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MANITOBA Theatre for Young People missed paying its staff last week as it continues to grapple with a year-long financial crisis.
Board president Gloria Koop said Wednesday that the 30-year-old company, which is struggling with a debt in the $1.5-million range, has an annual cash-flow problem that typically emerges in late February. She said this is the fourth year in a row this has happened
"It's not unusual for us to have this problem at this time of year," said Koop, in her first year chairing the board of directors. "We are simply waiting on grant revenue and other receivables to come in. It's just a case of bad timing. It's a weak moment in time for us."
Earlier this year artistic director Leslee Silverman said the debt was bigger that the company could deal with and executive director Zaz Bajon added that the company was struggling to make ends meet.
The board met Tuesday night and went over plans being finalized that will improve the well-regarded theatre's fiscal picture. Much of the debt is a carryover from the construction of MTYP's home at The Forks in 1999. Fundraising is still the most pressing need.
"There are many things we need to do," Koop said. "We need to cut costs, we need to seek out new supporters and just become more sustainable. We are hard at work on a three-year development plan."
This is normally the time that Silverman announces MTYP's new season. One of the options still being considered is a reduced season.
Besides looking for money, the board is also searching for a new general manager/executive director. Koop said that Bajon is leaving MTYP in mid-April after being lured out of retirement -- following a laudable 30 years as the general manager of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre -- last spring to take this new challenge. She called Bajon's contribution integral to the development to the company's plans.
"There are lots of good things in the works to look forward to," Koop said. "We are steadily moving towards sustainability."
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Officials in Poland scrambled Wednesday to explain why they failed to close the stadium roof and prevent the country's World Cup qualifier with England being postponed by a waterlogged pitch.
The match was rescheduled for Wednesday.
Heavy rain on Tuesday left pools of water on the field at the 1.8 billion zloty ($600 million) National Stadium, built for this year's European Championship. The stadium, with a capacity of 58,000, has a retractable roof, but it was left open Tuesday despite intensifying rainfall.
On Wednesday, the Polish Football Association and the National Sports Center, which runs the stadium, were trying to avoid taking the blame.
According to stadium managers, the Polish FA said that neither team, nor the FIFA representative or referee, wanted the roof closed, despite the bad weather. FIFA requires matches to be held under natural conditions, the same as during training.
They said the roof cannot be closed while it rains, which was the case for most of the day Tuesday. They also denied that the recently-fitted grass was of poor quality and unable to absorb the rain. They maintained the drainage was sufficient and worked properly after the roof was closed when the rain stopped.
"(The) FIFA match commissioner decided at 8 p.m. to close the roof," but the stadium managers said it was not possible due to the heavy rain, the association said. The FA apologized to the fans for the inconvenience.
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I WAS astounded by the article about second class post.
It seems to me that the so called experiment arranged by Mr Murray served no purpose other than to highlight that there may be a problem getting post out of London.
However, that is not typical of the country as a whole.
It is clear to me that the Royal Mail is struggling to bring a 19th century business into the 21st century in one big jump, and this must be an enormous task in the face of all the alternatives which are available, such as email.
I think postal workers need to let go of archaic working practices and face the future head on. Whether a stamp costs 36p or 55p, the postal service will not survive without a good dose of realism and a change of attitude.
The alternative is that Royal Mail will fail and be sold, no doubt to a foreign business.
The Royal Mail is, and will continue to be, important, particularly to those with limited choices or mobility in our society, so we should all cherish and make the most of it.
It is not productive for politicians to play silly games which might undermine the task of reforming the service.
My office is on the third floor. Royal Mail post is delivered through the door or at reception depending on the time of day. Mail delivered by private companies is usually to be found on the floor or, sometimes, outside in the street.
Whilst she took part in the 'experiment', at least Kate Green MP seems to recognise that it was un-scientific. My own experience differs: A week or two ago, I posted a second class stamped letter from Manchester on Monday afternoon. A reply was received, by second class post, on Friday morning. I call that a successful and worthwhile service.
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It varies from year to year, and there are some students that we lost track of, but from the information we have, we estimate that more than 90% of the students who apply to Medical School or a School of Osteopathy have been accepted - not all the following year.
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R.L. Colston & Sons offers traditional 3/4" unfinished solid hardwood floors in a variety of species in 2-1/4" to 5" widths.
Hickory greatly separates itself from other wood species by its great color variation which begins from light tan to reddish/ dark brown tones with dramatic grain patterns.Its unique rustic appearance, the combination of its hard density and moderate coarse open grain, make it just as appropriate in a contemporary high rise loft as it is in a log cabin. It is also ideal for high traffic areas and kid's rooms.
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Chris Breen and Serenity Caldwell discuss the news of the week including iOS and iBM, real work on an iPad, too easy in-app purchases, and unlimited lit.
This is Tim: Apple's CEO on iPad sales, China, Beats, IBM, and more
Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the company's Q3 numbers and much, much more in his remarks to analysts Tuesday. Here's what he had to say.
AudioSwitcher 2.16 review: Mac app is an audio source quick-change artist
AudioSwitcher is fantastically functional, especially if you're switching between multiple microphones and speakers on a daily basis.
How to use iTunes Pass to reload iTunes credit for you or a friend
Apple's now offering a Passbook option for iTunes Store credit. Here's how to set it up and how you can use it to add money to your account (or a friend's).
