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Georgia growers plan to begin harvesting traditional southern vegetables on time or about a week later than normal for the 2010 spring season.
Shippers are expressing concern, however, about how prices could react if central and south Florida remains in volume when Georgia begins its production of bell peppers, cucumbers, squash and eggplant.
Though prices for some items shot to abnormally high levels following an unfavorable winter filled with shortages in Florida, sellers say prices have begun to fall and they expect more normal pricing for the spring.
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Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Cos. Inc. sprays off eggplant last season.
Bell pepper
With late winter and early spring prices hitting stratospheric levels, south Georgia packers of bell peppers expect prices to fall by the start of harvest.
In south Florida, where January freezes and months of cloudy and rainy growing weather kept plants from growing, prices shot up to as high as $50 for 1 1/9-bushel cartons green jumbos.
By late April, however, those prices, while still higher than normal, eased a little, falling to $40.35-40.85 for jumbos, $30.35-36.85 for extra large, $20.35-20.85 for large, $14.35-16.85 for medium, and irregular size fair quality selling for $14.35-16.85, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Last year in late April, peppers from south Florida sold for $10.35-12.85 for jumbos, $10.35-10.85 for extra large, large, $8.35-8.85, and mediums at $6.35-8.85.
âAt one time, people were paying $45 or more for chopper pepper and on large and medium,â said Steven Johnson, salesman for South Georgia Produce Inc., Lake Park. âAnything that resembled a green bell pepper was worth a lot of money. As far as big jumbos, thereâs just no big pepper down there (south Florida) now.â
Johnson in late April said South Georgia Produce expected to begin harvesting its south Georgia peppers on-time May 20-24. Though volume normally runs through the end of June, Johnson said South Georgia Produce in the past has gone through the second week of July.
An expected overlap between central Florida harvesting and south Georgiaâs start shouldnât harm Georgia production, said Harry Sheaffer, salesman for Blackwater Produce LLC, Lake Park, Ga., the sales agent for Coggins Farm and Produce Inc., Lake Park.
âUsually, we are packing a big pepper during that time,â he said. âIt doesnât normally interfere a lot as weâre not packing off-grade stuff that theyâre packing. They wonât have much big pepper then. A lot of it kind of evens out. It may push together a little to where there may be a little bit of an oversupply during that short period.â
While the unfavorable weather has caused late starts for other items, Sheaffer said peppers should start on-time.
Prices for cucumbers were trending higher in late April as problems with some of Floridaâs production became apparent.
Georgiaâs deal normally begins in mid-May and ends by early July.
Adam Lytch, operations manager for Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Cos. Inc., which grows and packs pole-grown cucumbers from south Florida and Georgia, quoted $16 for 1 1/9-bushel cartons in late April.
Thatâs higher than the prices reported by the USDA which in early and mid-April said 1 1/9-bushel cartons of cucumbers from Florida were selling for $14.35-14.85.
Last year in late April, the USDA reported 1 1/9-bushel cartons and crates waxed medium from south and central Florida selling for $20.35-20.85, fair quality for $14.35-16.85; carton 24s for $8-9.
âThe market has been kind of low the last couple of weeks, but it has been trending higher,â Lytch said. âThere have been some issues in south Florida, where there has been a lot of disease pressure. Itâs getting late to be in production in south Florida, which is normally finished up by this time and production moves up north, but everything has been delayed this year.â
Lytch said L&M had some cucumbers planted in south Florida that normally require 55 days to make a crop. Because of the colder-than-normal winter and early spring this year, however, those plantings took 90 days, he said.
Jon Schwalls, director of operations for Southern Valley Fruit & Vegetable Inc., Norman Park, Ga., said cucumber movement stalled a little after Easter in early April but began picking up in late April.
âMovement is good now,â he said in late April. âPrices are beginning to tighten after stalling.â
Schwalls quoted $16-18 for cartons of supers.
He said an unexpected early cold snap that struck in mid-October prematurely cut off Georgiaâs fall crop. The fall deal normally runs through late November.
The grower-shipper planned to start harvesting its pole-grown cucumbers May 10.
Blackwater plans to begin shipments in mid- to late May.
Sheaffer said Plant City, Fla., was to start shipments in late April and early May, overlapping a little with the south Georgia deal.
Sheaffer said scattered disease harmed south Georgiaâs fall cucumbers, which he said also finished a little earlier than expected because of quality and disease issues.
He said he doesnât expect to see those issues this spring. Such conditions, Sheaffer said, are more likely to happen to Georgia fall production which usually experiences more challenging growing conditions.
Shay Kennedy, co-owner, vice president and sales manager of Georgia Vegetable Co. Inc., Tifton, called cucumber plants healthy.
âThey look really great,â she said in mid-April. âEverything looks really nice.â
Kennedy said she hopes this seasonâs deal will bring the packing of a higher number of supers.
Georgia Vegetables planned to start pickings May 20 and finish at the end of June.
Because of pollination problems in south and central Florida, prices for some squash varieties have been slowly increasing during the spring.
Joey Johnson, president of J&S Produce Inc., Mount Vernon, Ga., said bees in south Florida have been pollinating mango trees and other tropicals instead of squash.
That, he said, hasnât affected quality but has limited yields and boosted prices.
Prices for in late March reported by the USDA:
half- and 5/9-bushel crates and cartons of zucchini small from central and south Florida sold for $12-14.85 and medium for $6-6.85;yellow straightneck small sold for $12-12.85 and medium for $10-10.85; and
three-quarter bushel cartons of yellow crookneck small sold for $8-10.85 and medium for $6-6-85.
By mid-April, however, brought higher prices:
$12-14.85 for small and medium zucchini from Florida;
$20-20.85 for small yellow straightneck, $18-18.85 for medium; and
$18-20 for small yellow crookneck and $14-16. medium.
Johnson said his growers planned to begin harvesting in late April and run throughout the summer through late November.
Last year, J&Sâ growers finished at Thanksgiving.
Georgia Vegetable planned to start shipments in early May.
Kennedy said south Georgia should bring a normal spring season.
âThe plants look really pretty and good,â she said in mid-April. âThe growers are planting them and getting them in the ground on time. We are anticipating a very good crop.â
South Georgia Produce planned to begin its harvesting by early May, about two to three weeks later than normal.
Steven Johnson in late April said cooler-than-normal temperatures caused the small delay.
Though central Florida harvesting overlapped a little with south Georgiaâs start, Johnson said Georgia growers last spring experienced a fairly strong squash deal.
He characterized last fallâs deal as sufficient with growers receiving a return on their investments.
Lower supplies from Florida have brought higher-than-normal prices.
Because of the cold weather that struck Florida during January and February, Florida volume has been scarce.
In late April, Lytch quoted $20.35-20.85 for 1 1/9-bushel cartons of eggplant from south Florida.
The USDA in late April reported the same price from south Florida with fair quality going for $14.35-16.85.
âFlorida is very late,â Lytch said in late April. âTheir eggplant was very slow to recover from the cold. However, I donât think there will be any problem with the transition to Georgia this year. As delayed as everything is in south Florida, we should see pretty stable supplies once we do get started. We will carry on until we get to south Georgia. We will just have smaller volumes from Florida.â
L&M, which grows and packs eggplant from south Florida and Georgia, expects to begin its south Georgia volume in early June.
Georgia Vegetableâs Kennedy said most buyers have sourced supplies from Mexico or Honduras.
She quoted $20-25 in early to mid-April.
âThere hasnât been much product this year,â Kennedy said. âWe had a good deal last spring.â
South Georgia Produce plans to begin its harvesting May 10-19.
âEggs last fall were a good item for us,â said Steven Johnson. âPricing was good. They werenât $20, but more like $8-10 for much of the season. An $8 (price for) egg(plant) is something these guys will be happy about as long as the packout is good.â
Georgiaâs eggplant harvesting normally runs through mid-July.
Freezing weather has harmed south Georgiaâs winter and early spring production of greens.
The abnormally cold weather cut volume by 25%, said Georgia Vegetableâs Kennedy.
âBecause of the bad weather we have had, growers were in a bad situation this season,â she said in mid-April. âThere was quite a shortage on greens.â
Normally, south Georgia ships collards, kale, mustard greens and turnip tops from early October through the end of May.
Kennedy said she expects her growers to ship through the end of May but ship smaller volumes.
She said the cold burned tips, yellowed leaves and shocked the plants by bringing freezing temperatures the day after favorable temperatures and have made for production of good to fair quality greens.
