text: Musical actress takes on her first non-singing role By Bill Lynch January 16, 2013 Story Share Lawrence Pierce (From left) Bethany Cline, Rob Boone, Kim Javins and Greg Harpold star in Charleston Stage Company's production of the black comedy "God of Carnage," opening Thursday at the Capitol Center Theater. This is Javins' first non-singing role; Cline talked her into participating. WANT TO GO?"God of Carnage"Presented by Charleston Stage CompanyWHERE: Capitol Center Theater, 123 Summers St.WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and Jan. 24-26TICKETS: Adults $15, students and seniors $10 INFO: 304-343-5272 or www.charlestonstagecompany.comCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kim Javins has done a fair amount of theater. She's sung her way through musicals with the Charleston Light Opera Guild. She played Sandy in the group's production of "Grease" and was Daisy Mae in two different productions of "Li'l Abner.""I've done a couple of Kanawha Players shows," she said. "And I've recently started doing some stuff with Children's Theatre."Javins loves the theater, but until now she's always stuck to roles with singing. Thursday, she breaks new personal ground as an actor when she appears in Charleston Stage Company's production of "God of Carnage," a decidedly non-musical black comedy. "God of Carnage" revolves around two sets of parents -- one middle-class, the other wealthy -- who meet to discuss an incident between their two children on the playground. The son of the wealthy couple hit the son of the middle-class child with a stick and knocked out a couple of teeth. The parents have come together to talk it out.Javins plays Annette, the mother of the apparently guilty child. Rob Boone plays her husband. Bethany Cline and Greg Harpold make up the other couple.Javins said ordinarily she gives regular theater a wide berth."But one of my best friends, Bethany Cline, called me. She plays Veronica, the other mother, and she's completely legit," Javins said. "She majored in theater and has done lots of straight theater."Javins, however, has not. "I've sung all my life," she said. "I did show choir in high school. I sang in the big orchestra in college." After college, she said she stayed with musical theater mostly out of insecurity about her acting ability."I can't act," she said. "I can't act or dance, but I feel like if I fall flat on my acting, I can redeem myself with a song. And a lot of stuff I've done with musical theater, you're a caricature of someone."Cline insisted that Javins could do this play."I told her, unless I can sing a song, I don't know. That's just out of my comfort zone."Cline convinced her to take a look at the play. A 2011 film version, starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Chrisoph Waltz and John C. Reilly, was available on video.Javins downloaded the Roman Polanski-directed film from Amazon and said she was hooked. "I loved it," she exclaimed. "I thought it was hysterical."She agreed to do it.Javins said acting without the safety net of a jaunty musical number was a challenge, made even more difficult by how her character winds up drunk, ranting and vomiting by the end of the play.She laughed and said, "We're still working on the vomiting thing. Robert Haddy, who was on 'Face Off,' is making some kind of device for us."Javins credited her fellow actors for helping her through her first foray into non-musical theater, though she's not certain she'll be looking for another play right away."Maybe with the right role," she said.Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Volunteers aid flood victims in Elkview, Clendenin 3 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU 4 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 5 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent The Water Coolers take office humor outside the office Previous Story SAG Awards include team honors Next Story


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Moved to No. 2 hole, Bourjos breaks out of rut
ST. LOUIS -- Before the season opened, manager Mike Matheny noted the potential for fluidity when it came to the second spot in the Cardinals' lineup. Matchups and hot streaks, Matheny said, would play into his decision about who to plug into the batting order behind Matt Carpenter.
On Monday, he found another factor.
Peter Bourjos became the fourth different player in seven games to occupy that No. 2 hole in the lineup, and his placement there was dictated by Matheny's hope to get Bourjos hitting. The new Cardinals center fielder was 0-for-13 to open the season, though Matheny hoped that having Bourjos hit ahead of Matt Holliday would ensure him some decent pitches to hit.
Bourjos singled in his first at-bat during a three-run first inning against the Reds on Monday and added a double in the seventh, scoring both times in the Cardinals' 5-3 victory.
"I think more of a jump-start for now," Bourjos said of his lineup placement. "Last year, hitting me behind [Mike] Trout a little bit, [the Angels] tried to do that, too. And you get some more fastballs here with Holliday, obviously. They're not going to be pitching around you as much or getting you to chase. They're going to come right at you."
Until Monday, he had batted seventh or eighth in his first four starts.
"I still want to make adjustments," Bourjos said after the team's win. "I want to cut down on the strikeouts -- I've struck out way too much to start the year -- and just really put the ball in play and simplify the approach. I think as the year goes on, it's going to get better. And it has to, because if it doesn't, it's going to be a long year."
Bourjos struck out twice on Monday, bringing his total to eight in 18 at-bats.
Monday offered an opportunity to move a right-handed bat up in the lineup, too, with Cincinnati lefty Tony Cingrani on the mound. Cingrani limited the Cardinals to two hits in seven shutout innings last Wednesday. Jhonny Peralta batted second in that game; he hit seventh Monday.
