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Team USA Olympic athletes share their inspiring stories.
About 240 of Team USA�s finest athletes will compete this month on snow and ice at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Here are some to watch: [caption id="attachment_305440" align="alignright" width="300"] Courtesy of NBC Olympics/USOC[/caption] Whether on the soccer field or the ice hockey rink, the Lamoureux twins have played side by side�always supporting and challenging each other while chasing their Olympic dreams. �Growing up, it was always about going to the Olympics together,� Monique says. �It was not �I� or �me.� It was always �we.�� Adds Jocelyne: �If one of us hadn�t made the team, it would have been hard. We�re a team within a team.� This month, the 24-year-old twins will fulfill their goal and play for the U.S. women�s hockey team for their second consecutive Winter Olympics. This time, however, they aim to take home gold to add to silver medals they earned in 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. �Our ultimate goal is to win gold; anything less is a dream unfulfilled,� Monique says. Equally driven, Jocelyne finds motivation in a photograph taped inside her locker and showing her expression of settling for silver after losing 2-0 to Canada in the gold-medal match. �I look pretty ticked off,� Jocelyne says. �I never want to feel that way again.� Born into an athletic family in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the girls learned to skate on a pond across the street from their home. They developed grit and determination on the ice with their four older brothers, all of whom went on to play elite-level hockey. �Our brothers wouldn�t let us play with them unless we could keep up,� Monique says. �We learned to work really hard because we didn�t want to be left on the sidelines.� Playing collegiate hockey for Minnesota and then North Dakota, they put up astounding numbers and represented Team USA in international competition. Now among 12 returning players from the 2010 Olympic team, the Lamoureux women dream of a gold-medal rematch with Canada and definitely feel the pressure. �It�s not a disabling pressure, though,� Jocelyne says. �We thrive on those big games.� [caption id="attachment_305442" align="alignright" width="300"] Courtesy of NBC Olympics/USOC[/caption] The only man to win the snowboardcross Olympic gold medal since the event debuted in 2006, Wescott is the most decorated athlete in the history of the sport. And he hopes to �three-peat� in Sochi. �Weather is going to play a huge factor,� says Wescott, 37, of Sugarloaf, Maine. �The course in Sochi is good, but it�s the furthest south the Winter Olympics have ever been hosted. My fingers are crossed for a good hard track.� Similar to motocross racing, snowboardcross pits snowboarders against each other, the clock and the mountain as they race down a course. �It�s really just the fastest to the bottom wins,� explains Wescott, who started skiing at age 8 but switched to snowboarding two years later. Because winter sports means so much to Wescott, he is a spokesman for WinterKids, a nonprofit organization that encourages children in Maine to develop lifelong healthy wintertime habits. �When you live in the North, you see patterns of obesity, with kids cooped up inside for six months of the year. It doesn�t give them much of a fighting chance,� says Wescott, who speaks to school groups. �I really believe in getting kids outside and on the slopes.� [caption id="attachment_305441" align="alignright" width="300"] Courtesy of NBC Olympics/USOC[/caption] Ashley Wagner, figure skater Competing in her first Olympics, Wagner says her failure to make the 2010 team was a motivator for becoming a two-time national champion heading into Sochi. �It was devastating at the time, but that failure made me step back and reassess where I was in skating,� says Wagner, 22, of Alexandria, Virginia, who learned to adapt as a youngster while moving seven times with her military family. Training in Aliso Viejo, California, Wagner has focused on developing �the complete package,� including a solid triple-triple jump combination. �The judges aren�t looking for a skater who�s super technical or super artistic. They want somebody who�s both,� she says. Her role model is American figure skater Michelle Kwan, a two-time Olympic medalist and five-time world champion. �Every time she stepped out on the ice, she demanded attention,� Wagner says. �She�s also one of the most gracious, down to earth and level-headed athletes I�ve ever met�a true role model both on the ice and off.� [caption id="attachment_305439" align="alignright" width="300"] Courtesy of NBC Olympics/USOC[/caption] Wearing her late father�s pennant championship ring as a pendant on her necklace, Uhlaender takes the memory of baseball�s Ted Uhlaender with her wherever she goes, especially while flying headfirst atop a cookie sheet-size sled at 90 mph. �This ring reminds me that there�s a lot of work that goes into being at the top of your game, and you can never give up,� says Uhlaender, 29, of Breckenridge, Colorado, making her third Olympic team in the skeleton event. Uhlaender�s Olympic journey has been fraught with challenges. After finishing sixth in 2006, she set her sights on 2010 but found herself emotionally tapped after her father died of cancer in 2009. Six weeks later, she shattered her kneecap and then injured her knee again soon after. By the time she got off crutches and rehabilitated for competition, she could manage only an 11th-place finish in Vancouver. �There were just too many distractions,� she explains, pointing especially to the death of her dad, a former Major League Baseball outfielder and coach. �My father had been my foundation. He was basically my sports psychologist, my disciplinarian, my mentor, my adviser and my confidant. When I lost him, I literally had to re-learn how to live.� That�s why the 2014 Winter Olympics means so much to her. �This is my comeback story. It�s about redemption,� says Uhlaender, who�s battled back from more than a half-dozen surgeries. �It�s my time to show my father that I learned what he wanted me to learn�about attitude, hard work, and perseverance. I am a warrior with a purpose.� Andy Newell, cross-country skier When cross-country skiing sprinter Andy Newell went to the 2010 Olympics, he had trained in America�s top programs and was in the best shape of his life. Then he took a corner too fast and crashed in Vancouver. �It was a low point,� recalls Newell, 30, of Shaftsbury, Vermont. �I realized that you can train as much as possible and be in top physical form and things still won�t necessarily go your way in the Olympics. So I decided that, given all those unknowns, I should just make sure that I enjoyed my next four years of training leading up to Sochi.� Newell returned to Vermont where his family and friends live, and he traded the elite Olympic conditioning facilities of Park City, Utah, to sprint up mountains in his home state. Along the way, he�s recorded the best U.S. men�s results since the era of his childhood hero Bill Koch, another Vermonter who won a silver Olympic medal in 1976. �It�s been a long time since the U.S. has been in Olympic medal contention but these are exciting times,� says Newell, who hopes U.S. audiences will come to appreciate cross-country skiing as European fans do. �Some people see our sport as boring, but it�s really fast-paced and exciting as skiers race in tight quarters and then charge to the finish line to get their toe across first.� This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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How the cave gets its groove back.
Hello people. I have been asked to create a list of ideas by Mr Nix for ways we could improve the quality of the cave, increase "profit" without increasing the price for using the "space". The price is the only thing that the cave has going for it.
Ok, here we go, this is a serious pockets now.
I think that people don't respect the space because the space is not respectable, both aesthetically and in functionality. So in order to make the space work I would like to try this. Make it look and feel like a rehearsal room and not as a store room, or junkyard for broken shit.
And if we focus on the rehearsal aspect for the moment and do the recording aspect later in th year, it will be much easier.
1.I would like to remove all the stuff that is not needed for rehearsing and put is somewhere else (or chuck it out/sell it on). I mean how many fucking keyboards does a rehearsal room need.
