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Apolo Ohno is a former Dancing with the Stars champion, winning the coveted mirror-ball trophy in season 4 with Julianne Hough. The ice-skating Olympian is now blogging for PEOPLE.com about competing with Karina Smirnoff in the all-star season.
Last week, we were in the bottom two. I try so hard every single week, and I think I've really turned it up a notch since basically week five. Our fusion dance was actually one of my favorite dances. I love the paso, and the song was really strong. I thought the choreography was great. For me to feel comfortable enough to take my shirt off, I feel like it had to have been a really good moment.
It really sucks that we had to go first. Traditionally, in the history of Dancing with the Stars, nobody ever gets perfect scores going first. I don't know if it would have changed anything. I just wished we had been able to go a little bit later.
It fired me up even more to just jump back into rehearsal, crank it even harder, think outside the box and really just do something different. At first I thought it was good we got all nines, but then we still ended up in the bottom two. I was never in that position when I was on the show last time, so it's turned into a motivating factor.
I take every single week as if it's our last week ever on the show. I think that allows me to really perform and entertain at the best level I possibly can. It's fun, but it's tough. I'm not sleeping much, but it's good.
If we were to get eliminated, I absolutely would not regret the experience. The show and the journey and the things you go through are really amazing. But I'm not even thinking about that. If Tom [Bergeron] calls my name on Tuesday and tells me to come to the bottom of the stairs, I will tell him I am fine where I am and I think I'll stay up there for a little while. I'm not going to move.
I'm hurting this week. This week is hard. We have two full dances. Karina [Smirnoff] and I have the tango, which is our individual dance. We're dancing to a great song by Bonnie Tyler called "I Need a Hero."
I'm trying out this entrance to the dance, and I've never really done it on the show before. I'm coming in from the corner of the skybox. It's a little crazy. I'm told to come in like a superhero or action figure. I'm not really the best with heights. That's why I've always stayed low to the ground.
The other dance we have is our trio dance, and we have Sasha Farber, who is one of the professionals on the show. We're doing a jive to "Grease Lightning," which I love. The number is sick, but I have two Russian dancers who forget that I'm not a pro. So they're putting in this crazy, fast routine that normally a pro would have. My hip flexors feel like guitar strings right now. They are gone.
When I'm not dancing, I've been laying low. I just bought a new place, so I'm just remodeling. It's on the Westside in [L.A.'s] Century City. I love things right now. L.A's weather is so beautiful.
I haven't been on a date in a long time, so maybe I'll have a little time for that – jeez. With the show, it's so crazy. Your social life and everything gets put on hold.
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It's the fourth annual Telework Week in the U.S., a time for organizations and individuals to give telecommuting a try. The group that organizes the week, Mobile Work Exchange, a public-private partnership committed showing the value of telework, has gathered pledges from almost 150,000 people who promise that they will work remotely this week.
Companies have picked up on the benefits of telecommuting—it helps the environment, saves money and gives workers more flexibility in their schedules—but it's also clear that letting employees work from the couch raises some legal risks for employers.
Deborah Broyles, a partner in Reed Smith's Labor and Employment Group, told CorpCounsel.com that although telecommuting can give many employees a real morale boost and drive more productivity, companies considering letting workers clock in from home should think carefully about who is allowed to telework, and then craft thoughtful policies and agreements on the subject.
According to Broyles, telework isn't the right choice for every worker in every industry. Companies, she explained, should use a clear telecommuting policy to explain which departments or teams of workers have jobs that would lend themselves to telecommuting. "You have to see whether that position and the duties of that position can be done with limited supervision, or supervision that you can tailor through this telecommuting policy," she said. Workers who need to collaborate on projects with other employees frequently, for example, might not be right for telecommuting.
Stating upfront and clearly which jobs are appropriate for telecommuting—and which jobs are not—in the text of the policy, said Broyles, can help lower exposure to a Title VII discrimination claim. Workers might decide to complain if they believe they are not being allowed to telecommute due to discrimination based on gender or race, for example.
Once an employee is cleared for telecommuting—perhaps through a formal request process outlined in the telecommuting policy—Broyles suggests having the employee sign a telecommuting agreement that drills down into some of the specifics of the arrangement and, in doing so, makes it less likely the company will fall prey to legal problems.
Broyles sees potential wage-and-hour and workers' compensation claims as the "biggest pitfalls" of letting workers do their jobs remotely.
If an employee is nonexempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, she explained, there's a danger that, away from the watchful eye of a supervisor, the employee could exceed the 40-hour-a-week maximum allowed to work without activating the requirement for overtime pay. "The agreement should specifically identify how that's going to be handled," said Broyles. She added that many employers require telecommuting employees to record the time they work over the computer or phone.
Of course, wage-and-hour problems with telecommuting apply to the FLSA-exempt as well. Sometimes an exempt employee will violate the law's provisions away from the office, putting their legal status as exempt in doubt.
Workers' compensation becomes a problem too, because just as workers can get hurt in their place of business, they can also get hurt at home—and employers may be held liable.
Employers should consider using the telecommuting agreement to ask employees to guarantee that there are no potential physical dangers lurking in the home office. "There are some employers who will have a checklist of things to identify," said Broyles, such as the height of tables used as workspaces. Some employers may also include a provision in their telecommuting agreement that allows the company to examine the home workspace of a telecommuter if the employee is injured working at home and files a claim.
Another problem that employers with telecommuting workers face is that these workers may decide to use personal computers or other devices to do their job. This can be an issue in the event that the employees are dealing with legally protected confidential information, or if their devices are lost or stolen or compromised by a third party. A telework agreement, Broyles said, can address the problem by specifying what level of security that devices employees use for remote work should have, and even whether or not they should use personal devices for work at all. It can also be an opportunity for employees to sign off on letting the company access their devices, should there be any problems.


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COLUMBIANA - Levi Mathew Laverie was pronounced dead at the time of birth, 2:51 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, the son of James and Angie Workman Laverie, Lower Elkton Road.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Addison Mae Laverie; his grandparents, Larry and Melody Workman, Leetonia, and Vicki and James Scott Laverie, New Springfield; and his great-grandparents, Marion Pudder, East Palestine, Duncan Laverie, Boardman, Bill and Charlotte Crawford, Rogers, and Esther Workman (Ron) Bower, Columbiana. Levi is also survived by his aunts, Danielle (Josh) Menning, Leetonia, Lisa Workman, Boston, Mass., and his uncles, Kyle Laverie, New Springfield and Nic Pisano, Lisbon.