âThe greens havenât been the best this season,â she said.
Despite the production cuts and quality concerns, prices, Kennedy said, have remained normal to steadily increasing.
Because of the expense of growing the crops, prices have been slowly increasing during the last two years, she said.


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i have been asked to create a scorecard for our local course. I will be taking out the measuring wheel and measuring each hole in feet and coming up with pars for each of the 9 holes. then puting them into a permanent scorecard.
anyone out there have a scorecard template (on spreadsheet) to work with?
and how would i measure dog legs? would elevation come into play? (between tee and basket)
advice on choosing pars?
any help would be apprieciated!

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Chasing the Magic
With a new TV show, "The Defenders," Now on prime time, Jim Belushi says he's no shooting star but a working actor who can make you smile.
Jim Belushi is relaxing in his dressing room at CBS Studios in Studio City, California, indulging himself in his daily post-lunch cigar ("It's a Fuente Gran Reserva—and it's delicious"), remembering the day he auditioned for—and was accepted into—the company of the legendary comedy improv group Second City, in Chicago.
Belushi, who was still finishing his degree at Southern Illinois University at the time, was ecstatic. And then he got a phone call from his brother John Belushi, a Second City alumnus who was already a star on "Saturday Night Live."
"John said, 'What's going on?' and I told him I'd been accepted for Second City's touring company," Belushi, 56, says. "And he said, 'Are you sure you want to do comedy? Aren't you more of a dramatic actor? Don't you think you'd be better at the Goodman (Theater)?' And I said, no, this was absolutely what I wanted to do.
"And now here I am doing a drama. This show fits me like a glove. And I'm thinking that, maybe, 30 years ago, he was right."
The show in question is "The Defenders," a new legal drama (with strong comic moments), in which Belushi and Jerry O'Connell play a pair of colorful Las Vegas defense attorneys. The CBS show, which debuted in September, is based on a pair of real-life attorneys who practice criminal-defense law in Las Vegas, a locale that provides a colorful setting for stories blending legal issues, courtroom tactics and the very untidy personal lives of two hard-charging lawyers.
"He's excellent in the courtroom and a moron with women," Belushi says of his character, Nick Morelli. "Hmm, sounds very male, doesn't he? I was looking at the script for the next episode; he's representing a father and son and that brings up a lot of stuff for Nick, about his father and mother. I haven't created that part of Nick's world yet; there's so much to discover. I love the challenge of that."
Says his costar, O'Connell, "People don't realize how dramatic Jim can be. They think of him as the 'According to Jim' guy. But this is far from that sitcom role. He's a very dramatic, intense dude. He's got these dead Albanian eyes when he wants them, this Albanian intensity. I think a lot of people will be pleasantly surprised."
For Belushi, the show is a relatively quick return to the rigors of series television; "According to Jim," his hit sitcom on ABC, ended its eight-year run in 2009. According to the real Jim, it was his wife, Jennifer, who insisted he find a new role.
"I took a year and a half off and tried to discover all the different wines in Wine Spectator," Belushi jokes about the period after "According to Jim" ended. "And I went through quite a few. But I drove my wife crazy. I started smoking more cigars in the house—I mean, I've got a basement and I figured I could do it there. But she'd yell down, 'It's drifting up!'
"Plus I started micromanaging her, standing over her at the stove. I was like a kid wanting to hang out with his mom. Finally, I think she called my agent and said, 'Will you get his ass back to work?'
"I was driving with her the other day, now that we've been shooting this show for a while. And I said, 'You know, I feel really good.' And she said, 'Man needs to work.'"
In fact, during his hiatus, along with his taste for cigars and wine, Belushi was developing a couple of television series himself when "The Defenders" came along: "One of them was actually a lawyer show," says Belushi, whose eyes seem to shift from green to blue and back again, depending on the light he's in. "But this one came along quicker, before I could get mine into development."
But he couldn't say no to "The Defenders," because of its blend of comedy and drama, with an emphasis on the dramatic. Morelli and partner Pete Kaczmarek take on consistently oddball cases, many of which are based on cases of the real-life lawyers (Marc Saggese and Michael Cristalli) on which the characters are based. But the Morelli character, while inspired by Cristalli, has quickly evolved into someone Belushi is helping to develop.
"He is Nick Morelli," says Niels Mueller, executive producer and cocreator of the series (with Kevin Kennedy). "It's an absolute joy to write, being able to hear Jim's Nick in our heads. When he gets to the set, suddenly Jim disappears and there's Nick. You forget about the lights and you feel like you're an interloper in Nick's office. And Jim is always looking to peel back another layer-to find humor in the drama, to find drama in the humor."
The office set itself-an expansive set of well-appointed rooms decorated with classic gangster mugshots, sports memorabilia and vintage slot machines-has been built on CBS's Stage 9, which has a plaque next to its main door, denoting the fact that this soundstage was home to "Seinfeld" for most of the 1990s. Asked whether the plaque is intimidating, Belushi is quick with a reply.
"You know, we shot 'According to Jim' on this stage," he says with mock indignation, observing that his show shot there for most of the first decade of the 21st century. "I even have the same dressing room."
On this particular day, Belushi, whose sturdy frame is definitely sleeker these days ("I quit drinking beer when I got this part—and lost 10 pounds"), is wearing a dazzling wine-and-navy-striped dress shirt by Ben Sherman, with a navy suit by Ermenegildo Zegna. He and O'Connell will also be dressed by Versace, Hugo Boss and Dolce & Gabbana. Belushi, his hair neatly combed back, looks pleased to be playing someone who dresses with such flair, let alone someone with Morelli's cagey legal intelligence.
"Playing dumb is harder," Belushi says. "Because you've got to really commit to the character. I remember when I took over for John Malkovich off-Broadway in True West. Gary Sinise was directing me in it and here was the note he gave me: 'Jim, these are dumb fucking people.'
"I had a problem on 'According to Jim,' because, when we would have discussions about the character, I'd bring my intelligence to it, saying, 'Well, wouldn't he do this or this?' And they'd tell me, 'Jim, this guy isn't there yet. You've been there. This guy hasn't.' So you're dumbing it down, putting yourself back to when you didn't have those insights."
Belushi infuses Nick Morelli with both the courtroom savvy of a veteran attorney and the not-always-unflappable demeanor of an everyday guy, says Greg Walker, another of the series' executive producers.
"This character lives in the world of the real," Walker says. "He's a real guy, an everyman not pretending to be what he's not. Jim is the perfect actor for a show like this. Very few people have the ability to merge the two acting styles-to be serious and to be funny, and to make it feel seamless. Jim doesn't struggle with that. He has the ability to be a very believable character in a multiplicity of tones. That's a very rare, if not unique, trait."
Oh, and like Belushi, Nick Morelli, is a cigar smoker (though, because of network standards, he can only hold a cigar in his mouth, but not light it). Indeed, O'Connell figured out how to woo Belushi before O'Connell had even been chosen to play his partner.
Recalls Belushi, "Jerry came over to the house with a couple of Cubans and we sat for three hours by the pool, smoking and drinking beer. This was before he had the part. The next day, we did his test and he got it. He made that relationship work."
"Before our first meeting, someone told me, 'Bring him a couple of nice cigars,'" O'Connell notes with a smile. "Jim really is a cigar aficionado. He's got a real wealth of knowledge. Whenever you go to his house, you can't leave without having an amazing cigar and an amazing glass of wine."
Belushi's relationship with cigars began with the governor of California. When Belushi was cast opposite then-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1988's action-comedy, Red Heat, he couldn't help be exposed to Schwarzenegger's love of fine tobacco.
"The fucker smoked a Montecristo No. 2 in a cop car with the windows closed," Belushi recalls with a laugh. "The car filled with smoke and I got sick to my stomach. Arnold says, 'What's the matter, Jim? Does a little cigar smoke bother you? Here—try one.'
"That is not a cigar you want to start with. I was green after I smoked that. But I started smoking cigars on the set and I was off and running." Cigars, he says, give him a feeling of leisure: "There's something that allows you to sit and be in the moment. It makes me feel like, hey, you know what? I'm doing alright. As opposed to the struggling in your mind to do better or with what you've done in the past. You can forget that; it's a respite where you feel, 'I'm doing alright.'"