Read all about Swift on Apple's new engineering blog
Apple has created a blog about the development of its new Swift programming language, which will include news, tips, and tricks from Apple engineers. Also: the Xcode 6 beta is now free to registered developers.
Hands-on with Capo and Capo touch: Get ready to rock
Do you love learning new songs? Capo can make that process even easier. We took a peek at SuperMegaUltraGroovy's new Mac and iOS versions of the software.
Serenity Caldwell and Chris Breen discuss a false sense of security, the unsurprising thing about robots, a more-aware home, and why fashion matters.
These are human people you're playing with
Serenity Caldwell and Chris Breen discuss the tech news of the week including Facebook's seeming disdain for privacy, Apple's Pride, Aperture hubbub, and iTunes U improvements.
Staff Picks: Sketch a little here and there with Skitch
Need to add a bit of text or an arrow on top of a photo, map, website, or PDF? Check out Evernote's free Skitch app, our iOS Staff Pick of the week.
Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor get new updates
Hot on the heels of Apple's announcement that it would be discontinuing pro photography app Aperture, the company has released updates to its other major OS X professional apps.
iResizer review: Get your images to fit, without cropping
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Adobe Sketch and Line master drafting and sketching on the iPad
Adobe's Sketch app is a solid drawing app, while Line stands out from the crowd as a masterful drafting option. Here's our review.
Adobe Sketch and Line review: New apps master drafting and sketching on the iPad
Adobe's Sketch app is a solid drawing app, while Line stands out from the crowd as a masterful drafting option. Here's our review.
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Pleuto – #skeletun [Album]
Calgary, AB – After making us wait all summer (and then some), Pleuto has finally dropped his debut #skeletun album. Okay, it was definitely worth the wait. Because the album is called #skeletun. And it was Halloween yesterday. And skeletons are commonly associated with Halloween. So it worked.
Pleuto has a distinctive spacey sound, and a skill-set to match. He sings. He writes. And he produces. This album combines a dash of trap-rap, with Pleuto's vibed-out home-cooked beats, as well as several sweet tracks produced by Makemdef. The 15-track project also includes collaborations with local rappers New'L and Doughmeo. Cop the project via BandCamp. It's pay-what-you-can. So be a good homie and pay what you can, please. You can also stream the album after the jump.
And if you're looking for something fun to do in Calgary tonight, Pleuto is throwing his album release party at Brandy Leigh's (233 – 10 St. N.W.). It all goes down at 9 p.m. DJ Yung Nino will be on the decks, and there will be live performances by Pleuto and New'L.
Word on the street is that there's going to be some pretty tasty grub up for grabs, too (Jamaican patties, anyone?). And if you're itching to get a hard copy of the project, Pleuto just announced that he will have limited supplies on-hand. See you there.
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Peeps Dioramas Easter
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Peeps Dioramas Easter, Depending on the state of your sweet tooth, Peeps are either a delectable Easter treat, or sugared styrofoam contorted into unnatural shapes. Peeps dioramas have exploded into an annual springtime tradition, with outlets like the Washington Post and the Denver Post holding competitions that celebrate the medium of sugar-coated marshmallows.
The resulting dioramas range from political parodies to some wonderfully geeky works of edible art. I've collected some of my favorite Peeps dioramas, with scenes from comics, science fiction TV and films, and video games rendered with pastel bunnies and chicks.
There's a certain art form to the Peeps diorama. You want to use the classic Peeps shapes while also replicating a recognizable moment. You want to enhance the Peeps without disguising them, and Loren Sciurba does just that with his Walking Dead diorama, depicting Shane's sacrifice of poor Otis with distressed zombie bunnies, licorice guts and a nice splatter of raspberry jam blood.
For a more genteel take on the zombie apocalypse comes "Peeps and Prejudice and Zombies." Needs more licorice guts.
Landscape architect Jill Yutan went with classic Star Trek for her diorama. Clever, since Tribbles reproduce like parthenogenetic bunnies.
Normally, I don't regard Peeps as an appealing foodstuff, but the thought of chocolate-covered Dalek Peeps is making me hungry. Come, Peepeks, and exterminate my hunger.
If Peepman's symbol is a Peep, then why does he still dress like a bat? Of course, you don't really need logic when you have a sweet Peepmobile like that.
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As the 2012 election draws closer, you should consider following the presidential candidates to stay up-to-date on the latest news and debates. These candidates are social media butterflies with active accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and more, so click to find out where you can find them.
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Use promo code 'SNOWPALS' to get 1/2 off Powder Pass and VIP wine/beer tasting Admission Tickets to SnowBomb Ski & Board Festival..
In San Francisco, CA on SATURDAY November 5 AND SUNDAY November 6, 2016 at Fort Mason Center 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94123. Both days 10 AM TO 6 PM. Go to Eventbrite, get 50% off tickets by clicking on the 'Enter the Promotional Code' link. Enter discount code: snowpals and click apply to receive the discount. Invite friends to go via our Facebook event listing.
In San Jose, CA on SATURDAY October 29 and SUNDAY October 30, 2016 at San Jose Convention Center 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA 95113. Both days 10 AM to 6 PM. Go to Eventbrite, get 50% off tickets by clicking on 'TICKETS' then click on 'Enter the Promotional Code' link. Enter discount code: ' snowpals ' and click apply to receive the discount.