He was preceded in death by three grandparents, Darlene Pudder, Dorothy Laverie, and Kenneth Workman, as well as an uncle, Mathew Laverie.
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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in South East London. It is currently undergoing refurbishment with works due for completion by March 2011.
Designed by civil engineer Sir Alexander Binnie, the Greenwich Foot Tunnel was opened on 4 August 1902. It replaced an expensive and unreliable ferry service, and was intended to allow workers living south of the Thames to reach the docks and shipyards situated on the Isle of Dogs (currently where the tall buildings in Canary Wharf are located).
The entrance shafts are capped by glazed domes, with lifts and spiral staircases allowing pedestrians to reach the sloping, tile-lined tunnel at the bottom. The cast-iron tunnel itself is 370.2 m (1,217 ft) long, 15.2 m deep and has an internal diameter of about 9 feet (3 m). In layman's terms, it's not that wide or tall. Its cast-iron rings are lined with concrete which has been surfaced with about 200,000 white glazed tiles. The northern end was damaged by bombs during World War II and the repairs include a thick steel and concrete inner lining that reduces the diameter substantially for a short distance. This is the 'shonky' part near the lift shaft where it's even narrower.
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel cost £127,000 to build (in 1902) which would buy one half of a small flat in Greenwich these days. There are approximately 100 steps at either end. If tunnel facts and figures are your thing, the nearby Blackwall Tunnel (road traffic) is interesting in several respects. It has wild kinks and doglegs running along its length, which were deliberately built into the design. This was to prevent the horses pulling the waggons and omnibuses from bolting for the exit. If they could see the exit, they'd make a run for it - but if it was obscured until the last minute, it calmed them. One of the ventilation shafts from the Blackwall Tunnel is inside the Millennium Dome and pokes through the outer skin. This is because it's Grade 2 listed, and could not be altered when the Dome was built - so they simply built around it.
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel is a convenient link between Greenwich town centre on the southern side— the entrance is close to the tea clipper Cutty Sark (also being refurbished after fire damage) — and Island Gardens to the north.
The tunnel is classed as a public highway and therefore by law is kept open 24 hours a day. However, the attendant-operated lift service is only open from 7am to 7pm on weekdays and Saturdays, 10am-5.30pm on Sundays, with no service on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
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Chely Wright: I'm Done with Hiding
Fearing the Country Music World Would Shun Her, the Singer-Songwriter Kept Quiet for Years, but Now She's Shouting Her Truth from the Hilltops: 'I'm Gay!'
I had so masterfully painted myself into a corner. I was a country music star. Who dreams of that and then gets to do it, you know? At the same time, there had never been a country music artist-ever-who had acknowledged homosexuality. I wasn't going to be the first, damn it. So I hid everything for my music. The hiding just ripped Julia a pseudonym for her partner between '93 and '05 and me apart. After we broke up, I realized I would give it all back if I could just live in some awful little apartment with her. And no matter how I tried, I couldn't figure out how to get out of the situation I was in. So I decided I can't fight it. I decided to kill myself.
I'd always judged people who committed suicide. How non-spiritual. What a loser. Then I found myself with a gun in my mouth.
I know why I didn't do it. I was looking in the mirror thinking, "Why am I not crying? Don't people cry when they kill themselves?" I thought of sunlight on my skin, of my dogs, of my ex, of music. Then I saw myself start to cry, and I knew: I'm not gonna do this.
I'm a prayerful person. So I stopped praying for a plan to magically make my gayness and my career intersect; instead I prayed for a moment of peace. The minute I said, "Amen," it washed over me. I said to myself, "Am I coming out?" The seed was planted. I started to honor the moment and stopped trying to make this grand plan.
I knew when I was 4 that I was different. At 9, I knew I was gay. It scared me because I was hearing the word in church-"homosexual"-and knew it was a building block of sin and evil. But I fell in love with my third-grade teacher. Then I got a crush on my second cousin. Around 13, I brokered my deal with God: I'll go without love; give me music. That will be enough. Just get me to the Opry stage. By then God was saying in my ear, in my heart, "You're okay with me."
[Growing up] I didn't feel not genuine. I was one of these girls who would get up at 6:30 and curl my hair. But I could also put up a ponytail and play basketball. I'm pretty sure the boy I dated in high school was dating me on a bet that he could score with me. He lost. But short-term relationships with boys deflected so much. I chose boys I really enjoyed hanging out with-somebody that I thought, "If I have to go without love, I'll just be with them and hopefully they won't want to have sex."
My first sexual relationship was with a woman when I was at Middle Tennessee State University. I had a job at Opryland USA. There were gay boys at Opryland, and I thought there might be something they could identify in me. So I thought I'd throw them off with antigay sentiments. I'd say, "I think it's a sin." I was spewing such venom. I'm ashamed to admit that.
I was invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time on Sept. 16, 1989 [when I was 18]. I wanted to be famous-but not that famous. I remember seeing Ricky Martin being interviewed by Barbara Walters. She pounded him about, "Are you gay, are you not gay?" And I thought, "I don't want it that bad." It was really great to be nominated for the Academy of Country Music's Best Female Vocalist in '99-but it was super-duper fine that I didn't win.
I met Julia during the making of my first album. She'd never been with a woman. After we got involved, we told only two people-four years after we got together. We had different breakups throughout. She got married when we were together too. Frankly, I was kind of relieved.
When we would fall apart, I would see guys. But they were never beards. Ever. My choice was, if I'm going to settle again, I'm going to pick someone I admire and like.
Brad Paisley, he was just starting out. We had fun. We toured together. We had a relationship for nine months to a year [around '00-'01]. But once I realized he was in love with me, I cut him off. It was cruel-one of my biggest regrets. I wish I could have said, "I'm gay, and that's why I can't be with you." I will never, ever do that to another person.
Julia [whose marriage had ended] and I tried to reconcile in late 2006. But there was no way around the gaping wound, the hiding of a homosexual relationship in a highly conservative country music community. We were exhausted. I mean, can you imagine having a relationship for that long and having to lie about it?
I didn't decide to come out until the making of this record. It became obvious that, holy cow, what will I say about these songs? Chely, who are you writing about? So I decided.
I cannot wait for my book to come out. I feel like it's my birthday, like I'm going to be born. I don't just want some of my joy; I want all of my joy.
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The column that asks the question, will World War II vet Warren Robinson attend the Bridgeton Memorial Day Parade on May 24, at 1 p.m.