Belushi, who once was partners with Chuck Norris in a cigar company called Lone Wolf ("I didn't make a dime but I got a great education"), keeps three humidors, including one in his dressing room. (Nick Morelli's office also features a humidor, as well as several classic cigar boxes.) His taste runs from medium to strong cigars: "An OpusX, say, is a little too rich for me—that's a big smoke." He prefers a larger ring gauge because he feels it provides a better draw.
"The draw is very important to me," Belushi notes. "I like a Fuente or a Fuente Hemingway Classic—that's a perfect daytime smoke for me. The other day I had a Partagas Serie P No. 2, a torpedo. Goddam, did that smoke good. Those Dominican cigars always have a good draw; I find Cubans to be about 50/50.
"I'll get pissed if someone gives me, say, a Cohiba Esplendido. It's got a nice ring gauge, it's a great company, a great cigar, an expensive cigar—and then I have to light it four or five times. That's frustrating. I'll tell you: Not every cigar in a box of Cubans is a good cigar. But every cigar in a box of Fuentes is a good cigar."
Which reminds him of a story about smoking cigars with a friend in his backyard, as they sat with their wives after dinner: "I bring out the cigars and my friend is holding it, thinking. Then he turns to his wife and says, 'I'm thinking about having a cigar tonight.' And she says, 'Well, don't expect any kissing.' And he thinks about it for a moment and says, 'We've been married long enough that we don't have to kiss while we're making love.'"
Belushi has an education degree from Southern Illinois University with a speech major; he even taught a little after college. But it took flunking his delivery of a speech in high school to land him his first acting role.
"I remember that the Moratorium to end the Vietnam War was on a Sunday—and I had to give a speech in class on Monday and I wasn't prepared," Belushi says. "So when I was called on, I went up there and pretended to be a Yippie and screamed at the class for not being at the Moratorium. The teacher flunked me on the speech—and then cast me in a one-act he was directing.
"That first time going out and getting a laugh—it was like magic, the adrenaline. And I've been chasing that magic ever since." Belushi pauses, then says with a mischievous smile, "The real truth is that, once I got to theater, I stayed with it because that's where you could meet girls. I was a tackle in football—and the girls were not screwing the tackles. And nobody came to wrestling meets. But in drama, there were 18 girls and five guys. During rehearsal, the girls would get a chance to know you and they'd start to think, 'He's not so bad.' It was the same thing with choir; that was 40 girls and 8 guys. I know I'm not the most handsome guy. I was just playing the numbers.
"But once I got onstage, my status changed. So I guess you could say women led me to where I was supposed to be—including my wife. She's the one who said, 'This is a good script.' She said it about 'Defenders' and she said it about 'According to Jim.'"
"But once I got onstage, my status changed. So I guess you could say women led me to where I was supposed to be—including my wife. She's the one who said, 'This is a good script.' She said it about 'Defenders' and she said it about 'According to Jim.'"
Belushi also had a role model: his brother John, older by five years, who had become something of a local legend as a performer at Second City, Chicago's legendary mecca of improvisational comedy. John Belushi was part of a Second City generation—in Chicago and Toronto—that included Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, John Candy and several others who would become the original casts of two of the 1970s most influential comedy shows: "Saturday Night Live" and "SCTV."
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Collins revamps Mets batting order around Ike
NEW YORK -- Seeking to jump start his offense by simplifying his batting order, Mets manager Terry Collins clumped all his best power threats in the middle of Sunday's lineup against the Pirates.
"We've got some guys that their job is to drive in runs," Collins said. "So we're putting them in a position where they can drive in runs."
The new lineup card featured David Wright batting third, Ike Davis fourth and Lucas Duda fifth, grouping the two lefties together for the first time this season. Duda had recently jumped ahead of Davis on the card, with the slumping first baseman regularly batting seventh.
That will no longer be the case, at least for the foreseeable future. With a run of right-handed pitchers awaiting them over the next week in New York, St. Louis and Chicago, Collins will use his new lineup every day regardless of results.
The goal is to spark Davis, which the manager hopes will in turn ignite the rest of his offense.
"Obviously I need to perform," Davis said. "But I've done it the majority of my career, batting fourth, and we were winning games even when I wasn't doing well hitting fourth. Hopefully putting me back there, that starts us getting on a couple winning streaks."
The Mets entered Sunday's play averaging 2.4 runs per game over their previous five contests, with Davis homerless over his last 13 games.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The San Francisco 49ers still have some work to do if they plan to trade quarterback Alex Smith. The Sacramento Bee reported that although the team is in the process of talking to suitors, there is "no deal in place."
Considering the Niners can't move Smith until March 12, they have plenty of more time to shop him to get the best possible deal. Coach Jim Harbaugh has said keeping Smith is a possibility, but that's unlikely, given the now backup behind Colin Kaepernick will be due $8.5 million from San Francisco for 2013 if he's still on its roster on April 1.
CBSSports.com reported Sunday the 49ers had "effectively agreed to" a deal with another team that just needed to be finalized. In both reports, the quarterback-needy Kansas City Chiefs were cited as the team in hottest pursuit of the Smith's services.
The Jacksonville Jaguars and Cleveland Browns, two other teams that need QB help, have been reported to be out of the running.
The 49ers used the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft to select Smith, but even though he's coming off two highly efficient seasons, they shouldn't expect anything more than a second-rounder in return. They need the Chiefs to believe there's another strong suitor, such as the Arizona Cardinals, to help their trade leverage.
If not, the 49ers will be stuck trying to get whatever they can for Smith. They want to avoid paying him for 2013 to save significant cap money, but they also don't want to be put in the position of needing to release him to do it.


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ABC Releases Fall 2014 Schedule [Videos]
It's ABC's turn at the Upfronts to premiere its newest offerings, and while earlier today we caught the full schedule for Fall 2014, the network has now premiered first looks at all trailers for its newest programming. Get a first look at Karen Gillan's 'My Fair Lady'-esque 'Selfie,' John Ridley's 'American Crime,' Spielberg alien drama 'The Whispers,' and even an update on Marvel's forthcoming 'Agent Carter' right here!
While the Upfront presentation didn't have anything new to offer of 'Agent Carter' beyond snippets from the one-shot, and either 'Captain America' film, at least the rest of ABC's new offerings got the full trailer treatment. The 'Crash'-esque racial crime drama 'American Crime' drew the most attention from the event, as the story of a crime presented from multiple perspectives, and calling into question different racial divides.
Karen Gillan's 'Selfie' got a few laughs with 'Star Trek' star John Cho, though we'd again question the decision to drop Gillan's native accent (see: Rebel Wilson, 'Super Fun Night'). Elsewhere, midseason comedy 'Fresh Off the Boat' seemed surprising true to the "fresh" of its namesake, mining the childhood of celebrity chef Eddie Huang without leaning too heavily on racial humor.
We'd also be interested to check out Ioan Gruffud's 'Forever,' the story of a centuries-old man who apparently resurrects upon every death in a New York body of water, while the musical midseason replacement 'Galavant' also looks like a nice musical counterpart to 'Once Upon a Time.' And who could forget 'American Horror Story' standout Lily Rabe in Steven Spielberg's 'The Whispers,' with all its creepy children and imaginary alien friends?
Check out all of ABC's newest trailers below, including Shonda Rhimes 'How to Get Away with Murder,' Ryan Phillipe's 'Secrets and Lies,' Anthony Anderson's 'Black-ish,' 'Manhattan Love Story' and Cristela' below, and tell us what you're most excited to see in the comments!


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The GOP's new scheme to win Pennsylvania
They just can't help themselves. After losing Pennsylvania yet again - for the sixth presidential race in a row - Republicans have apparently decided that they don't need to change their losing policies. Nope, they'll just try to change the rules of the game instead.
Pennsylvania has always awarded all its Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the statewide popular vote; that's how the game works everywhere, except in Maine and Nebraska. But since the Republicans keep laying goose eggs in Pennsylvania, they're now insisting that the game is very unfair. In fact, state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi has come up with a scheme to ensure that even when the Republicans lose statewide, they'll still win some electoral votes.
It's simple, really: Scrap the winner-take-all rule, and award the electoral votes in a way that mirrors each candidate's share of the statewide popular vote (with two EVs being awarded to the statewide winner). This way, the losing side - presumably, the Republicans - would at least get on the College scoreboard. President Obama won all 20 of Pennsylvania's electoral votes last month because he prevailed by five percentage points in the popular tally, but, if Pileggi's plan had been state law, Obama's electoral haul would have dropped from 20 to 12.