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POWER PASS includes 3 FREE LIFT TICKETS: Sierra-at-Tahoe(Valid Tuesday to Thursday, blackout holidays: 12/20/16 – 1/5/17; 2/21/17 – 2/23/17), China Peak(Valid Sunday to Friday, blackout holidays: 12/25/16 – 1/2/17; 1/14/17 – 1/16/17; 2/18/17 – 2/20/17), and Bear Valley(Valid Sunday to Friday, non-holidays). Black-out holidays: 12/17/16 – 12/31/16; 1/15/17-1/16/17; 2/12/17-2/13/17.
VIP PASS includes 3 FREE LIFT TICKETS as described above and UNLIMITED BEER OR WINE TASTING PLUS a BONUS Free Squaw Valley/Alpine lift ticket (buy one get one free; Valid Sunday – Friday, non-holiday. Holiday dates: 12/17/16 – 12/31/16; 1/14/16 – 1/15/17; 2/18/17 – 2/25/17. Both lift tickets must be used on the same date. Beer on Saturday / Wine on Sunday.
- WINE/BEER TASTING: at the SF event location only – festival features wine and beer tasting from top wineries and breweries. Four hours of UNLIMITED tasting and commemorative glass with VIP ticket. Plus, at the SF location, you can purchase wine to take home if you so choose. Wine tasting on Saturday / Beer tasting on Sunday. For San Jose location: "SnowBomb would like to make everyone aware that the beer/wine tasting is not unlimited this year in San Jose. Due to conflicts with the SJCC liquor license we are not allowed to serve unlimited samples. However, as a compromise with the venue we have secured two drink tickets for every VIP Pass holder which are good for a 16 oz beer or 8 oz wine during the event from 1-5 pm.We do apologize if this has caused any confusion. We have tried our best to make this known on Snowbomb.com as well as on the ticketing platform Eventbrite.com but it has come to our attention that some people are unaware of this change this year. Please note wine sale not available to take home at the San Jose Festival location." – Snowbomb
- SKI/SNOWBOARD SALE: Over $1 Million dollars in snow sporting goods from top brands such as Burton, K2, Atomic, Rossignol and many, many more… UP TO 75% OFF.
- ENTERTAINMENT: Bounce House for Kids, Pro Athletes, BMX/Skate Ramp Show & Live Music. Get a chance to win lift tickets, season pass and prizes when you play at most ski resort booths. Attend and get a chance to buy discount ski season pass to your favorite Tahoe ski resort and chat with resorts' reps.
Question: Which Snowbomb Ski Festival location is more fun?
Answer: Hands down SF ski festival at Fort Mason on Nov 5 and 6, 2016 is more fun because: (1) it's bigger (2) more ski resorts (3) more vendors (4) more chances to win prizes, lift tickets/season pass when you play games at the resorts' info booth (5) four hours of wine/beer tasting (6) and taste wine(s) you like – you can buy it to bring home. Share with family and friends and make it a fun filled day together.
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With the Senior Bowl wrapped up, the Pittsburgh Steelers should be close to naming some coaches to their staff to fill the voids left by Sean Kugler, Amos Jones and to an extent Al Everest. Every offseason, coaches' use this week as a coaching combine of sorts as many deals are worked out to fill holes in staffs.Washington Redskins had granted the Steelers permission to speak with Pittsburgh native Danny Smith, to potentially fill their special teams coordinator position. At this point, this has not been verified by either team, but it is being reported in the respective media outlets.
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Annecy (; Èneci / Ènneci in Arpitan language) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy (Lac d'Annecy), south of Geneva.
Starting as the capital of the county of Geneva, after the demise of the counts of Geneva, it became integrated into the House of Savoy's possessions in 1401. In 1444, it was set up by the Princes of Savoy as the capital of a region covering the possessions of the Genevois, Faucigny and Beaufortain. With the advance of Calvinism in 1535, it became a center for the Counter-Reformation and the bishop's see of Geneva was transferred here. After being suppressed in 1801, it was restored in 1822.
During the French Revolution the Savoy region was conquered by France. Annecy became attached to the département of Mont Blanc, of which the capital was Chambéry. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1815, it was returned to the Kingdom of Sardinia (heir of the Duchy of Savoy). When Savoy was sold to France in 1860, it became the capital of the new département of Haute-Savoie.
Francis of Sales was born at the nearby castle of Sales in 1567. He was bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622.
Annecy was the site of the second round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks in 1949.
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LAS VEGAS – Daniel Mathis, president and CEO of the Nevada Health Care Association (NVHCA) has been invited to join the Nevada Commission on Aging Strategic Plan Accountability Subcommittee, as an ex-officio member. The commission is part of the Aging and Disability Services Division in the state of Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services. The division represents … [Read more...]
Wendy Simons Leaves Nevada Health Care Association to Consult for New Veterans Administration Skilled Nursing Facility
LAS VEGAS – Daniel Mathis, president and CEO of the Nevada Health Care Association (NVHCA), announced that Wendy Simons, the association's director of assisted living program development, would be leaving at the request of the Nevada Department for Veterans Services for a new Veterans Administration skilled nursing facility to be built in Northern Nevada. One of the Nevada … [Read more...]
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Lebanon faces a new political crisis after its parliament postponed a session Friday to elect a new president. The delay, until next week, is meant to allow more time for lawmakers from rival factions to reach a consensus on a new head of state.
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Despite intense international pressure and mediation, members of the two main factions have failed to agree on a compromise candidate.