Good afternoon!
If you still stink from winter hibernation, get outside.
It's Moise Arellano, not Moses, who owns La Fiesta in Bridgeton that hosted Cinco de Mayo.
If he's going to lead us out of the wilderness, we must get his name right.
Apparently, Rev. Dave Ennis in Millville has more than just three areas to clean up.
Along the railroad tracks from 2nd Street to Main Street apparently looks like an appliance store with TVs, tires and full trash bags.
Who is supposed to check on these areas?
Where is code enforcement?
And when is the railroad company going to get those piles of old ties out of the area?
Joe Derella leaves and the city goes down the tubes.
Remember, on Wednesday, at 9 a.m., Rev. Ennis and his seven paid employees are going to pick up trash on Wade Boulevard.
Ennis is going to pay them at least minimum wage out of his own pocket.
He found them standing around with no work.
"So I'm going to put them to work,'' said Ennis.
And he's asking for volunteers to help, too.
Maybe you can take an hour off as a company or as an office and come and help.
If enough show up, maybe 30 minutes will do.
Who knows who might come pouring out of the high school to help.
Call it a Civics road trip.
The Millville Woman's Club is partnering with Silver Run School by sponsoring a poster contest to recognize New Jersey's 350th anniversary.
Silver Run School's fourth-graders are participating.
Students will submit an artistic poster design, no larger than 9 x 12 inches of mixed media.
Prizes and awards will be presented during a ceremony on Friday, June 13, at the Riverfront Renaissance Arts Center.
Members of the club, Millville Public School personnel and family and friends of the students participating are invited to attend.
If you are on an addictive drug and you really want to get off it, call Ron Hudak at 856-453-8551.
And he'll take it from there.
"In an article that was in a flier I got from the VFW a while back:
"Those who have borne the burden of battle are now endangered by the very political system they vowed to protect.
"if our veterans had acted similarly while in uniform, there is a good chance that we would be flying a flag of a different color.
"The benefits and entitlements now threatened to be delayed because of the political nonsense and gamesmanship occurring in Washington, were earned by those who put country and duty first.
"it's time for our elected officials to follow their example and do the same.''
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Turns out a popular video on YouTube among the 55-plus age group is a video on how to keep silk off corn when it gets shucked.
Are you surprised that YouTube can figure out a video's demographic? Or are you more surprised that people 55 and older surf YouTube?
There are millions of videos on YouTube, and now a new feature on the popular site will let you check out which ones are being watched the most in your own backyard as well as all over the world.
With the YouTube Trends Dashboard, you can discover the top 10 most popular videos in Birmingham, New York City or even Kenya or Saudi Arabia.
"It's a very revealing and interesting tool that we have available," said Kevin Allocca, YouTube trends manager. "I think we've long known that we have an incredible amount of data about our culture. The things that we watch and the things that we talk about are very representative of where we are in pop culture, but in general world culture, too."
The Dashboard was created to monitor those trends both geographically as well as demographically, he said.
"When you start looking at things on that level you find a lot of revealing things about us and about the things that we like," Allocca said.
There are two basic algorithms that power the Trends Dashboard search. The "most-viewed algorithm" looks at the most-viewed videos in the last 24 to 48 hours from videos uploaded in the last 30 days, he said. "Out of a bunch of recent videos, what are the ones that are getting the most views in any given amount of time?"
The other algorithm is the "most-shared algorithm" which counts views from share platforms on the Web, Allocca said. Share platforms could be videos that are picked up from being posted on social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook.
"That's really what defines the whole thing," he said. "So it started out like, oh, we should just make it easy to find videos that are popular in locations. And then it's actually interesting if you compare those from different locations in the U.S. So then it was like it's also interesting to see what people in Kenya are watching today or people in Ireland and how did that differ from what we're seeing here."
In a cart-before-the-horse scenario, is the Dashboard creating trends instead of just counting them? Allocca said that, so far, the Dashboard isn't pushing what people watch.
"The dashboard is more a representation of what's happening on the site than it is a driver of things that are happening on the site," he said. "I look at it as more of an interesting lens to look at what's happening on YouTube every day rather than something that's driving activity on YouTube."
The data that YouTube has gotten from the Dashboard has been revealing in the way that different demographics actually view videos.
"A lot of the videos that have a ton of views are coming from blogs that are embedding them. And that's another form of conversation or sharing -- websites and blogs that are picking them up and posting them, and that's a phenomenon of commonality between all these things that you see. I think a lot of them are very shareable," Allocca said. "They're either funny, or they inspired some kind of reaction from us that we want to share that reaction with someone else. And that's the thing that separates the viral or trending videos from a lot of other videos."
He said that's how most older demographics tend to find and watch videos.
But for teenagers, it's often quite different.
"If you ask a lot of teenagers how they find videos, they subscribe to all these different channels and their home page is filled with the channels that they subscribe to," he said. "So whenever they come to YouTube, they're not necessarily looking for the viral video of the day, although those are definitely available on the site. But they are looking for the things that they are personally interested in."
Allocca said that the Dashboard has been incredibly useful in showing how topics spread throughout the world and how things go viral within communities.
"Seeing how some of our most popular videos spread to other countries around the world, it represents a different place that we are in right now in media on the Web. And in entertainment," he said. "And it's something that we never saw before. It was never possible when I was a kid for everyone in the world to be watching the same thing. That just never happened, except maybe the Olympics. But now, it's happening every day. And it's proof via a tool like this."
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The city got about $212,000 more than it expected Thursday when officials received a check from unused healthcare premiums. Mayor Gabriel J....
"We're putting it right into the general fund. This should soften the blow in regards to expenses for next year," he said."
That's what they're doing with the Money. At the bottom it mentions other local governments where the services that resulted in refunds are used, not where the money would be sent.
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Really, some of you folks need to learn to read, or comprehend what you do read before commenting. Nowhere does it say anything about any going to Muncy. Even when they get something right & save some $$$ as in this case, all you can do is try to be as negative as possible. But in this case you just look really dumb in your attempt.
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Just put the money aside because in a few months we will hear how healthcare is rising again. Im really suprised that campana didnt pay some company $212k to do a study on what the city should do with the money
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That money needs to be returned to the tax payers that it was conned out of!
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If the refund came ultimately from taxpayers in Williamsport to help fund the healthcare of the city's workers, how about keeping it in the city and start a fund for the un-insured of this city? So you are telling me, my taxes go to pay your healthcare, and I can't afford it for myself, but you are going to send some of this money to Muncy? Why don't you just slap me in the face, Campana? It would have the same effect!
