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Larry Flynt's Hustler Casino may be the most elegant place in the world to play poker.
Part European castle, part modern art museum, it greets you with gold-framed Gustav Klimt paintings in the foyer and pampers you with plush wing chairs you would expect to find in a 19th- century French brothel. There's an Alice-in-Wonderland playfulness about it, too, with its checkerboard carpet of red and black and its rich velveted walls.
Even the long oval card tables resemble banquettes set for a Roman feast instead of a down-and-dirty session of Texas Hold 'em.
But the place can be eerily quiet. Unlike the rowdy blue- collar card clubs elsewhere in Los Angeles, this poker palace has the low hum and tension of high-stakes players at work. Most of the men--and it's a very male casino--rarely get up from the tables, having their food and chips delivered on trays instead. Only three times a week does the noise level rise perceptibly, and that's when the man in the gold-plated wheelchair himself arrives for his sessions of seven-card stud.
"Did you see Larry?" says the excited girl in the "Shorty's Stuff" gift shop. "He's here. He's playing this afternoon."
Porn king Larry Flynt likes to play poker so much that last June he unveiled what has turned out to be the most expensive casino per square foot ever built. His total investment is $40 million for what used to be called a California card room, a casino forbidden by law from offering slot machines or Las Vegas- style table games. Located in the old gambling town of Gardena, a bedroom community of 60,000 just south of the chaos of Watts and South Central L.A., the Hustler is not just off the beaten path-- for most upscale Angelenos, it's not even in the solar system. But like most things the famous pornographer has done in his lifetime, he's betting on the come. Hustler Casino is only the first stage of what he hopes will someday be the most famous gambling hall in the west.
"If slot machines were legalized here," he says with customary candor, "this place would be worth $300 million overnight."
Flynt is sitting at his favorite table in the Royal Court, the casino's Continental restaurant, where he's consented to a rare interview about what is, for the time being, a sort of playtoy investment. ("I publish 32 magazines, so there's no way this could be a big part of my life.") But soon, he says, he expects to file a federal lawsuit against the state of California on behalf of all the state's card rooms, demanding that they be given the same rights as the state's Indian casinos. The outcome could be wide open gambling right on the doorstep of Hollywood.
"We think Proposition 1A is unconstitutional," he says, referring to the referendum a year ago that gave Indian tribes the right to put Las Vegas-style table games and slot machines in their casinos. "It's unfair under the equal protection clause. The governor could have signed a bill promising the private gambling clubs the same deal the Indians have, and then there would have been no problem. But this puts us at an unfair disadvantage. It's unfair competition. I've been talking to the other owners as a group, and our suit will be ready in a couple of months."
The card-club owners do have a point. Many of these clubs have been here since the Depression--Hustler is a descendant of two previous clubs that date back to 1938--and the new Indian uber-casinos could easily run the card casinos out of business. In the northern California town of Redding, for example, there are only two casinos--the Indian-owned Win River and the privately owned Casino Club--and so the tiny Casino Club, with its 12 gaming tables, was doomed to almost certain bankruptcy on the day Proposition 1A was approved by voters. The six Los Angeles casinos are hanging on mainly because the nearest Indian casino is sixty miles to the east, but they've already lost some of their high-stakes players.
If anyone can bring Gardena back, it's Larry Flynt. None of the Beautiful People who attended his grand opening last June made the comparison, but Larry Flynt is not unlike the founder of Gardena gambling, Ernie Primm. Primm envisioned a gambling mecca here in 1936 and overcame the efforts of every law enforcement official in Los Angeles County to stop him. Primm was a tooth- and-nail street fighter, and so is Flynt.
But this time it's not the county sheriff that's the enemy of Gardena. It's the governor, who won't be anxious to allow any further gaming development in a state that already has 100 casinos and card rooms. And it's not only slot machines that give the Indians an advantage. In the event of a fight, the Indians now have access to Wall Street money. Native Americans are allowed to partner with big public corporations, whereas card room gaming licenses are issued only to individuals. (Nevada had the same rule up until the eighties. When the rule was abolished, allowing publicly traded corporations to own casinos, Wall Street moved in and established the booming modern Las Vegas with its billion-dollar resorts. Many of those mega-corporations, including Harrah's and Trump, are now partnered with California Indian tribes, so taking on the Indians is increasingly the same thing as taking on Vegas and Atlantic City.)
Even more significant, the Indians are not governed by California's no-smoking laws. It might seem like a small thing, but poker games sometimes go on for days--poker pro Mike Caro recently played a 96-hour game at Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood--and so the players don't want to constantly be leaving the table to smoke. In no-limit games, the absence of a cigarette can cost a man thousands of dollars if his nerves start to show, so he'll more than likely drive a hundred miles to an Indian casino with a smoking area rather than play in his neighborhood joint.
Flynt designed Hustler Casino himself and finessed the smoking problem by building it around a glass-enclosed atrium. On sunny days--and they have more than 300 a year in Los Angeles-- the smokers play in the atrium, where they're technically outdoors. And, like everything else at Hustler, the atrium happens to be beautiful.
"I wanted to bring a little of the Vegas flair to Southern California," he says. "A lot of the other card clubs are mundane. I was trying to tap a greater Los Angeles market. If you ask people in LA where to gamble, they say Las Vegas. A lot of them don't even know these casinos are here."
In almost every way, Hustler Casino is a return to Gardena's roots. The very first legal casino in California opened here when the city of Gardena granted a business license to the Embassy Club in 1938. The owners of that club, Ernie Primm and Frankie Martin, had run illegal underground casinos in downtown Los Angeles during the Depression, when four dozen clubs operated under the corrupt reign of Mayor Frank Shaw. Many of them were converted Prohibition speakeasies frequented by movie stars and business moguls, but there were also sawdust joints that were able to thrive in a Philip Marlowe world full of cheap women and crooked card players.
That all changed when a Goody Two Shoes character named Clifford Clinton, the owner of Clifton's Cafeteria, headed up a reform movement that ran Shaw out of office and forced the bookies and gamblers to look elsewhere for action. Some of them bought gambling ships and ran them out of San Pedro. Primm and Martin kept changing locations and getting shut down by the sheriff, until they found the perfect "front," the Alamo Social Club in Gardena, which gradually turned into a more or less open gambling establishment with the approval of the cash-starved Gardena city government.
Ernie Primm is still fondly remembered among Gardena old- timers as a two-fisted operator who thought of the city as his personal fiefdom. But what first made him famous was his own Larry Flynt-style lawsuit, a 1941 court case that eventually turned Southern California into the poker capital of the world.
First Primm changed the Alamo Social Club to the Embassy Club when he got his license in 1938. Then, flush with success, he opened a second Gardena club in 1940 called the Monterey. The county sheriff decided that, city license or no city license, he was going to shut Primm down, so the Monterey was raided and closed. Primm went to court with a lawyer named Sammy Rummel, who studied the 1872 statute outlawing gambling in the state. What Rummel found was that the legislature had listed all the games that were illegal, but had failed to list poker as one of them. It turns out that the omission was intentional. The legislators of 1872 all played in poker games and didn't want their gambling interrupted by the new law.
Since they had intentionally omitted poker, it stood to reason, Rummel argued, that any game not listed in the statute was also intentionally omitted and therefore legal in California. A Superior Court judge agreed, and with a stroke of his pen, California card rooms were legalized at just about the same moment Bugsy Siegel arrived in Los Angeles to set up his illegal horse-racing wire. Many of the gambling ship operators and card- room owners would eventually follow Siegel to the new Nirvana of Vegas, but the ones who stayed behind decided to make Gardena their beachhead.
