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MP3 Laura Vecchione - Girl in the Band
Soul-infused convergence of country, rock, blues and gospel.
10 MP3 Songs in this album (41:29) !
Related styles: ROCK: Heartland Rock, COUNTRY: Alt-Country
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The powerful live presence and deeply emotional voice of singer and songwriter Laura Vecchione (pronounced “Veck-ee-oh-nee”) are captivating audiences nationwide. Vecchione''s catchy lyrics and beautiful melodies exude pop appeal. What sets her apart as an artist, though, is rare depth and maturity. Listening to her songs makes us connect instantly with the heartbreak of humanity, leap at her message of hope, and clap along with her celebration of resilience. A soulful convergence of gospel, blues, country, and rock, Vecchione’s music evokes wide rivers of the South that seem far beyond her origins in New York and Boston.
Girl in the Band is Vecchione''s triumphant sequel to her impressive debut album, Deeper Waters. Set for release in the fall of 2008 on Vecchione''s indie imprint Selkie Records, Girl in the Band was recorded in Nashville and Boston with an all-star cast of seasoned session players including George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt) on electric guitar. Mixed primarily by multi-Grammy-Award winner Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco, The Dixie Chicks) the album shines with Vecchione''s unique balance of pop-appeal and gravitas, and is already generating buzz and acclaim including:
• Television Placement: "Fly Home Flag Boy" and “Magnolia” played on Season Two of TNT''s hit show, Saving Grace, starring Academy Award winner, Holly Hunter. Laura’s single, “Jane” from Deeper Waters also aired on the same show.
• Charitable Collaboration with Sweet Home New Orleans: Laura continues to make efforts to help rebuild New Orleans after her visit post-Katrina. At live shows she has continued to direct people to sign up for https://www.tradebit.com. On Girl in the Band, Laura covers an a cappella piece, the Mardi Gras Indian sacred song, "Indian Red," and penned her own song for New Orleans called "Fly Home Flag Boy." Proceeds from digital downloads of these songs will be donated to Sweet Home New Orleans, (https://www.tradebit.com) working to preserve the artistic and social fabric of New Orleans musical and historic culture.
• MLK, Jr Dream-On Compilation: "How We Choose to Hold" was selected out of over 400 submissions to be included in the Dream On project, an independent musical compilation set for release Nov. 2008. The project will include a charitable website honoring the continued work and vision of Dr. MLK, Jr. (https://www.tradebit.com https://www.tradebit.com).
Other points of interest about Girl in the Band include:
• Boston Theme: Vecchione''s song, "This Town," chronicles the memory of lost love through Boston landmarks, which will be familiar to Boston residents.
• Women''s Empowerment: "Don''t Come Creepin’" is the narrative of a woman escaping slavery and acts as a commentary on sexual exploitation and the freedom of the human spirit.
• Emerging Artist Collaboration: Girl in the Band features guest background vocals from other up and-coming independent artists: New York’s Nicole Nelson (of Dwight and Nicole) and Maryland’s Victoria Vox.
Here’s what some folks are saying about Laura Vecchione:
" …Laura Vecchione, a bluesy songstress who has been compared to Lucinda Williams and June Carter…." - The Boston Globe
"Her voice is powerful and full of emotion…" - Metronome Magazine
“…incorporates elements of blues, rock, pop, funk, country, and everything in between." – The Boston Phoenix
“If Natalie Maines ever leaves the Dixie Chicks, Laura Vecchione should be her replacement." - High Bias
Track Descriptions for Girl in the Band
Track 1: “How We Choose to Hold” (3:45)
Hard-driving rocker with social justice message
Track 2: “Better Run” (3:44)
Up-tempo pop-rock with fun R+B background vocals
Track 3: “This Town”(4:37)
Medium Pop with hint of Cold Play sound; love song with Boston landscape
Track 4: “Indian Red” (3:20)
A cappella New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian sacred song
Track 5: “Fly Home Flag Boy” (4:33)
Up-tempo, piano driven, rhythmic anthem to New Orleans, big vocals
Track 6: “Don’t Come Creepin’”(3:42)
Roots driven narrative of a woman escaping slavery.
Track 7: “ Magnolia” (3:58)
Powerhouse country-rock with big chorus
Track 8: “A Lover Is Forever” (3:40)
Bluesy, soulful, intimate ballad; Steve Goodman cover song
Track 9: “Girl in the Band” (5:45)
Coming-of-age song, catchy and sing-able medium pop-rock.
Track 10: “Stone by Stone” (4:13)
Sparse, intimate, acoustic ballad
Thanks for stopping by! For more information on Laura Vecchione, please visit her official website.


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BRIDGEPORT — A trio of improvement projects for North Central West Virginia Airport were approved by members of the Benedum Airport Authority during their meeting Wednesday.
The projects, which come with a total price tag of more than $92,000, are to provide a temporary HVAC unit for the terminal building, construct a helicopter landing pad and pay for brush-clearing and tree removal on the airport’s property.
Constructing the 20-foot by 20-foot helicopter pad will cost approximately $16,000, according to airport Deputy Director Shawn Long.
While the pad will be utilized by Chesapeake Bay Helicopters, which began operating a satellite base out of the airport in February, Airport Director Rick Rock said he views its construction as an investment into the airport’s future. It’s one that will hopefully make the airport more attractive to perspective tenants, Rock added.
Renting a portable HVAC unit to cool the terminal building this summer will cost $36,500 for a two-month rental, Rock said.
The airport’s main HVAC unit needs to be fully replaced, which will likely cost more than $80,000, but the airport’s administrators are still in the process of soliciting bids from contractors, Rock said.
The rental unit will be installed on the terminal building’s roof and will provide a temporary source of air conditioning while a more permanent solution is sought, Long said.
Funds for clearing brush and removing trees on the airport’s 665-acre property were approved for up to $40,000.
Rock said brush clearing typically happens in the fall, but didn’t take place in 2018 and now the airport’s property is in desperate need of a trim.
Benedum Airport Authority President Ron Watson said investment in the three projects is a necessary expense that will help ensure the airport remains healthy and vital.
“This airport is growing by leaps and bounds, and if we don’t manage it correctly, then shame on us,” he said.
Also during Wednesday’s meeting:
— Rock announced the airport property’s newest tenant, Skydive Mountaineer.
The commercial skydiving company, which will occupy a space on the eastern portion of the airport’s property, is expected to begin operating June 1, Rock said.
“We hope that it’s going to be very well-received and will be something that will bring people from across the region in to take part in that and learn more about aviation and aerospace,” he said.
The company is expected to offer both skydiving lessons and tandem jumps, where members of the public can jump while tethered to an experienced instructor.
— Long said a pair of construction projects on the airport’s property are nearly complete.
The first project, a passenger overflow waiting area, is in the final phases, Long said.
“We’re just down to doing a final punch list,” he said. “We already got occupancy (permits) on a temporary basis from the fire marshal and that should be finished any day and then we’ll be good to go.”
The space will add an additional 75 to 100 seats for passengers, bringing the airport’s total passenger capacity to around 250.
The second project to expand the airport’s baggage handling area to incorporate a new baggage scanner should be completed by the end of the month, Long said.
— Airport Authority members discussed moving future meetings from 3 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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The Town Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has announced works are beginning to equip the largest urban recreation area in the municipality, Parque Sur, with a CCTV video surveillance network of nearly 40 cameras.