These two groups have paralyzed the Lebanese state for the past year. The Western-backed coalition holds tiny majority in parliament. The opposition movement is led by Syria and Iran's ally, Hezbollah, and has boycotted parliament meetings and held protests aimed at toppling the Western-backed coalition's prime minister from power.
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Addiction Expert on Lindsay Lohan: 'She Has Deep Psychological Issues'
News broke on Wednesday evening that Lindsay had failed an alcohol test after being put on house arrest for the alleged theft of a necklace back in January. The failed alcohol test was found not to be a violation of her probation, and the starlet was ordered to continue and finish out her house arrest stay.
Since Lindsay's troubles have not ceased, Celebuzz caught with addiction specialist Pax Prentiss, who founded the Passages rehab center after battling his own addictions. We spoke with him about what treatment would be best for Lindsay, whether or not he thinks this is her last shot, and much more.
The issue of alcohol abuse is obviously a reoccurring issue with Lindsay, and now that she failed this alcohol test, what would you recommend for her? Do you jail would benefit her, or should she seek treatment? What is the proper solution?
Lindsay has not received proper treatment since all of these problems started occurring. The rehab centers that she has been to does not do enough individual therapy and so the underlying conditions which are causing her to use have not been resolved. Jail will not help heal her, she needs to check into passages where she can get a lot of individual therapy and stay there for three months, anything short of that and I believe that she will keep relapsing.
Why do you think that she has come out to the press and has said, in so many words, that she's using anymore while she obviously still is. Why do you think that she is essentially just lying to our faces about this? Is she just in total denial?
I don't believe Lindsay is in denial over circumstances but she is trying to save face by telling people that she is ok.
When there is so much evidence to the contrary, it seems hard to understand why she would say these things. Does feel like she is above all this because she keeps getting away with things?
She has deep underlying psychological pain that needs to be addressed. It's not that she thinks she is above it or that she can get away with it, it's that she is being driven to abuse drugs and alcohol as a way to cope with her problems. I believe that there are problems within her family, with her dad primarily. I think there are family issues that need to be resolved. I am sure that there were a lot of stressors that were put on her at a young age because she was a childhood star, but there is an underlying issue that is driving her and it needs to be resolved. Like when she went to Betty Ford she just sat in group meetings and Lindsay being a very private person and being a public figure is not going to reveal her problems sitting in group meetings and when she goes to jail she is not going to get any treatment. She is going to get out and repeat what she has already done because those underlying issues are still present, driving her to the drugs and alcohol.
So in your eyes, individual treatment would be best for her?
It's absolutely essential that she gets individual therapy. I'm not trying to promote passages here but what we do here is an incredible amount of individual therapy. Each client receives 70 hours of individual therapy a month with a team of ten therapists. When you compare that to Betty Ford or Promises where they just do one hour of individual therapy a week, there is no comparison. What she needs is that ultra, intensive, individual help because in that type of environment she will talk about her problems and then the feeling work can begin. Where right now, there is just no healing that's happening and going to jail; consequences do not stop people from using drugs and alcohol. You can see that clearly with Lindsay. She will get out of jail, she will go back to using. She will get out of rehab, she will go back to using. That's because the underline conditions are still present and until those are healed she will just continue to relapse time and time again.
Is it up to the court what rehab she goes to? If they were to sentence her with mandatory rehab as opposed to going back to jail, can she choose whichever one she wants to go to? You were saying with Betty Ford that's not much help so can the court choose for her which rehab she has to go to?
A court can choose which rehab she can go to or she can choose one herself and if the court signs off on it she can check into that treatment program. I can tell you the places she has been offers no real therapy. Group meetings are very old and outdated models that came around 40-50 years ago, Betty Ford uses that model, even Promises Malibu uses that model, but the problem is that when you get someone like a public figure who is sitting in a group meeting, they are not going to talk up because they are not only embarrassed but they are afraid it is going to be leaked to the press. They don't want their pain or their problems to be leaked to the press. Lindsay needs a different approach. Jail is not the right approach, the places where she has been is not the right approach she needs something new. Until that happens, she is going to continue to relapse. The pain of her problems is greater than the pain of jail that's why she goes to drugs for relief from the pain of her problems.
Do you think that this is essentially her last shot?
I believe Lindsay is going to relapse and end up back in a treatment center or jail again. I don't think it's the last shot, I think she has got a ways to go. I think you are going to see this continue on until it's the right type of treatment.


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Journal-News Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2006
By Jim Blount
"As you had no doubt heard very alarming accounts about the earthquakes and other dangers of descending the Mississippi River, I suppose you would have looked upon me as going to certain destruction," said James McBride in a letter recounting his experience in piloting a flatboat on the Mississippi River during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.
Between December 1811 and April 1812, "the Mississippi River Valley was rocked by a chain of catastrophic earthquakes," said Jay Feldman in his 2005 book, When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. "Of the more than 2,000 tremors," he said "three would have measured near or over 8.0 on the later devised" Richter Scale.
McBride said he joined Joseph Hough, an early Hamilton merchant, "with the intention of carrying on the business of merchandising" Butler County products in New Orleans. "We purchased a quantity of flour and whiskey in the Miami Country and loaded two flatboats on the Miami River which we have brought out of that stream." Upon selling their cargo in New Orleans, McBride said, they planned to "go round by sea to Philadelphia and purchase goods, and return with them to Hamilton."