"I think that second spot we've seen in the past can be a spot to get guys going," Matheny said. "We're not denying that. It will maybe be something for Peter to get him going, but also our offense as a whole."
With the Reds starting right-hander Homer Bailey on Tuesday, the left-handed-hitting Kolten Wong will likely return to the second place in the batting order.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Five Lug Bolt Pattern Conversion - Hole Exchange
Doin' the Five-lug Swap Isn't Easy, but it can be Cheap.
Owning a truck with six-lug hubs and axles used to be a pain when it came time to buy new wheels for your ride. With the exception of billet wheel manufacturers that would custom-make a wheel with the right bolt pattern, which is really expensive, there weren't a lot of choices for rims. Let's face it: It used to be a five-lug world when it came to aftermarket wheels for trucks. In some respects, it still is.
There are many ways to make the switch from six- to five-lug, such as purchasing new axle and hub assemblies from a donor truck or buying aftermarket upgrade parts. However, this can be quite costly. Here's a quick, cheap way to do the job, using the parts you already have. We wanted to run five-lug wheels on our '67 Chevy C10 project truck because we like the look of five-spoke rims, which you can normally only get in a five-lug pattern. We didn't want to spend a fortune to buy new parts, so we just welded up the holes in our existing hubs and brake rotors, then had a machine shop drill a new five-lug bolt pattern in the parts. It was quick, relatively easy, and cost less than 300 dollars. Here's how it all went down.


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A recent Department of Education study found that the $1 billion Reading First program did not have statistically significant impacts on student reading comprehension test scores in grades 1-3. Also, an estimated 63 percent of prison inmates can't read. See a pattern here? Quick, bring in the new e-book readers from Amazon and Sony. Don't scoff so quickly—there is evidence that e-books are engaging to children.
But what's an e-book, anyway? There is absolutely no question that the definition of "book" is fundamentally and dramatically changing. E-books range from paper-based books directly rendered into digital form to interactive, multimedia, online, dynamically changing—ahhh, ahhh—books for which one pays a periodic subscription. The "cell phone novel" is a new literary genre sweeping Japan; four out of the top five spots on the best-seller list were books delivered to cell phones. And some of this genre's authors actually write their novels using cell phone text messages!
At the same time, there is absolutely no consensus on what the book will become. Inasmuch as "a book" is the cornerstone of K12 education, what's a school administrator to do today to prepare for what tomorrow will bring?
Why will some boys only read e-books? Our colleague Dave Whyley, who runs the largest mobile learning project in the United Kingdom, has noted for several years that a large number of boys who simply won't read when given paper-based books enthusiastically read e-books on their handheld devices. Dave reports that they read in bed at night until their batteries die.
Why is texting so compelling for youth? Texting is huge; children would rather send a text message than use their cell phone to make a call. Clearly, children are highly motivated to learn to read—even if the words are unconventional. KWIM? But in texting, writing and reading are intertwined. What can we learn from texting about, for example, how to help struggling readers become better readers?
Why do today's youth find books irrelevant? In reading a book, one is purposely removed from one's current context and inserted into the context of the story. But for many of today's youth, so much of what they do is grounded in their current context; they use their cell phones as lenses onto and amplifiers of their current context. They don't want to be transported somewhere else—for better or worse. The "kids these days" are not finding The Catcher in the Rye nearly as compelling as we did.
Why are teachers so wedded to their textbooks? While many publishers will provide a digital version of a textbook if a paper-based version is purchased, providing students with Kindle DX's to read those digital editions may be missing the point. A textbook comes with the teacher's edition that provides lesson plans, exams, answers, etc. How can a digital version of a textbook—with its interactive, multimedia elements—offer for the same sorts of resources as the paper-based version? Without a trusty teacher's edition, from where will a teacher get his or her instructional resources?
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What is a school administrator supposed to do today when tomorrow is so bloody murky? Some small steps are definitely advisable. For instance, since about 60 percent of the required books in middle and high school language arts are available for free online, use them right now on whatever computing devices you already own. The reading experience on a laptop screen won't be as good as on something smaller, but it's a start. Your students will read more—and that will surely impact test scores positively.
Now you can scoff at dedicated e-book reading devices. Save your money for a more comprehensive, future-oriented strategy. Think hard before buying "e-book appliances," since they have, by definition, limited functionality. They do one thing—display book pages.
Such a future-oriented strategy really needs to involve a 1:1 districtwide rollout. Unlike the future of the book, predicting that each and every child in America will soon have his or her own mobile computing device is easy—it's inevitable. DA
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Cathleen Norris is a Regents Professor at the University of North Texas and co-founder and chief education architect at GoKnow Learning in Ann Arbor, Mich. Elliot Soloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of GoKnow.