The leisure area, covering an area of approximately 90,000 m2, registers an average 8,000 visitors every weekend, but the park furniture and play area games and service equipment are being subjected to various and costly acts of vandalism especially at night.
This closed circuit television (CCTV) system, connected directly to an alarm at the Policia Local Station via fibre optic, digitally records and stores audio and images both day and night.
It appears Parque Sur will become one of the first public spaces to be completely covered by cameras, recording all activity day and night. Still something unusual in Spain.
The Town Council is also taking advantage of this work to provide the park with a free WIFI service.
Not long ago the Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana also installed two new, and long overdue, automated and completely equipped public bathrooms, constructed entirely from metal to avoid the vandalism that had originally forced the closure of public toilet amenities in the park.


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The only thing closer than last night’s vote, ending at 2:33pmET, is no finish at all (2000 anyone?) With just 8 votes, Mitt Romney took first place in the Iowa Caucuses over Rick Santorum. The candidates are making the news rounds this morning after what was a late night for all and an early start for some, including CNN’s 3-day old “Early Start.”
At 3amET, CNN’s studio of stars was still going. “We are still on the air, long after we thought we wouldn’t be,” said Anderson Cooper, calling it “the special CNN after dark edition.” On Fox News, Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly stayed on until 3amET, with Baier signing off: “My flight back to Washington is in 6 hours.” On MSNBC Chris Hayes began anchoring coverage at 1amET and continued until 3amET.
Signing off at 2:39amET, FBN’s Neil Cavuto couldn’t help tweak his competitors on CNBC. “A certain rival network was and is in taped programming much of the night,” said Cavuto. “A historic battle in the republican party just got started and the so-called financial network of record is in reruns. We aren’t stopping, we are here around the clock.”
The earlier of CNN’s two new morning shows, “Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin” went on an hour early at 4amET after Cooper and company turned in. “I’m kind of looking for Serve Pro,” joked Banfield, looking around the Atlanta studio. “The election center just cleared out.”
“These are the folks who get up in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping to bring you this show and they do it with a lot of enthusiasm and love and energy,” said Feyerick, as the director took shots of the studio as well as the control room.
“American Morning” launched on September 12, 2001, with original host Paula Zahn anchoring five months earlier than planned due to the 9/11 attack the day before. It has been without a permanent anchor team since John Roberts and Kiran Chetry departed at different points, earlier this year.
CNN will be launching its new 4-hour morning show Monday, the day before the Iowa Caucuses. Soledad O’Brien will anchor the 7-9am hours from Des Moines Monday and Tuesday with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin anchoring the 5-7am hours from New York.
Last month, O’Brien told TVNewser her expectation of the program: “We want to do a really strong, smart show that people are proud of. The kind of show that gets people to say: ’I can’t wait to watch it tomorrow.’”
CNN says it will announce over Twitter the names of the new shows, soon.
> Update: At 12:09pm, CNN announced O’Brien’s 7-9am show will be called Starting Point (@startingptCNN). And at 12:19, CNN announced the 5-7am show with Banfield and Sambolin will be called Early Start (@EarlyStartCNN)
Former “Today” show supervising producer Javier Morgado is joining CNN’s new 4-hour morning show as Senior Broadcast Producer. Morgado, most recently a VP of business development at Latina magazine, spent more than 10 years at NBC News, at Miami’s WTVJ, NBC News in New York and lastly at “Today.” The new as-yet unnamed CNN morning show, which will be broken into 2 two-hour programs, will launch next month. Soledad O’Brien will anchor the 7-9am block while Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin will anchor the 5-7am block. Morgado starts with CNN Monday and will report to show EP Shannon High.
Soledad O’Brien Returns to the AM at CNN; Ashleigh Banfield, Zoraida Sambolin Join Revamped Mornings
It’s been discussed for several weeks, and now CNN has made it official: Soledad O’Brien will return to anchoring two hours of CNN’s new revamped morning show, leading a team of contributors and guests from 7-9amET. CNN EVP Ken Jautz promises the shows will “complement our direction in primetime.”
Ashleigh Banfield, the former MSNBC, CourtTV and ABC News correspondent and anchor will join CNN to co-anchor the 5-7amET hours alongside another new CNN hire, Zoraida Sambolin who leaves her morning show co-anchor gig at WMAQ (NBC) in Chicago.
Despite the weeks of speculation, insiders tell us O’Brien only sealed her new deal Tuesday. And just yesterday, Shannon High — recruited from NBC to be the EP of the four-hour morning block — signed her deal with CNN. The shows will launch in January.
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TVNewser has learned Shannon High is leaving NBC’s Peacock Productions to join CNN where she will oversee the new four-hour morning show. An announcement on the hire, and the new show, could come as early as tomorrow.
High joined MSNBC in 2007 as VP of daytime programs. Two years later she moved to Dylan Ratigan‘s program which was about to launch. Last summer she moved to NBC’s production company, Peacock Productions.
As we’ve reported, the new CNN morning show includes a return to mornings for Soledad O’Brien, who will anchor the 7-9amET show and a return to Turner Broadcasting for Ashleigh Banfield who will co-anchor the 5-7am hours along with Zoraida Sambolin, who’s joining from WMAQ in Chicago. The new show will launch in the New Year.
What we first reported in September, is about to happen at CNN. Soledad O’Brien who has been CNN’s lead documentary correspondent, will return to anchoring mornings. O’Brien anchored “American Morning” from 2003 to 2007.
The morning shuffle, which could be announced this week, will come nearly a year after the last permanent anchor team split. John Roberts moved to Atlanta and Fox News in January. Kiran Chetry left CNN in July.
CNN is expected to break up the mornings into two two-hour shows: 5-7amET and 7am-9amET, both produced from New York. O’Brien is expected to lead the 7am while Ashleigh Banfield, who anchored on MSNBC, CourtTV and most recently has been working for ABC News, is expected to co-anchor the 5am, likely alongside Zoraida Sambolin who, according to TimeOut Chicago is joining CNN from NBC station WMAQ.
The new shows are not expected to hit the airwaves until after the New Year. O’Brien is finishing up a new “Black in America” series for November and, as she told us last month, she plans to take a few weeks off after what’s been a busy 2011. Banfield’s contract with ABC runs through the end of the year.
TVNewser has learned the current iteration of CNN’s “American Morning” may be in its final months of production and will likely be replaced by two new shows, one airing from 5am-7amET and another from 7am-9amET.
We’re hearing Ashleigh Banfield, who has been working freelance for ABC News for nearly two years, may be tapped to anchor the earlier hours, while former “American Morning” co-anchor Soledad O’Brien, is being mentioned as anchor of the second two hours.
Banfield, the former MSNBC and Court TV anchor, is under contract to ABC News until the end of the year. O’Brien has been spending the last several years working on documentaries for the “In America” unit. No comment from CNN.
“American Morning” — once a solid #2 behind “Fox & Friends” — has fallen behind in the ratings. In August, “American Morning” finished behind MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for the fifth straight month, with the politics-heavy MSNBC show up +21% year-over-year.
As has happened in the past when shows are canceled, the staff of AM will have to re-apply for jobs after Executive Producers of the new shows are named.
