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Fifteen years ago, while living in Florida, I had an unexpected visit from a childhood friend. In our youth, he held great promise. During our brief reunion, I saw a shadow of who he once was. His life had spiraled out of control and into a world of darkness. He was clearly in need. I had the opportunity to try to make a difference but, letting life get in the way, did little.
One of the most influential pieces I ever read was a Harvard Business Review article called "The Parable of The Sadhu." I read and reflect upon it often. It tells the story of successful American men on a climbing expedition in the Himalayas.
They come upon a Tibetan holy man or "Sadhu" who "intruded" upon their journey. The Sadhu, essentially unprotected from the elements and in bad physical condition, left the men with a choice: attempt to save him and risk their journey or leave him to die and achieve their goal. Most decided to continue on their journey, while one climber brought the man to another expedition and left him; he was now the new group's burden. The author of the article, Bowen McCoy, was one of the climbers that day who did not help the Sadhu and has been haunted by the decision since. So profound was the impact that he left his Wall Street job and became a professor of philosophy.
The Sadhu provides a parallel to business situations — both require quick responses where indecision can have grim consequences. As on the mountain, most business decisions occur absent all relevant information. Also, in our business lives our rush to succeed can let our goals interfere with doing the right thing. I would suggest that most of us have become numb to situations we confront because of their banality and our drive to achieve. Sometimes we just look through or past issues.
Moral decision-making does not occur in a vacuum. The real test of personal and corporate values is what you do under stress. Judgments rendered under pressure reveal more about our character than pronouncements of corporate ethics do. As you think about the "Parable," bear in mind that decisions made in the comfort of your office or home may not be the ones you would make on top of a cold mountain, or more to the point, under job stress. To a large degree, stress and teleopathy, the overzealous pursuit of a goal, limit us all.
Greed, singleness of purpose, rationalization and detachment conspire to keep Sadhus out of our lives. The detachment of politicians and the greed of business people combined to induce the financial meltdown, and the rationalization that followed elucidates how unfortunate decisions can impact or destroy others.
Last week, I received upsetting news about my friend. We had not spoken since our meeting in Florida 15 years ago. Despite my deluded hopes, his life had not improved. After a bad accident, he lost his fight for life. Years ago, I refused to let the Sadhu of my old friend into my life. It would have been difficult, perhaps futile, but I would have known I did my best. Instead I am left wondering: what if?
The stark lesson is that each of us needs to let Sadhus into our lives. You will not regret coming off the career carousel to help and support others, but you very well may regret the assistance you do not provide. I know from personal experience.
When we were seniors at Morris Knolls High School in 1986, the song "Spirit of '76" by the Alarm was popular and it will forever remind me of my friend. The words are as appropriate today as they were then.
"Some nights when I can't sleep
I still think of you of
And all the promises
And all the dreams we shared."
Mark Schnurman may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or on the web at markschnurman.com.


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SAGINAW, MI — After eight years as a Saginaw city councilman and four years as the city's mayor, Greg Branch admits he had to make some tough decisions.
Comparing his hometown to a person who had been through numerous trials, Branch said Saginaw has been "roughed up over the years."
"But I don't love her any less," he said. "I can't say this is the most fun thing I've ever done in my life, but it's certainly been one of the most enlightening and fulfilling."
Branch reflected on his eight-year tenure on Saginaw City Council and doled out numerous thank-yous during his last scheduled City Council meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23.
Each of his fellows on City Council took the opportunity to extol the value of the work he did leading the city and to thank him for his dedication.
"You were the right man in the right place at the right time," Councilman Norman Braddock said. "Thank you for your service."
Mayor Pro Tem Dennis Browning also expressed his thanks to Branch and gratitude for getting the chance to sit next to him at the City Council table.
"We're certainly going to miss you here at the table," he said. "I know Saginaw is in your blood, and you're not going anywhere. What an honor to be here at the table with you."
Councilman Floyd Kloc echoed the others' gratitude for getting the chance to work alongside Branch.
"It is unfortunate that we will no longer have your knowledge and your direction for this council," Kloc said.
One common theme came up in many of the remarks made by Branch's peers, that his shoes will be difficult to fill.
"We will be hard-pressed to find your replacement," Councilman Dan Fitzpatrick said.
"Mayor Branch, you are going to be very hard to replace," Councilwoman Annie Boensch said. "I'm very grateful for all of your advice and guidance. This council has been very fortunate to have you at the helm. I am eternally grateful for everything that you've done."
Branch said he felt honored to serve as both a city councilman and Saginaw's mayor.
"It has been a tremendous honor to have served with you and an even better one to serve as your mayor," Branch said.
Branch announced in August that he would not be seeking reelection for a third term on City Council, citing his need to spend more time with his family as the most important reason he would be hanging up his mayor's gavel.
On Wednesday, with his entire family in the audience, Branch restated his reasoning and said he hopes he served well as Saginaw's mayor.
"I still plan to do things to make Saginaw a better city, but for the time being a lot of those are going to be spending more time with my kids," Branch said. "I hope I have brought to this chair some of the dignity, integrity and passion it deserves."
The outgoing mayor said one of the greatest difficulties he has faced over the last eight years can be spelled out in dollars and cents.
"The toughest thing was dealing with what was really a never-ending onslaught of bad news financially," Branch said.
Though Saginaw's tax cap insulated the city somewhat from the collapse of the real estate market, he said it still impacted Saginaw's position.
"We were still left in a place where we had a long way to come back and where it's going to take a long time to come back," Branch said.
But the real financial pinch came from steadily-decreasing state revenue sharing funds over the last several years, he said.
"That's one of the things I've been very vocal about," Branch said.
The mayor said that, in his position, he has been exposed to much more of Saginaw than most and has concluded that there is much more good than bad.
"There are far, far more people in the city working for it than against it," he said.
Branch said, as a city councilman, he has gotten a chance to see just how strong the heart of Saginaw is, through the work of so many individuals and groups striving to leave a positive impact on the city.
Mayor Branch said Saginaw County Board of Commissioners Chairman Mike Hanley, former Saginaw Township Manager Ron Lee, Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Veronica Horn and former Saginaw Mayor Carol Cottrell all encouraged him to run for City Council at various times.
"Really for anything I've done on City Council, these four people deserve the credit or the blame," Branch said.
Branch also thanked Jimmy Greene, the city staff, his coworkers from his day job and his family for their support.
Saginaw voters will go to the polls Nov. 5 to elect four members to the City Council seats currently held by Branch, Browning, Larry Coulouris and Andre Wendt.
Browning and Coulouris are seeking reelection, part of a 19-person candidate field, the largest on record for a four-seat Saginaw City Council election.
Mark Tower covers local government for MLive/The Saginaw News. Contact him at 989-284-4807, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