2.Muscletusk's amps. I don't know the situation with them, whether they are paying for storage or not. I personally think that the should not be in there. Its a room for band to come and practice, not a store room.
3.The plug sockets on the walls. I have spoken to kim about them, and he says he is willing to fix em. Some of you may not know this but they are a joke. They are not even attached to the walls anymore, seriously dangerous.
Now moving onto how the room looks and sounds.
4.Curtains. If we have rails across all the walls of the room, and thick curtains, it would not only improve the sound of the space (the amps would not need to be so loud) but make it pleasing to the eye, and nice to be in.
5.The floor and ceiling.. The carpet is in a state, like really bad. What I really want to do is get a new carpet. But we can't, so lets get a rug to cover the worse part of the room. The ceiling is very funny. The carpet on the ceiling is doing nothing but dampen the sound in the room, NOT SOUND PROOFING. With the curtains up we can take the shitty carpet off the ceiling.
6.The store cupboard. Its a really nice room. If we take all the shit out for a week. Remover the sink and shelves, whack a couple of bowls of salt in there to soak up all the dampness, It will be a lovely store room, or future vocal booth.
Now onto the other stuff.
7.the mixer in the cupboard. It seams to work, but it reaks of burning dust when you turn it on. I think It needs a clean (inside and out) and then a little tlc (by a proffesional) and it would be a kick ass desk. Its a proffesional studio sound desk.
8.The keyboards. We only need one. Choose!
9.The corner of doom. Chuck the fucked brocken shit. Fix the almost broken shit.
10.Why do we have more drum stuff In there now. Where does it keep coming from. Its all useless unless we have the rest of it.
11.Pc. fix it or chuck it.
12.Cabs and amps at the back of the room. Cabs work, amps need love. Kims mate whak might look at them but he would need money for that. So ether fix em, punt em, or chuck em.
Now I may have pissed a lot of people off now, so feel free to attack me in the street. But its a joke the way its happening now, it cant get any worse.
Unfortunately I will not be able to make the cave meeting tomorrow night 16th april 2009 as I am hosting a night at the bowery. But I propose that the cave meeting after would be the big one, where we decide things and actually get this done. So I would like all sound team members and important cave members to come along. And if your in a band that uses the space to rehearse, come along and tell us what you think may improve it.
Much love pockets


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Dickinson waterfalls rich in beauty, history
By BILL ZIEGLER
For The Daily News
IRON MOUNTAIN – When relatives or friends come to visit, everyone wants to show them around to see why we live here. This area has many beautiful sights, although sometimes our waterfalls get overlooked.
Dickinson County and northernmost Menominee County have 13 beautiful waterfalls and 10 are reasonably accessible. Dickinson County also has two easily accessible gorges with falls and rapids that together with the falls make a good day tour.
Rock Dam Falls is located on Pine Creek. There is a small falls on the North Branch of the West Branch of the Sturgeon River. There are five more falls on the West Branch of the Sturgeon River. Fumee Falls is located along U.S. 2 on Fumee Creek and is easily accessible.
There are four remaining waterfalls on the Menominee River. Sand Portage Falls and the Third Pier are located in Piers Gorge south of Norway and Quiver Falls and Pemenee Falls are located along the Menominee in north Menominee County just downstream from the Dickinson County border.
There is reasonable driving access to most of the falls mentioned although a walk is required for some. A four-wheel drive is not required although some are on dirt/sand roads and a pickup or SUV with adequate ground clearance is still the best way to access these falls.
A good stop on the way is the Michigan Department of Natural Resources field office in Norway or the Michigan Department of Transportation Welcome Center in Iron Mountain. Maps of Dickinson County can be observed there, as well as questions answered. The DNR office phone number is (906) 563-9247 and the Chamber number is (906) 774-2002. A Michigan County Map Guide and a Dickinson County Plat book are also good tools to help locate these scenic sites.
Pine Creek's Rock Dam Falls is located in the state forest northeast of Iron Mountain. From Iron Mountain, head west on U.S. 2 to M-95. On M-95 go north about 1.3 miles to Carney Lake Road. Turn east (right) and travel about five miles on Carney Lake Road as it turns from asphalt to gravel road.
At about five miles and after running next to Pine Creek a trail road turns off to the east (right) goes a short distance to a turn-around. A short walking trail crosses Hosking Creek and takes you to the base of the Rock Dam Falls. This falls, large rock outcropping and small gorge is well worth visiting and has easy drive-up access.
There is an unnamed falls on the north branch of the West Branch of the Sturgeon River. It is located on state land, north of the M69 stream crossing of that same river. From the M-95 intersection with M-69 travel east about one mile to a dirt trail road that heads north (left). Travel north about 0.3 miles to a trail intersection with a trail to the right. Travel east about 0.3 miles to the trail termination at a small old quarry site. A foot trail leads north a short distance to a small twin falls. This is also the site of the remnants of an old late 1800s pine log driving dam.
There are five waterfalls on the West Branch of the Sturgeon River. Unfortunately, there is only practical legal public access to the lower set of falls.
The other falls could be accessed from the south with very difficult access through a rugged roadless area of state land. I first observed these falls from an early spring trout habitat recognizance canoe trip down the West Branch of the Sturgeon. I would strongly recommend not trying to repeat this method, since just below the upper falls the West Sturgeon's channel disappears "underground" for about a mile through a cedar swamp. This spot is similar to the section on the Ford River below Ralph where a braided channel disappears under thousands of year of fallen cedars and peat soil. When my son, (an NCAA collegiate nordic skier who pulled the canoe most of the time in the swamp and around the falls), and I finished this eight-mile trip we were about four hours overdue and exhausted.
The falls that have practical access are located on state forest land. Access can be made by traveling to Felch on M-69 and then take Calumet Mine Road south about two miles to a trail road to the west (right). Travel northwest about 0.3 miles to a trail intersection to the southwest (left).
You can only drive a short distance to a berm blocking motorized access at a bad washout site. From there a good trail leads about 0.3 miles to the falls and an undeveloped primitive camp site.
The falls that are easiest to access and most well known are Fumee Falls. They are located about 4.5 miles east of Iron Mountain on the north side of U.S. 2. There is a roadside park and short walking trail to view the falls and Fumee Creek. A wood stairs leads to a very picturesque upper series of falls above the one that can be seen from the road.
There was a very scenic gorge, small falls and rapids re-exposed when the Sturgeon Dam was completely removed in 2007. This can be accessed by driving east from Iron Mountain on U.S. 2 about 13.2 miles to Loretto.
Turn north (left) on County Road 573 and travel about 0.5 miles to Swede Settlement Road. Turn east (right) and drive just over a mile to Dam Road. Turn northeast and travel about 0.4 miles to a WE Energies gate. There is an access road to the old dam site at the gorge, rapids and falls, with about a 0.3-mile walk.
Piers Gorge and Sand Portage Falls were recently purchased by the Michigan and Wisconsin DNRs although it had always been open to the public through cooperation with We Energies. This series of rapids and low falls is one of the most scenic areas in Dickinson County.
It can be easily accessed by driving south 1.8 miles from the intersection of U.S. 2 and U.S. 8 in Norway to Piers Gorge Road. Turn west (right) on Piers Gorge Road and travel just over a mile to a parking lot and trail head.