Part 1 of 2: In the pre-dawn hours this week and last, hundreds of people have gotten in line at the Orange County Courthouse, hoping to get one of 50 front-row seats to the trial of Casey Anthony. Millions more at home have been glued to their TV sets watching gavel-to-gavel coverage of the trial of a mother accused of killing her daughter, three years after the crime.
It’s the kind of court TV that hasn’t been seen since the days of, well, CourtTV.
“Short of O.J. Simpson, I have not come across a case with the level of mystery, intrigue and outrage that Ms. Anthony’s story offers,” says Ashleigh Banfield, a veteran of CourtTV and NBC News, who is covering the trial for ABC News.
NBC’s Miami-based correspondent Kerry Sanders has been covering this story since day one, reporting on Caylee Anthony‘s disappearance for the “Today” show from her bedroom in June 2008. “In 30-years, I’ve covered my share of trials from ‘the outlaws’ motor cycle gang, to political corruption, to pedophile murderers. This is by far the story with the most viewer attention ever,” Sanders tells TVNewser.
While gavel-to-gavel coverage has been a staple on TruTV’s “In Session” and on HLN, Orlando stations have also been carrying live trial coverage, pre-empting soap operas and talk shows.
Bob Jordan, news director of ABC affiliate WFTV, tells TVNewser more people watched the trial on his station as well as on Fox O&O WOFL and cable station CFN13 combined, than watched the Miami Heat – Dallas Mavericks NBA playoff game in prime time last night.
WFTV’s afternoon trial coverage is attracting more viewers than ABC’s soap operas and has “greatly exceeded” re-runs of “The Oprah Winfrey” show at 4pm, Jordan says.
And the interest goes beyond TV.

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Phluid is all about supporting our community. Our theme this year for pride is amplifying the unity in community. For our photoshoot, we focused on the LGBTQ+ community in Norfolk VA and they showed up! The Phluid Phoundation also donated critical funds to TAP (transgender assistance program of Virginia) and Hampton Roads Pride.
We’re so honored and grateful for the warm Southern welcome we received from the Hampton Roads commUNITY. Taking request for our next photo shoot. Maybe it will be your commUNITY. Happy Pride 23!

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I am 19 years old and i've already lost a ton of weight. I am 5'5" and currently weigh 135 lbs. The problem i am having is that no matter what all my life i've had large thighs, hips, and butt, which have all been hereditary from family regardless how much i work out, plus i come from a family that is obsessed on eating healthy. I have been seriously considering liposuction in order to shape the areas but my mom thinks i'm too young, i want a professional opinion to see if its worth it.
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He acquired from them an intellectual vision of the fall and rise of the soul of man, a vision he found confirmed in the reading of the Bible proposed by Ambrose.
They are instead promised a heavenly revenge against their enemies. Yet, he also knew the danger of civil chaos in an age of Roman decline.
Initially, most Christian favored burial of the dead body but today both cremation and burial are practiced by Christians.
This knowledge was made known to the angels in the six ordering steps: Processes beyond immediate human understanding such as certain political judgments that are to be obeyed as part of a vaguely sensed and dimly viewed mosaic of divine action.
Many who knew him would have seen instead either progress or outright tergiversation, depending on their point of view. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men Given his strong commitment to literal interpretation, it is fascinating to recognize that the outcome bears absolutely no resemblance to modern literal interpretations.
After Augustine, Christians would, with a few no- table exceptions, only begin to seriously question the right of the state to employ the death penalty in the wake of the Second World War. Capital Punishment, Upon the death of a Muslim person, the body of the deceased is washed and covered in a clean white cloth and preparation for burial takes place as soon as possible.
The principles espoused by Augustine thus can remain in force, but the balance of judgment and mercy can be weighed differently. Others like Francis Campognoni have focused on the post-Constantine Church and But since they were growing in the fields in which man was now laboring in punishment for his sin, it is reasonable to suppose that they became one of the means of punishing him.
Judgment, within some limits, is a vigorous part of religious discipline. University of Missouri Press, It was there, where St. John Hopkins Press,— Moreover, the only difference between one dying man and another is how they are going to prepare for this terrible end. Those who seek to find in it the memoirs of a great sinner are invariably disappointed, indeed often puzzled at the minutiae of failure that preoccupy the author.
The conclusion for many evangelicals is that these traditional ideas are the plain teaching of Scripture, and that attempts to avoid these plain teachings arose because of an unholy desire to accommodate biblical teaching to the dictates of an anti-Christian modern science.
Les Editions du Cerf,chap. De gratia Christi et de peccato originali ; On the Grace of Christ and on Original Sin is a more methodical exposition. The initial reluctance of Augustine to advocate more than persuasion against the Donatists is modified into increasingly harsh judgments by practical consider- ations of their intransigence and violence, by theological evolutions regarding free will, and by the increasingly intertwined connections between the imperial authorities and the Church.
Hence, the question is whether the trial represents a paradigm for suspicion about state purposes or a unique set of events with divine sources and implications that provide no guidance for discipline in the human realm.
This controversy highlights many of the themes that emerged in his view of capital punishment. In exploring the early development of the fundamental rationales for allowing such forms of criminal punishment, we can more sensibly parse the sources of current disagreements and consider future possibilities.
There is very little in the work that is false or inaccurate, but the shaping and presentation make it a work of propaganda. With the ascension of Christian emperors in the fourth and fifth centuries, they became the beneficiaries of civil authority.
Biblical Precedents The issue of human killing reflects a very ancient problem in controlling the violence that is inherent in our species from its earliest origins. Not only did Jesus Christ die but he also ascended into heaven Acts 1: If they were all we had of Augustine, he would remain a well-respected, albeit minor, figure in late Latin literature.
The goal of the book was ultimately self-justification and self-creation. Doctor gratiae Hippo Regiuswhere Augustine was the bishopwas in modern-day AnnabaAlgerialocated in Numidia. Indeed, capital punishment is suggested for the numerous offenses in the Old Testament.
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It is a realm that is cold and breathless. A place where one can no longer be with their family. At the time of his death, he was at work on a vast and shapeless attack on the last and most urbane of his opponents, A contrary view of St.
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The "Woman" of Augustine of Hippo. of a lower middle-class family. His father, Patrick, converted to Christianity only shortly before his death, but Monica, Augustine's mother was a devout believer and had a profound they who look together where it is they walk." This might indicate that Augustine held more than a simply utilitarian.
Augustine concludes this section with an invocation of praise to Christ, who was human but conquered death, whose love is unfailing, and who is the only true source of rest and peace. Glossary Orestes and Pylades characters from Greek literature, famous for their devoted friendship.A look at augustines views on death

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BICHOLIM: The worse nightmare of the flood of Sal villagers came haunting even this year with several houses getting submerged underwater as Tillari dam water was released at night.
It may be recalled that last year following the release of Tillari water, the entire village of Sal and its surrounding areas were partly submerged. Several houses were submerged. Massive loss of property was reported, and even some cattle were carried away in floods.
Even this year, the villagers had sighted this danger, and the authorities had kept a boat stationed in the village. Today, because of heavy rainfall in the Ghar reason, the Tillari water was released at night, resulting in Sal’s floods.
“Tillari water is the main cause of flooding today. Besides this, there was high tide, and water entered the houses in low-lying areas.” Deelip Desai from Sal told.
Water entered Shops and the Bhumika temple at night. Water entered several houses, and their contact with other villagers was broken. Till afternoon water did not receive, and there was no way to know the wellbeing of these villagers.