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After attending her first court hearing in Ohio, Tuesday, it looks like Rifqa Bary will be spend Christmas in foster care.
This was 17-year-old Christian convert's first time before a judge in her home state since running away to Florida in fear that her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity.
Dozens rallied outside the court rrom to show support for Bary back in November, and many returned for for this hearing.
Jamal Jivanjee -- a close personal friend to Bary who also converted from Islam to Christianity-- was allowed in the courtroom.
"She was very thankful. She was able to give me a hug at the end of the hearing," he said. "She was very full of joy, yet I could see she was very concerned."
Concern for Bary began pouring in from Christians around the world after her story made international headlines in July.
She fled Ohio for Forida in fear she could be hurt, or even killed, by her parents for leaving Islam. It's a fear Nabil Qureshi also remembers feeling after he left the Muslim faith.
"This is a girl's life and if you are going to err on the side of safety, you should err on the side of saving and preserving her life," she said. "It seems like we are erring on the side of not offending the sensitivity of Muslims."
Bary's friends find comfort knowing she will remain in foster care in Columbus -- at least until she returns to court Jan. 19.
"I am happy that she is still in foster care because she is still being protected from the threat, which was coming from her family, the threat of being taken out of the country," Jivanjee said. "So she is still here and she is still being protected. That is a good thing."
Still, friends and supporters are a bit troubled by the timing of this latest hearing.
Supporters have been sending her Christmas cards from around the world.
Bary had not been allowed to see those cards because of a ban on third party communications, but the judge also lifted that ban Tuesday
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Kid Loki has a few cheap laughs and sarcastic lines, but outside of that, there isn't much there.
JIM #645 alone kind of disproves that statement because there was basically none of that, but I honestly felt like there was a lot of characterization to Kid Loki across the entire run beyond your very narrow description.
And I don't see that changing in a team book such as Young Avengers.
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A Night in the Keys emulates Mallory Square on Wednesdays
Hop in the car today, start driving south and you'll reach Key West, Fla., in, oh, about 24 hours or so, depending on pit stops for gas, dollar burgers and gallon-sized energy drinks to keep you awake.
Or, you could do this. Circle Wednesday on your calendar. When it arrives, head to the Bayfront Convention Center, where you'll find Sunset Happy Hour: A Night in the Keys, a four-hour outdoor event that will simulate the Mallory Square experience that draws thousands to Key West.
Heidi Belczyk, the president of the Presque Isle Parrothead Club, has visited Mallory Square five times and loves its anything-goes atmosphere. Visitors ostensibly go there to see fantastic sunsets, but they also revel in the amateur Cirque du Soleil-Ness of it all.
"It's just weird; it's so fun," Belczyk said. "Basically, at the end of the island, they have this beautifully paved, all-concrete place for you to go to view the sunset. Individual street acts come down and set up hours before this occurs. There's cat tricks, dog tricks, people doing magic, people walking on a tightrope. You name it, they're doing it."
Erie's version won't feature all that, but it will include Dave Fultz, who will juggle what he can keep his hands on, so watch your drinks. Lake Effect Hoop Troop's Jennifer Dennehy will also attend, doing hula-hoop tricks, including a few with lit-up hoops for nighttime.
The center's outside terrace will be decorated tiki-style. Patrons are encouraged to wear tropical shirts, grass skirts or anything appropriately beachy. All those who enter will receive a lei.
The sound track for the evening will be Jimmy Buffett music and island tunes by Key West Express, and a few current, danceable hits by the band's alter ego, Lucky Dog.
"It'll be a trop-rock mixture," Belczyk said.
This is the second year for Sunset Happy Hour: A Night in the Keys. Though the weather was dark and rainy in 2012 and the party moved inside, more than 300 people showed up. With good weather -- including a sunset to rival Mallory Square's -- the 2013 party should easily exceed that.
Proceeds from the event will go to Relay for Life to help fight cancer. That's a cause that hits home for Belczyk. She lost her father, Jim Grumblatt, to the disease.
"Lung cancer," she said. "He was diagnosed and died six months later, so it's even more personal to me this year."
Parrothead clubs are required to put on two events for charity each year; nationally, they've raised more than $29 million since the national charter began. If Wednesday's party goes well, Belczyk hopes to make the second charity event a repeat -- another Night in Key West.
One can never get enough of Mallory Square, especially if there's no work the next day because of July 4.
"We thought it'd be a fun way to kick off the holiday weekend," Belczyk said.
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Fayetteville police say they arrested a person of interest in a home invasion where a woman was shot.Video Transcript
INVESTIGATORS SAY HE WAS INVOLVED IN A BURGLARY THAT RESULTED IN A WOMAN BEING SHOT. 40/29'S UGOCHI ILOKA HAS NEW INFORMATION FROM POLICE. SHE'S LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE. RIGHT NOW ONE MAN IN RELATION TO THE BURGLARY INVESTIGATION IS BEHIND BARS RIGHT HERE AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON OF INTEREST? ORIGINALLY OFFICERS SAID THERE WAS TWO SUSPECTS AFFILIATED BUT WE JUST LEARNED FROM INVESTIGATORS THERE WAS ONLY ONE. ONE NEIGHBOR TELLS US SINCE THE BURGLARY SHE'S BECOME MORE ALERT. ( JOANNE PATTERSON NEIGHBOR ) SOT: You do have to see who your opening your door too and not just think nothing like this will ever happen to me FAYETTEVILLE POLICE ARRESTED 26-YEAR- OLD MICHAEL SCHUR SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER INVESTIGATORS NAMED HIM A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A HOME INVASION THAT HAPPENED ON WARWICK DRIVE. INVESTIGATORS SAY FRIDAY NIGHT A MAN CALLED POLICE CLAIMING SOMEONE KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR, AND WHEN HE OPENED IT THAT SOMEONE RAN INSIDE. THE VICTIM WAS HOLDING A GUN AT THE TIME AND A STRUGGLE TO GET THE GUN, LEAD TO A SHOT GOING OFFHURTING A WOMAN INSIDE. ONE NEIGHBOR TELL 40/29 WHAT SHE WITNESSED THE NIGHT OF THE INVASION. SOT: I thought maybe someone was injured because I saw EMS hanging around so I thought someone was hurt. INVESTIGATORS CONFIRMED A 25- YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SHOT IN THE LEG. A NEIGHBOR TELLS US SHE BELIEVES POLICE ACTED QUICK IN MAKING AN ARREST. SOT: Someone was arrested so it does make me feel like they are doing their job. WE SPOKE TO THE VICTIM WHO WOULDN'T TALK ON CAMERA BUT SAYS HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS TREATED FOR INJURIES IN THE HOSPITAL AND RIGHT NOW IS DOING JUST FINE. LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE UGOCHI ILOKA 40/29 NEWS. FAYETTEVILLE POLICE COULD NOT CONFIRM WHY THEY ARE NO LONGER
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In the past, I've shared survey best practice tips for writing survey introductions - like the fact you should have one. But just like writing unbiased survey feedback questions can be tricky, so can writing survey questionnaire intros.
