text: Four bowlers take national titles at Junior Gold Lucas Wiseman July 19, 2013 STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - Four youth bowlers rose to the occasion and captured national youth titles Friday as the 2013 North Pointe Junior Gold Championships presented by Track, Columbia 300, Ebonite and Hammer came to a close.Wesley Low of Palmdale, Calif., Julia Bond of Aurora, Ill., Cortez Schenck of Phoenix and Taylor Russell of Tupelo, Miss., all came away with championships in their respective divisions at Sunnybrook Lanes. A record 2,078 athletes took part in the event and competed for more than $275,000 in scholarships.Low, 16, went undefeated in the double-elimination match-play bracket with a 5-0 record to claim the 20-and-under boys title. The two-handed lefty knocked off Ryan Zagar of Kenosha, Wis., 456-425, in the two-game title match."It feels like I accomplished something really big today," said Low, a current Junior Team USA member. "All the hard work I put into my spare shooting and practicing on the patterns really paid off and helped me."After leading 25 games of qualifying by more than six pins a game on the field, Bond, 17, also went undefeated in match play to win the U20 girls title. She defeated current Junior Team USA member Sarah Lokker of New Baltimore, Mich., 386-339."It's all overwhelming - the ceremony, the people, the awards," Bond said. "The fact that I made it this far and was so successful means a lot. To be on the same level as all of the other great bowlers is amazing."The top two players in the U20 boys and girls divisions after 25 games of qualifying earned automatic spots on Junior Team USA in 2014. Those spots went to Nick Kruml of Downers Grove, Ill., Andrew Anderson of Holly, Mich., Liz Kuhlkin of Rotterdam, N.Y., and Bond.In addition, the players who advanced to the U20 championship match also earned automatic spots on Junior Team USA with Low, Zagar and Lokker earning those spots. Since Bond had already earned a spot, an additional section went to the National Selection Committee.The selections to Junior Team USA were Matt Farber of Plainview, N.Y., Kamron Doyle of Brentwood, Tenn., Natalie Goodman of O'Fallon, Ill., Elise Bolton of Merritt Island, Fla., and Breanna Clemmer of Clover, S.C. Clemmer is the first player to be selected from the U15 division onto Junior Team USA.Schenck, 14, who lost in the U15 boys title match last year, claimed the 2013 U15 boys title in dominating fashion. He lead qualifying and went undefeated in match play, taking the title with a 417-390 victory over Michael Martell of Brooklyn, N.Y."After finishing second last year, I just wanted to make sure I didn't choke, and I wanted to put on the best show that I could," Schenck said. "I just can't believe that I won Junior Gold. It's a great feeling and not every kid gets to do this."In the U15 girls title match, Russell had to knock off previously unbeaten Ashley Channell of Morris Chapel, Tenn., in back-to-back matches. Russell, 15, won the first match 370-353 and took the deciding match 373-338."It's crazy because I never would have thought I would make it this far," Russell said. "It was a very challenging week, but I pushed myself through it."Four U15 bowlers who were age eligible earned spots to compete in the Tournament of Americas in 2014 and to join the Team USA development team program. Those players were Schenck, Sean Wilcox of Altamonte Springs, Fla., Leah Glazer of Henderson, Nev., and Channell.For more information on the North Pointe Junior Gold Championships, visit BOWL.com/JuniorGold.


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vwery rarely, that's what CD's are for.
Have you or will you consider adoption, even if you can have kids with your spouse on your own?
vwery rarely, that's what CD's are for.
Have you or will you consider adoption, even if you can have kids with your spouse on your own?
no way, the kid would turn out to some little freak
Q: Will you buy a DVD burner when they reduce in price?
hrm, maybe, but it would be hard to tell them later in their life about how they were adopted.
Q: How many times have you electricuted yourself?
Electricution is fatal I think..
I've shocked myself countless times with televisions and stereo equipment though.
The world is waiting. I must leave you now.
Q: how the hell did I spend 10 bucks on sms in the last 2 - 3 days???
A: I dont know, you tell me
Q: Do you use public transportation? (if so what is it, bus, street car, subway etc)
Your Move:Life is a game, Play it; Life is a challenge, Meet it; Life is an opportunity, capture it.
Homepage: http://www.freewebs.com/andy_moog/home.html
yep, I catch a bus to school every morning and a bus home every afternoon. You could also call my mum public tranportaion due to how much shes driving us around
Q: do you have a job and do you like it?
A) Yea i work at a skate park, i skate all day with people to make sure rules r followed, pretty sweet stuff.
Q) Friends or Seinfeld? (i say friends)
Q. Do you like giving out halloween candy to kids?
hello, internet!
not an answer, an opinion.
A) No i eat it all.
Q) Whats your favorite chips?
Q: Am I the only person who thinks that Seinfield is the best TV show ever and that Jay and Silent Back is the best movie ever?
Probably not the only person.
Why is it so warm?
It's warm? Where? I've got a cold, I feel ill, I hate all the people who sit near me, as it's probably their fault I've got a cold, one day, revenge shall be mine, oh yes... erm.. yeah.. anyway...
I just bought a Pink Cadillac de ville ('67) for £2,850, I'm now poor, question is.. Is it cool to own a Pink Cadillac or just plain camp?
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy - Groucho Marx
Pink cars eh?? Depends where you are methinks, probably ok in LA but if your in my area you'd better get it sprayed quick!!
Where are you?
Couldn't think of anything interesting, cool or funny - sorry.

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A WOMAN accused of "squatting'' in the home of a man she knew for only four months has left a trail of unhappy ex-lovers.
Retired Cairns architect Keith Prince, 74, last month told how Ann Stewart refused to leave his four-bedroom Bracken Ridge house after their relationship ended mid last year.
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Now Kingaroy man Ray Wilton has told how he ended up paying Ms Stewart $20,000 to leave his house in 2011 "without damaging or removing anything''.
Mr Wilton also met the redhead through dating website RSVP in 2010, soon after his 35-year marriage ended, but within three months of her moving in the "intimate'' relationship had ended.
He had sought legal advice and at one stage, had even called police, in his efforts to get rid of her.
He finally made secret plans to sell his house, but just before it was sold she agreed to move out if he paid her $20,000 "reimbursement''.
"It was very distressing. I'm 92 kilos but by the time she left I was 72 kilos,'' Mr Wilton said.
He was at first flattered when Ms Stewart drove to Kingaroy soon after they met online, and was happy when she moved in with him four months later. But he claims Ms Stewart isolated him from his local friends, took over his house, insisting on many renovations, and within a few months had locked him out of the main bedroom.
Ms Stewart yesterday said she had difficulty remembering her relationship with Mr Wilton because she had been "to hell and back'' with major surgery and cancer treatment.
Another man who met Ms Stewart via RSVP in 2007 also says he was left about $3000 out of pocket when she kicked him out of her house after a three-month relationship.
He said he called police when he went to her house to remove his fridge and his other possessions, but Ms Stewart told police he had only been a boarder and she owned the goods.
"Being a Scorpio, honesty and integrity are paramount to me,'' she had told the man in an email.
In the case that came to light earlier, Mr Prince said he had recently discovered Ms Stewart, 71, who he met through the online dating site RSVP, had changed the locks on his $427,000 house, where she has not paid any rent.
Ms Stewart claimed she had a two-year "lease'' signed by Mr Prince, which stated the rent was fully paid.
A special term said "if we separate I will compensate Ann for the balance of rent paid", Ms Stewart claimed.
She also claimed Mr Prince gave her permission to change the locks last year. It is all denied by Mr Prince. He went to police, solicitors, the Residential Tenancy Authority and Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal to try to get her to leave, claiming it was not his signature on the lease.
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Here are the names I like what kind of combinations would you make?
Blythe, Beatrice, Cordelia, Carys, Calista, Cecelia, Celia, Cecily, Claudia, Daphne, Delilah, Eloise, Evangeline, Flora, Fiona, Felicity, Georgia, Genevieve, Ingrid, Iris, Juno, Jillian, Lorelei, Lucy, Lavinia, Margo, Margaret, Maisie, Maeve, Marguerite, Matilda, Norah, Olive, Penelope, Phoebe, Susannah
I know there is a lot of names here lol so just pick a few you really like and pair them with a middle name. Our last name is Bennett. My sons have only one middle name and my daughter has two middle names. If we find a nice combination we would do two middle names again but it's not a must.


