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Jan. 9 Board of Supervisors Meeting
Fairfax County Office of Public
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Jan. 5, 2006
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to Recognize Residents and Staff, Issue a Proclamation and Adopt a Resolution
Note to Editor: A downloadable photo and text of each presentation will be posted on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/presentations.htm on Tuesday, Jan. 10. These photos will remain on the Web site until the next board meeting with presentations on Monday, Jan. 23.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 9, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., will recognize the following residents and staff for their accomplishments, issue a proclamation and adopt a resolution as listed below. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
Born to Coach
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Diane Miller of Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, for 25 years of coaching and mentoring athletes. Miller, an avid field hockey player from her high school days, has been active in playing and promoting the sport since the 1970s. Coaching at Lake Braddock since 1981, Miller has won 352 games, which represents a success rate of 83 percent of the total games played. The Washington Post named Miller "Coach of the Year�? in 1991 and 1996.
Exceptional Principals
Elisabeth Griffith, headmistress of The Madeira School, McLean, and Stephen Hockett, principal of McNair Elementary School, Herndon, will be recognized by the Board of Supervisors for each receiving a 2005 Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award. The criteria for selection is to recognize principals who go beyond the day-to-day responsibilities of their position to create exceptional educational environments.
January Is Mentoring Month
The Board of Supervisors will issue a proclamation to designate January 2006 as Mentoring Month in Fairfax County. Begun by the Fairfax Partnership for Youth, the Fairfax Mentoring Partnership is a countywide coalition that partners with more than 30 organizations to guide children.
Raising the Bar
Jimmie Jenkins, director of the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services, and staff of the department will be recognized for increasing the capital construction projects completed in fiscal year 2005 by 71 percent over those completed in fiscal year 2004. There were 96 projects completed for fiscal year 2005.
Stay Tuned to Cable Channel 16
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the staff of Fairfax County government Cable Channel 16 for receiving the Overall Excellence in Government Access Award from the Alliance for Community Media's Hometown Video Festival. The award recognizes the wide scope of quality programming provided by Channel 16 to the residents of Fairfax County, including coverage of government meetings, public affairs programming, public service announcements and informational programming about government services. Channel 16 also won this award in 1996 and 1999.
Quality of Services Garners Awards for County
The Board of Supervisors will recognize staff from the Department of Systems Management for Human Services, the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board and the Geographic Information Systems Branch of the Department of Information Technology, also known as DIT, for winning two FOSE awards in the areas of electronic services and homeland security. The Homeland Security Center Award was given to the Community Services Board for its Notifier application. Created in conjunction with the Department of Systems Management for Human Services and GIS, the Notifier application utilizes geographic information to enable a quick response to an emergency through the integration of service sites with critical associated data. The E-Town Award was presented to DIT's Geographic Information Systems Branch for the Enterprise GIS Integration program. The centralized GIS supports all county departments and enables the spatial capability of many applications such as Notifier. In addition, GIS provides tools to the public enabling it to search county addresses for the nearest schools, parks, emergency medical facilities; aerial photography; and voting and demographic data. The application, called My Neighborhood (www.fairfaxcounty.gov/myneighborhood/), includes direct links to the Web sites for these facilities.


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For almost any athlete, the keys to success are talent, motivation and toughness. Make that double for cross country runners.
When you think of successful competitors of the past like San Diego High's Marc Davis and El Camino's A.J. Acosta, the one thing that stands out is not only did they ooze talent, they wanted to win every race and woe be to those who challenged them.
While most of the top runners in the state obviously have talent, take away the motivation and they're toast. Lack of toughness — burned toast.
La Costa Canyon's Darren Fahy learned some hard lessons last year, but heading into Saturday's Mt. San Antonio College Invitational he appears to have all three ingredients lined up perfectly.
Instead of toughness, he likes to use the word confidence. Insert high expectations for motivation. He doesn't need a substitute for talent.
"I'm much more consistent this year, both in races and in practice," said the 5-foot-10, 140-pound Fahy. "I've put in the mileage. Last year I wasn't dedicated enough and I wasn't motivated."
Two races in cross country and one in track a season ago were baffling.
At the Stanford Cross Country Invitational he tried to ambush one of the nation's top runners, Arcadia's Ammar Moussa, and failed, finishing fifth. In the state finals again he was a non-factor early. Then on the track he ran a sizzling 8:55.53 over 3,200 meters at the Arcadia Invitational and only broke 9 minutes once afterward.
"After Stanford, Darren kept hearing people say he didn't run well there and it affected him the whole year," said Mavericks coach Bill Vice. "Usually he's a mellow, laid-back kind of kid, but you could tell that bothered him.
"And state ..."
Let Fahy pick up this part of the story.
"After Stanford, where (Moussa) ran me into the ropes, I just couldn't focus," said Fahy, 17, who carries a 3.75 GPA and is mulling offers from schools coast-to-coast, planning to make his decision before the end of cross country season.
"I didn't feel right, I was psyched out going into the state finals. I stayed with the leaders for the first mile, but then mentally I started to break down and before I knew it, I'd lost contact."
Fahy finished behind three other San Diego Section runners in 11th place.
He'd be the first to say immaturity prevented him from realizing his potential. A week later the roller coaster went back up as he finished a strong sixth at the Foot Locker Western Regionals, qualifying for the Nationals.
Back down Fahy went for the Nationals, sensing he simply was not ready for that kind of competition (placing 30th out of 40 runners). He decided to make Foot Locker a learning experience heading into this season.
As for running on the track at Arcadia, it was a great start but he couldn't build on that performance and finished well back in the state 3,200, finishing 11th at 8:59.27.
That roller-coaster had one more trip to take, however, as Fahy competed in the World Youth Track and Field Trials, where he won the 3,000 and what he thought would be a trip to France. He waited to see who would be named to the team, but when the list was posted he was stunned. His name was missing. The U.S. coaches, realizing how powerful the African nations were, decided to load up on sprinters and in events they thought they had a better chance to win.
"I was shocked, terribly disappointed," Fahy said.
But he decided to turn that disappointment into motivation, showing signs of a new maturity. He dedicated himself to a hard summer of training and the results were dramatic early this year.
First, Fahy vanquished one ghost — winning the early-season Bronco Invitational, where he was third as a junior. Then came Stanford, where he ran away with the title as the only runner to crack 15 minutes for 3.1 miles.
Now comes Mt. SAC, where Fahy has but one goal: "I just want to win. I don't care about time, I just want to win."
He'll be entered in the team sweepstakes because, in addition to himself, the Mavericks have a vastly improved No. 2 runner in Eric Causey, a teammate whom Fahy credits for much of his improvement.
Fahy takes a mature approach to the race, noting that he is still running 60 to 70 miles a week which by the time the state meet rolls around in November will be down to 40-50 miles, so times are meaningless except as a gauge.
"Cross country is one of those sports you either like or hate," said Fahy, whose father was a marathoner who took Darren along for training runs and races. "I planned to run cross country, play basketball or soccer and then track, but after my freshman year I decided to just do cross country and track.
"I like cross country more than track because of the team atmosphere. We do everything together and it's really fun seeing how well the girls (ranked No. 1 in the state, No. 2 in the nation) are doing."
But in the end it's the state championships and nationals where he hopes to put those three keys together, opening the doors to being compared to the likes of the great ones.

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Fuse Dance Review: The Stephen Petronio Company — Creating Fascinating Structures of Dance
I was mesmerized by the coherence of the shifting patterns, their ideas so clearly presented, even though the work by no means provided more than a suggestion of a story.