Over the next forty years the six card clubs of Gardena came to rule the city, providing at one point 80 per cent of Gardena's annual budget. The Embassy, the Monterey, the Normandie, the Rainbow, the Horseshoe and the Gardena were posh supper clubs, with men in suits and their women in gowns, known for their fine food and gaudy crystal chandeliers. They were also known for being full of cheaters and con men. Since the casinos were forbidden from banking the games, the players competed against one another, and the owners either rented the table by the hour or took a percentage of each pot. This left them with very little motivation to police the games, since throwing someone out meant a loss of income.
"I played in Gardena for 14 years," says Mike Caro, who at one time was the top five-card draw player in the world. "There were cheaters everywhere. At the old Rainbow Club, there were always colluders--people working in teams, with signals and codes. The club generally ignored it, but there got to be so many of them that the management finally felt they had to do something. So they issued an edict, a printed notice, and it had a list of names on it, and the edict was that only three of the people on this list could be in one game at any one time. Well, of course, we were outraged! They were giving us a list of the guys they knew to be cheaters, and saying they could only work in teams of three. So to calm us down, they modified their decision: only two of those guys could be in a game at a time. I was cheated severely.
"A few years later I became director of poker operations at the Huntington Park Casino, and guys would come in and confess to me that they had cheated me in Gardena, and then say 'But I swear I'm straight now.' They wanted to make sure I'd let them play. But I had no idea how severely I'd been cheated until they confessed to me! In the bigger games, a poker professional is supposed to average $450 an hour, but I usually wasn't at that level. I probably lost $100,000 a year to cheaters."
In 1958 the Gardena clubs almost self-destructed. It started when the ever aggressive Primm decided to build his third club, which would be the seventh in Gardena. All four of the non-Primm clubs felt he was too powerful already and that this would put them at a further disadvantage, so they fought him at his license approval hearing. But the City Council backed Primm anyway and gave him permission to open his new club, to be called the Starlight.
Then, in a plot twist worthy of a Carl Hiaasen novel, the opposing clubs decided to stop Primm by subterfuge. Even as construction began on the Starlight, the other club owners invented a phony "citizens group" that circulated flyers and took out advertising, decrying the immorality of gambling and calling on the citizenry to stop the cancer called Ernie Primm. The flyers demanded a referendum of the voters to establish the number of legal gambling establishments at six, and to revoke Primm's license.
To their subsequent horror, the fake campaign worked too well. Instead of a referendum to stop the Starlight, a referendum was called to abolish all gambling in Gardena.
Quickly the owners jumped to the other side, forming another fake organization to argue for the economic benefits of gambling, citing the generous amounts they give to local charities, and extolling the low property taxes made possible by the casinos.
In April 1958, just a few days before the election, a bomb exploded at the rear door of Primm's Monterey Club on a day when the club was closed. A guard was injured, and to this day the crime has never been solved. But instantly public opinion turned against the clubs, as the people of Gardena feared all-out organized-crime wars enveloping their little suburban world.
With the election approaching, the panicked club owners felt they had no choice but to circle the wagons. They went to Primm, confessed their scheme, and told him they would do anything to help if he would use his political clout to defeat the referendum. Primm pulled every string he could, and in a very close election, the clubs eeked out a victory by a mere 810 votes, or 54 to 46 per cent.
By this time even Primm was scared. As a gesture of goodwill he returned his license to the city, and the number of legal licenses in Gardena remained at six, as it does to this day.
But now the clubs had a bigger problem. The "Battle of Gardena" had gotten the attention of Governor Edmund G. Brown, and he asked Attorney General Stanley Moss to try to draw up a law that would outlaw card clubs statewide. Fortunately, the legislators from Northern California objected, because by this time there were 400 small card clubs in their region, many of them run by churches and American Legion posts. In order to get a bill acceptable to the legislature, Brown rewrote it to apply only to counties with a population over 4 million. The only such county at the time was Los Angeles, and the only town in that county with card rooms was Gardena. This became Proposition E, to be sent to the voters on November 6, 1962. The clubs went to court, claiming a proposition that singled them out was unconstitutional. A judge agreed that it was unconstitutional, but said he was powerless to stop a proposition that had already been placed on a ballot. The clubs ended up winning the election anyway, by a 2 to 1 margin.
And so Gardena reigned as the only place to gamble in Los Angeles until the late seventies. But their glory days were wiped out by yet another referendum that they didn't even notice at the time. When Proposition 13 passed in 1978, California cities lost the ability to raise property taxes more than 1 per cent per year. This forced many cities to seek out other sources of revenue. So the neighbors of Gardena suddenly took note of that easy casino money pouring into city coffers.
The tiny community of Bell became the second city, after Gardena, to approve card rooms when it licensed the Bell Club in 1979. Shortly thereafter, the city of Bell Gardens licensed the Bicycle Club. Then followed the Commerce Club in Commerce and the Huntington Park Club in Huntington Park. But this was a new breed of casino. The new clubs were bigger, plusher, and had no table limit, whereas the Gardena city ordinance limited each club to 15 tables. Players deserted Gardena in droves and one by one the great poker palaces began to close.
The floodgates opened wide in 1987, when the Huntington Park Casino won a long drawn out lawsuit again challenging the old 1872 gambling statute. This time the court ruled that all games of skill were legal, including the three most popular games in Las Vegas--Texas Hold 'Em, Seven-card Stud, and Omaha. On the day these games were legalized, poker players from all over America moved their base of operations to Southern California, and Las Vegas declined as the poker capital as Los Angeles ascended. By the close of the eighties all the casinos had added Asian games as well--Pai Gow tiles, Pai Gow Poker, Super Pan 9, and a card game called "21st Century Blackjack" or "California Blackjack" in which there is a no-bust rule, jokers in the deck, and a goal of making 22 instead of 21. (Traditional blackjack was still a banned game.)
Meanwhile, in 1978, the same year that Proposition 13 triggered the casino building boom, Larry Flynt had been shot by a crazy man outside an Atlanta courthouse and paralyzed for life.
"I had always loved to gamble," says Flynt, "but after I was shot, I needed to find things to do to stimulate me. So I started gambling even more. I read just about every book on poker and blackjack. My favorite game is seven-card stud. Every other poker game is a version of seven-card stud really. I consider it the granddaddy of poker. Other games are interesting but I don't play 'em. I spent all my life playing stud, so why should I get involved with the Hold 'Em sharks?"
Flynt not only became a good player, but he became a high roller well known to the Vegas casino hosts. "Of course they don't like you to play poker in Vegas," he says, "because they don't make enough money on it. They won't give you perks for poker. So I play blackjack in Vegas. The Venetian sends a plane to get me and I go there and there's a certain understanding that I'll put a certain amount on their tables. But if I had a choice, I would play poker. I like to play stud with $3000 minimum bets on the first two rounds, and $6000 on the later rounds. It takes that level of money for the game to be interesting to me. Legally I can play poker here, because the games aren't banked by me, but I can't always find a full table of people who want to play at that level. So usually, if I'm here, we'll play 1,000 and 2,000, or 1,500 and 3,000."
By the mid-nineties there were only two Gardena poker palaces left--the Normandie Casino, which had opened in 1942, and the Embassy Club, which was torn down and rebuilt as the El Dorado Club when George Anthony bought it in 1968. But the El Dorado's building had grown decrepit as Anthony's regulars deserted him for fancier places like the Hollywood Park Casino, which opened at Inglewood's Hollywood Park race track in 1995 and had an array of restaurants and amenities that Gardena could never match. He eventually declared bankruptcy, and Flynt saw his chance to get into the gambling business. He petitioned the court to purchase the license of the El Dorado Club, eventually paying $7 million to cover half Anthony's debt and the cost of the license itself. He briefly considered using the El Dorado's building, but it was too far gone, so he spent $33 million demolishing it and putting up his dream poker hangout on the same property.