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Update: West central Minn. highways to re-open, travel still not advised
DETROIT LAKES – (4:40 p.m.) The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol will open three roadways in west central Minnesota at 5 p.m.
The highways opening at 5 p.m. include:
- Interstate 94 between Moorhead and Alexandria
- Highway 10 between Moorhead and Audubon
- Highway 210 between Breckenridge and Fergus Falls
Although the roads are legally open for travel, MnDOT is still listing the roads as "Travel Not Advised" in the Alexandria, Breckenridge, Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Mahnomen and Moorhead areas of west central Minnesota. Current driving conditions remain very difficult due to low visibility, high winds and ground drifting. In addition, roads are ice-covered in many locations.
MnDOT reminds motorists to be patient while snowplow operators work to improve driving conditions.
Motorists are also reminded of Minnesota's "Move Over Law." If you are traveling on a roadway with two or more lanes, you must stay one full lane away when passing stopped emergency or maintenance vehicles. If motorists cannot move over, they should reduce their speeds.
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While I don't believe in living with regret, to say there are some things that I wish would have gone differently in 2012 is an understatement. According to the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, we basically fell into the stress category of "You have a high or very high risk of becoming ill in the near future": A move, a …Read More »
Disney Store Sale Extra 15% off
The Disney Store Twice Upon a Year Sale is still going on, plus you can save an extra 15% already marked down merchandise until 11:59pm tonight (December 27, 2011). Just use code SALE15 at checkout.Read More »
Disney Store Twice Upon a Year Sale starts Today!
The Disney Store Twice Upon a Year Sale starts today! Save up to 50% off (sometimes more!) on your favorite Disney items, plus get free shipping when you spend $50 or more with code SHIPFIFTY through this Sunday, December 25, 2011.Read More »
Year End Partner Thank You Postcard
My husband and I came up with a great idea (If I do say so myself): A Year-End partner thank you postcard to show gratitude for all the companies that partnered with SamiCone.com in 2011! In Photoshop I hand-crafted a cloud of all the organizations I worked with this year and then wrote a special message on the back: Keeping …Read More »
First 100 Win Free Chick-fil-A for a year!
Every time a new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens in a town, they hold their First 100 contest, where the first 100 people who show up win free Chick-fil-A for a year! This promotion has become so popular, that there are now official guidelines. We have a store opening here in West Nashville on Thursday, December 15, but you'll have to arrive …Read More »
Free Coffee from Mapco
Not that I'm trying to take any of my husband's Starbucks business away from him, but I wanted to pass along this FREE COUPON for coffee at Mapco Gas Stations. They're also giving away FREE GAS for a year EVERYDAY! You do have to physically go into their store to fill register on their computers, but wouldn't that be a …Read More »
$5 Magazine Subscriptions on Amazon.com
I'm normally not one to spend money on magazine subscriptions, but I just took advantage of this deal to get a year of Real Simple for only $5 on Amazon.com! While the Real Simple deal is now $20, you can still get the following magazines for only $5 for a year: -People, Style Watch -Marie Claire -Good Housekeeping -Harper's Bazaar …Read More »


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Awesome looks, cheap pricetag: Acer Aspire 5742 review
Probably the first thing you'll notice about the Acer Aspire 5742 is its appearance; for such a cheap notebook it looks really slick with a carbon fibre like finish that has a great tactile feel. While the hinges did give a bit when picking the notebook up quickly they otherwise stayed still. The chiclet keyboard looks stylish and handles even better with the keys themselves pleasantly firm to press.
The only disappointment is the hilariously small arrow keys. It's particularly jarring given how generously sized every other key is. The touchpad located slightly to the left is responsive and has a few helpful multi-touch options like pinch zooming.
The effort put into appearance hasn't hampered the guts of the notebook as it has a zippy Intel Core i5-460M. While 2GB of RAM is a bit on the small side at no point during using the notebook was there any noticeable slowdown or stuttering even when running several programs at once. The PCMark Vantage score of 4797 is certainly great given the very low price.
Storage is somewhat low at 320GB but looking at the price tag it makes sense that something would have to give. The 15.6in screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 and good colour reproduction and contrast. The viewing angle is forgiving as the screen had to be tilted a lot before visibility suffered.
It may not be an all-day workhorse but in power saver mode it lasted a respectable 4 hours and 30 minutes while only getting mildly warm. It has solid port variety including an HDMI port on the left along with a VGA USB 2.0 fast Ethernet a headphone jack and a microphone jack. On the right there's a pair of well-spaced USB 2.0 ports along with the DVD burner.
All up this notebook's only downsides are the small amount of RAM and tiny directional keys while the pros are numerous. The Acer Aspire 5742 looks and performs great and for such a low price you really can't go wrong.
Available from Acer retailing for $698.
APC rating: 8/10 (Highly Recommended)
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Shambhala Lineage, History, and Culture: Proclaiming Basic Goodness
with Acharya Alan Schwartz
A day-long leadership training in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. This workshop is part of a series that provides skills and trainings in support of the path of contemplative leadership.
How we lead our lives in households and in families, at work and at play, publicly and privately, affects the health of an entire society. Join with leaders in Shambhala to explore our mutual commitment to creating a more sane society through principles of universal leadership.
The Series
- September 7 Shambhala Leadership Training Part I
Shambhala Lineage, History, and Culture with Acharya Alan Schwartz
- October 5 Shambhala Leadership Training Part II
Sacred World, Thread of Gold with Shastri Sandra Ladley and Megan Murphy
- November 2 Shambhala Leadership Training Part III
The Six Ways of Ruling with Shastri Amy Conway
- December 7 Shambhala Leadership Training Part IV
Meditation in Action and the Path of Service with Khenchen Charlie Green
Shambhala Lineage, History, and Culture: Proclaiming Basic Goodness
Human society is a constant expression and manifestation of deep values and principles, including how we interact, run our homes and create our economy. Ultimately the Shambhala lineage, it's history and culture is an expression of humanity's most fundamental nature as discovered through profound meditative tradition.
This workshop will explore the history and culture of the Shambhala lineage as an expression of profound principles, beginning with Dawa Sangpo, the legendary first King of Shambhala and culminating in the current Sakyong of Shambhala. We will examine the chants, rituals and practices that form our tradition.
10 AM Shambhala Lineage History: From Dawa Sangpo to Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Teachings and Workshop
12:30 PM Lunch
2 PM Shambhala Forms: Expressions of Basic Goodness Teachings and Workshop
4 PM Closing Chants and Reception
Everyone is qualified to take leadership training, and it is not necessary to take these trainings in sequence.
This program is free to Shambhala Interns and Teachers.
Membership discounts apply. For financial aid or work-study please contact Mery, volunteer [at] sfshambhala [dot] org, at least a week in advance. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Acharya Alan Schwartz became a student of Shambhala in 1970, when Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche first arrived and began to teach in North America. For four years he resided at Karme Choling and Maitri, both newly-founded meditation communities, until taking up residence in Boulder, where he founded numerous businesses.
In the 1980's, Alan served for five years as the principal executive officer of four 3-month seminary programs. It was during this period that he received his "basic training", working closely with Chogyam Trungpa on these seminal teaching events. During that time he was also appointed to serve as teacher-in-residence to Shambhala's San Francisco community, which he did for nine years. In 2010 he was appointed a Shastri, and appointed an Acharya in 2012. In 1989 Alan married Kerry Golemon Schwartz. They have raised two children, and continue to teach actively in the Bay Area under the guidance of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Alan is particularly inspired to serve under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche's leadership and is inspired by his vision for social transformation, and in particular the application of profound Shambhala Buddhist teachings in areas of worldly impact, such as working with the energy of business and wealth, and transforming materialism to activity which benefits society.


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What is the correct posture to adopt when making a Royal wedding documentary? According to Meet the Middletons (Monday, Channel 4), it goes roughly as follows: bend the knee to its furthest extreme without risking rupture, and then slowly extend the tongue.