Like Lazarus Did (LLD 11/15), performed by the Stephen Petronio Company. Presented by World Music/Crash Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA through Nov 17.
By Iris Fanger
Stephen Petronio was the first male dancer with Trisha Brown's company, back in the mid-1970s, so it's no wonder he learned his early lessons as a choreographer from her. One of Brown's iconic pieces was called "Accumulation," in which she started with one gesture, adding a second, a third and more, gradually building the phrase into a complex, fascinating structure of dance.
Although he has long since left his mentor behind (he has been leading his own troupe for thirty years), Petronio still makes works in that manner, beginning with a gesture or an ordinary walk or a tiny jump, finally culminating in swift, thrashing locomotion that propels his ten stunning dancers into every part of the stage. He takes time out for freezes and melts, giving the audience and the performers time to catch their collective breath and to impress the stage picture in the mind's eye. As a choreographer, he has total command of structure. Even if the dance has no set story line or subject, there's never a sense that the measures are just piled together helter skelter until the music ends.
Petronio's most recent work, "Like Lazarus Did (LLD 11/15)," which is having its local premiere this weekend at the ICA, is about death and resurrection. The work begins as the audience members file in to take their seats. Petronio, dressed in a dark suit and bare feet, is lying stretched out on the stage in a pool of light, as if ready to meet his maker. When the spotlight fades, a darkish fog discloses nine dancers, organized into pods of three, walking forward towards the audience and fading back, with gentle gestures of arms circling their heads, or palms held forward as if to display the stigmata. They are dressed in filmy white short tunics that suggest shrouds: the costume design is credited to H. Petal and Tara Subkoff. Later the dancers will appear and re-appear in various changes of costume, including near nudity.
Son Lux's score combines songs of the black American slaves with what sounds like whispers and booming percussion. The opening lyric of the piece — "I want to die like Lazarus did" — accompanies the first glimpse of the dancers. Seventy-five minutes later, Nicholas Sciscione performs an astonishing solo, the climax of the work. He starts in a recreation of the cycle of life, when a baby learns to roll over, lift himself up, and find his balance, and finally, stands upright. It's as if a beacon of hope was turned on, not unlike the peace of mind found by those who believe that death is not the final ending.
In between, the members of the troupe have come and gone on stage in various configurations and changing moods. Lyrics such as a reoccurring "Hallelujah" and "These are my father's children" might motivate the images but not slavishly so. One part was choreographed for three men manipulating a woman, Davalois Fearon, hoisting her up on their shoulders or around their bodies, hardly ever allowing her to touch her feet on the ground, yet their attitudes were free of suggestions of aggression or fear. Since there was no scenery other than an effective lighting design by Ken Tabachnick, it came as a surprise when two thick white cords dropped down from above, to be grasped by Joshua Tuason for a senuous solo, complete with lascivious, swinging hips, performed with his back to the audience.
I've come late to this particular choreographer's work. I am a victim of geography — he is based in New York and when his company performs here it is only for a weekend at a time. I was mesmerized by the coherence of the shifting patterns, their ideas so clearly presented, even though the work by no means provided more than a suggestion of a story. I'm glad to be finally a guest at Petronio's party, to revel in his inventiveness in transforming the familiar, his inspiring leadership for his troupe and his pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance without discarding its qualities of rhythm, patterns, and grace.
Iris Fanger is a theater and dance critic based in Boston. She has written reviews and feature articles for the Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and Patriot Ledger as well as for Dance Magazine and Dancing Times (London).
Former director of the Harvard Summer Dance Center, 1977-1995, she has taught at Lesley Graduate School and Tufts University, as well as Harvard and M.I.T. She received the 2005 Dance Champion Award from the Boston Dance Alliance and in 2008, the Outstanding Career Achievement Award from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts. She lectures widely on dance and theater history.
One Response to "Fuse Dance Review: The Stephen Petronio Company — Creating Fascinating Structures of Dance"
This was the fifth time World Music/CrashArts has presented the Stephen Petronio Company so it's easy to think he "belongs here." In Petronio's public interview with me on Saturday he mentioned how important it has been for his company to have an ongoing relationship with a presenter so that he can build a real relationship with a community (ours).


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Wasn't Doug Skaff the legislator who ridiculed a food-labeling bill a while back by bringing donuts and Tudors biscuit sandwiches onto the House floor? I saw a recent campaign photo of him. Maybe it's time to lay off the biscuits and donuts, Doug.
Natalie Tennant trying to act all tough in her commercials is a joke. I had some respect for her before the commercials but now I have no respect for her.
The Friends of Coal aren't just the coal companies. You also have hundreds of smaller service industry companies supporting the mines. Thousands of workers who never mined a lump of coal are affected by these layoffs.
Those who question the qualifications of Natalie Tennant for U.S. Senate have forgotten that Shelley Moore Capito had only served as a two-year member of the House of Delegates when she was elected to Congress — was she quailfied?
George Bush said, "God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq." He attacked Iraq and justified it with lies about WMDs resulting in the deaths of 150,000 Muslim people and it destabilized the entire region, bringing us to the current mess. Could you ever vote for another war-mongering Republican president? It truly was the biggest blunder in American history.
Shame on Kanawha County principals who hold back their employees from bettering themselves with jobs in other counties.
Mosquitoes transmit Yellow Fever, West Nile, RNA and chikungunya viruses. Why haven't mosquitoes been investigated with regard to the Ebola virus?
Give people something for free they'll support you for ever. Obamacare is a perfect example. The ones benefiting from it will vote Democrat from now on, no matter how screwed up things are.
We have important elections coming up. We have more than one issue to think about before deciding who will get your vote. See the entire picture, do not make your decision based on who has the best commercial on TV or radio. This is not like voting for the best movie etc.
Politics are strange. After a term and a half of being a puppet to Barack Obama, now Hillary Clinton separates herself from him for her own selfish political reasons. She did not have a mind of her own over any of the multiple failings of this administration until it neared election time again.
When the Marmet Locks were expanded, we were told it would be modeled after the Winfield Locks. Look at what we have — an overgrown man-made hill, Mount Marmet, and ponds full of grass. The only thing left is a small picnic area and a fishing pier. I have begged for walking trails but was told there was no manpower to maintain them. How much manpower is needed to keep up a trail of that size?
As we see the GOP fall flat on their face and the nothingness of all the other ideas that never were produced, the country is finally going back to basics. Paying a fair share of what you have earned is a basic part of democracy.
West Virginia roads are horrible. The WVDOH claims that the previous winter has depleted their summer funds but have managed to find enough funds to build an interchange on I-79 for the baseball team of West Virginia University.
There is a bad smell coming from The Greenbrier hotel: the state of West Virginia giving $23 million of taxpayers' money to a multimillionaire to build three practice football fields on his property for a out-of-state football team.
I see where Shelly Capito is bringing in the losers to politic for her, beginning with 47% Romney, the man who started Obamacare and who will not build any coal-fired power plants and who earned his money the way most Republicans did, by inheriting it.
Legalize marijuana before others steal West Virginia's jobs! Eliminate unemployment in West Virginia the easy way. With the experience and intelligence of West Virginia's people, it could be the pot capital of the country.
Whoever dumped the beautiful silver/gray mother cat and four black kittens at the offices on Smith Street Aug. 8 or 9, you should have your butt kicked. We're trying to trap, fix, and find homes for these wonderful animals because a busy parking lot in the city is no place for them. So I hope you're ashamed of yourself, and you're lucky I didn't see who you are.