What a great deal for the GOP! If the party can't win fair and square under the existing rules, just change the rules. And in Pennsylvania, they have the power to do it. They hold the gubernatorial office and both state chambers, so what's to stop them (aside from public scorn)?
And they're not the only Republicans thinking this way. Their counterparts in other blue states - Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio - are also working on plans to scrap winner-take-all and give the losing Republicans a piece of the EV action. The most popular idea is to divvy up the EVs based on the winner of each congressional district. This is very clever, because, in most of the aforementioned states (including Pennsylvania), Republican lawmakers have drawn the congressional district borders in a way that maxmizes the Republican elecorate. In fact, Pileggi's original idea, back in the autumn 2011, was to adopt the congressional district plan. That too would have peeled away many of Obama's 20 EVs.
Granted, a case can be made for the proportional allocation of electoral votes; one can argue, as Pileggi is currently trying to do, that voters for the vanquished candidate deserve at least some EV representation. If the losing side racks up 47 percent at the ballot box, what's wrong with the losing side getting roughly 47 percent of the electoral votes?
Nothing wrong with that, in theory. But the big problem - the deal-breaker, really - is the thigh-slapping hypocrisy.
Pileggi insisted the other day, presumably with a straight face, that his proposal "is not party specific or partisan in any way." Oh man. The more the Republicans lose, the more hilarious they become.
Back when the Republicans were winning Pennsylvania almost as a matter of routine - in three straight presidential elections during the 1980s, for instance - I don't seem to recall ever hearing them complain that the winner-take-all rules were unfair. They never got upset when Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush vacuumed every last Keystone electoral vote.
Pileggi's rap today goes like this: "How do you best reflect the wishes of the citizens of Pennsylvania? It's not best done by the current winner-take-all system." If a Democrat had tried to float that argument back in the '80s, the Reagan-Bush GOP would have laughed it off as a terminal case of sore loser-itis. Which, of course, is precisely what it is today.
If these various Republican proposals to abolish winner-take-all are really "not party specific or partisan in any way," then how come they're targeting only the aforementioned blue states? Why are we not hearing Republican complaints about winner-take-all in states like Texas and Oklahoma and Alabama?
Here's a wild suggestion. Rather than trying to rig the rules to their partisan advantage, in an effort to mitigate their blue-state losses, perhaps Republicans should ponder why they keep losing in the first place. Maybe the rules of the game aren't the problem. Maybe Republicans themselves are the problem that they refuse to admit.
Case in point: The Republican National Committee has announced the formation of a task force to perform an autopsy on the 2012 defeat. The official press release says that "the effort, known as the Growth and Opportunity Project, will be chaired by five GOP leaders and is charged...with initially reviewing past practices and also making critical recommendations for the future in these eight key areas: 1) campaign mechanics and ground game; 2) messaging; 3) fundraising; 4) demographic partners and allies; 5) third party groups; 6) campaign finance issues; 7) presidential primaries; and 8) lessons learned from Democratic campaign tactics."
They seem to have overlooked the possibility that the conservative agenda, and the dismissive GOP attitude toward large swaths of the American electorate, may have contributed to their defeat. Bottom line: If the party was more in sync with the national electorate in 21st century America, they wouldn't need to rig the rules of the game.
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Every Saturday two outdoor farmer's markets. One in downtown Parkade Plaza, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Another at Garden Glove Garden Center (1800 E. 12th) 9-1. Produce, crafts, flowers, meats, baked goods.
Weekends at Golden Spike Visitors Center (1249 N. Homestead Rd) 10-acre cornfield maze. 5-10 p.m. Fridays, 1-10 p.m. Saturdays, 1-7 p.m. Sundays. $7 adults. $6 ages 4-11. Toddlers free.
Friday, Oct. 12
Platte River Mall -- Fall craft & gift show, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and on Sunday from noon-6 p.m.
The Depot (520 N. Jeffers) North Platte Business & Professional Women, wine & brews festival with mirco-brews and hors doevres. Silent auction at 5 p.m. 5-8 p.m. Tickets: $25.
A to Z Books (507 N. Jeffers) Open Mic Nite. Established performers and newcomers. 7-10:30 p.m. Free-will donation. Refreshments provided or bring your own.
Da Buzz (1208 W. A) Live music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. 8-10 p.m. Cover charge.
Cedar Bowl (1100 S. Jeffers) Cosmic bowling under black lights. 8-11 p.m. $4 per game.
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Live music by D.L. Marble. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
Saturday, Oct. 13
Elks Lodge 985 (502 Easy St.) BBQ and beans event to support Elks youth activities. BBQ competition starts at 9 a.m.
MOPS Marketplace (2607 Rodeo Rd.) Homemade gifts and home based businesses including food, jewelry, and hair accessories. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
North Platte Community College South Campus Kids Discover 2012 with Herbie from noon-1 p.m. Fun games and activities for all ages. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Platte Bar MaKenna Walters Benefit Poker Run with stops in Arnold, Gothenburg and Brady. Starts 10 a.m. $10 a hand, $15 a couple.
Platte River Mall -- Fall craft & gift show, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
D&N Event Center Disorderly Conduct Mixed Martial Arts fights. 7-9 p.m. General admission: $20, Cageside: $45. Tickets available at cagetix.com.
Neville Center Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performed by the Community Playhouse. Lighthearted look at con men on the Riveria. Based on the noted film. 8 p.m. Adults: $15; Children/Students: $8.
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Fundraiser for MaKenna Walters family. Live music by Sunset Alley. 9 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14
Platte River Mall -- Fall craft & gift show, noon-6 p.m.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church (3301 Echo Dr.) Pumpkin festival with games, food, auction, raffle, and pony, hayrack, and mini-train rides. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Neville Center Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performance based on the film. Matinee: 2 p.m., evening curtain: 8 p.m. Adults: $15; Children/Students: $8.
Wednesday, Oct. 17
North Platte Childrens Museum (314 N. Jeffers) Halloween fun with crafts. Come in a costume. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Members free, regular admission $4.
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. Fourth) bingo, total of 24 games, starts at 6:45 p.m.
North Platte Senior Center (900 E. Tenth) the Golden Classics, a four-piece combo, plays a dance. 7-10 p.m. $3.
Thursday, Oct. 18
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Live music by Jason Boland and The Stragglers. 9 p.m. Tickets $12.
North Platte Community College, newly remodeled south campus theater - choir and jazz band concert. 7:30 p.m. Jazz band director Ron Daly will be dressed in Halloween attire and invites the audience to do the same.
Friday, Oct. 19
Neville Center Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performed at community playhouse. Lighthearted look at con men on the Riveria. Based on the noted film. 8 p.m. Adults: $15; children/students: $8.
Saturday, Oct. 20
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Hometown Family Radio to have a Brew Haw Haw concert from 7-9 p.m. Johnny Cash concert from 9 p.m.-midnight. Each event $10 or both for $15.
Sunday, Oct. 21
North Platte High School Nebraska Pride Chorus presents A Fractured Fairy Tale with special guests The Crew from Denver. 2 p.m. Adults $12, 12 and under $5.
Neville Center Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performed by the Community Playhouse. Lighthearted look at con men on the Riveria. Based on the noted film. Matinee: 2 p.m. Evening curtain: 8 p.m. Adults $15. Children/Students $8.
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Thursday-Wednesday, Oct. 25-31
D & N Event Center - "Mayhem Manor" haunted house. Weekdays & Sunday 6-9 p.m. Fri.& Sat. 6-12 p.m. $5. Presented by the North Platte Junior Belles.
Friday, Oct. 26
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Heaven & Hell Halloween Party with live music by Hemlock. Includes a scariest costume contest. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
Saturday, Oct. 27
Ace Hardware (235 E. Sixth) Dutch oven contest. Guidelines available in store.
Sutherland Track (N. County Rd.) Trick or Feet 2012 run/walk. Costume contest. 8-11 a.m. Adults $20, Kids: $15. Proceeds benefit Boy Scouts.
Downtown Trick or Treat on the Bricks 14th annual Halloween Walk for 3rd graders or under. Trick or treat and enjoy games and prizes. 1-3 p.m.
Neville Center for Performing Arts (Old Fox Theater downtown) 7 p.m. Christian music concert by Francesca Battistelli, Sidewalk Prophets, Andy Cherry and City Harbor. Tickets $22 in advance, $25 day of show. Group tickets $18. VIP tickets $32, includes meeting and greet.