There were a number of oddities here, not the least being the commentary. "This is St Andrews' University," the narrator announced, "Incubator for this country's biggest royal wedding." "Incubator" seems an odd word in the context – more appropriate to a discussion about Legionnaire's Disease and its fondness for breeding in air-conditioning units. There was plenty more in similarly strange vein. Throughout, Kate Middleton was referred to as "Miss Middleton" in a manner that effortlessly blended the sniffy and the craven.
In order to "unwrap the enigma" that is Miss Middleton, the documentary had tracked down several members of her extended family. Miss M turned out to have an extraordinary number of relatives – so much so that after a while I started to wonder if even I might have a fragile blood-tie with her, spawned on the wrong side of some faraway blanket. Just about everyone else seemed to.
These relatives ranged in social status from the posh to the – to use a grotesquely offensive and mercifully outmoded socio-economic generalisation – dead common. One woman, Kailie, the possessor of hair the colour of Irn-Bru, folded her enormous forearms and talked of her shock on finding out she was another of Kate's distant cousins. "I was definitely shocked!" And would she have liked an invitation to the wedding? "Definitely!"
Most of these relatives wished her well – "Good luck to the gel!" – but others were more mealy-mouthed.
In particular, Kate's grandmother on her mother's side came in for a devastatingly genteel duffing-up. "She liked nice things – and made sure she got them," one woman said of her. "Pushy was the word," said another. Her choice of pram was the clincher. "She had to have the biggest pram out."
Then came a photo of the pram in question. After this build-up, I was expecting something exceptional – special off-roading tyres perhaps, or a cocktail cabinet in the back – but no, it looked completely unexceptional. Just like Meet the Middletons, in fact. By the end, I'm heartened to be able to report, the enigma that is Miss Middleton remained as tightly wrapped as before.
The key indicator of any royal wedding documentary, of course, is the frequency of the words "fairy tale". Britain's Royal Weddings (Sunday, BBC One) showed unprecedented restraint for most of its length, but was undone by a late surge which brought the total to four.
These must be hellish programmes to make. Everyone expects them to be decent, but realistically no one expects them to be exceptional. Yet this was an unusually jolly and engaging affair, crisply but warmly presented by Sophie Raworth and full of good stories and interesting participants.
It was also peculiarly touching to see one of Princess Margaret's former bridesmaids open a trunk and take out her – slightly crumpled – dress. This, by my estimate, was when the fourth and final "fairy tale" wafted tremulously out from the screen.
If Prince William and Kate Middleton are looking for a peaceful and private honeymoon venue, perhaps they should try Captain Scott's hut in Antarctica. In The Secrets of Scott's Hut (Sunday, BBC Two), Ben Fogle examined the hut for clues to Scott's character. This could so easily have been a balloon full of silly, waffly speculation. In fact, Fogle had done an exemplary job, his insights being as penetrating as they were heartfelt.
Left pretty much as it was when Scott and his men set off for the South Pole in 1911, the hut is a deeply gloomy place, with little natural light and a wall of wooden crates separating the officers from the men. "The heart," as Fogle put it, "has gone out of this little cabin." Outside, still chained up lay the frozen carcass of one of Scott's dogs.
By contrast, Shackleton's hut a few miles away is much brighter and homelier. Yet the idea of Scott as a constipated martinet was belied by extracts from letters to his wife, read for the first time. Nothing could have been less buttoned-up, less cold. In the past, Fogle has tended to wag his tail a bit too hard for my tastes, but by the end here, he was like a changed man – sombre, stilled and much moved.


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ok, btw update it EVEN if its the latest, the update disc becomes a ulitity disc, which can block updates, and other fun stuff :3
It seems that the solderless clips for the wasabi zero are not purchasable seperately. I didn't initially chose to get one because my Wii is fairly new and I wasn't sure if it soul have epoxy or not. Well it turns out it didn't but since I can't fi d the solderless adapter for it I think I'm stuck hardwiring this in. The main obstacle I'm running into is a guide of some sort for the wasabi zero. I'd just like to fnd some diagram pictures showing what wires need to be soldered where. This is my first attempt for a Wii mod & my mod chip seems to be the latest released so I'm just trying to make sure I get it right the first time. Thanks for your time folks.
ok, btw update it EVEN if its the latest, the update disc becomes a ulitity disc, which can block updates, and other fun stuff :3
hmm well I didn't get a disc of any kind with my order. Or any wires for soldering (gonna stop by Radio Shack tonight and pick up some 30 gauge wire). All I got was the chip and the manilla envelope it came in. I'm guessing the update disc your speaking of can be downloaded and burned but at the moment I'm just needing to figure out how to solder the right points in so I can use my backup of Zelda to start the downgrade from 3.4 to 3.2. All soldering diagram searches I google for come up empty handed.
the disc, is something you burn with a update off the site, just go to the offical site and you should be fine, and then you can do the downgrade, use this guide http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...atutorial.html
I appreciate your timeliness and patience with me, but I believe my main hurdle that I need to cross before I can downgrade (cause I have a backup of my Zelda disc), is to get the mod chip installed so that the backup disc is able to be read. But the problem seems to be a lack of documentation from the manufacturer and resellers about how to properly solder it in. I've been trying to scour multiple websites and even a bit in YouTube for some form of guide of where to solder (and how many wires to solder) this mod chip in. My Wii has the GC2-D2E in it if that makes any difference as to the installation but as of right now the ONLY guides that I've found give a description of how to install the solderless model. I have my soldering iron, solder, & chip ready to do something with it but so far the only thing I know how to do is install the solderless version and I can't order that separately. I guess it just perplexes me that they sell the solder version without any instructions on what gets soldered where. I apologize if this sounds like a rant, as I'm not meaning it to be. I'm just at the point of tippy-toe jumping at the excitement of modding/hacking yet another piece of electronics in my house and somehow the universe is trying to thwart my mission.
My apologies Admiral, for some reason I had been going to Wasabi Wii Modchip - Compatible with DMS, D2A, D2B, D2C, D2C2, D2E - Upgradable from DVD - Simply the best instead of the latest link that you had posted. Seems my eagerness to get accomplished has only set me back on my timetable a bit due to making assumptions. Thank you very, very much for all your help. I know I'm not the only one here to cause frustration, and it's to your credit and helpfulness that we 'eventually' get our thick skulls to absorb the proverbial 'nose on our face'. Cheers bud.
thats the right site
its in the downloads -,_-, but its good to learn the site reguardless so i didnt tell you where to look
Actually the site you linked and the site I linked are 2 different sites. They initially look the same but the one that I posted doesn't have any links in the green upper banner for downloads etc, it only has a search window for "Search Wasabi Wholesale" and nothing else link wise to click on(hence my confusion). Your site has the 'cn' extension for I'm assuming China where as mine just ends in '.com'. Seems like a cheesy name scam of domains to me. Anyways, sorry for any confusion.
sorry they leave the same message when u link =P
Wasabi Wii Modchip - Compatible with DMS, D2A, D2B, D2C, D2C2, D2E - Upgradable from DVD - Simply the best
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LORAIN — The school board on Monday eliminated 101 non-teaching jobs — the latest in a series of cuts designed to bring the district's budget back into the black.
The vote — initially scheduled for a special meeting Friday — was delayed until Monday when officials realized the board's agenda had not been made public 24 hours before the meeting as is required by the law.
School board member Dina Ferrer cast the lone "no" vote Monday. Voting for the layoffs were Keith Lilly, Cynthia Miller and Raul Ramos. Board President Jeanine Donaldson was absent.
Ferrer said she was both troubled and confused about how Superintendent Dee Morgan and her staff selected the workers to be laid off. She said she heard one nonunion worker at the Charleston Administrative Center was transferred to another office in the district.
"How can we replace one person with another?" Ferrer asked. "I feel we're safeguarding certain jobs and handpicking people."
Morgan, however, said that wasn't the case — she said what Ferrer might have heard is that some people at the Digital Academy were replaced with people with more seniority.