A good foot trail follows the Michigan bank of the river upstream about 0.5 miles along the rapids to a very scenic site. The Sand Portage Falls at the head of Piers Gorge is farther upstream about 1.3 miles from the parking area. Walking access can be made with a good trail through stands or large pine.
Two more falls in north Menominee County that are worth visiting that are not far from Dickinson County are Quiver Falls and Pemenee Falls. Both falls and rapids are located on the Menominee River on state land. Although these are both lower falls they do give some idea of the grandeur that Native Americans and early voyageurs saw as the traveled the Menominee River waterway.
Driving access to Quiver Falls is on the Wisconsin side of the Menominee River. From Iron Mountain, take U.S. 2 east to the intersection with U.S. 141. Turn south and cross the Menominee River Bridge to Niagara, Wis., and south on 141 about 15 miles to Marinette County Road R.
Turn east (left) on County R (other name Kremlin Road) and travel east just over seven miles to an intersection and railroad crossing. The intersection is not well marked but it is 0.7 miles east of the County R crossing of the North Branch of the Pemebonwon River. Turn right on the road and cross the rail road tracks, continue east on the Wisconsin DNR dirt road about a mile to a parking area at Quiver Falls.
Upstream of the rapids and falls is the remnants of the Pemebonwon Dam which was a pine log driving dam for the Menominee River Boom Company during the late 1800s.
Pemenee Falls is accessed from the Michigan side of the Menominee River although it is shorter to use Wisconsin highways from Iron Mountain to travel to the access point. Using the initial Quiver Falls access information take U.S. 141 south of Pembine about three miles to Marinette County Road Z.
Take County Road Z east (left) about 10.6 miles to the Nathan Bridge crossing the Menominee River back into Michigan. Marinette County Z becomes Menominee County Road 374; take that east 0.2 miles from the bridge to the first road – State Road V-4. Turn north (left) and drive up the road (past the Michigan DNR boat access site) to a trail road that is just over a mile north of the intersection. The trail is on the west (left) side of road and is marked with a sign for the falls.
You can park and walk a short distance on the state of Michigan land to Pemenee Falls. This falls also has the remnant of a historical logging dam, which was reportedly the first log driving dam that the Menominee River Boom Company built to drive pine logs.
If walking is a problem, the falls with easiest driving access are Fumee, Pine Creek Rock Dam, Quiver and Pemenee Falls. If you take the time to take this tour you will be well rewarded by a series of picturesque falls and impressive rapids where you often may be the only visitor. Make sure you bring a camera.


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Results tagged "o'neill critics institute" from Drama Queen
Dear Editor,
The theater world has a new and exciting craze that's popping up in small drama companies all across the country. It's an incredible movement called "24 hour theater." This new twist on drama involves paring down the usually lengthy and exhausting process of writing, workshopping and producing a fully staged show from what could be several years to just a single day. This bold new form of expression is usually done in a festival setting where a rag-tag group of writers, directors, actors and designers are frantically thrown together into teams. They are then given a concept and (you guessed it) 24 hours to write, produce and perform a ten minute play. These festivals are usually teeming with the theater scene's amateurs, all of them desperate for that first chance to express their vision on the stage.
This sounds lovely, but do the theater-goers of your readers really want to go see a play (or series of plays) that have been haphazardly built over the course of a single day? What's the appeal of 24-hour theater to an audience?
I would like to offer your publication a 1,200-1,500 word
feature article entitled "The Fringe Challenge--a look inside the new form of
spontaneous theater" that answers that very question. The article will take a very in-depth look at
one of the many spontaneous theater
festivals that has popped up in the region--The Kennedy Center American College
Theater Festival's Fringe Challenge. While the Fringe Challenge is technically 48 hour theater, it's still got all the
aspects one would expect from a 24 hour theater fest. Best of all, this year's
challenge is held at the Indiana University of
The article will go in depth into the conceptual side of this new art form, opening up with the Fringe Challenge's long-time director, Len Kelly. It will then feature interviews with several of the Challenge's participants--where they will share their background in theater and their passion for this fun new way of looking at the performance arts. The article will be a collage of different stories from a wild and maddening 48 hour period that leaves its participants and audience members forever transformed. It will show amateurs pull off stunning theatrical feats that--given the circumstances--seem almost impossible.
The article can also have several aspects on your publications website if desired. Full audio interviews with participants are available and several groups involved have agreed to have their chaotic writing and rehearsal sessions filmed for internet publication--giving further breadth to this experience.
The Fringe Challenge begins on January 12th , and goes live on the night of the 14th. The article and online aspects can be available to you by as early as the 15th.
Peter Starr Northrop
Query 3:
Dear Editor,
How many times have you driven down an unknown street in Philadelphia, and had a chill run down your spine? Did you immediately lock your doors, and accelerate your car to escape the block? If you have then the Temple University theater department's production of Shot! wants to have a brief word with you.
I'd like to offer you a 1,200-word article entitled "Song of the Street". The theater department of Temple University has conceived a brand newperformance piece entitled Shot! The piece gives audience members an inside look at Beirut, a Northern Philadelphia urban community, whose image has been tarnished from the 1964 riots.
My article will examine the process that the production team of Shot! went through and give an inside look at the process that goes into putting a piece of this nature together. Temple University uses poetry, monologues, songs, and documentary footage to create an authentic narrative and perspective of a neighborhood that has been.
Through interviews with writer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, director Doug Wager, and a few members of the ensemble members I will give readers an insight into the process. I will also have video recordings of the interview to place on your website. As a theater artist and scholar I believe that it is important to highlight this production and highlight the Docudrama performance style. I believe that through this production, Philadelphia citizens will get an insider's perspective into the real story of their community and an insight in the process that goes into putting a piece of this nature together.
I would like to thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing back from you!
Connor Davis
Query 4:
Dear Editor,
Is there really such a drastic gap between entertainment for children versus entertainment for adults? And do basic instincts and values change over time or are the morals instilled in us as children timeless? Actors and adult audience members alike tend to look at children's productions as a "dumbed-down" version of stereotypical theatre. On the contrary, children's theatre explores a different aspect of creative expression, taking a script and interpreting the text to be universally relatable.
I would like to offer you a 1,000 word article entitled, "Rediscovering Childhood in a World of Professionalism." The article would explore the importance of well rounded theatrical exposure, the connection between a mature and elementary script style as well as Indiana University of Pennsylvania's effect on the youth of the community. IUP's presentation of A Year with Frog and Toad by Willie and Robert Reale opened my eyes to the lack of children's style shows in production, especially at the collegiate level. These specific points are supported with interview quotes of the cast and director, Rob Gretta, as well as video clips of recent productions.
The lack of children's theatre workshops and events at KCACTF further proves the reasoning behind this article. According to the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, children's theatre is a completely different focus for the performing arts that has consistently increased in both revenue and popularity over the last decade. Shouldn't professors, actors, directors and theatre goers alike place more weight and interest on this steadily growing field?
Children's theatre can be thought of as the foundation of theatrical experience. If an actor or director can interpret a script and convey its message to a sea of children, then they can take the basics of a mature script and convey its ideas to a sea of educated adults.
