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Wozniacki ends Oudin US Open run

Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Date: 31 August - 13 September
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Caroline Wozniacki
Wozniacki is into the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time

Ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki brought an end to the amazing run of American teenager Melanie Oudin with victory in the quarter-finals of the US Open.

The Dane, 19, showed why she is ranked ninth in the world with a 6-2 6-2 win over the 17-year-old Oudin.

Wozniacki will next meet unseeded Belgian teenager Yanina Wickmayer in a first Grand Slam semi for both women.

Wickmayer beat Kateryna Bondarenko 7-5 6-4 in a scrappy encounter to win the first of Wednesday's quarter-finals.

Oudin, ranked 70, had become the story of the US Open as she beat Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova and Nadia Petrova on her way through to the last eight.

But after the day session had overrun, Oudin and Wozniacki began their match in a nearly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium as the night-session crowd filed in.

This has been a great experience for me, I've had a great run

Melanie Oudin

It was a low-key atmosphere compared to Oudin's previous matches and her performance fell flat in the face of some measured play from Wozniacki.

The Dane broke straight away as Oudin made numerous unforced errors and again to lead 5-1, before Oudin finally got going on her forehand side and cut the deficit.

A nervous game followed from both players but Wozniacki converted her third set point when Oudin sent a forehand long.

The American's chance to get back into the match came at 2-2 in the second set but a wayward backhand and forehand saw two break points go begging and Wozniacki reeled off four straight games to seal a place in the last eight.

"She's such a strong player, she doesn't give you anything for free," said Oudin, who made 43 unforced errors.

"This has been a great experience for me, I've had a great run. Caroline played a great match today. I hope to come back next year and do even better."

Wozniacki said: "I've never passed the fourth round before. When I made the quarter-finals I was so happy. Now I'm in the semi-finals and hopefully I can try and win the next match."

Wickmayer, ranked two places above Bondarenko at 50th in the world, snatched a tight first set in the earlier quarter-final and, although Bondarenko led 4-1 in the second set, a series of errors cost her dear.

"Playing semis in a Grand Slam is great, amazing," said the 19-year-old. "Before this my best was second round, so it's so exciting, it's all been amazing.

"When you get to the third or fourth round you start surprising yourself but actually I've been staying pretty calm. I've worked really hard for this.

Yanina Wickmayer
Wickmayer had won one match in six Grand Slams before New York

"Every match I can win. I'm really excited. I'm really happy."

Wickmayer becomes the second unseeded Belgian to reach the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows, following the progress of her idol, former world number one Kim Clijsters, on Tuesday.

Clijsters, who has come out of retirement to play in her first Grand Slam since the 2007 Australian Open, plays defending champion Serena Williams after beating Li Na in her quarter-final.

At 26, Clijsters is seven years older than Wickmayer, who had won only one senior match in six previous Grand Slams before this year's US Open.

Bondarenko was also in her first major quarter-final and made a slow start, struggling to compete with Wickmayer's attacking approach in the early stages of the match.

Wickmayer served for the first set at 5-4 before Bondarenko responded well to get her first break, but she was broken herself to love in the next match and the Belgian served out.

Her Ukrainian opponent improved at the start of the second set and seemed to have rediscovered the form that saw her thump Gisela Dulko 6-0 6-0 in the previous round as she moved 4-1 up, before Wickmayer won five games in a row to clinch victory.

"I missed a few opportunities," Wickmayer added. "I was pretty mad at myself. I kept fighting and kept hanging in there and just came back."

Bondarenko, 23, has still picked up enough ranking points this fortnight to catapult herself towards the top 30 and felt she did all she could to go further in the tournament.

"Even if I had a break point she didn't give me a chance to win it," said Bondarenko. "She just played unbelievable. When she was break point down she kept hitting winners."

In the girls' singles, Britain's Heather Watson beat America's Courtney Dolehide 6-3 6-2 in her second-round match.

Watson, seeded 11th, will play Annika Beck of Germany or Denmark's Mai Grage in the third round.

Laura Robson won through to the last 16 on Tuesday and plays Belgian 12th seed Tamaryn Bendler in her next match.

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Neverland Ranch, abandoned by Jackson in ‘05, now seen as having ‘Graceland’ potential

By John Rogers, AP
Thursday, July 2, 2009

Uncertain future for Jackson’s Neverland Ranch

LOS OLIVOS, Calif. — With Peter Pan as inspiration, Michael Jackson turned his lush Neverland ranch into a whimsical retreat with carnival rides, a chimpanzee named Bubbles and even a Disney-like train station where he could recapture his lost childhood.

But like the superstar’s career, the property’s idyllic image was tarnished when Jackson was accused of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor there in 2003. He was acquitted, but the scandal nearly ruined Jackson and drove him from Neverland forever. Over the last four years, the property fell into disrepair, and at one point it was weeks from being sold at a public auction.

The singer’s death last Thursday renewed speculation about the future of the four-square-mile ranch. Will it be turned into a tourist attraction celebrating the King of Pop, much like Elvis Presley’s Graceland pays homage to the King of Rock and Roll? Restored for his heirs to use? Or perhaps put on the market to cash in on the sudden interest in all things Jackson?

Like so many things involving Jackson’s life and death, the answer is not simple.

First, the Jackson’s financial affairs must be sorted out. A will was produced Tuesday, but it isn’t clear if the family will contest it. Also, anything that would bring tens of thousands of people trooping through the hills of this bucolic wine region could face obstacles from people who pay tens of millions of dollars for the privilege of living here.

“If there’s a little extra tourism around the neighborhood that’s good,” said Los Olivos resident Frank Palmer, who runs a barbecue stand in town. “But if it gets to the point where it’s just too much, I don’t know how we’d feel about that.”

Already the gates to Neverland have become a makeshift shrine, adorned with handwritten notes, flowers, photos and other tributes left by fans who flocked to the estate about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, hundreds of parked cars lined both sides of the two-lane road leading to Neverland. About two hundred people crowded outside the estate, many of them journalists, their view of Jackson’s English-style manor and other Neverland fixtures obscured by a slope of golden brown hills dotted with oak trees.

Although the ranch was buzzing with activity — construction equipment coming and going along with gardeners and florists — a family spokesman said Wednesday Neverland would not be the site of Jackson’s funeral.

Colony Capital LLC, a Los Angeles real estate firm owned by billionaire Thomas Barrack, which bought Neverland and established a joint venture with Jackson last year, has said only that a decision on the future of the property will come “in due time.”

Jackson bought the ranch in 1988 from developer William Bone, who built the house on the property, then called Sycamore Valley Ranch. The singer renamed the ranch and turned it into a fantasyland where he welcomed children.

The property was home to a coterie of animals — tigers named Thriller and Sabu — elephants, orangutans and a giraffe. And he built a mini amusement park with a carousel, two trains and a station that recalls the one at Disneyland’s Main Street USA pavilion.

But his make-believe world came crashing down with the molestation charges and trial. After his acquittal in 2005, Jackson moved to Bahrain. The following year, he dismissed many of the Neverland staff after agreeing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages to avoid a lawsuit by state labor officials.

Left largely untended, the once manicured grounds grew wild and the train and carnival rides gathered dust. Eventually, much of it was removed.

In March 2008, his finances strained, Jackson defaulted on a $23 million loan to Fortress Investment Group, and risked losing Neverland, which was used to secure the loan. Barrack stepped in a few months later, covering the outstanding amount — by then around $24.5 million. For $35 million, Jackson signed Neverland over to Sycamore Valley Ranch Co., a joint venture between Jackson and an affiliate of Barrack’s Colony Capital.

In the months since, Barrack has begun to refurbish the property with landscaping and repairs to the swimming pool.

Turning Neverland into a theme park would take several years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, said Dennis Speigel, president of International Theme Park Services Inc., a Cincinnati-based consulting and management firm.