“The electricity current in the village has gone as the transformer that supplies light to the village is underwater. We don’t know when it will be resumed. We had demanded to shift the transformer, but the department did nothing,” Desai said.
Amit Parab, a shopkeeper, is the person whose shop got submerged in water and electronic equipment like the refrigerator got damaged.
“Since last two years, we are reeling under the threat of floods, and two years back, my entire shop was submerged underwater. I had requested compensation, but I did not get anything.” Parab claimed that every year he suffers losses, but the government is turning Nelson’s eye.
He feels that the government should take appropriate measures to control floods. In the morning, the local MLA and the speaker, Rajesh Patnekar, visited the site and took stock of the situation.
Due to continuous and heavy rainfall, River Mhadei has been overflowing and the rainwater has entered different parts of Valpoi.
“We have been awake the whole night getting in touch with our people, workers & supporters. Necessary directions have been issued to the collectors to have the Disaster Management team stationed at Sattari & Usgao, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said.
Locals essential has entered their houses, causing a lot of damage.
“It is very important for us to ensure our people’s safety. With the intervention of the Disaster Management Team, they will be shifted to safer locations. I have requested the concerned officials from the department of WRD, Fire Dept, PWD, Deputy Collector & Mamlatdar to monitor the situation closely,” Rane said.


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Congratulations to Brook Dobbin on a stella performance Saturday night taking out 1st, 2nd and 4th in the Lighting Maintenance Grand Prix! Brook has a fabulous team of horses the moment and has been enjoying plenty of well earn’t success recently. Placings in the Grand Prix were as follows: 1st Advisor – Brook Dobbin 2nd […]Read More Victorian Showjumping Stables Indoor Championships 2013
Here are some photos of the ponies from Shipwreck Coast – Photo Credit: Derek O’learyRead More Shipwreck Coast 2013 Photo Gallery
These three bits are my favourite schooling bits at the moment. Either of these seem to suit all of the horses we have in work at the moment. If anyone would be interested to try either of these bits or any in the Bombers range please feel free to approach me at the shows and […]Read More Bits for Schooling
Can’t get enough of these cute little boys and girls… Some exciting ponies for the future! Here are some nice pics of the newest and youngest members of the Barton Equine team just hanging out at the young horse farm.Read More Foal Gallery
The Shipwreck Coast Showjumping Championships is a wonderful event run by the Warrnambool Racing Club. The event is held annually and is run in conjuction with the Koroit Cup meeting on Sunday. The showjumping is held on the public lawn which is 100-plus year old Kikuyu, making it a brilliant surface to jump on. Course […]Read More Shipwreck Coast Showjumping Championships 2013
ESP once again put on a fantastic event at SIEC for the 2012 Summer Classic. We could not have asked for better weather throughout the weekend. Scottie Barclay and his girlfriend Claire Groome joined us on a trip with Tulara Balouf and Dan Leech’s unorthodox but talented “Blue’s My Name”. Bluey impressed us all by […]Read More Summer Classic 2012
Over recent years Sale World Cup organizers have battled with high rain fall which has made competition conditions on Saturday and Sunday of the show adverse to say the least. Thankfully for all of the hard working members and competitors alike, the weather gods were on their side this year, with three days of perfect […]Read More Sale World Cup Report
Thank you to the organisers of Sale World Cup Show for running another great event. For once the weather was on everyone’s side!! Congratulations to the following riders for wins through out the weekend: Alison Rowland and Bickley Brook Bella for a great win in the World Cup Qualifier, Tom McDermott for 2nd on Rolex and Matt Afford […]Read More Sale World Cup Show
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Fort Bend County Health & Human Services reports 3 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in Fort Bend County residents. The specimens were tested at the City of Houston Laboratory and will be sent to the CDC laboratory for further confirmation.
The three new cases are:
- A man in his 40s, with a history of international travel and exposure to confirmed COVID-19 cases abroad. He experienced moderate flu like symptoms, which have resolved. He is in isolation at home.
- A woman in her 50s, with a history of international travel. She experienced mild symptoms which have resolved. She is in isolation home.
- A man in his 70s with history of international travel. He was hospitalized and discharged in good condition. He is recovering in isolation at home.
These presumptive cases are actionable and we are treating them as a positive. Fort Bend County Health & Human Services will expand the epidemiological investigation and will continue to lead the effort to quickly identify close contacts with these individuals. Close contacts may include family members, co-workers, emergency responders, and other contacts.
CDC has confirmed 2 of our previous cases. The presumptive cases that are now confirmed by the CDC are a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s.
People who recently returned to the United States from a COVID-19 outbreak area need to monitor fever, cough, and difficulty breathing for at least 14 days after return. Seek medical care right away if symptoms develop. Before, visiting their healthcare provider or hospital, symptomatic people with a travel history to a COVID-19 outbreak area must call ahead and tell the healthcare professional about their recent travel and symptoms.
If a person has not been around anyone with COVID-19 or has not visited an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak area, they are not at risk.
The public can help:
- Do not go to the emergency room unless essential.Emergency rooms need to be able to serve those with the most critical needs. If you have symptoms like cough, fever, or other respiratory problems, contact your regular doctor first.
- If you are in good health and have mild illness, stay home, and take care of yourself like you would for the flu.
If symptoms worsen, call your doctor. Your doctor will help make the decision whether you should get tested for COVID-19
- Practice healthy hygiene habits every day to help prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, such as:
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
- Stay home when you are sick.
- Cover your coughs and sneezes. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not your hands. Remember to wash your hands after coughing or sneezing.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe
- Stay informed. Information is changing frequently. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@FortBendHealth) and check our website for regular updates (fbchealth.org/ncov)
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
GRAD STUDENT EARNS TOP PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FELLOWSHIP
MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State University graduate student has been named the recipient of a prestigious fellowship for his interest in international public administration.
Dmytro Panchuk, graduate student in public administration, Ukraine, will receive the David Gould Scholarship at the 2011 American Society for Public Administration conference in Baltimore, March 11-15. Panchuk is one of four students nationwide to receive the fellowship, which includes a travel stipend to attend the conference.
Krishna Tummala, director of the master's program in public administration, nominated Panchuk for the honor.
"This fellowship recognizes and encourages students whose interests are in the area of international and comparative public administration," Tummala said. "Mr. Panchuk, who is a Muskie Fellow, is the right student in the program in that he is learning the administrative processes of not only the United States but other countries as well, and wishes to take back that knowledge to his homeland, Ukraine."
Panchuk plans to graduate in May and to pursue a doctorate in political science/public administration.
The David Gould Scholarship Program honors David Gould, a longtime professor of public administration at the University of Pittsburgh and member of the Section on International and Comparative Administration. Gould was killed in the bombing of Pan AM Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988.


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A recent report has noted that crime rates among youth have not jumped when juveniles have been removed from detention facilities. The report gleaned data from the last 40 years and found that incarcerating juveniles is ineffective and costly.
States across the country pay a yearly average of $88,000 for each juvenile offender incarcerated. One report found that nearly 60,000 youths are jailed nationwide. The same report showed that there was not a measurable increase in youth crime when states lowered correctional populations or even closed correctional facilities.
Alternatives to juvenile detention and correctional facilities can include, out-of-home placement in a camp-like setting, victim-offender mediation, family counseling, and others. Some benefits of reducing youth incarceration include, improved public safety, reduction of racial disparities and bias, and lower expenses to taxpayers.