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Concerned that information contained on its disabled (handicap) parking placards could be used for identity fraud, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles will no longer require personal information be visible on the placards as of July 1.
"The Commonwealth and DMV are committed to protecting Virginian's privacy," said DMV Commissioner Rick Holcomb. "Removing an individual's identifying information from disabled placards will help safeguard our residents and protect their identities."
Placards issued in the past displayed the disabled person's name, birth date and gender. Persons using handicap parking spaces are required to display the placard in public view by hanging it on the rearview mirror of the vehicle using the parking space.
Persons who have either permanent or temporary placards issued prior to July 1 may use tape to permanently cover their name and birth date on their placard.
DMV offers the disable parking placards and license plates to persons with temporary or permanent disabilities that limit or impair their mobility, or to those with conditions that create a safety concern while walking, such as Alzheimer's disease or lung-related diseases. The placards allow users to park in any disabled or handicap parking space or to park for up to four hours at metered or time-restricted parking spaces without paying a fee, unless prohibited by the locality. However, the person to whom the placard is issued must either be driving or be a passenger in the vehicle to legally use the placard.
A conviction for violating the proper use of the placard can result in fines up to $500 and revocation of the special parking privileges.
To receive a placard the applicant must provide certification of the disability from a medical professional. DMV issued 73,869 of the placards in 2009.
Temporary or permanent placards cost $5 each.
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Hello and thank you for coming to our website. We appreciate the opportunity to help you with your questions.
Your biggest worry will be the safety of your food and water supply. At 100 miles, you will be safe from the effects of the explosion and the gamma radiation produced by the nuclear bomb itself. Unless you are directly downwind of the explosion and there is a very strong wind blowing, you should be safe from airborne fallout. (It's is an interesting fact that gamma radiation strong enough to kill you will activate the rods and cones in your eyes. It's a joke in the nuclear industry that, if you see a blue flash, lie down because you're already dead.)
If there is a strong wind blowing from the area of the explosion, then you would want to seal your home as much as possible for at least overnight. The morning dew will bring many of the airborne particles to the ground before they cover 100 miles to get to you.
You will want to avoid any food and water that could come from the affected area. If your water supply is downstream from ground zero, you need to find a separate water supply or invest in a really good water filter.
The long-term danger of a nuclear explosion (as long as you're outside the area of immediate effects) is contaminated particles. The two types of contaminated particles are beta-radiation emitting and alpha-radiation emitting. Beta radiation emitting particles can cause radiation exposure through the skin and must be kept off of the skin or washed off as soon as possible. Alpha emitting particles can only cause damage if ingested or inhaled. However, if either beta or alpha particles are ingested, they will radiate your body until they work their way through the digestive tract and if they are inhaled, they may stay in your lungs forever, continuing to radiate your lung tissue.
There is a radioactive isotope of iodine that is formed in nuclear explosions. Your body actively takes up iodine and stores it in your thyroid. One of the preventative treatments for radioactive contamination is to take iodine supplements. By flooding your body with clean iodine, your body is less like to store any contaminated iodine that you may get from your food. You will probably want to buy iodine pills to have on hand. Also, for the same reason, if you hunt for food, don't eat the thyroid of any animals that might have been in a contaminated area.
If you hunt for food, you would be safest to hunt local animals and avoid animals that migrate or may have traveled through a contaminated zone.
If you think there will be nuclear attack, then you would be wise to invest in radiation detectors. There are two types of radiation detectors you will need. One type detects alpha radiation, but it has to be really close to the source of the radiation because alpha radiation is really weak and won't go through much more than a sheet of paper. The other type detects beta/gamma radiation and can work through a couple of inches of air for beta radiation. If there are any gamma-emitting particles around, you will be able to detect it at a distance and all you can do is get out of the area.
If you go into cities to scavenge, you will definitely need radiation detectors and you will want to wear overalls, boots, and gloves sealed together with tape, at least a surgical face mask, and a hat or hood. Dispose of the clothes as soon as you reach an uncontaminated area and wash thoroughly. Make sure you don't get your hands anywhere near your mouth or nose until you have thoroughly washed. You can't really manage a clean air supply since air tanks aren't really useful, but there are masks sold with filters to remove particulates.
This should answer most of your questions. Let me know if you would like more information. I can also recommend a couple of books, both fiction and nonfiction about disaster scenarios. I'll be happy to provide more information if you would like.
book recommendations welcome.
S.M. Stirling, in particular, provides a good idea of what is going to happen when the people in cities start to starve and flood out into the surrounding areas in search of food.
There are tons of nonfiction books about emergency preparedness and disaster survival. These three are examples and include nuclear catastrophes among other disasters. I have an entire bookshelf of books on Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Survival, and Survivalism in general. These three books are in no particular order (such as best to worst):
I hope this gets you started. Even if a nuclear weapon is never used again, there are always natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina or Tropical Storm Sandy. Emergency Preparedness can be the difference between life and death in any disaster situation.
What materials should be avoided. ie metals, stone to be used for shelter or used to build outdoor oven, grill. What materials would be safe or least harmful to boil water or foods? Does wood, china, clay, earthenware, mud absorb radioactive fallout?,
Should I have extra weather stripping, plastic sheeting, duct tape on hand?
I have read The Stand and hope that and Alas Babylon are not entirely accurate.
I am a good source for "making do" having watched Mom and grandparents.
Thank you. I will get the non-fiction books on loan from library.
If a nuclear weapon is exploded, then low levels of radioactive particles will become airborne and carried all over the world until washed out of the air by rain. When Chernobyl melted down, trace amounts of radioactivity were detected in Idaho. In most areas away from the actual bomb site, the amount of radioactive materials won't be high enough to be harmful. The distance that radioactive particles will travel depends on the winds and the size of the bomb. During the government atomic weapons tests in the 1950s, the military marched soldiers through exposed areas within hours of nuclear tests. Some exposure to radioactivity and radioactive particles will be unavoidable, but outside of the blast radius, most levels of exposure will result only in an increased risk of cancer. Radioactive particles can be washed off of surfaces just like dirt. In fact, if you think of radioactive particles like tiny grains of sand, that will give you a good idea of how the radioactive particles will behave. Metals will be fine if cleaned. Stone would be a good building material because it can be washed off. Mud may accumulate radioactive particles washed out of the air or carried by water and should be avoided. Clay would be a good material for use as long as the surface layer is discarded. Living wood, such as trees, or plants will absorb radioactive materials from the soil and water along with the water and nutrients the plants need to live. Dead wood may hold radioactive particles depending on the roughness of the surface. Any sealed surfaces, like the materials of most dishes, can be washed with clean water and soap. Contaminated surfaces can be made safe by sealing the contamination onto the surface with paint or varnish. In fact, in the nuclear industry, many contaminated surfaces were made safe by washing them clean or by covering the contamination with a sealant such as paint or wax.