As an actor, newly evolving director, and avid writer I feel that I have an extremely diverse and multi-faceted viewpoint and would therefore be the best candidate to write for your journal. I am a junior musical theatre major and nonprofit studies minor at James Madison University and have recently worked with JMU's Professional Children's Playshop in the summer of 2009. I have a passion for children and the importance of theatre in their ever-changing development as productive and artistic citizens.
I thank you for taking the time to review and consider my proposal and I look forward to hearing your response. If you are interested in the details of my research or this unconventional perspective, I would be glad to have my article, "Rediscovering Childhood in a World of Professionalism" on your desk within two weeks of hearing your response. Thank you again.
Kelly Wetherald
Query 5:
Dear Editor,
Many people are fascinated by the survival stories of the men and women who endured life in concentration camps during the Holocaust, but how often do we really stop and think about how hard and grueling their lives must have been? There are plenty of books and documentaries on this subject, but few have ventured to take these stories to the stage. A Comb and a Prayer Book: A Survivor's Story, by Pamela Hendrick, is the story of Elizabeth Blum, who, by the age of nineteen, had endured life in six concentration camps. It is based on personal interviews and the book written by her granddaughter, Shana Fogarty.
I would like to offer you a 1000-word article title "Staging
the Holocaust," which examines the long process of transforming the book and
interviews of this Holocaust survivor into a theatrical production. Specifically, I will examine the process of
the show performed by The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey at the 42nd
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival held in
The stage is a place where we see stories brought to life, made into a reality. This article will explain exactly how that is made possible. It will follow the show's development from a simple interview, to the writing of the book, and finally, to the stage. It will not only present the difficulties in putting such an emotional event under the lights, but it will explain the effect that doing so can hold. Staging historical events is different from creating a movie on the subject in that the action is experienced right before our very eyes; the audience is in the moment, and is able to relive a bit of history. This not only creates a bridge to the past, but it furthers one's appreciation of the present.
As a Theatre major at
I hope that you sense my passion for this subject and if interested, I can have my full article to you within two weeks of your approval. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your time,
Valerie Gibbs
Query 6:
Dear Editor,
The other day I saw a four-year-old teach her father how to
use his I-Phone to take a picture. Generations
in this country find it difficult to communicate because they do not
communicate through the same media.
I want to offer you a 1000 word article entitled "Snap-Shot!:
"Snap-Shot!" addresses how the fuse of theatre and film made a new medium for addressing race in Shot! Interviews from old and new generations of Northern-Philadelphian audience members explore how Shot! acts a gateway to new racial frontiers. The article concludes with the idea that interlocking technology and race in Shot! helps two generations of Philadelphians share accounts of racial strife.
This article is important to Philadelphians because it demonstrates how multi-media performance in Shot! starts a new discussion that is accessible to all generations and races.
As a Native-American critic and a product of today's technology codependency, I offer insight into how using a timeless medium to fuse generations and discuss racial tension. Additionally, "A Night at the KCACTF Drive-In," my runner-up critique in last year's American College Theatre Festival, provides insight into my exploration of the use of live-technology in Shot!
I hope that I can interest you in sharing this discussion
with the city of
Robby Bassler
Query 7:
Dear Editor,
It's always wonderful when we
get to celebrate ambassadors of the City of
For your publication, I would like to write an 800 - 1,000 word article tentatively entitled: "Taking Home With Them." The piece will detail the production's path from stunning hometown show to successful, recognized opus as follows:
story. By interviewing Mark Wade (director), Taysha Canales, Brianna
McBride Pope, and Jamal Douglas (all of them ensemble actors and KCACTF merit
certificate winners), I will provide a look at the driving personalities behind
the work's hometown success. I will also detail their connection to the
· Outcome. After establishing the group's path to the festival, the remainder of the piece will be devoted to detailing the students' current preparation for performance, the outcome of the competition, and the students' reaction to it.
I am a master's candidate in
theater at
am highly concerned with rising college theater companies that are making the
Mark J. Costello
Query 8:
Dear Editor,
Beads of sweat dot the furrowed brow of the twentysomething actor. They gently cascade down his nose while the butterflies in his stomach do choreographed air shows. Throw on top of this the fact that he is competing against 200 other students for a chance at a scholarship. Thus is a case of one student who is taking part in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship.
I would like to offer you a 1000 word article on the journey of local college students who take part in the KCACTF Region II scholarship program (tentative title- Going for Granny: Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship).
In the article I would specifically like to track the progress of three to four students who take part in the process. Here I hope to examine their feelings about auditions, acting, and what the scholarship would mean to them.
To begin with, the article will briefly introduce the reader to exactly how students are selected. I will then follow the stories of three to four local college students who are competing in the competition. This will paint a picture of the experience of each actor's time in the Ryan audition process. Following the festival I will sit down with each student and conduct a formal interview. Here I will gets the reflections of each student after all is said and done.
As a former Irene Ryan partner and actor I know the strife auditions can cause and the journey students go through academically while honing their craft. These students are the future of theatrical arts, and they are products of this paper's base. I hope you find interest in this topic, and I am looking forward to your response. I can have a copy of it to you 3 weeks following the regional competition and your approval. Again thank you for your time!
Sincerely,Shawn Arnold
Query 9:
Dear Editor,
Angry shouts are heard in the distance. You walk around the corner and down a street. The sound grows louder. You continue around yet another corner and find the source: a large group of political activists spreading a message. What might be the most intriguing aspect of the group is that they are made up of college students. The college student body has traditionally been a political force to be reckoned with and the theatre has proven to be an excellent venue to send a message.
I am offering to write an article entitled something to the affect of "Political College Theatre - You Cannot Stop It!" that would be some 3,000 - 4,000 words in length on the political nature of college theatre and how it is bound to continue to be a natural choice of medium and venue through which a political message may be conveyed using the shows featured at this year's American College Theatre Festival in region two as examples.
The article will include commentaries on the festival's productions of A Comb and a Prayer Book: A Survivor's Story, Increased Difficulty of Concentration, and Widows Each have a political or social issue behind them (genocide, sexual morality in the workplace, and repressive government, respectively). I will also include interviews with the cast and director of A Comb and a Prayer Book in my article, to gain a better demonstrate the potency of the political college theatre scene. What's more, if you should chose to pursue the publication of this article, I will provide the full audio to the interviews I will be conducting.
My article would focus on the political and social aspects of each play and how college theatre groups will use plays like the ones that will be seen at the festival to make their own charged statement as well as how colleges are an ideal place to present a political play.
I hope to hear from you soon and that the topic of my article might be of interest to your publication. Thank you for your time.
Nicholas Barilar
Query 10:
Dear Editor,
You find yourself at an audition, receive a cold reading, and are told to go with no time to prepare. The casting director vaguely asks you to try something "different." Your scene partner drops their line and everyone stands around awkwardly, now unsure of both themselves and the scene. Whatever the scenario, there is one solution accessible to all - improv. With some sort of improvisational training, actors will never find themselves stumped in any sort of circumstance.