Survey intros aren't just standard, they're necessary. Why? Because if you don't tell a survey respondent what they will be answering questions about, you may find you have a lot of unqualified respondents in your survey sample. Does it make sense to have lawyers filling out a health care survey? Probably not. If you include some sort of introduction to the survey, either in the survey invitation or the welcome page, those lawyers will know the web based survey is not targeting them. Since they'll avoid your survey, you'll lower abandonment rates and the data collected will be more accurate.
What's the catch? Well, sometimes you can provide too much information in the introduction that will result in biasing your survey sample. Believe me, no survey creator wants that to happen. They spent a lot of time on questionnaire design and question writing, they don't want to bias their data. However, if you give too much information, it's the same as writing leading survey questions. You can also think of it as ruining the end of a book for a friend, or accidentally telling someone that the guy dies at the end of the movie. You don't want to ruin the end of the story any more than you want to share too much in the introduction.
It doesn't matter if you're conducting product feedback or consumer satisfaction surveys, this even applies to restaurant questionnaires and course evaluations, your survey should include a brief explanation of the project's purpose. Are you asking survey questions that measure customer experiences to improve employee training? Does your bank customer satisfaction survey aim to identify new services customers feel are missing? What about your professional development questionnaire, are you gauging the effectiveness of the training programs?
Always remember to keep your survey introduction short, no one wants to read a novel. But more importantly, you don't want to give away the cow. If you give away the cow, you may find your survey findings are less reliable than you'd like because you provided too much insight and basically led survey respondents down a specific way of thinking.


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Dads often face an uphill battle when it comes to family law issues. The situation is even tougher for unmarried fathers. A recent case in point comes from Wisconsin. Nearly six months ago, James Wolfe's son was snatched away from him by the toddler's mother, who disappeared with the child to Georgia …CONTINUE READING
What Is The Process For Signing Away Parental Rights?
Question: How do I sign away my parental rights?CONTINUE READING
Pro Athletes Promoting Involved Fatherhood
On Sunday, Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas made a series of clutch plays to help lead his squad to a crucial playoff victory over the Atlanta Hawks. After the game, however, it was Thomas' two young sons who were the stars. During the postgame press conference, Jaden and James joined …CONTINUE READING
Paid Paternity Leave Programs Gradually Improving In U.S.
San Francisco recently became the first city in the United States to require employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents. California already has one of the most progressive laws in the country, requiring employers to pay 55% of an employee's wages for up to six …CONTINUE READING
Using A DNA Test To Prove Paternity In A Custody Dispute
Question: I am getting ready to go through a divorce and would like custody of our children. However, my oldest son has another man's last name because my wife and I met while she was still legally married to someone else. Can I get a DNA test to prove I'm the …CONTINUE READING
Child Support System Overemphasizes Collecting Payments
Time and time again, the child support system's overemphasis on collecting payments ends up punishing low-income fathers. Or in some cases, it punishes low-income men who aren't fathers at all. The latest example comes from Iowa where Joe Vandusen, 45, is being asked to pay child support for a child …CONTINUE READING
How Paternity Fraud Devastates Entire Families
It is difficult to estimate how many people are victims of paternity fraud in the United States, but even conservative estimates put the number in the millions. It's been referred to as a "national epidemic."CONTINUE READING
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Throughout history, fathers have frequently been cast aside as an overlooked parent when it comes to family matters. That traditionally has held true in the adoption process. Consider the concept of the adoption triad. This is the concept of a triangle that exists during adoptions with the adoptee in one …CONTINUE READING
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IEA Ministerial Recognizes Role of Energy Sector Reform for Mitigation
20 November 2013: The International Energy Agency and six partner countries – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa – have released a joint declaration announcing their intention to enhance cooperation. IEA Member Country Energy Ministers also released a statement on the importance of energy sector reform to mitigating impacts from climate change.
Announced duirng its Ministerial Meeting, which took place from 19-20 November 2013, in Paris, France, Ministers discussed strategies to deal with the current shifting energy landscape and geopolitics impacting energy markets. Specific topics included increased global energy demand, new energy production, shifting supply and consumption centers, energy security, energy efficiency, and sustainable development and inclusive growth.
In their statement on climate change, ministers supported four energy policies proposed by the IEA to keep climate goals alive without harming economic growth, namely: adopting targeted energy efficiency measures for buildings, industry and transport; where coal must be used, encouraging construction and use of highly-efficient coal power plants; minimizing methane release from oil and gas production; and rationalizing and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies while providing targeted support during the process for the poor. [IEA press release] [Joint declaration on partner country cooperation] [Joint statement on climate change]


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Northbound lanes heading toward Woodland were blocked Monday due to an overturned trailer caused by the region's strong winds.
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Bryan Hancock, on sled, and Ben Johnson, barely seen behind him, give their dog, Roy (who is a girl), a ride on a sled Wednesday afternoon down a driveway on Ridgewood Drive. Hundreds of Wayne County and Goldsboro residents spent the day sledding and playing in the snow -- a rare sport for folks living in eastern North Carolina.
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Amanda Gray, 10, of Goldsboro, holds on tight as she sleds down the snow-covered hill at the overpass of North Spence and N.C. 70.
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Sebastian Jackson tries out his duck-hunting kayak as a potential sled as his father, Craig Jackson, pulls him in a Mule in Mount Olive Wednesday afternoon.
Like many Wayne County residents, Wednesday was a snow day for the Yelvertons in Eureka. And also like many Wayne County residents, they had to improvise when it came to playing in the rarely seen white stuff. "I called...
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catches up with John J. Gilligan, former Congressman, educator and Governor of Ohio.
Ron Rollins
John Gilligan was probably starting to think people had forgotten him.
