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Presentations, Resolutions and Proclamations
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
June 1, 2007
Continental Color Guard and the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps to Open Board of Supervisors Meeting
Note to editor: A downloadable photo and synopsis of each presentation will be posted on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/presentations.htm on Monday, June 4. These photos will remain on the Web site until the next board meeting with presentations on Monday, June 18.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, June 4, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., will recognize residents and staff, issue proclamations and adopt a resolution. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
When You Hear the Fifers Fifing
The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and a Continental Color Guard will present and retire the colors at the beginning of the Board of Supervisors meeting. The Color Guard carries the flag of the United States on the right in the place of honor. To the left of the national flag is the United States Army flag. The flag of the 3d Infantry Regiment is to the far left of the United States flag. The flag of the United States Army displays many streamers, one for each campaign in which the Army has engaged. The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps is the only unit of its kind in the armed forces, recalling the days of the American Revolution. It parades in uniforms patterned after those worn by musicians of the Continental Army.
United States Army Celebrates Its 232nd Anniversary
The Board of Supervisors will designate the week of June 9-16 as Army Strong Week in Fairfax County. The Army of today plays a vital role in the global war on terrorism and is furthering the cause of freedom at home and abroad by putting "boots on the ground" and bearing arms in the defense of American ideals. Soldiers are "Army Strong," a blend of mental, emotional and physical strength the Army finds, forges and fosters in the men and women who serve.
Honoring Outstanding Members of the Community
The Board of Supervisors will recognize 20 residents for their outstanding commitment and service in 2007 to the Fairfax County community. Each honoree, designated as a Lady or Lord Fairfax, is selected by a member of the Board of Supervisors. Individuals chosen this year include Stella M. Koch and Walter L. Alcorn, At-Large; Mary Kay Buckingham Lipsey and the Rev. Ronald F. Christian, Braddock District; Eleanor Weck and M. L. Clark Tyler, Dranesville District; Sarah Newman and Bruce Wright, Hunter Mill District; Leah Lamba-Skidmore and Joseph D. Johnson, Lee District; Yolma C. Torres and Daniel W. McKinnon Jr., Mason District; Elizabeth Promen and Marvin D. Miller Esq., Mount Vernon District; Linda F. Byrne and Kenneth A. Lawrence, Providence District; Lisa Adler and Michael DeLoose, Springfield District; and Cheryl-Ann Repetti and Lorenzo Vaughan, Sully District.
First Manager First Class All the Way
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Gary Roisum, of Alexandria, for serving as the first — and only — manager of Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax County for nearly 30 years. Through Roisum's vision, the facilities of the park include a visitors center with exhibits, classroom and auditorium; a half-mile boardwalk wetland trail; wildlife observation platforms; a two-mile interpretive trail system; and a hike-bike trail.
Earth Day/Arbor Day Sponsors
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the major sponsors of the 2007 Earth Day the Northern Virginia Community College, Vantria Federal Credit Union and the Clean Fairfax Council.
Advisory Committees Help Protect Water Resources
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the Cub Run and Bull Run, and the Difficult Run Watershed Management Plans Advisory Committees for their commitment and dedication to improve and protect the water resources in Fairfax County.
An Essential Building Block
The Board of Supervisors will designate June 11-17 as Responsible Fatherhood Week in Fairfax County. The role of the father is recognized as essential in building our community. The Sheriff's Office and the Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources program initiated the Responsible Fatherhood Workshop to improve the lives of children by encouraging incarcerated fathers to be responsible, committed and more involved in the lives of their children.
Hepatitis Awareness Day
The Board of Supervisors will designate June 16 as Hepatitis Awareness Day in Fairfax County. Hepatitis C is a concern because of its impact on individuals, families, the workplace, medical resources and other major areas.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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A NEWPORT County Under-17s team ran out 6-0 winners when they travelled to take on an RTB Ebbw Vale Under-18s team in a charity friendly match at Eugene Cross Park on Wednesday night.
Played in aid of Joe's Fund, an appeal to raise £20,000 for treatment the NHS does not fund for local breast cancer sufferer Joe Hendy, the match raised more than £500 from a £2 entry fee and a bucket collection.
County's team was made up of members of this season title-winning U16s squad and first-year scholars (the club's full-time apprentice professionals).
The story of the night, however, was 20-year-old Ben Coles.
The former County youth team striker broke a leg playing for the first team in the Gwent Senior Cup Final against Croesyceiliog in May 2011.
Three years and three operations later, Coles finally played again as he came on as a second half substitute against RTB and scored two goals, a free kick and a penalty.
County's other goals in an enjoyable match played in the right spirit came from Ben Brooks (2), Dan Raymond and Sam James.
County XI: Harries, Porter, Parselle (captain), James, Poole, Owen-Jones, Ward, Wainwright, Brooks, Raymond, Collins. Subs: Zanotti, Shepard, Bamford, Coles.


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Conference Championships on the Line for ASU T&FPosted: Updated:
The Arizona State University men's and No. 9 women's track and field teams open the championship season this weekend as the squad travels to Los Angeles for the 2013 Pac-12 Track and Field Championships on Saturday and Sunday.
Conference titles and Territorial Cup points will both be on the line with both the men's and women's outdoor track and field Territorial Cup decided based upon the higher team finish this weekend. The Sun Devils enter the weekend with three returning Pac-12 Champions (Jordan Clarke, Anna Jelmini and Constance Ezugha) and will also be defending both the men's 4x100 and 4x400-meter crowns this weekend. Both the men and women will be in a tight competition for a top-three finish at the event in a field that features three of the nation's top-25 men's teams and an incredible seven teams (including the Sun Devils) in the top-25 of the USTFCCCA women's rankings.
Events will begin Saturday at the Katherine B. Loker Stadium with the women's hammer throw at 10 a.m. PT with running events getting underway at 1 p.m. PT. Sunday's field events kick off with the men's hammer at 9 a.m. with the finals of the 4x100-meter relay starting the running events at 1 p.m.