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By R. Marshall Smith
Regarding Susan Nielsen's column, "Screen time on the ballot in Oregon":
Many, probably most, school administrators miss the point about computers. Computers are a very useful tool but they are only a tool, only one tool of many, and nowhere near the most important of life's tools. A young person does not learn about teamwork or leadership while using a computer. These life skills are learned by interacting with other human beings. A teacher's primary role is to interact with students and to get them to interact with each other, to help them learn to learn, to help them develop their curiosity, hopefully to find the joy in discovering new knowledge. When teachers and students are looking at computer screens, none of this vitally necessary, absolutely irreplaceable interaction occurs.
In my 50- year career as an engineer, manager and consultant with a national aerospace firm, I have used computers professionally and personally since the mid-1980s. I have seen skill at operating the tool become more important than understanding and applying engineering fundamental concepts to the problem at hand. Mind boggling wrong things have been done on purpose to make the program run, to get the pretty pictures on the screen, without having any awareness of the physical problem that kept the program from running. A discouraging proportion of young engineering graduates (I won't call them engineers because they're not) hide in front of computer screens to avoid having to make conscious decisions.
Several years ago, shortly after my first retirement, I spent a year as an adjunct faculty member in the engineering department of an Oregon university. At that time, many of the professors were more enamored of the pretty pictures on the screen than they were of the students' understanding of the technical fundamentals. I left after that year, partly due to family needs, but mostly because I didn't want to be a part of what I was seeing. I knew that one "junk" faculty member wasn't going to change things.
A few computers in a low scale planned network in high schools should be available for student teams to use as they and their teachers pursue group projects. A computer for every student and teacher is a bad idea, a very expensive bad idea, purveyors (pushers?) of software and hardware notwithstanding. I doubt that the advocates of "a computer for every student and teacher" have realistically added up the cost of implementation and long term maintenance, including the number of extra staff that will be needed. We think that Cover Oregon is an IT disaster. Wait until this one hits.
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Baseball registration
Bottom of the 9th Baseball Academy Bulldogs will be conducting tryouts for its 12 and 13-year-old teams at St Joseph by the Sea High School on Wednesday at 5 p.m.; Aug. 28 at 9 a.m.; Aug. 29 at 1 p.m. These will be strictly tournament teams. Any questions call Sal Trancucci (12s) at 718-801-6442 and Mike Ponsiglione (13s) at 347-249-4977 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tottenville alumni game
Tottenville High School will hold a flag football alumni game and barbecue today (Saturday) at the school, beginning at 5 p.m. Former players who wish to participate are asked to make a $100 donation and those who just want to attend the barbecue the donation is $50. Call Coach Jim Munson at 718-984-3154 or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Holy Rosary registration
Registration for the Holy Rosary CYO parish basketball program will be held Aug. 29 from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. outside the church. The program is open to girls and boys in first grade through high school. Tryouts will be held Sept. 14-16. The cost is $180 for one child and $275 for two. Call 718-727-3360.
Youth soccer registration
Silver Lake Soccer Academy is holding registration for under-5 and under-6 boys and girls (born from Aug. 1, 2004-June 31, 2006). Call Thomas Baroz at 718-761-5911 or e-mail email@example.com.
Youth baseball registration
South Shore Summer/Fall Interleague baseball is holdings its final registration for incoming 13s and 14-19s today and tomorrow from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. Call 718-948-0016 or visit ssbrl.com.


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The day after Christmas is known for inventory-clearing discounts, lines at the exchange counter and wallets filled with gift cards.
At Clackamas Town Center, however, it didn't look like past years. Crowds inside weren't shoulder-to-shoulder as at other metro-area malls and parking spaces could easily be found on what should have been a very busy morning.
Even if not at capacity, a steady stream of shoppers brought a bit more normalcy to the mall stunned Dec. 11 in the midst of its busiest season when a masked gunman opened fire, killing two and seriously injuring a third before killing himself.
Gladstone: A Gladstone man is accused of firing a handgun during a dispute inside a Gresham home Wednesday. Gresham police responded at 2:10 p.m., to the 600 block of Southeast Rene Avenue after Clayton Edwards, 27, allegedly fired at least one shot and left the scene, said Officer Malaka Kerbs. A bullet nearly hit a neighbor in an adjacent home, but no one was injured, she said.
Canby: A 14-year-old boy has serious, but not life threatening injuries after he ran into traffic Wednesday afternoon, according to Canby Police Chief Bret Smith.
The boy, who has not been identified, was transported to OHSU Hospital.
"He was impatient. He didn't want to wait (for traffic to stop)," Smith said. "Another car tried to make a turn, so the view of where he was was blocked. He couldn't have been seen. Several witnesses confirmed that."
Clackamas: A dog missing for about three days was reunited with his owner after a fall down an embankment in Clackamas Wednesday. The dog's owner heard barking and found Chico, a 1-year-old American Pitbull, stuck about 15 to 20 feet down the embankment after 5 p.m., above the Clackamas River in the 12000 block of Southeast Vernon Street, said Brandon Paxton, a Clackamas Fire District 1 spokesman. By the time crews arrived, Chico slipped about another 10 feet, he said.
Lake Oswego: A Lake Oswego teen spent Christmas delivering more than 200 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the homeless. Leah Sulmonetti told KPTV-FOX 12 she decided on the act of goodwill in lieu of Christmas presents. "It was just totally random, but I thought it's simple enough to do and then I think they'll enjoy it. Everyone likes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches," she said.
Clackamas County: The North Clackamas School Board is looking for a new board member. Current member Cheryl Myers will leave her seat in January. Myers is now the state's director of economic and business equity. "While I remain passionate about public education, time demands in my Governor's Office role makes it increasingly difficult to be as present as I've been in the past," Myers wrote in an email Wednesday.
* News from North Clackamas Schools: winter choir camp, parenting classes


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Happy endings still happen
July 28, 2011 - Bill Speer
Who doesn't like a happy ending?
If you fall into that category, then you have to smile this week at the rescue of a 42-year-old New York mechanic whose plane developed engine trouble over Lake Huron, and he crash landed into the lake several miles off the Michigan shore 105 miles north of Detroit. Listen to the attached video of his incredible tale by clicking on the video link found to the right of this column.
The pilot, Michael Trapp, spent 18 hours in the water before being rescued.
It's comforting to know that in this troubled and crazy world in which we live, miracles still can happen.
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By Anthony Marshall - Newcastle United Club Reporter
Tim Krul's Netherlands are on the verge of an early exit from Euro 2012 following a 2-1 Group B defeat to Germany in Kharkiv on Wednesday night.
The United first-choice goalkeeper was an unused substitute for the second game running, and could only watch from the sidelines as a Mario Gomez first-half double put the Germans firmly and deservedly in control at the break.
Prolific Arsenal front man Robin van Persie pulled one back midway through the second half, but the Dutch were unable to salvage anything from the fixture, leaving themselves bottom of the group without a single point from their two matches.
Holland now face a stiff task to make the quarter-finals of the competition. They must beat Portugal on Sunday, hope Germany beat Denmark, and ensure they finish with a better goal difference than the Portuguese and the Danes.
In the other Group B fixture, former Newcastle midfielder Hugo Viana also failed to get off the bench for Portugal, but his country ran out 3-2 winners in a dramatic game against Denmark.


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BEACHWOOD -- A nice tradition — that of travel to fun places — has been renewed.
City Council, at its Jan. 14 meeting, approved advance payment for three overnight trips hosted by the city, money that is recouped from payments made by those taking the trips.
This year's trips will take residents to the Mississippi River for a cruise, to the Windy City of Chicago for some nights (and days) on the town, and to the Shaw Festival held in Niagara-on-the-Lake for a couple of days of storytelling.
"The city does not pay for these trips," said Councilman Melvin Jacobs. "They are self-funded." Still, Jacobs was enthused by the thought of drifting down the Mississippi, stating, "I wouldn't mind taking that cruise."
"We've been doing these trips for probably well over a decade," said Community Services Director Karen Carmen. "They're very popular. They usually sell out."
The trips are open to people of all ages and to people living in any community, although Beachwood residents are given a priority booking in advance of non-residents.
Carmen said the trips are "planned to provide a fun, stress-free and relaxing time. We take care of all the details."
Two city escorts chaperone the trips, the first of which will be the Mississippi River cruise from June 24-27. All meals, snacks and entertainment are included on the two-day cruise. The cost is $720 for double occupancy, and $870 for a single occupancy.
Chicago will be the destination from July 22-25. Sightseeing, tours, museums, dinner shows and more will be included. Double occupancy for this trip is $875, while single occupancy is $1,175.
The third adventure will take trip-goers to The Shaw Festival in Ontario, Canada on Aug. 27-28. The festival, founded in 1962, features the works of Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), his contemporaries and other playwrights writing in Shaw's witty and provocative spirit.
Double occupancy for the Shaw trip is $399, while the single rate is $495.
Beachwood residents have until Feb. 22 to pre-register. After that date, reservations will be open to all.
For more information, or to reserve space, contact the city of Beachwood Community Services Department at 216-595-3733.
See more Beachwood news at cleveland.com/beachwood.
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Liverpool and Chelsea go head-to-head at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, with the two sides separated by just one point and one place in the current Premier League table.
The two sides have shared some classic encounters down the years, especially in the past decade.
Their rivalry was ignited upon the appointments of Iberian duo Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho in the summer of 2004.
The Spaniard and Portuguese manager's lined up an incredible 16 times from 2004 to 2007; meeting in FA Cup semi-finals, League Cup finals, Champions League group stages, quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Mourinho had the better of the duels overall via a superior Premier League record against Rafa's Reds, but Benitez got the best of his foe in cup competitions.
Overall, Mourinho won seven times, Benitez won five, and there were four draws. Mourinho's Chelsea scored 16 goals and Benitez's Liverpool scored 12 (stats via Manuel Traquete for B/R).
Of course, there were many classic meetings before then and since; here's 20 of the best Chelsea vs. Liverpool encounters.