Despite the media sneers when Vice-President Cheney discussed sealing a home in case of disaster with plastic sheeting and duct tape, he was correct. You will want to have those types of materials on hand for short-term sealing of your shelter if needed. You can't make a shelter airtight for any length of time without suffocating, but if you seal most of your shelter and then use filters to cover your air intakes and put a vacuum or a fan behind your filter to suck air into your shelter, you can keep airborne contaminants out of your shelter. HEPA filters can be used for removing radioactive particles from incoming air. You can buy HEPA furnace filters and that will remove a lot of contamination. (As used in the nuclear world, "contamination" is just radioactive materials where you don't want them. Since gamma rays don't travel many miles from ground zero of a nuclear explosion and are pretty much instantly damaging or fatal, most of the radioactive materials you can effectively deal with and need to worry about will be in the form of radioactive particles.) Wetting a filter can improve its efficiency at removing particulates, but may produce other problems such as mold and degradation of the filter. You might wet a filter if you expect a short-term spike in contamination, but you won't want to use wet filters for long periods. Water filters can be purchased that will remove bacteria and other particulates (such as radioactive particles) from your drinking water. Pay attention to what is upstream of your drinking water. If you get your water from a well, then your drinking water should be relatively safe. Soil acts as a filter to trap most contamination before it gets into deep groundwater. Over time, there may be some contamination of your groundwater, but it should be low enough to not be dangerous.
If there is a possibility of airborne contamination around your shelter, you want to keep it out of your shelter by setting up an area to clean yourself and your clothing off before you enter your shelter. Good housekeeping will keep contamination out of the area where you live and that will reduce your radioactive exposure. You want to reduce the chance of inhaling or ingesting contaminated materials as much as you can, since the radioactive materials will be mostly alpha- and beta-emitting particles that won't do much damage on your skin, but will be dangerous if inhaled or ingested.
I have put a lot of thought and research into the subject of surviving disasters and I could go on for a long time. You might look into the production of biodiesel for fueling vehicles and generators if you can't get gasoline. "Alas, Babylon" made me think about trade goods for a disaster and in a situation of that magnitude, where society has broken down, there are many common items that will be needed such as salt and alcohol (which has medical uses as a pain killer and disinfectant). An excellent and easy way to prepare food storage for a short-term or long-term disaster is to buy MREs (meals-ready-to-eat) from army surplus stores. They are sealed, inexpensive and easy to store.
I hope this answers your question and gives you some ideas. Let me know if I can help you further.


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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Gets A Cool New App
During the Super Bowl on February 3rd, Paramount is going to premiere a new TV Spot for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: Into Darkness that is going to include some new footage from the film. The spot will also be integrated with a cool sounding new app for the film that was just announced. It was created by Gimbal, and it has several cool features, one of which is the ability to unlock exclusive content while watching the spot during the big game! They say that this is one of the most unique and interactive apps ever created for a movie. You can read all about it in the press release below!
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom Inc., and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its subsidiary Qualcomm Labs, Inc., today announced that Gimbal context awareness technologies will be used to deliver exclusive content and advanced real world game experiences for the "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" application based on the upcoming movie from J.J. Abrams.
These cutting edge technologies are being showcased in a never before-seen way and will enable users to automatically engage with a wealth of movie related materials by utilizing their real-life surroundings to auto-complete integrated missions by employing audio scan, geo-location recognition, and image recognition functionality powered by Qualcomm Vuforia. The "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" app will launch at the end of January. Qualcomm's Chairman and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs made the announcement today during his keynote address at the International CES show in Las Vegas.
During the second quarter of the big game, the app will allow users the ability to unlock the first of many surprises during the airing of the "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" tv-spot, making this one of the most unique and interactive apps ever created for a movie. As a bonus, users who register for the app will be automatically entered into a sweepstakes for the chance to win a VIP trip to the U.S. premiere. To be the first to get the app and enter the sweepstakes, visit www.StarTrekMovie.com/CES.
"We are excited about collaborating with Paramount on this app as it further brings to life Qualcomm's vision of the digital sixth sense, where devices intelligently interact with the world around you," said Dr. Jacobs. "By leveraging the Gimbal platform, this app harnesses the power of the smartphone to bridge the digital and physical world, allowing the studio to market the film in the real world and simultaneously bring users into the film's story and world."
Highlights of the "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" app include:
• An audio scan function that can be turned on to automatically recognize and reward users for watching "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" content on TV and other media;
• An image scan function that enables users to interact with images printed or viewable in the real world;
• A geofencing function for location-based experiences;
• New "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" content, such as videos, images and wallpapers delivered directly to users' mobile devices;
• Exclusive opportunities and special offers only available to app users;
• One lucky sweepstakes winner will be rewarded with the grand prize of attending the "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" U.S. premiere.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" is written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof and directed by J.J. Abrams. Abrams is producing with Bryan Burk through Bad Robot Productions, along with Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci. Jeffrey Chernov and Skydance Productions' David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake are the executive producers.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" opens in theaters everywhere May 17, 2013.


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Seshachalam encounter has created sensation across the country and 20 red sandalwood smugglers are killed by Andhra Pradesh police in this encounter. AP IG Gopala Krishna speaking in the face to face interview on the encounter clarified that there 3 international smugglers among these 20 smugglers. He further stated that investigation is going on to find out the details of these criminals . . ..


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Teachers vote overwhelmingly in favour of escalated strike action
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B.C. teachers have voted in favour of a full walkout to put maximum pressure on the provincial government, but it's unclear how quickly their union may issue 72-hour strike notice.
The result of the vote, conducted Monday and Tuesday, was 86 per cent in favour, or 28,809 out of 33,387 ballots cast.
B.C. Teachers Federation president Jim Iker called it a "very strong message" to the province.
"So far this government has come to the table empty-handed, it's time to change that," Iker said.
He said while teachers are prepared to go to a full-scale strike that's "a decision we never take lightly" and would depend on how talks proceed with the provincial government.
"You've got to remain hopeful that government has learned from the past mistakes they've made," Iker said, who referred to the union's legal battle with the province over class size and composition and "the government's chaotic lockout."
The earliest a full-scale strike could begin is Monday.
The lack of $50-a-day strike pay – the BCTF's strike fund was expected to be exhausted at the end of this week – was apparently a non-issue for most teachers.
Sooke Teachers Association president Ian Johnston said the strike vote was held mainly to increase pressure on the government.
"It's more the signal it sends to government; how strong is our resolve. That's really what it's all about," he said.
The Labour Relations Board was expected to hear arguments Wednesday on the province's application to declare exams and final grades an essential service in the event of a full strike.
The province has also pledged to end its partial lockout of teachers at the end of the school year to enable summer school operations.
The government has saved $12 million each week in salaries during the teachers' current but limited job action, plus nearly $5 million more by chopping wages.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the result was not unexpected.
"While the BCTF leadership received the mandate they sought, no one should interpret this as any kind of enthusiasm on the part of teachers to shut down schools," he said.
He said teachers, parents and students would all rather finish the school year on a positive note, adding it took just five days of hard bargaining to secure a new contract for school support staff.
"The BCTF leadership needs to come to the table with realistic expectations and a willingness to engage in meaningful bargaining," Fassbender said. "Teachers deserve a raise but their total compensation demands are about four times more than other recent settlements."


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The National Mango Board (NMB) in conjunction with the University of California, Davis (Department of Plant Science) will be hosting a free Mango Ripening Webinar on Thursday, Apr. 24, 2014 at 4pm EST. The webinar will discuss why mango ripening is important to the U.S. consumer and how to utilize the NMB's new Mango Handling and Ripening Protocol. "The NMB provides an abundant amount of tools for the industry to consider if they want to develop their own ripening system," says William Watson, executive director for the NMB. During the webinar, the NMB will showcase their new ripening tool, Mango Handling and Ripening Protocol, which will be available to the industry to utilize in their business. In addition, Dr. Carlos Crisosto, Department of Plant Sciences - University of California, Davis, will discuss the benefits of implementing a ripening program and share insights on the positive effects ripening has on mango consumers and acceptance. Speakers and topics will include:
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BROOKSVILLE — Oodles of stuffed bears and other toys fill the front window of Vicki Laster's fifth-grade classroom. The Pine Grove Elementary School students have been collecting them for weeks to send to tornado victims in Alabama. They call the drive "Bears for 'Bama."