Ferrer said she still felt more clarification was needed on how the administration was determining who would be laid off and her comment prompted the first real public discussion by the school board about the massive cuts that have been ongoing since the district's treasurer determined the district would be in the red $4.75 million by the end of June without severe cutbacks.
"These people are the bottom of the seniority list," Lilly explaining how the cuts were done.
Board member Cynthia Miller, meanwhile, took issue with eliminating full-time nurses at the schools.
"If something happens to a child, I'm concerned that someone who is trained will be there," Miller said.
Miller also said she had a problem that a majority of non-teaching workers being laid off were among the lowest paid employees in the district.
"I think more concessions need to be made at a higher level," Miller said.
Despite her concerns, Miller voted for the layoffs. Her vote was greeted with jeers from the crowd of about 100 people who attended the meeting.
Ferrer also noted before the vote was taken that the layoff list contains only five people in administrative positions.
Ferrer said it would seem that with so many fewer employees, there would be a need for fewer people to oversee staff.
"This is an ongoing process. This is one step along the way," board member Raul Ramos told Ferrer. "We're not done yet. There are still other things to take care of. If something happens, we're trying to bring back fine arts."
Ramos, however, did not elaborate on the district's next steps.
Ferrer also asked Morgan if the new superintendent, Cheryl Atkinson, had been involved during the district's employee downsizing. Morgan said Atkinson was in town and had been involved.
"I think it would be important for her to attend these meetings," Ferrer said.
Atkinson, who succeeds Morgan on Aug. 1, has not attended the school board meetings.
The board also listened to about a dozen parents, students and former district employees who expressed their anger at the board over the layoffs and pleaded with them to reinstate certain teachers and programs.
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WHO: Lorain school board
WHEN: 6 p.m. July 16 WHERE: Frank Jacinto Elementary School.
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Audience members react to the board members at Lorain City School board meeting.


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BYU, Utah Utes football: For young QBs, this game is an eye-opener
poyman Lincoln City, ORNov. 26, 2010 11:55 a.m.
BYU in a close one to make it 4 out of the last 5... BYU then heads for independence and a weak schedule for the next few years, and Utah moves to a weaker Football and Basketball Conference.
The MWC is then left with TCU and BSU and the 7 Dwarfs (plus 2 new dwarfs) in Football, and UNLV, SDSU, UNM and the equivalent of 8 NAIA teams in Basketball.
The MWC will then dissolve in 3 short years as they will lose TCU to Conference USA, won't be able to get a strong enough TV contract, and a League Reorganization will be demanded by the tallest pygmies in the league that are still remaining.... The current Commish will be gone.
Rock Of The Marne Phoenix, AZNov. 26, 2010 11:34 a.m.
panamadesnewson "Sat after your Utes lose AGAIN!" Funny thing is panamadesnewson last time I checked it was your team that has done the most losing this season 5 vs. 2. Utah is going to be a 10 win season team this year while your team will be sitting at a mediocre .500. I love smack talk from people whose teams are barely average at best. BTW Utah is still ranked what BYU? Utah wins again and takes it's 20 plus head to head win advantage over BYU to the PAC 12. BYU had a nice 20 or so year run (20 plus years ago) but overall via the head to head records Utah is the dominant team; the facts speak for themselves.
BlueHusky Mission Viejo, CANov. 26, 2010 8:20 a.m.
EndOfAnError said that neither team is very good. I tend to agree with that. Others have pointed out Utah's top 10 run defense - yet that ranking was against a bottom 10 strength of schedule. So that statistic is probably bogus. Utah's fall from grace was precipitous as the team was exposed as a mediocrity this year. SDSU's great passer overwhelmed Utah's defense. Two lucky plays saved the Utes from a third defeat.
BYU started with chaos, went 1-4 and turned it around against the same teams with which Utah padded their numbers. But BYU dominated SDSU unlike anything I've seen. BYU's defense limited TCU's scoring to turnovers and short fields.
I think the game will rest on BYU's defense which clearly seems better than Utah's. BYU's running may prove to be very real against Utah's defense. Heaps seems to have a lot of composure and has protected the ball well in the 2nd half of the season.
I pick BYU in a close one.
CougFaninTX Frisco, TXNov. 25, 2010 10:29 p.m.
The only way to compare the Utes to the Cougs is to look at their common opponents. Utes get the edge over AFA, but that was BYU's second game. BYU gets the edge over SDSU. If it weren't for a couple of very lucky plays the Utes would have logged their 3rd loss in a row. SDSU outplayed the Utes in every aspect, except the scoreboard. But Utes were on the road against SDSU and BYU was at home, so we'll call it even. Against TCU, it is no contest. Even though both teams lost, the Utes got blown out at RES. If a few plays had gone the other way, BYU should have held TCU to 14 or 17 points. It was a real game, not a blow out. Anybody who thinks the Utes will score 30 points on the new BYU defense is either ignorant or hasn't watched BYU since Bronco took over the defense again.
da bob Salt Lake City, UTNov. 25, 2010 9:26 p.m.
I think Utes Fan has a good breakdown of the game. As a BYU fan, I sure hope Heaps performs because the Utes are going to force Heaps to beat them through the air.
We know that the Utes secondary is pretty terrible vs any kind of pass efficient team, but I think the hostile atmosphere and good pass rush the Utes bring will cause heaps to make some stupid mistakes.
BYU has 17 freshman with playing time under their belt, and as much as want BYU to win, I see them making to many young mistakes.
BYU's defense will cause Utah to struggle... but not enough.
Lets hope i'm wrong go cougs!
I hope i'm wrong
panamadesnews Lindon, UTNov. 25, 2010 6:19 p.m.
Patriot, part of your blog is probably correct. BYU will run to set up the pass, playing ball contral to keep your defense on the field. If that is the case, they will tire, and BYU will then pick your defense apart. Look for BYU to pull away the 2nd half and win big going away.
panamadesnews Lindon, UTNov. 25, 2010 6:15 p.m.
Sorry, Chris B - your crystal ball is cloudy - you got the score reversed. Have a good day, at least try to, on Sat after your Utes lose AGAIN!
fender Washington, UTNov. 25, 2010 12:03 p.m.
Utes will play this one just like they did SDSU. They'll bring six or seven and force Heaps to find his hot receiver. Putting defenders in every gap will also shut down the run game, and it will be totally on Heaps. If he performs like Lindley, then this will be very interesting. If not, BYU is in trouble. My call Utah 42 BYU 35.
sammyg Springville, UTNov. 25, 2010 11:53 a.m.
No 8 - 0 football team has broken the sound barrier from falling off of a cliff as this year's Utes.
BYU by 2 TDs
In memory of NC Utes 2010, I'll be silent for a moment...(crickets) There, I hoped you enjoyed that.
Mark it Down!!!!
haunyocker Springville, UTNov. 25, 2010 11:36 a.m.
Since Jeff Call is talking about firsts, how about the first time a freshman BYU quarterback beats a good Utes team on their home field.
Maybe it's a dream, but isn't that the fun of the game. Can anybody not respect what the Utes did in San Diego. It showed grit, determination and a bundle of talent.
For the Cougs to beat Utah this year, they have to summon that same grit, determination and talent. This is the one of the most fun games in years to speculate about, because anything can happen. But as a Coug fan, I respect a very tough Utes team, despite their losses to tough teams.
Three points: I hope both teams play to their maximum potential, no one is hurt, and we fans can cheer ourselves hoarse for a good football game.
Go COUGS!
Utes Fan Salt Lake City, UTNov. 25, 2010 10:27 a.m.
I am with patriot on this. BYU has yet to win a game this year in which they were really forced to win by the pass. They haven't really needed to since they have a good running game. The pass game was set up by the run game. Heaps has been able to improve due to this. BYU has a good O-line also. But with a good run game, almost any QB will do well when passing.
However, Utah's defensive strength is stopping the run. I don't think Utah will stop BYU's run. But I do think Utah will concentrate on it and slow it down enough that BYU will have to rely on Heaps and its passing game to win. Since BYU has not done that this year, I can't expect them to do it in Utah's stadium with 45K+ fans still upset over Hall's comments, the pressure of the rivalry, with the revenge-minded Utes after losing a close one last year, and with the inexperienced Heaps.