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Banks and other financial companies accounted for about three-quarters of the $31 billion-plus of new bonds floated in the U.S. last week. Foreign financial firms pulled out their passports and traveled to U.S. markets for the majority of that total.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM ) led U.S. banks and financials with $2 billion in three-year fixed and floating rate notes. Typical for banks, there wasn't any detail on how the funds would be used.
AIG's (NYSE: AIG ) aircraft lease subsidiary, International Lease Finance, hit the markets for $1.5 billion worth of three- and seven-year paper. The new money will be used to pay off some debt due in 2015 and "the repayment of other existing indebtedness and the purchase of aircraft." It must be the season for equipment leasing and rental firms to borrow. International Lease was joined by fellow aircraft lessor Air Lease and Enterprise Rent-a-Car's financing arm with $1 billion and $600 million of new borrowing, respectively.
CIT Group (NYSE: CIT ) swiped its credit card for $1.5 billion of six-year paper. The money will be used to pay off higher-interest paper. According to CEO John Thain in the company press release, "This transaction is a significant milestone for CIT as it represents our first public unsecured bond issuance since 2007."
Rounding out last week's U.S. bank billion-buck borrowing club is BB&T (NYSE: BBT ) with $1.05 billion of five- and 10-year paper. BB&T took an interesting twist on the nondescript "general corporate purposes" in the use of proceeds statement by adding nearly every general corporate purpose imaginable. With BB&T passing the recent Fed stress test, the possible use that jumped out was "repurchasing outstanding shares of our common stock."
Foreign financial companies were busy loading up their credit cards on Wall Street last week. Nearly $15 billion, just under half the new bonds for the week, was from firms based outside the U.S. The six companies listed below made up most of that borrowing.
Home Country or Region
Amount Borrowed
|Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS )
|$2.75 billion
|Nordea Bank
|Northern Europe
|$2.75 billion
|Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten
|The Netherlands
|$2.5 billion
|Mizuho Corporate Bank
|$1.5 billion
|Itau Unibanco
|$1.25 billion
|DBS Bank
|$750 million
Source: Reuters.
Corporate borrowers continue to bring plenty of bonds to market and foreign borrowers, especially financials, have been taking up sizable chunks of the low-rate dollars on the table. I haven't seen a good explanation for the uptick in foreign company activity in U.S. credit markets. Maybe it's just a coincidence that overseas borrowers are borrowing more greenbacks. Perhaps European bond markets are under some pressure from the sovereign debt drama, but that wouldn't explain Latin American and Asian companies' borrowing. My theory is the Fed's Operation Twist has made long-term U.S. interest rates too low to pass up and companies are funding operations and investments with cheap-to-borrow bucks. If so, it's nice to know the Fed is providing liquidity to the world.
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The National Consumer Law Center is taking the U.S. Department of Education to court to force the agency to reveal more about the way it pays private debt collectors.
Debt collectors are the primary point of contact between the Department of Education and borrowers who have fallen behind on payments on their federal student loans. The collectors are supposed to give struggling borrowers accurate information about their options.
The private companies can get 11 percent commissions if they can get a delinquent loan rehabilitated, but they may receive only $150 if they get a borrower into a forgiveness program, said Persis Yu, an attorney at the law center.
"We hear about a lot of different abuses with private debt collection agencies," Yu said. Borrowers and their attorneys complain, she said, that they were steered away from programs for which they qualified and pushed to bring loans current through rehabilitation.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in March that it had found instances in which debt collectors "provided false or misleading information" to borrowers.
"We do think that's tied to incentives on how debt collection agencies are paid," Yu said. "It's really weighted more toward how much money the collectors bring in."
The law center requested information about commissions paid to the collectors and the department's oversight efforts; the government responded with heavily redacted documents.
The suit says the law center and Education Department have tussled over the records for more than a year.
So the law center, which runs the self-help Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, sued the department Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act. The law center says the department violated the act by withholding public records. The suit was filed in federal court in Boston, where the law center is headquartered.


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MUSKEGON, MI – Critical victories in the past week land Ludington at the top of the list of the area girls tennis rankings. The Orioles had big wins against the former top team Spring Lake and North Muskegon.
1. Ludington: The Orioles take over the top spot after recent victories over Spring Lake (April 28) and North Muskegon (April 23) as well as bringing home a second-place finish in April 26's Tiger Invite at Allegan High School.
2. North Muskegon: The Norse continue to maintain the No. 2 spot in the rankings after handling Grant on April 28. However, a fifth-place finish in the NorthPointe Christian Invitational prevents them from moving much higher.
3. Spring Lake: Formerly holding down the top spot, Spring Lake stumbled against Ludington and finished in last place in the Holland Christian Invitational behind Holland Christian, Grand Haven and Haslett.
4. Whitehall: A second-place showing in the April 26 Hamilton Invitational as well as a victory over Fremont on April 28 moves Whitehall up a spot from the previous rankings. The Vikings definitely will be tested this week on the road against Ludington.
5. Mona Shores: Settling into the fifth spot is Muskegon Mona Shores, who fell to Holland West Ottawa on April 28. Mona Shores takes on Grand Rapids Union on April 30 before competing in the GMAA with six other area teams.
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Posted by mike on July 03, 2003 at 20:20:23:
In Reply to: Dying Arborvitae posted by Kev on June 28, 2003 at 10:02:54:
: We have approx. 30 arborvitae trees, 25'-35' tall that are dying from the bottom up & inside to outside. Dead, brown needles start at bottom of plant and reaches out along the branches. Can't see bore holes or bugs. Maybe a slight canker on some branch base spots on trunk; but not everywhere. This beautiful wall of arborvitae trees blocks out neighbor and street traffic. Please share any knowledge or help to save these trees. The are tall, graceful and purposeful. We tried local hort. companies, lawn spraying companies,govern. extension offices with no answers yet. Looking for ways to stop the spread of whatever is killing them. Any ideas?????
Hi. Leaf browning is normal for any coniferous evergreen--like the way deciduous trees lose their leaves in fall. This browning occurs in the exact way which you describe, "Dead, brown needles start at bottom of plant and reaches out along the branches". Unless the trees look weak and the entire plant starts to become brown, water every plant deeply. Otherwise read on.
Arborvitae are susceptible to root nematodes and root rot. If the trees are stunted while the twigs and then larger branches begin to die, then you may have nematodes. I doubt it. The plant may have root rot which is a fungus that destroys roots. These problems are untreatable.