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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on November 18, 2015.
KUALA LUMPUR: Red Sena Bhd, en route to a listing on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia on Dec 10, believes now is the right time for an initial public offering (IPO) as it offers the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) an opportunity to find a suitable target for acquisition in the food and beverage (F&B) sector.
“The investment climate is not good, but this would be a good time for some F&B owners out there who may be willing to talk about selling part or all of their shares in their assets to us,” Red Sena chief executive officer Joseph Tan Eng Guan said in an interview last week.
“We offer a unique landscape for investors to participate [in the F&B sector]. Institutional investors that we talked to like our business model.
“They think the timing [of our IPO] is not bad. Some even think of purchasing more shares,” he added.
Of the total 800 million shares in the upcoming IPO, representing an 80% stake in the SPAC, Tan said one-third has been subscribed by cornerstone investors, namely Fortress Capital Asset Management (M) Sdn Bhd, Affin Hwang Asset Management Bhd, UOB Asset Management Bhd and Maybank Asset Management Sdn Bhd.
The IPO, priced at 50 sen per share with one free warrant for each share subscribed, also includes a private placement of 720 million shares.
Red Sena plans to raise RM400 million from its IPO. Out of this amount, RM368 million or 92% of the total will be placed in a cash trust account (CTA) to acquire operating companies or assets in the branded packaged F&B business.
“The remaining 8% or RM32 million will be used to defray listing expenses and for working capital,” said Tan, adding that Red Sena’s remuneration for promoters is not going to be derived from these proceeds.
“Our remuneration will only come from the capital we injected into Red Sena, which is about RM10 million for a 20% stake in the company,” Tan said.
After the IPO, Red Sena has to utilise at least 80% or RM294.4 million of the proceeds raised for its qualifying acquisition (QA); it is eyeing operating companies or assets in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore.
“We have to acquire a controlling stake of at least 51% in the QA,” said Tan, who is the former chief financial officer of F&B giant Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd.
Upon completion of a QA, Red Sena’s management is subject to a 36-month moratorium and an accumulated audited net profit of at least RM107 million.
Suppose that Red Sena is unable to make a QA within three years, Tan said the RM368 million placed in the CTA will be distributed to shareholders.
“The net income from the trust account would be derived from permitted investment under the listing requirements, such as bank deposits, government or triple-A bond,” he said.
Nevertheless, Tan is positive on making a QA as there are many deals happening in the F&B industry lately, such as shareholding changes in Etika Dairies Sdn Bhd due to the acquisition of Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings Ltd, as well as the acquisition offer from Indonesia’s Salim Group to Cocoaland Holdings Bhd.
Red Sena will launch its prospectus for its IPO today.

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The Monteverdi Master Chorale has announced its spring fundraiser.
The Cabaret “A Tribute to Broadway” will premiere as a virtual event at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 16. The ticketed event comes with the option to purchase a take-home meal from Mikey’s Bar & Grill.
Livestream tickets are $15 and take-home meal tickets, which include a live-stream link, will be $40. Ticket holders will receive a link to the performance 24 hours prior to the event.
Cabaret’s Silent Auction will also take a virtual format; this will go live on May 1st, 2021, and stay open until May 16th. Tickets and Silent Auction information are available at monteverdichorale.org.
Cabaret, under the direction of Artistic Director Cody Miller, will feature solo and group acts performing various Broadway-themed numbers, and a large group arrangement of “From Now On” from The Greatest Showman (dir. Michael Gracey).
Cabaret will be pre-recorded at John and Patty Noel’s Car Barn on River Bend Rd. in Plover, and live-streamed on YouTube.
For more information on all upcoming events or to make a donation to the organization, go to www.MonteverdiChorale.org or like the group on Facebook.

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You do not have to live along a river to need flood insurance. Some properties are vulnerable to flooding due to poor drainage systems, rapid accumulation of rainfall, even construction run-off. Our environment is constantly changing and often these changes result in unexpected flooding.
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Let's keep track of the day's minor league signings right here…
- The Red Sox have re-signed Rich Hill to a minor league deal with an invite to Spring Training, reports John Tomase of The Boston Herald (on Twitter). The 31-year-old left-hander struck out a dozen in eight scoreless innings with the Sox last year before blowing out his elbow. He's currently rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
Today's American League non-tenders are below, but you can keep track of all teams in our non-tender tracker.
- The Mariners announced that they non-tendered Dan Cortes and Chris Gimenez.
- The Orioles announced that they non-tendered Willie Eyre, the right-handed reliever who was designated for assignment last week. They non-tendered Jo-Jo Reyes, according to Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun (Twitter link). The Orioles also non-tendered Luke Scott, tweets Connolly. Scott, who battled a shoulder injury in 2011 and underwent surgery this summer, projected to earn $6MM through arbitration.
- The Rays non-tendered Andy Sonnanstine, according to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times (Twitter link).
- The Rangers non-tendered right-hander Fabio Castillo, according to Anthony Andro of FOXSportsSouthwest.com (Twitter link).
- The Red Sox announced that they non-tendered Rich Hill.
- The Royals announced that they will non-tender left-hander Aaron Laffey.
- The Twins announced that they've non-tendered left-hander Jose Mijares (Twitter link).
- The Tigers non-tendered second baseman Will Rhymes, announced the team. Rhymes is not yet close to being arbitration eligible, as he has less than one year of big league service time. Rhymes, 28, hit .306/.377/.390 at Triple-A this year.
Some links from the AL East…
- The Blue Jays have sent the Cardinals cash considerations rather than players to be named later to complete this summer's Colby Rasmus trade, reports MLB.com Gregor Chisholm (Twitter links). St. Louis was supposed to received three players to be named later in the deal.
- Chisholm also reports that the Blue Jays intend to go with five outfielders next year, so it's unclear what that means for Mark Teahen or the recently acquired Ben Francisco (Twitter links). There will be lots of competition in Spring Training.
- Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos told Chisholm that his priority is to upgrade the bullpen and starting rotation, but there's no guarantee that he'll be able to do so this offseason (Twitter link).
- The Orioles non-tendered Luke Scott earlier today, but GM Dan Duquette told MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli that they'd like "to leave the door open" for him to return to Baltimore (Twitter link).
- The Red Sox have some interest in Kelly Shoppach, reports Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe (on Twitter). Shoppach started his career in Boston.
- Left-hander Rich Hill is a non-tender candidate, but he told WEEI.com's Alex Speier that he hopes the Red Sox will retain him for next year. Hill is currently rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
- CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman says (on Twitter) that the Red Sox still have their eye on Ryan Madson since Daniel Bard will be preparing to work as a starter next year.
- Roger Mooney of The Tampa Tribute writes that the Rays bank on potential when handing out long-term contracts to young players, like the one just signed by left-hander Matt Moore.
Two years ago today, the Indians traded third baseman Mark DeRosa to the Cardinals for Chris Perez, with Jess Todd also going to Cleveland as the player to be named later. DeRosa injured his wrist shortly after the trade and struggled in his time with the Cards, but they received a consolation prize in righty Seth Blair, chosen in the 2010 draft as compensation when DeRosa signed with the Giants. Perez has racked up 42 saves as the Indians' closer. Todd was designated for assignment in April of this year, claimed by the Yankees, designated again in May, claimed by the Cardinals, and recently outrighted to Triple-A. On to today's links…
- Rangers reliever Darren O'Day may return this week from the 60-day DL, meaning the team will need to open up a 40-man roster spot.