Utah will win convincingly. It might not be a blowout, but a good win.
Utah 27, BYU 13
bradleyc Layton, UTNov. 25, 2010 8:37 a.m.
Go Cougars!
EndOfAnError-01/20/2013 Suwanee, GANov. 25, 2010 7:56 a.m.
Let's start with a couple of facts. 1) BYU is not very good. Yes, they are improving but that improvement has come against horrible teams. 2) Utah is not a very good team. They built their entire success around playing horrible teams. They were exposed by a very good TCU and a bad ND.
What will this weeks game prove? Not much. Only which team is a little bit worse off than the other. Regardless of the final score, neither team is very good this year. That has already been proven beyond doubt.
My prediction: BYU 28 Utah 17
Go Cougars.
patriot Cedar Hills, UTNov. 25, 2010 7:02 a.m.
A grim note for Jake Heaps... No freshman QB at BYU has ever beaten Utah @ Utah. In fact it has usually been a senior QB that has beaten Utah. This game is tough for a freshman because although Jake is much better now than he was back in September he still is going to have to handle a fierce pass rush and loud fans and I doubt he will handle either well. The worst thing Jake can do is try to force things because that leads to turns overs and touch downs. The best way to play this game for the Y is to concentrate on the run game and ball possession limiting what Heaps has to do. My prediction is Heaps will be sacked 5 times and throw 3 interceptions... Utah 33 BYU 20.
dhsalum Saint George, UTNov. 25, 2010 1:01 a.m.
A whole month, huh? So until the bowl game?
Chris B Salt Lake City, UTNov. 24, 2010 11:55 p.m.
Heaps will throw 2 picks, fumble once, complete 13 of 28 passes and lose 10 to 38
You CAN mark that one down.
Yes, I was wrong on a couple games this year.
If Utah loses this game I won't post anything negative about ybu for a month, but rest assured that's not going to happen!


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When the lights dim over the crowd, a child clad in African robes ascends the stage and in a slightly nervous voice introduces The Black Nativity. The cast gathers on stage one by one until one becomes forty, and for the next two hours, one powerful voice after another belts out rollicking gospel tunes -- toe-tapping, hand-raising, Praise God! tunes. The show, written by Langston Hughes in 1961, builds a bridge between the culture of historic Africa and that of twentieth-century black America by depicting the birth of Christ and the vitality of the modern black church. There is no narrative to speak of, just a pervasively uplifting spirit that feels like church -- only better, because the seats are more comfortable.
But for all of the passion in the performance, this year's tenth-anniversary production of The Black Nativity is a pale imitation of previous efforts. There were only twenty people in the audience -- half the number of performers on stage -- when there should have been one hundred people singing on a much bigger stage. The performance should have been held in a downtown building of heroic proportions, not in the small El Centro Su Teatro, north of I-70 in a tiny strip of neighborhood sandwiched between the highway and a belt of factories. The show should have run six weekends, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, not just the two before Christmas. There should have been sophisticated lights and an honest-to-God organ instead of a synthesizer. The Sunday-afternoon crowd should have been 200 or 300.
The story of why things weren't as they should have been makes for pretty good drama itself.
"Either you're gonna be a cultural center or you're going to in fact be a real estate management company," says Hiawatha Davis, head of the city's Department of Human Rights and Community Relations. Davis is one of several city officials who have had front-row seats in what has turned into a disastrous production involving Eulipions.
From its founding in 1982 as a small black theater group largely off the Denver radar, by the mid-'90s, Eulipions had grown into one of the city's best theatrical companies. For more than a decade, it had put on a half-dozen shows a year, everything from musicals to cutting-edge plays. But the group had also bounced from space to space in north Denver. With its own building, the company would have stability. It wouldn't have to worry where to store costumes and sets and tools and props. "If you own your own space," says Eulipions founder Jo Bunton Keel, "it makes much more sense economically."
So when the opportunity came to buy the historic El Jebel ShrineTemple, the magnificent Moorish hall at 1770 Sherman Street, company members scoured the city for help. The community came through with $40,000, mostly in small donations. In a rush of optimism, the Colorado Historical Society chipped in $5,000, as did the Trillium Corporation. Colorado National Bank (now US Bank) threw in another $40,000, and the down payment was set. The bank and the city loaned the group more money for renovations, and so did the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The deal closed on Halloween 1995.
The purchase of the temple was the largest acquisition by a black-owned nonprofit in Denver in decades, maybe ever. But the temple was way too much building for the tiny arts troupe. Eulipions stopped putting on shows. It defaulted on a loan. As part of an agreement to bail out the group, the city demanded that Eulipions cast a whole new board of directors. The new board helped get the group on firmer ground, but also fired Keel and changed the locks.
Davis thinks the building should be sold, and so does the city, says Myrna Hipp, head of Denver's Community Development and Planning Agency and the city's point person on the debacle.
Not ready to play dead just yet, Keel and her supporters, who call themselves Friends of Eulipions, are waging a legal battle to save the building and oust the new board. Last fall they lost a motion for an injunction against the current board, known as Eulipions Inc., to prevent the building from being sold, but a trial to settle the matter is scheduled for the spring. Just last month, the interim board, through attorney Tyrone Holt, filed a motion to have the case dismissed, but Keel's attorney, Alison Maynard, regards the motion as frivolous.
Both sides have been ordered into mediation, and Maynard is trying to locate a judge outside of Denver to handle the matter. She says she wants the mediation to take place outside of Denver because City Attorney Dan Muse and Mayor Wellington Webb influenced the selection of the current board.
Meanwhile, Keel is still trying to put on the local theater productions that the building was supposed to have facilitated. At the end of January the group is scheduled to return to Su Teatro to stage a play called Talking Bones, about how the young ignore the messages of their ancestors. In May it's slated to present a tragedy called Waitin' in Vain, about a young Harlem girl's struggles to become a writer.
After that, Keel will find out whether she can ever get back into the building that was briefly hers.
Jo Bunton Keel came to Denver from Ohio in the late '60s; a few years later she joined the New Dance Theatre, which was run by another future arts stalwart, Cleo Parker Robinson. In 1977 Keel started her own dance troupe, the Movement Free Dance Company. In those days, black theater revolved around the old Bonfils Theatre on Colfax. When its owner, Donald Seawell, launched the Denver Performing Arts Complex, he deemed the old theater inadequate; the Bonfils later became the Lowenstein and then closed in 1986.
In the early '80s, Keel already was looking for something new to stake her claim to. Recently divorced, she used the proceeds of the sale of her Park Hill home to help rent, along with actor Jimmy Walker, a storefront on Colorado Boulevard between 28th and 29th streets. They christened the space Studio E. And while black theater performances at Bonfils had mostly been musicals, the imperative of the new theater was to prove that black people could produce serious theater.
It was a shaky start. The group's first play, Wine in the Wilderness, almost fell apart after the director and the cast walked out two weeks before opening night. "The director had some major issues of control, and he kind of talked up this mutiny, but we regrouped, and with a whole new cast put it out," says Roslyn Washington, one of the replacement actors and a longstanding member of Eulipions.
There were no grants or loans or corporate sponsors. A core group of volunteers built sets, raided their own closets for costumes, held rehearsals and worked other jobs to pay the bills (Keel, for instance, commuted every day from Denver to Greeley to run the Marcus Garvey Cultural Center at the University of Northern Colorado). Crowds were small.
"We would sometimes do shows with one person in the audience or no people in the audience, and we'd call it a dress rehearsal," Washington says. "We'd do shows for one person, and it would just trip them out. If they wanted a show that night, we'd give it to them."
Performances didn't keep the organization alive, however; classes did -- aerobics, karate, dance and acting. "It became a center of artistic synergy," says Keel.
But in 1984, it became a center without a home. While their storefront was zoned for adult entertainment, it was not zoned for staged theater, and the city forced Studio E to close its doors. Keel and Washington packed their bags and reopened the following year at 2715 Welton Street.