• The Sun Devil track team returns four first-team outdoor All-Americans (Jordan Clarke,Derick Hinch, Anna Jelmini, Christabel Nettey) and two second-team All-Americans (Clarke and Bryan McBride)
• Anna Jelmini remains on the Bowerman Watch List (track and field's version of the Heisman) and has won the past two Pac-12 discus titles. Teammate Jordan Clarke, a four-time NCAA Champion, has also won the last two titles in the shot put
• The ASU women finished in the top 10 at the indoor championships for the first time since 2009 while the men posted a top-25 finish for the eighth time in the last 10 years
• The Arizona State women currently have three student-athletes ranked No. 1 in the country in their respective events:Christabel Nettey (long jump), Anna Jelmini (discus) and Chelsea Cassulo (hammer)
• Clarke and Nettey swept the MPSF Athlete of the Meet awards on the men's and women's sides while Greg Kraft was named the MPSF Men's Coach of the year for the second consecutive season
• Two of ASU's longest-standing school records were dropped this past season at the Sun Angel Classic, withChristabel Nettey knocking off Jacinta Bartholomew's 24-year old school record in the long jump and Shelby Houlihantaking the reins in the 1,500-meter run after unseeding Priscilla Hein's 14-year old record as well.
• Chelsea Cassulo set the NCAA Dual Meet hammer throw record with her winning mark of 69.52m (228-01) at the Double Dual. She set the eighth-best throw in NCAA history earlier this season
• Cassulo, Nettey and Ryan Herson (5k) have all been named Pac-12 Athletes of the Week with their performances this season
• The Sun Devil men and women currently have 15 times/marks and both men's relays ranked in the top-25 nationally this season
There will be a tape delayed broadcast of the competition on the Pac-12 Networks that is scheduled for Wednesday, May 15 at 6 p.m. PT. Live results of the competition will be provided by Royal Results at the following link: http://www.royalresults.com/results/. Additionally, the Sun Devil media relations staff will be maintaining a running live blog through the entirety of the weekend's competition that will be available on the Track and Field page at www.TheSunDevils.com beginning Saturday morning.
The Sun Devil men's track and field team rolled over the Wildcats at the annual Double Dual by a score of 118-79 while the No. 8 ASU women came just shy in a 102-87 decision to the No. 3 UA squad. Both the ASU men and women soundly defeated Northern Arizona by scores of 126-56 and 110-67, respectively. Chelsea Cassulo set the NCAA record for a dual meet in the hammer throw with her winning toss of 69.52m (228-01). Ryan Milus was stellar in the men's sprints as the junior opened the day with a blistering 10.19 for a time that currently ranks 11th in the nation and was the second-fastest time in the in-state double dual history.Milus bounced right back just over an hour later with the second-fastest 200-meter dash of his life in a time of 20.77, which currently ranks 27th in the nation. As if that weren't all enough, Milus teamed up with Devan Spann, Chris Burrows and Will Henry for a winning time of 39.40 that currently ranks seventh in the nation and was the third-fastest in this dual's history.
Keia Pinnick earned her first-ever Pac-12 Championship this past weekend, winning the heptathlon competition at the Pac-12 Multis in Los Angeles. Pinnick scored a new career-best of 5,801 points and finished nearly 200 points ahead of runner-up Tatum Souza of UCLA (5,624 points) to win the first individual outdoor conference honor of her career for the No. 8 ASU women. ASU has now won five of the last 10 conference heptathlon competitions.
The Sun Devil men were the runners up at last year's Pac-12 Championships in Eugene, Ore., while the Sun Devil women took fifth overall. The Sun Devils saw individual team titles on the men's side from Jordan Clarke (shot put),Chris Benard (triple jump) while sweeping the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. On the women's side, Anna Jelminiswept the shot put and discus competitions while Constance Ezugha was the champion in the long jump. Clarke would go on to be named the Athlete of the Meet after posting a runner-up finish in the hammer a third-place toss in the discus. For the men, it was the 12th time in the last 14 seasons that the team had finished in the top half of the conference standings. For the women, it was the 13th-straight top-five finish - a streak that includes three consecutive conference titles between 2006 and 2008.
Over the past 11 years, David Dumble has continued to bring in top talent and build the throws program at Arizona State, which has collected 15 total national titles. ASU continues to build on that legacy as Jordan Clarke successfully defending his indoor title in the shot put and has now won four straight NCAA Championships in the event. During the 2013 indoor season, Arizona State was the only program at the Division I level to have four athletes ranked in the top-26 nationally in all four different throwing events. The outdoor season has been strong for ASU as well with Chelsea Cassulo the current NCAA leader in the hammer throw, Clarke ranks ninth in the hammer throw and 30 in the discus and and is still 11th in the shot put despite only taking part in one competition in the event and not utilizing all his throws in that competition. Anna Jelmini sits first in the discus and 12th in the shot put.
Jordan Clarke is primed to make history this season and could do some that not even ASU legend Ryan Whiting could do. Clarke has a chance to win five consecutive NCAA shot put titles by the conclusion of his senior year. The reigning NCAA Champion indoors and outdoors, Clarke won his fourth-straight NCAA title at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 20.50m (67-03.25) and now sets his sights on a third-straight outdoor title. Should Clarke win out this year, he would become just the second individual in NCAA history to win five consecutive NCAA titles in the shot put. Only Kansas' Karl Salb, who won every shot put title from 1969 to 1971, would have a better a record after winning six titles during his tenure as a Jayhawk. Clarke is a man of many talents, however, and currently ranks ninth nationally in the hammer throw and 30th in the discus after setting personal bests in both events at the Sun Angel Classic. Clarke will be looking for his third conference shot put title this weekend, a feat that would put him in an elite class in the conference record books. There have only been three three-time shot put champions in Pac-10/12 history and none have achieved the feat since Olympian John Godina did it for UCLA from 1993-95. Yes, you read that correctly. Clarke has an opportunity to do something this weekend that not even ASU legend Ryan Whiting could achieve.
Junior Anna Jelmini became a three-time All-American in the shot put indoors with her fifth-place finish in the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships . With the effort, Jelmini opened the door to match Sarah Stevens as the lone Sun Devil in school history with four straight first-team All-America honors. Heading into the outdoor season, Jelmini is the two-time defending NCAA runner-up and two-time defending Pac-12 Champion in the discus throw. Jelmini set a new career-best in a Sun Devil uniform at the Mesa Classic this past weekend with a mark of 60.61m (198-10) and she also ranks 12th nationally in the shot put competition. The throw was the 10th-best in NCAA history and garnered Jelmini recognition on the Watch List for the Bowerman award, given annually to the top male and female track and field athletes at the NCAA level. Jelmini will enter as the huge favorite this weekend in the discus when it comes to earning her third-consecutive Pac-12 title, a feat has only been accomplished once before conference history. Former UCLA standout Dawn Dumble won four titles as a Bruin (1991-93, '95) - the only athlete in conference history to accomplish the feat in the event. Dawn is the sister of David Dumble, Jelmini's coach and the coach of the throws team at Arizona State.