“You could spend half a billion dollars in the blink of an eye for your rides, theaters, restaurants, bathrooms and parking lots,” Speigel said. “It would be a huge gamble betting people would come out in big numbers.”

One obstacle is Neverland’s isolation, he said. The property is a two-and-a-half-hour drive north of Los Angeles and lacks surrounding infrastructure to handle large numbers of visitors.

Comparisons have naturally been made with Graceland, which receives more than 600,000 visitors a year and brings in $150 million for the economy in Memphis, Tenn. Graceland, though, is located on a main thoroughfare in downtown Memphis and is less than five miles from the airport. The nearly 14-acre property, with its white-columned mansion, also serves as Presley’s final resting place.

Neverland is much less accessible. It’s 41 miles away from Santa Barbara Municipal Airport and to get there by car requires driving a cramped and winding country road. The nearest town, Los Olivos, is about five miles away and would be hardpressed to host multitudes of tourists. And it’s not clear if he will be buried there at some point.

“You want to have him on the site in Neverland. That’s where Elvis is at Graceland,” Speigel said.

So far, there’s been no request or even inquiries made to the Santa Barbara County planning department for a change in Neverland’s agricultural zoning designation, said county spokesman William Boyer.

The ranch was valued at $33 million in 2006, according to an accounting firm’s report from 2007. But it’s likely that property has dropped in value since then because of the housing market. But Jackson’s death may change things.

“If they’d put it on the market right after the trial, I think it would have not been well received,” said Rick Goodwin, publisher of Ultimate Homes and its parent publication, Unique Homes. “At that point in time, the dark cloud hung over that place. Death has a tendency to let people be more forgiving.”

Veiga reported from Los Angeles. AP Business Writer Stevenson Jacobs contributed to this report

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7 Medical Tests Every Man Needs

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Admit it, guys: You don’t even like going to the doctor when there’s something wrong, let alone for preventative check-ups. But being proactive about your health—by getting recommended screenings for serious conditions and diseases—could mean you’ll spend less time at the doctor’s office down the road.

Depending on age, family history, and lifestyle factors, people need different tests at different times in their lives. Here’s a good overview for all men to keep in mind.

You may never need a screening for diabetes if you maintain a healthy weight and have no other risk factors for the disease (such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure). But for most men over 45—especially overweight men—a fasting plasma glucose test, or an A1C test, is a good idea, says Kevin Polsley, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine at Loyola University Health System in Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also recommends diabetes screenings for overweight adults younger than 45 who have a family history of the disease, or who are of African American, Asian American, Latino, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent.

Fasting plasma glucose and A1C are both blood tests that should be done in your doctor’s office. The A1C test does not require fasting beforehand, but if your doctor wants to test you using fasting plasma glucose, you will be asked not to eat or drink anything but water for eight hours beforehand.

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Even if you’ve been in a monogamous relationship for years, it’s not a bad idea to get tested if you haven’t already done so. Many common sexually transmitted infections can go undiagnosed for years. For example, people can go as long as 10 years without showing symptoms of HIV. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that everyone ages 15 to 65 be screened for HIV at least once. This is especially important, Dr. Polsley says, if you have had unprotected sex, used injected drugs, or had a blood transfusion between 1978 and 1985.

In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a one-time hepatitis C screening for all adults born between 1945 and 1965, regardless of risk factors. “Believe it or not, there’s a lot of hepatitis C cases out there in which people either don’t have symptoms yet or don’t know what’s causing their symptoms,” says Dr. Polsley. “Screening for STIs is something I offer as routine at just about every physical, regardless of a patient’s age or health history.”

Body Mass Index

You don’t need to make an appointment to figure out your body mass index, a measure of body fat based on your height and weight. Regardless of whether you calculate this stat yourself or your physician does the math for you, it’s important to be aware of this number, says Dr. Polsley.

A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered normal weight. Although this calculation isn’t perfect—and can sometimes label healthy people as overweight or vice versa—most doctors agree that it’s still an important component of assessing overall health. “It can be a very good opportunity to discuss diet and exercise, and to show our patients how important these things are,” Dr. Polsley says.

The American Heart Association recommends men have their cholesterol levels tested every four to six years once they turn 20. “Men have an overall higher risk for cardiovascular disease than women, and high cholesterol is often a big part of that,” Dr. Polsley says. But your doctor may want to screen you earlier (and more often) if you have heart disease risk factors such as diabetes, tobacco use, or high blood pressure.

Cholesterol is measured by a blood test, and your doctor may ask you not to eat for 9 to 12 hours beforehand. Generally, a cholesterol test will measure your levels of total cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol, and triglycerides. Depending on your results, your doctor may make dietary recommendations or prescribe a cholesterol-lowering medication like a statin.

Blood pressure

Like high cholesterol, high blood pressure is often a symptomless condition—but luckily, the test for hypertension is quick and painless, involving a rubber cuff that squeezes the arm and measures the flow of blood through a large artery in the bicep. “You should have your blood pressure checked pretty much every time you see your doctor,” says Dr. Polsley, starting at age 18.

Don’t get to the doc often? Have it checked at least every two years, or yearly if your numbers were previously considered borderline (a top “systolic” number above 120 or bottom “diastolic” number higher than 80).

You can check your blood pressure at health fairs, in pharmacies, or at home with a monitoring device. If your systolic pressure cracks 130 or your diastolic goes over 85, your doctor may recommend lifestyle modifications—like exercising more and eating less salt—or they might prescribe medication.

Most men should be screened for colon cancer beginning at age 50, but those with a family history of the disease may benefit from earlier testing. Men and women alike tend to dread this test—in which a small camera is inserted into the anus and explores the large intestine for polyps or other signs of cancer—but Dr. Polsley says it’s not as bad as it sounds.

“The preparation for the test is actually the worst part,” he says: You’ll need to empty your bowels completely before the exam, which may involve not eating solid foods for one to three days, drinking lots of clear liquids, or taking laxatives. “The actual colonoscopy shouldn’t be too uncomfortable, because you’re sedated through the whole thing.”

But here’s the bright side: If your doctor doesn’t find anything suspicious, you won’t need another colonoscopy for up to 10 years.

Prostate exam

Screening for prostate cancer is more controversial than for other cancers, says Dr. Polsley, and some studies have shown that these tests can be expensive and unnecessary, and may do more harm than good. But he suggests that all men over 50 at least talk with their doctors about the pros and cons of these tests—usually either a digital rectal exam (in which the doctor inserts a gloved finger, or digit, into the rectum to feel for lumps and abnormalities) and a PSA test, which measures a protein called prostate-specific antigen in the blood.

Prostate cancer screenings can and do save lives, but they may also result in false-positive or false-negative results. And because many cases of prostate cancer progress very slowly, some men (especially older men) don’t benefit from aggressive treatment. Whether you decide to get screened for prostate cancer should be a decision you make with your doctor, says Dr. Polsley. In the meantime, it’s important to know the symptoms of an enlarged prostate—like having to urinate frequently or having trouble urinating—which could also signal cancer.