"It wasn't as easy as I thought," says Flynt now. "We got off to a rocky start. All the employees we hired turned out to be rejects from the other clubs, and it was a nightmare. It took three or four months to get all the bugs out, but we've been profitable for the last three months--since November."
Ironically, it wasn't poker that helped Flynt turn the profit corner, but the Asian games, 21st-Century Blackjack, and a game called Mexican Poker which, as the name implies, is played almost exclusively by Spanish-speaking customers.
"All the Asians that come in here, I don't know where they get their money but they like to gamble. Our blackjack game is very lucrative--more lucrative than Vegas blackjack. People come in here who have never played blackjack but they've heard of it and so this version is not strange to them."
It's time for Flynt's Saturday-afternoon stud game in the VIP lounge. "Have you seen my sports bar upstairs?" he asks as he signals an assistant to push his wheelchair away from the table.
Like everything else, the sports bar is state-of-the-art, with $11,000 plasma-screen TVs in gilt frames.
Yes, indeed, the sports bar is very impressive.
He beams in acknowledgment. The original Gardena gambling license--passed down from Ernie Primm to George Anthony to Larry Flynt--is in very good hands. Gardena is just getting started.


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Kettering graduate building portable power source
Md Shahnoor Amin '09 has launched a portable energy power source for mobile devices.
|The Duniah team. Photo provided by Md Shahnoor Amin.
Technical expertise is an important element to entrepreneurially-minded individuals. Imagination and inspiration, however, are also critical.
Md Shahnoor Amin, who graduated from Kettering University in 2009 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 2010, was inspired by both the tangible and intangible aspects of his education when he began creating a vision for his company, Duniah, in 2011.
Duniah designs portable energy solutions to help users achieve energy independence and sustainability. Amin formed Duniah with two other engineers -- lead mechanical engineer Maruthi Chaluvadi, a University of Michigan graduate from India, and Muaz Rabah, lead electrical engineer and a Flint, Mich., native who attended Michigan State University. Together, they developed their debut product called Magma. They've received significant seed funding through various sources, and also invested their own personal assets.
Magma is a smart power source for iPad, iPhone, Android and most mobile devices. It tracks energy usage of users and allows them to share energy savings on Facebook. The powerful, solar-powered device is intended to serve as a power source for people with limited access to electricity. The handheld-size Magma uses solar energy to charge its internal battery, and also has a USB port for charging most mobile phones and other devices. Amin hopes that as more people use Magma here in developed countries, it will one day help make the technology available to destitute families in developing regions around the world.
"Our team is passionate about implementing clean, portable energy solutions around the world," Amin said.
Amin and his team currently are seeking $15,000 in funding through Kickstarter, a funding platform for projects where innovators can publicize their project and goals in an effort to connect with potential contributors. The funding will allow them to produce, test, and manufacture the products, while also developing the software. Magma is currently on pre-order on Kickstarter with numerous pre-orders already placed. It will ship later this year. It is also designed to be companion gear to recreation hobbyists, hikers, mountain climbers, hunters and others who are active outdoors. People in the military, Peace Corps, Red Cross or other organizations that frequent areas where access to electricity could be limited can also implement Magma.
There are two unique versions.
Magma Mini will feature a 2,000+ mAh battery and 3W+ solar panel with enough power to charge an iPhone 5 and virtually any other mobile device. It features a micro-USB input to charge internal battery when there's no sun. With good sunlight, Magma mini can charge its internal battery in less than five hours. It will retail for $99, but is currently on exclusive pre-order for $59 on Kickstarter.
Magma Pro is for those with more power needs. It is powerful enough to work with iPads. Magma Pro will feature a 5,000+ mAh high-capacity battery and 5W+ solar panel. It also features micro-USB Input to charge the internal battery when there's no sun, and features LED battery indicators. It will retail for $149, and currently on pre-order for $99 on Kickstarter.
During his time at Kettering, Amin was inspired by the concept of using engineering to help others.
"One of my most memorable classes at Kettering was my senior seminar class with Dr. (Michael) Callahan," Amin said. "It really inspired creativity and the importance of leadership and standing up for your beliefs. Something I took away from the class was that innovation is not just about being intelligent, but that you have to be able to solve real problems which exist, and intimately understand the needs of people you're trying to help."
Callahan, Professor of History and the current Frances Willson Thompson Professor of Leadership Studies at Kettering, is happy to see his former student's entrepreneurial success.
"I am very pleased about Shahnoor's success and am proud of the important work he is doing," Callahan said. "While part of Kettering University's mission is to prepare future leaders for a global society, one of the primary goals of LS 489, 'Senior Seminar: Leadership, Ethics, and Contemporary Issues,' is to help our students understand the meaning of effective as well as socially responsible leadership in a complex world."
The vision for Duniah came about based on that type of inspiration – Amin had discussions with a family friend who had just returned to Africa, recounting struggles that he'd witnessed by people who had no access to electricity. Amin, who is from Bangladesh, had also seen the impact which lack of electricity could have on daily lives.
"It's often taken for granted here, but it's a huge problem in much of the developing world," Amin said. "There are only so many hours of daylight. Imagine how hard, for example, it would be for students to try and study with no light at home. Lack of electricity can impact so many aspects of daily life. And many of these people use kerosene lamps or burning wood for energy, which are very harmful for your lungs, especially in enclosed huts where these people usually live. We saw many individuals who received severe third-degree burns from spilled kerosene lamps. As more individuals in developing countries aspire for a better life, we have to ensure that they're pursuing sustainable, clean energy solutions. It has a tremendous impact on our environment. Just recently, we learned from Chinese sources that there were 1.2 million air pollution deaths in China during 2010. So we hope our work has a tremendous impact on both the environment and improving the health of people worldwide."
Amin set out to help make electricity more accessible by designing solar panel systems that could be used in impoverished areas. Quickly, though, he learned that the solution had to be a practical one.
"The people who need the technology won't be able to implement it if it costs $6,000 or more per household for the technology," Amin said. "So we started thinking about how to make the technology both affordable and portable. We would be able to use revenue from these sales to people who are very willing to buy Magma here. For every one we sell over $70k in sales, we will give one away free to people who are in need and can't afford them in Syria, Bangladesh, and other developing regions around the world, and pave the way to a cleaner, healthier, and sustainable world."
For more information about the company, visit www.duniah.com. To place pre-orders before they run out, visit the Kickstarter page.


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Volume XXIV No. 44 Nov.
3, 2000
The Campus Currents is distributed every
Friday. If you would like to include an item in
the newsletter send it to Campus Currents, Unit
9512 or by e-mail to Campus
Currents. Deadline is Thursday at 8 a.m.
The purpose of the three-year study initiated by
Anagnopoulos is to investigate whether the Lakota cultural
tradition of respect for elders (filial piety) insulates the
older generation from negative age-related stereotypes and
their detrimental effects on intergenerational communications.
The BHSU psychologist believes that a conversation between
a young adult and older adult will result in an age-related
stereotype. If the age-related stereotypes are positive, a
normal conversation follows. However, if the age related
stereotypes are negative, the younger adult will alter speech
style by being overly accommodative or patronizing. Older
adults often react with annoyance or perceive it as an insult.
During the first year Anagnopoulos plans to collect
measures of filial piety and acculturation as independent
variables and assess these as trait-generation tasks. During
the second year she will trait-sort stereotypes from year one.
The third year the BHSU psychologist will examine the
moderating effects of filial piety on speech patterns using a
hypothetical intergeneration conversation.