A to Z Books (507 N. Jeffers) West central Nebraskas Open Mic Nite. Established performers and newcomers. Halloween music and ghost stories will be featured. 7-10:30 p.m. Free-will donation. Refreshments provided or bring your own.
Sculleys Shooters (2221 E. Fourth) Heaven & Hell Halloween Party continues with live music by JB & The Moonshine Band. 9 p.m. Cover charge.
Sunday, Oct. 28
First United Methodist Church (1600 W. E) Trunk or Treat. Family friendly fun night for kids of all ages with games and refreshments. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free admission.
Neville Center Utah Repertory Dance Theater, professional modern dance company to perform a dance tour through a hundred years of dance. 7:30-10 p.m. Memberships: adults $15, students $15, families $100.
Wednesday, Oct. 31
Lincoln County Historical Museum Spirit hunting in a ghost town. Kids activities with coloring and marshmallow roasting. Trick or treat from 4-6 p.m. Main event 7 p.m.-midnight. Adults: $6, Kids 8 and under: free. Refreshments and pumpkins for sale.
Harvest Christian Fellowship church (NW campus, 2607 Rodeo Rd.) - Harvest party, 5-8 p.m. Games for the family, candy giveaway, special area for preschoolers.
Sunday, Nov. 4
North Platte High School Sandhills Symphony Orchestra performance. 3 p.m. Free admission.
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My opinion: It would be enough for those other things to surely follow. These all go together, like a flower goes with it stem and roots.Stefan wrote:If one only follows the FNT and NEP, would that be enough?
pink_trike wrote:Imo, the whole thing is right there in the FNT and 8FP. Everything else is additional commentary and aids to recognizing what is clearly spelled out in the FNT and 8FP.
The FNT and 8FP are profoundly simple...but they are also deep and alive. The more we take them to heart the more they reveal, ultimately revealing all.
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Mapping the Planets in Silk and Sound, a multimedia exhibition at the Flaten Art Museum, offers a unique approach to our corner of the universe: the solar system.
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My suitcase was all packed and ready to go by the door. I hugged my pillow and looked around my room, certain I had forgotten something important that I would desperately need and be unable to be without for the three days I would be gone. Having never even gone to summer camp, three days felt like a while. For the first time in my life, I had butterflies in my stomach. But I wasn't only a bundle of nerves- I was also incredibly excited. I had no idea what this Orientation would bring, but I could not wait to find out.
When I pulled into the school, the butterflies started their annoying dance in my stomach again, but I ignored them as I started to bring my things into my room. I unpacked and realized I hadn't forgotten a thing. In fact, I probably brought too much. Who could wear 6 pairs of shoes in three days?? I turned to say goodbye to my mom and little sister. I remember my mom was sniffling and I rolled my eyes and pushed her out the door. "I'll be fine! What can happen in three days?"
The answer, I would come to find out, would be "a lot". There were tours and activities and ice-breakers and skits and dances and soccer games and laughs. There were so many laughs. Within an hour on that first day, I couldn't even remember ever being nervous at all. The Orientation Leaders were incredible, easing us all in until we felt like we had been there for ages. I left at the end of the three days eager to come to school. It already felt like "mine", because of the Leaders and all of the friends I made. I still remember where I stayed, who I roomed with, who was my OL… It was one of the best 3-day-stretches I've ever had. I hope it will be yours, too.


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It's the vegetable ad campaign that never was.
And yet it's highly successful, in terms of starting online discussions, with bloggers and consumers passionately describing their love of this particular vegetable and posting recipes as well. Any commodity board would be jealous of the free publicity.
I'm talking about the broccoli campaign (http://tinyurl.com/broccoli-ad) cooked up by The New York Times and ad agency Victor & Spoils, made public in the Times in early November.
Victor & Spoils took on the challenge — how to make broccoli edgy and sexy — for free. The agency did everything from forming focus groups to generating slogans for (photoshopped) signs on billboards, bus stops, on the sides of buildings and grocery carts. It even conjured a fake trade association, the Broccoli Commission of America.
The core message focused on a vegetable that's riding a wave of popularity with foodies, hipsters and chefs: kale.
Why not take on kale, Victor & Spoils asked.
Here are a few slogans the agency concocted:
u Broccoli: 43% less pretentious than kale;
u Since when do superfoods have to be super trendy?;
u What came first, kale or the bandwagon?; and
u Eat fad free: broccoli vs. kale.
This reminds me of the baby carrot slogan by Bolthouse Farms — Eat 'em like junk food — unveiled a few years ago with the audacious goal of a $25 million multi-year campaign that invited other companies to chip in and market baby carrots by using junk food ads/marketing tactics.
Jeffrey Dunn, a former president of Coca-Cola and now president and chief executive officer of Bolthouse, was present at the Victor & Spoils presentation on the ad campaign.
More recently, he joined Produce Marketing Association president Bryan Silbermann on stage during PMA's Fresh Summit in New Orleans.
Dunn's message, backed by Silbermann: pushing the health message alone will not boost consumption. A radical change, employing mainstream marketing messages, is needed. Humor always worked for me. How many ads get stuck in your head because they're funny or silly?
In the early November Times article, Silbermann mentions a major opportunity for the industry (since then announced as the two-year "Sesame Street" agreement that allows produce shippers to use the Muppet characters to promote consumption).
Will this be the Holy Grail that PMA is predicting it to be? I have no doubt some companies will see sales pick up, but TV and movie characters have been used on everything from fresh-cut apples to onions (even broccoli has the Cruciferous Crusaders) and consumption of most fruits and vegetables has barely registered any increase.
As for first lady Michelle Obama's assessment of the "Sesame Street" agreement — as the force behind the Let's Move program, she was quoted in the news release — that children, upon seeing Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, etc., will choose healthful produce over junk food, I'm skeptical.
If children respond to those stimuli alone, won't they react in kind to hundreds of unhealthy food items throughout the store that employ the same marketing techniques? When it comes to using licensed characters to get a child's attention, junk food wrote the book.
Back to the broccoli campaign. What's not to like? It's a ready-made campaign for broccoli growers to back.
The catch: According to Victor & Spoils, the advertising campaign would cost $3 million to $7 million. High numbers for a relatively small crop, when production is stacked up against potatoes, pears and avocados, all which have established marketing orders funded by growers.
The price tag, if paid for by growers based on the most recent season, would be 0.42 cents a pound on the low end and almost a penny per pound for the $7 million.
That's not prohibitive in itself, but at this time, there's no method to collect and manage the money without a U.S. Department of Agriculture marketing order. That entails a grower referendum, hiring a staff, electing board members and more record-keeping for growers/shippers.
Besides, kids don't care about kale versus broccoli, and they're a more important market when it comes to long-term change in diets to tackle the obesity problem in the U.S.
True, parents decide what to buy and serve to the family, but children, with the help of schools, are becoming a critical factor against obesity.
It's not just about salad bars and fruit and vegetable snacks at schools. They're great. But private industry and federal programs need to consider pre-schools as another important part of the solution.
Children soak up information that will form their decisions later in life. What's needed is an immersion-type program that uses health as the unifying message.
Silbermann is correct: This is a critical time for the industry, and there are opportunities out there. It's time to step up and invent the next "kale."


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Seattle Shakespeare Company Presents AS YOU LIKE IT, 5/20-6/24
Seattle Shakespeare Company's Artistic Director George Mount stages his first mainstage production–As You Like It–since being appointed to lead the organization last December. Shakespeare's romantic comedy of wandering and wooing in the woods features 15 actors with original music by Sarah McGuinn, playing May 30-June 24.
Tickets to As You Like It are available now through the Seattle Shakespeare Company Box Office at 206-733-8222 as well as online at www.seattleshakespeare.org.
"I got really interested in how this play pits nature, and the course of natural processes, against a world that is sort of stuck in a past and out of time," said Mount. "Also inherent in this play is the seeking of balance as well as a chance to start anew and more in alignment with the natural rhythms of the world. And it's just such a juicy romance that I thought it was perfect for the spring when our local world is in full bloom."
After Rosalind is banished from the court, she takes her cousin Celia and the fool Touchstone in to the Forest of Arden where the trio happen upon a merry band of outlaws–including Orlando, the man Rosalind loves. Dressed as a boy, Rosalind teaches Orland how to woo while also beguiling the young man. And it turns out love is catching as nearly everyone finds romance (both heartfelt and comical) tucked among the trees.