In an April 1, 1812, letter to an aunt, McBride said "I think we have now passed those dangers, and if some untoward accident does not overtake us, shall pass safely to New Orleans, and if flour bears the price, which I understand it does, we shall make something very handsome."
"Our cargoes consist of 700 barrels of flour and some whiskey and pork which we purchased in the Miami Country on very reasonable terms, as the reports prevailing, of the dangers to be encountered from the Indians, and the earthquakes had so much frightened the people that none would venture to encounter them," he continued. "These stories I considered improbable, but have since found too much reality to exist in them, particularly those relating to the earthquakes."
"Soon after entering the Mississippi River," McBride wrote, we discovered "the effects of the earthquake. . . . Above New Madrid on the west side of the river is a grove of cotton wood and willow trees, two or three miles long, these were all bent up stream and stripped of their leaves and branches in a singular manner. It is said that at the time of the most violent shock the river at this place for some time ran up stream with great velocity, and from the appearance I have no doubt of the fact, as I know of nothing else that could have produced the appearance here exhibited. We were now experiencing considerable shocks every few hours," continued McBride, who is considered Hamilton's first historian.
The Hamilton merchants planned to stop for the night after passing New Madrid at the southeast tip of what later became Missouri. Unable to reach the river bank before darkness, McBride stopped at "a willow island in the river and fastened to the willows, where we remained all night in a very exposed situation. . . . The river was falling and myself and hands were obliged frequently during the night to jump overboard into the water, cold as it was, to push off the boat and prevent her getting fast aground."
The next morning he stopped at Little Prairie, a village of about 20 houses. McBride said "we soon discovered that the place where we were moored had been part of the town, now the bed of the Mississippi River, a considerable portion, several acres, on which part of the town had stood had sunk down . . . and the river flowed over the place. The place where we made fast our boat was a burying ground, part had sunk into the river, and coffins were exposed along the bank."
"Of about a dozen houses and cabins which I saw, not one was standing, all was either entirely prostrated or nearly overturned, and wrecked in a miserable manner," McBride wrote.
He found "the surface of the ground was cracked in almost every direction and stood like yawning gulfs, so wide that I could scarcely leap over them, at other places I came to spaces of ground several poles in width sunk down two or three feet below the common level of the ground." Eight to 10 shocks were felt while at Little Prairie, McBride said. "Each shock continued about two minutes and was preceded by a rumbling noise like distant thunder or the discharge of a cannon at a great distance."
"We experienced slight shocks at intervals for the distance of 100 miles above and below Little Prairie," McBride recalled. The shore "presents a most melancholy spectacle, the banks cracked and fractured, trees broken off and fractured, and in many places acres of ground sunk down so that the tops of the trees just appeared above the surface of the water. All nature appeared in ruins, and seemed to mourn in solitude ever her melancholy fate," he said.
From near Natchez, McBride wrote: "The high wind still continues today, and the river so rough that we cannot pursue our voyage, I therefore devote the day to writing you this letter intending to put it in the post office when I arrive at Natchez."
Hough and McBride, each piloting a flatboat, survived the perilous trip and returned to Hamilton. McBride's many services to Hamilton, Butler County, the state and Miami University have been mentioned in numerous previous columns.
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Journal-News Wednesday,Aug. 9, 2006
By Jim Blount
In 1817, when Cincinnati interests were trying to convince state officials to locate Miami University in the Queen City instead of Oxford, the Western Spy, a Cincinnati weekly newspaper, described the proposed university as a "college in the gloom of the beechwood flats where the footsteps of enlightenment and liberal patronage cannot penetrate, and from whence not a ray of science will be reflected for a century." Those efforts failed and collegiate instruction began in 1824 in the isolation of Oxford.
Through the early years of the 20th century, some Miami students and university officials would agree with at least part of that derisive description in the 1817 newspaper.
"She is a rural college, with a homogenous student community, free from the distractions and vices of city life," said a 1914 university publication in describing the atmosphere in Oxford. "Every visitor to Oxford is impressed by the loyalty, diligence and seriousness of purpose characteristic of Miami students, free to think and develop amid the natural beauty and historic associations of this famous old college town," said the publication, that reported it cost $1.25 a week for a dormitory room and $2.50 a week for food.
For at least a century, parents and students venturing to Miami by horse power and later in gasoline-fueled vehicles faced numerous risks and hardships, including the narrow, winding, rutted roads into Oxford that were either dusty or muddy, depending on the recent weather, and the unpaved streets in the village.
A student arriving or leaving Oxford by auto was a rarity, according to Larz Hammel, a Miami student from September 1916 until his graduation in June 1920, and a university trustee, 1934-65.
Hammel, interviewed by this writer in the early 1980s, said he believed "one of the most tremendous thrills is gone" because of the use of cars, vans, etc. as the means of traveling to and from the Oxford campus.
"Everybody came to Oxford on the train. There were no buses and not many cars. The students had to come in on a train," Hammel said, recalling the comradeship of riding the rail line that had served Oxford. The Junction Railroad had opened from Hamilton to Oxford June 4, 1859. Eventually it became a 98.2-mile line between Hamilton and Indianapolis. The railroad -- that has operated under several names, now CSX -- provided passenger service to and from Oxford until Dec. 16, 1950.
During those years, the railroad also offered special trains for Miami students at holiday and spring breaks, other peak travel times and for special events.
