the borders of scholarly and disciplinary ways of thinking; and second, we want to think about the ways that borders of all kinds are malleable, socially constructed, and historically contingent.
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Ramon F Herrera wrote: > > I have been using Xerces to perform XPath retrievals. So far, I have > only dealt with the simplest path syntax. Much to my dismay, when I > tried something a little fancier (a path with a subscript), it failed: > > /root/table/detailed_steel_pole_usages[1]/joint_label > > I guess I need some layer on top of Xerces-C? I am not familiar with details of Xerces-C, I think it has a user mailing list where you are more likely to find other users than here. As for the failure, which error do you get? As far as I am aware in the Apache XML tool set Xerces does the XML parsing and validation whilst Xalan does XSLT and XPath 1.0. -- Martin Honnen --- MVP Data Platform Development http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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In the heart of the "Horse Capital of the World," the Candlewood Suites® Lexington hotel is perfect for both business and leisure travelers. The property is pet friendly, and the hotel's guests love that Lexington, Kentucky is in the center of the Bluegrass Region, an area noted for its beauty, excellent pastureland and horse farms.
In Lexington, KY, our hotel's location is conducive to business travel. We are conveniently located four miles from Lexington Bluegrass Airport (LEX) and two miles from I-75. There are a variety of businesses nearby, including Affiliated Computer Services, Lexmark, and Toyota.
If leisure is the reason for your stay in Lexington, KY, the hotel's suites are a great choice. As the "Horse Capital of the World," Lexington is home to an array of race tracks including Keeneland and Red Mile race tracks, which are less than four miles from the hotel. We are only two miles from the University of Kentucky, where you can see some of the best collegiate sports in the country. An array of activities surrounds this pet friendly hotel's location.
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September 22, 2016
You really learn about a property and its staff by staying there frequently. No, they don't have breakfast. Instead... endless coffee and fruit in a well stocked and immaculate Cupboard. A great kitchenette, called that only because there is no oven. I brought my own cook!!! Free washers and dryers, business center, gazebo w. gas grill, and for those that like working out or swimming; free salt pool and gym. Wednesday Dinner reception is free and abundant. My room was always clean and fresh, thanks to my wife's favorite housekeeper, Nicoll. The most amazing thing at this property are the Hosts, Mr. & Mrs. Patel. If you aren't happy, they aren't happy, and they instill that in their staff. My wife wanted to bring them home to North Carolina. Great people!!! They care about the extended stay worker who doesn't get to go home. It is in your best interest to always stay at the Lexington Candlewood if you are coming to the area. Whether you are in town for a day, a week, a weekend, or a year!!!
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Location was somewhat away from Downtown, so more billboard would be a plus. Staying there was comfortable.
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Male model Paul Sculfor – a.k.a. Cameron Diaz's boyfriend – says he "bitterly regrets using cocaine" in a new interview.
"Apart from anything else, it made my hair fall out," Sculfor, 37, tells the U.K.'s Mail on Sunday. "It started falling out in my partying years, because excessive cocaine abuse affects the adrenal system and halts hair growth. I'm lucky it grew back."
Otherwise, the British model seems happy with his life – and looks. "I worked with Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Helena Christensen – all the supermodels," he said. "Turning up to a party filled with Hollywood stars became a pretty normal experience."
Another major job perk? It helped introduce Sculfor to Diaz and his other famous ex, Jennifer Aniston.
How does he keep in such good shape? By boxing, his childhood career ambition. "I love boxing," he says. "I have a punchbag in my house in LA – I use it every day."
One thing he won't do: Botox. "There are male models who do, but I'm studying to be an actor and I want to be able to make expressions with my face."
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My kids eat vegetables under protest. I was the same at their age, only I took the wolf approach and swallowed them before my taste buds knew what hit them.
The quality of vegetables, though, makes all the difference. The Lowcountry is flush with locally grown, quality produce, much of it grown organically or, at the very least, naturally.
Naturally grown is not the same as organic. If you want to garden organically, the Organic Materials Review Institute identifies qualified products you can use. The OMRI logo will appear on the label. You also can look up products on www.omri.org.
Many natural products have to be applied more frequently to achieve acceptable results. The tradeoff, however, is that most are safer around people, pets and in the environment. Regardless of the product, always read the label. Just because something is natural, doesn't mean that it's harmless. Here are some examples:
Natural fertilizers boost soil vitality by increasing microbial activity. Microorganisms feed on natural fertilizers and slowly release nutrients.
Bone meal and fish emulsion are popular organic fertilizers. While some fish products are deodorized, most stink. Milorganite is natural fertilizer made from processed wastewater.
Regardless of the product, be sure you are supplying nutrients in adequate amounts. Milorganite does not contain potassium, which frequently is deficient in Lowcountry soils.
Compost is another means of increasing soil nutrients while also improving soil structure and vitality. Mushroom compost and cotton burr compost are expensive but effective. Bulk compost can be purchased at Bees Ferry.