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Research Topics
Xuyang Zhang
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Explaining and controlling regression to the mean in longitudinal research designsXuyang Zhang
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:1340-51. 2003..In addition to a formal analysis of the regression to the mean, the features of regression to the mean are demonstrated via a simulation...
- Bivariate linkage analysis of cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the Framingham Heart StudyXuyang Zhang
Department of Biostatistics, Division of Statistical Genetics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
BMC Genet 4:S62. 2003..A strong linkage signal was also found at marker GATA112F07 by both the bivariate analysis and the univariate analysis, a marker for which evidence for linkage had been reported previously in a related study...
- The effect of age at cochlear implant initial stimulation on expressive language growth in infants and toddlersJ Bruce Tomblin
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 48:853-67. 2005..Age at initial stimulation accounted for 14.6% of the variance of the individual differences in expressive language growth rates...
- Accuracy of cochlear implant recipients on pitch perception, melody recognition, and speech reception in noiseKate Gfeller
School of Music, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center, USA
Ear Hear 28:412-23. 2007....
- The stability of primary language disorder: four years after kindergarten diagnosisJ Bruce Tomblin
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:1283-96. 2003..The results showed that when the conditions for regression to the mean were controlled, the poor language of children with language impairments was very likely to persist during the primary school years...
- The dimensionality of language ability in school-age childrenJ Bruce Tomblin
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:1193-208. 2006..This study asked if children's performance on language tests reflects different dimensions of language and if this dimensionality changes with development...
- Measuring cochlear implant satisfaction in postlingually deafened adults with the SADL inventoryHua Ou
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Am Acad Audiol 19:721-34. 2008..Because the SADL inventory has been shown to have good psychometric properties for use within hearing aid users, the present study adapted the SADL for CI use and assessed the validity and reliability of the adapted version...
- Association of specific language impairment (SLI) to the region of 7q31Erin K O'Brien
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Am J Hum Genet 72:1536-43. 2003....
- Response time in 14-year-olds with language impairmentCarol A Miller
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 3100, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:712-28. 2006....
- Oral and written story composition skills of children with language impairmentMarc E Fey
Hearing and Speech Department, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160 7605, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 47:1301-18. 2004..It is concluded that story composition tasks are educationally relevant and should play a significant role in the evaluation of children with developmental LI...
- Characterizing the growth trajectories of language-impaired children between 7 and 11 years of ageJames Law
Department of Language and Communication Science, Queen Margaret University, Queen Margaret University Drive, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, United Kingdom
J Speech Lang Hear Res 51:739-49. 2008..A number of different systems have been suggested for classifying language impairment in children but, to date, no one system has been widely accepted...
- A longitudinal investigation of reading outcomes in children with language impairmentsHugh W Catts
Department of Speech Language Hearing, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 45:1142-57. 2002..Also, children's literacy knowledge/ experience in kindergarten and their initial reading achievement in second grade were good predictors of subsequent reading outcomes...


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Michigan hunting author Richard P. Smith will be in Grandville for a book signing from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the Rivertown Crossings' Barnes & Noble store. Smith will be autographing his latest edition of "Deer Hunting," which is now being published with color photographs.
Smith called it "one of the most comprehensive (deer hunting books) on the market." Smith also will be autographing copies of "Black Bear Hunting" and other of his titles.
DeVries earns Ikes award
Duane DeVries, of Wyoming, also known as "The Rain Barrel Guy," recently was honored for his conservation work by the Izaak Walton Leage of America. DeVries was given the national Ikes Hall of Fame award.
He works with the Roguewood Elementary School Salmon in the Classroom Program and has designed and constructed rain barrels and rain barrel gardens using predominantly recycled materials.


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The season begins a week from tonight for Iowa State, which will open against South Dakota State to open Coach Gene Chizik's second season.
The Cyclones return seven offensive and seven defensive starters from last season's 3-9 team as they attempt to qualify for their first bowl since the 2005 Houston Bowl under former coach Dan McCarney.
Heading into the final week of practice, here's five major questions that Chizik needs to settle to get his team for the upcoming season.
1. Settle on a quarterback. Austen Arnaud and Phillip Bates are hooked up in a tight battle. Chizik has said he expects both quarterbacks will play early in the season. The sooner he can settle on a starter, the better.
2. Find a featured running back. The Cyclones have a deep collection of similarly skilled players with J.J. Bass, Alexander Robinson and Jason Scales all back from last season. Look for all of them to play.
3. Develop playmakers at linebacker. Losing Alvin "Ace" Bowen and Jon Banks robbed the Cyclones of two of their primary defenders from last season. Michael Bibbs, Fred Garrin and Jesse Smith appeared poised to claim the starting positions.
4. Get some run-stuffers in the trenches. Not having Ahtyba Rubin and Bryce Braaksma will be huge losses. But former Arkansas transfer Michael Tate and 308-pound junior NG Nate Frere have emerged as the likely starters.
5. Who will replaces Bret Culbertson at kicker? Freshman Grant Mahoney was slated to be the kicker and 6-foot-4, 169-pound freshman Zach Guyer is set for kickoffs in the opener. But Chizik still could switch them around over the next few days.


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DALLAS -- Add another morsel of bad news to the Mavs' miserable summer.
First-round pick Jared Cunningham, a guard out of Oregon State who was selected 24th overall, arrived in Dallas with a strained hamstring that could prevent him from playing in the Las Vegas summer league. Cunningham said he suffered the injury during pre-draft workouts.
"How much he plays in the summer league, if he plays at all, is to be determined," said coach Rick Carlisle, who emphasized that the Mavs' primary concern is making sure Cunningham is ready for the first practice of training camp on Sept. 29.
The Mavs welcomed Cunningham along with second-round picks Bernard James and Jae Crowder during an introductory news conference Tuesday. The rookies will all have a chance to earn rotation spots on the Mavs' renovated roster.
"This is the beginning of a long journey," Carlisle said. "There's going to be opportunity here. That's pretty obvious."