Anagnopoulos has been a member of the arts and science
faculty for the past seven years. She earned her Ph.D. from
the University of Kansas in cognitive psychology in 1993.
They are presenting research on attitudes of on-line K-12
instructors towards the 1999 governor's Technology for
Teaching and Learning (TTL).
According to their study, "These on-line instructors
found the work challenging yet rewarding, and the majority who
responded to the survey said that they would like to teach
technology courses on-line again."
This research was an enhancement and follow up to the
research published earlier this year by Drs. Fuller, Norby,
Pearce and Strand entitled: "Internet Teaching By Style:
Profiling the On-line Professor." Fuller et. al.
researched higher education and K-12 instructors using the
MBTI and Gregorc personality inventories to assess attitudes
towards on-line teaching of 1998 governor's TTL courses. This
article can be viewed on-line at this website.
Smith has done extensive research on the endangered Antiguan
Racer (Alsophis antiguae) by monitoring the snake's primary
food source—lizards. This grant will pay a stipend to an
Antiguan student in an ongoing project to reintroduce the snake
to suitable islands in the Caribbean. It is estimated that fewer
than 100 snakes remain.
This snake, found only in Antigua, is probably the rarest
snake in the world," said Smith.
"The BHSU herpetologist said, "Antiguan
Smith and two BHSU students conducted prey-based studies in
1999. The Antiguan Racer Conservation Project (ARCP),
established in the summer of 1995 to conserve the snake, plans
to train and employ local (Antiguan) students to continue the
research. The study on prey is necessary for determining which
islands will provide enough lizards to ensure the snakes'
Smith has been a member of the BHSU science faculty since
1997. He holds a Ph.D. in quantitative biology from the
University of Texas.
Aker's paper, "A Review of Selected Research on the
Effects of Television Viewing," won first place in the
undergraduate division at the Great Plains conference held in
Mandan, N.D., this fall.
The BH senior said his original research on effects of
television viewing was done for a paper in a psychology class
the year before. During the summer he did additional research
doubling the paper's size. He then presented it to Dr. Larry
Landis, professor of sociology, for final editing and review
before submitting it at the conference.
He found that children are able to learn from
"Violence can be manifested now or 20 years down the
road," he said. "Public television is alright but
children learn from everything else they watch."
At the conference his presentation was made using a power
point display and a question and answer session for further
He plans to do more research and revision and submit the
paper at the Midwest Sociological Society meeting in St. Louis,
Mo. He would like to add more theory to his paper and work it
into a Federal Trade Commission Report.
Aker will graduate from BHSU this May with a double major in
psychology and sociology. He would like to attend graduate
school but has not made specific plans at this time.
There is no admission fee, and everyone is welcome to attend the concert.
"Affluenza," a video about the ethics of
consumerism and it's consequences on the planet, will be shown
from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., and also from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
A panel of committee members will present arguments on
consumerism after the videos from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The panel
members are: Patty Jo Bellamy, presenting "Consumerism: A
Long-Range Perspective;" Dr. Brian Smith presenting
"Lifestyle and the Environment;" Dr. Ahrar Ahmad
presenting "The Culture of Gobalism and the Globalization
of Culture;" and Legia Spicer will present "Human
Needs: A Spiritual Perspective." Dr. Dan Peterson will
serve as the moderator for this panel.
There will be an audience-panel interaction from 3 p.m. to
3:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Legia Spicer at 642-6556.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and
Albert Hackett, in a new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, will be
presented Dec. 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. in Woodburn Auditorium.
The play is set in World War II and Amsterdam has fallen to
the Nazi regime. Seeking refuge in a long forgotten storage
attic, Otto and Edith Frank try to maintain a sense of security
and hope for their daughters, Margot and Anne. With limited
supplies, they agree to hide another family, the van Daans and a
dentist, Mr. Dussel. Days become months as tensions mount and
news reports worsen. Anne, a gifted young girl of 14, records
the daily events in her diary. Her accounts are filled with the
humor, pain and passion of a young girl becoming a woman. She
tries to maintain her belief in the general goodness of
humanity, but as her
Members of the cast are Anne Frank – Sarah Cozort,
Spearfish; Otto Frank – Steve Blume, Spearfish; Edith Frank
– Crystal Bleu Muglia, Spearfish; Margot Frank – Saisha
Kuykendall, Redfield; Miep Gies – Leann Olsen, Spearfish;
Peter Van Daan – Jason Robb, Belle Fourche; Mr. Kraler – Tim
Bessette, Elko, Nev.; Mrs. Van Daan – Teresa Addington, Lead;
Mr. Van Daan – Jacob (Mosas) Feeley, Diamondville, Wyo.; First
Man – Troy Russell, Rapid City; Second Man – Nic Hansen, Spearfish;
and Third Man – Ryan Heinis, Littleton, Colo. The stage
manager is Dan Patterson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Assistant
directors are Geno Pesicka, Rapid City and Dan Patterson.
Anyone wishing to purchase tickets may do so by calling
642-6171 the week of the play.
The chair announced that BH had received the letter from
North Central notifying us that we were scheduled for an
accreditation visit in the fall of 2002 or spring 2003. He also
said that Dr. Flickema and he were filling out the form and
returning it to North Central.
The chair passed out information on the timeline-suggesting
tasks and deadlines for the taskforces as the self-study
progressed. A discussion of timelines was held. The chair
indicated that as the reports are written Ellsworth should be
included as a part of the report, that the taskforces should pay
attention to the general institutional requirements, that the
taskforces should collect the evidence to support their
conclusions, that the taskforce report should include any data
bearing on the current situation at BH and its future, and that
the conclusion of the taskforce report should list strengths of
BH, concerns of BH, and recommendations. When it came time for
the accrediting team visit, there would be the snapshot or
self-study of BH in fall 2000 and possible updates on changes
since that time.
The chair reported that he and Schamber were collecting vita
and assembling them into a file. There was a request that Lefler
from Ellsworth be on the committee and the chair said he would
discuss this with the president.
The taskforces then reported.
Taskforce 2 - Schamber reported that this taskforce had met
and was collecting information and data.
Taskforce 3 - Cook reported that the committee had met and
was also collecting information and data.
Taskforce 4 - Heidrich said that his committee would meet
after some of the initial reports had come in from the other
Taskforce 5 - Haislett reported that her committee had met
and was also collecting data.
There were questions about putting the NCA report on the web
and the chair indicated that he was working on that. Hemmingson
suggested that he and the chair meet and discuss the concept of
an electronic document room.
The chair reported that North Central required that we send
them a plan for our self-study and he hoped to have that ready
for the committee by the next meeting.
The next meeting will be on Nov. 28 at 3:30 p.m. in Woodburn
Conference Room.
It is anticipated that successful applicants will request
support for faculty release time, research equipment, travel to
research sites or research support for the production of
creative work. Preference is given to new applicants,
particularly in the areas of education, business, social
sciences and humanities. A three-hour release time is available
for fall of 2001. You can apply now.
The research committee will not provide salary. The committee
may approve payment to student or non-student research
assistants. Deliver the original plus ten copies of your
proposal to the grants office in Woodburn 218 or Dr. Farrokhi's
office in Woodburn 314 by Nov. 10.
Submit items to Media
Relations or send to Unit 9512, BHSU.
November calendar
Volleyball, first round
Conference Playoff
Comsummerism and Culture
presentation, video at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. , panel
discussion at 2 p.m. followed by audience interaction
Rising Junior (CAAP) Exams, 8 a.m. to
Senior Pre-registration
Women's basketball vs. Rocky Mt.
College, 6 p.m.
Men's basketball vs. Rocky Mt.
College, 8 p.m.