In 1922, for example, it cost $1.80 for a round trip to and from Cincinnati for the Thanksgiving Day football game. The Miami team rode the same train that departed Oxford at 10 a.m.. An added feature was the return trip leaving Cincinnati after 11 p.m., allowing time to attend shows in the Queen City.
Hammel said the Oxford railroad station at South Elm and West Spring streets became a social center for returning students each fall. "We all would go down to the station to meet those who came later. It was a tremendous thrill to see your friends again. It was the same at vacation times," said Hammel, who explained that Miami students knew the schedules of the passenger trains passing through the community.
Evidence of the student dependence on the trains was the postponement of spring vacation in 1913 because of the tragic flood that struck the Great Miami River valley March 25.
Spring break, scheduled to start April 3, was delayed one week "on account of impaired railroad facilities due to the flood." One impairment was the absence of the railroad bridge over the Great Miami River in Hamilton. It was one of four bridges in the city washed away by the flood.
Student reliance on the railroad started to decline in the 1920s with the steady proliferation of cars and the extensive paving of streets and surrounding roads.
An alumni publication in August 1919 announced that the state legislature had appropriated $30,000 as Miami's share of paving High Street with brick and concrete the length of the campus. Also in the process then was the paving of Colerain Pike (U. S. 27) between Millville and Oxford. "The resulting improvements should be of immense value in making Miami accessible to her friends," the alumni newsletter declared.
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Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006
By Jim Blount
"One year ago today," the Republican-News recalled in its March 25, 1914, edition, "four-fifths of Hamilton was covered by a roaring, rushing irresistible flood, over 200 of her citizens were being hurled into eternity and millions of dollars worth of her property was being destroyed." It was a reminder of Ohio's greatest natural disaster, the 1913 flood along the Great Miami River.
As the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, similar recollections of the 2005 disaster will be published and broadcast. Residents of the stricken area won't need reminders of the most powerful storm of the year's Atlantic hurricane season that struck the Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana coast Aug. 29, 2005. Levees in New Orleans broke, wind and water caused about $75 billion in damage, about 80 percent of the city flooded and more than 1,400 people died.
The 1913 flood in Hamilton killed more than 200 people within two days and took 85 to 100 more lives in following months. Nearly one out of three residents in a city of 35,000 were homeless as water invaded 75 percent of homes, factories, schools, stores and Mercy Hospital, then the county's only hospital. About 300 buildings were destroyed, and another 2,000 damaged structures had to razed.
The local numbers were smaller than Katrina's toll, but the agony was no less for those affected.
"Few there were in the section inundated, as they looked from the windows in the day, and peered into the darkness at night -- an unpenetratable darkness, lighted only by occasional flashes of lightning -- can ever forget the experience. They would not be human were they able to do so," said the local writer on the first anniversary of the 1913 flood.
"Few there were as they stood at the garret window and watched the fire demon add to the terrors of the imprisoned, who did not think that Hamilton and her citizenship was doomed.
"The awfulness of that never-to-be forgotten night; the realization of what a pigmy and helpless atom man is when the Creator lets loose the elements of His power; the conviction that he or some of his loved ones were in or near the Great Divide; the pledges of better and more correct living, are recollections never to be effaced from the mind of any in the water-covered zone."
"Who will ever be able to drive from his memory, the sensations of that day?" the writer asked.
"In the early morning hours there was to occupy the mind the excitement of something new and novel; a rushing from one part of the city to another to note the rapid rise of the Great Miami; until either in his own home or in the home of a friend or charitable stranger, one found himself unable to leave the house.
"Then, as the hours wore on and the excitement subsided," the writer recalled, "all one found himself able to do was to watch and measure the slowly creeping flood of death and destruction, and to listen to the ones [crying] for help and the crashes of one building as it was hurled against another one -- perhaps so loosening it from its foundations that it soon followed, doing damage as it went."
"Will one ever to be able to forget, if he was imprisoned in the house of a new-made friend, with what misgiving and yet hoping against hope, he started for home picking his way through the ice cold water covered streets?"
Elsewhere on the same page, an article summarized the situation in the city a year later.
"Hamilton today presents an appearance such as even the optimistic dared hardly hope for at this time last year," the Republican-News said. "Flood traces have vanished as months rolled by, until today memory recalls those days of disaster."
"There are really but two buildings in Hamilton which prominently display the havoc wrought by the flood," the reporter said.
"These are the Gordon Flats at Main and A streets, and the Schattschneider Flats at Central and Hanover streets. Little has been done at the Gordon Flats to improve that portion of the building which was damaged by the flood, and it still bespeaks the tragedy which occurred there."
"The Schattschneider Flats, however, are being torn down, little at a time, and in a few weeks, this building, where another of Hamilton tragedies occurred, will have become a memory."
There were no federal programs for immediate relief or long-term assistance for victims of the 1913 flood. The state sent the Ohio militia (National Guard) to enforce martial law. Most help came from neighboring communities, especially Cincinnati and Butler County farms and villages. Contributions of money, clothing and other needed items arrived from as far as California. The Red Cross, religious groups, fraternal organizations and other non-government agencies joined the recovery in Hamilton.
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Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006
(This is the first of two columns on the football career of Paul Sarringhaus.)
By Jim Blount
As the high school football season begins, there will be comparisons with previous teams and players. Proclaiming someone Butler County's greatest high school running back guarantees an argument. Among those old enough to have witnessed several decades of local football, a favorite nominee is Paul Sarringhaus who played three seasons at Hamilton High School, 1937-39, before an outstanding college career at Ohio State.