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The Apollo-Program-scale federal investment in renewable energy technologies called for by so many in the energy profession has finally arrived. In late April, President Obama gave a speech to the National Academy of Sciences in which he announced massive new investments in energy. To manage these investments, a new division of the Department of Energy (DOE), called the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), was formed based upon the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA has been responsible for many innovations that define the early 21st Century, including the Internet.
ARPA-E is now awarding so-called high risk/high reward grants targeted at research that industry is not likely to undertake because of high technical or financial risk. The stated purpose of these awards is to 1) fund development of breakthrough energy technologies; 2) reduce the need for consumption of foreign oil; 3) reduce energy-related emissions, 4) improve the energy efficiency; and 5) ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in energy. ARPA-E will fund energy technology projects with promise to translate scientific discoveries into technological innovations.
What energy technologies will the first ARPA-E awards be for? It is difficult to speculate since ARPA-E gave no pre-determination of what proposals would fit within the program. Nonetheless, the National Academy of Engineering recently published 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century, and the top three were energy related: 1) Make Solar Energy Economical, 2) Provide Energy From Fusion, and 3) Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods. Thus, I predict that initial ARPA-E awards will be focused on these areas.
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On a chilly afternoon, Andrej Pejic settles into a Manhattan cafe, sitting gracefully, long legs crossed. The blue-eyed fashion model gazes out a window, unaware that almost every man sitting at surrounding tables is transfixed.
A man in a black leather jacket walks up to the window, presses his face against the glass and kisses it. Pejic giggles and admits: "I find it flattering."
The admirers are likely unaware that the beautiful blonde is actually a man.
As Fashion Week is under way in New York City, Pejic is one of the most recognizable — and controversial — faces in the industry. He's the only top-tier fashion model who can walk down the runway as either a man or a woman. And his androgynous beauty has turned him into a trendsetter in an industry that's always seeking to push the envelope.
"He's just this beautiful thing that everyone wants a piece of," says stylist Kyle Anderson, who dressed Pejic for a German magazine cover.
He has the kind of face that makes even the vainest woman jealous: high cheekbones, flawless skin and plump, shapely lips. When he speaks, his ever-so-slight Adam's apple is the first sign of his masculinity.
Though Pejic isn't trying to be a woman, many in the transgender community have already claimed him as their own. He is seen as a bit of a maverick, someone who has embraced his sexuality without any need for explanation or justification. Last year, the gay and lesbian magazine Out named him "stylemaker of the year" and put him on its cover wearing a bridal veil and flowers in his hair.
Pejic graced the covers of 14 magazines last year alone, including an ad campaign for a Dutch pushup bra. In 2011, he was the face for a fashion line by designer Marc Jacobs. He has walked the runways for heavyweight designers, including John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier.
French designer Gaultier was so enamored of Pejic that he used his gender-bending look as a source of inspiration for his 2011 men's and women's wear shows, both of which Pejic modeled in. In the Gaultier men's show, a pistol-packing, bare-chested Pejic wore a sleek black suit as "James Blonde."
That was in stark contrast with the women's show, where Gaultier crowned Pejic with the prized piece in the women's wear collection: a couture bride's dress.
But life hasn't always been so easy or glamorous for the 20-year-old. Born in Bosnia, Pejic spent much of his childhood living in a Serbian refugee camp before his family fled the country for Australia. He was discovered by a talent scout while working at a McDonald's as a teen.
From an early age, Pejic exhibited qualities thought of as traditionally feminine, for instance, preferring Barbie dolls over toy cars. As a teenager, he often hung out with girls and was once busted for stealing makeup from a drugstore. Pejic says acceptance from his friends and family made him comfortable in his own skin.
"I'm lucky in that sense," he says. "If I had big muscles and were hairy with a beard, I might not be comfortable with that."
At 6-feet-1, he's rail-thin, a women's size 2 or 4. His shoe size is the most problematic. Technically a women's size 11, he's forced to squeeze his feet into a size 10 to walk in women's shows.
For Pejic, every fashion season brings a new surge of headlines and opportunities, including talks of a fragrance line or a possible reality TV show. With New York Fashion Week, it's unclear which shows he will walk in — if any at all.
With the frenzy of media attention over the past year, industry insiders say Pejic runs the risk of overexposure. Given his niche look, Pejic's ability to stay relevant may become difficult.
Although open to discussing almost anything, Pejic remains secretive about his sexual orientation. When asked whether he prefers men or women, he coyly smiles.
"Love has no boundaries," he says.


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The Tony Award-winning play is set on a U.S. Navy cargo ship during World War II. The ship is stationed in the South Pacific during the last months of the war, and brings to light another side of the war.
The men have been stuck on the ship for 14 months straight without any leave, due to captain's orders. The central characters are Mr. (Doug) Roberts, Doc and Frank.
Brecksville residents will be surprised at the commanding presence the captain will have resounding with not only the cast, but with the audience as well, since this particular captain is being played by Mayor Jerry N. Hruby.
"He's doing a wonderful job," said Judi Kaye, director. "The cast is amazing."
This male-dominated production takes place on the ship, with producer Dina Collova playing the sole female role in the production. With the testosterone stirring about the ship, the men spying with binoculars on women on the shore and getting into tussles on deck, the story is set up for the men to go crazy when they finally do get leave.
While most of the men on the ship care more about mingling with some ladies, Mr. Roberts wants to actually fight in the war, something that is seemingly slipping away as the war wanes down.
"It's been challenging to work with one other female in the cast, but the guys have been great," Kaye said. "It's a very cohesive group. It's a very good, solid cast."
This production is close to Kaye's heart because her father, Chet Kaye, was part of the cast during the Little Theatre's 1960 season.
"My dad was in this show 50 years ago," said Kaye. "And that was my introduction to theater."
Chet Kaye will be making a vocal cameo in this production with some pre-recorded lines heard as a voice off the ship.
Producers of the show also include Bob Rauch, also a part of the cast, and Paul Virag. The show is geared more toward adults because of some language and context.
The production runs for three weekends curtain is at 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 7, 8, 14, 15 and a special matinee is scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 9. Old Town Hall opens a half-hour before curtain.
Tickets are $10 at the door, but reservations are recommended by calling the box office at (440) 526-4477. For more information, visit brecksvillelittletheatre.org.
More community theater happenings throughout Northeast Ohio, from auditions to classes to show times, can be found at cleveland.com/community-theater.


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The Orioles are aggressively trying to add a hitter, with multiple waivers claims out and at least two that could potentially help bolster the club's lineup down the stretch. Baltimore was awarded the claim on Seattle's Mike Morse and Minnesota's Josh Willingham and is negotiating with those two clubs in hopes of working out a respective deal.
It's unknown if they would be willing to add both Willingham and Morse, although they have until Friday at noon to work that out and both guys come with injury history and some suspect defense. Morse, whose claiming was first reported by CBSSports.com, started the season off with a bang but has been derailed by injuries, first his thumb and then his hamstring posting a .226/.283/.410 line with 13 homers over 76 games.
Willingham, after winning the Silver Slugger Award last year, has battled through a knee injury and hit .212/.343/.386 with 12 homers and 45 RBIs in 89 games. He missed 33 games after having arthroscopic knee surgery in early July.
The Orioles –who have lost the series to the Red Sox and dropped their eighth consecutive one-run game on Wednesday night– have gotten poor production all year out of the designated hitter spot and the organization has been proactive in trying to bolster that on the waiver wire. Multiple claims allows them some flexibility in negotiations, although both Willingham and Morse's stocks have dropped significantly and figure to command a relatively low asking price.
Willingham is also owed $7 million for next season while Morse, who the Orioles have had previous in in previous winters, is a free agent. Both clubs have the right to pull back the player and not trade him if they don't like the deal –which Seattle has already reportedly done with Kendrys Morales—although that means they're on the hook for him the rest of the year.


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BOSTON (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in former Massachusetts treasurer Tim Cahill's corruption case after jurors failed to reach a verdict during seven days of deliberations.
Cahill was accused of scheming to run $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded ads for the state lottery to promote his sinking 2010 campaign for governor.
He testified that he approved the advertising blitz because he wanted to defend the lottery after the Republican Governors Association ran a series of negative ads attacking him and his management.
Former Cahill chief of staff Scott Campbell was acquitted of similar charges Tuesday.
Judge Christine Roach said Wednesday that she was confident jurors had deliberated thoroughly in Cahill's case and that their communications indicated they were deadlocked. The trial stretched on for six weeks, and jurors deliberated at least 40 hours.
Cahill thanked jurors, his lawyers, his family and his friends as he spoke to reporters outside the courtroom.
"I feel it was total vindication," Cahill said of the jury deadlock.
Attorney General Martha Coakley has not yet said if her office will retry Cahill. She scheduled a press conference for later Wednesday.
Asked if he worries Coakley could seek to try him again, Cahill replied, "She can do whatever she wants to do. ... I have no fears."
Cahill, who oversaw the lottery as treasurer, was charged with conspiracy to use his official position to gain an unwarranted privilege and conspiracy to commit procurement fraud. He faced a maximum of five years in prison.
During the month-long trial, prosecutors portrayed him as a shrewd politician who approved an ad blitz touting the benefits of the lottery to run during the month before the election because he hoped it would boost his independent campaign for governor, which by that point was faltering badly. Cahill was also running separate campaign ads touting his leadership of the lottery.
But Cahill's lawyer, Jeff Denner, said the lottery ads were an appropriate response to the Republican governors' attack ads.
Denner and Cahill attorney Brad Bailey said Wednesday they believe violations Cahill was accused of should have been civil, not criminal, and that the charges should have been decided by a state ethics commission rather than a criminal jury.
After the mistrial was declared, Cahill hugged his wife and smiled, then walked down the front row of the courtroom and hugged each of the friends and family members sitting there. He also shook hands with court officers and clerks.
He was asked outside if he had any desire to return to public life.
"I don't plan to, no," he said. His wife, Tina, then piped up from behind him and said with a smile, "No," which drew laughter from the crowd.
Asked what he would do to celebrate, Cahill smiled and replied, "There are still a lot of leaves in the yard."
This is a developing story. Stay with MassLive.com for updates as they become available.