I would like to offer you an 800 word article titled "The Importance of Improv: Imagination in Action." The article would discuss the significance of actors attending improv classes and workshops, and provide an evaluation of several workshops, informing readers about various teachers and their methods.
Take Gail Winar's workshop "Theatre Games," being taught at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival this week. It describes itself as a way to "explore theater games and improvisational exercises to wake up your creativity, imagination, and awareness during the rehearsal process." In my own experience, there are several types of directors, and a number of them have no problem with an actor bringing their own ideas to the table - some, in fact, encourage it. Through improv, one can open themselves up, becoming more extroverted and willing to share their ideas.
Another area improv can help an actor explore is physicality; with enough creativity and a willingness to explore their environment and their body, actors can discover mannerisms unique to their character that they might never have dared to try before. Improv is no simple chocolate or vanilla but rather the Neapolitan, where no one bite is exactly the same as the last. Improv is a tasty gift that changes in every new situation.
The great American improvist Viola Spolin once wrote in her book "Improvisation for the Theatre" that "everyone can improvise." Whether or not every person has the ability to travel to Second City or star on "Saturday Night Live" is of no matter; the mere introduction of improv can enhance an actor's innate skills. My article will show the influence of improv by interviewing those who attend these workshops, and asking them how each class heightened the skills they already had.
I was not only involved in improv in high school, but also at my college (James Madison University's "New and Improv.'d"). The value of the practices, the conferences we visit, and the myriad of classes we attend is unfathomable, so I speak from experience when I say that improv is an inestimable tool that should be utilized by every actor.
Please let me know if you have any interest in this article or its subject matter, and I can have a finalized copy of the article delivered to you within a week. Thank you for your time.
Nathan Taylor
That's all for the pitches; the students are waiting to hear if any of these result in a home run. Tomorrow I'll post their first reviews, and appropriately enough, the two shows they saw today run the emotional gamut from comedy to tragedy. Both have literary roots, but A Year with Frog and Toad, based on Arnold Lobel's children's stories, and A Comb and a Prayer Book, based on Elizabeth Blum Goldstein's Holocaust memoir, couldn't be more different. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they handle this analytical mood swing, and I hope you are too.
Peter Starr Northrop is a Memphis-born, Pennsylvania-based writer with no style and an awkward sense of humor to match. He is currently a junior at Elizabethtown College, where he is frantically throwing together a double-major in English and theater. Mostly he divides his time between working as the head features editor for his school newspaper--The Etownian, heading the writers of a sketch comedy group, and attending the occasional class. When it comes to theater, Peter has recently stuck to the directing side of things. He just wrapped up a production of David Ives' English made Simple and is currently assistant-directing Elizabethtown College's production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
Nathan Taylor is a junior at James Madison University, currently working on a double major in theater and English. He has been involved with theater since he was a young boy, appearing in several shows in the Washington D.C. area during his childhood. It was not long before Nathan realized that he had to be involved in some facet of theater for the rest of his life. Coincidentally, he has also been involved with the English language since he was a young boy, attending elementary school and learning the alphabet during his childhood. It was not long before Nathan realized that he had to both be able to speak and read the English language if he was going to be successful in his adulthood. With the love of both writing and watching a production, he naturally has a passion for critiquing shows of all types.
Everything I Know I Learned from Musicals
Theater Alliance of Greater Philadelphia
What's Good/What Blows in NY Theatre


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MathCounts team takes top honors
SARANAC LAKE – The Saranac Lake team took first place overall at the MathCounts competition held at the Clinton Community College Arts and Science building in Plattsburgh on March 2.
In the individual rankings, Will Gray took first place overall, Bruno Freeman took second place and Mitch Deleel took eighth place out of 32 competitors.
The Saranac Lake MathCounts team, consisting of Will Gray, Mitch Deleel, Max Campbell, Devan Kidd, Bruno Freeman, Quinn Peer, Colten Clement, Ward Walton, Silas Swanson, Jackie Garso and Erika Swirsky meet weekly during lunch to enrich math skills.
"MathCounts has greatly improved my problem-solving skills," Eighth grader Will Gray said.
MathCounts is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes success through middle school mathematics achievement. There are more than 500 Chapter Competitions, 57 State Competitions and one National Competition held each year. Since 1984, MathCounts helps promote mathematical development through problem solving, analytical thinking, reasoning and teamwork. The three-hour annual contest consisted of a 40-minute individual round, four short, six-minute rounds and a team round. The competition showcases students' skills in algebra, probability, statistics and geometry. This was the fifth year that Saranac Lake provided a team to the MathCounts competition.
"What I love most about MathCounts is being able to help students from six to eighth grade think "outside the box,"' Coach Tyler Chase said.
The Champlain Valley Chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers has facilitated the local MathCounts competition for the past 25 years spearheaded by Chapter President Wayne Ryan of AES Northeast. According to Robyn Pryce, office manager at AES and MathCounts local organizer five schools participated in this year's regional competition were Petrova Middle School, Saranac Lake; Seton Academy, Plattsburgh; Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh; Chazy Rural School, and Peru Middle School.
Saranac Lake Team member Bruno Freeman says, "Joining MathCounts as a sixth grader was definitely a challenge, but I feel that I now have a better understanding of higher level mathematics."
The Saranac Lake team will continue to the state match in Albany on March 16 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, with the hopes of proceeding to the Raytheon MathCounts National Completion in Washington, D.C. on May 10.


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Globalfoundries, a contract maker of semiconductors controlled by Advanced Micro Devices and Advanced Technology Investment Company, on Wednesday announced plans to add another version of 28nm fabrication process to the roadmap. The new 28HPP will boost performance of chips compared to the typical 28nm process by 10% and will allow to make chips with 2GHz clock-speed.
The new technology will address the growing market for smart mobile devices and high-performance processors requiring more than 2GHz of processing power. The 28nm high-performance plus (HPP) technology provides a performance boost of as much as 10% over the company's current 28nm HP offering, and offers optional ultra-low leakage transistors and SRAMs that extend the application range from high performance into the low power range. Globalfoundries plans to begin risk production using 28 HPP in Q4 2011.
In addition, a rich RF CMOS offering also is available, making the 28nm HPP technology an ideal platform for the next generation of high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) designs with a broad addressable market ranging from low-power to high-performance devices.
Globalfoundries 28nm HPP fabrication process will allow the company's customers to offer higher performance versions of 28nm HP chips later in the cycle and refresh product lineups if required without necessity to design brand new chips. Provided that Globalfoundries' 28nm HP process is on par with TSMC's 28nm HP version in terms of yields and costs, then the customers of the former will get a distinctive advantage over clients of the latter.
The new 28 HPP technology rounds out Globalfoundries' 28nm offerings, which include the 28nm HP technology targeted at high-performance wired applications and the super low power (SLP) technology for power-sensitive mobile and consumer applications. All 28nm technologies feature gate first approach to HKMG, which offers a substantially smaller die size and cost, as well as compatibility with proven design elements and process flows from previous technology nodes.
Globalfoundries is currently accepting designs for its 28nm technologies. Multiple customer designs have already been silicon-validated, and many more product and IP test chips are being validated at the company's Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany.