- The Red Sox announced they activated righty Junichi Tazawa from the 60-day DL and optioned him to Double-A; lefty Rich Hill was placed on the 60-day DL to keep the 40-man roster at 40.
- Pirates lefty Paul Maholm reiterated to Karen Price of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he'd like to stay in Pittsburgh, but he's not going to beg or initiate extension talks. In general terms, GM Neal Huntington expressed a strong preference for avoiding in-season negotiations. He has a $9.75MM option on Maholm for 2012. For more on the Maholm situation, click here.
- Athletics reliever Vinnie Chulk can opt out of his contract Friday, notes SI's Jon Heyman (Twitter link). The 32-year-old righty has a 2.75 ERA, 6.9 K/9, 3.0 BB/9, and 0.2 HR/9 in 39 1/3 Triple-A innings this year.
- Heyman talked to agents and executives, asking them to predict contracts for Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, and Jose Reyes. Everyone sees Pujols getting at least $27.5MM and at least six years. I have to wonder if he'd prefer a one-year deal if his return is less than stellar. Meanwhile, most of the participants saw Fielder getting $24-25MM a year and at least five years.
- The Cardinals could try to acquire two relievers rather than go after a big fish like Heath Bell, writes Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.
The Royals announced that former pitcher and broadcaster Paul Splittorff died from complications from melanoma this morning at the age of 64. Splittorff is the all-time winningest pitcher in franchise history and we pass along our condolences to his friends and family. Here are links for Wednesday night…
- Red Sox lefty Rich Hill tells Alex Speier of WEEI.com that it’s especially thrilling to be succeeding in Boston, since he grew up in nearby Milton and cheered for the Red Sox growing up. Hill has yet to allow an earned run in 7 innings this year and he has a 10K/2BB ratio.
- Dan Uggla told Carroll Rogers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he feels some pressure associated with his new multiyear extension. The 31-year-old has a .185/.256/.344 line with seven homers since signing a $62MM deal with the Braves this offseason.
- The Rockies are not looking to make trades right now, according to Troy Renck of the Denver Post (on Twitter).
In his Sunday column, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes that scouting and development people in baseball are extremely underpaid. While the Pirates, White Sox, Twins, Red Sox, and Yankees are known for taking good care of development people, other clubs are less-than-generous when it comes to salaries and benefits. Cafardo asked Athletics GM Billy Beane why development and scouting people don’t get paid well. Beane's response: “The good ones do.’’ Here are some of Cafardo's other Sunday notes:
- The Angels have a surplus of catchers and prospect Hank Conger is being groomed for the job. The Red Sox are looking for a veteran catcher they might be able to keep at Triple-A in case someone gets hurt. It's possible that Jeff Mathis or Bobby Wilson could be a fit for the BoSox.
- Scouts are watching Boston's bullpen situation closely because Dennys Reyes is becoming a hot commodity. It would be a tough call for the club as they also have Hideki Okajima signed through this season. The club has also received interest in Rich Hill.
- Infielder Drew Sutton seems to be destined for Boston's Pawtucket affiliate, but Cafardo wouldn't be surprised if the club gets some trade interest on the 27-year-old.
A year ago today, the Giants signed Mark DeRosa to a two-year, $12MM deal. Due to a wrist injury, DeRosa wasn't a factor in the team's World Championship. Today's links:
- The Chiba Lotte Marines announced the signing of Bob McCrory, writes NPB Tracker's Patrick Newman. McCrory, 29 in May, had labrum surgery in October of 2009, became a minor league free agent, failed a physical for the Red Sox, and ended up making 19 appearances for Baltimore's Double-A affiliate this year.
- Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun is surprised by the lack of a resolution in the Orioles' month-long pursuit of reliever Kevin Gregg. Zrebiec notes that the O's have "some interest" in Jon Rauch, and there are plenty of other available free agents as well.
- Free agent designated hitters lack leverage in contract negotiations, writes Dave Cameron of FanGraphs. We explored this situation yesterday in trying to find possible fits for Manny Ramirez.
- Red Sox lefty Rich Hill explains the origin of his signature curveball, talking to WEEI's Alex Speier.
- A reminder: in addition to our list of remaining available free agents, MLBTR has a free agent tracker that allows you to filter signed players by team, position, years, and amount.
On a busy day of moves around baseball, here are a few lower-profile transactions…
- The Rockies have acquired catcher Jose Morales from the Twins in exchange for minor league left-hander Paul Bargas, according to a Minnesota team release. Morales hit .297/.370/.354 in 181 plate appearances over parts of three seasons with the Twins, only seeing significant playing time while filling in for an injured Joe Mauer in April 2009. Bargas, taken in the 13th round of the 2009 amateur draft, posted a 3.59 ERA in 58 relief appearances for Colorado's Single-A Asheville affiliate last season.
- Ryan Harvey, picked sixth overall by the Cubs in the 2003 amateur draft, has signed a minor league deal with the Red Sox, reports Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports.com. Harvey is trying to convert to pitching after posting a career .749 OPS as an outfielder in eight minor league seasons in the Cubs and Rockies' systems.
- In addition to Harvey, Boston has also signed left-handers Rich Hill and Randy Williams to minor league deals, as per a team release. Hill signed a minor league contract with Boston last summer and made six relief appearances for the Red Sox after spending the previous five years as a starter with the Cubs and Orioles. Williams spent the last two seasons with the White Sox, where he posted a 5.06 ERA in 52 games out of the bullpen. The two southpaws received invitations to spring training.
- The Rangers have signed right-hander Yhency Brazoban to a minor league contract, according to the Associated Press. Brazoban made 116 appearances for the Dodgers between 2004 and 2008, and last year pitched in the Mexican League and for the Mets' Triple-A team.
- Texas also signed 16-year-old Dominican shortstop Alberto Triunfel to a contract worth $300K, reports Baseball America's Ben Badler. Trifunel, a Scott Boras client, was ranked eighth on Blake Bentley's list of top prospects heading into the opening of the international signing period.
Another eventful Winter Meetings has come to a close. Even with the pre-meetings action involving Adrian Gonzalez, Jayson Werth, and Shaun Marcum, we had plenty to talk about this week. Carl Crawford signed the biggest deal of the offseason so far. Paul Konerko stayed with the White Sox after some drama. Carlos Pena found a pillow contract with the Cubs. J.J. Putz assumed the Diamondbacks' closer role. The Orioles rebuilt the left side of their infield with Mark Reynolds and J.J. Hardy. The Pirates, Mariners, Padres, Royals, Rockies, Mets, and others made additions as well. On to today's links…
- Check out a couple of Rule 5 draft reviews from MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo and Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein. And of course, a pair of great links from John Manuel of Baseball America. We've got the picks from the Major League phase listed here.
- Newsday's Ken Davidoff has the financial breakdown on Derek Jeter's new contract.
- The Red Sox have already gotten inquiries on outfielder Mike Cameron, tweets ESPN's Jayson Stark. The team plans to keep him but is willing to listen. Cameron will have to take on a part-time role with Carl Crawford, Jacoby Ellsbury, and J.D. Drew filling Boston's outfield.