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The Caucasus: Land of Diverse Cultures

The title chosen for this mini-exhibit reflects one exceptional aspect of the Caucasus–the diversity of its peoples (more than 40 ethnic groups), languages (50+ languages from both small indigenous language families and from the wider Indo-European, Mongolic, Semitic and Turkic language families), religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism), geography (mountains, glaciers, lowlands, seashore), history and culture.  The exhibit could just have easily been entitled “Small Nations and Great Powers”, “Crossroads and Conflict”, “Shattering Empires”, all titles of recent books on the Caucasus. It is a small region of great contrasts and from time immemorial, of geopolitical significance to those larger nations which surround it—Russia to the north and Turkey and Iran to the south. For centuries the North Caucasus region, forming the borderland of European Russia, has represented the literal and symbolic frontier between Europe and Asia. But it is the South Caucasus region, comprised of the now independent countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia,that is the primary focus of this exhibit. The Caucasus has captured the imagination of travelers throughout the ages, as well as being of current strategic importance to the world’s powers. As one can see from even the briefest of historical chronologies, these have been countries involved in almost continuous conflict, war, forced migrations, massacres, ethnic cleansing, invasion, conquest and re-conquest, with borders that have shifted in response to each cataclysmic event. Nevertheless, each country has been able to nourish its language, literature, folklore and art, preserving its sense of ethnic and national identity (to paraphrase a local proverb–“There are more poets than mountains”).

Georgievskii Street in the town of Artvin, on the border between Georgia and Turkey. Over the last 1,000 years it was ceded to and recovered by Georgia, Turkey and Russia numerous times; since 1921, it has been a part of Turkey. From the Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorskii Photograph Collection.

As a true crossroads, the Caucasus plays an integral role in the emerging field of borderland studies (see journals such as Eurasia Border Review, The Journal of Borderland Studies), as well as Silk Road Studies (see the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute’s Silk Road Studies Program at Johns Hopkins). Likewise, in the last decade or so, the addition of the word Eurasian to many of our long-standing academic Slavic and East European organizations and institutions documents this new emphasis on the regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia; perhaps the most notable example of this is the official change in name of The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies to The Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

This exhibit has been prepared to coincide with the University’s Center for East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CEERES) 2012-2013 lecture series “Connecting with the Caucasus“, which has brought together scholars from a variety of fields (Linguistics, History, Politics, Anthropology and Sociology, Literature/Music/Art) to revisit the histories, analyze the contemporary situations, encouraging the creation of new knowledge with regard to this area of considerable humanistic, social scientific, and strategic significance. The speaker series will set the stage for a 2014 CEERES conference on the Caucasus–a follow-up to its 2007 conference (The Caucasus: Directions and Disciplines).

The next lecture in the program will be:

Georgi Derluguian (NYU Abu Dhabi), speaking on “Guns, Maize, and Foreign Trade: The Origins of Democratic Polis in the Eighteenth-Century Caucasus”. (February 12, 2013, 5:30pm, Franke Institute for the Humanities)

The exhibit, located in the Second Floor Reading Room of Regenstein Library, will run through April 2013.

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North Korea threatens to ‘wipe out’ South Korea after defence ministry insults Kim Jong-un

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed during an anti-North Korea rally marking the second anniversary of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea is continuing an escalating rhetorical battle on the Korean Peninsula, with an official saying rival North Korea "must disappear soon."

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened Tuesday to “wipe out” South Korea’s government in a furious response a day after a Seoul official said the North “must disappear soon,” in an escalation of rhetoric between the rivals.

The North’s powerful National Defence Commission called the South Korean comments an “intolerable” provocation that showed the South wants to take over the North.

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It said in a statement carried by state media that North Korea will launch “all-out … merciless” strikes to “wipe out every last person” in South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s government.

South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said Monday that North Korea wasn’t a real country and existed for the benefit of only one person — a reference to its leader, Kim Jong-un. He said the North has no human rights or public freedoms.

Kim’s comments followed a series of slurs by North Korea against the leaders of South Korea and the United States. North Korea’s media likened Park to an “old prostitute” and President Barack Obama to a “monkey” in recent dispatches.

South Korea’s Defence Ministry said North Korea’s military hadn’t undertaken any suspicious activities. A ministry
official said South Korea is always ready to repel any provocation by the North.

South Korea has been highly critical of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, including recent rocket and missile launches and apparent preparations for a fourth nuclear test. But the comments from Seoul on Monday are stronger than usual. South Korea tries to avoid publicly talking about anything that could be interpreted as a collapse of the North Korean government because of worries that the North would raise tensions.

North Korea has been ramping up its rhetoric against Seoul and Washington since Obama and Park met in Seoul last month. During that visit, Obama said it may be time to consider further sanctions against North Korea and that the U.S. will not hesitate to use its military might to defend its allies.

South Korea has called the North’s verbal insults against Park immoral and unacceptable. The U.S. State Department described the North’s racist slurs against Obama as “disgusting.”

Earlier Tuesday, the North Korean government-run Uriminzokkiri website warned that Kim himself would pay a high price for his comments. “We will not sit idle by while this mad dog keeps … barking noisily,” the website said.

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Mystery over Leaside mother’s murder deepens despite arrest

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A police officer stands in front of the Leaside home of Lisa Lebitka, who was found murdered on New Years Day.

Mystery over Leaside mother, Lisa Lebitka's murder deepens despite arrest

The mystery surrounding the slaying of a Leaside interior designer deepened Wednesday, as police failed to confirm for a fourth straight day exactly how Lisa Lebitka died.

“The cause of death is to be determined after an autopsy,” Constable Tom Gabriel said.

Until Wednesday evening, officers had also failed to ascertain the victim’s identity, despite extensive media coverage citing family members who identified her as Ms. Lebitka, a 45-year-old mother of three. The official confirmation came after four days of police investigation.

Sources say the difficulty stems from the body’s state of decomposition when it was located on New Year’s Day. Police could not immediately verify whether the death even took place this year.

Ms. Lebitka’s body was found at her Airdrie Road home after police responded to a missing-person report on the afternoon of Jan. 1. Paul Hindle, the victim’s live-in boyfriend, allegedly made that report under false pretenses; he now stands charged with second-degree murder.

News of Ms. Lebitka’s death shocked residents of the quiet Leaside neighbourhood where she lived most of her life and devastated members of her tight-knit family. Reached by telephone Wednesday, the victim’s father, Daniel Lebitka, said he was feeling “terrible” but declined to speak further about his daughter or her boyfriend.

“I’m not at liberty to say anything,” an emotional Mr. Lebitka said from his home in Newcastle, about an hour east of Toronto.

Ms. Lebitka graduated in 1994 from York University, where she obtained a BA in political theory. She studied residential interior decor at the now-defunct Art Institute of Toronto and later launched Lisa Lebitka Interiors, an interior design consulting firm.

“The best part of what I do and what I enjoy most is creating spaces in which children, couples and individuals can flourish, grow and experience the wonders of life rather than getting bogged down in those mini-stressors of coming and going from the home,” Ms. Lebitka wrote in a note posted to her website last winter.

Ms. Lebitka and Mr. Hindle were reportedly high-school sweethearts who reunited a few years ago after decades apart, and each with children of their own; Ms. Lebitka had three and Mr. Hindle two. Before the pair reconnected, Ms. Lebitka was married to Mike Donaldson, the chief executive of a custom home-building outfit called Merlin Family Homes.

Mr. Hindle, 46, who is due back in court in two weeks, faces additional, unrelated charges of fraud and uttering forged documents. He lived in Winnipeg for a period of time before relocating to Toronto, and some of the past charges stem from Brockville, Ont., court records show.

For the past year, Mr. Hindle has worked as vice-president at the recruitment agency, but late Wednesday, a spokeswoman confirmed he had been suspended without pay.

An online biography says Mr. Hindle worked in recruitment process outsourcing for two decades after completing post-secondary studies in business and psychology.

“Paul is committed to customer focus, operational excellence and people,” the biography notes.

The accused also has an online profile with Explore Talent, an agency designed to link aspiring actors and models with jobs in the industry.

But Mr. Hindle appears to have had a troubled relationship with his son, Evan, who included a biting hashtag in a recent Twitter post directed at his father: “havefuninprison[expletive].”

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Marvin C. Wilson Retires as Pharmacy School’s Associate Dean

Administrator retiring after nearly 43 years of service to the school

Marvin C. Wilson is retiring after nearly 43 years of service to the UM School of Pharmacy.