The two-story building had once been a dance hall and, later, a home for the American Legion. But the place had been empty for years, and owner McKinley Harris promised the group a year of free rent if they spruced the place up. There was no electricity in the building, so volunteers worked only on warm weekends that winter. The top-floor theater sat at the end of 26 very steep steps, and without elevators, getting supplies up there was an adventure.
Armed with masks, goggles and hip waders, Keel and her cohorts shoveled out dead cats, dead pigeons and tons of pigeon droppings. "The dust coming out the door was so thick, somebody thought the building was on fire and called the fire department," Washington recalls. But there was community support, albeit from unusual sources -- such as the old man who put money in the street meters to keep the group's cars from being towed. Or the drug dealers who vowed not to sell drugs around their building.
The theater was renamed Eulipions, a term used by jazzman Rahsaan Roland Kirk that meant "author of love." Naysayers told Keel and the others that black theater couldn't survive in a town like Denver. But Eulipions thrived in Five Points. The theater was left unlocked, and many times tickets were free. Audiences grew.
Eulipions finally took off in 1989 with August Wilson's bluesy drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which started out as a four-weekend run and went on to play for almost three months and win the Denver Critics Circle award for best theatrical production. The show was so successful that the Denver Center for the Performing Arts acquired the rights to future Wilson plays. "Every year, that was their black show," says Washington, "so we couldn't do those things."
Where Washington was resentful, Keel was stoic: The move by DCPA showed Eulipions was being taken seriously, and Keel points out that DCPA didn't do its own version of Ma Rainey until 1998.
Still, despite their hard work, the building at 27th and Welton was raggedy. When the roof started caving in, in 1988, Eulipions moved to an old grocery store at 24th and Welton. In the new space, the group returned to its musical roots, putting on Gospel at Colonus, a black take on the Oedipus tale. The community loved it.
And slowly, Eulipions had started to bring in money. In the early '80s, the group's budget had been a paltry $15,000 a year, but word of mouth generated larger audiences, more ticket sales and increased grant support. By the mid-'80s, when the group moved to Five Points, the budget had grown to $75,000, and by the early '90s it stood at about $300,000. In 1990 Keel quit her job to run the organization full-time, and Eulipions hired a staff member. Two years later Keel was one of ten people nationwide selected by the Harvard University School of Business to participate in a prototype seminar called the Denali Initiative. The monthlong workshop was designed to teach arts groups how to become savvy entrepreneurs. The classes, she remembers, were "very intense," and when she came back, she was juiced with the idea of a multi-use facility that could generate revenue and sustain the organization over the long term.
Keel had always wanted to find a permanent home for Eulipions. Since the mid-'80s, she had crawled through the attics and walked through the basements of more than a dozen buildings. By the time she returned from Harvard, it was obvious the group needed a new building.
"We were down on Welton in an old Safeway store, and it was jam-packed," says Beverly DeCluette, a former boardmember. "The people couldn't see."
That wasn't true of Keel's plan, however. "Everybody bought into the vision," says Hiawatha Davis.
And not just members of Eulipions. The following year, the Colorado Historical Society gave Eulipions a $75,000 grant to study whether purchasing and renovating the temple at 1770 Sherman Street was feasible, and the Mayor's Office of Economic Development kicked in $25,000 to draw up a business plan. Keel and company also received about $100,000 in free consultation from a local law firm specializing in real estate. By 1994, the group's operating budget had grown to half a million, half of which consisted of small donations from the community.
Yet financial troubles were already looming. The group was incurring debt, says Walker, owing about $14,000 in back rent at 2425 Welton. Another $36,000 in rent would later come due at a temporary storage building the organization had been using. But Keel and her staff weren't thinking about that -- they were too close to fulfilling their dream.
Lenders thought Eulipions could make a go of the space as well. US Bank loaned the group $500,000, MOED added $344,000, and the National Trust loaned $100,000. The Colorado Historical Society tossed in another $98,000 grant and promised another worth $484,000. (That grant has not been issued but is still promised, says Keel.)
In 1995 Eulipions purchased the temple for $1.775 million. "It was a solid business deal," says Keel. "For the city, it was a guaranteed source." Interest on the bank loan was 9 percent; the National Trust's loan was 7.5 percent, and the city's loan was 3.5 percent. Along with the building, Eulipions also bought the adjacent parking lot at 1754 Sherman, negotiating a deal with a parking management company that would bring in $75,000 per year. That revenue would pay off the bank and city loans. "The whole loan structure was one of almost certainty, except for the National Trust," says Keel; that loan would be serviced by renting the building's ballroom for proms and parties.
Still, the loans and grants had specific purposes -- such as purchasing the building and making renovations. Eulipions still had to pay operating expenses, and income had to be generated from putting on shows, renting out the space and continuing to raise funds.
After Eulipions purchased its building, most of the eleven-member board of directors felt as if they had accomplished their goal of finding a permanent home for Eulipions and departed. Throughout 1995, new faces came and went, and the following year, the board held only three meetings. Eventually there were only three boardmembers.
Despite the unstable leadership, the theater group underwent an ambitious expansion. Before the move, the organization employed four staff members; by the end of 1996, there were 22. Most had no connection to the arts. Instead, they were job coaches and crisis counselors.
Washington had left the board years earlier, and when she came by to check out the new place, the changes made her uncomfortable. Staff members were applying for a city grant to start up a culinary arts school in the kitchen, she says, "kind of 'cause the kitchen was screaming for it, and that would have been great. But is that what we're supposed to do?"
And people began to grow disconnected. "I'd walk into the building and someone would say, 'Hi, how can I help you?' They didn't know me and I didn't know them. It was a real hard thing for me to swallow."
"At the smaller space, the focus was on just the play," says Andre Freeman, who managed the temple. He had worked as a volunteer at Eulipions since he was a child. At the new place, he says, there were more business opportunities to work with -- more ideas about what to do. Too many ideas. By the end of 1996, the group was crashing.
"We tried to expand too fast," says Keel -- mainly, by hiring too many people. "Our revenue did not keep up with our expenses." Very quickly, the guiding principle of Eulipions shifted from artistic performance to simple survival.
"I take responsibility for that," Keel continues. "We thought, 'Yeah, this building is the answer. All we need are the people to put in place and we'll go.' One, that was false. Two, we got into an area we should not have gotten into, which was more in employment and training."
Problems compounded. Because the building had been vacant for years, Public Service Company had not been able to provide an estimate of monthly utility costs before the group moved in. Eulipions figured the utilities would cost around $2,000. The first bill was $9,600.
Moreover, Davis says, "they hired a white fundraiser with a good track record, but he'd never raised money for black folks. He didn't raise a quarter. But [Keel] kept him on contract well past what should have been his drop-dead date." The job grant from the Mayor's Office of Employment and Training to start up the culinary school fell through because the kitchen, it turned out, needed extensive renovations. "[Keel] started running into all these issues that were slowing things down," says Davis. "Anyway, the sky fell."
Though the MOED loan and the US Bank loan never defaulted, the loan from the National Trust did, in March 1997. "There was no way we could keep pace," says Keel. "We had to lay folks off. We still owe people about $40,000 in back salary." By the end of the year, the Eulipions ballroom had gone into receivership; early the next year, the group amassed an additional $116,000 in debt to vendors and ex-employees.
The city, too, had leverage against Eulipions. When the organization set up its loans with the bank, the city and the National Trust, it entered into a cross-default agreement. That meant if one loan defaulted, the other lenders could declare their loans in default as well. The National Trust was threatening foreclosure, says the Community Development and Planning Agency's Hipp.
As if Keel didn't have enough troubles, in July 1996, her oldest son died of AIDS, and the loss greatly reduced her focus. She says that she did not "come out of being dysfunctional until last August." Keel trusted her board to take care of things, but the board was too much in flux to keep Eulipions out of harm's way. Her world collapsed, and she could do nothing about it.
But Mayor Webb could. Keel met with Webb one day toward the end of 1997. As she recalls, Webb said, "I want to help you with this, but you're not thinking clearly. Why don't you be the artistic director and we'll find a business director."
Keel stepped down as executive director to become the group's artistic director. But the city wanted a whole new board. "We encouraged them to change the board structure because of the increased liabilities," Hipp says.