Some say he was one of the best to play in Butler County. Others who saw him play claim he was the best runner in Hamilton high school football history.
Sarringhaus captained Coach Ray Tilton's undefeated 1939 team that claimed the state championship. Sarringhaus combined speed and power as he overcame poor eyesight. He was a stellar running back who also was a passer, kick returner, punter and kicked extra points.
He excelled in other sports, too. He played on the Big Blue basketball team that was runner-up in the 1938 state tournament and ran the 100 and 200-yard dashes on the track team.
"Oftimes the husky speedster didn't need blockers. His hula hips had the ability to send the would-be tacklers flying into space as if hit by a truck," said a 1939 description by Bill Moeller, a Journal-News sports writer and sports editor for nearly six decades, 1936-93.
In the three seasons Sarringhaus played for the Big Blue, the team won 25 of 27 games. "He missed one losing game entirely and played only a minute of the other," Moeller wrote.
In 1937, because of a knee injury, he played only one minute at the end of the first half in a 20-0 loss to Portsmouth. In 1938 a back injury caused him to miss the 18-7 loss to Cincinnati Hughes.
He scored 10 touchdowns as a sophomore, including a 90-yard run that earned Hamilton a victory in the cold and snow at Middletown. He had 17 TDs as a junior and 18 his senior year. His career scoring total was 288 points, including extra points.
Sarringhaus also was a capable passer, but a 1939 newspaper report said his record suffered because of "butter-fingered receivers."
In a newspaper interview in the 1980s, Sarringhaus said the 1939 team "used only eight running plays and a couple of pass plays." He said "we went both ways [offense and defense] and in some games only one or two substitutes. It was simple, but hard-nosed football." That team scored 229 points while allowing only 47 in nine games.
Sarringhaus "saved the grandest game of his brilliant scholastic career for last," said Moeller in reporting Hamilton's ninth 1939 victory, 20-13, in Middletown.
Hamilton entered the season-ending match unbeaten in eight games. Middletown had six wins and two 0-0 ties in eight games. No team had scored more than one TD against the Middies, who had held four opponents scoreless and had yielded a total of 26 points during the season.
But Coach Elmo Lingrel's Middies couldn't contain Sarringhaus and the Big Blue. Moeller said "Sarringhaus romped 61 yards to his first score on the fourth scrimmage play of the game, plunked a foot for the second [TD] and swished 76 yards for the third. He also kicked the points."
It was Hamilton's third straight victory in the Butler County rivalry. The 1940 HHS class was the first to graduate without a football loss to Middletown during its high school career. Seniors joining Sarringhaus in that distinction, according to a 1939 report, were Ed Cappelli, Eric Childs, Charles Orme, Jim Shriner, Al Woedl, Lou Falconi, Tom Galbraith, Steve McMullen and Bob Rinck
Sarringhaus was declared Ohio's outstanding high school football player in 1939, and, according to a November 1939 report, "is now sought by every university east of the Mississippi." Ohio State won the recruiting contest, but Sarringhaus had to wait until 1941 to play for the Buckeyes. Freshmen weren't eligible for varsity games then.
In his first varsity season, 1941, Ohio State had a new coach. Paul Brown, a 1930 Miami University graduate, earned the job with an 80-8 record in nine years at Massillon High School. The 33-year-old Brown's first OSU squad had a 6-1-1 record, and promised to improve.
Sarringhaus rose to stardom and national attention during the 1942 season as Ohio State football achieved a first in its rich football history.
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Journal-News Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006
(This is the last of two columns on the football career of Paul Sarringhaus.)
By Jim Blount
At this time of the year, most college football fans wish for a winning season and a post-season bowl invitation for their team. But Ohio State followers have bigger dreams -- beating Michigan, winning the Big Ten title and capturing an eighth national championship. The Buckeyes -- with a Hamilton player helping lead the way -- accomplished all those goals for the first time in 1942.
Paul Sarringhaus rushed and passed as a single-wing tailback, played defense and punted. He led the Big Ten in touchdowns and was second in conference scoring that season. His exploits earned him all-Big Ten and All-American honors.
The 1940 Hamilton High School graduate -- whose local exploits were covered in a previous column -- had two 100-yard-plus rushing games for Coach Paul Brown's Buckeyes, a team that averaged 33.7 points a game with a 9-1 won-lost record. It upset Michigan and ranked No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll that first college football season during World War II.
Brown -- a 1930 product of Miami University's "Cradle of Coaches" who later started and coached the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in the National Football League -- was in his second Ohio State season after a standout nine-year coaching career at Massillon High School.
Sarringhaus scored Ohio State's touchdown in its only 1942 loss, 17-7, at Wisconsin. That setback has been called the "The Bad Water Game." Teams traveled by train in that era and during the trip to Madison about half the team became ill because of contaminated water on a train. The Badgers -- with a tie and a loss in 10 games -- were third in the final 1942 poll.
Winning the Big Ten didn't guarantee OSU a bowl bid in the 1940s. There were fewer bowls in the pre-TV seasons and post-season games were limited that year because of wartime travel restrictions. The Buckeyes stayed home on New Year's Day while two teams that had been No. 1 for part of the season split bowl games. Second-ranked Georgia beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl and Boston College, which finished No. 8, lost to Alabama in the Orange Bowl.