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Climate Change and Sustainability
Inquiry into wildlife crime
Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) launches inquiry into wildlife crime
The new inquiry will examine the scale of wildlife crime in the UK, including damage and destruction to species and habitats. It will also examine the scale of, and risks posed by, the illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife products. The inquiry will consider the role of the Government and other bodies in England and Wales in preventing, detecting and prosecuting these types of crime, as well as what action the Government can take internationally to tackle the problems of illegal trade.
The committee invites organisations and members of the public to submit written evidence, setting out their views on these issues. More wide ranging responses are also welcome. Submissions should ideally be sent to the Committee by Friday 24th February, although later submissions may be accepted.
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F. Stephen Hodi, Jr., MD
Director, Center for Immuno-Oncology
Institute Physician
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Center for Immuno-Oncology
Office phone: 617-632-5055
Fax: 617-632-6727
Website: Patient Gateway
Preferred contact method: office phone
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Research Department
Medical Oncology/Solid Tumor Oncology
Gene therapy for cancer, Melanoma, Tumor immunology
Area of ResearchCombination Immunotherapies for Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Avenue
Dana 540
Boston, MA 02215
Dr. Hodi is the Director of the Melanoma Center and the Center for Immuno-Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1992. Dr. Hodi competed his postdoctoral training in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Medical Oncology training at Dana-Farber cancer Institute where he joined the faculty in 1995. His research focuses on gene therapy, the development of immune therapies, and first into human studies for malignant melanoma. Dr. Hodi is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Melanoma Committee, the International Society for the Biological Therapy of cancer, and a founding member of the Society for Melanoma Research.
Recent Awards
- Mentoring Clinical Scientist Development Award, 1998
ResearchCombination Immunotherapies for Cancer
The ability to manipulate genes that encode potential immunomodulators, such as cytokines and tumor antigens, has opened a new era of research. Poorly immunogenic murine tumor systems demonstrate that vaccination with irradiated tumor cells engineered to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) generates potent, specific, and long-lasting immunity.
To test this strategy in patients with advanced melanoma, our laboratory performed a clinical trial of vaccination with lethally irradiated, autologous melanoma cells expressing human GM-CSF. Vaccination elicited a striking infiltrate of large numbers of lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages, and eosinophils, resulting in tumor destruction, fibrosis, and edema. These results provide a solid foundation for undertaking a molecular analysis of the melanoma antigens stimulating specific T and B cell responses in vaccinated patients. Candidate antigens are identified from screening with autologous sera of a complementary DNA expression library constructed from vaccinated patients' tumor cell lines. For a number of antigens evaluated, potent humoral immune responses are associated with immune-mediated destruction of diverse tumors - offering the promise of future antigen-directed therapies.
One mechanism that may limit the therapeutic potency of cancer vaccines is the attenuation of T cell function by cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4). Striking therapeutic synergies have been observed between CTLA-4 blockade and GM-CSF-secreting tumor cell vaccines in murine models of melanoma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. Based on these preclinical data, we initiated a phase I clinical trial of single administration of anti-CTLA-4 antibody (MDX-CTLA-4) in previously vaccinated patients with metastatic melanoma or ovarian cancer. Of the nine subjects treated, three had received irradiated, autologous GM-CSF-secreting melanoma cells; four patients with metastatic melanoma had received vaccinations against melanosomal antigens; and two patients with ovarian cancer had received autologous GM-CSF-secreting cells.
The three patients who received autologous GM-CSF-secreting melanoma cell vaccines demonstrated extensive tumor necrosis associated with hemorrhage and immune infiltrates in response to MDX-CTLA-4. In contrast, four of four patients who received vaccinations for melanosomal antigens failed to develop an immune infiltrate or tumor necrosis in response to MDX-CTLA4. The two patients with ovarian cancer had either a decrease or plateau to their CA-125 tumor marker levels following treatment with MDX-CTLA-4.
The immune infiltrates and massive tumor destruction witnessed in patients who had received MDX-CTLA-4 and GM-CSF-secreting cell vaccines suggest synergistic antitumor effects. This work provides the basis for additional studies to verify these observations in additional tumor types and to test combination immunotherapy modalities.
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- Schmollinger JC, Vonderheide RH, Hoar KM, Maecker B, Schultze JL, Hodi FS, Soiffer RJ, Jung K, Kuroda MJ, Letvin NL, Greenfield EA, North PE, Mihm M, Kutok JL, Dranoff G. The inhibitor of apoptosis protein ML-IAP is a target for immune mediated tumor destruction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003;100:3398-403.
- Mollick JA, Hodi FS, Soiffer R, Nadler LM, Dranoff G. MUC1-like tandem repeat proteins are broadly immunogenic in cancer patients. Cancer Immun 2003;3:3.
- Salgia R, Lynch T, Skarin A, Lucca J, Lynch C, Jung K, Hodi FS, Jaklitsch M, Mentzer S, Swanson S, Lukanich J, Bueno R, Wain J, Mathiesen D, Wright C, Fidias P, Donahue D, Clift S, Hardy S, Neuberg D, Mulligan R, Webb I, Sugarbaker D, Mihm M, Dranoff G. Vaccination with irradiated autologous tumor cells engineered to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor augments antitumor immunity in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 2003;21:624-30.
- Katz KA, Jonasch E, Hodi FS, Soiffer R, Kwitkiwski K, Sober AJ, Haluska FG. Melanoma of unknown primary: experience at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Melanoma Res 2005;15:77-82.
- Soiffer R, Hodi FS, Haluska F, Jung K, Gillessen S, Singer S, Tanabe K, Duda R, Mentzer S, Jaklitsch M, Bueno R, Clift S, Hardy S, Neuberg D, Mulligan R, Webb I, Mihm M, Dranoff G. Vaccination with irradiated, autologous melanoma cells engineered to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor by adenoviral mediated gene transfer augments antitumor immunity in patients with metastatic melanoma. J Clin Oncol 2003;21:3343-50.
- Hodi FS, Mihm MC, Soiffer RJ, Haluska FG, Butler M, Seiden M, Davis T, Henry-Spires R, MacRae S, Willman A, Padera R, Jaklitsch MT, Shankar S, Chen TC, Korman A, Allison JP, Dranoff G. Biologic activity of CTLA-4 antibody blockade in previously vaccinated metastatic melanoma and ovarian carcinoma patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003;100:4712-7.


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Prep Roundup (9-14-13)
WEST BRANCH- Ogemaw Heights took advantage of opportunities in a Big North game against Alpena on Friday, defeating the Wildcats 32-7.
Ogemaw's Ben Hartley intercepted a Tyler Pintar pass and returned it 28 yards for Ogemaw's first score in the first quarter. Wildcats returned the favor on a six-play drive, which ended with an outstretched score to Josh Bell from 32 yards out. Brad Styma added an extra point to give the Wildcats (1-2) a short-lived 7-6 lead at the 5:37 mark of the first quarter.
Devin Griffus found wide receiver Jack Vliet from 40 yards out with 3:07 left in first quarter to give Ogemaw the lead back.
The Wildcats held the Falcons scoreless in the second quarter until Jack Awrey broke numerous tackles on the way to a 60-yard touchdown run with 2:07 remaining in the half. Awrey scampered for a Falcons 16 yard run midway through the third quarter. Ben Hartley finished Ogemaw's scoring on a four yard run.