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Name an accolade, championship or mind-blowing statistic and chances are Bergen Catholic coach Jake Jacobsen already has it.
A .966 winning percentage, eight state championships and a career record of 949-32-1 rank somewhere near the top of his resume. The 32-year headman has also been recognized as a National Coach of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association and as The Star-Ledger Coach of the Year three times.
This season's Bergen Catholic team captured the Tournament of Champions title, but that was more of the same for the school from Oradell--it holds a state-high eight T of C titles.
But with this 2014 group, a bunch that Jacobsen referred to as "the best group of kids that I ever coached in many respects," the veteran crossed off one last elusive recognition.
For the first time since The Star-Ledger Top 20 was established for golf in 2001, Bergen Catholic finished the season as the top-ranked team. Subsequently, the Bergen County school was named The Star-Ledger Team of the Year.
"We've been ranked No. 1 in years for the whole season and then lost in the state championship," Jacobsen said recalling a season when St. Joseph (Mont.) earned the T of C crown and Haddonfield then surpassed Bergen Catholic for the top spot after it finished fourth. "From 2001 to the present time, I would say we were ranked No. 1 seven or eight times and lost it in the end. We were second a bunch of times."
But that was not the case this season. In fact, Bergen Catholic's 2014 campaign was the exact opposite.
"All the rest of the year, we came in second in just about every tournament we played," Jacobsen said. "The Peddie, the FDU, High Bridge Hills was a third, Connecticut was a second. We won the Blue Devil. We won the Arcola, but we just looked like we were gelling and no one was disappointed."
That is probably because the lineup included two Second Team All-State golfers in Erick Alonso and Zach Egermayer as well as a rotation that was just as solid at No. 10 as No. 1.
The confidence, depth and talent kept Bergen Catholic afloat all season and it showed, Jacobsen said. Especially before the T of C when Christian Brothers Academy seemed like a heavy favorite and was one tournament away from going wire-to-wire as the top-ranked team.
"One guy in the back seat rubbing my neck said, 'coach, you just drive around and be relaxed today, we're going to take care of business, we promise,'" Jacobsen said. "I was like man that is certainly confident."
With freshman Jimmy Criscione tending to family matters, Steven Weingroff filled the spot with a 77 while Alonso and Egermayer shot 74 and 75, respectively. Junior Brendon Kim added a 77.
But to get to the No. 1 spot in the Top 20 and finish the season as the Tournament of Champions winner, it takes a deep lineup. Jacobsen got that with golfers like juniors Bobby Piluso, Luke Barnard, Tyler Balkema, Drake Ferriter and George Cultraro, a sophomore.
"That's why were a truly great team," Jacobsen said. "Three kids made First Team All-county and two kids made second team, but there were some unsung heroes in there that did a lot of nice work leading up to that by pushing the other kids."


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Three are dead in Assumption Parish after a 32-year-old man entered his neighbor's unlocked mobile home early on Monday (May 26) and killed a father and son before turning a rifle on himself.
It's possible, Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office deputy Robert Martin said, that the suspect in the double-murder-suicide, Williams Powers Jr., entered the home unarmed. The victims, who lived across the street from Powers, owned a number of knives, swords and guns, some of which may have been on display and could have possibly been used in the deadly incident.
Killed were Mark Massoletti, 52, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and his son, Michael Massoletti, 23. The elder Massoletti's girlfriend and his son's wife were also present at the scene but escaped with minor injuries.
Though Powers is believed to have killed himself with a rifle, WAFB initially reported, the victims died at the scene of multiple lacerations, cuts and possible stab wounds.
Upon entering the mobile home, Powers went into the master bedroom where Mark Massoletti, 52, was asleep with his girlfriend. When Powers began attacking Massoletti, Massoletti's girlfriend left to awaken her boyfriend's son, Michael Massoletti, 23, who was sleeping with his wife in another bedroom.
As Michael Massoletti's wife called for help, he and his father's girlfriend fought with Powers. Both women were able to escape, but the father and son were killed. Their cause of death is unclear, as is the weapon used to injure them.
Mark Massoletti's girlfriend made the first call to 911 at 4:07 a.m. Michael Massoletti's wife placed a second call to 911 from a neighbor's house at 4:11 a.m., right after her father-in-law's girlfriend awakened them.
Martin said a rifle, which may have belonged to one of the victims, was found at the scene lying next to Powers' dead body. All three were dead upon arrival at what Martin acknowledged was a bloody scene. "It was a very confusing scene when we got there this morning," Martin added. "It took us a long time."
The women, whose names are not being released at this time, were treated at a local hospital for minor injuries.
Bodies of the three deceased will be sent to the Orleans Parish Coroner Tuesday (May 27). Investigators have also ordered a drug test on the suspect. Martin said his only knowledge of any relationship between Powers and the victims or the women at the scene is that they were neighbors. The victims lived at 173 Felicia St., in Bayou L'Ourse, in a residential neighborhood Martin described a mix of mobile homes and houses.
"We're waiting on an in-depth autopsy and toxicology on Powers to find out if or what he might have been on," Martin said. "If not (on drugs), maybe he had a mental breakdown and decided he was going to go kill a guy."