Said class member Ayanna Billington, 10: "It was an altogether class plan." They thought of bears, she said, because that is the school mascot.
Laster's class is familiar with helping disaster victims.
"After (Hurricane) Katrina, they shipped thousands of the beads to Louisiana," said Pine Grove kindergarten/first-grade paraprofessional Michele Matthews.
She and her husband, Charles, own the UPS store on Mariner Boulevard in Spring Hill. They donated the shipping of the beads and will do the same with the bears.
Though there have been tornadoes in other places besides Alabama, Laster thought of that state because her husband has family there. They chose Alberta Elementary School in Tuscaloosa. It is a Title 1 school, Laster said, with 441 students, many of them needy.
"Their school was a beautiful school," she said, "and is no longer a beautiful school."
The students hope their contribution helps. The bears won't rebuild the school, but there are other ways to assist.
"I'm thinking they feel really bad," said class member Taylor Dudek, 11. "It's probably good for us to give them something to make them feel better."
The students got the entire school involved. They made fliers and produced an announcement for the school's morning show. They placed collection bins around the school.
"There's one at the library, office and cafeteria," Ayanna said.
The students have collected more than 450 stuffed toys.
"It feels good to do something for someone else," Ayanna said.
She said that when they called Alberta Elementary's principal, "She was really happy and saying, God bless us."


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TARBORO, N.C. -- Montrezl Harrell has truly arrived.
He leans back in the tan metal chair inside the vacant lobby at North Edgecombe High School, interlocks his fingers behind his head, crosses his legs and smiles.
Perhaps it's fitting that he's lounging in the school where he dominated for three years in front of fans who never quite understood why he wasn't getting much national hype because now the hype machine is about to overheat.
"I've always felt like I was underrated," said Harrell, a 6-foot-8 forward who recently finished his senior year at Hargrave Military Academy (Chatham, Va.). "So it feels good to be getting all of this attention now even if it's because of things I had no control over. I'm starting all over with my recruitment, and this is a different level, but I like it."
Harrell, who is ranked No. 89 in the class of 2012 ESPN 100, originally committed to Virginia Tech last March, and was the prize of the Hokies' 2012 haul -- a relentless workhorse who earned a reputation for his versatility and power dunks.
In February, Harrell threw down 18 dunks in a 122-119 overtime win over Fishburne Military School (Waynesboro, Va.). He finished with 51 points, 17 rebounds and six blocks.
"I was definitely ready to put that kind of work in at Tech," Harrell said. "I liked it there so much I committed without ever going on an official visit anywhere. I loved Tech."
That all changed on April 23 when Virginia Tech fired its head coach Seth Greenberg, who, Harrell said, was the main reason he picked Tech.
"Montrezl got really close to Coach Greenberg," Harrell's father Samuel Harrell said. "So when he was gone, Montrezl knew right away that he wanted to open things back up."
Harrell eventually received a release from his scholarship on May 16, which green-lit calls from Louisville, Kentucky, Florida, Alabama, LSU, South Carolina, Xavier, Cincinnati, Auburn, Illinois and Baylor. North Carolina State also expressed interest in Harrell, but due to ACC rules, Harrell would have to sit out one year if he chose to transfer within the conference, unless he's granted a waiver.
"I was definitely interested in State, but I don't want to sit a year," Harrell said. "I've got a lot of big time schools recruiting me now. It's another level."
Still, don't get him wrong; Harrell is fully aware that he's reaping the rewards of the recruiting dust settling.
"Some schools didn't get the guys they wanted and now here I am," Harrell said. "Now they want me. I know that. It definitely doesn't bother me because I'm a confident player. Honestly, I kind of look at it like it's about time."
That's the best approach, according to ESPN.com recruiting analyst Paul Biancardi.
"There's a reason that he's in this position," Biancardi said. "When that kind of size and skill is on the board at this stage of the game you've got to have it. True, some teams didn't get their guy, but he shouldn't be concerned with why he's getting the attention now. It's here and he earned it, but he can't let the attention get to him."
Nerlens Noel concurred, and he would know.
As the top player in the ESPN 100, Noel received the recruiting process's star treatment from some of the same schools before picking Kentucky.
"It can be stressful if you let it," said Noel, a senior center at Tilton (N.H.). "Montrezl just has to do what's right for him. Of course I think that's Kentucky, but no pressure. When you're getting this kind of attention it's just a different level."
Harrell certainly put up high-level numbers to validate the attention.
He averaged 28 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for Hargrave, whose only loss came to Brewster Academy (Wolfeboro, N.H.), 87-76, in the National Prep Championship on March 7. In two postseason games – the Jordan Brand Regional and Capital Classic -- Harrell averaged 23 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks per game. He took home MVP honors in both.
"I worked hard this year," Harrell said. "I feel like all this is just a sign that's it's paid off. It's weird having to go through the process all over again. I definitely learned a lesson though, and that's to hear everyone out. I'm sticking to that plan."
The short-term plan is to take three visits, the first of which will be to Louisville from May 31-June 2. Harrell has yet to decide which of the other schools will get the last two visits.
"I'll decide that in the next week or so," Harrell said. "But, like I said, I definitely want to go through the process because I didn't do that last time. So nothing's gonna stop me from doing that."
Not even if Florida's Billy Donovan will be his coach at the Team USA U18 National Team training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., from June 5-12.
"I guess that could be a little awkward since he's recruiting me now," Harrell said of Donovan. "But I'll be OK. I'll just be down there ready to learn. He's a great coach. I'm not gonna let anything be stressful about my second recruitment. I'm in the position that I worked hard to be in. I'm happy even if I think the schools caught on late."
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Depression is a common and disabling condition which represents a substantial public health concern, especially with the aging of the population in general. In fact, one to four percent of the older population has major depression. Although medication is the main treatment for depression, studies show that only 50% of patients show a significant response to treatment. The response might actually be less in older subjects, and with more adverse side effects due to changes in the metabolism of the older population as well as drug interaction. For these reasons (changes in metabolism and possible drug interactions) the starting dose of the antidepressant Lexapro will be 5mg, instead of 10mg.
To combat the incomplete response to medication, many combined and augmentation strategies have been developed. Examples of this would be an antidepressant medication plus a neuroleptic medication; or an antidepressant medication plus talk therapy. One non-medication treatment that is being considered is massage therapy. Recent data suggest that massage therapy can be useful for the treatment of depression.
This study proposes to perform a controlled trail to assess the effects of massage therapy on symptoms of depression in older subjects with major depression. All of the subjects will receive Lexapro, which is an FDA approved medication for the treatment of depression. Half of the subjects will receive Swedish massage for one hour, twice a week, and the other half will receive light touch for one hour, twice per week for eight weeks. Standardized rating scales that evaluate depression will be used to evaluate the subjects mood.
|Drug: Lexapro Behavioral: Light touch Behavioral: Massage
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Combination Lexapro and Massage for Treatment in Depression in Older Subjects
- Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D) [ Time Frame: 9 weeks ]
- Beck Depression Inventory [ Time Frame: 9 weeks ]
- Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) [ Time Frame: 9 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Swedish Massage
Adding massage twice a week, for 8 weeks, and Lexapro in the treatment of depression.