Volleyball, second round conference
AmeriCorps, VISTA, National Civilian
Community Corps informational session, 6-7 p.m Career
Center, Student Union, Lower Level
BHSU Chamber Orchestra, Matthews
Opera House, 7:30 p.m.
Green & Gold luncheon, Valley
Café, noon
Wells Fargo financial interviews,
contact the Career Center
Veteran's Day, no
classes, CSA holiday


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Diane H. Ward, 44
Published: Monday, August 23, 2004 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 9:38 p.m.
Diane H. Ward, 44, of Horse Shoe, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, at Pardee Memorial Hospital after a short illness.
She was a native and lifelong resident of Henderson County. She was the daughter of Doris E. Heatherly of Hendersonville, and the late Bob Heatherly. She was the wife of the late Edward Ward, who died in 1989. She was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Hubert M. Smith American Legion #77 Ladies Auxilary.
Surviving, in addition to her mother, is her brother, Buck Heatherly, and his wife, Cindy, of Flat Rock; her companion, Bill Stepp of Horse Shoe; a niece, Lisa Currin of Concord; and a nephew, Justin Heatherly of Hendersonville.
The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Shepherd's Church Street Chapel with the Revs. Todd Edmiston and Clarence K. Porter officiating. Burial will follow in Shepherd Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 1:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors, and other times at the home of the mother, Doris E. Heatherly, 300 Dellford Court, Hendersonville, N.C. 28792.
Memorial contributions may be made to All Creatures Great & Small; P.O. Box 2116; Hendersonville, N.C. 28793, or to the donor's favorite charity.
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Rupert Murdoch has admitted that he "failed" to act over the phone hacking scandal that led to the eventual closure of the News of the World.
On his second day of testimony at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, the media mogul told QC Robert Jay that News International bosses fell victim to a "cover-up" over the hacking scandal.
The proprietor said senior executives were not informed, or misinformed, and "shielded" from what was going on.
"I blame one or two people for that, who perhaps I shouldn't name because for all I know they may be arrested yet," he said.
"But there is no question in my mind that maybe even the editor, but certainly behind that, someone took charge of a cover-up which we were victim to and I regret."
Asked by counsel where the "cover-up" emanated from, the tycoon replied: "I think from within the News of the World. There were one or two very strong characters there who I think had been there many, many years and were friends of the journalists.
"The person I am thinking of was a friend of the journalists, drinking pal, and was a clever lawyer and forbade them to go and see the evidence, or there have been statements reporting that this person forbade people to go and report to Mrs Brooks or James (Murdoch).
"That is not to excuse it on our behalf at all, I take it extremely seriously that that situation had arisen."
Mr Murdoch told the inquiry he had not paid close enough attention to the situation at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid and apologised for what had happened, and to the staff who lost their jobs when he closed the newspaper last July.
"I have to admit that some newspapers are closer to my heart than others but I also have to say that I failed. And I am very sorry about it."
However, the 81-year-old admitted that ultimately "the buck stops" with him. He said he was sorry for the "innocent people" at the News of the World who lost their jobs as a result of the phone hacking scandal, saying he never paid the newspaper enough attention.
Murdoch became riled when giving evidence after Jay suggested his family had wanted a cover up, saying "minds like yours" may think that. He then apologised and withdrew the remarks.
Murdoch also denied that he saw culture secretary Jeremy Hunt as an ally in his company's battle to take over the satellite broadcaster BSkyB. He said he expected Hunt to be a "fairer" judge of the bid than business secretary Vince Cable, who was stripped of the role after being secretly recorded saying he had "declared war" on the News Corp boss.
Murdoch also stood by claims Gordon Brown said he would declare war on News Corp, saying: "As for the conversation, which he's [Brown] denied, I said that very carefully yesterday under oath, and I stand by every word of it."Later in the testimony, when discussing phone hacking, Murdoch said that what happened at the News of the World was an "aberration", adding that it would be unfair to compare it with The Sun.
Murdoch's evidence to Leveson has finished. But they'll be more written evidence to delve through online soon.
Murdoch is told about a journalists who claimed she experienced "constant bullying." He asks why she did not resign.
Leveson interjects, saying: "I think the problem with that might be that she needs a job".
Murdoch says he has "never heard of" allegations of bullying in News International. "They always strike me as a happy crowd."
|@ paulwaugh : Leveson refuses to allow NUJ lawyer to ask Qs re NI's MSC collusion w cops. But Murdoch says MSC didn't reveal journo sources
Murdoch says his journalists can join the NUJ at any point.
|@ rowenamason : Some of my channels are better than the BBC, some a lot worse, says Murdoch #Leveson
He says Murdoch's accusation about Dacre: "I'm going to suggest you've made a mistake in reading something."
But Murdoch said he did not "see the difference," adding: "I think there's no doubt that maybe the Daily Mail and other newspapers were campaigning against it and against us.. That is a commercial reason. They said at the time in their public statement they felt in some commercial danger, if you like, if we succeeded."
|@ Peston : "I've spent hundreds of millions of dollars" on internal investigation, says Murdoch. Really? Can it really be that much. #leveson
|@ mlcalderone : Murdoch claims Huffington Post has just "a few" reporters -- he should come by the newsroom some time! #leveson
Quite hilariously, Murdoch says his paper the Wall Street Journal is a "challenge to get through." Unsure if he meant it like that. He says they are adding more pictures to it.
In fact there's more advertising opportunities occurring every year even then there are websites. So the rates stay very low. But it's a fact of life. We have to treat it as an opportunity. The Times of London, seven days a week, we put it on the ipad, we charge for it. Unfortunately apple takes 30% but that's another argument. That can be seen any corner of the world, so maybe there's an opportunity there.
|@ SamiraAhmedUK : Surprise! Rupert Murdoch in his comfort zone now as he blames BBC for its alleged role in declining newspaper sales. #leveson
Murdoch says it comes down to an argument about intellectual property (but it is a bit unclear what he is talking about). And now, the predictable jibe at the BBC (which does do "great broadcasting").
He says the BBC's website is viewed by 12m people in Britain a week and "feel they have had enough news", saying this is taxpayer funded and affects newspaper circulation.
|@ benfenton : #murdoch apologises for repeating a private conversation with Jay?Leveson that reveals he likes Le Monde and The Times.
|@ PSbook : Murdoch tells #leveson he doesn't have a great understanding of technology. His purchase of Myspace would seem to support that.
"We're spending a lot of money trying to, and succeeding, in presenting every word of our newspapers on modern tablets. There will be, I will be very confident in saying, that in a very short time.. there will be billions of tablets in the world."
He says other people read news on their smart phones (or as Murdoch refers to them a "smart telephone") but says he thinks printed presses can survive another 20 years with "small" circulations.
"You said that I had at the very beginning a great understanding of technology. I don't... But the fact is that the internet came along, slowly developed as a source of news and now is absolutely in our space.
"I think it's been responsible for a lot of loss of circulation. I should ask the judge. This inquiry I presume is for the press in this country, not just the press in Fleet Street. We're seeing everybody under extreme pressure."
He adds: "People can send their blogs from Beijing and from the Cayman Islands and whatever you do you can't regulate that. I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place, which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate."
The News of the World, let's be quite honest, was an aberration and it's my fault.
|@ christopherhope : #leveson BREAKING MPs on the Commons' Culture Select Committee will publish their long-awaited report on phone hacking on Tuesday, May 1
|@ christopherhope : #Leveson BREAK Cabinet Office confirms Cabinet Secretary and Treasury Solicitor spoke to Leveson on Tues afternoon
"We set up inquiry after inquiry, we employed legal firm after legal firm. Perhaps we relied too much on the conclusions of the police."
He says News Corp's response to being accused of collective amnesia was "disrespectful to parliament."