He'd been lying low, after all — living in Cincinnati with his wife, Susan, far from the political limelight he once occupied. They were working on an addition to their house, were off to Pilates exercise classes a couple of times a week, and he was taking plenty of time to read while she attended to her medical practice.
At age 88, Gilligan is more than three decades from the toss and tumble of the Ohio Statehouse, and even news and politics junkies may well have wondered what ever happened to the dynamic, liberal governor who reshaped state government and made history as the man whose term was bookended by James Rhodes, the Republican who served four, four-year terms as governor.
About a year ago, Gilligan popped back onto the scene — thanks to his daughter.
In February 2009, President Barack Obama tapped Gilligan's daughter, Kathleen Sebelius, 61, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Before that, she was governor of Kansas, making her and Gilligan the only father-daughter gubernatorial duo in American history — something of interest mostly to Wikipedians and Politico.com readers. Until the HHS appointment, that is, when her father's phone started ringing again as reporters from Ohio and around the
nation wanted to know what he'd passed along to Sebelius.
"The only advice I ever gave her was to change her name and move to a different state," he said recently. "She did both, and it worked for her pretty well."
He's chuckling drily as he says it, joking at his own political fortunes — which saw him serve single terms in Congress and the governor's chair. His record of accomplishment was considerable nonetheless.
Gilligan is more than happy to spend a few hours looking back over those accomplishments as Ohio's 62nd chief executive. He recently whiled away a relaxed weekend afternoon in the warm, tidy, northern Cincinnati apartment he and Susan are occupying while an elevator is installed in their 1920 Clifton home so that Gilligan, now in occasional need of a walker, can get around better.
The living room is decorated with books, political memorabilia and framed photos of family, including one of the entire Gilligan clan — all suited up and smiling at the White House for Sebelius' swearing-in. Susan and Jack, as she and his friends call him, happily recall meeting the president. "He's very cool," Susan says with a smile, and then takes a cell-phone call from a patient. A family physician with a practice in Loveland, she seems perpetually busy.
Gilligan concurs with a crisp nod. The president is "one of the more remarkable people I've met in politics," he says, keeping an eye on the TV, where his beloved University of Cincinnati Bearcats are at that moment stomping Fresno State.
He sits in a beige recliner, the walker in reach if needed. At his side are stacks of magazines —
The New Yorker
The Nation
The New York Review of Books
— and hardbacks that range across history, public policy and Catholic theology and activism. Any fiction? "Not so much," he shrugs, as Cincinnati pulls off another smart play. Who'd have time for fiction, anyway, when one's lived the sort of life John J. Gilligan has led?
He came to politics gradually. Gilligan was born in Cincinnati in 1921, the son of a third-generation, Roman Catholic funeral director who was interested in politics, "but never ran, though he ... taught us to become involved." Young Gilligan went to college at Notre Dame and graduated in 1943, enlisting in the Navy and "spending three and a half years on a destroyer" in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He won the Silver Star for valor, risking his life to hose down flames near the ammo dump on his ship, the USS Rodman, when it took a kamikaze strike near Okinawa in 1945.
Post-war, he taught English literature at Xavier University from 1948 to 1953,
"and my first impulse wasn't to seek public office but to study political activity," he recalls. "Things were changing in government in the United States following World War II and there were enormous shake-ups in the international arena, all of which I found enormously interesting."
Interesting enough, finally, to make the leap — inspired by Adlai Stevenson's re-energizing of liberal Democratic politics. Gilligan ran for Cincinnati City Council in 1953, winning as a Democrat in a very Republican town. He spent 10 years on Council, then ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964 and became the first Democrat to win Hamilton County's 1st District in more than two decades.
He found life in Congress to be bracing — for the two years he served. Despite Democratic gains around Ohio, the GOP still controlled the Statehouse, and Gilligan says the General Assembly redrew the 1st to knock him out of it — making it that much easier for another big name from Cincinnati, Robert Taft Jr., to prevent his re-election. "I got gerrymandered out," he says, "one of four Democrats it happened to." He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1968, beating former Gov. Frank Lausche, the sitting senator, in the primary, but losing to Republican William Saxbe.
In 1970, Jim Rhodes had run up against term limits, making the gubernatorial election an open field. The GOP put up Roger Cloud, a state representative from Logan County; Gilligan carried the Democratic banner. As he recalls things today, the pall cast upon the state by the May 4, 1970, National Guard shootings that killed four students at Kent State University — which occurred on Rhodes' watch — was a factor in his campaign. "It woke a lot of people up to aspects of life in Ohio that they hadn't considered up to that time," he says.
He beat Cloud and came to Columbus with a full, ambitious plate. "We had a serious array of goals and objectives," he recalls. "And the crazy thing was, we accomplished a lot of it." Surprising especially because the state was in a deep fiscal hole.
To get out of it, Gilligan pushed the state's first income tax. He got it through the General Assembly pretty quickly, and the tax even survived a repeal attempt by a group of Republicans and was reapproved by voters. "By then it had been argued pretty thoroughly in every corner of the state," Gilligan recalls.
Once the tax was in place, other initiatives followed. In the emergent environmental spirit of the day, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was created, as were state departments to help people with mental-health issues and disabilities. The voting age was reduced to 18, again in keeping with the times. The Ohio Lottery was created, though against Gilligan's wishes — he agreed to it in a political tradeoff with Cleveland-area politicians whose support he'd needed for the income tax.
He's remembered today as intelligent, thoughtful on policy, a good speaker and an elegant, slightly patrician figure. Tall, red-haired and handsome, he cut an imposing, memorable public presence.
But his bid for a second term did not go well. Jim Rhodes sought a comeback, and pulled off an 11,000-vote upset. "It was really close," says Thomas Suddes, longtime Statehouse reporter for
The Plain Dealer
of Cleveland, who now teaches journalism at Ohio University. "It's a famous story that Rhodes went to bed thinking he'd lost."
Some speculate that his appointment of Howard Metzenbaum in 1973 to the U.S. Senate over the popular John Glenn cost Gilligan votes. Suddes suggests Gilligan was hurt politically by never having held an Ohio state office or served in the legislature. Others say the income tax hurt him. "I think he could've survived that," says Brad Tillson, former editor and publisher of the
Dayton Daily News
, who covered Gilligan as a young Statehouse reporter. "Jack didn't run a great campaign; I think he and the people around him were a little bit complacent."
Says Suddes, "He did an awful lot in four years; Ohioans talk about wanting change, but don't always want it when they get it."