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Title: Morris & Cummings Dredge No. 12 sunk off Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 29, 1898
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Date: 1898-06-29
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Description: Gelatin print in album 2008.28.3 of Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.; printed in negative lower right "346", and handwritten at bottom "DERRICK MONARCH/ PREPARING TO RAISE MORRIS & CUMMINGS DREDGE NO. 12/ June 29, 1898"; handwritten on album page below picture "'MORRIS & CUMMINGS DREDGE NO. 12'/ Sunk off Erie Basin. Being raised by Dk. Monarch./ June 29, 1898"; Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY. Ref: Norman Brouwer, 2010: "#346 derrick barge MONARCH raising Morris & Cummings Dredge No. 12 off Erie Basin, Brooklyn, June 29, 1898. Canal boat converted to stick lighter assisting."; see duplicate print 1964.520.218; see related photograph 2008.28.4.90.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – "La Boheme" is just about the most popular opera in the United States, and Opera Grand Rapids' recent production is further proof.
The seventh production of "La Boheme" in Opera Grand Rapid's history drew some 1,382 to DeVos Performance Hall on Friday.
Total sold attendance was 2,680 over two performances on May 4 and 5 with artistic director Robert Lyall conducting the Grand Rapids Symphony.
The show staged by Matthew Lata is the second best-selling spring production in the company's 44-season history, second only to Opera Grand Rapids' production of "Porgy and Bess" in May 2010.
"La Boheme," starring tenor Fitah Rasendrahasina as Rodolfo and soprano Alyson Cambridge as Mimi, was the sixth best-seller at the DeVos Hall Box Office in Opera Grand Rapids history.
Another 1,758 students attended the free final dress rehearsal on May 2 of the show featuring Opera Grand Rapids Chorus plus supernumeraries including embers of the Jenison High School Band.
Next season, Opera Grand Rapids will mount its first-ever performance of Camille Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah." in its 45th season.
The company also will present two old favorites, Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and Verdi's "La Traviata" in 2012-13.
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If you're like me, you might have missed the hot new romances this week. Lucky for you, there's HEA to bring you up to speed:
Rose Harbor in Bloom: A Novel by Debbie Macomber. Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has truly started to feel at home, and her neighbors have become her closest friends. Now it's springtime, and Jo Marie is eager to finish the most recent addition to her inn. In memory of her late husband, Paul, she has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help realize it. She and Mark don't always see eye-to-eye—and at times he seems far removed—yet deep down, Jo Marie finds great comfort in his company. And while she still seeks a sense of closure, she welcomes her latest guests, who are on their own healing journeys.
Keeping Her: A Losing it Novella by Cora Carmack. Garrick Taylor and Bliss Edwards managed to find their happily-ever-after despite a rather … ahem … complicated start. By comparison, meeting the parents should be an absolute breeze, right? But from the moment the pair lands in London, new snags just keep cropping up: a disapproving mother-in-law-to-be, more than one (mostly) minor mishap, and the realization that perhaps they aren't quite as ready for their future as they thought. As it turns out, the only thing harder than finding love is keeping it.
The Last Kiss Goodbye by Karen Robards. Dr. Charlotte "Charlie" Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It's a job she's uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives her an uncanny edge—Charlie can see dead people, whose tormented spirits cry out to her for the justice only she can provide. This blessing—or curse—gives Charlie the power to hunt down and catch madmen and murderers. It's also turned her love life upside down by drawing her into a hopelessly passionate relationship with the lingering ghost of charismatic bad boy Michael Garland.
The Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne. Since the day her baby sister was taken, Holly's mind hasn't been the same. PTSD, panic attacks, nightmares and blocked memories have plagued her ever since. And now they've returned. Hard-edged Detective Vince O'Malley's most recent case penetrated even his protective shell. Ordered to take time off to recover, he can't let go, and follows the clues on his own time, to Holly's small upstate NY town. His presence stirs ghosts from the past, shadows of a little girl lost, the suspicions of some tight-lipped locals with secrets to hide, and more than that inside Holly's fragile mind and untouched heart.
A Little Bit Scandalous by Robyn DeHart. Mathematics prodigy, Caroline Jellico, plans to support herself by winning big in the gaming hells of London — while dressed as a boy. She's tired of waiting for the elusive Roe to notice her. She'll marry him or no man. Monroe Grisham, Duke of Chanceworth, needs to marry off his beautiful young ward and ensure she attaches herself to the right man, not an irresponsible cad like him. But all grown up now, Caroline's presence is an utter distraction. One he can neither act on nor deny.
The Mysterious Case of Mr. Strangeway (The St. Croix Chronicles) by Karina Cooper. Although I have only been part of Society for two years, I am already desperate to escape its confines and eager for adventure. The world my deceased parents have left me is nothing more than a gilded prison, and I will do anything to escape the boredom, even become a collector of bounties. My name is Cherry St. Croix, and I may be young, but I am old enough to know when I am in over my head. My first collection seemed easy: Mr. Strangeway's debts have come due, and the purse for his capture is hefty. Yet the wastrel remains one step ahead of me. The prequel to the St. Croix Chronicles series.
Elysian Fields by Suzanne Johnson. In this third outing in the Sentinels of New Orleans series. New Orleanians are under attack from a killer mimicking the crimes of 1918 murderer the Axeman of New Orleans. Thanks to a tip from undead pirate Jean Lafitte, sentinel DJ Jaco knows the attacks aren't random—a necromancer has resurrected the original Axeman to kill a certain blond wizard. Suddenly, moving to the Beyond as Jean Lafitte's pirate wench might be DJ's best option.
The Deepest Night by Shana Abe. It's 1915, and 16-year-old Lora Jones is finishing up her first year as a charity student at Iverson, a prestigious, gothic boarding school on England's southern coast. While she's always felt different from everyone around her, now she finally knows why: She is a drákon, a rare, enchanted being with astonishing magical abilities.
Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik. Blood of Tyrants is the penultimate volume in the beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons. This latest novel continues the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire.


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MOSS POINT, Mississippi - When Dr. John Polk presented his family's award to the Moss Point School District's Teacher of the Year, he knew what it meant to be chosen for a similar academic honor.
Polk, dean of students and teachers at Boston University School of Medicine, was named Faculty Member of the Year in March. Polk also presented a $5,000 award named for his mother, Gladys C. Polk Scholarship, to a student at the medical school earlier this month.
"I was honored because I was selected by my peers, and most important I was selected by my students," Dr. Polk said. "There is a generational gap and those who teach think we are not given the recognition that we think we should. It's important to be selected by faculty and students. We have bridged the generation gap."
Polk and his siblings, children of Ira and Gladys Polk, presented the Henry L. Whisenton Teacher of the Year Award to Nikeland Cooper, who was named District Teacher of the Year. Cooper is the seventh and grade science teacher at Magnolia Junior High, where he was named Teacher of the Year for the school. He is married to the former Octavia Taylor.
"Dr. John Polk contacted the district some years ago about him and his siblings wanting to establish an endowment fund to recognize an outstanding teacher. Our Teacher of the Year program was already in place and was a perfect fit for this award," said Stephanie Packer, district communications director.
The Polk family has partnered with the Moss Point Visionary Circle to present the Whisenton award for the past eight years during the school district's teacher, parent and student of the year recognition, which was recently held at Pelican Landing.
The monetary award is named in honor of the longtime principal at Magnolia High School. Whisenton passed away in 1982 just prior to the first Great Magnolia Homecoming, a tri-annual reunion of the former school's students and staff that began in his honor, and occurs this year.
"The award gives recognition to an outstanding teacher who has contributed to the success of students in the school district," said Dr. Polk. "It's in recognition of the support teachers have given us and the success we have achieved as individuals and as a family."
The Polk children are known for their professional and political activity. Among them are former Moss Point Mayor Ira Polk Jr., Dr. Polk, who was a heart surgeon at Boston University Medical Center until 2005, and Callie Polk Marshall, a nursing supervisor at Singing River Hospital.
The Polk family now sponsors two academic honors. This year marks the second for the Gladys C. Polk Scholarship at Boston University Medical Center. The 2013 award went to Terrance Moreau, 22, of Rosharon, Texas, who had studied at Dilliard University.
Brice Ratliff of Minneapolis, who attended Hampton University, was the first recipient in 2012. The endowed award provides $5,000 directly to the student to help with academic and daily living needs.
Polk said the scholarship goes to students who are underrepresented in the medical field such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. "The students are selected on academics, contributions to the medical community, and character," he said.
Gladys Polk, who was 98 when she died in May 2011, was a pioneer in her field among local African American women and educators, according to Dr. Polk.
"She was educated for her time. She attended normal school in Alabama, which was a teaching school, after finishing at Pascagoula (Negro High), which was very unusual for black women at that time," said Dr. Polk.
Gladys Polk left teaching when she married Ira Polk Sr., who was a crane operator at Ingalls Shipbuilding for 30 years, to raise their eight children and taught them instead, said Dr. Polk.
"She always valued education, he said. "Most of us could read and write before we went to school.
"I went to school at four years old. People thought I was smart. I wasn't smart. My mother just taught me to read and write before I went."
Polk said his education philosophy is a statement by Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
"My mother loved that and stressed that to us. I thought it fitting to have a scholarship at my institution in her name," he said.