OXFORD, Miss. – When budding pharmacists gather each spring to receive their coveted Doctor of Pharmacy degree, the moment is especially sweet for Marvin C. Wilson, the man who recruited many of them to the University of Mississippi. As he calls the graduates’ names, summoning each to cross the stage and receive their degree, Wilson beams as broadly as any proud father watching his children graduate from college, prepared to make their way in the world.

By the time they graduate, Wilson has worked with many of these students for seven years, helping them navigate three years of pre-professional and four years of professional curricula.

Despite retiring at the end of June, Wilson plans to be calling students’ names at School of Pharmacy commencement ceremonies for seven more years. That’s because he is already invested in these future graduates’ lives. He has advised them about their courses, awarded them scholarships and encouraged them to focus on their goals. He has also made promises to them and their parents, and he wants to celebrate these two milestones with them.

“His commitment to students, especially those he is advising, is unparalleled,” said David D. Allen, the school’s dean. “He has a huge heart, and he wants everybody to do well. He takes it personally when someone stumbles, then helps them get back on the right track.”

During his nearly 43 years at Ole Miss, Wilson has been involved in the education of thousands of pharmacy students, first as a pharmacology professor, then chair of pharmacology and finally associate dean for academic and student affairs. As the latter, he advised pharmacy’s early-entry students but was so dedicated to helping all students that he became their mentor, confidant and friend for the remainder of their academic journeys.

“Many students considered him a sensitive, approachable figure,” said Jillian Foster (PharmD 04, MBA 08), director of pharmacy at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. “Because it was often confidential, the behind-the-scenes compassion he offered students in need is something we will never fully comprehend, but we know he touched many lives and figured out a way to help them succeed.”

Among those whose lives he touched is David F. Gregory (BSPh 84, PharmD 99), director of education, research and clinical services in the pharmacy administration department at Vanderbilt University.

“He was known as a man of integrity who understood the value of each student and challenged all of them to reach greater heights within their circle of influence,” Gregory said.

For many students, Wilson did so long after they graduated.

“Even as a student, he encouraged me to exercise leadership,” said Foster, who became president of the Mississippi Society of Hospital Pharmacists, serves on the Mississippi Pharmacists Association’s executive committee, chairs MPhA’s education committee and is president of the pharmacy school’s alumni chapter.

“Over the years, he has continued to offer so many subtle words of encouragement,” Foster said. “He has a quiet way of boosting the confidence of those he believes in, and I so much appreciate the respect he has shown me over the last decade.”

To those who followed Wilson into academia rather than pharmacy practice, he was the perfect role model.

“During pharmacy school, he was one of those who made me think about going to graduate school and becoming a faculty member,” said Donna West-Strum (BSPh 95, MS 97, PhD 99), UM professor and chair of pharmacy administration. “He mentored me and helped me make those choices. As a new department chair, I knew I could go to his office and find someone who would listen and provide appropriate advice or comment because he strives for excellence in everything he does.”

Kenneth B. Roberts, UM’s pharmacy school dean from 1989 to 2000, tapped Wilson to become the school’s first associate dean for academic affairs in 1994, when pharmacy education was moving from the bachelor’s degree to the Doctor of Pharmacy, or Pharm.D., degree.

“I needed an academic affairs person to lead the transition internally, so I could lead the transition externally,” said Roberts, Slone professor for community pharmacy leadership and pharmacy dean emeritus at the University of Kentucky. “Marvin was one of the most highly regarded faculty members because of what he taught and how he taught. He was extremely rigorous, but the students loved him for it.”

Wilson chaired the committee Roberts appointed to develop the Pharm.D. curriculum, was made associate dean to implement it, then helped implement the school’s problem-based learning curriculum. “Both initiatives drew the eyes of pharmacy educators across the nation,” Roberts said, and gave the pharmacy school a big boost in national rankings.

Barbara G. Wells, UM’s pharmacy dean from 2001 to 2011, was the one who added “and student” to Wilson’s associate dean for academic and student affairs title.

“Marvin provided the essential leadership in developing, implementing and managing a quality program for academic support, student development and student advocacy,” Wells said. “He also led two of the school’s self-studies, which are essential not only to its reaccreditation process but also to its continued growth and development.”

“Accreditation standards change, thus our pre-pharmacy and pharmacy curricula have changed,” West-Strum said. “Dr. Wilson was able to guide the faculty through these changes to ensure that our students receive the best pharmacy education in the nation and that we meet ACPE (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education) standards. He deserves recognition for making our Pharm.D. program one of the best in the country.”

West-Strum said Wilson should also be commended for creating the university’s early-entry program, which enables prospective students to apply for admission to the School of Pharmacy during their senior year of high school, rather than after completing their pre-pharmacy coursework. Those selected are able to interact with pharmacy students and faculty as freshmen and are eligible for scholarships unavailable to other students.

“He has been a champion for this program, and it helps us recruit some of the best and brightest students from across the country to our school,” West-Strum said.

Wilson’s 43 years with the pharmacy school are packed with cherished memories. They include chasing monkeys that got loose and were roaming the school’s marijuana farm; leaving the pharmacy building to head home after work and discovering his students had lifted his Ford Escort onto the sidewalk; or the time “David Gregory got the key to my moped from Becky (Wilson’s wife), then rode it into the auditorium where I was teaching.”

“I imitated Marvin in a skit, in which I ‘borrowed’ his moped with Becky’s assistance, then proceeded to give a pharmacology lecture,” Gregory said. “Not to be outdone, about two minutes after class was supposed to begin the next day, Marvin comes bursting through the lecture hall doors in a curly wig and walking fast to imitate me.

“It was classic, and the class literally lost it. He has a wonderful sense of humor.”

Wilson’s students and faculty colleagues caught glimpses of that humor many times, including those who watched him walk away with the crown at Kappa Epsilon’s 2008 Womanless Beauty Pageant for charity. That “won the admiration of everybody, with the exception of my wife, sons and longtime executive assistant, Carla Bennett,” said Wilson, who displays the winner’s sash in his office, along with other pieces of memorabilia acquired during his Ole Miss tenure.

Bennett, Wilson’s assistant for 25 years, began working for him in 1988, when she was 19 years old. “Like family” are the best words she can find to describe her relationship with her boss and Becky.

“I’ve been blessed to work with him,” Bennett said. “We’ve seen each other through thick and thin, have cried on each other’s shoulders and shared much laughter, all of which are cherished memories.”

Just after Allen became dean, “Marvin told me, ‘Once you get your feet on the ground, I’m going to retire,'” Allen said. “I got an email from him over winter break, telling me that he was going to retire in June.”

Despite the early warning, Allen found the news “painful” but understands Wilson’s desire to spend more time with Becky, their children and grandchildren.

Their son Mike (BA 94), an attorney with the Curtis Law Group in Dallas, and his wife, Angela, have two boys, Luke, 9, and Wyatt, 6. Their son Dennis (BS 92, JD 95), a vice president of operations for Advanced Care Scripts in Orlando, and his wife, Susan, have two children, Drew, 14, and Bennett, 12, the Wilsons’ only granddaughter.

Between trips to see the grandkids, Wilson has several hobbies that he expects to keep him busy.

“I like music, and I have a Lego Star Wars collection,” he said. “I enjoy working in the yard, and I collect stamps and support the Rebels.”

In fact, he has had season tickets for football, baseball and basketball for as long as he can remember and was a member of the official “stat” crews for football and basketball for several years.

Despite looking forward to some extended family time, Wilson isn’t quite ready to cut his ties to the school, work and students of which he and Becky have grown fond since moving to Oxford in 1970. In fact, the pharmacy school created a scholarship bearing Wilson’s name in April.