Conventional insecticides can have negative effects on beneficial insects as well as people and pets. In some cases, an insecticide can reduce beneficial populations and cause a delayed yet significant rebound of the pest population.
Releasing beneficial insects does not guarantee results since they can just as easily move to your neighbor's garden.
Horticultural oil and insecticidal soap have limited effects on beneficials. They need to be applied on the insect pest to be effective.
Neem oil, however, is an insect repellent that can be applied on the plant to ward off insects. As a bonus, Neem oil also has fungicidal effects. Keep in mind, oils and soaps can cause slight damage if applied improperly, so be sure to read the label for appropriate rates and conditions.
Insect growth regulators prevent immature insect growth. Unless you or your pet molt, it's considered safe.
Most nematodes are plant parasites, but there are carnivorous nematodes that consume caterpillars, grubs and mole crickets.
Bacillus thuringiensis is a bacterium that produces a protein toxic to specific insects. Various Bt products control caterpillars, fungal gnats or mosquitoes.
Certain Bacillus strains can behave as a preventive fungicide. There are also botanical products, such as citric acid and mint oil, that can be used as disease preventives. Potassium biocarbonate can control disease such as powdery mildew on various vegetables.
Sulfur and copper are inorganic fungicides. Inorganic, in this case, simply means they don't contain carbon. Copper-containing fungicides have long been used to control bacterial diseases. Bordeaux mixture is a product containing copper sulfate and lime.
Organic weed-killers are nonselective herbicides. They are most effective on annual weeds in planting beds or vegetable gardens rather than the lawn.
Essential oils, herbicidal soap and herbicidal vinegar products can be used to burn down foliage. Reapplication may be necessary for acceptable results. Essential oils smell delicious for days while vinegar smells like what you'd expect. Herbicidal vinegar is not the same as what's typically in the kitchen cupboard.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) recommends that people traveling over the winter holidays take precautions to avoid getting or spreading the flu. "With rain, colder temperatures, long trips and family gatherings, people will be spending more time together in enclosed spaces," said Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, Texas Commissioner of State Health Services. "During this time of year, germs such as the flu virus are more likely to be spread from person to person. More frequent travel increases the chances of flu-like illnesses spreading from city to city," he said. Primary precautions for reducing the risk of getting or spreading influenza are:
People with the flu generally can transmit the virus to others from one day before getting sick to from three to seven days after getting sick. The length of time between exposure to the flu virus and development of symptoms ranges from one to four days and is typically about two days. Symptoms of the flu – which usually come on suddenly – include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, headache, muscle aches and extreme fatigue. Sanchez said it is not too late to get a flu shot. "Getting vaccinated can provide protection from influenza throughout the season," he said. The flu season in Texas generally runs from October through March, peaking in January and February.
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Alright, the Tippmann FT-12 is $129.00 right now at our website.
If you are looking for a durable starter paintball gun—something for your kid, a friend, a brother or sister—or if you just need a reliable marker that you can beat up every weekend, never clean, and expect it to function properly for years…
Do yourself a favor and go get one.
The Tippmann FT-12 is a "flip top" design. That's what the "FT" stands for.
The flip top makes it easy to get to all of the internal components. Fixing anything should a problem arise is a breeze. Cleaning it is simple and easy.
It looks cool, it's semi auto, and it has a non-cycling A-5 style cocking handle on the top that helps keep all of the gunk, dirt, and dust you'll encounter out of the marker.
There are a bunch of other features that will make you happy.
The lockdown feedneck will keep moisture from entering the breech, the 1.5 inch blade trigger has a short, responsible pull, the barrel is decent—not the best you can buy but it gets the job done…it's got just about everything you need.
Is The FT-12 Durable Marker?
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Tippmann makes some awesome gear. Quality stuff that is known to last.
The internals of the FT-12 are basically the same as the Tippmann 98, a marker that many players have used and abused over and over again. My own Tippmann 98 is about 13 years old and it still takes a beating. Yeah, I've moved on to another marker but if I ever have a friend who wants to play, that's the marker they use.
There is a reason paintball fields use Tippmann markers for rentals. They work. Flawlessly. All of the time. Sure, things go wrong. But they are little problems—maybe a broken o-ring or something.
Yes. The Tippmann FT-12 Is Tough, Here's Why
Let's get back to the FT-12.
Here's how we tested it's durability.
Around 8 or 9 months ago, we froze a used FT-12 into a block of ice.
We let the FT-12 sit in a freezer for 9 months. A few days ago, we took it out.
We wanted to unthaw the FT-12 to see if it would still work. The fastest way to get the ice off of it was to drop it about 20 feet from a lift to the pavement. That got rid of the ice pretty quick. Then, we wanted to get some friction going to melt the ice on the inside. So, we attached it to a tow hitch with a nylon tie-down and dragged it around the parking lot.