According to Walker and Keel, City Attorney Dan Muse told the members of Eulipions in unsparing terms what was going to happen: The city would bail out the theater group only if the current board exited stage left. "The heavy-handedness from Dan is just Dan. That didn't come from the mayor," says Keel. "Still, the mayor and the city haven't been very helpful."
The original boardmembers did not like the idea that they were being replaced, but Beverly DeCluette and Adrienne Benavidez both resigned on January 23, 1998. Gerie Grimes, however, managed to resign and reappoint herself to the new board on that same day. "It really all came down to Gerie Grimes," Keel says. "They were all supposed to resign, but somehow Gerie stayed on. She had convinced the powers that be that she held some kind of historical continuity." (Grimes declined to comment to Westword.)
The key figure among the replacements seems to be Venita Vinson, a consultant and former Webb chief of staff. Vinson had been a member of Eulipions' board of directors back in 1982, but had been off the board for years. When she heard the rumors that Eulipions was in trouble, however, she'd gone to Keel to offer her help. Vinson recalls that in the fall of 1997, she and Keel met with state representative Penfield Tate, banker Jumetta Posey and local activist Yusef Karouma to discuss solutions. "I only did this because she was a friend," says Vinson. "Just like wanting to save Eulipions now, this was a labor of love. If we could bring in people with a different expertise, it made sense to do that."
And so Vinson, Posey, Grimes (an administrator at the Hope Center in north Denver) and attorney Darrel Nulan were brought in to replace the old board. Vinson says it was Keel herself, and not the mayor, who gave her blessing to all of the new members. The final boardmember was Ernestine Smith, whose daughter was a member of Eulipions. "She brought something the rest of us didn't bring," says Vinson. "She brought a sensitivity to the problems of an artist."
The others were not theater people; they were suits. "I think she certainly could have offered alternatives, but you have to realize Jo was in a crisis," says Davis. "If someone comes and says 'I'm in investment, and I think we can pull this thing together,' that's an area where you feel you need somebody with that kind of skill."
At first, relations between Keel and her new board were cordial. And the new board got some things done: It secured the city's $109,000 bail-out loan, which enabled Eulipions to pay off the National Trust, and renegotiated the parking-lot contract (whereas the original deal had brought in $6,250 a month, the new deal upped that to $11,000).
"They did solve some problems," Davis says. "They did do a large piece of what they came in to do."
Darrel Nulan agrees. "The prior board was unable to run Eulipions," he says. "The present board's initial charge was to look everything over and come up with a viable plan to save the building."
What is at issue is whether the new board overstayed its welcome. Keel and her supporters say it was an interim board only, charged with digging Eulipions out of the money pit and then, after 120 days, appointing a new board. The resignation letter signed by outgoing boardmembers DeCluette, Benavidez and Grimes appointed their replacements "as the interim board for 120 days."
Nulan doesn't doubt that there was a 120-day deadline. But, he says, "After 120 days, the board decided to continue. The bylaws of the organization allow that."
Actually, the bylaws of the organization say nothing about interim boards, so it is unclear whether they even permit one. And the old board's resignation letter doesn't address how a new board was to be selected after the 120 days were up.
(The bylaws do mention that the board of directors is supposed to hold "an annual meeting of the members," who are defined as anyone who pays a membership fee, set at $5. Nulan says there is no membership, and therefore no need to meet with it. Keel, however, insists that the membership of Eulipions has hovered between thirty and sixty people since the early '80s. She says that testimony of longstanding members and ex-boardmembers who have hosted membership parties in the past will eventually bear this out.)
The new loan with the city and the new parking deal were completed in June, about a month after the 120 days were up. With the board casually entrenching itself, relations between its members and Keel deteriorated. At first Keel felt that the new board brought badly needed skills to the table, but by the fall of 1998, she began to hear questions from the community: Where were the shows?
When Eulipions moved into the temple, it completed its 1995-1996 theater season. Through the end of 1996 and into 1997, its actors toured the Front Range. In 1998 the company presented only one show -- The Black Nativity -- and when a cast member overheard talk that the board was planning to cancel that show, even though it always recouped the $20,000 to $30,000 it cost to put on, battle lines were drawn. In a letter to Nulan this past June, Keel complained that the '98 production was marred by "complaints of rudeness to our longtime supporters and others, rudeness to the cast, long waits in line, shows starting late, no credit card services and confusing ticket procedures, all resulting in lost revenue."
Vinson blames Keel, saying that funding she had promised for the show fell through, and boardmembers "had to raise money by strong-arming friends" at the last minute to keep the show from folding.
Even though the show went on that year, it would be the last one at Eulipions. The backstage drama, however, started to heat up. Long-term members of Eulipions increasingly viewed the board as insular, aloof to the arts. "All these people have other jobs," says Andre Freeman. "This was not a priority. Grimes came in and asked me where the cabaret [one of the temple's performance rooms] was. You're on the board of directors and you don't know where the cabaret is? And you're making the decisions?" He says he rarely saw boardmembers at the building, and some of them didn't even show up to the few performances the troupe staged. "I never even saw those people. It got to the point where it was ridiculous."
Nulan says he attended The Black Nativity in 1998, and he doesn't apologize for canceling the 1998 and 1999 seasons. "You have to do what you can do. You can't do it without money."
Vinson says Keel must take her share of the blame for the absence of shows. "The role of artistic director was to develop a proposed season for the board's approval and fundraise so that the season could run," she says. "There was a proposal, and when we got to 'How do we fund it?' that's when it broke apart. She's being unfair to blame the board."
For its part, the board focused its efforts on repairing the building's steam system and fixing its roof. Keel and her supporters took that as a sign that the board wanted to sell the building, although Nulan and Vinson both say the decision to sell wasn't made until early 1999, when a vendor tried to file a lien against the building to reclaim $40,000 in unpaid bills. "It did not make sense for Eulipions to lose the building over $40,000," Vinson says. A loan was taken out to pay off the vendor, but they knew other creditors might get the same idea.
"We decided after a year and a half that the best course was to sell the building and set up an endowment," says Nulan.
This summer the board officially announced its plans to sell the building for $4.6 million. Keel and Walker formed the Friends of Eulipions and gathered 1,800 signatures to contest the sale. "Certainly on paper, it would appear the building could be sold," says William Nelsch, one of the Friends. "Debts could be paid and there could be some kind of endowment. What that ignores is that some other location is going to be as expensive to acquire, or less desirable." They called for a meeting at the temple and invited Nulan and the other boardmembers to attend.
Nulan declined and instead sent a letter questioning the group's authority to meet in the building. He called the meeting "an unauthorized space rental," and said that "the Director of Administration knows nothing about it." Moreover, he wrote, "The [new] Board has seen no rental contract or deposit...There are operating rules and procedures in place in order to protect the asset and the organization. You are well aware that these rules and procedures require a space rental fee, cleaning fee and the provisions for fire and security coverage at all space rentals."
"That really set up the whole environment of 'What are these guys talking about?'" Keel says. "When we opened [the letter], everyone's mouth hit the floor."
Nulan says the letter speaks for itself and declines to discuss it. When asked why he didn't attend the meeting, he points out that he had been "invited by people I didn't know from a membership I didn't know existed. It didn't seem like it would be a friendly meeting."
Keel's group met again, and Keel then sent a letter to a Coldwell Banker agent notifying him that the sale of the building would be contested. The letter and the meetings were enough to convince the board that Keel was a liability, and she was fired.
"They felt like I mau-maued them," she says. "Maybe I did."
But that worked both ways. On July 29 Keel held another meeting of the Friends of Eulipions, this time to elect a new board of directors, only to discover that the locks to the building had been changed. This board was elected on the steps of the temple during an open meeting in which fifty or so people showed up.
The Friends of Eulipions filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Eulipions Inc. on August 23. But their request was denied, leaving Eulipions free to sell the building. In a final move to stall the sale, Keel and company in late August filed a notice of pending litigation, which attorney Maynard believes will prevent the building from being sold before litigation is resolved. It would be, Maynard says, "very stupid for anyone to buy it or for a title company to insure over it."