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter
offered Gilligan the directorship of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served until 1979, becoming director of the Institute for Public Policy, and then taught at Notre Dame and UC. "I really enjoyed the international stuff," he says now. "I found that job extremely interesting."
Politics was still in the wings, it turned out: Resettled at home, he ran in 1999 for the Cincinnati school board, and won. He stayed until 2007.
And now, he enjoys being retired, getting together monthly for lunch with old friends from his days of Cincinnati politics and keeping up on his reading within sight of those family photos. In addition to Sebelius, son Donald is an environmental consultant in Boston, son John is a Columbus attorney and daughter Ellen is a foundation executive in Cincinnati. There are eight grandchildren, one great-grandchild.
He met Susan Fremont, now 57, several years after his first wife, Mary Catherine Dixon, died in 1996. They've been married nine years, and Susan has become cheerfully adept at filling in the blanks as Gilligan recounts his history, having heard it so often. "She's just nosy," her husband says with a smile.
After all this, and with his daughter's career carrying forward his legacy of liberal Democratic beliefs, Gilligan seems perfectly content, and convinced that he did what he could.
"He reset the state's compass," Suddes says. "On his watch, the state passed an income tax that had been authorized in the Constitution since 1912, and finally got the resources to do some things it needed to do for an awful long time ... The state government we have today is essentially the government we got during the Gilligan administration."
Gilligan, always charming, is more understated: "I think when I got into the actual practice of politics ... my experience more or less convinced me that the ideas I started with were right."
We should all be so lucky, perhaps, to get so far along feeling that way.
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Fifty-four dogs and a cat!
That's what El Paso Animal Services found at a home located in the middle of an East Side neighborhood this week.
The home is at 2704 Fierro Street, just off of Yarbrough and Montwood drive, near Eastwood Middle School.
According to the Central Appraisal District, the home is owned by Robert and Arlene Brown. One neighbor, who called animal services last week, told ABC-7 that Arlene Brown, who appeared to be the only one living in the home currently, spoke to her often about the situation, which seemed to get worse and worse over time.
"At first it was not bad at all and all of the sudden she started bringing the dogs in and bringing the dogs in," said neighbor Gudrun Richey, who lives right behind the home. "And I'm thinking, 'Oh my goodness!' So I talked to her. She said she was going to Animal Control and picking up all these dogs because they're going to be euthanized."
Richey said it appeared she felt sorry for the dogs.
"But yet they put them out when it was over 100 degrees," Richey said. "I contacted Animal Services and that was a week ago this Saturday. I had to call at least three times before somebody came and I said, 'This is ridiculous.' Finally, a young man showed up. I can't even describe the smell. It was almost like sickening."
Richey said until recently, Brown's husband and three daughters lived in the home.
"That's when she told me, they said at the school the two young girls come to school smelling, well, I'm going to use the phrase she used, 'Like cat piss,'" Richey said.
Another neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, told ABC-7 she thought there was around 10 dogs in the home, but didn't have any idea there were so many.
"I couldn't figure that many dogs in that small home," she said. "It's ridiculous."
She said after the dogs were removed, Arlene Brown collapsed in front of her home and had to be taken to the hospital.
"She just fainted," she said. "Just went down on the ground."
Animal Services officials said Brown "got overwhelmed with so many animals."
Animal Services said charges are pending against the owner of the home and they are now working to get the animals adopted."It's very difficult, because we're at the high time of the year," Animal Services veterinarian Dr. Bernie Page said. "Our impoundments are up so space is a problem."
Richey said the children are living with their father, who moved out of the home and she believes is Military.
Animal Services did say they responded to the home in mid-July and issued several citations to the homeowner. They said it was a follow-up Tuesday that resulted in the animals being taken away due to conditions inside the home. Pending charges could include Class C misdemeanors like no registration, vaccination or micro-chipping.
Animal Services officials are asking for the public's help in adopting these animals.
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Wal-Mart Cited by China Food Inspectors on Oil, Squid
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, was cited by the Beijing Food Safety Administration for selling sesame oil and squid with hazardous levels of chemicals.
The products were produced in March by companies in China's Hebei and Shandong provinces, the Beijing Food Safety Administration said in a statement released June 13. The squid and sesame oil were removed from store shelves immediately, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Christina Lee said in an e-mail today.
"We urged the suppliers to strictly abide by relevant state regulations and supply products that meet all national standards," Lee said.
China this week unveiled measures to improve food safety, including tighter supervision and harsh punishments for violators, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Police in China arrested Wal-Mart workers in Chongqing in October amid a probe of allegations the retailer mislabeled ordinary pork as organic. They were released in May.


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On paper — for what that's worth — the University of Northern Colorado football team may match up with UC Davis as well as any of their opponents thus far.
Realize, it's only a hypothetical outlook. "May" is the operative word here.
In fact, UNC head coach Earnest Collins Jr. typically answers matchup questions with "You still have to go out and execute to win."
Therein lies one of the problems for the Bears.
Not enough execution.
Ironically, UC Davis knows the feeling but has a 2-1 Big Sky Conference record compared to the Bears' 0-3 start that is part of a six-game losing streak.
Let the comparisons and matchups — at least on paper — begin.
The Aggies' two conference victories — 30-13 against Idaho State and 21-3 against Southern Utah — both on the road are teams that the Bears lost to, one at home and one on the road.
UC Davis comes into Nottingham Field this afternoon at 1:30 having won two of its last three but without jump-off-the-chart numbers to speak of.
Like UNC, the Aggies have yet to face the conference bullies Montana State, Eastern Washington or Cal Poly but did absorb a 42-7 home loss to Montana last week.
The Aggies opened the season with four straight losses, including a 10-7 loss at South Dakota, which is attempting to get its program back on track under the direction of Coyote alum and former UNC coach Joe Glenn.
While the Aggies were losing to Glenn's Coyotes, UNC eventually unloaded on NAIA Langston University in a 31-10 victory, sort of a tease to what was supposed to come.
For the Bears, that productive second-half against Langston hasn't shown up again.
Their 41-36 loss to Division II Colorado State University-Pueblo in the second week of the season has proven to be the start of the Bears' frustrations that have lingered for six weeks.
A loss to FBS member Wyoming was expected, even before senior quarterback Seth Lobato went down early in the second half with an injury to his throwing shoulder.
Glancing back, and the loss to nationally-ranked Northern Iowa is easier to understand. UNI took No. 1-ranked and defending national champion North Dakota State to the limit two weeks ago.
Then along came Southern Utah, Sacramento State and Idaho State University, none of which is known to strike fear in Big Sky Conference opponents.