Out of the 15 actors in the cast, 13 have performed with company at one time or another during Seattle Shakespeare Company's history. For Hana Lass who plays Rosalind, As You Like It marks seventh production with the company. This is the third production for Nathan Smith who plays Orlando. Also featured in the cast are Keith Dahlgren (Duke Senior), Ray Gonzalez (Duke Frederick), Darragh Kennan (Touchstone), Rebecca Olson (Celia), and David Pichette (Jaques).
Seattle Shakespeare Company presents As You Like It, May 30-June 24, 2012 (Previews May 30 & 31; Opening Night Friday, June 1). Performance times: Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 PM with selected Saturdays at 2PM and selected Sundays at 2PM and 7:30PM.
Duke Senior..................................................... Keith Dahlgren
Duke Frederick................................................ Ray Gonzalez
Corin............................................................... Bill Johns
Touchstone...................................................... Darragh Kennan
Silvius............................................................. David Brown King
Adam/Oliver Martext......................................... David Klein
Rosalind.......................................................... Hana Lass
Le Beau/Amiens............................................... Jon Lutyens
Phebe............................................................. Hannah Mootz
Oliver.............................................................. Peter Dylan O'Connor
Celia................................................................ Rebecca Olson
Jaques............................................................ David Pichette
Orlando........................................................... Nathan Graham Smith
Audrey............................................................ Donna Wood
Charles the Wrestler/William.............................. Jake Ynzunza
Scenic Designer............................................... Craig B. Wollam
Costume Designer........................................... Doris Black
Lighting Designer............................................. Roberta Russell
Composer....................................................... Sarah McGuinn
Sound Designer............................................... Robertson Witmer and Evan Mosher
Properties Designer......................................... Marleigh Driscoll
Fight Choreographers....................................... Peter Dylan O'Connor and Gordon Carpenter
Choreographer................................................. Crystal Dawn Munkers
Performances take place at the Center House Theater at Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, Wash. Tickets to As You Like It are now on sale and range from $15-$40 for adults and $15-$25 for seniors and students. A Pay-What-You-Will preview is on May 29 at 7:30PM. Discounted tickets are available for groups of ten or more. For ticket reservations, call the Seattle Shakespeare Company box office (206) 733-8222 or go online at www.seattleshakespeare.org.
Seattle Shakespeare Company is the Puget Sound region's only year-round professional, classical theatre dedicated to producing the work of Shakespeare. The Company's growing success stems from a deep belief in the power and vibrancy of Shakespeare's words and ideas along with a commitment to artistic excellence on the stage. The results have been provocative performances that both challenge and delight audiences while fostering an appreciation for the greatest playwright the world has ever known.


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The last day of "king tides" caused some minor flooding in Southern Marin on Friday.
The county experienced three days of the high tides — seven feet and above, or about a foot higher than normal. The tides are expected to be back to normal Saturday. The tides are created when the Earth, moon and sun are aligned, increasing the gravitational pull. Meanwhile, the weekend weather forecast calls for showers Saturday afternoon with clearing Sunday.
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Michigan Tech Celebrates Native American History
October 23, 2011—
This November, the Michigan Tech campus community is celebrating Native American Heritage Month.
Native American Heritage Month is observed every year to recognize the significant contributions Native Americans have made in our nation's history and to share some of the culture's unique traditions.
From making quill earrings to learning about the Ojibwe language, there are many educational events planned.
The following events are scheduled for the month-long celebration:
· Introduction to the Ojibwe Language, Nov. 9, noon-1 p.m., Hamar House
· Quill Earring Night, Nov. 16, 5-7 p.m., Hamar House
· Wild Rice Journey Native Plant Restoration, Nov. 29, 5-7 p.m., Memorial Union Ballroom (Ojibwe wild rice and fry bread will be served)
· Introduction to the Ojibwe Language, Nov. 30, noon-1 p.m., Hamar House
All events are free and open to the public.
If you plan to attend either Quill Earring Night or Wild Rice Journey Plant Restoration, please email firstname.lastname@example.com to RSVP.
Native American Heritage Month is sponsored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society of Michigan Tech, Undergraduate Student Government and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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Swope Music Building
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West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2739
Fax: 610-436-2873
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The Department of Music Theory, History and Composition is committed to providing the finest instruction in music theory, history, composition and musicianship to all students in the School of Music. We support a wide variety of degrees, including a Bachelor of Music with concentrations in Theory and Composition or in History, Bachelor of Music with Elective Studies in an Outside Field, Music History Minor, Music Minor, and a Master of Music in History and Literature, or Theory and Composition.
Our students study with an approachable and experienced faculty of nationally-recognized professional composers, theorists, historians, performers, and music educators. They encourage students to find their own voice in their compositions and research interests. Student composers write in a wide variety of styles and are given a great amount of personal attention in one-on-one lessons. Senior projects in music history are guided through individual advising by scholars who are experts in their respective fields.
Elective course offerings allow students to customize a program that fits their needs and interests. Topics in music theory have ranged from The Psychology of Music to Interactive Computer Music. The weekly seminar in Composition features performances of students' works and presentations by guest composers. Past guest speakers have included Jennifer Higdon, Daniel Asia, Robert Carl, Barbara White, Jay Reise, Anna Weesner, Thomas Whitman, Daniel Dorff, James Freeman, Tina Davidson, David Conte, Haskell Small, Curt Caccioppo, and Jennifer Barker.
Having your compositions performed provides valuable insight into your work. We hold reading/recording sessions of student compositions by professional ensembles every year, featuring such ensembles as The Colorado String Quartet, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, and Strata. Readings are also available through the local chapter of the American Composers Forum, including sessions with The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Relache, Orchestra 2001, and Network for New Music. The department coordinates concerts of new music each semester, featuring new compositions by student and faculty composers, performed by the New Music Ensemble (a collection of student and faculty performers). In addition, students have the opportunity to work with the University Theatre program. The Wilkinson Lecture Series provides frequent exposure to research by leading scholars of music history and theory from other major research universities.
The low tuition and housing costs are a bargain, in some cases a tenth the cost of other music programs. West Chester's proximity to Philadelphia allows students to take in the rich and diverse culture of this world-class city. We enjoy superior facilities, including a multitude of air-conditioned practice rooms, resonant large spaces for recording sessions and concerts - Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre, Gates Recital Hall, and the Philips Library-and an excellent music library.
Graduates from our program have gone on to graduate study in composition, music history and music theory at Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Eastman Conservatory of Music, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington), Hartt School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, University of Oregon, University of Texas/Austin, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Southern California, California State University Northridge, SUNY/Pottsdam, The Curtis Institute of Music and to successful careers as freelance composers and arrangers.
Dr. Robert Maggio, Chair
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Florida Gulf Coast has landed a former Top 100 recruit in Jamail Jones, according to reports from CollegeBasketballTalk.com.
Jones, a 6-6 forward, spent his last two seasons playing at Marquette and has decided to transfer to FGCU.
He will have to sit out the 2012-13 season due to NCAA regulations, but will be eligible to play in the 2013-14 season.
FGCU head coach Andy Enfield has nothing but praise for Jones. " Jamail has the unique combination of size, athleticism, and skill level that can help him become an exceptional scorer and versatile playmaker," said Enfield.
"He fits in perfectly with our other talented young players in our up-tempo style of play. I could not be more excited than to welcome Jamail and his wonderful parents to the FGCU basketball family."
In two seasons for Marquette, Jones averaged 1.6 points and 1.3 rebounds, after attending high school at Montverde (Fla.), a national basketball powerhouse located in central Florida.


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For years, California growers treated strawberry fields with the fumigant methyl bromide. But that all changed when the chemical was classified as an ozone depleter and more than two dozen countries signed an international treaty called the Montreal Protocol in 1987 agreeing to phase out its use.
Growers and others who used methyl bromide were ordered to cut back their application of the chemical, with the goal of phasing it out by 2005.
However, each year the industry has applied for and received a critical-use exemption that allows reduced amounts of the chemical to be used in case a commercially feasible alternative is not available.
This year, strawberry growers can use methyl bromide on 10,000 acres, and next year, that figure will drop to 6,800 acres, said Carolyn O'Donnell, director of communications for the Watsonville-based California Strawberry Commission.
In all, there will be 40,192 acres of strawberries grown in the state this year.
Strawberry growers have reduced their use of methyl bromide by 75% since 1999, she said. When that figure will reach zero "is hard to say."