He says when he appeared at the select committee last July he said he was the right person to clear it up, and he did. "I have spent hundreds of millions of dollars.... Anything that looked faintly suspicious was passed to the police. That led to, I think, a dozen midnight arrests. Because of my pledge, not because of police. We went way beyond what they'd asked us to do.
"I remain greatly distressed that people who have been with me for 20 or 30 years.. My distress, it would be presumptuous to compare it with the immense disturbance, if you like, and hurt to the people who were arrested. I feel responsible for that but I'm glad we did it."
|@ RobDotHutton : Think Private Eye may need to increase its pagination next week. #leveson
I think that historically this whole business of the News of the World is a serious blot on my reputation.
"When the Milly Dowler situation was first given huge publicity, I think all the newspaper took this as the chance to really make a really national scandal. It made people all over the country aware of this..
"I panicked. But I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I didn't close it years before and put a Sunday Sun in. I tell you what held us back - the News of the World readers, only half of them read the Sun."
|@ MASieghart : Tim de Lisle resigned as Arts Editor of The Times when he was pressurised to run a big Sky plug #leveson
"I don't have any other business interests. I certainly would ask or suggest, I don't think it needs suggesting, the editor of The Sun that it would be good to mention what's coming up in our new paper on Sunday. There is self-promotion in newspapers."
These are known to be, um, not 100% accurate.
|@ tom_watson : I raised the blackmail point with Murdoch last year and he's claiming he still hasn't read the judgement. Outrageous. #leveson
He says Andrew Neil, the former Sunday Times editor, doesn't "know the first thing he is talking about."
"Mr Neil seems to have found it very profitable to spread lies about me"
From a press gazette story in December:
Lord Justice Leveson this afternoon condemned as outrageous an incident in which the News of the World threatened to expose one of the dominatrices involved in the Max Mosley sex party if they didn't cooperate with the paper.


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Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
The new year has arrived, and with it the promise of long-awaited sequels to The Hangover, Kung Fu Panda and Pixar's Cars, the distressing inevitability of Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and the mind-numbing realization that Little Fockers sits lazily atop the box-office charts. The good news: Bay Area moviegoers have plenty of worthwhile alternatives, including:
1. Blue Valentine
Where: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St., 415-929-4650
'Hedwig' Director John Cameron Mitchell Takes a Detour into the 'Rabbit Hole'
The stars of Rabbit Hole, Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, play mourning parents eight months removed from the death of their son, each so consumed by individual grief that neither is attuned to the other's emotional and physical needs.
It's the kind of domestic melodrama Hollywood studios rarely make anymore, and perhaps the last man you'd expect to direct it is John Cameron Mitchell, best known for 2001's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, his seminal comedy about a transsexual punk rocker, and the 2006 bohemians-in-heat drama Shortbus.
Roller Disco Fever Grips the Mission this New Year's Eve at CELLspace
Tired of stumbling through another New Year's Eve after one too many glasses of Korbel? Try skating instead. Tonight at CELLspace, guests 21 and over are invited to break out their most outrageous New Wave attire, fortify their nerves with a little liquid courage, and relive the glory days of disco while roller skating into 2011.
10 for '10: The Year in Movies
With 2010 about to fade into our rearview, it's time to pay our respects to a year that produced its share of very good movies, but precious few great ones. It was a year dominated by memorable performances in supporting roles – Christian Bale as a crack-addicted burnout in The Fighter, John Hawkes as a rough-and-tumble hillbilly in Winter's Bone, Jacki Weaver as an insidious matriarch in the overlooked Australian import Animal Kingdom – and the visual bravura of Inception, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and TRON: Legacy.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
'Twas the day before Christmas, and all through the flat, not a creature was stirring... except for me (with my mom's cat), hastily posting this week's Theater Roundup before returning to wrapping presents, re-watching some of the year's best movies (currently playing: The Tillman Story) and sipping on low-fat egg nog. Happy holidays!
1. True Grit
Where: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St., 415-929-4650
When: All Week
Anna Faris Recalls Leslie Nielsen and Her Reluctant Move to Big-Screen Comedy
Anna Faris is free to speak her mind.
The 34-year-old Baltimore native, who earned High Times magazine's coveted Stoner of the Year award in 2007 for her starring turn in the comedy Smiley Face, knows the drill when it comes to televised interviews – smile for the camera, stay peppy and keep the tone light.
But here at press day for the live-action Yogi Bear, in which Faris stars opposite Tom Cavanagh, Justin Timberlake's animated Boo-Boo Bear and Dan Aykroyd's even more animated Yogi, she's free to be candid.
Cause Célébrité: Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere'
It's hard to imagine a story much slighter than Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, a running diary in the life of a Hollywood star – a life rife with malaise, superficial encounters and the occasional, frustratingly inconvenient reminder that he is something more than the sum of his celebrity.
Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is also a dad, just not a very attentive one. Yet when he invites his daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) over for lunch and a little Guitar Hero, he cares enough about her feelings to kick one of his many anonymous conquests to the curb, at least for the afternoon. Cleo is the first to sign the cast on his arm.
Who Is Hailee Steinfeld? Only the Biggest Star of Joel and Ethan Coen's 'True Grit'
Fifteen minutes after Josh Brolin met 13-year-old Hailee Steinfeld for the first time, he was pinning her down with a blade to her throat.
No, this was not another shocking case of When Celebrities Attack. Brolin and Steinfeld were on the set of Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit remake, opening today, and their introduction preceded the rehearsal of one of the movie's tensest scenes.
Ring in the New Year with 'Rocky Horror' at the Clay Theatre
New Year's Eve is not an evening most people spend at the movies, but considering the commotion in the streets, the difficulty of getting last-minute dinner reservations and the overcrowding at the bars – thanks in part to novice drinkers ready to paint the town red with vomit – perhaps the last night of 2010 would be the perfect time to catch The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clay Theatre.
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The result of TiVo's 30-second skip button
Two weeks after I began my TiVo service, a Dutch bank called ING Direct paid Metro $562,350 to make all morning rush-hour train rides free for one day. The bank -- which says it terminates accounts from customers who "clog the phone lines" too much by calling for help and information -- placed ads all over Metro stations that day.
Clearly, the ads worked. Jason was so enchanted by the free ride that he literally gave ING all his money. (That is, he put it in one of ING's FDIC-insured accounts.)
Anyway, I associate the free ride with my TiVo service since ING's tactic is a good example of what companies must do to reach consumers in the TiVo age. In some ways, the intrusiveness of advertisements is annoying. But it's still better than the alternative -- watching live television.
In Chicago, the turnstiles at the CTA are wrapped in advertising. Some parking spots are now painted with advertisements. New gas station pumps force customers to watch video commercials on a 10-inch screen while they're pumping gas. And to ensure that office discussions focus on their products, advertisers have taken out ads on water coolers.


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One person was hospitalized after a stabbing on Friday night.
Emergency crews responded to the Brandenbush Court scene around 10:30 p.m.
The victim was transported to Doctor's West. The condition of the victim was not immediately released.
Investigators were working to piece together the events leading to the stabbing. The identities of those involved were not released.
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Lehigh's C.J. McCollum
Nov. 2, 2012
Basketball Senior CLASS Award release
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - The Patriot League boasts an outstanding senior class in men's basketball both on and off the court, and it was shown again this week as three student-athletes were named as candidates for the Senior CLASS Award.
Lehigh's C.J. McCollum and Gabe Knutson and Bucknell's Mike Muscala were all named as candidates for the honor which selects student-athletes based on notable achievements in four areas of excellence - community, classroom, character and competition. The Patriot League is second only to the Big 10 with the three candidates, while Lehigh is the only school in the country with multiple student-athletes on the list.