“In higher education, it’s always a challenge to decide how close to get to students,” Wilson said. “You get more out of them when you’re closer, but you can’t get too close.”

On the other hand, that very challenge provided Wilson with some of his most cherished moments: watching his students mature and become successful adults.

“It doesn’t get any better than that,” he said.

Those wishing to congratulate Wilson on his semi-retirement or to let him know how much he meant to them can contact him at But if you’re a football fan, you might just look for the Wilsons in the Grove on game days, just across the street from Faser Hall.


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Is your child unresponsive and irresponsible? How do you avoid power struggles while teaching character? Do your children behave differently at home than they do at school? At home they whine, complain, procrastinate and look to you to solve their problems? Parents commonly respond to a child's negative behaviors and mistakes by ranting, lecturing and rescuing, all recipes for cultivating more negative behaviors such as, irresponsibility, belligerence and defiance. These same parents express bewilderment when the report from their child's teacher is quite the opposite. Why are parents' experiences so different from teachers'? The answer may surprise you. It can be found in the powerful relational tools of empathy, experience, encouragement, expectations, and example to instill positive behaviors. And, the good news is you can learn these tools, too. This article will focus on the first of these relational tools, empathy.

First, sympathy and empathy are not synonymous. Sympathy says: "I feel your pain." Empathy says: "Gosh, I'm sorry you feel so badly." or "Boy, I bet you're disappointed." or "Gosh, I guess that didn't work out for you." The difference is in ownership of the feeling. In sympathy, you take ownership of your child's problem. In empathy, you acknowledge that the problem is your child's therefore they must solve it.

Second, empathy allows children to learn from their mistakes. No parent wants to see their child suffer. However, quite often the child's suffering is born of their own mistakes or bad behaviors. For example, you have coached your child repeatedly to place their backpack by the door and inventory that they have their homework and lunch ready to go before they leave for school. Yet this day your child forgot their lunch and you have gotten the SOS call from school. How do you handle that? Empathy: "Wow that is a problem! How do you think you should handle that?" Rather than rescue your child by dropping what you are doing to make up for their mistake, allow them to work out a solution. This delivers an additional positive message that you have confidence in them to solve this on their own.

Third, empathy enables your child to avoid the blame game. Using the above example, parents often respond to that SOS phone call with anger, frustration or a sense of victimization. "I've told you a thousand times to have everything ready before you walk out of the door in the morning!" Or, the victim response: "Now I have to be late for work to do for you what you should have done for yourself!" Both of these responses provide the opportunity for your child to shift the blame to you or someone else. "You didn't wake me up in time." Escalation is sure to follow.

Fourth, if natural consequences are delivered effectively via empathy, your relationship with your child will grow stronger while arguments are avoided. Empathy comes across as warm and loving. Children tend to love us more, even though they are suffering the natural consequences. They discover that we trust their abilities to problem-solve and adequately negotiate their predicament. "How do you think you might solve this problem today?"

Fifth, empathy before discipline prevents the "fight or flight" emotional reflex. Empathy should always be delivered with sincerity. When sarcasm is employed you add a level of emotion and communication which is very hard for a child to understand in the midst of their trial. It's too confusing for them to decode plus it deflects your purpose which is to teach your child that behavior (good or bad) has consequences and teaching responsibility is your goal.

We encourage you to clip this article. In the future we will cover the remaining four essentials to raising responsible children. As you understand and practice these skills the behavior gap between school and home will narrow.

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VCU Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center to test new therapeutic option for GI symptoms

Researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth UniversityParkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center hope to find some encouraging answers in the treatment of gastroparesis associated with Parkinson’s disease.

The results of a new research study may provide valuable clinical data and a greater understanding of the drug RQ-00000010 and its potential as a new treatment option for certain diseases associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders, such as gastroparesis and constipation.

Gastroparesis is a disorder that slows or stops the movement of food from the stomach to the small intestine. Symptoms include reflux, pain in the stomach area, abdominal bloating and lack of appetite.

Through the clinical study, Leslie Cloud, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center in the School of Medicine, hopes to find an improvement in upper, and possibly lower, GI motility after dosing with RQ-00000010. In addition, Cloud, who specializes in the study of GI symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients, hopes the work will find an improvement in the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of orally-administered levodopa after dosing with RQ-00000010.

According to Cloud, levodopa – the mainstay of medical therapy for Parkinson’s disease – must make it through the stomach to be absorbed in the small intestine. Therefore, its absorption is negatively impacted by slowed GI motility, she said.

“If successful, this new treatment option may improve quality of life for Parkinson’s disease patients by treating symptoms of both gastroparesis and constipation,” Cloud said.

“By improving GI motility, RQ-00000010 may also positively impact how Parkinson’s disease patients respond to levodopa, which is the mainstay of medical therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Given that the majority of Parkinson’s disease patients suffer from constipation and/or gastroparesis, the potential impact of this new treatment is huge, which is why I am so excited about it,” she said.

Cloud has piloted a novel rating scale for the evaluation of symptoms that has led to better characterization of the GI dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease and documentation of the responses to these symptoms in common Parkinson’s disease therapies and GI medications.

VCU PMDC is collaborating with RaQualia Pharma Inc., the maker of RQ-00000010, and will submit a sponsor-investigator Investigational New Drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug administration to investigate the new drug in Parkinson’s disease patients with symptomatic gastroparesis. When approved, investigators at the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center will initiate a clinical trial in which RQ-00000010 will be dosed to patients.

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JIXI, Heilongjiang, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Two mine managers have been detained for their cover-up of a coal mine flood accident in northeast China as rescue efforts continue for the 16 remaining trapped workers, police said Saturday.

Zhou Xiaowei, owner of the Anzhishun coal mine in Jixi City,Heilongjiang Province, and another senior manager in charge of production were detained.

Water flooded the mine at 1:10 p.m. on Thursday when 56 workers were in the shaft, but the mine's management reported to authorities that only nine were trapped.

Work safety investigators found that 31 of the 56 workers were lifted out of the shaft after the accident. Twenty-five were trapped underground, with nine rescued alive about 20 hours after the accident.

Rescue work is under way for the remaining 16 trapped people.

The licensed private mine has an annual production capacity of 60,000 tonnes. The assets of the mine owner have been frozen.

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SYDNEY, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Sydney commuters are experiencing significant delays due to a fuel spill in the Sydney Harbor Tunnel during the peak hour rush, local media reported Thursday.

A truck traveling southbound in the tunnel dropped its fuel tank after it lost a tyre at about 6:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, according to the Australian Associated Press (AAP).

New South Wales (NSW) Fire and Rescue Superintendent Ian Krimmer said that about 150 liters of diesel were spilled for about 200 meters, causing all southbound lanes to be closed.

It took emergency crews about two hours to clean up the spill.

The tunnel was reopened shortly after 8:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, but traffic chaos was expected to continue throughout the morning.

Significant delays were also experienced on Military Road, Spit Road and surrounding roads.

Buses traveling in the area were delayed by up to 25 minutes.

"Motorists certainly deserve an apology," NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay told Australia's Fairfax Radio on Thursday.

"They don't need to be having this. This is one of these situations where it appears that there may be problems on our side and I don't like those."

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a burglar's decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in at an upstate New York home led to his arrest.

Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH'-gah) County prosecutors tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse (http://bit.ly/14vfeMo ) that 29-year-old Moses Wilson was stealing copper piping from a vacant rental home in Syracuse in early February when he found an unopened case of beer in the basement.

Officials say he drank some of the beer during the burglary. Prosecutors say police were able to match Wilson's DNA to DNA found on the cans.

Wilson was arraigned Tuesday in Onondaga County Court on charges of burglary and petit larceny. He is being held in jail on $10,000 bail. It couldn't immediately be determined if he had a lawyer.