The chemical no longer is used in areas in close proximity to places like schools, homes or nursing homes.
Meantime, the strawberry commission continues to fund ways to keep the fumigant in the soil and prevent it from leaking out.
Very impermeable films or totally impermeable films, for example, can be stretched over areas where methyl bromide is pumped into the soil.
"We've been looking for ways to reduce potential exposure," O'Donnell said.
The commission also has long supported research on farming and fighting soilborne diseases without fumigants, such as by steaming the soil or through anaerobic soil disinfection, which uses a decomposing carbon source to fight diseases.
California's Department of Pesticide Regulation is funding experiments with raised bed trough farming.
The beds look the same as any raised bed on the outside, but pulling back the plastic will reveal a trough the length of the bed that is lined with landscape cloth and filled with a medium that will not support plant disease, like coconut coir, compost, pete, rice bran or a combination of these, O'Donnell said.
The program has moved from a couple of rows in a research plot to an entire acre in a grower's field.
But all of the proposed solutions have their challenges, she said.
Meanwhile, "We're looking at a lot of different options," she said. "In the end, there probably won't be single one-size-fits all solution."
Growing without fumigation likely will be one of the first projects conducted through the partnership the commission recently struck with California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, she said.
A number of major grower-shippers have made significant strides in reducing their use of methyl bromide.
"We've already gone to the alternatives," said Dan Crowley, sales manager for Well-Pict Inc., Watsonville,
The company uses in-line fumigation,where a fumigant is applied through drip irrigation, eliminating fumes.
"It may be less efficient, but it's necessary because we don't have (methyl bromide) available," he said.
"It's a concern," Louis Ivanovich, principal in West Lake Fresh, Watsonville, said of the methyl bromide ban.
However, he added that the state's growers are "extremely resourceful" and already working with less fumigant.
So far, there is no clear-cut alternative to methyl bromide, he said, but it's imperative growers find ways to improve yields to deal with rising production costs and retail prices that remain steady.
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Habitat For Humanity Kicks Off Super Bowl Homes Project
By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune
Published: December 2, 2008
TAMPA - The week before Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa on Feb. 1, volunteers for Habitat for Humanity in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties will be eyeing a record of their own.
They plan to start and finish five houses that week. One they will start on Super Bowl Sunday morning will be done by the time the game starts after 6 p.m., they say.
The kickoff of the blitz-build plan happened today on 76th Street in East Tampa, where a couple of the houses will be. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Warrick Dunn and Shelton Quarles along with former Buc quarterback Doug Williams were handed hammers by children of families picked to get the new houses and a few nails were pounded in a symbolic wall that was raised.
The partnership to build the houses for the needy involves the Habitat for Humanity program, the NFL and foundations founded by Quarles and Dunn.
Billed as "SuperBuild," the plan will begin with a push to raise enough money for the six homes, five of which will be erected the week before the big game. The sixth will be framed out in the parking lot of Marriott's Renaissance Tampa Hotel and donated to the state of the winning team, said Ralph Jackson, executive director for the Hillsborough Habitat program.
Two of the homes will be built in Pinellas County and three in Hillsborough, he said. Volunteers are needed, along with donations. The marketing pitch is to donate $59, which will pay for 1 square foot of one home. Donors are eligible to win a pair of Super Bowl XLIII tickets, he said.
The combination of football and charity housing is a natural, he said.
"Football," Jackson said, "is as American as the dream of home ownership."
"This is unbelievable," Dunn said. "I'm proud to be a part of this today. I would just encourage the public to support it."
Quarles' foundation provides the finishing touches, he said. That includes all the interior furnishings and even yard tools that make a house a home.
When the keys are turned over to the recipient family, he said, "all they need to bring with them is a toothbrush."
In green Habitat for Humanity T-shirts, Alonzo Gibson, 10, his sister, Alazae, 11, and brother, Jaquaze Sorrells, 8, will be moving into one of the brand new houses in Clearwater in February. They stayed still while Quarles autographed the backs of their shirts this morning.
"You ever make a hit on Reggie Bush?" Alonzo asked.
"Yeah," Quarles said. "I knocked him out, too."
To donate, or "Square-up for $59," go to www.habitatsuperbuild.com or send checks payable to Habitat for Humanity to 3071 118th Ave. N., St. Petersburg FL 33716.
Reporter Keith Morelli can be reached at (813) 259-7760 or email@example.com.


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Editorial: A Vision to Share
by Jan Tritten
© 2002 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
[Editor's Note: This editorial first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 62, Summer 2002.]
I have a vision: I think we need to have a museum of midwifery. The thought first came to me when I was at the New York City MANA conference a decade ago. The thought has returned to me as this vision, and the vision is spreading. After sharing the idea with three other midwives recently, they too have started having visions about it. Mary Zwart and I have talked about doing it in Amsterdam—the Netherlands has such a good system of birth to show off. Harriette Hartigan, photographer and anthropologist-midwife, and I were thinking about how to do this while we were at New York's Museum of Modern Art. She has reported since that she is having visions about it too. While standing in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and looking at a display on Easter Island art with my friend Helene Gross, a nurse midwife, I shared the idea with her, inspired by a stone that had vulvas carved into it. The idea resonated with her and she too is seeing the vision. She's even looking around NYC, her hometown, for classes that can help bring this project to life. I tell you about these different players because I think the idea belongs to everyone with whom it resonates. Does it resonate with you? Can you envision it? Then let's do it.
A museum serves many purposes. It contributes to the education of birth practitioners as well as the public. It also preserves herstory—midwives' contributions and artifacts. It documents the movement. It also gives us a great way to show the difference between midwifery and obstetrics while creating and preserving a midwifery body of knowledge. We can construct displays that create birth change in a global culture gone insane. We can show our proud heritage, beginning with the granny midwives and reaching back from their roots into Native American midwifery knowledge. I think of Gladys Milton, a granny midwife whose life I would love to include. I see a whole room on our granny midwives.
I see a record too of those of us still working. I think of Sister Angela, whose vision created MANA and Holy Family Birth Service. There is Kitty Ernst, whose vision brokered birth centers in our country and all over the world. And Ina May Gaskin is the mother of us all.
A museum would allow us to do research and record the anthropology of midwifery and birth. We can preserve indigenous healing, herbal and midwifery knowledge from around the world. The concept of honoring and saving traditional midwives and their knowledge is important to me. Anthropologists would have a large role in this project. Herstory across time and culture has not been recorded. We need to go back as far as we can and to piece that herstory together. We are blessed at this time that many anthropologists are interested in midwifery and childbirth. Robbie Davis Floyd is helping us to recruit these anthropologists. We need them.
This museum would not only educate the public, but also those within the midwifery community. Aspiring practitioners could explore the different roles within midwifery, from doula to midwife. It would inspire them and validate our accomplishments as a midwifery community. We could honor the lives of "living treasures," as the Japanese do, bestowing upon particularly brave and innovative midwives all over the world the status of "treasure."
Why now? Most of us who have resurrected midwifery in the U.S. are still alive and each of us has rebirthed it with different ideals. There is no better time to chronicle this herstory than now. I see displays so compelling that the museum's reputation builds fast. I envision that if a midwife or birth practitioner walked in one end, she would come out the other end having gained new ideas, techniques and inspiration to put into her practice. As we gather research and experience from throughout the world, we can create displays to render that information immediately useful. I also envision that when those outside the birth community-especially potential dads or moms-walk through, they will understand enough about the miracle of how birth really works that they will go out and demand their births be attended by an autonomous, loving midwife.
This museum will be a place to showcase the midwifery knowledge we are truly and finally beginning to understand. I think of Michel Odent's work on the physiology of birth and ponder how to present it. Our mavericks walk among us and you are one of them. We need to work with birth photographers to make walls sing with the miracle of pregnancy, birth and newborns. I can see so many brilliant women working together to join their visions with ours. MANA has had many wonderful birth art displays at conference. Could some of those pieces go into the museum? Are some of you artists? Ina May has been putting together a quilt with a square on it for every mother who has died in childbirth. Could it be housed here, or a least pictures of it with how to contribute? We would have a museum shop where the products of many small businesses, artists, authors and photographers would be sold. As we go around the country and the world we can think of what to put in the museum and how to display the knowledge, the herbs, the complimentary therapies and the people.
There will be many obstacles. When I started Midwifery Today Magazine people said, "You can't start a magazine. They mostly fail in the first three years." Well, anything can be done if we hold the negative at bay and just do it. I bought 10 books about starting a magazine and just did it. Let's start looking.