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When Billy Cannon crossed the goal line on Halloween night in Tiger Stadium a half century ago, 89 yards after gathering in an Ole Miss punt on the bounce, the thought never occurred to him he had made his life. At that moment, he said, he wasn't even sure LSU would win the game.
But behind Cannon's heroics and two goal-line stands, the top-ranked Tigers won that 1959 game 7-3 against rival No. 3 Ole Miss. And since then the play and the game have assumed a spot so high in the college football pantheon that athletes from both teams gathered again Tuesday in the capital of Mississippi to honor it.
"It's been a fun thing to live with, " Cannon said. "But did I know that night it would be 50 years later and we'd be here talking about it, no I didn't."
Events after that night transpired to transform memorable into epic. With that play Cannon clinched the Heisman Trophy, and he remains the only LSU player to win it.
The school, which won the national title in 1958, went more than 40 years before it claimed another national championship in football, all of which burnished the memory of both Cannon breaking into the open field down the Rebels' sideline, and of those Paul Dietzel LSU teams that lost but twice in two years.
The moment occurred before modern media made college football the immediate and enormous spectacle it is. But Tuesday's dinner hosted by the Jackson Touchdown Club bore witness that Cannon's run is entrenched in these Deep South citadels of football like live oak roots. To this day, there are men in Louisiana and Mississippi who recall the moment precisely, and who treasure memories of hearing it over the radio with fathers, grandfathers, uncles and the like.
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Around here Billy Cannon is immortal, and he said he has been forever grateful.
"We stopped time, " Cannon said. "Everyone knows where they were and who they were with that night when we won the Ole Miss game."
It might seem odd that such an eternal highlight of LSU football would be feted among a crowd of Rebels in Jackson. Cannon said some of the former foes he hadn't seen since the famous game ("I recognize them all, but sometimes I have to squint for a moment, " he said), but he was not surprised by the location.
"The Mississippi fan is very similar to the Louisiana fan, " Cannon said. "They are quick to love and quick to forgive."
But not forget, several former Rebels said.
"All my life I've wished I could have 30 seconds back, and it would be that night, that punt, " Ole Miss guard Richard Price said. "I'd love to have one more shot at him."
The shot Price had came at a time, Jackson Touchdown Club MC Glen Waddle noted, when the average American made $5,400 per year and a 15-day Caribbean cruise could be had for $355. Ben Hur was in the theaters and Dwight Eisenhower in the White House.
A Friday night crowd listed as 62,327 crammed into Tiger Stadium for what football fans in the South already knew could prove a game for the ages. Heading into the fourth quarter, Ole Miss clung to a 3-0 lead when Jake Gibbs kicked a high, 47-yard punt that sailed through air so muggy Dietzel said it "was raining when it wasn't raining." Cannon drifted back inside his 20-yard line; Price chugged downfield toward the Tigers star.
When Price asked him Tuesday night, Cannon conceded he was not supposed to field a punt inside his 20-yard line. As he approached, Price said, Cannon leveled his gaze on the field and the two locked eyes for a fraction of a second.
"And then he put his arms down, " Price recalled. Price interpreted that as a sign Cannon would not catch the ball, and indeed it landed between them on wet, churned turf.
"I was trying to kick it out of bounds, and I nail it and it lands on soggy turf, and damn if that ball didn't bounce up like that, " Gibbs said, throwing his hand over his head.
"Yeah, it was a beautiful bounce, wasn't it?" Cannon said.
Cannon grabbed the ball, shook off Price and took off. He broke two more tackles, and as the crowd and the noise surged, Ole Miss quarterback Bobby Franklin ran from a water cooler to the sideline.
"And then, just as I get there, zoop, there he went, " Franklin said.
Franklin said the thought burst on him that he should jump off the sideline and tackle Cannon, as Alabama's Tommy Lewis infamously did in the 1954 Cotton Bowl. Even that might not have mattered, according to Gibbs, who noted Cannon broke seven tackles on his ramble.
"Ah, two guys had hit him, and he shook them off, and then another guy hit him and he shook him off, " Gibbs said. "Now by the time he got to me, of course he had picked up his blockers."
Cannon insists he put a move on Gibbs that the Rebel is still trying to sort out, but later acknowledged Gibbs still had a chance to make the tackle. "He went right for my jugular, " Cannon said, "but he missed."
The precise breakdown of the punt took place before Tuesday's dinner, as the players were savoring the reunion. Franklin, however, repeatedly asked why everyone was so busy talking about the Halloween game rather than the Sugar Bowl rematch between Ole Miss and LSU. The Rebels crushed the Tigers in that game 21-0 behind two Franklin touchdown passes.
"What gets us is they never talk about that Sugar Bowl, " Franklin said. "But we do."
That rematch Dietzel called, "the biggest mistake of my career, " wishing LSU had instead gone to Miami or some other locale. But Ole Miss in New Orleans it was, and the Rebels held Cannon to 8 yards on six carries. The former Ole Miss greats (17 members of the 1959 Ole Miss team played pro football) tried to remind Cannon of that stat, but he feigned forgetfulness.
"I had some other run against you, didn't I?" he said.
Dietzel was the first to speak Tuesday to the more than 200 people packed into the River Hills Club. He said before 1958 he had gotten to know a handful of Ole Miss players through coaching at college all-star games, and that he had asked them how they were so well conditioned. At a time when he would conclude LSU practices with 20-yard sprints, Dietzel said the Rebels told him they finished with 20 50-yard sprints in full pads.
"So when I got back to Baton Rouge I said, 'fellas, I've got a little announcement for you, ' " Dietzel said. "From now on, we are running 21 50-yard sprints every day."
That kind of conditioning, coupled with a senior year in high school that included the first weightlifting program in Louisiana, turned Cannon into a fearsome physical specimen. And as he is quick to admit, he was an irascible sort even then anxious to mix it up. Yet when his turn at the podium arrived, Cannon barely touched on the punt return.
Instead, Cannon proved a charming Louisiana raconteur, sketching a story with anecdotes about his life as his family moved from Philadelphia, Miss., to Indiana, to Alabama and finally to Baton Rouge. It was a memorable narrative, but only at the very end did he refer to the events that triggered the dinner.
"I made the run, but I had a lot of help, and Jake, you were the biggest help, " he said, turning to Gibbs at the table below him. The Rebels looked momentarily nonplussed but then roared with laughter, and when their turn arose they wasted little time in returning the roasting favor.
"I watched the Ole Miss-Alabama game recently, and boy, they just wore us out, " former Rebels halfback and college football Hall of Famer Charlie Flowers said. "And I thought to myself, 'I haven't seen a whipping like that since the 1960 Sugar Bowl.' "
Now in the twilight of their lives, the one-time gridiron stars broke up somewhat reluctantly, as if they still couldn't believe all that happened that night. Cannon said the same was true of every surviving player, coach, manager and southern football fan who was alive Oct. 31, 1959.
"It was something that happened; it was spectacular and it was very good, " he said. "But the last time we had a get-together with all the old guys, I asked them if they ever thought that night, that year, or the four years we had together would have been remembered all this time later. And not one of them raised their hand. They didn't even fake it."
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SPRING LAKE -- Three people were rescued and another swam to shore after a sailboat capsized in the ocean south of the Shark River estuary Sunday afternoon, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.
The 14-foot catamaran sailboat was carrying two passengers and both went into the water after the boat capsized around 1:30 p.m., Tom Peck, a duty officer of the Coast Guard's Delaware sector, told the paper.
But when another 140-foot boat sailed over to help, that boat also capsized, putting another two people in the water.
Coast Guard servicemen saved three of the people, while the fourth person swam to shore.


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NJ State Police Graduation, August 29, 2014
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Trooper Richard Tabor, (left), of Elizabeth, NJ, is called during the badge presentation. Standing from left are: Colonel Joseph R. Fuentes and Acting Attorney General John Jay Hoffman. The 154th NJ State Police Class held their graduation today, Friday, August 29, 2014, at the Pine Belf Arena at Toms River North High School, Toms River, NJ. / Russ DeSantis/For The Star Ledger
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