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Emails Prove Lerner Helped Craft New IRS Crackdown Rules, Nets Censor

On Wednesday the House Ways and Means Committee released new emails proving that former IRS executive Lois Lerner secretly helped craft, with Treasury officials, new rules that would make it easier to crack down on conservative groups like the Tea Party. These new rules were being written in 2012, at the height of the IRS’s targeting of the Tea Party.

So far the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have yet to mention this latest IRS scandal bombshell on their evening or morning shows.

On February 5 Patrick Howley reported the following:

The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify regulations as the administration has suggested.

The rules place would place much more stringent controls on what would be considered political activity by the IRS, effectively limiting the standard practices of a wide array of non-profit groups.

“Don’t know who in your organizations is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off -plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting…,” Treasury official Ruth Madrigal wrote in a June 14, 2012 email to Lerner.

Ways and Means chairman Rep. Dave Camp blasted the off-the-record plan during a hearing Wednesday with IRS commissioner John Koskinen, and called for the administration’s newly proposed 501(c)(4) rules to be halted until criminal investigations into the IRS targeting scandal are complete. “If Treasury and the IRS fabricated the rationale for a rule change it would tend to raise questions about the integrity of the rule-making process,” Camp said.

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In their heart of hearts, do the liberal media believe we are at war? The answer is a resounding 'no', judging by liberal Newsday columnist Ellis Henican's performance on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend. Thankfully, fellow Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton was there to remind his colleague of some cold, hard facts.

The topic was the Justice Department's investigation into the leaks behind the New York Times' publication of the highly-classified program of NSA surveillance of possible Al-Qaeda-related phone calls. Henican appeared utterly unfazed by the way the Times' revelations undermined national security and the fight against terrorism. His overwhelming focus was on the possible infringement of civil liberties. He brushed off the security leak in these terms:

"Frankly I'm much more interested in the government spying perhaps illegally on American citizens than trying to blame the people who revealed and told the truth about it. We see another example of trying to turn the attention onto the messenger and blame the people who stood up and told Americans what they need to know instead of those who are doing something that at the very least was highly questionable."

Pinkerton scored a direct hit with this response:

"There's also the issue of course of telling Al-Qaeda what they need to know."

Although Pinkerton's bullseye seemed to momentarily rock Henican, in no time he was back to his one-sided view of the struggle, in which the only real concern is for civil liberties, even at the price of intentionally undermining secret government security programs.

Henican: "Without confidential sources investigative reporters can't do their work."

Pinkerton reminded Henican of the flip-side of that formulation: "Without confidential methods, government can't do its work."

Henican could care less:

"[The government's] job is to keep the secret, our job is to tell the truth."

So, even in a time of war, Henican views the media as the government's antagonist on national security matters. Wonder how, during WWII, the administration of liberal-icon FDR would have dealt with a Henican trying to undermine secret programs aimed at the enemy?

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‘Jueteng’ probe rocks alliance of LP, NPC

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Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr. Photo from pangasinan.gov.ph

With less than two months before the campaign for the 2013 midterm elections starts, cracks are already showing on the alliance between the Liberal Party (LP) and the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), and the shaker is the revival of an investigation into the illegal numbers racket “jueteng.”

Seismic activity began last week, with Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas of the LP launching an investigation against Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino, a senior NPC official.

But other politicians feel the tremor and they believe politics is generating the energy that causes the shaking.

Vice President Jejomar Binay’s nominally oppositionist United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) said Monday the fresh investigation could be an administration ploy to control vote-rich Pangasinan ahead of the elections.

Navotas Rep. Tobias Tiangco, UNA secretary general, said in a statement that the alliance supported any effort against jueteng but was suspicious about the timing of the disclosure of Espino’s involvement in jueteng.

“The 2013 election is just a few weeks away,” Tiangco said. “The administration and the administration party headed by the DILG (Department of the Interior and Local Government) secretary cannot escape suspicion that politics is one motivation for the sudden interest in jueteng in Pangasinan.”

The LP is fielding Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza against Espino in the gubernatorial race in Pangasinan. President Aquino carried Pangasinan in the 2010 presidential election with Braganza’s help.

Tiangco said securing victory for the administration’s candidate in Pangasinan in 2013 could translate into benefits in the province for Malacañang’s candidate in the presidential election in 2016.

LP members are expected to field Roxas in the 2016 race for Malacañang. The UNA’s Binay has said he’s running that race.

As for the NPC, former Rep. Mark Cojuangco of Pangasinan said the party would stand by Espino even if Roxas persisted in putting him in jail.

“Our alliance is with P-Noy (President Aquino). That alliance manifests itself as an alliance with the LP in the House of Representatives. Local politics are another matter,” said Cojuangco, son of NPC founder Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr.

“We await the evidence which will be presented by the DILG and see if it will prosper beyond the current hearsay. Without solid evidence, we will maintain our support and campaign for our candidate even if he is thrown in jail. As you know, you can be put in jail even if you have not yet been convicted,” Cojuangco said.

Valenzuela City Rep. Rex Gatchalian, the NPC spokesperson, said, “We believe that given the chance to present his side, [Espino] will be able to vindicate himself.”

Cojuangco said Espino had become a target of the LP because he was popular and that the vote-rich province was dominated by the NPC, whose members include 39 of Pangasinan’s 48 mayors. With a report from Tarra Quismundo

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Actress Patty Duke has a supporting role in tonight's Lifetime movie â€œUnanswered Prayers,â€ based on Garth Brooks' 1990 song, and her six-decade career includes an Academy Award for â€œThe Miracle Worker.â€
BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN Published: November 29, 2010

Actress Patty Duke's life in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, is filled with happy, everyday moments such as taking her granddaughters to dance and gymnastics lessons, cooking for Thanksgiving and enjoying time with her husband of almost 25 years.

As she hosted a conference call recently to promote her latest movie, â€œUnanswered Prayers,â€ which debuts at 8 tonight on Lifetime, she welcomed each person on the line individually, joked about the cold weather and spoke honestly about her journey that got her to this point in life.

â€œI've been very lucky,â€ she said. â€œI have a very full plate.â€

Her contented life these days is far from the time she won an Oscar for â€œThe Miracle Workerâ€ in 1962, became famous as the child star of â€œThe Patty Duke Showâ€ which aired from 1963-66, and later became known for her hard life, marriages, substance abuse, mood swings and other off-screen antics before she finally was diagnosed and received treatment for bipolar disorder.

She has since written two best-selling books about her life, â€œCall Me Annaâ€ and â€œA Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic Depression Illness.â€

Duke, who is about to turn 64, thanks God that some of her own prayers went unanswered in her youth.

â€œI attempted suicide a number of times. I'm very glad that prayer wasn't answered. I obviously had more to do here. I thank God and the professionals in the medical world who made it possible.â€

Lifetime's â€œUnanswered Prayersâ€ is based on the 1990 hit song by Oklahoman Garth Brooks, the Grammy Award-winning country music artist who was an executive producer on the show along with Lisa Sanderson, producing partner and chief executive of Red Strokes Entertainment.

The television movie stars Eric Close as a happily married father who encounters his high school flame, played by Madchen Amick, and wonders what could have been ... with her. Duke stars as the man's mother-in-law. Samantha Mathis plays his wife.

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Watch the television movie â€œUnanswered Prayers,â€ executive produced by Garth Brooks and Lisa Sanderson and featuring Patty Duke, at 8 tonight on Lifetime.

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Stillwater businesses are expected to benefit from a number of events happening downtown this holiday season.
by Adam Kemp Modified: December 7, 2012 at 9:30 pm •  Published: December 8, 2012

If the first few days of December are any indication, many Stillwater businesses are in for a happy holiday season.

Thursday, downtown Stillwater hosted its annual Parade of Lights, which featured a new lighting system on the Salmon Plaza fountain.