Chelsea Cassulo is fast-becoming one of the best transfer pick-ups in recent history for the Sun Devils. The former UNLV standout finished fourth in the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 21.23m (69-08.00) - the third-best mark in ASU history. Oddly enough, that's not even her best event. Cassulo was named the USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the Week following the ASU Invite after set ting a new school record in the hammer throw with a mark of 69.80m (229-00). The throw was the eighth-best individual throw in NCAA history and the 15th-best throw ever at the NCAA Division I level. Cassulo followed the performance with three throws over 68 meters at the Sun Angel Classic, finishing second only to Olympian Jessica Cosby. Cassulo went on to set the NCAA Dual Meet record in the hammer throw at the Double Dual with her winning mark of 69.52m (228-01).
Before the 2012 season, head coach Greg Kraft believe that one of the team's dark horses this season could be incoming vaulter Derick Hinch, a transfer from Cuesta College. Hinch went on to take third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, becoming just the second Sun Devil to ever clear 18 feet and doing it twice on the season. He became just the second Sun Devil in indoor history to clear 18 feet indoors behind Olympian Nick Hysong with a season's best of 5.50m (18-00.50) this year, earning All-America honors with a sixth-place finish indoors. He is currently ranked 23rd nationally outdoors in the event. Hinch is ranked second in the conference heading into the weekend and currently has the nation's 23rd-best leap outdoors.
One of the key pieces to the Arizona State women's effort this season has been senior Christabel Nettey. Nettey was an absolute monster at the MPSF Championships, winning all three events she was entered in and scoring 30 points toward the team cause and earning herself MPSF Athlete of the Meet honors. She set the school indoor long jump record with a mark of 6.55m (21-06.00) and a runner-up effort at the indoor championships. The mark was actually equivalent to the winning jump but Nettey had to settle for second in the tiebreaking process. Nettey came out guns blazing in her 2013 outdoor long jump opener at the Sun Angel Classic, which featured a rematch against Geubelle, as she set the nation's leading mark in a winning performance with two leaps of 6.75m (22-01.75). The performance knocked off Jacinta Bartholomew's 24-year-old school record in the event, matched a Sun Angel Stadium venue record and was the third-best jump in the history of the Pac-12 Conference. Nettey was named the Pac-12 Women's Field Athlete of the Week for the Performance and currently remains first in the nation in the event and is undefeated outdoors this season.
Shelby Houlihan introduced herself to the world last season as she became the first student-athlete in Pac-12 history to sweep the cross country and track and field Newcomer of the Year awards. Houlihan locked up the school record in the indoor 800-meter run this season, earning second-team All-America honor as well while also taking the MPSF title in the mile (where she also owns the school record). Houlihan opened the outdoor season at the ASU Invite with a winning time of 2:04.38, which ranks 11th nationally this season. Houlihan came out and absolutely obliterated the previous school record in the 1,500-meter run at the Sun Angel Classic, clocking a time of 4:13.64 that was three-and-a-half seconds better than Priscilla Hein's former 1999 school record. Houlihan ranks eighth in the country in the event. She is the only athlete in the NCAA ranked in the top-15 in both middle distance events.
Senior Keia Pinnick nearly gave ASU two NCAA Champions following the NCAA Indoor Championships, staging a huge comeback over the final two events of the pentathlon to challenge for the title. Pinnick came up just shy, but set a new career best of 4,327 points in the process while breaking school pentathlon records in the 60-meter hurdles, long jump and 800 meters - all marks previous held by Olympian and former NCAA record-holder Jacquelyn Johnson. Pinnick set a new career best at the Pac-12 Multis last weekend in the heptathlon with a score of 5,801 to win the competition and with that, her first career Pac-12 title. The score ranks third nationally and gave ASU its fifth conference champion in the last decade in the event. Pinnick will be back in action in numerous events this weekend, including both hurdles races. The senior currently ranks 10th nationally in the 400-meter hurdles with her career-best time of 57.06 and is 18th nationally in the 100-meter hurdles as her time of 13.27 set at the Pac-12 Multis last year moved her into sixth in ASU history in the event.
The Sun Devil men's sprints team will be the defending Pac-12 Champions in both the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. The team lost the likes of Daniel Auberry, Rashad Ross, Kelsey Caesar and John Kline from those squads but returns the likes of Ryan Milus, WIll Henry and Chris Burrows while bringing in talented newcomers in Trae Armstrong andDevan Spann. Last season was the first sweep for the Sun Devil relays since 2005 and they will look to make it two straight this season. The mile relay of Spann, Burrows, Henry and Daryl Morales is currently ranked 16th in the nation with a time of 3:06.12 while the 4x100-meter relay of Burrows, Spann, Henry and Ryan Milus also clocked the nation's ninth-fastest time of 39.40 at the Double Dual. The ASU women's relays both sit in the top 30 nationally this year.
Nick Happe got the 2012-13 season off to a good start, earning All-Conference and All-Region honors during the cross country season while also being named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Not only is he getting it done in the classroom, but the senior logged his second indoor school record at the Husky Classic with his time of 7:52.18 at 3,000 meters to finish sixth overall in the event and third in his heat behind two 2012 Olympians. Happe clocked a blistering time of 3:42.78 at the Sun Angel Classic for the fourth-fastest time in ASU history and the 16th-fastest time in the nation this season.
Darius Terry became the first Sun Devil in the program's history to earn an All-America honor at 1,500 meters, doing so at the NCAA Championships two years ago. Following a redshirt season last year, Terry is looking for a repeat of that performance and has the marks to back it up. Terry posted a strong run at the Sun Angel Classic last month in a blistering race that saw Nick Happe post the fourth-fastest time in ASU history. Terry nabbed that spot away from him at the Double Dual, however, pushing multiple-time NCAA Champion Lawi Lalang to the brink in a runner-up effort that saw Terry clock a time of 3:42.34. In any other conference, having two 3:42 two guys who almost be a lock for serious points, but in the stacked Pac-12, both Terry and Happe will have to bring their 'A' games this weekend to put themselves in scoring position.
If there was such a thing as a sophomore slump, Ryan Milus showed no symptoms of it in the 2012 outdoor season. The second-year runner broke the meet record at the ASU Invite with a career-best time of 10.21 in the 100-meter dash and followed it up with a then-career-best 20.86 in the 200-meter dash later in the event. Milus had the 17th best time in the nation at 100 meters and was fourth in the event at the Pac-12 Championships. Milus also ran the anchor leg for the Pac-12 Championship 4x100-meter relay team. Milus was a monster at the annual Double Dual meet, sweeping the 100 and 200-meter sprints and winning the 100 in a career-best time of 10.19 that ranks third in ASU history. Milus also anchored the 4x100-meter relay to a season's best time of 39.40 that currently ranks ninth in the country.