Tyler Pintar was 9-for-22 in passing for 89 yards, with one touchdown pass and two interceptions.
In the rushing deptartment, Jordan Ferguson rushed 10 attempts for 42 yards. Dakota Patterson had four rushes for 34 yards, and Ben Manning had four rushes for 34 yards.
In the receiving deptartment, Josh Bell had two receptions for 33 yards. Kaleb Smith had two receptions for 36 yards.
"We're just going to pick our heads back up and get back to practice on Monday." Alpena coach Mel Skillman said.
The Wildcats host Cadillac on Friday.
Hillman 48, Au Gres 8
AU GRES-The Hillman football team defeated the Au Gres on Friday with a final score of 48-8.
Kenny Kolcan carried 15 times for 216 yards and three touchdowns. Ty Jones was 10-of-17 passing for 120 yards and two touchdowns. Mason VanPamel had four catches for 49 yards and one touchdown.
"Defense played a lot better tonight. It's a work in progress and it's all starting to come together" Hillman coach Bill Koenig said.
Hillman (2-1) will be home next Friday against Rogers City.
Rogers City 3,
Whittemore-Prescott 0
WHITTEMORE-The Rogers City volleyball team swept Whittemore-Prescott on Thursday in its first North Star League match, winning three sets 25-13, 25-7 and 25-11.
"We had a bit of a slow start, but once we clicked the girls did really well and they put the ball into play in the right spots," Hurons coach Jackie Quaine said.
Rogers City (12-5-1, 1-0 NSL) was led offensively by Jenna Tulgetske with 10 kills and seven aces. Sarah Meredith pitched in with seven kills while Cassie Brege had 18 assists.
Defensively, Rogers City was led by Megan Quaine with 17 digs, while Megan Brege had 11 digs.
"It was a really fun game for us tonight, especially in serving. They had 22 aces. It was just fun to watch the girls out there, playing so well and really clicking as a team," Quaine said.
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Sometimes athletes arrive at finish line too quickly
By DAVID MURPHY
Published May 8, 2007
With every passing year, days like this become fewer and farther in between. As DuJuan Harris sat on a patch of grass at Showalter Field after his electrifying performance at the Class 3A track and field championships, the reality appeared to set in.
"It's all about money now, " the Central senior said softly as he stared into the distance. "It's all about money and business."
Then, he paused.
"It wasn't about that over here."
That's the funny thing about high school sports. Kids like Harris spend four years chasing down finish lines, decreasing times, increasing distances, pushing themselves to run faster, to jump farther, to reach a prescribed goal in the shortest possible time. Then in the blast of a pistol it is over, and the roles are reversed, and they find themselves wishing it had all taken a little bit longer, that it had all progressed a little bit slower, that the finish line still lay in front instead of behind.
On Friday, Harris became just the second athlete in Hernando County history to win two state track titles in the same meet. He dominated the long jump, soaring 24 feet, 4 inches to win by a foot, then snagging a dramatic victory in the triple jump by leaping 47-1 on his final attempt.
At one point, while the 20 or so onlookers that lined a chained-link fence by the jump pit let out a chorus of "oohs" and "ahhhs, " Harris turned to one of his fellow competitors and said, "God gave me wings, and I use them to fly."
But for a kid who can fly, he looked remarkably grounded after all was said and done. His mother and baby sister sat next to him. The two gold medals weren't draped around his neck. It isn't clear where they were.
It should have been a crowning moment for an athlete who has spent the past eight months proving himself to anyone who will take notice. During football season, he rushed for nearly 1, 700 yards and set the county's single-game rushing record in his first and only season as a feature back. He signed a scholarship to Troy, the only Division I-A program that made him an offer.
And he joined former Olympic sprinter John Capel as the only athletes in county history to win multiple state titles.
Surely much of Harris' angst came from disappointing finishes in his two other events of the day (after competing in the long jump and triple jump for nearly four straight hours, he barely missed qualifying for the finals in the 100 and 200 meters).
But that wasn't the only thing bothering him. "I'm not ready for it to be over yet, " Harris said.
Ah, yes.
The finish line.
From here on out, life will change. Harris will move on to a small Alabama city where he will attempt to make a name for himself as a D-I running back. He'll start summer classes in late June, and training camp a little after that. He'll become a product, a commodity, a project, a player who will hopefully help his college win games and sell tickets, one who will eat prescribed meals and perform mandated lifting routines, someone who will try to set himself up to some day make a little money off his physical gifts.
In other words, rare will be a day like Friday: a day when he and a couple of coaches and his mother and his sister made the drive across S.R. 50 to a park on the outskirts of Orlando, a day when he was one of only two kids from this little county participating in the state championships, a day when he was competing only for himself, and against himself, with nothing at stake but pride and accomplishment.
For sure, the future is not bleak. There are worse ways to spend one's time than playing college football. And anyone who claims that one's high school days are the best life has to offer is comparing apples with oranges. Life is an isthmus and each stage an island: unique and autonomous, yet part of a whole.
Still, Harris is on to his next island, and open water can be an intimidating sight.
As he sat forlornly in the tent his Central coaches had erected outside the stadium, the lady sitting next to him smiled.
"I'm proud of him, " his mother, Rose Jones, said.
And, really, is there a greater accomplishment than that?
David Murphy can be reached at email@example.com or (352) 848-1407.


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As soon as I stepped off the plane in Miami for my visit to our Media Hub of the Americas I sensed a certain dynamism. As I met with journalists, members of the business community, academics, and students during my visit, I found that this energy permeated throughout my meetings, as all were eager to engage to further strengthen the ties that bind the United States to Latin America.
The Hub of the Americas is a part of the Bureau of Public Affairs' network of six media hubs around the world; and it is the only hub located domestically. Our media hub in Miami takes advantage of the city's location as a gateway to Latin America to communicate our policies not only to audiences in the Hemisphere but also to the growing Spanish-speaking community in the United States. During my trip, I did press interviews that provided the U.S. perspective on world events and explained U.S. policy on topical regional issues. You can watch a couple of these interviews this Sunday, December 9 on Univision's Sunday show "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos and Telemundo's Sunday news program "Enfoque" with Jose Diaz-Balart.
As part of one of Secretary Clinton's emphasis on Economic Statecraft, the "Miami Hub" also works to connect the Miami business community with our embassies in Latin America. I met with the Latin Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Beacon Council, and the Americas Society and Council of the Americas. These groups bring together prominent Miami business leaders, public servants, and entrepreneurs to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the Latin American economic landscape. During these discussions, I highlighted the recent accomplishments of our consular team, whose streamlined, and expanded visa services throughout Latin America are expediting travel for business visitors, students and tourists thereby creating jobs -- did you know that for every 65 visitors, one U.S. job is created? Furthermore, I was glad to direct our contacts to a monthly call-in show on a Spanish-language radio station during which Assistant Secretary for Economics and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez takes questions from U.S. residents and listeners in Latin America on topics related to U.S. economic policy. You too can call the program at (305) 529-1020.