Drug: Lexapro
5mg-10mg of lexapro, daily, for 9 weeks for all study participants.Behavioral: Massage
Massage twice a week, for 8 weeks.
Sham Comparator: Light-Touch
Adding light touch twice a week, for 8 weeks, and Lexapro in the treatment of depression.
Drug: Lexapro
5mg-10mg of lexapro, daily, for 9 weeks for all study participants.Behavioral: Light touch
Light touch twice a week, for 8 weeks
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- > 60 years of age
- Unipolar major depression as defined by Structured Clinical Interaction DSM-IV (SCID)
- HAM-D score of > 17 (21-item scale)]]
- Not taking antidepressants for at least two weeks, 2 months for fluoxetine and MAOIs]]
- Capable of giving informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to provide informed consent (e.g. severe cognitive impairment)
- Acute medical condition or exacerbation of chronic medical condition associated with significant distress (pain, protracted fevers, etc.) and requiring active medical treatment.
- High risk of suicide or violence as assessed by the investigator
- Current or past history of psychosis or bipolar disorder
- Use of psychotropic medication and/or psychotherapy outside of the study
- (Exposure to treatment of fluoxetine or MAOIs in the previous two months; chronic use of benzodiazepine and non-benzodiazepine sedatives, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, mood stabilizing agents, codeine, steroids, anti-inflammatory agents.
- Alternative medicine use in the preceding 30 days (e.g. acupuncture, herbs, etc.)
- History of intolerance to massage or contraindication to massage (e.g. skin lesions that prevent direct contact by the therapist)
- Diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizotypal disorder, psychotic depression or bipolar disorders;
- MMSE less than 22
- Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale ³ greater than 12
- Current drug or alcohol abuse or dependence or history of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence within the past 6 months
- Unstable medical or neurological conditions that are likely to interfere with the treatment of depression
- Currently on psychotropic medications including antidepressants or neuroleptics
- Active suicidal ideation or other safety issues determined by the clinician to not be suitable for inclusion in the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00643162
|United States, California
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Cohen, Ph.D., M.D.
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Robert Cohen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00643162 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 20, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 26, 2012
Keywords provided by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center:
Alternative Therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder
Behavioral Symptoms
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Serotonin Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Antidepressive Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
Antiparkinson Agents
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Muscarinic Antagonists
Cholinergic Antagonists
Cholinergic Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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VANCOUVER — While the Bruins sprinted across the ice to mob him at the buzzer, Tim Thomas tapped both goalposts, sank to his knees and rubbed the ice in front of his empty goal.
Thomas drew a virtual line in his crease throughout the Stanley Cup final, and the goalie just wouldn't allow the Canucks to cross it.
After 38 seasons without a championship, the Bruins ripped the Cup — and several thousand hearts — out of a Canadian city that had waited four decades itself for one sip.
Thomas was just too good, and the Bruins are the NHL's best.
The Cup is headed back to the Hub of Hockey.
Thomas made 37 saves in the second shutout of the series on his way to winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, and Patrice Bergeron and rookie Brad Marchand scored twice each as Boston beat Vancouver 4-0 in Game 7 on Wednesday for its first championship since 1972.
"It still hasn't kicked in, if I'm completely honest," Thomas said. "I can't believe it's over. We've had our battle meter up so high for so long, it feels like we're moving onto the next series or something."
The Bruins leaped over the boards and headed straight for Thomas at the final buzzer, mobbing the goalie who carried them through long stretches of this postseason. The Bruins are the first team to win a Game 7 three times in one postseason, with Thomas posting shutouts in the decisive game of the East final against the Lightning and the Stanley Cup final.
Captain Zdeno Chara nearly slipped when he skated away from commissioner Gary Bettman with the Stanley Cup. But the trophy eventually got a lift from Nathan Horton, the injured Boston forward whose Game 3 concussion sustained on a late hit swung the series' momentum to Boston.
Before Game 7, Horton worked to give the Bruins a home-ice advantage, pouring a bottle of Boston water onto the ice in front of the Bruins' bench 90 minutes before warmups.
"I was just trying to get some Garden ice here and make it our ice," Horton said.
But it was mostly Thomas, who limited the Canucks to eight goals in seven games in the final, blanking Vancouver in two of the last four. "All the physical work we'd done throughout the whole series added up," Thomas said. "Being the last series, we didn't save anything, and we used that physicality again and that was the difference."
Thomas' first save Wednesday, a screened drive by Christopher Tanev, was his 762nd of the postseason, breaking the record set by Vancouver's Kirk McLean in 1994. Also, 1994 was the only other season an American has won the Conn Smythe, Brian Leetch leading the Rangers to a Game 7 win over the Canucks.
A 37-year-old who grew up poor in Flint, Mich. — Thomas' parents pawned their wedding rings to pay his way to goalie school — at one point he and his family sold fruit on the roadside to supplement their income.
After being an All-American at the University of Vermont — as a teammate of the Lightning's Marty St. Louis — Thomas played for years in the minor leagues (Birmingham, Ala., and Houston) and in Europe (Finland and Sweden) before earning a permanent job with the Bruins in 2005.
Now he is expected to win his second Vezina Trophy in three seasons as the league's top goalie after setting a modern record with a .938 save percentage in the regular season.
"Their goaltender was real tough to beat," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "The way they played in front of him was real tough to beat. We had some Grade A chances, and we were unable to score."
Boston dropped the first two games in Vancouver but became the third team since 1966 to overcome that deficit.
"We got the first goal, and we knew that would be important coming here," said 43-year-old Mark Recchi, who plans to retire after winning the Stanley Cup with his third franchise. "If they got any chances, Timmy was there, and it was just scary how good he was."
The Canucks, who had the league's best regular-season record and were the highest-scoring team in the regular season, still seek their first Cup since entering the league in 1970.
"Anybody in our situation right now would feel real disappointed, whether you're the favorite or not," Vigneault said. "We battled real hard. We gave it our best shot. This one game, they were the better team. It's that simple."
First Period—1, Boston, Bergeron 5 (Marchand), 14:37. Penalties—None.
Second Period—2, Boston, Marchand 10 (Seidenberg, Recchi), 12:13. 3, Boston, Bergeron 6 (Seidenberg, Campbell), 17:35 (sh). Penalties—Chara, Bos (interference), 16:07.
Third Period—4, Boston, Marchand 11, 17:16 (en). Penalties—Hansen, Van (interference), 5:33; Lucic, Bos (hooking), 11:34. Shots on Goal—Boston 5-8-8—21. Vancouver 8-13-16—37. Power-play opportunities—Boston 0 of 1; Vancouver 0 of 2. Goalies—Boston, Thomas 16-9-0 (37 shots-37 saves). Vancouver, Luongo 15-10-0 (20-17). A—18,860 (18,810).


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From left, Brandy Grant, Tia Jemison, Whitney Drake, Fanni Green, Perri Gaffney and Erica Sutherlin star in American Stage Theatre Companys production of Robert Harlings Steel Magnolias.
ST. PETERSBURG American Stage Theatre Company presents its fifth mainstage play of this season with Robert Harlings Steel Magnolias, featuring an African-American cast. Previews are May 21 and 22. Opening Night is May 23 and the production runs through June 15.
Opening Night will include a reception beginning at 6:30 p.m. on May 23 catered by Parkshore Grill with delicious delights, an open bar, and live music. The opening night performance will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $59.