One of the most impressive improvements from a freshman to sophomore this season has been the rise of Brianna Tate. The quarter-miler clocked a new career-best of 52.65 at the Double Dual, a time that currently ranks 16th in the nation. Additionally, Tate runs the anchor leg for the women's mile relay, which currently sits 28th in the country with a season's best of 3:35.16.
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I just got back from the 2013 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in Washington, DC, and all I can say is, it was a blast.
What made the conference so refreshing is that it covered so many different disciplines, including — to name just a few of the many subject areas — Academics and Collegiate Culture; Adaptation in Film, TV, Literature and Videogames; African-American Culture; American Indian Literature and Cultures; Animation; Appalachian Studies; Black Music Culture and Hip Hop; Body and Physical Difference; Border Studies, Cultural Economy and Migration; Brazilian Popular Culture; Film, in all its various historical, genre, and theoretical aspects; Eastern European Studies; Ecology and Culture; Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture; Eros, Pornography and Popular Culture; Fairy Tales; Fan Culture and Theory; Journalism and Media Culture; Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics; Latin American Film and Media; Latin American Literature and Culture; Law and Popular Culture; Literature and Madness; Literature and Politics; Material Culture — and the list goes on and on.
The conference program was more than 500 pages long, and each of the disciplines above had multiple panels, with a nice mix of newcomers and established scholars to keep things on the cutting edge. The hotel itself was the perfect venue for the event, offering reasonably priced rooms, excellent conference facilities with great technical backup, and a superb location just minutes from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery, which by the way was hosting a superb show of Pre-Raphaelite art, staggering in its complexity and aggressive Romanticism — and, of course, free and open to the public.
The panels themselves were lively and informative, the book room was bursting with interesting new volumes from a wide range of publishers on every discipline under the sun, and there was even a "paper exchange" where scholars left ten copies of their papers for others to peruse, and perhaps publish in journals — an excellent idea more conferences should adopt. I was continually impressed with how smoothly the conference ran, and although most of the participants stayed in the main hotel, things never seemed crowded or out of hand — the whole process was clean, professional, and very well managed.
We spent four nights of engaging intellectual discussion with friends old and new, and I think the PCA/ACA National Conference has been underestimated by a lot of people, who may only be familiar with the regional PCA/ACA conferences, which are interesting but necessarily more modest. Here, there were literally thousands of people exchanging ideas, opinions, discoveries, presenting papers of the highest standard, and in an atmosphere of marked egalitarianism that made the entire conference all the more engaging and attractive. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
The 2014 National Conference is in Chicago from April 16 – April 19. Perhaps I'll see you there.


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Thu-Sun Running Times 7:00-8:00PM
Sun Matinee Running Times 5:00-6:00PM
The host of ABC TV's Spicks and Specks returns to Sydney with something a little different.
Adam loves ad-libbing with a crowd. So much so that this year he's throwing the script out the window and devoting an hour-and-a-bit to simply messing around. No script, no plan, no idea. Literally anything could happen, and if you've been to a Hillsy show before, you know it probably will.
"[his] interaction with the audience proved so fruitful that they were reluctant to release him back on to the stage" * * * * * Scotsman
"An Adam Hills show is always a festival highlight with real weight, wit and purpose behind his contagious positivity" Chortle (UK)
Thu 11, Fri 12, Sat 13, Sun 14 Feb at 7pm
Matinee, Sun 14 Feb at 5pm
Prices: All Shows $28.00
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Honestly if you leave behind a disc you don't expect to get it back do you?
No I do not, in fact I can count on one hand the number of discs Ive had returned to me. (none in the past year) However I enjoy playing Devil's advocate, and it seems like at least once a week that twmcoy posts about finding this disc or that disc. (not that I care, just curious)


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Residents Urged to Clear Snow and Debris
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
Feb. 20, 2007
Residents Urged to Clear Snow and Debris
Residents and businesses can help alleviate potential flooding this winter season by keeping the openings of storm drains clear of snow and debris.
Simple steps include:
- Remove snow and debris – leaves, grass clippings and trash – from the outside openings of storm drains. If there are grate inlets in your yard, remove snow from the top so the water can drain into the inlet.
- Avoid piling snow in front of a storm drain; if snow is blocking a drain near your house, open a path for the water.
- Do not attempt to enter a storm drain to remove debris.
If the blockage is too great to be cleared sufficiently to provide a path for the water, residents can call Fairfax County Stormwater Management, 703-934-2800, TTY 711, or the Virginia Department of Transportation, 703-383-8368, TTY 711, to report a blocked storm drain.
Property owners are responsible for driveway culverts and bridges that are part of the driveway structure and are not public storm drainage system structures. Storm drains outside rights-of-way and easements are privately maintained by the property owner.
For more information about storm drainage and stormwater facilities, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/navbar/faqs/stormdrainage.htm. For more information about protecting and restoring streams, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/stormwater/.
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Welcome to Lake Isabella Pop: 3,315 oops! I mean 3,309 we found the John Doe and his clan at the bottom of the lake.
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BWW Reviews: Bayou City Theatrics' INTO THE WOODS Puts a Fantastic, Fresh, and Intimate Spin on a Classic
What happens when artists reclaim prominent fairy tale figures from Disney's sparkling and sanitzied translations? Well, for one, INTO THE WOODS is born. The show, with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, presents fairy tale characters that are closer to their origins. They are bawdy, sarcastic, humorous, and ultimately tangibly real in their own ways. The varnish is removed and their valuable lessons are given to light again. Whether you love or hate Stephen Sondheim's work, there is no denying that the man is brilliant and INTO THE WOODS, as produced by Colton Berry's Bayou City Theatrics, magnificently illustrates this.
At the top of INTO THE WOODS, a young boy comes on stage in a harried hurry. As the boy's flashlight bounces around the theatre, the fairy tale cast files into the background, creating a forest-or woods-of human bodies. The child is obviously running from someone or something. As terror sets in, the child begins to recount the fairytales that comfort him. The woods seemingly come to life and act out the tale of a Baker and his wife striving to collect the ingredients for a magic potion that will enable them to have a child of their own. However, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Jack of Jack in the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel feature prominently in this multifaceted tale as well, with their narratives being creatively and cleverly woven into the Baker and his wife's plot.