- The Red Sox are expected to reach an agreement to re-sign Rich Hill in the next few days, reports Dan Barbarisi of The Providence Journal. Hill, who grew up a Sox fan, hopes to crack the bullpen this year.
- The Tigers' talks with Carl Crawford didn't get far, GM Dave Dombrowski told MLB.com's Jason Beck. Dombrowski explained that a team can only have so many $20MM players, and the Tigers already have two.
- Orioles president Andy MacPhail hasn't ruled out Cesar Izturis returning, tweets MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli. Izturis is a tougher fit after the Orioles acquired Hardy and Brendan Harris.
Saturday evening linkage as the Phillies and Giants kick off the NLCS…
- Nationals third base coach Pat Listach confirmed to Tom Haudricourt of The Journal Sentinel that he will interview for the Brewers' managerial opening on Tuesday.
- Nick Piecoro lists some candidates for the Diamondbacks' scouting director job (Twitter links): Tim Huff (Rays), J.J. Lally (White Sox), Chuck Ricci (Indians), and Jeff Schugel (Angels). ESPN's Keith Law tweets that Huff would be an excellent hire, and says he's surprised that Ray Montgomery (Brewers) and Rick Wilson (Angels) aren't on the list (Twitter link).
- MLB.com's Sarah D. Morris doesn't think the Dodgers need an overhaul.
- Lefty Rich Hill has already had discussions with the Red Sox about returning in 2011, tweets Sean McAdam of CSNNE.com.
- McAdam (via Twitter) also expects to see Darnell McDonald back in Boston next season.
- If Tony La Russa comes back to the Cardinals, he should sign a multi-year deal, says Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. learned how to build a successful team by working under Ed Wade and Pat Gillick, writes Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.
- The San Francisco Chronicle's Gwen Knapp praises the Giants' homegrown talent.


Gast column: A rivalry as good as the big boys
Former Advocate sports editor Jim Robertson summed it up best when he wrote, “An ageless athlete with his ageless racket is the city’s 1959 tennis champion.”
I have yet to find a better tennis storyline, backyard or pro, that can top what took place that early August day 56 years ago.
Hardly the kind of plot that ran through Sunday’s Wimbledon men’s final when 28-year-old Novak Djokovic bested the “aging” tennis legend Roger Federer, who hardly appeared to be in decline at age 33.
Good story but not nearly to the level of when Virgil “Birdie” Starr and Tony Schmelzer squared off.
No sport better exemplifies one-on-one competition than singles tennis. It has a way of playing “king of the hill” when it comes to establishing its hierarchy. Sometimes that can also be the case at the local level and the Starr-Schmelzer rivalry certainly was Djokovic-Federer with a chain-link net, wooden rackets and chipped paint along the baseline.
At no time was that on better display than during that city tournament final. It was 56 years ago when a little city tournament sprouted a script that today’s big-time tennis media would drool over.
In short, 46-year-old man beats 30-year-old with a used racket he got 27 years earlier in a match that lasted well over three hours and needed 42 games to settle.
Just like Sunday’s title match in England, local tennis players weren’t surprised at the final pairing (Schmelzer had lost just four games in the previous two tournament matches and Starr lost just one set). They were just happy there was a tournament. There hadn’t been one for many years.
Unlike Wimbledon, the history of city tournament tennis was pot-marked with periods of disinterest but a recent upswing convinced the city’s recreation department to resurrect the event. It had been so long between tournaments that officials called it the first annual.
At least Starr was familiar with previous city tournaments, having won consecutive titles between 1932-1934. He used the same racket from that title run, the one he received as a hand-me-down from his brother-in-law.
As Jim wrote, “It was back in 1932 that Dick Barden, Birdie’s brother-in-law and one of his chief competitors for the tennis title back in the early thirties, gave him a racket which Barden felt was too old to be any further use to him. Starr found it fit him perfectly, but finally, after years of service, decided to replace it with a new one. But then he found he was losing consistently in his matches with Schmelzer and so he hauled the old racket out of the closet to be re-strung.”
Now that’s a story! One I may have referenced in earlier stories on Starr’s exploits but one that occasionally bears repeating.
If Federer seemed disappointed after the loss, questioning his ability to add to his impressive collection of major titles, he need only read about Starr.
But tennis is equally resilient. Its niche in the American sports scene is as lasting as memories of a John McEnroe tantrum. Parks still offer courts, and high schools, at least larger ones, still field teams. The sport’s major threat may be in the older generations who have traded in tennis racquets for pickleball paddles.
Still, sluggish tennis participation, at least in our area, is nothing new. What it lacks is a good rivalry — the kind that Starr and Schmelzer enjoyed a half-century ago.
Jon Gast writes a weekly sports column for the Advocate. He can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Officers assisted City Fire in investigating a suspected arson at the residence in the 800 block of Williams St. Damage to the front and rear exterior of the residence... Investigation continues.
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More than 100 vehicles and almost 300 keen tourists have already made use of the Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility between the Kruger National Park and Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, even though it only opened last week.
"This goes to show the true potential of the whole Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park initiative," commented KNP Executive Director Dr Bandile Mkhize "and that there certainly is a market willing to explore new areas of wilderness within the GLTP boundaries."
The Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility is open from 08:00 until 16:00 (October — March) and from 08:00 until 15:00 (April — September) and is only open for 4x4 vehicles as the roads within the Limpopo National Park are still being developed. It is also not open to commercial traffic as its role is to facilitate tourist movement within the GLTP. Therefore, no vehicles with an excess of a maximum of four tons axle load are allowed.
Visitors using the facility should allow enough time to reach their destinations whilst adhering to speed regulations within the KNP. Visitors who do not reach the Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility in time will be required to overnight at the closest camp as it is against KNP regulations to travel after normal gate closing times. It is approximately 95kms (at least two hours, 15 minutes travelling time) between Phalaborwa Entrance Gate and the Giriyondo Tourist Access Facility and approximately 75kms (at least two hours) between Giriyondo and Massingir.
Boats and trailers will be allowed "at the owners' risk" and the transport of firearms is not allowed except if the owner can provide the necessary export permits.
Access into the Limpopo National Park is R50 per vehicle plus R50 per adult and R25 per child (current exchange rate). Access to the KNP from Mozambique is the possession of a valid Wild Card or the payment of the SANParks standard Conservation Fee.
South Africans qualify for a special "tourism" visa (less than 30 days) that costs R12. However, guests must ensure that they have their valid passports, all the relevant registration documents for their vehicles and permission from the owner of the vehicle or the bank as per the requirement at other Mozambique/South Africa border posts.
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29 November 2017New ranger base for Limpopo National Park's 16th Anniversary
This week, Limpopo National Park (LNP) celebrated its 16th anniversary. Mozambique proclaimed the Park on 27 November 2001 and requested Peace Parks Foundation’s assistance in overseeing the park’read more
8 November 2017Unlocking the potential of Zinave National Park
Having been declared a protected area in 1972, only to then be ravaged by sixteen years of civil war from 1977-1992, the sun now rises over a different Zinave National Park in Mozambique. The implemenread more
25 August 2017Charles and Lumpy lead the way to Zinave
This week saw the first two of 54 elephants safely released in Zinave National Park, Mozambique. The two elephant bulls, Charles and Lumpy, were translocated from Dinokeng Game Reserve in Gauteng –read more
6 July 2017Lions poisoned for bone trade
[Maputo, 5 July 2017] On 3 July 2017 the tracks of three poachers were detected in the Intensive Protection Zone of Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. These were followed and it became clear that theread more
28 June 2017Dynamic alliance established to bolster rhino anti-poaching efforts
On the western boundary of Kruger National Park (KNP), private and community-owned game reserves - represented as the Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) - have joined forces wiread more
21 June 2017Rewilding Zinave National Park
This week saw the start of one of the largest wildlife translocation projects that Africa has ever seen, whereby 7 500 animals will find a new home in the 4 000 km² Zinave National Park in Mozambiqueread more
2 May 2017250 Bicycles Donated to Learners from Makuleke Community
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22 February 2017Expanding Great Limpopo!