McCollum has earned a number of preseason honors, including a first-team Preseason All-America selection from the Associated Press this week. He enters his senior season second in Patriot League history in career scoring, needing only 151 points to break the League mark of 2,224 held by Holy Cross' Rob Feaster (1991-95). McCollum has been a consistent scorer from day one, averaging 19.1 points per game as a freshman, 21.8 as a sophomore and 21.9 a season ago. After leading Lehigh to the Patriot League Championship with an 82-77 win at Bucknell on March 7, the Canton, Ohio native posted 30 points, six rebounds and six assists in an NCAA Tournament second-round win over Duke on March 16. McCollum is a two-time Patriot League Player of the Year and AP Honorable Mention All-American (2010, 2012). He was named ECAC Player of the Year a season ago, winning the honor over players from the ACC, Big East and Atlantic 10. McCollum garnered NABC First Team All-District laurels for a third straight season and was one of only 25 players nationally named a Lute Olson All-American by CollegeInsider.com.
Muscala comes off another outstanding season for the Bison, who won the Patriot League regular-season title and advanced in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) with a 65-54 win at Arizona on March 14. Muscala was fourth in the Patriot League with 17.0 points per game and led all players by a wide margin with 9.1 rebounds per contest. He had 16 double-doubles for the season, including a 30-point, 14-rebound effort in the League Championship loss to Lehigh on March 7. Muscala totaled 75 points and 38 rebounds combined in Bucknell's final three games. He earned first-team All-Patriot League honors for the second straight season after also receiving the Player of the Year award in 2011. Muscala was named by CollegeInsider.com to the Lou Henson All-America Team, consisting of the top 25 Mid-Major players in the country outside of the eight who made the Lute Olson squad, and also earned NABC First-Team All-District recognition for the second straight season.
Each player has received numerous preseason accolades and attention from major news outlets heading into the season. To read the preseason coverage for McCollum and Muscala, go here
Knutson averaged 12.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per contest while shooting over 50 percent from the field last season. He was named as a second-team All-Patriot League selection and made the Patriot League All-Tournament Team. Knuston came up big in Lehigh's two most significant wins with 23 points and seven rebounds in the Patriot League Championship victory over Bucknell and 17 points in the NCAA Tournament upset of Duke.
All three players were named to the Preseason All-Patriot League Team last week, while McCollum was recognized as the Patriot League Preseason Player of the Year.
Each has also excelled in the classroom. Muscala and Knutson are two-time members of the Men's Basketball Academic All-Patriot League Team and the Academic Honor Roll, while McCollum also made the Academic Honor Roll last season. Muscala was also named a Capital One Academic All-District selection in 2011.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
The candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 men's and 10 women's finalists midway through the regular season, and those names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one men's finalist and one women's finalist who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.
For a full listing of men and women's basketball Senior CLASS Award candidates, go here


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|Dragons go 2-3 in Burlington tournament
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
It was a rough weekend of softball for the Dragon team in the Burlington tournament Friday and Saturday, Sept. 7-8.
But the girls did manage to pull through for two wins, while losing three games in the tourney.
Coach Ashley Clayton said the girls started the day Friday struggling to score runs and keep errors to a minimum.
Against Rocky Ford, they faced the best pitcher many of them have ever seen, said coach Clayton. The girls lost to Rocky Ford 0-15 in three innings and lost to Akron 3-7.
"By the time the third game of the day came around, the Dragons played to the level they are capable of playing and came away with a well-deserved 14-9 win," said the coach.
Saturday, the local girls shut out Akron 15-0 and fell to Wray 2-6.
"Defensive errors and mental mistakes seemed to be a struggle all weekend long," said Clayton. "I have no doubt that the girls will work hard to eliminate those errors and come out strong against Wray on Saturday," she added.
The Eagles come to Holyoke Saturday, Sept. 15 for a doubleheader beginning at 10 a.m.
Holyoke 0, Rocky Ford 15
Carolina Chavarria got Holyoke's solo hit against Rocky Ford Friday as the Meloneers scored five runs in the first inning, three in the second and seven in the third to take the game quickly, 15-0.
Holyoke 3, Akron 7
Akron went ahead 2-1 after one inning Friday and never looked back. The Rams scored two more in the third and both teams added one in the fourth for a 5-2 ball game.
Holyoke came within two by adding a run in the fifth, but Akron closed out the game with two in the seventh for the four-point win.
Leigha Terry was on the mound for HHS. She faced 37 batters, allowing eight hits and seven runs. She struck out six batters and walked four.
Chandler Gerk hit a double in the Friday game with Akron, while Elissa Baker, Chavarria, Vicki Jeffers and Keeya Marquez each hit a single.
Holyoke 14, Lyons 9
With Alyssa Killin on the mound for the Dragons, the girls rallied for their first win of the tournament when they defeated Lyons 14-9 Friday.
Killin faced 37 batters, allowing 14 hits and nine runs. She struck out 10 batters.
Holyoke had four errors in the game, while Lyons had eight.
The Dragons had their work cut out for them. They trailed through the first four innings and tied it up in the fifth before going ahead for the win.
The Lions led 5-4 after one inning and widened their lead to two points, 7-5 after two innings of play. Adding another run in the fourth, Lyons was on top 8-5.
Holyoke scored three unanswered runs in the fifth to tie the score at eight-all. Three more Dragons crossed home plate in the sixth, while Lyons added one run. Holyoke put another three on the board in the seventh for the 14-9 win.
Baker was four for five from the plate, including one double. She scored three runs and had one RBI.
Terry, Jeffers and Gerk each hit a double and Terry had three RBI.
Holyoke 15, Akron 0
An 11-run second inning fueled Holyoke to a 15-0 lead to end the game after three innings of play against Akron Saturday.
The Dragons scored two in the first and two in the third.
Killin was on the mound for the win, facing 10 batters, allowing one hit and striking out two.
Gerk was two for two at the plate, hitting a home run and a single, scoring two runs and three RBI. Baker was two for three with a double.
Jeffers was two for two with one RBI, Marquez two for four with one RBI and Allison Boehm had two RBI.
Holyoke 2, Wray 6
Killin took the mound for the 2-6 loss to Wray in Saturday action at the Burlington tournament. She faced 26 batters, allowing four hits for six runs. She struck out eight batters and walked two.
Wray scored two in the first inning Saturday, then the Dragons added one in the second. The Eagles put two more across home plate in the third and one more in the fourth for a 5-1 advantage.
Holyoke scored one in the fifth and Wray one in the sixth to finalize the 6-2 game for the Eagle win.
Baker and Jeffers each got a single in the ball game, and Killin had one stolen base.
Holyoke Enterprise September 13, 2012


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May 16, 2014
By: Andrew Rich
By: Andrew Rich
LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Day one at the Mountain West Conference Championships were highlighted by the jumpers and other standout individual performances for the Fresno State track and field teams at the University of Wyoming on Friday.
Long jumpers Je'Nia Sears and Devin Harrison completed a Fresno State sweep.
Harrison won the men's side with a new personal-best jump of 25 feet, 4.5 inches (7.73 meters). He also set a new stadium record at Louis S. Madrid Sports Complex, beating the previous mark of 24 feet, 10 inches. Harrison's career-best mark ranks him 16th in the country this season.
"Im excited coming back from last year where I injured my hamstring," Harrison told the Moutain West Network after his performance. "It was huge to come back and have a personal best jump."
Sears, the Fresno native, posted a jump of 20-1.75 (6.14m) to record the only jump over 20 feet in the field on the way to her the victory.
In the men's hammer throw, senior Roderick Dash lauched a personal-best throw of 206-05 (62.91m). In other men's throwing events, junior Brice Sandri launched a throw of 178-04 (54.37m) in the discus to finish third.