Direction by Colton Berry is nothing short of fantastic. INTO THE WOODS is a huge musical with a large cast; yet, Colton Berry and his cast of 18 fit the giant show into a small 130-seat venue. Colton Berry's direction deftly draws the audience into the action, having both a stage entrance and acting space located within the seating area. Thus, Colton Berry's INTO THE WOODS is incredibly intimate. Moreover, each character is distinctive and stands apart from the others, which often gives audiences enough to watch on stage that repeat viewings will be required for members of the audience who want to see it all. Whenever they are present on stage, Colton Berry has expertly directed each member of his cast to consistently be reacting to the action of the show, even if they are not entirely involved in it at that particular time. For example, the young narrator, even when mostly tucked out of sight, is visually reacting to the story he is telling. No mater where your eyes may land, you'll be seeing quality acting occurring at all times.
As the Baker, Matt Johnson's Baritone instrument is comfortably on display. Adding light Gospel inspired touches to his singing sets his character apart from others, while adding beauty and stirring emotionality to his songs, especially on "No One Is Alone." The audience can't help but root for him, as he is entirely likeable even when he becomes a father that is completely unsure of himself as a parent, having no clue what to do with his own infant child.
Danica Johnston's as the Baker's Wife is a pure jot to watch perform. Her lovely Soprano instrument is gloriously on display. Within the setting of the intimate venue and her choices of characterization, it becomes instantly apparent that her living vicariously through Cinderella being chased by the prince is because of her own infatuation with him. This makes her momentary affair with him between "Any Moment" and "Moment in the Woods" a pay off of audience expectations, not a surprise. Lurking under the wholesome surface of the Danica Johnston's Baker's wife is a woman who is not quite satiated with her life, which brings an interesting dynamic to the character's wishes and the consequences of her wish fulfillment.
Playing Jack, Scott Lupton is magnanimous and perfectly charismatic. His love for his pet, Milky White, is instantly tangible and relatable. Mix in his supple and pliant tenor instrument, and the character springs to life in a way that audiences simply enjoy and love. His rendition of "Giants in the Sky" is one of the evening's most memorable moments.
The Witch is supremely and sublimely played and sung by Wendy Taylor. In addition to her gorgeous, robust, and powerful Soprano voice, complete with a rousing belt, being pristinely on display the whole evening, she must be surprisingly athletic. When haggard and ugly for most of the 90-minute first act, she walks in a perpetual crouching squat while wearing heels, singing, and acting. Wendy Taylor is a powerhouse force on the stage that captivates and inspires with her stunning craftsmanship. Her renditions of "Stay With Me," "Witch's Lament," and "Last Midnight" are lulling, captivating, and wholly entertaining.
As Cinderella, Erin Wasmund does great work. Her melodic and enchanting Soprano instrument is fantastically employed by the role. Her renditions of "A Very Nice Prince," "On the Steps of the Palace," and "No One Is Alone" are nothing short of striking. Moreover, her Cinderella is memorable for being intelligent in addition to being beautiful. She does not swoon over the prince because he is simply a prince, she wants more from a husband than position and power.
Ronna Mansfield certainly owns Little Red Riding Hood and makes the character her own. Utilizing a kid-like, nasal voice that one would expect in 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, there is no denying that her Little Red Riding Hood is entirely an innocent-a child-which makes her rendition of "I Know Things Now" all the more beguiling and amusing.
Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, and Colton Berry's take on Rapunzel is a wholly fascinating and unexpected characterization brought to magnificent life by Kelly Waguespck. Alternating between singing operatically in high soprano and playing a lost soul and drunken mother of two, the character is striking and just fun.
Colton Berry and Luke Hamilton do double duty as the princes and as wolves. Both are superb on "Agony" and "Agony (Reprise)." Their princes are anything but the stereotypical, ideal prince, which makes their portrayals all the more fun.
Douglas Allen Dorsten as Cinderella's Stepmother, Arianna Bermudez as Florinda, and Miatta Lebile as Lucinda all do excellent jobs illustrating the superiority complexes of their characters. They are wicked, vile, and entirely enjoyable.
Heather Hall is magnificent in her discernibly mothering portrayals of Cinderella's Mother and even as the angered and violent Giant. However, her Granny is funny and a fireball.
Blake Hartley Heatherington as Narrator, Faith Taylor as Jack's Mother, John Carmona as Mysterious Man, and Willie Alba as Steward are fantastically convincing and pleasant in their assigned roles.
Joseph Paul plays Milky White and deserves praise for spending a great deal of time hunched over. His costume uses stilts that he holds in his hands to extend his arms to the stage. This mechanism looks fantastic and creates a wonderful image of a cow on stage, and he never shows any sign of fatigue or back pain as he spends his time on stage perpetually bent over.
The Orchestra, conducted by Jane Volke, and comprised of William Luyties on Piano, Jane Volke on Keyboard, and David Lerner on Percussion offer fantastic and adroitly played accompaniment for the production. Their job includes creating perfectly placed sound effects in addition to their fantastically rendered work on the score.
In addition to directing the production, Colton Berry's work on Costume, Makeup, Hair and Set Deigns is perfect for his vision on this production. In addition to Colton Berry's work, Helena Zodrow and Wendy Taylor helped create the prop and costume pieces. The team brilliantly works natural, woodland elements into the costumes, makeup, and set, furthering the idea of the woods coming to life to tell the tale. Shining moments include the burlap sack look of the witch's haggard costume in addition to the mossy mask she wears and the giant's hands, which are made from bamboo stalks arranged to look like hands. Other elements include the branches with yellow and red leaves that do double duty as foliage and as Cinderella's birds.
Kyle Ezer's Lighting and Sound Designs ensure that every moment of the show is lit with great atmospheric colors, ranging from dim blues to vibrant greens and everything in-between, and that the vocals and orchestra balance perfectly. Stephen Sondheim is not known for being particularly accessible for audiences, but Kyle Ezer's technical work ensures that no member of the audience can claim it was the fault of the lights or sounds that they did not see or understand a certain element of this polished production.
Bayou City Theatrics' production of INTO THE WOODS was the first time I was exposed to this Stephen Sondheim score, and they certainly made me a fan of the show. From the moment that the cast made their first entrance, I felt completely connected to and engaged by the story being performed and got swept away into the tale of the far off land. I could hardly wait for intermission to be over so I could see what surprises were in store for Act II. (Especially since Act I seemingly wraps up the plots until the narrator utters, "To be continued" and gets dirty looks from the cast.) Everything about the production sparkles and works, despite the hurdles that illnesses placed in the way. (The opening night performance I saw was their first run through with all of the technical aspects in place due to several members of the cast being sick with the Flu during tech week rehearsals.) Simply put, this is a journey into the woods that you need to take. You won't want to leave.