Pay What You Can Night is Wednesday, May 21, at 8 p.m.
Steel Magnolias is set in the present day at Truvys Beauty Shop in Chinquapin, Louisiana. Shelbys wedding day nears, so the beauty shop ladies of Chinquapin Parrish, Louisiana - delicate as magnolias but tough as steel have a lot to talk about.
From the new assistant who announces, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair, to the town matron who declares, I'm not crazy I've just been in a very bad mood 40 years! Steel Magnolias is alternately hilarious and touching, sure to be the feel-good hit of the season!
Steel Magnolias will be presented in two acts with one intermission.
Bob Devin Jones is directing for American Stage Theatres production of Steel Magnolias. He is a native of Los Angeles has resided in St. Petersburg since 1997. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, he has been a theatre worker for more than 35 years, working as an actor, playwright and director.
He serves on the USF College of Education Advisory Board, and the Boards of freeFall Theatre, Creative Clay, First Night, and American Stage, where he directed the most recent production in the August Wilson Century Cycle, Two Trains Running.
Sharon E. Scott is the assistant director for this production. Scott began her career in New York and has performed around the world; touring with several national and international companies, appearing in North and South America, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and Singapore.
The cast includes Whitney Drake as Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, Perri Gaffney as Ouiser Boudreaux, Brandy Grant as Annelle Dupuy-Desoto, Fanni Green as MLynn Eatenton, Tia Jemison as Truvy Jones and Erica Sutherlin as Clairee Belcher.
The artistic staff includes Greg Bierce as scenic designer, Megan Byrne as lighting designer, Karla Hartley as sound designer, Sarah Stark as costume designer, Jerid Fox as properties master and scenic dresser, Rachel Harrison as production stage manager and Timon Brown as technical director.
Performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $29 for Thursday Previews; $39 for Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday and Sunday matinees, and $49 for Friday and Saturday evenings.
Tickets are $59 on opening night and include pre-performance reception.
Student advance tickets are $20 and student rush tickets are $10, 30 minutes prior to curtain. Seniors receive $2 off and active military personnel are admitted free with valid military ID presented at the box office. Group ticket pricing packages are also available.
For tickets, call the American Stage Box Office at 727-823-PLAY (7529) or visit
American Stage Theatre Company is located at the Raymond James Theatre, 163 Third St. N. in downtown St. Petersburg.
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Two came from outside the 50-metre arc in the second term, and Franklin added two more in a tense last quarter.
It was Sydney's ninth consecutive win, lifting the premiership favourites to a 10-3 record.
Coach John Longmire was rapt with the last-quarter efforts of teenagers Harry Cunningham and Zak Jones, who had nine disposals and six tackles as a second-half substitution in his debut game.
But there was no getting around the difference Franklin made to the contest.
Not even a heroic performance from Richmond fullback Alex Rance, who in the words of his coach Damien Hardwick battled manfully and won the battle, could keep Sydney's $10 million glamour forward down for long enough.
Franklin is on track for a third Coleman Medal, with 35 goals including nine in the past two weeks.
"Lance kicked four straight in a low-scoring game. We kicked nine and he kicked four straight, so it helps," Longmire said on Friday night.
"His contribution over the last couple of weeks has been very good.
"To kick four in a game like that, it makes a big difference."
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Longmire said it was difficult to tell if last week's draining encounter with ladder leaders Port was the reason for his side's lacklustre start, which allowed the Tigers to surge 26 points clear during the second term.
The Swans host Greater Western Sydney at the SCG on June 28, as Longmire's men soak up an eight-day break after two successive six-day turnarounds.
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Noah Lomax Q&A
Noah Lomax stars alongside Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel in Playing for Keeps, a heartwarming story about a boy getting to know his dad that comes out December 7th. Find out more in Kidzworld's Q&A with Noah Lomax!
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KW: How old are you and where are you from?
- Noah: I just turned 11 years old. I was born in New Orleans but have been living in Atlanta since I was 5 years old
KW: How did you get started acting?
- Noah: My sister was the one who started acting first. I think she got stopped in a mall, one day and was asked if she wanted to be an actor, but she always wanted to do it. She started acting a little bit, and then I decided I wanted to do it too…it looked like fun.
KW: You're in the movie Playing for Keeps coming out in December, what's the movie about?
- Noah: The movie is about a famous retired soccer professional who has not been a great dad or husband and he ends up coaching his son's soccer team to try to patch things up with his son and get his life back. But he gets distracted by the moms of my character's [Lewis] teammates!
KW: How do you relate to your character in Playing for Keeps?
- Noah: Well, Lewis and I are a lot alike. He is a normal kid that likes to play with his friends and play soccer. I also like to play sports and hang out with my friends, but I cannot relate to his family life, because my mom and dad are happily married.
KW: You got to work with Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler, what was that like?
- Noah: They were really nice! They played with me a lot on set. Gerry and I practiced soccer together and that was really fun. They are like normal people and I don't really see them as being "stars". Jess and I liked to be goofy like one time we were doing a scene where we were sitting in a car and singing the song "Pump Up the Jam." It was a lot of fun.
KW: You're in another film called Safe Haven coming out February, what is it about?
- Noah: It's about a woman who is abused by her husband and she escapes to a small town where she meets Josh Duhamel's character, who is widowed with two kids and they start to form a relationship. I play Josh's son in the film, who has a hard time dealing with his mom being gone and his dad's interest in another woman.
KW: You've had roles on a number of TV shows, what has been your favorite so far?
- Noah: I would say The Walking Dead. It was a small role, but it is a great show and I loved the zombies. I really liked seeing how they made people into zombies, great make up, and all the fight scenes.
KW: What kind of roles would you like to do in the future?
- Noah: I have always wanted to be in a super hero movie where they shoot on a green screen and have different special effects. I don't care if I am the super hero or villain but it would be kinda cool to be the villain.
KW: Which actors do you look up to?
- Noah: I would like to work with Christian Bale because he plays Batman.I've seen all the Batman movies, and he played Batman/ Bruce Wayne the best. I really like how he acts like Batman and makes you forget that he is an actor. His fight scenes are very believable.
KW: What's the best piece of advice you've received since starting out in showbiz?
- Noah: Make sure you keep doing the other things you like to do. I still play football!
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The whole point of summer vacation is doing nothing, or as close to it as possible. Stretching out full-length on scorching sand, a sighing emerald lawn, a porch swing, a deck chair, a chaise longue, rearranging knees and elbows to find the best pose possible for turning pages with one hand while holding a glass or bottle with the other: That about marks the apex of ambition once the summer clock starts ticking. And when you're languid, lying perfectly still under a huge sky on one of those vast, dilated days that linger way past dinnertime, what bigger frisson than reading about other people rushing around having wild adventures and deep epiphanies all over the world?
It's a counterpoint thing. The more placidly motionless the reader, the more impact all that vicarious action packs.
And vicarious action, subtle or speedy, from pursuing gurus to dodging bullets to sidestepping the SS, packs all the more impact if you know for sure that it actually happened to someone somewhere. Fictional predicaments are fine for cold weather, when fakery fills the air. Invented adventures are only too appropriate in those months when mere survival hangs on contrivances such as central heating, snow plows and layered fleece. But in summer, which gives bodies stripped nearly bare nothing to fear, nothing satisfies like the absolute truth. The brutal but crystalline clarity of a first-person nonfiction narrative is a metaphor for the summer sky itself. And the adrenaline rush that comes with reading about real-world revelations, revolutions, and shark-infested seas shoots like an ice cube down the back.