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17 February 2017Supporting food security
To further food security and sustainable development, Peace Parks Foundation this month supported the distribution of corn and bean seed kits to resettled communities, thereby improving their agricultread more
15 November 2016Restocking national parks as part of transfrontier conservation development
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Locals gather at a railing, fishing in the brown water. One angler, a retired limo driver originally from Michoacán, Mexico, chomps a cigar beneath his handlebar mustache and surveys the scene. I ask him if he ever eats fish from the river, and he just laughs. He’s a regular here, he tells me, but returned to the spot only a few days ago after having stayed away for weeks.
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It’s been a troubled stretch of water for a long time. Made infamous in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, the south fork of the South Branch served as the gutter for the vast Union Stock Yards, at one time the world’s largest meat producer, where several hundred million head of livestock were processed in the century after the Civil War. As Sinclair vividly described it, the creek was so clogged with grease and offal that people would mistake it for solid ground and fall in. Sometimes the surface would catch fire. Bubbles of methane would periodically rise up from the depths and burst, giving it its nickname, Bubbly Creek.
A shout goes up at the rail as a second fisherman struggles with his bent-double rod. (“Might’ve got one!” he yells out to his friends, before adding the requisite punch line: “But it’s got three eyes!”) When he finally hauls his catch onto the bank, it is revealed to be not a fish at all, but rather a large (and angry) red-eared slider turtle. A group gathers around as he frantically tries to remove the hook without losing a finger to the turtle’s snapping beak. Eventually the hook is freed, and everyone steps back as the dripping creature scuttles to the edge and launches itself over, splashing down and vanishing beneath the murky water.
The turtle is a strange visitor in such a profoundly altered landscape, one where the natural world seems buried beneath a sedimentary burden of human detritus. But as unloved and forgotten as this little river junction appears, it has been as central to Chicago’s history as the skyscrapers piled up theatrically in the distance. It’s hard to ascribe majesty to such a dirty, ruin-crowded waterway, a rill so narrow it can be easily spanned by a well-thrown baseball. But it would be even harder to overstate this river’s importance to both the past and future of its city. Chicago—and America along with it—grew up around this river. A burgeoning nation’s commerce, sweeping migrations of humanity, colossal feats of engineering and architecture: all combined on either side of its banks to form the “stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders” that Carl Sandburg invoked in his great poem “Chicago.”
More than a century ago in this exact spot, human ingenuity shaped nature to its will, smashing through the earthen barrier that separated the Mississippi River drainage area from the vast freshwater reservoir of the Great Lakes, stitching together the commercial energies and distinct ecosystems of the North American continent. The consequences of that decision are still playing out today in a metropolis where more than seven million people draw their drinking water from Lake Michigan—and where those same people pump their sewage back into the river. Myriad threats, from water pollution to flooding and invasive species, have made the question of what to do about the Chicago River one of the most important questions facing the city. And simply by asking it, Chicagoans are acknowledging a basic existential struggle.


Looks like Prophet Passion Javas Prayers have saved the life of Prophet Shepard Bushiri who just survived being held at gunpoint. Prophet Passion had a prophecy of Bushiri dying but has been praying so that the prophecy would now come to pass. Prophet Passion prayed November and December to make the prophecy not to pass as he believed Prophet Bushiri was a great prophet and many people needed him.
The General Overseer of the Enlightened Christened Gathering(ECG) Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has disclosed that he has just survived an assassination attack on his life.
The prophet revealed that he intelligently drove out earlier today in an unfamiliar car as he had hints of the attack a day before. Bushiri added that he has been alerting the authorities of the many attacks and threats on his life but they seem not to be concerned about it.
He, therefore, blamed the authorities for not putting in any measure to protect his life. He shared the news on his official instagram page, giving details of the near assassination attack and added that he would make public video footage of what actually went on in due time.
He wrote, ‘Thank you all for your prayers. I have just survived an attempted assassination where we were held at a gunpoint. More details will follow – and if possible, video footage of how my car was surrounded by hitmen will be released. Praise be to God, I was in a small unfamiliar car as I was alerted yesterday of the upcoming danger. I watched the whole scene including the guns pointing at my driver. For some time now – as well as yesterday after receiving the alert – I have been alerting the authorities and high officials of the threats I’ve been receiving. However, as it has been for the past three years, their negligence leaves much to be desired. Pray for us, we are facing a lot of battles in this country but one day, the world will hear our story’.


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Cyberonics Inc. (CYBX) Reports Fiscal 2013 Third Quarter Results
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HOUSTON, Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyberonics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYBX) today announced results for the quarter ended January 25, 2013.
Operating results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2012 include:
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•Worldwide unit sales of 3,215, an increase of 14%;
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Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed that Manchester United has not improved after the departure of legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson from the club. Manchester United have not had a league title since Ferguson’s departure from the club and their record in European competitions has been below average with only one Europa League title in the post-Ferguson era.
Ronaldo returned to Manchester United last year and ended up as top scorer for the season with 24 goals in all competitions, but the Red Devils finished sixth in the Premier League points table and went on to have a trophyless season.
The club signed Erik ten Hag to manage the team and bring back the club’s glory days. Ten Hag has already started his operation but it seems Ronaldo is not a very big part of his plans. The 37-year-old hasn’t been at his best this season, and as a result the manager has benched him for several big matches.
Ronaldo criticized the club and said there are some things that prevent them from reaching the level of Manchester City and Liverpool.
“Since Sir Alex left, I haven’t seen any development in the club. Nothing has changed,” Ronaldo said in an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored TV.
“I want the best for the club. That’s why I came to Manchester United. But you have some things that don’t help us get to the top level like (Manchester) City, Liverpool and even now Arsenal… a club this far should be at the top of the tree in my opinion and they are not unfortunately .”
The 37-year-old said the appointment of Ralf Rangnick as caretaker manager last season was a surprising decision for him.
“For example we have an interesting point, how does a club like Manchester United then [they] Primary cyst [Gunnar Solskjaer]They buy – they bring in sporting director Ralf Rangnick, which nobody understands. This guy isn’t even a coach.
“A bigger club like Manchester United brings him [a] Sporting Director – surprised not only me but the whole world, you know.”
He further pointed out the things that have not changed in the club because he still sees a lot of things that were present in the club during his first period.
“Nothing has changed. Surprisingly. Not only the pool, the jacuzzi, even the gym… Even some points, the technology, the kitchen, the chefs and, I appreciate, lovely people.”
They stopped at a time that surprised me a lot. I thought I would see different things… different, like I mentioned before, technology and infrastructure. But, unfortunately, we see a lot of things that I used to see when I was 20, 21, 23 years old. So, that surprised me a lot.”
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