The Hub of the Americas also looks for opportunities to discuss the State Department's work with U.S. citizens, both to promote a better understanding of the work we do, and to recruit bright and talented future diplomats. After meeting with the dynamic President of Miami Dade College, Dr. Eduardo Padron, I was delighted to speak to a group of Miami Dade College students in the historical Freedom Tower. While my talk focused on State Department priorities and career opportunities, I also discussed State Department programs related to Wildlife Conservation Day. Coincidentally, Freedom Tower was featuring a conservation-themed, art exhibition on the Everglades, as part of Miami's prestigious annual, international art festival Art Basel.
During both my address to the students and my meetings with business groups, I discussed the 100,000 Strong Initiative, a State Department program committed to sending 100,000 U.S. students to study in Latin America and 100,000 Latin American students to study in U.S. universities. This program is moving forward with the cooperation of the Department, the business community and other private donors, and interested students.
I also realized during my stay that there a number of former State Department officials who are have made the Miami area their permanent home. I chatted with former Ambassador and current Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason about international commercial activity in his town, while Florida International University's Hilarion "Lari" Martinez, a former Foreign Service Officer, told me all about a course he's teaching to undergraduate students that focuses on statecraft and diplomacy, and encourages public service.
All in all, I was thrilled to see the great work our "Miami Hub" is doing to further U.S.-Latin American ties and to present U.S. policies to the Spanish-speaking world. As this Administration has made clear, one of the starting points for effective U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century is to focus on the enormous opportunity in our own neighborhood. Today, our engagement within the Western Hemisphere is so important to our shared future. Our partnerships in the this region are not only vital to our economic recovery and competitiveness, but are also to our ability to solve the transnational challenges that no one country can solve on its own.
Wheels down in Washington, I rounded out my week of Spanish-language engagements on our internet platform LiveAtState en Español. About 20 journalists from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain, and Venezuela participated in the session. I talked about issues ranging from the Miami port buildup to accommodate the Panama Canal expansion to the 100,000 Strong program to U.S. support for the Colombian peace process. Our internet-based press conferences provide a platform for further highlighting the strength of the U.S.-Latin America relationship in the last four years and moving forward.
Melissa in Maryland writes:
Thank you for discussing Latin America, but I think there is a general perception, I don't know if it's right or not, that the US only pays attention to Latin America when it is convenient for us, that it gets placed on the back burner after the Middle East mess, Asia, and Europe. What do you think? Is that true?
Assistant Secretary Mike Hammer replies:
Dear Melissa,
Thanks for your interest and let me assure you that Latin America is not "on-the-back-burner." The State Department's Western Hemisphere team focuses on Latin America every day and, as President Obama and Secretary Clinton have made clear, we are promoting an era of partnership with the region to work to address the common challenges we face. While these issues may not be in the headlines, we are hard at work on important initiatives aimed at improving the lives of the peoples of the Americas, including Connect2022, to bring electrical power to all people in the hemisphere, and Women Entrepreneurs of the Americas, which invests in women-owned small and medium enterprises.
Beyond that, we have been actively promoting greater economic prosperity, as you have seen with passage of Colombia and Panama free trade agreements and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the increase in private-public cooperation to create jobs, promote education, and increase economic opportunity. We have also been focused on citizen security and supporting efforts to combat narco-trafficking, criminal gangs, and terrorism. We are also promoting social inclusion and the advancement of women's rights. And we have worked to strengthen democratic institutions, particularly through our support for the work of the OAS.
Last week, by the way, I had the opportunity address the question of the importance of Latin America and I would invite you to hear more on the topic (if you speak Spanish) in my interview with Univision and in a virtual press conference called LiveAtState.


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Facelift: Then and Now
NEW YORK, NY (September 30, 2003) — According to statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), 124,514 Americans had facelift surgery in 2002. With the "coming of age" of the Baby Boomer generation, that number is expected to increase significantly during the next decade. But getting "nipped and tucked" was not always so socially acceptable. In fact, until the late 1960s, facelift surgery was an operation shrouded in mystery - both for the public and most surgeons as well.
"Up until that time, face lifting was not considered a legitimate pursuit for any well-trained plastic surgeon and was done mostly behind closed doors," says ASAPS President Robert Bernard, MD. "It wasn't until ASAPS was founded, 36 years ago, that plastic surgeons began to talk about these things openly and share their ideas and techniques. ASAPS provided the first, and for many years the only, opportunity for cosmetic surgery education in a national forum."
Facelift Techniques: How Far Have We Come?
It is interesting that, even today, there is no clear answer to the question, "Which facelift technique is best?" Variations of the "classic" skin flap technique, used in its basic form as early as the 1950s, still are preferred by some plastic surgeons. Technical refinements including, more recently, the option of less extensive incisions for appropriately selected patients have enhanced the results. The ideal candidate is someone who has loose facial skin with minimal sagging of the deeper structures underneath.
In the early days of face lifting, additional procedures to improve the neck were done in a separate operation at a later time, because surgeons feared compromising the blood supply to the facial skin flap. Today, a facelift and neck lift usually are performed simultaneously. Over time, surgeons learned to design their facelift incisions and suturing techniques so as to relieve the high tension that inevitably resulted from pulling and securing the tissues. The "wind tunnel" look of older-style facelifts was replaced by more natural-looking results.
The classic facelift technique changed little until the early 1970s, when a Swedish surgeon, Tord Skoog, MD, presented and published his work. Skoog said that getting rid of excess skin was not enough, and that tightening the underlying structures of the face and neck -- the so-called SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) -- was the key to better and longer-lasting results.
In the late 1970s, some plastic surgeons began to use lipoplasty (liposuction) as a method of sculpting the area beneath the chin and jaw line, as well as "spot suctioning" other areas of the face in conjunction with a facelift. Around the same time, surgeons recognized the value of repairing the muscles of the neck (platysma) to help eliminate vertical neck bands.
The SMAS-lift is the most commonly performed facelift technique today. In addition to the skin flap facelift and SMAS technique, the evolution of modern techniques includes the deep-plane facelift, subperiosteal facelift, endoscopic facelift and others. Each of these methods has its noted proponents, but nowhere has it been conclusively shown that any one technique is superior. Despite the ongoing controversy, there are at least a couple of points that most plastic surgeons agree on. Facial shaping by removing, repositioning or adding fat -- not simply tightening the skin and muscles -- is key to achieving optimal results in facial rejuvenation. And no single formula is right for everyone; the surgical plan must be customized for each individual patient.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), is recognized as the world's leading organization devoted entirely to aesthetic plastic surgery and cosmetic medicine of the face and body. ASAPS is comprised of over 2,600 Plastic Surgeons; Active Members are certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (USA) or by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and have extensive training in the complete spectrum of surgical and nonsurgical aesthetic procedures. International Active Members are certified by equivalent boards of their respective countries. All members worldwide adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and must meet stringent membership requirements.
- Follow ASAPS on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ASAPS
- Become a fan of ASAPS on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AestheticSociety
- Check us out on Instagram: www.instagram.com/theaestheticsocietyasaps
- Check out our consumer-facing website: www.smartbeautyguide.com
- Locate a plastic surgeon in your area: www.smartbeautyguide.com/select-surgeon


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