INTO THE WOODS runs through January 20, 2013 at the Midtown Art Center at 3414 La Branch Street, Houston, TX. For more information and tickets, please visit http://www.bayoucitytheatrics.com/.
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Full Cast of Bayou City Theatrics' INTO THE WOODS.
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STIFTERS DINGE By Heiner Goebbels Makes U.S. Premiere 12/16-20 At Park Avenue Armory
Stifters Dinge, created by the innovative German composer/director Heiner Goebbels, is the latest of his works to stretch the boundaries of live performance. The 70-minute-long sonic performance landscape was inspired by the writings of 19th-century Austrian romantic novelist Adalbert Stifter extended and minutely-detailed descriptions of nature. The title translates as "Stifters Things."
The work will have its U.S. premiere as part of Great Performers "New Visions" series with eight performances, December 16-20, in a specially-constructed theater in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall at Park Avenue Armory. Stifters Dinge represents the third partnership between Lincoln Center and Park Avenue Armory, a dynamic arts organization presenting works of scale and complexity that could not otherwise be mounted in New York City. It will be the first Great Performers event at Park Avenue Armory; three Lincoln Center Festival presentations-the Bernd Zimmerman opera Die Soldaten (2008), Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Éphémères and Declan Donnellan's Boris Godunov (2009) have been staged there.
Stifters Dinge had its world premiere in 2007 at Lausanne's Théâtre Vidy, followed by performances in Frankfurt, Berlin, Luxemburg and Munich, and was presented to wide critical acclaim in April 2008 by London's Artangel. "A sculptural installation, a performance composition, a piano piece without pianists, a play with no players, a no-man show," is how The Guardian (London) described this work of "contemplative beauty." Time Out London called it "startlingly imaginative." The Daily Telegraph (London) critic called it, "one of the most haunting arts events I've seen in some time."
Tickets for Stifters Dinge are priced at $55 and are available online at www.LincolnCenter.org, by calling CenterCharge, 212-721-6500, or at the AlIce Tully and Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, Broadway at West 65th Street.
Stifters Dinge unfolds on a set of bare trees surrounded by industrial construction. Five pianos, stripped of their covers, are suspended sideways above the stage. Across this bizarre landscape, the pianos play by themselves, fog rises, rain falls, water bubbles, objects move mysteriously, or are set in motion by robot-like apparatuses which create sound effects. Idealized paintings of nature are projected. The score, performed in real-time and recorded, has original music by Goebbels, selections from classical music, jazz works, and traditional chants from South America and Papua New Guinea. Recorded fragments of texts from Stifter's novels, excerpts from an interview with 20th-century anthropologist/social philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, and quotations from speeches and writings of other modern writers and thinkers, are woven throughout. Goebbels' intention is for the individual audience member to encounter these disparate elements ("dinge" or "things") and for the "accumulation" of all the visual and aural experiences to shape the meaning each person "composes." In an interview in TIP Berlin, Goebbels discussed the absence of live performers in Stifters Dinge:
"I'm interested in how far you can take absence and still-or perhaps precisely for that reason-to be able to appeal to the imagination....My pieces do need people-people to create them and people to experience them. My work can only function when the audience is there and 'communes' with the elements of the piece. The work is then probably much more individual and richly imaginative than we could have planned it to be. Stifters Dinge definitely needs an audience. Only the watchful eye can make a play out of it."
Stifters Dinge was originally produced by Théâtre de Vidy, Spielzeit'europa/Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, schauspielfrankfurt, T & M-Théâtre de Genevilliers/CDN, and Pour-cent. Co-commissioned by Artangel London.
Stifters Dinge is presented in association with Park Avenue Armory.
Heiner Goebbels has been a leading figure in contemporary music and theater in Germany since the 1980s. Starting out as a composer, arranger and saxophonist with jazz and art-rock groups in the mid-1970s, he turned to serious composing after discovering the work of noted German composer Hans Eisler, a pupil of Schoenberg and long-time collaborator of Bertolt Brecht. Goebbels' work with German playwright Heiner Müller in the late 1970s became the jumping off point for making his staged music works. A self-styled "theatrical architect," he works consciously to re-shape the theater experience. Le Temps described him as "a theatrical alchemist" and "visionary."
A critically-acclaimed composer, Goebbels has written for chamber ensembles, ballet, symphonies, theater and film. His "music-theater" productions have been presented at the world's most prominent international festivals including Paris' Festival d'Automne, the Salzburg Festival, and festivals in Istanbul, Sydney, Tokyo and New York. Goebbels' Surrogate Cities for full orchestra received the 2001 Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition and was recently performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. A twenty-year association with the new-music group Ensemble Modern has produced a number of critically-acclaimed works, including two that had their U.S. premieres at Lincoln Center Festival: Black on White (2001) and Eislermaterial (2003). Eraritjaritjaka, a third work, developed with the Mondrian Quartett, had its U.S. premiere at Festival 2006. I went to the house but did not enter, composed for the Hilliard Ensemble, was premiered by the group at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. For more information on Heiner Goebbels visit www.heinergoebbels.com
Part of Great Performers' 44th season, "New Visions" continues to break new ground with innovative productions by artists from diverse disciplines. Stifters Dinge is the concluding production of this season's series. "New Visions" opened with the world premiere of Pictures Reframed, a re-imagining of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, created by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and visual artist Robin Rhode, followed by companion music-theater pieces staged by English director Katie Mitchell: One Evening and Four Quartets.
"New Visions" is made possible in part by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.
Support for Great Performers is provided by Suzie and Bruce Kovner, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Robert and Anne Essner, Mitsubishi International Corporation, The Winston Foundation, EMC², Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman's Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.
Great Performers is a presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA), which serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As a presenter of more than 400 events annually, LCPA's programs include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Live From Lincoln Center. In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major capital projects on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus.