Amy Jo Frazier, business improvement district coordinator for downtown Stillwater, said the event had a massive turnout.

“Many people commented to me that they thought it was bigger than the homecoming parade,” Frazier said. “It's a tremendous upswing. We have definitely seen more business in the holidays, and we have seen a great amount of growth in our business district, but these events bring people downtown, and it brings people who haven't been down there and haven't seen what we have done in the last few years.”

Frazier said Santa paid a visit to a local business, and more than 100 children lined up to see him.

“We had an overwhelming turnout for Santa,” she said. “We had to turn people away, but we told them that Santa would be back.”

Santa will visit downtown Stillwater three more times, stopping at different businesses Tuesday, Thursday and Dec. 15. There also are free carriage rides throughout the holiday season.

Frazier said all the attractions and events help Stillwater prosper.

“Obviously, we want people to come to Stillwater and shop and spend their money here,” she said. “But it's also a quality of life thing here. We want our citizens to enjoy being in Stillwater during the holiday season.”

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More Christmas events in Stillwater

What: Downtown Stillwater Holiday Events — Visit Santa.

Where: Houck Agency, 801 S Main St., Suite 2.

When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

What: Stillwater Community Singers free Christmas concert.

Where: Stillwater Community Center, Winfrey Houston Theater.

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

What: Stillwater Community Band free Christmas concert.

Where: Stillwater Community Center, Winfrey Houston Theater.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday.

What: Wade Tower Martinis & Mistletoe Holiday Show.

Where: Stillwater Community Center, Winfrey Houston Theater.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 21.

Tickets and information: Go to or call (405) 533-8433.

What: Community Christmas Dinner.

Where: Stillwater Community Center Dining Room.

When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 25.

To volunteer or for a ride: Call Charles Kaupke at (405) 377-8184.

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Pasta with no carbs and almost no calories? No way

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photo - In this image taken on January 7, 2013, chicken and shirataki noodle soup is shown served in a bowl in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
In this image taken on January 7, 2013, chicken and shirataki noodle soup is shown served in a bowl in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)

The conventional wisdom of cutting carbs and calories generally has meant that pasta is a no-go.

But recently, a new noodle has challenged that thinking, giving dieters a fresh — albeit slightly different — way to have their pasta and their New Year's resolutions. We're not talking spaghetti squash which, while delicious in its own right, has never made a satisfying substitute for the real deal.

It's so-called shirataki noodles that have attracted the attention of so many dieters of late. Their appeal— No carbs, no fat and almost no calories.

No kidding?

It's true. These slightly chewy noodles — which usually are found alongside the tofu and other refrigerated Asian foods in grocers' produce sections — are made from a water-soluble fiber that comes from a type of sweet potato (some are made with tofu as well, which contains a tiny bit of fat). Though they once were found only in Asian markets, they have begun showing up in most large supermarkets.

And it's not just a desire to cut carbs that is fueling the growth of this product (which has gone from just one or two varieties to many in a span of a couple years). Food and shopping expert Phil Lempert, founder and editor of, says the growth of the gluten-free (which shirataki happen to be) category also is driving the popularity of this product.

Shaped like spaghetti, fettuccine and even "rice," shirataki noodles come packed in water and require nothing more than draining, rinsing and briefly boiling.

And while these noodles can replace your favorite pasta in many dishes, you'll need to keep in mind two things. First, don't skip the rinsing step. This washes away a slight bitterness and funky smell. Fear not, both disappear entirely once you've rinsed and boiled.

Second, while they certainly are filling, in keeping with their lack of carbs and calories the noodles have virtually zero flavor. But Grace Young, author of "Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge," considers that an advantage. She says a lack of flavor makes shirataki the perfect ingredient for dishes where the other ingredients or the sauce define the dish.

Young was first introduced to shirataki by a home cook in the Philippines, who used the carb-free noodles all the time because she was diabetic, but still wanted pasta. Young says she adds them to homemade broth with fresh vegetables, or simply prepares them with a good quality soy sauce and toasted sesame oil.

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan court has ordered an opponent of President Hugo Chavez to be tried on charges of hiding explosives in his home.

Alejandro Pena Esclusa called the case a politically motivated vendetta, saying in a statement that he is a "victim of a plot by the Venezuelan government" in response to his vocal criticisms.

The attorney general's office said Friday that a Caracas court ordered the case to go to trial.

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Magazine predictions for the 2010 Big 12 season varied to say the least. A majority of the magazines could agree on the top two finishers in the North but none had the same six teams. And Colorado's finish ranged from third to sixth. The South predictions were a little more consistent. Three of the five magazines felt Texas would win the South but they all agreed that Texas A&M would finish third and Texas Tech would follow in 4th. Two of the magazines agreed on the same six for the South.

Here are the rankings to help you understand all of this. Points were given out on a 6-5-4-3-2-1 system and the first place votes are in parentheses.

Nebraska, 30 (5)

Missouri, 24

Kansas, 18

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Big 12 football teams play 48 non-conference games this season. Only 11 are against fellow BCS leagues.

That’s 22.9 percent, and that stinks. It’s the lowest figure among the six major conferences.

The Pac-10 plays half its games (15 of 30) against equal-footing foes.

The Atlantic Coast Conference plays 41.6 percent, the Big East 40 percent, the Big Ten 31.8 percent and the SEC 29.2.

Then here comes the Big 12, again averaging less than one legitimate opponent per school.

You can’t always measure strength of schedule by an opponent’s league. Who is tougher, TCU or Indiana? But for the most part, percentage of BCS-league foes is a solid measuring stick.

And the Big 12 stinks. Only Baylor, which goes to Wake Forest and hosts Connecticut, is playing more than one fellow BCS-league member. Texas and Texas Tech are playing none.

Some Big 12 teams are playing solid mid-majors. OU is playing Brigham Young and Tulsa. Colorado plays Colorado State. Kansas plays Southern Miss.

Missouri goes to Nevada. OSU and Tech both play Houston.

At least the Big 12 fares a little better in I-AA opponents.

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→To the buddy system with Bedlam quarterbacks. All the adults — coaches, fans, administrators — could take a lesson from Zac Robinson and Sam Bradford’s goodwill toward each other.

→To the Memorial Marathon organizers. Women’s champion Catherine O’Dell was denied the glory of breaking the tape at the finish line. A runner who had started two hours early originally was hailed as the winner. Shades of 1972, when Frank Shorter entered the Munich stadium thinking he was winning the race only to see an imposter racing ahead.

→To the scourge of timeouts in the final seconds of NBA playoff games. The interruptions are insufferable to an otherwise splendid product.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Key contributions from bench players helped the Philadelphia Phillies put a winning streak together.

Pinch-hitter Reid Brignac lined a tiebreaking, two-run double in the sixth inning, John Mayberry Jr. hit a three-run homer and the Phillies beat the San Diego Padres 7-3 to complete a three-game sweep Thursday in a game played in steady rain.

Brignac, whose three-run homer in the ninth sent the Phillies to a 3-0 victory a night earlier, hit a drive off Dale Thayer to the gap in left-center for a 4-2 lead.

Mayberry connected an inning later off Alex Torres. Making a spot start for Ryan Howard, Mayberry also doubled twice.

"It's definitely a game of momentum and I think with the way we've played these last few games, that can definitely carry over." Mayberry said. "I think from top to bottom, we've pitched well, had timely hitting and played good defense. Hopefully we can continue."

Kyle Kendrick (2-6) allowed one earned and seven hits, striking out five in six innings. He earned his second win in 20 starts, dating to last year.

The Phillies have their first three game-winning streak since May 17-20 and recorded just their second series sweep this season. Ken Giles made his major league debut for the Phillies with two outs in the ninth. He threw a 100 mph fastball on his first pitch before Yasmani Grandal hit an opposite-field homer on a 3-1 pitch.