Hipp says the injunction filed by Friends of Eulipions has already sunk several potential deals to buy the building.
Some Eulipions members try to put a positive spin on this sad story. Former boardmember Benavidez says buying the building was not a bad move. "I think it was a great deal because of the purchase price and the facility itself. Even now, selling it, the increase in value would be enough to pay off debt, and they should have enough to have some money left over. I wouldn't say it's all a bad thing."
"You can always second-guess your decisions, but at the time, we thought they could make that building work," says Bill Lysaught, head of the Mayor's Office of Economic Development. "If they could have, it would have been very good for Denver." He calls Eulipions' financial quagmire disappointing but says he still would have made the same decision. "We're in the risk-taking mode. We're prohibited from using the HUD dollars if there isn't some risk. You're gonna have failures when you try and improve the neighborhoods."
But no one can calculate the lost value of nearly two seasons with virtually no theater, and Hipp admits that maybe Eulipions wasn't ready for the bright lights of Sherman. "I don't think they ever realized how bad the crisis was they were in," says Hipp. "In hindsight, it was unrealistic to think any community theater group could raise the money to do the repairs needed and raise money to operate the building without subsidies." The Community Development and Planning Agency gave Eulipions a $150,000 grant for improvements to the building in 1999 -- but it was a conditional grant and will have to be repaid if the building is sold.
And reconciliation between the players doesn't seem likely. "We don't have an artistic director, and we're reluctant to fill that position," Nulan says. "It's been hard fundraising. [Keel] was our point person at identifying stuff. Folks would like to see the organization get its financial house in order."
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Which may be the only thing everyone agrees on. "It's gonna take two years to get any credibility," says Davis. "They're pretty much dead in the water for a few years, because nobody's going to look at them for any serious funding."
"You can't write for season support when you're not having one," Walker adds.
Neither Vinson nor Nulan caught The Black Nativity, presented by the Friends of Eulipions at El Centro Su Teatro.
At the end of that show, the audience gave the cast a standing ovation -- which wasn't too loud -- and the cast applauded itself, and the band kept playing, and the theater was flooded with sound.


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Album Rating: 4.5Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etqWlENsZXs
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The promo was out of left field, but the music was dead set on obliterating my expectations. Great shit, Sherlock.
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Digging: Slowdive - Pygmalion
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Turning thirty is a mother. All of a sudden your body is falling apart before your eyes; if things continue to progress at this pace, you'll be in a nursing home within five years.
For women, gravity gets stronger, and things start to droop. Although science tells us that body composition changes, and uses made-up words like "collagen" and "fatty foods" to explain this female phenomenon, as someone who would like to have sex in the future, I stand by women everywhere in blaming it on gravity. At thirty, women join health clubs that they use for two months until they find some way to get the clubs' collection departments off their case. They also try Botox, paralyzing their faces and other portions of their bodies so that they look just like they did at eighteen -- if they had spent that year with a look of fear frozen on their faces because they'd just walked in on their parents having sex.
Guys are more laissez-faire regarding the aging process, primarily because we think that if we can squeeze into 34-waist jeans we are still studly in appearance -- even if said jeans have to be held up by suspenders because our beer guts hang over them halfway to our knees. We start to grow hair in unusual places like the ears, back and forehead; if our hairlines weren't receding at the same time, it would only be a couple of months before we looked like Sasquatch. Though that new hair remains jet black, our original hair starts graying. Women say that makes us look distinguished, but I suspect they're using the same logic we use when we fault gravity on their behalf.
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And this whole aging process gets a jump-start because your so-called friends insist on taking you out on your thirtieth birthday, thus ensuring that you wreak ten years' worth of damage upon your body in a single night.
J.P., a favorite yet untitled member of the Institute of Drinking Studies, hit thirty the other night. Because his girlfriend had wisely left the state in order to avoid any responsibility for the evening, it fell to the rest of us to beat him into maturity at the Irish Snug (1201 East Colfax Avenue). We here at the Institute highly recommend this bar as a great place to mourn the end of your thirtieth year. The main room is wide open, so all the other patrons can see you stumbling around the bar when you can't hold your eyes open any longer because people insisted on buying you group shots -- even after JP could barely find his lips with his glass. And the patio opens right onto Colfax, so you can take your antics outside, where they won't seem that out-of-hand among the equally drunk passersby.
The clear highlights of the Irish Snug, however, are the two "confessionals" set up behind the bar -- tiny rooms separated from the rest of the room by heavy doors and stained glass. These spaces are ideal for taking a break from the hubbub of the always busy bar in order to share a quiet moment with a close friend. They are even better suited for a couple of drunk adults who have had too many (as if there were such a thing) Black and Tans or other adult beverages, and need to steal away and do something they'll probably regret the next morning. We are a liberated group dedicated to research, so a few of us went into one to prove who was and who was not wearing underwear. (The guys were not, which always baffles women who do not have the basic primal instinct to scratch themselves at any given moment or die.) And then, as though the similarity to being locked in a closet for two minutes at a high school party wasn't strong enough, the Head of Pathologic Drinking suggested a game of "Spin the Bottle." Unfortunately, we had no bottle to spare, so we used my cell phone. I hope none of you have been trying to call me since then, because the damn thing still isn't working after falling to the ground every time we spun it.
All in all, the night was a perfect mix of lowered inhibitions and standards, free love, nasty shots, good bar food and a rehashing of our favorite stories at ear-splitting volume. The bar's employees didn't even bat an eye. So the next time you need to celebrate a birthday, anniversary or Saturday night, head to the Irish Snug, a safe haven for those who like to party way harder than they should. Before we go again, though, we're going to have to find J.P. I think we'll start by looking at nursing homes.


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Chaminade won the NSCHSAA boys soccer championship Wednesday night, beating No. 1 St. Anthony's 4-2 on penalty kicks at Mitchel Field.
The big question was would any one score a goal? Top-seeded St. Anthony's and Chaminade played 180 minutes of soccer in the regular season and neither team found the back of the net.
The drought continued Wednesday night. A Chaminade penalty kick hit the woodwork. A shot by St. Anthony's did as well.
St. Anthony's finally ended the drought as a shot by Brendan Reardon from about 20 yards found the right corner of the net with 5:52 left in regulation. Game over, right?
Not quite. Second-seeded Chaminade tied it with a goal by Kyle Walsh with 54 seconds left in regulation, sending the game to overtime. Chaminade had a great chance with 5:44 left in the first overtime and Conor McElhinney made the save.
In regulation, Chaminade had a chance to take a 1-0 lead on a penalty kick in the 55th minute and hit the crossbar. St. Anthony's had a great chance five minutes later and hit the post.
The Friars had a point-blank look at the net with 23:01 left in regulation and Brian Westerman made the save for Chaminade. Chaminade had a clean look at net from 10 yards away and the shot went over the bar with 7:35 left in regulation.
Trying to get good looks at the goal has been extremely difficult for both of these two teams. That was evident in the 18th minute. St. Anthony's was moving the ball near the Chaminade goal and took three shots. All three shots were blocked by Chaminade defenders.
It's no surprise these teams made the final. They have won nine of the last 10 NSCHSAA championships. Both teams did have questions marks entering the season. St. Anthony's lost four players to the U.S. Soccer Academy and had very little experience.
It didn't take long to see that Friars had players ready to step up. The Friars opened the season with 2-0 win over defending champion St. John the Baptist. A 2-0 win over Martin Luther King, ranked No. 2 in the country by the NSCAA at the time, showed the Friars were still a powerhouse.
"We had some question marks at the beginning of the year," St. Anthony's co-head coach Don Corrao said. "Other guys got opportunities and obviously they made the most of it. The juniors are playing like seniors and we are deeper than we thought we were. We probably play the most up-tempo game in the league and the ability to go to the bench helps us."
Chaminade also had some question marks going into the season, but as always the Flyers got better as the season went along.
"I didn't have a great handle on the juniors," Chaminade coach Mike Gallagher said. "James Harris played fantastic and Timothy McGovern was great. Ethan Ellsworth was phenomenal. Players we didn't know much about turned into very good players."