Watch the video of us abusing an FT-12 below.
As you can see, it stood up to the abuse.
Somewhere along the line—maybe before we froze it—the trigger broke off.
That's not a problem because the flip-top makes for easy repairs. We popped a new trigger in, and the Tippmann FT-12 aired right up. No leaks, no problems—just like the day it came out of the box.
Go get one. Give it to a friend. You'll spend more time playing and less time fixing things.


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Vickie Lynn Ours became the bride of James Cross Jr. on July 19 at the Bates Farm in Salem.
The bride is the daughter of Grace (Shields) Ours of East Liverpool and the late Dennie Ours Sr.
The bridegroom is the son of the late James "Pecky" Cross Sr. and Alice Cross.
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Pastor Brian Brown of the Lisbon Nazarene Church officiated at the couple's 6 p.m., single-ring ceremony. Music was provided by Jim and Mary Cochran.
Escorted by her nephew, Sam DeCapio Jr., the bride was given in marriage by her mother. She was attired in a red gown and her hair was adorned with white baby roses. She carried a bouquet of red and white roses and babies breath, accented with white streamers and pearls.
Tony Cross of Salem performed the duties of best man for his brother.
A reception for approximately 50 people followed at the farm.
The bride is a homemaker. The bridegroom is retired.
A honeymoon to Hawaii is planned for the newlyweds who reside in Salem.


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The San Francisco Giants have 50 games left to play in the 2010 season, and mid-August is when the win-loss numbers start to rise up like the dead in a George Romero film to hunt you down. Now is the time to talk about the endgame of this season's games.
As Yogi Berra, the Zen master of circular thought, might have put it, "You can see a long way off what's right in front of your face."
The Giants are 63-49, playing at a .563 clip, two games out of first. If the Giants play out their fifty game string at the same rate, 28-22, they end up at 91-71. Keep in mind, only nine other teams in baseball are playing at .563 or above, putting the Giants in the top third of all MLB winning teams. But I don't think anyone believes that 91 wins is a lock to take the NL West or the NL Wild Card.
On the other hand, a great number of thoughtful Americans will sign off on 95 wins to take the West or the Wild Card. To make 95 wins, the Giants would have to play the final 50 games at a .640 rate, 32-18, ending up with a 95-67 record. This would be the mountain the team is looking to climb the next month and a half, and it's a significant challenge. Can this 2010 Giants team pull it off? Absolutely, but it will not be easy to watch.
Take it one step further. Just to get win number 96, the Giants have to play 4% better, a .680 win rate (I am going with the whole number, rather than squeaking in at .671 and getting 33.55 wins).
Going down a dark road, if the Giants play .500 ball the rest of the way, they will end up at 88-74– the same final record they put up in 2009. In that life-numbing scenario, the team also likely finishes in third place and General Manager Brian Sabean gets replaced. (And, no, it wouldn't be worth it.)
What about the San Diego Padres? Their record is currently 64-46, a .582 clip, with 52 games left to play. If the Padres finish off the season playing at their current win-loss rate (30-22), they will end up 94-68. If the Pads collapse and play .500 ball the rest of the way (26-26), they end up 90-72.
To take advantage of a complete Padres collapse, and just tie them at 90 wins, the Giants would have to play .545 baseball (27-23) to finish at 90-72.
The task for the Colorado Rockies now becomes even tougher. Winners of seven of their last ten games, the Rockies stand at 58-53. To make 90 wins, they would have go 32-19 (.594) in their remaining 51 games. And the Rockies would also need San Francisco and San Diego to stumble badly at the same time; possible, but just about as unlikely as serving Coors at an actual banquet.
When the dog-days of August give way to the crunch days of September, each game and each series for the Giants becomes a test of survival and their sheer will to win. The ideal result will be a playoff berth and a shot at the World Series; but the numbers won't dictate that, the players will.


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About Bangkok
King Rama V first established Dusit Zoo as a royal botanical garden in 1938. Today, the zoo has become one of Bangkok's most family attractions as well as a home to more than 1,000 birds and 300 mammals.Restaurants and Bars
Bangkok has more than its fair share of highly ranked Thai and international restaurants. However, finding a good bite to eat in Thailand's capital is as easy and cheap as sampling one of the snacks offered by any of the city's countless street vendors. Bangkok's notorious nightlife is centred around the Khao San Road backpacker district, Sukhumvit Road, the more refined Phra Athit Road, and the infamous Soi Cowboy red-light district.Shopping in Bangkok
Bangkok's modern side is on display in the city's countless shopping centres, many of which contain water parks, amusement parks, and other child friendly activities. The CentralWorld shopping centre even includes an ice skating rink, while Terminal 21 combines the best of several world class cities under a single roof. Those who prefer outdoor shopping can browse the wares at the open-air Asiatique, The Riverfront or the over 15,000 stalls at the more traditional Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok.


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Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses Amichai's enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium.
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