Sophomore Dezirae Johnson qualified for the women's 400-meter dash final with a time of 55.76. She had the second-best qualifying time, behind UNLV's Monay Meggs' 54.91. Her sister Kyra Johnson also recorded a second place qualifying spot, but Kyra did it in the 400-meter hurdles. She ran a 1:01.50 to win her heat.
Keane Bland was a double qualifier in the men's hurdle races. He finished the 110-meter hurdles in 14.59 seconds to qualify seventh and then ran a 53.69 in the 400-meter hurdles to grab the eighth and final spot for tomorrow's finals.
Joining Bland in tomorrow's 400-meter hurdles final will be freshman Kamara Biawogi. He ran a 52.76 to finish fourth.
Senior Meagan McKee finished fifth in the women's hammer throw to find a spot on the podium. She threw 194-10 (59.39m) on her third throw to get the fifth place finish.
Fresno State will be back in action on Saturday morning with the conclusion of the MW Championships. There will be the rest of the field events, plus running finals and all four relay races.
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Resident weighs political options for 2014
CORNELIUS – Lynette Rinker announced June 26 that she will not seek a full term as mayor this fall.
Twice the leading vote-getter for Cornelius Town Board and the unanimous appointee in January to assume former Mayor Jeff Tarte's unexpired term, Rinker said that she has her sights set on a "higher office" in 2014.
"While parts of my political future are yet to be decided, there is one that is more definite," Rinker said. "I will not be seeking re-election as mayor of Cornelius."
Rinker did not say what "higher office" she will be seeking, but N.C. Sen. Jeff Tarte and Speaker of the House Thom Tillis serve as recent examples of Cornelius politicians who have won seats in Raleigh. And Tillis recently announced plans to run against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan in 2014.
The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners consists of nine members, including a Lake Norman-area representative and three at-large members elected by county-wide vote. County commissioners get elected in even-numbered years.
During her time in Cornelius, Rinker spearheaded the two-year-long community master plan project; was integral in working with the towns of Davidson and Huntersville and Mecklenburg County to help fund and create a victim's advocate position based at Safe Alliance; and pushed for the aesthetic treatment of the new diverging diamond interchange at Exit 28 off Interstate 77 to not only serve as a gateway to the town, but also to help bridge, literally, characteristics unique to both the town's west and east sides.
Rinker came under fire recently from a group of citizens for her support of the use of a public-private partnership to help pay for high-occupancy toll lanes on I-77. Rinker told The Herald Weekly that she received several emails from angry citizens about the project. Many vowed to protest her mayoral campaign this fall.
Although she is stepping down at the end of her term, Rinker said she looks forward to continuing her role as mayor for the next six months with much to accomplish by year's end.
"It's too early to forecast what precisely may be in the future for me politically," Rinker said. "It's been a privilege to serve the Town of Cornelius as a volunteer on the transportation advisory board, land development code and growth management committees and planning board over the better part of the last decade. Voters honored me to serve on the town board and as its mayor pro tempore before my colleagues chose me to serve as mayor earlier this year."
Rinker added that she intends to continue her mission as a public servant, which includes working in the best interests of all the citizens of Cornelius.
"Serving my neighbors is truly fulfilling a trust and I'm excited about another opportunity to do so in some capacity in the future," Rinker said. "I'm confident our town is poised for greatness and hope to continue being a part of that in some capacity in the years to come."


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Eibek's minor son was now raised by the Emirs to the titular Sultanate; and Kutuz a distinguished Mamluk of Khwarizm birth, persuaded to assume the uninviting post of Vicegerent. The Ayyubid prince of Kerak, in whose service many of the Bahri Mamluks still remained, attempting with their help to seize Egypt was twice repulsed by Kutuz, and thus obliged to disband the Bahri, who returned to their Egyptian allegiance. Their return was fortunate, a time of trial being at hand. For it was now that Hulagu with his Mongol hordes, having overthrown Bagdad, and slain the last of the Abbasids, launched his savage troops on the West. He fulminated a dispatch to Nasir the Ayyubid head of Syria, in which he claimed to be the scourge of the Almighty sent to execute judgment on the ungodly nations of the earth." Nasir answered it in like defiant terms ; but, not being supported by Kutuz, had to fly from Damascus which was taken possession of by the Mongol tyrant. After ravaging Syria with unheard of barbarity, Hulagu was recalled to Central Asia by the death of Mangu. Leaving his army behind under Kitbugha, he sent an embassy to Egypt with a letter as threatening as that to Nasir. Kutuz, who had by this time cast the titular Sultan aside and himself assumed the throne, summoned a council and by their advice put the embassy to death. Then awakening to the possibilities of the future, he roused the Emirs to action by a stirring address on the danger that threatened Egypt, their families and their faith. Gathering a powerful army, the Egyptians advanced to Akka where they found the Crusaders bound by a promise to the Mongols of neutrality. The two armies met at Ain-Jalut, and there, after a fiercely-contested battle, and mainly A.D. 1250. by the bravery of Baybars as well as of Kutuz himself, the Mongols were beaten and Kitbugha slain. On the news reaching Damascus, the city rose upon their barbarian tyrants, and slew not only all the Mongols, but great numbers also of the Jews and Christians who, during the interregnum, had raised their heads against Islam.
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It is possible (although not likely) that he could be released on an O.R. bond, but that would only happen one of two ways: (1) you hire a lawyer before you go out there and he negotiates an O.R. bond upon your husbands surrender, or (2) your husband turns himself in and sits in jail from several hours to several days to appear before a magistrate and convinces the magistrate himself to grant him an O.R. bond. Not only does the first option avoid him sitting in jail, it is much more likely to be successful. Judges typically assume that people who have taken the time and incurred the expense of hiring an attorney are more likely to appear for future court dates. Your husband will have the fact that he voluntarily traveled across the country to turn himself in as a huge plus when it comes to bond, but the fact that he lives so far away will be a negative.Bond is something that varies greatly not only from state to state, but also county to county and even judge to judge within the same courthouse. I cannot tell you what a typical bond is for a minor A&B before that judge in that county in Virginia because I have never practiced there. Likewise, I do not know how liberally they grant O.R. bonds. Some places almost never grant them and others do all the time. That's one of the reasons you need to contact a local attorney there.You will not be able to obtain the discovery (photos, etc) from the prosecutor's office. Only your husband's attorney will be able to do that.The court clerks office might tell you what the bond amount on the warrant is or they may have a website that list it. Some places divulge that information, but others do not on an active warrant. Some places will not even tell you if there is an active warrant. A local attorney there should be able to find out pretty easily though.You are correct that this is not a high profile or major case, but it is wishful thinking to think that this will lead to it being thrown out. In most DA's offices the newer lawyers handle these kind of cases (misdemeanors). This is what they do. They don't dismiss them because they have too many. If it gets dismissed, it will be because your husband's lawyer either convinced the prosecutor that it did not happen or that they cannot prove it happened.It is possible that your husband's attorney will be able to arrange for the case to be taken care of during one visit given that you are coming from out of state. That's much less likely if he shows up without an attorney.You cannot sue the victim for your costs related to a criminal prosecution unless you can prove that she lied and maliciously prosecuted your husband. Even dismissal of the criminal case does not get you there. Short of a confession by her that she lied or a video showing that she lied you probably would not have a civil case worth pursuing.Hope this answered all your questions. I cannot urge your husband enough to retain a lawyer before he returns to VA, and not a day or two before. Long enough that he has time to try to make some arrangements and negotiations with the prosecutor. I would suggest retaining an attorney about a month before he plans on going back.
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