That's why, this season, hot new adventure memoirs are stacking up.
Don't confuse these with that stolid old standby: the recollections of icons whose entrenched, in-the-bag fame hoists their books above the status of mere memoir to full-on autobiography, with all that implicit extra dignity and instant best-sellerdom and waiting lists at local bookshops. The other Clinton autobiography will be upon us soon enough.
Rather, the Zeitgeist right now is for titillating memoirs by authors of whom you've never heard. More or less regular Joes and Janes who are, in this celebrity-driven world, near-nobodies. Doctors. Lawyers. Reporters. Grad students. Moms. Not anyone you'd notice in the check-out line or in the adjacent Camry stopped at the light. But they've done things. Weird things. Funny things. Dumb and dangerous things that have rendered them accidental sages, surprised survivors, dispatchers from heaven and hell.
Matthew McAllester had been dispatching for years, but -- filing news reports from war zones around the world -- he never expected that his biggest scoop ever would be about himself. Last year, just as war broke out in Iraq, the Newsday reporter was arrested with several other journalists in a Baghdad hotel. In Blinded by the Sunlight, he recounts their chilling week of captivity, interrogation, and terrifying mind games in Saddam Hussein's most notorious prison.
A far cry from world affairs is Kat Albrecht's The Lost Pet Chronicles, a warm and fuzzy narrative about an animal-adoring California cop who bought herself a few cute puppies and turned them into highly skilled search dogs. After years spent hunting with them for missing humans, Albrecht had a bolt from the blue: Why not use animals to hunt for missing animals? These chronicles of her highs and lows as a certified pet detective might make dogless and catless readers' eyes glaze over now and then, but diehard zoophiles will relish Albrecht's tales of suburban search-and-rescues, sad little stiff corpses, and joyous reunions, intercut with insights on raising bloodhounds at home. (They're smart and lovable and exude saliva incessantly.)
We don't like to think of doctors as having lives. If they have lives -- lovers and cranky kids who keep them up all night, and ailments of their own -- then that bodes really poorly for their concentration, and that is the only part of them we wish to think about. Emergency-room physician Frank Huyler breaks down that professional wall of silence in The Blood of Strangers. This memoir-in-essays' title says it all, baring the heart and soul of a man who in the course of a typical work shift watches a beautiful girl bleed to death, laughs bitterly at a fellow medic's joke about broken jaws and blowjobs, sees colleagues slipping over the edge, stops a child from slipping into a coma, and saves a wounded murderer's life. What goes on behind that white surgical mask? Maybe more than you want to know, but as both a published poet and a wielder of scalpels, Huyler gives it to you stunningly and straight.
Many of these authors are so ordinary, so much like us and those we know, that we slide into their shoes effortlessly, automatically, as they walk on the wild side: a far cry from the way we fawn and genuflect our way through the reminiscences of, say, Hillary Clinton or Maya Angelou.
Sometimes the walk in question isn't really on the wild side, yet a skilled memoirist keeps us in step anyway. This is an entirely different sort of cool trick, in which the author takes a standard practice, an experience neither new nor extraordinary and which is shared by millions daily, and turns it around to reveal seldom-spoken marvels lurking within. Herman Gollob does this deftly with Me and Shakespeare, recounting how, shortly before retiring from a career in publishing a few years ago, he happened to attend a Broadway performance of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes as the prince.
"As an English major" some 40 years previous, Gollob writes, "I'd taken the obligatory Shakespeare course, but it was only a semester." In the intervening decades, he spared the Bard hardly a thought. But galvanized by Fiennes' performance, Gollob was swept into a passion that puzzled and utterly pervaded him. Writing comfortably as if to a friend, he describes how rediscovering each of Shakespeare's plays in turn shed new light on his own life and the world at large.
Steve Almond took a similarly though deliciously lower-brow universal experience and made it into a memoir. In Candyfreak, the portentously named Almond confesses to having eaten at least one piece of candy every single day of his life. It's more than just a sensory thing with him; it's about far deeper comforts: As a small boy in the suburbs, "I wasn't just interested in eating the candy. I fondled it." Incorporating research on candy history into his own memories -- to call them bittersweet is just too obvious -- of home and friends and lovers lost and kept and how Junior Mints and jawbreakers flavored all of that, Almond celebrates a small pleasure too easily overlooked. His elegies for bars and brands no longer sold -- the Powerhouse, the Marathon, the caramelly Caravelle -- bespeak a surprisingly palpable grief.
Blending a bodily journey with that other sure thing, a spiritual one, Elizabeth Kadetsky writes compellingly of her quest for enlightenment in First There Is a Mountain. The subtitle, "A Yoga Romance," lends a misleadingly fluffy Harlequin tone to a book that is as starkly honest as a sprained wrist. Journalist Kadetsky minces no words about her youthful bout with anorexia, during which yoga and hunger combined to fuel the pursuit of what she calls ruefully "body as topiary." Curling and stretching into ever more astounding postures at the feet of the cruel B.K.S. Iyengar, a much-revered yoga master in India, the earnest student discovers that those feet are at least partly made of clay.
Some of these memoirs serve as paeans to a time and place now lost to us and lost to the authors as well, recoverable only through their musings. Recounting tragic romances with two abstract painters, Joyce Johnson's Missing Men recaptures mid-20th-century New York City, a milieu throbbing with new ideas, new styles and new ways of living that shattered old social mores. An accomplished novelist, Johnson is still -- for better or worse -- most famous for having briefly been Jack Kerouac's girlfriend. In this book, she skips lightly over Beatdom while lingering over her early career as a Broadway child actor and her marriages to two artists of whom you've most likely never heard. The gimlet poignancy with which she evokes the presence, then absence, of these men in her life makes up for those other moments, always a risk in memoirs, when you're pawing the ground yearning to move onward from schoolyard antics and Mom and Dad.
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Proving yet again India's age-old supremacy as the armchair-, deck chair- and beach-towel-traveling capital of the world, Terry Tarnoff's The Bone Man of Benares takes us back to the author's youthful subcontinental sojourn circa 1971, alight with sex and drugs both hard and soft and big hairy bugs and tragic missed connections that wreck people's lives forever. While Tarnoff sometimes slips into the obvious -- Bombay, surprise, surprise, is a "nonstop, 24-hour circus" -- most of the time he scores big-time with unsettling, acid-fueled images that just won't quit. A fresh strawberry, for instance, sends him into a wild meditation on jaunty hats. Bali, Africa and Europe also figure in this tale of a time when faraway roads shimmered more with promise than peril, when gods and ganja competed fiercely for the attention of young Americans abroad.
Twenty years or so can really change young Americans' reasons for wanting to see the world. As a foreign correspondent reporting from dozens of war zones and disaster areas, Neely Tucker recorded myriad modern hells. In Zimbabwe, home to one of the world's highest AIDS rates, a land of extremes where "the sun burns for days on end and rain is a rumor that will not come," Tucker volunteers at an orphanage, most of whose young charges wither and die within weeks. Love in the Driest Season starts with Tucker's youth -- spent bagging groceries, reading Faulkner, and booting footballs in racially riven Mississippi -- then goes on to chart his coverage of plagues and genocides and the bond he felt for one desperately sick orphan, whom he and his wife adopted and brought home with them against all odds. Tucker describes both horror and splendor with heart-stopping skill.
That is the power of memoirs by almost-ordinary authors: horror and splendor, both searingly vivid in a summer read because you know it's true. And you know it could have been you.


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