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Park Avenue Armory
Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory was listed in 2000 by World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 Most Endangered Historic Sites in the world. Today, it is being given new life as a center for performing and visual art that cannot be mounted in traditional performance halls and museums. With its soaring 55,000 square foot drill hall and its array of its exuberant period rooms, the Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of the city by enabling artists to create-and the public to experience-unconventional work that could not otherwise be experienced in New York City. Since the first production in September 2007-AaRon Young's motorcycle-created Greeting Card with Art Production Fund-the Armory has partnered with New York institutions, including Lincoln Center to present extraordinary works, among them, the 2008 Whitney Biennial with site-specific installations and performances by 37 artists; and an evening of Stravinsky's Sacred Masterpieces presented in association with Columbia University's Miller Theatre. In May and June 2009, the Armory launched its first commission, anthropodino, a site specific installation by artist Ernesto Neto described as a "spectacular ...a magical destination" by the New York Times.
Programs and artists subject to change
Great Performers 2009-2010 presents
"New Visions"
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 3 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 2 p.m.
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, between 66th and 67th Streets
Stifters Dinge (U.S. premiere)
Heiner Goebbels, conception, music, and direction
Klaus Grünberg, set design, lighting, and video
Hubert Machnik, programming
Willi Bopp, sound design
Matthias Mohr, assistant
Presented in association with Park Avenue Armory
Originally produced by Théâtre de Vidy, Spielzeit'europa/Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, schauspielfrankfurt, T & M-Théâtre de Genevilliers/CDN, and Pour-cent culturel Migros. Co-commissioned by Artangel London.
Tickets are priced at $55 and are available online at www.LincolnCenter.org, by calling CenterCharge, 212-721-6500, or at the AlIce Tully and Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, Broadway at West 65th Street.


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Treatment of Depression With Massage in HIV
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|Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV Infections Depression
|Procedure: Massage Therapy
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Treatment of Depression With Massage in HIV
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2002
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2004
This is a study to assess the usefulness of massage therapy for treatment of depression and improvement in the quality of life in patients with HIV. This study will define the clinical and biologic response to massage therapy in patients with HIV and depression who are clinically stable and on a fixed medical regimen. Depression is a co-morbid condition in individuals with advanced HIV disease and has a negative impact on quality of life. Depression in HIV-infected patients also has been associated with a decrease in adherence to medications and progression of clinical disease. While pharmacologic therapy for depression have resulted in variable success in managing this problem, it is associated with an increase in the number of medications that these patients are required to take, potential for additional drug-drug interactions, and many adverse events. In patients with advanced stage HIV disease, palliative care is often a priority and identifying new treatment modalities that do not require additional medications while improve clinical symptoms and overall quality of life is of the utmost importance. Pilot studies with massage therapy have been performed in HIV-infected and uninfected individuals. These studies have shown a reduction in depression scores in HIV-uninfected subjects. In HIV-infected patients, massage therapy has been shown to improve quality of life measures and decrease plasma cortisol levels.
The specific aims of this proposal are 1) to determine the effect of massage therapy on depression in subjects with advanced HIV disease, 2) to investigate the effect of massage therapy on quality of life in subjects with advanced HIV disease, and 3) to investigate the effect of massage therapy on plasma cortisol levels in subjects with advanced HIV disease. This study will randomize advanced stage HIV-infected subjects with depression in a 1:1:1 manner to massage therapy, "sham massage" or no physical intervention. The massage and "sham massage" groups will be treated for one hour, twice per week, for 8 weeks. All enrolled subjects will have depression measured (Hamilton Depression Scale) at baseline, weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8, and quality of life (SF-36), and pain assessments (Gracely Pain Scale) at baseline, weeks 4 and 8. In addition, 24-hour urine free cortisol, lymphocyte subsets and HIV RNA measurements will be assessed at baseline and weeks 4 and 8. This will be a rigorously controlled clinical trial using validated measures to assess the clinical (depression and quality of life), and biologic (cortisol levels) effect of massage therapy on subjects with advanced stage HIV disease and clinical depression.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV Seropositive
- Depression as defined by SCID-I with HAM-D score of ³15 (21-item scale)
- On stable neuropsychiatric, analgesic and antiretroviral regimen for >30 days and no plans to modify therapy during the ensuing 4 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to provide informed consent (e.g.sever cognitive impairment)
- New opportunistic infection, malignancies, or acute hospitalizations during the past 30 days
- Suicidal ideation
- Psychosis or bipolar disorder
- Taking any growth hormone or adrenocorticoid preparations
- Massage therapy or new alternative medicine use in preceeding 30 days
- History of intolerance to massage or contraindication to massage (e.g. skin lesions that prevent direct contact by the therapist)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00033852
|United States, California
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
|Principal Investigator:
|Russell E. Poland, PhD
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Eric Daar, MD
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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|NCT00033852 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R21AT001047-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|April 11, 2002
|Last Updated:
|March 5, 2008
Keywords provided by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH):
complementary therapies
Massage Therapy
Alternative Treatments
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder
HIV Infections
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Behavioral Symptoms
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
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Hubby and I decided to send baked goods to our moms on Mother's Day this year. Of course I was happy to help. I wanted to make something that would travel well and (of course) something I've never made. Since we were preparing for our kitchen renovation at the time, I also wanted to use up some of the random half bags of cookie mix ins.
Blondies fit my requirements perfectly. This blondie recipe is pretty well known. I made one batch with just dark chocolate M&Ms and another batch with some white chocolate chips, toffee bits, and chopped walnuts. Both batches turned out great and the one with the white chips turned out better than I expected. That combination of mix-ins tasted like butterscotch.
Blondies – from Blonde Ambition in the Kitchen
6-7 TBS butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup flour
1/4 tsp baking powder (optional, creates lighter blondie texture)
"Add in" (see below)
Preheat oven to 350.
Line an 8×8 pan with foil and lightly spray with PAM.
In a large microwave safe mixing bowl melt the butter. Allow to cool for 5 mintues. Mix the brown sugar with the melted butter and beat until smooth. Beat in egg and then vanilla. Add salt, stir in flour and baking powder (if using). Mix in any additions (some ideas below).
Pour into prepared pan and use a greased spatula to evenly spread mixture in pan and level the top. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until set in the middle. (I baked for 22 minutes)Cool on rack before cutting.
Add in ideas:
1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate or butterscotch chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, almonds
1/2 cup M&M candies1/2 chopped Reese's PB cups
1/4 cup toffee pieces
1/2 tsp mint extract in addition to, or in the place of vanilla extract
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I really love how easy it is to put some variety into blondies! Yum, yours look great!
Yum, love these! It was the first thing off of a food blog that I've made. It's also the recipe that started me on the path of being the #1 fan of all things blondie!
Yea I can't believe I've never made them before!
Blondies are one of my favorite things to eat and make!