The general consensus was that those were games on the UNC schedule that looked like probable victories.
For the record, those three combined to ring up 104 points against the Bears, exposing what may have been already known — UNC's defense, minus two starting defensive backs, was and is struggling.
For six weeks, Saturday night has been all right for nothing but frustration for the Bears.
Their motto has been to "just keep working, fighting and looking forward to the next opponent," reiterated in every postgame press conference and Collins' pregame interviews.
This afternoon, the Bears are hoping they see more of what they've watched on tape of the Aggies in their loss to Montana — just 237 yards of total offense; not being able to move the chains the entire first quarter; just two possessions of more than seven yards in the first half, no interceptions; and coming up with no turnovers.
UC Davis' inept offense in the first half last week sounds like the Bears, who have started slow all season long.
Neither team boasts of a strong running attack with UNC averaging 72 yards per week, while the Aggies average 139.7. However, the Aggies' offense is balanced.
UC Davis has also come up a bit short via the pass, averaging just 167.4 yards each week, hardly comparable to UNC's average of 306 as Lobato has been rounding back into form with 1,499 yards and nine touchdown passes.
Now, with all the math done, opponents have feasted on both defenses — to the tune of 383.3 yards-per-week against UC Davis and 416.3 against the Bears.
Again, on paper, the Bears may be able to unleash wideouts Dimitri Stimphil (660 yards, four TDs) and Jace Davis (612 yards, five TDs) against the Aggies.
In his weekly conference call, Collins stated that the Bears will need to avoid being induced by UC Davis' man-in-motion offense, which he said "can cause some confusion.
"We've got our work cut out for us, just like we do every week," Collins added. "We'd like to be farther along than we are, but we won't be until we get this right."


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This one deserves to make the front page. I wrote recently about Saturday's importance to NFL labor peace, but this really puts it in perspective.
Indy's own hero is a hero to the whole league
Saturday grew into such a role of leadership within the negotiations that he virtually couldn't have excused himself from the talks, even if he wanted to at times. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones grew to trust Saturday so much that he not once, but twice let Saturday use his corporate jet to fly home to Amelia Island, Fla., during breaks from negotiations. Jones and Saturday actually rode together on the plane coming from a negotiation session in Minnesota in June, with Jones headed for a vacation home in Destin, Fla. And during the final stage of the CBA talks in July, Jones insisted that Saturday use his jet to fly alone from New York City to Amelia Island to spend the weekend with his family.
"I truly felt so sensitive to the fact that he was taking so much of his offseason time away from home, with hours and hours and weeks and weeks invested in the negotiation process," Jones told me Thursday morning on the phone. "It's one thing when you've done these types of meetings for years, but something else when you've got young children and you're away for that long.


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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
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Summary: From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes the follow-up to his smash hit "House of 1000 Corpses." Written and directed by Zombie, this film further explores the Dr. Satan Cult Murders by blending traditional horror elements with the Western genre to paint a shocking portrait of vigilante justice. (Lions Gates Films)
Directed By: Rob Zombie
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Starring: Danny Trejo, William Forsythe, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Ginger Lynn, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, Geoffrey Lewis, Michael Berryman, Dallas Page
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Gandhi's Ben Kingsley Plays Edmund Kean with a Woman's Touch: His Wife's
Two years later, however, after mesmerizing London audiences in a sold-out run, the Kingsleys have proved that the couple that does a play together stays together. They are now happily ensconced in a Manhattan hotel with their son, Edmund, 15 months (named after Kean, of course), while Ben performs his role for six weeks on Broadway. Costumed in a doublet and tights and a dark curly wig, slipping in and out of soliloquies from Macbeth, Othello and Richard III, he is alone onstage for nearly two hours. His bravura one-man show, which chronicles Kean's rise and eventual fall into a megalomaniac lunacy and debauchery, has won standing ovations, if only measured respect from critics. "Kingsley is keen, but he just isn't Kean," observed one reviewer archly. (Alison was praised for her "resourceful direction.")
Though Kingsley may not have caught Edmund's effusive acting style completely (Coleridge said that watching Kean act was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning"), he has at least proved his versatility. While he exhorts nightly as Kean, movie audiences can watch Kingsley's far more restrained portrayal of the cuckolded husband in Betrayal and his Oscar-winning performance in Gandhi.
The Edmund Kean collaboration came about at the suggestion of Alison, who was then a resident director of Yorkshire's Harrogate Theatre. "I had seen her stagework and admired it greatly," says Kingsley, himself a member of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. Because they had never worked together before, the couple was understandably cautious. "On the first day of rehearsal," recalls Ben, "we were both running through the catalog of what could go wrong and waiting for it to happen." But the work proceeded smoothly, with no major conflicts, a fact Kingsley attributes to his wife's "extremely loving, attentive and provoking direction" and to their similar tastes and sensibilities. "I can even buy Alison clothes," boasts Kingsley. "I know what she likes." For her part, Sutcliffe praises Ben's intensity. "He never becomes complacent," she says of her husband, who prepared for his demanding role by reading four biographies of Kean and studying portraits of the actor in various guises.
For both Kingsleys, one of the hardest moments was the London opening of the play, which came two days after Ben won the Oscar for Gandhi. "We realized people would be waiting to say. 'Can he do it onstage?' " observes Alison. Reflects Ben: "I suppose my level of nervousness before the show was greater because I was suddenly a little bit bigger target."
The nightly nervousness persists, along with a determination on the part of director and star to make the show even better. Alison sits through Edmund Kean in its entirety twice a week and drops by each evening to "see how things are going."
Next month the Kingsleys return to their antique-filled, three-bedroom home 10 miles outside Stratford-upon-Avon. Ben is already interested in playing Tom Paine in a film about the American patriot. Alison plans to continue directing. Will they work together again? "Yes," says Ben. "If we're asked and the material appeals to both of us." But his major goal is to survive in his grueling profession and become an "old actor." The real Edmund Kean is no inspiration. In 1833 he collapsed during a performance of Othello, and died a dissolute wreck at age 44.
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The Rotary Club of Summerville recognized members with perfect attendance anniversaries in the first quarter of the year at its May 15 meeting. From left, Co-Secretary Ellen Priest, Club President Jaime Moore, Jim Woods 5 years, Kelly Williams 7 years, Don Nye 16 years, Jan Freeman 17 years, and Tony Oglietti 28 years. Not shown, Tony Pope 16 years. The club meets every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn Express-Summerville.
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