This vision, like my children, as the prophet Gibran says, "comes through you but not to you." This vision is really for all with whom it resonates. It will tell of and preserve the world's midwifery and childbirth. It can help us save traditional midwives and midwifery.
If this resonates with you and you feel called to be part of it, let's begin to share our ideas Let's have a museum meeting at each conference we do—MANA Boston would be a good start. Our conference in the Netherlands would be another good place. Meanwhile, e-mail me with your vision and what part you want to do. Let's just do it.
Toward Better Birth.
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This is a rare and hard to find pair of bookends made by Sculptors Metal Guild A (Star) Comet Products. Each has a reclining nude woman in Art Deco fashion. The thin spelter or pot metal is coated in copper patina tone finish. They measure 5 3/4" tall and 4 3/4" wide. Thanks for looking at all my listings. These were also made in a bronze finish but the copper set are rare. The felt on the bottoms have been replaced. They remind me of Henri Lalic sculptures.


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A former and often controversial figure in Lake Elsinore politics was found dead in a home Friday night with injuries described by police officials as traumatic.
Authorities identified the victim as George Alongi, 77, who served on the Lake Elsinore City Council in the 1990s and subsequently was elected to the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District board.
Police officers found Alongi in his home on Dolly Drive between Mari Drive and Christina Court in northwest Lake Elsinore after responding to a report of a body in that locale, sheriff's officials said.
Emergency medical personnel arrived to attempt to render aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene, Sgt. Jeff Buompensero of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's Central Homicide Unit wrote in a news release.
Police officials did not release the cause of death and provided no further information. An autopsy is scheduled Monday, Buompensero said in the release.
News of Alongi's death came as a jolt to those who knew him well.
"It was absolutely traumatic to find out what happened to him," said civic activist Chris Hyland. "I can't believe it."
Hyland said she had known Alongi for 25 years and had visited the home where he had lived with his ex-wife, Barbara Alongi.
"He was a friend of mine," she said. "I used to spend a lot of time at George and Barbara's at their house. I knew their kids, their daughters. They were a great family that I loved."
Wildomar activist Gil Rasmussen said he had known Alongi since the mid-1980s when they worked in an air-conditioning sales business together.
A former minister, Rasmussen, at Alongi's request, performed the wedding ceremony several years ago when he married his second wife, Grace. Since then, Rasmussen said, he saw less of his former colleague.
"George Alongi was a very interesting man," Rasmussen said. "He was a wonderful guy."
A former Marine and Korean War veteran, Alongi during his days as a public officeholder was both popular and polarizing. Friends remembered him as gruff and outspoken on the City Council dais, but he was also "very generous," according to Rasmussen.
"I knew he helped some people who otherwise would have been homeless," he said. "For years, because of his beard, he was Santa Claus when they did the Main Street (winter holiday festival)."
From a public standpoint, Alongi was probably most well-known for getting booted off the Lake Elsinore City Council in 1999 after a jury found him guilty of malfeasance in office for failing to accurately report financial interests as required by state conflict-of-interest laws. Specifically, Alongi, a general contractor who also invested in land, had bought properties in the city's redevelopment zone, which created a conflict with his role as a member of the city's redevelopment board.
Rasmussen contends Alongi knew the purchases created violations, but did it anyway because he disagreed with the restrictions.
"It was intentional," Rasmussen said. "He thought the law was unfair and wrong, so he intentionally bought a piece of property in the (redevelopment area). That provoked the entire issue."
Still, Alongi was popular enough after his time on the council to win a seat on the water board.
In recent years, court records indicate problems between Alongi and his second wife. In an agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, he pleaded guilty in 2010 to one misdemeanor count of spousal abuse.
His wife could not be contacted for comment. A phone that had been listed for her was out of service.
Those interviewed declined to talk about George Alongi's domestic issues.
Barbara Alongi, to whom George Alongi was married for 48 years, said that as far as she knew, her ex-husband and second wife were living together off and on.
When asked about her reaction to news of her former husband's death, Barbara Alongi said, "Oh dear — I wasn't surprised."
But she declined to elaborate on what was behind that comment.
"As far as I'm concerned, life is all about choices," she said. "He made his choice, and lived and died with it."
According to Barbara Alongi, she and George were childhood sweethearts, having known each other since fifth grade at their elementary school in a suburb of Boston.
They came to Southern California in 1955 when Alongi was in the Marines and stationed at Camp Pendleton.
They had a son, who died, and George Alongi is survived by two adult daughters, she said. She said he had told her that when he died, he wanted to be cremated and the remains placed in Riverside National Cemetery.
"He was volatile, as most people know, but he was also caring," she said. "He loved Lake Elsinore to a fault."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A child molester who pleaded guilty is headed back behind bars for half a century after he pleaded guilty for his role in the ongoing molestation of a 9-year-old girl.
Michael Halveland, 41, was sentenced this week to 50 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of sex offender probation, for molesting the child, according to the State Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors said Halveland sexually abused the girl between August 2010 and March 2011. Halveland is one of five individuals prosecuted in the case. Robert Goeing Young, a registered sex offender, was previously sentenced to life in prison for molesting the child. Halveland pleaded guilty last year.
Christopher Perry was convicted and sentenced to six life sentences on five counts of sexual battery, one count of lewd or lascivious molestation, one count of child neglect and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual battery.
Perry's wife, Mary Perry, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of child neglect and conspiracy to commit sexual battery. Patricia Woloszynowski pleaded guilty to a charge of child neglect and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Assistant State Attorney Alan Mizrahi prosecuted the cases.
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Jeff wrote:No offense taken. I think you will find the terms/experiences that I am describing are part of many paths.
There are experiences in the Dzoghen path that are shared. There are experiences in the Dzogchen path that are unique to that path. Rainbow body comes from the latter experiences, and not the former.


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Topic: Update on John
I just want you all to know that John has this morning decided to go into Hospice.
He just can't take the pain anymore.
This has brought great Peace to my heart even though I know I am losing my husband.
Pray it comes quickly for him with no pain and no fear.
I love you all very much.


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RZ-2011-HM-032 Tysons West Residential, LLC and JBG/Tysons Hotel, LLC
RZ 2011-HM-032 Tysons West Residential, L.L.C. and JBG/Hotel,
Request to rezone to the PTC District; CDP
The application proposes to redevelop an area currently characterized by a mix of former car dealerships and the existing Sheraton Premier hotel and conference center. The hotel and conference center will be retained and renovated while adding retail and residential development to create a mixed-use neighborhood with an urban form. The new development proposes a total of 5 structures, which includes the existing Sheraton Hotel and re-use of an existing parking garage.
Total Site Area: 16.02 acresProposed Uses: Office 378,768 sf (23%); retail 270,373 sf (16%), residential 626,000 sf (38%) and hotel 388,000 sf (25%) Total: 1,663,141 sf (2.38 FAR)
Applicant's Statement of Justification
RZ 2011-PR-032 - Additional case information from LDS (Public Hearing Dates, Staff Reports (when available), Application Information, etc.)
If you have any questions regarding the Application, please contact the Department of Planning and Zoning at (703) 324-1290.


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Who, What, When & Wear: Aug. 16
Updated 3:23 pm, Thursday, August 16, 2012
Fashion's Night Out: The Shops at La Cantera will host fashionistas for a night of style and glamour, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 6. The event includes a beauty bar, cash bar, music, light appetizers and shopping. The first 200 attendees will receive swag bags. 15900 La Cantera Parkway by the Heritage Tree. 210-582-6255 or visit www.theshopsatlacantera.com.
Perello 9.13.12: Lisa Perello Trajes de Flamenco will team up with SAY Sí's Resident Youth Theatre Company to present the first all-flamenco fashion show with singer Francisco Orozco, guitarist Maestro Jose Perello and dancer, Monica Moncivais. 6:30 p.m. Sept. 16. 1518 S. Alamo St. www.lisaperellodesigns.com. $30.
Lifestyle Channel
Does your club, nonprofit organization or business have a fashion-related upcoming event you'd like to list? Let readers know about a personal appearance by a designer, a fundraising fashion show or presentation, or a store opening or relocation. Events must adhere to these guidelines and be open to the public to be listed. Email to email@example.com or fax to S.A. Life, c/o Who, What, When & Wear at 210-250-3405 two weeks before the event.