I freaking LOVE blondies – and I really like the combo of mix-ins you used!
Thanks for the great idea! I'm making some blondies with Andes Mint baking chips for the lake tomorrow.
Great looking blondies. I love how versatile they are.
Just made these today! Delicious!


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REPORT: Park muddy the waters
11:58am Wednesday 19th February 2014
By Andrew Simpson
11:58am Wednesday 19th February 2014
By Andrew Simpson
Winnington Park 18 Glossop 6
CAPTAIN Harry Stubbs praised his players' passion after Winnington Park dented the promotion hopes of guests Glossop at the weekend.
His side has won three successive matches at Burrows Hill, though the manner of their latest one – against opponents third in the table at kick off – makes it by far the best.
They adapted better to the sodden conditions to give chairman Richard Elliot the perfect send-off before he starts a new job in Saudi Arabia later this month.
"When the weather is so bad it's about who wants to win more," said Stubbs."
"I was really happy with the desire the guys showed; they stepped up, showing the grit and resolve that's needed to win games like that."
Glossop, with a strong wind behind them, spent more time in Park territory during the opening exchanges.
However, their possession produced only a single penalty before Winnington scrum half Mike Jones burst through a gap at the other end before winning a foot race to the line to touch down the game's first try.
From an acute angle on the right, Sam Brookes' conversion attempt drifted wide.
He was more successful before half time, kicking a three-pointer from close range to make it 8-3 only for the visitors to reply in kind on the whistle.
Winnington added a decisive score in their first attack of the second period, a sweeping move ending with Gareth Owen crossing the line in the corner.
This time Brookes converted coolly to make it 15-6.
Glossop were reduced to 14 men when the referee showed a red card to one of their number for challenging with a closed fist, ceding the initiative to their hosts.
It took until the last minute for a further score, again from Brookes' right boot, but by then the outcome had long since been settled.
Stubbs said: "We played some good rugby considering how slippery it was, and again our defence was solid.
"I just hope we can go on and finish the season strongly."
Park Underdown, Wharton (Robbins), Taylor, Gately (Billington), Heale, Dykes, Danny Williams (Roper), Stubbs, Jones, Jack Williams, Bannister, Brookes, Allmark, Lamb, Owen. Tries Jones, Owen. Con Brookes. Pens Brookes (2).
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There's more to baking pizza than just shoving it into a hot space. That dough needs to sit on top of something. You can cook your pizza on a stone, on a pan, or some special pizza baking device—but are the results different enough to recommend one surface over another? What are those differences?
Whenever someone asks this question, inevitably someone else will say "I use this thing and I love it!" That's a great endorsement, but it doesn't offer comparisons. Would you love a different baking surface just as much? Is a cheap alternative just as good—or better—than something more expensive? Does weight, thickness, or mass matter?
Over the course of my next few columns, I'll be testing a variety of cooking surfaces to see how they perform. To make the test fair, I'll be using the same recipe each time. For baking, the oven will be set at 550 degrees and preheated for one hour. The pizzas will be baked for 8 minutes and I'll take photos so we can compare them, and I'll continue baking any that aren't done.
When I'm making the pizzas, there might be some slight differences in size and shape, but I'll try to keep them as consistent as possible.
Let's get started, shall we?
I decided to start the testing with a cheap, basic pizza stone—the sort of stone that you'd own if you got it as a gift from someone who doesn't bake a lot. The stone is just under 13 inches in diameter and stands slightly less than 1/2 inch tall when measuring it standing on a flat surface. But since it has ridges on the bottom, it's actually less than 1/2 inch thick. It weighs 3 1/4 pounds. (You can get a similar one on Amazon here.)
The material is (or, rather, was) a light-colored ceramic. This stone has been around for a number of years, and has stood up to high temperatures in my grill.
At 45 minutes into the preheat, I measured the surface temperature with an infrared thermometer, and the stone was at 524 degrees. At one hour, it was still at 524 degrees.
On the plus side, this sort of stone is small and lightweight, so it's easy to move around and to store. On the downside, it's small. My pizza placement wasn't perfect and one edge of my pizza crust fell over one side of the stone when I tried to get it positioned.
So how did it fare?
Overall, the cooking performance wasn't terrible. The pizza could have used another minute—or maybe two—for those who like their crusts a little darker, but it was perfectly acceptable, and better than many pizzas I've paid for. This will be my baseline pizza that I'll compare the others to.
Because of the size of this particular stone, I wouldn't recommend it unless you tend to bake small pizzas or you have a small oven that won't accommodate a larger stone. Similar stones sell for about $20, so it's not a big investment.
About the author: Donna Currie has been cooking for fun and writing for pay since the days when typewritten articles traveled by snail mail. When she combined those talents in a food column for a newspaper in her area, she realized that writing about food is almost as much fun as eating. You can find her on her blog, Cookistry or follow her on Twitter at @dbcurrie.


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"We are proud to offer a new treatment option for young children who suffer from GERD," said Lonnel Coats, president and CEO of Eisai Inc. "Eisai is committed to keeping the medical needs of patients and their families at the forefront of all that we do, as part of our human health care (hhc) corporate mission."
The approval of ACIPHEX Sprinkle is based on the results of a clinical trial of pediatric patients 1 to 11 years of age. The clinical trial was a multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group study conducted in 127 pediatric patients with endoscopically-proven GERD that consisted of a 12-week treatment and a 24-week extension period of two dose levels of rabeprazole. Overall, 81 percent of patients achieved healing during the 12-week treatment period and 90 percent retained healing during the ensuing 24-week extension period. The absence of a placebo group does not allow assessment of sustained efficacy through 36 weeks.
In the 12-week treatment period, the most commonly reported treatment-emergent adverse events (greater than or equal to 5% of subjects) were cough (14%), vomiting (14%), abdominal pain (12%), diarrhea (11%), pyrexia (10%), headache (9%), upper respiratory tract infection (8%), oropharyngeal pain (6%), and nasopharyngitis (5%).
In the 24-week extension period, the most commonly reported treatment emergent adverse events (greater than or equal to 5% of subjects) were upper respiratory tract infection (13%), vomiting (11%), abdominal pain (8%), diarrhea (6%), pyrexia (5%), nasopharyngitis (5%), pharyngitis streptococcal (5%), and sinusitis (5%).
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About Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a chronic digestive disease that occurs when stomach acid or, occasionally, bile flows back (refluxes) into your food pipe (esophagus). The backwash of acid irritates the lining of your esophagus and causes GERD signs and symptoms.
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