"I just go out and pitch. Whatever it says, it says," Giles said of the radar gun.

As for the homer, Giles said: "It looked like a routine fly ball to the warning track to me."

Welcome to hitter-friendly Citizens Bank Park, kid.

Padres starter Eric Stults (2-8) allowed four runs and eight hits in five-plus innings.

Mayberry is batting .324 (12 for 37) with five doubles, three homers and 12 RBIs against lefties. Howard is hitting just .206 (12 for 63) with one double, four homers, 15 RBIs and 30 strikeouts vs. lefties.

Manager Ryne Sandberg may have to consider a platoon at first, even though Howard is making $25 million per season through 2016 with a $23 million team option for 2017.

"I see it pretty well (against lefties)," Mayberry said. "I think traditionally righties hit left-handers better obviously. I'm just trying to take the same approach into every at-bat."

Mayberry led off Philadelphia's sixth with his second double. Domonic Brown lined a single to right on an 0-2 pitch, chasing Stults.

Thayer came in to face Will Nieves, who hit a bouncer to third baseman Chase Headley. His high throw to the plate was in time to get Mayberry. Sandberg challenged the call, but a video review confirmed catcher Grandal tagged Mayberry before his foot touched the plate.

Thayer then struck out pinch-hitter Howard. But Brignac followed with a shot to the wall to give the Phillies a two-run lead.

Mayberry made it 7-2 with his fifth homer of the season in the seventh.

Padres manager Bud Black won a replay challenge in the third inning when a video review showed Ben Revere was out at first base following a drag bunt. Jimmy Rollins hit an RBI single in Philadelphia's first to move within two hits of breaking Mike Schmidt's franchise record of 2,234.

The Padres jumped on Kendrick for two runs in the first. Will Venable led off with a single and Everth Cabrera followed with a single, snapping an 0-for-23 slump. After Seth Smith's groundout, Headley hit an RBI double.

Smith scored when right fielder Marlon Byrd bobbled the ball for an error and Headley went to third. Kendrick has a 9.00 ERA in the first inning and batters are hitting .393 against him.

"I don't have an answer," Kendrick said. "I've tried everything. Maybe next game I won't warm up."

NOTES: Howard wasn't in the starting lineup vs. Stults, even though he's 2 for 2 with two homers off him. ... Kendrick became the first Phillies pitcher to draw a walk. ... The Padres lost for only the 12th time when having a lead at any point in a game. ... The Phillies open a three-game series against the Cubs on Friday night. Roberto Hernandez (2-4, 4.35) faces Chicago's Jake Arrieta (1-1, 2.50). ... The Padres open a three-game set at the Mets. Andrew Cashner (2-5, 2.13) goes against New York's Bartolo Colon (5-5, 4.31).

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Maybe a bit of drama at the very start of the H&8th Night Festival in Midtown was just what Oklahoma City needed to kick off what is becoming one of the most successful food truck gatherings in the country.

I was present in August 2011 when Laura Massenat, owner of Elemental Coffee, Jonathan Stranger, owner of Ludivine, and J.D. Merryweather, co-owner of Coop Ale Works, joined together to host the city’s first food truck festival. The event was pretty meager that first night — less than a handful of food truck operators who were doomed to sell out quickly as hundreds arrived at NW 8 and Hudson.

About 30 people were able to be served that night by the folks with Big Truck Tacos. The rest of the festival never even got underway as a force of 30 inspectors and agents with ABLE, the Oklahoma City/County Health Department and the city’s fire marshal and code enforcement offices swooped in unannounced and shut everything down. Those who showed up were outraged, especially at the sight of ABLE agents armed with guns and badges.

What the agents and inspectors didn’t know, at first, was that I was one of those showing up in the middle of this raid, and none other than City Manager Jim Couch was among the surprised customers that night.

Discussions ensued, and a lot of publicity that did not bode well for the raid party stirred a surge of interest and support for food trucks, and the next H&8th was a hit. At the opening of the 2013 season, an estimated 2,500 people showed up.

The number of participating food trucks, the variety of entertainment and influx of products added to the festival’s momentum. The budget for operations and marketing grew with the addition of Fowler Toyota of Norman as presenting sponsor.

When the 2014 season started last month, the surge in interest was shocking. An estimated 20,000 people showed up, inspiring organizers to extend the event’s northern boundary to NW 9 along Hudson Avenue.

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Most people spend Mother’s Day bestowing flowers, gifts and heartfelt sentiments upon their moms. But for some, knowing how to honor their mother is not so easy. After all, mothers are only human, and not all of them are perfect.

Take it from Keith L.T. Alexander, author of the new coming-of-age memoir “Forgery-of-the-Month Club,” which details his difficult relationship with his mom. Unable to make ends meet, his mother Anita became a con-artist, a master at theft, mail fraud and art forgery. In doing so, she implicated her son in different schemes throughout his childhood and adolescence, setting him on a potentially self-destructive path in life.

Now with a daughter of his own and his mom a grandmother, Alexander believes that forgiveness and love are important for moving forward, no matter your complaints about the past. In time for Mother’s Day, he is offering four considerations to make when thinking about your own mother:

• Your mother is an adult who makes her own choices. To judge or criticize her is a choice you are making, which can come at a cost to your relationship. Work to let go of any fear, anger, resentment and cynicism that hold you back from improving your relationship.

• The primary influence on your point of view of your relationship with your mother is your childhood experiences and the feelings you associated with those memories. Coming to terms with those feelings can help you move forward.

• Your point of view about your mother is not the “truth.”  No matter how much evidence you can present or how many people agree with you, you have chosen a point of view which is only one of many ways to view your mother.

• Consider what kind of relationship you would have with your mother if you could recreate it differently:  What would it be like?  How would it feel?

“Now that I have children of my own, I have learned that the secret to being a good father is to be around and available to your child — not simply for the recitals, and soccer games, but for the unplanned, spontaneous moments, the opportunities to show love to your child,” says Alexander. “Those unexpected moments strung together throughout a child’s upbringing are part of what makes up the spine of a child’s self-confidence, and ultimately what influences his or her future.”

Whether your mother has a tendency to nag you or a tendency to implicate you in her major crimes, consider forgiving her for her faults this Mother’s Day.

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LITTLETON, Colo. – Arapahoe Community College (ACC) will open its doors to high school students March 17 for Discover ACC High School Visit day. Local high school students, family members and administrators are invited to stop by ACC and obtain some useful information about the College, meet our faculty and staff, and explore our many different programs and departments.

“This is a great opportunity for high school students to learn about ACC and the more than 100 degrees and certificate programs we offer,” said Howard Fukaye, director of Pre-Enrollment Services. “Our faculty and staff will be on hand to answer questions and get students thinking about their future.”

The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon and will include campus tours, presentations on admissions and financial aid, a student panel discussion, and an informational fair.

This is the third year ACC has hosted Discover ACC. Because space is limited, those interested in attending should RSVP online by March 14 by visiting www.arapahoe.edu/admissions/pre-enrollment-services and clicking on “Discover ACC High School Visit Day.”

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Join us at Apple Hill Farm for Military Appreciation Day.

Sunday, October 3, 2010 Noon - 4pm (Rain or Shine)

Apple picking, pumpkin decorating, apple crisp and most of all, time to be in the company of our NH Military Community! Take an hour or all afternoon and say "HI!".

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We appreciate the "Military Appreciation Day" however, the active members of the NHANG have drill that day and we will be excluded, as has been the same situation for the past three years.

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I agree. It is great that you are trying to do something nice for the military. However, it does seem that orgaizations are not aware of the drill requirements. As the last apple picking military appreciation event was at the same time as the deployment ceremony for the NH National Guard. It would be great to be more sensitve to these things so that more people can participate in these events.