In December 1942, about 150 people attended a testimonial dinner for Sarringhaus at the Anthony Wayne Hotel in Hamilton. The Journal-News called it "a fitting tribute to one of Hamilton's greatest athletes."
Attendees heard Hugh McGranahan, an OSU assistant coach, reveal that Sarringhaus "was able to rise to any occasion during the season despite several injuries." Although he had spectacular statistics, his outstanding Hamilton High career also had been limited by nagging injuries. Because of vision problems, Sarringhaus was one of the first to play while wearing contact lenses. Plastic lenses had been introduced in 1939.
Sarringhaus didn't return to Ohio State the next year. Instead, he joined the army, as did most of his teammates.
With the war over, Sarringhaus returned to the OSU lineup in 1945 and his early success led to his picture on the cover of the Oct. 22 Life magazine. That distinction followed the Oct. 13 Wisconsin game when he gained 120 yards and scored one touchdown on 20 rushes in a 12-0 victory. Earlier, he had scored four touchdowns against Missouri.
For the remainder of the 1945 season, the 1942 All-American appeared to be a victim of the "magazine cover jinx." Purdue ended OSU's 12-game winning streak, 35-13, Oct. 20, and limited the Hamilton graduate to 68 yards on 11 carries and one pass completion in three attempts.
After suffering a shoulder injury in an Oct. 22 practice, Sarringhaus saw limited action the remainder of the year. He and Coach Carroll Widdoes disagreed on his playing time. He didn't enter the Illinois game until the fourth quarter. Ohio State finished 7-2 overall and third in the Big Ten.
After graduation, Sarringhaus played two years of professional football with the Detroit Lions (1946) and the Chicago Cardinals (1948). Injuries shortened his NFL career to only eight games in two seasons. He returned to Butler County and started his business career.
He was inducted into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame in 1983 and was a member of the inaugural class of the Hamilton City Schools Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997. Sarringhaus died April 7, 1998, six years before he was elected to the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.
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The casino operator declared an interim dividend of 4 cents per share, fully franked at the company rate of 30 per cent.
Shares were up 0.4 per cent to $3.495 in afternoon trade.
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There are about 78,000 gaikokujin jido (foreign pupils) enrolled in Japanese public schools. Nearly 20,000 of them don't know enough Japanese to function in the classroom, according to the Education Ministry. The latest survey, conducted last September, counted 12,468 elementary school students, 5,694 junior high school students and 1,024 high school students who need instruction in Japanese as a second language. The number of children needing such help has grown steadily since the first survey in 1991.
When my older son started as a sannensei (third-grader), he was fresh off the plane and didn't know one word of Japanese. Two years later, he's virtually fluent. He no longer needs special assistance at school, and he even reads and writes better than some of his native Japanese classmates.
Sure, kids learn quickly, but his acquisition of Japanese was faster than average. Why? I believe it was largely because our school has a nihongo gakkyu, a special department with teachers trained to teach children Japanese as a second language. Our nihongo gakkyu teachers do a lot more than teach language; they also help the foreign students adapt to school life and serve as their advocates within the school.
For his first year, my son went to the Japanese department every day for an hour. Within a few months, he could read and write hiragana and katakana, and handle simple conversation. As his ability to participate in the classroom improved, he cut back to twice a week at the nihongo gakkyu. By the end of his second year, he no longer needed special help.
Unfortunately, most foreign pupils aren't so lucky. Very few schools have a Japanese department or anyone trained to teach Japanese to foreign children. About 20 percent of the foreign students who need Japanese instruction are not getting any help at all. And an increasing number have been enrolled in Japanese schools for two or more years yet are still identified as not knowing enough Japanese to function in the classroom.
It's difficult to provide Japanese-as-a-second-language services because the children needing help are scattered throughout the country and in so many different schools. There are foreign pupils in every prefecture, including remoter places such as Tottori, Saga and Ehime prefectures.
Aichi Prefecture has the largest number of foreign students requiring Japanese-language instruction. Most are children of factory workers from Latin America who are allowed to work in Japan because they are of Japanese descent. Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo and Shizuoka Prefecture also have large numbers of foreign children who need Japanese instruction.
Even within school districts with many foreigners, the children needing Japanese instruction are scattered. Of the 5,296 schools that reported having students requiring Japanese instruction, about 80 percent said they had fewer than six. Roughly half said they had only one.
A complicating factor is that children learning Japanese have differing needs depending on their mother tongue. Among the children needing Japanese assistance, there are speakers of 59 different languages. About 80 percent speak Portuguese, Chinese or Spanish as their mother tongue.
School systems respond to these challenges in different ways. A very few have set up Japanese departments, usually at schools with at least 10 students requiring assistance. Sometimes a tutor is sent for a limited number of hours. Sometimes, the board of education provides no help, so a teacher with free time, or the principal, will provide some lessons. But it's rare for these instructors to have any training in teaching children Japanese as a second language.
Not surprisingly, some foreign students give up when the challenges of learning the language prove too great. For those who live outside of big cities, or whose parents can't afford international-school tuition, there may be no alternative to Japanese school. Japanese law doesn't require foreign children to attend school, so they can legally drop out and stay home. Thus, an increasing number of foreign children aren't being educated at all while they live in Japan.
This is not only a disaster for the children but can cause problems for the communities in which they live. Some foreign youths, idle because they don't attend school yet are too young too work, have committed vandalism and other crimes. This has led to tensions between immigrant communities and their Japanese neighbors.
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